Disclaimer:I don't own any of the characters featured in Descendants. I just own the characters that are obviously OCs.

Chapter 9: All in a Golden Weekend

Harriet was having fun. But she was also scared,

Peter had explained that since most kinds of magic were banned (including flying) to humans and most of the other creatures, he had taken a liking to climbing since it allowed him to see things from the top.

"Why did I said that everything would we okay" She pouted.

Still she had to admit that it wasn't so bad, she could she all Neverland from the top. On the other hand she would choose the next activity. She didn't really know what she wanted to do, but certainly she wouldn't choose anything that would risk her life…for most of the part. Finally she decided that they would do rafting.

By lunch, she decided that most of her father's stories were a bit biased. Peter seemed a…good fella and he knew how to have fun. Still she hadn't decided if he was good enough to be her friend. However they had a nice chat, though it never touched too personal information.

On Saturday morning they decided to walk in the forest. If she took away all the cursing and things about Peter Pan, her father's and Smee's tales were accurate about Neverland.

For a reason she was actually enjoying her time there. She didn't want to go back neither to the Isle for obvious reasons or to Auradon Prep, still she couldn't help but think about her siblings.

"Harry must be worried about Uma and losing his mind about it" She thought. Even if they weren't as close as they were when they were children, she still tried to take care of him from the distance, now she couldn't even do that for him and she was sure that their father wouldn't care. "At least he is being captain for a while" She was thinking about that when she tripped and almost fell.

"Are you okay?" Peter asked.

"Yes…" She trailed "Just a little worried…"

"And that's because?"

"My siblings" She said simply "Harry…CJ…"

Peter just stopped his tracks and looked at her. It seemed that he was expecting her to talk about her family; still Harriet knew that he wouldn't really ask thought she also knew that he was a curious person.

She sighed and said trying to sound disinterested: "You can ask… "Then she added with a smug smile" but I can ask questions too"

"Fair enough" He smiled.

They decided to sit on a rock looking at a river. Then the pirate said: "Shot"

"Why are you worried?" He asked.

"I'm worried about my siblings, Harry and CJ" She responded looking away "Mostly Harry, he was a little…clingy since we were young and he was totally enchanted by Uma, Ursula's daughter and as you may know she left…about CJ, well she is all alone now" The pirate took a pause and asked "Now is my turn to ask…Why you grew up?"

"Good question" Peter commented with a smile and sighed "When King B…Adam banned most forms of magic, there was an exception…me. I wasn't a fairy in the true sense of the word, but I lived with them for ages and because of their magic I stayed young while my Lost Boys grew up and left. But then something happened…"He paused "I…fell in love"

Harriet raised an eyebrow and laughed "You in love? That's why you grew up?"

Peter raised his hands in defense "You can't stay as a child if you fell in love, when I realized that I was no longer twelve…Love can change people you know"

The raven haired girl sighed and looked away "Kind of"

"Some guy?"

Harriet shrugged. What she had felt on her brief relationship with Anthony couldn't be called love; it had been a childish infatuation on one of the most charming guy in the Isle and she knew it. But she saw how CJ's mother had changed her father (and when she left…), how the squid girl changed her brother (not for better).

"Earth to Harriet" Peter said teasingly but had a small worry on his eyes.

"No, no one" She said and asked "Do you have more food?"

Hadie and Melinoe were really tired.

They have never done this much exercise in the Isle, save for the times they were running from older kids when they were younger and the few times they had to chase other children from their safe-house.

Herkie had laughed at their tiredness. Hercules had mildly reprimanded his son for that.

"Most people are not accustomed to our pace" The older demi-god reminded his son.

"Sorry" Herkie muttered.

"In the Isle we never get too much exercise" Hadie explained.

"We never step out too far from our territory after school" Melinoe continued "If you are not from the main gangs, you better hide"

Hercules and his son shared a look and decided to wait for more, but the children of Hades stopped their talking.

After that Mara arrived from Phil's Academy for Heroes. Phil sent his regards, but decided to stay in his place; but everyone knew that he was wary as anyone about was tough and carried herself like a warrior; still she was a pretty as her mother. She had decided to drop university to become a warrior, a decision her parents disapproved but couldn't say anything about it.

"Don't look at her too much, she our niece" Melinoe whispered to her brother's ear

Hadie scowled. It seemed that his sister was trying to irritate him since they arrived to Auradon, throwing that kind of comments or hanging around Henry Plantagenet.

Then they decided to have lunch in Hercules' house instead of going to a restaurant like they had planned first. Both siblings decided to help, Hadie because he wanted to learn to cook and Melinoe because she wanted to look good.

They were doing making lunch in silence. Hercules disliked silence so he decided to break the ice.

"Have you ever cooked before?" Hercules asked to his…eer cousins. He couldn't warp his mind around having cousins the same age as his children.

"Melly has" Hadie commented "I didn't"

"Our father owns a Greek food shop" Melinoe complemented "Or what we could try to pass as Greek food"

"Oh"

"Why try to pass?" Mara asked curiously.

Hadie and Melinoe looked at each other and nodded. Then Melione explained rather bitterly "Since nothing can grow I the Isle, all our food comes from Auradon…and most of the food (to not say all) is rotten or old, so we couldn't really cook something that was good"

They heard something falling behind them. It was Megara who had dropped her groceries bags.

"The shipments were rotten food?" Megara asked in disbelief.

"Yeah" Hadie shrugged. Despite being in Auradon for a week, he had to admit that he kind of missed Isle food though his sister seemed to want to forget about it.

"And Hades made you eat it?" Megara continued asking with contempt.

"Yeah" Hadie shrugged again "Most of the parents didn't really care about it, only Anastasia Tremaine, Edgar Balthazar, Judge Frollo and sometimes Captain Hook bribed the people at the docks to give them the best food"

"Our father since he is a god, he does not care about the food" Melinoe continued.

Then they explained other things about the shipments and the life on the Isle. Hercules and Megara shared a look.

The day after the four teenagers stayed at home playing videogames while Hercules attended a meeting and Megara was working on something.

Hal was stunned by Arendelle.

He kind of understood why his father had put his eyes on this kingdom and not others. It was far from the others and was a bit cold, but it had its own charm.

"Not that I will steal it from them" He thought looking at Elsa's family.

They got out of the ship and people welcomed their queen and his guest.

"People don't blame children for their parents' faults" She explained when they got up in the carriage. Like Camelot Heigths, they decided to keep their traditions and they lacked some technology that wasn't really necessary.

Hal nodded and thought "My father would have never left any of you alive for his punishment"

Still he didn't agree with his father on that. It was his own fault for not thinking further than gaining a throne, if he had kept his original plan nothing would have happened to him.

They entered the castle. It was less flashy than the Auradon Castle, but it made it seem lovelier to him.

She left him with a butler to guide him to his room. Back in the Isle he shared room with his two brothers and in Auradon he shared room with Anthony, so it would be great to know how it was to have a room for him.

After an hour or so, the Queen called him to her study. He didn't expect anyone to be there besides the Queen.

"He is my husband, Jack Frost" She introduced man slightly younger than her with white hair and pale skin who eyed him suspiciously but nodded at him as greeting "She is my daughter Emma " A girl around his age with pale blonde hair and grey eyes smiled at him and returned to read her book "And finally he is my nephew Klaus" A young man with strawberry blonde hair and brown eyes tended his hand at him,

"It's good to meet you" Klaus said.

Hal shook his hand "It's good to be here" Then he looked at Elsa "I didn't know you were married"

"Things happened" Jack said "Almost no-one knows about me, Arendelle its too far away"

"Mother only goes to the Council Meetings if it's really important" Emma muttered but Hal managed to hear it "Usually she sends Aunt Anna"

"You can sit there" Elsa pointed at a couch next to Emma "I have some work to do, so you'll have to wait to do anything else"

After that he spent the next two hours talking with Jack and Klaus; Emma was absorbed in her book. Despite his initial suspicions Father Frost realized that there was no evil in him; though he was still not convinced to be good. Klaus found him little interesting but decided that it was worth to give him a chance if his aunt believed on him.

When Elsa finished doing whatever work she had, they left to go ice-skating as it was accustomed on Saturdays. Hal supposed that is was normal for Arendelle people to have their own winter once in week, as he had never go ice-skating he had some discussion with Klaus.

"There's no way that I'm going down there" Hal stated crossing his arms.

"Don't be a chicken" The older said teasingly.

"I'm good here" He simply said.

"Do as you want" Klaus raised his hands and went down skating.

Hal had to admit that he was afraid of falling and that was why he didn't go with them even if it looked fun. A quiet voice next to him said: "Never seen ice?

It was Emma.

"Never" Hal said and when the girl looked at him as if she was waiting for more he explained "It never rains in the Isle, just a few drops of water and nothing more (save for that one time that rained three days in a row)…and as can you suppose no snow, no ice"

"Interesting" She said "It is never mentioned at the books about the Isle"

The Westergaard raised an eyebrow "There are books about the Isle?"

"A few" Emma nodded "Two about why the Isle was set, how it is supposed to work and one about who is in there"

He decided to read those books, it would be interesting to know what the Auradonians thought about them. But first, Emma convinced him to have a snowball fight with her.

Claudine blinked a few times when Quasimodo greeted the stone gargoyles when they arrived at the bell tower. She gasped when they came up to life and went to her like she was a prey, or so she felt.

"They are my friends" Quasimodo explained "Victor, Hugo and Laverne" And looked at them disapprovingly "You are scaring her"

"I'm not scared" She said clearing her throat "Just surprised"

"We'll leave you two" Laverne said "You little girl are not ready to talk to gargoyles"

"And I don't think I'll never be" She thought but said bowing "Still it was a pleasure to meet you"

They left with a bow.

"Are they always…talking?" The blonde girl asked curiously and still stunned.

"Most of the time" He explained "They were my only friends when…" He stopped his talking and motioned her to follow him through the stairs.

"When my father was still around" She completed Quasimodo's sentence in her mind. Was her father this cruel? Leaving a boy to live all alone in a tower? She of course in a part of her mind would justify his actions, but she knew better.

She was often locked in her room when she wasn't at school or working down at the Creperié. When she was younger her father took her with him on his walks around their "neighborhood", but when she started to…err develop he started to lock her. He said that her femininity could make others harm her.

When she saw the bells she was astonished by them, especially by La Fidèle. She touched it and closed her eyes to open them later just to be sure that she was not dreaming.

"They are beautiful" She commented.

"Yes, they are" The Hunchback agreed "Even after ringing them for thirty years I can't stop admiring them"

They fell silent until someone called Quasimodo.

"I'll get back" He excused himself.

Claudine nodded and started to walk around. After a few seconds she spotted a broom and started to sweep.

"Old habits never die" When she was the bell ringer at Dragon Hall she always swept when she arrived and when she left, also it seemed that Quasimodo hadn't swept in a long time.

He called her after a few moments. When she was going down the stairs, she fell on someone.

Claudine blinked a few times before realizing that she was above someone she had tried to avoid most of the week.

"Zephyr" She heard someone say.

She got up quickly and felt her cheeks redden up. From the corner of her eye she saw Zephyr blushing too and whistling awkwardly while looking at the floor as if it was one of the most interesting things in the world. Then she looked at a blonde man in a golden armor with a stunned expression on his face and an olive skinned woman with green eyes and a raised eyebrow.

Quasimodo entered the room with an oblivious smile and said "Oh, you have meet Claudine" Then looked at the girl "They are Phoebus and Esmeralda de Chateaupers"

"Way to meet them" She thought.

Then there was awkwardness in the room, though it was obvious that Quasimodo hadn't noticed it because he started to talk about something that Claudine couldn't catch. But she was more preoccupied with the fact that she had been closer to a boy than she had ever been in her life.

"Father would surely lock me for a week" She thought and wanted to bury her face on her hands but it would raise questions about it.

After a moment they finally started a decent conversation.

Phoebus and Esmeralda were curious about how in the world this child was the offspring of that man.

Quasimodo was just happy to finally meet his foster sister. Since he heard about her, he had been worried for her.

Claudine and Zephyr just knew things were going to be strange between them from now.

"I'm doomed" Claudine thought.

Anthony was really enjoying his time.

Also he had decided that Christian was one of nicest persons in Auradon.

Instead of talking about their mothers as Anthony thought at first, they were spending time playing videogames and eating snacks in Christian's room while Dizzy was showing some her designs to Cinderella.

"So what did you did back there for fun?" Christian asked.

The other boy shrugged "There's not much to do there" Then he added "We usually go to some party or hang around, there are some books that arrive in the shipments and…"He coughed in slight embarrassment "Some of us steal them before they people at the docks throw them or burn them"

"Steal?" The prince raised his eyebrows and laughed "Books?"

Anthony blushed and tried to defend himself: "I told you that there's not much to do in the Isle" He looked away "I usually did not steal…my mother didn't like it as you can imagine and she tried to keep us from starving, but most children were not as lucky"

Christian put a hand on Anthony's shoulder and said "I understand…I was just surprised that of all the things you could have stolen, you stole books"

"Hey!"

"I'm joking" He put hands up.

Anthony just rolled his eyes and said "Let's play, okay? I will not stop until I beat you"

"Deal"

They were laughing and enjoying their time together when Christian started to cough.

"Are you okay?" Anthony asked worriedly. Back in the Isle, it was rare that anyone would fell ill and when they did they were sent to the other side of the Isle and never seen again.

"It's okay" Christian shrugged and spat on his handkerchief. Then he shook his head and smiled to him "Let's go to see what my baby brother is doing"

They left to Chad's room. It was as princely he imagined but the look Chad had was… had circles around his eyes and his clothes were dirty.

"Wake up sleepyhead" Christian told his younger brother.

"Get out"

"No" The older said "We are going out"

"No"

"Chad" This time he used a stern voice.

"Okay" Chad said in a whiny tone.

Anthony couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. "So this is a weekend on the princes' lives?"

After a few minutes, Chad was in his "perfect prince" look and told them "If you mention how I was looking a moment ago I will kill you" Anthony cocked his head in amusement, in his mind this guy couldn't hurt a fly "I'm not joking" Then looked at his older brother and asked "So where are we going"

"We are going for a walk"

"Where?"

"You'll see"

For the first time in the week, Chad and Anthony looked at each other and knew that they were not going to like it. Christian brought them to the village where he was talking to the people while the other two walked uncomfortably next to the other.

Chad, who had promised himself and his mother that he, at least would try to be nice-ish to the VK's, decided to talk to his male step-cousin. Cinderella had summoned him to her closet where she and Dizzy, his other step-cousin, was showing her designs; after talking a few moments with her about it he decided that she was not so bad. But with Anthony it would be different, his step-cousin had stolen the attention of some of the princesses at Auradon Prep and it bothered him.

"Try to be nice" Chad reminded himself and asked "How are you doing?"

The copper haired boy raised an eyebrow at the question but responded "Fine"

"I saw you talking to a few…Auradonians" He commented "It's good…for you I mean"

"Yes, they are quite nice" Anthony said "Most of them" Then added.

"Too much for being nice" The blonde thought.

Then there was again a silence and this time Anthony was the one who asked "Does your brother do this all weekends? " He pointed at Christian talking to a baker.

"Not always" Chad answered absently "He used to, but now he does it once in a while"

"Why?"

"Why do you want to know?" This time the blonde prince asked defensively.

"Nothing"

Chad just eyed him suspiciously but said nothing. Then he said with a sigh "He will tell you when he is ready"

Anthony was confused but decided that it was not worth his time to speculate what was happening to this newly acquired cousin. After all a cough was not enough to worry, or was it?

Back in the Isle there was a reunion between some of the VK's that were not chosen to go to Auradon. They were mad at their former neighbors.

At Ursula's Fish and Chips were Mad Maddy, Harry Hook,Gil,the Gastons, Diana Tremaine, Ginny Gothel, Sammy Smee, Zevon, Reza and Clay Clayton. Of course Uma's crew was around but wasn't taking part of their meeting.

"You really think that Uma will return for us?" Ginny asked to Harry.

"She wouldn't leave me…I mean her crew" He stated.

"If you say that, why we are here?" Reza asked "She only cares about her crew and her precious revenge against Mal"

"If you make and alliance with her she will get you out of the Isle and you will do as you will in Auradon" Gaston the Third said "Or so she promised me and my twin before she left"

"I'm in" Sammy Smee said.

"I'll think about it" Clay announced.

"What about our parents?" Diana asked "Will they go with us to Auradon?"

"Does it matter?" Ginny asked "They failed when they were younger, do you think they will do anything better now?"

"But…"

Ginny seemed bored and turned her head to Gaston Jr, her "boyfriend".

"When Uma returns she will break the barrier and we will take our ship to Auradon" Harry said "Then…"

"We will free Maleficent" Gil interrupted with a happy smile.

"Maleficent?" Diana asked in disbelief "She will end us"

"She is the only one who could break the barrier permanently "Mad Maddy admitted with a tone that made it seem that she was in pain.

"Or we could steal Fairy Godmother's wand" Zevon suggested.

"What happened in the coronation demonstrated that it has some criteria" Clay said "Not everyone can wield it, the girl who took it is her daughter and it lost control" Then asked "If you think that it could work why you didn't try to steal it?"

Zevon shrugged "I didn't think about it"

They fell silent and looked at each other. Then Mad Maddy asked "Are we settled?"

I decided to post this extra-long chapter because I'll take a two-week break from fanfiction because I have few schoolwork accumulated and if I want to graduate I have to do it. (We finish classes in December in my country)

As always thanks to those who review and follow this story.

Hope you liked it.

In the next chapters I will explain some things that may not be clear enough.

Question: Do you have any theories of how this story will go from here?