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Chapter 17: Tasks done and not done

***Desert near Agrabah***

CJ was having the time of her life at that desert.

Even if Auradon considered itself to be free of evil there was still minor crimes in the land, mostly in regions far from Auradon City like Agrabah or Arendelle. That was the reason she decided to leave her hideout in Locksley and move to the north.

The difference between Agrabah and Arendelle was that the Snow Queen had been kind of ruthless with her brand of justice during the first years after the unification of the Kingdom of Auradon while Sultan Aladdin had been more merciful by giving the common criminals the chance of redeem themselves by doing some service to the kingdom…and if it didn´t work they were hanged. (She was curious about what the Snow Queen did to the criminals during her early reign…she would have to ask one of her thieves, but since the crime rate was really low her methods were effective.)

Even if they had sent the worst of the worst to the Isle of the lost, there were some petty criminals around the kingdoms…and there were the Brotherhood of Thieves.

They were residuals of the forty-thieves that Aladdin`s father had ruled many years ago.

And now she was their queen.

Of course it had not been easy but she had bent them to her power by giving them the directions to some gold mine near the border Agrabah shared with Arendelle, they had appreciated the information and also it had stirred some problems between the two kingdoms, which was a plus for her future plans.

Naturally she had to fight her way to the top by…vanquishing some of the oldest thieves.

Her power was unquestioned…for now.

She was enjoying her new found power and so she had forgotten about the deal she had made with Plantagenet and the daughter of Hades. The deadline for her task was to be ended soon, though she didn´t want to do as they accorded since the situation changed, she would do it since she gave them her pirate word (and it would have benefits for her if done well).

"Hakeem!" She yelled to her second-in- command, a young man in his mid-twenties who was born to follow orders and please anyone who showed more strength than him.

"Yes, your Majesty?"

"Grab as many men you want, go down until you get to the Southern Riding and cause some chaos"

"Chaos as in what?"

"Steal, break things, whatever" The blonde pirate said dismissively "Just do it"

Hakeem looked at her with questioning eyes and asked:" Why?"

"Because I say it!" CJ said harshly, she had considered telling him about the plan but decided against it, as fewer people knew about it was better and she knew that minions were a nuisance for bigger plans.

Then Hakeem nodded and left the small cabin she lived in.

Thought that guy wasn´t were intelligent, she knew that he would follow her orders but he was too curious.

She may have to deal with that later.

The pirate went to her bathroom and washed her face with cold water, it would be pain to move to next part but she knew that a visit to Auradon Central and her sister wouldn't be so bad.

She looked to the fading photograph of her family she always kept with her, when they were so happy, when her mother still cared and her father was…well a father.

"It´s time for a sister reunion Rhetta" She said in a low voice while she put a finger on her sister´s face.

And so CJ left her cabin and headed to the south with some of her most trusted men.

***At the Isle of the Lost***
Since the day that Ginny had realized that the only way out the Isle was that tunnel Yen Sid had closed when Madam Mim tried to escape and that only magic could open the tunnel that connected the Isle with Auradon she had been trying to get the Sea Witches to cooperate. She had not been successful at the very least.

The Sea Witches were three sisters that had been incarcerated in the Isle of the Lost just for being considered "evil", they weren`t enemies with anyone but as they were similar to Ursula they were left to rot in the Isle as many others.

Frankly they were a pain in the arse but they were the only one who still had some magic in them, that was why they kept isolation from the others as they would be considered a treat to the power of Maleficient or the other major villains (like the Evil Queen or Jafar) after the Queen of Darkness vanquished.

They preferred to be alone on their small cave by the shore, Ginny couldn't understand why they haven`t taken the isle over.

Zevon wasn`t being helpful at all since their last intent with that damned machine and Maddy just keep driving her mad, if it wasn`t that they were the only ones that had some talents in hand for their plans she would have already broken their shaky alliance.

As for her mother, she hadn´t go out of her room for a few days, that meant that Gothel was designing a new "method" for regaining her youth.

Ginny shuddered at the thought and tried to open the tower´s door without shaking and without making any kind of noise. Her mother could enter on a rampage if heard the door, it was better to avoid her as long as possible.

She got out without making noise and started to walk down to the shore, this time she decided to bring her mother´s only valuable thing: Rapunzel´s crown. While Ginny didn´t exactly know how her mother had gotten it, it was the only thing her mother brought from the mainland twenty-one years ago.

First she stopped by Frollo`s creperie in hopes to find the Gastons and have them to accompain her to see the witches, but they weren´t there and so she was taking her leave when Jade called her: "Hey Ginny!"

"What do you want?" The curly haired girl said brusquely and rolling her eyes.

"Your mother is looking for you" The niece of Jafar said with little emotion but made a move with her head to hint where Gothel was.

Gothel was with both of the Gastons and Ginny could only think "Traitors"and then she paled a little "Could she know that I took the crown?"

They both knew what it meant but they only nodded at each other before Ginny entered on a small passage to avoid being seen by her mother and her former allies, she would deal with them later.

She ran her way to the shore

Zevon stopped her when she was about to go down the cave. He greeted her saying: "Hi Ginny, what are you doing here?"

"Not your business"

"If you are here to talk the witches about helping us you are losing your time"

"Why do you think that I´m here for that?" She said raising an eyebrow.

"There´s no other things that you could be doing here" The son of Yzma shrugged "I offered Ursula´s necklace but they refused it"

Ginny felt her hopes sink, if they had refused that surely they would refuse the crown too. Still she would give it a try, she wouldn´t lose anything, would she?

She just squared her shoulders and started to walk again, she heard Zevon´s steps behind her and for a reason she felt kind of reassured. When she was deep down the cave she felt a small shiver on her back and the temperature felt colder than the times she had been there trying to convince the Sea Witches to help.

The sisters were making something in a cauldron and didn´t look up when they got to their place, but the teenager knew that the witches were aware of them even before they went down to the cave.

The curly haired girl wondered what they were doing and the young wizard was amazed to see an actual potion brewing.

"We know why you are here daughter of Gothel" The taller one said.

"The crown doesn´t interest us" Said the middle one

"But you both can give us something we want" Finally said the shorter one.

Ginny looked to Zevon who nodded and then the curly haired girl said "We will listen"

The three sisters smirked and then the middle one said "We will help you open not only the tunnel…but we will open the barrier, but you have to bring my children back here first"

The black haired girl tilted her head a little, she was a little confused since as far as everyone knew in the Isle the three sisters didn´t have children.

Zevon asked "Who are your children?"

"Where are they?" Ginny asked with curiosity.

"As far as we know one of them is still here while the other one is in Auradon" The taller one said answering the second question.

"Interesting" Both teenagers thought and started to think which one of the new VK was the children of the middle sister.

As far as Ginny knew Hal, Henry, Harriet and Anthony were the only ones who still had siblings in the Isle, but Anthony´s mother was Anastasia and Hal had two siblings by different mothers, so they only had Henry and Harriet as options.

"Who are your children?" Zevon asked again.

"If we gave you the answer the task would be too easy" The shorter one said "You have two days to give us the answer.

Ginny looked at her ally and said "We accept"

Then she grabbed his arm and they got out of the cave. When they were at the shore, Zevon said to her "How are we going to her children back?"

"We are going to make some questions to Captain Hook and Prince John" She simply said and then added "Surely Leonor knows who her mother is, she was five when the Isle was created"

"Why Hook then?"

"If Leonor says that her mother is not one of the Sea Witches, we go to Hook…he has had a few interesting adventures in the sea" Ginny said while walking back to the "town"

"Helga Sinclair is Hook´s wife" Zevon reminded her.

"But she is only CJ´s mother"

Zevon raised his eyebrows with surprise and asked "Really?"

"Yes, I remember their wedding…I was four when they married fourteen years ago…"

"They could have married after the twins were born" The dark haired boy interrupted her.

"The Harris were there and…"

"How could you remember that"

"Helga is not their mother" Ginny insisted with frustration "They married just after she and Rourke arrived to the Isle and they were already born"

"And you really think that one of the Sea Witches is their mother?"

"As I said Hook has had interesting adventures"

***At Auradon Prep dorm, Ben`s bedroom***

Ben was having looking down at the map of the Isle of the Lost.

That map was one that he found at the royal library the other day but Mal and Evie had made some descriptions on some areas, and also his newly found friend Rick had made some correction on the map.

There were too many people in the Isle of the Lost, many of them weren´t Villains they just were petty thieves. Of course there were some despicable people among those that weren´t Villains but…

Now more than ever he was sure that it would be best to take children out of the Isle, he would send a messenger to the Isle to take the names of those Yen Sid considered "redeemable".

He felt bad to think that the children of the Isle of the lost were evil, but as far as he had heard from Mal and the others…there were children as bad as their parents or worse, those children were mostly from the dangerous part of the Isle.

When he had been at the Isle of the lost and had been abducted by Uma´s crew he had thought that all of the Isle was like that, with children stealing, running and making some trouble while the adults were lamenting their lives and having some business.

But as he looked at the "corrected map", he realized that he had been in the more or less safer side of the Isle…where Mal, Evie, Jay and Carlos had lived. Of course there was a "safer side" of the Isle where the "sane" villains lived and it (as Rick had described" looked as one of the poorer neighborhoods in King Georgetown, but there was the "dangerous side".

In the dangerous side lived the totally insane and cruel villains and criminals, there lived people like the Queen of Hearths (who according to Mal still was obsessed with cutting heads), Alameda Slim (who had always been insane Madam Mim, the Horned King and Madam Medusa. Rick had made some notes on another paper to make some pointers on who else lived there and what they did for a living.

He had called Mal,Evie and Rick to his bedroom to have they explain some things about the Isle.

The three VK´s arrived shortly after he had called them, if the girls were surprised to see Rick there they didn´t showed it.

"I want to ask you three about this area of the Isle" He pointed to the dangerous side.

"What do you want to know?" Mal asked sighing.

"How many people live there? Do the Villains there have children?

"Well…I never went to that side" Evie said "But I know that Madam Mim has many granddaughters by her children"

"Alameda Slim has a son, Alan, he is around fourteen, he was in Anthony´s gang" Rick said "He is sane enough but greedy"

"He had a gang?" Mal asked surprised.

"They hung out at the square in the safer side" The raven haired boy said pointing to a blank space in the map "There was Lila Rourke and Gianna Gaston too"

Evie seemed to be remembering something and asked "Was Laurent there too? I used to think that he was just following them"

"He was until Lila threw him out and he left for Harriet´s crew"

Ben, however, was more interested to know something else "How many children does Gaston have?"

Mal was the one who answered this time "He has a daughter and three sons, all by his wife Laurette…you have already met Gil, he is the youngest one"

"There are the twins too, Gaston Jr. and Gaston the Third, they are as arrogant as their father and they are friends with Mad Maddie" Mentioned Evie.

"However Gianna is kind of nice but she has already graduated from Hell Hall" Rick said.

And Mal thought "And so she can´t come to Auradon"

Ben cleared his throat and said "Well, I called you here because I want to have a list of people who you consider…able to come to Auradon"

"And, Ben has already told me that we can bring our pet sidekicks" Evie said smiling.

Mal rolled her eyes "I hope you are not meaning to bring Othello here"

"Of course I´ll bring him"

"He is annoying"

"It´s not my fault that you didn´t have a pet growing up!" *

Mal´s eyes glowered a little but then she said "Bring him here, I´ll try to avoid him"

"I´m sorry I didn´t want to say that" Evie said.

Ben just smiled to them awkwardly and said "Who wants to write the list?"

Rick was about to say that he was going to do that but Mal said "Evie and I will do it" Then the fae looked at the Governor´s son and said "Rick can help us"

The king just said "Great, you can show it to me in…?"

"We can finish until next week" The blue haired girl said.

Then the three left and when they were going down the stairs towards the dinner hall in an awkward silence, Mal grabbed Rick´s arm and said "I don´t trust you yet, I know that you have been trying to build a friendship with Ben and you have been throwing some information here and there"

"You have nothing to fear Maleficient" He said calmly "I´m just trying to expose to our king what has been happening in the Isle for twenty-one years"

Then Rick resumed his path and started to talk with Eddie Balthazar and Herkie.

"Do you think that he is telling the truth?" Evie asked Mal.

"He didn´t lie this time, but I don´t think that he is doing that for true concern of the Isle" The purple haired girl said "He is hiding something"

"Henry is his roommate and he has been acting strange"

"Yeah I have been following him"

"Do you think that they are plotting together?"

"I don´t think so but we have to have an eye on him" Mal said biting her lip.

***A cave near Auradon Prep***

Henry was with Melione in the cave that had scared people for centuries, no one went that way so they were safe for the time being.

"How far are we with the plan?" Melione asked.

"Well…the ones that are still in the Isle have made little progress at breaking the barrier or opening the tunnel so…we are still working on that" He said "But I a news…I have stolen Mal´s book from the museum"

The goddess opened her eyes in surprise when he pulled the leather book from his bag and she said "How?"

The "prince" just shrugged and said "I may have had some help from an AK"

"Explain" She said kind of amazed.

"Until we open the tunnel I prefer not to tell who helped me…but I will tell you what we are going to do"

Melione just shrugged and said "Are we using a spell?"

"Of course, why else we would steal it?" He scoffed at her question "We are going to use this spell" He opened the book in one of the final pages "When the last day of Winter and the First day of Spring are about to be one, the carrier of this spell will have unlimited power to do his will"

"But we don´t have magic to cast this spell"

Henry smirked "Everyone has magic; to make a potion we just need a small amount of magic"

"So?"

"We are going to make a potion to control someone with magic, preferably a fairy or someone with sorceresses' blood"

The demi-goddess seemed to be pondering onto something and said "Or we can get Uma to cast the spell, she has magic…she enchanted the King during the royal Cotillon"

"That´s not a bad idea but we don´t know where she is" He said but thought "Maybe CJ can find her after she makes chaos"

"But Henry…now that I remember…you wanted to free Maleficent" Melione said "Have you reconsidered it?"

"That´s another plan…if we fail with this new one…we free her and she brings down the barrier…but that is too risky"

"And then we take over Auradon?"

"We party, we schmooze and go home"

Before they went out of the cave, Melione asked something that she had wanted to ask for a while "Did you have something to do with Anthony´s coma?"

"A little" He said after a few seconds "The ring was meant for your brother"

The goddess paled (or at least as far as her pale skin allowed) and felt a sting of hatred toward her ally, even if her brother was becoming good he was still her brother. Then she asked in a shaky voice "You tried to kill him?"

Henry seemed offended "Of course not, I just wanted him to forget something"

Melione just looked at him with hatred and said "Never try it again or I will end you"

Then he said "I won´t…Hadie has not been a bother for a while…just keep him at bay for the time being"

The goddess left him in the dark of the forest and he said to no one in particular "Things will get very interesting soon"

Well, as always I am very sorry for the delay.

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