Inside of the grossly pink dorm room, was a closet. A very average closet. Filled with clothing, shoes, a teenage girl curled up in a ball in the far left corner... yup. A perfectly normal closet. Mal was sitting on the floor outside of the closet. Her back was leaning against the pine wooden door. "So... do you want to talk about it? According to Evie, it's supposed to help."
"Talking is overrated. Auradon poisoned Evie's mind," Hadley replies not removing her head from her knees. It's too late for talking anyways. If Hercules knows where she is, so does Zeus. She'll be dead by the end of the week.
"How about I go talk to Hercules. If he wants to hurt you... I'll have Fairy Godmother give you my spell book so you can defend yourself."
The closet door on the side Mal wasn't leaning against slowly opens. "Don't leave me alone... I need someone to distract him while I figure out a good spell..." a small voice in the closet states trying to not sound scared. Mal smiles and shakes her head.
"I won't go anywhere. Just let me text Ben."
"Text me about what?" Ben asks walking into the room. The second the door creaked, the closet door closed. "She's mad at me..." Ben sighs as his head hangs down.
"More terrified of her cousin than angry," Mal states ignoring the quiet protest of "I can take him any day!" from the cowering daughter of Hades in the closet.
"I should have talked to you about Hercules before telling him that he could meet Hadley," Ben says looking up at Mal, remorse clearly shown on his face. He sits down on the ground next to Mal, having a feeling that the text would be about the teen cowering in the closet. "How about you go and talk to Hercules? I should stay here and talk to the very terrifying demidragon in the closet."
"I'll be back soon then. If Hadley changes her mind, text me," Mal says before giving Ben a small smile. She knew that Ben would never scare Hadley on purpose. Out of all the Core Four, only Carlos knew of Hadley's fear of Hercules. Mal would have also told Hercules that it is perfectly fine for him to visit Hadley as an attempt to bond. The purple haired teen gets off the ground and starts heading back towards the gardens.
As she walked down the hall, Hercules was making his way to Mal, Evie, and Hadley's dorm. "Good afternoon, Lady Mal. Have you seen Hadley anywhere?" he asks with a kind smile on his face.
"That's actually why I was looking for you. Hades told her that you plan on killing her," Mal says falling into step beside Hercules, the wonder boy slowing down so that he wasn't outwalking Ben's Lady of the Court. Hadley may not have told Mal herself, but Carlos informed her of the situation by text message.
The red haired god stops in his tracks and clenches his fists. "Of course Hades told her that. His only power comes from controlling those filled with fear," he says not hiding the anger in his voice. It took all his self control to not go to the Isle to beat up his Uncle yet again. Now he understood why his little cousin took off at a run. Zeus not being able to attend was definitely a good thing. However, now he wished that he allowed his mother to accompany him. Perhaps Hera would have been able to keep the young demigoddess calm. "Do you think Hadley would be willing to meet me on her own terms? I need to prove to her that I won't hurt her. That Hades lied to her."
Mal taps her foot slightly being deep in thought. She wanted to help her sister get over her fear, but she didn't want to scare her further. "I'll lead you to outside the dorm door, I shouldn't be the one to decide if she is ready to meet you. Ask her through the door, just know that she claimed that she can kick your ass in a fight."
"If she tells me to leave, Ben knows how to contact me. At the very least, Hadley deserves to know that there is a place for her on Olympus," Hercules says loosening his fists. When Mal gives him a smile, he returns it and follows as she leads the way to the dorm room.
While Mal spoke to Hercules, Ben was trying to get Hadley out of the closet.
"Hadley, I really am sorry. I didn't know about your fear," Ben apologizes through the slight crack in the closet door. He had a feeling that she would deny her fear yet again or just ignore him. The wooden door starts to open next to Ben, as he turns to look the teen in the eye, he gets a face full of purple leather.
A light knock raps on the dorm door. The closet door slams shut, causing the purple-haired pixie to sigh. "Hadley... if you are willing to talk to Hercules through the door, punch Ben."
"Wait... OW! Hadley!" Ben had begun to say before suddenly being punched by Hadley. "Why punch me?"
"I knew she would be willing to talk if she could punch someone. She's been wanting to punch you all day anyways," Mal smirks as her eyes briefly glow green.
Hercules chuckles starting to get a sense of what personality his cousin has. "Hello Hadley, have you ever put any thought into visiting Olympus?"
The second Olympus was mentioned, Hadley's head poked out of the closet. Like Maleficent, Hades was a schemer. Always talking about revenge. The main difference was how they planned their revenge. Maleficent wanted Mal to be a pawn, Hades wanted Hadley to finish the job. To take Olympus. "I'm allowed on Olympus?" she asks confused. After all Hades had done, she assumed she would never be allowed to see her rightful home without taking it over.
"Of course you're allowed on Olympus! The second my parents found out about you, they turned my nursery into a bedroom for you! There's even a school on Olympus that they wanted you to attend instead of Auradon Prep!" Hercules states, starting out at a loud volume. Once he realized that a booming voice might scare his little cousin, he quiets on down. The bedroom door opens slightly, just enough for Hercules to see one of Hadley's eyes.
"But... wouldn't they want revenge against my father?"
"My parents may want him to pay for taking me from them, but they know that you're innocent of his crimes. They've been alive for hundreds of years! You're a baby to them! In mortal years, you're only about 8 right?" Hercules says thinking that Hadley is a young child due to her height/
"I'm 15..."Hadley deadpans not caring that her blue hair was falling into her face. After taking off, she had changed out of her chiton into something far more comfortable for her. Her blue leather jacket and black leather pants.
Hercules eases the door open so he could see his cousin easier. When she said she was 15, shock was evident in his eyes. The demigoddess only came up halfway up his chest. He quickly noticed how her clothing hung off her small frame, the clothes being far too big on her. "Did Hades feed you?"
"Food was hard to come by on the Isle around the outskirts. Even if you got ahold of food, it was rotten," she shrugs seeing rotten food as a normal thing still. "That got better after Mal told Ben."
"You are not going back to that Isle. If you don't want to stay here when classes are over, come to Olympus."
"None of the gods are worried about the fact that I was raised by my father?" Hadley asks knowing that the other VKs had to deal with that from their respective heroes.
"Hadley... you aren't your father. Unless you prove yourself to be a hero or a villain, we won't consider you either." Hercules states watching the relief shine in the blunette's emerald eyes.
"So... I could just be me?" Hadley asks quietly right before the ground begins to shake beneath the school.
A/N: So I decided to end Blue Flames Rise here! On a cliff hanger. I will begin A Second Chance sometime tomorrow maybe and it will pick up where this story left off!