Hi everyone! Just a few more chapters to go! I don't know the exact number, but I am hoping only one or two then an epilogue to round everything up. Know that this is not the last story with Heidi. The fourth Arc will be coming out at a time I cannot exactly pin down, but hopefully not too long from now. There is also the crossover fic being posted on SuperNova CO's account and is named When Worlds Collide. It is going to receive many updates in the coming weeks as we have a lot of chapters ready to go, so go ahead and check that story out for more Heidi action. I am so glad everyone is enjoying the story and I love hearing from you all. Feel free to drop a review and if you haven't already, fav and follow this story. Thanks, guys!
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Everyone had gathered on the front lawn once Heidi and Hades teleported in. The only ones who appeared to be missing were Evie, the two gods knew why she was missing so they didn't think much about it, Mal, Uma, Harry, and the fake Celia.
Carlos and Jane looked at "Heidi" in surprise and Carlos carefully approached her. "...Heidi?"
Hades honestly felt like slapping the kid, but he pushed that back once he saw the heated glare from his daughter. "Yes...it is I...Heidi...In the flesh." He said slowly, trying and failing to force a smile on his face.
Thankfully, Uma and Harry's arrival saved Hades from having to talk, allowing the god to slink away from the boy. Uma looked beyond peeved as she stomped past everyone with Harry following closely behind. Not even two seconds later, Mal came running after them looking quite stressed. "Uma, wait!" She called out, causing the two pirates to stop momentarily to look at her.
"You have nothing to say to her." Harry drawled out, an underlying tone of anger to his voice as he stood in front of his captain.
Uma glared at the purplette then gestured widely. "Why don't you tell them what you told me, Mal?" She folded her arms and looked at the people standing around.
Heidi felt the guilt rolling off of Mal and frowned. Mal...What did you do? She thought, sticking close to her father as she saw Evie and Doug arriving.
Mal looked around, looking only more and more guilty as she saw the expectant looks on everyone's faces. "I…" She faltered a bit and gulped before taking a deep breath. "I have to tell you all something. I lied to you." She looked at the ground. "The kids won't be coming off the Isle."
Looks of shock and confusion rang across everyone's faces while Uma 'hmphed'. Jay shifted his weight and cocked his head in confusion as he looked at the purplette. "What do you mean?"
Mal closed her eyes, almost as if she dreaded to answer that very question. Looking up, she exchanged a guilt-filled look with Ben before she looked at Jay. "The program is shut down…" She let out a breath and steeled herself. "And the barrier will be closed for good."
They were all stunned, but the VKs more so than anyone else. Even Hades appeared a bit surprised by the news, and Heidi could have sworn he didn't care about that kind of stuff. Carlos looked beyond bewildered. Evie stared at Mal, feeling a tad of betrayal along with her confusion.
Ben held up his hands, attempting to calm the tension that was quickly growing. "It was for Auradon's safety." He said, frowning when that did little to nothing to stop the anger and disappointment brewing within the other VKs.
Uma just gave Mal the evil eye and folded her arms. "That's right, we were saving your precious people and your behinds for a lie. I always knew you I couldn't trust you, two-timing dragon." She stated before turning away and walking off the grounds back towards the Isle.
Mal looked at everyone then at Uma, almost as if she couldn't decide what to do. Finally, she settled on Hades and looked down at something within her hand. Taking slow steps, she approached him and with great guilt...presented the now dimmed ember. "Celia...She dropped it in some water after I told her." She said, looking down at the ground.
Hades took it and frowned. "Well, now you've done it." He told her, trying to get it to light to no avail. He looked up at her but was stopped when there was a loud crash and everyone minus himself and Mal were turned to stone. "And Heidi's girlfriend has struck again."
Heidi shook her head and looked at the two. "She also hit Uma and Harry. We are the only ones not in stone, mainly because he's a god and Mal here is part god." She told them, a deep frown on her face.
Mal looked up at the highest point of the school as there was a boom followed by the mad laughter of Audrey. "She's here...And we have no ember to defeat her." She faced her father and sister. "What are we supposed to do?"
Hades folded his arms as Heidi noticed her body beginning to blink and fade. "Heidi will be here any second, notice how she's blinking in and out? That means she'll back in her body." He said nonchalantly, ignoring the laughter of the evil princess like it was a normal thing.
"I will/She will?" Heidi and Mal asked in perfect sync before Heidi promptly disappeared. "Heidi? Where'd she go?" The girl faced her father with a frown. "Did you do that?"
Hades scoffed as he felt his daughter awaken from within her house. "Me? Hah! No, she just awoke from her coma, Mali. I'm not doing anything except trying to figure out how to restart my ember. Wonder if Heidi can get it?" He wondered before shrugging.
Mal stared at him for a moment before tilting her head. "Why don't you just use Heidi's ember to restart yours?" She asked, confused at why he hadn't done that.
"Because it is Heidi's, not mine. Just like how you can't use mine to its full use, I can't use Heidi's as she can. It's the rules, Mali." Hades said with a smirk, tossing his ember up in down as he felt his other daughter zooming towards them. "No worries, she'll be here…" He looked up at the sky. "...Right about…" He held out the words as Mal's eyes halved.
All of a sudden, there was a 'boom' and a flash of blue light before Heidi landed in front of them in what could only be called a superhero landing. She stood up as her hair blew in the wind, her eyes glowing an almost electric blue in an otherworldly manner. The goddess looked at her father and sighed before snapping her fingers. "You are hopeless, aren't you?"
Hades laughed as soon as he was back to normal, turning around a few times before punching the air again. "I'm me again!" He exclaimed before appearing to realize something. "SCREW YOU, HERMES!" He yelled to the heavens, missing the exasperated looks from his daughters.
Heidi shook her head at him and whistled before she looked at Mal. "Audrey has Celia up there with her, they both look fine but we have to be...careful." She said quietly, hoping that Audrey hadn't heard her.
Mal nodded as she saw a majestic black pegasus soar through the sky, its mane and tail violet flames while glowing armor adorned its neck and face. The horse landed and greeted Heidi, its glowing white eyes filled with magic while its body appeared to have a white aura around it. The purplette blinked at the sight of the regal horse. "Heidi, since when do you have a horse?" She felt as though the horse was trying to intimidate her as it glanced at her.
Heidi raised an eyebrow as she climbed on its back. "A while now, actually, I usually only ride him when I need to go up to Olympus and I don't want to fly. Though, I figure I'll look more...Well, she won't be as ready to fight if she sees me on a horse versus me on fire." The goddess explained, scratching her head as she tried to think of the proper words. She turned her focus onto her father and whistled for her ember to return to her. "Dad, hold up your ember."
Hades blinked before doing what she told him to do. As soon as it was in the right position, Heidi smirked and summoned a fireball to her hand. Hades raised an eyebrow before he grinned. "Oh...I see."
Mal looked between the blue-haired gods with confusion. She was about to ask what on earth they were doing, when she saw Heidi fling the fireball at the other ember, causing it to glow and spark a bit before it gave off a magical aura. "Woah…"
Heidi chuckled and blew out her fiery hand before grabbing onto her horse's mane as though it was solid. She pocketed her ember as her pegasus let out a neigh and flared its wings. "I'm going up first, Mal get dad's ember and follow me up in dragon form in about…" She held up her hand and began to count. "...Five minutes."
Hades looked dumbfounded as Mal promptly stole his ember. The god 'hmphed' and turned away as if he was offended to even look at them. "Doesn't even ask me, she just takes it from me. Kids, they just don't respect their parents anymore." He grumbled, folding his arms in a grumpy manner.
The two rolled their eyes at him and Mal turned to face her sister. "I'll be up in six minutes, okay? Give you an extra minute." She said before gently patting the horse and backing up a bit.
Heidi chuckled and gave her a thumbs-up before the horse took flight and they ascended up to the highest point of the school. The goddess held onto the mane as she felt the magic rolling off of Audrey in powerful waves. As soon as she was above the school she took a deep breath and readied herself. "Audrey." She called out, commanding her pegasus to begin circling around the tower-like structure.
Audrey's pink-tinted eyes met with Heidi's electric ones and she almost let go of the VK she held captive in her arms. "H-Heidi?" Her voice came out far shakier than she intended.
"Audrey, let Celia go." Heidi's voice was calm and almost gentle as she locked eyes with the young Facilier. "She has no part in this, please, don't harm her."
Audrey looked down at Celia then back up at the pleading goddess. With a sigh and a flash of magic, the young VK was now safe below with Mal. The princess looked up at Heidi and shook her head. "Heidi, I'm doing this for us! Auradon turned its back on both of us, we deserve better." Her grip on the Scepter tightened as she heard it begin to whisper again.
Heidi frowned and stopped her horse's circling so that she was gliding in front of the princess. "Audrey, we can make it better, trust me, but not like this. This is not the way to fix things…" Her head tilted as her pegasus lowered, allowing her to jump down and land in front of her girlfriend.
Audrey looked conflicted as the whispers grew louder and louder in her head. "This is the only way, Heidi...Auradon has never accepted us and they never will. We need to make sure they accept us." She told the woman as pink smoke began to surround them.
Heidi's hair blew in the wind that was picking up around them, sending the smoke into an almost blinding whirlwind. She held out her hand and allowed her electric eyes to glow. "Audrey...We don't need to be accepted, I am happy…" Her gentle smile grew as she took a step forward.
Audrey clutched her head as the whispers grew to shouting and the Scepter glowed brightly. "No, that's not it! We HAVE to do it-I have to…" She backed up and shrank into a corner. "The Scepter promised me-We will have everything, Heidi, everything! The crown, the kingdom, the people, all of it will be ours." The pink coloring grew in her eyes until they were completely pink. "Don't you want that?!" She asked, her voice growing loud at the aching sensation in her head.
Heidi shook her head and took another step towards the princess. "I don't want anything...Audrey, I just want you back. The kingdom, the crown, the people, the respect...None of that matters." As soon as she was close enough, she placed a hand on the Scepter as the wind sped up even more. Tears began to flow from the goddess's eyes. "Please...Just come back, that's all I want. I want the old Audrey back, the one who wanted to go shopping for hours and...and the one who would always take me out...I loved you…" She sniffled and placed a second hand on the Scepter. "And I will always love you. Nothing in the universe could tell me otherwise." Her eyes burned and sparkled with their golden flecks as magic surrounded the goddess.
Audrey herself was crying now and barely holding onto the Scepter. "H-Heidi...Do...Do you actually mean that?" She asked, voice cracking as tears ran freely down her cheeks.
The goddess nodded and knelt down so that she was at the same level as the princess. Instead of responding, she smiled before pulling the girl into a loving embrace and meeting her lips. The kiss caught the princess so off guard that she let the Scepter fall out of her hand, allowing Heidi to have it. It lasted for a few more seconds before the older woman pulled away and leaned her forehead against Audrey's. "Yes...I have loved you since the first day I saw you...You are just as beautiful as you were then." She whispered before standing up with the Scepter.
Audrey's breath shuddered as the wind began to calm around them, the smoke turning an electric blue as Heidi set her eyes on the gem. "W-What are you going to do to it?" She asked, her voice coming out rather quiet while her cheeks burned a bright red.
"I'm going to make sure that this is the last time anybody ever uses this weapon." Looking up at the sky, she reached into her pocket and pulled out her ember. She heard the thunderous flapping of wings and quickly tossed the Scepter in the air. "Mal, now!"
Mal emerged in her dragon form and quickly aimed the ember at the Scepter, causing the weapon to be suspended up in the air. Nodding at this, Heidi held up her ember and fired a ray of her own. Mere seconds felt like an eternity before a large blue crack formed on the Scepter before it exploded, sending a massive wave of magic out across the land.
Heidi sighed in relief as she felt countless signatures suddenly reappear all across Auradon, a sign that the people were all back to normal. "Thank the gods...Audrey-" She turned around and froze at the sight of an unconscious Audrey. "Audrey?" She quickly moved to check the girl and her eyes widened. "...No."
Mal landed behind her and transformed back. "Heidi, we did it...Oh, my gods." Her eyes widened at the sight before her and she ran over to look at the princess. "Is she…"
Heidi picked the princess up and cradled her in her arms. "No...But the Scepter...It took more than I thought." She looked up at her sister, her eyes glowing dimly in the darkness. "Her soul was damned the moment she touched that Scepter, it is in limbo now."
Mal was speechless and she shook her head. "B-But what about Hades? I'm sure he could get it back…" She trailed off at the grave expression on the goddess's face. "...Heidi?"
Heidi took a deep breath and got on her horse's back. "Tell dad Audrey's soul is in limbo, he'll know what to do. I'm taking her home now." She clicked her tongue and the horse took off into the night.
Mal watched her sister until she no longer could and then she teleported back down to where the rest of the group was. Ignoring her friends for the moment, she marched up to Hades and frowned. "Heidi said Audrey's soul is in limbo, she said you'd know what to do." She stated, her tone lacking emotion as she tried to keep her composure up around the man.
Hades was caught off guard and blinked a few times before his expression too turned grave. "Dammit." He muttered, shaking his head. "Give me the ember." When Mal hesitated, his frown deepened. "Mal, now. There isn't a lot of time!" This managed to startle the girl into tossing it at him and as soon as he caught it his hair lit up.
"W-What's wrong with it being in limbo?" Mal asked, noticing the god begin to walk towards a different area of the lawn.
"It means that her soul has a clause, it was cursed by your mom's Scepter. Humans aren't supposed to use stuff like the Scepter, only the fae, and the gods. Audrey was neither of those, just a plain human so of course, there was a clause!" Hades exclaimed in frustration as he stopped walking and whipped around to face his youngest daughter. "Cursed souls are sent to a little portion of the Underworld that they never return from." He stomped the ground and it rumbled in response before opening up to reveal a long staircase. "Go to Heidi, she'll need the support if I can't get that soul out of Thanatos's greedy hands." He grumbled before storming down the staircase, the ground closing up behind him.
Mal took a deep breath and walked back to her friends. "...We need to get to Heidi's, now." At the tone of her voice, the three other VKs and Ben didn't choose to question her. Gil also didn't appear to voice any questions and instead looked highly concerned. Celia nodded and quickly joined them as they ran off in the direction of the forest that was Heidi's home.
Uma and Harry were the only ones left standing there and Uma frowned. "Maybe...we should go too." She said, feeling a bit of dread at how grave Hades looked. The God of the Underworld looked worried! If that wasn't something to be alarmed about...Uma didn't know what.
Harry looked down at her for a moment before nodding in agreement, prompting the teal-haired girl to start after the other group. Harry quickly followed after her into the darkness, completely intent on staying with his captain.
