Chapter 2
The band begins to play as the back door to the limo opens. Jay and Carlos fall out fighting over a blue piece of fabric. Mal and Evie stepping out behind them.
"Boys! We have an audience," Mal reminds the two boys.
Jay quickly snatches the fabric from Carlos and pulls him to his feet. "Just cleaning up!" Jay says innocently, throwing Fairy Godmother a smile.
"Leave it like you found it! And by that, I mean just leave it," Fairy Godmother sing songs as a band student comes back with a wheelchair.
The boys toss the items they acquired from the limo back into the limo. Onto Hadley. Who was starting to get out of the limo. "Jay! Carlos!" Mal scolds as she reaches into the limo and gets the youngest VK to lean on her.
Jay never noticed the glare into his back from the young demigoddess. His full attention being on the tan princess in pink. "Hello foxy. The name's… Jay."
Audrey awkwardly laughs as Fairy Godmother gets in the way of Jay's flirting. "I'm Fairy Godmother, headmistress," the fairy introduces herself giving the five new students a little curtsy.
"The Fairy Godmother? As in bippity boppity boo?" Hadley asks half hiding behind Mal. Refusing to meet anyone eye to eye as her long blue hair hides half her face.
"Bippity boppity you know it," Fairy Godmother smiles at the young girl. To the older fairy, Hadley appeared to be shy like Jane. Not at all a threat to the safety of Auradon. She could easily tell one of the parents by the color of the teen's hair. Only one villain she can think of has bright blue hair like that. Hades.
"I always wondered what it must have been like for Cinderella. When you appeared with that sparkling wand and the smiles… and that sparkly wand," Mal says laying it on thick. Not like the Auradonians would ever notice.
"Well focus on the past and you'll miss the future. The doors of wisdom are never shut! But the library closes at eleven and I do have a thing about curfews," Fairy Godmother says before leaving with a smile.
"What a momentous occasion! A chance for our peoples to heal!" Ben says as he tries to shake Jay's hand. Jay punches the prince in the shoulder with a smirk. When Ben shakes Mal's hand, it stays for a second too long as he looks into her emerald eyes. Hadley fully ducks behind Mal to avoid the handshake when it was her turn. "I got a wheelchair for you so you can get off your leg," Ben tells the teen as a band member pushes the wheelchair over.
"I – I'll be fine," Hadley quietly says not moving out from behind her sister.
"Take it. It'll make things a lot less painful for you," Audrey insists walking over to Hadley and takes her arm. "Come on, I won't bite," the princess says leading the young demigoddess to the wheelchair. Lightly pushing the younger girl into the chair not taking no for an answer.
"Touch her again and I will end you," Mal says calmly. Audrey's eyes moving on over to the older daughter of Maleficent.
"You're Maleficent's daughter right? Audrey asks walking back over to Ben and Mal. "Y'know… I totally don't blame your mother for trying to kill my parents."
The second Mal realizes that Audrey is the daughter of Sleeping Beauty, a smirk plays on her lips. "And I don't blame your grandparetns for inviting everyone in the whole world but my mother to their stupid christening."
"Water under the bridge?"
"Totes!"
The two children of mortal enemies laugh. Fakeness radiating off of it.
"Well… onto the tour!" Ben clapping his hands trying to ease the tension. He moves to behind the chair Hadley is in and starts to push it. "My father converted this castle into a school after he became king." Ben says leading them up to a statue of King Adam outside of the school. Audrey hanging on his arm. He lets go of the handles on the chair so that he can clap. The statue morphs into a beast resulting in Carlos screaming and jumping into Jay's arms.
"Carlos, don't worry. My father wanted his statue to morph from beast to man, to show that anything is possible," Ben says turning to face Carlos.
"Does he shed much?" Mal asks looking at the statue of the beast.
"Mom won't let him on the couch," Ben says sounding completely serious. When Mal gave him a disbelieving look, he just gave her a smile before continuing on with the tour.
"Have any magic around here?" Mal asks moving to be a bit closer to Hadley.
"It exists but we keep it hidden away," Ben explains as Doug walks on over. "Guys, meet Doug. He will give you your schedules and show you to your dorms. If you have any questions you can ask…"
"Ask Doug," Audrey buts in as she plays with Hadley's hair, putting it into little braids. "Your hair is so nice," Audrey says not noticing Mal's glare drilling into the back of her head.
"Thanks… can you leave my hair alone?" Hadley says trying to squirm away from Audrey. Ben goes back to the wheelchair and grips the handles. "Am I not going with the others?" she asks tilting her head back to look up at Ben.
"We need to get you a roommate. You can head to the dorms once we talk to Elyse. She doesn't have a roommate," Ben says as he begins to push the wheelchair to an elevator down the hallway.
"Whose Elyse?" Hadley asks looking at the wooden paneling of the walls.
"Elyse is the daughter of Elsa. She's next in line for Arendale's throne. Thankfully Queen Elsa made the ascension to her throne twenty. Gives Elyse more time to be a kid," Ben answers pushing the chair into the elevator when it arrives.
"More like more time to sit there and read. How is she supposed to find a prince if she never leaves the library?" Audrey comments as she hits the button for the second floor.
"Not every girl needs a prince to feel good about herself. Knowledge is power," Hadley says before jumping as the elevator starts to go up. "What's going on?"
"It's called an elevator. It moves up and down between floors," Ben explains after chuckling at the fourteen-year-old's confusion. The elevator dings as the doors open on the second floor. Ben pushes the wheelchair out of the small space into a hall filled with classrooms. The hall being empty because of the lack of classes on a Sunday. He pushes the chair towards the library, a two-floor room that took up almost the entirety of the back of the east wing of the school thanks to Queen Belle. "Elyse will probably be in the back. She has some research to do for a project."
"Can I just leave? Elyse is too weird for my liking," Audrey says as they head to a table towards the back.
On the table they were heading to, around ten books were stacked on the table. A sixteen-year-old girl sat in a chair on the far side of the table. Her platinum blonde hair in a loose braid falling over her shoulder. Ice blue eyes looking down at a book written in Norwegian.
"Audrey, I'm way too busy to deal with you right now. It would be much appreciated if you would leave," the blonde says not looking up from her book.
Audrey spins and walks off in a huff. "You'll never find a prince like that!"
"Never said I wanted one," the girl says glancing up to see Ben and Hadley. "Good afternoon, little king. To what do I owe the pleasure," she asks closing her book and looking Ben in the eyes.
"Elyse, I got you a new roommate. An extra villain kid came over so I thought that showing her around could give you a break," Ben smiles as he lets go of the wheelchair. "Now I need to go find the records on a daughter of Hades."
"You won't find any on me. Just on my younger brother," Hadley says turning her head to look at Ben. "There isn't even a birth certificate."
"Can you at least tell me your age and name so I can try to set up your schedule?"
"Hadley Olympia. Fourteen," Hadley answers as Elyse starts to put her books back into her bag.
"Well Hadley, I'll get your schedule to you at breakfast. See you two in the morning," Ben says clapping his hands together before walking off.
"I'll take you to our dorm in a minute. I just have to pack up my stuff," Elyse says as she puts the last book in her bag. She slings the last book bag over her light blue clad shoulder. "It's on the other side of the school on the top floor. About a five-minute walk."
"Well figuring that I'm not allowed to walk at all… could be longer," Hadley comments as she pokes the wheels on her chair.
"Same amount of time. I'll just push you," Elyse says moving to stand behind the chair. The duo head up to the dorms in silence. The blue haired girl looking at all of the paintings of kings and queens on the way. Elyse opens the dorm room door and props it open with a white sandal. She pushes Hadley in and stops next to the bed closest to the fireplace. Unlike the other rooms, the beds were on the wall opposite the door. Up against the windows. One bed was pushed up into a corner and the second was just short of the bricks leading up to the fireplace. Most of the decorations that came in the room had been replaced with paper snowflakes and blue string lights. The snow princess flicks on the lights, the string lights turn on instead of the overhead lights. "Hopefully you have nothing against blue. It was the only color Cynthia and I agreed on."
"Blue is my favorite color," Hadley says looking around the room. Once she is next to the bed near the fireplace, she slowly gets out of the chair and falls back onto the bed. Sinking into the mattress. "Are beds normally this soft?"
"Yeah. Did you not have a bed back on the Isle?" Elyse asks sitting down next to Hadley. Smiling at the innocence of the demigod's question.
"My brother and I only had the ground to sleep on back home. Occasionally we could find a blanket. Not a lot of supplies make it to the Underworld," Hadley says before turning her head to look at the tv above the fireplace. A Nintendo Switch sitting on the mantle. An HDMI cord attached the device to the tv. "What is that?"
"It's called a Switch. It has games on it. Want to play one?" Elyse asks glad that Hadley's distraction made it so the younger teen didn't notice the sorrow and anger that flashed across the snow princess' face.
"Games?"
"Yes. Games," Elyse says getting up/ She powers on the swtich and tv and hands Hadley a joycon. "Let's play a round of Mario Party. The instructions are in the game."
