Chapter 9: Talks and Spells
At the Arlendia Prep council meeting, Headmistress Amelia was at the head on the table, of her left: was Louis, Corrine, Connor, Lorraine, Finn Oxford and Lady Anne - who were a sickly sweet couple and teachers, Lady Anne and Finn Oxford.
And of the headmistress' left side: Was the co-headmistress, Headmistress Alexandra Privet, The Enchantress, Queen Maribella and Madame Hélène.
"Good Afternoon, I have called this meeting on behalf of the VKs." Headmistress Amelia explain off-the-bat, crossing her legs.
"I knew them coming here wasn't a good idea." Louis said. "From what Lorraine said, they are causing trouble."
"Okay, look, all they did was skip a few morning classes," Connor told his Father, standing up for them.
"Which brings me back to this; I asked them why, and they gave me a good explanation." Amelia explained, then told them what Lyra and Olivia had said.
"Poor kids," Finn said, feeling bad for the kids on the Isle. "Life on the Isle is tough."
"Which is all formed by there parents, hello!" Lorraine told them, tapping her head. She knew that even if their story was sad, it was all because of their parents, and she didn't feel bad.
"We have no control over what they do." Louis said, with a round of nods from the table.
"But that's not why I called this meeting about," Amelia said as the room became quite. "It's about the children, the ... what are you children calling them now ..." She explained then thought about that right wrod.
"VKs, short for villains kids." Lorraine said in a snippy tone, just saying the words.
"Ah yes, VKs, the acronyms you children use this day and age, anywho, they need something constructive but is something that they like." The head mistress explained, looking at each counsel member.
Lorraine raised her hand, she wanted to tell them about something, Amelia pointed to the young princess. "They have magic, after all, Snowi, Wendell and Lyra all have magic." She said as a few murmurs around the table.
"Isn't magic prohibited, without the proper training and right use?" Lady Anne brought up, she, like many people, thought it was silly.
"Yes, that is true, I signed it myself, magic can be used for good, but it can also be used for evil, as we have all seen." Louis stated, earning a few nods.
"But prohibiting the use of magic without training is just saying for some kids to rebel." Headmistress Privet stated, getting more nods than the king's statement.
"But if we raise out kids not to use it, they should obviously use common sense." Maribella said, not that she didn't deny kids now days would rebel, she was just stating an obvious fact.
"And, we don't even offer and magic training, safety classes or anything, and many children - mine included - have magical abilities." The Enchantress said, making Amelia nod.
"We should have those type of classes, and magic can be very helpful, yes, sometimes it is used for other things," She said, referring to Princess Tori and Keira swapping outfits and looks. "That's why, we should add a magic safeness club."
Louis abruptly scooted out his chair, stood up and placed his hands on the table. "Are you crazy? We should not be condoning magic! I understand kids have these abilities, but don't you think it will make the others, who have it jealous?" He said, which was a very good start of an argument.
Corrine looked at her husband. "Louis, they can't help if they have powers or not, they can chose to use them or not." She said, placing her hand on his as Louis sat back down.
"That's why we have certain rules on using them, and one of the rules will be: No showing off." Connor added, as the headmistress nodded with a smile.
"Connor is absolutely right, and if they fail to heed to the rules, we will have a consequence, punishment if you will." Amelia explain, looking at each one of the counsel members. "But enough about magic, and more about what we can do to help these kids."
"I think personally we should get them into a club, like music, I heard their very musical inclined." Finn said, gaining a nod from Connor.
"Rose said they had talent, but yet again, we tried, they won't budge from saying: No." Lorraine said, making hand gestures then blowing hair from her face.
Connor nodded. "I've witnessed there talents, not just by music, but my art, sports, too." He brought up, recalling so far, all they had done. "Patrick has some raw talent, he finally gave into trying out tourney, which he became very good at."
"We just need someone to give them a nudge." Alexandra said.
"But who?" Lorraine asked as all eyes fell on her. She jumped to the conclusion it was her. "Oh no, not me, I don't even want them here."
"No one was suggesting you Lorraine, I was thinking anyone really, I think I can try and get Annabelle to nudge them, and Rosemary, she seems to like them." Amelia explained. She knew that the people how didn't mind the VKs were very slim, most didn't care for them, or just didn't want to converse with them.
They continued to talk about other things that could help the VKs adjust to live outside of the Isle. No one really knew much about what inside the Isle was like, only villains knew, so someone was gonna have to ask the VKs what it was like.
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Octavia laughed at Alan's joke as the two caught up with Connor by the lockers. Alan frowned then pointed at Lyra, Olivia, and Snowi as they stood by Lyra's locker. "Those kids are trouble." He said, as the three girl noticing them, Snowi decided to leave, she needed to check on her make up.
"Bye Lyra, Olivia," said Snowi, who waved at her two friends.
"Bye," she replied as the blue-haired girl, turned around and made a bee line for the inside of the prep school, taking out mirror. Connor shrugged turning back to his friends.
"Come on Alan, give them a chance." He had been trying for two days to get his friends to have more of an open mind about the VKs. Trying to show them that not everyone is like there parent no matter how hard they try.
Octavia scoffed as she flipped up her Red flower sunglasses, "No offense Connor, but you're just too trusting." She took his hands and looked into his eyes. "Look, I know there are many stories that the bad guys fall in love with the good ones and change, but that just doesn't happen anymore! Just take a look at them."
All the VKs could here what they were saying, since they were like three feet away. The girls hated Octavia with they're everything. They were thinking up a special plan for Octavia when they took over the world.
Connor shrugged, "I think you're wrong about them," he said, running his hands through his hair, ruffling it up.
Octavia sighed and fixed her boyfriend's hair. "Connor, trust me, my Mom was a Mean Girl, I thank my lucky stars above I wasn't like her when she was a teen," Connor partly disagreed with that, but he let her continue. "You need to see what's real, not what you want to."
"Octavia is right bro: once a villain, always a villain." Alan said, putting his hand in his pants pocket.
"Not true, on the contrary Alan, Via," Connor started, "people can change." Looking back at the villain kids he said. "Look at Sunburst, she was mean to Elena, but then became nice to her."
Octavia sighed, twirling her hair around her finger. "She wasn't the villain, Laverna was, besides, I'd act just like Sunburst if someone came into my room unexpected."
"Both of you are right there, but remember, Elena didn't know where her room was." Alan stated, he normally too his best friend's side, more than he'd take a girls side, even though Octavia was Connor's girlfriend, even he didn't like her that much, which said a lot.
"That just like you boy, to take the same sex's side," Octavia said, crossing her arms looking at both boys.
"It's call the Bro Code." Connor and Alan said in unison making a magical hand gesture for it.
She truly thought the Bro Code was idiotic. "Ugh, you boys and the Bro Code, you use it like its a dictionary!" Octavia scoffed at they're use of the Bro Code so much.
"Oh Tia, it keeps us Bros inline." Connor joked putting his arm around Octavia, who just sighed.
"But Connor, us girls don't have; Girl Code? It's silly." Octavia told her boyfriend shaking her head, making her tiara slip to the side.
Connor went to fix her tiara. "Tia," He began placing her tiara on her head. "You will just have to put up with it, its not all that bad."
Octavia rolled her eyes, as soon as Alan added a few words. "And remember, its keeps up Bros in line about things." He said, with a nod from Connor.
"Boys" She sighed, crossing her arms. She never did get boys, and the Bro Code was one thing she never go or knew why was if invented.
"Come on, I don't under stand girls, so what's the big deal?" Connor asked fake pouting to his girlfriend with puppy dog eyes.
"It shouldn't be," Octavia sighed. "Bur yet again, I'd be nice to understand guys."
"Same goes for us and girls," Alan said. "After all, girls are a little bit more complicated than boys."
"Not always true, but veering away from that subject, Connor you really do need to put less trust in the VKs." Octavia told him, looking at him, tapping her nails on her arm.
"Octavia, just give them a chance?" Connor asked, as she shook her head no, which made Connor sigh.
"Look, Connor, I know you want to see the good in people, but not everyone is good, you see, yes people can change, but villains," Octavia's gaze fell of the trio of VKs girls, laughing and talking with each other. "They say; Don't judge a book by its cover, but in some cases, you have too, which this is one of them."
"Alan?" Connor asked his friend, wondering if he would back Connor or Octavia up.
Alan put his hands in front of him. "All I'm saying is there there VKs, and leaving it at that, but you can't trust them to much." He said, knowing full well Connor would rebuttal.
"I respect your options, I do wish you'd give them a chance," Connor said with a sigh, then adding before either Octavia or Alan could but in. "In due time we will see."
"That's true," Octavia then sighed, putting down her sunglasses and walking away.
"See you later," Connor said as Alan followed her.
"See you later bro," Alan said back to his best friend.
Lyra was done putting things away when she closed her locker door to reveal Connor on the other side. "Hey!" he greeted.
"Hey?" she said back.
"Hi Olivia," He said, giving a wave to the blond teenage dame, who just smiled and gave a small wave.
"How was your first day?" he asked.
"Super." She replied sarcastically. Connor caught sight of the LONG LIVE EVIL emblem spray-painted onto her locker.
"You should really think about taking this talent off the locker and into art class." He smiled, "I could uh, sign you up." At that moment a familiar girl in red walked by with yet another nervous squeak.
Lyra and Olivia followed her with their gaze until she saw her go into the girl's bathroom.
"What do you think?" Connor asked, looking at the young witch.
The red-haired teenage witch answered, "Way to take all the fun out of it." Before tossing him a smirk and leaving to following Annabelle, with Olivia at her heels.
Connor just stared after her, wondering beyond belief where he'd seen her before. He couldn't put his finger on it, it was bugging him so much, and he couldn't have anyone else tell him. "Huh." He sighed before leaning against the locker and glancing one last time at her artwork.
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Annabelle combed her fingers through her shoulder length flat hair with a slightly dejected look. She wished she was beautiful like the princess, like her cousins were.
She suddenly stiffened as she saw a Lyra and Olivia walk into the bathroom towards her. She knew Olivia was Dame Devin's daughter, she didn't have her hair but did have personality. And Lyra, her Mom was Lydia, one of these worse witches, with Dark Magic, all she had to do is with one tune, you could be under her every command.
"Hi!" Lyra said cheerfully with a smile, trying to appear a little more friendly and less intimating.
"Hello!" Olivia said with a smile, which make Annabelle shiver. It wasn't really Olivia's smile, more of the way she was looking at her.
"It's Annabelle, right? Ah, always loved that name … Annabelle!" Lyra said, saying the girls name twice.
Annabelle didn't like being stuck in a bathroom with two teenage villains, who from the looks of it, had an agenda. Annabelle didn't want to find out, she really wanted to make an dart for the door, but she instead said, "That's cool." She stammered before turning and trying to leave.
Lyra and Olivia saw she was trying to get away from her and lifted her hand, "Don't go!" Lyra almost yelled, slightly scaring the mousy teen. The young witch put on her best tear-jerker face and acted rejected and lonely to real her in. "I guess we was were, kinda hoping to make a friend…"
"Yeah, I mean, having Lyra has a friend was okay, but I've know her my whole life, and I don't know anyone here." Olivia explained to the young duchess, frowning rubbing her arm sadly. Lyra sent her a glare of "what did you just say?" And Olivia sent her one back that said. "keep it cool."
Annabelle started to feel bad for them. They really didn't fit in with the rest of the kids here, and they did seam a little nice. But Annabelle quickly swatted those thoughts from her head. They were mean, evil villainous teens that couldn't be trusted.
"You probably have all the friends you need though, huh?" Olivia added with a sad sigh.
"Hardly." Annabelle replied with a casual shrug, twisting her ball of her shoe on the marble floor.
Both teenage villains put on her shocked but sincere face, "Really?" Lyra asked as the young mousy duchess nodded.
"I mean with your mom being the Headmistress?" Olivia added as she and Lyra walked closer to the smaller girl, cornering her with her sob story.
"Not to mention your own, um…" Lyra examined the duchess but found hardly any eye-catching physical features that would scream extraordinary then she decided on the word. "Personality!"
Annie, as she was called by her Mother sighed, "I'd rather be pretty." She said as she looked at both girls, "You've both got great hair."
Both touched a lock of their blond and red tresses as an idea formed in Lyra's head. She remembered seeing a beautification spell in her spell book. And beautifying Annabelle to could the first step to befriending her, and then Hello Magic Wand and Goodbye Goodness of the Outside World!
"You know what? I have just the thing for that!" Lyra brought out her spell book and slapped it into her palm, startling Annabelle a bit as she flipped through the pages. She found the right spell and read it aloud, "Beware, Forswear, replace the old with brand new hair!"
She swiped her finger to the left, then the right, then up, and back down, Annabelle's head following her finger in jerking motions. Within seconds her brown flat hair was replaced with long soft curls cascading past her shoulders with a feathered bang that looked great on her, with some highlights.
Annabelle turned to look in the mirror and was ecstatic to see the new her, Lyra poker faced a surprise face. She tried her best not to show how excited she way, which wouldn't be around Annabelle, just one step closer to getting the wand.
"Wow! You almost don't notice your… other features, anymore!" Olivia chimed in in a fake happy voice at the girls new look.
Annabelle then started rapidly tapping the cover of her book, "Do my nose!"
"Oh, I can't," Lyra said sadly, "I've been practicing, but you know, I can't do really … big magic." She gestured to Annabelle's face making her look disappointed.
"Not like the Zinnia or any wand at that! I mean one swoosh from that thing and you could probably have whatever features you wanted!" Olivia said with a little giggle, making Annabelle slight frown.
"She doesn't want anyone to use magic or the wand anymore," Annabelle sighed, "She believes real magic is in the books… and not the spell books, regular books with history and stuff." She was sad that her Mom - the whole counsel, excluding Connor - made magic prohibited.
"What a rip!" Lyra scoffed. Annabelle merely nodded. This was getting the teenage witch nowhere, which was exasperating! What Lyra needed was to plant a little tiny itty bitty seed of insecurity deeper. "You know, most of the parents here have magic, Tori included, and your mom was her aunt, and she could use her magic hairbrush every day, but she wasn't her daughter like you are!" Lyra broke out her kicked-puppy eyes, and sadly slight smile.
"Doesn't she love you?" Olivia added frowning then quickly added. "Our mothers are like your mom, won't let us do things we want, because its not "cool"."
Annabelle was a little too quick to reply, "Well of course she does! It's … it's just, you know, tough love. Work on the inside, not the outside. You know that sort of thing." She frowned, messing with her bracelet, she was truly upset.
Annabelle was starting to doubt her own words. It's like this, what Lyra and Olivia were saying were true. After all, it was true, and yes, most of the parents did have magic! And it was unfair to tell your children you could use it, but "Mommy and daddy can, because we know how to use it." Was what they could have said, I don't know for sure, I haven't been told, but it was a very plausible thing to happen after all.
"That's the face!" Olivia yelled, making the girl jump slightly. "Yeah, and then just look as if your … your heart is about to break!"
Both girls decided to demonstrate by giving her sad kicked-puppy dog eyes again with a heartbroken expression on her face. "Oh mommy, I just don't understand why you can't make me …" Lyra added a little sniffle and making little tears in her eyes. "Beautiful too."
"Think it would work?" Annabelle asked, getting optimistic what what both girls were doing. 'They aren't that bad! There helping me with my looks, like no one else would do!' She thought.
"Yeah," Lyra giggled. "I mean after all, Tori did change your mom's hair multiple times and hey, if your mom does decide to, you know, break out the old wand … invite me!" she said casually as she sat on the bathroom counter.
"If I can convince mom, you're so there!" Annabelle said with bright eyes, clapping her hands together. "You guys are the best!"
"Yay!" Olivia and Lyra clapped their hands together giddily as Annabelle smiled and left the bathroom with a friendly goodbye.
"Like putty in our hands…" Lyra smirked turning to Olivia.
Olivia gave a wickedly evil smirk. "People are so gullible with the right leverage!"
Lyra smriked. "That was way to easy, wasn't it?"
"Oh no doubt!" Olivia agreed and both girls left the bathroom, with evil sparkling in there eyes and smirks on there faces, then gave each other a high five.
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Z: Ikr, it is sweet, and it can be vice versa too
Lasting Violet: Same here, I'm not sporty, unless you count swimming, soccer and a few others like dodge ball :) Yeah, it doesn't explain it, I tent to have a little myself ... when it comes to certain things. I'm glad you loved the songs and I hope this chapter didn't disappoint!
A/N:
Hello, sorry it was a little late, I've been busy, ugh, why can't summer be just that, summer, nothing to do but relax and have a good time :\
I didn't notice until now that Jadis (The White Witch) from Narnia looks the same as The Snow Queen from Barbie Pink Shoes O_o ... Mattel copied Narnia's White Witch (Or Snow Queen or Jadis) ... at least that's what I think, from comparing the pictures, you can check for yourself, but they look like sisters in a way ...
And Descendants 2, they have officially said the new characters, Uma daughter of Ursula played by China Anne McClain (who her sister is now doing the voice of Freddie, which is gonna be in the sequel!) and Bradley Perry, he is going to be Yzma, from the Emperors New Groove, they haven't said his name yet, but anywho, in the latest Wicked World Episode, they FINALLY reveled CJ Hook, daughter of Captain Hook, and she is sooooo wicked, not in a good way.
