A/N: Okay, so I find the idea that the Isle has not one but three schools a bit ridiculous, so instead the school has 'houses' that change depending on which villain is allied with who that particular week.
"We need fake names. For the next time someone asks." Ben stated, looking at his friends. Yen Sid had shown them to an old warehouse on the edge of the forest. There were seven beds inside with enough food to last them a few weeks.
"Well, I'm sorted." Lonnie stated, grabbing an apple and flopping down onto a bed. "My advice is keep it simple."
"Yes, thank you Lonnie." Audrey shot back
"Wait, how did you come up with your name so quickly Lonnie?" Chad interrupted.
"It's my actual name dumbass." Lonnie snapped "You lot just decided it was too hard to pronounce and it was easier to say Lonnie." She scowled, turning her back on the group.
"You know. I think I'm just gonna do the same thing." Aziz stated, perching on a box.
"Aziz?" Chad asked "Everyone knows your name dumbass"
"Azriel." Aziz stated, scowling. "Like Lonnie said, you just decided Azriel was too hard to pronounce and that I should be called Aziz instead."
"That... that can't be right." Ben interrupted "Dad said everyone has names like ours."
"King Beast is a bigot. Who knew?" Aziz laughed "Not like the anti-magic policies are all because he's scared of it."
"You can't just say that about the king Aziz. That's treason!" Audrey exclaimed.
"We're on the Isle of the Lost Audrey. If what Yen Sid said is correct, anything goes here."
"Enough" Doug interrupted "We need to figure out names before we give ourselves away and end up dead."
"We aren't going to die." Chad scoffed "Even they're not stupid enough to kill royalty."
"Their victim being royalty hasn't stopped any of them before." Jane pointed out. "In fact, if anything, they're more likely to have a grudge against you because of your parents banishing them here."
"Wow. Way to lighten the mood, Jane."
"Again, names? Am I the only one that doesn't want to get killed because we don't have fake names ready?"
"Why don't you just stay Doug?" Lonnie asked "We're only changing our names because we're well known. You're not." Doug paused, considering.
"That's a good point."
"So so far we've got Azrail, Lean and Doug."
"Azriel and Lian, Chad. It's Azriel and Lian."
"How about Jean? For Jane I mean." Doug suggested, clearly trying to get Aziz's attention away from Chad. "It's a variant of Jane after all."
"I like it." Jane smiled. "How about Blaise, for Ben."
"Sounds good," Ben agreed "thanks, Jane."
"So that leaves Chad and Audrey." Doug stated.
"Caleb and Aldreda." Lonnie called from the bed, playing with the knife Charlie had given her.
"What about surnames?"
"Well, I vote that we wait and see what the Isle kids give us as surnames," Lonnie stated,
"Easy for you to say." Audrey practically spat "You've already got a full name!"
"I know, isn't it great?"
"What does Hu even mean?"
"There's a couple of different translations but the ones Charlie Devil meant are probably wildly and recklessly possibly barbarian."
"Wow complimentry." Audrey stated.
"Probably is here."
Twenty Eight Days Before The Barrier Breaks.
"Late, Miss De Vil." Yen Sid called as Charlie Devil wandered into the classroom.
"Whoops."
"I understand that you and Miss Hook clearly have better things to be doing, but if you don't start turning up more I'll have to inform your mother and, considering you go out of your way to avoid her, I really don't think you want it to come to that." Charlie scowled, dropping down into a seat next to a boy with curly white hair.
"No need to go that far Sir."
"And Mr De Vil, I would appreciate it if you two didn't whisper through my class again. I'm sure your project is very important but when you are in my classroom the most important thing is what I write on the board. Understood?"
"Yes sir." Charlie's hand shot up.
"Yes Miss De Vil?"
"Would is be possible to build a Particle Accelerator here on the Isle? Hypothetically that is." Yen Sid sighed, sounding like he'd done this before.
"Why do you want to build a Particle Accelerator Miss De Vil?"
"To see if I can. And because CJ said I couldn't."
"What Miss Hook thinks you can or cannot do is not a good reason to try and build something that could tear our world apart without the proper tools, equipment or containment facility."
"So, that's a no then?" Half the class was laughing at that point.
"'Lota. Shut up." the De Vil boy stated, hand over Charlie's mouth.
"Thank you Mr De Vil."
Twenty Seven Days Before The Barrier Breaks
"Be-Blaise, there's something wrong with the flood." Audrey complained, "It's all mouldy and rotten."
"That's just how it is here Princess." Ben turned to see Toni Legume leaning against the 'stall' they were at. "Isle of the Lost? More like Isle of the Leftovers. All we get here is Auradon garbage." She stated, grabbing a slightly-less-mouldy-than-the-others apple and taking a bite out of it.
"You eat this stuff?" Audrey exclaimed, horrified. Toni Legume shrugged
"It's that or starve." She replied, pocketing another apple. "Never did catch your names the other day."
"I'm Blaise and this is Aldreda." Toni Legume nodded. She didn't ask for surnames.
"Well, I'll see you around." She gave them a mock salute, slipping off into the shadows.
"There's something wrong with this place. All they eat is trash."
"They're villains. Who'd want to waste resources on them?" Chad asked, grabbing a fresh apple out of the box of food they'd been given.
"And the little kids? They deserve to eat rotting food?"
"They've been raised by their parents Ben. You really think villains raise their kids to be good people?"
"I'm thinking we've chosen to come to this rock and stay for a bit with a bunch of kids that had no choice as to who their parents are." Ben stated carefully "And I think that once we get back to Auradon there are some things I need to change."
"Ben, you can't help everyone."
"No. I can't. But I've got to try. I'm going to be King, Audrey, and these kids? They're my people too. They've been forgotten about long enough."
Twenty Six Days Before The Barrier Breaks
"Hey, about last night." Ben looked at Lonnie out of the corner of his eye as they wandered down the school corridors "for what it's worth, I think you're right." Ben smiled slightly.
"Thanks Lian."
"No problem Blaise."
"It's just- Mum always says everyone deserves a second chance, but these kids? They didn't even get a first one. None of them are as bad as they've been made out to be. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that the people Yen Sid told us to avoid aren't as bad as he says they are."
"Maybe."
"Hu Lian." Lian turned to see Charlie Devil stood alone behind her.
"Charlie Devil." She greeted, looking around for Jaz Hook. From what she'd heard, it was strange to see one without the other.
"Jaz ain't here." Charlie stated. "It's just me and you."
"What do you want?" Lian asked,
"Walk with me." Charlie offered.
"What do you have to say that's so important you don't want to risk other people overhearing?" She asked, following Charlie down towards the docks.
"You're smart." Charlie stated
"You write on your knives." Lian shot back, thumb running over the word on the handle of the knife Charlie had given her.
"Fiadh. It's an Irish name meaning Wild, untamed." Charlie commented, jumping over a small fence and wandering down towards the shore to sit on some rocks. Lian followed her
"Why did you give it to me?"
"You have potential. I could see it in your eyes the moment you introduced yourself. For someone whose name means Water Lily, you've got a fire in you." She paused, staring out across the harbour towards the barrier "There's fight in you. Don't see that often in girls from Auradon." Lian twisted, turning to stare at Charlie.
"What do you mean, you don't see that often in girls from Auradon?"
"Sometimes people banished here bring their families. The girls are nearly always weak-willed flowers that end up dead or a plaything for the adults." Charlie bared her teeth towards the barrier "Isle born girls? We've had to fight pretty much every single day of our lives. Most Auradon born girls don't even know what a weapon looks like, never mind how to use one." She pulled a knife out of her skirt, staring at the horizon
"What's that one called?"
"Bo. Basically it means To Live." There was a story there.
"Why'd you call it that?"
"Because I refuse to die." Her voice cracked slightly on the last word. "I refuse to be something other people can manipulate and use." her hand clenched tightly around the handle "I am going to live. Even if I have to cut down every adult on this Isle to do so." Lian's heart broke for the girl beside her. Ben was right.
Nobody gave a damn about any of the kids here. She'd seen the scars, the missing fingers or even limbs in some cases. The rotting food, the dirty water, the general trash and filth all around them. She'd seen the way the men leered and some of the women did to, the way the kids ducked their heads when a known villain entered the area, the way they got out of the way as fast as they could. The way allys were always full of rotten bodies, the way the older kids she'd seen with younger ones kept careful count.
The way nobody would say who their parents were. The only reason they knew anything was from surnames and Yen Sid telling them.
Charlie Devil had been the first person outside her homeland to get her name right first try. Lian would back up anything Ben came up with to help these kids.
Twenty Five Days Before The Barrier Breaks
"Oi!" Aziz looked up to see another Agrabaian staring at him. "You're in my spot."
"Didn't see your name on it." He replied. The other boy smirked.
"Name's Jay."
"Azriel." He smiled. Hearing someone outside his homeland calling him by his actual name and pronouncing it right felt good.
"You're from Agrabah?"
"You should be too"
"Yeah well, my dad tried to take it over. That really doesn't make a good impression on the rulers of a land."
"You're Jafar's kid?" Azriel asked, surprised. He knew his parents enemy was on the Isle, but he didn't think he'd run into the man's son.
"Unfortunately." Jay replied. "But hey, it's better than being Cruella's kid, or Gaston's. Cruella's bat-shit crazy rubbed off on her daughter and Gaston named all his kids after himself."
"From what I've seen of the De Vil kids they're fairly normal."
"Oh, Carlos is fine. He's perfectly stable. It's Charlie Devil that's slowly going insane. She once left a grenade in the halls to see what would happen." Jay must have noticed the look of Horror on Azriel's face because he laughed. "Nobody died. Nobody died the time she sent a lawnmower into a crowded street either. People call her Devil for a reason though, and that reason is she doesn't have a motive when she hurts people. It's all because she wants to. Because she can. There's no reasoning with that sort of person."
"I... I guess not."
Twenty Four Days Before The Barrier Breaks
"Oh, a hairdressers. Come on Caleb, let's check it out." Audrey dragged him into the building labelled Curl Up & Dye. There was a girl inside, sweeping the floor.
"We're only open after midnight" the girl stated without even looking up to see who had entered.
"Shouldn't you be in school?" Audrey asked
"Chores need doing. No time for school." She replied.
"What's your name?"
"I'm Dizzy. Dizzy Tremaine." Chad froze at the surname. In another world, this girl would be his cousin. In another world, she'd have grown up running around after his little sister. For a split second, her could see her in the gardens back home, chasing after Camilla. He blinked and the image was gone. It was a stupid idea to begin with. Dizzy was the daughter and granddaughter of the people who'd made his mother's life hell. Never mind that his mother had told tales of 'Aunt' Anastasia and 'Aunt' Drizella. That she'd told him they were just following their mother's orders. They were evil. They had to be, otherwise, why were they trapped on the Isle? Only bad people ended up on the Isle. That was just fact.
"You need to leave." There was an older boy stood in the doorway. "the shop's closed. Get lost." Audrey scowled, grabbing Chad's wrist and dragging him back out.
Twenty Three Days Before The Barrier Breaks
"Do you think our parents know the kids are here?" Jane asked as they assembled in their warehouse at the end of the day.
"Yes. They do. Mum gave me files on all the kids before we came here. They know full well that these kids exist and what they've done."
"And they did nothing?" Lonnie practically demanded.
"Well, what could they do? Remove the barrier?" Chad retorted
"I don't know. But they could have done something." Lonnie cried.
"It isn't always as simple as that, but yes, you're right. They could have done something." Ben stated, interrupting before it could turn into an argument.
"We have to do something about it when we get home."
"One step at a time. First, we need to live long enough to get home."
Twenty Two Days Before The Barrier Breaks
"Okay, so the De Vil siblings are clearly building something. Charlie's asked about complicated machinery every day for a week now and from the way the class reacted, this is clearly a common thing for her or her brother to do. I think we should check it out."
"Problem. They split up after class. From what I've heard, they're in different gangs too."
"Easy, half of us follows one of them, half of us follows the other."
"I think we should have a look at Hell Hall too. Lonnie, Audrey, if you two go after Charlie tomorrow, Jane and I will follow Carlos." Ben stated. "Chad, Aziz, Doug, you three go have a look around Hell Hall if you can. See if they've left any clues as to what they're building."
Twenty One Days Before The Barrier Breaks
Audrey looked at Lonnie as Charlie Devil and Jaz Hook wandered into a shop labelled Ursula's Fish and Chip Shoppe. The two girls had met up at the entrance to the docks, everyone else scrambling to get out of their way as they walked past.
Lonnie shrugged, grabbing Audrey's arm and dragging her into the shoppe after the two girls.
"Empty ye pockets ye little shits." They heard a boy's voice order before they could enter the shoppe.
"Oh look, it's the whore." Jaz Hook stated, smirking as Lonnie shoved the swinging doors open.
"Lesbian Trash." the boy shot back. He was dressed similarly to Jaz in a red coat and a black pirate hat. "Hook." He gestured towards the hook hanging from Jaz's belt with the one in his hand.
"Nope. If you keep yours, I keep mine. Brother Dearest." The boy—who could only be Harry Hook—fake gagged.
"Never call me that again." Charlie Devil ignored the squabbling siblings, practically skipping past them and up to a girl sat on a throne, whispering something in her ear.
"Harry!" The girl on the throne yelled. Both Hooks stopped, turning to face her. "Stop arguing with Jaz and get over here." The girl stood up from her throne, jumping onto a table. "What's my name?" she demanded, practically screaming the question.
"UMA!" The teens in the shop yelled back. Uma. They'd been told to avoid her.
"We have visitors." Uma smirked, waving towards them "Hu Lian and… who are you?" she asked, jumping off the table and ambling back to her throne, the Hook boy right behind her.
"Aldreda." Audrey stated "Aldreda Thorn." The rest of the group may have agreed to wait for the Villain Kids to give them a surname but Audrey would do no such thing.
"Lian and Aldreda. Why were you following my crew?" Audrey's mind went blank. They didn't have a plan of if they got caught.
"We want to join." Lonnie stated. "I'm sure you've heard that we're new here and we need protection. We've heard that your group is one of the best on the Isle and we wanted to make sure we'd be on the winning side if any civil wars broke out."
"Civil War?" Uma laughed "No, there's no danger of that." the Hook boy practically melted against her as she tangled fingers in his hair. "Not right now at any rate."
"Harriet wouldn't risk hurting her Beloved Little Brother or her Darling Little Sister." Charlie Devil mocked. Jaz Hook punched her in the arm. Harry Hook vaguely waved his hook in her direction and then apparently decided it was better to stay put.
"Yeah no." Jaz Hook scoffed "Hattie doesn't want a Civil War because she only just finished fighting Anthony Tremaine and his lot."
"Oh, his lot are a pain." Charlie Devil moaned, jumping up to sit on a table, the same one Uma had been stood on earlier "They keep bugging me whenever I go see 'Los."
"Hang on" A blond boy interrupted, dropping a tray onto the table next to Charlie Devil. "I thought Carlos was one of Mal's. Why are you spending time with him?"
"I want to talk to someone that can actually understand every single word that comes out of my mouth Gil." Oh, Audrey recognised him now. That was the boy that had dragged Toni away the first day they arrived. "And the options are him or Reza. And Reza doesn't know when to stop using his fancy eloquent words and just speak like a normal person." Jaz Hook laughed, shoving the tray out the way and jumping up to sit beside Charlie Devil.
"You know, he keeps trying to find new ways to tell me I'm an asshole, but nothing works better than 'you're a fucking asshole'."
"Isn't that the whole point of the one class you share with him? To be an Asshole?"
"It's Making Enemies for Beginners but yeah. It's basically How To Be An Asshole."
"Well, Jaz Dearest, do you know how to be an asshole?" Charlie Devil asked, getting in Jaz Hook's face.
"You tell me Lottie Darling" Jaz Hook replied, shoving her off the table.
"Will you two quit flirting?" Uma snapped
"Are you gonna quit molesting my brother?" Jaz Hook shot back. Audrey took that as a chance to slip out the shoppe while the eyes were off her.
"Well, what do we have here? A coupla spies." Ben froze at the sight of the purple haired girl. "Who sent you?"
"Nobody!" Jane exclaimed "We- we wanted to join your group."
"Oh? Why's that?"
"You're the daughter of the strongest villain on the Isle. Obviously your gang is the best. And we're new here, so we need protection. Who better to get it from than the daughter of the baddest villain on the Isle?"
"Oh, you're the new kids Toni Legume didn't recognise." A boy who looked a lot like Aziz stated.
"Yeah. We just got banished." Ben smiled.
"What for?" A blue haired girl asked.
"Magic" Jane stated, the word seemingly tumbling out of her mouth without her control if her horrified look was anything to go by. "He's my accomplice."
"Wow. Old Bestiality really hates magic doesn't he?" The purple haired girl mused "But, from what I heard, there were more of you at the docks."
"We split up. Had a disagreement on how to proceed." Ben interrupted.
"I wasn't talking to you."
"He's telling the truth though. We split up. I'm Jean. This is Blaise."
"Mal." The purple haired girl stated. "That's Jay" The agrabahian boy "Evie" the blue haired girl "And Carlos." She gestured to Carlos De Vil, the boy messing with some sort of machinery.
"I'd say it's nice to meet you, but I get the feeling that isn't something you say here."
"It isn't" Carlos agreed. "I'm heading home, I left my notes behind this morning."
"Whatever." Mal dismissed him with a wave of her hand. "Don't start any fights. I can't be bothered dealing with Shrimpy and Harriet's a pain to fight."
"Understood." Carlos called as he vanished out the window.
"Is that just a De Vil thing?" Evie mused, watching him go "Jumping out the window that is? Because from what I've heard his sister does it a lot."
"Probably." Jay replied "I've seen Diego De Vil do it. His little sister too, whatever her name is."
"But can you imagine Cruella De Vil jumping out a window?"
"Maybe to catch some animals to turn into a coat."
"Will you two shut up?"
"What is all this stuff?" Chad asked, staring around the room. Hell Hall as a whole was pretty unremarkable. Aside from the bear traps in the coat closet. That had been a close call. But the Basement of the house had been turned into some sort of lab/workshop space. Bits of metal were piled up by the door, tools lined the one wall, blueprints along another and there was a bench with chemicals on it at the far end of the room. There was a table in the middle with what were clearly half-finished projects on it.
"Tools. It's a workshop." Doug stated, wandering over to look at the plans properly "A workshop for a genius. These are blueprints for a nuclear reactor."
"What's a nuclear reactor?"
"Something very dangerous," Doug replied. "We should move, before anyone finds us down here. I don't think the De Vil twins are up to anything, Charlie Devil probably just wants to know how everything works."
"Agreed" Aziz replied, "This place is giving me the creeps anyway." The three boys left the basement, heading out towards the kitchen when they heard the front door open. Aziz grabbed both Chad and Doug and jumped out the window.
"That was close" Aziz muttered as they jumped the fence and ran down the street, past an old lawnmower that had clearly crashed into a building and never been moved.
"I really don't want to get caught by Cruella De Vil." Chad stated as they ran.
"Dude, I don't think anyone does."
"Someone was here" Carlos stated, walking into the lab with 'Lota on his heels. He'd run into her on his way back, she'd left something at the house too.
"I know what you mean." She replied "it feels... off. But who would be stupid enough to break into the house of Cruella De Vil?" She asked, picking her way through the room.
"You?" Carlos shot back, the room felt off, like their sanctuary had been invaded but nothing had been moved. The only thing to say anyone had been down there were footprints in the dust, but those could just have been his and 'Lota's.
"Not breaking in if you invite me." She smirked. "Ah, there's my knife." She grabbed an object of the chemicals bench.
"How many of those things do you have now?"
"Twelve."
"Twelve? Coulda sworn it was thirteen last time I asked."
"Harry nicked it."
"Hook or Badun?"
"Hook of course." She replied "Asshole." she added, almost as an afterthought.
"Are you capable of talking about a male other than me without insulting them?"
"Gil's alright. But that's about it." She laughed "Besides we're villain kids. We're supposed to insult everyone."
"Fair. I've got what I need, you got everything?"
"Yeah. Let's go. Last thing I need is to run into You Know Who."
"Anything to report?" Ben asked as they met up in the warehouse.
"Uh, I accidentally joined Uma's gang." Lonnie said, sounding sheepish.
"Don't worry about it. We accidentally joined Mal's." Jane replied, gesturing to herself and Ben.
"Yeah, well, my partner bailed on me" Lonnie glared at Audrey.
"You're fine, aren't you?" She dismissed, checking her nails. "Besides, things were getting rowdy. I didn't want to get caught in a fight."
"We didn't find anything" Doug interrupted before Lonnie and Audrey could properly start arguing. "I think the De Vil twins are just people that want to know how things work. Nothing wrong with that."
"What's our plan for tomorrow then?" Aziz asked.
"Lonnie, see what you can find out from Uma's gang. Jane and I will do the same with Mal's. Audrey, Chad, Aziz, Doug, talk to people. We need to know as much about this place as possible if we want to survive a month. Who are the leaders? The second in commands? Where are the territory lines? Who can we afford to annoy if we have to? Who do we want to avoid annoying at all costs? That sort of thing."
"From what I heard, Uma and Mal have a history. Most civil wars between the gangs have been between theirs." Lonnie offered "Also that Uma can and will seriously hurt you for calling her Shrimpy."
"So Mal calls Uma Shrimpy then. Maybe it even started with her." Ben mused. "You were amazing today by the way Jane. Where did all that confidence come from?"
"Uh, well, if I acted all scared she probably would have eaten us alive." Ben paused, considering Mal for a moment.
"Yeah. You're right."
A/N:
Yes. Lottie has names for every single one of her knives. She has twelve (not counting the one given to Lonnie). Names are available if people want them.
Pretty much all the first names were picks because they sound like the actual canon names. I refuse to accept that Aziz and Lonnie aren't nicknames of some sort.
Name meanings;br /
Lian - From Chinese 莲 (lián) meaning "lotus, water lily", 濂 (lián) meaning "waterfall", or other Chinese characters that are pronounced /
Azriel - means "my help is God", derived from Hebrew עָזַר ('azar) meaning "help" and אֵל ('el) meaning "God".br /
Jean - A variant of Jane from Medieval English form of Jehanne, an Old French feminine form of Iohannes (modern version being John) basically meaning to be /
Blaise - From the Roman name Blasius, which was derived from Latin blaesus meaning "lisping".br /
Caleb - Most likely related to Hebrew כֶּלֶב (kelev) meaning "dog". An alternate theory connects it to Hebrew כָּל (kal) meaning "whole, all of" and לֵב (lev) meaning "heart".br /
Aldreda - Variant of Etheldred-Middle English form of Æðelþryð-Derived from the Old English elements æðel "noble" and þryð "strength".