The day had finally arrived, planning, and cunning had finally brought them here, coronation day. The five friends were silent, there nervous and confliction was raging on the inside but only showed slightly on the outside. From the crowd, Evie, Hugh Jay and Carlos watched Mal ride to the cathedral with Ben in her carriage. Mal and Ben waved at all those attending the coronation, when Mal spotted her friends she nodded determined, her friends nodded back. Mal's friends noticed her give Ben a muffin.
"The anti-love spell" Evie said under her breath.
They saw Ben take a great bite from it and the all inhaled and held they're breath for a moment. After watching them talk for a minute they saw Ben slip a ring on Mal's finger and kiss her hand. Her and all her friends couldn't help but smile.
"Come on, we should head inside" said Jay.
As the four make their way inside the cathedral, Carlos is watching Snow White report on Ben and Mal entering. Snow White was talking about who designed Ben's suit and when she was about to say who made Mal's dress she looked at a card and paused for a minute before talking confused.
"Evie, someone named Evie"
Evie smiled wider that she'd ever smiled before when she heard Snow White tell all of Auradon that she designed Mal's dress. Her friends all congratulated her as they walked in, they were extremely happy for her. When the entered the giant doors of the cathedral and stood at the balcony, all their enjoyment left them and they looked around trying not to look nervous, and they were failing.
Ben walked into the cathedral; all eyes were on him. Evie, Hugh, Jay and Carlos looked at him from the balcony, then they looked at each other nervously. Mal sat by the alter, she looked at the wand, thinking about what to do, her mother was no doubt cursing her out back on the isle. Fairy Godmother started the coronation ceremony, the VKs still sat there, knowing they needed to act but hesitating, then suddenly, the wand was grabbed from Fairy Godmothers hand, and it let of a blast out of the cathedral. After the wand shot off it's blast, Evie, Jay, Hugh and Carlos ran from the balcony to join Mal. Mal stood there, cautious at Jane, holding the magic wand. She waved it around wildly ranting about how no one would make her beautiful. Mal ran towards Jane from behind and grabbed the wand, after a small scuffle, Mal miraculously pried the wand from Jane unscathed. Mal held the wand pointing it at everyone around her then her four friends ran towards her and stood behind her. Now everyone looked at the five VKs with looks of fear, anger and disappointment.
"Mal, give me the wand" Ben said holding out his hand.
"Stand back" Mal said seriously. Ben took a step closer only to result in Mal shouting at him.
"Ben I said stand back"
"Come on, revenge time" Jay said, he was desperate to leave.
"Do you really want to do this?" Ben asked.
"We don't have a choice Ben, your parents…" Mal said starting to get teary eyed before Ben interrupted her.
"Our parents made thier choice. Now you make yours" he said, Mal lowered the wand, Ben's words got to here, it made her think.
"I think I want to be good" she said.
"You are good" Ben told her.
"How do you know that" Mal shouted, her and her friends were very conflicted.
"Because I'm listening to my heart" Ben said desperately trying to get Mal to understand.
"I want to listen to my heart too" Mal said honestly. She then turned to look at her four friends.
"And my heart is telling me that we are not our parents" She said strongly. Then she looked at Jay.
"I mean, stealing things doesn't make you happy. Tourney and victory pizza with the team makes you happy" She told the thief with a smile. Then she looked at Hugh.
"Hugh, you don't need to fight all the time to make you happy, I can tell your happy with Melody and fighting to protect" She told the one-armed pirate. He couldn't help but smile slightly because he knew she was right. Mal then moved on to Carlos.
"And you, scratching dude's belly makes you happy. Who would've thought?" Mal told the white-haired tech prodigy, with a soft caring laugh, Carlos laughed similarly. Finally, she looked at Evie.
"And Evie you do not have to play dumb to get a guy. You are so smart" She told her blue-haired best friend. Evie's eyes watered at Mal's sweet words.
"And I don't want to take over the world with evil. It doesn't make me happy. I want to go to school. And be with Ben. Because Ben makes me really happy" Mal said shedding a few tears of joy and holding up the ring Ben gifted her. Then she looked back at her friends.
"Us being friends makes me really happy. Not destroying things. I choose good, you guys" Mal spoke with sincerity. She made a fist and raised it in front of her, signalling for her friends to join her if they agree. None of them moved for a moment, which made Mal panic.
"I choose good" Jay finally spoke then put his fist next to Mal's.
"I choose good" Evie joined in and put her fist with Mal and Jay's.
"Good" Hugh said with compassion for his friends, then put his metal hand with his friends. Then they all looked at Carlos.
"So, just to be clear, we don't have to be worried about how really mad our parents will be? Because they're gonna be really, really mad" Carlos chuckled.
"Your parents can't reach you here" Ben told him.
"Then I choose good" Carlos said as he finally planted his fist with the others. The five friends all looked at each other and laughed and smiled at each other, shedding some tears of joy. Then suddenly a cloud of lime green smoke burst through the cathedral window. Then it laid in between Ben and the VKs, and formed into a person, Maleficent.
"I'm back" she called mockingly.
"Go away mother" Mal said fed up with her mother. Maleficent just laughed
"She's funny. You're very funny. Here. Wand me. Chop chop". Mal ignored her mother and threw the wand to Fairy Godmother. Fairy Godmother started a spell but Maleficent beat her to it, she cast a spell freezing everyone but her and the VKs in place. Maleficent started to look at Beast, Belle and Fairy Godmother and made offensive jokes about them making her cackle, then she grabbed the wand from Fairy Godmother.
"Where shall we begin? I know. Why don't we start by getting rid of this?" Maleficent said then raised the wand and pulled the ring Ben gave her off Mal's finger and putting it on the wand.
"Perfect fit" She taunted. "Falling in love is weak, and ridiculous, it's not what you want"
"You don't know what I want! Mom, have you ever once asked me what I want? I'm not you!" Mal retorted.
"Oh, obviously. I've had years and years and years and years of practice being evil. You'll get there." Maleficent said.
"No, I will not. And I really wish that you had never gotten there yourself. Love is not weak or ridiculous. It's actually really amazing." Mal told Maleficent. Hearing her daughter say that made angry.
"I know one thing, young lady. You have no room for love in your life" Maleficent said sternly. Mal raised out her open hand and attempted to cast a spell.
"Now I command wand to my hand" she said strongly, and the wand flew out of Maleficents hand and into Mal's. The five VKs looked at the wand now in Mal's hand in shock.
"I can't believe that worked" Mal mumbled, she was saying what everyone was thinking.
Maleficent began to rage at the VKs cursing at them under her breath, then she suddenly screamed at them.
"Give me the wand". Hugh then leaned closer to Mal
"Hang on Mal, we can do this" he said.
"Yeah, maybe good really is more powerful than evil" Carlos said backing Hugh up.
"Oh, please! You're killing me" Maleficent said to Carlos before barking at him, trying to scare him. It worked, Carlos took a step back, but that was when Dude ran up to Maleficent and pounced at her. He jumped on her, but she just tossed her aside. Hugh took the opportunity to charge at Maleficent but she noticed and froze Hugh in place.
"It's better than a hook" Maleficent chuckled while admiring Hugh's metal arm. Maleficent unfroze Hugh and pushed him back. Jay ran towards Maleficent to help Hugh, he grabbed Maleficent's sceptre but she didn't move.
"Gaston should be jealous" she said as she admired his muscles. Then she knocked him to the floor.
"You will all regret this" Maleficent said with nothing but anger in her voice. She surrounded herself with green smoke and she began to transform. When the smoke cleared a giant purple dragon stared at the VKs. Jay was the closed to her, so she chased her. Jay ran down the aisle and hid behind a pillar. Maleficent knew he was there, she slowly moved around the pillar to snap her massive jaw at him when she felt something hit her from behind. She turned around and saw Hugh with his metal arm raised and his hand open. He had shot a pellet at her, it didn't scratch her, but it got the attention away from Jay. Hugh ran away like he'd never run before. Evie stepped in front of him with her magic mirror held high.
"Magic mirror shine your bright light" She said, then her mirror shined bright like a star in Maleficent's eyes momentarily blinding her. Mal stood in front of her four friends and stared at her mother.
"Leave my friends alone! This is between you and me, mother." She yelled as her eyes started to glow emerald green.
"The strength of evil is good as none, when stands before five hearts as one" She chanted. Mal continued to chant and stare into her mother's eyes. Then to everyone's shock Maleficent shrieked and was once again surrounded by smoke. Thankfully Fairy Godmother was unfrozen. The five VKs ran to where Maleficent stood.
"What happened?" Evie asked
"I don't know" Mal said
"Is everyone okay?" Hugh asked. They all said yes which calmed his nerves. The five VKs and stared at the ground, where Maleficent should be standing and all they saw was a small purple lizard, they looked at Maleficent confused.
"Did you do that?" Jay asked.
"She shrank to the size of the love in her heart. That's why It's so itty-bitty" Fairy Godmother told them as she walked up to them.
"Is she gonna be like that forever?" Mal asked concerned for her mother, despite everything.
"Well, forever is a long time. You learned to love. So can she." Fairy Godmother told Mal. Mal then handed Fairy Godmother her wand. Then Fairy Godmother took Mal's ring off the wand and handed it to her.
"You all get and A in goodness class" She said with a wide smile.
"I love you guys" Hugh spurted out, they all said they love each other too, and shared a hug. Then Fairy Godmother waved her wand and said her catchphrase.
"Bibbidi-bobiddi-boo" She said happily and loudly. Every one was unfrozen and continued the action they were stuck in the middle of. Ben roared and ran towards Maleficent was standing. But Mal stopped him and laughed.
"We kinda got this all wrapped up here" She said. Ben laughed embarrassed.
"Next time, I rescue you, okay?" He said.
"yeah. Let's not let there be a next time, okay?" Mal joked. She then excused herself to go talk to Fairy Godmother about Jane.
"Hey Hugh" Melody called from the crowd. Hugh looked at her and smiled. "Nice job". Hugh smiled even wider.
"Thanks, Mels" Hugh said with a soft chuckle. Melody chuckled back and they looked at each other sweetly while Ariel and Eric smiled for her daughter's happiness. Hugh went back to his friends and they all wrapped there arms around each other and began to smile and laugh.
"Let's get this party started" Jay laughed. The five VKs and Ben all began to sing and then threw their hands in the air. Later that night all the students danced, sang and celebrated. Mal danced with Ben. Evie with Doug, Hugh with Melody, Carlos with Jane and Jay with Audrey all though he would have preferred to dance with Lonnie. They were all enjoying the didn't have a care in the world. They didn't even think about the rival's they left on the Isle, or the family members, or in Hugh's case both wrapped into one.
Thanks, so much for reading this, please leave a review and tell me what you thought of it and Hugh. I will write another story like this about Hugh in descendants 2, but I don't know if I should do it as a new story or continue it in chapters of this story. But I digress thank you for reading.