I am so sorry guys, but my studies are starting to take up a lot of my time, but I promise I will try to post a chapter at least once every second week. This one is a little longer than usual and i hope that you are going to enjoy it.
Time skip to 1 month after Mal and Ben collapsed.
Mal's point of view
Why do I feel like I have been dead and brought back to life again; I mean my body is hurting all over. I open my eyes and look around the room, where is everyone? "Belle? Mira? Rick?" I hear someone running towards me and see Rick in the door within seconds
"Mal you're awake" he walks to me and pulls me into a hug "we were so worried about you, you just collapsed. You have been asleep for a month now" he pulls back a little and takes my face in his hands "I was so worried that I had lost you; I have only just gotten you I cannot lose you already" he hugs me again, I hug him back and smiles. I'm starting to like this whole family thing; it feels good to know that someone cares about me.
"I'm sorry I worried you Ricky" He kisses my forehead "Where is everyone?"
"Well, something happened when you collapsed" he looks out the window, I follow his gaze and see Belle with her phone against her ear, she is walking around talking into it; Mira is with her holding her daughter close to her
"What happened Rick?" I look at him and see him swallow
"Promise me you will not do something stupid when I tell you" I nod, "Promise me Mal"
"I promise you, I will not do anything stupid" He nods and takes a deep breath
"A couple of days after you collapsed we received a message that King Ben had collapsed and hit his head on the stairs" I get tears in my eyes "He still hasn't woken up, but Belle has been in contact with Lumiere from the moment she heard what had happened"
"Why didn't she leave and go home to him instead?" I let my tears fall and Rick pulls me into his chest again "he is her son, I'm not as important as he is, she should have gone home to him" I cry into Rick's chest.
"oh Mal" he kisses my hair and lets me cry, I hear the door opening and two people walking towards us.
"Mal you are awake?" I look up and see Belle walking towards me, she sits down next to me and places her hand on my back and rubs it lightly. "I am so happy that you are awake sweetie"
"Because it means Ben will wake up as well?" I hear a gasp coming from her and looks at her "why are you still here Belle, you should be at the castle with Adam and Ben, not here with me who is not even your biological daughter" I get up and walk to the window looking outside
" Mal" Belle stands behind me, I feel her take my hand and I look at her "you may not be my biological daughter, but you are my son's true love. I will always be on your side whenever my husband or the country goes against you, I will be right here." she hugs me and kisses my hair, I lean into her
"Thank you Belle" I look at Rick "But we need to go to Auradon right now" I walk towards the door when it suddenly disappears. I turn around and look directly at Rick "I have to go wake him up Rick!"
"And how do you plan to do that Mal?" He crosses his arms across his chest and looks at me with a hard stare.
" By a kiss Rick, or did you forget that what Ben and I share is true love?" I see his stare soften and his arms fall to his sides "Please Rick, I might be the only one who can wake him up" I see Belle look at him with tears falling from her eyes. "We can even call it a royal visit, the queen and princess of the Moors will be going" I see him smile a little
"Fine but I am coming with you as your protection" I look at Belle and we both nod.
"Seems fair" I smile at him then turn to the wall again and see them appearing.
"But before we leave there is something we have to fix first" he walks out the door towards a lake near the house. Belle takes my hand and smiles. We then follow Rick to the lake. Once there Rick starts going into the lake, he then turns and takes Belle's hand "your majesty if you would please come into the water with me" She looks at me and I smile a little
"I do not know what is going on Belle" I look at Rick and see he is smiling bigger than before. I see Belle nod and take his hand, he leads her deeper into the water and makes her lay down holding her up.
"Just relax nothing is going to hurt you" I see the water moving around Belle and rick slowly steps away from her. The water covers her completely and I see the magic running through it. As the water disappears from Belle Rick picks her up and carries her to me. He helps her stand on the ground. I look at her surprised.
"Belle, you look beautiful" I walk to her to get a better look. She is now wearing a very fairylike dress that is a mix of yellow and purple, her hair is now longer and is braided in a beautiful crown-like look, and on her head is a beautiful crown that consists of gold flowers and diamonds.
"Your turn niece" I nod and take Ricks hand, he leads me deeper into the water but as we get to where he was with Belle he looks at me "Now before we do this you need to learn how to hide your wings and horns" I nod, he makes his wings come out then he smiles at me "watch me okay? And say what I say" I take a deep breath and keeps my eyes on him "out of the Moors I need no more, my wings and horns return to your core" He wings disappear and he looks at me "your turn" I nod
"Out of the Moors I need no more, my wings and horns return to your core" I feel my wings and horn return into my body, I look at him and see him smile
"I am so proud of you" I smile and hug him "are you ready?" I nod and lay down, I feel him holding me then he steps away and I close my eyes. I open my eyes again when I feel Rick picking me up. I look at him and see him smile. "Do you always think about him niece?" i look at him not following what he means. When we get to the edge of the lake he helps me stand on the ground; I look at Belle and see tears in her eyes
"Oh sweetie you look so beautiful" I smile. Belle then turns towards Rick " But why is her hair a different colour now?" I take a piece of my hair and look at it; it is purple and blue. I look at Rick
"Something you want to tell me? Other than the fact that your dress is also blue and purple because you were thinking of Ben while in the transformation?" I look at Belle then back at Rick and take s a deep breath and blurt out
"My dad has blue hair" I look down. Someone takes my hand; I look up and see Belle
"It is okay Mal, you can tell us who he is" I smile a little then look at Rick
"My dad is Hades, he left me with mom when I was only a few years old. I have not seen him since" I see Ricks surprised look; then I turn towards Belle and see her looking at me with a small smile
"That explains why he has written to the council for the last couple of weeks asking about you" I look at her
"What?"
"Yeah Lumiere told me a week after you had collapsed" I nod "now sweetie I think that you should go see yourself " she takes both my hands" because you look like the princess that you are" I smile and runs back to the cottage to find a mirror. When I run into the cottage I hear I small gasp, I look towards it and sees Mira and Ricks daughter
"You look like a real princess Mally" She runs to me and takes my hand; she leads me into the living room where a mirror is hanging on the wall. "Look" she points to the mirror. I look into it and see what they are all talking about. My dress is absolutely beautiful with the perfect mix of purple and blue, my hair is longer as well but is just hangs down my back, and on my head I see the most beautiful headpiece I have ever seen. It is not a crown like I have seen them normally; this one looks like it is made a branches that intervene with each other with leafs coming out of them, in the middle there is a dragon holding a purple diamond. It is not being worn as they normally do in Auradon as it goes across my forehead instead of on top of my head; it is the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen. I look at my cousin and smiles a little.
"You know my name, but you never told me yours" I sit on my knees and look at her.
"My name is Luna" She curtseys.
"Oh no sweetie, you never have to do that for Belle, or me okay?" she nods and hugs me, I hold her close to me and kisses her hair. I look towards the door and see Mira, Belle, and Rick standing there.
"Are you ready to go Mal?" I nod
"yeah, let's go wake up the love of my life" I take Luna's hand, she smiles and me and we leave the cottage. As we get to the barrier I notice a limousine on the other side, I look at Belle confused
"I had Lumiere send one" I nod and walks towards it. As we get closer the door opens and a man steps out.
"I did not just send one your majesty" Belle runs towards the man and hugs him
"Lumiere" I smile watching their exchange. Then Lumiere turns to me and smile.
"You. my dear" he kisses my hand "have grown up, you look absolutely beautiful" I smile
"Thank you, Lumiere" We all get into the limousine and drives towards Auradon "do they know we are coming?" I look at Lumiere
"well, yeah. But they do not know it is you specifically" I nod and looks out the window
"I need to wake him up" Luna looks up at me then she lays down and puts her head on my lap, I smile and run my hands through her hair
"And I am more than happy that you might be able to do so, your highness. But before we can go to the castle there is one stop that we have to go to" I look at him confused "just trust me, this is an important stop" I nod and looks out the window again. After driving for an hour the limousine stops in front of a smaller castle.
"Lumiere, what are we doing here at our summer castle?" I look at Belle then at Lumiere.
"We are here to pick someone up" He gets out of the limousine and walks to the front door, I watch as he opens the door and walks inside. After a minute he comes out and… no that cannot be; why is she here, why does she look so sad, what have they done to my Evie. I get out of the car and runs to her; she sees me and runs to me as well, we meet halfway and hug each other. I feel my eyes getting wet and I feel Evie shaking which I know means that she is crying. I hold her as close to me as I possibly can and let her cry into my shoulder. "Told you it was important" Lumiere whisper in my ear. I look at him and mouth a thank you; he nods and walks back to the limousine.
"Evie, why are you here in this castle and are you alone, where is everybody else? Where are Jay and Carlos?" I put my hands on her cheeks and make her look at me.
"Adam send me here because I found proof that you were innocent. He said that it was to protect Ben that he did it. Jay and Carlos have been told that I have been sent away for my own safety; because people were being cruel to me a school because I did not believe what everybody said about you." I whip her tears away "And then I heard about what happened to Ben, but Adam wouldn't let me come back to see him" I hug her again and kisses her hair.
"Everything will be okay I promise. We are on our way to see him now and you are coming with us." I pull her with me to the limousine where Lumiere is standing holding the door open for us. I help Evie into the limousine then looks at Lumiere "Thank you" I kiss his cheek, he blushes.
"You are welcome your highness" I get into the limousine and Lumiere follows me closing the door behind him "Now lets head back to Auradon" We all nod and continues our journey.
After another two hours we pull up in front of the castle in Auradon, I look at it and take a deep breath.
"Everything will be okay Mal, you know I will never let Adam do anything to you" I look at Belle and smiles.
"I know Belle" We all leave the limousine and walk up the steps to the castle. As we walk inside I notice people whispering to each other while looking at me. I keep my head raised and tries to ignore them, as I do not need to hear all of the rumours that exist in this place. As we get to the throne room Lumiere looks at me, I nod telling him that I am ready; he opens the door and walks inside.
"Presenting her royal majesty of the Moors Queen Belle and her royal highness of the Moors princess Mal" I hear a lot of people gasping. I look at Belle; she takes my hand and we walk into the room. As we walk in the room is quiet, I look up and see Adam on the throne with Jay and Carlos standing next to him. I notice all three are looking shocked. Belle lets go of my hand and walk closer to Adam; Adam walks towards her as well, I hear people whispering as they watch them. When they are standing almost nose-to-nose Belle surprises me as she slaps Adam across the face. Rick runs to her and pulls her back, she turns and walks back to me"
"Lumiere show us to my son's room please" he nods.
"NO!" I turn and see Adam looking at me "you are not allowed to go near my son, not after you showed your true colours; the monster that you really are" I look at him, then I feel a smile coming onto my face.
"Should have thought of that before you gave me the opportunity to sleep with your son after he found out that you have been spelling him TO FORGET THE TRUTH!" I look at Belle; she nods and I continue "you told everyone that I had kidnapped Belle when the truth is that she left because of you being the real monster" I walk closer to him "just because my magical side wanted to come out, but look at me, DO YOU SEE ANY OF IT NOW?" I notice Jay and Carlos standing behind Adam "and you two, you called yourselves my friends, but the minute they said something bad about me you believed them and let them do whatever they wanted to me." I look at everyone in the room. "The only reason that Belle left was because she took me with her to the Moors as my wings and horns were coming out. Adam wanted to send me back to the isle because he believed that that would be the best solution" I look back at Adam "But Belle did not believe that, because she sees me as family and would never send me back to that horrible place again" I walk back to Belle "Now if you will all excuse me, I have a king I need to wake up" I look at Lumiere; he holds his arm out for me, I take it and he leads me to Ben's bedroom. I can hear Adam yelling in the throne room, but I ignore it for now as he is not my priority, Ben is. We get to Ben's room and Lumiere opens the door. I walk inside and see Ben on the bed looking pale but peaceful. I walk to him and move some of his hair away from his forehead. "Oh beastie, what have you done" I lean down a little but the door is slammed open as I am about to kiss him
"Grab her" I look up and see Adam and some of the guards. I quickly lean down again and kiss Ben on his lips. I only kiss him for a few seconds before two guards are pulling me away. They pick me up and takes me to Adam "put her in the dun.."
"Dad?" I look around the guards and sees Ben looking at all of us confused "what is going on?"
"Nothing for you to worry about son" I look at Adam "get her out of here, she has no right being in here"
"NO!" I look at Ben again and see him trying to stand up. Lumiere rushes to him and helps him "Dad, you cannot ask her to stay away. Mal is my girlfriend, my true love" he gets to me "release her now!" I feel the guards removing their hands from my arms. I fall into Ben's chest and cries; he places his arms around me "Everyone please leave." I keep crying into Ben's chest "it is okay Mal, I've got you, you are safe now" he kisses my hair, I look at him
"What do you remember Ben?" I help him back to his bed and we sit down
"The last thing I remember was going up the stairs after having been out looking for you because I remembered our night together" I look at him, he puts his arms around me and pulls me closer to him "I am so sorry for what I did that night Mal, I guess the beast in me came out and wanted to make sure that everyone knows you were taken." I kiss his chin
"It is okay, my uncle gave me such a scold for it, firstly because of the mark, as he knew that it meant that we were now connected, but also because apparently dragons only need one time to conceive" He leans his head against mine
"Well about the connection, it is only if something happens to you that it will happen to me and not the other way around. And about the conceiving part, well if god wants us to have a child we will have one" I smile and close my eyes "How long was I asleep?" I feel my smile disappearing
"A month, I'm so sorry beastie. If I had not tried to restore the barrier I would not have fainted, then you would not have fainted and hit your head" I start crying, "it is all my fault beastie"
"No it is not sweet girl" he pulls me closer and I cry into his chest "just let it out sweet girl, let it out" I eventually cry myself to sleep.
Ben's point of view
I watch as Mal falls asleep in my arms, my sweet girl today must have been exhausting for her. I turn and look out the window when I hear a knock on the door.
"Enter" it opens and I see mom there, "mom?" She walks to the other side of the bed to not disturb Mal and sits down
"How are you feeling Ben" she touches my cheek I smile.
"I feel fine mom, I promise" she smiles.
"True loves kiss, works every time" I blush and look at Mal. I hear mom laughing a little. "I am so happy that you have found your true love my dear boy" She kisses my cheek then stands up "we will be staying here for a couple of days but then we are going back to the Moors, enjoy your time with her, okay?"
"Why are you going back there?"
"Because they are my people now Ben, until Mal is old enough I am the queen of the Moors" She smiles and looks at Mal "Well I should leave you to get some sleep, I know you just woke up but I can only assume that you are still tired, just like Mal" I smile and nod.
"I love you mom" she smiles and kisses my hair
"I love you too Ben" she walks to the door "now get some sleep" she leaves the room closing the door behind her. I look at Mal and smile; I pull the cover over us and hold her close to me as I slowly let sleep take over my body.