IMPORTANT: sorry, I was informed by a reader that I accidentally uploaded the wrong document for the chapter. I went back to look and I did mistakenly upload the wrong one when I went to edit a small error. I deleted and re uploaded the chapter so anyone who saw it after that time will know that the correct chapter is up. Thank you Charmfeather for letting me know about this
"Come on Evie pull yourself together. Sitting here crying isn't going to do anything but make you an even bigger target than you already are. The only thing you can do now is hope the others come back and find you soon and survive until they do." Evie gave herself a pep talk getting her spirits back up and a new determination to go along with it. She turned her sadness into anger. Anger at her mother, at the Gaston brothers, at the whole damn isle, but most of all she directed her anger at King Ben. He promised her she wouldn't be stuck there and then he himself drove off without her. Everything would have been fine if she Carlos and Jay went to get Mal on their own. Even with him there it would have been okay until he walked off on his own and got captured.
Evie dried her eyes and walked off into the dark with purpose. For now she would go back to Mal's house and get some sleep. When she thought about it she was shocked to realize just how long it had been since she slept but with everything going on she hadn't had the chance to sleep if she wanted to. Now all of the exhaustion she had been holding back was finally catching up to her. She had hardly slept the night before they left to go get Mal from the isle and then Ben was taking and they were up all night preparing to get him at noon the next day. Then came the actual fight with Uma and her crew before the others left and she was taken to her mother, thus starting the chain reaction that lead her to right now.
She had been here for two days now.
'You need to watch your back, you need to creep around, you need to slide real smooth, don't make a sound.'
Evie did just that until she got back to Maleficent's old hideout. She followed the same process of throwing the rock and walking up the stairs until she was inside. She walked down the hall to Mal's old room, this one with an actual bed, and within seconds of her head hitting the pillow was asleep.
Evie woke up several hours later when the little light that made it to the isle shone through the window and into her eyes. She sat up and stretched her arms out. Now that Evie had gotten a couple hours of sleep she could think a little more clearly than she had managed last night, or rather earlier this morning.
Evie got up out of bed and wandered into the bathroom where she found Mal's hair brush and the makeup her purple haired friend hadn't bothered to bring with her to Auradon. It was old but so was everything else on the isle and she had always made do with it before.
Evie started by brushing the tangles out of her long blue curls and redoing the braid she had at the front of her hair before she put her hair clip back in. Then she washed any left over makeup off her face before starting off with foundation and blush, thankfully she and Mal had similar skin tones. Then she added mascara, eye liner, eye shadow and lip gloss. She smacked her lips together as she checked over her appearance in the mirror. Nodding her head to herself she left the bathroom and walked back into the living room and straight to the bookshelf. If she were lucky maybe she could find an old spell book, not Maleficent's own seeing as Mal had that one, but something that could give her an idea about these new found powers of hers.
Evie looked through every single dust covered book on the shelf but found nothing useful. With an aggravated huff she threw the last one across the room. "Now what am I going to do?" Evie asked herself, wishing someone would give her an answer.
Now she wished she had paid more attention back in Auradon when Mal had started using magic. To be fair though she never thought she would have to know anything about it. Whatever there was nothing she could do about it now.
She really was trying to avoid this. It was a last ditch effort she had been trying to avoid. Without any other options it looked like she was heading to the isles very own high school, Dragon Hall.
After making a stop at the market and swiping some bread and an apple Evie went back to school. By the time she got to the Dragon Hall classes had already started and she would potentially have to deal with another incident like the one with the Gaston's but she was not going to turn back now.
She walked inside and ignored the shocked stares and scared whispers the students in the halls gave her as they saw her walk by. The only indication she even noticed they were there was the smirk on her face. Looks like not everyone was as confident Gaston Legume's kids. Good. They still remembered the fear she instilled in the people of the isle while she was here, they remembered that she was not someone to be messed with. most especially now that she was on a mission. She didn't want anyone getting in her way.
Evie continued down the hall ignoring everyone aside from a few in her way which she quickly pushed out of her path. Evie stood in front of the library before entering and walking to the far back where the door to the forbidden section of the library was with the cauldron sized spider guard.
She walked up to the creature and pet it like she had seen Dr. Facilier do so long ago. With the spider letting her pass she pulled out a her hair pin and picked open the lock, something Jay had taught her when she forgot the key to her dorm back in Auradon and Mal was out on a date with Ben.
With the door now open she entered the connecting room. Without much clue on where to look exactly she started walking around in search of something that could be useful. Evie looked for over an hour with no success. She was about to give up when she felt a tug toward a bookshelf she had yet to look through.
Step by step she felt the pull get stronger and stronger. She was soon standing directly in front of the shelf where she picked up a green book. The cover had no writing but had a very familiar symbol on it. It was Evie's signature cracked crown symbol. She stared at the book in shock. 'What is this thing?' she thought to herself.
Evie walked over to a near by table and set the book down before sitting in a chair herself. She flipped the cover open and stared at the page in front of her. The front cover had her mothers signature, this was her mother's book. Evie flicked through the pages and was astounded at what she found. This book was full of spells, along with some notes her mother had written in the margins about them.
Evie spent two and a half hours going through the entire book and then looking through it a second and third time. By the time she actually left the library she had a few spells memorized. One of the first she memorized was a transportation spell. She figured that would have been good to know when the hole in the force field was still open but her escape was blocked. The spell didn't have any words you needed to speak but more of a mind set. You had to focus on where you were and then where you wanted to go.
Book in hand Evie left the library and the school not noticing the two identical boys share two identical smirks before skipping the rest of their classes and following her out.
Evie figured that the first place her friends would look for her when they came for her would be where they had left the last time and so she made her way to the isle docks.
Evie felt like she was being followed but didn't let it bother her much. There was nothing she could do until someone came out from hiding. As long as she kept her guard up she would be ready if and when anything happened.
Turns out her instinct was right and she was being followed by two familiar, identical, bulking figures who decided to come out just as she got to her destination by the docks.
"Hey blue head!" Evie turned around at the sound of the voice. Behind her were the two Gaston's yet again.
"What's wrong boys? Get lost?" she asked in a condescending voice.
"We don't know what you did before you freak but you're gonna pay now." the other threatened her.
Evie glared, her eyes flashing an icy blue color for the briefest second before it left and her eyes were brown again.
"Yeah whatever that was I bet you can't do it again!" the other one taunted, not even noticing what had just happened to her eyes.
"You want to fight me?" she asked with a sweet smile in place. "Fine then." Evie tossed her book to the side of a building behind some crates where it wouldn't be easily seen. Quickly taking in her surroundings Evie quickly found what she was looking for, now she just needed to get to it.
The brothers rushed at her and she deftly side stepped them. "Is that the best you can do?' She questioned with a laugh.
They ran at her again and this time she jumped onto a crate behind her and followed it with a back flip so she ended up behind them. Evie dropped to the ground in a spin kicking her leg out and knocking one of them to the ground. While the other looked on in shock she jumped backwards onto her hands before springing forward and hitting him feet first in the chest.
She learned all of that on the isle but only improved upon it since she got to Auradon. Being around the Auradon cheer team at all of the guys' games she picked up a thing or two on top of Audrey and Jane showing her a thing or two.
Anyway with the two lugs still distracted Evie ran to where she had been looking before and grabbed a long wooden rod, about the size of the sword they had been fighting with earlier against Uma and her crew.
Gaston and Gaston finally got back up and turned around looking for Evie. "Over here." she called before jabbing at one of them and knocking him back. She then swung at the other knocking the breath out of him. While the first one was just getting up Evie did a quick calculation before going into her next move.
Planting the stick firmly on the ground Evie swung around and used the momentum to knock the brother who had just gotten up into the one who had only managed to get onto his knees. That's something she learned in Auradon. If she had stayed here on the isle she never would have experienced fencing or tourney, where she learned how to fight with the wooden rod so well, let alone have even thought to use science to win this fight.
Evie looked on in great pleasure as the two pulled themselves to their feet one last time before running away from her. Evie laughed wickedly. It just goes to show, Dizzy was right, you can take the girl out of the isle but you can't take the isle out of the girl.
Evie flipped her hair back behind her shoulder and went to pick up her new spell book. As she bent down to grab it she saw something else in the corner she had thrown it. With her own book in her hand Evie went to go see what the other thing was. When she was a few feet away she realized with a gasp that it was mal's own spell book laying open face down on the ground. Evie picked it up and looked at the page it was left open to only to see that a page had been ripped out. That was odd, she would have to ask Mal why she ripped out a page of her own book.
Evie added Mal's book to her own in her arms before she walked off to the market again to go steal herself some lunch.
Mal, Jay, and Carlos were headed to the dock where they lost Evie in a first place when they ran into Gaston and Gaston, literally. Mal moved out of the way just in time but they ran straight into Jay and Carlos. Carlos would have fallen over if Jay hadn't grabbed his arm at the last second. Instead only the egotistical duo landed in the dirt.
"What's the big idea?" Jay growled at them. Now Jay didn't care for the Gaston brothers on a good day. Now after the stress from Mal leaving without telling them, Ben being captured, and Evie getting left on the isle Jay had a particularly short fuse at this point.
They looked up with fear in their eyes that only grew when they saw who they had just bumped into. What they didn't understand was what they were so scared of before.
"What's wrong with you idiots?" Mal questioned them now, also in a foul mood. Unfortunately for anyone who was to cross their path today, until they found their missing friend, they were all liable to snap at anyone for any reason.
"Keep that freaky friend of yours away from us!" One of them shouted.
"Yeah first magic on the isle and now this!" the other added.
The three friends shared looks with each other. "Are you talking about Evie?" Mal asked them.
"Who else would we be talking about?" they shouted at the same time.
"Well in that case." Carlos said as Mal and Jay stepped up to them. They each grabbed onto one of the boys and shoved them into the brick wall behind them.
"Where is she?" Mal demanded her eyes glowing green, and this time they saw it bright as day.
"W-w-we don't know. Last we saw her she was by the docks but she could be gone by now." One of them stuttered out, not that any of them knew or cared who was who. Really though, stuttering? Pathetic. You don't let anyone see your fear on the isle and they had their on display for anyone within ear shot. That left the question though, what had Evie done that left them shaking in fear?
"Next question then, what did you do to her?" Carlos asked as menacing as anyone had ever seen him. This was the girl he thought of as a sister they were talking about.
"Us? We didn't do anything!"
"She's the one that tried to kill us!"
Jay glared at them with more ferocity than even before. "Yeah but that still leaves the question of what you did to make her try and kill you, and if I don't get an answer I'll be the one trying to kill you next."
They visibly gulped.
"We just wanted to know what she was doing by the barrier last night and then she attacked us with magic."
"Then we were only trying to talk to her today and she went berserk and attacked us."
Jay and Mal glanced at each other out of the corner of their eyes. In sync they both knocked the goons against the wall again, harder this time.
"See boys, now for some reason I don't believe you." Mal started off.
"But lucky for you we have more important things to do than waste our time on you right now." Jay and Mal both let go of them and Mal backed away to stand next to Carlos. Jay however did not. Instead he grabbed each brother by their shirts and shoved them against the wall one more time. He got real close to their faces and whispered out his threat. "If you ever so much as look at her the wrong way or say one word about her I don't like you have me to deal with and there will be no place you can hide from me. Got that?"
The boys nodded their heads fast.
"I can't hear you." Jay warned.
"Yeah yeah!"
"Whatever you say jay."
With that Jay released them and they ran off in the same direction they had been going before they ran into them.
"At least it looks like we're going in the right direction." Carlos mentioned as they started walking again.
"Yeah but what were they talking about when they said Evie used magic on them? Evie doesn't have any magic and even if she did she wouldn't have been able to use it on the isle." Mal questioned them as they kept looking around for a familiar head of blue hair.
"Whatever they were talking about we can deal with later. Right now we just have to focus on finding Evie." Jay concluded. With Mal and Carlos in agreement they continued their search.