Ben jumped out of the limo the moment it stopped in front of the Beast Castle, and promptly ignored poor Lumiere who came to greet him.

He ran on the halls and then the stairs, startling almost the entire staff that was trying to bow to him, but he didn't stop to apologize. He'll have plenty of time to do that after he got his brother back.

Ben stopped for only one second to catch his breath before he opened the door to his parent's study room, also forgetting to knock.

His parents stopped what they were doing and looked at him in shock.

"Ben! Is everything alright?" Queen Belle asked worried. It was not like him to barge in like that unannounced and uninvited.

Ben tried to talk. To say everything he prepared to say in the three hours he spent in the limo, but he was so tired from the run and from the four hours sleep, he had to stop and take another breath.

"Ben?" his father asked, coming next to his wife.

"I found Alex." Ben finally said, shocking his parents even more.

Adam narrowed his eyes and Ben could see the similarities between him and Alex. They had the same blue storm in their eyes, the same clenched jaw when they tried not to growl and the same calm posture that always hid the dangerous fury behind.

He knew his father didn't like to talk about his baby brother. It pained him too much to remember that horrible night and it angered him to see his wife suffer every time someone said something about their lost son.

His mother was staring at him with wide eyes, so shocked she couldn't even place a hand on her husband's arm to calm him down. He could see tears starting to form in her eyes so Ben continued.

"Check the mirror. It will work now. I know it. Please." Ben said, looking at them.

His mother shook her head. It had always been so hard for her to look into the mirror just to see endless, grey smoke.

Ben turned on his heels and rushed out of the room before his dad could demand him to go back to school. He heard his parents coming after him and his father yelling at him to stop, but he ignored them and went straight to the King and Queen's bedroom.

He opened the door and made a run for the secret compartment in the wall.

"Ben! What is the meaning of this?!" his father yelled as he entered the room.

"I know I'm right!" Ben said as he approached with the Magic Mirror in his hand.

Every other magic object was in the Museum, but the Magic Mirror was an exception because it allowed the King and Queen of Auradon to continue the search of their lost child.

His dad opened his mouth to say something else, but Ben beat him to it.

"Show me my brother." He demanded the Mirror.

This was the part that the Queen of Auradon was always afraid of. The part when the Mirror only showed smoke.

But this time, a bright light burst from it, making Belle gasp. Then the image changed and a young child appeared.

Wild brown hair and storm blue eyes, the image of the lost prince appeared before the eyes of the royal family.

Queen Belle put a hand on Adam's arm to support herself as she took in the image of her baby. The King was frozen as he watched the young child frown confused at something, arching one eyebrow totally Belle-style.

"Adam…" his wife gasped. "It's him. It's really him." She said as she gently took the Mirror from Ben. Tears poured down her cheeks as she hugged the image of her youngest son and rushed into the arms of her husband.

King Beast took the Mirror.

"Where is he?"

The image shifted so that the royal family could see the room the youngest prince was in. The library of the Auradon School.

"How is that possible…" the King asked as he continued to watch his lost son talk with Ethan Charming, who seemed to be trying to explain something to him.

"He was one of the children that came from the Isle." Ben cut in, making his parents gape at him. "From my proclamation."

"The Isle?" gasped Belle.

"And it explains why the Mirror couldn't find him until now. The barrier around the Isle probably interfered with its magic."

The look of realization on his parents' faces told Ben he guessed correctly so he continued.

"He was listed as the son of Mother Gothel, but he looked nothing like her. I thought I was losing my mind but there were too many similarities." Ben explained.

His parents exchanged looks.

"Tell us everything." The King said and Ben took a deep breath.

A few hours earlier:

Ethan Charming was walking down the halls towards Alex's room to see if he wanted to hang out. It took Alex about three days to ensure him that the other Vks were not going to murder him for coming near their dorm.

But he couldn't help it. Ethan can't handle people being angry at him. Audrey always hated when he disturbed her make-up time and she was freakishly scary when she was mad. And she was wearing pink.

But Ethan got over it as he spent more time with Alex. He felt more confident around him. Probably because the Vk already saw him at his lowest and he still hanged out with him.

He knocked on the door and Evie answered.

"Hey." He greeted. "Can I talk with Alex?"

"He's not here." Evie answered and Ethan was ready to thank her and go look for him when Mal cut in.

"And you're probably not going to see him for a very long time."

Ethan paled. Mal didn't say it like she banned him to see Alex, but like something happened to him.

"Why? What happened? Is he alright?!" he asked concerned, making Jay chuckle.

"He found the library." answered Carlos amused.

"Good luck getting him out of there." Mal said and Evie nodded and closed the door to a very dumbfounded Ethan.

Alex stuffed in his mouth one of the chocolate cupcakes that he snatched from the kitchen. A small part of him wasn't sure if he should have asked if he could take them, but the rest of him was eating chocolate.

He still couldn't believe he was in a library. The only library on the Isle was the one from Dragon Hall, but they never let students in.

But this one… This one was as big as a Ballroom with shelves around 20 feet tall filled with so many different books.

His friends were with him when he discovered it. They wanted a place to talk without being interrupted, when they stumbled around it.

The first twenty minutes they spent watching amused as Alex gaped and ran around this place from heaven for thirty minutes nonstop climbing the shelves and collecting books. Once he was finished he climbed the tallest shelf where he found good a spot to stay, big enough for him and the eight books he snatched.

Then he admitted what his friends already knew.

He was never leaving this place.

He had three cupcakes with him and a whole library to himself. He didn't need anything else from now on.

Ethan came to look for him a few hours later. Alex was so engrossed in his book he didn't realize someone entered the library until Ethan's feet slightly echoed near the door. He didn't need to see him to know it was him. When you live on the Isle of the Lost you learn the hard way how important it is to memorize one's foot walk.

"Up here!" Alex called once he heard Ethan open his mouth to call him.

"How do you do that?!" The young Charming asked, making Alex smirk.

"You're loud."

"No I'm not!" Ethan said, coming and stopping right under him. The young prince frowned. "Where are you?"

"Up." Alex said like it was obvious. The kid stayed around him for almost nine days. Alex seriously thought he learned a few things already.

Ethan looked up and his jaw dropped.

"How did you get up there?!"

"I climbed?"

"Twenty feet?!"

"Twenty-two." Alex corrected almost automatically. He spent all his life jumping and climbing. He learned the hard way the difference between a 20 and a 22 feet drop.

"Twenty-two…" Ethan didn't know how to respond to that. He took a deep breath.

"Cupcake?" Alex asked.

Ethan shook his head. "Could you come down? Please? Just looking up at you makes me dizzy…"

"But I like it up here. It's quiet and I have books and chocolate. Honestly, I don't think I'll come down even if the world was on fire."

Ethan forced himself to look at the books in front of him.

"Aren't you scared you're going to lose your balance and I don't know… fall to your death?!"

Alex smirked. "You're hilarious. You actually think I can lose my balance."

"What if it's an earthquake?"

"Calm down Baby Prince I was pushed from higher places."

Ethan might have taken offensive the 'Baby Prince' part, if not for the wave of nausea that hit him.

"Pushed?"

Alex was too busy reading his sixth book to notice his friend's pale face.

"Sure. I guess that's the Isle equivalent for saying 'Hi!'."

Ethan wanted to say so many things but he didn't know where to start or even if it was a good idea to start, so he changed the subject.

"Did you know that Chad got detention?"

That almost made Alex put the book down. Almost.

"Oh?"

"For pushing you into the pool he has to clean every classroom from the West Campus and for lying he has to clean the park with the painting for The Lost Park."

Alex arched an eyebrow confused. "The what park?"

Ethan looked up and almost fell on his butt when he remembered the 22 feet shelf.

"Well, it's actually called the Rose Park. Because of the Enchanted Rose from the story Beauty and the Beast? But after the King and Queen rearranged it everyone started calling it The Lost Park. Because that's the place people can leave whatever they want for the Prince of Auradon. Usually flowers or drawings."

Alex frowned deeper and actually closed the book. His bracelet felt hot for some reason.

"For Ben?"

Now Ethan was the one frowning. "No. Ben's the Future King or Soon-to-be-King. It's for Ben's younger brother. The Lost Prince."

"I've never heard of the King and Queen having another son." Alex admitted.

"Really? We discuss the story in class almost every year. And we make drawings in Art Class to bring on his birthday."

"Mmm. We didn't have Art Class in Dragon Hall. Just Weapons lesson and Fighting Rings."

Ben rushed down the corridors of the school. His parents had to stay a little more home to delay whatever they had in program for the next couple of days and they'll be here in probably less than an hour.

Ben couldn't help but be a little relieved. Sure he wanted his parents to be here, but he also felt like that with so many people Alex might feel a little overwhelmed and he didn't want that.

Aaaand he might have wanted to tell Alex himself.

Don't look at him like that, he's the one that found him! And it's his proclamation. He earned at least five minutes alone with his brother!

He was listing in his mind every place he thought Alex might be, starting with the library then his room, then the Tourney Field.

His brother was in the Tourney Team. Ben couldn't help but feel a little smug.

Even if Alex literally kicked his ass on the field.

He took a left turn and luckily or unluckily collided with Alex. He may be small, but he was unbelievably strong. Neither of them fell on the ground, but they both groaned on the impact.

"Ow… Sorry." They both said at the same time. "It was my fault. No, it was my fault! You know what? It doesn't matter. I need to talk to you." Alex and Ben said then stared at each other.

They started laughing.

"Okay, that was freaky." Alex said.

Hi guys

Sorry for the long wait, but I got so many ideas about how I should make this BEAST FAMILY FINDS THE TRUTH part.

First of all, 80% of the Lost Prince/Princess stories, everyone finds out with a DNA test or something like this.

Seriously?

I know magic is not used on Auradon and all of that, but I believe there could be exceptions for important things like – I dunno – a very young kidnapped royalty?!

Just saying!

I loved all your reviews and I hope you can help me with the next part. I got a general idea of what I want to do, but I fear I may be complicating this too much. What do you think?

I will go back to the movie script, but I never really liked how in other stories after the truth is revealed everything continues almost instantly like it's not such a big deal.

I want to form some type of relationship between Alex and his family and to see how other royal families take the news.

Ideas?

Frostbite out

P.S.: This may be the longest AN I have ever written.