Hi. Well more ideas came together and boom, chapter 2. Just a quick note to those who found this fic but aren't familiar with how I write. I enjoy taking innocent things in canon and making them dark, weird or just plain creepy. This movie is such an easy target for that. But in a good way.
Just a heads up, I tried to stay in accent with Mama Odie so her lines aren't misspelled or written with bad grammar- she just talks that way.
So onward!
*UL*
Maleficent got a new pad in the form of a terrarium on her daughter's nightstand. Cruella, the Evil Queen and Jafar remained on the Isle of the Lost and the barrier was re-erected twice as strong.
It should have been a cakewalk for the crew after all was said and done. Each had proven they weren't inherently evil and shouldn't be defined by their parents or their unfortunate upbringings. After all Jay learned the importance of teamwork and channeling his aggression into constructive outlets. Evie finally saw that dumbing herself down just to fit in and get a guy was beyond stupid. Mal showed everyone that love and faith in one's self was indeed stronger than evil.
So the same should have been true for the real hero of the story right?
Wrong. Everyone avoided poor Carlos like the plague now.
Turns out the Isle of the Lost wasn't exactly home to the Evilest of Them All. More like the Evilest of Them All Who Survived the Final Conflict of Good v. Evil and Whose Whereabouts Were Actually Known. Several REALLY bad guys never made it to the island because they died or were simply assumed dead. If he had been banished instead of killed Dr. Facilier would have been King of the Isle with Maleficent as second banana; if the diva was lucky. And timid little Carlos? He'd probably be the Prince of Darkness with heart black as night.
See Jafar wanted to rule one measly sandbox. Grimhilde just wanted to be regarded as the prettiest in her domain. Cruella wanted to kill and skin any animal she could get her hands on in the name of fashion. Maleficent was vain and spiteful and bitter over a loosey invite. All four loved causing pain and misery sure but not like the Shadow Man.
Money and power, for him there was no such thing as too much of either. Showboating was a fabulous perk of being evil. So was causing pain. But he believed firmly that the only good enemy was a dead one...unless their blood or whatnot was a vital spell ingredient. Then you got a one way ticket to his dungeons until you were of no more use. He killed men, women, children out of boredom. Took great pleasure in human and animal sacrifice in order to increase his magical might. The guy was sadistic in a decidedly non-PG way.
Of course most of that might be overlooked for de Vil's sake...if he could control his powers. It took only two days for him to completely stop talking. Everytime he opened his mouth, there was a good chance he'd accidentally put whoever he'd been speaking to under his influence. Fairy Godmother had to be called in to break the spell EVERY FRICKING TIME.
Chad tried to keep up the alpha jock routine and bully the white haired boy for everything from his poor tourney skills to the fact that he was weak without his boytoy to defend him and yes his wicked, wicked power to remove free will. To prove he wasn't intimidated just because he has magic he tormented him relentlessly. It all reached a crescendo when the prince started beating on the smaller boy after a loss behind the stands.
Charming grabbed him at some point during the beat down only to have a tanned hand clamp down on his wrist like iron.
"Let go you little loser! I said- GAH!"
Jay hadn't even gotten out of his pads when everyone still on the field began to experience zero gravity. Floating upside down with panicked teammates and spectators alike, he could clearly see Cinderella's son rapidly turning pale and sinking to his knees as wisps of green flowed from his open mouth onto the target of his aggression. It was a shell shocked Coach who managed tackle Carlos before he could completely inhale the lifeforce of his abuser. And they all abruptly fell back to the ground.
Now Chad was in a coma. And pretty much everybody was now completely terrified of their group's runt. Including Carlos himself. There was even talk of sending him back. Which terrified him most.
Mama Odie wasn't able to come right away. But she did appear via crystal ball to him after the incident.
[Boy? Boy! Boy I'm a talking ta ya!] The blind woman screeched from the orb in Jay's hand. His boyfriend had refused to come out of their dorm since and took to hiding under his quilt with Dude worriedly whining by the bed.
"Go away. Just waiting for the angry mob to come burn me alive."
[Don't ya sass me Boy!] In a blink he found himself thrown off the bed and on his butt staring at the distorted image of a wrinkled brown face in the ball. [Now dat I gots ya attention listen good, ya hear? Gifts like ours can't be taught like dat wand wavin business. It gotta come from ya will what it do. And dat means iffin ya don't tell it what ta do it gonna just do.]
"What?"
[Clean da wax out cha ears Boy. Ya ain't no more dat bastard Facilier than any of ya friends be dey parents. Ya got ta stop bein afraid ta use ya power cuz iffin ya don't it gonna always lash out ta try an get rid of whateva makin ya so scared.] She huffed. [I can show ya some basics like meditatin and how ta properly respect da Loa but anythin else be all on ya own time. Voodoo, real Voodoo powa be instinct an nothin more. Ya papa made every dark deal he could with the foulest of the foul to get so strong and all he did was go to da spirit world early fa all his trouble. His one redeeming grace be ya boy. Funny he meant cha ta be his great revenge but cha ain't got a mean bone in ya body!] Her raspy cackle sent shivers up both boys' spines.
"Great revenge?" Jay glared at the little old woman.
[Jus like you. Ya mama she be easily bored and that rinky dink island wasn't no fun fa her. Ya daddy lost her interest when he lost his powers but they couldn't take her like da rest. Afta she popped ya out she she high tailed it back ta her dimension.] Mama Odie laughed. [She thought stickin ya with ya daddy would be a punishment for him. Gettin back at him for not bein worth her time no more. Ha ha, I may be blind but even I can see ya don"t take afta her in looks but cha got her powa.]
"I..." Jay frowned. He was the master thief and bruiser of their crew and nothing more. What was this old biddy yammering about?! "I don't have magic."
[Just like dis boy don't?] she cackled again. [Ya been in da same boat as dis one. Ya lil gal friends alway knew dey be witches and iffin dey only get offa dat island dey could cast spells. I bet sometime soon ya be causing all kinda mayhem jus like dis one. But Mama Odie no canna help ya.]
"Who is my mom then? Dad never talked about her other than...I don't look a thing like her." Jafar had often told him that the only reason he didn't outright hate him was that very fact. All he knew of her was that she was (in Jafar's own words) 'a vision of malice and wickedness in feminine form'.
[And tank da spirits ya don't! Ya coulda been da spitin image of Mirage. Now dat be a thing dem dere in Auridon woulda hada fit bout! Imagine a cat man walkin around ya school! Dere wouldn't be no kiss fa it cause it ain't no curse. Jus heritage.]
*end*
Yep. For no other reason than I could I made the coolest female villain of the Aladdin animated series Jay's mom.
This means all 4 of them have actual magical inheritance (before Jay didn't count because Jafar's power came exclusively from his staff where as Maleficent and Grimhilde were a bonafide dark fairy and a wicked witch capable of magic without an item of power in disney canon). The fact that the boys never had any idea of it is easily explained by the whole no magic thing on the island. Oh and all around A+ parenting on the villains' part.
So, I think I may keep going. Any guesses who the mystery fathers are? What sort of havoc will the crew cause now that it might not be quite as intentional?
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