The Seashell And Her Jewel
Hello Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome back to another instalment of The Seashell And Her Jewel! Okay I'm done being weird, for now. Anyway this one has been stirring around in my head for a while and quite frankly I want it out of my head. So this set after the second movie and it is the Ursula and Maleficent escape one-shot. Or will it? It could be a longer story it might be a two shot, who knows? Anyway here we go...
I only own Isla.
Chapter Seven
Isla's POV
It was midafternoon when I was making my way back from the boy's dorm. I'd spent the night and most of today with Jay. We'd gone out to dinner last night, had a peaceful night and watched a few movies today. Unfortunately I had to get going sooner or later. The closer I got to my dorm I noticed a few things. First of all the door was partway open and second Mal and Evie were shouting about something.
I picked up my pace when I heard them shouting. Growing up on the Isle people shouting was common and while we may have caused a fair bit of yelling and screaming it was never directed at each other.
"Guys?" I asked pushing the door open. Inside were Evie looking scared and Mal looking furious and slightly fearful too. "What's going on?"
"I'll tell you what's going on!" Mal exclaimed before pointing in the direction of our mother's tank. The tank that was currently empty.
"Where is she?" I ask, feeling my body stiffen.
"We don't know." Evie said placing a hand on my shoulder.
"What do you mean you don't know?" I ask her. They're tiny animals. Tiny animals don't just escape a tank.
"We mean we don't know how they got out." Mal said as she started to pace the room. "They couldn't just open it from the inside. No, someone had to have taken them out."
"We've got plenty of people willing to get in their good books." I mutter my mind going to the new VK's. Harriet and CJ Hook, Freddie, Zevon and Jade. Any of them could've broken in and taken Maleficent and Ursula.
"Look the two of you need to calm down." Evie said trying to stop Mal's pacing. "I've already called Ben and he says he's going to handle it."
"What?" Mal exclaimed spinning around to face us. "He can't do that! They'll think we can't handle looking after them and he'll take them away!" Mal cried her shoulders dropping slightly.
"Mal." I sighed. Out of the two of us, she was the one who really wanted to look after her mom.
"No. Isles they are two of the worst villains in the world. We need to find them." She said grabbing her jacket and walking out.
"She has a point you know." I tell Evie who sighs.
"I know she has a point. Look we'll call the boys and we'll find them before Ben does." Evie says pulling her phone out and dialing Carlos' number. It was as if my body was on auto pilot because I had already dialed Jay's number and my phone was already by my ear.
"Missing me already, babe?" Jay's teasing voice rang through my ear.
"Jay..." My voice whispered out. On the inside I'm hitting myself for how weak and small my voice sounds.
"Babe where are you?" Jay's voice has changed immediately. He sounds really panicked. "What's going on?"
"She's gone, Jay." I tell him and I am really proud of how my voice doesn't shake at all.
"Oh shit!" He swore. "Okay give me two minutes. I'll be right there." He added and in the background I can hear Carlos shouting and a lot of movement. Less than two minutes later Jay and Carlos burst into the room and they are both looking very panicked.
Jay immediately takes me into his arms. "I'm here." He whispered.
"I'm fine." I said into his chest.
"I know." He says, even though we both know it's a lie.
"I really am." I try to convince us both.
"I know. I believe you." Jay says, placating me.
"C'mon guys." Evie says bringing us out of our own world. "We have a slug and a gecko to catch."
"That we do." I murmur as we leave the room.
We decide that it would be easier for us to split up and find them. Each couple takes a different area of the large school and begins to search for the tiny reptile and mollusk.
"This is impossible." Jay complains as we search through the library.
"Keep looking. She's close I can feel it." I insist as I look through the shelves and isles.
"Babe you need calm down." Jay says coming up behind me.
"Calm down?" I question turning to him. "This isn't a joke you know what's she capable of. If she managed to get out of that aquarium without any help, then she is more than capable of hurting anyone who comes across her." I point out to him.
"I know. I know." He sooths holding his hands out in surrender. "But even if she did escape on her own, she probably doesn't have all her powers yet." He adds.
"Jay if she's out then she's going to be looking for revenge. If any of you get hurt, I will not hesitate to kill that little slug." I grit out.
"I know. I know, Seashell." Jay says taking me into his arms again. We don't stay this way for too long because every second we waste is another second they have to get back to full strength.
"Look you finish searching here and I'm going to double back to the dorms. See if I can find any kind of evidence or clue leading to them." I tell him as we part.
"Promise me you'll be careful." Jay pleads.
"Of course I will be. I am a witch after all." I smirk at him.
"And I taught you everything you know." He adds with a smirk of his own.
"Of course you did." I tease before kissing him quickly and I make my way out of the library.
I was running through the halls when I saw a flash of purple. Right there in the middle of the hallway was a tiny gecko, otherwise known as Maleficent.
"Gotcha." I say, smirking as I pick up the Mistress of All Evil. But there's something different. It might be the fact she isn't violently protesting that someone's picking her up. Or it might be because she looks, lost. Or you know it could be the air of magick usually surrounding her is dulled. "Now how did you get out here?" I ask the mute lizard.
Holding her securely in my hands I make my way back to the dorm to place her back in the aquarium. When she's in there I make sure the lids locked properly and I'm about to call Jay when he beats me too it.
"Hey, guess what?" I ask as soon I accept his call.
"Isla," Jay starts but he hesitates for a minute before adding anything.
"Jay? What happened?" I ask when he doesn't make an attempt to finish his sentence.
"It's Evie." He begins and my blood ran cold. "Carlos just called me. Someone pushed her down the stairs. She's in the infirmary. Her head was bleeding pretty badly and it looks like she could have a broken ankle. But they won't let Carlos in and he's panicking pretty badly. I know you want to find your mom but-"
"I'll be there in five minutes." I interrupt. I would rather know if my sisters alright than look for that witch. I have a feeling this was her doing anyway.
"Okay. But babe please be careful. Something about this doesn't make sense." Jay says before hanging up the phone. I turn to Maleficent with a death glare and a scowl plastered on my face.
"If I find out you two had something to do with this, you will be sorry." I spit out before turning to leave. I almost jump out of my skin when I see Mal leaning against the doorway.
"Had something to do with what?" She questioned as she walked into the room.
"Evie was pushed down the stairs." I explain quickly. "I'm going to meet Jay and 'Los in five minutes at the infirmary."
"And you think it was Maleficent and Ursula." She states walking over to the aquarium. "It wouldn't surprise me. They must have been so enraged at the two of us beating them and choosing to be good." Mal has never called her mother Maleficent. And she's never brought up how they must have felt.
"I'm sure you did feel enraged, didn't you Maleficent?" I ask as the pieces fell into place.
"Oh you're a smart one, aren't you?" She asks without turning to me. She raises her hand and flicks the door shut, blocking any chance of escape.
"How did you get out?" I snap at her. "What did you do to Mal?"
"Oh she's right here." She says tapping Mal's skull. "She can still hear us. And poor little Mallie is so scared I'm going to hurt her friends. But technically she's the one hurting her friends, I mean she pushed EQ's daughter down the stairs." Maleficent shrugged Mal's shoulders.
"What did Evie ever do to you?" I snapped. If Evie was permanently injured I swear, I am going to drown her.
"Oh nothing much. She's too much like her mother to be a real threat. But unfortunately for her she saw what happened to Mallie and was going to tell Cruella's offspring, and I couldn't let her ruin my plans just yet." Maleficent said as she tapped the glass aquarium.
"You bitch." I snap and she turns to me.
"That's odd they usually call me a witch." She laughs at her own joke.
"So what's the plan, you're going to steal the wand, pretend to be Mal forever, let everyone think it's her trying to takeover?" I ask moving slightly towards the door.
"As if!" She snorted. "Why would I let anyone think it was my daughter taking over, not me? Besides when our spells complete, Mal will be but a memory." Maleficent laughed a horrible cackle that doesn't belong to Mal.
"Our?" I question as I'm backing closer to the door.
"Of course, ours. Did you forget about your own mother?" Maleficent cooed and pulled out the slug that is Ursula, out of Mal's pocket. "Well soon you'll be closer than ever." She said raising her hand, Mal's eyes glowed a bright reptile green.
"You wish." I say before throwing a fireball at her. Maleficent jumps away and it sets fire to one of the pillows on Evie's bed. Oops.
"Wordless magic. How?" She whispered.
"You and Ursula are washed up." I tell her before throwing more magic blasts at her. She returns it with her own magic. I'm throwing anything and everything at her, but as strong as I am, Maleficent is older and stronger.
"Enough!" She shrieks before sending a wave of magic at me, that knocks me and into the wall. Several pictures and ornaments fall onto the floor, glass decorated the floor. "I tire of this foolishness." She added before raising her hand and pointing it at me and the world goes black.
Narrators POV
And with a simple spell, Isla was trapped inside her own mind, much like Mal was at this moment. 'Isla' raised her head and her eyes flashed a bright grey and she smirked.
"What took you so long?" She questioned before standing and dusting herself off.
"That brat of yours is stronger than you think." Maleficent said with a shrug.
"I know, she's trying so hard to take control." 'Isla' said with an irritated sigh.
'Mal' smirked at the other girl. "I know, Mal's the same throwing every spell she can at me. C'mon Ursy. We have a wand to steal and a spell to make permeant." Maleficent said with a flourish.
"Indeed we do." Ursula agreed with a smirk. And with that two of the world's evilest villains left the room in the bodies of their daughters. Meanwhile their children where tapped inside their own minds, throwing every spell they knew into the darkness, trying anything to escape.
Jay's POV
"She's gonna be fine man." I tell Carlos. I'd arrived about two minutes after he'd called me and he hasn't stopped pacing since. We'd been there for about half an hour and we were both getting really worried. There'd been no news about Evie and Isla and Mal were nowhere to be found.
"How do you know that? What if she can never walk again? Or she's brain dead? Or-" By this point I stood up and gripped him by the shoulders.
"Carlos she's going to okay." I say looking him directly in the eyes. "It's gonna take more than a little fall to take Evie out. She's an Isle girl, she's been through worse." I add and he nods.
"Your right. She's gonna be fine." Carlos said with a nod.
"Exactly, that's the spirit." I tell him as I guide him back to the chairs. "Now stop worrying and chill."
"Like you can talk." Carlos snorted as he flopped into a seat. "Don't pretend you're not worrying about where Isla is."
"Of course I'm worried. No-ones heard anything from her and Mal." Even though making sure Evie is okay is his priority, I know he's worried about the girls.
"Look like you said we just need to chill. Ben's gone to see if he can find them and he's going to be back soon." Ben was here when I arrived but he'd gone about five minutes ago to see if he could find the girls.
"Carlos." Fairy Godmother called as she exited the infirmary, immediately he's on his feet.
"How is she? Is she going to be alright? When can I see her?" Wow way to word vomit.
"She's fine. We've managed to top the bleeding on her head. It looks like she's fractured two of the major ligaments in her ankle, so she'll be on crutches for a while. But she's awake and asking for you two." Fairy Godmother explained gently.
Without waiting for another word Carlos pushed past the ex-fairy and bolted into the infirmary.
"Thank you Fairy Godmother." I said as I followed Carlos.
"Oh for Evil's sake Carlos! I love you, I do but you need to listen!" I hear Evie's exasperated voice call from the first bed in the room. The blue haired princess had her foot elevated and bandages wrapped around her head but apart from that she had an exhausted smile on her face and seemed fine.
"Hey Eves'." I said taking a seat next to her.
"Jay!" Evie cried taking one of my hands in hers. "Where are the girls!?" She pleaded.
"We don't know. I called Isla before, she said she'd be here but since then no-ones heard from her and Mal." I shrug slightly. Mal can defiantly handle herself and there's no doubting Isla.
"We need to find them now!" Evie said struggling to get out of bed.
"Whoa slow down there." Carlos said gently pushing Evie back down. "You're injured and shouldn't be running around." He chided gently.
"No you don't understand! We need to find them now!" Evie cried struggling to sit up.
"Evie what's wrong? What's going on?" I asked trying to help Carlos keep her down.
"They're in trouble! Mal's mom is the one who pushed me down the stairs!" Evie said her eyes pleading us to listen.
"That's not possible Eves. Maleficent is just a lizard." Carlos said trying to calm his girlfriend down.
"No she possessed Mal! She did something and took control of her! Jay they're going for Isla next!" Evie yelled and instantly worry filled my veins.
"What?" I whisper letting go of Evie, Carlos doing the same as he moved back wide eyed.
"She used some kind of spell and took over Mal's body, Ursula is going to do the same thing to Isla." Evie explained as she sat up.
"Shit!" I yelled. I starting running out the door, already pulling my phone out and dialing Isla's number. When Isla doesn't pick up I push my body faster, almost colliding with Ben.
"Jay. What's going on?" The young King questioned as he ran with me. Smart kid if he already knows something's up.
"The girls are in danger." I say shortly. At this point we've reached the girls dorm. The door was partway open, so it was easy to push it open. It was a mess. Glass was littered across the floor, some of the girls things were thrown everywhere, pictures were smoking and one of Evie's pillows had been completely burnt to a crisp. "Shit." I swore as I looked around.
"Jay, what's going on?" Ben asked again but this time there was an underlying tone of a command.
"Maleficent possessed Mal and pushed Evie down the stairs. Evie said they planned on doing the same with Isla." I say shortly as I glare at the floor.
"Fuck." Ben swore and he punched the wall besides him. The only time I've ever seen Ben mad was at Cotillion with the Uma incident. "When I find that fucking lizard I'm going to kill her." Ben gritted out.
"Okay Ben you need to calm down, right now." I say placing a hand on the raging King's shoulder.
"Calm down?" He growls. "You expect me to calm down at a time like this?"
"Yes. Believe me I want to kill that slug too but right now they are Mal and Isla. So anything we do to them is going hurt the girls." I tell him. Ben looks at me for a minute before taking a deep breath.
"Okay fine. The how do you suggest we find the girls?" Ben says his voice no longer the beastly growl it was before.
"What's the one thing that can give them full power again and their own bodies?" I ask him with a pointed stare.
"Fairy Godmothers wand." Ben gasped. Did that seriously surprise him?
"You call FG, I'll meet you there.'' I tell him already running out of the room before he can respond. I was pushing my body harder than ever before. I will do anything to save them. Mal's my little sister and Isla was my Seashell. My light at the end of the tunnel. She's my everything. I will keep her safe.
Isla's POV
"Ugh!" I screamed before throwing another fireball into the darkness. I was trapped inside my own head with Ursula in control of my body.
"Would you stop that? Or don't, in the end you're only hurting yourself." Ursula voice rang through the dark.
"The second I get out of here I am going to make you pay!" I yelled into the void of my mind.
"Oh really? Well sweetie right now, I can do whatever I want to you." Ursula cooed and suddenly it wasn't dark and I could see the outside world once again.
"Ursula what are you doing?" I whispered as I saw the familiar halls of Auradon Prep and 'Mal' next to me.
"Oh me? Well I'm going to get that retched Fairy Godmothers wand and I'm going to get my own body back." Ursula said as she and 'Mal' made it outside. "And you and your little friends will pay when I am queen of the seven seas." She added her hyena like cackle filling my ears.
"You're crazy!" I screamed once again throwing a blast of magic around me. "I swear to Hades-"
"I would watch what I say if I were you." Ursula said coolly. "Remember who's in charge now. I could wave my hand and oops they all drowned."
"You touch any of them and I will personally make sure you suffer." I threatened the former sea witch.
"I'd like to see you try. Maybe I'll see what that lover boy of yours thinks of the new you." Ursula snorted. If that bitch lays one tentacle on him,
"Ugh!" I yelled again before blasting another spell at my mind.
"Weak." Ursula scoffed. "Just like your father."
"Oh grow up. Your just pissed he saw your face and left you." I growl at her.
"This is my mind too now. So I can do this," She trailed off and I was back on the Isle, back in the Chip Shop. "I can do this," she added and there was Uma and her crew with swords drawn, ready to fight. "And finally I can do this." She said and everything was in motion. People were lunging at each other and there were battle cries and people screaming.
"This all you got!" I yelled at her before disarming one the fake pirates. "What are you five?!"
"I'm just getting started my dear." She said in a tranquil voice.
"Well so am I." I said before my eyes glowed bright blue and all of her images disappeared. "Child's play."
With a sigh I turned to see that she and 'Mal' had made it to the museum already and were spelling the door shut. Shit, I thought as they fused the large doors together, how the hell am I supposed to slow them down now?
"C'mon Ursy!" Maleficent cheered as they ran through the halls of the museum. "Let's get that wand!"
"Right behind you!" She said rushing to catch up to The Mistress of All Evil. "How do you even know where they keep the blasted thing?" She asked once she caught up.
"I don't. Well not right know but they're going to tell us." She said pointing at Mal's head and then at Ursula.
"And why would they tell us that?" Ursula asked dumbfounded.
"Because pretty soon, they're lover boys are going to break down those doors to save them." Maleficent cooed before fake gagging.
"Pathetic." Ursula sneered.
"Exactly but that's why we didn't spell the doors correctly." Maleficent said.
"You better hope this works. Without that wand we'll be back to those puny bodies. By the way that's still your fault." Ursula said crossing her arms.
"Excuse me? That wand was the only thing close enough to preform this level of magic. Without that we wouldn't be here." Maleficent glared and right on cue there was a pounding on the doors. "Right on time. Quick out of sight Ursy." Maleficent commanded as she moved into the shadows, which Ursula followed suit with quickly.
After a few minutes the doors broke open. "Isla?!" Jay called as he ran in. "Mal?! Are you here?!" He called as he entered cautiously. 'No Jay! Get out of here!' I wanted to scream but I couldn't.
"Look who's here? How pathetic, lover boy came to save you." Ursula sneered.
"You touch him and I will turn you into calamari." I snapped at her.
"Shit!" He swore as he ran up the stairs leading to the wand. No turn around!
"C'mon Ursy." Maleficent commanded as she emerged from the shadows.
"Right behind you." She said as they both followed quietly behind Jay, who was still calling out to us. When Jay entered the wand room he pulled out his phone and dialed a number quickly.
"Ben they're not here." He said looking around the vast chamber. "Look how close are you?" He said moving closer to the wand. "Your almost here with 'Los and FG?" He questioned. "Good, hurry. Something about this feels weird." He was about to hang up when,
"Everything about this feels weird." Maleficent said as she entered the room dramatically. "I can't wait to be back in my own body." She said with a sigh.
"What did you do with Mal? Where's Isla?" Jay growled when he saw her.
"Mal's right here." She said with a smirk. "And Isla… Oh Ursy!" She called out.
"Let's see how Lover Boy feels now." She said before entering with a flourish.
"You're not Isla." He growled the second he saw her.
"Clever boy." She cooed taking a step towards him. "Little Isla has a smart one, doesn't she Mallie?" She giggled when Jay took a step closer to the wand.
"If he was a smart one he'd get the wand out so Mal and Isla didn't get hurt." Maleficent said as she picked at Mal's nails.
"Not gonna happen." Jay gritted out as the doors burst open. Ben, Carlos and Fairy Godmother stood in the open door way, the latter with a shocked facial expression and the former two with looks of rage.
"Maleficent! Ursula! Surrender and let the girls go!" Ben called as he stepped into the room with the other two right behind him.
"Look Ursy, both lover boy's are here now. Isn't that sweet?" She crooned.
"Sickeningly." She agreed. "Now if you'll be a doll we really do need that wand."
"Yes, we really do need to get a move on so," Maleficent started and then waved a hand, transporting Fairy Godmother to her side. "Now get the wand dear." Maleficent said her tone darker than before.
When Fairy Godmother hesitated I felt Ursula 's rage. "What are you waiting for?! Get the wand or else the girl's will be hurt. How hard is that understand?" She snapped placing my hands on my hips.
"Maybe she needs more incentive." Maleficent mused before her eyes and hand glowed bright green and she pointed it at the boys. "Perhaps I'll take them all out at once." She pondered.
"Get rid of the long haired one." Ursula said with a glare.
"See that dear. You better hope she gets that wand out. Or lover boy is toast." She cackled.
"No!" I screamed and threw the biggest blast of magic yet.
Narrators POV
At the same time Mal had heard everything and similar to Isla threw out a blast of power. For a second the girls fought a battle of wills with their mothers, but they managed to push them down.
Isla gasped and doubled over as she fought to keep control. Similarly Mal was having the same battle.
"Isla!" "Mal!" Multiple voices called out in shock. Jay ran over to help Isla but she held a hand up stopping him in his tracks.
"Isla?" He asked in worry.
"Not right now. Just in case." She whimpered as Mal helped her stand.
"I don't have much time and I don't think Isla does either." Mal said with a grimace. "We know how to stop them."
"Jay you gotta break the wand. It's the only thing giving them their power." Isla gasped.
"Fairy Godmother what are you waiting for?" Ben asked as he turned to her.
"Ben are you sure-?" She started but was cut off by three angry males.
"Do it." They all hissed and she nodded briefly before opening the barrier but just as she gripped it the two villain mother's started to gain control.
"Child what are you doing?" Maleficent screeched as she surfaced, Mal had to hold on to the wall to stop herself from collapsing.
"You insolent worm! You will pay for this!" She roared as Isla doubled over once again.
"What are you waiting for?!" Mal called as she barely remained in control.
"Someone break it before they get control again!" Isla cried as her body shook from the strain.
"Give it here!" Jay yelled as he took the wand out of Fairy Godmothers hands.
"No!" Mal and Isla screamed their voices a mixture of their own and their mothers. None of them quite in full control. With a final look at the girls raised the wand brought it down upon his knee, snapping it as easily as a stick.
There was a blast of magic sending everyone crashing into walls and the ground.
Jay groaned as he sat up against the railing. Bolting up quickly he saw Mal and Isla thrashing violently on the ground. Jay jumped to his feet quickly and ran over to the girls.
"Ben! Carlos!" Jay called as he cradled Isla's head in his lap and held onto one of Mal's hands. "Isla. I'm right here and I'm not going anywhere. Your stronger than her. So much stronger her and you can take control." Jay said as Ben came over and took Mal into his lap.
"Come on Mal, you can do this." Ben whispered to Mal. After a few minutes the thrashing died down, the whimpers and cries stopped and time froze.
Isla's POV
"You can't do this!" Ursula shrieked as she threw spells at me. We were both trapped inside my head again, both throwing spells, curses and hexes at each other.
"Oh hell yes I can!" I said throwing another spell at her.
"I am Ursula! I am your mother! I will win!" She shrieked. She was fighting a losing battle and she knew it.
"You may be Ursula but you will not win this. Not this time." I said before throwing one last spell at her. The spell caused her to scream a piercing shriek and she disappeared out of my head.
I gasped as I felt myself take control of my own body again. I tried to sit up but a pair of arms stopped me. Looking up I see Jay looking at me with a concerned face. "Jay."
"Isla." He sighed in relief and leaned down to kiss me gently. "I thought I lost you for a second there." He whispered to me.
"It's gonna take a lot more that to get rid of me." I smirked as I sat up, leaning into Jay.
"Okay I have two questions." Mal said from where she was seated next to Ben. "What the hell just happened? And two, why is your mom in my pocket?" She said holding up an angry looking slug. Yep that's her.
"I don't even know anymore." I said with a sigh. "Let's go check on Evie and then we can get the full story." I say as we all stand up and make our way out of the museum. Why do I have the feeling this story is going to take a while? Something's also telling me Jay's not going to leave me alone anytime soon, but that's fine by me.