Chapter 3: The color of evil
First of all, I'd like to thank everyone who added this story to their favorite list or is following this story. It means a lot. Next to Shadow Cat17, I also can't wait to see how this story goes. To tell you all a secret, even I don't know exactly what I'll write until I get started on the chapter and let the story guide me itself. I have a few scenes in mind but no chapter is every complete before i write it. This chapter was actually gonna be part of the last one but i thought it wouldn't do justice to the story to not break it up.
The story will pick up at times, meaning it's not going to be a day by day story. Anyway, without further ado, here is chapter three.
"The time is now 6:30 a.m. and you're listening to Auradon's early morning music station 101 Dalms F.M. Let's getting the day started with a throwback song for those of us just getting up. It's "Once upon a Dream" by Emily Osment". This was the first thing Ben heard as he rubbed the sleep from his eyes. He turned over and hit the off button on his radio clock before the song got to far. Even the thought of anything to do with Audrey or her family was not what he wanted to hear first thing this morning.
Pulling the covers off Ben got up and went to get some water from bathroom sink, he went to the mini fridge and got out a lemon, cut it in half, and squeezed half of it into the water. He took a straw and drank it quickly. After finishing he lay down on the ground and did two sets of twenty five crunches. Turning over he assumed the push up position and did the same amounts as the crunches. After working up a light sweat Ben got up again and headed back to the bathroom to continue his morning regimen.
He went back to the bathroom this time with a towel. He started the the shower, set his towel on the hook and slide off his boxers, golden silk color. Walking to the toilet he lifted the seat and relieved his bladder. After flushing Ben stepped into the shower and let the hot water wash over him. Closing his eyes he enjoyed the warmth spreading through his skin and seeping into his muscles. He stood under the shower spray and relaxed for the first time in a while. Feeling the water run down his chest, through the ridges of his defined abs, down his hips, and washing down his limp member and sac, as well as his legs he let out a sigh of relief.
Stepping out from under the spray he reached for the bar of soap he began to lather up his arms, moving along to his shoulders, his back and chest, down towards his abs. When he got to his cock he felt a jolt as it chubbed up slightly. Carefully he lathered his balls and ass, and continued going down his thighs washing his defined calves.
Taking the shower head into his hands he slowly rinsed off the soap working his way up from his legs. Again when the water hit his dick and scrotum he felt a jolt of pleasure and the blood flowing into his nether region. he quickly washed off the rest of the soap from his body and put the shower head back in it's place. Grabbing the shampoo the washed his hair, trying his hardest to ignore the semi he was now sporting. It was to no avail as he stood under the water and felt it drip over him.
Ben realized it had been a while since he had relieved himself, and thought that it would help get rid of some of the stress from getting ready for the arrival of the Isle kids, as well as the frustration from the horribly botched welcoming of said people. Reaching down he grabbed his semi inflated member at the root where it connected with his balls.
Slowly he pumped his hand up and down getting more blood to flow filling out to his full six inches. Grasping his now fully turgid flesh harder Ben sped up his strokes. On the upstroke he would take the time to swipe his thumb over the head of his uncircumcised cock. His hips started pushing forward as he slid his hand back down. Over and over again, each time speeding up. Being more adventurous now he use his palm to wipe the pre that he leaked and rub around his cock head, and then onto his dick. Even though it was immediately washed away by the water he was standing under he didn't care. He could feel the tightening of his scrotum and the tingling in his gut signaling that his jerk session was about to reach completion. At the peak of his high, right before he release his seed, he mind flashed to the image of Carlos, sucking on his chocolate covered thumb his mouth coated with the sweet itself, and Ben went over the edge. Holding his convulsing dick he shoot rope after rope of come onto the shower floor where they were washed down the drain.
Panting Ben came down from his orgasm. He let the water continue to run over his body and wash away the evidence of his act. When his breathing returned to normal he allowed himself to think about why his mind would flash to Carlos while he was taking care of himself. If he was being completely honest with himself, from his first meeting of the Isle schoolmates Carlos had stuck out to him. He seemed the most timid of the four, the one who was most conscious of the fact that they were in a new place with new people. He was also probably the most easily scared person Ben had met. He just invoked in Ben a feeling of someone who needed protection, who needed someone to look toward for guidance. Ben was convincing himself that he was only confusing his feelings toward Carlos with those of protection and that there couldn't be any other feeling for him, even if he thought he was cute and that those black and white shorts he wore were perfect on him.
Feeling the water temperature drop Ben turned off the water. He got out of the shower and toweled off, then wrapped the towel around his waist. He went to the sink to brush his teeth before he got dressed and left his room for the cafeteria. He met with Audrey there and smiled as best as he could when he saw her, though part of him couldn't help but think that it wasn't as bright as he used to smile at her. They ate breakfast and went off to their separate classes.
"Carlos get up or you're not gonna be able to get ready for class". Was all he heard as he moved away from the hand that was shaking him. Grumbling he turned onto his side as he asked "What time is it?".
"Dude it's already 7:00, you slept through your alarm and mine" Jay answered. "You barely have time to get ready for class, and if you rush you may be able to make it for a light breakfast" he said after going to his bed and grabbing his gear for class. "I'm gonna go ahead and get some grub myself, and I'll be seeing you later on C" was all he left behind as he walked out the door, shutting it behind him.
Carlos rubbed his eyes as he got up. Looking at the clock that the school provided he could see that it was indeed past the time he had wanted to get up. He felt peeved as he got out of bed and went to the bathroom to piss. Washing his hands, he grabbed for his toothbrush and toothpaste and brushed his teeth. Taking some mousse he used it to style his hair, what it wasn't like his hair stayed up naturally. He applied deodorant and quickly went back into the room to get changed. Picking out a simple red shirt and black and white camouflage shorts, he opted to not wear his jacket but grabbed his tail. Carlos rarely went anywhere without it, it was one of the only things his mother had actually given him personally. Clipping it onto his belt he checked the time and rushed out of the room to the cafeteria. He grabbed a quick breakfast of toast and peanut butter, the salty part of the candy he ate the other day, with a cup of orange juice and ate it quickly before speeding off to his first class of the day.
Unlike his fellow companions, with maybe the exception of Evie, Carlos was actually really looking forward to starting classes here in Auradon. One of his favorite classes back in Dragon Hall was Weird Science taught by Yen Sid, who came to the Isle on King Beast's order. So he couldn't wait to take the actual class here in Auradon where they were constantly advancing in the sciences.
Stepping into the Chemistry classroom Carlos took a look around for an empty seat and found one in the back of the class. Sidestepping the others he took off in that direction and arrived at the seat just as the bell signaling the start of class rang. He sat down and took out his notebook as he looked forward to see the teacher, a feat somewhat difficult for him seeing as how he was younger and therefore shorter than his classmates. He noticed that his classmates were taking glances at him, and the majority of them weren't welcoming.
"Alright class, settle down." was how the teacher started class. "As you can see we have a new student with us starting today, Carlos if you would please stand up." he stared at the back of the class towards where I was as he spoke. Standing up Carlos face flushed in embarrassment and he felt his heartbeat speed up. He never liked being the center of attention in anything, in fact he preferred to fly under the radar for everything.
"Since we now have an odd number of students in our class would anyone be willing to include Carlos as a third lab partner for the remainder of the year." the teacher asked the whole class as Carlos stood there, feeling their eyes on him.
"As long as it's okay with my partner, I would like Carlos to be apart of our group." was a response after a full minute of silence. Turning to look at who had spoken up Carlos's eyes landed on Ben and a sense of relief flooded him. Even though he had only met him yesterday Ben was the nicest person Carlos knew, and seeing as how he was one of the few faces that he knew at this school it would be a big relief if he could be in a group with Ben.
"What do you say Prof, you okay with having him as our third lab partner?" Carlos saw Ben turn to look at someone who was seated in the middle of the front row. He was the shortest kid in class, excluding himself of course, with a rounder face and a seeming penchant for red, seeing as how it was the main color of his notebook, his backpack, even his calculator. He sorta reminded Carlos of Doug at first glance. The guy's response to Ben was a joking "Sure, hopefully he won't be missing as much as you have." Ben nodded back with a genuine smile and chuckle. Carlos took a seat as the rest of the class turned and faced forward.
"Well, now that that's settled let's break up into your lab groups and get started on the experiment of Enzymes in food reactions." the teacher told everyone as he passed out a direction sheet for said experiment.
Carlos took the sheet when it got to him and grabbed his stuff as he headed toward where Ben and the person identified as Prof was. Placing his things down Carlos spoke a quick thanks to Ben as he turned and extended his hand toward Prof, "I'm Carlos, Carlos De Vil." Prof shook his hand as well and introduced himself "I'm Prof, short for Professor and I'm Doc's son."
"Oh, so you're Doug's cousin then, you guys do have similar features." Carlos pointed out.
"Yeah, all of the seven Dwarfs children have some characteristics in common for sure." Prof mention in a friendly way. Carlos relaxed as he found out that his new lab partners were friendly. As they read through the sheet for the experiment and started actually working on it Carlos's face had a full bloomed smile. Being in any kind of lab and doing any kind of experiment did that to him. He could just focus on what he had to do and what reactions would come of it, nothing outside of the experiment mattered and that was truly when Carlos was at his happiest. He was so caught up in it that he didn't notice the prince smile as he stared at Carlos, though thankfully no one else did either.
By the time the experiment was over, they had just enough time to clean up and pack up. The bell rang and thus Carlos and the rest of the class left to their other classes. For Carlos that was History, English, Proper Etiquette in Formal Situations, and Cultural Diversity of Auradon; which was the study of the different races and ethnicity that encompassed all of Auradon.
The history class Carlos found to be rather drool, mostly because it was only the hero's side of the stories that he grew up hearing back at the Isle. He knew that the victor's made the history books, but thought they would at least try to be more comprehensive in them. He thought wrong though. Etiquette was a disaster as he knew it would be, Carlos didn't care much for social graces that those but he would try just hard enough to skate by. By the end of CDA Carlos was thoroughly drained from having to sit in such class.
Thankfully it was lunchtime afterwards so he headed to the cafeteria to pick up some food. Of course he grabbed the chocolate dessert they were serving and headed outside to meet up with the rest of his friends. They discussed how each of their day's was going, and before lunch ended Mal reminded Carlos of what they were going to do that night with a "I hope you found something out about that museum."
Thankfully Carlos had found out some information by staying up late the night before. He also ended up asking Doug about it in his class after lunch. Fooled him by saying he was interested in seeing the cultural artifacts of Auradon that he had heard of from the adults stories about the Island. From Doug he reaffirmed the general layout of the museum as well as what exhibit could be found on what floor. The final bell of the school day rang and Carlos made it back to his room before the others. He restarted his laptop and sorted the info he got for their heist that night.
"Ben watch out!" he heard before getting beaned by one of the cannon. Falling down in the kill zone he was dazed for a while when someone came over. He was dressed in blue, white, and gold jersey and shorts with a knight helmet over two crossed sticks that also looked like swords. Underneath he had on shoulder pads, full arm sleeves with elbow pads, and a blue and white helmet shaped just like the logo on the jersey.
"Dude, are you alright?" Ben teammate asked. Judging from the voice and build Ben guessed that it was Chad Charming, son of Cinderella and Prince Charming and one of his friends. He lowered his hand and grabbed Ben's. Hauling him back to his feet Ben mumble a "Thanks" as he left the field to sit on the bench. Taking off his helmet he took a deep breath and tried to clear his head.
"Ben, you alright son" his coach asked as he sat down next to him. "Yeah coach, guess my mind is just elsewhere earlier." he answered as he looked up. "How is your head, any pain? Any trouble seeing?" he continued making sure that Ben was okay. Even if this was only a practice he had to make sure all of his players were okay any time they hit their head. "No, no pain coach, and my eyesight is okay, I don't feel any discomfort or dizziness, so don't worry coach." Ben went and answered what other questions he would of been asked by his coach.
"Okay then, I'm still going to insist that you go hit the showers now though." he said back to Ben. Ben of course could see where the coach was coming from and he agreed that it was probably for the best if he didn't get back onto the field. "So what is on your mind to have you so out of it? Must be big if the Captain of our Tourney team can't pay enough attention on the game." coach inquired of the soon to be king.
"It's just, I've been thinking about ways to get the student body to be more accepting of the new kids." 'One of them in particular' he thought to himself as he answer coach. "I'd have to be blind, deaf, and struck dumb to not see or hear how most of the kids in school are treating them."
"Well, you did expect it to take some time didn't you Ben."
"Yeah, but I didn't think the other students would be so cold toward them." Ben responded, thinking back to how his class today had reacted to Carlos as well as the looks they got during lunch. He was subtly checking in on them during the lunch period and saw how alienated they were from the rest of the school. "It seems that most of the school feels that it is they shouldn't even try and get to know them at all. They have their opinions of the new students set in stone just from who the parents of them are" Ben admitted to his coach with a defeated look on his face.
"Look Ben, it's only the first day that any real interaction between them has happened. It will take some time but I think that the new kids will be able to win people over. They just need a chance to show the other students what they are really made of" coach tried to cheer the prince up. "The question is how they are going to even get that chance" Ben sighed as he started to think of ways to involve the Isle kids with the rest of the school. "Well" coach started as he got an idea, "We do have some open spots on the tourney team don't we. I'll talk to Fairy Godmother and see about letting at least the guys try out tourney with the rest of us tomorrow after their Remedial Goodness 101 lesson." he finished.
"Really coach, you'd do that?" Ben asked hopefully. If they could interact in a team setting with the other students, then maybe Jay and Carlos would be able to show everyone that they could mesh with the rest of the school. "Yeah, why not. Besides they may even be what this team is missing." He nodded liking his idea more and more. "Thanks coach" Ben said as he smiled. He got up and went to the locker room, went and washed up, and left back to his room to finish his homework. He went down to dinner with Audrey and they had a nice walk together before going back to his room and bed. He was looking forward to tomorrow.
"So what did you end up finding out Carlos?" Mal asked with an annoyed look on her face. Carlos knew that if he didn't get right down to business she would make me miserable for the rest of my life. "Well, it isn't much but I've got a general layout of the museum and some knowledge about its security system." he spoke quickly.
"On the tech side of things it's not so advanced that we will have to worry about it. There are security cameras monitoring the artifacts mostly as well as some triggers that will set off alarms if we are not careful. The real issues is the magic that is protecting the wand." Carlos continued. "I have no idea what kind of magic is protecting it, no one has an exact idea but Fairy Godmother. So there is that issue, but luckily I know that it's definitely on the third floor of the museum, past the Hall of Villains. So we don't have to waste our time checking each floor and can go directly there." He finished as he looked toward Mal. He hoped that what he found out would serve to ease Mal's malcontent with him.
"Good job, fur boy." she smirked as she saw the look of fear melt from his face with a sigh. "So you can do something about the security cameras right, wouldn't want anyone to see us on film now would we." she asked him. "Yeah, I just need to see the system and can set it on a loop for a while for sure. That is of course if we take out the security guard monitoring it." was his retort. "You just leave that to me, well me and my magic spell book that it is" Mal flashed a smirk as she held up the book her mother gave her before they set off toward Auradon.
"Well then, what are we waiting for. We have a wand to steal" Jay replied as he got pumped up. After all stealing was one of his talents. "Yeah, lets get going shall we" Mal voiced as she stood up and walked toward the door. She checked if the coast was clear and then lead all of them out into the halls and out of Auradon Prep. Sneaking out wasn't hard for the villainous foursome, they were most comfortable in the gloom of the night and being silent as they moved was easy cause it was a daily occurrence back on the Island. The only time people actually knew they were coming was when they wanted them to know.
Soon enough they arrived at the Museum of Cultural History, and went around back to the security station. Peaking in they saw the guard by the spinning wheel that Maleficent used to curse Audrey's mom to sleep for a hundred years. The guard had his back toward the monitoring the video cameras.
"That's your mother's spinning wheel?" Jay asked Mal. "It's kinda Dorky." was Carlos's comment on it. They both shared a laugh while Mal retorted with "It's magic, it doesn't have to look scary. In fact the more innocuous it looks, the deadlier it can be". Opening her spell book she flipped through it looking for a spell that could use the spinning wheel to temporarily take out the guard. Finding one she spoke it "Magic spindle, do not linger, make my victim prick a finger."
They waited for a responsive action from the guard, all they got was him turning his chair and staring at the spinning wheel. "Impressive" was Jay sarcastic comeback. Carlos followed up with a equally as sarcastic "I got chills".
"Okay, you know what" Mal was disgruntled as they laughed at her lackluster spell. She quickly searched for another spell and found one on the next page. She started the incantation with "Prick a finger, prick it deep. Send my enemy off to sleep". This time the guard actually got up off the chair, walked toward the spinning wheel and pricked his finger on it. Then he lay down and fell asleep right next to it. She smirked and giving the boys the side eye intoned "Not so dorky now huh". She then tried the door, only to find that it was locked.
Jay stepped up at this point and said "Stand back" as he stepped back getting ready to kick the door open. Mal not wanting to make too much noise instead looked through her spell book again and found as spell. She recited "Make it easy, make it quick, open up without a kick" and the door did just that. Of course Jay was already in mid run to kick the door down when it did and was too late to stop himself from jump kicking at the now open door. He flew through the open and promptly fell, causing the others to laugh. Mal and Evie walked past him with Mal playfully kicking him while Carlos helped him up with a "Come on Jay". Jay was not to happy with his help and shoved him away, an action that caused Carlos to raise his hands in exasperation and say "I was just trying to help".
They walked past the guard, and Carlos went over to the system control panel. He quickly went about setting up a loop in the camera system so that their actions would not be recorded. The group then went on their way. Running up to flights of stairs to the third floor and ran by the Hall of Villains. There they all stopped and took in the ferocious wax statues of their parents in their prime. It was really a sight to behold that elicited responses from all of them. Evie had let out a "Mommy"; Jay a "Killer"; Carlos was reminded that his mother could be even crazier than she usually was and swore aloud that "I will never forget Mother's Day again"; and Mal was frozen staring at her own mother's statue.
They took a few minutes to stare at the other statues in the hall as well. "You ever notice how most villains will have something black about them, like their cloths?" Jay asked as he stared at the exhibit. Evie, the resident fashion diva answered him. "It's actually a psychological thing. Black is a color of power and mystery. Black is also a color that helps people ward off the outside world giving those who wear it a sense of comfort by protecting their emotion, and other people attribute black with rebelling against society so they would keep away from people who wear too much of it out of fear."
"So you could say that black is the color of evil" Carlos added his two cents into the conversation. They spent another few moments looking at the past glory of the villains they grew up around.
"Well the wands not here so let's bounce" Jay said bringing everyone out of their stupor as they set off. Or at least Carlos thought so until they did find the wand. Turns out Mal had stayed behind for some reason so Evie went running back to bring her along. Jay and Carlos waited for a minute till they heard footsteps approaching. they ran the the circular viewing platform and looked down at the wand. "I thought you said it was on the third floor Carlos" Mal ribbed him. "It seems that you have to go to the third floor in order to get to the staircase that leads down to the wand" was his comeback as he pointed out the gate behind which was the staircase leading down. Jay took the lead and opened the gate, and was first down the stairs.
They had gathered around rail guards keeping people from getting close to the exhibit. All of their breaths were coming short and they all had a look of excitement on their faces. Jay being the more negligent one of them all ducked under the guard and started reaching for the wand. He had thought the the light enshrouding it was only that, a light. Mal's warnings of "Jay don't! Wait no! No!" went unheard as Jay touched the light. It turned out that it was a magic force-field that had set off an unseen alarm. "A force-field and a siren!" Yelled Carlos. "That is just a little excessive" responded Jay as they all started to run for the exit; Mal leading them with a "Let's go".
They were lucky to not run into the Security guard that had awoken due to the noise of the alarm. As they went by the security station Carlos picked up the phone that was ringing. "Hello" he said to the person on the other line, deepening his voice. "Ah just give me one second, one second." he responded as he turned off the alarm and undid the loop on the security camera system. "Uh, yeah yeah, no false alarm." he told the person on the other end. "It was a malfunction in the LN714 chip in the breadboard circuit. Say hi to the misses." he spoke as he hung up the line.
"Carlos" Mal urgently said to get him to leave as well.
"You're welcome" is all he said as he ran out the doors closing them behind him.
"Way to go Jay, now we have to go to school again tomorrow" Mal yelled as they ran back to the school. Before they went back on school grounds they agreed to meet before breakfast to discuss what their future plans to get the wand would be. Once on school grounds they all quietly snuck back to their respective dorms. Carlos only had the energy to strip to his boxers and flop down onto his bed before he fell asleep.