In Evie's dorm room was a rather large group of teenagers. Evie was in her dorm room with Mal, Jay, Carlos, Diego, Lonnie, Freddie, Holly, Chad, Ellie, Kristin, Aaron and Doug. They were waiting on the last three members of their group to appear for their weekly catch up. Since Evie had yet to be assigned a new room mate they all met up there for their catch up. As usual the conversation had turned to the twins and if Mal and Ben had settled on any names for them. Since Ben had yet to arrive Mal had to deal with the questions by herself for now. The purplette hadn't even been listening to what they were talking about, she had tuned them out and become lost in her own thoughts of her babies. But she was snapped out of that when she heard Fairy Godmother's voice.
Auradon Prep didn't have an announcement system but Fairy Godmother used her magic if the entire school needed to be told something. But the tone of her voice worried the purplette. "Everyone go to your dorms and stay there. Do not come out until you are told it is safe to do so." Fairy Godmother said. Anyone who spent a lot of time with Fairy Godmother could tell she sounded completely heart broken, she also sounded like she had been crying. As Mal looked around the room at her friends she stood as quickly as her pregnant body would allow and marched her way down to Fairy Godmother's office.
She noticed her friends were following her but she didn't care about that right now. Something wasn't right and Mal had to know what was going on, especially since three members of their family were missing. Mal ignored the assistant telling her she couldn't go into the office and walked through the familiar large double doors. She was met with the sight of Fairy Godmother sat at her desk with her head in her hands, obviously crying. Looking behind her she noticed everyone else was at a loss for words so as Jay moved to close the office door Mal turned her attention back to the distraught headmistress.
"Fairy Godmother?" Mal called out as she slowly walked over to the upset headmistress. The older fairy immediately lifted her head at the sound of the purple haired girl's voice and the look on the woman's face almost broke the teens heart. She looked absolutely distraught, Mal hasn't ever seen anyone look as upset as the headmistress did right now.
"Your Majesty." Fairy Godmother responded in the same heartbroken voice in which she had made the announcement to the school. Mal just gave her a look before the older woman corrected herself saying "Sorry, Mal." the woman said. Mal hated when people called her by her official title. Sure she had been the Queen of Auradon for four and a half months now but she was still the same old Mal. Something she was still trying to drum into people. "What are you all doing here?" the headmistress asked, as she looked at the large group of teens near her office door before her eyes settled back onto the purple haired, pregnant Queen in front of her.
"You sounded heartbroken when you made the announcement to the school. We came by to make sure you were alright." Mal explained as she walked around Fairy Godmother's desk, stopping next to the older woman. "What's happened?" The teen asked, placing a hand on the headmistress' shoulder as she did so. The action caused Fairy Godmother to look at Mal again and if it was at all possible Mal could swear she saw the older woman's heart break even more then it already was.
The headmistress sighed deeply before locking her gaze onto Mal's. "Oh Mal, I'm not sure how to tell you this..." The woman began to explain before she started crying once more. Mal and her friends shared a confused look before the young Queen turned back to the upset headmistress. "B... Ben, Aud... Audrey and J... Ja... Jane have g... go... gone missing." She managed to stutter out as she attempted to calm down. Almost everyone in the room except the two behind the desk gasped and Fairy Godmother looked up at Mal as she removed her hand from the headmsitress' shoulder. Mal couldn't believe what she had just heard. She kept her face as emotionless as possible but she felt her anger bubbling to the surface and thanks to her pregnancy hormones causing her to have no control over her emotions her eyes started glowing. The teens glowing eyes seemed to bring everyone back to the present as even Fairy Godmother calmed enough to talk to the purple haired girl. Mal didn't bother to listen to the older fairy or even make it appear as though she was. Mal knew who was behind this and they were going to pay for it. Unknown to Mal she had let her anger consume her to the point where she had a purple glow surrounding her.
Mal noticed Fairy Godmother had stood at some point as she spoke. "She's gone too far this time." She told the group, her voice barely containing controlling her anger. Even Fairy Godmother took a step backwards as the teen spoke.
The pregnant teen walked towards the office doors but Evie gently grabbed her hand as she attempted to walk past her. Mal quickly turned to face the blunette. "Mal, don't do this. It's not good for you or the babies right now." Evie tried to reason with the purplette but the young Queen's anger became more prominent on her face.
"Evie, let me go." Mal growled out as calmly as she possibly could. She didn't even care that she very much resembled the Mal she used to pretend to be on the Isle. She would do what she needed to do to get the people she cared about back. Thankfully, for Mal, Evie quickly released her hold on the purplette looking rather scared. The rest of the group moved out of the angry teens way as she walked towards the door, which swung open as she neared it.
Evie, Jay, Carlos, Freddie, Holly and Diego couldn't believe the look they had just seen on Mal's face. It was like they were looking at a younger version of Maleficent and it honestly scared them. Evie was about to follow her best friend when Jay spoke up. "I can't believe you just let her go." He said to the blunette, regretting it immediately.
The blunette gave him an incredulous look. "Did you wanna stop her!?" Evie practically shouted at the long haired ex thief. Jay had the descency to look a little ashamed of himself. They all knew there was only two people who stood a chance of snapping Mal out of that kind of mood and they were Ben and Belle. "We need to follow her and make sure she is alright." Evie said. She quickly left the office and headed outside, the rest of the group including Fairy Godmother following her. As they all exited the building and walked out into the courtyard they saw Mal in the distance. But before they could try and catch up to her she disappeared in a cloud of purple smoke.
"Where the hell did she go!?" Lonnie exclaimed to the group.
Sighing Evie turned to face the rest of the group. "It looked like she was heading to the castle but I can't be sure." She stated.
"Then the castle is where we start." Fairy Godmother stated before summoning her wand.
Mal appeared in the lobby of her home and looked around. Nothing looked out of the ordinary but she could feel the magic in the air and it wasn't hers. If she was being honest it surprised and astonished her that her Maleficent hadn't placed a protective barrier around the building. Clearly the evil fairy hadn't been expecting Mal this soon. Taking a deep, anger filled breath Mal turned and headed for the room she knew Maleficent would be in, the room that would make the evil fairy feel like she ruled Auradon. The throne room.
Storming off in the direction of the throne room Mal reached it in no time, throwing the doors open with her magic before walking inside. The sight she was met with made her blood run cold. Sat on Ben's throne was Maleficent and as Mal suspected she wasn't alone. On either side of Maleficent was the Evil Queen and Jafar who was holding a scared looking Audrey, on the other side of Jafar was Cruella who was holding Jane far too tightly in an attempt to keep her still and the other side of the Evil Queen was Gaston holding a terrified looking Belle. Mal knew just by looking at the smug look on Gaston's face what Maleficent had offered him as payment for his help... Belle. In the left hand corner of the room was an unconscious Adam locked in a cage and in the right hand corner of the room was another cage holding Ben, who was trying to fight his way out of the cage. As she looked at her husband she noticed the cuts on his face she realized he must have tried to fight back when Maleficent turned up and took him, Jane and Audrey but she could also tell the cuts were magic and easily healed.
It was then Mal noticed movement out of the corner of her eye. Turning her head she saw Maleficent walking towards her. Instinctively Mal took a step backwards, causing the evil fairy to laugh. Well more like cackle. Seeing the smug look on Maleficent's face brought Mals' anger back tenfold, which was only made worse when Maleficent decided to speak. "Oh Mal, I would calm down if I were you. It's not good for the future evil you're carrying." Ben's growl echoed around the room upon hearing her statement. As Mal opened her mouth to respond she was stopped by a collection of gasps coming from behind her.
Turning as fast as she could Mal noticed the rest of her family/friends and Fairy Godmother had entered the room and was stood behind her. Fairy Godmother's eyes were locked onto Jane and tears had gathered in her eyes once more, Carlos was switching between looking at Jane and glaring at his mother, Jay was flitting between glaring murderously at his father and glacing reassuringly at Audrey. Evie, Diego, Freddie and Holly were glaring at the villains in the room while Doug, Lonnie, Chad, Ellie, Kristin and Aaron looked nervous to be in the same room as this amount of villains. "Aww look, she even brought back up." Maleficent teased causing Mal to turn and face her again.
"I don't need back up. Let's finish this." Mal stated, letting her anger get the better of her. It was then she noticed the purple glow she had around her, and it only seemed to be getting brighter.
"Mal, no!" She heard multiple people shout the loudest ones being Evie, Belle, Ben, Fairy Godmother and Adam, who had at some point regained consciousness. Mal noticed her father's eyes were flitting between her, Ben and Belle. While she had been looking at her father however she had failed to notice Maleficent had lit her hands on fire, until she saw a flash on green coming in her direction. Knowing she didn't have enough time to react she covered her ever growing stomach with her arms in an attempt to protect the twins but hadn't counted on the deep blue force field emitting from her stomach, rebounding Maleficent's fire ball back towards her.
Maleficent snapped out of her shock rather quickly and was back to wearing her signature evil smirk as the force field disappeared. It was then she waved her sceptre in Mal's direction, knocking her to the floor and sending her to the other side of the room, where she hit her head against the wall. She didn't hit her head hard enough to knock her out but it certainly made her a little light headed. It was then Belle's voice was heard. "No please! Leave her alone." Belle exclaimed, gaining the Mistress of all Evil's attention briefly before she turned back to look at Mal.
"Oh Mal, I raised you to be strong and evil. Now look at you. You have the Queen of Goodness defending you." Maleficent taunted Mal. The pregnant purple haired teen quickly stood, shaking off her dizziness, and moved towards the evil fairy. She lit her hands on fire as she did so, immediately noticing the fire balls were a mix of purple and blue, and she still had a bright purple glow surrounding her. Once Mal was stood in front of Maleficent again she quickly threw two fire balls at the older, evil fairy effectively knocking her to the floor.
Keeping an eye on Maleficent, the pregnant teen noticed the group behind her trying to edge closer. Mal extended her hand towards them, unknowingly placing a protective barrier in front of them. She then turned back to Maleficent and watched as she got up off the floor. But she wasn't expecting what happened next. She watched as Maleficent motioned Cruella, Jafar and Gaston over, dragging a terrified looking Jane, Audrey and Belle with them. None of them stopping until they were either side of Maleficent. "You can pick one to save. Who will it be?" The evil fairy asked the pregnant teen. Mal couldn't believe she had to pick between the two of the three girls who were like a sisters to her and her mother. How on earth could she chose between them!? She knew the decision she had to make. The purple haired girl locked eyes with Jane, Belle and Audrey, silently praying they understood what she was about to do.
Slowly she took a deep breath before looking at Maleficent once more. Speaking barely louder then a whisper Mal said, "Audrey."
Author's Note: So you all probably hate me for ending the chapter there but it was the best place I could find to split the chapter. I hope you like this chapter. Please review and let me know what you think x
