"So what happened between you and Paul McCartney?" Mulan asked when Merida was about to get some coffee.
Merida turned to her senior "Why is he Paul McCartney?"
"You rather I call him Donnie Darko?" Mulan took a plate and got some pancakes "And besides he's cute"
The Scot ignored the Chinese girl's comment "So what did you do to Kuzco last night?"
"Oh he begged me not to use his belt on him and I pitied him" Mulan placed maple syrup on her pancakes "So I used my belt instead"
"Well isn't that nice of you" Merida was about to leave.
"Hey you didn't tell me what happened between the two of you!" Mulan held her arm "Did you know that Es nearly chopped my head last night when I got back to the dorm?"
"Why did you tie her to the bed in the first place?" Merida retorted. "I just told you to calm her down"
"I thought Phoebus drugged her!" Mulan then thought for a moment "Then again that would endanger his child so maybe he didn't"
Merida detached herself from Mulan "Look I just apologized to him"
"Really according to Shang he heard a screaming match" Mulan then added "And a window broke"
"Ok so I might have tossed something off the window" Merida looked away.
Mulan shook her head "You never throw out a guy's stuff off the window, especially if its electronics, trust me I learned from experience"
"How did you know?" Merida asked softly.
Mulan nearly dropped the plate she was holding "Are you sure it isn't your time of the month"
The redhead turned her back on Mulan "It came yesterday . . ."
/
"She threw your laptop off the window?" Taran slowly clapped his hands "What did you next?"
"Would you believe me if I said I pulled her hair dragged her downstairs and dipped her hand in boiling water?" Arthur replied.
Taran's eyes widened "You did what!?" then he thought better "You wouldn't even do that to Madam Mim at gunpoint"
"True" they were currently outside the diner waiting for Eilonwy and Tiana since the latter was going to class anyway.
"So . . . what did you do yell 'out' like she was some dog who peed on the rug or something" Taran asked.
"In a sense that was a sexist comment" Arthur checked his watch "No but I did break something, I don't remember anymore"
"You really have rotten luck with women" Taran nodded "That's why I stick to one girl"
"Because she's the only one willing to stick to you" the boys then saw Elsa come out the diner quite in a hurry.
While watching her leave Taran asked "I don't care if she's hot, that girl is not only creepy she's just . . ."
"What's taking the girls so long" Arthur was about to enter the restaurant when Eilonwy came out with Tiana "Oh there you are"
Eilonwy smiled "Sorry we took so long"
"Well" Taran stretched "I don't feel like going to Lady Tremaine's class anyway"
Arthur looked at his friend "Aren't you failing her class?"
"I know" Taran sighed "You know what I'm thinking of shifting"
Arthur raised a brow.
Taran nodded "Yeah I really don't think engineering is for me"
"You're already three years into it" Arthur crossed his arms "Don't tell me you're going back to PE?"
The red head stretched his arms "Who even told me to shift in the first place? I was actually enjoying my education then!"
"Well you were jealous of a certain boy" Eilonwy smirked.
Tiana looked at Arthur "Did anything happen with you guys?"
The blond face-palmed "She didn't mean me"
"What was his name again?" Eilonwy tapped her chin "Was it Vasco . . . Magellan . . . Columbus . . . it definitely was Columbus"
"Christopher, Christopher Robin" Arthur yawned "Eilonwy thought him being an engineer was interesting so Taran decided that he should be more interesting"
Taran was already far away from the group "Alright kids let's all move along!"
"Robin?" Tiana rubbed her chin.
"He's Arthur's doppelganger" Eilonwy pointed "You're even in the same department"
"One: if he is my doppelganger how am I still alive?" Arthur counted with his fingers "Two: Engineering and Architecture had been separated since Ratcliffe got that fight with Miss M over that expo during freshman year"
Eilonwy shrugged "Well, you guys confused me and Penny"
Arthur winced at the name "Yeah . . . shouldn't you be chasing your boyfriend" he pointed at what he thought was Taran "We're taking a cab"
"Ok" the girl then happily skipped towards wherever Taran went.
Tiana turned to Arthur "Hey can we talk"
/
Merida had only entered the lobby when Elsa had rushed towards her "Anna was discharged!" the so called ice-queen said in total panic.
It took a moment for the Scot to reply "Right now?"
"This morning" Elsa shook her "When I went out for breakfast with Miss Briggs"
"Are you saying . . ." Merida did not want to think of the worse.
"Hans took off with her!" Elsa let go of Merida "How could I have been so stupid!?"
"Look it's not your fault" Merida tried to calm Elsa down "Hans is just trying to manipulate your sister to rebellion" she paused "Ok that is not comforting"
"Even before she met Hans she was reckless" Elsa massaged her temples "I shouldn't have pushed her away . . ."
Merida led the woman to sit down in one of the benches outside the hospital "You know, Tiana's been saying you've been quite . . . frantic on Hans"
"Can you call her?" Elsa said all of a sudden.
"Excuse me?" Merida asked.
The blonde sighed "Can you please try calling Anna"
/
Jane couldn't concentrate on eating her Tarte au Citron. She was currently having lunch with Esmeralda and Aurora in a pastry shop in the city, Mulan couldn't join them because she had Psychology class.
"I am not naming my child Ragnarok!" Esmeralda nearly tossed her mango cake at Aurora.
Aurora seemed offended "It's not Ragnarok, its Ragnvaldr"
"How do you even spell that?" Esmeralda raised her hands "I might as well name him Jose"
"Fine I've got another one . . ." Aurora brought out her phone to see her list of baby names "How bout . . . Tyyne or Yocheved or this one my absolute favorite Urh"
"What you can't pronounce the last one" Esmeralda deadpanned.
"No it's Urh" Aurora replied "Spelled U-R-H"
"I think I'll make a better sound giving birth than that name" the gypsy shook her head.
Aurora pouted "Can't you see I'm being positive here?"
"No you're being annoying" Esmeralda took her fork "Now let me eat in peace"
"Jane you're being awfully quiet over there" Aurora flipped her hair "Did you hit it off with . . . what was his name again?"
That was when Tarzan passed by their table, Jane quickly woke up from her reverie and straightened "Um hey . . .Aurora . . ." the guy waved before going to wherever he was going.
Aurora looked at Es "OK why did he say hi to me?"
"Remember that phase where you tried to sleep with all the team captains" Esmeralda smiled.
Jane looked at her friend "Exactly how many team captains did you sleep with?"
"I DID NOT SLEEP WITH ALL OF THEM!" Aurora yelled and when a couple of people looked at her she yelled "Look at something else" and they all followed in suit.
"Well you hit on the captains of the swim team, basketball team, bicycle team heck you even hit on the chess team!" Esmeralda laughed in memory.
Jane moved her chair away from Aurora "You knew I liked Tarzan and you didn't tell me you had a fling with him"
Aurora banged her head in the table "I am considering the monastery right now"
Esmeralda patted her head "Don't worry you only slept with three of the twelve"
"Wait isn't Phoebus a captain as well?" Jane asked.
Esmeralda grit her teeth "He was among the nine who maintained their purity"
/
"So what did you wanna ask?" Arthur asked when they entered the campus.
"Do you really not remember . . . well the Vinterdotter's?" she asked.
Arthur scratched his head "Not much, I only knew Anna through Merida"
"How 'bout Elsa?" she asked.
"I only see her in campus and hear the occasional story where she made a freshman student cry" he shrugged "Well if that were true"
Tiana tapped her chin "How do you know Hans then?"
In here for a second she thought she saw his eyes shift, she might be seeing things or it might be something else "We live in the same dorm, and he orders us around when he feels like it" he checked his watch "Well I better get going . . ." he was about to leave.
"Wait, Merida told me you and Jane found something in Hans room" Tiana called.
Arthur sighed "Let her tell you, it was that thing that got me tied up to a chair and a broken laptop" he then jogged towards the main building.
Tiana turned around and saw Eilonwy "Ok, tell me the story"
/
Merida had been calling Anna's mobile for almost half an hour only to get nothing. She placed her phone back in her pocket "I think Hans told her to turned off her phone"
Elsa leaned back against her chair "You wanna know why I don't like Hans right?"
Merida nodded.
She sighed "Well all of this is going to get blown out in the papers anyway" she closed her eyes "You know that my father was a candidate for Prime Minister in our country, he was a leading one in fact"
"Okay" Merida nodded.
"But sadly he died in a plane crash along with my mother after he visited his friend in London" Elsa continued "A lot of buzz came out that the crash was set up by his competitors in the election"
"Was it?" Merida asked.
"Maybe, maybe it wasn't" Elsa still had her eyes closed "The media asked me that question to and would you think a twelve year old would understand something as complicated as politics"
"I don't even understand it" the Scot wouldn't even understand her mother.
Elsa continued "So since both my parents were only children we were taken by my father's friend in London, his name was Uther Pendragon"
Merida stood up "Wait Pendragon?"
"Sir Uther was the head of a large automobile manufacturer and he was also a knight, my father and he met in New York after they both got lost" Elsa nodded. "And he had a son named Arthur"
/
"Hey, hey poncho man!" Aurora waved her hands.
Kuzco spun around "Oh please it's the trying hard slash drama queen slash trying to be queen but no one wants to be ruled by her slash . . ."
"Can't you think of a shorter nickname?" Esmeralda asked.
Kuzco snapped his fingers "Slash B-I-T-C-H" he shook his head as he spelled.
"Like you're even better" Aurora flipped her hair.
The Incan held his hips "Oh is that the voice of a washed up hoar? OOOh damn so what's the secret? What did you drop in Phillip's drink? Is it poison? Frog spit? Dynamite? Cocaine?"
Aurora huffed "Wow . . . like like . . ." she bit her lip "Would you shut up!"
"Huh I didn't even get started yet" he snapped his fingers again "You're lucky I haven't spread any short butt holes for payback on what you did to me yesterday"
Jane blinked "Short butt holes?"
Esmeralda shrugged "His term for tall tales"
"Look" Aurora raised her hands "We're just here to apologize for that whole we spanked you with a belt thing"
"DON'T FORGET TYING ME UP TO A CHAIR!" Kuzco raised his hands "And it was Hua Mulan who did the spanking!"
"Well we really apologize for that" Esmeralda said in a calm voice.
"Why did you even do that!?" Kuzco glared.
"Merida found a picture of Anna as a child and then Nancy Drew there started compiling conspiracy theories" Esmeralda waved her hand "Though surprisingly one of them turned out to be true"
Aurora stuck out her tongue "Well I was right wasn't I?"
"Look Kuzco" Jane sighed "The real reason why we called was to ask you something"
Kuzco waved his hands "No . . . No I'm not gonna do some crazy stint you all psychos are thinking, heck you're all probably gonna go Carrie on me and explode the entire dorm"
"Well I do not want my child to be fatherless" Esmeralda thought for a moment "Yet"
"Girls would you mind leaving me alone with him, and no I'm not gonna flirt!" Jane then made the two girls go away leaving only Kuzco and her on the hall.
The Incan cocked his head "So . . . what can the fabulous me do for you" he looked at the girl up and down "A new makeover is highly recommended I'll even throw a ten percent discount on your make-up alone"
"Wait what . . ." Jane shook her head "Look I don't care what I look like!"
"Really?" Kuzco circled around her "You're hair is a total disaster the pony tail you use is so seventies and look at your face" he grabbed her cheeks "You have really chubby cheeks" he let go and wiped his hand on a handkerchief "Even cave women wear better clothes than you" he rubbed his chin "Hmm . . . and word on the parlor room . . ."
"There is no parlor room . . ." Jane rolled her eyes.
"Is that you like ape guy . . . who unfortunately is my cousin" Kuzco shivered "But just because you like a guy like him doesn't mean you have to look like a wild animal yourself"
Jane stomped her foot "Look what I'm gonna ask has nothing to do with Tarzan okay?" she huffed "It's about Hans"
"Oh now that is a totally different topic" Kuzco raised his finger "You need to be first Scandinavian, blonde, has a lot of power and a wicked behind" Kuzco again looked at Jane "Well you only classify the last one"
"Grrrrrrr" Jane was five seconds to choking Kuzco.
/
"Wait Anna and Elsa used to live with Arthur?" Tiana nearly shouted it out until Eilonwy threw a glass of water at her "Oh . . . sorry"
The blonde shrugged it off like it was nothing "Yes, for around eight months the Vinterdotter sisters had stayed with the Pendragons in their London manor"
"Okay it explains Elsa . . . but why didn't Anna and Arthur remember . . ." Tiana played with her hands "Each other . . . and what does Hans have to do with this?" she then added as an afterthought "And how do you know all of this?"
"Me, Taran and Arthur have been friends for most of our lives" Eilonwy smiled "But it's only me who knows each of the boys secrets"
The Louisianan blinked "Okay continue . . ."
"So after eight months since the girls moved in something happened in the manor, while everyone was asleep" Eilonwy leaned over "Both Uther Pendragon and his wife were killed"
Tiana gasped "You mean . . ."
"Yes . . ." Eilonwy leaned back "Unlike Anna and Elsa's father, the Pendragons were slain"
The darker woman's eyes widened "So . . . they were killed"
Eilonwy nodded "Someone entered their house and first shot Sir Uther and left his body in front of the manor, his wife on the other hand . . ." she looked down.
"What they slit her throat?" Tiana was leaning close.
"They killed Lady Pendragon in front of Arthur" Eilonwy had a sad look on her face "It was a miracle he managed to get the two girls out of the house"
/
Professor Merlin was just an ordinary teacher. He had been teaching at Disney for over thirty years and was therefore quite respected in the faculty and was a member of the board. Being a history professor made him well-versed in various subjects since history pretty much discussed the origin of everything.
He was also known to be very fond of his students and in return they adore him as well. It was his parental and whimsical presence that remained with them. They usually called him Gandalf due to his long beard white beard, though in honesty Merlin actually wanted to be a Night Walker (yes he is quite aware that is from a totally different franchise).
Though every once in a while, there will come a time where the professor will find a student where he describes as unique in his class. You could call it favoritism but Merlin never had favorites, whenever he sees a student he likes he'll just give him harder projects and paper work than most of the class. And if they really were gifted students they wouldn't even think much of it.
For this term the professor has had his eye on a certain student, despite only taking his class as an elective he seemed to want to learn from his classes as though it were a major one. Arthur Pendragon looked like one of those schoolboys from the 19th century. You know the very eager ones, the ones who despite what you throw up at them they'll not only openly catch them they'll do it with class and throw it back at you and make it something you've never seen.
Yes, Arthur was his favorite student indeed.
After the term the professor was surprised when Arthur suddenly asked him if he wanted him to treat him for lunch. When Merlin asked why the boy just shrugged:
"At least make one rumor between us true" he said with a cheeky smile.
And pretty much after that Merlin had been like a father to him, giving him advice and guidance whenever he felt the need to do it. It was also here that Arthur discovered that the professor was very fond of getting himself drunk whenever he was done with his classes. A proof of this was that Merlin had the tendency to call Arthur in the middle of the night just to ramble 'old aged wisdom' (turns out he does this to most of his 'favorite' students).
So when Merlin saw Arthur pretty much sleepwalking towards his class the teacher grabbed the back of his shirt and started dragging his former student to the fountain and dumped Arthur's head into the water.
"Now Arthur" Merlin started "I don't think I need to bring up our former debate on the importance of sleep"
The boy's response was not understood seeing as his head was currently in water.
"Its basic psychology young boy" Merlin sat on the edge of the fountain "Sleep rejuvenates your brain cells, and also makes sure you're not of those zombies Rick Grimes has to kill"
Arthur lifted his head from the fountain his blond hair now soaking wet and on his face "Sir a simple throwing of a water bottle would suffice"
"Well I like this method better" Merlin patted his student's back "And see you're awake"
"But I'll be late" Arthur stood up "I'm not sure Miss Grimhilde would allow me to enter class wetting her floor"
Merlin just rubbed his long beard "Well in all honesty she's just bitter that she's still single, she's already 49"
Arthur removed his bangs from his eyes "Good to know sir, now may I please have a towel?"
"Why that I can bring to you" Merlin the snapped his fingers "Oh, Miss Pelagius, Yes young lady I'm calling you"
That was when a quite astonishing Greek beauty approached them she was wearing a white dress that flattered her body, her hair was shiny and nicely curled, she had very striking eyes and nice lips. Though the only important fact right now was that she was carrying towels.
"I'm quite sorry to be disturbing you" Merlin started "But I just need a couple of the towels you're carrying, I'm sure the football team won't mind"
Megara then shifted her gaze to Arthur "Did you dump Pendragon into the fountain?"
"Oh you know each other?" Merlin rubbed his beard "But then again you were always quite popular"
"He tutored my boyfriend in German class" Megara then grabbed one of the towels she was holding and offered it to Arthur.
Arthur took the towel "Thanks"
"So why did the prof do that?" she asked while the boy wiped himself.
"He needed a wakeup call" Merlin smiled "Now go on run along"
Megara raised a brow before looking back at Arthur "No wonder they call you guys Yoda and Luke" she smirked before leaving the two.
Merlin then turned to his student "You guys dated didn't you?"
"For the love of" Arthur placed the towel on his head "No"
"So, what made you stay up last night?" Merlin asked.
"A woman" at once Arthur regretted what he said.
Merlin raised a brow "Well . . . seeing as you are an adult that is quite normal, so who was the woman"
Before he could stop himself Arthur already spoke "Merida McCullough" he face-palmed.
At this the professor nearly fell into the fountain out of shock "You . . . Miss McCullough? I thought she was a feminist?!"
"Oh to the extremes sir" Arthur slapped himself again "OK sir I did not sleep with her"
"Ok maybe I am overreacting a little bit" Merlin stood up from the fountain "As I said the both of you are mature adults, but I must remind you that you still have responsibilities to enter your morning classes with a sound mind and . . . well body" he then added "Where is Miss McCullough anyway? Because if you did . . ."
"She is fine she is fine" Arthur knew that woman was going to kill him again if the Professor even spills out a casual comment about their relationship "For the last time sir I did not engage in sexual activities with her, we only had an argument in my room and she threw my laptop out the window"
Merlin nodded "Well then, you shall expect a call from me at around 3 am" he then was about to leave.
"Sir at least give a promissory note for being late!" Arthur called out. The boy then sighed and decided to just skip Miss Grimhilde's class and get back to his dorm to change. As soon as he turned he saw . . .
"Merida!?" he almost screeched.
The red head had her arms crossed "Why?"
At this his face flushed "Look if you're talking about professor Merlin he's known for drinking bourbon instead of coffee"
Merida blinked "What are you talking about?"
"Wait you didn't" he pointed at where the professor went then faced her again "Look I'm sorry I got mad at you last night then"
"This isn't about . . ." Merida then paused "Look Elsa told me"
"Told you what?" Arthur asked.
"You don't need to lie" Merida sighed "I know what happened to your parents and why you've been trying to kill Hans"
/
A/N: Incredibly late chapter I must say, and apologies to those affected parties will be given.
Sorry if my grammar may seem off and lazy, but I don't have a beta and when I read and write I tend to skip words.
Icy: So there one mystery down, two more added.