*Author's Note*
Hey all, it's April 4th in HK and SG and also a very special day for me so I was thinking a little gift from little me to you all.
I have somthing very serious to ask you guys, a guest review triggered me to wonder if my story, particularly Chapter 9, was unfit for young readers? Please let me know if there is any vulgar or cursed words not suitable for T ratings. Cause of my upbringing, I don't say many vulgar words in my daily life. And Thank you to my beta (legend fanatic) for helping me with my story.
Disney's Descendants : Good is the New Bad
Disclaimer: I own nothing at all, well, except my OC.
Spoilers: Well, the movie and a little of the prequel novel.
LeGume twins' Dormitory – Monday after School
"What do you guys want now?" Gaston Jr rolled his eyes and grumbled when he opened the door to Jay and Carlos.
"Well, hello to you too," Jay said, sarcastically.
Jay and Carlos walked into the room to where Gaston the Third was laying on his bed with his leg still in a cast, but the bandage on his arm have been removed.
"How are your arm and leg?" Carlos asked.
"Doc said my hand only had a sprint, so it's fine now, but I broke my tibia in my right leg, so I will still need to be in a cast for at least another few weeks."
"Well, thanks to your so call King, we have to be stuck in this freaking room for weeks." Gaston Jr crossed his arms over his chest and complained. "It's so boring in here. Plus you have all these stupid rules about being good. What a buzzkill!"
Since Gaston the Third was not willing to stay at the infirmary, Fairy Godmother has given permission Gaston Jr to missed lessons so he could take care of his younger brother.
"Hey! You little pathetic buffoon!" Jay snapped with his finger pointed at the older LeGume twin. "The rules are there to keep us safe. Some of them may be a little overboard, but they are reasonable, not senseless."
"Jay's right, guys!" Carlos added. "There may be no rules on the island but do you really feel free like you can do anything there without the fear of getting one of your parents' disappointment speech or being called as a disappointing child that they wish they never had?" The LeGume twins stared at him quietly with an emotionless expression. "My point exactly."
"We are lucky that we have gotten a chance to prove that we are not our parents or being labelled at whose kid. We are given a choice to make our own label here, and all you two brats can think of is having your so call 'fun'? You might as well just pack your bags and run back to the island to you father if you feel that Auradon is not right for you."
With that, Jay turned around and walked out of the room with Carlos closed behind.
The LeGume twins just remained still in their positions as they watched the two former villain kids walked out of the room with Carlos closing the door behind them. They continued to stare at the closed door for a few minutes before turning to each other.
"He's right, you know?" Gaston the Third spoke up.
"Whatever." Gaston Jr just rolled his eyes before turning around to lay down on his bed.
That night, Jay and Carlos's words were being run on repeat in their mind and for the first time ever, they started to re-think what they want their label to be. Do they really want to be labelled as their father's sons or be something more?
"Hey, guys." Heres opened the door and entered the room with Ylma behind her.
The LeGume twins were still in the same positions since that morning when Jay and Carlos came over to check up on them.
After Heres had put down her bag on the chair, she realised the LeGume twins did not move an inch, so she walked towards the foot of Gaston Jr's bed and waved her hand in front of his face.
"Dude?"
Heres quirked an eyebrow and tilted her head towards Ylma who in returned shrugged her shoulders. Heres turned back to Gaston Jr and smirked.
"Ouch!" Gaston Jr jumped off the bed in shock with Gaston the Third jumping a little from his bed, taken by surprise from his elder brother's sudden scream.
"Heres! What was that for?" Gaston Jr demanded when he saw Heres standing at the foot of his bed with her left hand on her hip. Looking closer, he saw a needle in her right hand, and a smirked being painted onto her face. "And did you seriously carry a needle around everywhere you go?"
Behind her, Ylma was giggling with her hands covering her mouth to hold back her laughter.
"Serves you right for daydreaming like a spoilt and ungrateful brat." Heres snorted before keeping the needle that she used to poke his toe. "And yes, I do."
"Alright, we need to talk about what happened on Saturday," Heres announced as she turned around on her heel to the table.
"We are at the right location. I am sure of it." Ylma reassured.
"I know, Ylma. We saw Ursula's Necklace, the box of Captain Hook's hooks and the pandora's box there. That must be the correct location but why can't we find it there."
"Heres, we have looked around the room for twelve hours straight, and that was only twenty feet by twenty feet room, and there was a total of four of us. You seriously think that with that amount of time, we will not be able to locate the sceptre? That's preposterous." Gaston the Third snorted and rolled his eyes at the black-haired girl.
"And you seriously think that the sceptre will be found that easily? This is Maleficent's sceptre we are talking about, for god's sake. Are you that naïve to think that the sceptre will be just sitting in the middle of the room waiting for you to just stroll right in and grab it?" Heres expressed with anger and annoyance laced in her voice.
Gaston the Third was about to snap at the black-haired girl when Gaston Jr patted his shoulder and shook his head at him. Gaston the Third then closed his half-opened mouth.
Gaston Jr eyed his younger brother to ensure he has calmed down before turning to the black-haired girl, "Alright, what do you plan to do next?"
"Ylma." Ylma looked up from the map of Auradon Prep to her best friend. "Did Fairy Godmother say anything else as to how to find the sceptre?"
"Not that I could recall off." Ylma shook her head.
Gaston the Third slammed the table and stood up, "That's enough! She is lying. Fairy Godmother will never have told her the location of the sceptre."
"Gaston." Gaston Jr hissed under his breath.
Heres eyed the younger LeGume twin for a few seconds before turning to her best friend, "Ylma. Tell them what really happened at Fairy Godmother's office?"
Ylma nodded her head.
~~ Flashback ~~
Auradon Prep's Headmistress' Office - Thursday Afternoon
"Is something wrong, dear one?" Fairy Godmother asked after noticing that Ylma was still in the room.
Ylma bit her lower lips and nodded her head hesitantly.
Fairy Godmother frowned when she saw Ylma's facial expression and reaction, worried that the poor girl in front of her was bullied or something bad has happened to her.
"Dear Ylma, you can tell me anything. I will do everything I can to help you."
Ylma looked at Fairy Godmother innocently before reaching into her pocket to grab a small book and placed it in front of Fairy Godmother.
"What's this, my dear?" Fairy Godmother asked as she flipped opened the cover of the book to some writing.
"It's my dad's spell book. I was hoping that you could help me figure out who this belongs to."
"Did your mother gave it to you?"
"I found it laying around the house one day. I have always been curious about magic. My mother only told me that my father was a wizard from a faraway land…" Ylma quickly held her breath when she saw Fairy Godmother flipping to the third page of the book.
Slowly a gas was being realised from the spell book without Fairy Godmother noticing it as the gas was of a very light blue colour which was also the colour of the spell book. Fairy Godmother's expression started turned blank and looked up to Ylma.
"Fairy Godmother?" Ylma voiced in concerned.
"Yes, master." Fairy Godmother's voice becomes husky and muscular.
The light blue gas actually a hypnotising gas that Heres made with the liquid that she took from her father's office. It will hypnotise the subject depending on the amount of dose given with no trace being left behind, and the subject will be prone to do or say whatever he or she was requested to by the person who spelt them.
"Do you know where is Maleficent's sceptre?" Ylma asked carefully.
"Yes."
"Where is it?"
"In a tower of Auradon Prep."
"Which tower?" Fairy Godmother just stared at her blankly. "Mark the location of the tower where Maleficent's sceptre is kept on this map." Ylma rephrased her question. She quickly moved the books on the desk aside to reveal a Map of U.S.A that Fairy Godmother used as a desk map.
Fairy Godmother moved her eyes down slowly, and after looking at the map stiffly for a few second, she slowly raised her hand and pointed at one of the towers at the far corner of Auradon Prep.
Ylma bent down to examine the map before moving the books on the desk back to their original position.
Just as she was about to ask more questions, Fairy Godmother's facial expression softened as she blinked a few times. Ylma knew that her time is up, so she quickly stepped a few feet back to where she was standing before.
"Fairy Godmother? Are you ok?" Ylma asked, innocently. "Is there something wrong with the spell book?"
Fairy Godmother shook her head few times before looking up to Ylma with a warm smile, "I'm fine, my dear. I must have overworked myself." Fairy Godmother picked up the blue book in front of her and showed her a few blank pages. "Some of the pages are missing or just blank. This spell book seems to be protected by a spell. Will it be fine if I keep this book for a few days so I can help you identify your father's identity?"
"Really? You would help me do that?" Ylma's eyes lit up in excitement.
Fairy Godmother chuckled softly, "It's my pleasure, my dear one."
Ylma bent down to wrap her arms around Fairy Godmother to give her a hug.
"Thank you so much, Fairy Godmother."
"You're welcome, Ylma." Fairy Godmother smiled and patted her shoulder to calm her down.
Ylma let the older woman go before smiling shyly at Fairy Godmother. She slowly turned around and headed for the door. She walked slowly down the hallway until she was distanced from Fairy Godmother's office before she started to pick up her pace and ran towards the LeGume's twins' dormitory.
~~ Flashback Ends~~
"…And I was the one who created the hypnotising with my dad's spell book which he gave to me before we left the island." Heres waved a black leather cover book with a symbol of Dr Facilier's symbol on it.
"Heres, will you be able to create another dose of the gas so we can get more information."
"I only managed to find ingredients for creating a small dose of the gas."
Heres, Ylma and the LeGume twins shared a look, and all let out a heavy breath at the same time.
This is not looking good for them.
Auradon Prep – Tuesday Afternoon
"Alright, class. Flip your book to page 82 for today's lesson. The adventures of Jim Hawins." Mr Hansmer announced after writing the chapter title on the blackboard.
"Jim Hawins was one of the luckiest men. It was not because of what he had but because of what he had discovered. He has discovered the Portal to a whole new race, it was an experience no one else has had before. He…."
"Portal?" Heres repeated as she looked down to start read through the chapter to know more about the 'Portal'.
Heres widened her eyes in shock as she read on about Jim Hawkins' adventures.
Heres turned to her best friend sitting on her right and gave her a look who in returned smiled and nodded her head.
Behind them, Mal caught the interactions between Heres and Ylma. Mal turned and shared a look with Evie.
"Something is wrong," Mal whispered.
"I agree. We need to talk to the guys, stat." Evie nodded in reply as she took out her phone to text their surrogate brothers.
Later that afternoon, Ylma had Chemistry with Gavin and Liv. Since Gaston the Third have not recovered from his injury, Mr Delay has temporarily assigned Liv to work with Gavin and Ylma until Gaston the Third returned back to class.
"Ylma?"
The brown-haired girl, wearing a dark pink short-sleeve half buttoned-up shirt with a white tank top underneath and black leather skirt turned to find her blonde partner looking at her, with a slight pink on his cheeks.
"Err, will you be going to the annual tea party this Sunday?" Ylma tilted her head and looked at him blankly. "You know the annual tea party that my mum and Uncle Tarrant host. Liv and I will be helping out. You and your friends should come."
"Annual tea party?" Ylma repeated. Gavin and Liv, who just went to return their lab equipment, nodded. "A party just for drinking tea? Don't that sound kind of meaningless?"
"Oh, course not." Liv gave Gavin a knowing look before turning her eyes back to the brown-haired girl. "Every year, Aunt Alice and my dad will select a date to plan an annual tea party where they invite everyone from all over the world to come together and have some tea." She paused and rolled her eyes. "Huh. Comes to think about it, this is kind of meaningless…"
"Liv. The annual tea party is not a party to have some tea." Gavin interrupted. "My mum told me that everyone in the world has a purpose and also their responsibilities to attend to that sometimes we tend to forget that we need to take a break and have some tea and also meet up with friends. There will not be a better excuse to have a break and catch up with your friends when you know that you will be the only one working while everyone will be having fun?"
"Woah, I never expect that the tea party we have every year was so important. That explains why my dad always insist that I need to wear the mini hat he made me." Subconsciously, Liv raised her hand to touch the tiny top hat on her head. "But I still prefer the hats I made, my hats had my personality in it."
Ylma giggled while Gavin just smiled and shook his head at his best friend slash surrogate sister.
"So what do you say, Ylma? Please come. I will even make a hat just for you." Liv put her hands together and pouted.
"I would love to. Let me inform the others about this later." Ylma smiled shyly and nodded.
"Yes!" Liv cheered and raised her right hand to high-five Gavin, causing Mr Delay to clear his throat while giving them warning stares. Liv sticks out her tongue mischievously while Ylma and Gavin chuckled softly before they returned back to their experiment.
Just to let u guys know, I'll be returning to Singapore on Wednesday.
No spoilers for next chapter, most likely will be posted next week.
Please read and tell me what you think :)
~ xoxo, Bella