(I LIVE! Sorry, writer's block is a pain.)
Chapter 6 - I'm Wishing
"Just remember everything I told you." Uma said, as Quinn did Harry's makeup. He already knew plenty about makeup, it would be hard not to learn something when you only have sisters, but she insisted. Dante sat in the background, juggling a small flame between two fingers. He had been growing less and less invested in the VK's grand plan lately.
"If she gets suspicious, compliment her and change the subject." Harry repeated the line he had heard a dozen times now. Uma knew him better than anyone else in her life, but that didn't mean she wasn't going to drill her instructions into his head. The sea witch was one sarcastic comment away from tattooing them on Harry's arm.
"Can't I at least keep my hook in my bag? It doesn't feel natural going without it." The fabulous pirate complained. Dante snickered, tossing the old pirate hook up in the air and catching it, taunting Harry.
"There's no way in Hades you'll be allowed into an Auradonian restaurant if you go full pirate." He laughed, carving his initials into the dorm room wall. "Besides, you're already aggressively Scottish. We don't want to scare the poor girl... that much."
"Is there any other kind of Scottish?" Quinn giggled.
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"Uma, here's your invite to my wedding." Quinn handed the blue haired girl a paper card covered in calligraphy.
"What?"
"I just met the love of my life, Chad Charming!" She sighed and fell onto her bed, knocking over a large pile of invitations. "He's a prince, I'm a princess, we're both drop dead gorgeous. It's meant to be!"
"You can't marry a man you just met." Uma said, writing some musical notes down in her journal. Music had always been her passion, alongside sword fighting. When she was little, she would lock herself in her room and sing every song she knew until Ursula yelled at her to do something productive. "Also, I'm pretty sure it's illegal since you're both 16."
"Age is just a number!" Quinn shouted angrily, tossing a pillow at Uma's head. It knocked the sea witch's hat off, making her drop her pencil.
"Oh my gods I'm so sorry" The princess said, before she was silenced by a pillow to the face. Uma started laughing for the first time since she got to Auradon. Quinn laughed too. The two girls started a full on pillow fight, smacking each other repeatedly until the feathers flew out of their pillows. They collapsed into fits of laughter, Quinn's wedding invitations and Uma's sketchbook littering the floor.
"I always wanted a sister." Quinn said, sitting up and fixing her hair with a heart shaped brush. "Being the center of attention is fun and all, but sometimes you want someone on your own level. A friend who's not a boy."
"My sisters and I didn't get along very well. Freddie was too much like our dad, and Celia was too young to have fun with." Uma picked up her notebook and sighed, turning a few pages back to the beginning. It had been a (late) fifth birthday present, one of the few good presents her parents ever gave her. On the first page was a picture of her with both her sisters, messily taped inside.
"Who is your dad, anyways? I always assumed Ursula just made you out of clay or something." Quinn pressed.
"Dr. Facilier. He and my mom split when Freddie and I were six." Uma shoved her notebook under her pillow, running her fingers through her braids. "Haven't seen him since, he moved to the other side of the island."
"Well, I bet he'll want to see you again when we conquer Auradon!" Quinn wasn't an expert on friendship, but she was pretty sure friends were supposed to cheer each other up when they felt down. "It's pretty much in the bag, right? All we need is the magic wand and then our parents will take care of the rest."
Uma suddenly realized that she didn't know how they were going to get the wand. "You're right, we're already halfway there."
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Harry sat down with Jane, going over the questions Uma fed him earlier. "So, you and your mom must be close." He asked, his foot twitching impatiently under the table. For some reason, Harry was feeling really uncomfortable with this date.
"I mean, I guess. Not as close as Lonnie and her mom, but we spend time together on the weekends." Jane played with her hair nervously, obviously not knowing what to do on a real date. She pretended to look at her menu, acting as if she hadn't eaten at the Electric Umbrella a hundred times before. "So I bet life on the Isle was pretty exciting. No school, no responsibilities..."
"What're you talking about? We had plenty of schools on the Isle." Harry raised an eyebrow. "Serpent Hall and Dragon Prep for high school, and we had an elementary school called Evil Elementary. What has your mom been telling you?"
"It's not my mom, there's a bunch of rumors going around about what the Isle is like." Jane explained, worried that she had offended her date. "People have been saying that it's total chaos, that you guys eat garbage for every meal, and that everyone just steals everything. It's really crazy stuff."
"That's..." Harry paused for a moment. He wanted to be mad that people were spreading rumors about their old lives already, but if he played the sympathy card, Jane would be easier to manipulate. "Mostly true. Things are awful on the Isle, you have to keep an eye out for pickpockets everywhere you go, and there are hyenas and crocodiles all over the place."
"Oh you poor thing!" Jane completely believed him. She took Harry's hands in hers, but her expression was more fascinated than anything else. "Is it true that you guys don't have showers?"
"Yeah. Oh, if only someone could, I don't know, wave a magic wand and poof all the Isle's problems away." Harry looked Jane in the eye, not at all trying to be subtle about this. She seemed to take the hint, but what she said was disappointing.
"My mom keeps her wand locked up all year long, she only takes it out for special occasions." Jane sighed, brushing a strand of hair behind her ear. "She's always complaining about how King Adam and Queen Belle want to stop using magic so much, but she won't even teach me how to do basic spells!"
Harry frowned, and decided to go with his backup plan, which made him feel all kinds of slimy inside. "Could you, maybe, get me a better look at it~?" He flirted, leaning in close as if he was about to kiss the shy girl. Her entire face turned red, and she immediately pulled back.
"I-I-I-I can't! I'm sorry!" Jane buried her face in her hands, obviously scared to get so close to a boy. "The next time my mom takes out her wand is the royal coronation in two weeks, for Ben and his date. Which is probably gonna be Audrey, everyone knows those two are meant for each other."
Harry tuned out what Jane was saying, thinking about how he would explain this to Uma. There was only one way to get the wand now.
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"I have to WHAT?" Uma grabbed one of Quinn's hairbrushes and tossed it at Harry, just barely missing his head. The four VKs were gathered in Uma's room, discussing their plans. Dante seemed reluctant, absent minded-ly plucking at his guitar strings, but the others ignored him.
"The only way to get the wand is to grab it from Fairy Godmother at the coronation." Harry repeated himself, putting his hands up in case Uma got violent. "And the only way to get that close to her is to be Ben's date. So you're gonna have to seduce him."
"Do I look like Quinn to you?" Uma wasn't ugly, she could have fit in among the princesses pretty well if she dressed like one of them, but she took pride in having gotten where she was purely due to her own strength, and not her looks. Flirting, seducing someone? That was Harry's job, it was too degrading for her.
"You're the only one who can do it, squid head." Dante pointed out. "Harry and I are boys, and Quinn would scare Ben off the moment she opened her mouth. Besides, you're a witch, aren't you? Use a love potion on him if you don't want to actually flirt."
Normally, Uma would have slapped anyone who called her a name like "squid head", but Dante had a good point. Ursula had used magic to charm Prince Eric into marrying her, so why couldn't she do the same?
"Alright, I'll do it." She sighed, looking in the mirror. "Ben doesn't know what's coming."
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(Thanks for being so patient, everyone. We're probably going to have a lot of filler chapters after this, while I figure out how to pace this thing. So I'll leave you with a fun fact. Ariana wasn't named after Ariana Grande, I just wanted a name that started with "Ari" and that was the first one that came to mind. Also, there will be a few talking animal students at Auradon Prep. You'll meet them later.)