Chapter Fifteen


A/N: I do not own anything other than my OCs when they come out to play. Everything else belongs to either Disney or the Greek Myths.

*glares at keyboard* seriously? Can we please settle down? I mean I appreciate not battling writer's block but we just posted a chapter the other day! Slow your role will you?

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Mal smiled as she looked around the room. While she wasn't exactly thrilled with the scrolls revealing her secrets to the Auradonians—and making her look cute and adorable—she was happy that most of the AKs seemed to like them.

Okay maybe happy was the wrong word to use. Maybe surprised worked better? Especially since they all seemed to get angry on their behalf, or upset. She had seen the tears when the scrolls talked about Milah or Jacquline.

Oh Gods, if those scrolls talk about what happened to Harry when we were nine…he's probably never going to forgive the Fates for allowing that to be recorded! Mal thought as she gently chewed on her lip in thought.

"Everything okay?"

Mal looked up to see Ben looking at her in slight concern.

"Just thinking. Why?"

"Everyone else is up and about and you were just sitting here. I wanted to make sure you were okay," Ben said with a slight shrug. "Can…can I sit down?"

"You're the future King. You can do whatever you want," Mal shrugged but scooted slightly to allow for some room for Ben to sit next to her.

"Thanks," Ben said as he sat. "Listen Mal, I…I want to know more. About the Isle I mean. I feel terrible that you all have to deal with that—."

Mal scoffed. "You'd be the only one Beastie Jr. Otherwise, why has no one checked in on the Isle before now. You know, I honestly think this whole 'invite VKs to Boreadon' was some press thing you all did for the twentieth anniversary of your kingdom or something."

"Why?" Ben asked with a small frown.

"You've been reading the same scrolls I have," Mal told him. "Twenty years and no one from Auradon even bothered to check in on the Isle. You all are stunned when we mention things like the death count but really? You have an Isle filled with villains and give them low resources of things like food and you all are shocked when some of them die?"

Ben sighed. "You…You have a point Mal. And for what it's worth, I am sorry that no one's checked in on the Isle before now."

"Sorries won't bring back all we've lost," Mal told him. "They're just pretty words."

"I know…but for right now it's all I can do until we get back to Auradon and I can pull the shipment records."

Mal raised an eyebrow. "Didn't your mom say she was going to do that?"

"Mom and dad are working on this coronation, I'd hate to put more on their plates," Ben said with a shrug. "Besides, if I'm going to be King, I should know how to pull things like the shipment records myself or I could…"

"You could what? Beastie Jr.?" Mal asked as Ben trailed off. She followed his gaze toward Akiho and his family. Before Mal could blink or even ask what in the world was going on, Ben sprung up and raced over to his best friend.

"You okay Ben?" Akiho asked.

"Arendelle still provides the security for the docks, right?" Ben asked, bouncing a little from his idea. If he was right, they wouldn't have to wait to leave to get some answers into what was going on with the food.

"Yeah unless something's changed and my parents haven't told me," Akiho told him, looking over at his parents. "Mom? Dad?"

"Nothing's changed Akiho," Anna promised.

Ben grinned. "Great! Can you contact the head of dock security and ask him for any footage relating to the ship that sends the food donations to the Isle? The shipment records are great but we will have to wait to get out of here to actually get them. Meanwhile—."

"Meanwhile I can contact Michael right now and get the ball rolling on this!" Akiho finished, grinning from ear to ear. "Ben, you're a genius!"

"I mean, anyone else would have had the same thought…"

"Nope. You're a genius. Let me call Michael now and maybe by the next one of these breaks he'll have something for us."

Anna looked over at her husband. "I feel like, as King and Queen of Arendelle, we should step in?"

"I mean on the one hand this is good practice for Akiho for when he takes over the throne. On the other hand, they're kids. The only thing they should be worrying about is school, sports, and relationships," Kristoff said, a small frown tugging at his lips.

"Oh dear…they're royal kids. Even I know they've got more to worry about than just that and I spent thirteen years locked in a castle with only paintings to talk to," Anna said, gently resting a hand on Kristoff's cheek.

Kristoff sighed but nodded before looking over at his son. "Akiho, perhaps I should go ahead and call Michael?"

"If you want dad but I can do it," Akiho said with a slight shrug.

"So can I," Kristoff said and pulled out his phone, quickly dialing the number for the head of Arendelle's security team that they loaned to Auradon to monitor the docks. Meanwhile, at the other end of the room, Mal and Uma were getting an impromptu family reunion.

"Why do we have to do this?" Uma muttered to Mal.

"Because mom asked us to," Mal muttered back.

"This is a load of barnacles you realize that?"

"That's a new saying."

"Trying to keep it clean in case the fireball or Celia are listening in. Not to mention Hadie."

Mal gave her cousin a small smile before shaking her head. "Come on. Time to meet our grandparents I guess."

"I'm surprised Demeter hasn't asked to meet Hadie yet," Uma noted. "You know, considering he's her grandkid too."

Mal shrugged. "In all honesty, she probably did but I don't think anyone could tear him away from Estelle right now."

That was very true, as Hadie, Celia, Alexandria, and Dizzy were in the midst of giving Estelle the biggest belly rub they could.

"Kinda feel bad for DeVil though, which is odd for me," Uma said. "But he's looking at Estelle like he's going to eat him."

"You know DeVil's got a fear of dogs," Mal said. "And a Cerberus, if nothing else, is a dog with three heads. You know the crap Cruella put in DeVil's head after all."

Uma snorted. "I think the whole Isle knows about that. About how dogs are 'vicious rabid pack animals who eat little boys who don't behave'."

"Your impression of her's getting good."

"Oh thank you Mali!"

Poseidon bit back a snort of amusement, the two Gods having approached the two Godlings maybe not fifteen minutes ago. "You think they'll realize we're here at some point?"

"I'd give it another minute before Persephone points that out," Demeter muttered to him, biting back a chuckle as Poseidon brushed a lock of his flowing blue hair out of his eyes. "I see where your granddaughter gets it from."

"Gets what from?"

"The blue hair," Demeter elaborated. "I can only assume that it's natural though I seem to remember Ursula had white hair."

"She does," Poseidon nodded. "But she dyes it, or at least she did before she got sent to the Isle. Triton got his hair from his mother."

Demeter nodded and grew silent as she realized that the two Godlings were looking at them. The stare down seemed to last for ages when in reality it was more than likely only a few minutes.

"So…you're my grandfather," Uma said, crossing her arms over her chest.

"I am," Poseidon nodded.

"And you're my grandmother," Mal said, looking at Demeter.

Demeter nodded. "It is quite lovely to meet you Mal. I only wish I we could have done it sooner."

"Well you know if you had checked into the Isle once in a while, we could have," Mal told her. "I mean, for Gods' sake, Poseidon, didn't you ever wonder why Uma was wishing for something fresh to eat for her birthday? Or could you just not be bothered to check?"

Uma smirked. "Oh and let's not forget cuz, your grandmother apparently didn't even wonder why your mom was petitioning Zeus to help get back a child that Maleficent had kidnapped."

"That's right! I guess now that she knows she's got two grandchildren, it's okay to care. Never mind the fact that I spent five years in Maleficent's talons," Mal nodded.

Persephone sighed and walked over to them. "Girls, behave."

"We are behaving mom," Mal stated. "But honestly after all of this, do you really think we'd just go running into the arms of our grandparents here? They could have gone against Zeus and Beastie and actually done something for the Isle but they didn't."

Uma nodded. "Yeah Aunt Steph, you're the only person from Olympus to actually care about the Isle. I mean, and Uncle Hades of course but he's trapped on the Isle with us. Not to mention the fact that Uncle Hades has to deal with weighing the souls every day."

Persephone sighed—she couldn't argue that the girls had a valid point.

"I can reach out to Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Aeacus," Persephone said. "They can help Hades judge the souls—."

"No!" Mal and Uma exclaimed, causing all three Gods to blink in surprise.

"Dad's the only one who knows the kids," Mal elaborated. "Or at least knows of the kids. Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus are all from Auradon so all they'd see are VKs. Those kids would be sent to Tartarus without a doubt!"

"Not to mention the fact that they're all Zeus' kids!" Uma added. "I don't think Uncle Hades would really appreciate them butting in."

I hate the fact that they have a point, Poseidon thought to Demeter.

I agree, but what else can we do? It's clear from the scrolls that Hades at least hates judging the souls of the kids who come to him, Demeter thought back to him.

Poseidon sighed but nodded, resolving to think of a way to help his older brother in anyway he could. One by one, everyone came back together to start back up with the reading. However, before anyone could inquire as to who would be the next person to read, the eyeball returned.

"I'm going to continue to state that this is the strangest experience I've ever had," Eugene stated as the eyeball began to spin.

"More so than sword fighting with a horse while using a frying pan to defend yourself?"

"You've got to use another example!"

"I could but I don't want to," Kit said with a chuckle.

As the eyeball finished spinning, four people dropped from it—two men and two women. Mal couldn't help but smirk as the blond man groaned; his armor clanging on the stone floor.

"Phoebus, are you alright?" One of the women asked, brushing her thick black hair out of her emerald eyes.

"Just fine Esmeralda," Phoebus said, groaning as they stood up. "But um…where are we?"

"Achidanza!"

"I'm not quite sure this is 'cool' Naveen," the other woman shook her head.

"But Tiana! We are in a room with all the Gods from Olympus! Who could not say this is cool?" Naveen grinned before it faded. "But um…why are we in a room with all the Gods from Olympus along with many of the royals from Auradon?"

Eugene grinned. "Welcome to the Newbie club! We're apparently reading these scrolls."

"Eugene," Rapunzel sighed as she shook her head. "The scrolls show us what has been happening with the Isle of the Lost."

Tiana's eyes widened as she went to go sit next to her fellow Learning to be Royal member. "Is anyone going to read next?"

"We were just going to decide that when you arrived," Rapunzel told her. "Would you care to read?"

"If anyone doesn't have an issue?"

"No issues here!"

Tiana smiled slightly as she reached to grab a scroll.

"You're taking this 'dropped into the lair of the Fates' thing rather well," Uma noted.

"After you get turned into a frog, it takes a lot to faze you," Tiana chuckled.