Within milliseconds Mal, Rashid, Ben and Jay arrived in Camelot and once again the reception was not very warm. Mal asked Carlos to stay in case another surprise attack happened.

"Why are we always welcomed like this?"

Jay asked when he saw guards surrounding them.

"Please lower your weapons, I am King Benjamin of Auradon."

The men kept coming towards them, even after Ben's announcement.

"Are they really going to attack us? We're unarmed."

Jay said to Ben, seeing that they were still armed and getting closer and closer.

"Ben?" Mal called out to her husband. "Are the people here still afraid of dragons?"

"A little, why? Oh no, no, Mal!..."

Before he had a chance to stop what she was thinking, his wife was already enveloped in purple smoke. All the soldiers dropped their swords when they heard the great roar above them.

"Really?"

Rashid asked the king when he saw the huge dragon in the air.

"Well, at least we're alive."

Jay reminded his companions as he saw all the men run. Minutes later Mal returned to normal, causing the men around him to look up in surprise.

"Shall we go in?"

"You can't help acting on impulse, can you?"

Ben asked as she came towards him again, putting her arm around him.

"You love being married to a dragon woman."

Mal warned him.

"Let's go, perfect couple."

Jay made fun of them both.

Camelot, unlike other kingdoms, had remained the same over the years. The whole middle-aged place remained the same, including the distance from the castle to the rest of the kingdom.

"So, either she turns into a dragon or the little king opens his door to us.

Rashid quipped as they stopped in front of the huge wall and the exaggerated iron gate.

Before any of them could react, the iron gate came crashing down, showing them more armed men led by a boy of no more than nineteen.

"Artie?" Ben tried to see who the man behind the armor was, and if his memory was still the same, that almost grown man was the boy he had met years ago when he was there. "Artie, it's me, King Ben."

It might have been strange, but the men who had previously been ready to kill dropped their weapons.

"Ben?" The boy was startled by the image of the king. "I thought you'd be here later."

"Was I the only one who found all this strange?"

Jay asked his friends. Despite all the strangeness that surrounded them, this was really strange.

(...)

"My parents are waiting for you."

Artie said to Ben, as they walked towards the castle.

"I thought you'd become king by now."

Ben asked him

"I'm 19, I've got a lot to do and live for before I'm king forever and all that."

"You can live with being king, you just have responsibilities, duties, meetings and... you'd better wait."

"You must be Mal, the woman in Benjamin's life."

Artie asked, looking at Mal.

"Yeah, I think it's me, nice to meet you."

She greeted him a little embarrassed and looked at Ben.

"And you're Jay?"

"Yes."

"I don't know you."

He looked at the wizard.

"Well, lucky for you, I'm Rashid."

"Have you heard about everything that's happened in Auradon?"

"Yes, Dad updated me."

"Is Merlin here yet?"

Mal asked, as Camelot wasn't his favorite place in the world by far.

"He doesn't stay here, he prefers to live in isolation, but we'll take you to his house."

A short walk and they arrived at Arthur's well-known residence.

"King Ben, it's a pleasure to welcome you!"

King Arthur ran towards the visitors, hugging the young king in particular.

"Hi King Arthur."

Unlike Artie, Ben and Arthur always saw each other, thanks to their monthly royal meetings.

"Come on in, I want to make sure you have an excellent stay while you're in my kingdom."

(...)

Sometime before, Auradon

"Imbeciles! Incompetent! Idiots!"

Throughout the castle, several shouts could be heard coming from the office. Whose was it? The current dictator with the kingdom's soldiers, and the reason was simple: a few minutes earlier she had gone to the dungeon to see the bodies of her prisoners and to her intense surprise she had only come across holograms that her beautiful idiots hadn't noticed.

"Mistress, we thought they were real."

A guard dared to reply.

"And I thought rocks didn't talk."

Before they had a chance to understand, a simple spell turned the poor royal servant into a stone statue, just like the other servants.

"I need to know where they are."

She said to herself, but felt extremely weak.

"Aguie, are you all right?"

Chad ran over to her and caught her before she fell.

"I need to go to Camelot and don't you ever dare call me that again in your life."

Even without her strength, she was very harsh and made a slight flame come out of her hands, scaring Chad.

(...)

Camelot

"Lock the doors! Only open with my consent!"

King Arthur gave a loud shout to his guards.

Agatha had just arrived in Camelot and her first sight was of an army preparing for combat, probably against her. "Did they know I was coming?" she threw herself behind a tree and pulled the minion along so that no one would see them.

She asked herself, but was quickly answered.

"Only open for King Ben and his friends."

Again, the king shouted at the men.

The hidden woman didn't understand, but remained there, after all, for the first time she knew about her prisoners. "Why would the king be here?" Agatha wanted to know more, so she cast a spell on the soldiers, the king and the prince.

"From now on I'm in charge, your eyes and ears are mine, do as I say."

Quickly and effectively, all those men turned into zombies. Minutes later, she saw the rescue force arrive and soon after a huge purple dragon flew out "yeah, I did a great job, you're welcome Maleficent", she remembered what she had taught an old friend years ago.

Flashback

"Artie? Artie is me, King Ben."

"Let them in."

Agatha said and her voice echoed in the brains of her new zombies. She needed to know what they had come for and she would find out.