Artifacts Stolen And A Curse

Previously on Descendants:

"Mal Darling, I can't believe it! We are actually going to be parents!" Ben exclaimed.

"I'm excited too, my Benji," Mal said. "but we both know that the baby won't be here for another few months."

"You're right as usual, Dear," Ben said to Mal. "but there is so much to do! We have to plan a christening, think of names for our son or daughter, invite all of our friends..."

"But, Dear, what about Uma? Or Audrey? Should we invite them too?" Mal asked Ben.

"That should be on you, Mal." Ben said to his beloved wife.

"Okay, we will invite all of our friends including Audrey and Harry Hook, Harriet Hook-Smee, Uma and her husband, Shang Junior, and Gil," Mal said. "however, we are not inviting either Calista Jane or CJ, Carlos would want us to invite the good members of the Anti Heroes club including his cousin, Diego, and his two friends, Harold Badun and Jason or Jace Badun, but we're not inviting Mad Maddy, Chad, Gaston Junior, Gaston the Third, Anthony Tremaine, or Ginny Gothel."

"Okay, Mal, I get the picture." Ben said quickly.

"That's right," Mal said in a serious sounding voice. "Anthony, Maddy, Ginny, and the Gastons are all traitors to the Anti Heroes club."

"Mommy, Daddy," Daniella said in an excited voice. "do you think we could swing by the playground? I'd like to meet up with the boys, Julian and Carlistle!"

"Julian is the son of Jay and Lonnie and Carlistle is the son of Jane and Carlos, am I correct?" Doug asked his daughter.

"Indeed you are, Daddy." Daniella answered.

"I don't see why we can't drop by the playground." Doug said.

Evie nodded her head in agreement.

"Ella, would you like to see Uncle Ben and Auntie Mal for lunch after play time?" Evie asked.

"Oh! Yes, Mommy! Yes! Yes! Yes!" Daniella exclaimed.

"It is settled then!" Evie exclaimed.

"Out of the way, Shrimps," James said to Carlistle and Julian. "this is our sand box now!"

"Hey! Who do you think you are? Those are my friends you are picking on!" Daniella shouted.

"Oh, I'm really terrified! Aurora, look at what we have got here! Another Evil Queen in the making!" James mocked.

"Quick, James," Aurora said in mock terror. "let's get out of here before she makes us eat a poisoned apple!"

"Thanks for saving our necks from the Gruesome Twosome, Ella." Julian said.

"Thanks, Ella," Carlistle agreed. "you are the greatest!"

"Julian," Jay said firmly. "we have to go to the grocery store right now."

"Why?" Julian asked his father.

"Because," Lonnie answered Julian. "Uncle Lil Shang, Grandmother Mulan, and Grandfather Shang are coming to our house for lunch this afternoon."

"Yes! Yes! Yes!" Julian exclaimed.

"Wow! Sounds to me like somebody really loves his relatives!" Daniella commented.

"Yeah, I wish I could see my grandmother that often." Carlistle sighed.

"Which one?" Julian asked Carlistle.

"The only one that matters in my eyes, my mom's mom, Fairy Grandmother," Carlistle answered Julian. "she bakes the best chocolate chip cookies!"

"Don't you mean Fairy Godmother?" Daniella asked Carlistle.

"That's what everyone else calls her except for Mom and me of course," Carlistle answered Daniella. "I call her Fairy Grandmother or just Grandmother because..."

"Because you're her grandson! I get it now!" Daniella exclaimed.

"Your family is going to see Auntie Mal and Uncle Ben, Carlistle," Daniella asked. "my family is too!"

"What a small kingdom this is!" Carlos exclaimed.

"What are we making for lunch today, Mama?" Chip asked.

"Turkey and tomato on toast points, Queen Mal can't take the smell or taste of eggs right now." Missis Potts answered Chip.

"That's right," Carina recalled. "Queen Mal is expecting her new bundle of joy any day now!"

"I hope that will be King Adam and Queen Belle back from their pleasure cruise!" Carina exclaimed.

"Would someone please get the door?" Ben called from the conference room.

Lumiere passed by the conference room on his way to the servants' area for his lunch break with Fifi, Cogsworth, Missis Potts, Carina, and Chip, "I will answer the door for you, my king." he said.

"Thank you, Lumiere." Ben said.

"My only wish is to serve my king and queen." Lumiere said to Ben, bowing slightly.

"Who is it, Lumiere?" Mal asked.

"Some of your friends are here for a visit, my queen." Lumiere called.

"Send them in! The children will eat in the banquet hall while the grown ups will eat in the conference room," Mal called back to Lumiere. "Ben and I have much to discuss with Evie and Doug, Jane and Carlos, and Lonnie and Jay about planning this christening for our new baby son or daughter."

Now on Descendants:

"As you wish, my queen." Lumiere said, bowing.

Before being shown into the conference room, Evie turned to her daughter.

"Ella," Evie said. "why don't you take Carlistle with you to the banquet hall for lunchtime?"

"Okay, Mommy," Daniella said. "what did Missis Potts make for lunch today?"

Missis Potts appeared in the hallway.

"I made peanut butter and banana sandwiches on whole grain wheat bread with creamy peanut butter for Ella and crunchy peanut butter for Carlistle," Missis Potts answered. "for the adults, I made turkey and tomado sandwiches, the king's favorite, also on whole grain wheat bread."

"Good, and we're also trying to take care of their teeth, so no junk food for dessert." Evie told Missis Potts.

"I know, Evie," Missis Potts said. "you must remember that I'm a mother too."

Over at Jay and Lonnie's house in Auradon City, Lonnie and Jay were busy putting away their groceries, when a knock sounded on their front door.

"That must be your family, Lonnie." Jay said, putting the bread away.

Lonnie finished getting the chicken, chow mein noodles, carrots, cabbage, and broccoli out so she could prepare a healthy Chinese lunch for herself and her family and then went to answer the front door.

When she opened the front door, Lonnie saw her father, Li Shang, her mother, Li Mulan, and her older brother as well as Uma's husband, Lil Shang.

Julian raced up to his relatives and hugged them.

During lunch, Shang was reading the Auradon Scroll, the newspaper and he found a very disturbing story.

"Well, some things have been lifted from the Auradon Museum of Cultural History." Jay said in a pondering tone of voice.

"What things, Daddy?" Julian asked.

"Auntie Evie's magic mirror and Auntie Mal's spell book." Jay answered Julian.

"You know what you and Mommy have to do now, don't you, Daddy?" Julian asked.

"Lonnie Darling," Jay said. "we'd best be off to Castle Beast."

"We must tell King Ben and Queen Mal about the theft." Lonnie agreed.

"May I come too, Mommy?" Julian asked.

"Sorry, Jules," Lonnie said, calling Julian by his nickname. "Daddy and I need to go to Castle Beast on urgent royal business."

"Okay." Julian sighed.

"And while the two of you are gone," Mulan said to Lonnie. "Father and I would be glad to babysit Julian."

"Thanks, Mulan." Jay said as he and Lonnie departed out the front door.

A few minutes later back at Castle Beast, Cogsworth entered the conference room.

"Jay and Lonnie are here to see you, King Ben." Cogsworth said.

"Is it urgent, Cogworth?" Ben asked.

"Yes it is, Sire." Cogsworth said to the king.

"Send them in." Ben said to Cogsworth.

"Straightaway, my king." Cogsworth said with a low bow.

"Hmmm, what was that all about?" Evie asked.

"Who knows, Evie." Doug answered.

Cogsworth led Lonnie and Jay into the conference room.

"What's wrong, Jay? You look like you had just drunk some bad toadstool tea." Mal asked.

"Lonnie and I have some bad news for both you and Ben, Mal." Jay answered, sighing.

"Uh-oh, what is it?" Ben asked Jay.

Jay cleared his throat, "This isn't easy for me to say, your highness." he sighed.

"Out with it, Jay!" Mal shouted, she was impatient.

"Mal!" Ben scolded sharply.

"So sorry, Ben really sorry for my impatience, Jay." Mal said.

"You are forgiven." Ben and Jay said to Mal.

"What is so important?" Ben asked Lonnie and Jay.

"Somebody broke into the Auradon Museum of Cultural History and stole some artifacts." Lonnie answered Ben just before Jay even got the chance to speak.

"What was stolen?" Mal asked Lonnie.

"Evie's magic mirror and your spell book, Queen Mal." Lonnie answered.

Evie and Mal both shuddered with fright.

"Who would want my magic mirror?" Evie wondered out loud.

"And, who would want to steal my spellbook?" Mal asked.

"I don't know," the king said to Mal and Evie. "I just don't know."

Mal was wrong about her delivery, hers and Ben's baby girl arrived in April on the 16th instead of May on the 16th, which was also Julian's third birthday.

Ben proclaimed that there would be a grand celebration so that everyone in Auradon could pay homage to the infant Princess Mallory, who was named after her mother.

Since magic had been restored in Auradon, there were gifts to be given to the princess.

Flora was up first.

"Little Mallory, my gift to you is the gift of beauty." Flora said with a wave of her wand.

Fauna was up next, "Tiny Mallory, my gift is the gift of happiness." she said, waving her wand.

Merryweather was up now.

"Sweet Mallory, my gift to you is the gift of performance art, that is acting, music, singing, and dancing, all rolled up in one." Merryweather said, waving her wand.

Now it was Carlistle grandmother, Fairy Godmother's turn.

"Lovely Mallory, my gift will be..." Fairy Godmother began, waving her own wand.

Just as Fairy Godmother was about to speak, Maddy and her pirate crew including the newcomers, Anthony Tremaine, Ginny Gothel, Mad Maddy, Gaston Junior, and Gaston the Third showed up at the princess's christening.

"Maddy," the Queen of Auradon shouted. "what are you and your rowdy pirate crew doing here at my daughter's christening?"

Maddy held up something to Evie while Chad held up something to the queen.

"Hey! That's my magic mirror!" Evie exclaimed.

"Hey! That's my spell book!" Mal exclaimed.

"Maddy! So it was you who stole from the museum!" Ben shouted withdrawing his sword.

"Chad," Maddy asked. "would you do the honors and put the king down for a siesta so that I may bestow my gift upon Little Maleficent?"

That struck a sour note on the queen who in agreement with the king named their daughter after her using the queen's new full first name.

"I have legally changed my full first name to Mallory," Mal exclaimed. "and you know it, Maddy!"

Chad began searching through the spell book for a good sleeping spell for the gentle king.

When he finally found it, Chad discovered that he could not read it.

"What's wrong, Chad?" Maddy asked, she was irritated.

"I can't read the spell," Chadsaid to Maddy. "it's in Japanese!"

Gaston Junior grabbed the spell book and read the spell.

Gaston Junior: Fukai nemuri;

Chinmoku no nemuri;

Kurayami ni totsunyū suru;

Subete no tōzen no isogi de!

Before the spell could take effect, the spell book along with Evie's magic mirror were grabbed by Jay's cousin, Jade, a rogue warrior who still preferred to live on the Isle of the Lost.

"It's over, Maddy," Jade said. "you and your pirate crew lose!"

"I think not," Maddy laughed. "for Princess Mallory will indeed grow in grace and beauty... beloved by all who know her... but upon sunset one week after her 15th birthday, she will prick her finger... on the spindle of a spinning wheel... and die!"

"Mallory!" Mal, Jay, Carlos, and Evie gasped in fright.

"Send Maddy, her family, and her entire pirate crew to the Isle of the Lost for all eternity!" Ben commanded.

Maddy, Chad, their children, and their pirate crew were escorted out of Auradon and right to the Isle of the Lost.

Now, Fairy Godmother took her turn.

"Princess Mallory, the gift I give to you," Fairy Godmother said. "is the gift of true love, you shall prick your finger, but instead of dying... you will fall into a deep sleep, only to be awakened by your true love."

Fairy Godmother raised her wand and waved it.

"Thank you, Fairy Godmother," Ben said. "thank you for saving my little girl."

"Anytime, my king." Fairy Godmother said, curtsying.

Coming up in chapter 4: Mallory The Sleeping Beauty Part 1:

"So, Mal," Ben asked his daughter. "are you all packed for your first day at Auradon Prep?"

"Almost, Father," the almost 15-year-old Princess Mallory said. "I just need to grab my book of sheet music for the keyboard as well as my electric keyboard."

"It hurts to let my baby go!" Queen Mallory sobbed bitterly, hugging Princess Mallory.

"Mother! I'm hardly a baby anymore! I'll be 15-years-old next week!" Princess Mallory said to the queen.

"You'll always be my baby, Mal." Queen Mal said to her daughter.

"I know," Princess Mal said to Queen Mal, her green eyes welling up with tears. "I'm just going to miss you and Father over my 15th birthday!"

"I know," Ben said to Mallory. "but Mother and I have to go to Northern Wei to sign a treaty."

"I wish I wasn't royalty." Princess Mal sighed.

Queen Mal sat next to her daughter on her daughter's bed, "Being royal can be hard at times, I should know." she said.

Princess Mallory moved a lock of her curly honey-brown hair away from her eyes, "You... know how I feel, Mom?" she asked.

"Indeed I do, Starshine." Queen Mal said to Princess Mal.