[i don't own Encanto or Spongebob]
Chapter 2: After the fall of Casita
Mirabel stared at the wreckage of Casita around her. Her family members were racing around checking each other over to see if they were alright.
Then she stared at the melted candle in her hands.
The miracle was gone, and with it, their house, and her family's gifts.
And even worse, she, Mirabel Madrigal, the only member of her family without a gift, had assaulted her own abuela, the head of the village.
How low could a Madrigal like her go?
"Here, let me help you. Let me help you." Dolores said to Alma, as she helped her up. She winced at her abuela's black eye.
"Everyone ok?" Agustin asked.
By now, some of the villagers had come down to survey the wreckage of Casita, and check on the Madrigals.
"Antonio, don't cry, papito." Pepa said, hugging Antonio.
"How is this possible? The encanto's broken." muttered Felix.
"What do we do now?" Pepa asked.
"My powers. They're gone." sighed Camilo. "What about Antonio, what is he going to do?"
"It's not my gift that I'm worried about." Antonio said. "I can't believe Mirabel punched Abuela."
Upon hearing that, a villager looked at Alma and gasped. "Holy cow!" he said, seeing Alma's black eye. "What happened to you?!"
"Uh, it was me." Mirabel said sheepishly.
"What?" said the villager, as he turned to Mirabel.
"I... punched Abuela." she admitted. "She deserved it."
The villagers gasped upon this revelation.
"We got into this argument, and then... well..." Mirabel started, but then trailed off, ultimately knowing her family had witnessed it. "Yeah."
The villagers angrily turned to Mirabel.
"I never thought I'd see the day when a girl like you would put herself before the rest of her family and village." one villager said angrily.
"What?" said Mirabel, confused. How could a villager think Mirabel cared about herself more than her family and/or the village?
The Madrigals were confused as well, especially Alma.
"What the hell are you on about?!" said Agustin, gobsmacked.
"YOU KNOW!" another one of the villagers snapped. "She punched her own abuela, and even had the guilt to admit it to her family, and us! YOU guys saw it!"
The Madrigals gaped, feeling shocked at this. Mirabel seemed the most shocked of all.
"You know what?" said a third villager angrily to Mirabel, "your family isn't the problem, it's your heart. You deserve what you've gotten, you jerk!"
The words hit Mirabel hard like a bullet. Tears began to well up in her eyes.
It was bad enough she'd failed to save the Encanto's magic, but it was worse to be called a traitor to her own family/village; all cause she punched her own abuela in the face.
The Madrigals were shocked, too. and, needless to say, angry, but not with Mirabel; they were angry with the villagers, who were now complaining about Mirabel's actions.
"She is a traitor! A traitor to her own family!" one villager snapped.
"She hurts people!" another snapped.
"She should be exiled from the Encanto!" a third one snapped.
And the insults kept coming; some of which were words Pepa knew that even Antonio shouldn't hear, so she covered his ears to make sure he didn't hear them.
Agustin and the other Madrigals saw the whole thing. They were now annoyed and angry. How dare these villagers, the ones they'd helped, turn on them just because of one little incident?!
Eventually, the Madrigals couldn't take it any more.
"¡BASTANTE!" Agustin shouted.
It was so loud, everyone stopped to look at him.
"You should be ashamed of yourselves!" he yelled to the villagers. "Yeah! Mirabel was trying to protect our magic! Luisa was struggling with her gift, and she was trying to help us!" Isabela yelled. "She helped me to embrace being imperfect! I never wanted to marry Mariano anyway!"
Mariano, who was in the audience, gasped.
"Exactly." Luisa stated. "Mirabel is NOT to blame for all this! She was trying to help us!"
Mirabel couldn't help but smile at this.
"Then why did she punch your Abuela like that?" the villager asked.
"I... don't know!" Luisa said, her voice faltering.
Mirabel's smile faded.
One villager even got up close to Julieta, and shouted, "How could you and your clumsy husband raise such an irresponsible child who picks fights with everyone she can take on, even her own Abuela?!"
"You leave my daughter out of this!" Julieta snapped.
"Si! Picking fights with people is something she'd never do! Never!" Felix snapped.
"Oh, so we're not supposed to worry cause the giftless girl in your family hurts people?!" the villager snapped.
As the argument between the Madrigals and the villagers went on, nobody seemed to notice Mirabel silently heading away. Nobody that is... except Bruno, who had also got out of Casita before it had collapsed.
"She's never hurt anyone in the whole of her life, not even after her failed gift ceremony!" Agustin snapped.
The villagers all looked, shocked.
"And," Agustin went on to Alma, with a face like thunder, "the fact that you don't even care about her is that you're too stupid and naïve to know any better!"
Everyone gasped.
Alma stared at Agustin, tears pouring down her face. She sadly staggered away.
Everyone looked at Agustin in varying amounts of shock & dismay, even Julieta.
"Wow." Felix said.
By now, the villagers had left.
The Madrigals all stared around their wrecked home; none of them speaking.
Suddenly, Antonio's voice broke the silence. "Papa?" he asked Felix.
"What's up?" Felix asked Antonio.
"Where's Mira?"
When the Madrigals looked, they soon found Mirabel wasn't with them.
"Mirabel?" called Julieta, concerned for her daughter.
"Miraboo?" Agustin called.
Soon, all the Madrigals were calling out around the rubble, looking for Mirabel.
a/n: reviews are appreciated.
BTW, THERE'S A SPONGEBOB REFERENCE IN THIS CHAPTER.