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once upon a time, long, long ago.. well more like 20 years ago. Belle married her beast in front of 6,000 of their closest personal friends. (Big cake) yea, so instead of a honeymoon beast united all of the kingdoms and got himself elected king of the united states of auradon!! He rounded up all the villains and sidekicks, basically all of the really interesting people, and he booted them off to the Isle of the lost with a magical barrier to keep them there. No magic. No wifi. No way out.. or so they thought..
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Ben was looking out the window of his castle, staring off towards the Isle of the lost. He feels bad for a kids. Truly! I mean they're innocent after all, just because their parents did some awful things doesn't mean they deserve to live trapped in a island, with rotten food and rags as clothing.
He believes they deserve a shot at a better life. A life where they get to go down their own paths. Where they can fall in love, eat fresh food, wear much nicer clothes.
And that's why his first decision as king will be to let the kids of the Isle, but five at first! A test run! That's all, it would be kind of insane to let all of them off right at this moment.
At this moment Ben was getting measured for his outfit for his coronation and his crown. Sooner or later his parents walked in arms intertwined.
"How is it possible that you're going to get crowned king next month? You're just a baby!" His father exclaimed.
"He's turning 16, dear!" His mother simply replied.
"Hey dad!"
"16? That's far to young to be crowned king! I didn't make a good decision until I was at least 42!" His father joked.
"Uh, you decided to marry me at 28." His mother faked being offended.
"Well it was either you or a tea pot." He looked down at her. "Kidding."
"Mom. Dad." Ben started—attempting to get down from where he stood just to get stopped by the man measuring him. "I've chosen my first official proclamation. I've decided that the childen on the Isle of the lost, shall be even a chance to live here in auradon."
He watched as his parents faces fell, and his mother dropped the piece of clothing she was holding.
"Everytime i look out to the island, I feel like they've been abandoned!" Ben explained— finally jumping down from where he stood, and making his way towards his parents.
"The children of our sworn enemies, living among us?" His father angrily replied. It made sense why he would act that way—but at the same time it didn't. The children were innocent! It was the parents horrible deeds. Not theirs.
"We start out with a few at first, only the ones that need our help the most. I've already chosen them." Ben smiled.
"Have you." His father was about to jump into a lecture before his mother stopped him.
"Uh, I gave you a second chance. Who are their parents?" His mother asked.
"Curella de vil, Jafar, Evil queen, Ursula, and Maleficent."
"MALEFICENT?! SHE IS THE WORST VILLIAN IN THE LAND!" His father exclaimed.
"Dad just hear me ou-"
"I WON'T HEAR OF IT." His father cut him off "THEY ARE GUILTY OF UNSPEAKABLE CRIMES!" His father shouted.
"Dad, their children are innocent. Don't you think they deserve a shot at a normal life?" Ben asked— just to be met with silence. "Dad?" Ben was starting to get desperate.
After a another moment a silence his father spoke again.
"I suppose their children are innocent.." He sighed and turned away.
Ben's mother walked over and started fixing up his suit. "Well done" his mother gently whispered to him, before turning to his father. "Shall we?" She asked before intertwining their arms and walking away.
Ben walked over to the window and smiled to himself. His dream of helping the kids on the Isle even if it was just 5 of them was finally starting to feel real.
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Richie, Beverly, Mike, and Stanley, were just getting done doing their daily errands— as stanley liked to call — when maleficent— richies mother approached them. Richie turned around with a pep in his step and his mother appeared.
"Hey mom!" Richie greeted with a wide evil girl plasterd on his face.
"Stealing candy, richie? I'm so disappointed.." maleficent teased.
"It was from a baby." Richie replied pointing the lollipop at his mother.
"That's my nasty little boy!" She cooed, switching what hand she help her staff in—grabbing the candy from her sons hand. She spat on it, and put in her underarm before handing it to one of her goons. "Give it back to the dreadful creature."
"Mom!" Richie complained.
"It's the deets, Richie, that make the difference between mean and truly evil!" Maleficent said, waving goodbye to the mother of the child.
Stanley would be lying if he said he wasn't fucking petrified of richies mother. She's horrifying! He genuinely hates it here—on this island. It's disgusting and gross. Most food here is molding, and stan can't even count the amount of times he went to bed hungry, because he didn't want to eat that garbage.
His mother isn't even close to amazing either.
The only good thing on this island is his friends. He has known them since they were baby's. He doesn't have one memory of them not being friends! They've always kept him safe and protected him when he needed it. For some reason they made him feel stronger then he was.
But this was strange. Seeing maleficent come to them in the middle of their 'errands'. She only did that when she had news — which was once every blue moon. The curly haired boy couldn't help but feel curious.
Maleficent was still speaking to Richie, though at this point stan had completely drowned the conversation out.
"OH! there's news!" Maleficent suddenly squealed — snaping stanley completely out of his thoughts. Atleast he was right there was infact news. "I buried the lede. You four plus Ursulas child have been chosen to go to a different school! In auradon!"
Suddenly maleficents goons were behind him, bev, and mike—lifting them off the ground causing them to squeal.
Richie turned around— once they had released the three richie turned back to his mother.
"WHAT?" Richie basically yelped. "I'm not going to a boarding school filled to the brim of prissy pink princesses!"
"And perfect princes!" Beverly said walking over to richie — "ugh" bev exclaimed. Acting disgusted. Manly because richie gave her a look basically a 'what the fuck?' Face.
"Yea, and I don't do uniforms." Mike said holding up air quotes. "Unless it's leather, you feel me?" He went to high five stan, but stan had his own worries.
"I heard somewhere they allow dogs in auradon. Mom said they're rabid pack animals who eat boys who don't behave.." stan trailed off, and mike attempted to scare him by barking. What the hell?
"Yea, mom, we're not going!" Richie stated.
"Awh! You're thinking small pumpkin! It's all about world domination!" Maleficent then called for her goons and they walked away. "Richie!" She called when she realized the four weren't following.
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Eddie was slamming food down on tables when suddenly his mother called for him. Great. Another night shift. He sighed and walked over to his mother's tank. For some odd reason she liked being in her cecaelian form all the time.
When he walked in she was staring at a floating piece of paper— confused he looks over towards his mother.
"You have been invited to go attend the school in auradon, eddie-dear" His mother explained. Eddie raised an eyebrow. Yea. No. There was absolutely no way he was going to be allowed to go, unless his mother wanted him to help destroy the world. "Though it's not just you, maleficent, jafar, curella de vil, and evil queens children will be joining you."
"oh. They're going too." Eddie thought to himself.
Eddie hated richies guts, and richie hated Eddie's. Each time they saw each other they would poke fun at the latter—until stan dragged richie away because he was getting annoyed.
"Eddie, I'm allowing you to go" His mother added. Eddie nodded knowing what was coming next. "Though, I do need you to get fairy godmothers wand and set me free. Understand?" and there it is. He knew this was coming. But—if he agrees he can just throw away his mother's plan the moment he gets there and he can live a normal life. Just like he always wanted, it's not liked she could do anything about it. It honestly took everything in eddie to not start smiling at the thought of never seeing her again—but he made sure he stayed composed in front of her.
"Yes, ma."
"The person picking you up will be here shortly— they'll be at Maleficents. hurry go pack!" His mother dismissed him.
"Yes, ma." He replied again— walking away.
Once he was in his room he started to hurriedly pack his things. Eddie was one hundred percent sure Maleficent gave those four the same lecture. And knowing richie he probably complained but agreed in the end. Out of stanley, Beverly, richie, and mike— Eddie liked stanley the most. He was always pretty nice to him, and he was the only one who stopped richies stupidity.
Eddie hated his mother. She only noticed him when she needed him for the night shift— or something else. Honestly he just hates everyone.
Soon he finished packing, and he hurried over to maleficents place.
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Stanley couldn't help but let out a sigh. Maleficent just gave them a pep talk about how they needed to get her the wand so she could take over the world. Which now they were being forced to do. Whatever, he kinda figured she wanted something like this.
"bevie!" Evil queen called out— Beverly ran over and sat in a chair across from her mother. "You just find yourself a prince with a big castle and a mother-in-law wing!" "And lots and lots of mirrors!" They said in unison. Beverly started to giggle but her mother stopped her.
"No laughing! Wrinkles!!" Evil queen exclaimed.
"Oh, well, they're not talking my stanley, because I'd miss I'm to much!" Curella pouted.
"Really mom?" Stanley said, surprised.
"Yes. Who'd touch up my roots, fluff my fur, and scrape the bunions off my feet?!" Curella replied simply.
"Yeah maybe a new school wouldn't be the worst thing.." stan trailed off.
"Oh, Stanley, they have dogs in auradon." She said acting like she was worried.
"Oh, no! I'm not going!" Stanley said, shaking his head. No way in hell is he risking it!!
"Well, Mike isn't going either! I need him to stock the shelves in the store!" Jafar said, pulling mike off to the side. "What did you score?"
Mike started taking out the things he had stolen earlier that day. Stanley couldn't exactly see what was going on over there—though he did notice jafar rubbing something before tossing it.
"Bevie isn't going anywhere until we get rid of this unibrow, hmm?" Evil queen said half joking.
"What is wrong with you all?!" Maleficent exclaimed walking down the few stairs there were from her chair to where everyone stood. "People used to cower at the mention of our names!" She shouted throwing her arms up. "For twenty years, I've searched for a way off this island. For twenty years they have robbed us for our revenge! Revenge on snow white and her horrible little men." Evil queen winced at that "Revenge on Aladdin and his bloated genie!" Jafar shouted 'i will' while holding up a wooden spoon. "Revenge on every sneaky dalmatian that escaped your clutches."
"Oh, but they didn't get baby." Curella said, pressing on her fake toy dog that lays on her shoulder. "They did get the.." she was cut of by her own laughter. "They didn't get the baby!" She continued laughing.
"And I maleficent!" Maleficent shouted—trailed off. "The evilest of them all—I will finally have my revenge on sleeping beauty and her relentless little prince."
After a moment maleficent told evil queens queens to give Beverly her magic mirror— maleficent ran over to the fridge banging on it a telling evil queen to help her—one the fridge was open maleficent ran over grabbing the book, she told richie to come over.
Stanley tried getting a good look from where he was standing. The book was old, it a brown, with a golden dragon imprint on it. Okay..?
Maleficent handed it over to richie.
Suddenly they all heard honking—meaning the person getting them were here. They all rushed to grab their things. Stanley quickly packed is things and rushed out of the building—his mother chased him out the door.
"Come back here! Now!" Curella shouted— stan quickly threw his bag in the trunk of the car and jumped into the back. "stanley!"
After a second, eddie made is way over to the car quietly getting into the back seat— it seemed like he was avoiding eye contact with them but it made sense, he hated them after all.
Soon mike and Stanley spotted the candy— they looked at each other before smacking each other attempting to get sweets.
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Upon arriving, eddie noticed people smiling and waving at the car. Some were holding up welcome signs—it was weird seeing all of this in person, he's only ever seen this on TV.
Soon one the car had stopped, he glaced over at stanley and mike who were fight over a blanket it seemed like. Him, Beverly, and richie hopped out of the car whilst stanley fell on the ground attempting to get whatever mike had. The band that was playing music stopped.
"You got everything else what did you want whatever this is!?" Stanley shouted. Still holding onto the thing.
"Because you want it!" Mike simply replied — trying to rip it out of Stanley's hands.
"Guys! We have an audience." Richie said — making both of them stop in their tracks.
"Just cleaning up!" Mike joked.— looking at the three that were walking towards them.
"Leave it like you found it!" The girl sung. Though she looked like see was in here mid 30s. No way this girl was a high-schooler. She must be a teacher.. "and by that I mean just leave it!" The girl said— mike reluctantly put everything back.
Mike walked over to the girl that stood next to a chunky boy—well eddie would say he was chucky he just had a bit of extra skin on his cheeks and body, though it seemed like the person was losing weight other then gaining. mike introduced himself to the girl in a attempt to flirt, which failed.
The girl was really pretty— she was definitely their ages— but she wasn't his type at all. Eddie glanced over to richie.
For some reason it was like richie could tell he was staring and richie glanced over at eddie.
Eddie quickly look away, his cheeks felt hot. Why did he do that?
"Welcome to auradon prep!" The girl in her mid 30s said suddenly— snaping eddie out of thought. "I'm fairy godmother! Headmistress." Oh so this is the woman everyone is so obsessed with.
"The fairy godmother?" Richie asked. "As in 'bibbidi bobbidi boo'?"
"Bibbidi boppidi. You know it!" Fairy godmother replied.
So richies mother did give them a pep talk. Richie made it pretty obvious from the way he was speaking, sometimes it felt like eddie could read him, obviously it was because richie was the most obvious person that he knew.
"Yeah, I always wondered what it felt like for Cinderella when you just appeared, out of nowhere, with that sparkly wand and warm smile! And that sparkling wand!" Richie said, trying to sound casual.
Maleficent definitely is making them do the same thing. It was way to obvious now! But it seems like only the four of them know what richie is talking about, because fairy godmother is oblivious to what richie is implying.
"That's was a long time ago! And as I always say 'don't focus on the past or you'll miss the future!'" Fairy godmother said— making crazy hand gestures.
"It's so good to finally meet you all!" The slightly chubby guy finally spoke up. "I'm ben!"
"Prince Benjamin!" The younger girl spoke. "Soon to be king!" She exclaimed excitedly.
"You had me at prince!" Beverly said, skipping over to them. "My mom's a queen, which makes me a princess." Beverly said bowing.
"The evil queen has no royal status here," the girl plasterd on a fake smile, is she jealous? "And neither do you." She said through gritted teeth.
"This is Audrey." Ben smiled.
"Princess Audrey. His girlfriend." She said, grabbing onto his hand. "Right Benny boo?"
Eddie couldn't help but notice how uncomfortable the poor dude looked.
'honey I think your spouse, wants a different spouse' eddie thought to himself.
His thoughts were interrupted by the sound of running. Eddie looked over towards the noise, and seen a twig like boy running towards the three that stood in front of them, he had this auburn hair that was parted to left, and these blue eyes that seemed to shine brighter then the sky. He walked over to fairy godmother and whispered something in her ear.
Eddie went to whisper something about the boy to stanley, but when he looked over stanley was in lala land—he looked like he was in one of those cheesy 'love at first sight' rom-coms. The boy seemed to notice stanley staring at him because he stared back, with flushed cheeks— though eddie couldn't tell if it was from the heat or the fact a 'cute' boy was starting at him.
"This is my son, bill." Fairy godmother, snap both him and stan out of thought.
"Um, hi.." bill said glancing at stanley before turning and running away. Eddie looked at stanley and noticed his cheeks were also flushed.
"Ben and Audrey are going to show you all around and I'll see you tomorrow." Fairy godmother said "the doors of wisdom are never shut." She said pushing through Audrey's and Ben's hands. "But the library hours are from eight to eleven, and as you may have heard, I have a little thing about curfews." She then walked away and the band from earlier followed.
"It is so, so, so good to finally meet you all." Ben said shaking everybody's hand, though he couldn't help noticed how Ben's fingers lingered on Beverlys.
Ben than ranted on about how he hoped this would go down in history about the island people and the auradon people began to heal or something like that.
"Or the day that you show five people where the bathrooms are." Richie joked in the middle of Ben's rant. Audrey soon realized richie was maleficents son and they started a conversation, basically tearing each other apart. There's something they have in common though Audrey and richie both just like hearing themselves talk! Eddie held back a laugh at his own joke.
"Okay! So, how about a tour?" Ben went on another rant, this time about fun facts about auradon prep. He walked over to the statue clapping twice and suddenly it was a beast?
Stanley screamed and jumped into mikes arms, out of fear.
"Stanley, it's okay! My father wanted his statue to morph from beast to man to remind us that anything is possible." Ben smiled.
After a quick conversation everyone started walkinh away, MIke pushed stanley off of him and started walking away with everyone else.
Eddie heard stanley clap twice—in an attempt to make it go back to human, once it failed he ran to catch up stopping right next to eddie.