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Isle of the Lost
Mike Wheeler, otherwise known as the Son of Malfiecent, had told himself the story of how it all began, time after time after time.
There was never a night where he didn’t repeat it to himself or those around him
How loved dearly, Queen Joyce Byers had married the wicked Beast (as kids around the isle called him) otherwise known as King Jim Hopper (who had, said by many rumors saved Joyce Byers from her horrible wicked husband Lonnie..Last name unknown) in front of what seemed to be six thousand personals, of course important and rich friends, with a huge cake and all, later on declaring himself king of the United States of Auradon.
Oh but that wasn’t all.
As if richness, power and magic weren’t enough.
King Hopper, soon after declaring himself the ruler of the Auradon, had quickly completed his promise to his people.
Get rid of all the wicked villains.
And so he did. He rounded up all the most famous and well hated villains along with their less famous and hated sidekicks and threw them off with the sharp kick of his leg on this little isle.
Surrounded by water, without internet or magic.
Not a signal drop of magic.
Nothing.
No powers were able to be used, Not a spell book, not a witches broom, not even Mike’s mothers staff.
And if getting rid of magic wasn’t enough, King Jim Hopper had trapped them without a way out.
They were trapped.
Forever.
Not a signal way out.
That was all thanks to Fairy God Mother’s powerful gold magical wall. (Or jail cell as Mike’s good old friend, Lucas liked to call it.) it looked invisible to the normal eye, but if you touched it, the secret would be revealed.
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Auradon- King Hopper’s castle
“Arm up please.” The man said in this low, careful tone.
Quickly well loved Prince Will Byers lifted his hand, his brow furrowing as he continued to stare at his reflection in the mirror.
“How on Earth is it possible our son will be crowned King in less than a month, Joyce! Could have sworn he just turned eight!” The Beast laughed, carefully fixing his glasses, as Queen Joyce placed her head on his shoulder, grinning brightly.
Although Hopper wasn’t his biological father, Will could never see him as less.
“He is turning seventeen, dear” Grinned Joyce, her head leaving Hopper’s shoulder in this light swift motion.
“Uh Dad.” Will piped quietly, trying his best not to move for the hard working man beside him who was heavily concentrating on Will’s new coronation suit sleeve.
Hopper however didn’t quite catch on to Will’s soft mumble, “Seventeen? Too young to be crowned king! I, myself, didn't make a good decision till forty-five!”
Joyce playful rolled her eyes, smacking Hopper across the chest, “Jim, you married me at thirty nine, if I remember correctly.”
“Either you or a teapot!”
Will couldn’t help but let out a quiet awkward laugh, trying to grab his parent’s attention.
“Mom…Dad..” He repeated once more.
“Don’t move please!” The man said in a sharp snap, guiding Will’s head back to position as he grabbed a small needle with string beside him.
“Oh sorry.”
“What is it?” Joyce mumbled gently, walking slowly beside Will.
“I've sort of chosen my first official proclamation, if you don’t mind of course..”
Hopper however looked delighted, a small smile spreading across his face, “Well, spit it out!”
Will smiled at the reassurance his adoptive father gave him, finally after a deep long breath he was able to utter the words out…Well not really, “I've decided… th-” Will tried his best at not stuttering the words, but with such looks from three people (Will hated speaking his ideas outloud.) It was hard.
Will swallowed hard, “That the children on the Isle of the Lost be given a chance... to live here in Auradon. Every time I look out to the island, I feel like they've been abandoned.”
The man beside him dropped the needle, his jaw dropping so low Will could see all of the man’s teeth.
Hopper and Joyce looked equally as shocked.. If not offended.
“Um..” Prince Will mumbled, his hands dropping to his sides. Seeing his parents face turn white, almost like their souls had evaporated from shock.
Even the air beside him had stopped moving, demanding him to ‘stand still’.
Hopper quickly cleared his throat, as he awkwardly dismissed the working man to leave, with a simple nod of his head.
“Will, son. You understand what these people have done right? They are our sworn enemies. Horrible wicked people such as …”
Such as Lonnie.
“I know, but not their kids..” Will swallowed hard once more, stepping carefully off the stand. “Kids shouldn’t have to face their parents' crimes. They are innocent and deserve a chance..and I already picked them.”
Joyce cleared her throat loudly, as if reminding them she was still here. “You have?”
“Yes..”
“Mind giving the names of their parents?” Joyce asked her the softest motherly voice she always used when trying to convince Will to do anything but whatever he was planning.
“Joyce-” Hopper began, his lips tightening around the corners.
“Jim..I gave you a second chance..I say we hear Will out.”
“Fine. Go ahead, son. Give us the names of their parents.”
Will’s eyes widened, a small smile spreading across his face. “Oh thank you! And uh, the parents are..” Will’s smile dropped, his heart preparing for the worst. “Dustin Henderson..son of Cruella De Vil..” Joyce nodded, a sign for Will to continue, “Lucas Sinclair..son of Jafar..Nancy Wheeler daughter of the Evil queen..and lastly..Michael Wheeler, son of Maleficent.” He placed his hands behind his back, clasping them together.
Joyce let out a loud yelp at the sound of the last name.
Hopper’s face screamed out every single emotion on the planet Earth aside from happiness. “MALEFICENT?! The worst villain on this land!? William Jacob Byers, do you understand all the horrible crimes that woman has committed!?"
“Dad! Please. Hear me out.” Will begged, his hand reaching out to Hopper for a small second.
“No! I will not have such evil children anywhere near my-”
“Dad! Please! They are innocent! Well their kids are! Don’t you believe they should have a shot at living truly?”
Joyce gave Hopper the look she always does when convincing him to do something, her hand reaching his shoulder, giving him a small strong squeeze.
Hopper sighed heavily, “I suppose you are right.”
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Two days later
Isle of the Lost
“Well..what do we do?” Lucas whistled loudly, grabbing a small golden oil lamp from an old woman’s stand, shoving it in his sack of unknown things. He stared at the woman, as she contemplated talking to Lucas, her gray hair raggedy and dirty like everything else on the Isle.
“You do know, nothing will come out of that right?” Dustin giggled, taking a huge bite of a green apple he had yanked from a kid a few feet behind.
“Give that back!” The short dirty boy yelled.
Dustin, who was already eighty percent done with the apple which tasted bitterly sweet, turned around, shrugging the boy off. “No can do kid, better luck next time.”
The small boy grumbled something under his breath, turning back around to walk into whatever trash bin he came from.
Lucas, who was still attempting to rub the lamp, rolled his eyes, “You never know.”
“Nothing magical works, how many times do I have to tell you?” Dustin grumbled, finishing the kid’s apple.
“Now, never mind that. Where is Nancy and Mike?”
“Hell would I know?” Dustin mumbled, running his dirty fingers through messy improperly taken care of curly hair.
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“Where are they?” Nancy mumbled, her feet stomping in this annoying loud repetitive click.
“Right there.” Mike mumbled to his half sister, rolling his eyes. Though they didn’t have the same mother, they still fought like normal, simple siblings.
Lucas and Dustin quickly rushed over, Lucas like how he always does, purposely tripped Dustin over, making sure he won whatever race they had started.
“Better late than ever.” Mike mumbled, yanking a half bitten sucker from a woman and her baby passing by, quickly the baby began to cry, but that wasn’t on Mike’s list of issues.
“Acting like you always get on time anywhere.” Dustin retorted.
The only thing that really made living in the isle difficult was his mother.
“Stealing candy Mike? I’m disappointed.” A voice boomed, low and dark.
Speaking of the devil.
Mike put on his best smile, carefully turning around to face the biggest villain of time.
“It was from a baby.”
The rest of the V-kids (as they called themselves) smiled and nodded in agreement, although magic was banned, that didn’t stop anyone from being less afraid of Maleficent.
Magic didn’t stop her from being less of the monster she was.
Maleficent suddenly grinned, a fake beam of pride spreading across her evil face. “Oh that’s my boy,” quickly she yanked the sucker from him, giving it a slow disgusting spit, once the slobber got over the sucker, she snuck it under her armpit, which earned her a judgemental look from Nancy.
Maleficent however, decided to ignore the look (something rare, Nancy should be grateful of.) and turned over to her faithful slaves, “Give the sucker to the disgusting creature.”
“Mom..” Mike began, a slow, disappointed, painful sound escaping his lips.
“Not now Mike,” Maleficent paused for a moment, “When I was your age, I was cursing and ruling kingdoms!”
“Cursing and ruling kingdoms.” Nancy, Dustin and Lucas repeated, staying put behind Mike.
“Mom I know..”
“I’m not done!” Maleficent snapped, hushing the boy with the wave of her cold hand. “You see..I’m just teaching you, how any mother should..How to be me! How to be as evil and cold hearted as me. You see, Michael. That’s the only thing that will get you alive and running.”
Mike quickly walked closer to Maleficent, who was already moving a few feet ahead of him. “I know mom, and I’ll do better! I swear.”
Maleficent spun around, catching Mike off guard. Her lips smacked quickly, a glinter of evil and fun flashing across her dark brown eyes, ones that could terrify you (or possibly kill you.) in less than a second.
“Now I remember why I had to find all of you.” She laughed, a low rich sound that didn’t come often from lips like hers. “All of you, yes all four of you children, have been chosen to go to a different school.”
Nancy, Lucas and Dustin tried running away the moment they heard those words, but like always, Maleficent's loyal minions had caught them, gripping them back hard.
“A different school?” Mike repeated, “that’s ridiculous. There is only one school on the isle, unless someone here is starting a nicer one, I’m not leaving my school.” He crossed his arms, lifting an eyebrow up.
“Hush now.” Maleficent snapped, her eyes staring right into Mike’s, those piercing eyes. “All of you should be extremely grateful. You have all been chosen to go to none other than Auradon prep.”
“What!?” Was all that came out of Mike’s lips.
“Really!?” Nancy jumped at the sound of those words, quickly she pushed the minion that was holding her back and rushed beside Mike, “Like really?”
“No way!” Mike snapped, “I’m not going to a boarding school filled with little fucking rich snobby little princes-”
“Perfect princes..” Nancy mooned, spinning around.
Lucas walked beside Nancy, staring at her in pure judgement, “Yeah, I’m with Mike, listen here Big M-”
Maleficent raised her eyebrow, glaring at the nickname.
“I mean..Maleficent..I don’t do uniforms, unless it’s leather or comfortable ya know?” Lucas turned over to high face Dustin, who’s expression made it seem as if someone told him the world was ending.
“I-I read somewhere they allow…dogs..” Dustin whispered the word as if it were the curse of the year, “And my mom said they are rabid animals who will kill you..and I would like to stay alive-”
“WOOF!” Lucas barked.
Dustin immediately jumped at the sound, his eyes wide.
“Don’t do that!” He snapped, whacking Lucas hard.
Mike rolled his eyes at the sight, his eyes narrowing in disgust once they finally landed on Maleficent, who looked as if she were about to murdered the boys the moment she got the chance alone with them.
“You see mom? We aren’t going.”
Maleficent let out an annoyed hushed, pushing someone out of her way. “Children, children, can’t you see! This is all about world domination! To take back what was once ours.” Suddenly her gaze turned deadly as she stared at the four of them. “You will go to that school. And get me that wand of the witch who trapped us here. And you will not fail me.”
Suddenly, Maleficent's eyes turned a bright green, glowing brightly as she stared into Mike's eyes, asserting dominance against him.
Mike nodded, looking to his right.
Maleficent quickly guided them to their hiding spot, the kids quickly following behind.
Sitting there patiently were the rest of their parents.
“You never told me what was in it for us, if we did this.” Mike mumbled, flicking a small bug off the wooden painted table.
“Matching thrones, crowns, jewelry.” Maleficent replied.
“I think he meant us..” Dustin mumbled, his hand waving around to signal the rest of them.
Maleficent rolled her once more, black eyes, grabbing Mike’s arm tightly. “It’s all about me and you boy, just us, don’t you enjoy seeing people suffer?”
Mike let out a small laugh, “I mean who doesn’t?”
A small pleased smile spread across Maleficent’s face, “Then we will get that..and so much more. With magic back, and that wand of that little rich snobby fairy, along with my specter. I will be able to bond good and evil to my will!”
“Don’t you mean, our will?” The Evil Queen suddenly blurted out, a small fake sweet smile growing on her face.
Mike watched Nancy’s mom carefully, his eyebrow raising slowly. ( Same dad, different moms)
“Well yes of course! Our will!” Maleficent coughs, snapping her fingers loud enough to make Mike’s head snap right back towards her. “And if you refuse, you are so grounded for the rest of your pathetic life.”
“Mom..” Mike begins, only to be hushed by the evil green glow of his mom’s eyes once more.
The staring contest begins.
As always, Mike tries his best to succeed and win.
But that never happens.
Maleficent can’t help but laugh, “I win, once more.”
The Evil Queen rolls her eyes, and turns to face her daughter, which has no issue however waiting for her mother. “My Nancy, my little evil-lette in training, you must find yourself with a big castle and richness for the both of us.”
At the same time, Nancy and her mother grin, “And lots and lots of mirrors.”
Nancy can’t help but let out a loud annoying laugh.
Suddenly the Evil Queen’s face turned dead serious, “No laughing, it causes wrinkles.”
While no one asked her, Cruella always has to throw her opinions in. “Well, they aren’t taking my Dustin, I’d miss him too much, I could die!”
Dustin’s face lit up with pure joy and shock, “Really mom?”
Cruella couldn’t help but smile, “Well of course, who would touch up my roots or fluff my fur, and don’t forget, scrape off the bunions on my feet! I couldn’t function without you!”
Dustin’s smile dropped almost immediately, his eyebrows furrowing in disgust, “Never mind..the new school doesn’t sound all that horrible.”
Cruella’s voice dropped into this careful, low whisper, “Dustin, you know they have dogs roaming around in Auradon..”
Dustin’s eyes immediately widened into pure fear and terror, “Oh! I’m staying!”
Maleficent’s left eye twitched in annoyance as a small
tsk escaped her lips.
“My Lucas isn’t going either, he needs to help me out with the shop-” Jafar’s eyes landed on Lucas half filled bag, quickly his grimy hands yanked the bag, his arm reaching right into it. “A lap!”
As if the movement was natural, he started rubbing it in pure excitement and joy, which Lucas, having the heart he did, couldn’t help but shake his head.
“I already tried.”
“Nancy will not be going anywhere, at least not with how she currently looks!” The Evil Queen’s eyes filled with disappointment the moment they landed on Nancy’s unibrow, (which if you asked Mike, was barely noticeable.)
Maleficent let out a loud grunt, spilling over a few books, which made everyone quickly jump.
“What is wrong with all you people! For eleven years! We have waited! They used to jump and scream at the sound of our name! Now they laugh! And I will not have that!”
Maleficent smacked the back out of The Evil Queen’s head, which she could only mouth a quick ‘ow’
Maleficent stormed over to Jafar, “Don’t you want to cast the most horrible revenge on Aladdin and his bloated obese genie!?”
“I do!”
“Dad!” Was all Lucas managed to get out.
“And don’t you want to curse all those nasty dogs that escaped your hands, Cruella!?”
Cruella’s eyes widened at the mention of the dogs, quickly and pathetically, she yanked out her rubber dog toy, “Oh but they didn’t get the baby!”
Dustin couldn’t help but shake his head, tossing a small look in Mike’s direction.
Maleficent made her way up to the table, an evil smirk playing on her face. “And I! The most evil of them all! Will finally get my revenge on Sleeping Beauty..Our day has come. E.Q give the girl your mirror.” Maleficent jumped off the table, stomping over their old crappy fridge.
The Evil Queen went deep into dress pocket, which Mike carefully watched as she pulled out an old blue small mirror.
“This is your mirror?” Nancy mumbled, her tone carrying a bit of disappointment.
“Well yes, it isn't quite what it used to be, but neither are we. It will help you find anything Nancy.”
“Anything?”
“Yes.”
Maleficent rolled her eyes at the sight of the mirror, and yanked Mike hard by the arm. “I have something better than a mirror..” Carefully Maleficent reached into the fridge, pulling out an old spell book she had forbidden Mike from touching.
“Is that really-”
“Yes, Michael, oh I could have sworn I used it yesterday..to cast evil and terror to these little snobs..gosh, this book will follow all you kids adventures..if you don’t fail to bring me that wand.”
“I won’t.” Mike promised, his eyes were determined and strong, there was no way he would mess this up.
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Auradon
Will would be lying if he said he wasn’t at all nervous, he had paced around his room, wondering if he had really made the right decision.
What if Hopper was right?
What if those kids were just as wicked and cruel as their parents he had been told stories about?
There was really never a day where Will as a child wouldn’t have nightmares from the horrible stories, he was told.
“Regretting your decision?”
“Oh, Audrey.” Will mumbled, flinching at the sound of her voice.
The daughter of sleeping beauty had been his friend for as long as he could remember, she had watched him go from the treatment of Lonnie, to becoming the son of the current king.
And as expected.
His girlfriend.
But there was deeply something wrong with Will, it wasn’t that he didn’t like her.
He couldn’t feel any sort of love towards her.
Nothing.
“Who else?” She giggled, her hand reaching for his.
“I don’t regret anything. Just worried of course.”
“Too kind for your own good.”
–
Mike slumped against the fancy car’s seat, really it was the nicest thing he had ever felt against his back in his entire sixteen years of living.
“Mike.”
“Yeah?”
“Don’t you feel weird about all this?” Nancy mumbled.
“Thought you were excited to go?”
“Sure but-”
“HOLY SHIT.” Lucas shouted, jumping on his seat.
“They are trying to kill us!” Dustin yelled, gripping onto the side of the seat, which beside it was filled with all kinds of sweets none of the kids had tried before.
Their eyes widened the moment they went through the magical barrier.
They had passed it as if it were nothing, the ponce air had formed into a bridge in a matter of seconds.
“Did..he just open the-”
“Hey dude.” Mike snapped his fingers, “How did you-”
“Shush it.” The man ordered, pressing another button Mike couldn’t quite see.
Suddenly another wall raised from the seat, blocking any of them to see the guy.
“Alright..” Mike mumbled in amusement.
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Auradon prep
“Ow! Shit Lucas! You grabbed everything you could from the car, let me have this one thing, why do you even want it-” Dustin complained, giving Lucas a hard push.
“Cause you want it!” Lucas snapped, pushing Dustin, who was covered in chocolate to the ground beside the car.
Mike smacked the back of Lucas’s head, pulling off his bandana, which had collected multiple sweets and a few shiny objects.
“Hey, hand that back.”
“Guys.” Nancy coughed, “We have company.”
Mike, Lucas and Dustin turned over.
In front of them was this decently looking girl, who looked like she was about to scream.
But that wasn’t what caught Mike’s eye at all.
Beside the girl was what he guessed to be the prince.
Who was just a few inches shorter than Mike.
His smile was far too big to be fake, and his soft hazel eyes caught with Mike’s for a good minute.
If he wasn’t a prince, Mike wouldn’t mind admitting how decent the boy looked.
“Oh, well. Welcome!” Said the woman on the left side of the prince.
Fairy Godmother.
The woman eyed Lucas carefully, as he helped Dustin up.
“If you don’t mind, please leave it where you found it!”
Lucas nodded, but his eyes were clearly on the girl. “Why hello there..”
The girl simply let out an awkward tense laugh.
“Well, welcome to Auradon prep, as you may know, I’m Fairy Godmother, aka the headmistress!”
Mike felt pleased with himself as he guessed the identity of the woman, “Fairy Godmother? As in the whole Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo?”
The Fairy Godmother smiled, “You know it.”
Nancy joined in behind Mike, “I always wondered how it would be like to be Cinderalla, you know with that wand of yours..”
“Hah, well it was quite an adventure, but let’s not get stuck in the past. Oh, Will, why don’t you introduce yourself?”
“Right.”
The pretty prince stepped forward, his arms awkwardly placed by his sides, “I’m Will, nice to personally meet you..all.” His eyes lingered on Mike for a moment, before awkwardly coughing.
“Soon to be King.” The girl beside him added, wrapping her arm around Will’s.
“Well, I myself would be considered a princess.” Nancy added, a soft smile on her lips.
The girl glared at Nancy for a moment, “The Evil Queen has no royal status here, so no.”
“Oh, uh, this is Audrey.” Will added, fixing his shirt’s collar.
“Princess Audrey, his girlfriend.”
“Well, Will and Audrey here will give you all a nice long tour, now if you don’t mind, I have to go!”
Mike watched the woman disappear, throwing Lucas a small smile.
Will shook Audrey off him, a small smile appearing on his face once more, “Well.. like I said it’s nice meeting you guys,-” Will glanced at Dustin, who was licking chocolate off his fingers, “Chocolate?”
Dustin nodded slowly, giving Lucas a small nudge. Dustin extended his hand showing a 3-musketeers bar, Will stared at it, moving his eyes away from him.
“Well, aren’t you going to show us around?” Mike smiled, shoving his hands into the pockets of pants.
“Aren’t you the son of Malficent?” Audrey smiled.
“Well yes.” Mike mumbled, really he couldn’t care less what this girl had to say.
“You know, I have nothing against you as the daughter of Sleeping Beauty.”
“Cool.”
“Well tour!” Will blurted out, quickly walking ahead of them.
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“Auradon prep was built around three hundred years ago, turned into a school just right after my father became king, and no need to worry about the statue, he wanted it to morph like that to remind us anything is possible.” with a simple clap of his hands, the once middle aged man turned into a freaky beast.
Dustin nodded, but still jumped at the change of the statue.
Mike nodded along, trying his best to keep his eyes ahead.
“Do you guys, you know, use magic daily?”
“Well, it exists.. But we don’t use it.” Will mumbled, slowing down his pace to walk beside Mike. “We are just ordinary people.”
“Who happen to be kings and queens.” Nancy added.
“Well..yeah.” Will murmured.
As they entered the school, Mike couldn’t help but look around in absolute awe, he wasn’t used to seeing such glamour. There was no dirty trash sprinkled on the floor, no flies circling for food.
“Jonathan!” The prince shouted, looking around. “Oh there you are.”
The so-called Jonathan appeared beside them, for a slight moment Mike could have sworn he was watching Nancy more than anyone else.
“Hi, I’m Jonathan incase you don’t know-”
“He is my brother.”
Dustin nodded, eyeing the boy carefully. “So why isn’t he becoming king instead of you?”
“Gave up the position.” Jonathan smiled.
“Anyways, I have to go.” Will piped, “Have fun with everything else.”
They had a mission, whatever fun was coming was going to be saved for later.