Looking around Carlos could see every Fairytale parents and their children, all dressed up to greet royalty, happy and expecting a wonderful time; not a single one of them knew that within moments the Villians would swarm around them.
In one hand he clenched Harry's hand so hard the young De Vil was sure his boyfriend couldn't feel his fingers anymore and tucked tightly under his other arm was an unusually quiet Dude.
Even Evie was quiet; Carlos had expected gushing over every gown or telling every living thing that she'd created Mal's dress from scratch.
At the head of the cathedral stood the proud King and Queen and Fairy GodMother, who was looking magical next to the magic wand.
Mal was standing awkwardly in her fancy gown, looking more glorious than Carlos had ever seen her, she was trying very hard not to look at the wand; the coverated item they had been working so had to obtain, it was within grabbing distance.
Music filled the air as Ben slowly walked down the centre, greeting each family happily, even sparing the villian kids a smile, before kneeling before Fairy GodMother.
"this is it." Carlos whispered, eyes trained souly on Mal, waiting for her to lunge forwards as the wand was unveilled but the purple haired girl remained unmoving.
From years of acting quickly upon a ships deck, and being able to avoid Uma's anger, Harry spotted movement instantly; it also helped that everyone was so entranced with the cerormony.
Instantly Harry was jumping over the barrier, barely getting out of Carlos's grip, landing within inches of the Pan family beneath him and scooped up the girl in purple before she made it fully up the stairs.
"let go!" she shouted, hitting at Harry feebily, one hand still reaching for the wand.
"Jane! What are you doing?" Mal hissed, looking alarmed.
GodMother's daughter weighed nothing in the young pirate's arms but she struggled and kicked, "nobody will help me, so I'll make myself beautiful!"
Harry suddenly took an unfortunate kick to the inner thigh and Jane wriggled from his arm but the pirate still had tight hold of her wrist and even Mal rushed forwards to nearly tackle Jane back.
Unfortunately the moment Jane touched the wand, clutched helplessly in her mother's shocked hands, it began to shake and spurt green lights.
"it's her supressed fairy magic." Mal harshly whispered, pulling Harry away, "it's making the magic unpridictable."
The young pirate had never seen real magic before, even Mal's little stuff she'd been doing for the other students; it was like a contained lightnight bolt, hot and dangerous but something was so attrative about it.
Carlos, Jay and Evie came running down the eisle, seeming unsure of what to do next, "grab the wand!" Evie mouthed to Mal.
"No." the purple haired girl mouthed back; Harry knew which side she'd chosen.
The wand was still jolting about the floor, nobody being able to touch it, not even Fairy GodMother but the magic was becoming stronger and soon it would destroy the barrier; the next biggest centre of magic.
"little dragon, grab it! Your magic is steadier." Harry told her firmly; Carlos's clear thinking was rubbing off on the young pirate.
For the first time since he'd know Mal, which was before he even met Uma, she looked doubtful.
"please Mal, before the barrier breaks." Carlos said.
Something clicked and Mal hitched up her long dress to grab at the dangerous artifact; it sparked in her fingers and made her eyes glow bright green.
"Mal!" Evie shot forwards as the magic didn't subside, and too grabbed the wand.
The once supressed magic within the next generation was beginning to pull back the power of the wand, and as Jay joined too, even Harry placed his hand upon it.
Carlos was the last to touch the wand, he had no magic but he cared deeply for his friends and wanted to give any kind of power he could.
The was a shattering rumble throught the cathedral, their magic wasn't enough to pull back the uncontrolled wand.
"The strength of evil is good as none, when stands before five hearts as one." Mal breathed, her arms beginning to shake with the force of two magical enterites fighting, "The strength of evil is good as none, when stands before five hearts as one." she repeated.
As Mal began to repeat herself quicker and louder Evie, Jay, Carlos and Harry began to copy her, chanting the pharse till their throats began to hurt.
The wand stopped shaking but started to become boiling hot but the group didn't let go.
Suddenly a magical blast pulsed through the cathedral, sending all the congrigation off their feet and the air from the villian kids lungs.
Silence followed the magical blast, everyone tried to find their barings and the villian kids untangled their strained, white knucked hands from the wand and breathed a sigh of relief.
"uh, Mal?" Ben approched them causiously, he neverously smiled, "that was amazing."
Slowly Mal reached out for Ben's hand, holding it nearly as tightly as she had done the wand, "I choose good Ben, I want to be happy." she told him sinerialy.
"and I'll do everything in my power to make that happen." Ben promised.
Harry cleared his throat, "what about us?" he asked.
"I think you have all proved yourself good, beyond any doubt." the king-to-be smiled kindly at them.
"what about our parents?" Evie whispered.
Mal momenterily let go of Ben's hand to grasp Evie's, "forget about them. You are so much more than what she taught you. You don't need a prince to be happy." her green eyes began to fill with tears, "being part of a team and victory pizza makes you happy, right Jay?" Mal smiled at the dark haired theif, who smiled coyly with a nod, "and I've never seen you happier than when you're with Dude." Mal gave a watery laugh with Carlos.
"you're all safe and wanted here." Ben told them.
"So, just to be clear, we don't have to be worried about how really mad our parents will be? Because they're gonna be really, really mad." Carlos asked and Harry couldn't help laughing at his little boyfriend and wrapping him in a hug.
With little encouragement the crowning ceramony carried on, Ben was crowned King, with his parents looking on swelling with pride and he was greeted greatly by his kingdom.
Soon the silence with the cathedral was replaced with apised chatter, all sense of danger immediately gone; GodMother gently took the wand back, placing it securily back under it's magical dome.
"what do you think has happened on the Isle?" Carlos asked Harry at the party that followed the crowning.
"seems like something tried to break out." Harry hummed, enjoying the fancy food presented.
"yeah, like my mother." Mal commented as King Ben waltz passed them.
Carlos fiddled with the buttons on his shirt, "we'll have to ask Ben to bring over Uma and Gil, maybe some of the other kids."
Sighing deeply Harry thought fondly of Uma and of how much she'd hate all the goodness around Auradon, she'd even tease him about how soft the pirate had become but he also knew how much his captain had prized her Auradon television dramas and and fancy trinkets that came her way.
"weird to belong somwhere isn't it?" Carlos hummed and kissed his boyfriend happily on the cheek.
And they really did belong in Auradon; Evie's fashion skills were sort after, Jay's sports ability was praised, Harry's reasoning skills seemed to be getting better by the day and Carlos's skills with anything electronic flousished.
Less than a month later another batch of villian kids were escorted to Auradon; a certain pirate captain and blond bodyguard aboard.