I leaned against the balcony of the Auradon Cathedral as we waited for Ben to be crowned.
I was wearing a blue floor length organza floral dress with a cut out shoulder. Under the dress I was wearing a gold strap heel. Early that morning Evie had woken me up sos that she could put my hair into a high ponytail, do my makeup, and force me into this dress. I was too tired to put up a fight.
I straighten when I saw that Ben and Mal were walking in, they two of them headed for King Adam and Queen Belle. It was almost time, and I had a plan, one that I hope I wouldn't have to use.
My eyes widen when I picked up on Mals voice. How could I hear her all the way up here.
"About the other day…" Mal began.
"I told Ben this wasn't going to be easy." the king interrupts.
"You also taught me that a king has to believe in himself," Ben responds. "Even when it isn't easy."
"I did?" the king asks in surprise. "I... how very wise of me."
Queen Belle takes her sons hand. "Ben, we are very proud of you. You keep listening to your heart."
"Thanks, mom," Ben says.
The king pats his son on the shoulder. "You're gonna make a fine king."
The king takes his queens hand as the two of them entered the Cathedral Hall.
Ben turns to Mal. "Wish me luck."
Mals nods before taking the hands of the attendants as they lead her into the hall.
Ben turned towards the main entrance and prepared to enter. Seeing how nervous he was I concentrated and turned some of the mystic water -I had taken to carrying it with me everywhere- and directed it, so that it was in front of Ben. Ben looked up and I winked at him before turning the water into a rose, reminiscent of the first time we met.
"Thank you," he mouths.
"You're welcome," I mouthed back before entering the Cathedral myself.
The children choir sand as sunlight shine through the glass mosica of Bell and Adam.
Jay place is arm around me. "You ready for this?"
I took a breath. "Jay…"
I looks down at me. "Yeah."
"No matter what happens today remember that I love you. You are family, you'll always be family. Thank you for always protecting me."
"What are you up to Yu-Yan."
Luckily for me Fairy Godmother decided this was the perfect time to start the ceremony.
Fairy godmother lowered the crown onto Ben's head. "Do you solemnly swear to govern the peoples of Auradon with justice and mercy as long as you shall reign?" she asked a kneeled Ben.
"I do solemnly swear." Ben response.
"Then it is my honor," Fairy Godmother tapps Ben on the shoulder with her wand. "and my joy to bless our new king."
She went to tap him again but the wand was snacthed from her hand causing the audience to gasp.
I watched in shock as Jane was sorung around by the wand, white sparks of magic shout out from it.
Fairy Godmother looked at her daughter fearfully. "Child, what are you doing?!"
"If you won't make me beautiful, I'll do it myself!" Jane tells her mother. "Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!"
She was sprunged harder by the wand as white sparks sprung out if it, hitting everything in its way.
"Take cover!" King Adam yells.
The crowd backed up as they tried to protect themselves from the wand, Ben stepped in front of Mal to protect her. While the commotion was going around I snuck passed the other and made my way down. I stood in the shadows waiting for the right time to strike.
Mal rushed forward and tried to wrestle the wand out of Jane's hand.
"Careful, Mal!" Queen Belle warned.
Mal pulled the wand out of Jane's hand and held it in front of her. The crowd gasped as a defeated Jane scurried back to Audrey's side.
Ben stepped in front of scared Mal. "Mal, give me the wand."
"Stand back." Mal warned him. The door to the hall opened and Carlos, Evie, and Jay ran towards Mal.
"It's okay," Ben tried to reassure her.
"Ben, I said stand back!" Mal yells.
"I told you so!" I heard Audrey crow.
Controlling my magic I froze her tongue to the top of her mouth. It was not the time for her.
"Let's go!" Carlos yells.
"Revenge time." Jay adds.
Even with all the bravado in there voices you could see the uncertainties in their eyes.
It was time. I ran in front of Ben and held my hands out in front of him.
Jay steps back in shock. "Yu Yan what are you doing!?"
"What's right," I told him. "Don't make me fight you guys. Because we know that if I have to I will put you down, and you know I'm capable of doing that."
"You really want to do this?" Ben asks them.
"We have no choice, Ben!" Mal tells him. "Our parents..."
Ben cuts her off. "Your parents made their choice. Now you make yours."
"He's right," I told her. "Just because our parents were villains doesn't mean we have to be. The world isn't in black and white. We can be good."
"I think I want to be good," Mal whispers..
"You are good," Ben tells her.
"How do you know that?" she asks him.
"Because... Because I'm listening to my heart." Ben replies.
"I want to listen to my heart, too." Mal tells him before facing the other villian kids. "And my heart is telling me that we are not our parents." Mal laughs as she focus on Jay. "I mean, stealing things doesn't make you happy. Tourney and victory pizza with the team makes you happy."
"Yeah!" a guys shouts out from the crowd.
"And you, scratching dude's belly makes you happy. Who would've thought?" she tells Carlos before turning to Evie. "And Evie... You do not have to play dumb to get a guy. You are so smart. And I don't want to take over the world with evil. It doesn't make me happy. I want to go to school. And be with Ben." she faces Ben. "Because Ben makes me really happy." she grabs my hand and drags me into the circle. "Us being friends makes me really happy. Not destroying things. I choose good, you guys."
She puts her hands in the middle and I put mine's on top of hers.
Jay adds his hands. "I choose good, too."
"I choose good." Evie says placing her hands on ours.
The four of us turned to Carlos.
"So, just to be clear, we don't have to be worried about how really mad our parents will be?" Carlos asks. "Because they're gonna be really, really mad."
"Your parents can't reach you here," Ben reassures him.
"Okay, then. Good," Carlos says as he adds his hands to ours.
"Come on," Mal says and the five of us hug.
There was a sound of glass shattering, causing us to break apart. The crowd gasped and jumped back in fear. Green smoke flew in through the broken glass, the green smoke hit the floor before turning into Maleficent.
"I'm baaaack!" Maleficent cheers.
I look up. "Realy! Can we not get break."
"It can't be." Fairy Godmother whispers as Maleficent turned to faced her.
"Go away, mother!" Mal pleads.
Maleficent laughs. "She's funny. Oh! I'm so... you're very funny." she hold her hands out. "Here. Wand me. Chop chop."
Mal pretended to hand the want to Maleficent.
"No!" Ben yells.
There was no need to worry because she tossed the wand over to Fairy Godmother.
"Bibbidi-bobbidi..." Fairy Godmother starts to spell.
"Boo," Maleficent mocks before tapping her staff on the ground, it's tip green. "Psych"
My body trembled as she froze the entire hall, i've never been scared of Maleficent before but today I was. She has so much power.
Maleficent walks over to King Adam and takes his glasses off and looks him up and down. "Ooh. Ooh, in another time, in another time." she placed the glasses back on his head.
"Evil like me, don't you wanna be mean…" Maleficent sang as she plucked the wand out of Fairy Godmothers hand. "Ow! Oh. Oh, no. Someone needs to pluck their nose hairs."
Maleficent taps the wand on her arm."Where shall we begin? I know. Why don't we start by getting rid of this?" she waves the wand and Ben's ring flew from Maleficent's hand. "Perfect fit!Oh, excuse me. Pardon me. Excuse me. The horns, the horns! Aw... Falling in love is weak…" she tells Mal as she knocks Bens crown sideway. "And ridiculous. It's not what you want."
Mal sadly looks down at her hand where Ben's ring used to be before glaring at her Mom. "You don't know what I want! Mom, have you ever once asked me what I want? I'm not you!" tears fell down her eyes and her voice cracked.
"Oh, obviously. I've had years and years and years and... Years of practice being evil. You'll get there." Maleficent assures her.
"No, I will not." Mal protests. "And I really wish that you had never gotten there yourself. Love is not weak or ridiculous. It's actually really amazing."
"I know one thing, young lady. You have no room for love in your life!" Maleficent declares.
Mals' eyes harden. "And now I command, wand to my hand!" she holds her hands out for the wand. "Ha! It worked!"
"I hardly think so." Maleficent says. "Frankly, this is tedious and very immature. Give me the wand. Give me the wand!"
I shake the fear off, why would I be scared of a grown woman thrown a tantrum.
"Hold on, Mal. Maybe good really is more powerful than evil." Carlos tells her.
"Oh, please! You're killing me. Arf!" Maleficent barks causing Dude to attack her. "Oh! Oh, the breath! The breath! Get off me!" she throws dude off of her giving Jay a chance to try and take her specter. "Gaston should be jealous." she stuns Jay, causing him to fall back. "Enough! You all will regret this!"
Black and green smoke surrounded her body, when it cleared in her place was a giant purple and black dragon.
Maleficent decided that Jay was going to be her next meal. Jay ran through the crowd and hid behind a pillar, but Maleficent found him. Maleficent growled before lunging at gim.
"Come on. Run, Jay, run!" Carlos yells as the rest of us backed up.
I blew a gust of ice towards Maleficent's talons creating a shield for Jay, her talons frozen for a second before she brooke through.
Jay scrambled up and raced back to the dais, Maleficent was not deterred.
"Hurry, Jay. Hurry, hurry, hurry! Jay! Watch it, Jay Jay, come on Please, Jay! Jay!" we yelled as Maleficent chased him.
Jay ran down the center of the hall towards us, Maleficent right behind him. "Aah!"
Evie holds up her magic mirror. "Magic mirror, show your bright light!" A beam of light reflected out of it, temporary blinding Maleficent.
Maleficent fell to the ground, trying to get the bright light out of her eye.
"Behind me, E!" Mal says as she stood in front of us. "Leave my friends alone! This is between you and me, mother." Maleficent come closer to Mal and stared her down.
Mal's eyes glow green as she started to chant. "The strength of evil is good as none, when stands before five hearts as one. The strength of evil is good as none, when stands before five hearts as one. The strength of evil is good as none, when stands before five hearts as one!"
Maleficent screeched in agony, she flapped her wings before a cloud of green smoke came over her.
Up on the dias Fairy Godmother unfrozen. "Oh!"
"What just happened?" Evie asks as the four of us ran up to the dias.
"I have no idea!" mal replies.
"Did you do it?" I asked her.
"I don't know," I don't know Mal responds.
Fairy Godmother rushed over to us. "No, no, no, no. Your mother did. She shrank to the size of the love in her heart. That's why It's so itty-bitty."
Fairy Godmother and Mal knelt down onto the floor where a tiny lizard laid.
"Is she gonna be like that forever?" Mal asks.
"Well, forever is a long time. You learned to love. So can she." Fairy Godmother replies.
Mal passes Fairy Godmother her wand. "I believe this belongs to you."
"And I believe this…" she picked up Ben's ring and passes to Mal. "Belongs to you. You all have earned yourselves an "a" in goodness class. Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!"
She waved her hand a unfreezing everybody in the hall. Ben roared as he raced of the dais towards Mom who places her hands on his chest.
"Okay, okay! Oh! We kinda got this all wrapped up here." she tells him.
Ben stares at Mal for a moment before smiling a spinning her around.
"Oh!" Mal says as Ben spun her.
Ben puts he back on her feet. "Next time, I rescue you, okay?"
Mal pats him on the shoulder and laughs. "Yeah. Let's not let there be a next time, okay?" Mals smile faded as she looked to the side and saw Jane being scolded by her Mom. "I will be right back."
"I love you. But you are on a major time-out." you could here Fairy Godmother scold Jane.
"Don't be too hard on Jane." Mal buts in patting Jane on the shoudler. "I was the one who put all that crazy stuff in her head. You are beautiful... Inside and out. Your mom got that right."
"I guess I did get pretty lucky in the mother department." Jane tells her.
"Yeah, I guess so." Mal says.
Mal walks back over to us and I elbowed her. "Not so hard being good is it?"
She chuckles in response.
"Hey! Careful! That's my mom!" Mal yells when she notice an attendant was placing a jar over Maleficent. The attendant nods in understanding and walks away.
Jay puts his arms around me. "Thanks for the save."
I hugged him. "I'm just glad I had to fight with you and not against you."
Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Ben walk over to us and we gather in a group huddle.
"Well, let's get this party started!" Jay says.
"Ohayo Hey, hey," we all sang.
Back on the Isle Shan Yu smiled at the TV, is wife placed her hands on his shoulder.
"She did it."
"Yes she did," Shan Yu confirmed. "Our warrior princess is all grown up."
On Auradon a party was happening at Beast Castle to celebrate their new crown king and the defeat of a villian.
Mal:
Oh yeah
Oh yeah yeah
Evie:
Let's set it off
Oh yea
Yu Yan:
You can make it happen
All:
Ohay, Ohay Hey!
Ben:
Kings and Queens, it's our time to rise
Write the book story of our lives,
This is us taking back the night.
Ohay, Ohay
Mal:
Break the spell,
We were born this way
Be yourself, forget the DNA,
Everybody raise your hands and say
Ohay, Ohay
Evie:
Sound the alarm, get on your feet
Let's set it off and rock this beat
Dance till your heart is wild and free
All:
Ooh, Oh, Oh
Yu Yan:
Feeling the power, let it all out,
Like what you see in the mirror, shout
We got the keys, the kingdom's ours
All:
Ooh, Oh, Oh,
Ohay, Ohay Hey
Let's set it off
Oh yeah
Start a chain reaction,
Never let it stop!
Let's set it off
Oh yeah
You can make it happen
With everything you got!
Let's set it off!
Get ready, set it off
Come on
We got to set it off
On the right
Get ready, set it off
To the left
We got to set it off!
Carlos:
Yo, it's time to set this thing off
Let's make it happen now
I'll make my own future, ignore the rumors
Show 'em my passion sound
Jay:
They all told me to back down
Show 'em my passion sound
Judgin' me 'cause of my background
Nah, I ain't goin' out like that now
Audrey:
Feeling the power, let it all out
Like what you see in the mirror, shout
Ben:
We got the keys, the kingdom's ours
All:
Ooh Oh Oh
Oh yeah
Let's set it off
Oh yeah, let's set this off
Start a chain reaction,
Never let it stop!
Let's set it off
Let's set this off!
Oh yeah
Let's set this off!
You can make it happen
With everything you got!
Let's set it off!
Get ready, set it off (come on)
We got to set it off (that's right)
Get ready, set it off (to the left)
We got to set it off
Get ready, set it off,
We got to set it off,
Get ready to set it off (come on)
3, 2, 1, uh
Mal:
Ooh yeah
Ben and Mal:
Let's set it off
Oh yeah
Let's set this off!
All:
Start a chain reaction
Never let it stop
Let's set it off
Let's set this off (oh yeah)
Let's set this off
You can make it happen
With everything you got
Let's set it off
Get ready, set it off (come on)
We go to set it off (to the left)
Get ready, set it off (to the right)
We got to set it off
A/N: It's finally done. I'll probably publish the sequel in fall, so please be patient with me. Thank you for reading don't forget to comment, vote, and review.