Cold Hearted

A Whole New World

Elena POV

Mal rolled right on up a ramp into a sort of alley-road situation, but I couldn't care less about where we're going... this place... my gods it looks so... terrible! The place was practically falling apart! The people only wore rags, the streets were filthy, the children were all begging for money at every turn, the entire place looked like a whole new world, one that... I didn't think existed.

I felt tears stinging my eyes, shock and horror hitting me so badly... is this hell on earth? This place can't be real, it just can't be! It's far too horrible to exist, I was feeling my breath escape me from the horror I was witnessing,

"What... is all this?"

I whimpered in shock, Mal turned to me a little but kept her eyes on the road ahead,

"Welcome to the Isle Elena, it's not all sunshine and rainbows that's for sure"

She said to me in a mundane tone, I was physically hurting me! All these people looked so awful, there wasn't a smile in sight! Not a happy face, only ones of despair, pain, and suffering, emotions I haven't felt myself... well... not for a few years at least...

It looks like everyone is in great agony, they barely even have rags on their bodies! I can barely fathom it all, and when Mal rolled on up to a poster with a picture of Ben and her on it and I saw the things written on Ben and on Mal's faces, I understood why I really had to listen to Mal while I'm here. Not even she is popular here, no one from outside the barrier is going to be welcomed because... we've been torturing these people for who knows how long! That's another thing, I only learned about the Isle almost two weeks ago, but how long has it existed?! The shock and horror were hard to swallow, I had no idea a world like this existed...

Mal ripped the poster off the wall it was plastered on and crumpled it up and threw it away without a care and stepped on it again. We drove down a few more alleyways before she pulled into an under stairs space and parked down there. She then hopped off so I did too, she took off her helmet and put it on the bike so I did too, I just want to mirror her a little to simply keep myself safe.

I'm still excited to be here, it's simply not the place I thought it would be. I saw the conditions from outside the barrier, but now that I'm apart of it, amongst it. It's so much different being in the belly of the beast rather than seeing it from afar.

Mal lead me out from under the rickety staircase and snatched a rock off a barrel and chucked it at a sign that read "flying rocks", the stone knocked the sign back and opened a gate-like door that was blocking the staircase. It was pretty cool, to be honest, but even the state of the staircase was bad. Mal grabbed my wrist and led me up the staircase, the gate slowly shut behind me and Mal basically had to drag me up the stairs because I was looking around so much. I couldn't stop looking around, everything was so grim and haunting, it was bringing true tears to my eyes... it has an aura to it that felt so depressing it was even bogging me down.

Mal whipped out her keys again as we reached an old but sturdy-looking door in this weird apartment complex like building and unlocked it. She roughly and somewhat aggressively kicked the door open which made me jump a little and led me into... woah. The sad vibes quickly flew away as I stepped into a multi-level room with colors and brightness all around. It wasn't Auradon or Arendelle brightness, but it was a relieving feeling to get away from all the negativity for sure!

The room had huge paintings of all my VK friends on the walls with spray paint, art covered the place from floor to ceiling, now this is a much warmer welcome compared to before!

"Woah"

I muttered as we stepped in, Mal turned to me and finally let go of my wrist as she shut the door behind me,