𝐻𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉𝓁𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐻𝑒𝒶𝓇𝒹𝑒𝓃𝑒𝒹 𝒶𝓈 𝒮𝓉𝑜𝓃𝑒

Chapter 2: Secret Unleashed

Mal's POV:

This morning I decided to go talk to Evie, I knew something was weird about her and I had to find out. I got into my purple limo and asked the Royal Driver to take me to "Evie's four hearts" which you might know as Evie's little castle. I arrived there only to notice that Evie's house was completely burnt with a magical force field around, I managed to walk through the force field but Evie couldn't.

"It's no point, Mal... I will never get in my castle again, at least not in my burnt castle."

"Evie! What's going on? You have to tell me. Who did this to your house?

"I don't even care anymore.." Said Evie as she left.

"I have to get to the bottom of this!" I said to myself.

I decided to go around to ask others if they had faced anything like this, Ben helped me too. We knocked on several doors, went from one kingdom to another kingdom, one forest to another forest, one Island to another Island, to sum up, It was a really long day. We talked to so many people that, I couldn't even count! But no one had encountered anything similar to what happened with Evie. We still had many places that could have potentially been attacked by such a fire but I was just too tired. I decided to call Jay and Uma to help me with this investigation but when I met them, they were in horrible condition. They confirmed that the same thing that happened with Evie also happened with them! Jay even showed me a few pictures of the girl who was behind this. I looked at those pictures. I was surprised at first, I could say it was familiar but I couldn't confirm my suspicions because those pictures weren't so clear to understand.

Ben arrived and took a look at the pictures, we decided to do a complete investigation and find out the culprit. Ben arranged a team that started questioning suspects, the forensic team went to the areas of the incident and did a deeper investigation. I didn't want to get involved in this because I was already under enough stress. I decided to go to The Moors -- which is, or at least was my mother's home once upon a time-- for some R & R.

Uma's POV:

Mal got on the next train to The Moors and left. The investigators questioned me and Jay, we of course answered everything honestly but they still did not have enough information to be able to investigate further. I decided to go talk to Evie, I knew she avoided Mal but I wondered if she would talk to me. I saw her reading a book in the school library.

"Uma, what do you want?"

"Evie, I know you're upset. We all are but we need your help for the investigation."

"Ugh fine, how can I help?"

"I need you to tell me everything you know about that girl."

She continued and told me everything that happened.

"Evie, what do you mean by fire like hades?"

"I mean to say that she is somehow connected to Mal's magic."

I was shocked at first. We knew that Mal did not have any sister... or so we thought. The magic could also have been stolen by the girl, whose name I think is 'Hillory' but it doesn't make any sense since Mal was completely fine the last time we saw her if you exclude the stressing out part. Evie and I agreed on talking to Mal and informing her about this, we immediately left for The Moors. I was quite scared to go there at first but Evie promised me that everything was going to be fine... but I didn't trust her! How could the Moorlands be "fine"! There are millions of magical creatures there and who knows? The next thing you know, there's another Evil dark fey that zaps you and puts you to sleep for a hundred years. At this point, I had just closed my eyes and was constantly reminding myself to relax on our road trip.

Evie's POV:

Uma and I left off for The Moors to go meet Mal, we could have just talked on the phone but Uma suggested that we should go and talk to her in person. You could say that Uma was the only one who was the most nervous, I said "only one" because Jay decided to tag along too, so did King Ben. I would've invited Audrey since things between her and Mal might not have been perfect for the past few months but, she was too scared to go to The Moors. I don't really understand what's to be scared of that place, it's so beautiful, majestic and magical! It's the prettiest enchanted forest I've ever seen though I only know one other enchanted forest. Oh! You know! The one where Elsa lives, she is a true inspiration to me, I look up to her! Oh, I would do anything to meet her.

It had been more than an hour since we left Auradon to go to the Moors and I started feeling like something was following us..... so did Uma. We were too scared to look behind, we held hands tight as I had this really weird feeling in me, my heart beat faster, all of a sudden the temperature felt hotter. Jay noticed we weren't alright and he was sitting on the opposite side to us, he had a direct view of the back. We asked him to look at what was following us, Ben asked the Royal Driver to stop the car and we got out of it to notice that..... the same purple-haired girl had been following us all along! Uma immediately got back in the car to search for her phone to call Mal but she couldn't find it, nobody else had brought their phones with them! I had to get back inside to help Uma and let Ben and Jay deal with Hillory.

Conversation:

Ben: "Hillory, please stop now and we'll forgive you. You do not need to take over Auradon, come join us and be a part of the solution. This battle must stop... please."

Hillory: "hahaha! And why should I listen to you, Ben? what are you gonna do about it, blast me with magic? put me on fire? You guys brought this on yourself. It ain't my fault you've got such bad security, It ain't my fault that stupid traitor MAL! decided to open the barrier. You guys were practically calling villains to take over. You're such kids and you call yourself King."

Jay: "Okay, shut up! You can either join us on the good side or end up never being Victorious. Evil isn't gonna get you anywhere."

Mal: "Stop! Please stop everyone."

Evie: "Mal, I'm so glad you're here, there are a few things I really need to-"

Mal: "Evie, let me talk to her..."

Hillory: "Well, well well well! If it isn't Mal, the prissy purple Queen. Ugh, you don't know how long I've waited for you to show up, because... I've got you a little surprise!"

(Hillory, with all her confidence, took out hades' ember from her pocket to show Mal)

Mal: "Oh no! That's-"

Hillory: "Dad's ember? haha! I knew this was going to be your only weapon to defeat me, besides! this is the strongest magical object in all of Auradon! Muahahaha! With this ember, nothing can stop me now!"

(Hillory said that as she disappeared in green mist)

Uma: "What? Why did she call Hades... Dad?"

Ben: "Hold up! I'm confused. Who is she? Do you know her?"

Mal: *sighs* "Let me tell you everything. It was a long time ago, I was just a three-year-old girl and Hillory and I use to be like the best friends! We would hang out all the time! She would always be there for me in my difficult times and we had an amazing bond. We were like two peas in a pod..."

Jay: "So... what happened?"

Mal: "Then... life started to fall apart when my dad left us... Hillory and I became rivals and she ran away from home. My mom started to hate me and that's when I met Evie."

Evie: "Mal, why didn't you ever tell me this?

Mal: "I just didn't want to talk about it. But no! we probably shouldn't get distracted, this is not time for stories... we need to find a way to stop Hillory."