Dark Hearts (Golden Heart AU)

Chapter Thirty-four

Ryder had stayed in his room the rest of the day and Ben dragged him out the next day to meet with the others. He found it hard to look Mal in the eye and just started the meeting with them like he would one with the rest of the Royal four.

"Next, we have to free Aaron, the girls are the last priority, Ella has to be the very last, their way to strong and we have to grow in numbers and strength to take down Ella. I'll be surprised if we even managed to retrain her with all of us."

"We can't out gun 'er," Harriet says, "we need te out smart 'er."

"We can talk about my sister later right now we need to worry about Aaron. He would be in a similar state considering he was the second youngest, they though less would work on me cause i was so young, Aaron should have been the same." CJ hesitantly raised her hand, Good Ryder unnerved her. "You don't have to get permission to speak CJ"

She blushed and nodded before asking, "W'o's T'ey"

Ryder placed a hand to his chin, "I'm not sure who cursed us. If anyone was awake it would have been Ella, all i know is i woke up with a white streak in my hair."

"White." Jane asked.

"Oh, yea I read about that." Jay perked up, He had been pretty angry since his and Ella's fight, "The streaks darken over time depending on how much hate lives in you."

Ryder's head snapped to her so fast they thought he would get whiplash, "Ella's have always been Black," he pointed out.

Uma was the one to bring hope to the situation, "She was the oldest when you guys were placed on the Isle. So maybe she was the only one with full understanding and anger at the situation." Everyone let out a sigh, "So how are we gonna free Aaron and will these be helpful in this scenario?" She asked picking up her trident and gestured to Mal's staff.

"Those will not be helpful yet, I know you're dying to use them, but Andreana's magic is older than the staff and the trident is only a copy of the original. I'm pretty sure her magic resides inside Dragon eye or at least part of it," He looked to Evie who finally got her own glasses, she nodded with a tense look. Mal side eyed the scepter like it would spring to life and mumbled something about Hades. "Those are for when we have to take down Ella and Jazzy."

"'Ow are we gonna fix me brot'er" Harry asked crashing his knuckles.

"His childhood memories are intact, so I have an idea."

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Ryder Had sent a note to Aaron whom he had asked to meet him on the beach where they used to play as children. Aaron was very confused by the strange request but did as asked.

He knew just as well as the rest that you shouldn't aggravate Ryder, he was half of the chaos duo that was Ella and Ryder. Even if he was younger, he was still just as deadly. Ryder was an agent of chaos, we enjoyed pain and was just as sadistic as Ella. Aaron May have had the bloodlust, but Ryder was Ruthless enough to spill it and that's what really scared Aaron. At the end of the day, he couldn't even torture Pan, but Ryder would gladly rip into Adam given the chance.

Ryder sat on a rock, the same rock the Melody was usually found at. "Ryder" He looked back at Aaron and beckoned him over, urging him to sit down. "What's going on?"

"Remember when we used to play here?" he asked cryptically.

"Vaguely why?"

Gold and blue holograms about the size of his palms, dance sound and rock singing. "We had fun," He had a hazy look in his eyes, "It was the only time we had any real fun. The only time we weren't in danger every time we smiled."