Sunlilly: When history repeats

Chapter 2: Allies

Friends aren't exactly a thing on the Isle, you have the people who want to kill you and the people that probably won't and I had a bit of both, people wanted to kill me because i would steal from them and was just a general pain in the ass and those who probably wouldn't kill me kept me around because i would only fight if i needed to and i knew how to make a quick getaway, i had a couple "allies", there was this kid Carlos who would give me food in exchange for protection at school and Evie who liked it when i brought her jewelry, and me and harry had become pretty friendly but Jay is what would be considered a "friend" to me, we occasionally go on stealing runs together and when his dad kicks him out i sneak him into the tower, we both benefit the other in our own ways, Jay is big and good at conning people and i'm fast and can hold a lot. We were i'd say 8 years old when one day we were going on a stealing run and we had gotten a pretty good haul when something caught Jay's eye, a golden necklace shaped like a dragon, not a single fleck of rust or decay on it, was probably the prettiest thing either of us had ever seen
"Imma grab it"
Jay darts for the necklace but right as he grabs it a girl with shoulder length purple hair and pale green eyes snacthes it out of his hands and starts running away
"Hey!"
Jay yells as he's starting to run after her, I grab him by the arm
"Dude, don't, that's Maleficent's kid...I wouldn't mess with her"
But in classic Jay fashion, he does not heed my warning and continues to run after her so now i'm running after him, we ended up chasing her for at least 3 miles before we reached a dead end and cornered her big mistake because suddenly the girl's eye's become a deeper shade of green and she socks Jay in the face and climbs up the wall
"Give me a boost"
I order, Jay looks at me confused
"What?"
"Give me a boost so I can get over the wall and then you can climb up after me"
"Raina-"
"Just do it"
I demand, Jay cups his hands as I use them as a foothold to get over the wall, I make it over the wall and chase after the girl with Jay following close behind, we end up chasing her through a valley of roofs until we reach a stone wall with a small ledged window that she jumps up to and slides inside... Now, gods know what was going through my head at that moment because suddenly I found myself scaling the wall and grabbing onto the window ledge
"Raina! What are you doing!?"
Jay yells after me, I ignored him and slid inside what turned out to be a castle... Maleficent's castle. Shit. I look around the room, it was fairly small so there wasn't much: there was an old wooden bed with a tattered sun-bleached purple blanket, a falling apart desk covered in drawings of landscapes of the isle, and a small ladder leading up to the window, there was no sign of the girl so I turned to leave when-
"What are you doing here!?"
Fuck, I turn around see the purple haired girl still clutching the necklace in one hand... and in the other was a dagger, I was screwed, she ran twoards me and pinned me against the ladder with the dagger pointed at my forehead
"Why are you here!?"
She interrogates
"H-honestly... I don't know"
I stutter, I was starting to panic when i saw a small cut on her forearm, I quickly grab her arm and using my magic, heal the cut
"Wha-how did...you"
She sutters
"I don't know it's just something I can do!"
I say, frightened, the girl lowers the dagger and backs away
"Who are you?"
She asks confused
"I'm...Raina,you?"
"Mal"
She answers
"How did you do that? evil magic doesn't work here"
I shrugged my shoulders
"I don't know"
Mal pauses for a moment and then looks me in the eyes
"Alright, you seem like someone pretty good to keep around, what do you say to an...alliance"
She extends her hand, I take it
"Ok, can this include Jay too?"
"Who's Jay?"
Mal asks
"He's the big guy who was also chasing after you"
"I guess"
Mal agrees, I climb up the ladder and out the window where I see Jay waiting for me
"Raina! What were you thinking!? You could have died!"
He shouts
" I don't know! But I got us a good alliance"
I respond, Jay cocks his head
"That girl, Mal, she offered an alliance after i used magic to heal a cut on her arm"
Jay didn't bother to ask any further questions as we walked back into town and to his father's shop. On my way home I ran into Harry, we had been pretty friendly for a while at that point, he still kinda resented me for keeping him from losing a hand but it wasn't to big a deal. I was walking past him when he grabbed my arm with his hook
"Hey, Raina"
"Hey... Harry"
He pauses for a second before he starts reaching in his pockets for something
"This thing washed up on shore this morning, I don't want it so I thought maybe you would"
He says looking a little red in the cheeks, he pulls out a little gold pocket watch on a necklace chain, it has a vine patterned cover with a small hole where you can see the clock hands, the gold was damaged and there was a diagonal crack along the glass of the clock but it appeared to still work
"Yeah, I'll take it"
He hands me the watch and I put it around my neck and continue my walk home
"Thanks"
I whisper under my breath...that watch never left my neck