Truth Or Fiction

Chapter Ninety Eight

Hera couldn't help but sigh as she took her scroll. She hoped that Freddy would be dealt with so Mal could go back to the festivities.

Mal glared as Freddy strolled over to her, a twisted smile on his face.

"When doesn't he have a twisted smile?" Henry muttered as he glared at the scroll in Hera's hands.

What in the world was he doing here?! He was supposed to be on the Isle, hiding from the Rats who were determined to personally escort him to Tartarus for what he did to Ryan!

"Oh, what he did to Ryan is just the newest offense on his long list!" Harry glared.

"What, no warm welcome your majesty?" Freddy asked with a slight smirk and Mal pulled herself out of her thoughts.

"The only welcome you'll get is the welcome to Tartarus!" Harry growled.

It wouldn't do to be caught unawares. Especially since no one knew what trick Freddy had up his sleeve. "Or is it my Lady? I know you witches appreciate a good title even if it's completely undeserved."

"Says the guy who demands his gang call him 'his holiness'," Malinda scoffed.

"The only warm welcome you'll receive is the warm embrace of your precious Hellfire, Freddy!" Mal spat, resting a hand on Harry's shoulder as if to keep him from hauling off and decking Freddy right there despite every fiber in her body wanting to obliterate the leader of the Angels.

"Oh just go ahead and do it!" Emma said, shaking her head.

Uma, though, looked from Mal to Harry and then back to Mal as if trying to do the math in her head as to how it was possible for her five foot, two inch tall cousin to comfortably rest her hand on the shoulder of her six foot First Mate. She then shook her head, deciding it wasn't the time to comment on it.

They needed Freddy to make the first attack.

"No, I'm pretty sure we'd all understand if you just went off and punched him," Lonnie said.

Sure the Cotillion guests were gasping in shock, most likely at how rude they were being, but they didn't know who Freddy was.

"Actually...why would that be a shock to us?" Evan asked. "I mean the VKs have only been in Auradon for a few months compared to the years on the Isle. Now if Ben was rude to someone, that'd be gasp worthy."

All they probably were gasping at was Mal's statement. After all, no one there knew what Freddy was truly like. If she or Harry attacked first, it might look like they were just attacking a poor, innocent guest.

"Freddy? Innocent?" Henry and Harry scoffed in unison.

Not that Freddy had ever been innocent but the Auradonians weren't likely to know that.

"Just say his last name, they might get the hint then," Claudine said softly.

Oh sure there might have been a moment when he was innocent as a baby but Frollo more than likely eliminated that. Twisting the babe into someone who shared his fanaticism, his lack of regard of others' lives.

"Unfortunately, that wouldn't surprise me," Phoebus sighed.

A hand on her own shoulder brought Mal out of her thoughts and she looked over to see Ben glaring at Freddy.

More than one head tilted to the side at that.

"Did...did Lady Hera just say Ben was glaring?" Akiho asked.