Always by your side - a Descendants story (Bal)

Chapter 22

Mal's POV

It all happened so fast.

Jay and Lonnie opened the box wherein the wand was kept, which made the alarms go off. Suddenly a few other guards came running into the room. Jay quickly grabbed the wand and then we made a run for it, all the way back down the secret passages. The guards came running after us, yelling at us to "stop, or it'll be the last thing you ever do!"

But we kept running through the endless pitch-black passages, while haunted by some pirateguard guys, with my heart is beating like rabbit's when he's running a marathon.

I was out of breath and it felt like I could just faint any moment, but I kept running.

The guards were right behind us, when we suddenly just stand stiff and stark and couldn't even move a finger.

'Well, well, well. And who do we have here?' I heard Uma say.'Oh wait. You can't talk. How stupid.' She said sarcastically.

She stood there between the guards, with a big proud grin on her face. How could she suddenly just appeared there?

'Bring them to the dungeons. They can keep the other pathetic people company,' she ordered her guards.

They nodded and took us to the dungeons, while we still couldn't move.

When we were finally in the dungeons, Uma broke the spell. Then I saw it in her hand, my - well technically my mother's - spellbook. That's how she had just appeared in the passages.

'Now, enjoy your stay!' Uma said with a smile.

'You don't have to do this, you know?' I said suddenly. All eyes were upon me.

'I know. I do this because I like it, not because I have to,' she told me.

'So you really like destroying all that is beautiful and good? Make all those lives of innocent people like hell? You aren't like this. You can be good too,' I said.

'Ahahahaha, good one!' She said laughing.'I don't want to be good and weak. No, this way I have everything I ever wanted. Maybe you didn't take your chance, but I took mine. And now look where you are and then look where I am. I think I have made the right choice. No, I know I have made the right choice.'

'Oh, and before I forget; give back my wand, will you,' she said reaching out her hand to Jay.

'I don't have it, I lost it while we were running,' he lied.

'If I were you, I wouldn't even try lying to me,' she said getting angry.

'I really don't have it,' he said trying to sound as innocent as possible.

'You don't want to get in any more trouble, so just give me my wand!' She yelled.

'Okay okay,' he said and took the want from the inside pocket of his jacket.

'Thank you,' she said and walked away.

I sat down at a stone bench against the wall.

'So, what are we gonna do now?' Jane asked crying.

They all just stared to the ground. No one said one word, until the door went open. The guards came in and took us to probably another prison or something.

'Hey! Where are we going?!' Doug asked the guard who was holding him.

None of the guards said anything, but they just went straight to wherever they were told to bring us.

I guess they may only speak, when Uma gives them permission to do so.

We came into another part of the dungeons, the biggest one of all according to Ben. I looked into the prison and saw Dizzy, Fairy Godmother, Belle, Beast, Audrey and Chad.

'Oh my god, guys where were you all this time?!' Dizzy asked when she saw us.

The guards pushed us into the prison, locked the door again and then went back to, well I don't know where.

Evie ran to Dizzy and hugged her tightly.

'Dizzy! Are you okay? How long have you been here?' Evie asked.

'Oh yeah, I'm okay. I've only been here for a few days. But where were you?' Dizzy asked.

'We were trying to get back Fairy Godmother's wand, but when we had it, the alarms went off and then we got caught. So now we're back to square,' Evie sighed.

I sat down, because this was all too much for me. Well probably everyone here was beat, but especially me.

Now everyone was talking with each other about what had all happened these past few days. I sat a little beside them on a stone bench, observing the stark prison.

It was a grey room with against one wall a few bunk beds, in the corner of the room was a sink and a toilet and against the other wall were a few benches. Overall... it was quite depressing.

Ben came to me and sat beside me.

'Are you okay?' He asked.

'Couldn't be better,' I said sarcastically.

He laughed a little, but I couldn't even smile though.

'Ben, what'll happen to us? Are we gonna die in here?' I asked. I felt a tear running down my cheek.

'No, of course not! We'll figure out a way to get out,' he assured me.

I knew that was almost impossible, and that he knew that as well as I did, but I didn't really felt like arguing with someone, like I normally would've done.

Ben took me on his lap, because I always felt safer then, and I cuddled up. He caressed his hand through my hair, while quietly singing a tearful song.

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