"It would probably be less suspicious if you had just walked through the door like everyone else," Jay pointed out.

"Shut it, Jay," Mal rolled her eyes.

"I'm just saying!"

"I mean, a good hairstylist would have done the same thing," Audrey sniffed, "and they wouldn't have had to use magic."

"True but Mal only cost fifty bucks," Grace told her. "A good hairstylist is at most $150 and takes two hours."

"So?"

"We don't all have $150 to blow on a haircut, Audrey," Emma rolled her eyes.

Aladdin looked over at the long haired boy who was sitting next to his son. It surprised him that Jay would be the first one to begin to welcome Auradon but then again, he was a street rat. Street rats tended to welcome comfort.

If Aladdin's own experiences were anything to go off of, that is.

"I could have done without the snapping in my face," Jay told her.

"I needed to make my point," Mal said with a shrug.

Many of the girls sighed at the sight of Jay walking toward their past selves.

"I think the whole school was going," Bobby Hood said with a chuckle, wrapping an arm around his little brother's shoulders.

"Get off, Bobby!" Roland groaned, pushing the arm off but smiling all the same.

"Did you Jay?" Dizzy asked, looking at Jay eagerly. While she wasn't as close to the boys as she was Mal or Evie, she still liked all of them.

"You'll have to watch to find out, Dizzy," Mal told her, saving Jay from answering. No one wanted to disappoint the young girl.

"If Fairy Godmother was bothered by it, wouldn't she, say, talk to me before I ended up doing the hair of almost every girl in school?" Mal asked, staring at Audrey. "It's hair, Audrey."

"Seriously? Is that all you think about?" Phillip Jr. groaned. "I swear you spend more time with your face in a mirror than Evie does, and that's saying something."

Meanwhile, Phillip Sr. looked over at his daughter. "You will still be the beautiful girl I love, Audrey. It doesn't matter what anyone else looks like."

Audrey couldn't help but give her father a small smile. It was silly but it had felt like she had been losing her parents' love throughout this venture. "Thanks dad."

"Ben, were you mad at me?" Audrey asked, shocking most of the people watching. They hadn't expected the vapid girl to pick up on Ben's emotions.

"I was wondering where my best friend went," Ben told her. "We've known each other since we were toddlers, Audrey. You never used to care about what anyone else looked like before, nor did you ever give me a nickname like 'Bennyboo'."

"But Granny always said—"

"Mother?" Aurora cut Audrey off and looked over at her mother. "What have you been teaching my daughter?"

"Well someone had to teach her to be a proper princess," Queen Leah sniffed. "You were content to have her play in mud and run around like a child from the Isle."

"She was three, mother!" Aurora shouted, no longer caring about making a scene. "By the way, I played in mud and ran around like, as you put it, 'a child from the Isle' when I was three. Am I no longer a proper princess?"

Queen Leah seemed almost shocked at her daughter's outburst. Aurora looked over at Audrey.

"I know this will seem like a punishment and yes, you're still grounded for the first four weeks of summer holidays, but it's not. I'm giving you a choice Audrey. Do you want to still have your two week trip to your grandmother's?"

Audrey looked shocked that her mother was giving her the choice instead of putting her foot down. "May I have some time to think it over, mother?"

Aurora smiled at her daughter. "You can have all the time you need, my flower."

Despite the scene before, many people couldn't help but laugh at Mal's imitation of Audrey.

Audrey looked down. She had noticed how Ben cheered up when he saw Mal and Audrey knew that this was without the aid of the love potion. He truly liked Mal in some way—Audrey couldn't help but be jealous.

She was supposed to be the one to hold Ben's affections like that! She was supposed to be the one to cheer him up! Not some girl from the Isle!

"Who bags one cookie?" Melody asked.

"She could have wanted it to be a gift for Ben," her mother Ariel told her.

"At least it was game day," King Beast sighed in relief. He knew his son's lucky traditions and not eating before a game was one of them. It drove Belle mad though.

"Adam," Belle whispered. "I don't think they would have shown the cookie if Ben wasn't going to eat it."

While the rest of the kingdom knew him as King Beast, only Belle and Ben knew his true name.

"No, not really," Neal White said with a shrug. "Ya'll are the first 'villains' we've encountered. Why would we have that saying?"

"Neal!" Snow scolded. "We don't use 'ya'll'."

Meanwhile, Meg couldn't help but smirk. "She's good," she muttered to Hercules. "I think, if she wanted to, she could beat Hades in terms of smooth talking people."

"Mal's not that bad," Hercules told her. "Maleficent may be the mistress of evil but she was never as bad as Hades."

Meg just shook her head. Hercules could deny it all he wanted but Meg had spent her life around Hades. It was clear that there was some resemblance between the purple haired teen and the Lord of the Underworld.

"Ben!" Belle scolded. "You do not snatch things from people!"

Ben blinked, amazed that he wasn't be scolded for eating the love potion cookie. "I—I didn't even think about that. I'm sorry mom. I'm sorry Mal." He turned to his girlfriend. "I guess I was just eager to show you that I trusted you that I didn't think how it would look to have the cookie snatched out of your hands."

"Nah," Mal smirked. "I liked it. Reminded me of the Isle."

Lonnie clapped her hands. "Okay, but what I would like to know is why Ben isn't more upset about being given a love potion?"

"Yeah!" Emir chuckled. "What, did you already know dude?"

Ben looked over at Mal, who seemed super nervous about the answer. Everyone waited on tenterhooks to see what Ben's answer would be.

"Can we please just get on with the film?" Artie asked, impatiently and unknowingly saving Ben from answering. "I'm sure we'll get the answer at some point."

"Artie," his father King Arthur warned.

"You guys really need to learn subtlety," Emir chuckled.

"Also, what's Doug doing?" Kitty asked, noticing Doug in the background. "Is he watching this go down?"

"I noticed Evie and wanted to know what was going on," Doug said, having heard his name. Though, Kitty wasn't exactly keeping her voice down.

"Doug, come join us!" Ben said with a smile and waved the other boy over. Doug looked over at his family—Shelby seemed to be urging him on while Harper, Hap, and Cheerful seemed to just be happy for him. His cousin Gordon just rolled his eyes.

Doug got up and sat down between Ben and Lonnie, shooting a smile at Evie.

"Is he rambling?" Robin Fitzherbert asked.

"Would you like to be put on the spot like that?" Her older sister Rose shot back while Evan just shook his head at his sisters' antics.

"It could just be the potion kicking in," he added. Chad, though, looked confused.

"Dude, you hate walnuts. You pick them out of your salad like all the time."

"Love potion, Chad. Keep up," Kitty groaned. "Seriously, how are we related?"

Hercules looked over at Mal, curious at Ben's question. It was said that only those who descended from the Gods had golden flecks in their eyes. But there were no Gods that Hercules could think of that would lay with Maleficent. The only God who was on the Isle was Hades, and his only child was a boy named Hadie.

"Seriously guys, he's not going to run off if you approach him like a normal person!" Alexi groaned.

"Alexi," his father Dmitri warned, shaking his head. "Behave yourself."

"Yes father," the young boy nodded, his light brown hair falling into his eyes.

No one seemed to want to look each other in the eye, in fear that they would burst out laughing. Ben, though, groaned and hid his face in his hands.

"Was I that bad?" He muttered softly to himself. Yeah, he loved Mal but he didn't think the love potion would have been that strong. Maybe it strengthened feelings he already had?

"Doug, why didn't you say anything?" Lonnie asked.

"I had no clue what was going on," Doug said, trying and failing to hold back a chuckle at Ben's antics on the screen.

"I wish I could have gone," King Adam/Beast said with a sigh. "Unfortunately, there was a council meeting right before that ran long."

"It's okay, dad," Ben told him with a smile. "I get it."

Mal, however, tilted her head in confusion. "Why isn't the announcer in a booth of some kind? I can assume that he gets whacked in the head many times—wouldn't it be safer to have him protected?"

"I hadn't thought of that," Ben told her. "Maybe having him have a small booth near the edge of the field would be a good idea."

"So what? We just need to keep you on the tourney field to make you pleasant toward them?" Kitty asked her brother.

"Tourney's different," Chad told her. "You trust the other players around you."

"Even if they're villain kids?"

"Whoo!" Dizzy shouted with a smile.

"Go Jay!" Kitty shouted as well, having missed the game due to a bad fall off of her horse the day before. Thankfully, she wasn't hurt too bad but she did have to stay in the hospital wing for about two days before she was free to go.

"I'm with him," Rodger muttered. Carlos would get hurt for sure if he went onto the field, but at the same time, Rodger couldn't help but smile at Jay sticking up for his friend.

"Nice," Mal smirked. "Use his words against him."

"Kind of?" Evie chuckled. "He's all of our brains, at least when it comes to tech stuff."

"Good luck!" Aladdin said, giving both boys a grin.

"You got this!" Rodger shouted, crossing his fingers that the smaller boy would remain unharmed.

Carlos looked over at Jay in amazement, having heard Rodger's shout of encouragement.

"I know, dude," Jay nodded. "It's weird."

"Nothing too bad happens in tourney," Tanner said with a chuckle.

"Yes, I know! I'm skinny!" Carlos griped. "Could we please focus on something else?"

"Go Jay!" Dizzy yelled once more, bouncing in her seat.

"Nice block Chad!" Neal shouted, grinning from ear to ear. He loved a good Tourney game.

Most of the adult audience groaned. Parents weren't allowed at Auradon Prep unless it was Parents' Weekend so none of them were able to attend.

The only exception was, of course, the King and Queen but they rarely made an appearance. The last thing they wanted was for Ben to be singled out based on who his parents were.

"Coach, I don't think they heard you," Akiho said with a chuckle.

"No!" Anita gasped, looking at Carlos as if to make sure he was unharmed.

"Thank goodness for Jay," Evie sighed, not realizing Dizzy had an iron strong grip on her arm.

"Brilliant!" Aladdin grinned.

"Great teamwork!" Shang exclaimed.