ISLE OF LOST
Regulus was exhausted after a day of running for his life and his food in the beautiful isle of the Lost and his brother doing a show in the middle of the street was certainly not making his mood better
“your brother looks more like a son of the evil queen or Gothel than of Maleficent” he heard Evan say sitting next to him "with all that drama and stuff" he added
“you smell like fish” he said back as a greeting and Evan just chuckled back
“I don’t know how exactly you expected a son of pirate smell, love” he added shrugging and regulus when he looked at him annoyed not just for the nickname but by his entire presences he just smiled“Changing topics, Barty wanted to know if you were still mad at him” he said after some seconds
“Did he send you as a bargain, cause I'm not interested in second-hand prizes” he mocked him but Evan did nothing but laugh
“you are really still mad at him then” he mentioned “Guess he would have to buy your partnership again” he joked but Regulus made no comment, he was gonna but right at that moment he saw his mother walking toward Sirius, he stood up immediately and went to his brother without really answering to Evan
“Brother” he whispered tugging at Sirius's sleeves a putting him away from the child he was stealing candy from, Sirius looked at him annoyed before noticing his expression, he then stood up straight right before Maleficent herself stood in front of them
“Is this the behavior you show around here Sirius?” she asked throwing an unimpressive look around the place where Sirius and some of his own friends were doing some kind of…choreography? Regulus is not even sure
“I thought you would be proud” Sirius said looking at her straight in the eyes “I stole a candy from a baby” For anyone else this would be seen as an inoffensive statement, made by a son looking to make his mother proud
Regulus wasn’t anyone though, in fact, he was Sirius's brother and Maleficent, aka Walburga's black son, so yeah, he knew that was not an inoffensive comment, Sirius was making a mock, as powerful as Walburga was she had lost everything by beefing with a child, Sirius loved to make her remember that
Even though he always suffered the consequences
This time though, their mother did not react, instead she extended her hand to him motioning for him to give her the candy.
Frowning and hesitantly Sirius did so and at that moment her mother let the candy fall to the ground and stepped on it, then after some seconds she picked it up, for a moment regulus thought she would force Sirius to eat it, and he stopped breathing waiting for the worse, until her mother looked at one of her companions and gave them the candy
“give it to the child, be sure he eats it” she said and the man just nodded and left to do just that, regulus turned to look at Sirius and saw him clenching his fist but keeping his face emotionless “Nice try Sirius, but you would need to think in better schemes, especially from now on” she said and then after a second she talked again this time taking her eyes off Sirius “pandora, Dorcas, Regulus, and Sirius follow me, now” she ordered and then turn around walking away, regulus turned to look at the girls and Sirius but by their face, they were as confused as him so they just started following her
“what do you think she wants now?” Pandora asked him when she got to his side but he just shrugged, no other word was said until they had arrived at Maleficent's house, where surprisingly the evil queen, Cruella the vile, and Jafar were expecting them
“my dear, what are you doing again with those clothes?” cruella said as soon as she saw Pandora in a disapproving tone “I have told you this is not fashionable at all” She sighed but before she could get into a whole speech about the importance of good looking clothes, in an island with barely basic utilities, his mother interrupted her
“We are not here to discuss clothes cruella” she told her and the woman nodded, clearly intimidated
“And what are we here for exactly?” Sirius asked and though his tone was annoyed and Regulus wanted to kick him because why did he always feel the need to be an asshole, that was actually a good question, for the first time their mother seemed to thought the same because she just answered“you four are going to Auradon” she said and for a moment everything stopped, she had to be joking
“We are going where?” regulus asked incredulously and Dorcas followed him
“you have to be kidding us, there is absolutely no way” she said and for a second regulus feared for her integrity, especially because of the way his mother was looking at her but Jafar quickly intervened
“Now, daughter of mine” he said slowly “Let's sit and let us explain, this is actually quite important” he stated and Dorcas scoffed but did so, soon the other three followed her actions
“start talking then” Sirius said, clearly fed up at the whole situation, and for this time, regulus could share the sentiment
“We received a letter from Auradon some weeks ago” the evil queen started with, contrary to popular belief, she was one of the nicest of them all, which wasn’t much but at least was something so regulus was thankful she was the one explaining “Apparently, the soon-to-be king have decided that our housing status is lamentable, or at least for our children” she said slowly raising a hand when she saw Cruella trying to intervene and continued by her own “he even choose the specific children he wants to go to study in their school, to give them a better life, to start the change and give justice to everyone" she add, clearly mocking the prince words "and that’s exactly why you are here”
“he wants to mark a precedent apparently, very smart one have to admit” Jafar added “Very stupid too, but it still sends a message”
“Who did he choose” Regulus couldn’t help but ask, tired of the whole charade
“he decided to start with 4 villains' children, one for each one of the most recognized and feared villain, to send a message that everyone deserves another chance” This time his mother answered, and he started to panic what if he was chosen and he had to go away, what if Sirius had been chosen and he had to go away and left him behind, please lord, please don’t let that be “the child of the evil queen, Cruella de vile, Jafar and I” she stated and thought his panic was still there he had to do a double take at his mother words
“you don’t have any child” Pandora said, with absolutely no remorse for the evil queen, but she actually smiled at that
“yeah, apparently the people of Auradon know very little about our lives here” she said as an answer “The good thing is, that we can use that in our favor this time” she explained Pandora just frowned at her words but couldn’t say anything because she continued “the four of you will be going to auradon, each one of you as a representative of us” she stated and then “in the case of you two” she pointed to Sirius and regulus “well, everyone said that Sirius looked like me, so its time to put that at use”
She let those words sit for a while as the youngsters were processing the whole situation, the silence lasted some seconds before Sirius interrupted it
“Have I been disowned and giving in adoption?” he asked and regulus could see how Jafar had to hid a chuckle behind a cough
“I will never send you as my representative” his mother answered Sirius's question with disgust “You would probably do something stupid there, your brother however, it's more intelligent than you so he would be going as my son” she explained and regulus could see the hurt in Sirius's eyes, he wanted to say that was not fair, not for Sirius anyway, but he did not want to angry his mom, he never wanted, he was always too scared to do it “you, as everyone has so kindly pointed look and act too much like the evil queen son, and though that is just one of the things for what you disappointment me this thing will be useful, the rest of you girls would go as yourself of course”
“you keep saying that” Dorcas interrupted, obviously trying to move the topic away from Sirius, regulus was thankful for that though he felt angry at himself for not doing the same first “That it would be useful, 'm guessing you have a plan”
“indeed my lovely daughter” This time was Jafar who answered “You know how there is no magic allowed in this piece of shit called the Island of the Lost” he stated “But that does not extend to Auradon” he said with a smile, at that moment regulus broke, this was ridiculous
“Can you actually explain the plan?” he said not hiding the annoyance in his voice “Or are you going to keep talking about nonsense as we had had for the last ten minutes?” he asked and he could feel Sirius chuckle at his side, well, at least he had done something right
“Although I don’t like your tone” his mother answered slowly sending a shiver down regulus back “I do think you are correct, the plan is very simple, the thing that doesn’t allow magic here is a protection coat, a barrier if you want to call it that, one that can only be destroyed with one specific object, the fairy godmother's wand” she made a small pause, as if waiting for them to say something but when they didn’t she just continued, clearly annoyed “the wand that is in Auradon, the fairy godmother who is going to be your teacher there”
“so what? Your amazing plan is for us to go there, steal the wand, and destroy the barrier here?” Sirius asked incredulously and they all waited for Maleficient to scoff and say that that was a ridiculous plan, because it was, it really was, but of course, nothing worked for them, ever
“Finally you use your brain Sirius” she answered “That’s exactly the plan and that’s exactly what you four are going to do”
now, Regulus had always known his mother was a cruel woman, he and his brother had suffered many punishments so he was definitely aware of that fact
but sending him and his brother to Auradon to study with pretentious princes and princesses? and executing an absolutely absurd and ridiculous plan?
this was downright torture, he couldn't think of anything worse