Mal daughter of Maleficent sat in her room on the Isle of the Lost and stared out across the ocean to Auradon.
"Stupid stuck up snobs." Mal growled wrapping her moth eaten comforter around her tighter. Protection against the ever present cold and gloom. She sighed. "I wish I could be strong. Strong enough to get off this Island."
Mal hadn't meant to but she found herself falling asleep in her window but she did and she didn't see her mother standing in her doorway with Diablo on her shoulder and her staff in her hand.
Maleficent thought to herself as she walked away from her daughter's room. She'd heard what the girl had said. She was in complete agreement. She wanted off this Island but she knew that it was impossible unless they could break the barrier and how could they do that if they had no magic? Still her mind shifted to her daughter. She wished it wouldn't. She despised the girl for being too much like her worthless human father. She sighed to herself there was nothing any of them could do. She entered her bedroom and got ready for bed after putting Diablo on his perch.
Mal woke with a purple screen floating in front of her. She was shocked. What the hell was this?
You wished for Power and now you have it. This Power is Gamer!
Gamer is a gift from Auradon's Council of Royalty. They wish to help you.
"I doubt that." Mal scoffed. Then sighed, "But thanks if you can hear me. What can I do with this anyway?"
Auradon's Council of Royalty
"Well, that is a good question." Beast said, with a hum. "How shall we start this off?"
No one seemed to have an answer.
"Lets make her do something good." someone said.
"No, we'll ease her into that..." Prince Charming said.
"Oh, I have an idea." Snow White said, a screen appeared in front of her. "Quest: Isle Improvement. Improve one place on the Isle. Reward: 50 exp. Construction Screen. "
Everyone looked at her in shock as she sent the quest.
"Very good." Belle praised, not looking up from her book as they all watched the big flat screen tv that took up an entire wall. "Very well done, Snow."
Quest
Isle Improvement
Improve one place on the Isle
Reward: 50 exp
Construction screen
Mal frowned but a screen popped up showing the Isle. She rolled her eyes.
"You guys are morons if you think I'm not going to be selfish on this." She muttered pressing the Bargen Castle. "First thing is first the roof. It leaks too much." she pressed the roof.
Materials have been provided for your first construction.
"Gee thanks." Mal muttered, sarcastically. "So I'm going to need to get some materials in the future? That's going to hard."
1:00:00
Mal got up took a shower and dressed. By this time her screen was back showing her her Inventory screen, Skill page, equip page and Stat page.
Mal
Age: 15
Title: N/A
Race: Dark Fairy/Dragon/Human
Level: 1
HP: 100/100
MP: 100/100
STR: 5
VIT: 5
DEX: 5
INT: 5
WIS: 5
LUK: 5
"Fuck all of you." Mal hissed, grabbing her backpack. "How dare you!"
She left her room passing by her mother's room to hear she was still sound asleep. She then headed out to the Slop Shop. She quickly stole her coffee.
Stealing-1
"There you are." Jay said, running up with Carlos, and Evie. "It's Saturday. We promised Harriet that we would be on her side for the Pirate Battle in Pirate's Cove today remember?"
"Yeah, lets go." Mal smirked. "I could use some exercise."
Auradon
"A Pirate's battle?" Erik wondered. "I wonder who the players are in this?"
"Does it matter?" Aerial asked, smiling at her husband.
"I guess not but we don't do things like that around here and I'm curious." Erik shrugged.
That got a few chuckles.
"Oh, look." Tiana frowned. "Is this really the Isle?" she bit her lip. "It's horrible look at it."
The other Royals were disgusted as well.
Mal, Jay, Evie and Carlos arrived in Pirate's Cove and everyone watched them as they made their way to the two ships that would be fighting today.
"You made it!" Harriet Hook called, "Lower the gang plank!"
The gang plank lowered and they walked up on to the ship.
"Raise the gang plank!" Harriet bellowed. "Give Mal, Jay, Evie, and Carlos swords!"
Sammy, Squeaky, and Squirmy Smee came running. Squirmy being the youngest had the swords while Sammy and Squeaky raised the gang plank.
Mal, Jay, Evie and Carlos took the swords and sheaths tieing them on.
Quest
Win
Reward:
50 exp
50 gold
That was a given.
Captain Hook came up on the dock with a bullhorn and addressed everyone who was gathered at Pirate's cove.
"Today's battle will be between Harriet Hook's Pirate Crew and Uma's Pirate Crew. " he announced. "There is no maiming you can draw blood but no life threatening wounds, if you hit the water you're out and must swim to shore. The first ship to sink loses. If the Captian hits the water that team loses. That said, let the battle begin!"
The ships were moved out in to the water but not far from the dock. Planks were placed connecting the ships.
"Evie, Carlos." Mal said, "Take Squirmy and make sure those cannons keep firing."
Evie and Carlos grabbed the kid and ran off.
"Shall we meet them head on?" Mal asked Harriet and Jay.
Jay smirked.
The three and Sammy walked up on the plank.
"We hold them here." Harriet ordered. "Lets go."
Mal expertly slashed the first person crossing then moved away and kicked him into the water.
"FIRST DOWN!" Mal called.
Sword Mastery-1
Mal was annoyed but was soon too busy to care. She showed that damn skill how good she was and that she knew exactly how to fight and use swordplay.
Auradon
"Oh, I think I like her." Mulan said, with a small smile. "Look at that form she obviously knows what she's doing."
"Yes, " Shang agreed. He'd given her this quest. "This is interesting. I've never seen so many girls fighting before."
He got nods.
Erik was really getting into the battle as were all the men in the room.
Mal was sweating. She lost her footing as one of the cannons went off. Her eyes got big as she almost fell. Suddenly, a strong hand grabbed her arm pulling her to safety. It was Jay of course. She nodded her thanks and quickly disposed of someone charging at them. They were right back into the fight.
No one had missed Jay saving Mal but it wasn't unusual in these kinds of fights in fact members of both crews were trying to help their own. If it meant them going over as well they would let go and let the other drop and that was excepted here. So no one would comment on it.
Mal jumped so a sword went under her feet the cannon fired again and her feet touched down. She parried and they were soon fighting out. She drove him back to his ship. It was clear that he was overwhelmed.
"SHARKS!" Someone in the water bellowed. "NO MORE BLOOD!"
Mal missed cutting the guy on purpose and sent him over the edge. She smirked as Uma engaged her. They were soon going all out against each other. They were soon on Uma's ship not paying attention to anything around them. So it came as a shock when Mal heard Jay screaming for her. She looked and cursed the ship was close to the water. She ran and grabbed the rope he'd sent her. She swung up on to Harriet's ship. Jay sighed in relief.
Uma landed in front of her but was cursing. She engaged Mal again.
"You're ship's going down give up!" Mal yelled to Uma.
"No way!" Uma yelled back. "I'll take you down!"
They fought and Mal backed Uma out onto the plank.
"It's over Uma." Mal said, she gave a hard slash. Uma parried but Mal overpowered her and sent her into the water just as the mast went into the water.
"Winner Harriet Hook's Pirate Crew!" Hook's voice rang out.
Mal carefully backed off the plank. She couldn't swim and didn't want anyone to notice.
"The battle lasted four and a half hours a new record so Sammy says." Evie reported. "er...sorry we almost caused you to fall in."
She pointed. Carlos was getting yelled at by Harriet who was lowering netting for her crew to climb back on to the ship.
"Carlos tried a chemistry mixture to boost the gunpowder." Evie explained, "Worked like a charm but Harriet's tearing into him because you almost fell."
"If Jay hadn't been by my side I would have." Mal sighed, she was holding her left arm. "We should probably save him."
"I don't think so." Jay scoffed, "Let him handle it. He caused a good number of the crew to go down when he fired the first shot."
"HARRY, GET OFF MY SHIP!" Harriet bellowed at her younger brother. "YOU'RE UMA'S PIRATE!"
"Come on, sis the sharks are swarming down there!" Harry Hook cried, falling on to the ship. "They're hungry today."
"Then go feed one your hand!" Harriet bellowed.
Harry looked thoughtful for a second.
In this time Carlos had fled to Mal, Evie and Jay not wanting to get yelled at anymore.
Harriet's ship wasn't without damage and they barely made it back to the dock in one piece. They all got off the ship and watched Uma's crew swimming as fast as they could to get away from the sharks. Mal held her sword out to Jay who took it. She walked to the end of the dock and held her right hand out to Uma who glared at her but took it. Mal pulled her out of the water. Then held her left upper arm again.
"Good fight, Uma I look forward to next time." Mal said, smugly. She turned and walked away. "Oh, and don't forget you said, if we won today you'd treat Harriet, Jay, Carlos, Evie and Me to Clams."
Uma sweatdropped she had forgotten about her side deal with Mal. She'd made it when she'd heard that Harriet had recruited the four to fight today.
Auradon
Laughter could be hear outside of the room.
"and here I thought she was actually doing a good dead." Fairy Godmother sighed.
"Well, she didn't push the girl back in." Aerial replied.
"I'm more surprised that the boy saved her." Charming replied. "Jay son of Jafar was it? Love interest maybe?"
"I doubt they have such relationships." Phillip replied, as they watched Evie wrap Mal's arm as they headed back to the main part of the Isle.
"Oh, Ursula owns a food stall?" Aerial said, "I did wonder what she was doing these days."
Jay, Mal, Harriet, Carlos, and Evie ate until their stomachs couldn't hold anymore much to Uma's dismay.
Ursula reminded it that it was her own fault for making the bet which just pissed Uma off even more of course.
Mal stretched as she left the small one table sitting area of Ursula's Fish and Chips. She'd stashed her sword in her Inventory secretly when they'd arrived. Harry was suddenly at her side.
"I'll buy you dinner." He grunted as Mal's knee made contact with his stomach. She moved to the side and he crumpled to the floor. "Ah, come on..."
"Not in a million years, Harry." Mal deadpanned.
Harriet was laughing loudly at her brother's failure. Mal always said now.
Hand to Hand-1
Mal looked as Jay, Carlos and Evie joined her and they walked off. When they were out of sight Mal tossed a small coin purse up and down in her hand.
Pick Pocketing-1
"He's such an easy mark." Jay scoffed.
"Oh, and what did you get from today's battle?" Mal wondered.
"I was too busy." Jay said, blushing. "It's been awhile since you and I did that and I'm outta shape."
"I can't believe you guys do that for fun." Evie said, "Carlos and I were forced to stay below deck but from what we were able to see from the cannon holes it was brutal."
"We're well compensated." Jay replied, "Uma always feeds us after. She always makes the same bet with Mal and hasn't won yet. "
"But this is the first time I took her down myself." Mal reported. "Normally, she goes down with the ship but not willingly. Last time she went down trying to rescue Harry at the last second. We fired a cannon to take out the rest of the ship just as she got him to safety. "
"Yeah, that face plant into the water was hilarious." Jay laughed. "and Harry almost lost his hook in the water."
"Do the sharks always show up?" Carlos decided to ask.
"No." Mal said, "That was my fault. Normally, we don't send the bleeders off the ships so far from the dock the fact that I drew first blood and Jay and I continued to draw blood made them swarm."
Mal noticed she could see names and information above other peoples heads. She hadn't noticed during the battle because she'd been too busy. She stared around as they walked aimlessly.
Skill Created!
Observe-1
You can get information on people and objects. The higher the level the more information you can get.
Mal almost smirked this could come in handy. She wondered if she should tell Evie, Carlos and Jay about her Gamer Power but decided not to. Not yet after all no one could trust anyone on the Isle. She blinked when she noticed something else above Jay's head. All their heads in fact.
Friendship: 60
Love: 10
Lust: 0
She quickly looked away. Jay thought her his friend. A good friend by the looks of it. What the hell was that Love level?! She wanted to demand he tell her. There was no way that he actually loved her. No way. This power just got so damn annoying. She discreetly tried Evie.
Friendship: 3
Love: 0
Lust: 0
Okay, so Evie didn't seem to in to being friends. Though, Mal had to wonder why she'd come today then. She looked at Carlos
Friendship: 0
Love: 0
Lust: 0
Carlos is too scared of everyone and everything to properly consider any of the above . Unlock a Relationship system with him to unlock.
Relationship system? She was annoyed when a screen popped up in front of her. She looked it over. Apparently, there was a Reputation and Relationship system. Carlos was locked into being terrified of her. She deserved that she guessed. She looked at what Relationship she could unlock with him there was only one. Minion. She wouldn't mind that. They'd reached the far side of the Isle. She thought of choosing Minion and it worked.
Are you sure you want Carlos as your Minion he is rather High Maintenance.
Mal didn't know what that meant but thought 'yes' hard.
Carlos son of Cruella is now your minion.
You can give him one task at a time.
She brought up her Reputation/Relationship lists for Evie. Again the only one unlocked was Minion. She could get behind that for now so she thought yes.
Evie daughter of Evil Queen is now your Minion.
Mal was a little hesitant to even look at the lists for Jay. She decided to do it later. She wasn't scared of what she'd read really she wasn't!