𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐌𝐘'𝐒 𝐒𝐎𝐍 ⎢ ❝ Two is the beginning of the end. ❞
❝ No, it can't be. ❞
❝ Oh yes, it is. ❞
⸻ 𝐁𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐆 hooked on something is hard but being hooked on someone is even harder especially if this person is on the other side of the barr...
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{THIRD PERSON POV}
The next day was Mal and Ben's engagement party, music started playing as Mal and Ben walked out, holding hands.
"There they are," Evie exclaimed as everyone bowed and curtsied to the couple.
Everyone cheered as they walked up the stairs towards the balcony that overlooked the party. They stood at the edge of the balcony before looking down at everyone.
"Lady Mal and I want to thank you for celebrating our engagement with us today," Ben announced to the crowd before turning to Mal, "I couldn't be prouder or happier to call you my Queen. So..." Ben picked up his glass and turned back to the crowd, "Raise your glasses to our future Queen of Auradon."
"To our Queen of Auradon," The crowd including me echoed back before cheering.
"Speech, your Special-ness," Carlos jokingly called up to Mal.
"Speech, your Fancy One," Jay added as everyone laughed.
Everyone looked up at Mal, waiting, as she hesitated while she looked across at the Isle of the Lost. Everyone exchanged confused looks.
"I can't," Mal blurted as everyone gasped, "I can't be Queen of Auradon."
"Mal," Ben whispered, confused, as he stepped closer to Mal as she turned to him.
"I can't turn my back on the Isle," Mal told Ben before turning back to the crowd, "We made a decision... to close the barrier forever and it was my idea but it's wrong," Mal looked down at Parker and Evie as they looked up at her proudly, with tears in their eyes, grinning, "I've learned... that you can't live in fear... because it doesn't actually protect you from anything. You never know where the bad is gonna come from and you never know where the heroes are gonna come from either. Without Uma and her pirates, Auradon would be gone. And without Hades... my father..." Mal paused as everyone, besides her friends and Parker, gasped in shock, "...Audrey would be gone. We are all capable of good and bad, no matter which side of the barrier we come from," Mal told the crowd before turning to Ben, who was looking at her with a proud smile, "And that's why I can't be Queen of just Auradon. I have to be Queen of the Isle, too and it's time that we take the barrier down, forever."
"We can't do that," Beast whispered to the two.
"It's up to us dad," Ben told his dad before he turned to the crowd, "I choose to be a King who moves forward. It's time for forgiveness, It's time for new beginnings. The barrier will come down!"
"Yes! Whoo!" Parker cheered causing everyone to laugh.
Everyone clapped as Mal gestured to her friends to come up to where she was. As each of them made their way up the stairs, Mal motioned Parker to come up. He pointed at himself and mouthed, 'Me' causing Mal to nod. Parker smiled before following the others up the stairs. Once they made it to where Mal was, Fairy Godmother handed Mal her wand, they all stood next to each other as they exchanged determined looks and nods.
