𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙪𝙧 ... 𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙨 𝙜𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙢𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙨

While the riot had their own share of fun, the group that followed behind Pandora had to wait a little longer for their own time. They walked silently behind the spawn of evil, the heavy and awkward silence hanging around with the noise of their own footsteps as they walked up the path. Besides the footsteps, Pandora could hear Archeros' giggling and whispering to himself, he rolled his eyes, knowing he was trying to get on his nerves. And it did, but he had to push past it in order to get to the ball in time. After another few minutes of walking, they started to hear loud music and people laughing and chatting. Pandora walked faster, eager to finally see their destination that they'd been dying to get to for a month now. Up over a small lump in the path and they finally saw the Manor in full life. They have finally arrived.

"We're here," Pandora said, staring in awe at the astonishing beauty of the Manor.

Fancy cars arrived at the front entrance, and the guests approached the entrance dressed in beautiful gowns and stunning additions to make it a true costume. Before crossing the huge double doors, men dressed in all black stood to check invitations and the guest list before they could enter.

"Let me see-- get out of the way" Archeros shoved his way to the front, Pandora immediately spun around and stuck his staff out, thumping against Archeros' chest.

"Listen here, you" he didn't get any closer, but instead stared straight into his eyes, "you better not blow our cover, you better not do anything to draw attention to yourself, or my whole plan will go to waste AND--" he stopped before he raised his voice anymore, and instead lowered his staff and looked at Archeros' outfit, then back up at Archeros, "there will be hell to pay" he simply said reaching out to gently dust off Archeros' outfit, "hope you understand, you can get all the attention you want after the attack" Pandora looked off at the rest of the group.

"Pandora, it'll be so hard not to have people staring at me," he said, adjusting the red crown on his head.

"The crown's too much, take it off" Pandora commented, giving him a side glare.

"There's no such thing as too much," Archeros said, "and if you let me wear it, I promise not to take the spotlight away from you for five minutes straight"

"Keep it," he said, "five minutes is all I need"

Archeros looked smug as Pandora turned to look at the rest of the group, "In pairs of two, get in using the side entrance my beauties, there's little, if hardly any authorized personnel to guard those side doors." he stepped back for each person to step up and see the doors he was referring to, "if anyone gives you any trouble, use your pretty face, Vasco's are exclusively for when the signal is given," he looked at the girls with a smirk, "we wouldn't want any uninvited rodents to come play so soon" he wrapped up with, "don't enjoy the party too much and stay in your places" He looked at Gloria and Jane, "go on" he gestured to the entrance.

Gloria had a poker face as she picked up her gown and moved forward, Jane, on the other hand, had a huge Cheshire cat smirk elegantly striding forward with a slim purple skin-tight dress, whispering some kind of protected hail mary before following behind Gloria.

The group watched them cross the small garden and disappear inside the cream-colored elegant side doors.

"Alright, move me next" Leigh-Anne pushed her way but Pandora stopped her, by once again sticking his staff out.

"Wait at least five minutes," he said looking at her, "we can't all head in at one, it'll be too suspicious.

She pouted her lips and crossed her arms, "fine" she mumbled.

Pandora leaned against a tree and placed his right two fingers on his left wrist, counting his pulse beats to keep track of the minutes gone by. After approximately five minutes, his green eyes flickering up to look at Leigh-Anne, "you and--" he paused looking at the group of people, "where's Lorelai?" he pushed himself off the tree and looked around, "where's Lorelai?" he asked once more.

Everyone looked around but Lorelai was nowhere in sight.

"Anyone see her when she left?" he asked, annoyed.

No one answered, some shook their heads.

"Damn it, Lorelai" he ran his hand through his hair, "fine, Archeros go with Leigh-Anne"

"Absolutely not, Sarah said she wants to go with her sister," Archeros said, pulling on Sarah's arm.

"Um, I-" Sarah tried to speak up but Archeros interrupted.

"See she's antsy to get in," he said, "then that'll just leave me and Gabe--"

"Gabe is coming with me," Pandora said sternly, placing a hand over Gabe's shoulders.

Archeros' face turned red with anger, and Leigh-Anne's patience had run out.

"Screw you guys, I'm going in" she huffed and stormed off by herself.

Pandora tried to grab her, but she had already walked down the small hill and gone off through the small garden patch. Pandora held his breath and hoped she didn't attract too much attention to herself as she entered through the doors. He turned to look at Archeros, slightly angry.

Archeros quickly grabbed Sarah by the wrist, "one, three, five! Well that's time, I'll wait for you inside! Ta-ta!" he waved, pulling Sarah behind him as he speed-walked away.

They watched as he opened the doors, and pushed Sarah inside, his head turning to look back at the two left up on the small hill. He smiled before slipping between the two doors.

Pandora let out a sigh, the thick silence clung in the air between them for a short second before Pandora turned to Gabe, he smiled and stuck his hand out, "well, shall we?"

𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙪𝙧 ... 𝙜𝙖𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙡'𝙨 𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙚

Gabe stood frozen for a while, butterflies danced in his stomach, he was dreaming, wasn't he?

"Gabriel?" Pandora said in an expectant tone.

Gabe blinked a couple of times before his cheeks flushed red as he stumbled forward, grabbing onto Pandora's hand. Pandora turned towards the main entrance, taking one step at a time, using his staff to lean on for support while Gabe tried to match his graceful strides.

But Gabe couldn't match his steps, besides his nerves, for the fact that they were heading towards the main door rather than the door, everyone else had entered from.

"I-um... Pandora?" he whispered.

"Yes?" he said not taking his eyes off the entrance nor stopping.

"W-why--" he stopped and reworded his question, "shouldn't we--" he stopped and asked a different question, "wouldn't it be safer to use the side door? Or why are we--"

"Gabe I want to walk through those doors, as a proper guest," he said then turned his face to look at him, "and your my plus one" he looked away smiling as they got closer, Gabe's face flushed even more.

Gabe had a million thoughts running through his head, but he didn't want to ask any more questions. His pace never got any better, he seemed reluctant to go in through the front door. Being dragged along like a puppy on a leash.

'Was this a date?' 'what if they got caught?' 'what would happen to the others? Would the others get trapped there?' 'and archeros?'

It was taking a great deal not to hypervigilant as they finally reached the stairs of the Manor.

Their arms interlocked, Pandora kept his face up and looked forward, it took a great deal not to smile as the feeling of pride took over him. With each step up the stairs, he stood up straight, his chest puffing up boosting his ego.

"Gentleman, may I see your invitation?" A dark-skinned man stopped them. He wore black sunglasses and was rather large and also bald.

"Of course," Pandora grinned, letting go of Gabe's hand.

Gabe didn't know what to do with his hands when Pandora let go. Pandora took the invitation out of his coat, unfolded the letter, and gave it to the security guard. Gabe saw the tattoos on the guard's knuckles as he held the letter to examine it.

'C O B R A'

"You have a general admission invite, and I take it, he's your plus one?" he said looking at Gabe.

Pandora sighed dramatically, "I had such a difficult time deciding who to bring, I wanted to bring all my friends to the ball"

Cobra tilted his head, "at least you won't outshine the royals with these costumes" he gave the letter back, "enjoy the ball" he signaled for them to continue in.

Gabe immediately latched back onto Pandora's arm as they walked past the door's entrance and were finally inside.

A manor? The Beauty's thought they were being humble by calling it a manor? This was no manor, it was a great big castle! Gabe avoided looking all around as everything caught his eye. The marble walls and double staircase, the gold accents, and roses carved into the walls. And talk about the decor, it was not Halloween at all, more like a rose-gold ball. There were people both in the center of the ballroom and the second story that wrapped around the outside of the main floor was packed as well.

Pandora leaned in close to Gabe's ear and said, "get to your place" then he let go of Gabe's arm and stepped into the first-floor dance floor.

Currently, there was no dance, just servers walking and greeting guests, guests chatted, and ate h'orderves and drank glasses of champagne. Pandora took a few minutes to wander around, observing the surroundings and plotting.

Meanwhile, Gabe stood frozen, he was panicking, he didn't want to be left alone. Where was he to go? What was he gonna do?

He felt someone squeeze his arm and thought Pandora had come back, but when he turned to look at him, it was somebody different.

"May I have this dance?" he asked.

Archeros.

Gabe immediately recognized the originality of the decorated red mask, the crown on his head, and the supreme suit he wore. Gabe instantly latched on to him, hugging him tightly.

"Yes," he whispered, still hugging him tightly

𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙪𝙧 ... 𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙞'𝙨 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣

She had been wandering around, everything was so pretty and glossy when she felt someone take a hard grip on her arm. She turned around to meet with a pair of all-too-familiar green eyes behind a laced black mask.

"Pandor-"

His hand covered her mouth, "Lorelai, why did you leave? You were supposed to wait"

She bit his hand, he quickly uncovered her mouth and rubbed the spot, scowling at her.

Just like the rest of the beauties, and unlike the other groups, she didn't have a face mask. Instead, she had a very smokey eye, almost creating a make-up mask to cover her eyes.

She crossed her arms and held her head up high, "because"

"Because what, Lorelai?" he asked.

"Because I could, and I did. Because I don't care about your whole blackhearts operation," her voice shook with anger, "because I wanted to make my own entrance and have my own fun"

"Lorelai shut up!" he whispered yelled, but every word she said hurt more than they should have, but he couldn't risk people overhearing and his plan ruined. He grabbed her by the arm once more and took her to a corner away from people, "what did you do?"

"I had fun" she crossed her arms, "without you, and it was so much better"

"I--" he let out a loud sigh and ran a hand through his hair, "just, please, behave until the..." he looked around and waited for a couple to walk by, "revolt"

She rolled her eyes and said nothing.

"Behave for me, please," he said, wrapping his arms around her waist, but Lorelai wasn't having it.

She pushed him off herself and looked straight at him, "I think we're done here, Pandora"

"What?" he said making a move to grab her arm but she moved away, "Lorelai-"

"Don't touch me, that's all you ever did to me" she pushed him back again, he fell onto his ass looking up at her. She bent down and placed her hand on his chest, pushing him down, "I won't be back, so don't come back, you're a loveless piece of shit, you know that right?" she got up and flipped him off before walking away.

Time was too precious to be wasted in mourning, although he must admit, Lorelai's breakup caught him by surprise. It took him a while to recover from the moment he got off the floor and dusted himself off, mentally getting back into the task at hand.

He took a glass of champagne off the tray of one of the servers and drowned it down, before setting it back on the tray. He closed his eyes.

𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙪𝙧 ... 𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙧𝙖'𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙪𝙚

He opened them and it was showtime.

He smiled and everything seemed to drown out, it all narrowed down to just him and the world, nobody else was in that moment, his moment.

Two steps down and he was on the main dance floor on the first floor. Using his staff, as usual, he used it for dramatic support as he walked towards the rather large tower made of champagne glasses, which the servers came to pass out from. He stuck his hand out, it hovered over the lower part of the tower, then moved up towards the middle, before taking out a single glass.

The tower dropped down. The glass made a loud symphony as it hit the floor, glass shattered everywhere and the floor was soaking wet with champagne. It was obvious he made a mess and everything had stopped. The music, the chatting, the dancing, all of it. All eyes were now on Pandora, including his blackhearts.

He slowly turned around, leaning on his staff and holding up the champagne glass. He took a step forward, the glass crunching as he took another step then one more to be in the dead center of the room. The people on the second floor all stared down from the rail, waiting to see what was going to happen to this guest next.

Pandora drank out of his glass, a more dramatic and elegant swing this time, then dropped it causing it to shatter as he whipped his mouth with his sleeve, his eyes scanning around the top floor. He saw a man in a well-fitted white tux stand at the top of the staircase, a girl with short blonde hair following behind. She was dressed in an all-black dress and had a black horn headpiece, assuming what was supposed to be his mother.

"Oh my, please forgive me" he paused and smiled, "I'm terribly sorry for crashing your party"

"What are you doing here?" The man said walking down the stairs, "this ball is by invitation only, who let you in? You're gonna pay for thi-"

"Oh I have an invitation," he pulled out the letter from inside his coat and waved it around with a smirk, "I have every right to be here as every single one of you" he turned to look around, "me and my plus one...s. I took the liberty to bring more than one"

"You came to make a mess! I'll have you escorted out--" He reached the bottom of the stairs, standing tall over Pandora, "you and all of your... your--"

"I'm so sorry, how rude of me for not introducing myself, your majesty," Pandora said, doing a small bow.

"There's no need to--"

"My name is Pandora Faery" he pulled at his mask taking it off and looking around the room, "spawn of evil..." he paced slowly around the room, "some might have heard of my mother" he looked at the girl dressed up as her, "Maleficent"

That unleashed a series of gasps and murmurs, all around the ballroom. The King's eyes widened and so did the girl's.

Pandora had a huge smile on his face, "really? Are you all surprised at that?" he chuckled.

"But, you're mother- we had them all over the edge" the king went from surprised to angry, "so what are your intentions, you came all the way to crash our party, just to follow in your mother's footsteps? You villains are worthless- causing pain and suffering is all your good at--"

"Oh so you really want to talk about pain and suffering right now, don't you?" Pandora spit out, furious at what card the king decided to play, "you all were the ones that dumped us in that filthy land! You were the ones that poured trash on us for decades! You are the ones living here, with clean air and all your gossip news and shows while people are eating out of trash, out of YOUR trash"

The king let out a loud laugh, "what did you expect boy? For us to let you come here and drink a cup of tea with us? Your mother tried to kill my wife, what else do you think you deserve?"

Pandora's anger was rising, this man was so self-absorbed and selfish, typical royal behavior. But the audacity to try and put the blame on them? That was what triggered him.

He turned and knocked the glass and plates of h'orderves off the table with his staff, "clean air, clean water, clean clothes, some fresh food that isn't your fuckin' leftovers! Trash rains from the skies! That's what we've been living like, those are the conditions we've been living under while ALL of you--" he turned around to address his audience, "all of you have been up here eating--" he grabbed a handful of tiny samples, "eating tiny pureed food on a cracker," then he splat them on the floor, "while watching who your next top model will be--"

"ENOUGH" the king yelled, "you are going back to where you came from-- the wasteland"

Pandora stared at him and shook his head, "I'm not going anywhere, we are not going back there" he stood his ground, not breaking eye contact with the king, "you see the way you made us, you see the way you made us" he questioned, the anger in his voice now gone, he turned to speak to everyone in the room, "you see I told you I brought a plus one... well, it was more than one"

His hand discreetly went inside his coat and held Vasco's gadget, pressing on the first button, "you see the way you made us..." he waved his hand around, "you might say 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙫𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙧𝙩𝙮 𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙡..." he enunciated, "𝗕𝗔𝗗" he turned to see the king once more, "but we prefer a different term, a term that pretty much sums it all up for us" his hand once again went inside his pocket and held the gadget, "so please, let me start all over"

His face went dead serious, "ladies and gentlemen, we are..." he pushed the second button on the gadget.

"... the blackhearts" the great big oak doors thrashed opened and the riot came from behind it, they all had great big smiles on their faces.

"GUARDS!" The king called out, "I've had just about enough of you!" he looked at Pandora, "just who do you think you are to come to our royal night of celebration and crash it?"

The men in uniform that were checking letters came in grabbing several members from the riot, they were all just about ready to attack but Pandora held his hand up signaling to stop.

"Oh trust us, we've had just about enough of you too-- ALL of you," Pandora said looking at the king, "once again, My name is Pandora Faery, spawn of evil, and son of Maleficent, mistress of evil. Crashing parties is a family tradition of sorts. I am here to open my box, my box which contains all root of evil known to this world." he paused for a short second, "We are here to celebrate taking over the Magic Kingdom, now if you excuse us," he pulled out his mask, "we've got important business to take care of." he signaled for the rodent bombs to start tossing and for the chaos to ensure as he put his gas mask on and walking away from the king.

𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐢-
GUYSSSS

OMG

GUYSSSS

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS CHAPTER FOUR *INAUDIBLE SCREAMING* SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED AND TRUST SO MUCH MORE IS TO COME LIKE~

we still need the icing on this cake so next chapter will be FULL of POVs from before and after THIS moment

Okay, okay, calm down... ALSO DANI UPDATE THIS ON TIME LIKE??? WHAT???? WHO IS SHE, I DON'T KNOW HER~

ANYWAY~

also it's not even like 1 or 2 am?? Good for her getting sleep lol

See you soon ppl

stay rotten~
dani<3

also, the cruella references !! I was JUST IN LOVE WITH HER ENTRANCE HEHE

IT WAS JUST ICONIC