It has been 3 months since the incident at Cotillion and still no sign from Uma. I was starting to get worried for her, I mean what if she was caught as her sea monster style and captured.
I knew she wouldn't abandon us, EVER. Even if she hated us, which she doesn't, she wouldn't abandon the other kids from an unhealthy and unfair lifestyle.
I was walking to Dr Faciliers Arcade to meet with Celia. We had to go to Hades Lair to deliver things for him.
Since I came back, me, Celia and Dizzy have been besties, we would always go out and do things together, we helped Dizzy in her shop and helped Celia with the arcade. They couldn't really help me with anything though, since I was a pirate and I had to have confidential things.
Me and Marie broke up 5 weeks after I came back. We decided we were better as being friends. Now she had a huge crush on a girl called Arianna, who is daughter of Mother Gothel and sister of that dickhead Adrian. I don't understand how someone so nice can be related to someone so annoying.
Anyway, I knocked on the back door (the secret knock) and entered it. I saw Dr Facilier serving costumers and walked down the stairs.
"Hey Dr Voodoo! Where's Celia?" I asked him.
"Ah! Hello Nia! She's in her room waiting for you, have fun and get into trouble!" He called to me while I left for Celia.
He was one of the nicer villains, I'm glad Celia had a dad like him. He treated me and Dizzy like daughters.
"Ok! We will!" I yelled back. I went up to Celia's room to find her drawing Auradon.
I walked in and slammed the door yelling, "Honey! I'm Home!"
I scared Celia half to death, she jumped out her chair and grabbed a mug to throw at me. I caught it with ease, from all the training sessions I have with Harry.
"Holy Shit! Don't do that again!" She complained.
"Awwwww, but it's so fun" I replied smirking. She just stuck her tongue out, I did the same.
"Come on, we gotta go" I said to her.
"Yeah yeah" she said getting up groggily.
We walked out of her room, she grabbed her key to Hades's lair and we said goodbye to Dr. Voodoo.
Me and Celia walked out of the arcade and towards the shops. "Soooo, what do you think about King Ben making changes to the Isle?" Celia asked.
"Honestly, I'm glad he finally took Evie's advice" I said smiling. "Celia, we already know Dizzy's going. But I think you are going to." I said to her.
"Really? What makes you say that?" She asks curiously.
"Well, when the Core Four ruled, Mal was really close to you. And she's not choosing me so it's got to be you!" I reasoned.
"So, does that mean Jay's gonna pick you?" She asked.
"I'm not going, not yet." I said to her, she looked at me confused, "I can't abandon Harry and Gil." I said.
"Fair enough, they are basically your brothers." She agreed.
"Plus I'm still waiting on Uma." I said which made Celia look at me confused. I looked at her and sighed, "She's my big sister. I know she's coming back." I said looking out to the edge of the Isle.
"I'm sure she will" she said smiling at me. "Ok, I'll go get food and you get the fruit ok?"
"Uuugghhh I really don't want to go Golden Fruits" I complained.
"Why?" Celia looked at me confused.
"Becauuuusssee, Gothel's son always harasses me." I said with an eye roll.
"What? Why don't you tell anyone?" She asks shocked.
"It's not a big deal. I'm used to it. It's happened for a while now." I said casually.
Celia just stared at me in shock, I gave her a confused glance and said, "wanna come with me?" She looked at me confused and nodded her head.
--__***__--
We walked into the street where Golden Fruits was, I stopped and turned to Celia.
"Ok, when I walk in, I may seem like a completely different person. 'Cause I need to keep my 'pirate bitch' act up so... don't be surprised."
She looked at me and smiled, "How bad could it be?"
"Bad" We heard a voice come from the alley behind me.
"Arianna Gothel, what a pleasure." I said sarcastically. Of course the sister of that idiot Adrian had to show up. I slowly turned around.
"Oh please, it's not like you aren't happy to see me." She said smirking. I rolled my eyes.
"Yeah, whatever, just go back to Mare. Have you asked her out yet?" I asked curious.
She looked down at her feet, avoiding my gaze. I groaned and walked up to her and flicked her head.
"Ow! What was that for!" She said.
"Oh calm down, and honestly ask her! She really likes you!" I said.
"Really?" Arianna asked finally looking at me curiously.
"Really. Now go!" I said pushing her to the direction of the Chip Shoppe. She walked away waving at me. We have a friendship but act like we hate each other.
"I'm so confused... I thought you didn't like her, and your helping her ask your ex out?" Celia asked confused.
I sighed, "I never hated her, we were actually friends but her brother stopped her from seeing me. Then she finally saw me again and she told me everything. Long story short, we're friends and we need to get 'The Flamethrower' some food." I said walking into the shop.
"I warn you know, this may get messy, oh and call me 'Shar' in here. I have a reputation to keep up." I said to her, nicely. She simply nodded.
I walked in, head held high and put on a menacing glare.
I walked over to the front desk and put my hand out out. It was the same guy as the last time when Mal came back.
He seemed to remember me and instantly gave me money and a carrier bag of fruit for Hades.
I smiled sucky sweet at him and he cowered back. I walked over to Celia when I heard a familiar voice.
"Princess! There you are! Where have you been my duckling?" Adrian said.
"What did I say about calling me princess?" I turned to him. He saw the look in my eyes and backed up a little.
He soon smirked and turned to Celia. He walked over to her.
"Oooh, boys. Seems like we have some fresh meat with us here today." He said to his little 'gang' while walking over to Celia.
I pulled out my sword and shoved the tip to his throat. "Touch her, speak to her or even look at her again and you will no longer have a tongue or dick." I said to him.
The other boys laughed at me but Adrian backed away. The boys looked at him in confusion, "Adrian? What are you doing? She's only a girl! It's not like she's Uma or Shar or anything." One commented.
Celia took the opportunity and said, "Shar can we go back now? Harry and Gil will be looking for you."
YES CELIA. Fucking hell she's smart.
"Wait.. she didn't say-" Another boy said.
"Shar? Yeah. I suggest we run." Adrian said while looking at my sword. The boys ran away and me and Celia walked out with the food and money, high-fiving.
"Wow... that was different. I'm not used to seeing people act like that around you." She said.
I laughed and remembered something, I took out 3 coins and handed them to Celia, then I put the rest of the money in my pocket. "Your cut" I said to her.
We both laughed, and got the rest of Hades food before heading to his lair.
--__***__--
Me and Celia walked into Hades's Lair.
"Oh Flaaameeyyy" I yelled.
"I don't get why you can do that but I can't" Celia said, pouting. I laughed at this.
"Ahh! There are my minions!" Hades said.
I looked at him with an eyebrow raised, "your what?" I asked, laughing slightly. He rolled his eyes.
"Ok fine, my errand rats" he said annoyed.
Me and Celia laughed and he joined in. He kinda treated us like children. He can be sweet. Surprisingly.
We gave him his food, and Celia left. I stayed behind so we could bitch talk Maleficent and then left to the Chip Shoppe.
I did my regular chores and went to hang with Harry and Gil.
I walked in the back and peaked through the door to find Harry and Maire talking and Gil listening, I saw Arianna's arm around Mare's shoulder. I smirked and kicked the door open.
"YES! Finally! I can't believe it took you 2 months to get together!" I said walking in.
Mare blushed and Arianna looked down blushing even more.
Harry looked at me shocked, "YOU KNEW!"
I laughed, "Obviously? Who do you think they came to advice for? The bestie and the crushes bestie." I said smirking.
Harry's jaw dropped, along with Arianna's and Maire's. I laughed at there faces.
"You asked her too?!" Maire and Arianna said at the same time looking at each other.
"Welp, it's fine with me as long as it doesn't make Shar uncomfortable." Harry said pointing to me.
"Yeah, your good" I said smiling and laughing at their relived faces.
I sat down in the sofa next to Harry and groaned, this got Gil's attention.
"What's wrong Cricket?" He asked me. I rolled my eyes.
Arianna snorted at the nickname and Mare questioned, "Cricket?"
"She's small and agile, like a cricket" Harry said nonchalantly, "my nickname for her is Fish bait" he said smirking.
"Hilarious hooky, absolutely hilarious" I said sarcastically.
I looked at Gil and he said, "Cricket, you got on the couch and groaned. Something wrong." He said seriously.
"Honestly! It's nothing" I said trying to shrug it off. But Harry looked at me and raised an eyebrow.
I groaned again, I finally gave up and said, "Nothing, it's just after VK day, all I'm gonna have to hang out with is you guys" I said rolling my eyes.
"Hey what's wrong with us!" Gil said, offending with a hand on his chest, the wrong side of course.
At the same time Harry asked, "You'll still have Celia won't you?"
I turned to Gil, "Nothing and," I turned to Harry, "I'm like 95% sure Mal will pick her. They were really close." I said.
"Why won't she pick you? And what about Jay?" Gil asked.
I chuckled, "I declined" I said simply.
They all looked shocked and Gil said, "WHAT? Why!?"
"I'm not going anywhere without you idiots" I said ruffling both, Harry and Gil's, hair.
"No! You are not missing your chance to go to Auradon because of us!" Harry said annoyed.
"Honestly calm down, I don't really wanna go anyway. I'm still salty towards my 'siblings' and it's full of prissy princesses that just judge me. Remember I got to experience that bitchiness when I got kidnapped there." I said taking my sketch pad out from the draw and sat back on the couch.
They all looked at me in shock and I simply said, "what?", with a shrug.
"You... you would do that for us?" Gil said teary eyed.
"For fucks sake how do you guys not realise that your my new adopted brothers" I said while sketching the ocean. "And don't start crying, that's just stupid. It also doesn't get you anywhere, dickheads"
Gil was tearing up, and Harry just shook his head and chuckled. Mare and Arianna stood there smiling and also a little shocked about the emotions I'm showing without showing emotions physically.
I was looking out at the ocean when I saw a tentacle pop out. I instantly froze in my spot. One word came to my mind. Uma.
"Fish bait? Fish bait? Shar? NAOMI!" Harry yelled. I jumped.
"Shit.. uhh sorry.. I umm.. I'm going for a run.. yeah? Ok bye!" I said running out the room. I left my sketch book and hat there.
"Uhm.. what's up with her?" Gil asked confused watching me run out.
"No idea.." Mare said.
--__***__--
I ran out the Chip Shoppe and sprinted down the street. I saw it was really busy so I jumped on the roofs and started to run along them.
I finally came to a holt at the edge of the island and saw Uma looking for a weak spot. She raised her head at the sound of footsteps and spotted me. She gave me a huge smile.
"Naomi.." she said with a smile.
I practically ran into the ocean and shape-shifted into a hawk. I found a big plank to sit on and shifted back into my human form.
"Hi Uma..." I said with a sad smile.
"I knew you would come back" I said again happily.
"Of course I'd come back! I won't just abandon my family" she said with a happy smile.
"How can you shape-shift from inside?" She asked confused.
"I guess this magic in me is good?" I said laughing.
"Now don't be going soft on me Cricket" she said with a smirk.
"Wouldn't dream of it Shrimpy" I said mirroring her expression.
We talked and caught up and she told me about her plan to set kids from the isle out of the barrier. I thought it was amazing so I decided to help however I could.
"Hey Uma. If I do ever... you know... make it out the barrier, I'm going to tap my heel twice on the bridge. Ok? In case I need you. Would you help me?"
"Obvi! Girl no matter what I'd always help my sister out! Like I have been doing for the past year or so. Sisters from another Mister." She said with a wink. I laughed at this.