Descendants Fanfiction Collection

We Are Off to See the Wizard Part 16

Summary: Audrey's Annual Halloween Bash is coming up, and Evie has thought of a rather interesting costume idea for the Core Four. Several of their friends get pulled into the epiphany, too. It's super fluffy with Huma, Jaudrey, Bal, Jarlos, Core Four fluff, and some Mal and Hades father/daughter feels.

   "That was great," Audrey smiled widely, striding down the hall next to Hades as he walked her back to her room.

The victims of their prank had returned to Mal's castle so that they could get warmed up and rid themselves of their wet clothes in favor of some warm sweatshirts and sweatpants. Uma had finally let go of Audrey after some persuasion, but not before she had friendlily informed the princess of exactly how displeased that riding in the trunk in particular had made her.

Once Audrey had finally been freed from Uma's chokehold, Jay had offered to walk her back to her dorm, but she had sweetly refused him. Audrey had wanted a chance to thank Hades for all of his hard work in helping her idea come to fruition, so she asked him to accompany her instead.

"It was pretty darn good, I do have to say," Hades admitted with a shrug, grinning wickedly as he looked down at the brunette striding along nearby him.

"You were absolutely incredible. Of course, it was my idea, but you did an excellent job executing it," Audrey expressed kindly, not wasting time in commending herself, but also taking the initiative to offer Hades some praise as well. After all, he had done most of the heavy lifting.

"Yeah, I did excellently. You weren't too bad yourself. Y'know... For a pink princess," Hades complimented, his chest puffed up in the midst of his excessive pride.

Between the both of them, they were more than a little obnoxious with their overflowing outward self-confidence, but it was easily evident that they made a good team when it really counted.

"How did you make the lights go out?" Audrey questioned, curious about the tricks that had taken place behind the scenes. Hades offered her a sly smile before gesturing at a nearby breaker box.

"You see that?" Hades asked, and Audrey nodded, her wavy brown hair shaking slightly with the motion.

"I found one of those in a maintenance closet at the library, and I flicked one of the switches off so that all of the lights would go out. The loud boom of thunder when the lights went off was just dumb luck. That couldn't have gone better even if I had planned it!" Hades laughed heartily, enjoying himself and his wiles quite thoroughly.

Audrey couldn't help but giggle along with him, her good mood only boosted by the fact that her partner in crime was getting just as much enjoyment from their little joke as she had been.

"Did you mess up the desserts?" Hades asked Audrey in the midst of laughing, and she shook her head quickly, her mirth growing tenfold at the very thought of the baking fiasco.

"Let's just say that VKs can't cook at all," Audrey expressed, and Hades shook his head with an evil smile.

"Now, now, I'm pretty sure that Fairy Godmother's daughter cooked the cobbler, and you were in on the baking action, too. So, I'm mostly certain that none of them can cook to save their life!" Hades joked, and they both laughed hard at the pun, despite the fact that Audrey did somewhat take offense to the fact that he had implied that she could not cook either.

After a few moments, they finally calmed, and Audrey reconsidered the entire ordeal in her head. A certain facet of the prank turned up in her mind as particularly interesting, and she found that she really wanted to know about Hades' part in it.

"I really liked what you did with the Ouija board. That was very impressive," Audrey analyzed the god's profile as she joyfully thought about their little trick.

However, to her surprise, Hades lost all semblances of humor as he looked at her quickly. Audrey tilted her head to the side, not quite losing her smile but still a little worried about what was going on inside of his head at that moment.

"What?" Audrey asked him, and he furrowed his brow, looking down at the ground as he worked his jaw.

"I didn't do anything with the Ouija board. That was your job," Hades told her, a highly concerned expression on his face. Audrey's smile fell a bit as she gazed at the blue-haired man.

"Well, why did it start moving without me putting any force on it?" Audrey questioned carefully, swallowing deeply as she started to consider the very real possibility that they could have made contact with a spirit.

"I don't have the power to make anything move with my mind. My ember can harness those sorts of powers, but it's at the museum. I didn't do anything at your séance tonight," Hades explained slowly, and Audrey suddenly had a very bad feeling in her gut as she chewed the inside of her cheek with a bit of panic.

They continued on with a hushed aura surrounding them. However, Audrey couldn't help but notice how very dark it was that night, and she felt herself grow a little afraid as the lights in the hallways flickered off and on just slightly with the power and strength of the storm outside.

"Well... I guess I did say that strange things tend to happen on this night, didn't I?" Hades chuckled nervously, shifting his gaze to look at the pink princess.

"I suppose you did," Audrey shortly replied, looking about as if something was going to jump out at any moment to devour her with its darkness. Unconsciously, she drifted a bit closer to the god that was walking nearby her.

Audrey supposed that odd things did happen this time of year. And some things simply cannot be explained, especially when it comes to matters of the paranormal.

After all, that was the charm of Halloween.

A/N: Thank you so much for all of your appreciation! I had aimed for the We Are Off to See the Wizard chapters to be finished by Halloween, but I was about a month late, lol. To make it up to you all, though, I shall give you a hint of the fanfic that is to come next in this collection: let's just say that things are about to get hairy with Evie. Like literally hairy. And waggy. Be sure to let me know what your guess is for the next one, and I hope that you all have enjoyed the We Are Off to See the Wizard chapters as much as I have. Until next time! :)