Uma told me to stay out of sight at first, so I clambered up into the ramparts. I watched Harry grow impatient guarding Ben. He was so loud,

"Uma! You said I could hurt him!" She laughed and shoved his face away. Harry glared and then pouted up at me. I laughed and threw a knife down to him in a perfect spiral. He caught the hilt and threw it back up. We played catch with the knife for a while until Gil shouted,

"They're here!" Uma did a little jig and Harry threw my dagger up to me one more time, blew a kiss, and walked away. I adjusted my feet on the beam I crouched on. I was a good sword fighter, but it wasn't my best art, and I was hoping it wouldn't come to that.

I watched as Mal and her gang, plus some AK, walked onto the docks. Unsuspecting Carlos stationed himself right under me. Seeing him there, in my reach finally, made my blood start to rush quicker. I felt alive. Taking over Auradon would be an amazing sidenote, but my only interest was showing Carlos that I was the De Vil that would be remembered. I aimed to show him that he made a mistake by leaving me behind.

Mal and Uma started their argument, and I took it as my chance. I nodded once to Harry and then flipped down from the rafter. I landed quiet as an alley cat behind Carlos. He didn't notice.

At least, he didn't notice till I draped my arm around his neck and rested my chin on his shoulder. He startled and turned his head to see my face.

"Cece!" I chuckled, stroking his cheek with my hand.

"Miss me?" His eyes grew wide with fear. He knew how much I hated his little guts. He knew how I had done my best to make his life miserable. His eyes darted to his friends, but they were focused on Ben.

"Bennyboo is more important than you. They care about him more than you. They wouldn't notice if you were gone," I purred, folding a hand over his mouth. I felt that sink into him as he sagged back into me. I slowly took my hand away from his mouth.

"Cece?" he whispered quietly. "I know how you feel now." I grinned like a shark.

"You haven't felt anything yet." At that moment, Harry started talking. I rolled my eyes, how loud could he get? Carlos tried to wrench free, but I twirled a knife out of my belt and held it to his neck.

"Don't move," I hissed.

Finally, Mal handed Uma the wand. She grabbed Ben and started moving. I rushed to join Uma, Harry, and Gil. Harry wrapped an arm around my shoulders. Uma said the words to bring down the barrier and… nothing happened.

"What?" she yelled. Then she snapped the obviously 3-D printed wand with her knee.

"Get them!" she screamed. I unsheathed my sword and jumped over a barrel to grab Carlos's collar. Nobody got to trick us like that. He yelped in surprise, and unsheathed his sword as well. I disarmed him immediately. Unsheathing my smallest knife, I grabbed his exposed right forearm and carved my name into his flesh, deep enough that it would scar, but not enough to make him bleed to death. He screamed. For anyone else, it would have heart-rending. I laughed. Mal shot a glance over at Carlos's scream and gasped.

"Cece?" I grinned. Her eyes flashed green. In turn, I barked and my canine teeth lengthened to fangs. She startled, because I hadn't let anyone know that I could do that. Mal ran at me and grabbed Carlos, who was holding onto my masterpiece of a tattoo. They raced for the exit. Uma, Harry, and Gil chased after them, but I didn't. I just stood there with a grin on my face. Revenge never tasted so sweet.

Mal and her friends got away, and Uma stormed back to where I was standing.

"Cece! Why are you smiling? We're back to square one!"

"But I got revenge!" I laughed. Uma growled in frustration, but then Gil shouted,

"Hey! Mal dropped her spellbook!" Uma whirled around and stomped over to where Gil was standing. Harry walked over to me,

"You got your revenge?" I snickered,

"Let's just say Carlos will bear my signature for years to come." Harry whistled.

"When you said revenge, you meant revenge."

"Duh," I said, planting a kiss on his lips. "We better get back to Uma." I laced my fingers through his and pulled him over just in time to hear Uma say,

"I've got a plan, and none of you are part of it."

.....

Basically, she was going to follow them back to Auradon, cast a love spell on Ben, and make him take down the barrier as a gift.

"Bye!" she said, leaving to get through before the barrier closed. Harry yawned and steered me back to the ship.

"I'm exhausted!" he said as we walked down to his room. I laughed,

"I'm still in the middle of an adrenaline rush." Harry opened the door and we both jumped onto the bed, wrestling for his pillow with laughs and shouts. Finally, he wrenched it from my grasp and stuck it behind his head with breathless sigh. I frowned but laid down next to him, using his arm as a pillow. Harry looked down at me,

"You realize that we have a little bit of Uma-free time?" I laughed,

"Freedom!" He pulled me closer with a chuckle,

"Tomorrow, we are going looting, and we'll get to keep what we steal!" I cuddled closer, "It's a date."