Everybody, welcome to Descendants 3: Into the World! For the sake of the story, I've made all of the characters ages the same, as well as keeping the villains on the Isle, unlike Descendants 2. I've deleted several of my stories and have been struggling with writer's block. Thank you for all supporting me. I am proud of this story, and have deemed it my most original story yet. The setting takes place after every student has graduated from school. Mal is now the queen of Auradon, Evie and Doug plan to marry in June, and other tensions arise when two new descendants arrive after Chad's exile (Read the Poisoned Apple, Parts 1 and 2). This story includes my OC's from Descendants 2, Hayden, Rose, Ulla, Cameron, Ingrid, Andrew, Amy, and Toby. If you haven't read Descendants 2, I recommend you do so before reading this. I would just like to thank everybody for their love, support, and kind praises towards my writing. We writers have to stick together, and the amount of support has been unbelievable. With that, this is Descendants 3: Into the World!

Chapter 1, at Auradon Prep, after school has ended. All students have graduated by now and are planning to continue through college and their normal lives.

Mal groaned as she laid on the bed of her former dorm room. As she stared onto the bottom of the bunk above her, Evie continued to sob like a maniac as she filed through her Auradon Prep Memory Book, the one that Fairy Godmother had given her.

"Look," Evie choked out as her deep blue mascara smeared her face, "that's the time when the Knights won the championship." She held up a stained tissue to her eyes.

Mal groaned. With a sigh, she responded, "Evie, you have to stop blubbering! Doug will be here anytime soon to pick you up, and you wouldn't want to be seen like this in front of him, now would you."

Evie's tears instantly stopped. "Oh no, you're right! My mascara is everywhere!" Evie began to redo her makeup. Mal smiled. There were only two things that distracted Evie from her moments-Doug, and makeup.

"You know, it's not like we're never gonna see each other again. We're all staying in Auradon, right?" Mal claimed, trying to calm Evie down.

Evie nodded slowly. "I guess you're right. We're all still gonna be together." Mal stood up off of the bed and sat down beside Evie in front of her vanity.

"You look gorgeous," Mal smiled.

Evie smiled back. "Take care of Auradon for me, Mal."

Mal laughed. Suddenly, a knock sounded on the door. "That must be Doug," Mal said to Evie excitedly.

But when Evie got up to open the door, Carlos stood there. "Evie, Mal," he said as he looked at them both, "I need your help."

"What's wrong?" Evie asked.

"Jay's hysterical. I don't know what's wrong with him." If it wasn't for the panicked look in Carlos' face, Mal and Evie would've burst out laughing. But there was definitely something wrong. As the three made their way down to Carlos and Jay's dorms, Mal and Evie could actually hear Jay sobbing from down the hall.

"And you say you don't know what happened?" Mal asked as they ran.

"Not a clue," Carlos responded. As they entered the dorm, Jay sat at the foot of his bed, sobbing with his head buried in his knees.

"Jay, what's wrong?" Mal asked as sweetly as she could muster. He only sobbed louder.

"See?" Carlos said. Dude seemed startled as well, as he was running around in circles on Carlos' bed.

Evie had better charm-speak. "Jay, come on tell us what your problem is or we'll never be able to help."

"Audrey broke up with me," he said simply and quickly. Carlos' look of confusion quickly changed to a look that could only read Oh…

"But why?" Evie asked.

"Family issues, her family really doesn't like villains, in case you hadn't noticed." Mal shuddered at the thought of Family Day in Sophomore Year.

"What a lying, manipulative, stuck-up, prissy, pink princess!" Evie began to scream. "I'll go to her dorm and smash her head into-"

"Evie, stop," Jay said, "It wasn't her fault. It was her demanding family's fault."

"I guess so," Evie sighed.

"Ah Jay," Carlos weakly smiled as he patted his best friend on the shoulder, "I'm sorry bro."

Jay had seemed to calm down. "I'm fine. I better get packing. I got a scholarship to Auradon U. I have to leave the 21st of August."

Trying desperately to make light of the situation, Mal quickly cut in. "Hey, that's Ben's birthday. We could have a birthday party, combined with a going away to college party."

"Hey, that's a great idea! I love parties," Carlos agreed, "like that one that you guys threw for me on my birthday as a surprise."

"Don't feel so down Jay!" Evie smiled. "They'll be plenty others."

Jay smiled along with her. "I guess so." He pushed his long hair behind his head. "Guess I'm gonna have to start putting on the charm."

Carlos rolled his eyes. Mal laughed, "Don't be like Chad."

Evie shuddered. "What did we say?"

"No saying Chad's name when you're around," Mal, Carlos, and Jay all responded in unison. Jay laughed a little. After saying their goodbyes, Mal and Evie started to walk back towards Evie's dorm.

"Oh my Gosh, Doug is probably waiting at the door right now," Evie gasped. "I've got to get back right away!"

She began to ran, Mal running behind her, until they heard another set of Earth-shattering sobs. Evie stopped in her tracks. Mal sighed and rolled her eyes. "Who is it now?" She asked, exasperated with all of the depressed people she had to run into today.

Evie followed the sound straight into Audrey and Jane's dorm. Audrey was lying on her bed, face down, head buried in her pillow, still wearing her jacket and shoes, a purse strung around her arm and sunglasses up on her head. Her hair was a mess, and Jane was trying to comfort her from the side of the bed.

"What happened?" Evie asked Jane.

Jane sighed. "She broke up with Jay." Audrey continued to sob, her face still unseen.

"We've heard," Mal said under her breath.

She was startled by a muffled scream. Audrey got up. Her face was red and blotchy. "I hate them! I hate them!" She took her pink pillows and flung around the room. She screamed again, then jumped on the bed again. "I hate my stupid family!"

"We've all been there," Mal said. Evie nodded in agreement.

"Look Audrey, I know that neither you nor Jay wanted this," Evie said as she sat down beside Audrey on the bed. "But maybe it's time to find somebody new."

Audrey sniffed. "New?" Evie nodded and smiled.

"What about Toby, he's single?" Jane suggested.

"No!" Audrey screamed. "I want Jay." She began sobbing again.

"Thanks for trying," Jane gave a half-smile to Evie and Mal.

"No problem," Evie smiled back at Jane.

"Evie!" Mal yelled, "Doug!"

"Oh! Right!" Evie yelled. And with that, she and Mal continued running through the halls. Suddenly, Mal ran straight into Ben who was coming the other way.

"Ben!" Mal exclaimed.

"Mal!" he smiled, "I was just coming to look for you."

"What about?" she asked.

"It's a long story, can we got to our dorm?" Ben asked.

"Sure," Mal said. "Go ahead and find Doug," Mal signaled to Evie.

"Thanks M," she responded, as she made her way back to the dorm.

Mal took Ben's arm. "So what did you want to talk about?"

"Well, I know that we're all out of high school now, but I thought there was still opportunities to invite more kids from the Isle."

"Yeah…" Mal was a bit concerned now.

"So I've invited two more," he told her.

"Who?" Mal asked. "I know most of those kids."

"Well, Gaston's son is one of them," he continued.

"Ah, Gaston Jr." Mal said almost laughing. "Kind of like my mom, Gaston was too arrogant to give his son an original name."

Ben laughed with her. "Tell me about him," he said.

"Well, he's super muscular, loves football, has short red hair (from one of those silly girls) and the only thing bigger than his muscle is his ego." Mal answered as she began to laugh.

"Who's the other one?" Mal asked.

"Dr. Facilier's daughter," Ben told her.

"Oh no, Freddie!" Mal looked genuinely frightened, something Ben did not see much in her at all.

"Freddie?" Ben asked. "Short for Frederique?"

Mal looked up at him with bright green eyes. "Short for, 'Let's blow this voodoo stand!' Freddie knows all of the secrets of voodoo. Of course there's actually none in the Isle. But if you let her here, she'll wreak havoc for sure."

"Don't worry, I'm sure everything will go fine," Ben smiled as he wrapped an arm around his wife. "After all, you were pretty powerful too you know."

"Were?" Mal asked with a hint of annoyance in her voice.

"Still are," Ben quickly corrected himself.

"That's better," Mal said as she smiled, looking quite pleased with herself.

"I love you darling." Ben smiled as he kissed her on the forehead.

"I love you too," Mal replied as she buried her head in his chest. "But what if this doesn't go well? I'm kind of new to this queen thing and I really don't want to be known for having my first royal proclamation to be something that would destroy Auradon."

Ben laughed in spite of himself. "We'll just have to wait and see, now, won't we."

Mal nodded as she buried her head deeper into his chest.

Things would go well for this summer, she knew. For herself, for Ben, for Freddie and Gaston, for Evie and Doug, maybe even for Jay and Audrey. But she simply knew things would be fine. Wouldn't they?