~I do not own Descendants~
"Ben!" At the sound of his voice, Ben stops in his tracks and turns around to face Jay and Carlos as they rush to meet up with him.
"What's up?" He asks in a saddened voice. When Evie failed to show up with Mal after fort-five minutes, he realized they weren't coming, so he packed everything up and left.
"Have you seen Mal or Evie lately, they weren't at lunch?" Jay asks with concern as Carlos nervously scratches Dude.
"No," Ben gives a surprised look. "I was with Evie about an hour ago, and I was supposed to meet Mal after that, but she never showed up."
"Wait, weren't you supposed to have that date with Mal, and then ask her to prom?" Carlos asks in realization.
"Yeah, but Evie never showed up with Mal," Ben stops and stares at him for a second. "Wait, how do you know about that?"
"I overheard you and Evie in the library," Carlos answers with ease. "That's weird that they never showed up, it sounded like a big deal, there's no way Evie would let Mal slip out of it."
"I know, that's why I'm getting kind of concerned. Have you checked their room?" Ben asks the obvious.
"No, not yet, we were just headed there," Jay answers and points in the direction of the girls' room.
"Mind if I join you?" Ben asks, knowing that they'll let him.
"Sure," Carlos shrugs as him and Jay start to walk away, and Ben rushes to stay with them.
"Where do you think they are?" Ben asks knowing that Jay and Carlos know the two girls better than he does.
"I'm not sure, usually they come to lunch, especially with the food options here," Jay answers. Carlos gives him a look, and Jay instantly realizes why, but he can't take it back now.
"What do you mean by that?" Ben questions as he noticed Jay's slip.
"Nothing, he meant nothing, right?" Carlos gives Jay a look.
"Yeah, nothing," Jay quickly answers and decides to change the subject. "So, what's up with your asking Mal to prom?"
"Well, Evie and I have been planning out my ask to her for the past week." Ben answers, going with the change of subject. "And she was supposed to trick Mal into coming to meet me, thinking the two of them were just going to hang out or something. When neither of them showed up after a while, I realized that they probably weren't coming, so I packed up everything and left."
Ben stops for a second to open the door to the building in front of him and then continues. "I just figured they weren't coming, for who knows what reason. I mean there's no way she could've forgotten. The only thing I could come up with is that Mal forced her to do something else, and Evie couldn't think of a way out of it."
"I guess that makes sense," Carlos shrugs and then repositions Dude in his arms. "Well, let's find out then, shall we?" The three reach the hallway leading to the girls' room, and Carlos unintentionally leads the way.
When they reach the room, Carlos opens the door without hesitation. What he finds inside, isn't what he expected, or at least hoped for. It's empty, no sign of either of the girls. Jay and Ben enter after him, and they are also shocked to not see either of the girls.
"Great, this is the last place I could think of them to be," Jay sighs and turns around to leave, but instantly freezes in place at the sight of what appears to be someone's hand. Slowly, he extends his own hand out to move the door, to reveal a frozen Evie.
Jay isn't sure what to think at the sight of Evie; she appears to be in mid-sentence and her hand is outstretched in front of her, like she's reaching out for something, or someone. Jay shifts his hand, which he hasn't moved from the door, to Evie's closest hand. He lightly feels it and realizes that she's just frozen in time, her hand is still warm. A look of fear is spread across her face, but her eyes also show a hint of sadness with an almost unnoticeable tear in one. A gasp escapes Jay's mouth, and he can't seem to find his voice yet.
As Carlos further examines the room, he watches Dude, who is on Mal's bed, out of the corner of his eye. While Carlos does that, Ben overhears Jay's gasp and he quickly turns around. "Jay, what did you-" Just like Jay, Ben freezes in his spot and can only stare at the frozen girl in front of him.
"Okay, guys, what's going-" Carlos stops mid-sentence when he lays eyes on Evie. "What happened?" He asks, as he didn't freeze up and loss his voice like the other two boys.
"I-I don't know," Jay finds his voice and stutters out an answer.
"Well, whatever did, it definitely involves magic," Carlos says as he picks up Dude. "And there's only one person we know who could've done this." Jay nods in agreement and Ben stares wide-eyed at the two.
"Wait, wait, you think Mal did this?" Ben asks with a hint of rage in his voice, joining the conversation after finding his own voice.
"Who else?" Carlos asks, not expecting Ben to think of anyone else,
"I-I don't know, but we can't instantly say it was her," Ben argues.
"Even if it was her, the only way to know for sure is standing right in front of us," Jay gestures to Evie. "We need to get to her to Fairy Godmother, or we'll never know for sure."
"And so she won't be frozen like this forever," Carlos adds and Jay gives him a slight glare.
"Okay Mr. Obvious, why don't Ben and I go find Fairy Godmother," Jay gestures for Ben to follow him. "Carlos, could you watch Evie for us? We'll be back as soon as we can."
"Yeah, sure, where would she go anyway?" Carlos makes a joke, but no one laughs, not even himself. He takes a seat on Evie's bed and pets Dude in his lap.
"Thank you, Carlos," Ben thanks and Jay just nods at him as they rush out of the room in search of the only hope to save Evie.
A/N: Poor Evie! Will they be able to save her and find out the truth? Will they ever find Mal? Well, you'll just have to wait and see. Sorry for making you all wait so long, I've been super busy, so the only things I have to post are prewritten, so updating may continue to be slow. I do, however, have a three-day weekend, with only one marching band competition, so I will hopefully have time to write more and maybe get a new chapter out.
Thanks for reading! :P