This is dedicated to Chise Sakamoto, because their review totally made me come up with this idea ! This one-shot takes place four years ago, so Jay, Mal and Evie are twelve while Carlos is ten. This is also NOT a romantic fic, but a friendship fic. It also explains of how the others learned of Carlos's fear of dogs. On with the story !

~Descendants~

The four villain kids were on the Isle in the Fearful a Forest,trying to decide on which game to play.

"Why don't we play Capture The Flag or War Zone ?" Evie complained.

"Capture The Flag is so boring. All you do is run around and try to get something from the other team. There's no point to it" Mal objected.

"And last time we played War Zone, I got green paint in my hair and it took me two months to wash it out" Carlos added.

War Zone was a game that the villain kids invented two years ago. It was almost exactly like laser tag. The point if the game was to try and get the opponents out using paintballs, which was proven to be extremely difficult since the game included a lot of moving.

"Well, it's not my fault you have weird-looking hair !" Evie insulted.

"Says you ! People are born naturally with blond hair, but you have blue hair !" Carlos snapped.

"I prefer the term 'super fabulous indigo curls', thank you very much" Evie rolled her eyes.

"Anyway, let's play now !" Mal stated, "Carlos you're the seeker"

"Whatever. Good luck" Carlos muttered.

"Ha, I don't need luck. Have you that forgotten I'm the son of Jafar, and am extremely stealthy thief ?" said Jay, who was quiet for most of the conversation.

"I also haven't forgotten that you're obnoxious, annoying, weird, arrogant and odd" Carlos teased.

"You think I'm annoying and weird ? Have you ever taken a look at yourself ?" Jay snapped.

"Guys, can we please play now ? It's starting to get dark and we can't play after dark" Evie interrupted.

"Eve, we have plenty of time. The Isle is all about breaking rules" Mal whispered. "Okay Carlos, go count !" She demanded.

Carlos did as he was told and went to a tree to count to thirty. Slowly, he turned around and saw that Mal, Jay and Evie were gone. Carlos started making his way through the forest, trying to fund his friends. He spotted Evie right away.

"Evie, what're you doing ?" He asked, annoyed. Evie was sitting in a rock in the middle of the forest, looking at her reflection through a mirror, though it was dark outside.

"Fixing my make-up. Duh" Evie answered, as if it couldn't of been more obvious.

"How can you—you know what, never mind. Help me find Jay and Mal. It'd be easier with the two of us searching" Carlos demanded.

"Whatever" Evie hopped off the rock and landed perfectly on her feet. Just as the two were about to start walking further into the woods, Carlos heard something.

"Did you hear that ?" He whispered.

"I didn't hear anything, Carlos. Let's keep going" Just as Evie was about to take a step further, a growl stopped both of them from moving. They slowly turned around and came face-to-face with a coyote, making the both of them scream and run.

"WHAT IS THAT THING ?" Carlos screamed.

"COYOTE. EXTREMELY DANGEROUS WILD DOGS WHO LIVE IN HABITATS SUCH AS FORESTS AND WOODY MOUNTAINS" Evie yelled back. She looked behind her and started running faster. "QUICK ! ITS GAINING ON US !"

Carlos started running faster, but as he did, he managed to trip over a rock. Evie stopped and saw her friend laying in the dirt. "Get up !" She grabbed Carlos's arm and pulled him up, dragging him with her as she ran.

"RUN ! IT'S GETTING CLOSER !" Evie shouted. The two spotted a tree and climbed up it, escaping from the wild wolf. The coyote instantly turned back after failing to get up the tree, leaving the two alone.

"C-C-Coyote" Carlos muttered as soon as they were back on the ground.

"We should find Mal and Jay and get out of here" Evie stated. The two turned back and started walking back to the clearing they met up in when they first came to the forest. Luckily, Mal and Jay were already there, waiting for them.

"What happened ?! You guys totally ditched us !" Mal exclaimed.

"We got chased by a wolf" Evie explained.

"Wolf ?" Jay repeated, "Wolfs don't usually chase people"

"Coyote, wolf, same thing" Evie corrected herself, as she crossed her arms in an attempt to keep warm.

"Dang, those animals are dangerous. You guys survive ?" Mal asked.

"Well, we wouldn't be here if we didn't" Evie replied. The three teens looked over to Carlos who was staying completely silent, besides whimpering every few minutes.

"Dude, are you okay ?" Jay asked, worriedly.

Instead of answering, Carlos's eyes rolled back and he fainted, lying unconscious in the grass. There was a sudden silence for a short amount of time, before Evie decided to speak up."Mal, it's getting late, and I don't know about you, but I rather not get mauled by a bear right now" Evie stated.

"I hate to say it, but I actually think I agree with you, Eve. As much as I love narrowly escaping death, we can't stay out here any longer" Mal agreed. She knelt down next to Carlos and searched for a pulse.

"Is he alive ?" Evie inquired, starting to get even more frightened than she was before.

"Well, he's not dead" Mal snapped. She picked Carlos up in her arms and started heading out of the forest.

"Mal, what if somebody see's us doing something nice ?" Jay asked, nervously. He was a thief, he wasn't supposed to be nice !

"Relax, nobody's going to see us. It's dark out and that means everybody's asleep. Unless of course, I'm wrong and everybody on the Isle is nocturnal. Besides, Carlos is a friend–er, acquaintance" Mal explained.

"But we're not supposed to do anything nice !" Evie protested.

"Well, we're not going to let him die are we ?!" Mal snapped, frustrated and annoyed.

"I guess we probably shouldn't" Jay whispered, "Even though if we were to do that, I'd be totally cool with it"

Mal glared at Jay, and if looks could kill, Jay would've been dead. The three teens kept walking back to the village in complete silence, not even daring to say a word to each other. They kept walking and walking, until they finally reached the village at about midnight.

"Why is it that the forest is so far away ? I wish we had cars" Evie complained, breaking the silence.

"We do have cars, they're just not here. They have cars back in Auradon. Speaking of Auradon, when are we ever going to try and break in ?" Mal replied.

"Mal, even though I hate to say this, that is a hundred percent impossible to do. Nobody can ever go in and out of Isle. It's scientifically impossible" Jay explained.

"You don't even know what scientifically means" Mal snapped, angrily. She took a moment to look at her surroundings and she noticed that they were in the middle of the village. Since it was also dark out, they were totally lost and had no clue of knowing where they were going. "Where are we going ?" Mal asked, not knowing what to do.

"Hey, I recognize this place. My house is just a few blocks away from here" Evie stated, as she looked around.

Mal took another look around her, as did Jay. Evie was right. Her house was only a few blocks away from here, and that meant that Carlos's house was only a few blocks away too, since his house was not too far from Evie's. As if reading her mind, Evie suddenly said "You guys can totally leave, if you want. I know my way around here. Carlos's house is pretty close to mine, so I can bring him back"

Mal stared at her unconscious friend–er, acquaintance who she held in her arms. She nodded slowly and passed him to Evie, knowing that her mother would be mad if she didn't show up by morning. Maleficent didn't care how long Mal stayed out, as long as she was back by morning. Same went for the other's too.

"I better get going. My mom's going to be mad at me if I don't show up by morning" Mal replied. She took off in the opposite direction, starting to head back to her house in the cold and scary night.

~Descendants~

The next day…

Mal quickly got dressed and raced outside to meet her friends–er, acquaintances. Why was she using the word 'friends' so much ? Villains didn't have friends, that's what Maleficent told her. Villains only had acquaintances and enemies and nobody else. She took a look at her surroundings and then saw that her acquaintances were running around the village, knocking multiple things over and stealing them as well.

"Hey guys ! What's up ?" Mal asked, curious to what they were doing.

"Ah, nothing much. It's completely boring stealing stuff since Carlos won't join us" Jay answered, as he glared at Carlos. Mal looked over to where he was looking and saw Carlos sitting on a wooden crate, staring at the ground, not wanting to make any eye-contact.

"Carlos, what happened last night ?" Evie suddenly questioned.

This caught his attention. Carlos immediately looked up, surprised. "W-What do you mean ? We played Hide-And-Seek in the Fearful Forest, came face-to-face with a w-wolf, and came back home"

"No" Evie replied, "Why did you faint ? Were you like, scared or something ?"

"Ah, kind of" Carlos admitted, not wanting to go into detail. His wish didn't come true though, because Mal joined in on the interrogation.

"Why ? What were you afraid of ?" She asked.

"Dogs" Carlos whispered, "I'm afraid of dogs"

Jay burst out laughing. "Dogs ? Seriously ? You're the son of Cruella De Vil, dognapper and dog killer, and you're afraid of dogs ?" He repeated after he finished laughing.

Carlos sighed, knowing he was going to have to explain. "A little while ago, Cruella told me that my father died 'cause of a dog. S-She also said dogs would kill me in my sleep if I didn't do what she told me to" he revealed.

"Carlos, I'm so sorry. I didn't know that. Wait, if you're so afraid of dogs, why did you freak out over that coyote ?" Evie said, suddenly confused by what happened the previous night.

"I-I hate dogs and anything that looks like a dog. T-They freak me out. T-That's why I fainted after that c-coyote attacked us" he confessed.

"Does Jay freak you out ? 'Cause he kind of looks like a dog to me" Mal joked, trying to the lighten the mood.

"For your information, dogs are intelligent, loyal and kind beasts" Jay defended himself. He suddenly realized what he said. "OH MY GOSH ! I DO NOT WANT TO BE LOYAL OR KIND !"

"Hate to break it to you Jay, but your already intelligent and kind. It really doesn't matter if you steal anything, 'cause it won't make a difference" Evie replied.

"Whatever. I have to go before I turn into that weird-dog-beast-thing" Jay said. He left as soon as he said that, probably looking for who he should rob next.

"Hey, having fear of dogs isn't that bad. I used to have a fear of spinning wheels" Mal told Carlos, who laughed at the thought of Mal being scared by a spinning wheel.

"Yeah, and I totally used to fear apples" Evie admitted. Carlos laughed again, finding it funny that both of the girls had feared the object their parents' tried to use to destroy Snow White and Sleeping Beauty.

"I'd bet twenty dollars that Jay is afraid of lamps" he joked.

"That'd be so funny, if he was" Evie agreed. Carlos jumped off from the crate he was on, did a perfectly flip in the air and joined his friends.

"Let's go test it and find out if he is" Mal stated, as she took off running in the direction Jay went with her two friends following behind her.

~Descendants~

Okay, I actually found this really fun to write. If anybody has read Chapter 2 of my other fanfiction, 'Evil on the Isle & Amazig in Auradon', then this would be like a sequel to it. I might do one with Mal or Evie's fears too. I also have a few other one-shots that I'm planning on doing, so I might do a few of those pretty soon too (one of them includes a Ben/Mal one-shot).

Oh, I'd also like to say that I don't know much about coyotes. One time there was one near my school, but I never saw it, so some of the information I just came up with, and I don't actually know if it's true. If I get anything wrong, don't hesitate to correct me ! Thanks for the amazing reviews !

~Stardust