When it came to people on the Isle, many kids knew Mal's anger was no laughing matter. Many people avoided her like the plague because she was known to go off at the tiniest slight against her. All things said, it took Mal a full day to notice Evie was missing. She'd be preoccupied with her boyfriend at the time to have noticed what her roommate was doing.

"Mal, have you seen Evie anywhere today?" Carlos had asked that night at dinner. He had noticed his friend wasn't at breakfast or lunch during the day. After Evie didn't show up at the second meal, he had convinced Jay to help him look for her. They spent the rest of the afternoon searching for her, and had no luck.

The pair had asked around, and the only thing that had matched up was Lonnie had been the last person to be seen with Evie.

"No, have you checked our room? She's been so caught up with her stupid ball gowns, I doubt she remembered to eat today," Mal seethed. Typical.

"We checked there," Jay said. "Apparently everyone got their gowns yesterday. Lonnie and Uma helped her deliver all of them." The boys had made their rounds. Hell, they had checked Evie's room. Things were missing on a simple scan, and they were tempted to go back again.

"So Evie vanished? Yeah right," Mal scoffed.

"We think she left," Jay answered. "We hadn't looked through your drawers or anything. That would have been weird."

"But her things were missing. Her favorite jacket, shoes and tiara were all gone," Carlos said. "If Evie was still here, those things would be, too."

Mal's eyes flashed glowing a toxic green color.

"Evie wouldn't have betrayed us."

"She wouldn't have gone back to the Isle either," Jay said. "Something must have scared her, and she ran."

"Where would she run to?" Mal growled.

"We don't know. She isn't here, though."

The three ran out of the room, and took off to Mal's dorm, and tore it apart. Most of Evie's clothes were gone. The only things left were some trinkets and clothing left around her room.

Carlos couldn't believe it. How could she just up and leave? It was clear she didn't even want them trying to find her. If that was the case, Evie wouldn't have left some things lying around. Evie had tried to make it seem like she was still there. She was trying to make it seem like she didn't want them to notice she had left. Mal clearly had bought the setup, and wouldn't have realized it if Jay and Carlos hadn't pointed it out to her.

"That bitch!" Mal shrieked and ran out of the room. The girl was on a mission, most likely to murder Lonnie, who had been the last person to see Evie.

Jay and Carlos tried to chase after but Mal was quick when needed to be. They were hoping they could stop her before she murdered the young princess. They would never consider Mal and Evie to be close friends, but the boys knew Evie belonged to Mal, just as they did. They were in Mal's gang, they followed her lead despite having their own desires. Mal's command provided them safety, but they rarely made decisions without her approval. What Mal said went, and they wouldn't defy her. Joining tourney and taking in Dude were steps into taking back their lives. Evie had been pulling away for months now, and if she took off she probably wouldn't be coming back. Evie was very resourceful and she would make it a point not to return to the Isle. Jay and Carlos knew they wouldn't find her unless she wanted to be found.

"Mal, wait. Think this through!'" Carlos called after her. Mal stormed into Lonnie's room, and broke the lock on the door as she was doing so.

Lonnie and Eugenia screamed as Mal came in and pinned Lonnie against the wall.

"What did I do?" Lonnie asked, her voice was shaking despite knowing she could take on Mal if she needed to.

"Seriously, Mal, what are you doing?" Uma asked. The girl was sitting by the window, and looked unfazed by the turn of events.

"Shut it, Shrimpy," Mal hissed. "I want to know what you did to Evie."

Lonnie shook her head quickly.

"What are you talking about? I haven't seen Evie all day! Will you please let me go?"

"You were the last one to see her!" Mal yelled. She dug her fingernails deeper into Lonnie's shoulder.

"Uma and I saw her yesterday evening before we went to bed. I haven't seen her, I swear!" Lonnie said. "Now let go of me." Lonnie then proceeded to twist Mal's arm behind her back, directing her to face Uma head on.

"You! I knew you would have something to do with it," Mal seethed.

"Mal, this is insane," Jay groaned. "They clearly know nothing, so let's go find Evie."

"Listen to your dogs, Mal. Why do you always assume I had something to do with everything?" Uma asked in a bored tone. "You are supposedly her best friend, you tell me where she went."

"We don't know where she went, Mal," Eugenia stressed. It was a lie, but they weren't about to tell her that.

"Don't act dumb, Uma. You did something to her! Where is she?" Mal demanded, her eyes flashed a poisonous green shade.

"We don't know, Mal, we swear. She mentioned Auradon being too much in a sewing session, but that was a few weeks ago. Gil mentioned her not being happy after one of their suppers on the ship, but we thought it was all talk," Eugenia replied.

There was that name again. Gil. What did Gil have to do with any of this? It made no sense to the remaining Core Four. He was just another one of Gaston's many children. He was nothing special, so why did everything continue to circle around him? Carlos was extremely confused, and he wouldn't write Gil off as useless. The last time he had been looking for Evie he had run into him, and the girl seemed to have been hanging around him and the rest of the pirates too much for it to be nothing.

"She did mention she would never return to the Isle in one of our many conversations," Lonnie said. "Going there to find her might be useless."

"You didn't think to tell anybody she was thinking of taking off?" Carlos asked, he was sincerely shocked this was happening. She could be hurt or dying anywhere.

"You act as if coming to Auradon suddenly made me care about others, DeVil," Uma drawled. "Evie told us not to tell anyone she was considering leaving, we respected her wishes. It isn't our problem."

"We won't find her if she doesn't want to be found, Mal," Carlos said, and tried to lead her from the room.

"It doesn't mean we can't look for her," Jay said. They left the room in search of their friend.

Uma and Lonnie couldn't help but smiled. The boys might be useful to them. It looked like they were pulling away from Mal. Soon the girl would be all alone, and powerless to stop anything. She had lost half the brains of her gang, and her boys were not going to be around for long.

At this point Maleficent would never get her hands on whatever she wanted on Auradon, and the nation would fall at the hands of Queen Elsa and her son's goals for revenge.

Hey loyal readers! I know it has been a few weeks, but here is the next chapter. I recently started the school year, and while I am still writing this, updates will be fewer until breaks and lulls in homework. I longhand most of my work before typing it up, and finding time to type much of this up is not the easiest. I will be updating whenever I can, it just will not be as regular as it has been. Thanks!