Those Who Are Lost

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Author's Note: Thanks for the faves, follows, and alerts they make my day! I recently put up a Descendants/ZOMBIES crossover story so feel free to check that one out, and if you haven't watched Disney's ZOMBIES yet I highly recommend it! Also, I have read the books and enjoyed them but I'm just doing my own backstory for them still some things/people from them could show up, onto the story…

Chapter 6: The Isle of the Lost: Jane's Second Year Part II (Carlos)

Nine months into Jane's second year on the Isle finds her using school as a way to avoid Maleficent's magic lessons, she wasn't the only one to use school as a way to get away but she was one of the few who was rarely late as the sooner she got to school the sooner the brunette could ditch the goons that the evil fairy had sent to spy on her.

Dragon Hall as the school was called was a different kind of school but then again everything on the Isle of the Lost was different though now it almost seemed normal. There was no set day to start so Jane just walked in one day and that was that she was officially enrolled, time was pretty flexible too.

Her classes were the same she heard some people didn't even stick to their schedules and took the classes they wanted or skipped ones they didn't.

As such she was currently attending her first lesson in Weird Science with Yen Sid the only non-villain on the Isle for some reason and once she'd learnt that the little girl almost considered telling him about her plight, almost… things had changed a lot since Jane had first arrived.

Sadly, even if the girl sometimes misses her mother she knew that her mom wouldn't want her anymore given the things she's done… better not to think about it too hard. She was an Isle kid now.

Yen Sid taught classes for pretty much every age group there was though things like age and grades were a bit more flexible here than other places not that nine-year-old Jane knew this though as having someone three to four years older than her in some classes was the norm.

At the moment the blue-eyed girl was watching a person mixing chemicals under the teacher's supervision when all of a sudden, an explosion rocks the room from the other side, Jane quickly looks over only to see a cloud of gases blocking her view and the teacher is quick to tell them all to cover their nose and mouth while exiting the classroom.

The girl does as she's told though not too quickly as not to be trampled by the bigger students frantically leaving. Once in the hallway most students; not that there were that many, take off to wherever it is that they go when they aren't in school.

Jane doesn't though she decides to stick around and see who caused the explosion, Yen Sid comes out following a small boy about her size maybe a little smaller, he was wearing a white shirt and black pants with some red shoes, his hair was the really unique thing about him though what with it being two different colors.

The teacher was telling him to wait right there and not to touch anything while he goes to get something to fix this.

With that Yen Sid takes off swiftly, the little boy is looking at his hand before shaking it as if trying to get something off, curious Jane asks, "What're you doing?" The boy startles as if he hadn't noticed her presence until now.

"Um, nothing." It wasn't very convincing you'd think by now all the kids on the Isle would be talented liars but apparently, that wasn't the case, though Gil wasn't very good at it either she thinks. She tilts her head, "Did you cause the explosion before?" He nods with a grin, "Yeah that was cool… though," He looks back at his hand, "it didn't really work out how I planned."

Looking at the hand he's now holding up she sees an empty glass tube stuck to his hand, "Huh did you make some kind of super-powered glue?" Mal was pretty good at that one too an unpleasant memory reminds her but at least her hair has grown back since then, though it's no longer to her mid back as to even it out she had to cut it short still it's shoulder length now.

Before he can answer her two kids rush pass one of them pushes her and before she can fall a hand grabs her arm, she glares at the two retreating students who completely ignore her before she turns to the boy holding her arm, "Thanks-" He cuts her off eyes going wide, "Oh no I'm sorry!" For a moment she's confused until the small brunette realizes what he's apologizing for.

"We're stuck, together aren't we?" The boy nods glumly, "Sorry…" Jane laughs, "You've apologized twice now come on are you a villain kid or not?" The little girl asks him as he nods, "Right sor-" He stops when he realizes what he's saying then laughs, "Okay I won't say it again, Yen Sid said he could fix it so I guess we just wait until he gets back."

Jane nods, "Yeah just try not to touch anything else." He agrees.

"So, we're stuck together for now," She looks to her arm before thinking of what they could do to pass the time before it hit her, "what's your name, I'm Jane." The little boy smiles, "Carlos De Vil." That name sounded familiar, but she couldn't pinpoint it, so she decides not to ask not wanting to come off as ignorant.

"The teacher seems to know you, how long have you been in school?" He shrugs, "Not long but I'm always blowing up stuff in his class… guess that leaves an impression." She giggles, "Do you do it on purpose?"

Carlos glances around before saying, "Sometimes… don't tell Yen Sid that though."

Jane's not naive enough to think she's made a friend again, Mal, Jay, Gil and maybe even Harry sometimes were the closest things to that she had because one didn't really have friends on the Isle, Jane knew that when it came down to it people really only look out for themselves and if they do you a favor even an unasked one, you owed them.

So, no Carlos wasn't a friend but maybe he could be close to one like the others.

The two talked for a few more minutes before Jay showed up, "Hey Jane there you are, Mal's looking for ya, who's this?" He points to the smaller boy.

"This is Carlos." Jay looks between them with a raised eyebrow, "Why's he holding your arm?"

"An accident in Weird Science, we're stuck together until the teacher gets back." Jane explains and seeing the thoughtful expression cross Jay's face she instantly regrets telling him, he zeros in on Carlos.

Pulling out little pieces of junk from various pockets the boy smirks before sticking a fake gold chain to his forehead, it sticks much to Jay's amusement and Carlos' annoyance, "Hey!" He goes to grab at it with his free hand, but Jane warns him not to just in time, the little thief finds this hilarious and pulls out a tarnished silver cup and sticks it to the boy's hair.

"Knock it off!" Jane tells him while Carlos restrains himself from trying to remove the items so as not to get further stuck.

"Nope!" He says popping the 'p' but as he's looking for something else to stick to the helpless boy Carlos decides enough is enough and uses his hand with the empty glass tube to grab the other boy's hand.

Jay's eyes widen as he uses his other hand to try and remove the one stuck to him only to make both of his hand useless, Carlos laughs at his expression and Jane joins in soon Jay is the annoyed one.

"Haha, it's not funny!" He tells them, "It kind of is." The only girl in the group says and Jay sighs, Carlos decides as long as they're stuck in this very strange predicament to make the best of it, "So what's your name?"

"Jay, son of Jafar." He tells him puffing up his chest before really looking at the boy, "and you're Cruella's son, right?" The younger boy's smile wavers before he nods, "That's right."

That's why she recognized the name, she'd once read the story of Cruella De Vil back in Auradon. If she was that mean to animals who knew how bad she'd be with kids… then again none of the adults around here were all that great, even Yen Sid ditched a boy who currently sticks to anything he touches in a hall where anybody could come across him.

Wouldn't it have been smarter to put him inside an empty classroom or just take him with, so he didn't get into any more trouble? Then again, he volunteered to live on the Isle, who did that?

So, the three of them passed the time talking about various things until Mal arrived at the scene looking for both Jay and Jane, "What in the world!?"

"Hey Mal, wanna join in?" Jay jokes and half an hour later find the four of them still stuck together when Yen Sid finally comes back, "Oh dear," He looks to the small bottle in his hand before saying, "I don't think this is enough for all of you."

So, in all of his wisdom, he leaves them alone again to go and brew more.

Sometimes Jane thought adults were stupid.

Finally, after spending a good few hours stuck together in a very strange and uncomfortable position for most of them especially poor Carlos the four were free and as soon as Mal got her hands back she smacked Jay upside the head, "I can't believe you did that!" Jane laughs, "I can." The purple haired girl glares and huffs before taking off only to stop mid-way, "Aren't you coming?"

She was looking at Jane, but Jay was quick to tag along but not without grabbing onto Carlos first and making him come along as well.

After that day it was rare to not see the four of them together or at least some combination of the four.

A few days into Carlos joining the gang he found out about Jane's magic, "That's so cool and kind of scary, what can you do with it?" Jane shrugs and tries to downplay it as Mal's around and likely to be hurt, "Small things, light candles, float stuff, it's not that useful."

"So how come it works inside of the barrier?" Jane had an idea given that her mother's magic powered the barrier, but she didn't want anyone to know that after all, it was better that way. "Not sure."

Mal joins in then, "Her magic is fairy magic too we're both half-fairies," She tells the youngest boy proudly before continuing, "but somehow it's different than mine, one day though when the barrier is destroyed I'll be able to perform magic as well," She turns to look at Jane, "once that happens my magic will become the strongest."

Jane doesn't argue, despite her learning how to use her magic and practicing whenever she could it wasn't like she wanted to learn it, to be powerful… she only did it because she had no other choice, still, it was a slightly sore spot for Mal and Jane's relationship.

Carlos looks back and forth between the two girls and as if sensing the tension pulls the conversation away from magic, "You really think the barrier will come down one day?" Mal rounds on the boy, "Of course it will, we won't be stuck here forever."

Carlos smiles, "That'd be nice…" Jay throws an arm around the other boy, "Yeah imagine how much stuff they've got to loot out there!" The De Vil kid laughs, "I just wanna see what kind of technology they have, I mean there's something called Wi-fi and-" Before he can get into what Jay dubbed as nerd talk the boy tackles him and the two start to wrestle.

Jay was going easy on the smaller boy but having just as much fun, Jane knew that he appreciated having another boy around to ruff-house with.

Even after a few days, it felt like Carlos belonged with the three of them.

It was eleven months into Jane's second year when she finally got the answer to how well or rather unwell Cruella treated kids especially her own, it wasn't a surprise to find out that Carlos had an awful mom.

Jane was experienced with Maleficent and Mal's own relationship at this point and even Jay and Jafar's, neither of them were what she would call loving or even remotely caring. The two of them had scars mostly mental in Mal's case and physical in Jay's, Jane understood both types of scars… but then again so did Carlos.

"Hello, is Carlos around?" The girl asked as soon as the door opened.

Jane and Jay had met up earlier while Mal sent some quality time with her mom and after waiting and waiting some more the two decided to go pick up Carlos.

"He's busy." That was all she'd said before swiftly slamming the door in the twos face, "Mother of the year material, isn't she?" Jay says sarcastically. Jane, however, looks around until she spots a window, "Come on we're going in." Jay simply follows without question.

The window is locked but no match for Jay's breaking and entering skills.

A brief time later the two of them are inside, Jane motions for Jay to be quiet as the two of them sneak around looking for Carlos. Careful not to let the devil lady see them they continue the search until Jay whispers, "He's not here…" The little girl stubbornly shakes her head, "He's here somewhere…" Is her quiet response.

The young thief doesn't agree though, "Maybe he ran into trouble are leaving, we should go look for him outside."

"Okay… but let me try something first, keep watch and don't talk." He raises an eyebrow but keeps his eyes peeled for Cruella. Jane, on the other hand, closes her eyes and concentrates, this was one spell she had been practicing but hadn't yet gotten but no time like the present to give it a go.

So, focusing on an image of Carlos inside her mind she tries the locator spell for a minute nothing happens but then she feels something like a tugging inside of her, opening her eyes she follows the feeling, "Where are you going?"

Jane doesn't answer instead she follows the feeling until it leads her to a closet. Jay looks at it confused but the girl just goes to open it only to find it locked, "Jay," He nods understanding she wants him to pick the lock he gets to work while she keeps an eye out.

Soon Jay gets it open and she pushes it open to see a very bruised a battered Carlos surrounded by what looks to be bear traps, not that Jane knows what those are but they are scary looking and look like mechanical jaws waiting to bite something, the something, in this case, being a someone; Carlos.

"Carlos, are you okay?" He jerks up seemly from a troubled sleep, how he could sleep sitting like that she didn't know… unless he was used to it.

"Come on we're here to get you outta here," Jay tells him, and the other boy shakes his head, "You have to go before she finds you!" Jane frowns, "Your mom put you in here didn't she?" He doesn't answer instead he says, "I can't leave anyways," His eyes find the bear traps before looking back up at them.

"We just need to find something to put in them," Jay says but the De Vil boy shakes his head, "She'll hear it." Jane looks at them and thinks, he could get through if they could just move three of them without making any sound… it wouldn't be easy, Jane just wasn't sure she could float more than one thing of that size.

Looking back at Carlos though she knew she had to at least try, she didn't want to leave him here.

"I'm going to move those three there then you can get out," He looks frightened, "No don't you'll get hurt… they hurt a lot." The whole conversation so far had been in whispered voices but as he said the last words his voice got even quieter and he winced as if recalling a particularly painful memory.

She understood those and had the scars; mostly on her back to remind her of them not that it's something that you forget she thinks angerly.

"I'll move them without touching them don't worry." Both boys look at her like she's crazy, but she ignores them, she could do this… if her mom could create a barrier big enough to cover an island surely, she could levitate three stupid bear traps without making them go off… right?

Jane just had to focus, will her power forth and remember her training… okay, maybe her solo training her training with Maleficent always caused her to lose her focus and give her nightmares…

No focus Jane, she tells herself.

The two watched on silently as slowly one by one the bear traps start to ascend and once they're high enough Jay motions for the boy, but he doesn't move so the bigger boy rushes forward and pulls the both of them out all the while Jane's forehead is breaking into a sweat and she's getting a headache.

"We're out let's go, Jane!" Jay exclaims and causes her attention to waver making the three bear traps fall, the noise causes Cruella to shout out and the three quickly take off towards the open window.

Somehow it all worked out the girl thinks happily as they jump through the window and keep running long after they need to.

Now if only her head would stop pounding so much… still, she did it! Her magic was getting stronger and for once she did something good with it!

Not that it mattered… she did much more bad with it, one good deed wouldn't erase all of that. Her happiness evaporated with that thought.

"Thanks, Jane!" Carlos said as they all finally stopped to catch their breath, "Sure…"

Jay looks at the two younger kids before speaking, "Come on I still have some bruise cream at the hideout." By hideout, he luckily didn't mean the dump she'd first been dragged to but the place that Mal found recently and claimed as her own, still the three of them were allowed to use it.

Carlos follows after Jay, but Jane takes a moment… she gets dizzy and her vision loses focus for a minute before she closes her eyes. The smaller boy notices her absence first and turns to look behind him to see her just standing there with her head tilted downwards.

He frowns, something wasn't right.

"Jane are you okay?" Carlos calls back, opening her eyes she looks at him, "I'm fine, let's go."

The brunette girl quickly jogs to his side and they both follow after Jay, but the bruised boy has always been pretty observant for his age and wonders just how true that is.

Could using her magic be hurting her somehow?

His eyes glance over at the girl briefly before she notices, "What is it?" He shakes his head, "Nothing."

I've only written to chapter 8 right now so there's still time to get your two cents in about side pairings you'd like to see!

Also, in chapter 8 Jane will be choosing her signature colors she's just been wearing whatever is available so far (yes, I've already written it, but I inserted placement color/s and will update it based on reviews or with whatever I come up with before I post it) Jane's mother is widely unknown to all but a select group of adult villains. Yes Mal knows that she's also a half-fairy but nothing more, so should Jane stick with her mother's colors or choose her own for now, note in the future her style/colors can/will possibly change this is just for her Isle look. The younger kids already have a color scheme based on their parents despite not having their Descendants outfits yet (because Evie made them and currently she's not around)