A/N: I do not own Disney's Descendants.
Ben stopped short, he hadn't even thought of that. It would make sense after all.
"Mal, if she did anything she probably put some of the royals and maybe some of the royals children on the Isle, after all it wouldn't bother Evie, Jay, and Carlos since they grew up there for them it would seem normal and not like a punishment. She probably has something else in mind for them." Ben said after a moment of thinking. Mal nodded in reply, it did make sense after all. Her mother would want to punish her friends for turning against their parents and placing them on the isle wouldn't do anything because it was something that they were used to, but she wouldn't keep them in plain sight either, she knew that they liked Auradon so she would keep them where they wouldn't be able to see it. She would also separate them since she knew that they were stronger together.
"You're right Ben, but she also would make sure that they couldn't see Auradon so she would either put them in a prison of sorts somewhere outside of Auradon or she would put them in a dark room somewhere in the castle she chose to stay at, it would be completely windowless so they couldn't look out at Auradon in hopes that they could be rescued." Mal explained, she knew how her mother thought after all. They had continued walking as they talked, heading towards Auradon. They were walking in silence after Mal's revelation when they heard a twig snap.
"Who's there?" Mal cried out, reaching a hand out towards Ben trying to think of a spell that could protect them both.
"Mal? Ben? Is that you?" She heard a voice reply, it sounded familiar though in her panic she couldn't quite place it. Luckily, Ben could.
"Evie?" He called out. "Is that you?"
"Yeah. It's me" Evie said as she stepped into the clearing. She went to hug Mal but was stopped by her friend's hand.
"How do I know it's really you? Tell me something that only Evie would know." Mal said, her mind was racing. It couldn't be this easy to find Evie. This must be a trick of her mothers, a way to draw her in and capture her too. Evie nodded and began to speak.
"When we first arrived in Auradon, when we got to our room I was all excited at the way the room looked, it was very princess-y after all, but you drew the curtains and said "much better" and I nodded in agreement with you although I was really enjoying the light that was streaming through them. You also described the room as horrid although I loved it and I agreed with you, mostly to make you happy." Evie finished, hoping it was enough to convince her friend.
Mal sighed in relief, it was Evie. There was no way her mother could have known that. It was a moment, her mother could extract facts from people but she couldn't remember moments. She brought her hand down and went to hug her friend. Evie hugged her back tight and smiled at Ben.
"Evie, how did you get away?" Mal asked as she pulled away from her friend and went to stand next to Ben.
"After we handed you off to Ben, Jay and Carlos told me to run while they tried to help as many Auradon people as possible. I ran without looking back so I do not know what happened to them. I have been looking for you guys ever since, Mal I was so worried about you are you alright?" Evie explained her tale.
"I am fine, I think attempting to overpower my mother simply wore my strength out. We need to figure out a base and a plan. We need to rescue Jay, Carlos, Doug, Lonnie, Jane, Chad, and Audrey although not necessarily in that order. Ben thinks that it will help the Auradon kids to trust us if we rescue some of them first. We were hoping to find you first so that we could try to use the magic mirror to find some of them. I am worried that some of them got put onto the Isle of the Lost, although if anyone is on the Isle of the Lost I bet it is Audrey, Jane, and Chad since two of them are royalty and the other is fairly godmother's daughter. She likely has enslaved Doug or something—he probably isn't on the Isle, I see no reason for her to put him on it." Mal said. Evie nodded in agreement.
"I found a cave not too far from here, it's not too far from Auradon and it's a decent size for the group we need. I do have my magic mirror so we can use that to locate everyone. It makes sense to rescue some of the AK's first. You're right they don't trust us right now so we need to do anything we can to get them to trust us." Evie said as she began to lead them towards the cave she had found.
"Who do you think we should rescue first? I mean who trusts us the least, or the most?" Mal said. "I know Chad doesn't trust us at all and neither do Audrey or Jane, but I think that Jane was just going along with what Audrey was saying."
"Maybe start with Lonnie, she has always seemed the most trusting of us, aside, from Ben. She might be willing to try to get the others to trust us." Evie suggested and Ben nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, even when all the others had turned against you guys after family day she never said a bad word against you guys and always tried to stick up for you," Ben said.
"That settles it I guess. We will find Lonnie first." Mal said.