Escape from the Isle of the Lost (Descendants 4)

“Oh! Wonderful!” said Evie.

“Back to the Isle? For sure!” said Jay, who was always up for an adventure.

Only Carlos looked hesitant.

“Carlos?” asked Mal.

“In,” he said with a nervous smile. “Always.”

“It’ll be okay,” said Evie, placing an arm around his shoulder. “This is just what you wanted—for everyone to hang out and make the most of our time together.”

“Right, thanks for reminding me,” said Carlos.

Jane looked a bit worried, but he squeezed her hand. “It’ll be all right,” he said. “Maybe my mom will be at the spa.”

“By the way, it was the best Senior Quest yet! Thanks, you guys, for putting that together,” said Evie to Carlos and Jane.

“Wait till you see what we have prepped for graduation!” said Jane.

“We have something planned for graduation?” asked Carlos.

“You’ll see!” said Jane.

Carlos beamed. Jane was the best. And, actually, her birthday was coming up in a few months.…He’d organize something! She was always doing nice things for everyone else, and he wanted to do the same for her. He’d think of something special—he knew he would.

es, that was definitely rock music coming from under the depths of the sea. Loud, angry rock music. Uma swam closer to the sound. She recognized it. There was only one resident of the Isle of the Lost who liked playing music at those ear-shattering decibels.

She swam around, looking for the source. But all she could see was gray rock, furry with algae and coral. She swam the length of the rock, where the sound was loudest. There. She found a crack, just the smallest crevice. She swam closer. If she could squeeze herself through it, she would be able to get back inside the island. Underground, of course, but still—back on the Isle of the Lost!

Well, she considered, if she could make herself large, she could probably also make herself small. With that, Uma transformed into a tiny squid and slipped through the crack.

When she was back to her human self, she looked around, realizing she was standing on her own two feet once more. It was good to be on dry land again. She was in a tunnel of some sort, an abandoned mine shaft. There were tracks leading deeper underground, where the music was even louder.

Uma followed the tracks all the way down.

All of a sudden, the music was interrupted by the voice of a news anchor from Auradon News Network. “There’s been a formal announcement from the palace. As part of her itinerary around the kingdom, the future Lady Mal will be going on an official visit to the Isle of the Lost.”

Lady Mal.

Hmpf.

Uma kept walking, her rage growing stronger within her, a plan forming in her head. And then she snuck into his little cave, where the god of the Underworld preferred to spend his days now that he was a prisoner on the Isle of the Lost.

Hades was playing air guitar, pretending he was performing in front of thousands of screaming souls. Or fans. Whatever you wanted to call them.

Uma tapped him on the shoulder and cleared her throat.

Hades jumped and almost hit his head on the cave ceiling. “Oh! You! What are you doing here? And what’s your name again?”

“Uma!”

“Uma? Why did I think it was Shrimpy?” he asked, confused.

She frowned at the reviled nickname. No one called her Shrimpy. No one. It made her furious at Mal all over again.

“Hades. You still have that ember of yours, right?”

he night after the Senior Quest, Lonnie suggested that she and Jay go see one of the professional R.O.A.R. games at the Auradon Arena. Her home team, the Great Wall, was fighting against the Summerland Sevens.