Escape From The Ruins Of The Isle: A Descendants Novel

Prologue (Prerevision)

Once upon a time, Astoria was made up of small individual kingdoms where your favorite stories are from. One by one, good triumphed over evil and they lived happily ever after. Or did they?

Twenty years ago, on a dark and foggy night, Lady Victoria Tremaine gathered all of the villains at Gaston's Tavern. She passionately laid out to her peers a tale of woe and destruction. One that would only end in their victory. And thus, the League of Villains was born. And their first act was to begin the Rebellion.

With my mother, Maleficent as her second, Lady Tremaine launched a campaign of terror and chaos against all of the small kingdoms. And with it, the heroes banded together and fought back. They formed the Council of Light and put in place their own progress towards a united land, Astoria.

As you may imagine, Astoria's beginning was filled with turmoil as good and evil fought for what they felt was the perfect world. And just as it seemed as though the Villains may in fact be victorious, the Council attacked using the Dwarf's mine tunnels. Heroes fought bravely against their evil counterparts. Adam, the former beastly prince, took off after our poised founder. He chased her on all fours up a rocky path on the mine. Others stopped and watched with baited breath as they both went higher and higher up the unsafe path over the mine shaft. After a lengthy pursuit, Adam cornered Lady Tremaine at a dead end.

The old widow backed up to try to get away from her. And the only facts that can be confirmed is with a flash of lightning and a roar, Lady Tremaine met her death. Some say the future king pushed her off the edge of the cliff. Others say she slipped and fell and he tried to catch her as a heroic act. But either way, in that battle, my mother lost her mentor and also assumed power over the League.

The Heroes for what he did or didn't do, awarded Adam with the honor of being their king. And his beloved, Belle, became their queen. They settled into their kingdom at the center of Astoria and founded Astoria Preparatory and Finishing School to educate the future generations of their kingdom. Sounds all wonderful and perfect right?

Nope. I forgot their very first act. Their first official act under their new titles was to banish all of the villains to the ruins of Mount Olympus. An isle in the middle of the choppy sea. They dropped all the villains on this new Isle and Fairy Godmother put a barrier around it that stopped all Evil magic. Which of course left the residents with no magic.

Anyways, in the nineteen years since the formation of the Isle of the Lost, the League has made its own society amongst the rubble of Olympus. Just as the heroes rebuilt a new and better Mount Olympus, some villains were able to recreate their old lives as well as creating an entire society.

But who know that nineteen years later, thing would have a chance to change for either the better or a permanent bad. With a new king coming into power. Okay, I'm getting ahead of myself. My name is Malika Grantley, but everyone calls me Mal. My mother is Maleficent, the Mistress of all Evil and head of the League of Villains.

And this is my story.