High school. First loves, drama, friend troubles, prom and the so expected graduation. But everything has to end someday, and highschool isn't an exception. How great it is that we have universities and our student-life doesn't have to end that soon. Here it is. The first year of an university had become. Meantime, most of the students were either eager o start their college lives, or they were pissed at their parents who forced them to sign up for an university.
Ariel, red-haired girl who had been bullied on high school, is holding up her expectation of a dream university where all of her past is forgotten. She had joined the musical faculty and now, she's enjoying the fresh air of a freedom. No bossy dad, no perfect sisters, just her and music. It will be the best time of her life, for sure. Back there, she was just a nerd with a good voice, not worth enough in the eyes of the high-school sorority. Ariel sighed, tiredly, she was exhausted from the long way. I mean like, why in the bloody hell did they have to live on an island far far away from any other possible land. It was like asylum. Though she loved her home, little tiny details like this drove her mad. No wonder why her only friends were ginger composer and a guy who looked like yellow fluffy fish.
"Hey, you seem a little bit lost. Do you need any help?" Ariel blinked few times, before she noticed a beautiful blonde-haired girl standing in front of her.
"Hey, uhmm do you happen to know where's Ur..Ursala's or something office?" She felt a little embarrassment not knowing how to spell her new teacher's name, but the blonde only led out a small laugh and hand her a piece of paper that looked like a map of this place.
"Ursula Sealand, and yea of course, she's my faculty teacher. But before I take you to her, you need to pick up your timetable and also find a dormitory. Speaking of, girls and I have one free bed, maybe you would be interested?" It seemed that the girl understood Ariel's a freshman year and what more, she even offered to help. Ariel couldn't believe her luck and smiled widely.
"That would be great, so thanks. By the way, I'm Ariel." She stretched out her hand and the blonde took it, shaking their hand slightly.
"Aurora. Come now, we have lot of things to do, being a freshman year in this huge complex isn't an easy thing to be, trust me." Aurora grabbed Ariel's hand and led her straight, passing many students who were talking or already learning their subjects. Ariel quickly grabbed her suitcases, but Aurora stopped her.
"Darling, you don't have to take these, you will ruin your back. Eric!" She waved at a handsome black-haired boy, who walked to them and greeted Aurora.
"Please, be so kind and take these to my dorm. Thanks, you are a sweetheart." Eric replied with a loud 'sure' and picked the suitcases, flashing the girls a bright smile. Aurora chuckled when she saw how Ariel couldn't take her eyes off him and continued walking.
"That's Eric, he's in Junior year with him, he's a true darling. No girlfriend." Aurora added and grinned at her new friend.
"Wait- what? I wasn't… I mean, just… He's nice." Ariel finished, red color running up her cheeks and followed Aurora on their way.
Kuzco was standing in his old dorm, looking at his appearance in the mirror. He had been a college president for two years so far, he's about to candidate for this year's president as well, he's probably the wealthiest kid around and looks like a sex god of the entire universe. If it was up to him, the universe would be revolving around him, not around some bloody, unnecessary sun. His gaze left his mirror reflection and looked at his best friend and also roommate, Naveen.
"I need a girlfriend." He simply stated and waited for Naveen's reply.
"Good luck, but don't expect any help from me. The last girl I introduced you to, a very beautiful girl to be precise, you told her and now I quote: 'Let me guess. You have a great personality.'" Kuzco laughed, he remembers the situation pretty clearly.
"Oh come on, she looked like professor Yzma's descendant." Yzma was a science professor, who looked like a museum artifact. Or a dead body coming back to life. Like a zombie. Or a vampire. But ugly vampire.
Naveen rolled his eyes and started typing a message to his phone. Kuzco stretched his head and saw Naveen's girlfriend's name on the screen.
"Tiana, huh? Say hi for me. Oh and also remind her that she stands no chance, I repeat, no chance, in becoming this year's president. She can wait until I graduate. Or until I'm dead. Yeah, rather use the death version." He made a dramatic gesture which cause Naveen to move aside, to have at least a bit of privacy. Kuzco was about to go stare at his reflection again, when the door slowly opened. He didn't bother to look who stepped in, it was probably one of his groupies.
"Hey, I uhmm, is this room number 456?" A childish male voice asked. Naveen was too busy with his love life, so it was on Kuzco's shoulder to deal with this kid. He couldn't be older than 12.
"Tell me something. Can you read?" Kuzco asked with a slight smirk on his lips.
"Uhm, yea." The child answered, not quite sure were was the strange guy going with this question.
"And what does the sign on the door say?"
"Room number 456." He answered and looked down.
"Good boy, now you answered your question." Kuzco moved his sight back to the mirror, his attention already somewhere else, but then he turned back again, when he saw the kid in the background, unpacking.
"What do you think you are doing?" Kuzco narrowed an eyebrow at him.
"Well, they told me this is my dorm now. I'm Peter Pan." The kid answered with a wide smile and stretched out his hand. Kuzco ignored him and gave him a suspicious look.
"Kuzco. The lovey-dovey over there is Naveen. Now tell me, what are you doing here? This isn't a primary school." Before Peter could answer, Naveen, who finally put aside his god damn mobile phone, had responded.
"Ah, right. He's one of the exchange students. You know, the international program focusing on above standard children, I told you about?"
"Not really." Kuzco replied, uninterested.
"But welcome here." He added cheerly, when he saw Naveen's look on his face. Peter's smile widened (one would think it's not even possible) and he went pack to unpacking his things.
Esmeralda stepped in to her old dorm room and grinned as she saw all of her best friends together. She dropped down her suitcases and ran to them for a hug. They pulled out for a moment and greeted each other.
"How was your vacation?" Jasmine asked her as they sat on one of the beds.
"Ah, same things as usual. Rainy days, mad family, gypsy-haters. Gotta love Paris." She said with a sarcasm. Though Esmeralda usually made fun of her home-town and complained about everything possible, they knew she wouldn't exchange it for anything in the world.
"Still better than me. My father was busy, as usual, for the entire summer and I was left alone in that huge palace with no one to talk to, but Raja." Raja was a large, fat tiger and also Jasmine's pet. Though girls were pretty surprised once they knew who Raja is, but Jas comes from exotic country, were having tiger as a pet isn't such a strange thing.
"My only salvation was our Kida here, who sacrificed herself into spending half of the holidays with me." Kida's father had died last year and since her mother was dead for a long time as well, she had no home. She was an adult now, so no one had to take a responsibility for her. That led to Kida spending all of her time either in the school, with them or with her geeky boyfriend.
"She's overreacting, it wasn't that bad. Besides, Agrabah is huuuuge." Kida made a whistle and messed her white hair a bit.
"Nothing can beat Virginia, girls, nothing." Pocahontas said dreamily. She was the only one who hasn't shared this dorm out of them, because unfortunately the rooms had the capacity of four people, not five.
"Why don't you say something, Meg?" Esmeralda asked, flashing a grin to her friend.
"Do you really want me to get started on the Greece? Because I could tell you everything about the Greek boys, if you know what I mean." Meg smirked widely and Pocahontas led out a silent 'Ew'.
"You guys, do you realize we are like, not counting Meg, the only black girls here?" Kida stated, laying on the bed and supporting her head with her hand.
"I'm gypsy."
"Arabian."
"Indian, darling, Indian."
"Besides, the only black girl is the Tiana girl." Meg added, causing Kida to sigh heavily.
"Stop ruining my ten minutes of glory! Come on, Meg, you can't be serious, she is such a bore." Kida replied, referring to Tiana.
"But she has a fine boyfriend." Esmeralda said with a grin.
"And her boyfriend has a nice roommate." Megara joined Esme and chuckled.
"Kuzco, right? I heard he's filthy rich." Kida said, playing with the beads on one strand of her hair.
"He /is/ filthy rich. My dad had made once contract with his parents." Jasmine announced and rolled her eyes. She was wealthy herself, but she hated the ones who were swimming in the cash, they were usually jackanapes who cared only about themselves. The girls continued talking, a little bit gossiping on people and enjoyed their time while they could. Today it's a first year of university, tomorrow it will be loads of learning, lectures and in the end of a semester, exams.
"Alright, Anna, here we are." Elsa said as they stepped out of the car. While the older one of sisters, Elsa was starting her junior year, for Anna this was the first year of the college. The whole complex looked like from fairytale, huge castle with everything you wanted for your school life. To be honest, the castle looked much better than the one they lived in, back in Ardenelle. Elsa had been announced for a queen, but even as a queen she needs a proper education. Meanwhile, the land can remain in the hands of the royal adviser.
Anna jumped out of happiness and hugged her sister from joy, she had been looking forward to this day since the summer vacations had started. Both of the girls picked their suitcases and went to sign up.
"I managed to convince to principal to let you stay with me, Belle and Tiana, since the girl who was formerly living with us graduated last year. You know Belle, she had visited us two weeks ago with her father. And Tiana is nice as well, but she's a real hard-worker, so don't get surprised when you see her studying already and scheduling every single minute of her life." Elsa was explaining as they were making the way through the people to the castle.
As they entered the main hallway, Elsa greeted several students and Anna looked at her enviously. Her sister seemed to know the entire school population. Anna wished for a popularity liked that, but oh well, she's here to experience it.
"Elsa, I am so glad that I found you! Listen, are you with us for having cheerleading practice on Mondays? Because Cinderella, I don't know what has gotten into her, says we should rather do it on Fridays. And Aurora and I were like, what the holly hell? Everyone's out on Friday, ain't time for cheerleading practice. Seriously, she has changed so much during the holidays when she met her 'onetruelove' Charming. Who does even name his kid 'Charming'? Honestly, I would so never ever thought that a guy could change her that much." A pale, black-haired girl appeared on Elsa's side and started talking, not bothering to notice Anna. Elsa seemed to know what's going on and severely nodded.
"I find Monday more suitable as well, if it comes to polling, you have my vote." Elsa replied and put a comforting hand on the girl's shoulder.
"She even wants to candidate against me! Can you believe this? I have made it to Captain post as a freshman year. Freshman! There's no chance she will be taking this from me."
"I don't see why you are worried, Snow. Everyone loves you as a Captain, I don't know about a single soul that would vote her, well except for herself." The raven-black-haired girl, Snow or how did Elsa call her, smiled warmly in a silent 'thankyou' and walked away from them.
"Who was that?" Anna asked, slightly offended that her own sister hasn't introduced her to her. How was she supposed to find friends? Enchant them?
"Snow White, the Captain of cheerleading team and the girlfriend of Tomas Prince." Even though Anna had no idea who she was Elsa talking about, she still nodded in understanding.
'This was a bad idea.' Quasimodo thought for himself. First minute on the college ground and people are already staring at him. Truth, he knows he looks like a monster, he had looked like this since the childhood. Hideous face followed by a high hunchback could never ever be attractive to anyone, that's why his master Claude Frollo, who was a professor here, had been homeschooling him for his entire lifetime and it took him whole summer to convince Frollo he's ready to go out to a real world. But now, when he looked at what's expecting him, he wasn't so sure about it.
On the other hand, Rapunzel who was standing beside him looked pretty eager to start her college life. She had been homeschooled by her mother Gothel as well and the two of them had become great friends over the time. One would wonder how in the bloody hell have they met, when one lived in France and one lived in Germany, but what they didn't know was that Frollo and Gothel were siblings, which made Rapunzel and Quasi not only best friends but a family too.
"Fuck's sake! That's a really ugly face!" A guy, could be junior or senior, walked by and shouted at Quasimodo, followed by a wave of laugh. Rapunzel quickly grabbed Quasi's hand and whispered into his ear to stay calm, but that didn't stop the college's students.
"How is possible to be so hideous?" A tall skinny girl asked with a chuckle. She held hands on her hips and continued laughing in high-pitched voice. Suddenly, a tomato flew at Quasimodo's face and splashed right on his eyes, causing increasing the laughter.
"There, a little makeover, princess!" The same guy as before shouted and before Rapunzel could say anything, a dark girl walked in the circle of mocking students.
"You couldn't step more low, could you, Gaston?" The girl addressed the tall muscular guy who started picking on Quasimodo.
"Stop ruining the fun, Esmeralda." He responded cockily.
"Yea, no one asked you to join." Skinny girl who was standing beside Gaston said.
"Cut the crap, Vanessa. Shame on you both, how can you do this to a human being?" Esmeralda was already standing next to Quasi, taking out a white hankie, handing it to him.
"I beg to differ, I think you must be insane if you define this /thing/ as a human." Gaston kept his cocky grin and she walked to him and slapped him hard across the face.
"Show's over. Anyone else, has a problem?" Esmeralda looked around, but people were already walking away and Gaston, who after last year's incident couldn't get involved in another fight headed back to the college, his arm put around Vanessa who was looking admiringly at him.
"I am so, so sorry, they do this every time." Esmeralda smiled at them in an apology.
"Thank you." Quasimodo smiled widely back at her and stretched out his hand.
"I'm Quasimodo." Esmeralda took his hand and shook it.
"It's Esmeralda and I know, you're Frollo's son, right? You live in Notre Dame, in Paris." Quasimodo's eyes widened in confusion. How did she know about him? She probably caught his confused expression, because she continued explaining.
"I live in the Paris as well with my family. I used to dance at streets."
"I'm Rapunzel." Rapunzel quickly interfered, since it seemed that Quasimodo had completely forgotten about her presence. Esmeralda nodded and shook her hand as well. This is going to be a long year.
"Remind me again, why are we here?" Aladdin asked, when he and his best mate Flynn entered the main Hallway, which was full filled by freshman's who looked like lost lambs and teachers who looked like they could kill anyone just with a flash of bad look.
"You remember, Faci?" Flynn asked, using a familiar nickname for their architecture professor.
"You mean Professor Doctor Facilier?" Aladdin replied with a smirk playing on his lips.
"Yea, right, that one. I'm in his faculty this year and he had asked me to do one project I've already forgot the name of."
"Already? Man, it's nearly the first year of the school, he must really hate you. Probably, because you call him 'Faci'."
"Hey, it's catchy!" Flynn defended himself and continued speaking, "I just wanted to schedule another deadline, since I won't be able to make it."
"And you already know you won't be able to make it because…?"
"Have you seen this year's freshman's year students? Female part of the students? I am /really/ going to be busy this year." Aladdin laughed at his comment and continued walking with him to professor's office. Flynn opened the door, but before he could make another step, Facilier stopped him.
"Go back, close the door and knock. Do you know how to knock?" He asked in strict voice.
"If I say no, will I avoid the process?" Flynn tried and offered him one of his brightest smile, but professor's only response was that he shouted at him to get out.
Flynn had no option, but to obey and when he stretched his hand to knock on the mahogany door as requested, he spotted a beautiful girl, with the longest hair he had ever seen and the biggest green eyes. She was standing next to the notice board with Esmerald and some short ugly guy.
"Hello? Earth to Flynn." Aladdin waved his hand in front of Flynn's face, who was already making his way to the three figures. Esmeralda noticed the two well-known guys walking to her and offered them a smile.
"Hey guys!" She waved at them and they greeted her back. The blonde and the weird guy were the exact definition of a lost lamb in the forest of wolves.
"This is Rapunzel and Quasimodo," Esmeralda introduced the two newbie's and continued, "Rapunzel, Quasi, these are Aladdin and Eug-"
"Flynn! Flynn Rider, always a pleasure." Flynn introduced himself and winked at Rapunzel who slightly blushed. Esmeralda chuckled, while Flynn gave her an angry look. She was one of very few people who knew Flynn's real name- Eugene Fitchgerbert. He had been using his nickname Flynn Rider since forever, and he even applied on this university by that name, three years ago.
Rapunzel nodded, her green eyes filled with innocence and a slight confusion. They stood there for a moment, while Esmeralda and Aladdin talked about their vacation and Flynn's gaze fell upon Rapunzel, entirely forgetting about the college assignment.
AN: Alright, this is the first chapter, I hope you enjoyed ^^ Please read and review, I will be glad for every comment or critics, it help me improve. There are going to be a lot more characters, I just couldn't mention them all in one chapter :') I have two more chapters already written, but I need to know that there is someone out there who enjoys reading my work.
Update: I have finally edited this story, so it is more legible. Enjoy.