Disclaimer: As I always say, I do not own Descendants, Disney owns that. And also I found all of the clothes on Google Images and I used Pic Collage to make the image, so I don't really own it, own it.
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Author's Note: So I have decided to pair Ben with Ulysses, and I've got most of the plot figured out, but it will take a few more tweaks and such to make the story more smooth. If you don't like stuff like that then you can leave, but if you actually enjoy it, well then you're welcome to stay to your heart's content! Anyway (I say that a lot), onto the story! P.S. My lovely sister is my editor, so without her help, the quality of my fanfictions would be much lower.
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Narrator P.O.V
Approximately ten minutes had passed when the limousine finally arrived at Auradon Prep. The entrance to the school, had a light and dark grey sign with a blue trim and bright blue lettering, saying 'WELCOME TO AURADON PREP: Goodness doesn't get any better."
Once further onto the school grounds, there were dozens of people cheering and waving little flags in their hands. Some were holding welcome signs with a bright smile on their face; however, that all paled in comparison to the crowd of people in front of the school wearing blindingly bright blues and yellows, holding what seemed to be silver instruments and playing an increasingly annoying tune.
The car finally came to a stop in front of the band and the driver stepped out of the car and opened the left door of the limousine. Immediately, a white-haired teenager practically leaped out of the car and was immediately followed by a black and white-haired male that fell, clutching onto a dark blue piece of cloth that was also being held onto by a significantly larger male.
At the highly comedic scene, the band slowly started to stop playing, which left the sound of shouting all the more clear to bystanders.
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Ulysses P.O.V
It felt like the gods had finally taken pity on me when the car had stopped and the doors were opened. In the ten minutes, it took to arrive at the school, the inside of the car had quickly turned into a mess. Jay and Carlos started fighting over who got to keep what objects in the car, and both were shouting and constantly bumping into me, disturbing my writing and causing there to be ugly streaks of black ink on the frail yellow pages.
Needless to say, I could not get out of the car fast enough. Once I was out of the car Carlos fell out onto the ground while basically playing tug-0-war with Jay over a piece of blue fabric. Taking about five steps away from the two, without the screaming right next to my ear I could hear multiple footsteps approaching us.
The crowd of people stepped away to make room for a smiling lady in a cornflower blue dress, a girl in a gold and pink dress, and a male in a dark blue outfit. I could easily guess who the male was- as his face was on the few posters on the isle that everybody liked to vandalize once in a while. Upon noticing the arrival of the three people, Mal lightly licked Carlos and whispered, "Guys, guys, guys! We have an audience." Trying to hide the obvious fact that he was stealing, Jay charismatically said, "Just cleaning up!"
The older brown-haired woman gave an awkward smile. "Leave it like you found it! And by that, I mean just leave it," she said, which was clearly directed at Jay, who reluctantly threw the objects in his hands back into the car. "Hello, foxy." And that was my cue to stop paying attention to Jay and more to the male who brought us here. Prince Benjamin.
He seemed to be rather anxious at our arrival, but overall brimming with hope. How disgusting. Seeming to notice my staring, he directed his attention to me and was noticeably confused over my glare. Tilting his head to the side, his eyebrows scrunched up and his face portrayed what I would assume puppy dog eyes are.
Raising an eyebrow at how his entire image went from a prince to a puppy, I directed my attention back to Mal talking only to have to hold myself back from slapping my forehead at her obviously suspicious behavior.
While I hate to admit that she was rather good at plotting, saying the words 'magic wand' twice is a bit disconcerting considering the fact that we are villains, kids. Caught up in my thoughts, I wasn't paying attention to the conversation until the blue-clad prince stepped forward. "It's so good to finally meet you all. I'm Ben-" "Prince Benjamin, soon to be king," the brown-haired girl clinging to his arm interrupted.
Letting out a gasp of delight, Evie breathily whispered, "You had me at the prince. My mom's a queen, which makes me a princess." Although it was all that Evil Queen taught her to want, the whole get a prince was becoming tiring. With a tense smile, the brown-haired female countered, "The evil queen has no royal status here and neither do you." Hmm, who knew people in Auradon actually had it in them to be cruel? It was oddly disturbing, yet charming.
"As marvelous as it is to hear about everybody's royal status in Auradon, shouldn't we continue our introductions?" At my words, Fairy Godmother gave me a beaming smile. "Why thank you for getting us back on track! Now, this is Audrey and she and Ben are going to show you all around, and I'll see you tomorrow. The doors of wisdom are never shut," her arms swung out, almost hitting Ben and Audrey, "But the library hours are from 8:00 to 11:00. And as you may have heard, I have a little thing about curfews."
Once finished with her speech, she gave a farewell wave and left.
Prince Benjamin started to walk towards the five of us. "It is so, so, so good to finally me…," upon reaching Jay, he held out his hand only to receive a light punch to his chest. "-meet you all." Not being too fazed by the punch, he shared a smile and laugh with Jay. He continued to go down the line while still saying his speech.
"This is a momentous occasion, and one that I hope will go down in history…" When he shook Carlos' hand, he noticed the brown substance on his hand. "Is that chocolate?"
Moving in front of me he held out his hand for me to shake. Reluctantly I took his hand and shook it, with a noticeable look of discomfort on my face. "As the day our two peoples began to heal." Restraining the urge to snort at his overdramatic behavior, all I ended up doing was rolling my eyes. "Or the day that you showed five people where the bathrooms are," Mal loudly mocked, with a mischievous twinkle in her eyes. "A little bit over the top," he questioned. "A little more than a little bit."
"Well, so much for my first impressions." The two shared a small laugh, at which Audrey appeared to get more protective of her so-called 'boyfriend'. "Hey! You're Maleficent's daughter, aren't you? Yeah, you know what? I totally do not blame you for your mother trying to kill my parents and stuff. Oh, my mom's aurora. Sleeping-" "Beauty," Mal interrupted. "Yeah, I've heard the name." It was impossible not to know the name when Maleficent seethed about the princess-n0w-queen for almost the entirety of a day.
"You know, and I totally do not blame your grandparents for inviting everyone in the whole world but my mother to their stupid christening," she punctuated the last two words. "Water under the bridge?" Poseidon, can her smile get any faker? "Totes!" Apparently, it can. Coughing to break the tense atmosphere, Ben asked with a smile on his face, "So, how about a tour?"
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Ulysses P.O.V
Leading us to the front of the school, Prince Benjamin began explaining the school's history. "Auradon prep, originally built over 300 years ago and converted into a high school by my father when he became king." Stopping the group next to a metal statue of his father, he clapped his hands which caused the statue to transform from a human to a beast, which made Carlos leap in fear and into Jay's arms.
"Carlos, It's okay. My father wanted his statue to morph from beast to man to remind us that anything is possible." That was something worth writing down. I took out my journal and my pen that started to write down the information. "Oh! Are you writing down notes? Wow, you're really studious aren't you?" I suppose it could be put that way. If by studious you meant constantly calculating every person and object around me, yes, I was studious.
"Come to think of it, I haven't really caught your name. What is it?" Hm, I hadn't really noticed I had yet to say my name. "My name is Ulysses. A pleasure to meet you, Prince Benjamin." His eyes brightened upon hearing my name. "Really? Your name is Ulysses, like Odysseus? That's amazing!" Being named after a mortal that was foolish enough to lay with a sea witch, then was killed by his own son with a weapon made from a creature of the sea, amazing? There is no way I can ever see that as amazing.
"...Quite." There were a few seconds of silence where it seemed that he was waiting for me to say something else, but as I didn't feel the need or want to, we continued on with our tour. As we were moving away from the statue, I could hear the timid clapping of what I can only assume was Carlos attempting to make the statue revert back to its human form.
"So you guys have a lot of magic here in Auradon? Like wands and things like that," Mal asked once we entered the school. At least she was starting to be more subtle when it came to retrieving information. "Yeah, it exists of course, but It's pretty much retired. Most of us here are just ordinary mortals."
"Who happen to be kings and queens," quipped Mal. Smiling coyly, Audrey wrapped Prince Benjamin's arms around her shoulders. "That's true. Our royal blood goes back hundreds of years." Although that is true for Audrey, there were many students, who to my knowledge had only one parent born a royal, or none. Along with a number of other so-called students here. Say for example the offspring of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Jasmine, etc.
Prince Benjamin appeared to be uncomfortable by the public show of affection, and looking around, he let out a sigh of relief and yelled out, "Doug! Doug, come down." A small brown haired male in a band uniform came down from the stairs. "This is Doug. He's going to help you with your class schedules and show you the rest of the dorms. I'll see you later, okay? And If there is anything you need, feel free to-" "-ask Doug," Audrey interrupted. Again.
"And if we do need your assistance, where are we supposed to find you?" If I were to become, 'friends', with Prince Benjamin it would be easier to build connections to use here in Auradon. "Um, I'll be around, but I could come check on you later tonight if you need help settling in." Smiling once again, the brightness of it made me wince slightly. "I'll... keep that in mind."
"Okay Bennyboo, let's go." Grabbing his arm, Audrey dragged Prince Benjamin away from the six of us, but before he was completely gone from our view, he turned his head back and mouthed, 'See you later.' "Ha. Hi, guys. I'm Dopey's son. As in dopey, doc, bashful, happy, grumpy, sleepy, and…" When Doug caught sight of Evie, he stopped talking and breathed out a "Heigh-ho." Noticing the effect her presence had on the small male, Evie walked forward and smiled flirtatiously. "Evie. Evil Queen's daughter."
Snapping out of his daze, Doug looked towards a paper and started rambling. "Okay. So about your classes, I, uh, put in the requirements already... the history of woodsmen and pirates, safety rules for the Internet, and, uh, remedial goodness 101." At the last subject, he started trailing off but we caught what he said. "Let me guess. New class?" It wasn't really surprising when one thought about it.
"Come on, guys, let's go find our dorms." Leading us up the stairs, we were already at the top when Doug let out, "Oh, uh, yeah, your dorms are that way, guys." Now, why couldn't he have said that before we went up the stairs so we didn't waste our precious time and energy? All of us were embarrassed, but we didn't let it show. Going back down the stairs, I heard Doug start naming all of his uncles and dad but being stumped when it came to the seventh dwarf.
"Sneezy," Carlos said while passing by Doug. Finally having his answer, Doug led us to our rooms. First, he led us to a side of the school that had an...interesting abundance of the color pink. He pointed out the room the girls were staying in then immediately started leading Carlos, Jay, and I to our dorms. Apparently, he was in a hurry as he had to finish an essay concerning the properties of gold and he needed to finish it by midnight.
Once we were at the boy's dorm, Doug said two different room names. "So since there are three of you, one is going to have a room all to themselves. I believe that it's Ulysses who is staying by himself. If you'd rather switch your rooms you can go ahead and do that, just inform me, Ben or another staff member so we can record that information. Now I really gotta go, sorry! I'll probably see you guys tomorrow, so if you can save your questions till then that'll be great! Anyway, bye! I had to leave five minutes ago." Practically flying down the hall, Doug left our sight in a total of five seconds.
There's at least one pro so far coming to Auradon Prep. My very own room. How exciting. "Well, I see no problem with the arrangement. Unless perhaps you two appreciate staying up till three or being woken up at varying hours in the night. If so, by my guest." Both shook their heads. "Alright. I will see you two later tonight." Walking over to room 143, I turned the bronze door handle and opened the door.
Aesthetically speaking, it wasn't unpleasant to the eyes. The theme of the room seemed to be a plaid pattern that consisted of navy blue, emerald green, and a dark yellow. I found the pattern to be tackier than anything, but it was better than my former hovel.
Seeing as I would be exploring the school, I would need to find the key for the bedroom, to lock up. Normally, I would take further steps to ensure my possessions were safe, but the only ones here who wouldn't be deterred by the lock were the VK's, and they wouldn't be able to find anything of importance, as the only thing I owned that was valuable was my book, and as a precaution it was always on my person.
In a few minutes, I was finally able to find a golden key in the drawer of the nightstand.
Now that I was assured that my belongings would be safe, I could explore and record the layout of the building for future references.
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Ulysses P.O.V
There were not many people straggling in the halls to my surprise, but anyone I did see quickly vacated the area with a frightened expression. Although I was pleased with the reaction, it would be troublesome later if I was trying to be subtle while extracting information, and my targets ran away before I could even start questioning them.
This was not the isle, where you could just intimidate or threaten a person into submission. People here were much softer and wouldn't hesitate to deposit me back onto the isle out of fear. I needed to gain more information about the people here. For that though, I would need to build up a reputation as a 'safe' person.
To do that would be difficult if I only associated myself with the other VK's, and I highly doubt I could find a person willing to 'befriend' me. The students here either feared me or detested my very existence.
As much as I hated to admit it, I was cornered.
Besides the fact that I don't have any connections to the people of Auradon, it is highly improbable I would even be able to gather enough useful information to be useful to the VK's, which is assuming I have any desire to assist them in stealing the wand. As none were particularly on my good side at the moment (but when is anybody), I had no want to help them with their plan currently. I was occupied with giving myself a migraine plotting how to increase my influence in Auradon to help them in an inconvenient revenge scheme.
Honestly, it was obvious Maleficent never actually considered giving a runt like me any power in her so-called 'New World'. I can recognize a ploy when I see one. That fairy doesn't seem to realize she's not the only master manipulator on the isle.
Caught up in my thoughts as I was, I did not notice the figure waiting in front of my room until I heard a small startled noise, which caused my eyes to automatically dart to a sheepish Prince Benjamin. "Ah, sorry, is this a bad time for a tour?" It seems I forgot to factor in a certain variable into my plans. "Certainly not your highness, it would be my pleasure."
Perfect.
Author's Note: I hope you liked this new chapter, let me tell you, writer's block is the worst. I spent two hours on like five sentence, then entirely redid them in thirty minutes. Anyway, comment any suggestions or constructive criticism, or favorite and follow the story if you particularly want to. No pressure. Have a nice day/night!
