(Sorry I'm really bad at summaries but I hope you'll give my story a read! It's my first fic and I'm not the best at story writing, so any feedback or suggestions would be greatly appreciated). I don't own any of the characters or elements from the Descendants movies, only my OC character Eleanor and the plot of my story. This is set sometime between Descendants 1 and 2 movies. More chapters will be coming :) Enjoy!
Prologue
Eleanor opened her locker for the first time in months and grabbed the books she needed for her first period. She smiled at the photographs of her mother and father taped to the inside of the locker door. She hadn't had a chance to see them on her return as they had also been travelling but she was excited for the coming weekend when they would be returning home. Eleanor had already arranged with the castle staff a surprise picnic for their homecoming, and had spent most of her journey back to Auradon Prep talking to their head butler, Nicholas making sure everything was perfect. Nicholas had waited on their family for as long as she could remember and was more like an old friend as opposed to a butler and she missed him and the rest of the staff immensely. After arranging things for the picnic, she had spent another hour talking to him. For pretty much the entirety of her trip, she didn't have any communication with home and was only able to send out a few letters. Since she had only returned from her trip this morning, she hadn't had a chance to really talk to anyone at Auradon prep just yet. Besides, it was the beginning of the semester and her first class was quite early, most students were probably still in bed or in the dining hall for breakfast.
Closing her locker gently, she turned and looked over the school grounds from the balcony her locker resided on. The familiar blue and yellow school coloured banners that were hung between the lamp posts in the lunch area below were comforting. The trees were beautiful at this time of year and Eleanor had missed the greenery and natural beauty of Auradon. The places she had been volunteering at in the last year were poverty-stricken towns that were dry with no trees or gardens and all the animals were thin and sickly. It was the dark side to Auradon that many ignored so when they had offered the volunteer program to the school, she had jumped at the chance. She wanted to help as many as she could and help change the world for the better. Eleanor brought her attention back to the trees and admired the various colours of pale brown, red, orange and yellow indicating that winter was coming. Eleanor wrapped her coat closer to her body as the wind picked up slightly. She smiled softly. The beauty around her was breathtaking. She took a deep breath and grinned. She was home. She had missed Auradon Prep more than she thought she would.
Eleanor noticed the photo of King Ben from his coronation late last year on the notice board beside her locker. Ben wore that large, friendly grin on his face and in the photo stood in front of his parents, King Beast and Queen Belle whose eyes reflected nothing but happiness and pride. Eleanor sighed sadly and wished she could have attended. She had the option to return for the coronation but the volunteer site she was at really needed her assistance. She didn't regret staying but she was disappointed she missed the opportunity to support her classmate. Ben was a good guy and would be a great king. She'd known him since primary school and knew he'd lead the kingdom into a new era of change. A loud bell rang, indicating that her first class would begin shortly. Not wanting to be late on her first day back, Eleanor quickly double checked she had the right books before making her way to her first class.