At eleven fifty Uma and Elle left their dorm and headed for Gil and Harry's. Uma had wanted to leave at exactly midnight, but Elle had reminded her that if they got caught too early in their mission they wouldn't even get close to the wand and the whole going to Auradon thing would be for naught.
When they entered the boys' dorm Uma walked straight for the center of the room to a small table that a map of Auradon already laid on. Elle had no idea where the map had come from, but she wasn't going to bother asking either. "The museum is here." Harry said pointing to a spot on the map not too far from the school.
"We're going to break into a second story window, find the wand, and steal it. Once we have it we destroy the barrier." Uma laid out the plan, but it didn't make Elle feel any better, it felt incomplete and not at all thought out. "Let's go." Uma didn't even bother to ask if Elle had her grappling hook for the whole breaking into a second story window thing, then again that would have probably been a stupid question.
The four children of villains slipped out the dorm room window and crossed the quad, following the path on the map. The museum was close, only a twenty-minute walk from the school. Once there, Elle pulled out her grappling hook from the bag that seemed permanently glued to her hip. She swung the hook around in a wide arc before slinging it at a surprisingly open second story window. Damn, people in Auradon were far too trusting. The hook caught under the inside window sill. Elle gave the rope a tug to make sure it was secure, it held. Elle went up first followed by Gil, Uma, and finally Harry. The group had broken into an empty hallway that didn't have any signs that indicated where the wand might be. Uma led them to the left. They ended up in front of a high arch with a sign that read Gallery of Villains. Oh, that felt like bad bad news indeed. Uma led them inside anyway.
The first thing Elle noticed were the four wax figures, Maleficent, Creulla, Jafar, and the Evil Queen, all at the height of their powers. Elle wrinkled her nose and darted through the nearby doorway she saw leading to another room on the left. There were more wax statues, Ursula, Hook, Mor'du, Hans, and more that made her head spin, but surprisingly she didn't see her mother or Gaston, High King Beast's own villains. It didn't make any sense. A sick feeling descended upon Elle as she continued through the museum. She followed the long narrow black carpet into a third room.
Elle's heart leapt into her throat when she saw the rom. It was dedicated to two villains, the Enchantress and Gaston, who seemed to be staring each other down until Elle entered the room, then they seemed to turn on her, radiating evil. Well obviously, the kind wanted to make sure everyone knew how bad his villains were. Elle reached for the wax figure that looked so much like her mother and yet so different. The statue had her head held high, hair tossed by a nonexistent wind. Her eyes were bright and pure pink. She wore a billowing green gown with cold shoulders and flared sleeves.
Was this really how the people of Auradon saw the Enchantress? Elle knew that among the Isle's residents there was some debate about whether or the Enchantress was evil enough to be a villain. Some said her evilness was in the cruelty of her curse and others thought all she did was throw together another shining beacon of true love that wouldn't have happened had the Beast grown up to be the horrible little king he was supposed to be. Here in Auradon, the land of happy endings, it looked like there was no room for discussion. In Auradon the Enchantress was a villain plain and simple.
"Elle!" Uma snapped. Elle froze, fingers inches from the extended hand of the statue. "Let's go." Uma commanded. Elle's hand dropped, and she turned to Uma, curling in on herself. Uma glared at Elle before leading Elle back to where Harry had found the wand. Unfortunately, there was a magic barrier around it. "Can you bring it down?" Elle was surprised that Uma asked.
"I don't know." Other than to change the dorm Elle still wasn't really good with her magic. Elle held up her hands and closed her eyes. She dipped into her magic. It was like a golden light inside Elle, a pure force that she couldn't believe was evil. Elle took that purity and light and pushed it toward the barrier trying to create a hole Uma could reach into and pull out the wand. Unfortunately, the barrier put up some resistance. It crackled and pushed back against Elle's invasion. Elle pushed harder and felt her level of magic drop suddenly.
The barrier seemed to see that as the perfect opportunity to attack, rushing at Elle with enough force to send her flying. Elle smacked heavily into a wall and landed on the floor with a thud. Alarms went off. Gill pulled Elle to her feet and the four kids ran to the window they'd broken in through. Uma went down first followed by Harry, then Gil, and finally Elle. They headed back to the school, not saying a word. Uma was pissed. She couldn't believe they didn't get the wand. What the hell had gone wrong?
Elle used her grappling hook again and they slipped quietly into the dorm. She coiled up the rope and laid it on the table. "What happened?" Uma demanded as Elle pulled of her knee high brown boots.
"The barrier was more powerful than I am, we'll have to find another way to get the wand." Elle explained, running a hand through her hair. She was suddenly so exhausted. The magic drained from her had taken so much, she wasn't even sure how it was possible. Elle moved her shoes, so they sat under the grappling hook beneath the table. She ran a hand through her hair again and pulled it back into a ponytail followed closely by a tight braid, so her hair wouldn't get tangled in the night. Then she walked over to one of the beds and shoved the blankets to the side. She crawled into the bed and pulled the blankets back over herself. There was no way she was making it back to her dorm and it wasn't like she and Gil hadn't shared a bed before. It was often that he would spend the night at the Enchantress's castle.
Kuzco sighed as he walked through the halls of Auradon prep. He'd been elected as the guide to the new students which meant he had to get up even earlier to show them around to their classes. He headed for the room that the boy villain kids, Harry and Gil, first. They were closer to his dorm and he didn't feel like dealing with the two girls. He opened the door without knocking, he just didn't see the point. They were probably still sleeping.
Well they certainly were still sleeping. On one bed was Gil and Elle on the other was Harry and Uma. "What the heck?" He didn't mean to shout, but he wasn't prepared for the children of some of the most horrible villains to be cuddlers. Elle groaned and reached behind her, around Gil, and grabbed the vase on the nightstand. She threw it at Kuzco. "Hey!" He shouted. He dodged the vase and it shattered against the open door. Elle looked up and spotted Kuzco.
"Get out of here before you wake them." Elle growled lowly.
"That's what I'm here for." Kuzco shot back crossing his arms.
Elle rolled her eyes and slipped out of bed. "And why the hell is that?"
"Classes start in half an hour. I wanted to make sure you guys were up and ready to go so I could show you to your classes." Kuzco informed her. Elle groaned again, but she looked out over the other three.
"Give them fifteen more minutes, it won't take them long to be ready and I doubt it'll take that long to get to wherever."
"Really?" Kuzco asked with an arched eyebrow. He thought Elle was just trying to make more time to sleep in.
"Really, now leave them alone and sit here without saying a word." Elle moved over to a bag that was thrown haphazardly in a corner and snagged a shirt before ducking into the bathroom. She left the door open a crack and Kuzco rolled his eyes. If he didn't know any better, he would think she didn't trust him. When Elle came out of the bathroom she stomped surprisingly quietly over to the little table in the center of the room and grabbed the boots that were under it.
"Class is going to start soon."
"What's he doing here?" Harry asked startling Kuzco enough he jumped.
"Retrieving us for class apparently."
The other three got up and got ready for class and like Elle had predicted they didn't take more than fifteen minutes. He was glad it didn't take them that long. He led them down to the library for Remedial Goodness and then headed for History of Woodsmen and Pirates. He would have to direct the vks to their next class, but for the moment he was free of the awkwardness.
I don't own Descendants, only Elle and Kuzco and the ocs to come and there are going to be a lot of them and I hate that, but Descendants is one of those fandoms I can come up with ocs for out the wazu so I have a lot of them, most of them villain kids... so...
