Descendants: Upon a Star/Season One - 101: Welcome to Auradon

It would seem like Auradon is a completely different place then it was a few days ago. While most of the dangerous villains were kept on the Isle, the ones that were believed to be capable of a second chance were forgiven and freed, Hades included. Hades was still baffled that he was one of the ones forgiven and not kept on the isle with Maleficent, Frollo, Queen of Hearts, Cruella De Vil, ect but he certainly wasn’t complaining. 
Mal and Ben’s wedding was in two months and the purple haired god and fairy was all over the map with royal preparations, dress fittings, and family affairs while Hades stood by the side not wanting to ruin his daughters planning for her special day - or even the special day in question. 
Mal proudly stood at the balcony looking at the thriving and beautiful world she was about to become the Queen of. Meanwhile news has spread quite a bit, sparking mixed feelings both for Auradon residents and VKS.
“I can’t believe we’re finally given the chance to leave the isle for good. Ever since Mal left I been dreaming of this day forever.” Hadie said as he walked down the street with his two best friends Ginny Gothel, younger daughter of Mother Gothel and younger sister of Auradon Hero Cassandra, and Brandon Cipher, son of Bill Cipher.
“I don’t know..I'm kinda nervous. What if they don't like us?” Brandon asked.
“Oh I know they won’t like us. I mean when Mal and her gang left they were immediately judged by the people of Auradon because of their parents.” Ginny pointed out.
“Oh come on guys! From what I heard, they changed! Leaving this cesspool is what we all need.” Hadie says, trying to be more positive. 
“Eh..look I know your excited to see Mal..and Carlos but you also need to look at this from a realistic angle. We are the children of some of the worst people in the world and no offense Hadie, I am shocked they let your dad go after what he attempted with Hercules, heck I'm shocked Meg, Hercules and Zeus are just cool with him and he’s only being judge by those who aren’t even involved.” Ginny said.
“Forgive and forget. Its been twenty years and all of them are good people. Everyone deserves a second chance. Plus Hades saved the life of one of their kids, Sleeping Beauty’s daughter I think.” Hadie argued. 
“Still through. I just don’t want you to be hurt..I mean..you and Carlos did NOT end on good terms.” Ginny reminded Hadie. Hadie sighed and looked to the ground. It was true that at first the two loved each other but their relationship ended..very sour and not even by Cruella’s intervention either (although that was a factor). 
“But that's all in the past. Come on..please give Auradon a chance.” Hadie begged. Brandon said nothing but Ginny released a loud groan.
“Ugh…………fine.” Ginny said.
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Mal - I'm finally here! Becoming the queen, I am gonna prove I can do it yeahh! Surely nothing can go wrong! No!  As long as I keep this on! Auradon’s been the best like forever! My people are counting on me so whatever! Royalty isn’t in my family but I'm willing to take a leap!
Hadie - *on camera* What’up everybody! Let me set the scene: Fresh new start for us VKS! Yeah my Dad’s cool but I can’t wait to leave this cesspool! They say “be careful, Auradions can be mean” but I'm also going out for the football team!  Yeah our home looks rough but its home sweet home, just a little bit of dust and a little bit of mold..
I mean other then that it ain’t too bad on this side of the track, maybe fix things up and it’ll be swag.
Mal - On this side we can just keep winning, if we try to fit in!
Both - Let’s come together to be the best one ever because its my time! This is gonna be my year! Been waiting for this moment yeah! Let’s all be together because its time to shine! This is gonna be my year! My year! My year! My My My year! My year! My year! This is gonna be my year. 
Hadie - Now let me introduce you to my friend Ginny!
Ginny - We’re never gonna be accepted! VKS need to rise up! Fight for good! Fight for a better life! We’re treated with a garbage pile and a dome every night/ We’re always stuck in these rags that all look the same, why is it just us being treated this way!? I say we stick it to the institution! You want justice? We need a revolution!
Hadie - Yeah..you got a point but today’s an improvement, cause baby steps are still movement!
Mal: My friend, Jay’s the man! Our very own Tourney rock star!
Jay - No more autographs! Please stay where you are! Another year where it only gets better, another chin and lard city leather!
Ensemble - This year we will not lose!
Chad - I’ll win, y’all can come too.
All - Let’s come together to be the best one ever because its my time! This is gonna be my year! Been waiting for this moment yeah!  Watch me shine! This is gonna be my year! My year! My year! My My My year! My year! My year! This is gonna be my year. 
Later in the girls dorm room, Mal began trying on potential wedding dresses that Evie made for her.
“So Mal, do you prefer 1 or 2?” Evie asked as she showed a sparkly blue dress with hints of purple and another dress with green flame patterns and purple lairs. “Uh..I don’t know yet. I guess maybe #2? I don’t know right now.” Mal answered as she continued looking at all the paperwork and forms.
“Mal everythings gonna be fine. Carlos and I have everything under control.” Evie says, rubbing Mal’s shoulders. 
“I know E and I do trust Carlos with everything but I'm nervous about all the parties and stuff because I want my dad there but I can’t have anything go wrong.” Mal replied, looking worried. 
“I thought Hercules and Meg were willing to put everything behind them?” Evie asked.
“They are but..people who weren’t even initially involved are gonna be judgemental and I don’t want that vibe at my wedding.” Mal answered honestly.
“Who cares what they think? They weren’t personally involved and Zeus already moved on and expressed how excited he is to see him.” Jay pointed out. 
“Of course he is.” Mal mumbled. “That's another reason. I don’t want my Dad to feel uncomfortable and you know how jokey and unserious my uncle can be. Anyways I don’t just have to worry about the wedding but also Team VK too. I need to make sure that programs are still running as they should, need to make sure all the VKS have Redempial Goodness in their schedules, and we need to get the last batch of VKS off the isle.”
“Carlos assigned that to Audrey I think.” Jay said. 
“Oh good. I will have to thank her later. She’s a real lifesaver.” Mal said.
Even though its been a week since the Queen of Mean fiasco, Audey was quickly forgiven - possibly too quickly - by everyone and the two girls legitimately put their families history behind them. Despite this Audrey felt guilty not just for the Queen of Mean incident but for how she treated the VKS overall. 
Ben walked into the room, smirking and sneaking up on his soon to be wife.
“Gah! Ben!” Mal shouted, hitting Ben’s shoulder.
“Sorry.” Ben said, smirking. While Mal and Ben were the King and soon to be Queen of all of Auradon, they were still teenagers at the end of the day and nothing was ever gonna make them forget it. 
“(sigh)..What is the status of the heroes' arrival?” Mal asked.
“Everyone is on their way. Jack and Sally might be a little bit late though.” Ben answered.
“That's fine. I get it, some people are closer or further then others. I was gonna wait at least five minutes before we begin anyways.”  Mal admitted.
“Well I mean..my Sally..is already here.” Ben says, wrapping his arms around her waist and resting his head on her shoulders.
“Guh..Ben..” Mal says, rolling her eyes but also blushing at the same time.
“Have you considered Honeymoon places yet? I mean..Valentine's Town Inn is five stars from what I heard.” Ben asked.
“Absolutely not. I love you but I am not prepared to go to an obsessively lovey dovey town.” Mal said.
“To each of their own I supposed..” Evie mumbled, smirking. Mal glared at Evie. “Don’t you have a dress to make for youre step-sister?”
“Snow’s not coming into the shop until 1:20.” Evie answered.
“Look if your worried about the meeting everything is fine. We can talk about the honeymoon and all that later. We don’t have to go to Valentines.” Ben said, rubbing Mal’s shoulders. The idea did sound lovely to her but she felt like she had to turn it down because of her personality. 
“No no..It..does kinda sound nice.” Mal replied, warming up. “Anyways..the others will be here any minute we need to get everything ready.” Mal grabbed her paperwork and headed to the conference hall where all the servers were preparing the snacks, drinks, paperwork and TV to be ready for when the Auradon heroes.
“How is everything going?” Mal asked.
“Everything should be going according to plan.” Lumire said. “Belle and Adam are almost here and so is Cinderella and Charming.” 
“Excellent. Thank you Lumire.” Mal says as she puts her stuff in her saved chair. “Things are gonna go okay..are they?” Mal turned to Ben slightly worried.
“Mal, I promise everything will be okay.” Ben promised, holding Mal’s hands. 
“Including Team VK?” Mal asked.
“I'm pretty sure the program’s in safe hands with Carlos.” Ben promised again. Mal sighed. “Okay. I trust you.” She says before kissing Ben on the lips. Meanwhile..on the other side of the magical mirror showing the happy couple was The Collector in a dark cave with glowy stars and moons floating and demonic looking suns with yellow demonic eyes and sharp claws crawling around the rocks. Collector himself has not aged a bit physically but has grown more intelligent, self aware and bitter after the misunderstanding that ended with him on the Isle. 
“Well..so this is the purple haired rat who betrayed the Isle and is in line to take the throne of the two people who ruined my life..” Collector said, his fists balling up angrily before throwing a blue fireball at a practice target with Luz’s face on it. “NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” 
“Nice shot moonshine.” Bill Cipher, infamous triangle of Gravity Falls said. 
“I can’t believe it. After everything I had to sacrifice, after everything I did for them, after my redemption they still threw me away!!!!!!” Collector shouted.
“Yeah, it sounds like a real tragedy.” Belos mumbled rolling his eyes while still in his mushy blob form.
“Quiet Belos. No one gave you the microphone.” Collector said, staring at Belos with an annoyed glare. 
“I could really teach Rapunzel a lesson or two..also I am very disappointed in Cassandra for betraying Zhan Tiri.” Gothel said. 
“Is there some way we can get off of the isle and get revenge on the heroes who did this to us? I mean Hades was allowed to leave the isle.” Gaston pointed out. This was news to Collector and sparked a bit of intrigue. 
“Say that again..” Collector requested.
“Hades was allowed to leave the Isle of the Lost so were a select few of the lower tier villains like Mr. Smee, Robert Callaghan, Hans and a few others.” Gaston explained.
“But Hades is the god of death. I’d hardly count him as a “low tier villain.” Gothel pointed out. 
“It’s probably biased darlings.” Cruella chipped up. “Afterall the future queen is his daughter and we all know she’s a daddy’s girl if Maleficent’s failure to raise her wasn’t indicative enough.”
“So..the god that tried killing his nephew gets a pass but I don’t.” Collector says before blindly throwing a knife with blue flames bursting at it at a target practice with Hades’s head on it.
“How subtle..” Belos remarked sarcastically.
“One more word out of you and I'm feeding you to Oogie Boogie!!” Collector threatened before storming out of his cave. Collector went to the peer of the Isle looking at the water and seeing Luz and her friends all happy in Auradon while he was thrown to the side. He curled up and start to cry, with one single tear falling off of Collector’s face and into the water causing a puddle. The water slowly moved as the wind started to blow stronger. The water turned red with demonic red eyes. Collector screamed and jumped getting as far from the water as possible. The demon came out and was swarmed with red magic turning into a teenage boy of 18 years with silver eyes, white skin, blue eyes and a red and black outfit including a cape, leather gloves and boots.
“Ah there we are.” The boy says, looking around the isle. “Yeesh, this place really does suck.” 
“Who are you?” The Collector asked.
“Well I was named multiple things throughout the years; monster, demon, abomination to nature, pure evil, and quite frankly I wear these with pride. But you can call me Evan.” Evan answered.
“Are you from the Isle? I don’t think I've seen you anywhere here before.” Collector said. “Which hero banished you here?” 
“No one. Auradon doesn’t know I exist and I travel between multiverses so fast no one was able to catch me yet heh.” Evan said, chuckling under his breath. Collector looked at Evan curious, it was almost non-existent in Auradon for villains or even heroes to experience the mere concept of the multiverse, most don’t even know it exists.
“So what's the deal with you Luno? What's your story?” Evan asked, causing Collector to react in shock. Collector only revealed his real name, Luno, to King and no one else.
“How did you know my real name?” Collector asked.
“Believe me..I've been following your story for a while. Very tragic that Auradon just threw you away after everything you did to them.” Evan said. Collector slightly nodded, still looking at the water. 
“What if there was a way I can help you get the revenge you oh so desperately desire.” Evan offered. Collector looked up at Evan with intrigue. “Revenge?” 
“Oh yes. The isle doesn’t restrict my magic as I am not from Auradon to begin with. I can free you and you can get some payback for what they did to you.” Evan offered. Collector grew even more interested but also suspicious. 
“Why do you care? What do you get out of this?” Collector asked.
“Lets just say..I am very invested in Auradon’s demise for personal reasons.” Evan answered. “I will be there every single away. I’ll even deal and punish Belos myself personally.”
Collector considered the more. He never did get over that and when the two ended up on the Isle, lets just say that it wasn’t a happy reunion. Collector considered before a small smirk appeared on his face.
“Okay..I'm in.” Collector said.
“Glad to hear.” Evan replied.
…
The next morning came around and all of the heroes of different backgrounds and stories from Aladdin and Jasmine to the newly titled Queen Alice of Wonderland to supers like the Incredibles and Team Big Hero Six all came to support and welcome the new VKS.
“Mal? Can we talk to you for a minute?” Hercules asked Mal alongside Meg, Zeus, Aurora, Phillip and the three good fairies. 
“Uh sure. What's up?” Mal asked. 
“We just wanted to welcome you into the family ourselves. We understand that this may be a bit awkward at first because of our..family history.” Hercules said. 
“If you need anything at all from either them or us, we’d be happy to help.” Aurora said.
“Thanks guys.” Mal said, smiling.
“I'm excited! To be honest..when I first found out about the Isle when the Boiling Isles were merged..I was mixed. It was nice knowing that Belos was trapped there where he could never harm anyone again but I did feel sorry for those who were born on the isle. I'm glad the vks are finally being given a chance at a normal life.” Luz said. 
“Me too! I can’t wait to meet them!” Amity said excitedly. Everyone was excited about the change except for King.
King felt awful and guilty about what happened with Collector being sent to the isle. He never wanted it to happen but it did, even after everything Collector went through.
“You okay?” Bolt asked, looking concerned at King.
“Hm..oh..I'm okay. Thanks Bolt.” King lied before turning back to the crowd where Mal and Ben walked up on stage together. 
“What's up Auradon?!” Ben shouted to loud applause coming from all of the residents of Auradon. “We are super excited to introduce our new VKs to Auradon and they are on their way right now!!”
Everyone clapped, including Hades who have just arrived to the gathering. Most glared at him out of mistrust, Bolt included. Bolt was pro-VK from the very beginning but he had strong hesitations about Hades living in Auradon becuase even if he indirectly saved Auradon from Audrey with his ember and even saved Audrey himself using said ember, at the end of the day he was still a villain in the eyes of the public, which Hades realistically expected. However Zeus did not share the same sentiment as the others and still proudly declares Hades as his brother, which Hades did not expect and did not know how to feel about. 
“Hades! Glad to see you joined the celebration!” Zeus joyfully shouted.
“Hello Zeus..glad to see Wonder boy and Nutmeg are doing well.” Hades said, rolling his eyes. 
“Don’t be alarmed, everyone. Hades is good now, he shows that anyone can be redeemed.” Ben said.
“VKS sure, the villains themselves are highly debatable.” Carlos mumbled but loud enough for others to hear. Mal turned and glared at him.
“Smart kid.” Hades mumbled. “Don’t lose your mushrooms or magical disappearing cats..I am just here to support my daughter with this “Team VK” or..wait is that what its called? Yeah.” Hades says to the rest of the group, not that Hades expected it to magically change everyone’s minds but it is something. 
“How sentimental….” says a chillingly familiar voice far worse then Hades could ever be in Current Day Auradon". Collector makes himself visible to a now shocked (some horrified) audience. “It must be nice to be a villain kid where you have welcome signs and constant praising and validation.” 
“No..it can’t be.” Hunter said. Willow holds onto Hunter’s arm fearfully. “How did he get out??” 
“Aren’t you supposed to be on the Isle??” Marco asked. 
“And Hades isn’t?” Collector asked, side eyeing Hades and putting him on the spot.
“Oooh..” The audience said collectively as they all whispered to each other. Hades was startled and didn’t know what to do or how to react. Meg saw this, being one who was able to know Hades very well, and decided to step in.
“Calm down everyone! Don’t lose your marbles! There has to be a calm and reasonable resolution for all of this.” Meg spoke up. 
“Youre right. There is a solution. Just throw me back on the Isle like I'm worthless trash and give Hades a free pass because he’s Mal's father. Am I right, beasty?” Collector asked, now putting Beast on the spot. He struggled to say something but was unable to say anything. 
“How did you get off the isle anyways??” Rhino asked.
“Lets just say I had some help.” Collector said, smirking. Everyone immediately glared at Hades.
“What did you do??” Mal asked with a small amount of anger in her voice.
“I didn’t do anything I swear! This isn’t me!” Hades said, defending himself.
“Look, I can’t believe I'm saying this but..I believe him. I spent enough time with Hades to know when he’s lying and when he’s not. I just..know.” Meg spoke up. Hercules held Meg’s hand.
“Are you sure we should trust him Meg? I know he’s Mal’s dad but..” Meg cut Hercules off. 
“Trust me..I just have that feeling.”
“Meg..maybe you should listen to him. We’re just worried.” Phil spoke up.
Collector started laughing. “There we go again. The rumors, the fear mongering..all of it. I thought you people were the “good guys”?” 
“Look Collector..we don’t want any trouble. We’re sorry for the..poor judgment and oversight during my fathers rule.” Ben apologized.
“Oh now I get an apology huh? When everyones scared of me anyways? You want a villain? I’ll give you a villain.
----We don’t talk about Collector..
The sky immediately started being covered with storm and striking lightning. That was just a sign for the heroes of what’s to come.
Collector - I helped saved the day, I helped repaired Boiling Isles but you still tossed me anyways
You hide in the storm and close off from the rain..
Flashbacks of Belos’s reign of terror popped up as the spotlight was now on Luz, Eda and King. The other heroes watched in horror, Belle, Beast and Fairy Godmother were also singled out, un able to say anything. Mal increasingly got nervous.
But don’t see the damage in your wake!!
From Belos then you turned on me!
You whisper as if I don’t see
the fear and dread of what I’d be ooh!
But we don’t talk about Collector, no, no, no.
We don’t talk about Collector
Collector then began to shapeshift into the heroes worst enemies such as Gothel for Rapunzel and Cass, Jafar for Aladdin and Jasmine, Maleficent for Hades, Mal and Maleficent, and putting a spotlight onto Hades.
Every sound you heard  but youre silence is deafening
Each decibel to save yourselves from meddling
Or maybe you're just scared to make a sound at all!
Heroes: He’s a danger to us all
Don’t stand and rock the boat or you’ll risk going overboard
Let the others drown ‘fore you reach to pull them back ashore
Well now the boat’s sinking and everyones going DOWN!!!!!!!!!
Everyone was teleported to a black void with a large staircase leading up to Fairy Godmother’s magic wand with Collector higher up then all the others. All the heroes and residents, including Hades at this point, were freaked out and panicking. Hunter held Willow closely to him and he and Jay looked at Collector with anger and disgust. Collector glared at all the heroes with contempt back. Carlos and Fairy Godmother held Jane closely and all the heroes gathered up with their loved ones with Penny holding her pets.
A constant sign of all that you lack!!
HE’S A CURSE!!
HE’S TO BLAME!!
So quick, turn your back!!
As the heroes held each other in fear and panic, Collector smiled and walked up more and more till he got to Fairy Godmother’s wand and reached out to grab it.
Well, I’m DONE being nice so maybe think twice when you…..
“NO!!!!!!!!” Fairy Godmother shouted.
“Somebody do something!!” Snow White cried.
“You wicked-” Jay shouted as he and Hunter tried to chase after the wand but Collector smirked and blasted them back down the stairs with the wand. 
“JAY!!!!!!!” Lonnie shouted as she rushed over to Jay and Willow rushed over to Hunter.
“Ow..” Hunter groaned. 
“Are you okay?!” Willow asked, scared
“Gah..that actually hurt..” Hunter said, gritting his teeth.
Don’t talk about Collector! No no no no! We don’t talk about Collector!!
Collector released a green magical beam into the sky and it started to change the surroundings when everything went black and started showing the heroes rough times, including Audreys as roses with thorn vines started growing and Isabela.
Flowers bloom when you walk in a room but I see all the thorns that you hide.
Poison rose, you may think no one knows but I see right through your disguise.
I suffered all this heartache, I sacrificed for your sake
as you ruled and reigned from above!
But now my pain is ending, I’m done with this pretending
Finally free from chasing your love!!!!!!
CHASING YOUR LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“YOU DID THIS TO YOURSELVES!!!!!!!” Collector shouted, starring directly at Luz before releasing another beam from the wand, revealing Auradon once again but this time it being torn apart piece by piece, kingdom by kingdom and sucked into a green abyss as shadow demons started grabbing people and taking them away from their loved ones into the green abyss.
“WHAT THE?!!!” Hades shouted, as his hair burst into flames out of shock. 
TIME TO BRING AURADON DOWN
I’M THE VILLAIN IN YOUR FAIRYTALE NOW!! 
Everyone held their loved ones with dear life as shadows continued to rip them apart. One shadow grabbed Marco’s leg and tried dragging him away.
“AHH!!!!!!!!!!’ Marco screamed as he was taken away before Star just managed to grab onto his hoodie sleeve! 
“NO!!!!!!!” Star shouted. Tom started throwing fireballs at the shadows. Andy’s former toys kept fending themselves by grabbing whatever weapons they could find. Jack and Holiday Leaders used their powers to fend off the shadow demons. But it wasn’t enough soon many were taken away but the heroes kept fighting for as hard as they could.
THE SANDS RUN OUT AND IT’S JUST YOU TO BLAME!
HOW’S IT FEEL TO HAVE YOUR HAPPY ENDING TAKEN AWAY?!!!!!!!!
Hercules, Zeus, Hades, Mickey Mouse, Yen Sid, Star and other powerful entities in Auradon tried uniting their powers to defeat Collector. Luz, Amity and the others used their coven powers with Amity sending abominables after the wand and Mal tried turning into a dragon but everything was deflected. Mal was physically unable to turn into a dragon and the god’s powers were drained from them and absorbed into the wand and the witches and Madrigal family all lost their spells and gifts respectively.
“NO!!!!!!!” Hercules shouted.
I’LL RECLAIM WHAT I HAVE LOST
Marco, Bolt and others were finally ripped away from their loved ones.
“AHH!!!!!!!!” Bolt screamed.
“STAR!!!!!!’ Marco screamed.
“BOLT!!!!!!!!” Mittens, Penny and Rhino all shouted. 
Luz didn’t give up and held onto Amity with all her might trying to pull her away from the shadows. 
“UGH!! NO!!! I WON’T LET YOU GO!!!” Luz shouted.
SEE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT APATHY COSTS!!!
ITS YOURE END OF DAYS AND I’LL  HEAR YOU SAY..
The abyss and shadows overpowered the heroes and sucked all of them into the abyss as every last molecule of Auradon was completely destroyed leaving a green void with Collector floating with evil green eyes. 
WE DON’T TALK ABOUT COLLECTOR NO, NO, NO, NO
Should’ve talked about Collector! HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Collector made one fatal snap with his fingers and everything went black. 
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THE END OF EPISODE ONE
Category:Descendants Upon a Star Season 1