A/N: Welcome one and all to my own version of the characters from Descendants watching the first, second, and third movies. Now before I begin I would just like to clear a few things up. To begin with this will begin with the incident on family day. Yes, I know this is how most of the watching the movies stories have all started but can any of you honestly tell me a better place to start where the hostility felt towards the VK's was any higher? To make up for this standard beginning by changing the instigator of the memories. Now normally in most of the stories I have read over this subject the person who starts the ball rolling is usually either the Blue Fairy or Fairy Godmother. However, my story will include the legendary Merlin. Why am I bringing this up in the A/N and not the chapter itself you may ask? The version of Merlin I'm using isn't the one you are used to appearing in the Disney stories. This Merlin will be from the BBC TV show (if you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend it.) I will try to keep him standardized so as to not confuse the people reading who haven't seen the show. Now without further ado let's begin.

Chapter One

The Great One

"Queen Leah it's okay." Ben said rushing over to Mal's side. "Maleficent is still on the island. This is her daughter Mal. Don't you remember my proclamation to give the new generation a chance?"

"A chance to what Ben?" She responded. "Destroy us?" she finished before looking back towards Fairy Godmother. "You remember don't you? The poison apple?" Fairy Godmother places her hands and Queen Leah's arm trying to get her to calm down. "And the spells?" She added looking back towards Queen Belle and King Beast.

Queen Leah looked back to Mal. "My daughter was raised by Fairies because of your mothers curse. Her first words, her first steps. I missed it all!"

Mal reaches out to try and apologize to her for her mothers actions before Chad jumped in front of her. "Don't touch her!"

"Don't do this Chad." Ben said trying to protect Mal.

"What? They were raised by their parents Ben. What do you think Villains teach their kids? Kindness? Fairplay? No way okay. You stole another girl's boyfriend." Chad said nodding at Mal. "You enjoy hurting people." He adds pointing at Jay. "And you!" He sneers at Evie. "Your nothing but a gold digger and a cheat.

"Mirror, Mirror in my hand who is the biggest jerk in the land?" Evie exclaimed bringing out her mirror before showing it to Chad revealing his own reflection.

"What! Come on!" Chad exclaims before hitting the mirror out of her hand. Jay is on him instantly causing a loud uproar from the crown. Evie brings out a spray bottle before a loud voice instantly causes all fight to stop.

"Enough!" Came from the mouth of an man dressed in a red robe with a white beard down to his knees.

"Merlin!" Exclaims King Beast. "You honor us with your presence."

"Shut it! I came here today hoping to meet the kids of the villains you tossed on the island and this is what I see?" He says glaring at King Beast who instantly looks down in shame.

"Great Merlin. I'm sorry you had to see such a display of misbehavior from these Villains." Chad said smugly.

"Silence boy! The only thing I saw was a young lady playing a game with her date and his parents before she was ambushed by an old woman who can't see the difference between a mother and a child! A boy so self centered he brings shame to his parents honor and insults the Lady Snow White."

"What?! I didn't insult anyone!" Chad exclaimed.

"Was she not raised by the same woman who raised the daughter you just called a gold digger and cheat?" Merlin motions towards the Lady in question who was standing next to Cinderella who was now glaring at her son.

"And don't even get me started on you!" Merlin continues nodding his head at Audrey who started all of this in the first place. "You only care about yourself and what others can do for you. If I didn't know any better I would say that you two were the Villain kids instead of these four!" He finished, motioning to the VK's who were standing in shock not believing that someone could actually stick up for them,

"You people had one job and one job only! Instead of showing these children a better way than what they have learned from their parents you treat them with open hostility and mistrust! I expected better from you so called heros!" Merlin finished.

After a few moments of silence Merlin sighed before looking at the crowd around him. "Does anyone know what these children have been through? What your actions have put them through? You sent their parents to that island for their crimes. But the children? What did they do to deserve such treatment? Be born?" Merlin looks at all of them with a critical eye.

A few moments passed as Merlin gave the crowd of heroes time to let his words sink in. "Maybe what you need is to see for yourselves." He finally spoke.

"What do you mean?" Fairy Godmother asked timidly.

"My dear Fairy Godmother you do not need to fear me. My ire does not lie with you as it seems that only you and the future king have actually tried to help them." Merlin said looking at the Fairy Godmother like a grandfather would look at a grandchild. He turned to look at Ben who was still standing protectively in front of Mal. "You remind me so much of Arthur. You will make a good king as long as you don't allow others opinions to influence your judgement.

Ben stood in shocked silence for a moment before an elbow in the side courtesy of Mal woke him up. "Thank you for your kind words Great Merlin. I will endeavor to surpass your expectations."

Merlin look at the boy smiling kindly. "Forgive me I got a little sidetracked." He said with a chuckle. "I may be immortal but I'm still old." He said bringing out a laugh from the tense crowd.

"To answer your question Fairy Godmother, in a moment I will bring everyone here to a special room where they watch the lives of these four children starting with the proclamation to bring the children of the Villains here."

Everyone stood in silence before Merlin spoke again. "I once stood where you stood. Treating someone differently because of what I had been told about them." He said to the children of the villains. "A wise old friend told me that a person I greatly respected and admired would one day become King Arthur's greatest enemy. Instead of helping this individual change the course of their life I instead drove them away. I will not allow that mistake to continue here. These four children have the potential to become greater heroes than any of you ever were."

Merlin looked down and began muttering words from an ancient language before looking up with his eyes burning gold and a bright light surrounded everyone in the garden.

When the light disappeared the heroes and their children including the VK's were standing in large movie theater like room with several rows of chairs scattered throughout the room.

"This is where you will be spending the foreseeable future until the sets of memories are completed." Merlin explained after seeing the confused looks on everyone's face.

"I'm sorry great Merlin but did you just memories? I thought we were just watching the one?" Queen Belle asked in confusion.

"You will be shown three sets of memories. Half of the first one will be to this point and the rest will show what would have happened had I not intervened. The remaining two will show you exactly how much the kids can change if you give them a chance." Merlin explained. "Now the way this will work is that whenever someone speaks the memory will pause, if you for any reason need to take a break the memory will pause. While you are in this room, time from the outside is frozen. Does anyone have any questions?" No one spoke up. "Very well then. If everyone will take your seats we can get started."

The VK's quickly moved towards a section of seats away from everyone else. After glaring at those responsible for the previous incident Ben followed them before finding a seat next to Mal quickly placing his arm around her earning a blush from his purple haired girlfriend.

"Are going to watch them with us?" Someone from the crowd asked Merlin as he hadn't mad a move to find a seat.

"I already know everything that your about to see." He responded.

"How?" Carlos asked.

"Magic." Merlin responded cryptically before vanishing in a gust of wind. Before anyone could comment on it the lights turned off and the screen flashed on.