First of all, I'd like to thank anyone who has shown any initial interest in this story from the get-go. Thank you, and I hope I'm as funny as I think I am. Otherwise, this story will never work. Also, feel free to shoot me a review or a PM with a guess as to who Sadie's parents are! Obviously, I already know, but we're a looong ways off from that big reveal. However, I will constantly try and provide subtle clues throughout this story, and the next one that I have planned! I will try my best to be a faithful updater, but I will have a lot going on soon, so updates may not be frequent. You have been warned XD.

On with the show!

Chapter 1: Sixteen Years Later

"Sadie?" an old man's voice called up the stairs. "Sadie? If you don't come down in the next ten minutes, you'll be late for school!"

"I'm coming, Uncle Merlin!" Sadie shouted back from the top of the steps. "I'm just packing up all of my books! You know, five of them are about the size of dictionaries!"

"You know, I might just let you use magic if it means that you'll be on time," Merlin said with a twinkle in his eye.

"Thanks!" Sadie called back, and with a quick "Higitus Figitus!", all of her books were neatly stowed in seconds. Now that she was good to go, Sadie bounded down the stairs, average-length blonde hair flying behind her.

"Now Sadie," Merlin stated, "Before you go. I'm assuming you've heard about King Ben's announcement?"

"Yes," she replied. "He told me himself, right before he decided to make it. I think it's a good idea, but I did warn him to be cautious. After all, we're exploring uncharted territory here. Maybe Ben's right, and these kids will be nothing like their parents, but if he's wrong, and these new kids end up trying to take over Auradon or something…"

"I agree fully with what you just said, Sadie. You're quite wise for your age. That boy will make a wonderful king, but he needs someone like you who can rein him in a little and help him see reason."

"Well, I will be his chief advisor when he takes the throne; helping Ben see reason will soon be my full-time job," Sadie laughed. Ben was a lovely person, but sometimes he was a little too idealistic in her opinion. "And hopefully, he'll let me use magic too."

"I'm sure he will," Merlin smiled through his long beard, "After all, you are my student, and a very powerful wizard. It would certainly be a shame to let those talents go to waste."

"One more thing, Uncle Merlin," Sadie said as her mentor, who really wasn't her uncle, was creating a portal to Auradon Prep for her.

"Yes?"

"I was thinking about my parents again last night, and I was just wondering, would my mom be proud of me?"

"Sadie," Merlin said, "you're doing very well in your classes, you have some friends, and you're a very talented wizard. I'm sure your mother would be very pleased with the young woman you've become."

"Thanks," Sadie smiled, "I needed that."

She gave her uncle and mentor a hug, and then disappeared into the portal with the words, "I'll see you on Family Day, Uncle Merlin! I love you!"

She didn't need to hear his reply to know that he loved her too.

As soon as Sadie stepped out of the portal, her old friend Ben, who she often advised on both professional and personal issues, greeted her. Since Sadie was a wizard, and almost every kingdom in Auradon had a wizard in their court who helped advise and protect their royal family, Ben asked her when they were kids if she would be his advisor when he came of age and took the throne. Of course she said yes. How couldn't she? The two had been friends since they were little kids. Granted, they didn't do everything together, but they were still friends nonetheless. In fact, Sadie had a niggling suspicion that his friendship with her was a factor which encouraged him to bring kids from the Isle of the Lost to Auradon in the first place.

"Hi Sadie!" Ben called out, as he cheerfully ran towards her to greet her.

"Hi Ben," Sadie smiled back.

"Aren't you excited? The kids from the Isle of the Lost are coming today! We've got the band set up, and everything is ready to go, but it would be nice to have another person on the welcoming committee."

"Sure, I'd love to help!" was Sadie's response. Honestly, she felt that there was no other response she could give.

"You never know," Ben grinned, "you might be meeting your long-lost brother or sister today!"

Sadie didn't know who her parents were. Merlin refused to tell her anything except that her mother was a powerful enchantress, and truthfully, the elderly wizard was the only parental figure that Sadie really felt like she needed. However, when Sadie was about twelve years old, she started to get curious about her heritage, and Ben was only too happy to help her find her biological parents. They had followed many a lead, however slim, but never got anywhere. It had almost become a game to them: Find Sadie's Parents.

"And if she does meet her long-lost brother, sister, or even a cousin, you'll kick her out of Auradon as soon as you can prove that, right Benny-boo?" asked a familiar, sickly sweet voice that Sadie knew belonged to Audrey, daughter of Sleeping Beauty and Ben's current girlfriend. Why Ben had started dating Audrey, Sadie would never know. Audrey was pretty, but she was incredibly mean to anyone who didn't fit her definition of perfect, and Sadie certainly wasn't one of those people. At least she knew that Sadie and Ben were just friends and soon-to-be coworkers. If she hadn't known that, Sadie thought, things could be a whole lot worse for her right now.

"Will she be on the welcoming committee too, Ben?" Sadie asked as if she hadn't heard Audrey's insult.

"Of course!" Ben replied, also ignoring his girlfriend's remark about his future advisor. "She's my girlfriend, why wouldn't she be?"

Audrey started preening when Ben called her his girlfriend, and Sadie, for the umpteenth time, prayed to whichever god was listening at the moment that Ben would find a new girlfriend soon. Almost anyone at Auradon Prep, regardless of gender, would be preferable to Audrey in Sadie's opinion. Except for Chad Charming. That boy was truly an asshole with an ego the size of an elephant's derriere. No, Sadie thought, something bigger than that. Perhaps a garishly painted hot air balloon was a better comparison to make. No, that wasn't quite right to her either.

While Sadie was contemplating whether Chad's ego was more comparable to a giant pile of dragon dung or a garbage truck with the words "CAUTION: WIDE LOAD" stamped onto the back of it, a limo flying the Auradonian flag pulled up to the school gates. The welcome band immediately started playing a cheery tune, and Sadie thought her eardrums would burst from having to stand right where the noise was being directed. One boy loudly blasted some notes on his trumpet, and she hastily covered her ears for fear of going deaf. The boy, who Sadie now realized was Doug, hastily gave her an apologetic look. Sadie quickly smiled and silently forgave him. She was good friends with Doug; they took lots of honors classes together and worked well together on group projects. Sadie gave Doug another smile, but moved away from the band and closer to the rest of the small welcoming party. From a distance, it looked like she was hiding behind Ben.

"Sadie, the school band's not going to kill you," Ben whisper-joked.

"You never know," Sadie muttered back, "my as-of-now-unknown cousin might be plotting to strangle me to death with his accordion as we speak."

Audrey glared at them and hissed, "This is not the time for your stupid jokes, Sadie."

Ben tried not to chuckle, as the band had stopped playing, which meant that the villain kids had just arrived.

A small white-haired boy had clearly been tussling with a taller boy with long hair in the limo beforehand, and Sadie watched as both of them fell out of the vehicle and onto the ground. The girls, to no one's surprise, peacefully walked out of the limo while slightly rolling their eyes at their male friends, or so Sadie initially assumed. Nothing had made it apparent to her that the four villain kids hated each other. Then again, she thought, they were villain kids. They could probably disguise hatred in a heartbeat.

The Fairy Godmother had already started lecturing the villain kids about goodness, and Sadie decided that instead of having to hear her boring lecture ("blah, blah, leave things where you found them, blah blah, welcome to Auradon Prep"), she could continue to find something that would be comparable to Chad's ego. Perhaps an orca's ingrown toenail. Yes, that sounded right: it was large, disturbing to think about the size of, incredibly smelly, and most likely diseased to boot.

"I'm Fairy Godmother, headmistress," After said woman introduced herself, she whispered, "Sadie, are you paying attention?"

Sadie snapped back to reality immediately, and hoped everyone had thought that she was paying attention the whole time. Considering Audrey's disguised disgusted eye roll, she guessed that was not the case.

"Um, so should I be shaking their hands and introducing myself or something, Fairy Godmother?"

"The Fairy Godmother?" The purple haired girl piped up excitedly, "As in, 'Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo'?"

"Bibbidi bobbidi, you know it!" Fairy Godmother replied with a beaming smile, and Sadie felt the urge to groan at the bad pun, but politely restrained herself. She'd messed up enough already.

"Yeah," the purple-haired girl continued, "I always wondered what it felt like for Cinderella when you just appeared out of nowhere with that sparkly wand and warm smile."

The way that the girl emphasized the word "wand" when she was talking was a large clue to Sadie that the villain kids, or the VKs for short, had some sort of secret agenda.

"Oh," Fairy Godmother responded, still smiling. Sadie didn't think that the older woman had picked up on the fact that something was clearly amiss here.

"And that sparkling wand," the purple haired girl smiled again. Honestly, Sadie thought, can this girl be any more obvious about what she wants? She decided to play dumb and tell Ben later.

"Well then," Fairy Godmother said, clearly trying to get the conversation back on the proper path, "It's so good to finally meet you all."

Ben quickly stepped up to introduce himself.

"I'm Ben."

"Prince Benjamin," Fairy Godmother quickly corrected.

"Soon to be king," Audrey added, in Sadie's opinion, unhelpfully.

"You had me at 'Prince'" the blue haired girl simpered as she slinked closer to Ben. "My mom's a queen, which makes me a princess."

Sadie was beginning to think that she might be the only girl in Auradon who didn't turn into a complete suck-up around Ben. Then again, she was his advisor.

"The evil queen has no royal status here, and neither do you!" Audrey snapped, and Sadie turned her attention back to the conversation.

"This is Audrey," Ben introduced.

"Princess Audrey. His girlfriend." She clarified. "Right Benny-boo?"

Sadie then noticed that Ben had been staring at the purple-haired girl with a lovestruck daze, and happiness flooded her veins; the gods were listening. Her prayers had finally been answered. It only took about a year, but still, they had been answered.

"And this," Ben waved his hand in her direction, "is Sadie."

"Wait, what?" Sadie asked, as she had been too busy thanking every god she could think of off the top of her head to be paying attention. "Am I supposed to be doing something?"

The VKs just laughed, which Sadie took as a good sign. At least, if nothing else, she was funny.

"No, not just yet," Ben laughed.

"Sadie is Prince Ben's advisor," Audrey said conversationally, "but she can be very slow in the head sometimes. I'm so sorry about that."

"Remind me, Audrey," Sadie said with a slightly confused look on her face, "but which one of us is taking pass-fail algebra for the second year in a row, again?"

The tall boy with the long hair started laughing so loudly that Sadie was worried he would actually bust a lung. The younger boy was chuckling along with him. The blue-haired girl was trying to hide a smile, while the purple-haired girl was slightly smirking. Of course, Audrey's face was priceless. Her smile was so wide that it looked like it could become its own separate entity, and her eyes looked like they were just about to bulge out of her head.

"All right, Sadie, that's enough from you," Audrey said in an obnoxiously sugary manner, and Sadie knew that this would be an excellent time to shut up.

"Ben, Sadie, and Audrey are going to show you all around, and I'll see you tomorrow. As I always say, the doors of wisdom are never shut! But the library hours are from 8:00 to 11:00. And as you may have heard, I have a little thing about curfews," the Fairy Godmother beamed, and then she left the teenagers alone.

Sadie decided that she would remain silent throughout the tour, but listen for anything else concerning wands. If the word "wand" never came up, she could at least amuse herself by thinking of something more disgusting than an orca's ingrown toenail. It was looking more and more likely that Audrey's face would take home the grand prize.