The kingdom of Corona, its residents and all, were up in arms. The sounds of trumpets were heard throughout the air as the people of the village had gathered outside the bridge. In the distance, they could see a white horse carrying an equally white carriage. In it, Snow White and Ferdinand waved to the crowd as they passed by them. Behind them followed the other Disney Princess along with their husbands and parents. This was the first time that the Disney Princesses, except for Rapunzel, had been to Corona and the first time the people of Corona had ever seen the other princesses, so sufficed to say, the people were just as excited as the princesses were.
A strapping gentlemen, wearing a purple and gold outfit and carrying a small scroll presented himself before the people outside the castle and began to read from the scroll as Snow White and Ferdinand arrived at the entrance.
"Good people of Corona, please welcome the Disney Royal Court! It is my honor to introduce to you, Princess Snow White and Prince Ferdinand!" the man proclaimed.
The people applauded as Snow White and Ferdinand stood and gave a bow before they exited their carriage and made their way into the castle.
Next came Cinderella who arrived in her trademark pumpkin carriage carried by two magnificent white horses along with her husband, Prince Charming, her father-in-law, King Walter and the Grand Duke.
"Her royal majesties, Princess Cinderella, Prince Charming and King Walter!" the man proclaimed.
Cinderella and Charming departed their carriage and went inside the castle. Meanwhile, Walter was about to followed behind, however he lost track of where he was going, tripped and was about to fall out of the carriage, but the Grand Duke, seeing this quickly lunged forward and caught him before he hit the ground. Walter's weight was almost too much for the Duke to handle, but nonetheless, he carried him into the castle.
Following were Princess Aurora with her husband, Prince Phillip and her parents, King Stephan and Queen Leah and Phillip's father and her father-in-law, King Hubert. They were all riding together in a black carriage carried by two black horses covered in red armor.
"Please welcome, Princess Aurora, Prince Phillip, King Stephan, King Hubert, and Queen Leah!" the man proclaimed.
Aurora and her family bowed headed inside the castle.
Next came Ariel with her husband, Prince Eric and her father, King Triton who had given himself legs for this special occasion and also made sure to bring his triton. They arrived in a turquoise and gold carriage decorated with multiple colored seashells and carried by two white horses.
"May I present, Princess Ariel, Prince Eric, and King Triton!" the man proclaimed.
Ariel and Eric gave a bow while Triton used his triton to create and rainbow over the castle, before the three of them went inside.
Next came Princess Belle and her husband, Prince Adam and her father, Maurice in a brown carriage decorated with red roses.
"Introducing, Princess Belle, Prince Adam and Maurice!" the man proclaimed.
Belle and Adam bowed to the people and got off their carriage. Before Maurice could get off, Belle noticed that he hadn't bowed and signaled him to. Feeling sheepish, Maurice quickly bowed and followed Belle and Adam into the castle.
Suddenly, the crowd looked up in awe as Princess Jasmine arrived with her husband, Aladdin, and her father, the Sultan, flew in from the skies on Carpet landed in front of the castle entrance.
"Please welcome, Princess Jasmine, Prince Aladdin and the Sultan!" the man proclaimed.
Jasmine gave an Arabian bow. Aladdin just waved before Jasmine hit him on the shoulder and made him bow. Rubbing the slight embarrassment of her face, Jasmine grabbed him by the collar and dragged him with her into the castle.
On a brown horse, Pocahontas and her father, Chief Powhatan arrived.
"May I present, Princess Pocahontas and her father, Chief Powhatan!" the man proclaimed.
Pocahontas and her father got off of their horse, gave a slight wave to the crowd and went into the castle.
Princess Mulan along with her husband, Li Shang, her father, Fa Zhou, her mother, Fa Li, Mushu, and Crick-ki followed behind on her horse, Khan.
"Introducing, Princess Mulan, Li Shang, Fa Zhou and Fa Li!" the man proclaimed.
Mulan, her husband and parents gave a bow and went inside the castle.
Next came Tiana with her husband, Naveen along with her mother, Eudora in a green and white carriage with leafs on it.
"I am honored to welcome Princess Tiana, Prince Naveen and their mother, Eudora!" the man proclaimed.
Lastly, Merida arrived with her mother, Queen Elinor, her father, King Fergus, and her brothers, Harris, Hubert and Hamish.
"And last, I am please to present, Princess Merida, Queen Elinor, King Fergus and their three sons, Hubert, Hamish and Harris!" the man proclaimed.
Harris, Hubert and Hamish quickly rushed into the castle upon seeing the food being taken in by the servants. Fergus rushed in after them while Elinor and Merida just chuckled before walking in.
The last of the royal guests had arrived and the trumpets sounded again, signaling the end of the precession.
Merida and her mother made their way into the main hall. The look of the hall shocked and amazed the red curly haired lass.
The room had spread out as far as the eye could see. To her, it felt bigger than all of Scotland. The princesses, their husbands, along with hundreds of guests had filled the hall to the brim.
Amidst them, Harris, Hubert and Hamish were sneaking bits of food from the buffet table, from drumsticks, to cakes, to pies, everything that wasn't nailed down, they got their hands on it. Fergus was able to round up the three and bring them back to Elinor and Merida, but not before taking a drumstick of his own.
"Ye wee little devils," said Merida, giving her three brothers a rub on the head.
Just then, the entire room went silent for the arrival of the King and Queen of Corona along with their daughter, Rapunzel.
"Welcome, honored guests," the King said. "We welcome all of you to this exciting and enchanted gathering. We would especially like to welcome the ten princesses who came here from their respective kingdoms along with our own. At this time, me and my wife ask that you take this opportunity to enjoy yourselves and in one hour, we will make a grand announcement that will change the future of the royal lineage forever!"
The guests applauded.
Rapunzel motioned to her parents. "Mom, Dad, what the announcement?" she asked.
"You will see, dear, it's a surprise," said the Queen. "For the moment, enjoy the party.
Putting the minor mishaps aside, Merida along with her family, and the other princesses took the time to enjoy the party and get better acquainted with the other guests.
Merida was eating away at the buffet table while being observed by a rather snooty looking couple who looked on in disgust.
The woman, a blonde haired woman wearing a light blue dress, long white gloves and white high-heeled shoes, sneered at Merida's eating habits. "I say, that child has no manners at all. I blame her mother," she said.
Merida overheard.
"Yes and her father's no better, obviously, they both go to the same untalented hair stylist," the husband said.
The couple continued to talk about Merida behind her back, but when their backs were turned, she took it upon herself to mock them. She mocked their talking, hand gestures and postures. When they turned around, she acted natural. Just then, Merida spotted one of the servants carrying a large glass bowl filled with red wine in the snooty couples' direction. Seeing this, she just gracefully whistled past the snooty couple, waving to them on the way and then towards the servant. She gave him a greet and while he was not looking, she took her bow and gave him a tap on the leg which caused him to temporarily lose his balance and tip the bowl, making a large portion of the wine to spill all over the snooty couple. The woman screamed as wine covered her head, her face and her dress.
"This was a new dress, you buffoon!" the woman shouted.
Snow White, seeing this, rushed over to the woman with a hanky in hand. "Oh dear! Let me help you with that," she said as she attempted to wipe some of the wine off.
As Snow White was tending to the woman, Merida was confronted by her mother. "I saw you do that," Elinor said with her arms crossed.
Merida held her head down in shame and guilt, but when she looked up, she saw a smile on the face of her mother. It seemed she had also liked what her daughter had done.
Meanwhile, King Stephen, Queen Leah and King Hubert were talking with Chief Powhatan and King Triton.
Pocahontas just walked across room rather gingerly and without a care. Soon, she came to the buffet table and eyed curiously at a bunch of tiny wieners on sticks when she was met by two people dressed in fancy outfits. They were rather unimpressed by the style of her outfit.
"Young lady," said a man in a purple and black outfit. "What is that...thing you are wearing made of?"
But as Pocahontas began to explain, she was cut off by a woman who was with the man and was wearing a red and black outfit.
"Probably some road kill that the palace guards found," the woman said.
"It is not...'roadkill' as you say," Pocahontas responded.
"Well whatever it is, it is most unbecoming of a lady," said the man.
"Well excuse me, but I don't judge what you are wearing, so it would be very generous of you if you would not judge what I wear. And quite frankly, it is rather sad that two highly educated people such as yourselves find pleasure in talking down other people," Pocahontas answered before she walked off.
Belle and Adam got acquainted with the King and Queen of Corona.
The King gave Adam a shake on the hand. "Ah, you must Prince Adam and Belle?" he asked.
"Yes, and we must say it is an honor to meet you," Adam said.
"Enjoying the party?" asked the King.
Adam was about to answer when Belle suddenly cut him off.
"Wait," she said. "Before we say anything else I think it's only proper that their majesties tell us their names first."
"Oh, well I'm Queen Tera and this is King York," said the Queen. "I must say, Belle, you have quite the manners."
Belle smiled and gave a courtesy. "Thank you," she responded. "I love the German architecture of this castle."
"Why thank you," said King York.
"By the way, do you have a library," Belle asked to which Adam just chuckled and rolled his eyes.
"Yes we do. It's one of the largest in the world," said Queen Tera.
"May I see it?" Belle asked.
"Of course. Follow us," King York said before he, Tera, Belle, and Adam went on their way.
Naveen had gotten a big plate of food and was scarfing down much to the chagrin of his wife.
"Stop that, Naveen. This is a fancy party," Tiana said.
"Yeah, and I'm enjoying their fancy food," Naveen said, continuing to chow down.
With an exasperated sigh, Tiana noticed that Naveen's hair was a little off and his outfit was a little crooked. "Well can you at least make yourself look more presentable?" she said as she straightened her husband's hair and his outfit.
"Tiana..." Naveen groaned.
Just then, Naveen was joined by Aladdin with his own plate of food.
"Girls...what can you do, huh?" he said to Naveen.
"I know that is right," Naveen said.
"And just what do you mean by that?" Jasmine said with her arms crossed and giving Aladdin a cold stare.
"Oh, uh, uh, uh, well uh, da, da, da, da..." Aladdin said, stammering and stammering.
"Un huh, let's talk about this more in the back," Jasmine said, grabbing Aladdin by the ear.
"Jasmine wait! I didn't mean it like that!" Aladdin said, trying to plead his case, but Jasmine was having nothing of it.
As King Stephen and Queen Leah continued to talk, they both turned and saw their daughter, Aurora, with a cup of wine in her hand, twiddling the glass with her fingers rather nervously.
Being parents, Stephen and Leah could tell something was troubling her.
"Could you excuse us for just one moment?" Leah said before she and Stephen went over to Aurora. "Dear? What's wrong?"
"Oh, it's nothing, it's...it's...well, it's just...I'm afraid of making a bad impression," said Aurora. "Look at all these important people. At any moment, I could trip or fall or stumble or get something caught in my hair or sneeze wine out of my nose or..."
Just then, she was stopped by her mother who comforted her. "Relax. You will be fine. Just go out there and be yourself," she said.
Taking her mother's words to heart, Aurora smiled and nodded before walking off.
Stephen and Leah went back to talk to Triton and the others.
Triton looked at Aurora who began talking with the guests. "You have a very lovely daughter," he said.
"We hear you have a very lovely daughter as well," said Stephen.
"We would like very much to meet her," said Leah. "Where is she?"
"Why she's right here," Triton said as he turned around, only to discover that his daughter was not around. "Ariel? Ariel?!"
The aforementioned Ariel was exploring the higher floors of the castle. She was amazed at the large halls and corridors.
Cinderella, who was sharing a drink with her husband, was rather cautious. She didn't talk to a lot of people because of the fact that this was her first time in the kingdom and she decided not to make too big of a first impression.
Rapunzel spent most of her time just looking out to the crowd. This was her first big party since she moved into the castle and she really didn't know what to do. After a while, she just decided to wing it and walked into the party.
Underneath the buffet table, Mushu and Crick-ki had gathered a large amount of food.
*crick crick* Crick-ki asked Mushu.
"I just figured we needed some time away from all those stuffed shirts out there," Mushu answered. "I swear, some of their noses are longer than the Great Wall of China!"
Mushu and Crick-ki then scarfed down their food, when suddenly, Mulan discovered them.
"Crick-ki? Mushu!" Mulan said. "What are you guys doing? You shouldn't be under here."
"Uh...we figured the lighting is better down here," Mushu responded.
Crick-ki nodded in agreement.
"Mushu!" Mulan scorned.
"All right, all right! We're going," Mushu said with a sigh.
Mushu and Crick-ki got out from under the table. As they did, they caught the eyes of a woman who had just noticed them.
"Dragon!" the woman shouted.
"Oh boy. I think things are about to get hot," said Mushu.
The woman was so freaked out by Mushu, that she lost her balanced, causing her to trip into the buffet table. Her force title the table and all the food was launched in the air. Mulan was able to catch and balance a few plates of food on her head and shoulders. However, she was soon losing her balance. But just as she was about to fall, Rapunzel came out of nowhere and tied her up by the waist with her hair. Meanwhile, a large bowl of potatoes landed on a man's head. Just as Mulan got her bearings, she slipped on a small puddle of wine which caused her to spin around and Rapunzel and her got tangled up in her hair.
"Food fight!" shouted Merida
Rapunzel and Mulan rolled forward towards Tiana and Naveen and tripped them.
With that, everyone in the castle started throwing food at each other.
Meanwhile, Belle had returned with a big stack of books along with Adam, Tera, and York.
"Thanks for letting me borrow these," Belle said to the King and Queen.
"You're quite welcome," said Queen York.
Suddenly, the King and Queen noticed the commotion that was going on at the party.
Two guests were throwing food at each other. All the while, Snow White ducked underneath a table. Ariel aimed a handful of food at one of the guests, but that guest ducked and the food hit Jasmine in the face.
"Sorry, Jasmine," said Ariel.
Jasmine did her best to keep her cool, but it wasn't easy.
Meanwhile, Rapunzel was untangling herself and Mulan from out of her hair. As she got out, her right foot was still caught. Belle approached her as she was able to get her foot out and the momentum knocked her into her which made Belle toss the books up in the air. Simultaneously, a book hit Jasmine, Snow White, Aurora, and Tiana on the head, almost knocking them out. One guest attempted to throw some food at Pocahontas, but she dodged by jumping in the air and grabbing a nearby curtain rope. Cinderella shielded herself and Charming with a large silver plate.
Merida called her brothers to her. "Boys, psst," she whispered. She brought their attention to the same couple that had made fun of her earlier and then to a lonely pastry that lay on a table.
The three brothers all nodded for they knew what their sister was thinking. They quickly grabbed the pastry and handed it to her.
Merida had a good clear shot. She took out her bow, placed the pastry at the string, pulled the string back, got a good aim and fired. However, the pastry missed and hit Jasmine instead.
Jasmine had tried to keep her composure, but now enough was enough. "That's it!" she shouted as she began throwing food all over the place in a rage.
The food fight continued to escalate into a frenzy. All the guests were messy and covered in food and drink. The King and Queen could no longer stand for the chaos that was ensuing.
From his throne, King York opened a secret compartment and pulled out a large purple mallet and banged multiple times with extreme force, causing the fight to cease and everything to calm down.
"We would like to take this time to apologize to our guests for the trouble caused here," said Queen Tera. "Our servants will tend to you." She then turned her attention to the 11 princesses who were all messy. "We would like to ask our princesses to join us in the dining hall, please? That includes you, Rapunzel."
The princesses along with Queen Elinor, King Fergus, and the other princesses parents followed the King and Queen into the dining hall.
But unaware the princesses were that from far, in the deepest reaches of the Enchanted Dominion, in a dark and ominous castle in the Forbidden Mountains, they were being watched, but not just by anyone. Sitting on her throne, accompanied by her faithful bird, Diablo as well as her countless assortment of minions, she was the Mistress of All Evil, she was Maleficent. The wicked fairy stared with envy and jealousy at the assortment of royalty and important people that had gathered in Corona.
"Well, it seems that our royal ladies have been invited to a very special occasion," Maleficent said, stroking her pet raven's fur. "But it seems that I was unaware of this little gathering. An oversight maybe, but one I'm sure we can...resolve."
In the dining hall, the servants were cleaning the rest of the food off of the princesses.
Elinor eyed Merida suspiciously and with her arms crossed because knowing her daughter, she figured she was the one was started the food fight.
Merida noticed her mother eying her and put on a smile to seem innocent, but Elinor was not buying it.
Elinor walked up to the King and Queen. "I deeply apologize for what happened," she said sincerely.
"No harm done," said King York.
"We are just glad your daughter and the others are alright," said Queen Tera.
As the servants continued to clean off the princesses, the King and Queen realized that now was as good a time as any to make their major announcement.
"Princesses," said King York. "My Queen and I believe that it is now a good time to make our announcement."
After the last of the food was cleaned off of them, the princesses gathered with wrapped attention and open ears to the King and Queen's words.
"We have decided that later this evening, you princesses will participate in a ceremony in which you will be coronated as Disney Queens!" said Queen Tera.
The princesses were shocked and taken a bit back by this news. They didn't know what to think.
Elinor shared these same feelings. "Wait, wait, wait, what do you mean Queens?" she asked.
"It means that these princesses will become the official rulers of their respective kingdoms," said King York.
"But I'm not ready to be a queen!" Merida said.
"Well if Merida doesn't want to do it, I don't think she should," Elinor said.
Rapunzel approached her parents gingerly. "But Mom, Dad..." she said.
This was something that came completely out of nowhere for the princesses. This was a whole new level of responsibility, duties, changes. This coronation would mean a whole level of commitments that they were not sure they could handle.
Just then, Jasmine stormed forward. "Why didn't you tell us this sooner?!" she said.
"We meant not harm," said Queen Tera.
"Like the sands of Agrabah, you didn't!" Jasmine shouted. "You bring us here just so you can put us at a higher level of power without even asking us?! Well I'm not going through with it!"
"Me neither!" said Merida.
With that, Merida and Jasmine stormed off. Their parents followed close after.
Pocahontas approached the King and Queen next. "I am also not ready to be a Queen," she said. "I have to follow my own path."
With her father, Pocahontas left.
"Count me out too," said Ariel. "Listen, I don't mean to be disrespectful, but you should have talked to us about this. I just can't do this."
Ariel walked off as well.
"I also have to follow my heart," said Mulan before she walked off.
Belle, Aurora, Snow White, Tiana, Rapunzel, and Cinderella had mixed feelings as they stared at each other with conflict.
Cinderella dealt with a lot of responsibilities when she first became a princess, so she wasn't really sure how she would handle being a Queen. Rapunzel had been a princess for about three years now and there were still some things she didn't know. Aurora had similar feelings, but seeing as how this was an enormous responsibility, she couldn't help but feel she should go along with it as well. Belle also had the same feelings as Aurora, but she was more to the side of 'no' than 'yes.' On one hand, she knew it was a duty and she was very responsible, but on the other hand, her inner rebellious nature was telling her not to go through with this. Tiana was also a very responsible woman, so she saw a great opportunity, but she also realized that it was a pressuring situation for her friends.
Reluctantly, Cinderella, Tiana, Belle, and Aurora followed the others out. Some a little less reluctantly than others.
Snow White was confused about the entire situation and didn't want to start any more conflict then there already was, but she decided to follow her friends out to maybe reason with them or just have a talk.
Rapunzel looked at her parents, conflicted, before she left as well. She didn't want to leave, but like the others, this was shocking news to her.
The King and Queen looked at each other with regret after seeing the princesses walk out. Was it really a good decision to break this news to them like this. They had their questions within themselves, but they initially thought they would be overjoyed at this opportunity. At this point, they started reconsider their decision.
From her castle, Maleficent was intrigued with this concept and from the dark recesses of her mind, an idea was formed. In addition to taking over Aurora's kingdom, what if she could take over the other princesses as well? It was an ingenious plan, but of course she realized that this was something she couldn't do alone. She was gonna need some help.
From the center of her throne room, she waved her septor and then help it high up in the air as she began to recite an incantation. "Ancient spirits, hear my call, bring the most evil of them all, from the darkest of all night, I summon the greatest of all frights! Come to me!" she proclaimed.
A giant wave of green energy encircled the throne room followed by a rapid succession of lightning and dark clouds. Then a series a light green energy beams simultaneously appeared from out of the clouds, each one revealing a villain.
First was Queen Grimhilde, next was Lady Tremaine, followed by Ursula, Gaston, Jafar, Ratcliff, Shan Yu, Dr. Facilier, and Mother Gothel.
The greatest villains in all of Disney had gathered together in one place with Maleficent standing before them.
Gentlemen and ladies, I have a proposition for you that I think you will be most interested to hear," Maleficent said with cold confidence.
The Mistress of All Evil began to explain her plan to the others villains. With a wicked smile on her face, she knew that this was the first step of her master plan. She knew that it was only a matter of time before she and the other villains would reign supreme and dominate over all.