Hi everyone! Thanks to all who read both my one-shot stories based on the movie "Maleficent". I never expected to have so many people like them!
I decided to write one more. It is still a pretty short story, but I divided it into chapters to organize it more. This one focuses on Maleficent and Diaval, but it has nothing to do with my other story "Unbreakable Bonds".
Hope you enjoy! :)
MALEFICENT
Cold-hearted. Bitter. Hostile. Cruel. Over a lifetime, words can build a prison around you and shape you into the very being they describe. Of course, you commit the crime first. You are cold-hearted and bitter and hostile and cruel. Your prison wall rises and the taller it gets, the more encased in the words you become. People no longer know you for what you once were. For some there is no escape. Sometimes the crime is just too large and the walls will never be overcome. You will be cold-hearted, bitter, hostile, and cruel forever.
This, it seemed, was going to be my fate. I can't deny it. I fit those words like they were made exactly for the purpose of describing me. I have done despicable things, things that even I cringe at now and will forever wish I could take back. But there is no going back, now, is there?
I fell in love. Love, the most sensational feeling there is to know; burdened by the affliction of betrayal. But it happens to all of us, and I fell hard. His name was Stefan, and just as my heart fell for him so quickly, it was broken by him even faster. Such horrible things he did that led me to curse his one and only daughter to a death like eternal sleep. If only I could have stopped myself.
In the end, it was love. Love, the most true, honest feeling I have ever felt, for nothing in the world can keep you from loving. You have no choice, from the moment you meet. And this was what brought me out of my horrid, vengeful state that I forever wish I could erase. I broke the spell with a true love's kiss on her forehead. My Beastie awoke and my heart was whole again.
I am Maleficent. I am the one you use to explain the words of cold-hearted, bitter, hostile and cruel. I am those words. But I do not wish to be those words anymore.