- Posted: 02/21/2019 (American Standard)
About the Story: This is the bedtime story Maleficent told Mal to explain their family's history and her... safety tips. This short story is connected to my Isle Problems series. If you read this and like it, then make sure to go back to check my others. I hope you enjoy.
In the Beginning
I've lived a long time, I've seen a lot of things, and I've ruled over a many, many people. Some called me a goddess, others a demon, but in any case I am and will always remain the most powerful being in the world for all time. Even more so than their so-called God, who supposedly created the humans to abandon them just as my parents abandoned me. Yes, that's right. I too had a beginning, and in the beginning there was a fairy who kept to herself and did no harm.
This fairy was my mother. She had these beautiful, black curls, and her eyes were the color of a pure winter sky. She lived in a faraway land, you know as Auradon. She kept herself hidden in the Enchanted Forrest, a simple cottage, as to not attract any unwanted attention from the villagers. She knew that their pitchforks— their fires, their God— would never let her live had they known about her magic. So, she never dared talk to anyone, anyone other than the farm family posted between her and the village.
My mother couldn't understand how the Van Dykes could be so comfortable so close to the village, when they were just as vulnerable as she. You see, Van Dyke's sister was ailed with the gift of sight. She saw the future in her dreams, so she and the brother lived alone so that he could keep her safe from the outside world; however, that didn't stop her from becoming a nurse to help the very humans who would come to despise her. The children, she said, were innocent. What she didn't know is that the child she had guilted my mother into curing would one day become a man of war, one only she would survive.