Set after the events of the movie
Everyone stood gazing at the unicorn and Wrolf. After a few moments, the unicorn turned and trotted of the cliff, disappearing in a flash of light. Wrolf slowly turned back in its familiar dogform and happily walked over to stand next to Maria. She smiled and petted his head.
Uncle Benjamin spook up "Perhaps it is best if we were to return home, it has been a tiring night." "I agree" answered Loveday. "Besides it had been ages since I have been home", she continued, smiling at her father. "Well then, let us be off then." Coeur Denoir smiled back at his long lost daughter, "however I would like to extend an invitation to you, Benjamin and your family, to join us for dinner tomorrow." Lovedays smile brightened even more. "Very well, I except your invitation on behalf of me and my family" Uncle Benjamin answered hesitantly, not used to kindness from a Denoir. "But we must go now for I fear that Maria is going to collapse of fatigue if we stay out any longer" Miss Heliotrope butted in. "No I am not, I am perfectly fine", Maria indignantly cried but her pale face told the truth. Robin smirked "Can't stand the idea of leaving me princess? I am flattered." "You wish, bird boy" Maria exclaimed, blushing furiously while the others laughed.
Everyone bid their farewells and turned to leave to their respective home. Maria was biting her lip, whilst looking at Robins retreating back. "Robin, wait!" she exclaimed. Robin turned around, surprised to see Maria running up to him. "What's wrong princess?" He wanted to say more but was caught off by Maria placing her hands on his shoulders. She stood on the tips of her toes and pressed a light kiss to his cheek. "Thank you for listening to me and helping me. I could not have done this without you" she whispered blushing and turned back to ran after her uncle who stood waiting with an amused expression on his face. Robin remained glued to his spot, with wide eyes whilst lightly touching his cheek were she kissed him. "You're welcome," he mumbled.
The next day, Maria slept in and woke up well after lunch. She rushed to get dressed and ran downstairs. "Sorry, I am late" she exclaimed whilst entering the dinning room. Her uncle laughed, "No need to apologise. I gave miss Heliotrope express orders not to wake you. After all, you had quite a trying day yesterday." Digweed suddenly appeared with a plate of deliciously smelling food. "Marmaduke predicted you would be up by now and has kept some food heated for you, miss". "Thank you Digweed, and give my thanks to Marmaduke for me" Maria smiled and promptly started eating.
"Now Maria, you still have some explaining to do about what exactly happened yesterday," Uncle Benjamin stated firm. Maria told him the entire story, starting from her arrival at Moonacre until yesterday. Uncle Benjamin listened quietly, only showing expressions of concern and horror during her story. "Perhaps it was not a good idea to venture to the Denoir castle", he muttered darkly, now fully understanding what they tried to do to Maria. "No uncle, you mustn't think like that", Maria calmly stated, "What happened is now in the past and if we and rest of the valley wants to move forward from the curse, we have to forgive and forget. We cannot keep on holding a grudge, which was what started this in the first place. Robin eventually believed me and helped me to get rid of the curse and he is a Denoir. We just have to believe they all can change, like he did." And Maria added cheekily, "Besides if we wouldn't visit the castle tonight, when were you planning on meeting Loveday?" Uncle Benjamin smiled, "You are right about that. We will see how the Denoirs act tonight"
This is my first time writing, so any constructive critisme will be much appreciated :-) English is also not my native language so if I made any mistakes, please point them out to me so I can fix them. Hope you like the story so far :-)