Hello, peeps! I have here the next chapter of "A Villainous Wedding"...enjoy!

A few days later, Maleficent met up with some of her girlfriends outside the Poison Oak Spa for their weekly ritual of going into town to shop at the mall. She hummed all the way and smiled and waved when she saw them. "Hello, ladies."

"Hello, Mal," Ursula, who was in her human form Vanessa, greeted her. "My, you're looking particularly cheerful today…almost frighteningly so."

"Yes, it's a little disturbing to see the Mistress of all Evil so perky," Mother Gothel agreed. "Are you feeling all right?"

"Oh, I'm feeling better than I've ever felt before," Maleficent assured them.

"Good, so let's go shop then," Queen Grimhilde replied. They caught a bus that took guests of Disney World from their hotels to the park and rode it to the Orlando Mall.

"So which store should we hit first?" Ursula asked. "The fashion boutique? The perfume shop? The jewelry store?"

"Oh, no, not the jewelry store," Maleficent replied nonchalantly. "I don't need anything there." She smiled as she held up her left hand. "I've got all the jewelry that I need."

The other villainesses squealed when they saw the engagement ring on the fairy's hand. "Oh my god, no way! Ratigan proposed?" Gothel asked.

"No, I just took this engagement ring and put it on my hand just for the hell of it…yes, he proposed!" Maleficent replied.

"Oh Maleficent, this is so exciting!" Ursula told her friend. "Just think…we're going to have the first ever Disney villain wedding!" She took a better look at the ring. "Oh wow, it's a beauty. He must have spent at least three months' salary on this!"

"Actually, he said it was a steal," Maleficent replied. She laughed. "That's my Padraic for you."

"So have you decided when the wedding is going to be?" Grimhilde asked.

"Friday, September 13," Maleficent responded.

"But isn't Friday the Thirteenth bad luck?" Gothel asked.

"Oh, you know that Padraic and I don't believe in that superstition nonsense," Maleficent scoffed. "Besides, it was the only day that we could rent out Cinderella's castle for the wedding."

"Mickey let you rent Cinderella's castle for the wedding?" Vanessa asked in disbelief. "But I thought he only let princesses and heroes rent that place."

"The mouse is a sucker for weddings," Maleficent explained. "He said that he'd let us have the moon if he owned it. Plus he owed Padraic a favor from that PhilharMagic mishap last November." The other villainesses nodded and hummed in agreement.

"I call dibs on maid of honor!" Gothel announced.

"Excuse me?" Grimhilde asked. "You can't call dibs on being maid of honor, it's Maleficent's choice! And besides, I'M going to be maid of honor!"

"Why YOU?"

"Because I'VE known Maleficent the longest, AND because I'M the fairest one of all!"

"The fairest one of all? You lost that title to a fourteen-year-old seventy-six years ago!"

The two villainesses kept arguing until finally, fed up, Maleficent yelled "SHUT IT!" That got their attention. "Look, you're both very good friends of mine, and you're both very beautiful, but I've decided that Ursula is going to be my maid of honor, because she is my closest friend and because she's the only one who hasn't been arguing over the title like it was the last piece of cheesecake!" She turned to the humanified sea witch. "What do you say, Ursula? Will you be my maid of honor?"

"Hmm, let me think about that for a moment…hell yeah!" Ursula replied. She hugged Maleficent.

"But I WOULD like you ladies to be my bridesmaids, if that's all right," Maleficent told the two disappointed villainesses.

Gothel shrugged. "I guess being a bridesmaid beats not being a part of the wedding party at all."

"Yes, I'll do it, too," Grimhilde agreed.

"Fantastic!"

Meanwhile, back at the Bad Bean, Ratigan was celebrating his engagement with his friends. Hades was telling Facilier and Jafar about what he witnessed.

"Oh man, you should've SEEN all those yutzes going all mushy when Ratti and Mal kissed," the god was saying. "Oy, it was a regular love fest. BLECH!"

"Well apparently I was wrong about proposing to Maleficent," Jafar admitted. "I both apologize and offer my congratulations to you, Ratigan."

"Thank you, Jafar." Ratigan turned to Hades. "Hades, seeing as you are my best friend, I would be most honored if you would be my best man."

"Are you kidding? I'm all over THAT, bubbee."

"And would you gentlemen be my groomsmen?"

"Hell yeah I will," Facilier agreed.

"It would be an honor," Jafar responded.

"Wonderful." Ratigan smiled. "I can't believe I'm getting married!"

"This calls for a toast," Hades announced. He lifted his coffee cup. "To Ratigan and Maleficent, the best damned couple I've ever known."

"Here, here," Jafar agreed, lifting his cup. Soon, all four villains were clinking their cups together.

"Hey, you break those cups, you buy them!" the barista behind the counter told them. The villains just glared at him, making him laugh nervously. "I mean…yeah, whatever you wanna do is fine."

Hee hee, the guys seem so much cooler about not being picked for best man than the girls do...I don't know, I've just noticed that as a general rule, guys are more easy-going and girls are more catty about these kinds of things. I guess guys don't really care too much about weddings if it's not their own, LOL!

Hmm, what was the PhilharMagic mishap that Maleficent talked about? Beats me, it's just a funny little Noodle Incident I came up with to get the wedding set up at Cinderella's castle...that thing is HUGE, I'll bet it would make a pretty good wedding venue!

Next chapter is more preparations for the wedding. Stay tuned!

All my best, DiscordantPrincess.