Chapter 48: Maleficent Is An Angry Butterfly

"Welcome to Chapter 48!" Fauna greeted the readers cheerfully, once again.

Merryweather slumped in her seat, her arms crossed. No one bothered to ask her why she seemed so upset.

Maleficent appeared in a flash of flames upon the stage to which the audience and cast gasped in shock.

Aurora stormed up to her, fists glowing white. "What did you do, Maleficent?"

"Oh, nothing much. You'll soon find out though," the dark fairy said as she made her way over to her seat, not taking her eyes off Aurora. "All in due time, Princess."

Aurora angrily sat back down upon her seat and awaited for the show to begin.

Flora flew over to the computer and read the following messages. "The first is from supersayana

Hubert, in the last chapter I was daring you to jump into a pool full of tomatoes.

"No way!" Hubert exlaimed. "I don't remember being dared that at all! But if you insist I shall throw myself into a pool of tomatoes!" Hubert arose from his seat and stripped down into his pink polka dotted bathing shorts. The audience gasped as his rotund belly fell overtop his shorts. "Now I know what you're all thinking! Too much turkey legs and ham! Well I say boo you all! One should be content with their body enough to do something like this!" He said holding his gut up, puffing up his chest. He strode over to the front of the stage where a spotlight illuminated a small pool of tomatoes. He took in a deep breath and then jumped straight into the tomato pool, the juice spraying some of the audience members in the front row. Hubert laughed as he rolled around in the red fruits, grabbing some and tossing them into the unsuspecting audience. "Take that, you ruffians! No one gasps at the sight of ME with my shirt off!" After a while Hubert grew tired of his frollicking and was instantly transported back to his seat, donning his royal clothes once again.

Fairies, do you know what The Elder Wand is?!

"The Elder Wand?" Fauna asked. "That sounds familliar somehow..."

"That's not the all-powerful wand that an evil wizard once had, was it?" asked Merryweather.

"I believe it was," Flora said. "Who possessed it again?"

"Wasn't it Grimhilde?" Merryweather said, a chill runing through her body.

"No, that's that evil queen." Fauna furrowed her brow, scratching her chin. "It was some powerful wizard though..."

"What makes this wand so great?" Aurora asked.

"Oh, it just amplifies all your magical energies. If one has enough spells in their pocket they could become unstoppable," answered Flora.

Maleficent's eyes grew wide. "A wand that amplifies one's power... interesting..."

"Don't you get any ideas, Maleficent," said Merryweather. "You cause enough problems already!"

"Oh don't be silly! I wouldn't want to wield a mere wand anyway! This staff has enough power as it is!" She turned away, holding her chin in her hand, appearing to be deep in thought.

"You know evil people, Maleficent! Who was it that had The Elder Wand last?" Fauna asked.

"I never heard of this wand before now. As for knowing other evil people, well, you should know this by now, but I like to keep well to myself. Whoever wielded it last is no friend of mine... not yet, anyway."

"Speaking of evil things," Fauna began, "

Maleficent, are all the wicked fairies like you?"

"No, of course not!" Maleficent answered, disdain in her voice. "All wicked fairies come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and can be found most anywhere in the world. Each usually has their own goals and dreams and preferences. Few are as powerful as me, though there is one other that may one day give me a run for my money."

"Really?" asked Leah. "Who would that be?"

"Why, she's right under your nose, Your Highness."

Everyone stared at Aurora, warty and fat as in previous chapters. She looked about at those staring at her. "What? I'm no evil fairy."

"Not just yet," Maleficent said. "Give it time and you may one day aspire to my greatness."

Aurora shuddered. "Never. I will never be like you."

"Aurora has light powers. There's no way she can ever become as evil as yourself." Stefan cleared his throat in conviction. "Let's be on with the truths or dares then, shall we?"

"The next is from Amy Hobbs

Philip, what is your favorite color?

"My favorite colour is Ultramarine."

Stefan, if you could have any superpower, what would it be?

"If I could have any superpower it would be the power of foresight. That way I would know what would happen before it happens and therefore can make any necesary preparations."

Fauna, are you in any way related to faun from the tinker bell movies-if you are, that would be SO cool

"No, Fawn and I are not related. She's an entirely different species of magic folk! A Neverland Pixie to be precise!"

Merryweather, aside from Sleeping Beauty, what is your favorite movie?

Merryweather replied, "I like Mary Poppins! To have to put up with such children takes a particular kind of person! And she does it so well, smiling the whole movie! The dancing and singing is all very wonderful, too."

Queen Leah/ Queen Talia - if you were to prepare a royal banquet, what would be on the menu ( the others can help answer this).

"A royal banquet? Well now that's something I haven't given a whole lot of thought to in a while. Let me see... Well, we would definitely begin with the appetizer. Stefan, do you remember what we typically have for appetizers?"

"Oh, yes. We would begin with some barley soup. In this soup we would have bits of cooked hare all chopped up, and some freshly chopped carrots from the garden. Saffron and ginger would give this soup a bit of spice!"

"And for our second course we would have turkey cooked in its own fat and flavoured with the most expensive exotic spices! Chicken pot pies would be served as well."

"Then we would bring out the freshly killed venison cooked with some foreign spices!" Stefan said, smacking his lips. "And let's not forget the barrels of wine!"

"No doubt, no doubt," Hubert said, nodding with approval.

"And our fourth and final course would be berry gruel!" said Aurora. "I love berries!"

"You do indeed," Maleficent said, sneering.

Flora, what is your favourite song?

"My favourite song? Oh, I simply love the song Greensleeves by Francis Cutting! Such a sombre and melodious tune!"

Maleficent: I dare you to turn into a pink butterfly and remain like that for 2 chapters and every time you say something mean to someone you have to stay like that for 5 more chapters.( same goes for if u zap someone)

Maleficent's lips turned in a frown. "This ridiculousness has gone on long enough! I refuse to become a pink butterfly! I was wearing a pink dress not long ago! Why, I ask you, why?"

"Because you're on a truth or dare show, Maleficent," Merryweather stated blankly. "Now you must become a pink butterfly!" She flicked her wand at Maleficent, the magic spiralling around and around changing her into a beautiful pink butterfly. She appeared to be like a normal pink butterfly, with yellow and purple spots on its wings, except where a normal butterfly head would be, Maleficent's frowning face was there instead.

"I really don't want to do this," Maleficent said in a high-pitched voice.

"Wow, what an ugly butterfly," Merryweather remarked.

"Do not -" Maleficent began, but stopped when Merryweather raised a brow at her. "No! I cannot go one hour in this form! It's preposterous!"

"Well, this is your dare and you'll just have to live with it."

"Can't you do something about my head?" Maleficent asked more calmly. "Really, my normal head on a butterfly's body?"

Merryweather smirked. "Nuh uh! This is how you're supposed to look as a butterfly. Just like how Aurora looks when she's all warty and fat!"

Maleficent continued to grumble under her breath.

Maleficent and fairies: how did you come to exist - do you have parents? Were you born from laughter?

"Now there's an interesting question," Maleficent said in her tiny butterfly voice. "Well, I don't remember much of my past. It's really all a blur."

"Were we born from laughter?" Flora said. "What an amusing idea! No, we were not born of laughter. We've lived for hundreds of years so our memories of our past is a bit hazy. I do remember spending a lot of time in the forest as a young fairy."

"Actually the true tale of our existence is rather dark," Fauna said. "I don't believe we should reveal it, though."

"You mean the fact we were born as humans but were transformed into fairies by the forest sprites?" Merryweather said.

"Yes, that one!" Flora reponded harshly. "No one needs to know that... but I guess they do now."

"OK, moving on!" Stefan said.

I dare Aurora to tell a joke.

Aurora cleared her throat. She arose and made her way over to the computer to search for any jokes she could find on the internet. As she was about to type in the address bar, a notification directed her attention back to the truths or dares. "Ah! I have a good joke! This one comes from Guest:

"I dare Aurora to become beautiful again (and she HAS to) and Philip is the one who gets all the ugly things that happened to Aurora done to him so that he is fat and warty. And they MUST do it."

"Hahaha!" cried Phillip. "That's a funny joke, Aurora! Almost had me there!" Phillip laughed some more until he saw Aurora's derisive smile. "That's – that's not a joke?" He quivered. "Oh, my..."

Magic fell upon both Aurora and Phillip changing her back to normal and him into the ugly, fat and warty human he had so detested about his wife.
"Nooo!" Phillip exclaimed as he turned over his now warty and sickly green hands. He felt his face, running his fingers down his cheeks as they shakily travelled down mountains and valleys of warts. "This is so wrong!"

"Ha! Now you'll know what it feels like!" Aurora said smugly. She threw her golden hair back as she strode back to her seat.

"The next is from Mrs. Katherine Data Pulaski

I dare Queen Leah and Maleficent play croquet

I also dare Flora Fauna and Merryweather play bocce ball with Aurora."

"You know where a great place to play those games would be?" Fauna posed, "Wonderland! Let's all go there right now!"

"I've got a bad feeling about this," Merryweather remarked just as they were enveloped in green magic. The cast found themselves in a lush green field with many human-sized playing card croquet arches. A castle could be seen in the distance and tall hedges lined the field.

"Who dares enter my royal croquet field?" a booming female (was it female?) voice came.

"Oh it's just us," said Maleficent, as she flew up to the Queen of Hearts. "I, Maleficent the Mistress of All -"

"Oh, Maleficent!" The Queen laughed. "But you're just a harmless little butterfly! A weird looking one too! And who is with you?"

"Just my other castmates of this dreary truth or dare show."

"And I suppose you were dared to turn into such a frightening creature?" The Queen said, a huge smile etching upon her face.

"You are correct, Your Highness."

"Now are you all here becasue of a dare?" the Queen pressed on. "Were you dared to play croquet? With me?"

"Well, actually, Your Magesty," Queen Leah began, "It was just Maleficent and I who were dared to. But if you wish to join us I don't think that would be a problem."

"Not a problem? You arrive unannounced on my property and expect to use my croquet equipment without me? I would have each of your heads for trespassing!" The Queen began to fume. "But now that you're here I suppose I will join you in a croquet match!"

"How do you play?" Leah asked.

"Oh, you don't even know? Oh well, better for me!"

So off they went: Leah, Maleficent and the Queen of Hearts. You can imagine how this goes down.

"Well, I guess it's just us," Aurora said. "What was it are we to do now?"

And so the rest of the cast did play bocce ball. It was a rumpus filled with laughter and anguish. Aurora won the match when her ball got closest to the pallina every time. When the match was over everyone congratulated her on her win. It was magical.

"Is that it, Flora?" Stefan asked.

"Yes," Flora replied.

"See you all in Chapter ...49?" Fauna asked innocently.

"Why not?"retorted Merryweather.

A/N: The question about the fairies' existence was very challenging. Do any of you all have any other ideas?