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Chapter 3: To Raise Princesses

"Knotgrass! Serena and Aurora will not stop crying!" Thistlewit exclaims tiredly as she hits her head on the kitchen table. Only to lift her head back up disgusted because now there's smashed carrot bits on her face. "Eww!"

Knotgrass shouts from the other room, "Why don't you come play a game of cards with us, they should be fine for some time!"

Thistlewit smiles relieved, "Perfect. Now stay in here little ones, and you can cry all you want." Serena stops crying for a moment looking up at the carrot bits on her face hungrily.

The green fairy notices this, sort of, "No! You can wait on another diaper change!" The twins have grown used to these tones in their voices, and it makes them confused, so they cry because they don't know what to do.

The fairies most of all do not know what to do. If the babies need a diaper change and they cry, they'll feed them, and if they cry because their hungry, they'll change their diaper.

The twins now grow tired of crying as they seem to know that it's no use. But together laying in the basket they came in, sat by the window which pours in afternoon light, they draw someone's attention with all of that previous crying.

A shadow of a face with horns on top of the head appears first, which gets the babies undivided attention.

Maleficent then reveals herself to them as she walks up to the window, and looks down on them hardly interested.

"You two have been crying since the early dawn," Maleficent starts. Both girls still look at her with no expression. "You two are ugly looking beasties, but at the same time I pity you."

Aurora and Serena go from no facial expression to big smiles and bright eyes.

Maleficent's jaw drops a bit, "Aren't you scared? Be scared!" Seeing that they are still smiling, she tries to scare them by making a hiss, showing her teeth, giving a dark stare, and flexing her hands as if they are claws.

They still smile, but Aurora giggles as Serena drools.

"No use, I'll be right back... if I can remember." She walks away from the window disappearing from the babies sight.

Before the sun goes down, a raven lands on the window sill startling the girls a little. The raven holds in his beak two little flowers that resemble pacifiers.

He sets one down in a little bowl on the sill and goes to Aurora first. He waves the flower in her face close to her mouth to let her know she can put it in her mouth. She accepts it gladly wondering what it is. She smiles triumphantly with it in her mouth as she sucks on it, because it's something to drink as well!

Serena looks at her sister wondering why she's smiling all of a sudden. When she turns her head, the raven sits in front of her with the other pacifier that looks just like Aurora's.

He does the same routine he did with Aurora, and Serena takes it in her mouth making her smile. It tastes a bit like milk and it satisfies her little stomach.

Serena coos happily making the raven, Diaval, smile on the inside. He feels much better now that he knows they are being taken care of and fed.

He was relieved Maleficent sent him on this task for her because he wanted to see the two princesses and make sure they were alright. He gets an idea now; he will try to persuade Maleficent to allow him to check up on them every day.

So excited, he flies from the window to head back to the Moors.

()()()()()()() Weeks later

Diaval did persuade Maleficent that one night to check on the princesses every chance they get.

But she didn't want to tag along this time, so it's just him with two crying babies in the middle of the night trying to rock them to sleep in their cradles.

He knows a lullaby to sing to them, but he's not in his human form to do so. How does a raven know a lullaby? Diaval has been around people in villages, farms, and kingdoms day and night searching for food to eat. He was searching for food one night when he heard a father singing to his children. He recognized it as what human's call a 'lullaby' because the children fell asleep, which is what lullabies are supposed to do.

Too absorbed in his thoughts, he didn't realize they were asleep soundly in their cradles. He looks at them both, feeling proud of his work once again.

He moves their blankets off of them some so they won't try to suffocate themselves in their sleep before he flies away to get some rest of his own.

()()()()()() Time Skip: 3 years later

The three pixies, along with 3 year old Aurora and Serena, are outside having a picnic in some nearby, empty, tall grassed field.

"This is such a beautiful day!" Thistlewit smiles taking in the nature around her.

Serena and Aurora run into the field giggling, they've never been in a place like this before! They start chasing each other now laughing.

"Don't wander off too far girls!" Knotgrass calls to them. "Now, where's that pie?"

Flittle looks around, "I believe this is it." She pulls out an apple pie from the basket and hands it to the red fairy. After she hands her the pie, a fly buzzes around her making her start swatting it.

The other two fairies don't notice Flittle's struggle because, they are too focused on the pie. Flittle gets more angry, but something takes control of her arm, like an invisible force, causing her to wave her arm hard resulting in her hitting Knotgrass in the face.

"What!?" Knotgrass raises her eyebrows completely shocked

"I honestly didn't do that!" Flittle defends herself. Thistlewit laughs.

"Do you think that's funny? Thistlewit?" Knotgrass asks as she hits her making Flittle laugh, but her laugh makes Thistlewit hit her. Now all three of them are engulfed in slapping and piling on top of each other muttering curses.

Maleficent and Diaval, in his human form, sit on some tree branches across the field observing the two princesses from afar.

The dark fairy laughs amused, for she was the one who casted a spell on the fairies to start slapping each other.

Still laughing, she turns to her confidant who doesn't look that amused, "You have to admit Diaval, this is funny!"

Diaval looks at his mistresses grinning face and honestly answers, "That's not funny. That could hurt someone. I don't understand what you find amusing-" he is silence because Maleficent snapped her fingers turning him back into a raven.

"Oh hush, brighten up Diaval," Maleficent mumbles as the raven sits angry for being silenced like that.

As the three pixies were fighting, the two princesses quit chasing each other. Now, Aurora chases the biggest butterfly she's ever seen, and laughing while doing so, and Serena stands in the middle of a small patch of a ton of tall, white flowers. She grabs a stem of a flower, but she can't pull it out of the ground because of it being so big.

"Oh look, one of the beasties is heading towards a cliff," Maleficent observes with no care in her voice.

The butterfly that Aurora is chasing is leading her to the edge of a giant cliff, but Aurora is small and is only looking at the butterfly, and not looking where she's stepping.

Diaval's eyes widen in fright. Surely his mistress has some heart to do something!

He caws warning her that Aurora is inches away from the cliff. Seeing Maleficent make no movement to do anything, he raises his wings and shields his eyes.

He hears the scream of a little girl...

His breath hitches fearing the worst as he opens his eyes only to see Aurora on a fallen tree being raised back up onto the field by the magic of Maleficent.

His wings relax as Maleficent pats the top of his head.

"For a bird you worry too much," Maleficent states to her pet.

Aurora is put back onto safe ground by a tree branch, and the butterfly she was chasing now sits in her hands.

Diaval's breathing calms down seeing her smile. He then looks for the other princess who is frustrated with some flowers. It looks as if she can't pick them. He looks at her sadly and Maleficent notices her now.

"Go help her," Maleficent orders him to which he happily obliges and he flies off to her.

Getting closer, he sees that the flowers are tall and a bit thickly stemmed, so that explains why she can't pick them.

As he gets closer to ground, Maleficent snaps her fingers from a distance turning him into a man.

Fixing his black shirt, he starts walking over to the little Serena who now has a small smile because she is tired from pulling on it.

I need to make her smile again is his thought.

Serena notices a black shadow next to her, and she looks up slowly to a tall man who has a smile on his face.

Forgetting him, she notices how tall he is. This makes her break into a big smile and she points to the tall flowers for she can't talk yet.

Diaval's crooked smile widens and starts to pick the flowers for her.

His mind is wondering about what she just did as he picks them. She seemed to size him up and realized he could pick the flowers, and she pointed to the flowers! And she's only three.

Now having a whole bouquet of white flowers, he turns around to see Serena waiting patiently.

He bends down on his knees and gently hand them to her, "A lovely bouquet, for a lovely princess and a lovely girl."

She takes the flowers just as gently and looks at them with a smile as big as the moon. He gave her a lot of flowers!

Serena looks back up at him with the same toothy smile, and noticing he has no flowers, she takes one from her bouquet and hands him one.

He laughs, "Whoa! For me?" He points to himself.

She nods her head laughing with him.

He wants to look at the flower in his hand, but he can't take his eyes from smiling Serena.

"Thank you princess. One day you'll be able to give a flower to everyone you meet and grace them with your smile. You'll surely brighten their day just as your sister. You've brightened mine," Diaval stands back up and pats the top of her head before he walks away.

Serena watches him walk away and goes to follow him, but stops when she sees him stop and put the flower in his mouth before he turns into a bird and flies away.

She loses her smile replaced with confusion, but she looks back down to the flowers in her hand and smiles big once more. She has her flowers!

"Come along Serena!" Flittle calls holding out a hand for her. She runs to the blue fairy and shows her flowers to her.

"They are beautiful!" Flittle bends down to smell them. The little blue butterflies fluttering around Flittle go to Serena's flowers and fly around them making the little girl giggle.

"Come Aurora!" Knotgrass calls her. Aurora comes running up to her and takes her hand.

"Aurora your hand is muddy! You're going to need a bath tonight." She tells Aurora who frowns because bath time takes her playtime away.

The five of them make their way back to the cottage calling in the day.

Diaval lands back on his tree branch where he is turned back into human. He takes the flower out of his mouth and holds it as the both of them watch the group leave.

"It's about time they decide to leave," Maleficent takes up her staff from the tree and turns around when she sees the little flower in Diaval's hand.

"Did the little beasty give you a token of gratitude?" She asks him.

He looks to her with a brow raised, "I guess you could call it that. She's such a sweet little girl."

"Mmmhmm," Maleficent answers as she starts to walk. "You can just throw the little flower on the ground. It will die eventually."

He looks at the flower in his hand noticing how small it really is. Thinking of it now, all the flowers were small. They were just big compared to little Serena.

He starts walking and as he walks, he discreetly puts the flower in his pocket.

A/N: AWWWW! I hope you all liked it! This was the longest chapter I've written for this story! Please Review! :)