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Chapter 6: Questions

On the next day, which is a sunny day, the twins are brought to the Moors by Diaval in his human form.

The girls and he chatted the whole way about what his dreams are and what he thinks of the Moors.

"What are your dreams Diaval?" Aurora asks him as they walk.

He thinks for a moment and soon grins, "Well, being a bird it's to find all the food I possibly can, that all vicious animals that hunt birds will be destroyed, and that nights won't be cold."

Aurora and Serena laugh at his humor.

"You don't like being cold?" Serena asks him as she looks ahead.

Once again when he hears her voice, his head turns right to her, "No, I don't like winter. Winters are harsh on birds. We try to avoid it as much as we can, but the only time we go out is for food, stay away from any threats, and to stretch our wings."

"You don't migrate?" Serena asks curiously.

Diaval shakes his head, "No, I've never left these lands. It's my home and it's all I've ever known."

Serena nods and smiles understandingly.

Aurora smiles, "You have a lot in common with my sister, besides my sister not turning into a bird as well, and being a man..." Diaval breaks out into laughter as Serena blushes.

"Fairy godmother!" Aurora smiles when she sees Maleficent waiting for them. The blond haired girl starts running further into the Moors.

"She's right, we do. I don't like the winter either," Serena says looking up at the trees casting light through the leaves.

He stops laughing, "Really?" She nods as they stop walking, making it into the Moors.

"I don't like being cold," she adds. Then she remembers last night talking to him. "Before I fell asleep, were you going to ask me a question?"

"Oh, yes. But I've forgotten it, but it's alright," he says. He really didn't forget, he just didn't think this was the right time to ask her what he was going to ask her last night.

Serena smiles, "Well, you can always come to me when you remember. I'll be here or somewhere," She laughs running towards her sister who called for her.

Diaval stays planted where he is and looks on as she runs to her sister.

"How and why am I feeling this way," he sighs quietly to himself. "Maybe I just need to rest some more, changing forms back and forth is pretty tiring." With that thought in his head, he walks off and climbs a tree to rest on a branch.

()()

Aurora and Serena laugh along with the group of blue and chirping fairies.

"I-I have no idea what they're saying, but why are we laughing?" Aurora says in between laughs.

"They must want to make us laugh and to be happy," Serena smiles at them making the fairies nod and giggle.

"Look! There she is," Aurora spots Maleficent walking down the path by them. The twins stand up and hurry towards her until they are on each side of her.

The dark fairy seems calm and distant today, but the girls don't notice this.

"Do all of the fair people have wings?" Aurora asks her curiously.

"Most do," Maleficent answers simply.

"Then why don't you?" Aurora asks, "The other fairies fly."

Maleficent finally turns and looks at both of the girls and answers quickly, "I had wings once they were stolen from me. That's all I wish to say about it."

"What color were they?" Serena asks. "Were they big?"

Maleficent smiles softly now at their questions. "So big they dragged behind me when I walked. And they were strong. They could carry me above the clouds and into the headwinds," She reminisces. "They never faltered, not even once. I trust them."

The twins asked no more questions for she seemed to be in her own thoughts. So they just left it at that. But they still wondered why her wings were stolen from her. And who would steal her wings?

()()()()

"Ahh!" King Stefan shouts as he sits up wide awake in his bed breathing heavily and sweating. He had a nightmare of Maleficent's painful cries and screams the morning she woke up to find her wings gone.

"She's coming. She's coming," he breathes.

He gets up instantly and dresses in his robes and goes down to where the blacksmiths work.

He grabs a bucket of water and splashes the sleeping guy's face, waking him up resulting in him coughing and spluttering.

"Where are your workers?" The King whispers demandingly.

"In their beds Majesty," the man answers.

"Get them back to work! We have no time to waste," the King demands more.

"They're exhausted sire. I'll have them back to work at first light," the man tries to reason.

"I need them back to work now," the King still says.

"In three hours," the man says softly. It's only three more hours till daylight. His workers need all the rest they can get.

The Kings expression softens, "Aye. Aye, it is only hours. So wake them up."

The man's eyes widen once more, he thought his King understood finally, "Sire?"

"So wake them up! And get them back to work now!" The King bursts loudly, frustrated, and angry.

"Aye, aye!" The man, who fell down in shock at his King's tone, and gets back up from the floor and runs down the halls."

"We don't have much time! Now!" The King calls after him.

()()()()

"Diaval." Maleficent calls up to him in the branches.

He jumps down with no problem, ready to do whatever she asks him to do, "Yes?"

"I noticed you've been being a recluse lately. Is there something wrong?"

He shakes his head, "No, not at all."

She looks closer at him, "I noticed you've been around one of the beasties more than the other. Serena, yes?" she asks him.

"Yes. We just seem to have some things in common and we became good friends," he answers simply with a smile.

His mistress smiles, "Well, that's good—"

"But there is something else," he adds honestly. She waits for him to continue. "I don't know what it is, but whenever I'm around her now I get these… feelings."

She raises a brow confused, "Feelings? You did say you two are friends, Diaval. It's probably those feelings."

"No, these are different. I know the difference between them. Friend feelings are what I feel towards you, at least I consider you my friend," He says.

Maleficent just stares at him silently.

He nods awkwardly, "Ok. The feeling's mutual. I have friend feelings towards both of the girls, but there's another strange feeling I only get with Serena, there's warmth and feeling of joy I guess. It's like a big explosion."

"You are a raven, Diaval. Being human now you get to feel all of these different things, and you don't know how to react to them or know what they are," she says.

"But what do you think they are?" He asks hoping for an answer to solve everything.

"It must be friend feelings with someone else other than me. It's a whole other person; it's getting to know someone else. It's normal," she answers as he nods a few minutes later. She walks off after leaving him to himself.

That was definitely not the answer he was expecting. He wants to believe her, but something is telling him that he shouldn't.

()()

Aurora and Serena reach out one of their hands to pet a flying creature that resembles a dragon, but it flies like a fish would swim. The creature comes up slowly and gently leans into their hands.

It smiles and leans in more, and purrs like a cat as the girls pet him with smiles.

"Aurora. Serena." Maleficent says sitting on a rock watching them. "Come here."

The girls walk away from the big creature and to their fairy godmother. The creature starts to follow the girls, but when it sees Maleficent, it flies away in the other direction scared.

"Sit," Maleficent gestures quietly to the space on the rock beside her. Both girls sit and look at her. "There's something I need to tell you."

"What is it?" The girls ask in unison. That never gets old to Maleficent, of them both talking at the same time. It's rather cute.

She looks at them both with worried eyes, "There is an evil in this world. I cannot keep you from it."

"We're almost sixteen, godmother. We can take care of ourselves," Aurora says smiling along with her sister as they sit up straighter.

Maleficent smiles, "I understand. B—"

"We have a plan. We came up with it not that long ago," Serena says smiling. "When we're older, we're going to live here in the Moors with you."

"Then we can look after each other," Aurora says proudly. Maleficent's eyes brighten at that and her red lips go up into an even bigger smile.

"You don't have to wait until you're older. You both can live here now," the fairy says softly.

The girls gasp and look at each other as they stand up.

"Then we will!" They both say at once smiling.

"We'll sleep in the trees…" Serena trails off dreaming with her sister.

"We'll eat berries and blacknuts, and all of the fair people will be our friends!" Aurora says hardly containing excitement.

Serena and Aurora hold hands, "We'll be happy here for the rest of our lives."

"We can tell our aunties tomorrow," Serena says as Maleficent laughs.

"Until tomorrow," the dark fairy says.

"I'm so excited!" Aurora squeals happily as she and her sister run back down the path to home.

But as they turn around, Maleficent's smile slowly disappears as she looks at the ground remorsefully.

()()

The girls run down the path heading towards the woods that will lead them home.

"Wait, Aurora," Serena says as she stops.

"What is it?"

"I'm going to go tell Diaval bye, and that we'll see him tomorrow," Serena says about to run to a different set of trees where she last saw him.

"Ok. But now that you mention him, I wanted to point out that each of our relationships with Diaval is different, I noticed," Aurora says looking at her sister.

"What do you mean?" Serena asks confused.

"He's a great friend to the both of us. But he seems to act different around you, and you act different around him."

Serena shakes her head, "I still don't know what you're saying. I don't—well I did maybe notice him closer to me, but—I don't know. Why would he act different around me?"

"I don't know either. We can talk about it later on if you want; it's just something I thought you'd want to know. I'll meet you there and tell Diaval I'll see him tomorrow too!" She says running off into the woods.

Serena runs the other way and heads to the other trees and sees him facing a tree with his head resting against it.

"Hi, Diaval," Serena says smiling as he looks up and turns around to see her.

He smiles, "Hello Serena. Are you alright?"

"Yes," she answers, "I'm fine. I just came to say bye for now. And to tell you that Aurora and I are going to live here in the Moors starting tomorrow." She finishes with a smile.

His heart seemed to beat faster, "Really? That's great news! I bet you both are excited."

"Yes we are!" Serena jumps a little and smiles wider. "We'll get to see our fairy godmother and you every day."

Diaval smiles softly and reaches for her hand, "That makes me excited as well, to see you every day." He places a kiss on her hand making her blush. He noticed the feeling it gave him, the happiness it gives him to make her blush. Does that sound right? He thinks to himself. She's beautiful.. It was something that made him feel warm. This bugs him to no end, what could this be!

"And my sister," she adds but Diaval was still in his thoughts and he had to ask her, "What?"

"Excited to see my sister as well," Serena says again.

Diaval realized he never let go of her hand so he did, "Oh yes! You and your sister. So this isn't goodbye then? I'll see you tomorrow?"

"Yes, I'll see you tomorrow," Serena smiles and twirls around. "Tomorrow is our birthday as well, that's when we'll tell our aunties the good news and we'll be sixteen." She says excitedly as she runs back down the path.

Diaval's smile quickly turns to a frown. Their birthday? Isn't that when…

"Yes, tomorrow will be… something," Diaval can hardly get his words out. How could he forget all about the curse! When he's around Serena and talking to her, it's like nothing else matters and all things bad are forgotten.

She can't go to sleep. He shakes his head. None of them need to go to sleep. But his thoughts kept going back to Serena.

He now remembers Maleficent telling him that she tried to undo the curse, but it didn't work because no power on earth can change it, except for true love.

True love? Love? He thinks to himself. That word seemed to cease all of his thinking and make him feel... warm. He sets off to find Maleficent and talk to her.

But he ends up running into her.

"Diaval come with me," Maleficent says to him as she walks down the path into the woods.

"Yes—" is all he could say before he was turned into a raven.

A/N: I had no idea where to stop on this chapter, but this seemed like a good stopping point. So King Stefan is still being crazy and mean, Diaval is trying to interpret his feelings, there was Diaval/ Serena fluff, Maleficent being nice, and Aurora and Serena are about to come of age, actually young adults… or actual adults in that time period. Medieval times were crazy. Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed it! Please Review! :)