"Two dragons? Did you kill two dragons today?" Stefan asked incredulously while Hubert congratulated his son for the great feat.
"That's right! I nipped the evil in the bud!"

Aurora heard it all with a heavy tightened.

"You nipped the evil in the bud?" she asked with low voice. Philip replied proudly.
"Look at this!"

The servants showed her two little dragons lying dead on a large tray. They were no bigger than her forearm and seemed harmless. They had long thin body that seemed quite flexible. One was white as snow with green and golden spots scattered throughout the body. The other was reddish with black and purple wings. Both looked like small works of art and now were dead. Why Philip killed so little dragons? How could anyone be so cruel?

Her heart broke at the same time and tears formed in her eyes.

"Problems, Aurora?" The king asked finding odd the reaction of his daughter.
"Why'd you do that?" She asked the prince. "They were just babies and didn't offer any danger! Why were you so cruel?"

Everyone was silent with so unusual reaction from the princess. The man was disconcerted by her inquisitive look and tried to defend his actions.

"They're babies now, but one day will grow and destroy everything around!"
"They haven't had the chance to defend themselves!"
"Dragons didn't give us a chance to defend ourselves!"
"But..."

"Enough, Aurora! What behavior is that? Please behave yourself!" Her mother chided, being supported by her father.

"Philip is a great hero. Don't forget he had to defeat a big dragon to defend you. Show a little more respect!"

The fairies also didn't defend her.

"I think you must apologize, my dear!" Flora spoke to her ear and Aurora wanted to scream with rage. However, she just lowered her head and said.

"I'm apologize, Philip. I don't know what got into me."
"Apology accepted." The young man said with arrogance.

"C'mon! It's just an inexperienced young woman! You know that women tend to have weak head!" Hubert said trying to undo that unpleasant atmosphere and before long the incident was forgotten.


Maleficent didn't want see anything else. After all, that chick was still weak and pathetic. She was only brave against a bunch of drunk, but when needed to take a true action, she stepped back scared to death! There was no way to respect such a weak and cowardly human.

Moreover, she was very angry with that bastard prince who had killed two gorgeous dragons without the slightest pity and even boasted that act of cowardice! No, she couldn't let him go unpunished no way! More than ever, she was willing to go back and put those idiots in their places. Nevermore anyone was going to hurt a dragon again.

"He'll pay dearly for this crime, I swear!" She said shooting rays with scepter to vent the anger. "Everyone'll pay me dearly!"


The dragons were placed in a room by servants. Later, they were going be stuffed and displayed as a trophy by Philip. Without anyone to see, Aurora entered the room with her face bathed in tears and caressed the little corpses.

"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry! He shouldn't have done that! What cruelty!"

Fighting against a wicked fairy in dragon form was one thing. Killing defenseless babies was quite another and she couldn't believe that one day was able to love such a cold and cowardly man. All the feelings she still had disappeared in a few moments. But she was still forced to share her life and her bed with him.

More than ever, Aurora felt the urge to get away and take the free and independent life she always dreamed of. But the fear was stronger. How to live? How to make a living? She didn't feel able to leave the comfort of the palace and live permanently by herself. Then her heart ached and bled. It hurt to by the miserable life that was about to take, hurt by small dragons and with the feeling of living a lie.

For many days, she struggled to remove those suspicions. But it was impossible to keep pretending that everything was fine. There was something in that story that nobody had told and she decided find out the true at any cost.

Her eyes turned back to the small corpses and Aurora caressed them slowly while apologized. One of them, the red dragon, still had the warm body and was breathing weakly. He was cut by a knife and the wound was too severe. Without thinking twice, she took the dragon with her hands wondering if was possible to do something to help the little creature.

The dragon opened the violet eyes and looked at her as if asking something. She put it back on the table and the creature emitted a faint sound, as if making an effort and soon Aurora saw an egg of the size of a walnut out of that body. Those dragons weren't babies as she thought and one was a pregnant female!

After this extra effort, the poor creature died, leaving her heart broken more than it was. The egg lay on the table and Aurora took it with trembling hands. It was still hot, but she knew there was no way hatch it without mother's help. Or was there? Could she do the job herself?

What was to be done? How to do?

"Heat! It needs heat. Let me see..." She ran her clothes and decided to put it inside the cleavage. It was warm, safe and the egg was to small to be noticed. There were chances of it working? She didn't know, but felt that should do something for the poor dragon. This would be another of its secrets.

A month later, Aurora still carried the dragon's egg inside her cleavage. No one had noticed, thankfully. Her escapes to the village had just finished because she didn't want to risk breaking the egg and kill the little dragon. He needed constant care. Although the egg keep warm, she sometimes doubted whether was doing everything right. How to care for a dragon? No books in the library could help her and fairies don't knew answer her questions.

"Were you impressed with the dragons that killed Philip, dear? Don't worry about it!" Fauna said trying to reassure her.
"I'm just curious. There is no book in the library talking dragons. Why?"
"Because these books are rare and nobody is interested in studying dragons. Only to kill them."
"Is there any expert?"

Fauna hesitated, scratched her chin with the magic wand and said in a low voice.

"For all I know, Maleficent was great expert in dragons and knew all about them. But she's dead, you know."

"Yes, she is..." Aurora said disappointed. It was crazy, but for a moment she wished the wicked fairy alive.

Find those little dragons made her interest in these creatures further increase, which was frustrating because of the limited information available.

"Princesses don't care about dragons. Leave this matter aside."
"I just wanted to learn more. Sometimes I think it has so many hidden things which no one ever told me!"

The green fairy made sure no one was listening and said.

"Yes, there are many hidden things. But not always see because people only see what they want. Or what they were taught to do." She shook her wand sometimes, dropping a green glow and left the room leaving Aurora with her thoughts. That green glow... what a strange thing! She knew that glow from somewhere!