Author's note: In this chapter, you'll find out what happens to Aurora, where she ends up being and what's going to happen to her wounds from the metal chains. And Maleficent realizes something in this chapter, and there won't be that long of a speech because I understand that those speeches are really annoying and boring to read, so I minimized it.

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Chapter 9

Aurora opened her eyes and found tons of maids tending to her, that's when she finally realized that the metal chains have done quite some damage to her. "Where am I, where's godmother?" Aurora asked trying to sit up, only to be pushed back down by one of the servants.

"Aurora, your godmother is busy right now okay? She will be back as soon as possible, you have some serious wounds that might need to go into surgery, we were planning on not telling you and just performing it, but that wouldn't be except able. When would you like to do it?" Becky, the head of the servants asked.

"You didn't answer my question, where are we?" Aurora was very groggy, waking up and hearing that she has terrible wounds and needing to go into surgery isn't the best thing to wake up into. "And one more thing, you are going to be in a pretty bad mood for a couple of days. But we'll put you back to sleep after the surgery, and your godmother has sent you to heaven where you will be tended and cared for until her return, and from there on out, you'll live with her once she finds a new home. But since she is so many powers, she can just rebuild the Moors again."

"She can?" Aurora's eyes lit up with joy and curiosity. "Of course she can, she is the most powerful faerie of them all, now please decide, when would you like to have us perform the surgery?"

"How about now, I want to be all ready for godmother when she returns." Becky nodded towards the other nurses in the room and they started gathering their supplies, "Wait, can you go find godmother please, I want her to be with me during this surgery..." Aurora pleaded.

"Aurora, I think you're out of time."

"But I want her by my side, I don't trust anyone else besides her, and she'll be there to comfort me and make me smile. Oh I remember the first time I met her, it was so breathtaking, then finding out that she had cursed me, but whatever, I love her no matter what now and nothing can change that." Aurora looked like she was daydreaming, which she kind of was.

Becky was very touched by that small speech of hers, "That's very sweet, and yes, we will get her. But your wounds are very deep and they could get infected sweetie, are you sure you wanna wait for her or just start now?"

"I'll wait for her, I won't die will I?"

"No you won't, but the wound is pretty bad though..." Becky said biting her lips. Aurora didn't say anything, so Becky just motioned for the nurses to come and get ready for the surgery. "No, I want my godmother!" Becky looked at one of the nurses, who nodded, knowing what to do. She grabbed a syringe and filled it with a liquid, turning to Aurora, she grabbed her arm and injected the syringe in.

Aurora let out a shriek before falling asleep instantly, "Good job Abigail, now let's get ready to perform the surgery before she wakes up. How long is it going to last, the injection?" Becky asked

"Around 4 hours, so I think we'll be safe. The wound isn't too bad is it?" Becky lifted up Aurora's dress and revealed the terrible burn, her waist had metal marks all around and there were bruises and scars everywhere on her body. "Okay, this is going to take quite a while...go get Maleficent and inform her of everything that's going to happen." Abigail nodded and left the room, leaving Becky and the other nurses to begin working.


Maleficent opened her eyes and coughed, she looked around where she was and gasped. She put her hand on her head, which she had a tremendous headache and said, "How many times is it going to take for me to kill you?" Maleficent said getting up from the ground, she was in the grand living room and tons of guards were gathered around her, and Stefan slowly walked towards her.

"You don't have any magic now for sure, why don't you take a look at you back." Maleficent froze when she heard those words come from her, she slowly turned her head around to find her wings gone once again, Stefan must have given her pain killing medicine because she couldn't feel any pain at all. Tears sprang to her eyes as she screamed, her hands grabbed her shoulders and she started weeping.

The thing she feared most might happen to her had once again happened, "This is what you get Maleficent, for torturing me and watching me suffering while you just sat on a tree eating and relaxing! How does it feel hun, how does it feel?" Stefan said gritting his teeth and walking towards her, "You can't pull anymore jokes on me now, because you're done Maleficent, you have no more magic nor wings."

He was wrong, there was one thing about Maleficent that he didn't know. No matter how much magic remover potion he gives her, he can't take away her magic, because that's like her soul, it's impossible to take away from her. Maleficent didn't know any other things right now than the one word that stuck to her head, revenge. "Oh you, I thought I told you to not push my buttons Stefan, you obviously don't know what I'm capable of, do you?" She said, with a very dangerous smile on her face.

Before he could do or say anything, he was already up against the wall, fighting for the least amount of oxygen. Maleficent was twirling one of her fingers and he was getting pushed harder and harder into the wall, the guards dared not to play with a woman that just lost her wings, unless they want to lose their lives as well. Maleficent had the same stern look on her face, once Stefan passed out and fell down onto the ground, Maleficent stopped and stood up.

That was a second later when a sudden fairy flew in from the window, and Maleficent recognized who she was, a fairy from heaven, one tending to her goddaughter. She gasped when she saw Maleficent's missing wings, "Not again..." Abigail whispered, Maleficent didn't care about her wings right now, she needed to know if Aurora was alright. "Abigail, how is Aurora doing?"

"She's in surgery, we had to forcibly inject her with a sleeping potion because she wouldn't start the surgery unless you were by her side. The wounds are actually very terrible and we were all shocked when she uncovered them. She'll be fine once the surgery is complete, should be around 3 more hours." Maleficent nodded, "Can you take me there, Abigail?"

"Of course I can." Abigail blew dust onto Maleficent and she started rising up into the air. Together, they flew out of the window and back into heaven. They arrived there shortly and before they walked into the mansion, Abigail turned to Maleficent and handed her a pouch.

"I want you to take this, this is flying dust, just one sprinkle will be enough to last a whole trip as long as you don't land until you reach your destination. I'm so sorry that Stefan made the same mistake again, you don't deserve this at all." Maleficent forced a smile, "Thank you Abigail, you're very thoughtful." Once Maleficent took the bag, she grabbed a cloak and wrapped it around her back so when Aurora woke up, she wouldn't have to see it.

"Okay, let's go now." Abigail nodded and led her into the mansion, and towards the hospital. After walking for quite a while, they had arrived. "They are probably not done right now, but they would allow you to go in and see her, if you would like to of course."

"Yes, please." Abigail nodded and opened the door, Maleficent immediately softened as she slowly walked over to Aurora and the doctors. They had stopped so Maleficent could have a better look, she bent over the asleep Aurora and examined her body. There were tubes attached everywhere, and needles being inside of her skin, injected liquids into her skin so she wouldn't wake up until the surgery is over.

"Aurora, I've failed to look after you once again. I promised that no harm would come to you, but in my hands you've fallen into a death like sleep three times already, and now you're in surgery, because I wanted revenge. I'm so sorry that I brought you into all of this mess, you don't deserve any of this. You should just have been a normal, beautiful princess living her royal life in a large castle, being happy, instead of this the whole time." Maleficent couldn't find more words, "You probably don't want to be with me anymore, but you just don't know how to tell me, I've ruined you life, I wouldn't understand if you didn't hate me."

Maleficent looked up to the doctors, who were also secretly crying. "Please, when she wakes up, tell her that she is free, she doesn't have to be with me anymore. I'm going to never see her again, and that she doesn't have to come and find me. Tell her to go back to her castle, where she should be, and not with me. I did curse her for a reason, and she's not safe with me no matter how much I love her. Will you do that for me?"

"But Aurora loves you, Maleficent, she would take away her life if she couldn't be with you. Waking up after a terrible surgery to hear that her godmother has left to somewhere she doesn't know, would absolutely kill her!" Becky stated, but Maleficent shook her head.

"No, I know that she loves me, but it's not safe for us to be together, please understand that. I"m just an old witch, I've lost my wings once again and I'm never going to get them back ever again, and I don't want Aurora to find out." She leaned over Aurora and a few tears splattered over her locks, "This is the toughest decision I've ever made Aurora, but I know this will only help you and me, we were never meant to be together sweetheart, I hope you'll find something better to do in your life." After looking at her for a few more seconds, she got up and left the room, heart-broken.


Maleficent walked out of the mansion and looked around her, she had no clue where she was going to go, but it was somewhere where Aurora wouldn't find her. She grabbed some flying dust and threw it on top of her and took a deep breath before flying away. She had no clue where she was going to go, but she was going to fly for days and days until she reached another forest of some sort.


Aurora woke up around 8 hours later, the doctors had made her fall asleep because they had accidentally cut a portion of her skin, and it wouldn't stop bleeding. "Where's godmother?" Was the first thing that came out of Aurora's mouth when she sat up. Becky and the other doctors were biting their lips and looking down at the ground, to avoid any eye contact.

"Becky, where is godmother?" Aurora suddenly got this very weird feeling, so she got out of bed and grabbed Becky's shoulders. "Becky, is she okay at least, why can't you tell me where my own godmother is!" Aurora was now yelling, and there were tears leaking from her eyes. It killed Becky and the other doctors to see the princess like this, "She left, because she said she was dangerous around you, and that she was only hurting you."

Aurora's heart froze and her head started spinning, "What...where did she go?"

"We don't know, somewhere where she can stay away from you, so you don't get any more hurt."

"NO! I'm hurt when she isn't with me!" Aurora yelled, she opened the door and ran out. "Godmother! Where are you!" Aurora ran to the burnt down Moors, there were still flames and a few birds chirping. She fell down to her knees and wept, she'd just lost the closest thing she's ever had.

One week later...

Aurora was wandering through the Moors and stopped when she heard a sound, she immediately jumped into alertness. "Who's there, show yourself!" Aurora was like a lost child having gone mad without her loved ones, her godfather had passed away and her godmother had left her, there was nothing but darkness in her heart. Aurora slowly walked towards the sound, and when she got close enough, she gasped.

Laying right in front of her were a pair of very familiar wings, she bent down and stroked them gently. They were struggling to move, they were moving even without its owner. "Oh my goodness, godmother's wings!" The first thing that came to Aurora's mind was her father, "It must have been him, oh, he's dead!" Aurora gently picked up the wings and wrapped them in some leaves and placed it somewhere safe, which was no where.

"It's going to take days just to get to the castle, if only I had a horse...oh wait! I do, but where is she? I remember hiding her somewhere, Wish Lake!" Aurora grabbed her dress and headed towards Wish Lake, and there like she predicted, was her beautiful white horse. She stroked its head before mounting it, "I need you to take me to the castle, as fast as you can!" The horse whinnied before taking off, faster than Aurora had remembered.

A few hours later, Aurora had reached the castle, she wished she had something to feed her horse, but she herself was starving to death. She stroked her mane and whispered, "Stay right here and don't make any noise okay, I'll be back as soon as I run my...errands okay?" The horses gently nodded its head and Aurora walked inside, very quietly.

When she had entered the grand living room, she heard Stefan's voice along with a few other guards. So Aurora hid behind a wall.

"She what?!" Stefan barked.

"She's gone, as in gone! We've checked everywhere in the kingdom, but we can't find her!" The captain of the guards said

"Did she take Aurora with her?"

"We don't know sir, but we think so, since they are always together." At hearing this, made Aurora leak a few tears. She missed her godmother so much, and now she was just an orphan and she was filthy and starving.

"Try tracking down Aurora..." Aurora couldn't listen anymore, so she walked out of her hiding spot and said, "I'm right here." There were a series of metal crashing into the ground, Aurora thought that was their shock. They all slowly turned around and froze when they saw the princess standing right in front of them, Stefan didn't care, he walked right up to her and grabbed her shoulders.

"Where's that witch, tell me, you must know!" He yelled, but Aurora wasn't scared at all. If he planned on killing/hurting her, she'd be more than willing right now because her life was messed up and it sucked. "You don't scare me Stefan, I'm not here for any other reason than why did you take godmother's wings, again?!" Aurora slapped his hand off of her shoulder and crossed her arms.

"Ah ha, so you do know where she is!" Stefan said pointing a finger at her.

"No, I meant that I saw her wings by themselves stranded on the Moors, the home you burnt down." Stefan cursed, "You must know where she is, she wouldn't have just left without tell you Aurora, tell me, where is she!"

"Did you really think that even if I DID know where she was, that I would tell you? I'm not going to have you hurt godmother, she was so innocent, all she did was give you all her love, and you, being a selfish brat, betrayed her! What did she do to deserve this life, what did I do to deserve the life I'm living in right now?!" Aurora shouted, "I really don't know where she is, when I woke up in heaven, the doctors just told me that she left, I don't know why..." Aurora lied, if she told them the truth, it would just give more reason for Stefan to scold her, and she really didn't need any more of that anytime sooner.

"I miss her so much, yes you're my father, but she was the one that raised me! And watched me grow up to the person I am right now, yes it sucks and I'm not going to be very successful, but what were you doing the past 17 years? Plotting revenge on the faerie that was raising me, you should feel ashamed of yourself! I want nothing more to do with you ever again, I'm no longer your daughter and you are no longer my father!"

Aurora turned around to leave, but that's when Stefan said, "You really think you can just leave that easily, when I didn't get the answer I wanted? Alright, since you did break our relationship, I'm no longer worried about hurting you anymore. Guards, grab her and hang her over a pot of boiling iron, and if she doesn't answer me within today, cut the rope."

The guards didn't move at first, but after several glares and threatens, they finally grabbed Aurora and led her away.


Maleficent has been flying for a whole week, and she was nowhere. So that's when she decided to land and build a home of her own. She was in the middle of a field, and the looks of it, there wouldn't be any civilization anywhere. She rose her hands and trees started growing, then she spotted little lakes and streams here and there, the point was, she was recreating the Moors.

Although these Moors wouldn't have all those memories she had when she was a little one, especially the memory of her losing her wings. "My wings..." She mumbled, she'd been heartbroken, and the past week, she tried not to think about it anymore, because it only brought tears. With a final wave of her hand, tiny creatures started forming and then huge tree guards.

"Your duty is to protect the Moors from anything, if you see anything at all, come alert me at once." Maleficent ordered, the guards nodded and walked to their guarding positions. Maleficent sighed and watched the creatures run off happily, "If only one day I could do that, just run happily as if nothing were in my mind, then my dream were to come true...but we all know that day is not going to come sooner or later." She said sighing, she then decided to take a walk around the Moors.

As she was walking, she couldn't help but glide her fingers along the stream that she placed Aurora in. Exactly that one spot, "Aurora...I know this must be devastating for you right now, and you've probably awoken, but you and I were never meant to be..." Tears glistened in her eyes and one leaked down onto her cheek, "I miss you so much, I wish I could just hold you in my arms right now and never let you go..."

Green dust started to appear on her shoulders, then her hands as she finally let it all out. She didn't care anymore as she screamed, causing a huge bolt of green dust to go into the sky. The rest of the world just darkened, everyone from everywhere could see this dust as it was the light to their night...

Author's note: Don't ask, because I'm very confused by that last sentence as well. I have honestly no clue how on Earth I came to writing that as the concluding sentence, but it happened and it wasn't very good, but I also couldn't think of any other way to end it. There we have it folks, Maleficent never wanted to leave her, and the fact that she says she would be willing to hug Aurora was definitely a change don't you think? Since when did she ever hug anyone?

And the Moors is once again created! Although there is nothing in it but pity and sorrow, there is no more happiness except from the creatures, but what do they know? They haven't been through what Maleficent has, and they probably never will.

Well I got to go, see you in the next chapter!