Finally I get a little break from Darcey missing her family. Instead of that you get to see the reaction to characters meeting Vala. Anyway, I don't own anything, Maleficent belongs to Disney. Enjoy!

Let Me Introduce You To My Dragon

As Aurora grew older the attacks on the Moors became more frequent. Maleficent would often send Diaval to inform me of these attacks to which I would drop everything and head over to help Maleficent fend off the attackers. Vala just so happened to not be around to get me to the battle more quickly. I was starting to get annoyed. Vala was my dragon, we were supposed to be a team. How'd she expect me to do my job as the Legendary when I'd get to where I needed to save and the battle was already finished. That needed to be fixed and quick.

It was night as Vala hung out around my cottage, watching as I played around with my magic. I was laughing and having fun when in the distance I saw a large bag of fire being shot at the wall of thorns Maleficent and I magicked up to try and keep humans out of the Moors.

"It appears you're needed," Vala commented.

"Yeah, let's go," I said and went to climb up onto her back. Vala backed up in response.

"What are you doing?" she asked me. I swear I heard nervousness in her voice.

"Getting on your back so that you can fly us to the wall," I answered.

"You don't need me to get there," Vala replied, still trying to back away from me.

"Yes, but I always get there late when the battle is practically done. What if I can't get there in time and the humans take over the Moors? Vala, you flying me there would be much faster and can help me save fae better," I told her.

"But…" Vala tried to protest.

I simply crossed my arms and stood in front of her. "We're partners in this whole Legendary thing. Either you fly me there or I'm not going at all," I told her annoyed, giving her an ultimatum. Vala stuttered, trying to come up with an excuse to get her out of going with me. I gave her a look and Vala sighed.

"Alright, get on," Vala submitted. I gave her a large smile before climbing up onto her back. We arrived at the wall in only a few minutes, much shorter than if I had to find a way there all by myself.

The attackers were screaming war cries when we arrived but those quickly turned to ones of terror once I arrived with Vala. Maleficent was surprised when she saw us arrive but quickly pushed it aside to explain what was going on.

"They set fire to the wall," she told us.

"Well then let's throw it back," I suggested. Maleficent smiled and we began to fight back. Maleficent manipulated the wall of thorns, swatted the attackers back. I used my magic to bend the flames from the wall straight back at them. Vala even helped, breathing fire at people. In no time we had them running away back to the castle.

With the attackers gone we sent to work fixing the wall. I quenched the flames and Maleficent then healed the thorns. Vala sat and watched us work, not knowing what to do.

"Thank you. You two arrived just in time," Maleficent smiled when we were done.

"No problem. Oh!" I walked over and gestured to Vala. "Mal, this is my dragon, Vala. Vala this is Maleficent."

Maleficent gave Vala a small nod. "It is nice to meet you Vala. Thank you for your help defending the Moors," she said. Vala nodded in response. She didn't say anything but her sticking around and meeting Maleficent was a huge step in getting her to be more social. I was so proud of my dragon.

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It had been a long day of taking care of Aurora. The young princess was six now and was having fun running around and keeping me and Diaval on our toes. She enjoyed playing hide and seek in her Aunties garden, which was overgrown due to their incompetence. The only times she settled down was for lunch or when she asked me to tell her stories. Today she'd been extremely active and tired me out. Diaval had been so kind to keep me company on my walk, letting me transform him into his human form so that we could talk.

Him and Maleficent had come over to my cottage and saw my wall of family portraits. This often became our topic of conversation when we were alone, him asking about my family. I would tell Diaval stories about my nieces and how much Aurora reminded me of them, or stories from my own childhood growing up with Sawyer and Gianna. It was kinda therapeutic just talking to somebody about them. It helped lesson the heaviness just like how drawing the portraits did. There were times during my stories that I could tell that Diaval didn't know what I was talking about but he just smiled, just pleased to see me happy.

The both of us arrived at my cottage just as Vala landed in front of my house. Diaval was surprised by her appearance and stumbled back a bit, just staring at her. Vala noticed Diaval and started back up, getting ready to leave.

"Oh, you have company. I should go," Vala said.

"Oh, no. You stay right there. It's about time you two met. After all I spend just about as much time with Diaval that I do with you," I stopped her. Taking hold of Diaval's hand I dragged him over to Vala and introduced them. "Vala, this is Diaval. Diaval, this is my dragon, Vala."

"So this is the dragon you've told me about," Diaval replied.

"So this is the bird who constantly flirts with you," Vala responded.

I couldn't help but blush. "Vala," I scolded.

"It's nice to meet you Vala," Diaval said to her before turning to me. "How do you two communicate exactly?"

"What do you mean, we talk all the time. Didn't you hear her?" I asked confused.

"No, did she say something?" Diaval answered.

"Yes she… Vala how is it that I'm the only one who can hear you?" I turned to ask her.

"I communicate with you mentally. It is possibly for me to communicate with others the same why but I see no point in doing so. You are the only important one in my book who is worth talking to," she answered. I couldn't help but roll my eyes. She'd talk to other people eventually.

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Aurora was ten now and settled down a bit from constantly running off, much to my delight. Her favorite thing to do now was explore the forest a bit for a good setting for me to tell her stories. She would lead the way while Diaval and I followed her, him either flying or chilling on my shoulder. Today she lead us out to the field where her and her aunties had the picnic the one day. Aurora observed the surroundings before deeming it good and sitting down, waiting for me to tell her a story.

Coming up with the stories were really easy. I simply told her the Disney stories that I grew up with, avoiding a particular one for reasons. It was fun retelling them, going all out and even singing the songs from the movies. Aurora and Diaval loved them and I would often find them humming one of the latest stories songs. With today's setting I decided on Beauty and the Beast as the flowers near the cliff reminded me of Belle's one song.

"I want adventure in the great wide somewhere
I want it more than I can tell
And for once it might be grand
To have someone understand
I want so much more than they've got planned," I sang.

The story was interrupted however when Vala made an appearance, landing directly in front of us. All three of us were surprised by her appearance. Aurora ran up and hid behind me.

"Darcey," she greeted.

"Vala, what are you doing here?" I asked.

"Well I was flying by when I saw you with the little one, so I decided to drop in and say hello," she answered. I was completely shocked. Vala, the dragon who didn't want to interact with anybody but me, willingly dropped by to say hello. "Is that alright?"

"Oh, yeah sure," I replied. Turning around I looked down at Aurora who wasn't sure what to do. "Aurora, would you like to meet a friend of mine?" She nodded in response causing me to smile, she typically wasn't this shy. I took Aurora's hand and lead her over to Vala. "Aurora, this is my friend Vala. Vala, this is Aurora. Don't worry, sweetie, she won't hurt you."

"Hello, Vala," Aurora said, a bit nervous. Vala simply smiled and then bowed her head. Feeling more confident Aurora let go of my hand and walked up to Vala. She hesitantly placed her hand on Vala's head and began stroking her scales. Aurora gigged. "You are a very pretty dragon. Darcey, why didn't you tell me you had a dragon friend?"

It was time to come up with an excuse. I didn't want to tell her that I was the Legendary in case she went back and told the fairies. Then there would be a problem. "That's because she's my secret friend. There are people out there who would want to hurt Vala so I've had to keep her friendship a secret from everyone. After all I don't want her getting hurt. But now she's your secret friend as well so you have to promise me that you won't tell anybody about her, not even your aunties. Promise?"

"Promise. I don't want anybody to hurt Vala," Aurora promised. Vala cuddled her head into Aurora's side in response, causing her to giggle. I couldn't help but chuckle as well, seeing Vala be so affectionate with someone other than myself. But then again it was Aurora, everyone couldn't help but love her.

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