Author's note: Okay, this chapter is going to get a bit intense, it's not like all the other chapters aren't intense. But this one compared to the others are a lot more intense, just going to put it out there for a reminder! You'll find out what happens to Aurora once she reaches the heavens, will everything go smoothly, or will it not?
And what about Maleficent, I remember leaving her falling to the ground in the last chapter unconscious, so you'll also find out what happens to her. Hopefully you'll enjoy!
Chapter 11
Aurora flew as quickly as she could to the heavens, where she was greeted by Abigail. "Princess Aurora, what brings you here?" Abigail said sweetly, but Aurora was in a rush and a bad mood. "Listen, I'm kind of in a hurry here and I need to talk to the queen, please this is urgent." Abigail looked at her for a second before finally allowing her in, "But remember, you're special, we don't normally allow people to meet the queen without arranging something special."
"I really appreciate all this, I really am." Aurora said following Abigail into the castle. After walking for a while, they finally arrived at a beautiful gate. "Wow, I never thought that heaven was split up like this!" Aurora exclaimed, "Well, this is heaven, and she is the queen after all of heaven." Abigail turned around to talk to a guard, then turning back to Aurora.
"Alright Aurora, let's go...remember to be very nice to her."
"Of course." Aurora said smiling, "It is a very big honor to get to meet the heaven queen after all." Aurora was led to the gate and then it opened. Rows of guards backed away and the queen stood up greeting her. The queen was a breathtaking sight, it's just a pity that she couldn't get married, or many men would want to be her husband.
She had beautiful blond locks and beautiful grey, almond eyes. Her lips were a beautiful sight, rosy pink without a single wrinkle on them. She was at least 5'9" in height with some high-heels. She had a very captivating smile on her face and she stood to greet Aurora ad Abigail.
"Good morning your highness..." Abigail said politely, followed by a bow. The queen nodded and motioned for her to leave, and slowly walked to Aurora. "Let me guess, you're princess Aurora right? Raised by three fairies that transformed themselves into humans to raise you, but you wouldn't have survived the first day if it weren't for poor Maleficent." Aurora was shocked, it's almost like she had been stalking her life! But after all, she is the queen of heaven!
"Yes, that's true your majesty. I'd love to talk to you right now, but I'm kind of in a hurry right now. My godmother is in battle right now with the soldiers and she told me to come and ask for your help. I'm really worried right now, I don't want to lose her again..." Before the queen could reply, a guard came running into the room with tears in her eyes.
"Jone, what's wrong?" The queen asked carefully.
"Your highness, there's a massive attack and so many are dead and injured...including Maleficent." The queen turned her head around to see Aurora gasping and tearing up, she placed a hand on her cheek and said, "Don't worry Aurora, we'll get her here safely, don't you worry. Have guards go down to Earth and collect her body, bring her up here and decide what to do with her immediately."
They nodded and flew down heaven, the queen took her hand off of Aurora's cheek and walked out towards the gate door. She was now talking to a guard when Aurora felt her legs go weak, "Godmother!" She cried before sinking down to her knees, and started weeping. "Aurora!" Queen Levana yelled before running towards her.
"Aurora, you need to stay strong, she's on her way alright?" Aurora was already on the ground, her body was so weak that she couldn't even nod, and the queen could tell. "Jone, get Aurora to the hospital now, I think something besides depression has gotten to her." Jone nodded and threw some flying dust onto her body and she started floating into the air, Jone grabbed her arm and started pulling her to the hospital.
"Poor Aurora, she's been through so much already, she really doesn't deserve any of this does she?" Queen Levana muttered to herself, before getting back to her duties.
Maleficent woke up on the ground, and she was covered in dirt from head to toe. Her eyes moved around and saw a lake, and realized that she was in the middle of nowhere, but there was somehow a lake. "This must be a mirage, but who cares, I'm so thirsty and filthy." She forced herself to get up and walk over to the lake, she took a deep breath before jumping into it.
The cool, refreshing water surrounded her and all her sins were taken away immediately. She took off her clothes and threw them onto the dry, barren land and started bathing. The water was a little too cold for her right now, but she honestly didn't care when she was this filthy. "I'm never going to doubt water ever again!" She said going under the water, making bubbles.
"Ah!" She resurfaced again and climbed out, "These clothes are too filthy, better make new ones." She circled her hands and her body was dried by winds, with one more swirl, a black robe appeared on her body and her hair was wrapped up with black leather. She didn't know why, but she just loved the color black, maybe because it reminds her of revenge and darkness. And she absolutely hated the color pink, she thought that that color was way too happy for her, even when she was a child she never liked that color.
Once she was clothed again, she took a deep breath and let it out. "A good tree to nap on would be wonderful right now, but where's Aurora? Is she okay, I better find her first." She looked at her flying dust pouch, but it was gone. "Oh shoot, I forgot that when I fell down the dust probably got lost or all dumped out! Great, I won't be seeing her anytime sooner now will I? Let's just hope that she will bring help before I starve to death here...but a nap for now."
She climbed onto a tree and shut her eyes, knowing that she would need all the sleep she missed out on. Don't even bring out about the sleep she needs right now, desperately.
Aurora opened her eyes and found that she was sleeping in midair, panic raced through her head as she crashed onto the ground. "Oh ow..." She said grabbing the arm she fell onto, that's when she noticed something weirder, she was in a bridal dress.
"What in the world is going on, why am I in a bridal dress?" Alana walked in and smiled, "Queen Levana has made a small request, or in other words, she wants something from you in return of the favor she did for you." Aurora couldn't be more confused right now, "Okay, I would like to first of all know if godmother is okay before I agree in getting married, or whatever you're going to plan on doing to me."
Alana forced a smile, "Your godmother is being searched right now, she wasn't anywhere near the battle grounds so that worries us just a bit. But 50 guards are searching for her right now, you need not to worry."
"How can I not worry when my godmother is nowhere to be found?"
"There's nothing you can do anyways." Alana replied coldly
"You haven't been through what I've been through, I lost her so many times, and my heart was broken so many times you don't even know how I feel. She has helped raise me and I could never thank her enough, no that her life is in danger and I can't just sit here and do nothing when her freaking life is in danger! I can't lose her again, or else I'll take away my life!"
Upon hearing the last sentence, Alana bolted into action. "Listen, you will not take that worthless life of yours away, because if you do, I won't be getting paid! You are going to get married to the queen's son, Alex tomorrow morning." Aurora choked and fell to the ground again, "What...she's forcing me to marry someone I don't even know and she hasn't even saved my godmother yet, why, WHY!?" She shrieked, well, this obviously got the attention of the queen because she was in the room within the next 5 seconds, with a beautiful smile on her face as usual.
"Why Queen Levana, why are you forcing me to marry your son? I don't even know a single thing about him...and tomorrow morning, why so soon?" Aurora cried, there were angry tears in her eyes as she said the following. "Don't think about it that way Aurora, he's just ready for marriage and so are you. I'm getting older and someone needs to take over the throne, and since you are here and you're a princess, why not you?"
"But you need my opinion at the very least, you can't just force me into marrying someone I don't even know!" She stopped and thought about her godmother, how she's in the hands of the queen. "Fine, I'll marry Alex under one condition." Aurora said staring at the ground.
"And what will that be?" Queen Levana asked.
"That you find me my godmother prior two hours to the marriage, if you don't find her alive, I won't marry anyone and I'll kill myself before any of you can even blink! Is that a fair deal?" It looks like the queen was fighting with herself, she was hesitating and Aurora could tell. "Either you give me my godmother, or I take away my life and your son will have to wait another while before finding another girl to her married, and there aren't that many around."
"Alright, it's a deal...but you do know what happens if you break your promise right? Especially in heaven, we don't lie because we're serious about what we say we're gonna do, and we're gonna do it no matter what happens, are we understood?" Aurora nodded and said, "You didn't have to say all of that, I knew it before I was even born!" She said rolling her eyes, "But for now, just please, all of you, give me some time alone okay? This isn't very easy to take in, finding out that your godmother is no where near the battle sight then finding out that you have to marry a complete stranger tomorrow morning."
"Okay, enjoy your free time before we get related! And one more thing that you need to know before I leave you, many people die just to get my attention. And here you are, about to get related to me, sometimes I really just don't understand that brain of yours!"
"I wouldn't give a crap about getting your attention, I don't have any relationship with you so who cares about you? Yes you're the queen, big deal, but who cares! Just cause you're the queen doesn't mean you can just force people to marry your son, or saying that you'll do something to them, not cool." Aurora could tell that the queen was on fire, but for the sake of her position as queen, she couldn't show it.
"Aurora, sweetheart, don't push my button. I may be the queen, but that doesn't mean you can just go on pushing my buttons dear..." She said spitting out that last word. Aurora backed up a bit and the queen left the room, "Guards, bring her to me!" Queen Levana yelled as she slammed the door.
Aurora had fire in her eyes as she turned to face Alana, "Why is she being so rude to me, I barely know her besides the fact that I'm a princess! I'm not getting married until I can see my godmother, and I'm not just going to sit here while she might be in danger! I'm going to look for her...and don't even think about coming after me, because I won't go down without a fight."
Alana stood up and blocked the door, but Aurora flicked her arm and Alana was sent crashing into a nearby table. "How on earth do you have Maleficent's magic?" She said shocked, almost not knowing how to talk. Aurora didn't have any empathy towards her, "During the 17 years I was with her, she must have given me SOMETHING that I could protect myself with in case any of you people try to do any harm to me." And with that, Aurora kicked her legs and she was up in the air, flying to search for her godmother.
The reason she can fly was mainly because she knew martial arts, and was very, very skilled. When you reach a certain level of martial arts, then your body will be naturally able to fly. Aurora mainly learned it by herself when she was strolling around the woods to kill time, and Maleficent improved on it by giving her magic. Her eyes shifted from one place to another, but didn't turn quick enough to see an arrow cut her arm.
It wasn't that deep, just a shallow cut. "Ah..." Aurora said grabbing onto her arm. She released a rope into the air and she gasped, seeing that her attacker was Philip...this just made her even angrier. How could someone that she loved, and he loved her back, hurt her, without an explanation? With one move of her hand, the rope coiled itself around his body and wrapped itself around 5 times, making him fall to the ground and shut his eyes due to the tightness.
Aurora landed next to him and watched him scream for a few seconds before saying, "You better answer me honestly, or don't blame the ropes." Aurora said coldly, still can't believing what she saw.
"How did ropes suddenly just appear out of you, and how are you flying?" He asked breathlessly.
"I know martial arts Philip, and I have magic in me. Answer me, why did you try and hurt me?" When he didn't answer her question, she slowly started shutting her hand into a fist, each move making the rope tighter. Screams could be heard throughout the land, "Honestly Philip, you make everything so much harder. If you would just answer my question, you wouldn't have to be going through all of this." Her hand was already half closed, and Philip's eyes were bloodshot, he wouldn't live much longer if he didn't get oxygen sooner.
"Okay fine I'll tell you, just take off the ropes first!" Aurora sighed before throwing her hand off to the side, ropes following. He flipped around onto his stomach and gasped for air, violently coughing up blood. "Start talking, now." She said blankly. "It was Stefan, he hired me to kill you and find...Maleficent was it?" Aurora's eyes softened, in hearing that her father was willing to pay someone to find her dead, and her godmother as well. But on the other hand, she wasn't that shocked, he never liked her anyways, it was only Maleficent that truly loved her.
"When did he hire you?" She threatened
"Last night...when you guys escaped." Aurora gritted her teeth and threw him onto the ground, then she bolted into the air and used her magic to make a huge microphone that could be heard throughout the world if she were to talk on it. She cleared her throat and started to speak...
Maleficent was resting in her tree when a loud, booming voice rang throughout her ears. She fell out of the tree and into the lake, so shocked that she didn't even have time to react before she heard:
"Do not be alarmed, this is your Princess Aurora. I just wanted to inform you of one thing and one thing only, if you are anywhere near King Stefan's castle, leave at once because that man hung me over boiling iron and threatened to kill me, and I would have been dead right now if it weren't for my godmother. After we escaped, he hired Prince Philip to kill me and find my godmother, I don't know why he hates us so much! He's the one that cut off my godmother's wings, and he's still looking for revenge, if you see this man, I want you to kill him...and there will be a reward. Also, if you are out there somewhere and you are listening to this godmother, I just wanted to tell you that I'm fine, but Queen Levana of the heavens if forcing me to marry her son, Prince Alex tomorrow morning. I don't know if you're injured or safe right now but I just wanted to inform you of how I am. I'm so sorry godmother, for what father did to you, and I'll never forgive him or myself. You were there for me when no one else was, and I could never thank you enough, you are the joy to my day and I love you so much godmother, so much that you can't understand, and probably never will. It pains me to hear even the slightest threat that might come to you, and I'll do everything I can to try and see you one more time before I die...I love you so much and I'll never forget about you, even in heaven."
Maleficent started tearing up, "What do you mean see you one last time, what happened to you sweetheart?" She got out of the lake and tried yelling, "Aurora, can you hear me, it's godmother Maleficent!" As she expected, the bulletin just continued going on, she tried yelling several more times, but nothing happened. "No, something must have happened, or else she wouldn't be saying such a sad speech right now. Her voice does sound like she's a bit pale, oh my goodness, then she must have been poisoned by the blood flower, it must have been added into her drink at the heavens! And to say I trusted them..."
Maleficent started to panic now, the most Aurora could live now was 3 days, and she will be getting weaker and won't be able to defend herself from the evil in the world. "What am I going to do, she's going to die! There must be some kind of antidote, oh wait, there is! A pill, there's only 3 pills for the blood flower in the entire world. The first one was used up by Prince Reyes and the second one was used by King Muhammad the second...which leaves only one pill left. Where on earth am I going to find where it is!"
She sank down into the lake and remembered...that Stefan has the last pill...
Author's note: Another cliffhanger! So sorry, I'm having writer's block and am trying to fight it. It took me literally a whole week to write this, usually I finish a chapter in 3-4 days and use the rest of the week to edit it. So please don't get it agitated if you see some grammar mistakes, I'm not perfect, remember that.
Oh and one more thing, I completely made up the fact that there's an antidote for the blood flower, I don't know, maybe there is and maybe there isn't. I was just too lazy and tired to search it up again, and don't even get me started on the whole antidote pills, don't even know how that came into my mind. Anyways, in the next chapter, Maleficent is going to think of a plan to get that pill back from Stefan.
But the fact that she's stranded in the middle of nowhere with nothing, not even flying dust and no food...good luck with that Maleficent!
