The scene was horrible. There was a lot of dirt in the streets, the houses were poor, badly built and people had the sickly appearance.

"Maleficent, what is happening to these people?" Aurora asked worried about the appearance of the villagers. "What are those black spots on their skin?"

"Black Plague." Fairy responded very worried. "We have to leave this village immediately or we die infected."

"These people need help..." Aurora said feeling her heart breaking to see so much suffering. She had never seen anything like it.

"We must continue."

The princess was angry. Even having become human, Maleficent seemed unable to feel any empathy for the suffering of people. She did not care to see people going hungry, cold, sick or destitute. Every village they visited, Aurora resented increasingly with so coldly and she was reaching her limits, because could no longer tolerate it.

"People are suffering and you only think about yourself? This is horrible! "

"Believe me, we can't help them now. Our best chance is the ambrosia and..."

"You selfish! You are very selfish and don't think of anyone!" Aurora cried and dismounted. Maleficent could wait, but she didn't intend to leave those poor people without help.

Emma wanted to go after her and the former fairy ordered.

"Stay here and don't touch anyone. I'll go after her."

When Aurora wanted to touch in a child who was infected, Maleficent held her hand firmly.

"Aurora, listen to me!"

"I don't have to listen to you!"

"Yes, you have your foolish! Come now! "She practically dragged the princess to near horses and spoke with the energetic voice holding her shoulders. "Listen to me very well! This epidemic is being caused by rats. With the imbalance in the climate, they are multiplying too fast. "

"So we have to stop the rats!" She said in panic.

"I can do that by bringing winter back. All rats will die and this will give the villagers time to recover. Later, your father can take steps to prevent the proliferation of these rats."

"But for that we need regain your powers and..." she paused, realizing where the former fairy was going.

"Exactly. If we stay here, will contract the disease and we can't help anyone. The best chance of these people are successful in our pursuit."

"It's so painful to see them suffer..."

"You must be strong."

"How can you? How do you can see these people suffer and feel nothing? Doesn't it grieve you?"

Maleficent was silent, still holding her shoulders. Aurora became enraged and pushed her hard.

"You really don't care about anyone! How can you be so? This is horrible! I don't understand how can you sleep every night. "

The former fairy looked down for a few seconds and then spoke as if nothing had happened.

"We need to go. We can't waste time in useless lamentations."

They mounted their horses and drove on. Aurora struggled in vain to hold back tears. She had never seen so much pain and suffering in her life and couldn't understand how Maleficent remained indifferent to everything. Despite understanding her faults and be willing to accept her way of being, she didn't know if could live with a person who felt no empathy for anyone.

Maleficent surreptitiously watched the princess and knew how much she was upset with her attitude. A great feeling of sadness invaded her chest, making the heart ache. It was clear that Aurora didn't accept her as she was. And in part, the princess was right. Throughout her life she had dreamed of a kind of love. Perfect, ideal and free of trouble and sorrow. But all she had was a temperamental, jealous and domineering fairy.

No way she fit in the kind of love which Aurora dreamed and it made her sad. Why the princess still cared to help her? Why did she accept to continue?

"She is distraught about all this." She thought trying to justify Aurora's actions. "I can't take what she said seriously." Despite thinking so, she still felt sadness and fear of the princess was being tired of her. Until then she had been patient, but there was a limit to everything. It must be very difficult for a young woman with a so sensitive and kind heart to live with someone like her.

On the other hand, she did not understand why should feel empathy for humans. Sure, she had become human, so was learning to understand their difficulties. But what was the use in feel empathy for people who were suffering and do nothing to help them? Why should she suffer needlessly with the suffering of others? That wouldn't benefit anyone. Attitudes were much more important.

All she could do was keep the chaos under control not to cause unnecessary tragedies. Until then, she never cared much about the outcome of her actions and often exaggerated, leaving some natural disasters flee control causing more deaths and destruction. Before she didn't care about it, but to know how Aurora was saddened by the suffering of the people, maybe she should learn to be more moderate.

"Order and chaos need to be balanced." She thought. "One can't overcome the other. Yes... I also need to learn and put it into practice."

Suddenly, it was as if a snap had echoed inside her and Maleficent finally understood why she and Aurora were halves and one needed the other.

The more she thought and reflected, the greater became her understanding of herself and Aurora. With that, she understood the princess had every reason in the world to scold her indifference. Her ego didn't agree with it, but she put it in check and decided change some things to keep Aurora's love. She didn't want to lose the only precious thing she had left.


The sound was bad and he did not hear the rest of the conversation. However, a word reached his ears and he finally understood what they planned to do.

"No way I'll let Maleficent get the ambrosia! This can't happen!" If such thing happens, he was doomed. Maleficent was going to recover her powers and punish him without no mercy. And he knew that the punishment could be the worst thing a man experienced on the Earth.

"Ambrosia... curious, I always thought it did not exist anymore." He had read several stories about this magical food, but believed that the world's stock of ambrosia had exhausted. Then there was a piece left? What would happen if he ate it? According to the legends, this food of the gods recovered any sick or damaged body and gave immortality. It was even able to raise the dead!

Could it also give you vigor and youth? His eyes sparkled as he imagined himself young again, strong, beautiful and perhaps immortal. So he could harness the abundantly wealth and power that was to get.

If this was true, then he had to get the ambrosia. Determined, he picked up a box that was stored on a shelf and opened. Inside the box, there was a lot of small green stones. A part had been found in Maleficent's bedroom. Another part was found among Aurora's jewels of and Helga wanted use to make a necklace. Fortunately he was able to recover the stones before that brainless bitch the destroy them permanently. After counting carefully, he said triumphantly.

"Perfect! Exactly the amount I need. Now everything is conspiring in my favor! "


It had been three or four days that Aurora hadn't talked to Maleficent and the situation was getting complicated again. She didn't want to act that way, but couldn't avoid.

The indifference with which Maleficent watched the suffering of the people was outrageous and she could not live with it. Emma tried to talk to her several times in vain. She was also tired of the woman always send the maid to talk to her rather than doing it personally.

There was almost no dialogue between them and Aurora never knew what Maleficent was thinking or feeling. She wanted no more declarations of love as shown in the books, but it'd be nice if Maleficent was just a little more sensitive and willing to talk about her feelings. Sometimes Aurora felt like there was a barrier between them that prevented deeper involvement. She was involved, but the former fairy still seemed distant and emotionally unavailable as if not wanting to establish a strong and lasting bond with her.

The top of the hill, she looked at the stars and thought they were too opaque and dull. Or was her mood? She didn't know, just felt sad and alone for loving someone so much and not knowing if was matched with the same intensity.

From where he stood, Maleficent watched Aurora while holding her black pendant. She knew what the princess was feeling and what ailed her. How to handle this? How to talk to her? For someone who didn't know talk of her feelings, such a thing was scarier than being unarmed and defenseless before a king about to cut her head. This was perhaps the biggest challenge of her entire life and she didn't know if was able to face it.

"I need to do it anyway!" She said stroking Oscar's head. "I have to talk to her but don't know how to do this. It's so complicated!"

The dragon tail just pointed toward Aurora and she understood it might be better to act rather than think too much. Act... that was what she needed to do. Maleficent always believed that attitudes were more important than words, but somehow talk was also an attitude, because it was to show her feelings and let Aurora know what was going on inside of her heart.

And there was also another very important thing she needed to talk to Aurora. It was time for the princess to understand their bond and why they were destined to be together forever. They were two halves that were completed and one couldn't live without the other.

"Well, little one. Stay with Emma. I need to talk to Aurora in particular." Maleficent spoke decisively and Oscar flew towards Emma, who smiled seeing the woman going to Aurora. The things between them were about to be resolved.