"May I sit down?" One voice said, waking Aurora from her reverie. Was Maleficent. After a little hesitation, she replied.

"Yes... you can..."

She sat beside the girl, but keeping a respectful distance not to invade her space and beheld the starry sky for a while.

"The stars are losing their luster." The older woman said. "Everything is fading, losing life and vigor. The balance has been damaged."

"And the only way to restore balance is recovering your powers." Aurora said bitterly.

"Yes, but I'm only half. One half, by itself, isn't sufficient to restore balance."

Aurora turned to her, surprised by what she had just heard.

"And what's the other half?"

"You." her replied softly, leaving the princess speechless. "You are the other half, my half."

"Your... your half?" She whispered with heart pounding in chest. The woman took the pendant inside the clothes so that Aurora could see it.

"I never showed you it before."

"It's the same as mine, but all black!" She said showing her pendant.

"Come closer. I want you to see it." She put an arm around Aurora's waist, pulling the blond close to hers and united the two pendants, which together formed a circle. "See? Two halves make sense only when they are together. We are one, Aurora. Don't exist you and I. Only us."

There was something different in Maleficent's way of talk and look. For a moment, Aurora almost didn't recognize her.

"For millennia, only chaos prevailed on the planet. I made many changes and destroyed entire civilizations in the past. And I'll do it in the future when the time comes. For now, the world needs balance between order and chaos."

She separated the two pendants and, still keeping the arm around Aurora's waist, said again.

"Without chaos, the world will gradually rot. Without order, chaos would destroy everything that exists and nothing can live in such a world."

"And I... I'm the order? But I don't have any power!"

The older woman smiled.

"Your power is to make me understand the consequences of my actions over humans. You're right, I need to learn to have more empathy for people not to cause them unnecessary suffering."

Right. Who was this woman and what she had done with Maleficent? Aurora could hardly believe what was hearing, although felt in heart it was truth.

"I didn't know that!" She said in a choked voice. "Maleficent, I'm sorry for what I said!"

"Don't blame yourself. You couldn't know and it was my duty to tell the truth, but you know how I am proud and hard to handle."

"I know very well! So that's why you gave me this pendant on the day of my christening. You knew we were going to be a couple? "

"No. Not in a million years I'd have imagined such a possibility. When you were born, I had a vision that you was going to bring balance preventing chaos from destroy everything. So my plan was to wait you grow to live in my castle. I had no other plan in mind. And couldn't, you were just a newborn!"

"So you didn't expect things to be take another turn?"

Maleficent shook her head.

"No, I didn't expect. So this change scared me so much, let me not knowing what to do and what to think. So I made a lot of mistakes and things I shouldn't have done. I hope you can forgive me."

Tears ran down Aurora's face, who hugged tight her mate and said very touched.

"I've forgiven you, Maleficent! I forgive you because I love you!"

She took a deep breath, hugged the girl tightly and whispered softly in her ear the words she never imagined herself saying to anyone.

"I love you too, my Aurora. I love you too..."

They were silent for a long time, just letting that wonderful warm flowed freely between them. Feeling more comfortable to talk, Maleficent continued.

"I know I'm not the love you always dreamed of for your life, but I can improve a lot of things. Just understand I am who I am and can't change my essence. I hope one day you accept me."

Aurora pulled back a little, without breaking the hug, and looked into her eyes.

"You aren't the love that I dreamed, Maleficent. You're the love I need, which makes me stronger, better and happier. So I don't want you to be the love I always dreamed in the past because these dreams were childish. Just be what you have been so far: the love I need."

The former Fairy couldn't resist and kissed Aurora passionately on the lips, hugging her with all the strength she could muster. There was nothing more to be said between them, just feelings to be experienced. The difficulties weren't over, far from it. They still had plenty of work ahead. But for now, Maleficent wanted to enjoy that magical moment with the certainty she was also loved in the same intensity with which she loved. It was all she needed.


"That's disgusting, disgusting!" Georgei said erasing the image of the mirror not to see those women doing things that must be done only by persons of opposite sexes. The first thing he wanted to do when become powerful was to banish that kind of abomination of the forbidden lands. It wasn't natural.

What made her angrier, however, was them linger so long to get to the destination. Does the ambrosia was so far away? Unfortunately, he could not do anything before the precious food of the gods was found. The stones could take him anywhere, but he had to know the destination in order to visualize it.

"Let's see..." he took a piece of paper where had written down his plan and read it aloud to make sure everything was in order. "First, I wait them find the ambrosia. Just so I'll use the stones to take me and some soldiers to where they are. Thus, I can overcome them and take what is rightfully mine. Perfect!"

He sipped his glass of wine and continued.

"Then I will bring them back to the castle. One of them will tell me how to enter the lab. Hmm... this question is complicated."

Aurora could only tell him the password to enter the lab. Maleficent, on the other hand, could tell where her treasure. It'd be much simpler, but he didn't know if she was willing to talk. Perhaps torturing Aurora, but there was no guarantee. The princess, however, would do anything to save the Maleficent's life. Well... he'd find a way to think of something. One of them eventually faltering and giving what he wanted.

"Honey, won't you come to bed?" Soft woman's voice called, making him smile. Helga was lying in bed, half naked and showing her beautiful body inviting him for a good night of sex. Well... a little fun wouldn't hurt anyone, right?