Firstly I apologize so much for how long this took. I don't like writing when I don't have the inspiration to do it, but honestly I need to make myself sit and write at these points.
Second, tell me if this chapter is a bit long or boring, or it needs more dialogue, or it seems repetitive or anything. Reading through the original chapters I am seeing so many errors that I was to fix so badly, but I will edit the whole story when it is done as to not confuse anyone.
If this chapter has something wrong with it, tell me because I AM TOO TIRED TO EDIT THIS LATE and I want it out by tonight. I'll edit it after if there's something that needs fixing.
ALSO! Backstory with Hades and Maleficent is pretty much all on me. The only part they mention(I think) cannonly is that Hades left when Mal was a baby(which I stretched a little bit). Does the history and problems with Hadie and Mal and such make sense? I hope so.
latinagirl-reader2010: I apologize if I made anything unclear. If there's ever anything that looks like it needs more or less clarification or simplifying, do tell and I will look it over. You guys are after all helping me grow as a writer.
TR Lara Croft: I'm going to delete that little bit. I said in first chapter I wanted it inbetween, but in that same chapter I mentioned Dizzy, the twins and Celia as if they were already in Auradon. Instead of changing that I decided it was just better to set this after Descendants 3 passed. Also, what you explained is in fact pretty much how I was going to be planning that out. Many have asked about that part. Though I do like your version of it a bit more. :)
Roxas Itsuka: I hope I structured their talk well! Mal is sorta annoyed with him. I dunno if I mentioned it much in past chapters, but Aurora did tell people the truth, she just gave up after no one believed her. I'm still debating putting Ingrith in the story or not. On one hand, she's a really good villain, on the second hand, Aurora would have put her on the Isle immediately. So would Ingrith's husband. I dunno. And things will be getting darker! Except when Aurora is having fun loving moments with Maleficent. Those area's will only be dark for Mal.
danifan3000: I never knew that, but that's interesting. Good thing I have the disc. ;) Everything stays in on those.
dragonslayerajahn: Though I still dunno if I will do a Mistress of Evil (I can't watch what happens to my Balthazar again) I think that Audrey contemplating that would be really interesting. And as for why lie? This, we will find out! Can't wait.
Thor10: This is very accurate. I was so surprised by the direction the movie went. It made it out like Maleficent was the evil one!
ikrar: Make that the two of interested to see how I will connect the two movies. Though really, it's like three, Descendants, Maleficent and the og Disney Sleeping Beauty. I'm trying to wrap things together as smoothly as I can.
And as for everyone asking for more chapters, here ya go~!
Hades grimaced. He'd found that outside the designated movie room, they were in a castle. He'd guessed that much. By the style and the large painting on the wall that Mal stopped to glare at, it was fair to say that they were in Aurora and Philip's castle. It made sense, he supposed, that they were there anyway with the movie and all.
He was already in a foul mood that morning as it were. It had been nice that he got to see the sun whenever he wanted now that the barrier was down. But either way, Auradon still wanted it so that the villains still lived on the Isle. Occasionally visiting Auradon, maybe. There were guards stationed at the end of the bridge on Boradons side. They were even promised a second chance, so long as they didn't make an immediate escape. At least he could yell at the sky whenever he wanted for his powers back, and knew there was a better chance of his brother hearing him now. Hearing and ignoring.
His mood worsened when just as he was about to plop down on his "couch" in another hissy fit, he was transported to a random fancy room with fancy dressed people. To triple that, his temper was flaring at seeing his ex wife in such states as she was on screen. She may have been hard to stand, but he did love her. Before she went psycho.
But nevermind that now. Currently he had to deal with his apparently mad daughter who had her arms crossed in front of him as if waiting for him. Oh, that's right, he had dragged her here, not the other way around. Right.
He'd been cracking his neck in his seat when a dark shadow passed and stayed over his closed eyes. If he was gonna have this talk, it was going to be without royals listening in.
"Well?" The purple clad girl asked, throwing him out of his reverie.
"Well?"
"You're the reason mother turned wicked, aren't you?" The same question she asked back in the room.
Hades stiffened, unsure what to say. "I don't know what you're talking about." He said nonchalantly.
She took an annoyed huff, warily eyeing behind him. "It was you... and you that made mother finally turn evil. Wasn't it?"
Hades glanced over his shoulder. His son was awkwardly standing a few feet away. With a gesture of his head, he had Hadie come forward. This was a family conversation after all. "Malllieee, you're mistaken." He told her slowly, diverting his attention back to her.
"No," Mal continued in the same tone. "I'm not."
Hades resisted the urge groan. This was not his day. "We all clearly just saw what turned your darling mother evil. Stefan. That's why she cursed Aurora with true loves kiss for the age of sixteen. He told her true love at sixteen as well. And of course he stole her wings so that's a whole thing-"
"You knew already, didn't you?" She cut in.
"Of course I knew! She was my wife," He scoffed.
"Until you cheated on her and broke her heart."
Hades sighed in defeat. He always knew one day he would have to tell this story. And it wasn't fair to Mal that everyone else knew in the family but her. "You know what happened, don't you?
Of course she knew.
When she was a lot younger, Mal had often asked her mother where her father was, but her mother had always called him a weak human. It was when she was six that she learned who her father truly was; Hades. It was at that same time her mother had learned that he had a child just less than two years younger than Mal, that he had kept hidden.
Her mother was so outraged she came home that day ranting nonstop. It was only fair. Hades and Maleficent were together until Mal was four. And the couple secretly visited each other until she was of the age of 5, almost six. So logically, Hades cheated on Maleficent years into their relationship and never told her about it.
So much for true love.
Her mother brought her up, raising her to believe love was weak. She never showed any to Mal, telling her that power and control were the way to go. Mal, after experiencing love with Ben herself, couldn't imagine how love could possibly be weak. After all, it helped defeat her mother at coronation. Unless her mother was truly going easy on her, but even so, she wouldn't have just allowed herself to be turned into a lizard.
That was love and the magic wands doing.
But now she understood why her mother was so insistent that love was weak. Love lost Maleficent her wings. Her young love betrayed her. Her second love, Hades, was the first to make her heart melt again. But they separated(with reasons they would not explain), and when she found out Hades cheated on her during a time he still said he loved her, she snapped.
Mal nodded tensely. Hades resigned himself to telling the truth. "Fine. Not many months after you were born, I was wandering the Isle a little bit. I met...What was her name? Narrisa? Sarah?"
"Dad!" Hadie groaned in annoyance. His dad knew very well who his mother was.
"Anyways! I hid Hadie from your mother because I didn't want what happened to Aurora to happen to Hadie. I didn't realize how harshly she would take it."
Mal shuffled on her feet. "The headgear?" Mal asked.
Hades swiped next to his nose with a forced chuckle. "Oh, I loved your mothers hair. She always looked so lovely and free with it down," He smiled wistfully, but noticing his daughters raised brow, he hurried to continue. "I always complimented her in that regard. She'd get pissed with me whenever I played with it. I imagine that's why she doesn't show it anymore."
"Because it reminds her of how she was weak for falling in love with you, and you were weak for falling out of love with her."
Mal refused the urge to flinch or step back as he reared towards her.
"Dad-" Hadie warned.
Hades pointed a finger towards her with a glare. "I did not fall out of love for her."
"You said she wasn't an easy person to deal with," His daughter reminded.
"That doesn't mean I didn't at some point love her."
Ben said nothing as his fiance tensely followed her father out the room. Surveying around, it seemed no one but Evie and his parents noticed. Snow White had to take her son to the bathroom anyway, so they wouldn't be missing anything.
Currently Leah and Florian were having it out. No doubt that would take at least five minutes to end, as it seemed no one was willing to break them up.
Ben ran a hand over his face as they bickered. Not very kingly, but he had seen many others do it on very many occasions. Face partly covered, he barely noticed the teal streak situate themselves in the chair Mal was in. "Any luck at that meeting?"
He grimaced at his Isle Advisor, Uma. He knew she meant well, he was just tired. She should have been at the meeting earlier, but she was running late.
Knowing other VK's were at the table with them, he leaned closer to Uma conspiratorially. "No dice, they were completely against it. They don't want villain parents to visit for Family Day. And I let it slip that we had some issues with the council over past years."
The sea witch daughter rolled her eyes. "Leave it to a goody two shoes like you to let that slip!"
"I know," He whispered. "Lets just hope this little retelling of history shows the council what Audrey showed us."
"That villains can be good and good guys can go bad? Yeah I thought we learned this lesson already."
"I guess not," He sighed. Uma seemed about to comment again when the lights started to dim again. It seemed Snow had returned. Uma shrugged, moving seats.
He was about to mention that they were still missing people when he noticed Mal with her father up on the balcony.
Easing back in his seat he resigned himself.
"King Stefan ordered his men to seize every spinning wheel in the kingdom. The wheels were broken and burned, that they may never be used, and they were thrown into the deepest dungeon in the castle. "
"Would it have not been better to just keep the child in the castle until she was sixteen and then get rid of the things before her birthday?" Harry mentioned to no one in particular.
Mal groaned, tilting her head back against her fathers shoulder. "We are not having this discussion again." She said so no one would hear her.
"Say Leah," Jane, Tarzan's wife, called. "Did it not negatively affect the kingdom, destroying all the spinning wheels?"
"It did for a while," the old queen admitted. "The looms and such had to make due until we could order or make other thread machines from other kingdoms. It helped advance the kingdom in any case."
"No kidding. I remember Father and Mother having almost half our kingdoms looms shipped out because of you," Eric laughed.
"Because of my husband," Leah corrected. "I didn't agree on how he handled the situation with Aurora. I wanted my child safe, but his methods were too extreme."
Mal noted this in the back of her mind.
"Secretly he entrusted the safety of the child to the magic of the pixies, who would take her to a remote hideaway for sixteen years and a day."
"And a day," Hubert enunciated dramatically, his siblings snickering along with him.
"And that was his first- no, like eighth mistake," Henry jovially said.
"Only his eighth?" Chad questioned non hostilely.
"Which was the mistake?" Aurora said with a smile. "Sending me to live with my godmothers or the whole sixteen years shebang?"
"Both?"
"Ah-!" Artie raised a finger in a lecturing sort of way. "Sixteen years, and a day!"
"Stefan shut himself behind the walls of his castle, while his soldiers rode far and wide to hunt Maleficent down. But she made walls of her own. The Moors might never again suffer the touch of any human."
Black brambles and thorns thick as a tree trunk and high as a building sprung out from the ground at Maleficents command. The thorns stretched around the edge of the Moors as far as the eye could see within seconds.
"Like the thorns she put over her heart after you broke it?" Mal reminded softly.
Hades tilted his head down a growl at the edge of throat at his daughter who refused to lift her gaze to him. He knew he messed up. But he could fix it. Totally.
"And she reveled in the sorrow that the curse had brought." Diaval watched from the side as Maleficent cackled wickedly to herself atop her throne.
"The fairies began their charge, to raise Aurora in a snug little cottage in the woods."
Evie compared the gentle hut surrounded by overgrown Autumn foliage to the area thy travelled to in search of an Evil Audrey a while back. "Looks snugger than I remember."
"Years after everything, when the story got around that the princess was raised in those woods by some fairies, people were interested. They moved in nearby, and made a cute little pop up town nearby," Audrey explained charmingly.
Philip nodded in agreement. "As for the area, well lets just say some gardening and developing had to be done to make it more accessible."
"I still say shame," Ben voiced with a hint of melancholy. "It was fun playing hide and seek in the tall grass."
"Fun for you, dear. Not fun for us to try to find you two," His mother sighed heavily.
"Oh, is this it?" Knotgrass eeked in disgust.
"Looks dreadful," Flittle agreed with a scrunch of the nose.
Thislewit nodded.
"It's not that bad," Audrey complained.
"Come on!" Knotgrass, Flittle, and Thislewit grabbed the basket the princess lay in and struggled to fly it out the wagon.
"We need a smaller...Ooh! Baby," Thislewit groaned.
Several gasps and squeaks echoed around the room as the three fairies dropped down a foot in the air from the weight, managing to right themselves.
"Would it have not been smarter to become bigger before that?" Doug asked incredulously.
"Or bigger body!" Flittle added as Aurora started to cry from the jostling.
Celia rolled her eyes in annoyance. "Duh."
"No, what we need," Knotgrass paused as they repositioned the basket in mid flight. Gently they lay it down on a stump in the yard. "Is a proper disguise."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, we have to blend in! Don't we have to be big enough to look after this baby?" Knotgrass explained. Flittle blew out a puff of air as she contemplated this.
Uma shook her head. "Isn't that just what the blue one said?"
"So, gather round ladies. Get ready. One, two, three, grow!" The three spun in a circle. In a dust of their colored magic they grew into three normal height women with peasant garments on.
"Well, that worked quite well," Knotgrass noted as the other two giggled at their new found appearances.
"Why does she still have blue butterfly's swooping around her head?" Aria wondered, watching the small plain blue creatures flutter around Flittle's head.
Peter Pan rocked back in forth in his chair, listening to the tinkling voice of Fauna. "Is this where they got their names Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather?" He repeated for the animal fairy.
Carlos eyes widened. "I didn't even notice that the names are different!"
Aurora nodded pleasantly. "They changed their Moor names to more human names, I found out later. They go by both now."
"Now, there'll be no questions asked. We are no longer fairies. We're three peasant women raising our orphan child in the woods, so, uh, no more flying." Knotgrass walked off towards the house, the other two following suit.
"Yes," Korak scoffed. "Because that raises no questions at all."
"No flying?!"
"No. no, and...no magic."
"No magic?!"
"Yes, you heard."
"It's in the middle of nowhere!" Flittle protested.
"That is accurate," Melody pointed out.
"At least no one will find us here," Thislewit reasoned.
"How many visitors did you actually ever get?" Alice asked curiously. A trait obviously passed to her daughter.
"Not many," Aurora admitted. "Whenever we did, I was forced to stay hidden."
Zevon gave her a look. "And that wasn't questionable why?"
The three walked inside, young Aurora clad in yellow, still outside on the tree stump crying. A large raven flew down and landed on the edge of her basket.
"Diaval is that you?" Melody asked.
The said man chuckled lightly. "Indeed it is. You didn't think Maleficent wouldn't send her trustful wings to see what Stefan would do in response, now did ye?"
"But I thought it took years to find Aurora," Melody pouted at the thought of there being more to the story that didn't add up anymore. "And what of the goblins?"
"The goblins are the cousins of dwarves," Diaval gestured to Doug's family. Grumpy made a face. "But the goblins stayed to live in the farthest side of the Moors due to their appearances. Maleficent did in fact make them her minions and send them out searching but that was only as a cover if anything else. Planned by me, by the way."
Taking Mal by surprise, her father in law-no, Adam(it didn't feel right calling him a father figure while in the shadow of her actual father) spoke up. "Why would she need a cover?"
"In case any of the other Moorfolk grew curious. The Moor goblins were either barbaric, or lived in their little group and didn't interact with others too often. So they were seen as a bit denser than most. They never learned. If the Moorfolk thought they were her minions, they wouldn't worry about Maleficent prematurely finding Aurora here, and going off to warn the three pixies."
Mal let out a whistle. She knew her mother was manipulative and smart. But for a random raven her mother just happened to save, Diaval was smarter than she could have ever thought.
Diaval flew away just as Thistlewit came out the cottage. "There you are!" She called, skipping over. "Why are you always hiding. Come on, there you go."
Leah was shocked into silence at the fairy. Anita as well. Neither of the two had necessarily believed Aurora the first time she tried to convince them of her childhood. After all, the three good pixies were by all means very talented and very good in teaching and other areas. Aurora was young still, just a princess who was being taught by her mother how to sit at a council. But to forget a child after less than a minute? Perhaps they were wrong to judge her so soon.
Maleficent stepped out of the forest later on, Diaval leading the way in flight. He led her to the cottage, where Aurora's cries could be heard from the trees. Maleficent stepped up to a lattice window that was slightly open.
"Hmm," Aurora, who sat in her basket directly next to the window, turned her head to her new guest. "It's so ugly, you could almost feel sorry for it."
Miranda shivered at how close the dark fae was to Aurora. To think she got within arms reach of her again not even a few days after going into hiding was ghastly to say the least. Thankfully the curse was set up, she would have no reason to harm the child before then.
Anita, similarly, couldn't imagine what she'd do if Cruella had ever gotten that close to Amy, or the Dalmatians ever again.
Aurora, not knowing what she said, morphed her face into a cute smile at her. Maleficent lifted her hand like a claw, barred her teeth and snarled at the baby in an attempt to frighten her.
Aurora twisted her face into confusion for a second, then once again smiled largely. "I hate you," Maleficent frowned. "Beastie."
"Isn't that what Uncle Philip calls you sometimes Aunt Aurora?" Hannah asked from across the table.
"And what we sometimes call Audrey, yes," Philip answered.
Evie crinkled her nose slightly, ignoring what her mother would say about wrinkles, or if anyone else saw. Beastie was such a fitting name for Audrey. And by her cousins smirk and Audrey's frown, Ariana agreed.
Stabbing her staff into the ground, Maleficent walked off after hearing pots clang from further in the cottage. Diaval squwcking, and following his master.
"The fairies were perhaps unequal to their task."
"Why is she crying?" Flittle exclaimed, leaving her laundry chores to examine Aurora with Thislewit. Once again the baby was placed on the stump in her basket, crying desperately.
"I think she might be hungry," Thistlewit told her.
Knotgrass looked up from her plowing work in exasperation. "Then feed her!" She stated in common knowledge.
Diaval laughed. "I'd like to see her try."
"Oh!" Diaval watched from a tree overhead as Flittle went to a basket and brought over some dirty carrots with long green leaves.
Aziz loudly slapped his hand to his forehead.
She draped them on Aurora's lap waving some in front of her face. "There you go!" Diaval made a bird like sigh, shaking his head.
Nearby, Maleficent sat up against a tree, covering her ears in response to the wails. "It's going to starve with those three looking after it," She seethed.
Night fell, and still, the forest was met with nothing but the loud cries of Aurora. The three fairies meanwhile, slept in their large bed blissfully.
Freddie dragged her hands down her face. "Okay now, even Captain Hook, Gaston or Jace and Harry could raise kids better than that!"
"Reminds me of how clueless Uncle Kristoff was when first being left alone with Sparrow," Chrys recollected with a smirk.
"Wait, what?" Anna rapidly switched from both her daughter, checking her over, and fixing her husband with a glare.
"Anna..."
"You weren't exactly the best at first," Elsa agreed. "But at least you knew babies who have no teeth don't eat unwashed carrots." Each word grew colder as she comprehended what the fairies on screen were guilty of.
"Yeah you kind of sucked."
Hadie tilted his head down at the voice next to his chair. Not bothering to hide his surprise, he jumped in his seat as a short snowman tottered past.
"Olaf!" Ivy shouted. "Where'd you come from? Actually, no. Don't answer that."
Diaval swooped in on the sill carrying a closed flower in his beak. Scanning the room, he landed next to baby Aurora. The child gently took the Moor flower, instinctively placing it to her lips. The flower, containing a milk like liquid for her. With his talons, he gently rocked the crib back and forth.
Eric and Aria's hands flew to their ears as a high pitched squeal from their table.
Melody rolled her eyes at her cousin.
On a new morning the three fairies sat at their table pensively. Flittle slapped her down over Knotgrass's. "What?"
"You're cheating!" Flittle accused.
"I saw that!" Thislewit chimed at the end of the table.
"We're starting again," Flittle decided as she started to remove their pieces.
"Are they always this childish or what?" Meg knew they were less than halfway done with the story, but she was already tired of the pixies. "Tell me why Stefan trusted these three to watch a child?"
Knotgrass followed suit. "Suit yourself."
The blue fairy shook her head angrily. "Greedy..." She paused for words. "Bloated goat!"
Thistlewit and her laughed merrily. "Bloated goat!"
Doug wrapped an arm around his girlfriend as she suddenly leaned forward and covered her mouth. She waved him off, attempting not to snort and she bit back her laughter.
Jordan, meanwhile, clapped her hands slowly at the attempt at an insult by the fairies.
Knotgrass ignored the two, instead directing her attention to water falling from the ceiling. "Stop doing that."
"I'm not doing anything!"
They looked up as more droplets fell onto the red fairy once more. "Well someone is!" She cried angrily.
"It's not me!" Thiselwit said.
"Totally something Mal would do," Carlos confirmed.
"In retribution?" An AK spoke up. "Totally something Amy would do."
"Pin!" Amy cried.
"You two are having a go at me. I will not tolerate-" She angrily raised herself from the table as water once more fell onto her. "Stop it!"
"Ooooh, someone's getting feisty," Claudine grinned.
"They act like children," The queen of Pixie Hollow said in disapproval.
At the two's silence, she slowly let herself back down into her seat. Not even a second later, a torrent of rain fell down upon her.
Merida's mouth dropped open, tempted to laugh. "Oh my-"
The two started to laugh, but fell into shrieks as rain came down upon them as well. Thunder and lightning crackled under their roof.
The VK's of the room laughed, some of the AK's following suit.
Thislewit grabbed a pot to place over her head, Knotgrass grabbed the game board. "This is all your fault!"
"How?" Anxelin asked soberly.
"She thinks they did it," Her elder explained.
"And that explains all three getting soaked how?"
Outside, each of the windows could be seen lighting up in sync with thunder, the pixies shrieking from inside.
Maleficent smiled to herself, waving some more magic in the houses direction to cause more mayhem.
"Totally something Mal would do," Jay called out with laughter.
Adam rubbed his forehead, not seeing why his wife was looking on in amusement. "Her magic is still gold, despite...the prank." Belle clarified to her husband. "It's not evil."
The fae chuckled to herself at the mischief she was causing. Letting her magic do it's work, she finally took notice of Diaval's expression as he watched her. "Oh come on, that's funny."