Chapter 3
The sun shines brightly as Maleficent, Uma and Matthew arrive at the edge of a forest at the base of Mt. Olympus. They look up to the castle that's atop on the mountain. Its big towers towering over the clouds and as Matthew tried to see beyond the clouds, he saw movement in the air. "I saw something," said Matthew.
"Where?" asked Maleficent.
"Up there near the tower," said Matthew pointing to where he saw the shadow. Maleficent and Uma both looked to where Matthew is pointing but couldn't see anything. "I don't see anything," said Uma.
"Probably just a cloud or bird shadow," said Maleficent.
"Speaking of birds, notice that we don't hear them? Or any natural sound?" Uma said. Maleficent and Matthew both listened, and Uma was right. There's no wind blowing, leaves didn't move and no birds chirping. It was just silence all around them. "That's unusual," said Maleficent. "The last time I was here the birds where singing annoyingly so. Anyway, we go up," she said and started walking to a stairway that's at the base of the mountain. Uma and Matthew followed her. Unbeknownst to them, watching them in the forest is a shadow with red eyes.
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The shadow that Matthew saw in the clouds saw them to. Breaking free of the clouds, that shadow turned into a harpy who flew through an open window of the tower and found itself flying passed stone statues in the throne room and landed on the back of the throne whispering to the titian that's sitting on it, Cronos. "You done well my friend. Go get the others," said Cronos. The harpy flew away and Cronos stood up and walked to a statue of a female with her sword raised as though ready to strike. "Looks like your mother and friends have finally come to rescue you, my granddaughter," said Cronos stroking the face of Mal's statue. Beside Mal were statues of Ben, Carlos, Evie, Jay, a few guards from Auradon and Hades. As Cronos left the room a hissing and slithering noise wove between the statues as Medusa followed Cronos out of the room, leaving the statues of Mal and the others alone.
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Maleficent, Uma and Matthew are climbing the stairs to the castle when Uma asked Maleficent, "So you were here before?".
"Yes," said Maleficent.
"Why?" Matthew asked.
"When me and Hades were still together, Hades took me on one of his little schemes to try to overthrow Zeus," replied Maleficent.
"And that's how you knew about the portal?" asked Uma.
"Yes," said Maleficent. They arrived at the second base of stairs and Matthew muttered, "More stairs," he said in annoyance.
"Only another level to go," said Maleficent. As they are about to climb the stairs, Matthew looked to his right and saw statues near the edge of a cliff. "Hey, look at this," said Matthew running up to one statue. The statue is of a male wearing a shirt and has broad muscular arms. Uma and Maleficent walked over and looked. "Hey isn't that?" Uma asked.
"Yes, that's Hercules," said Maleficent.
"Wow, that's Hercules?" said Matthew in awe, looking at the statue more closely. Maleficent looked more closely at the statue as well and notices something. "What is it?" asked Uma as she notices a frown on Maleficent. "I think this statue isn't a statue," said Maleficent, pulling Matthew away from it.
"What do you mean?" Uma asked.
"I think that is really Hercules," said Maleficent.
"What," said Uma, "But how?".
"Medusa, that's how," said a voice from behind them. They all turned and sees a little creature walking up to them, panting from the climb of the stairs.
"Who are you?" asked Maleficent. The creature put his hand up to tell them to wait as he catches his breath. Once he calmed down the creature replied, "I'm Phil, who the hell are you?" he asked.
The end of chapter three