Sora remembered the day when he was racing with Riku on the beach on the Destiny Islands when the Heartless came and overtook his Earth. He was helpless to do anything and he watched in horror and terror as everything was engulfed gone. His mother and home gone before he even knew what was happening and then so was Riku as he stubbornly tried to fight the Heartless himself.

He was on his knees crying when she came to him through a portal of darkness, the sinister smirk and threatening black cloaked form of Maleficent who was leading the Heartless and had come from another Earth. She said that she sensed something in him and had taken him away through a portal (without giving him a choice in the matter) to her dark ol scary castle. She introduced herself to the young boy saying that she was the Dark Fairy and the Mistress of All Evil, that she would not be his new mother.

What resulted were years of study of dark magic and intense sword fighting training, having to sit and watch as his new 'mother' (in private he always refused to refer to her as much) went about her evil ways invading worlds. Though he despised her to the core, he was always afraid of even speaking out of term as she seemed like she would enact the cruelest vengeance over even the slightest insult even as little as not inviting her to a special occasion. The lessons he was forced to learn about being evil he was dreadful at, wanting to keep the goodness inside of him taught to him by his real mother alive and fighting as hard as he could at it.

Right now age 12 he was walking back to the castle followed by the hideous small army of Maleficent after another failed test; he was walking behind the large form of 'Uncle' Pete who was Maleficent's main flunkie. Lacking in brainpower he made up for in strength and loyalty as he had been banished from his home kingdom for going against the royal family (and Sora wondered if he was as much a clown there). Pete had taken a small baby rabbit by the ear and told Sora to kill it. Sora wasn't able to go through with it and escaped.

"You are supposed to be the Heir of Darkness to the Mistress of All Evil herself and yet you are unable to even hurt a small little runt? I hope you are grateful that Maleficent is more patient with you than I am you ingrate because I say if you were my boy you would be belted right over my knee and starve in then starve in the dungeon for a year or two to teach you a lesson!" Pete ranted at him and Sora could never really bear with the oaf.

They reached the castle; upon entering they noticed that Maleficent was entering a corridor. "Now you stay there and give the news to your mother that her whelp has failed her yet again..." Pete scolded Sora and he was just done with it. Being bullied by his fake mother's lackey and all this evil and darkness, he was actually going to do something about it!

His anger focused he then magically pushed Pete through the area there would be a window screaming as he then landed with a splash in the water outside. With the blade gifted to him made out of a dead dragon's scale, he then charged at Maleficent. She barely had time to turn over as she was stunned as she was stabbed through the stomach by Sora using the blade.

She then turned to ask and he grinned, he was finally free of her. Diablo her raven screech as he flew away and he caught him. "Yes; Maleficent is gone and so is your saftey net! After all the snide snickering, I have been looking forward to this moment so I am going to have you plucked of all your feathers, cooked alive and then fed to a starving villager..." Sora told him but heard something and let go of Diablo as he watched in horror with the ashes forming in to the shape of Maleficent coming back alive grinning.

"Mother... This is a surprise..." Sora asked panicked thinking that at least he can rejoin his real mother in the afterlife in a second.

"I realise that I still have much to teach you child for the mere memory of me is enough to bring me back. I must say that I never thought you were capable of such language." Maleficent informed him as she then grinned and then shocked Sora by embracing him as if she was actually his mother. "I managed to see it in your eyes before the blade: the darkness, hatred and anger. I have been waiting for this day to come when you became bold enough to try something like this; I couldn't be more proud of you..." Maleficent said as Sora gulped as the hatred and anger for this Dark Fairy was still there but he missed motherly comfort too much that he let himself be lost in it.

Then they heard splashing and yelling and then looked through the empty window as Pete was doing his best to swim away from a sea monster that was in the water. Maleficent gave him a look as if Sora had brought home a report card saying he passed everything. Sora allowed himself to smile up at her as h looked down to enjoy this moment while he could.

Funny how Sleeping Beauty is not heralded as among animated Disney's best by a long shot and yet the main villain easily tops many lists of the best Disney villains. Though it's also hilarious Aurora somehow knows more about taking care of the cottage than the three fairies who had been her guardians her entire life and even after over a decade and a half, have learned nothing about how humans live.
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