The next day soon came as morning was beginning to show and where Maleficent was seen alone without her wings covering her. She soon woke up and soon began to feel pain as she got up and soon tried to feel for her wings before she noticed that they were cut off from her back. She began to start crying that her wings were cut off before noticing that Stefan was missing and knew who cut off her wings, but didn't know why as she continued to cry. Felicity and Chip frowned as they felt sad for Maleficent to wake up to a horrible surprise like this.
Back in the castle, Stefan made way as he carried Maleficent's large wings in his arms and kept inside a bag. He then tossed them down onto the bed as King Henry was asleep until that woke him up.
"What is this?" King Henry demanded.
"I have avenged you, sire." Stefan informed.
"She is vanquished?" King Henry then asked.
Stefan nodded firmly.
"Oh, you have done well, my son," King Henry approved. "You have done what others feared to do. You will be rewarded."
Stefan cracked a small smile to that news. "I shall do my best to be a worthy successor, Your Majesty." he soon vowed to his king.
Back in the Moors, it began to snow and where Maleficent began to do her best in standing.
"I wish we could help her." Felicity frowned.
"I do too," Chip sighed. "It looks so rough and painful for Maleficent right now."
"Now I'm starting to feel bad that Uncle Atticus and Prince Phillip had to slay her in her dragon form," Felicity bowed her head. "Even if this is probably an alternate universe."
Eventually, a blue light shimmered as Felicity and Chip came to see Maleficent before being stopped.
"Hello?" Esabella called out, catching their attention. "Is anyone here?"
"What?" Felicity blinked before turning around to see Esabella and Aurelia.
"Uh, hi there." Aurelia smiled innocently.
"You! Why did you send us here?!" Felicity asked Aurelia.
"I'm so sorry, I must have said the wrong spell," Aurelia said. "I was sure I had sent you both to where The Three Good Fairies' nieces/apprentices might be."
"Oh, yeah?" Felicity asked firmly.
"I'm so sorry, I guess I didn't expect the spell to do this," Aurelia said softly. "I promise you, I'd never try to hurt you or my friend here."
Felicity and Chip shared a look.
"Well, accidents happen," Chip replied. "Everybody makes mistakes."
"Oui, oui." Felicity soon nodded.
"So what's your name?" Chip asked Esabella.
"I am Esabella," The young Enchantress informed. "I figured you guys could use some help."
"I'm a little rusty with magic since I'm learning it because of, um, my nanny." Aurelia replied.
"Well, I suppose the least we could do is help each other out," Felicity suggested. "I know how that magic can be unpredictable especially from stories from my mother and uncle from their own studies and adventures."
Maleficent soon saw a stick close by and where she used it to make it grow into a staff for her to use to walk around with.
"Clever." Esabella said.
"Must feel pretty lost without her wings." Aurelia frowned softly before looking over her shoulder towards her bareback.
Maleficent soon walked into the ruins and stopped to think for a while until she saw that she had some company. Chip looked around as Maleficent looked right at them before he waved to see if she could see them or not. Maleficent soon waved right back, showing that she could indeed see them.
"Uh, hello." Chip smiled sheepishly.
"Who are you four?" Maleficent asked them. "And how did you enter the Moors without my knowledge of your arrival?"
"We come in peace, we kinda arrived by a spell." Felicity said.
"Arrived by spell?" Maleficent narrowed her eyes. "You're not sent by King Henry? And I should believe you?"
"Yes, you can trust us," Esabella reassured. "We won't do anything to hurt you."
"...You're not at all like the others, like when I first knew Stefan... I haven't known who to trust since him and before the pixies found me." Maleficent said softly after she looked at them for a few moments.
"You must be very close with them then." Aurelia said.
"Yeah." Esabella nodded.
"They've helped me and taken care of me for as long as before I can even remember." Maleficent replied.
"Haven't you got a family?" Chip asked softly.
"The pixies have been my family ever since," Maleficent said. "I don't really have any memories of where I come from aside from protecting the Moors from humans in their kingdom because they would probably hunt me and kill me."
"With of how greedy and evil that king is, he'd even give his crown to anyone that would kill you." Esabella said to Maleficent.
"You seem to know." Maleficent remarked.
"It's a long story." Aurelia defended.
"Well, you better watch out around the pixies," Maleficent said. "If they see strangers around me, they tend to act protective and roughly. They don't want me to get hurt..." she then pouted as she looked behind her back. "Though it's a little too late for that."
And so Felicity, Chip, Esabella, and Aurelia followed Maleficent out of the area and into another part of the Moors which was a bit dark.
"Whoa... This is an interesting area." Esabella said.
"These are the ruins where I go to think." Maleficent replied.
"I get you," Felicity nodded. "Sometimes a little space that only I know about is where I like to run away to, to go and think."
Maleficent smiled a little bit at how understanding Felicity seemed. A black bird known as a raven soon flew over to go and see what was going on.
"Well, that's definitely not a Corvisquire." Felicity then said.
"Go on. Shoo, shoo." Esabella told the raven.
The raven soon flew away. Maleficent watched the bird before looking back at the others.
"I guess we'll camp out here with you," Aurelia said to Maleficent. "If you don't mind our company."
"It's hard for me to trust humans, but you seem harmless so far..." Maleficent said. "Just as long as you don't hurt me."
"We won't hurt you, we promise." Chip assured her.
"That's right." Felicity, Esabella, and Aurelia nodded.
"I really hope you don't," Maleficent said. "Perhaps you can try to get some sleep."
The kids nodded as they decided to do that. Esabella soon used her magic to make a campsite for her and the other teenagers while Maleficent would sleep like she usually does.
"That's pretty unique magic, Esabella." Chip smiled.
"I always thought so," Esabella smiled back. "It's simply... Enchanting."
"Tonight sure is going to be nice and warm." Aurelia smiled.
"Oui, oui." Felicity smiled back.
"So... King Midas's daughter knows magic..." Chip commented. "Never would've expected it."
"I've always been fascinated by it..." Aurelia said as she winked innocently.
Maleficent soon went to her own space in the ruins to get some sleep as she had a lot to think about that night.
"I wonder when Diablo will make his appearance?" Esabella said.
"I think that raven earlier was him." Felicity guessed.
"You think so?" Aurelia asked.
"I'm not certain, but it feels likely," Felicity nodded. "You know any other raven associated with Maleficent?"
"Hmm... You make a good point, Felicity," Esabella smirked. "Guess he'll come back and feel attached to her."
"In some way... After all... Mal has Murkrow." Felicity replied as the others began to look and feel sleepy.
"Well, we better get some sleep." Chip yawned.
"Yep, we'll need our rest for tomorrow." Aurelia added.
"I'll join you in a minute," Felicity told them. "Don't worry though, it won't take long."
"Well, okay," Chip said. "Good night, Flick."
"Good night." Aurelia and Esabella added.
"Night," Felicity smiled at them before she decided to explore a little on her own as she took out the pink gemstone she had found before. "Hmm... I wonder where this could've come from and why it was where I found it?" she then paused thoughtfully as she thought about Aurelia's spell from earlier. "'Find the gemstones three'... What could that mean?"
Esabella opened one eye and looked over once she saw that Felicity was far away enough. "There's no way they're going to be able to befriend Maleficent," she then said to Aurelia. "We can't let my mother or The Queen of Darkness down."
"Don't worry, we won't." Aurelia said.
"We better hope so." Esabella said.
"...You ever think that maybe your mother might be wrong about the others though?" Aurelia asked.
"These Auradon Kids and Villain Kids get in the way of everything," Esabella defended. "Plus she wants me to be noticed and stand out, especially since she was King Adam's Enchantress and you're the niece of the forgotten and reviled Miss Nettle, even if no one else knows that."
"I suppose you have a good point." Aurelia said.
"We just have to make sure that Felicity and Chip don't become friends with Maleficent." Esabella told her.
"Yes, I suppose so..." Aurelia said softly.
"That's a good girl," Esabella smirked. "You'll earn your own wings very soon."
Aurelia frowned, hoping to get her own wings, but felt that if she kept going along with the evil plan that Esabella and Circe had, it might not happen. The two girls soon went right to sleep as it was rather late.
Felicity sat on her own for a while as she held the gemstone close and looked inside of it before finding something as she gasped. "Is that... A fairy girl?" she whispered as she thought she saw a girl with wings inside of the gemstone. "...I must be more tired than I thought." she then said and decided to go back and get some rest with her boyfriend and two new friends.
Everyone slept and rested well that night as Felicity kept her gemstone close until they all woke up by some yelling.
"I've got you! You wicked bird!" A man's voice called out, not too far away from where they camped out for the night and where Maleficent rested.
"Whoever that man is, he better have a good reason for ruining my sleep." Esabella glared.
"It's too early for this." Aurelia added.
Felicity and Chip soon woke up next, a little grumpy, though not as bad as Esabella's behavior. Maleficent soon looked over and found a man who was about to hurt the raven from last night. A dog was seen barking at the raven as it didn't have any way to get free.
"We have to help that bird get free." Felicity said.
"It's just a bird." Esabella shrugged.
"It's a living thing that doesn't deserve this kind of treatment." Felicity countered as she went to help the bird.
"Felicity's always had a big heart." Chip said, proudly and happily.
"Maleficent, what do you think?" Aurelia asked.
"Yeah, should we help that raven?" Esabella added.
"Get behind me." Maleficent demanded.
The teenagers looked at each other and soon went behind the dark fairy woman. The farmer was then about to hurt the poor bird who he had trapped in a net.
"Into a man." Maleficent whispered as she let some magic leave her fingertips.
The farmer's dog began to growl and bark as the raven grew in size and was slowly turning into a bird man hybrid that looked a bit scary and jarring to the girls until the feathers and beak went away, turning him more into a human.
"It's a demon!" The farmer then panicked and soon ran away once the raven was no longer a bird.
"Clever." Esabella said.
The former raven soon stood up as he got the net off him before taking a look at what used to be his wings.
"Let's go meet our new friend." Maleficent smirked as she walked by.
"Huh?!" The others gasped as she hobbled over to the former raven.
Maleficent soon approached the former raven and circled him for a while.
"What have you done to my beautiful self?" The former raven glared at her.
"Would you rather I let them beat you to death?" Maleficent smirked.
The former raven looked around as he kept his glare. "I'm not certain." he then said to her.
"Stop complaining," Maleficent retorted. "I saved your life."
The former raven paused briefly and had to admit that she had a good point, so he nodded his head at her. "Forgive me." he then said.
"What do I call you?" Maleficent asked him.
'Oh, I bet I already know what he's called.' Chip thought to himself.
"Diaval," The former raven gave his name before bowing loyally. "And in return for saving my life, I am your servant. Whatever you need."
"Wings. I need you to be my wings," Maleficent told him before facing the teenagers behind her. "Things are going to get interesting."
"Oh, I'm sure that they are." Esabella nodded.
The teenagers soon followed Maleficent as she used her magic to turn Diaval back into a raven.
"Diaval..." Chip said to himself.
"Something you should learn, that these stories are unlike the ones you've heard from Atticus and Cherry's adventures~," Esabella smirked to herself. "It's all coming together... Even if this Maleficent doesn't seem evil..."
Aurelia felt nervous as Esabella was being the evil one which Felicity and Chip didn't seem to notice.
"You shall see, She will come for thee~" Esabella continued in a creepy voice.
Diaval soon flew off to the castle as Felicity and Chip watched him go away.
"We definitely aren't going to like what he finds at the castle." Chip whispered to Felicity.
Felicity nodded in agreement before the sunlight seemed to shine on something on the ground in the tall grass. She soon noticed this and attempted to take a closer look. As she took a step closer, Felicity soon looked to see what it was. "Another one?" she soon asked out of confusion as she saw another gem, but it was green.
"You see something, Flick?" Chip asked.
"I see a scarecrow." Aurelia remarked.
"Reminds me of something planned for later." Esabella said quietly.
"It's another one of these gemstones." Felicity said as she found the green gemstone to her boyfriend.
"Huh, that's weird. Who would lose a gem in field of tall grass?" Chip asked.
Felicity shrugged. Aurelia glanced a bit before backing away suddenly. Diaval soon arrived at the castle in his raven form to watch as Stefan was now being crowned king.
"I present to you the first of his line, His Royal Highness King Stefan." King Henry's Captain announced to the people inside of the room as Stefan sat quietly for his new accomplishment.
Everyone in the castle looked happy for their new king, but for Diaval, he took off flying back to Maleficent and the others to inform her of what he just learned.
Felicity looked at the two gemstones with her boyfriend. Chip titled his head, wondering what they could mean. Aurelia glanced back at them before looking down at her necklace that she hid from them which had a golden diamond on it that looked like a yellow version of the pink and green gemstones that Felicity had found.
"Maybe they're Cosmo and Wanda?" Chip asked Felicity. "From your mother's stories with Annabelle Greening and Timmy Turner?"
"I don't think so." Felicity shook her head.
"Then who could they be?" Chip asked.
"Not sure, but I'm sure the answer will come to us." Felicity said.
"And our fine-feathered friend is coming back." Esabella remarked.
Eventually, Diaval revealed everything to Maleficent which began to anger her.
"Uh, Maleficient, please try to calm down..." Felicity said nervously before her eyes looked wide as she felt a little different.
"He did this... To me so he would be king." Maleficent began in a dark tone of voice.
"...He should pay." Felicity suddenly said, sounding unlike herself.
"Well, that was unexpected." Esabella said.
"Sure was." Aurelia nodded.
"Felicity, that doesn't sound like you." Chip said.
Felicity groaned and held her head a bit.
"Flick...?" Chip frowned in concern.
"He did this to me... So he would be king..." Maleficent glowered as she began to make something.
Esabella smirked as Maleficent acted like her Prime Universe counterpart and being the Mistress of all Evil and all.
'It's all going according to plan.' Aurelia thought to herself.
Maleficent soon screamed and let out a powerful blast of green light into the sky.
"No doubt Stefan heard that." Esabella remarked.
"Now what, Mistress?" Diaval wondered as he turned back into a human.
Maleficent didn't answer him and simply walked away as they looked into the dark sky after the green lightning charge surged through.
"I really don't like the looks of that." Chip said nervously.
"Yes... It's almost like she's going back into her roots that we've heard about from when we were little kids." Esabella replied.
"...You seem familiar somehow and yet... I don't really know you..." Chip said as he took a look at her.
"Um, no reason." Esabella said.
"Anyway, the adventure isn't over yet; she might not be all evil." Felicity said to Esabella.
"She's Maleficent." Esabella reminded.
"That may be true, but this isn't the Maleficent we grew up with," Felicity replied. "And I even recall that the pixies were The Three Good Fairies: Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. Not Knotgrass, Thistle, and... Ugh... Whatever their names were, I can't fully remember."
"Thistlewit and Flittle." Chip clarified.
"Yeah, them." Felicity then nodded.
"You sound so sure of yourself, Felicity Forte..." Esabella said as she narrowed her eyes slightly.
"My mother's met all kinds of different people... Some nice, some not-so-nice... I never want to judge people," Felicity replied. "I felt scared when I first met Mal, Evie, Jay, and Carlos... And now they're all my best friends. You should get to know somebody first, especially if they come from darkness like my Equestrian family's friend Torak, the son of Tirek, before Tirek reformed to be with his son and Megan Williams."
"He did? But, um, what if say no one knew who he was?" Aurelia asked.
"You mean like how Miss Nettle felt?" Felicity asked.
Aurelia suddenly flinched at the mention of "Miss Nettle".
"I think we should focus more on Maleficent right now and try to find a way to get back home," Esabella said, deciding to change the subject. "We won't make much progress if we just stand here."
"But there must be a reason why that spell sent us here." Felicity said.
"Felicity's right." Chip nodded.
"Right... A reason..." Aurelia said. "I didn't mess up."
"Sure, Aurelia." Chip said softly.
Maleficent soon stormed off without them with a lot on her mind.
"Um, should we follow after her?" Felicity asked.
"With of how we don't really have anywhere else to go, yes." Esabella said.
The others shrugged at each other and they soon followed after Maleficent who began to look dark and brooding like she usually was... At least how she used to be 20 years ago when Felicity's mother first met her to help Princess Aurora AKA Sleeping Beauty.