The next day soon came as Aurora was in the Moors with Felicity, Chip, Aurelia, and Grookey. Aurora smiled as she stroked one of the creatures.
"Aww... Aurora made a new friend..." Aurelia smiled fondly.
The others smiled in agreement.
"That doesn't look like a Pokemon." Grookey remarked.
"Then I suppose it isn't." Chip chuckled lightly.
"Aurora? Come here." Maleficent soon called for the girl.
Aurora then went over to Maleficent.
"Sit," Maleficent requested and the girl soon did what was asked of her. "There's something I need to tell you."
"What is it?" Aurora asked softly.
"There is an evil in this world, and I cannot keep you from it." Maleficent then told her.
"I'm almost 16, Godmother; I can take care of myself." Aurora assured her.
"Been there." Aurelia chuckled bashfully at how Aurora acted due to her age.
"I understand, but that's not what I have to tell you-" Maleficent said softly.
"I have a plan," Aurora soon interrupted hopefully. "When I'm older, Aurelia and I are going to live here in the Moors with you. Then we can look after each other." she then added.
"You don't have to wait until you're older, you could live here now." Maleficent replied.
"Yeah." Grookey smiled.
"That sounds like an amazing idea." Chip smiled.
"A marvelous idea." Felicity and Aurelia agreed.
"I'm glad you all approve." Maleficent said to them.
"We do." Felicity nodded thoughtfully.
"Then I will," Aurora then decided. "I'll sleep in a tree and eat berries and black nuts and all the Fair People will be my friends. I'll be happy here for the rest of my life. I'm going to tell my aunties tomorrow." she then got ready to get going.
"But how are you going to tell them?" Aurelia asked while following after her.
"I'll think of someway," Aurora replied. "...Can you help me?"
"Well, I can certainly try." Aurelia smiled wearily even if she felt like this wouldn't work.
"Thank you." Aurora smiled back.
"No problem." Aurelia said.
"Until tomorrow." Maleficent told Aurora.
"Oh, I'm so excited!" Aurora beamed as she left and made her way to get back to the cottage.
"I'll catch up with you guys later." Aurelia told Felicity and Chip.
"See ya!" Felicity and Chip called out as she left.
"Hmm..." Felicity paused.
"Thinking about somthing?" Chip asked her then.
"It's just... We've seen Aurora for a while, but she still hasn't met or found Prince Phillip yet," Felicity replied. "I kinda thought he would come and meet her sooner or later by now."
"Hmm... Yeah, you're right," Chip said. "Where is he?"
"I don't know, I just thought he'd show up right about now." Felicity shrugged before she suddenly sneezed.
"Bless you." Chip then said.
"Merci..." Felicity replied before sneezing a couple of times again before she sniffed the air. "Hmm..." she then paused thoughtfully.
"What is it, Flick?" Chip asked. "You smell something?"
"I smell... Blue blood..." Felicity said as she stepped around a bit. "Like... Someone of a royal background..."
It then hit them once they noticed what was happening.
"Prince Phillip!" Felicity and Chip then suddenly gasped together in realization.
"But why now?" Grookey asked.
"I don't know, but we have to make sure that he and Aurora meet." Chip said.
"Oui, it's part of the story," Felicity added. "From the one that Mother told me about anyway."
"Your mom sounds really smart." Grookey commented.
"Yes... Mother is the smartest, bravest, and most adventurous woman I know..." Felicity smiled. "I wanna grow up to be just like her someday~"
"And you might be just like her growing up." Grookey said.
"I do hope so..." Felicity replied softly.
Grookey hugged her suddenly.
Felicity beamed and hugged him back, giving him a small kiss on his forehead as Chip smiled fondly. "All right," she then said, setting the Pokemon back down on the ground before she hopped in the air and changed into a bat. "I think I'm gonna do a little bit of spy work."
"Sounds good to me." Chip said.
"Well, I'm off." Felicity said before flying off to where she smelled Prince Philip's blood.
"You're not going with her?" Grookey asked Chip.
"I better stay here and help keep up appearances for the time being." Chip replied.
"Eh... All right then." Grookey shrugged before walking off with his new trainer.
Meanwhile, Felicity began to flap her wings around and soon went to a tree and hung upside down from it to blend in as Aurora and Aurelia were on their way back home.
"Aunties, I'm almost 16 and I need a life of my own." Aurora began to say, practicing of what she was going to say to the pixies.
"Hmm... No, I don't think so," Aurelia shook her head. "Try again."
"I love you very much, but it's time to say goodbye," Aurora soon tried again. "You've been very good to me, except the time you accidentally fed me spiders before Aurelia told you not to do that."
"That's perfect." Aurelia smiled.
"Hello?" A male voice spoke up as a young prince came out of nowhere.
"Whoa... Where did you come from?" Aurelia asked the prince.
"It's him." Felicity whispered to herself from where she dangled.
"I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm on my way to King Stefan's castle and I've become hopelessly lost," The boy said to the two girls. "Can you help me?" he then took a step closer towards the girls.
Aurora gasped as she backed up in fear and nervousness.
"Oh, I'm sorry. That was my fault, I rushed into-" The boy said bashfully as he took her hand to help her stand and he suddenly became silent as he becomes mesmerized by her beauty. "Forgive me."
"I'm sure you are forgiven." Aurelia smiled playfully as she took a close look between Aurora and this boy.
"It's that way," Aurora soon said as she pointed in the distance. "The castle."
'They are starting to fall in love, but of course not true love yet.' Felicity thought to himself.
The boy kept staring at Aurora, stunned by her beauty.
"What's your name?" Aurora soon asked the boy.
"It's Philip."
"Hello, Philip."
"What's yours?"
"Aurora."
"Hello, Aurora."
Aurora smiled at him shyly like a bashful schoolgirl.
"Well, it was nice meeting you," Phillip soon said as he decided to get going. "And once again, my apologies for being such a clumsy fool."
"You're forgiven." Aurora reassured.
"That's good. I'd best be off then," Phillip said as he bowed his head, about to go back to his horse. "Goodbye."
'Oh, they are so starting off as crushes before truly being in love.' Felicity thought to herself.
"Will you be back this way?" Aurora asked hopefully.
"Nothing could stop me." Phillip smiled as he turned to look at her while getting his horse ready.
"Then I'll see you soon." Aurora replied.
"Very soon." Phillip nodded as he soon got on his horse.
"Goodbye, Philip." Aurora said.
"Goodbye, for now." Phillip replied as his horse soon galloped away from her.
Aurora smiled fondly as she watched Phillip take off for now.
"No song... But I guess that's alright..." Felicity shrugged at herself before she left the tree and went to go and tell Chip and Grookey what she just saw.
As she flew off, Felicity heard Diaval trying to talk to Maleficent, but he was still in his bird form so all she heard was caws from him.
"Stop doing that." Maleficent complained and she soon turned Diaval back into his human form.
Diaval blinked and adjusted before he spoke to her. "Well? That boy's the answer." he then told her.
"No, Diaval." Maleficent then laughed off the idea.
"Yes! True love's kiss, remember?" Diaval nodded urgently. "It can break the spell."
"True love's kiss? Have you not worked it out yet?" Maleficent dismissed. "I cursed her that way because there is no such thing."
"That might be how you feel, but what about Aurora?" Diaval asked her.
Maleficent simply sighed.
"That boy could be her only chance; it's her fate anyway." Diaval told her.
Maleficent looked at him, then raised her hand to use her magic to turn him into a different kind of creature.
"Go ahead, turn me into whatever you want," Diaval huffed. "A bird, a worm. I don't care anymore." he then decided to walk away from her since she had gone too far this time.
Maleficent firmly frowned before she soon began to look soft as she felt so alone right now.
Felicity soon flew over to Chip and Grookey and changed back to her human self. "It happened! They met!" she then told her boyfriend and the Pokemon.
"Good!" Grookey replied. "...Who now?"
Felicity bore a deadpan look on her face.
"That's great, Felicity," Chip smiled. "Now they can eventually fall in love and break the spell later."
"Yeah, but I get the feeling that Prince Philip might not be the one to break the spell." Felicity said.
"But then who?" Grookey asked.
"I'm not sure yet," Felicity said softly. "Someone close... Someone... Very, very close."
Chip and Grookey felt confused, but they just decided to go with it.
"And hopefully I can find that one last gemstone." Felicity then said as she kept the current gemstones she had with her safe in her pocket.
"I'm sure we'll find it." Chip smiled.
"Right." Felicity smiled back.
Meanwhile, back at the cottage...
The pixies were soon trying to make a cake for Aurora since her birthday was coming up.
"I'm so happy we're leaving tomorrow." Thistletwit beamed.
"We are not leaving tomorrow." Knotgrass clarified.
"Tomorrow is Aurora's 16th birthday." Thistletwit reminded.
"And Stefan told us to take her back the day after her birthday." Knotgrass retorted.
"No, he said on her birthday." Thistlewit argued.
"No, he said after her birthday." Knotgrass insisted.
"On." Thistletwit retorted.
"After." Knotgrass glared as she threw some flour at Thistletwit.
"On!" Thistletwit glared back as she did the same.
"After!"
"On!"
"After!"
"On!"
"After!"
"On, on, on!"
"After, after, after!"
"Oh, stop it!" Flittle glared as she came in between the two others until some flour got on her, so she then slapped Knotgrass in the face.
Flittle and Thistletwit soon looked at each other and laughed at Knotgrass when they noticed that her face was covered in blue flour where Flittle's hand had hit her.
"What?" Knotgrass glared at them before looking in the mirror and gasped once she noticed the blue flour on her face and glared at the other two even sharper and darker. "How could you?!"
Esabella smirked from outside the window before looking over in annoyance as Aurora and Aurelia were on their way back to the cottage.
"I already deeply resent this." Aurelia sighed to herself as they went to come and see the pixies.
"I need to talk to you about something." Aurora said to the pixies.
"Yes, sweetie, what is it?" The three pixies asked.
Aurelia soon stepped aside so that Aurora would get the main focus and she could step in whenever the time would be right.
"I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but I'll be 16 tomorrow." Aurora soon began to her guardians.
"Oh." Knotgrass blinked.
"Oh, yes." Flittle added.
The three pixies soon laughed together as Knotgrass brought out the birthday cake which looked terrible since they had to make it without magic like in the official Sleeping Beauty adventure from when Cherry and Atticus were younger.
"I'm leaving home." Aurora decided.
"And she's going to be staying in the Moors with me and my friends and her fairy godmother." Aurelia told the three pixies.
The three pixies soon reacted in shock as Knotgrass soon got firm.
"See here, young lady," Knotgrass spoke up firmly. "I did not spend 16 years in this miserable hovel with these two imbeciles-"
The other two reacted and looked at her in shock.
"Shush!" Knotgrass scolded them before she continued sharply to Aurora. "So that you could ruin it on the last day. We are taking you back to your father with-"
"Knotgrass!" Aurelia yelped once the secret was suddenly let out.
"My father?" Aurora replied out of confusion. "You told me my parents were dead."
"Aurora, you might wanna sit down," Aurelia said to the birthday girl. "There's something we need to tell you."
"Are you sure you want to tell her?" Flittle asked Aurelia.
"It's only fair especially since it's her special day and she's of age." Aurelia replied softly.
"Oh, dear..." Flittle sighed softly. "You are right though."
And so, Aurelia and the pixies soon told Aurora all about the truth and what was going on for her birthday and what had to be done which was a lot harder than they thought it would be, but it had to be done sooner or later and now was a good time. This proved to be a lot for Aurora to take in, so she decided to go and speak with Maleficent and the others.
"I kind of guessed she would act like this." Aurelia sighed.
"Does she hate us?" Knotgrass asked.
"Just give her a minute," Aurelia replied softly. "She might come back later. Emphasis on 'might'."
Flittle and Thistletwit began to look concerned about that.
"Fairy Godmother!" Aurora soon called out once she made it into the Moors.
"I'm here." Maleficent said as she soon appeared.
Felicity, Chip, and Grookey began to come over to see what was going on.
"When were you going to tell me that I'm cursed?" Aurora softly asked Maleficent. "Is it true?"
Maleficent gave her a long look before answering, not wanting to risk being a liar, even if she had to tell the cold, hard truth. "...It is."
"My aunts said it was an evil fairy," Aurora soon said as she started to cry. "I... I can't remember her name. They said it was... Maleficent."
Maleficent nodded softly, confirming the information.
"Is that you?" Aurora asked. "...Are you Maleficent?"
Maleficent frowned as she came to step towards Aurora, feeling sad and guilty.
"No! Don't touch me!" Aurora suddenly panicked as she backed away. "You're the evil that's in the world. It's you!"
"Aurora, please try to understand." Chip said as he walked over to her.
"How do I know you're not working with her just to curse me too?" Aurora frowned firmly as tears formed in her eyes.
"Aurora, please!" Felicity pouted.
Aurora shook her head at them before she turned away and went running off away from them, no longer trusting them or Maleficent ever again.
"Now what?" Grookey asked.
"There's only one person that we hope to break Maleficent's curse." Chip said.
"Who's that?" Grookey asked then.
"Prince Phillip." Chip told his new Pokemon.
"You're correct, Chip," Maleficent said before saying to Diaval. "Find the boy!"
Diaval soon flew off to do as she asked, despite being frustrated with her earlier.
"I lost another one," Maleficent sighed. "Perhaps I'm not destined to be a mother."
"Oh, Maleficent, I'm so sorry," Felicity frowned. "I'll make it up to you somehow."
"You are destined to be a mother; after all, you took care of Aurora after all these years." Chip told Maleficent.
"He's right." Grookey said.
"I suppose I was more of a mother to her than those pixies." Maleficent remarked.
"You really were," Felicity nodded before whispering. "It's a shame that Mal never got to truly experience that though."
Chip nodded in agreement.
Aurora was seen going off on her own to get to the castle, but unbeknownst to her, Aurelia was following her.
"Oh, Aurora, I'm sorry there had to be lies, but it was for your own protection." Aurelia frowned to herself as she followed after the mortal girl.
Aurora looked around as she thought she heard something... Or someone, but she just kept on running as fast as her legs could carry. A guard was soon shown before glaring at Aurora since he didn't know her at first. Aurora soon told the guard who she was and with that, the guard took her to see the king.
Aurelia soon brought out a magic wand and used it to shrink herself before she followed Aurora inside to see how this would play out.
"I need every available man on The East Wing now," Stefan demanded as he held a meeting. "There should be no guards at the gate. I want her to walk right in-"
"Sorry to disturb, Your Majesty," The guard interrupted as he came inside with Aurora. "We found this urchin at the gate. She claims to be the princess."
Stefan came by and soon went to take a closer look at Aurora.
"Father. It's me, Aurora!" Aurora smiled hopefully.
"No doubt he won't be happy that she's back home early." Aurelia whispered to herself.
"You look just like your mother..." Stefan said to Aurora.
Aurora smiled a bit softly.
"They brought you back a day too soon," Stefan then said before he suddenly looked unhappy. "I told those three idiots! Lock her up in her room... Go!" he then commanded to the guard.
The guard soon grabbed Aurora's arm and went to take her away.
"Prepare the men," Stefan soon continued. "Maleficent's coming."
"Oh, no..." Aurelia whispered to herself.
The men soon went to get ready as Aurelia flew back home as she looked very scared and worried, even if Maleficent was a villain.
Esabella began to pace around as she wondered what she could do to doom Felicity and Chip as she was alone right now. "Come on... Come on... Think..." she said to herself, deep in thought. "What to do?"
"Aurelia, good, you're back," Chip said once he saw the young golden fairy. "Knotgrass, Flittle, and Thistletwit are getting ready to come back to the kingdom."
"Well, we better make sure that Maleficent has Prince Philip because Aurora has been sent to her room and I don't think that will keep the curse from happening." Aurelia told him.
"Great idea." Chip nodded in agreement.
"Well, go on then!" Esabella replied sharply. "Go and save the day!"
The others flinched a bit from her behavior.
"Go and save the day like Atticus and Cherry always did, by being annoying." Esabella glowered.
"First of all, they were not annoying," Felicity said, trying to be firm. "Secondly, you're acting like Peter Pan did when they were about to leave Neverland."
"This is exactly what I'm talking about," Esabella rolled her eyes. "Your mother ruined everything and that's why they're trying to erase all of her work as an adventurer!"
"Wait. Who's trying to erase all of my mother's work?" Felicity asked.
"You better explain." Chip told Esabella.
"I don't have to tell you anything," Esabella glared. "Don't you have work to do?"
"Not until you tell us what you're up to!" Chip glared back.
"NO!" Esabella snapped before she soon ran away from them.
The three pixies were soon traveling through the woods in excitement.
"It's so good to be small again!" Flittle beamed at the other two pixies. "Look at my feet! I love my tiny little feet!"
"Pay attention!" Knotgrass reminded firmly. "We have to find Aurora, or the king will have our heads!"
"This is bad. Okay, Aurelia, go and try to make sure that Aurora doesn't prick her finger." Felicity told the young golden fairy.
"I'll do the best I can." Aurelia told them before taking off back to the castle before using her magic to get herself into Aurora's room.
"Good luck, Aurelia," Felicity said softly. "I feel that you and I will definitely need it the most. Now, for Esabella."
"I'm sorry, Flick, she just got away." Chip said.
"WHAT?! Are you serious?" Felciity asked.
"Grookey and I tried to stop her, but we think she used magic to get away and maybe to call her mother." Chip explained.
"Yeah," Grookey added with a sad nod. "Sorry, Felicity."
"It's okay, but whatever she's planning we have to stop her." Felicity said.
"Right." Chip nodded.
"We'll think of something and I have faith in Aurelia," Felicity told Chip and Grookey. "I'm not mad or disappointed in you guys though."
"Yay!" Grookey beamed and soon hugged Felicity's legs.
"Aww... He's so sweet," Felicity giggled before she pet the Pokemon on the head. "Thank you, Grookey~"
"He sure is friendly." Chip smiled.
"Oui. Oui." Felicity smiled back.