A.N: Alrighty, here it is. I'm really pumped for this story! Like I was brainstorming today, and I had this brilliant idea, but realized that it would have to be a few chapter from now. It was like this devastating but breakthrough moment!
Disclaimer: I do not own Maleficent and all rights go to their respectible owners.
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After releasing their horse, and walking to the castle, Maleficent grabbed Aurora's arm. They pressed themselves against the castle wall.
"Wait. You need a disguise."
"I was going to steal one..." Aurora said, looking at her Godmother meekly.
"Aurora!" Maleficent scolded, "You're turning into a thief, you little beast."
Aurora rolled her eyes but smirked.
"Godmother, we're here to find Diaval."
"When did you develop such an attitude?" Maleficent commented, raising her eyebrows.
"Godmother, remember why we're here?"
Shaking her head Maleficent let her magic flow, and Aurora felt a warm tingling sensation.
Aurora squirmed in discomfort. "Is this what Diaval goes through every time you change him?"
"I don't know, he's never said anything." Maleficent replied, a fond smile crossing her face as she thought of her companion.
Aurora looked down and took her hair in a delicate grasp.
"It's brown." She commented, looking back at the faerie.
"It's pretty, and don't worry that's the only thing I changed. That and your outfit."
"Alright, I'll go in, if I find Diaval I'll get him out."
"No, I'm coming with you."
"You can't, you're too easily spotted."
"Aurora, we're wasting time."
Aurora groaned and pulled at her now brown hair.
"You're going to get yourself killed!" Aurora whsiper-shouted, glancing at the passing guards.
"Shush, I'm the supposed caregiver, I take care of you."
Aurora bit her lip nervously but nodded.
"Servants' entrance is this way." Maleficent said, taking Aurora's arm again.
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Diaval rattled the chain attached to his leg. In all of his years with his mistress, she had never put him in a bird cage. Or any cage for that matter.
"It's so uncanny, it almost looks like a normal raven. But I know that it's Maleficent's dear servant."
Diaval angrily jerked the chain, glaring as well as he can in this form.
"I know you're the one who stepped in front of my daughter, you're the one who came to her rescue. I wish you were in your human form, then you could talk."
Diaval turned his head away from the cruel King. He had hated this man since the day Maleficent had told him of what he had done to her.
"Your Majesty." The captain of the guard bowed, and the King patted him on the back. Obviously in a good mood, and it was sickening to Diaval. "Why are we keeping the bird?"
"This is Maleficent's servant, she will come for him. And when she does, we'll take her."
Diaval listened intently, he was a spy after all.
"And what will we do with Maleficent, Sire?"
"Hm." Stefan glanced at the raven. "Nothing pleasant."
Diaval felt his heart drop.
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"He's not here Godmother."
"No, I know he's here. I can feel it."
"Maybe you're just worried Godmother. We must go before you're caught.
"You go, I'll meet you outside by the servants' entrance."
"Godmother..." Aurora pleaded, trying to pull on the faerie's arm. "Please..."
"Go, I'll be there soon."
"I'm holding you to that."
Maleficent embraced Aurora, giving the princess a bad feeling inside.
"Goodbye Beastie."
Maleficent kissed Aurora's head, before pushing the young girl away from her.
Aurora turned back multiple times when she was walking away, but never went back to her.
Maleficent made sure Aurora was gone and safe before moving on. She began walking down the corridors evading the guards.
She knew that Diaval was there, and she knew that it was serious. But to her it was hopeless, she didn't know the palace and there were hundreds of places he could be.
She ducked into a side-corridor as two guards past.
"The stupid raven won't shut up, I wish King Stefan would just give the order to kill it..." Maleficent's head whipped around at the guard's conversation.
She crept out and tried to retrace the guards' steps. A faint cawing could be heard from the end of the hall.
She ran towards the noise, warily pushing open the door. Checking the room first, she ran towards the cage where Diaval was held captive.
Diaval gave a frantic squawk, but she took it as excitement or relief. A wave of her hand and the cage door flew open.
She reached for the chain connecting him to the cage quickly, crying out and whipping her hand away as it glowed the familiar red. Diaval looked down in disgust as he realized the chain was iron.
"Don't worry, I'll get you out." She promised, already wincing as she anticipated the pain she would have to sustain.
Slowly, she grabbed onto the chain again and urged her magic to break the chain faster. The pain radiating all the up her arm, and her face contorted in it. The chain snapped and she stumbled backwards.
Diaval jumped and flapped his wings, but one was still crippled and the wound ripped open.
"Into a man." Maleficent said, cradling her burned palm.
He transformed, his arm dripping blood. He saw her eyes widen and she rushed to examine the wounds.
"Oh, what did they do to you?" His mistress touched his arm, and let her magic heal him.
"No Mistress, you must go." Diaval's eyes flicked to her palms which were marred and burned. "King Stefan is expecting you."
"What?" Maleficent's head whipped around, expecting to see the King there.
"The King! He's waiting for you!"
Realization hit Maleficent like a brick, and she took Diaval's arm. They left the room and began to hurry through the halls, she began to whisper to him, ducking into the same side corridor.
"Aurora is waiting, by the servant's entrance. Down the passageway, two lefts and a right, down the stairs and out the cellar door."
"Mistress?" Diaval asked, not liking how this conversation was sounding.
She pulled out a piece of his hair, and a pendant appeared in her hand. She tied the hair around the thread, looking up at him regretfully.
His breath hitched as she nearly closed the space between them, slipping the pendant over his neck.
"This allows you to change whenever you wish, to whatever you wish."
"Thank you, but isn't there a better time to give this to me Mistress?" Diaval asked, quite worried about the look in her eyes.
"Maybe," She whispered, "Aurora waits, go to her. If Stefan is waiting for me, he'll discover you two, I can lead him away."
"Mistress no! I can't let you, I mean I can't abandon you..."
"Diaval please, I know I freed you but I ask now, please, obey this command."
Diaval had never heard his mistress beg before, and she was begging to him.
"I'm not surrendering myself, I'm merely taking a harder escape route... There's no guarantee that I won't join you."
"Mistress, how am I supposed to take Aurora away, how am I supposed to leave you?"
"Take her kicking and screaming, just get her away from here."
"I-I can't."
"What can't you do? If you come with me you could get captured too and then who will look after Aurora?"
"You can't do this to me." He pleaded, hearing the clink of armour in the distance.
There was pure resolve in her eyes, but also hurt. She took a deep breath, this maybe was the last time she would see him.
Maleficent's mouth crashed into his, and she wrapped her arms around his neck. Diaval melted into the kiss, gently placing his hands on her waist. His mistress moaned against his mouth, and closed her eyes.
Maleficent pulled away, caressing his jaw.
"I love you." She told him softly, before slipping out of the passageway and looking behind her as she jogged away. Diaval stood frozen in place, he couldn't move. His body went numb, he was operating on auto-drive.
He felt the familiar tingling sensation and he realized he was changing himself for the first time, into a mouse.
Scurrying down the corridor he tried to paid no mind to the guards rushing through the halls, the King leading them. But he stopped dead in his tracks as he heard Maleficent cry out, and continue to scream. Diaval longed to transform into a ferocious animal to protect her, save her, but he remembered the silent promise he had made her to take care of Aurora first.
He transformed back into a man before throwing open the cellar doors and whipping his head around frantically looking for Aurora.
"Aurora?"
"Diaval? What are you doing here? And you're a man."
"Aurora, come along we must go."
"No, where's Godmother?" Devastation took over her face, and she fell to her knees. "No... No, no, no, she told me she would come for me." She began to weep, thinking the worst.
"She was alive the last I saw of her Aurora, and she made me promise to keep you safe. We have to go."
"No, she may still come." Aurora's weak voice said, tears streaming down her face.
"Aurora, she's not coming. We need to go." Diaval reasoned, lifting her up.
He transformed himself into a horse, nuzzling her. Still weeping into his mane she let him take her home.
Both of them wanted to die in that moment.
A.N: Yup, I dropped all those bombs in 1660 words, sorry, but not sorry. I hope to have another chapter up tomorrow. Please review! Also special thanks to those who've followed, favourited, and reviewed!