I woke up in the same room. I sat up and held my head.
I looked up and saw a woman standing before me. She had her back to me but she wore a long black cloak and had what looked like horns on her head. "You poor simple fools," she said. "Thinking you could defeat me, me! The mistress of all evil!" I stared at her wondering who she was talking to. "Well here's your precious princess!" she said and swept her cloak away to reveal me.
Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather all gasped and had looks of horror on their faces.
The evil woman started to cackle and laugh then she disappeared into the same green orb that I followed here.
"Oh Rose," said Flora and she rushed over to me.
"What is it dears? I'm fine. I'm right here," I said.
Suddenly Flora passed right through me and I gasped and spun around. That's when I saw myself lying on the floor. My golden hair was sprawled everywhere and the tiara fell off of my head. Flora crouched down next to me and gently brushed my hair out of my face. I looked dead.
"What's happening?" I demanded. "That's not me! I'm right here! Flora, I'm here!" I tried to touch Flora but my hand went right through her shoulder. I spun around and tried to touch Merryweather. "Merryweather, can you hear me?" Again my hand went right through her shoulder. "Fauna?" I asked but again, when I tried to touch her, my hand went right through her body.
"We are too late. For sixteen years we tried to protect her," said Flora and she started to cry.
"Oh Rose," sobbed Fauna and she rushed over and picked up my dead hand.
"But…I'm here," I said softly.
"Come, let's bring her somewhere nicer than this bleak and horrible place," said Merryweather and tears ran down her face.
They laid me in a bed in a tower. They placed a rose in my hands and covered me with a blanket and they smoothed it out and fixed my hair and made me look beautiful.
I watched them cry and wipe their tears and look at me with sadness. Was this death? Was I cursed to look at them forever and see their tears and the hurt on their faces?
I would have cried if I could. But I couldn't cry in death.
Flora looked at me again and put her head in her hands and sobbed. Then she walked out onto the balcony of the tower where fireworks went off and everyone was cheering for my return.
The others followed her and I trailed behind Merryweather.
"Poor King Stephan, and the Queen," said Fauna.
"They'll be heartbroken when they find out," replied Merryweather and fresh tears ran down her cheeks.
Flora looked up and wiped her eyes. "They're not going to," she said and looked at the others with a determined face.
"They aren't?" asked Fauna.
"We will put them all to sleep until Rose awakens," said Flora and she looked over at my dead body lying in the bed and closed the curtain.
"Awakens? I'm dead," I said.
"Come," said Flora and she waved her magic wand and she and the other fairies shrank to a small size and I watched in awe. They flew off of the balcony and I wanted to follow them.
So I climbed onto the balcony edge and my dress blew around my ankles. I was already dead right? I could jump off of the balcony. So I did. But I didn't plummet to the ground. I floated. I was flying! And it was wonderful! I quickly flew to catch up with the three fairies.
Sparkly dust came out of their wands and instantly the people below yawned and closed their eyes and fell asleep. I watched them go around the entire kingdom putting everyone to sleep.
Then they separated taking all corners of the Kingdom. I decided to follow Flora. She flew into the throne room and I saw my parents for the first time. My mother looked just like me. She had the same golden hair. My father was so handsome. I had his eyes. Then he closed them and I saw another man leaning on my father's throne. Flora was right next to him putting him to sleep.
The stout man yawned and said, "Well, just been talking to Philip. Seems he's fallen in love with some," he stopped and yawned. "Peasant girl."
Flora and I both stopped at the same time and I walked forward eager to hear more. But the old man was falling asleep.
"Peasant girl!" exclaimed Flora. She flew back over to the man. "Yes? Yes?" she asked the old man who was now snoring. Flora flew over to the man's ear and yelled, "The peasant girl who is she? Where did he meet her?" She used her wand to lift the man's eyelid.
"Just some peasant girl he met," said the man groggily.
Flora yanked on the man's white mustache and demanded, "Where, where?" "Once upon a dream," he said sleepily then he fell asleep.
I gasped and started to realize what was happening. My stranger was Prince Philip! He was my fiancée all along!
"Once upon a dr-," started Flora. "Rose, Prince Philip!" She rushed to the candle chandelier that was attached to the top of the throne room and the other fairies were there. I rushed after her with my heart seeming to fly. Flora frantically said, "Come on, we have to get back to the cottage!" They all flew out of the throne room and I followed.
"Wait for me dears! I'm coming with!" I called. Then I suddenly stopped and realized that…I was dead. What did all of this matter if I was dead? Suddenly I was hit with a vision.
"I too will bestow a gift with the child," said the evil woman who I saw before. She was looking at me, a mere baby in a cradle. The three fairies quickly guarded me, but it was no use. "Listen well, all of you!" demanded the witch. "The princess shall indeed grow in grace and beauty, beloved by all who know her…but before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she shall prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel…and die!"
My mother grabbed me and cried, "Oh no!"
My father demanded that the guards seize the witch and she merely vanished with the last cackle of her laughter echoing through the halls.
My parents looked heartbroken, Flora spoke up, "Don't despair your majesties. Merryweather still has her gift to give."
"Then she can undo this fearful curse?" asked my father.
"Oh no sire," said Merryweather sadly.
"Maleficent's powers are far too great," said Flora.
"But she can help," said Fauna.
"But-," started Merryweather.
"Just do you best dear," said Fauna.
Merryweather looked at me and nodded. "Sweet princess, if through this wicked witch's trick, a spindle should your finger prick, a ray of hope there still may be is this, the gift I give to thee. Not in death, but just in sleep, the fateful prophecy you keep, and from this slumber you shall wake when true love's kiss the spell shall break."
I was rushed back to present day and I blinked a few times and I realized that I wasn't dead. I was just…asleep. And when Philip kissed me…we would be together forever! I laughed gleefully and rushed to follow my fairies and get my Prince.