Maleficent - Diaval Fanfic – I'm Alive by Raven Diablo

Chapter 4: Getting Wet

"Idiot! Why on earth had Stefan put those three in charge of raising a baby is totally beyond my comprehension," exclaimed Maleficent. "What a disaster. Oh, well, it makes my job easier as that baby will die in their hands"

She palmed her hands back and forth as if is that was just that.

Diaval didn't like this one bit. He couldn't see that the baby should die, so an idea popped into his cranium that might just save the baby's life. He ended up talking out of turn and said, "Well, mistress, wouldn't your revenge be sweeter if she lived and fulfilled the curse. That would be rubbing it in King Stefan's face, wouldn't it?"

The ends of Maleficent's mouth curled upward into a smile and she nodded her head in approval.

"My word, Diaval! I AM impressed! You ARE right! See, I knew you had it in you to be evil." she smiled practically from ear to ear.

Diaval looked and again got that weird feeling. He said to himself, "Wow, that is some smile"

"As your reward, you get to watch after the the little beastie and make sure she is fed", she instructed sarcastically.

His plan to save Aurora backfired and he said to himself, "Great! Open beak, insert talon!" Well, that is what he got for speaking out of turn.

So in addition to his task of watching the castle, he also had to watch over the baby Aurora. At night he would go to the cottage and give her some food and some drink. Sometimes he would even use his claw to rock the baby to sleep in her crib. On some nights he had company and Maleficent stayed with him as well, when she didn't have anything else to do.

"Ugly beastie", Maleficent said the first night they went out together and looked at the baby sleeping through a window of the cottage. She hissed and made a nasty looking face and the little baby just looked at her and kept smiling.

Since the cottage was still a bit far off from the Rowan Tree, Maleficent had the idea of extending the thorn barrier into the northern woods so it was even closer to the cottage.

"I will build us another home here within the thorn wall and it will make it easier for us to look after the little beastie." Maleficent said.

The new home was finished in less than a day. It had an opening on either end and Maleficent situated it in such a way that it was nearly impossible to see from the woods side of the barrier, but easy to find on the Moors side, so this way if Diaval got lost trying to find it, all he had to do was go over the thorn barrier and into the Moors side and he would see it. The walls were made of tightly twisted branches and leaves. As with her house in the Rowan Tree, it appear to be mostly grown.

The house was even smaller than Maleficent's home. There were only two rooms in the house as opposed to three in the Rowan Tree. It had a main room which had a seating area with a table and a bedroom in the back. The bedroom was a bit larger than hers in the Rowan Tree. Each room had one small window to let the light in. On one side there was a small hallway that connected both rooms together with one way being the exit to the northern forest and the other the entrance to the Moors.

"Hardly a castle fit for a queen", Diaval sounded displeased with the new home.

"Oh, shoosh, it is just to serve a purpose", Maleficent said with a sigh, "Stop complaining. If I built it too big, it might be seen by outsiders and we can't have that. At least it will keep us sheltered and dry while we keep an eye on the beastie."

"But where am I to sleep?" Diaval asked

"Up there", she pointed to a nest that was built on top of a cabinet in the main room.

Diaval sighed as he saw how tiny the nest was, certainly not the nice large nest she built for him in the Rowan Tree. Worse the nest was INSIDE the house.

"Don't be so glum. We don't have to be here every day, Diaval. Probably once or twice a week we can go back home to my tree. Besides I have to go back there every now and then for supplies and change of clothes too." she sounded hopeful.

She started to walk out the Moors door when Diaval asked, "Did you bring your brush".

She stopped in the doorway and closed her eyes thinking of that one night. "Yes, it's here".

"I would very much like to comb out your hair again."

She couldn't reply to him as she was worried that what happened that one night might happen again. She quickly changed the subject turned to him and said with a bit of a smile on her face, "Would you like to have a little fun?" She raised her hand with her fingers pinched.

"Sure. Whatever pleases you, my mistress". Diaval thought this was a welcome change. What it was he didn't have a clue, but at least she was smiling.

The two walked to the cottage and did a little spying like they normally do. They proceeded to climb up a nearby tree. Diaval was always amazed at Maleficent's climbing ability. She always took half the time to climb a tree than he did.

Once in the tree the two peered into the window of the main room.

"Ok, soooo, where's the fun part?" Diaval asked.

"Watch this!", she answered.

Maleficent gave a wave of her hand and a blue wisp appeared this time. She pursed her lips and blew it towards the cottage.

Inside the three faeries, disguised as humans were sitting at the table trying to make some clothes for the baby by hand.

"Ouch! I pricked my finger!" Knotgrass said.

"I wish we could use magic" Flittle said.

"I wish we had a spinning wheel" Thistletwit said.

"WHAT?!" the other two said together.

"What's that, I felt a few drops of water? Is it raining in here?" Knotgrass said

"No it's not" Flittle said

"Yes it is, I know I felt a few drops on my head" Knotgrass replied.

"We have leak in here?" Thistletwit asked.

Knotgrass placed a bucket where she was sitting and moved to the other side of the table. After a few short moments, the same thing happened to her again at her new location.

"What is this? Drops again?"

Seeing her old spot was now dry she moved the bucket to the new spot and went back to the old spot. Again after a few short moments she felt drops.

"Ok, Ok, one of you two is using magic and you know we can't do that" Knotgrass shouted angrily.

"No we are not!", they shouted together.

"You sure it is isn't just you?", Thistletwit asked of Knotgrass.

"Wait, Wait, Now I feel it too", said Flittle

"Humph," Knotgrass crossed her arms across her chest.

She pointed to Flittle and then Thistletwit. "You go there, and you go there and I will go here"

"Did it go away?", Flittle asked.

"I think so", Thistletwit said in small voice.

All three went back to the table and went back to work.

Back outside Diaval didn't seem to be amused, but Maleficent had an ear to ear smile on her face and she proceeded to blow another blue whisp toward the house. This time lightning flashed in the house and it began to pour in the room.

Maleficent had a huge smile on her face and started to laugh very hard. She held her hand up to her mouth to stifle her laugh a bit, but she still laughed through her fingers. She arched her shoulders forward as she laughed. This caught Diaval's attention as he found her very attractive while laughing like this. At this point he wasn't paying too much attention to what was going on in the house, and his eyes were all on her. Seeing her face light up and her eyes glisten caused a feeling to come over him even stronger than before. He knew he was becoming more and more drawn to his mistress. There was no question about it.

Maleficent saw that Diaval wasn't laughing and misread his thoughts to thinking that wasn't the least bit amused.

"Oh come now, Diaval, have a little fun!"

Just then Knotgrass let out a blood curdling yell, "Aaaaaaarrrrrghhhhh."

This caught Diaval's attention and eventually he couldn't contain his own laughter as he watched the three faeries running around inside trying to get away from the rain. All the while lightning and thunder kept lighting up the windows.

Diaval then busted out laughing himself. This caused Maleficent to laugh even harder. Maleficent put one arm around her mid section and her other hand on his shoulder and said, "Oh! This is hurting my sides! I haven't laughed like this in a long time. There you go, Diaval, I knew you had it in you."

The two climbed back down the tree and started back to their new home and Diaval asked, "Uh, I hope you didn't soak the baby"

"No, she's in the back room which is perfectly dry".

"Aaaaarrrggghhhh!" Another yell came from the cottage.

The two glanced back, looked at each other and started to chuckle as they walked away.

Laughing under his breath, Diaval asked Maleficent, "When is it going to stop?"

"Well, it is a rain storm that has to run it's course", she said with a grin and then resumed laughing.

"You're evil, you know that."

"Yes, I am a baaaaaad girl." She sang out.

While still laughing she put her arm around Diaval's waist and pulled him close to her. He was about to put his arm her shoulder when suddenly 'rule number three' echoed in his head and he quickly withdrew his hand before it touched her shoulder. Maleficent suddenly realized where her arm was and likewise did the same. Laughter turned to silence and awkwardness as both were left without expression on each other's face.

They both regained their composure and headed back to their home in the thorn wall.

Many moons and about 5 years had passed as Maleficent and Diaval worked together to make sure that the baby Aurora was well fed and taken care of. In that time period Diaval noticed some changes in Maleficent. She seemed to have a softer look on her face and she smiled more frequently. He occasionally called her by her given name and she didn't mind, but he still called her 'mistress' most of the time. She almost never punished him anymore, but every now and then, it still happened when he did something very wrong.

"Diaval, I am going to the watering hole to take a bath."

Since the two were mostly living in the house by the north woods, Maleficent had taken her bath over where the large waterfall was and not at the smaller watering hole by the Rowan Tree as the large watering hole was much closer to their home in the thorn wall. Diaval didn't like the change as the smaller watering hole seemed cozier and safer to him. But still the larger watering hole had the waterfall and that made for some nice misty cool flybys. When his mistress went to take a bath, he always waited until she came home before he went to bathe himself.

"Yes, my mistress", he responded.

"You are free to go for a while, but do check up on Aurora as we don't want her wandering off a cliff like the last time".

"Yes, my mistress"

She waved her hand and with a puff of yellow dust, he was a raven again. He flew off and decided to stretch his wings for while. He did check on Aurora as instructed and she was playing in the backyard with the three faeries so all was well there. He even found some time to check up on the castle to see what King Stefan was up to. For the most part he spent his days sitting in his throne and just brooding. Diaval thought to himself, "Sheesh, he has a boring life". Not much going on at the castle. After that he circled the Moors a few times doing a perimeter check and everything seemed to be well.

It was becoming late and Diaval was feeling gritty from all his flying and it had been a couple days since his last bath. He decided he wanted to take a quick dip himself. He looked at the position of the sun and figured that by now it was nearly twice the time it would take for Maleficent to take her bath, and she should be long done. So he flew back home to check to see if she had returned. On his arrival, he flew through the house and Maleficent was not there.

Hmmmmm, she's not back yet. That's odd. Then a thought flew into his mind. What if she went back to the Rowan Tree to get a change of clothes? Yeah, that's it.

He flew outside and purched himself on a large tree just inside the wall. He waited and waited. Still no sign of her. "She must be by the Rowan Tree", he said to himself and with that he took wing and headed to the tree.

He arrived there soon and again, there was no sign of Maleficent. He flew throughout the whole house and checked within the canopy of the tree as he knows she likes to climb the tree on ocassion.

He started to become concerned and headed for the watering hole next.

When he arrived at the watering hole, he flew over it a few times and carefully looked around. There was still no sign of Maleficent, so maybe she's be back at the barrier home by now. It was getting close to dinner time anyway.

Since he was here, it was time for that bath. So he circled around once more and dove into the water. Ahhhhhh, that was refreshing!

He shot back out of the water and circled around again. Coming back he shot straight for the waterfall for a misty flyby. He turned around and aimed right at the falls. In the last second, he noticed someone broke through from underneath the water and came up next to the rock under the waterfall. He stretched out his wings and put on the brakes..."Whoa!" he was thinking to himself. He managed to pull up and around, but this maneuver got him a bit dizzy and he lost his bearings.

SPLASH! Into the water he went. Luckily he fell behind a rock into shallow water, out of eyesight of the waterfall. But he was still very close...too close. He started thinking to himself. Is she still here? Why is she still here? He tried to peer around the rock and what he saw made his beak drop. He quickly lost his train of thought as his eyes were trained on her. There by the rock was his mistress. She pulled herself up on the rock with her back towards him and his world went in slow motion. She was completely nude.

As her body slowly emerged from the water, he could see every detail and every curve on her body. She had a perfect hourglass shape with her body tapering down to her waist and then curving back out to her hips. She pulled her legs out of the water and folded them under her while she sat on the rock. She had beautiful legs that also tapered down to her knees. Her lower legs rounded a little out and then also tapered down to her angles. Her head was turned up as the water cascaded down her face and across her body. Her eyes were closed. Then she raised her arms up and grabbed her horns. Her arms were slender, but had defined details, the shoulders especially. Her long hair ran straight down her back. Even in his bird form, he couldn't help but admire the beauty that was before him.

He thought that he over stayed his welcome long enough and it was time to get out of there before he was caught. Since her back was towards him, now was the opportunity to leave. But then she did something that caught his attention. She completely pulled her hair over her left shoulder exposing her back. And that was when is saw them.

Between her shoulder blades, there appeared to be two feathered stumps. The stumps looked as if they were burned. Even in his bird form he understood what he was seeing and he was in shock. She had wings. At one time she had wings.

He pulled back behind the rock and started to think. It was all hard to comprehend as to why Maleficent was in this state, but he understood enough to know that something bad happened to his mistress in that she once had wings, but didn't now.

Just then he heard a splash. He slowly peered around the rock again to get another look, but she was gone! Where did she go? He started to look around, but didn't see her. Now he was frightened and his instinct as a bird took over, when frightened fly away. Yes, quickly fly away. With that he jumped up on the rock and spread his wings. But then something in the water was coming towards the rock and caught his attention.

Whoosh! The figure shot out of the water and grabbed a hold of the very rock he was purched on. He was staring his mistress straight in her bare bosom. She opened her eyes and her jaw dropped. He looked up at her face not making a sound. This clearly was NOT good a good situation for him to be in.

"I got to get out of here NOW", he thought to himself. Just as he jumped up to take flight there was that yellow wisp again and then everything went dark.

When he woke up, he was changed into a man. He also was pinned to the very rock that he tried to flee from. His mistress' right hand was firmly wrapped around his throat. Her head was dipped down her bright green eyes glared up linto his dark eyes. Apparently she must have put him under some sort of sleep spell because she was now fully clothed, standing in the shallow water.

"You lousy, stinkin' perverted son of a bitch!", she glared at him angrily "I told you I was coming here to take a bath and you have the gall to come here anyway?"

Diaval started to stutter and gasp, "Ma Ma My lady, I'm sorry, but I thought you would have been long gone by now. It's not what you think. I was looking for you, you weren't at home or at the Rowan Tree. So I came here. I wanted to take a bath myself. I did circle...

"SHUT UP!", she interrupted. "If you wanted a bath you could have went to the OLD watering hole, you know I was using this one".

"But, you NEVER take a bath for this long and I thought it was safe to come here, also I wanted to find you", his voice shakily said.

Her grip tightened and he started to gasp for air. Her fingernails were starting to dig into his neck.

"You...are...choking...me...", he gasped. He became very frightened at how angry she was. But he needed air to breath and with that, he grabbed her arm with both of his. He was amazed at the grip she had as it required both of his hands to remove her one, but he was successful and then he rolled out of the way behind the rock clutching his throat and coughing.

She looked at her arm and it was bleeding, Diaval scratched her unintentionally. She stood there glaring at him and began clenching and unclenching her fists. Diaval started to fear for his life. He never saw her this angry before.

Maleficent looked down at her arm and noticed a small trickle of blood running from a small wound in her forearm down to her hand.

"You made me bleed", she angrily said in an low voice gritting her teeth. She came back at him and grabbed him by the shirt with her left hand and with her right hand she formed a fist and pulled back as if to punch him straight in the face.

"Maleficent, please...It was an honest mistake, I honestly thought you were gone, nothing more. I circled and didn't see you. You were under the water!"

She made her fist tighter and pulled back further. She stared at him blankly for a few seconds, but to Diaval it seemed like minutes.

"Uhhhhhggh", she grunted and let him go. She shook her fists and then slamed her hands on each of his shoulders, pinning him to the rock. The force at which she pushed into him almost knocked the wind out of him. Her yellowish green eyes didn't blink once as she started at him.

She angrily said, "What am I going to do with you?"

She lifted one hand and gave him a light slap across the face. The left side of his face stung mildly. He didn't say anything, but just winced at the slight throbbing of his face. She pulled back and Diaval slid down the rock landing in the water.

She looked at him with narrowed eyes and then turned her hands out and with a wisp yellow said, "Into a dog."

Oh, no. She did it. Worst possible thing was to turn him into something he despised the most, a dog. He crouched down and started to whimper with his tail between his legs sitting there wet from the water. Not only did was he turned into a dog, but he was a wet dog.

She bent over him and lifted one of his drooping ears. "This is your punishment. Do not even think of coming home tonight. Go out to the cottage and stay there all night. I don't want to see your face tonight."

With that she stormed off into the direction of their home. He followed keeping his distance until they got to the thorn wall where she opened it up for him to walk through. At first she was tempted to smack him on the rear with her staff as he walked by, but she stopped mid swing.

He turned to look at her once more and before the thorns closed and she turned her eyes away.

Diaval exited the thorn wall on the other side and sat down. He started to howl and cry.

On the other side of the thorn wall, Maleficent could hear his cries and her faced softened slightly. She knew she had a temper, but did she go too far this time?

She used her magic to heal her arm which was still slowly bleeding from the scratch Diaval gave her.

She was wondering if she did the right thing. Maybe he WAS telling the truth? Did she loose track of time? She just enjoyed the waterfall so much that she was there much longer? But worst of all, he mentioned the water fall. He had to have seen. Now he knows she once had wings so it is unavoidable that she will eventually have to explain her loss to him, and probably it was this that she was fearing the most to deal with. All the emotion and hardship of telling how she lost her wings. After brooding on it for a while, she realized that it was not worth the punishment she doled out on Diaval.

She then waved her hand and the thorn wall opened up again and she ran to the other side. "I owe him an apology. I am the one that screwed up this time."

She emerged at the other side and Diaval was not there.

"Diaval", she called eloquently.

"Diaval", she called again, but there was no answer.

"Diaval, answer me." her tone changed as now she was slightly worried.

But there was no answer.

"Diaval!", she shouted, "Please, Diaval, where are you?" The worried tone in her voice intensified.

She ran to the cottage and tried to find him, but didn't want to shout his name as the 3 faeries might hear. She looked all over. Around the house, the backyard, the trees and he wasn't around.

"Oh, no" she thought to herself, "I think I made him run off"

She headed back to the Moors and when she was out of earshot of the cottage she started calling again.

"Diaval, I'm sorry, it's my temper, I was just mad." she called out.

"I was wrong, I admit it. I was there too long and lost track of time. Please, where are you?!"

She slumped down in front of the opening to the Moors and leaned up against one of the thorns. She could feel her eyes start to mist over and she was about to cry. But then she choked back her tears.

"No, he will be fine. I am getting myself bent out of shape for nothing. He is my servant and really doesn't like me anyway. He probably ran off on purpose to get back at me. He will be back."

With that she parted the thorns and made her way back to the house. The thorns closed in behind her. She went inside the house and went straight for bed. She curled up in a ball and couldn't sleep the whole night. She kept thinking where her Diaval could be. Was he safe?

"I will look for you tomorrow, my pet", she whispered "I promise."