"For the human king had heard of a growing power in the Moors, and he sought to strike it down."
"Why did he want to strike it down? Why not try to negotiate?"Chad asked.
Maleficent sat alone on a cliff, overlooking her home. In the distance, she noticed something and took off.
"A dust storm?" William said, hesitantly asked, as Snow held his hand. He glanced over to Mulan and Shang as they also knew what was coming.
"Looks like an army heading for the Moors," Audrey said.
"Guards, halt! Guards, halt!" A general called them as they approached the Moors treeline.
A man in majestic armor rode his horse forward to address his troop.
"My Father," Queen Leah said looking at the scene. "Aurora, you see how your grandfather looked."
"Yes, Mother, I know, there's a big portered of him in the Castle," Aurora said, a bit annoyed, I never liked that picture, she thought.
"There they are!" King Henry announced to his troops. "The mysterious Moors where no one dares to venture for fear of the magical creatures that lurk within! Well, I say; Crush them!"
"Yeah, because why get to know them if you could crush them," Mal snorted as Jay laughed at her remark.
"They could have just learned to know them, like Stefan did," Carlos said. "We could see it was so difficult."
"He has a point," Evie said.
The soldiers' cheers are drowned out by the sound of wings as Maleficent lands on a boulder, stretching out her wings to her full height.
"Go no further!" She ordered.
"She looks both beautiful and scary simultaneously," Hannah said.
"A king does not take orders from a winged elf," The king told her, the soldiers laughing in the background.
Dizzy asked in shock, "Are they seriously laughing at Maleficent?" She couldn't believe that anyone would dare to mock the most powerful and feared villain in the land. Evie nodded her head in confirmation, "Yeah, they think she's nothing compared to them."
As Mal scanned the room, she realized that she had forgotten to take Maleficent out of her pocket before leaving the dorm. She quickly rummaged through her jacket and retrieved the small box, while Jay looked on with concern.
"Why do you have her here?" Carlos asked, seeing the box.
Evie answered, "She keeps taking Maleficent with when we go to the isle."
Mal sighed, feeling guilty, "I just every time think I should leave her there, but I don't have the heart to do it."
Hades overheard their conversation and walked over to Mal, "Should I take her from you, Mali?"
Mal hesitated for a moment, but then shook her head, "No, it's fine. I'll take her out of her box. Maybe she'll want to see that everyone is watching her life."
With a deep breath, Mal opened the box and retrieved Maleficent from her slumber. The tiny lizard hissed in protest as if sensing the mockery that was happening around her. Mal held her up to her face, whispering, "Don't you hiss at me, they'll soon see who you are."
"You are no king to me!"
Henry stares Maleficent down for one angry moment.
"Bring me her head." He said over his shoulder to the troops.
"Battalion!" The soldiers draw their swords.
"Advance!"
Standing her ground, Maleficent raised her voice.
"Arise and stand with me!"
"Who is she calling too?" Adam asked looking over ar Aurora.
"She's calling guardians of the Moors." Aurora said.
The soldiers chatter nervously as the ground starts shaking violently. "Hold the line!"
The ground explodes open at Maleficent's sides. Tree-like creatures start to sprout up.
"It's the dark creatures!"
"It's the dark creatures!"
More tree soldiers, including Balthazar on tree boars, rode out of the Moors behind her. A twenty-foot vine-covered tree serpent broke through the ground and roared.
"Charge!" Henry shouted, leading his shaken soldiers forward.
"They just wrote their deathbed," Hades said.
"Who would want to charge those things," Chad asked.
"Kings like him," Carlos answered.
As Maleficent rose up, she charged into the enemy soldiers with her wings and left a trail of downed soldiers in her path. The two armies collided, with the larger nature creatures having the advantage. Meanwhile, Maleficent continued to move across the battlefield, attacking anyone who came close with her wings.
"Look at her go," Hercules said, "She's an amazing protector."
"Still makes me wonder why she turned evil?" Belle wondered out loud. She could see Maleficent was a good Fae who only wanted to protect her home.
"You!" As soon as she caught King Henry in her sight, she felt a surge of anger within her. Without any warning, she quickly flew towards him with great force and collided with him, knocking him off his horse. The impact was so powerful that it sent both of them tumbling down to the ground.
"Maleficent is smart," Mulan said.
"Going after the king." Shang said, "She knows that if he dies the soldiers can't do anything."
"Correct."
As King Henry stumbles and falls to the ground, his soldiers are quick to take notice of his perilous situation. They immediately spring into action, running towards him.
"To the king!" With a powerful surge of energy, the mighty fae forcefully flaps her wings, creating a strong gust of wind that knocks down every soldier standing in her immediate vicinity. The soldiers are thrown off their feet and sent sprawling, struggling to regain their balance amidst the chaos.
Maleficent walked up to the King laying still on the ground "You will not have the Moors! Not now, nor ever! You-"
The scene unfolds as the king raises his arm in an attempt to push Maleficent away. The clanging sound of his iron armor reverberates through the air as it makes contact with Maleficent's skin. In response, Maleficent recoils and moves backward, observing as the army retreats in fear. Gradually, the red burn mark on her chest starts to fade away. Meanwhile, Balthazar, her faithful tree guard from earlier, gives her a nod of approval, which she acknowledges with a nod of her own.
Mal lifted up her pet lizard, Lizard Maleficent, and held her close. As she did so, Lizard Maleficent started hissing at the screen in front of them.
Mal immediately reassured her, saying "I know, Mom, no one will burn you, don't worry."
Carlos, who was sitting nearby, commented on the situation, saying "You think your mother is hating to be reminded about that scene."
Mal nodded in agreement and added, "No, she isn't happy about it." She then placed Lizard Maleficent on her lap, where the little lizard seemed to calm down and relax.
Ben looked at his fiance who had moved away from him to sit with her friends earlier, got up and went to sit with her. Adam wanting to stop him got stopped by Belle.
"Leave him, he had just proposed to her, he wants her to know he is here for her," Belle said watching her son sit next to Mal.
"You think your mom would ever grow back?" Ben asked.
"I don't know," Mal said, smiling at him as he sat her side but he quickly got a message from Maleficent as she hissed at him, so he didn't touch Mal for now.