Aurora by DarknessAndLight at Inkitt

AURORA

LET THE STORY BEGIN!!

Maleficent grinned at her her teeth shining in the dark and her sceptre glowing,

“Come on my precious girl, Aurora” she said beckoning her forward”Come on and prick your finger on this nice needle and receive your birthday surprise, come on”

Aurora saw her index finger reaching out on its towards the perfectly pointed needle, she screamed and woke up to see the birds chirping and the sun shining, another perfect day in her kingdom

She looked at herself in her long mirror , she was dressed in a pink gown , her hair was tied into pigtails with pink ribbon , her bunny slippers were pink and even her room was pink.

Every year on the night on which Aurora almost died, she saw Maleficent urging her to prick her finger so in order to forget about they had a coronation ceremony every year from the past 4 years

She opened her wardrobe and saw more pink gowns, sighing she took out one of them.

Slowly she got dressed and put on a fake smile on her face, today was the day when Maleficent had been defeated, the whole kingdom was happy so she the queen also had to be happy.

A coronation was being held today to show the defeat of the evil and the victory of the good.

She was being dressed when her husband, king Phillip came in her room.

He stood by her behind the mirror as the maid servants helped her put on a pink locket, pink earrings and pink glass slippers so she looked like a......pink prissy princess.

“You look pretty Aurora” he whispered in her ear

She smiled and said “Thank you so do you” being polite as always , everyone here was polite , speaking rudely in this kingdom meant a day alone in the dungeon.

Just thinking about it made Aurora shudder.

Phillip put his arm around her waist and hugged her , suddenly a servant entered the room and said “King Phillip you are required in the court room.

Phillip stepped back , nowadays he never had much time for Aurora due to the work in the kingdom,suddenly Aurora felt hot, red anger ripple through her body.

She gasped , no one here had ever got angry except for Maleficent , anger in this kingdom was non existent so why did she feel angry, why wasn’t she singing today like she usually did.

Phillip asked her with his eyes full of concern “What is the matter Aurora?”

“No...nothing....its just the coronation” Aurora lied, she had never lied in her whole life, this lie made adrenaline surge through her body.

If Phillip was suspicious then he didn’t show it, he just nodded and left.

Aurora straightened out her sleeves and brushed her hair, today was a perfect day, today Maleficent was defeated and she was not going to ruin this day.

For the first time Aurora plastered a fake smile instead of a real one on her face and went out of her room...........

The whole place was being decorated for the coronation in pink, there were pink balloons, pink ribbons , pink table cloths etc.

This all was giving her a headache and so were all the servants who were rushing to her for every little detail.

After answering about a hundred questions, the best baker of the whole kingdom came to her and asked “Queen Aurora what colour of icing would you like on your cake?”

Aurora knew she had to say pink, everyone expected her to say pink, it was the colour of love after all but when she opened her mouth the answer came out as “Black”

The baker looked at her with his jaw open, black was the colour of evil, the colour wore by Maleficent herself.

The baker asked her his voice no longer warm “Black you say?”

Aurora flustered “No that is silly, I want pink of course”

The bakers smile returned “Of course my lady”he said and went away whistling , but somewhere in Aurora’s mind a voice whispered as cold as ice “You wanted black didn’t you”

Aurora shivered, suddenly big gong on their front door rang and Aurora went to attend to her guests ignoring the voice in her head.

All of their friends and their families had come, Snow White with her husband, Ferdinand and her Father, Ariel with her husband and her father and sisters in a big fish tank even the fairy godmother came cradling her wand, it wasn’t used now since the world was free of evil but she wasn’t ready to part away with it.

Aurora saw her parents , King Stefan and Queen Leah talking to Ariels dad the lord of the sea, they appeared to be having some communication problems due to the fish tank and were shouting.

Aurora smiled and went there”Hey mom, Hey dad”

Queen Leah sighed “Aurora how many times have I told you that a princess never says hey?”

Aurora mimicked her moms voice and said “Mom how many times have I told you that this is the 21st century?”

Her dad grinned and said “Excellent point my daughter”

Even though Aurora had lived in the forest for her entire life , she had loved her mom and dad from the first sight.

It was complicated and a bit weird for her to know that her mother and father had missed her whole childhood and that flora, fauna and Merryweather weren’t her mothers but she still called them mom because it felt weird not to.

Suddenly someone barged into Aurora almost making her fall. Aurora felt hot rage slice through her heart as she looked behind and saw Bella reading a book like always, Aurora fisted her hands in the hem of her dress and took a deep breath.

“Hey Bella” Aurora said faking a smile

Bella looked up as if coming out of a daze “Oh hey Audrey”

Aurora clenched the fabric in her hand more tightly “Its Aurora actually”

“Oh sorry you know how I am with names, now if you will excuse me ” Bella said her eyes returning to her book as she weaved her way through the crowd.

Aurora heard the voice in her head again “She didn’t even look at you even though you are the Queen of this kingdom” this time it was more clear and loud “I know exactly how feel child”

Aurora shook her head “you don’t know anything” she muttered and realised that she was still clutching her dress ,she raised her hands and that were glowing with green light, she looked at her dress, 2 burnt hand prints decorated the netting.

Aurora rushed into her room and took out an exactly same looking pink gown while her head buzzed with Questions.

“What was happening to her? How did her hands burned? Where did the green light came from?-Wait a second , Green light? wasn’t that-?

The voice in her head cackled”Forgotten me? My dear princess Aurora?”

Aurora let out a hitching breath”Maleficent?”

“Yes, it is me , the one and only Maleficent” The voice- Maleficent said cackling

“But...... you were dead” Aurora said hugging her arms around herself

“Oh Aurora, my poor and naive little girl, what did you think that I was gone.....dead ?” Maleficent said her voice mocking her with false sympathy

“When that good for nothing Merryweather gave you the last gift, my faithful raven heard it and told me so I bewitched the needle so even if you were woken up by a true loves kiss a part of me will remain in you and will continue to poison your heart”

The only thing more horrific than learning that Maleficent was alive was that Maleficent was there right now with Aurora in her head and heart.

Images of the past were flashing in Aurora’s mind, the fear, the helpless feeling she had experienced.

What she had experienced had been as if living in hell and she never wanted to experience it again.

Tears were rolling down Aurora’s eyes “Why? Why are you here?” she asked swallowing down her fear.

“Oh child, you see I never had my revenge” Maleficent said her icy voice filled with harshness and Aurora could almost see her, Maleficent staring at her with those creepy green eyes with her sceptre glowing and-

The door opened and Phillip entered the room, Aurora wiped away her tears and tried for a smile.

“What is it Aurora?” he asked seeing her tear stained face.

Aurora cleared her throat and said “Phillip there is something I want-”

Suddenly the bells rang indicating the beginning of the coronation.

“Can it wait?” Phillip asked her

Aurora wanted to say ‘are you crazy? Maleficent is there in my head and heart right now!!’ but all she said was “Of course ”

They made their way to the hall where everyone had been seated, Bella was a reading a book as usual and not paying attention to anything, Ariel was dancing and even though she had been a mermaid about half of her life ,she danced as if she had been dancing her whole life instead of a few years.

Cinderella was busy talking to the housemaids, she always did, for now she was telling her dreadful story to them and they were sobbing even though they had heard this story about a million times.

Snow White was shrinking away from the apple Fedrinand was offering her, Snow White hated apples and even though she claimed that it had nothing to do with the poisoned apple, everyone knew the truth.

Phillip had gone on the stage and was appreciating and encouraging all of them to be helpful and kind and being able to sacrifice.

Suddenly Aurora felt her heart clench and a knot form in her stomach.

Maleficent cackled”My time has come my darling”

Dark clouds gathered above them hiding the sun, a black raven settled it self over Aurora’s shoulder and cawed loudly in her ear.

Maleficent suddenly filled Aurora’s vision, Aurora saw her hand lift on its own and green light crackle between itself.

Aurora shrieked as she realised that Maleficent was controlling her body but her mouth didn’t move, Maleficent cackled and said “How does it feel to be in my position Aurora”

It was creepy to see and hear and feel but not being able to speak and control your hands or legs or the body.

Maleficent began chanting the spell, the spell which was as old as time.

Everyone had fallen asleep in their chairs even fairy godmother, everyone except for Phillip, Aurora saw Phillip rush towards her or her body or Maleficent or whatever.

Aurora wanted to scream “Run away” but she couldn’t ,she watched terrified as Phillip came nearer and nearer, his face filled with concern.

Maleficent cackled and touched Phillips arm.

He looked totally confused “Aurora what-” then his eyes widened and he fell on the floor his was jerking as if someone was shocking him, his eyes had rolled inside the back of his head and only the whites were visible.

Aurora was too shocked to move or say she stared at Phillip and rage gathered in her veins and this time it had nothing to do with Maleficent.

She ignored Phillips screams and focused, Maleficent who was busy laughing at everyone and torturing them as they slept and didn’t notice what Aurora was doing.

Aurora screamed and tore away the control from Maleficent, her legs wobbled and she fell to the floor (at least it was her legs again)

She could feel Phillip beside her still gasping and jerking “Oh Phillip what have I done?” Aurora said tears running down her cheeks

She could Maleficents anger as she tried to break and take the control from Aurora.

Aurora rose unsteadily to her feet, she almost lost the control once but managed to get it back in time.

“You know you won’t be able to hold me back, your own heart is rebelling against you” Maleficent roared, it was like they were pushing at a door again and again and every inch of opening it mattered.

Aurora saw Mulans sword lying beside her, she grabbed it and said “yes I can” just as she positioned it above her heart.

“Are you crazy? you will die with me” Maleficent screamed at her forcing her to drop the sword.

Aurora looked at Phillip who lay still but breathing “No you will, a part of me will always remain here” she said and drove the blade through her heart..................

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SO WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK???????

Aurora(whines)-: Why did I die?

Author-:Because I wanted you to

Aurora-:(scowls) You know this book came #4 in rebel town because of me

Author-: No it came because I spent 2 whole hours on it

Aurora to Phillip-: Phillip lets kill her

Phillip-: Of course my love.... I can go to hell for you... killing this author is no biggie-

Author gags before taking the sceptre from the frowning maleficent and zapping Phillip

Phillip to the author-: What do you want me do your majesty?

Aurora-:WH-WHAT????

Author-: Put a gag on her