A loud gasp escaped from Maleficent’s chapped lips. Gone was the stale smell of air, replaced by a salty warm scent engulfing her body and senses whole. The slimy cobblestones and the murky corners were replaced by glimmering surrounding. And though her eyes were still blurry, she could quite grasp the things around her.
With widened eyes, her gaze zeroed on the person standing behind the drapes, his sapphire eyes were so deep that her gaze was drawn to it. In a scratchy voice, she spoke. “You… You are the fucker who made me dream again…Wh-What are you?”
Contrary to what Maleficent thought, her voice was hoarse as if she spent the previous day screaming like an insane banshee but that did not happen. It was the opposite. She spent the entire past twenty four hours sleeping while she was suffering from those dreams – dreams that reminded her of her past.
The dull ache in her chest was still throbbing as she sat on the plush b
The Hydra’s jagged teeth answered her. Sighing, Maleficent drew a shadow portal inside Damon’s domain and a fraction of a second passed by – a pair of equally enormous glowing green eyes stepped out from the cluster of darkness.Maleficent continued, “You do not want to do this. I owe you one so don’t let me beat you up.”A pair of humungous black wings like hers protruded from the air pocket she created at the bottom of ocean, wetting the edges of her familiar’s wings as it flew behind her like her looming shadow as the ocean floor was swirling with the cluster of hissing shadows which would bend by Maleficent’s will.Glancing back at her familiar, a corner of her lips curled up. “Long time no see, Hunger,” said Maleficent, “I feel like it’s been a millennia since I last saw you.”Hunger, the Calamity Dragon, snorted. His scalding breath whipped her flying form which made
Upon one wave of Grand Maester Pilwon’s plump right arm, dozens of desks with twice the number of chairs appeared. They were made from an Oak wood with intricate Elvish poems carved on it – a spell embedded poems to stop the attendees of the Trilateral Court’s session from making any attempt to disrupt the trials.With the Methuselah tree as the apex and the north of the open-air Trilateral Court’s trial, the people were divided into three directions.From the east were the guardian angels of the Benevolent World in which the angel named Selaphiel was sitting at the front row along with the guardian angels Gabriel and Michael. The female guardian angel was looking straight to the person sitting across her while the other two who were sitting at both of her sides were talking with each other.“Have you heard anything yet from your son?” asked Gabriel who was sitting at the right side of guardian angel Selaphiel. The latter rema
Matilda the zombie felt that she became nothing but brittle bones after the Tri-World Tournament. If she only knew that it would somehow it end up like this, she would have told Maleficent – her only friend in her miserable bony life – to take a vacation far away from Transylvania Academy because if she did then Maleficent could have been saved.The cluster of mist surrounded Matilda like a veil as she sat atop her allotted dorm lot in the Malevolent graveyard. Crows screeched atop the dead Oak trees littering around the place while the silence ensued around her. Slumped on the cold damp ground and hunched over her brittle knees, salty tears from her eyes which were on the brink of falling over. Sniffing, Matilda continued to weep – too oblivious to a pair of eyes watching over her for quite some time now.“Girlie…M-My dear good friend… I am so sorry you have a useless friend!” Hiccupping between sobs, Matilda placed her rott
“Dude! When will you stop this?” Levi the Envious opened his arms wide as he gestured the mess around the hunched Merlin. Levi continued. “You need to come out, you know. This is not healthy anymore.”“Healthy, my ass,” said Merlin. He spat the words and continued his by burying his face on his arms as if he already gave with life. And for a necromancer like him, that was saying something.Merline was slouching at the corner of his room. The lights were off but because of the enhance night vision of the Halfling alongside the pungent stench of the weeks-worth laundry set aside at the other corner, Levi the Envious was able to second guess the entirety of Merlin’s newly fetish for a hermit life.Levi crossed his arm before Merlin. Sighing, he knew it would be near impossible to coax Merlin from his hermit’s life. He wanted to scream since Apollo Sky was also busy playing spy and guardian with Maleficent’s frie
“Have you heard anything about Lucifer’s son?”Gukasho gulped audibly before he answered his master. Though his master was calmly asking him, the fact that Aurora was sitting before them was anything but alright. Clearing his throat to clear up the clog in his parched throat, Gukasho willed himself to open his mouth. “The tracker I sent to follow him returned without his head,” said Gukasho. “The others suffered the same way and were sent back to us.”A silence followed Gukasho’s report so the goblin with a pounding heart dared to raise his head an inch to see what was transpiring in his master’s frenzied mind. But Gukasho swallowed his gasp as he wallowed why he had to be an awful curious goblin upon seeing the insanity swirling inside his master’s intense pair of glowing green eyes looking down at the meadow’s surface.Though the enchantment carved on the chairs was aimed for the Grand Duk
The once bright meadow dimmed upon the looming shadows of the gigantic wings of the serpent that once brought havoc upon the very heart of the Ambivalent World. Darkness grew in every heart of those who witnessed the bringer of chaos stepped foot onto the land of the beings loved by nature.As an answer to its roar that shook the branches of the great forest and the ancient tree of Methuselah, gasps elicited from every corners of the Ambivalent nomads followed by the gnawing fear of death that the winged serpent brought.A loud thud resonated the moment its heavy talons landed onto the meadow just a couple of meters away from the benches south of the ancient Methuselah tree. On instinct, the Ambivalent beings such as the witches, wizards, nymphs, dwarves, and fairies scampered away from their seats when they realized they were standing before the Calamity Dragon, a being that was supposed to be extinct and should not exist.“I have to go,” said Damon
“Your familiar is scaring the onlookers of the trial and making the court members uncomfortable,” said Michael the Loyal, “Or do you expect to change the tides of the trial because of your wicked threat?”Maleficent found it quite tedious talking to a creature or any creature at the matter beneath her so she jumped down from Hunger’s back. The thump resonating as her feet hit the ground was muted by her chuckle.‘Adjusting for their benefits so they won’t have to look up to me? Now that shit is something only an oh-so benevolent one would do. Am I becoming a saint now?’ Maleficent continued her small laughter from what she was thinking.Shaking her head as she chortle, Maleficent stood beside Hunger’s humungous head. “Oh, I am not here for your sob trial, our oh so great grand maester of the Trilateral Court,” said Maleficent. Bowing her head in a mock salute, she continued – not minding the
Gabriel the Faithful lost his chance to defend his case when the successive shattering blows due to the feared and revered holy flames made its contact to the target. On cue, Selaphiel and Gabriel turned their attention to the sea of holy flames dancing around the spot where the Halfling was standing a fraction of a second.“Wh-Why?”“What is happening?”“This cannot be right!”“Trickery! This is nothing but plain trickery!”Loud chatter erupted as when the next thing the onlookers knew, saved from the Grand Duke Beelzebub of the Nether World and Gukasho, was their mouths hanging open like their widened eyes and it was not because the Calamity Dragon stepped aside instead of protecting his master, but it was because the Halfling who was supposed to burn to cinders was still standing amidst the sea of holy flames.The magical and lush green grass of the meadow turned nothing but piles of ashes a
Maleficent stared at the gates of the Transylvania Academy. A pair of black dragon-like wings folded behind her as she landed a few meters before her alma mater. She did not know why, but it felt like a long time since she was here yet in reality it was only a few weeks.She could still remember the first time she saw this school, she did not think that she would value this place so much. Maleficent never thought that she would treat this academy as a place closest to home. For the past years of her life, even though she grew up in a foster home, Maleficent could not sense any sense of belong there – not until she met the people she grew to care about in Transylvania Academy.That was why, in that illusion, she was able to see the light at the end of a seemingly endless loop of despair. The shackles of the past? She was already free from it. All thanks to those who trusted her, cared for her, and loved her despite the horns and gigantic wings.For those who trusted Maleficent despite
Before Maleficent 's mind shatter to the endless stream of torment, a warm aura enveloped her curling and shaking body. Like a cocoon of protection, it soothed her mind, body, and soul.Though ethereal, Maleficent was familiar with the warmth being emitted from the crimson-colored aura around her. With teary eyes, Maleficent stopped shaking and screaming words of helplessness and profanities."Sshh.. Stop crying, little Halfling." A deep and warm voice vibrated within her, muting the wicked one. The voice continued, "Remember, amidst the painful memories you have, you have bright ones as well. For every step you take back you forward thrice the distance from the past. Why? Because you have us and we have you. You are not alone anymore.""I.. I am not alone anymore?" "Remember... Where you surrender yourself to this prince. Like I said, there will be no going back. The moment you accepted me, there is no more turning back... little Halfling."Where I surrender myself?Flashback...“I
"Stop it! Stop this!" Maleficent was now hysterical. Even with her efforts to stop the wicked voice from spewing nonsense in her mind over and over again. "Stop spouting nonsense!""Hehehe! What nonsense? All chatters of these are facts! They are flashbacks from your memories!""You're right. These are all memories so it is now part of my past." There was now a hint of strength in Maleficent's voice."Foolish woman indeed! Hahaha! You... You will feel that familiar sense of loss and pain once more, Daughter of Greed!"Maleficent's heart pounded which immediately dimmed the small ray of light for Maleficent. "Wha-What do you mean?""Like what happened to that time when you almost that Halfling Prince, you will feel that helplessness and fear and sorrow once more sooner than later! But this time, you will lose him for eternity! Hahaha!"Flashback..Maleficent was too fixated on using her ability as the wielder of the darkness that she stupidly failed to realize the dwindling state of he
"My father knows why I did that! You can't brainwash me!" Maleficent the Glutton found her strength as she stood. Her gaze followed the swirling black smoke around her. "He won't abandon me!""Ting! Ting! Ting! You are wrong again! Haven't you remember? He once abandoned you! Hahahaha! Foolish girl!"Flashback... “Please, leave me alone,” said the Halfling, “I…I don’t want to see you anymore. So please, throw away all the guilt that you have in your heart and know that for a short period of time, you made me feel the emotions I thought I would die without.” The Halfling cleared her throat as if a lump was lodged in it before she continued. “Please respect my decision.” On cue, the torches that littered the prison cell were engulfed by a cluster of shadow for a fraction of a minute, deeming the entire prison cell for a small period of time that it was almost unnoticeable. People would believe that it was the grand duke who lost his composure during his visit, but Damon the prideful
Maleficent shook her head. Both of her hands were now covering her ears yet it did not lessen the malicious whispers that seemed to resonate within her mind — within her soul."You are a child of misfortune!""Your existence is a mistake!""Maleficent, you are a child of disaster. No. You are the disaster yourself. You bring pain wherever you go!"Hot tears continued to trickle down Maleficent's chin as she closed her eyes tightly while shaking her head profusely. "No! You're wrong! I still have father!""Fool! You are your father's greatest heartache! He regrets that he brought you back from the mortal world!"Flashback...Grand Duke Beelzebub the Glutton lost the will to live the moment he thought he lost his wife. His misery did not lessen when he had to let go of his daughter and watched her grew up from the sidelines as one of her shadows. He had foolishly thought that it would all soon go away the moment he would take her from the wretched mortal world – or so he thought. He fai
"When you died, you angered the heavenly law!"A frown painted on Maleficent's face as she watched the image of Damon vanished once more, replaced by a dark smoke swirling around her. "Why? How did I anger the heavens?"A vicious laughter resonated within Maleficent's sea of consciousness. "Fool! You just took an archangel from the heavens!"Flashback...SELAPHIEL, a newly bloomed fallen angel, quivered upon the howl of sorrow that she had heard amid the cackles of the thunderstorm that loomed the entire Rancid City. Perhaps it was guilt that made her froze rather than to race to where the sound was coming from. It was as clear as the lightning bolt that littered the darkened skies of the Nether World who screamed those anguished laden screams. The disparity dripped from every letter of the word he cried from the top of his lungs.“Maleficent, my baby girl…” Translucent droplets fell from her eyes as her chest tightened upon the very thought of losing her child before she could even h
Maleficent the Glutton, who was now tugging her horn while tears trickled down her face, willed herself to stand up from being slumped."No... I will protect my parents so that... So that nothing will happen to them." Though Maleficent's voice was barely a whisper, it was filled with determination.But a mocking voice resonated in the darkness once again. This time, it did not belong to Maleficent's mother's voice but from Damon!"Liar! You died because you are weak! So how can you protect us?"Flashback...“Indeed. Farewell.” Maleficent whispered. On cue, a roaring sound elicited from behind him before he was taken by the looming shadow of the gigantic winged serpent.After her last two words, the entire arena had turned into one extensive domain for Maleficent. Her emerald eyes glowed more than ever at that exact moment; the song of battle cries echoed from her mouth as she screamed, flipping her position. Now, she was the one sitting atop the shell-shocked Gabriel the Faithful.“Di
Lost in a train wreck of vicious thoughts whispered by the man called Steffan along with the cries of Maleficent 's mortal victims, the Glutton heir started to crumble."I... I have my family..." Maleficent, though it was a whisper, tried her earnest to fight the malevolent thoughts that wreck havoc in her mind.But a mocking laughter echoed within Maleficent's mind that made her freeze. It was not the malicious laughter that made her stop from her tracks, rather, it was the familiarity of the voice.On cue, Steffan's face turned to a silhouette of Aurora — Maleficent's mother. Gone was the warmth in her eyes as she glared at the shell-shocked Maleficent."How do you know that I am genuine with your fickle family obsession, dear daughter?" "N-No way...""I did it once. What's stopping me to do it one more time?"FLASHBACK…“That? That w-woman is my mother?” With widened eyes, shivers wracked her body as if a bucket of cold water splashed her rigid standing form. The glowing embers of
"What I want? I want you to remember that a sinner like you is not allowed to feel any emotion but fear. Think of it as a payment for all the lives you carelessly took back when you were at the Mortal's Realm, Maleficent."With one statement, it sucked Maleficent the invisible shield of her title as Maleficent the Glutton as if she was back to what she was before she met her father.Flashback 3:THE STALE colors of her ceiling welcomed her when she woke up briskly. Her ragged breathing and her sweat-covered shin were not a new thing for Cent. She spent her seventeenth year dreaming as if she was being chased by something ominous only to wake up abruptly when a pair of large flaming hands engulfed her. This vicious cycle became a regular thing for her since she celebrated her seventeenth birthday. And now, with her eighteenth birthday just two days from today, her nightmare became longer and hotter in a sense as if she was soaked to be boiled.Glancing at the alarm clock on her side ta