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[color=bc8dbf]"- and now me and Taivas are travelling around looking for our pasts. He is looking for some friends of his. I'm trying to... Figure out my past, but also put a stop to these Heartless. And also figure out how to separate myself from Dotty. So, you're not from this plane either, you don't smell like the rest of this plane."[/color] The 3 fairies looked at each other.

[color=7bcdc8]"Well..."[/color] Yuna scratched her head.

[color=fff79a]"Uhh..."[/color] Rikku continued, Paine shook her head.

[color=silver]"We came here following Maleficent. She controls the Heartless. She's taken over this place and we're trying to break her hold on it."[/color] She replied. Clearly sick of the others beating about the bush.

[color=bc8dbf]"Maleficent... I have heard that name before..."[/color] He shook his head. Not on this adventure, but somewhere deep in his mind that name resonated with something...

[color=fff79a]"She's the wickedest of the wicked."[/color] Rikku replied.

[color=7bcdc8]"We came here to stop her..."[/color] Yuna looked down. [color=7bcdc8]"She destroyed our world... Her heartless ate out world from the inside out... So we followed her back here. When we arrived... We watched..."[/color] Yuna looked close to tears.

[color=silver]"We looked upon this world and saw her gloating over the bodies of 2 slain. A boy and a girl... That's when she used her Time magics..."[/color]

[color=fff79a]"She rewound the clock. Pushed time back 16 years across this whole realm. We saw her attend Briar Rose's royal christening."[/color]

[color=bc8dbf]"Briar Rose is the girl you look after?"[/color] Zen-Aku asked.

[color=fff79a]"Yup. She attended the birthday and placed a curse on her."[/color] [color=2e3192]"The princess shall indeed grow in grace and beauty, beloved by all who adore her. But, before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she shall prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel! But a ray of hope there still may be in this, the gift I give at thee. Not in death, but just in sleep the fateful prophecy you’ll keep, and from this slumber you shall wake when true love’s kiss the spell shall break."[/color]

[color=silver]"That last part... She understands that hope only makes the despair of failure that much greater..."[/color] Paine continued. [color=silver]"She planned to give them just enough hope to keep them hanging for the next 16 years and then snuffed out that hope. To make her victory absolute..."[/color]

[color=fff79a]"Well, we weren't going to stand for that..."[/color] Rikku huffed.
[hider=If in this hider you go, only pain you will find.]As Maleficent sat atop her ramparts watching Steffan's men desperately scramble to destroy every spinning wheel in the land, she let out a cackle that chilled the bone. With her Heartless, every 16 years, she was able to rewind time and turn her greatest defeat into her greatest victory. This was the best part. Watching that fool Steffan desperately stand against the inevitable. That's when she saw the 3 lights approaching... Not those 3, they were trapped in her dungeon, being forced to watch their victory be made into their defeat over and over and over.

[color=fff79a]"Y[/color][color=7bcdc8]R[/color][color=silver]P!"[/color] They shouted as they transformed into Fairy-form, floating around the evil fairy. Maleficent threw back her head and cackled.

[color=2e3192]"Well... Isn't this precious?"[/color] She asked. [color=2e3192]"Do tell me, to what i owe the honour of your visit."[/color]

[color=fff79a]"LADY, YOU ARE SICK!!! Picking a fight with a baby?"[/color] Rikku pointed the knife at her.

[color=2e3192]"Oh my... Dressphere magics... How delightfully adorable."[/color] She sneered a smile that could curdle milk at 50 paces.

[color=silver]"You've insulted us once, never again and never will you bring that child harm either, witch."[/color] Paine replied. The sneer seemed to disappear at the "Witch" remark. She extended a palm and green chains lanced from the rocks around them to grab the 3 fairies.

[color=2e3192]"Tell me why i shouldn't just have these chains crush the life from you right now?"[/color] She growled at them. The 3 chained up fairies began to glow, before their costumes exploded, taking the chains with them, the costumes reforming into [url=https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/c/c1/Ffx2-songstress.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20061219001157]Songstress outfits[/url] and they prepared as [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35WgpMq6e3o]music slowly faded in.[/url]

[i][color=7bcdc8]You're a mean one, Maleficent.
You really are a heel
You're as cuddly as a cactus
You're as charming as an eel
Maleficent, you're a bad banana
Maleficent, with the greasy black peel.[/color][/i]

Maleficent seemed rather amused by this little performance, so, the heartless that were staring from out of the shadows, she motioned for them to back up.

[i][color=fff79a]"You're a monster, Maleficent
Your heart's an empty hole
Your brain is full of spiders, you've got garlic in your soul, Maleficent...
I wouldn't touch you with a thirty-nine-and-a-half-foot pole"[/color]

[color=silver]"You're a vile one, Maleficent
You have termites in your smile
You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile, Maleficent
Given a choice between the two of you
I'd take the seasick crocodile"[/color][/i]

Finally, Maelficent sent a number of Fira's towards them with a minimum of effort. The three combining their magics to each cast a Disenchant in response.

[i][color=7bcdc8]"You're a foul one, Maleficent
You're a nasty-wasty skunk
Your heart is full of unwashed socks, your soul is full of gunk, Maleficent!
The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote, "Stink, stank, stunk"[/color][/i]

Maleficent seemed to grow increasingly annoyed at this. She stared at the crow that was now cowering in fear of the response. At least that one knew it's place.

[i][color=fff79a]"You're a rotter, Maleficent
You're the king of sinful sots
Your heart's a dead tomato splotched with moldy purple spots, Maleficent.
Your soul is an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable
Mangled up in tangled up knots"[/color][/i]

[i][color=silver]"You nauseate me, Maleficent
With a nauseous super "naus"
You're a crooked jerky jockey and you drive a crooked hoss, Maleficent
You're a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich
With arsenic sauce"[/color][/i]

[i][color=7bcdc8]"Once again, the words that best describe you, and we quote."[/color][/i] Yuna smiled, the threw of them raising up into a triangular patern. [i][color=fff79a]"Stink,[/color] [color=7bcdc8]stank,[/color] [color=silver]stunk"[/color][/i] Yuna launched a Fireaga, Rikku launching a Thundaga, while Paine launched a Blizzaga. Maleficent was mildly impressed, but with a flick of her fingers, the Heartless swarmed in front of her as a Demon Tower, tanking the powerful magics. The Demon Tower then launched forward, sweeping the 3 up in the darkness.

The next thing they knew, they were back in chains in front of Maleficent.

[color=2e3192]"Well, that was well choreographed and wonderfully entertaining, but now you die."[/color] She raised her hand to wave it, but then thought. [color=2e3192]"But..."[/color] She tapped a clawed finger atop her staff. [color=2e3192]"This game that i always win never fails to amuse me... But maybe switching it up a little every now and then may be of even greater amusement."[/color] She glided over to them as a spirit. [color=2e3192]"You have 16 years... On that day, Briar Rose will fall for her curse and my victory will be assured... You have until then to stop me."[/color] She flicked her finger and the chains dissipated. [color=2e3192]"Well... The clock is ticking...[/color] She smiled, before waving her hands and the trio were thrown out of the castle by a green hurricane that blew through.[/hider]

[color=fff79a]"We told King Steffan. He asked us to train her in the use of our magics, he hoped that they would protect her. Also, to keep her with us so that on her 16th birthday, she will be unable to find that spinning wheel."[/color]

[color=silver]"We needed to make sure you weren't one of Maleficents minions."[/color]

[color=bc8dbf]"I would hope to never serve one so despicable to take her anger out on a baby."[/color] Zen-Aku replied... But once again, unsure about his past. [color=bc8dbf]"How long do you have left?"[/color]

[color=7bcdc8]"Her birthday is today..."[/color] Yuna replied. [color=7bcdc8]"It'll be at Sunset that she'll find that spinning wheel. Maleficent is a sadist, she want to get us at the last possible second."[/color] Zen-Aku slowly got down to one knee.

[color=bc8dbf]"Alright, i will pledge my honour to make sure Briar Rose survives this day. Come, we need to watch her at once."[/color] The trio made their way through the tree's to see Philip, Rose, Taivas and his friends taking out the Heartless.

[color=fff79a]"OH NO!!!"[/color] Rikku screamed.

[color=silver]"Maleficent knows where she is."[/color] Immediately, Zen-Aku jumped down from the tree's and landed next to Dotty.

[color=6ecff6]"PHHDDLEVLF!!!"[/color] She yelled in excitement.

[color=bc8dbf]"Dotty, you need to listen to me for a minute"[/color] He growled. [color=bc8dbf]"Those Heartless are after the girl. We need to protect her at all costs. Be ready with the mask. I don't want you to put it on until you need to though, we can't afford to waste a second with me in the body draining your energy.[/color] She gave him a thumbs up. Now to size up these two. He looked back up to the fairies. [color=bc8dbf]"Follow Rose, i'll bring my body if she gets into trouble."[/color]