There were many things in this world that Yuna was sure she knew felt like.
She'd never been stung by a bee, but she understood it must be quite painful. She'd never known what it was like to be a princess of her own castle with servants waiting on her hand and foot and bachelors out the door, but she assumed it was all quite nice and boisterous.
Nothing could've prepared her for how she felt when she heard Elewen's first cry.
It was all a blur of cheers and bustling wings and horns; Yuna heard two cries echoing about the room. One coming from the squirming and red babe in Ini's arms, and the other one coming right from herself, she realized.
Yuna barely registered Udo's quivering lips pressing lovingly to her temple, nosing into her hair and wiping the tears off of her scarlet and sweaty cheeks.
"You're greater than words, Yuna." Udo's teary voice whispered by her ear. He kissed her face, over and over and over again, but Yuna could not tear her eyes away from her baby.
All of the tension and pain in Yuna's body instantly disappeared, it was rather incredible how instantaneous it was. Months of muscle pains and nauseous vanished; hours of the most agonizing pain in Yuna's entire life ended in a moment.
Her emotions seemed to release themselves as well; Yuna couldn't stop the tears that rolled from her eyes and the blubbering cries that escaped her lips...
Gods, it was all so overwhelming.
Her eyes locked on to the freshly cleaned, screaming babe that Ini held a strong grip on. Ini had wrapped a cotton blanket around her, a small attempt to help the clearly distressed (but so healthy and alive) baby generate some warmth.
With a prideful glimmer in her dark eyes, Ini was quick and efficient to look over the tiny babe and place her bare skin against Yuna's own bare chest. She was still attached to her umbilical cord: still bound to her mother's body for just a few more moments.
"A healthy girl. Absolutely perfect." Then, much softer, Ini added with unshed tears bubbling in her eyes:
"Hi, Ellie."
Maleficent was much the same, overcome with great emotion she removed herself from Yuna's side and tore her eyes from the screeching little half-fey.
Not before giving her the faintest of smiles, however.
Immediately, Yuna latched onto the baby like her life depended on it. Elewen silenced her cries almost instantly: buried into Yuna's chest like she was her whole universe.
Because she was.
Yuna's legs shook violently and she felt freezing cold despite the overwhelming warmth of emotions that flowed through her was that the adrenaline, or the blood loss? Both? Yuna didn't care to think about it, her whole psyche was obsessed with the baby in her grasp: the way a new form of love encompassed her whole being.
Yuna had a hand atop her tender, soft head: white with the fuzz of platinum locks that matched her father's. Yuna felt the slight hard bone atop: the spots that one day beautiful and proud horns would sprout from. Yuna's other hand rubbed up and down Elewen's pudgy back, shoulder blades slightly protruded at the spots where, just like her father as well, a pair of magnificent wings would eventually form.
Elewen fussed and whined, squirmed against her mother's chest as her tiny fists grabbed into Yuna's scarlet hair. She was covered in vernix and she was wrinkly and red: but she was the most goddamn beautiful thing Udo and Yuna had ever witness.
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Purity in the Stars *Maleficent: Mistress of Evil- Udo Love Story*
Fanfiction*FROM MY OLD ACCOUNT* It started the day the sky was painted with red. Whether it was from that cursed red iron, or the blood of falling fey, Yuna did not know. What she did know, however, was that the tumbling stone and wood from the buildings surr...
