Sunlilly: When history repeats

Chapter 12: Coronation

Coronation day arrived and god was I paranoid, with everything that went down yesterday during family day I had this pit in my stomach thinking something was gonna go wrong. The coronation started at 10:00am so I had to get ready early, I had a long lavender off the shoulder gown I had cut a slit through for easy knife access and had put part of my hair in a braid that laid in the back of my head surrounded by blond waves with my mother's old tiara to top it all off, myself and Lonnie walked out to the front of the school where a carriage was waiting for us to take us to the coronation
"Doesn't this seem a little excessive?"
I say getting into the carriage
"A little bit"
Lonnie agrees
"But elaborate"
"I mean, we're in a carriage and are going to walk a red carpet just to watch my cousin put on a crown and get blessed by a glorified stick"
I elaborate
"Fair point"
Lonnie says. As we get closer to the cathedral the festivities got more intense, rows upon rows of blue and yellow flowers, People blowing bubbles and cheering but i still had that feeling that something would go wrong, walking the red carpet Lonnie and I were practically attached at the hip since as my lady she often had to be with me for public appearances. We walked down the aisle in the cathedral and split off, since I was family I had to be up at the front with my family and Mal (who looked absolutely radiant might I add) The doors open and Ben makes his way down the aisle, the choir singing an angelic tune, I look over to Mal who was eyeing the wand, I knew what she was thinking but the girl has restraint though I kept my eye on her anyway. Ben gets to the altar and Fairy godmother takes her wand out from under the beast's spell jar. Adam places his crown utop Ben's head and Fairy godmother walked up.
"Do you solemnly swear to govern the peoples of Auradon with justice and mercy as long as you shall reign?"
She recites
"I do solemnly swear"
Ben responds
"Then it is my honor and my joy to bless our new king"
Fairy godmother announces, Just as she was about to wave her wand to bless Ben a flash goes by and takes the wand from her hand, we look around to see... Jane?!
"Child, what are you doing?!"
Fairy godmother yells
"If you won't make me beautiful, I'll do it myself!"
Jane screams, struggling to control the wand
"Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!"
Jane yells as a loud shake can be felt throughout the cathedral
"Take cover!"
Adam yells, suddenly Mal grabs the wand from Jane's hands and everyone recoils in fear
"Mal, give me the wand"
Ben cautiously walks up to her
"Stand back"
Mal warns
"It's ok"
Ben says trying to calm her
"Ben, I said stand back!"
Mal yells through tears as Evie, Jay, and Carlos come down from the balcony
"I told you so!"
Audrey yells
"Oh would you shut the fuck up for once!"
I yell back
"You really want to do this?"
Ben asks
"We have no choice, Ben! Our parents..."
Mal sobs
"Your parents made their choice. Now you make yours"
Ben reassures
"I think I want to be good"
Mal says softly
"You are good"
Ben assures
"How do you know that?"Mal cries
"Because... Because I'm listening to my heart"
Ben says. I'm just gonna save you the details and give you the TLDR: Mal and her friends choose good, now for the interesting part. Just as everyone chilled out a giant cloud of green smoke appeared in the aisle and out emerged Maleficent
Shit
"I'm back!"
She announced
"Go away, mother"
Mal says weakly
"She's funny. Oh! I'm so... you're very funny. Here. Wand me. Chop chop"
Maleficent Laughs
"Alright"
I whisper to myself as I grab my dagger and prepare to commit a crime when suddenly...
"Bibbidi-bobbidi-"
"Boo"
Maleficent bangs her staff on the floor and I black out. I come back to and see a lizard on the floor and me on my way to the floor, I caught myself while Ben lets out a beastly war cry and runs to Mal
"Okay, okay! Oh! We kinda got this all wrapped up here"
Mal laughed
"Next time, I rescue you, okay?"
Ben sighs
"Yeah. Let's not let there be a next time, okay?"
Mal says, she walks away for a minute and I make my way over to Jay, Evie and Carlos
"Fill me in?"
I ask
"Long story short, Mal's mom is a lizard"
Evie tells me
"Yeah, yeah ok... that makes sense"
I say trying to process, a guard comes over and covers Maleficent with the beast's spell jar and Mal comes back over and we all end up in a group huddle of myself, Ben, Mal, Evie, Jay and Carlos
"Well, let's get this party started!"
Jay announced cheerfully. that night we're all at Adam and Belle's castle for the after party, everyone was partying while also very confused by the whole lizard Maleficent thing. Everyone was singing and dancing and it was the least stressful night i've had in a while but of course you have to come back to reality eventually...