Behind The Mask

Rage

Mal's POV

    Every step I took the clouds would disappear.
If i coutined this I would soon be able to locate everyone.....
Soon....?
Actually this might take a while...

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Ben's POV

  Why weren't they here yet?
I pulled my phone out and rechecked the text messages between Mal and I.
1 hour ago

She had texted me over an hour ago and yet...
They still weren't here.
Was something wrong?
Clearly something has to be...I mean it's not like they changed their mind last minute...
Right?

I shook my head.
No.
They agreed that they would come.
No backing out.
I pressed the call button on her contact.
Hopefully she would pick.

Ring....
Ring....
Ring....
Ring....

Hello? Ben?

I signed.
She did pick up!

"Mal where are you? You texted me over an hour ago that you were on your way? What happened, is everything okay?"

"Um...well we are here...somewhere...but okay...well if being in a cloud of darkness and trying to locate your friends through the mist is being okay, then yea! I'm perfectly great!" *sarcastic/worried laugh*

" Cloud of darkness? Mal...what happen-!"

My phone shot out my hand. Flying arcoss the room and smashing against the wall.
What in Auradon!?
I turned around to see Mal staring at me?
Then....
What...?

She stared me down.
Her eyes glowing a fierce bright green, making her gloden locks seem white-ish.
Her eyes were much brighter than the room filled with the light of the moonlight in the dim room

"Mal?"

She kept staring.
Not moving.
Not saying a word.
This wasn't Mal nor Dove.
This was....Maleifcent.

"You're Maleifcent aren't you!? Where's Mal and her friends!"

She smiled.
But there was nothing pleasant about it.
Not even with her diguse as Mal.

"You care alot...for my daughter. As much as you do with this kingdom. I'd say even more. If she were in trouble, you easily hand this...place over for the sake of her. Isn't that right?" She asked. Her voice nothing like Mal's.

I glared at her.
Why was she asking this?
What was she planning?

I stepped a bit closer.
Unsure of why.
"And if it were true? What good does that information give you huh? I'm not so easily drown into your tricks. I've been taught by your daug-," I let out a disapproving breath and shake my head, "No...she doesn't deserve being called 'your daughter', she's deserves way better than that."

She glares at me.
Her body shaking as she lets a growl escape.
I step a bit back unsure of what might unfold.
She snaps and calms down.
She gives me a small smirk, eyeing me up and down.

"King Benjamin. Son of Belle and Adam. Do you truly believe that you could ever possibly rule this kingdom? The same way your parents did? Much less find time to hang out with friends? Enjoy the activities you once did before becoming king? Make your people proud? Much less make my daughter proud, happy, loved, at esae? If I truly left you alone for good, she would soon realise the fatal mistake she made. She'd be stuck being some she isn't. Enslaved from her freedom. Left without any attention from her sweet king. Wouldn't it be a petty?"

All her words race around my head.
How...how did I not think of this before?
I....
I would make Mal....
Unhappy.
Unloved.
Would I really.....
Enslave her from her freedom?

I can't process anything but those thoughts.
Those mental images of seeing Mal unhappy.
Sad.
Regretful.
Broken.....

She circles around me.
Her glowing eyes haunting me.
Teasing me.
I closed my eyes.
No.
Don't listen to her.

"Isn't Mal, your world?"

I snapped.
My eyes glared directly at hers. Even if it was "Mal" I was looking at.
I knew that she was the evil fariy of her mother.

"I will never make Mal unhappy. I will never leave her broken because she and I will always be by each other's side. Supporting and loving. And of course I won't rule this kingdom like my parents. I will rule on my own way. Maybe even better than them! And not you or anyone else is going to force me to believe in the fasle future that lies ahead. No one will make me doubt anything! You want to know why? Because you're correct, MAL IS MY WORLD!"

She was taken back.
She clearly was not expecting that.
Honestly....nor did I.
Wow.
I really snapped there!

Maleifcent's body started to shake again.
Her eyes glowing extermly bright as she send a burst of invisible force flying outward, making me fly across the room and smashing against the book case.

I winced.
The impacted really hurt and I wasn't sure if my sprained my wrist or broke it.
I opened my eyes.
There in all her evilness stood Maleifcent.
She looked at me with full rage.

Oh...she's going to kill me....

Literary....