Stained Glass Breaks and So Do Hearts

Good and Evil

Carlos, Ben, Uma, and Evie together managed to get the sword away from Harry who was still under Maleficent's spell. Unlike with Ben, there was no one to kiss Harry like there was with Ben. Ben held Harry down and Carlos frowned at the struggling hook.

"Come on Harry. Fight it damn it." He swore at the blaze of green still in the son of hook's eyes. Maleficent would pay for trying to take the two loves of Carlos' life. While he may no longer love hook in that way, his heart still broke at the idea of him being a puppet for the mistress of evil.

Uma went over to the hole in the ceiling to watch the fight going on. It was fierce and raging with little signs of either giving an inch. While Mal's magic had yet to grow to the potential her mothers had, as a dragon the two were nearly evenly matched. By this point, both had burnt spots, claw marks, and even bite marks. The two fought fire with fire and ultimately were too closely matched. Maleficent seemed tired of this game and descended back into the throne room in a hail of green smoke and purple lightning.

"I tire of these games children! Bow to me!" She commanded, the magic from her staff making Uma, harry, ben and Evie bow to her with no control of their own bodies. "See isn't that much better? As I told you, I've already won." Maleficent laughed ignoring the small singed spots of skin and claw marks in her robes. Mal swooped down next to her friends and reformed, looking just as worse for wear as Maleficent.

"Stop this mother. You have had your fun, but evil is as good as none. Harry may be spelled but inside he is good. Inside I am good. Inside somewhere mother, even you have goodness, no matter how hard you try to snuff it out." Mal threatened snarling with bright emerald-like eyes. She reached down and grabbed Uma's hand and the two stood together, resisting Maleficent's spell making her glare at her daughter.

"Goodness in me? How would you know that? I am THE MISTRESS OF EVIL. There is no goodness in my heart." Maleficent laughed entertained but hiding behind a ruse of a smile. Mal could see straight through her mother, she always could. Her intentions were always simple.

"Yet when you turned to a lizard it was because you still had the smallest amount of goodness and love in your heart or you would have disappeared. I learned to love and be a good mother. So can you." Mal offered out a hand beckoning her mother. Maleficent stared at the hand being offered to her in disgust.

"Evil is the only real way to live Mal. You know this and yet you want to go and play fairytales with your friends. You wanna know what goodness gets you? Hmmm? Your little sea witch lover is having doubts about you. I can see it in her evil little heart, she isn't as good as you might think Mal. She is the daughter of Ursula, one of the most manipulative Villains on that lovely Isle you call home." Maleficent fake pouted then smiled cackling. Mal and Uma shared a discomforted look before Mal rolled her eyes and locked them with her mother's.

"No, that's not what goodness gets me. Goodness gets me the love of that sea witch and the friends that became my family. It gave me an entire kingdom to aid and make better. All evil ever did for me was give me the worst mother in all of Auradon and the Isle. You never cared beyond yourself and I'm sick of holding onto thinking someday you will change too." Mal's voice full of righteousness and venom. Uma locked hands with Ben and Carlos as well. Carlos held out his hand like before.

"Now I command, Wand to my hand!" They said in unison. Maleficent clung to the wand firmly as it yanked, making her drag across the floor at the power behind the pull but ultimately it slipped from her fingers and into Carlos. Together, Carlos held up the wand, Mal held up her ember, and Uma held up her necklace.

"The power of evil is as good as none, before five hearts as one." The simple spell had tremendous power this time as their magics combined. Maleficent attempted to fight back with her scepter but was overpowered before long. The resulting explosion of magic that came from the spell colliding with Maleficent was great. It shook the entire castle and make more of the ceiling fall, nearly on top of them. Ben clung to Carlos protectively as did Uma cling to Mal. When the sparks of magic and dust settled all that was left of Maleficent were, he horns and her scepter. Mal looked at both with a pain in her heart. As much as she hated how little her mother wanted her and loved her, she still loved her mother. With Maleficent gone, the scepter's curse died as well, Mal picked the scepter up and Magic flowed through her, pure magic, neither good nor evil. It was the original state of the scepter before tainted by Maleficent's evil and curse. She looked to Ben and Carlos.

"I think I'm going to keep this personally. Keeping it in the Museum doesn't feel right after how many times it has been stolen now." Mal sighed at the horns and put them on her head jokingly turning to Uma. "How do I look?" Uma just chuckled and shook her head.

"Nope. You are not wearing those or else I'm going to pretend like I don't know you." Everyone laughed at the two. Harry recovered from the spell gradually, but thankfully it wore off. Ben looked at Carlos a little worn out.

"Looks like we are gonna be busy for a while. Between the damage to the castle and calming everyone regarding the defeat of Maleficent things are going to be busy for us. Not to mention dealing with the ramifications regarding Zevon." His voice getting a little dark in the last part. Carlos smiled and took Ben's hand comfortingly.

"My king, I just helped take down the evilest villain, used true love's kiss to save you and survived capture and torment at the hands of Zevon. I'm pretty sure whatever comes next is going to be a whole lot better. Besides, we have a wedding to worry about still." Carlos reminded. Ben picked Carlos up and twirled his love around, dipping him down low and kissing him.

"How could I forget the best decision I ever made?" The king smile charmingly and Carlos couldn't help but blush a bit pulling Ben back in for more kisses.

A/N: No this is not the end. We still have 2 chapters minimum left. We have a wedding to attend still of course. I hope her defeat wasn't too anticlimactic for anyone. Let me know what you thought and don't worry, I have other Benlos stories planned for after this one. <3