The result of the trip was proof that the child would be blessed by The Superior, as the Queen liked to say. The King found the rose of the Saint at the border zone. It was planted at the side of a well that connected to both Realms. It gave a little hope for the King that The Superior might exist but then it was drowned by doubts and the bitter past.
The King did as the instruction of the old doctor. That very night, the Queen was settled and her pain was gone. What took three days of the trip from the Castle to the borderline (without any rest in between), under his burning love and worry and the help of a fighting unicorn also some speeding magic powder, it only took eight hours for the King to get there and half an hour (using ten times of the original portion for the speeding powder) to return home.
On the day the child was born, the order of doctor Simon was followed and something very absurd but beautiful had happened, something that no one had ever seen. Yes, the child was a daughter, a beautiful princess. But that something wonderful was a blast of great bright light. It shined with an exploding power from within the princess’s heart area and expanded to the entire chest and torso and the blast shined through her body. Suddenly, she turned into a light bulb, or elegantly speaking, she turned into the sun or one of the stars in heavens.
“The Princess bears the holiness and glory of the Saint! The Spirit of the Saint is living within her!” Everyone in the room whispered to each other excitedly.
The miraculous scene was witnessed by the King and the Queen and all that were in the room. Soon after an hour, the words were spread through the entire Realm.
“Let’s call her Aurora, the dawn and the rising morning, shining as bright as the Sun.” The Queen gently suggested after witnessing the miraculous sign.
Agreed, the King nodded with a sweet calmness and joy.
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The Party of celebration was held expectedly. Everyone in the Realm was invited, nobles and commoners and mythical creatures, all were invited to the Palace to celebrate the birth of Princess Aurora. However, not exactly all in the Realm was invited. The evil fairy, Maleficent, was not invited. Of course, the reason was due to her evil nature.
In fact, Maleficent was not evil all her life. Some dreadful things happened to her when she was a teenager. When she was young, she sneaked into the Realm of Reality. She wanted to explore and the Fantastical Realm, after discovering everything, couldn’t fit her growing appetite anymore. So, ignoring the rules, she broke the seal of enchantment by her already mature magical power and crossed the border and sneaked into the Realm of Reality.
After centuries and centuries of isolation, people in the Realistic Realm had already forgotten their neighbour - the Fantastical Realm. Because of the firm magical protective walls and the seal of enchantment, only people from the Fantastical Realm could cross over but not people from the Realistic Realm.
The time frame of the two Realms varied quite a lot. At that year, Germany was suffering under the aftermath of the first World War. After signing the unfair Treaty of Versailles, German price level dived all the way to the bottom. Everyone was hungry, everyone was bitter, everyone hated the Weimar Republic. Nobody trusted the government. Everyone just wanted a meal and a job.
Not long after a few days of adventure, Maleficent was caught by a group of German farmers. All they saw was her pair of wings and the lovely price after getting her sold, but not a terrifying spirit and a life. During her locked up days, it was believed that she suffered a huge amount of dreads (both physically and mentally) though nobody dared to ask.
During those days of darkness, she secretly blew the magic horn which would send her help signal back to the Royal Court. Every creature in the Fantastical Realm had a horn. When any of them were in danger, a blow of the horn would be notified and the Court would send the royal knights to their rescue.
Unfortunately, her signals wouldn’t reach through the protective walls and the seal of enchantment. At least that was what she believed. It was too far away for her to cast spells to weaken their power. That explained why she hated the royal family so much. Because it was the royal family who helped to build the walls and cast the enchantment at the border and sealed it. The power was so strong because of their blood drops within the spell.
The days she spent in her cage were the days for seeds of hatred be planted within her heart. It grew and grew, until one day, it engulfed her entire being. She was no longer the same. Hatred made her more powerful than she previously was. She torn down those iron bars and flew out the cage and fled right back into the forest. But when she almost reached the borderline, her wings were gashed out by bullets fired by the farmers. They couldn’t catch her back so they took away what was precious of her.
That was the final time she experienced the darkness of mankind because she vowed to avenge and did million times of horror to them as what they did to her.
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