It's been 9 months now and Maleficent looked like she was about to explode any day now. Diaval freaked out any time she called him to bring her somethin. Aurora visited more and more each day. And Balthazar seemed even more protective when she went for a walk with him right behind. And all this has been going on for 9 months straight. Maleficent sighed, it was very tiring to be watched each and every second of the day. She felt like a damsel in distress. The girl who always needs saving, someone who was weak. It was irritating really, not one second alone. Sometimes she smiled at their overprotectivness. Sometimes she just got annoyed. And other times she would just ignore it. But today was different. She was sleeping in her tree, Diaval was gone which meant he was getting food. She couldn't lay still for a second. Something seemed to be bothering her. A LOT! She opened her eyes and sat up. She felt a little uncomfortable. Then she felt a powerful, painful kick come from her abdomen. She tried to lay back but more pain hit her that she couldn't suppress a painful cry. She tried to stand up but that proved to be a bad idea as well. 'Ok ok.' she thought. She felt more pain hit her. "Ok, I know, it's time." She breathed in and out. "Balthazar!" she yelled. In less than a minute he showed up, worried as to why she yelled his name. "Get Diaval! It's time!" she said painfully. Balthazar nodded and was off to get Diaval. After what seemed like ages but was literally 2 minutes Diaval showed up climbing the tree faster than she ever saw him. Diaval looked at her worried but excited at the same time. "Ok lay down Mal, I've sent a bird to get Aurora." he said helping her get comfortable. Maleficent grabbed (more like clawed) his arm painfully. She moaned the pain away and let go of Diaval's arm. Diaval almost cried from the pain in his arm. He sat behind her, resting her head on his lap. He carresed her cheeks telling her that everything was gonna be fine. Aurora arrived on horse with the doctor, she jumped off her horse before it even stopped and rushed to her Godmother's side. Balthazar appeared with the 3 fairies. 'Out of all the imbeciles in the world he had to choose them.' Diaval thought. Maleficent gave a very painfully loud yell and cry. "Aurora can you go fetch some water?" Diaval asked her. Aurora nodded, climbed down the tree, and went to fetch some water. Lots of it. With Balthazar's help of course. Thistlewit, Knotgrass, and Flittle were getting everything ready. The doctor just stayed out of the way until the baby was born for he was told that only fairy and faery folk can only help birth the others child. Thistlewit was getting the child's bed ready, though she had a very weird feeling their was something else missing. Flittle and Knotgrass were at the tree in their human form preparing everything for the child. "Um, what about him?" Knotgrass pointed to Diaval. "He stays." Maleficent said breathlessly. "Alright then, shall we start." Two painfully exuasting hours later Flittle came flying out calling for the doctor. The doctor came up to the tree. "What seems to be the problem?" he asked. "You have experience birthing yes?" Knotgrass asked him. The doctor nodded. "We need you to help us with something." Flittle said. Diaval sighed, 'Imbeciles.' he thought. "Doctor their might be a problem with the baby, it's taken a awhile for-" he was cut off by the doctor. "Her to give birth." Diaval nodded. "Precisely." he said. Maleficent groaned holding Diaval's arm tighter than she already was. "Doctor I need your assistance in birthing my child." she said tiredly. "It would be an honor." the doctor said. "But I don't think it's 'just' a child. I've gone through this before. I think you a twins." Maleficent was shocked and looked up at Diaval. He was smiling ear to ear. "Can you birth them." he asked the doctor. "Well technically I'm not a woman but I can help assist." he chuckled. Diaval chuckled and thanked him. Maleficent had the worse contractions from there on. She would squeeze Diaval's arm (poor Diaval) and groan, moan, and yell painfully. It was worse than losing her wings she thought. Diaval would pat a cold wet fabric to her head every once in a while. She could see Knotgrass and Flittle using their magic to help with the birth like every fairy is supposed to. Diaval would talk to her softly and encourage her to keep pushing. And after almost 8 hours of labouring she heard a small cry and then "it's a boy." the doctor checked to if anything was wrong. Satisfied that he was healthy the doctor passes him on to Thistlewit who was waiting on the side for the baby. She climbed down the tree to go clean him up. Maleficent smiled and looked up at Diaval. He smiled back and carresed her cheek. Then Maleficent closed her eyes and furrowed her brows. She felt something strange, like if her own magic was trying to tell her something. "The other babe might have problems coming out. It always happens for twins." The doctor said. Maleficent nodded. 'I must look like a miss.' she thought. But that didn't matter. She had to birth her other child. After 10 to 20 minutes she birthed the other child. She looked more tired than she was after the battle at the castle. "It's a girl" the doctor said. But he didn't pass her to Flittle or Knotgrass. Maleficent had her eyes closed but she noticed that she didn't hear a cry. She opened her eyes looking up at Diaval who was looking at the doctor. Her eyes fell on the doctor worriedly. He looked at Knotgrass and Flittle. Knotgrass came to his side and looked down at the babe. The babe was smaller than her brother, except there was just one problem. She wasn't breathing. Knotgrass looked to Maleficent and Diaval who were looking at her worriedly. Knotgrass didn't know what to do. How could she tell them this. She opened her mouth but nothing came out of it except a small yelp. She couldn't say it, she couldn't tell them. So the doctor sighed sadly and he was the one that had to tell the news. But he didn't, he couldn't, so he just held the babe high enough for them to see. Diaval took in a very loud breath. Aurora, Thistlewit, and Balthazar were looking at the tiny bundle in Aurora's arms when they heard whimpering. Aurora carefully gave the small bundle to Thistlewit and climbed the tree to see Maleficent holding a small babe in her arms. She carresed her small cheek, 'this was the strange feeling I had' she thought. She whimpered a little more loudly holding the babe closer. Knotgrass, Flittle, Aurora and the doctor climbed down the tree to give them some privacy. The doctor sighed looking a little down. "You did well." Aurora said softly giving him a small smile. "Yes, but not enough." He said sitting on a log. The other babe started to cry and Thistlewit handed him to Aurora who calmed him. Aurora climbed back up the tree and gave the babe to Diaval. Maleficent looked at her other babe. He looked a lot like his father. He had black hair and small black wings. His skin was the shade of Diaval's. He even had Diaval's lips. He didn't have horns though. But what cought her interest was that his eyes were different. The left was green like her's but the right was black like Diaval's. She smiled at the small bundle. "What will you name him?" Aurora asked. Maleficent looked at her and then back at her baby boy. She thought about it. Seeing that he might just grow as powerful as her and handsome as his dad. "Regan." she said smiling. Diaval liked that name very much. Maleficent looked back down at her other babe. She looked so much like her mother. She had her brown hair and wings. She had tiny horns on her head like her mother. She had full red lips that added more beauty to her small form. Her skin though, it might just have looked like her mom's. But Maleficent couldn't tell. Aurora just stared at her deceased baby sister. Her eyes started tear up and her vision got blury. "Shayna." she heard her Godmother name the babe. Diaval looked at Maleficent. He didn't notice but she sat up in a sitting position, her back on the trunk of her tree. Maleficent nuzzled her baby's cheek a tear fell from her eye. A silent goodbye. A mother's tear. Diaval couldn't hold back his tears anymore. Aurora hugged him for comfort, trying not to cry out loud herself. And Regan was quiet, like if he knew what happened. Everything went slowly after that. Maleficent had her eyes closed and was about to cry again when she felt movement. She ignored it at first, but then heard small coughs. She opened her eyes to see a small pair of orbs looking at her. She gave a cry of happiness and smiled the widest smile. Diaval and Aurora looked up to see her holding a smiling baby. Maleficent laughed and hugged Shayna close. She noticed that Shayna's eyes were the same as Regan's except the right eye was green and the left was black. They all smiled at the baby girl. Knotgrass came to check up on them and gasped when she saw that the baby was alive. She called in everyone else and they all cheered. Maleficent let the doctor check on her and said that she was a healthy baby girl. After everyone left except Aurora, Maleficent went to wash herself (with help from Diaval of course) and left Aurora to care for the two babes with Balthazar. After that she feed the two babes and fell asleep in her nest. Diaval laid beside her quietly watching over his precious family while Aurora went out to look for food. And Balthazar went back to his home. So Diaval was left alone, watching his children and wife peacefully sleep. He gave his two children a kiss on the head and kissed Maleficent softly on her lips. He smiled and seemed proud that he finally had a family of his own.
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For those of you guys who would like to know what the names mean here you go.
Shayna: Beauty
Regan: King
And I would like to thank elfgirl23 for helping me choose these wonderful names because tbh I had no idea what to name the 2 precious babes. :)
And I wonna thank all my readers for reading my story and hope you keep loving these 2 cause their just TOO CUTE to not love. ;D
Farewell and unto the next chap.
