~Author's Note: I tweaked the movie ending, just fyi. Hope ya'll enjoy it!! Thank you, guys!!~

The engulfing, heavy darkness is what you come to—not necessarily awaken, but one or more of your senses are applicable—and your ears twitch at the weighted sound of footsteps. 
Maleficent…? you think groggily from the swaying motion. I must’ve fallen asleep; he’s carrying me to bed. You open your eyes expecting to see his beauty, yet only see the front plane of your body with your legs strung up. You try to move and gather your wrists are bound upward as well, your head having been secured to prevent your antlers from dragging. What…?

“Hey, it’s awake,” a man above you mutters. Panicked, your senses all vault to clarity as you realize you’re strapped to a pole being carried on the shoulders of two men within a castle. What happened all comes back to you.
“N-no! Release me!” you whimper.

The first two months she stays here in the Pridelands is spent quickly. She spends a lot of her time divided between playing games of tag and hide and seek with the little prince, and with the consorts of the palace. They ask her a few questions such as, “Why are you with the second prince (whom she learned is how her dark-haired friend is referred to as)?” As well as, “Why don’t you join us and become another mate of the king?” To both of these questions, she answers with shyness and sincerity with her wish to be with the dark-haired brother, whom she spends only a little time with. She meets the king’s advisor, a short and eccentric man named Rafiki. She learns to prepare the meat from the consorts’ hunts because the Pridelands has it in abundance as well as spice to prepare such meat with. She also begins to spend more time with her dark-haired prince, and learns only a little bit of his antics to be the king.
The third month moves more slow