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kh_drabbleChallenge: [093] Power Corrupts
Title: More
Word count: 315
Spoilers: None- Time frame is before and during KH1
“…she knows everything.”
“Oh, but she doesn’t, dear. Maleficent doesn’t know anything about love, or kindness, or the joy of helping others. …You know, sometimes I don’t think she’s very happy.”
~Merryweather and Fauna, Sleeping Beauty~
It wasn't always thus.
She was once something like the three insipid 'Good Fairies' she now felt such contempt for.
She had more power. She had always had more power.
She could twist the mind of an evil man against him so completely that he sought his own demise. She could set a blight on the crops of a wicked farmer. She could drive the wind onward before her and cast the rain to overflow rivers into disease-infested lands and drive the sickness out.
She found pleasure in it- but the pleasure was not in the joy of the living or the thankful voices praising her name.
She controlled.
She could command others to do her bidding- will or nil they. She could turn the seasons backward at a whim. She could give life or take it as she chose.
She took in the fear in the faces of the ordinary folk when she walked among them- when the merest breath of her name was whispered in their midst.
She took it in... and decided she wanted more.
She sought other avenues of power- gathered the Goblins into an organized force. She conquered a kingdom, took the lands, the castle, and the lives that attempted to oppose her.
She still wanted more.
She took from the kingdoms their greatest source of joy and gave them despair. She thwarted the Fairies' attempt to save their Princess and forced them to cast a time-lock for the entire kingdom. She locked away the Prince- the only means of the Princess' rescue.
She still wanted more.
She found it in Darkness.
She commanded hordes of creatures from the depths of the Dark. She directed a group of would-be overlords in the conquests of their kingdoms. She drew a Keyblade Bearer into darkness.
She found absolute power at last- as he drove Darkness into her heart.
Thus it consumed her.
Title: More
Word count: 315
Spoilers: None- Time frame is before and during KH1
“…she knows everything.”
“Oh, but she doesn’t, dear. Maleficent doesn’t know anything about love, or kindness, or the joy of helping others. …You know, sometimes I don’t think she’s very happy.”
~Merryweather and Fauna, Sleeping Beauty~
It wasn't always thus.
She was once something like the three insipid 'Good Fairies' she now felt such contempt for.
She had more power. She had always had more power.
She could twist the mind of an evil man against him so completely that he sought his own demise. She could set a blight on the crops of a wicked farmer. She could drive the wind onward before her and cast the rain to overflow rivers into disease-infested lands and drive the sickness out.
She found pleasure in it- but the pleasure was not in the joy of the living or the thankful voices praising her name.
She controlled.
She could command others to do her bidding- will or nil they. She could turn the seasons backward at a whim. She could give life or take it as she chose.
She took in the fear in the faces of the ordinary folk when she walked among them- when the merest breath of her name was whispered in their midst.
She took it in... and decided she wanted more.
She sought other avenues of power- gathered the Goblins into an organized force. She conquered a kingdom, took the lands, the castle, and the lives that attempted to oppose her.
She still wanted more.
She took from the kingdoms their greatest source of joy and gave them despair. She thwarted the Fairies' attempt to save their Princess and forced them to cast a time-lock for the entire kingdom. She locked away the Prince- the only means of the Princess' rescue.
She still wanted more.
She found it in Darkness.
She commanded hordes of creatures from the depths of the Dark. She directed a group of would-be overlords in the conquests of their kingdoms. She drew a Keyblade Bearer into darkness.
She found absolute power at last- as he drove Darkness into her heart.
Thus it consumed her.
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