Aurora pushed, pulled, and yanked at the chains that bound her to the wall. The place she was hanging reminded her of Mulan's gruesome death. The thoughts hounded her to the point of making her sick.
"Let me go! I'm innocent, I tell you! I command you!"
Most of the guards didn't even turn around, after being shouted at for hours. One of the newer knights simply turned and shot her a death look-one of many she'd received.
Another cry echoed through the dungeon. This had been happening since Aurora was brought to the dungeon. Some of the cries had been her own. Some had come from guards coming to replace others, angry that their beloved princess would commit murder. And some were unknown, never heard before by Aurora. But nothing, not even hearing screams for several hours could have prepared her for what she was seeing. Flora, Fauna, and Merry weather were being escorted by knights into the dungeon. Aurora gasped.
"Dears! What are you doing here?"
Flora looked Aurora straight in the eye. "We're disappointed in you, Briar Rose. We didn't raise you to murder your friends."
"I didn't! Please, oh please believe me."
Fauna spoke quietly. "We want to, dear. It's just that...all the evidence is against it."
The fairies, Aurora learned, had been taken from their journey to be questioned, to determine their-and Aurora's-innocence. They were chained up, too, but just to the wall by their wrists. Unlike Aurora, who was a few feet above the ground, limbs spread out in all directions.
Soon, Belle, Tiana, and Pocahontas entered. Mushu was hidden in the apron of Belle's simple blue dress, shielded from anyone's prying eyes. Aurora narrowed her eyes, but widened them upon noticing Jasmine's absence.
"Where's the snob?"
"Dead, thanks to you." Tiana answered, voice filled with hate and fury.
"Like I could have killed her being tied up."
"No...but they could have," she said, looking pointedly at the fairies. "Or MALEFICENT."
"Oh, please. Will you drop that? Why are you here, anyway?"
"We're here to question you."
Pocahontas opened her mouth, but before she could speak, she collapsed and vanished. Like Snow White did-simply ceased to exist. Tiana kneeled, and said, "Pocahontas!" before falling over, appearing to have a seizure. After a few excruciatingly painful seconds of everyone watching her in frozen shock, not knowing what to do, she dissolved into the stone floor. Belle stared at Aurora, then heard a clash behind her. All of the guards' armor was empty, clattering to the ground. Her head whipped back around to Aurora and the fairies who slipped through the locked chains and disappeared before they hit the ground.
Then Belle was whisked through a portal of some sorts- transported from the dungeons, hurdling straight to who knows where.