The Cliffhanger Tho

The cliffhanger tho–

Malleus bout to come for our asses y’all 😭😳

In which Princess (Y/n)'s parents and friends get turned into stone when she refuses to marry the evil yet love-sick sorcerer Malleus.

Now, she and her companions — a pegasus, a stray cat, and her new friend — embark on an adventure to forge a Wand of Light to overpower Malleus' magic before it is too late.

[Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus AU]

[Masterlist] Part 2: Seeking refuge within the Cloud Castle, Princess (Y/n) is safe to hatch out a plan to defeat the evil sorcerer Malleus: They need to build a Wand of Light to overpower his powerful magic.

About an hour later, all three Cloud Princes and Riddle had retreated to the sleeping chamber all of them shared, and Grim had accompanied them. The Cloud Queen had pulled you away to put you into a new dress that was much warmer than your previous clothing, along with a pair of warm boots. After getting new clothes and tying your hair together with your trusty (F/c) hair ribbon, you felt much better already.

When you entered the resting chambers, you found Cloud Prince Leona already sleeping in his bed while Cloud Princes Jack and Kalim were both busy caring for Riddle, brushing his red mane and putting accessories into it.

Cloud Prince Kalim immediately turned towards you and shot you a giddy smile. "We never had a real person here," he cried out in utter excitement while clapping his hands together. The innocent smile on his face made your mood rise again. "This is so exciting!" 

Cloud Prince Jack nodded gruffly, although he casually chimed in, "Well, except for your brother, of course."

"Brother?" you repeated and quirked an eyebrow. Malleus had mentioned a brother of yours earlier, too — but you couldn't remember ever having a brother. Granted, most of your memories from your childhood were a little bit fuzzy and blurry here and there, but you definitely couldn't recall ever having a sibling: Ever since you could remember, you had been alone in the castle, confined by your overprotective parents.

"Are you daft?" Cloud Prince Leona grumbled and pried one eye open to glare at you before he let his eyes flutter close again. "Riddle is your brother."

Your eyes grew in surprise, and you immediately turned your head into the direction of the pegasus that had saved you earlier. When he wouldn't deny Cloud Prince Leona's words, your jaw fell down in utter shock. "Riddle?" you croaked out, your voice breaking at the end. "You are my brother?"

Riddle averted his gaze but nonetheless muttered, "Yes…"

"How?!"

The Cloud Queen saw Riddle's hesitancy for speaking about this particular topic, but being as direct and brash as she was, immediately chimed up to explain, "He tried to protect you from Malleus." Riddle raised his head to glare at the Cloud Queen, but couldn't do much since sadly, she was much stronger than him — physically and magic-wise.

Everything suddenly made sense to you: Why Malleus spoke about you like he knew you from the past, and why Malleus acted like you had promised something to him that you couldn't remember ever promising. "So I really knew Malleus before?" you asked yourself and scratched your head sheepishly. A long sigh escaped your lips, and you suddenly felt frustrated for not having found out about this earlier.

Riddle shook his head and shot you a pained look. "You couldn't have remembered him. After all, the head-injury you sustained because of him made you forget everything up until that moment," your brother exclaimed, which made your eyes grow in size. Riddle huffed and sighed to himself, squeezing his eyes shut. "That was the last straw for me… I pulled him aside and forbade him from ever talking to my dear sister again."

"So we were childhood friends?"

"Correct. You found him on a frozen lake one winter while you were out ice-skating with me… and you just stumbled upon this small boy," Riddle continued with his face contorted into a large grimace that made you feel guilty. "I told you not to become too attached to him, but you did not heed my advice. When I found out that you promised to marry him once you were seventeen, I was furious."

By now, your eyes were threatening to fall out of your skull with how much you were staring at your brother. So many consecutive revelations coming after one another, causing your brain to feel like scrambled mush. You buried your face in your palms, really feeling stupid as you cried out, "So he really did not lie, huh?"

"Sadly, he did not." Riddle scoffed, clearly disliking Malleus — and well, you were about to understand why your brother harboured such a strong resentment towards the powerful sorcerer. "Well, after I forbade him from ever seeing you again, he was so angry that he turned me into a pegasus… I remember his words after the irreversible transformation was complete: 'Do not weep! You have not lost a son but gained a pet.' How humiliating…"

"Riddle," you whispered, your voice breaking  as you stepped forward and patted his head. "I am so sorry…"

Riddle avoided your gaze as he continued, "Father and Mother tried everything to turn me back into a human, but nothing worked." One could hear the pain that truly resonated with his voice, and even you could feel yourself wince at the raw sadness his words held. His eyes were full of shame and anger — at himself and Malleus, too. "So, I eventually fled to the Cloud Kingdom, and the Cloud Queen took me in with open arms. Ever since then, I have been living up here, anxiously waiting for the day when you would turn seventeen."

All the new information was too much for you, and you felt like the world you had known was breaking down on you all at once. "Why did no one ever tell me…"

"They wanted to keep it a secret," Riddle whispered and nudged your arm to cheer you up. "When you awoke from your coma and consequently lost your memories, Father and Mother moved to the farthest edge of the kingdom and built a castle — no, a fortress…"

"I… should have listened to them… They were only trying to protect me… Ugh, I'm so stupid!"

"No, don't blame yourself…"

"Is there nothing we can do?!" you suddenly yelled out, all your pent-up anger and stress coming out all at once. Everyone shot you a surprised glance, but the Cloud Queen smiled at your determination and courage, yet that smile quickly vanished when you turned to her with a look that sought out her help.

The Cloud Queen shook her head and shrugged her shoulders, a sad frown on her face. "I am sorry, but Malleus is too powerful— even for me."

Cloud Prince Kalim gasped, having a brilliant idea, before yelling out, "What about the Wand of Light?"

"Shh, Kalim!" Cloud Prince Jack hissed as he clasped his hand over his friend's mouth, a sheepish look on his face as he turned to the red pegasus standing right next to them. "You know Riddle does not like to talk about it…"

"A Wand of Light?" you asked, your curiosity now piqued. "What is that?"

"A Wand of Light has the most powerful magic out of all, which even overpowers Malleus'," the Queen Cloud explained with a thoughtful and hesitant frown on her face. "Sadly, nobody knows how it is built."

You quirked an eyebrow. "Really?"

She nodded, deep in thought. "Well," she began eventually, "myths say that it is built from a measure of courage, a ring of love, and a gem of ice that is lit by hope's eternal flame."

A gasp escaped your lips once she finished talking, and for once, you could feel hope burning in your heart — even if it was only a small ember that needed to be fanned. You clasped your hands together and shot your brother a large smile. "That's just three things! It can't be too hard, can it?" you exclaimed, your hopeful voice instilling some sort of faith in the pessimistic pegasus.

"It does not exist!" Riddle cried out nonetheless while slamming his front hooves against the marble floor, which made you wince back in surprise. His face spoke of exasperation and deeply ingrained hopelessness — a result of years of failure. Riddle had an angry grimace on his face. "I tried for years… without success.."

"Come on, Riddle." You sighed and wrapped your arms around his neck, resting the side of your head against his. Riddle eyed you sceptically; his face spoke of fury at your unrelenting determination, angry that you would not listen to him. Truly, it was your naivety and positive outlook on life that was the reason all of this happened in the first place. Yet, you held a strange endearing innocence to you as you raised your gaze and exclaimed, "We can do it together!"

Riddle sighed, torn. "(Y/n)..."

"I am going to build a Wand of Light! Somehow."

"Well…" he trailed off and shot you a crooked smile, but a smile nonetheless. There wasn't much more you could do: Either stay here at the Cloud Castle forever, or try and build a Wand of Light. Although Riddle would have preferred the first option, since it would keep you safe from Malleus, he was aware that you could never live with the guilt of being the reason why your parents and everyone else would be frozen forever. So, admitting defeat, he nodded. "Alright… let us embark on our journey…"

You laughed in joy, wanting nothing more than to jump and celebrate your success — but you had more important things to do and even less time to accomplish your tasks. "Do you know where we need to go first?" you asked your brother.

"The deepest, darkest part of the Forbidden Forest…"

Meanwhile, in a dark castle sitting on an island shrouded with ominous fog and clouds to shield it from passersby's views, a young prince sat on his throne, his three retainers by his side and all of them attempting to cheer him up. The griffin named Sebek tried to nudge his young master's arm, but was ignored — as were the silver-haired and black-haired servants' efforts to cheer their lord up again.

Malleus sat slouched forward, his cheek resting in his palm and his elbow planted on the armrest of his throne made out of thorns. His pale face was contorted into a large frown, and here and then, one could witness as he exhaled longingly.

The small boy with short black hair sat on the other armrest that his young fledgling didn't occupy. He had a playful pout on his face at the gloomy mood that occupied the whole castle — and no one dared to disturb their master as he was busy sulking and impatiently waiting for three days to pass by.

"Malleus, dear!" the sorcerer's guardian cried out. "Stop sulking…"

Malleus begrudgingly lifted his head, his eyes narrowed in pain and agony. He clutched his tall staff close to him, but even that couldn't cheer him up as he gazed at his caretaker. "Oh, Lilia…" the prince whispered, his voice hoarse and vexed. "Why does she not love me?"

Lilia immediately floated to his feet again and wrapped his arms around Malleus, who accepted the hug eagerly. The wise fae ran his hand up and down his young child's back, a small smile on his face as he stayed optimistic despite the knowledge that things looked grim. "She does! I am sure!" Lilia cooed in a soft tone, his voice so honey-like that Malleus could feel his mood shifting for the better. "She just needs to remember how much fun you two had as children!" 

Malleus, although in a slightly better mood now, still didn't seem wholly convinced by his guardian's words. A wistful frown on his face, he muttered, "I patiently waited for more than a decade to hold her in my arms once again." His other two retainers couldn't bear to see their young master like that and averted their gazes in pain. Malleus let his eyes flutter close and exhaled. "Maybe I really deserve to be alone forever…"

"No," the silver-haired human cut in, "don't say that, young master."

The sudden interruption made Malleus raise his gaze to look at his knight in surprise. Lilia, too, scooted away and went back to pestering Sebek, the loyal griffin. As the two were busy with jabbing one another, Malleus ignored them and instead shifted his whole attention to the human. "Silver, should I have done anything differently?" Malleus asked, a frown on his face.

Silver nodded hesitantly, softly exhaling before he, as gentle as he could be, explained, "You did not have to stroll up to her and demand her to marry you like that."

Malleus' eyes grew in desperation. He shot up from his throne and yelled out, "But she promised—!" His chest was heaving up and down as he threw himself into his seat again, burying his grimacing face in his trembling hands. Every one of his servants was aware that he had been looking forward to this day with a feverish excitement… and to think it would end this tragically.

Silver sighed and patted his master's shoulder in an attempt to lend some comfort. "Still, you frightened her and everyone else," he muttered with a small smile on his lips that in no way should patronise the young prince. "Maybe taking a more calm approach would have done it."

Malleus removed his hands and shot Silver a crooked smile. "I am sorry…" he whispered, embarrassed. "Maybe I was too excited…"

"Ah, do not worry about it, Malleus!" Lilia exclaimed as he jumped behind him in order to not be torn into shreds by the agitated griffin. A giant grin was on the wise retainer's lips as he let out booming laughter that brought hope and comfort to the lonely sorcerer. "Not all is lost, yet!"

Malleus nodded and smiled at his three retainers that were something akin to his family by now. He straightened his back again to a posture more fit for a regal prince. "I will try to be hopeful, Lilia… Thank you, you three…"

Also! (No need to post this since it’s off topic) I’m really impressed with how in character you write! You go bestie!!! 🖤🖤

Aww thanks so much bestie!!

I try to think and act like the actual characters themselves as best as I can, good thing that payed off lmao. As a thanks, here’s some affection you and everyone else rightfully deserve–

Don’t worry @wolken-himmel, I’ll be honored to take @i-exist2spite-god’s place to marry baby boy Deuce. How very gracious of me! @leonakingscholarship, if you don’t mind, I’d like a wedding dress too 😌💅✨

But for real tho, I would let Deuce wife me up any day. Fuck Ace.

Oh so everyone will stay cursed in stone if someone doesn’t marry Malleus? Oh dear, how tragic, I volunteer

no need for the tears, I know it’s very brave of me but I will survive this oh so cruel fate

oh would you look at that? Thanks to Serenity @leonakingscholarship I already have a wedding dress ready, what a coincidence !

But why would you marry Malleus when you can have a dorky and snarky yet strangely adorable and innocent adventurer boyfriend that ran away from home after he disappointed his mother??

Leona O - O

I wanna know how did you feel Rook being lady bug?

Did Rook tried to hunt you behind the scenes?

Great, another herbivore for me to talk to.

All I have to say is that filming with Rook was terrifying. He was too in character as Lady Bug, always trying to use his “Lucky Charm” on me, and I’m not talking about his powers.

We spent about one week trying out our weapons and ever since then, that damn hunter would get us trapped together in his yo-yo, saying it was an accident.

He knew what he was doing and no one else behind the scenes bothered helping out either 🙄

Putting the Twst Characters aside for now–

I just wanna say congrats on 100+ followers!!!

I really enjoyed seeing your Writings and your edits

They inspired me so much and made me laugh

The Twst community is very lucky to be blessed by you

So once again congrats on 100+ followers you deserve it!! And keep up the amazing work!! ^^

Last one before I go~

Rose are Red

Violets are Blue

You are amazing and sweet

Like honey dew

(I just came up with that one the spot so don't judge me)

Congrats on 100+ followers may Twisted Wonderland and everything cursed and nice be with you ♥️♥️♥️

AHHHH YOU ARE TOO PRECIOUS FOR THIS WORLD!!

Thank you so much for your love and support, it really makes me happy seeing you and everyone else feel the same way as well. I’m also glad that I could be an inspiration to you, everybody in the TWST community had the same affect on me too!

Hello hello!! :33

Riddle!! May I ask how do you feel to be Pegasus in "Y/N and the Magic of Pegasus"?

Like how did you first react when you were given the role of a Pegasus?

And what were your thoughts about filming with the the other Characters?

Yes, hello there!

At first, I was a little embarrassed to play an animal, considering my size of course. But I then realized that personality mattered the most so I just accepted it. Dare I say, I can relate to Brietta!

Being in the movie itself however, was really refreshing if I can put it that way. I’ve been awfully stressed trying to keep the dorm under control. So doing something fun such as acting was sort of an escape for me.

My thoughts about the others was very high. I expected someone like Deuce couldn’t handle such a role. But looking back at the VDC event, I’m proud to say that he and the others actually took their roles seriously and professionally.