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Maddie had nothing against the idea of sneaking in normally. He felt like he could stealth along just fine with the others, hiding in the shadows of the castle as he had done already back in Agrabah. It was as if everything he'd done was leading him to these last few moments. Merlin told them all to grab hold of him, and before Maddie could protest against it, the spell went off. He'd wanted to warn them how Jafar and his men had been able to track the use of magic back in Agrabah. To state if Maleficent was nearby she may be able to do the same, and follow the threads of magic to their very location. But it was all too late. They were now on the second floor facing off against Jafar and his men.

A blast of magic came barreling towards him and Merlin, sending him backwards onto his back on the floor as he slid a bit from the momentum. Maddie winced from the pain, tilting his head to see Jafar in the distance before standing up slowly. He did his tried and true, shooting out a bolt of lightning and watching as it made impact, a smile on his face. It quickly vanished when the flashes of light illuminated the magicked shield that surround Jafar. Fine, if he wanted to encase himself then Maddie would have to use it to his advantage. He careful began to weave the next spell as the lightning continued to crackle against the shield, using it to see the edges before unleashing a fireball within its walls, burning Jafar badly.

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She wasn't too sure about the just teleporting around the place either, but she did what she was told and got ready for Merlin to cast his spell as he transported them to some sort of upstairs area. The problem she had here was that they didn't necessarily know where they were in comparison to the guards or whoever were patroling the castle. That was never a good thing, to never know where the ones whose home you were breaking into were. Well that more or less got proven as to why it was a bad thing, as Jafar and a bunch of guards showed up and started attacking everyone.

"While I can see why magic is useful at times, this is proving why it isn't necessarily the tell all solution," she ended up saying, before she went up to the nearest guard (not the one that her dad had taken out) and immediately kicked the guy in the knee, knocking him down to the ground, before using the dagger she had been handed earlier to stab the guy. She said that she wasn't much of a fighter and she very much didn't like it, but that didn't mean she didn't know how to, and she managed to injure the guy, though he was still alive at the moment.

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Well, that could have gone better. He had sort of expected to get thrown around, but damn that hurt a bit when he slammed into the tree. This was not going to end well, that was for sure. Jack knew he had burned his father before, but that had been when he had a second to surprise him. Whereas now, this was a full on sort of fight, and skill wise, his father would win in a heartbeat. Though the words he was saying were sort of pissing him off a bit. Looking around for anything he might be able to use to his advantage, he found some staff that he picked up as he got up off of the ground.

"Huh... Wonder what this does," he said, before waving the staff in an attempt to sort of channel magic to do something. Anything really that might help him out. What it did wasn't exactly what he had expected though. That being it summoned up a bull, that for some reason had giant bat wings! "Never seen that before, but cool I guess?" the bull seemingly charged at his father and caused a gash on his side with the horn.

Jack summoned up another fireball in his hand, and threw it at his father now, who also apparently summoned up a fireball of his own, and the two collided mid air, knocking them both back from the force of the collision. "Why exactly are you doing this sort of thing? I mean what exactly is in it for you if Maleficent rules the world or whatever. Doesn't seem like there would be much to gain, you wouldn't be in charge and she'd have all the power or something."

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Fighting a dragon was easier said than done. It roared, dousing her in flames. She instinctively turned her head back, shielding her eyes, and even then burns appeared on her body. It was a delicious, searing pain. Somehow, she didn't die entirely. Her armor must have been enchanted. When she turned her eyes back to the beast, her father had engaged it, swinging at one of its legs with his sword. It was wounded, but now down.

Megan prepared herself to try again, perhaps targeting a weaker point on it, when the next thing she knew the dragon had swallowed her whole. Her reflexes were fast though, helped by the fact that she had excalibur drawn and ready. As she started to slide down its throat, she stabbed her sword and let it tear through the dragon's throat, both killing it and creating her exit strategy. She crawled out through the mouth, the dragon's blood staining her armor, as she emerged relatively unscathed.

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Rose had grabbed onto Merlin, and very quickly regretted it. Magic wasn't always the solution. She found herself in full agreement with Rosalia. She was a bit distracted though trying to get the guard off of her. Maybe she should have learned Judo. She tried to punch the guy to get him off of her. It was a bit of a struggle, but she was able to get him off of her.

She took a deep breath, thankful she could. He had been trying to choke her, and while that was fine in certain settings with a safe word in place, she did not want to die that way. There was no way she'd be able to get an arrow at the guy, but she could try to stab him. She drew one of the daggers she had and attacked aiming for an un-armored bit of the man. She got the dagger into him, but it didn't take him down, she wasn't totally surprised by that.

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Colby grinned. And shot a thumbs up at his dad. He had been really close to being a roasted marshmallow. Colby started to cast the lightning bolt again but did something wrong and zapped himself. He shook out his hands trying to shake off the feeling, before trying again. This time the bolt went true and the dragon dropped, seemingly dead. Colby grinned.

Back to plan A. Time to teleport himself to a different part of the field. He didn't want to be pinned down. Colby teleported and found himself next to another dragon that was dropping...out of its throat came Megan. She looked badass covered in blood like that. "Holy shit that was cool." Colby said, with the appropriate amount of awe to be in one's voice when you watch someone climbing out of the throat of a dragon.

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Sierra looked up at Willow and blushed slightly as she smiled seeing her taking out the soldier, she accepted her hand and pulled herself back up and started to dust herself off. "I'm better now thank you." Seirra said to Willow the fighting seemed to be going on still, seeing that their forces were now starting to gain some ground.

"Lets go and catch up to the others." Sierra said as she quickly started to run forward managing to catch up to some of the others. Just in time to see Megan crawling out of the mouth of a dead dragon, she looked pretty bloody but alive still which was a good thing then. "Are you alright?" Arthur asked looking at his daughter with a worried look not to many people survived getting eaten alive by a massive dragon. Gabriella managed to catch up now as well to and looked at the two dragons and started to smile, as she started to use her necromancy and started to bring them back from the dead. "Glad that you are alright." She said to Megan as she ordered her now undead dragons to attack now, as they flew over the castle and started to attack it directly.

Over where Jack was in the courtyard Rumple was holding his side and groaned a bit as he looked down seeing that he was bleeding pretty badly thanks to the bull that his son managed to summon with that new staff of his. "Oh she'll eventually fall, and when everyone is weak and least expecting it i'll be taking over." Rumple said smiling at Jack, then he paused for a moment seeing two undead dragons flying over, and fire quickly started raining down on the courtyard. "I'll see you around son." Rumple said as some rubble started to fall down in between them causing a bunch of dust to cover the air. When the dust cleared Rumple had disappeared from Jack's view, leaving him alone in the burning courtyard alone there was an entrance that would lead to the front of the castle where the others were, he could lower the drawl bridge for them all to enter.

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The chaos inside the castle started to get much worse now as Layla spotted briefly a pair of undead looking dragons were now attacking the castle, causing the hallway to shake a bit. Layla quickly rolled out of the way from her attacker as he tried to attack her she took out her knife and threw it at him, managing to hit him in the shoulder. Jafar and Merlin were busy fighting one another using their own magic to attack each other. Merlin noticed just in time to see an undead dragon flying over where they were through a window and quickly started to create a shield around his group.

Jafar and his group weren't so lucky as the dragon breathed fire down on all of them, destroying the ceiling as it came down on all of them. Luckily Merlin had brought it up just in time as he looked at the others. "Are you all okay?" Merlin asked them, Jafar's soldiers who were behind the shield that Merlin had made quickly surrendered. "Yeah i'm fine." Layla said to Merlin.

"The queen is at the other end of the hall, just let us go." One of the soldiers said just as one of them fell to the ground thanks to Cassi's earlier attacks and bled out. "Lets keep going then." Layla said, the hallway was destroyed but the floor for the most part was intact, however they would need to crawl over the wreckage to get to the throne room that Maleficent was in.

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Maddie felt as the ground began to shake. His legs felt unstable underneath the massive shifts that trembled beneath him. It was fortunate that Merlin had taken Jafar from him, locking the pair in a battle of mysticism to see which of the two would win out. It was then that he saw what was causing such chaos. Why the floor suddenly felt like they were on unstable ground. Two undead dragons flew around the castle, breathing fire all around as they damaged the building. He watched as the stone above them seemed to glow and crack, making Maddie throw his hands up instinctively as if it would help any.

There was a shimmer that surrounded him, a brief glimpse caught just before flames engulfed the hall and then nothing but smoke and dust remained. Maddie tried to look around, pressing his hand against the shield before it vanished and the dust cleared enough to show Jafar and his forces had been defeated. Only a few remained behind them all, each surrendering and giving away Maleficent's location. The only thing that stood in their path was the destruction caused by the dracoliches above. Maddie figured they'd waste time and energy if they all tried to cross the rubble, or worse get injured along the way. He pressed his hands against the nearest stone, feeling his magic enter it as he fused and shaped it all together into a bridge to cross.

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Soldiers, magic, and undead dragons. Oh my! Cassiopeia wondered how she was ever going to get anyone to believe what she did these last couple of weeks. She ducked, bringing Layla and Rose with her, when the undead dragons opened fire. Thankfully, they had Merlin on their side to protect them. She pushed her hood back and stood up, ready for whatever came next. The other side quickly admitted defeat and gave up the location of Maleficent.
”Not very loyal,” she noted. Cassiopeia took Rose’s hand and squeezed it. ”Are you okay?” In the chaos, Cassi hadn’t time to come to Rose’s aid. She was grateful to see Rose okay, but some bruises were quickly forming on her neck from nearly having her life choked out of her.

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Something strange happened when Sierra blushed. Willow’s eyes sparkled as a warmth filled her from the moment's connection and their joint hands. The sounds of dragons roaring and clashing metal brought her back to reality. Something was definitely happening to Willow, but an epic battle was also happening. She needed to remain focused.
Willow ran in behind Sierra, catching up with the others. She watched Megan crawl out of a dead dragon, and her jaw dropped. That was something that happened in movies, not reality. Willow was glad the girl was alive, but she was even more glad she wasn’t covered in dragon blood and guts. Overhead, undead dragons continued to soar and circle. Willow assumed they were on their side because of Gabriella.

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Megan turned her head to the side, catching the voice of one of the irritating boys from earlier. But rather than being obnoxious, it seemed he shared an appreciation for a healthy amount of blood. So instead of giving him a scathing remark, Megan nodded her head in his direction to acknowledge his comment, before she continued onwards. Sierra then came into view, as did Arthur and Gabriella and was it... Briar? Elm? Juniper? Some sort of tree name, she couldn't quite recall. "I'm fine," she said, to reassure her father.

"The blood suits me, I think," she admitted. It was rather striking against her pale skin, and her armor prevented it from soaking her to the bone. She didn't have much appreciation for things that were clean and spotless anyways. There was something vibrant about blood and dirt, something that testified to having really lived. She paused, standing next to Gabriella as her infatuation raised the dead dragons, sending the deceased beasts off to menace the opposing army. Megan's eyes were filled with love and adoration. She had never seen someone so incredible before.

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Undead dragons. Sure why not? Rose had decided radical acceptance was the only way to deal with this place. She was able to not get hit by any debris. "I'm good. That was close, but I lived. How are you doing?" She smiled. Rose wasn't an adrenaline junkie, but she did enjoy somewhat risky things at times. This had pushed her a bit farther than she would go on her own, but she didn't think it would traumatize her. She had been able to save herself, and if not then yes it probably would have.

She was tired of the magic solutions, that was her biggest issue with this place. Magic was always the answer. There had to be a better way, though she didn't like the idea of guns. Those always seemed like cheating. Maybe that's how she considered magic too. However, they did now have a clear way to get into the room Malificent was supposedly in. She started into the room, slowly, ready for a fight.

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Colby was tempted to tell Megan and Gabriella to get a room. The fighting had calmed down some. Having an undead army really seemed to help. He didn't blame anyone that was running away from this right now.

He surveyed the fight trying to assess what threats were left and start dealing with them. There was some fighting not far from them. He tried to drop a fireball on the mess but it fizzled, which he thought might be for the best anyway. He considered what he could do that wouldn't be a threat to their side, but would continue to be the distraction the other group needed.

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Things were getting a bit hectic for her, considering apparently there were now undead dragons around? That was not something to be taken lightly, not to mention the fact that the dragons were deciding to attack the area that they were in. She wasn't entirely sure whether or not the dragons were on their side or not, since they seemed to be attacking everything and everyone within the castle, so that worked out to say the least for the moment, since Merlin managed to get a shield up to defend them. That was an actual use for magic.

What wasn't a use for magic, was Matthew deciding to make a bridge out of rocks for no good reason, "Right, like that was actually a good use of magic right there," she said, clearly referring to what Matthew did and being a bit sarcastic about it. She was getting annoyed with magic, and the idea that it sort of just messed with most everything and with the flip of a coin could screw them over if they relied on it way too much.

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He actually hadn't fully expected his father to answer his question. Though it was an answer he kind of was hoping would not be the case. The idea of him taking over when Maleficent failed was not something that he'd wish on anyone. Actually, he was pretty sure that he'd be a worse tyrant then her if given the chance. That was insanely concerning, but his attention shifted to the dragons flying over head and fire started falling down on them. Rubble fell between them as he spoke to him, "Wait a second stop!" he managed to say, but by the time the dust cleared he was gone.

Well now he was in the middle of a courtyard that was on fire, and so he figured he'd get moving out of there and try to find the front entrance or something. Eventually, he managed to find it and saw something that looked like it might lower the bridge and open everything so that they all could enter the castle. Setting to work, he managed to cause the bridge to lower, allowing those nearby to gain entrance to the castle. He ran over that direction, eventually looking and seeing everyone else he had left behind. "You guys want to get in here too to cause some damage or what?" he called over to them.

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"At least I don't have to worry about raising you from the dead now." Gabriella said to Megan giving her a little wink as she watched her lovely pets flying over and causing some destruction against Maleficent's castle. "Shall we keep moving forward?" Sierra asked as she noticed the drawl bridge starting to lower revealing that it was Jack on the other side of it. Maleficent's forces were quickly being dealt with as well to. Sierra held Willow's hand while looking at her and quickly started to move forward and into the courtyard where Jack had been fighting Rumple.

"Are you alright?" Bell asked looking over at Jack seeing that he looked alright for the most part, the bull that was there walked up to Jack and nudged him slightly. Then the fighting started once more as more men started to enter the area through one of the side entrances to the castle in the courtyard that wasn't destroyed blocking their way forward.

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"I'm alright." Layla said to her sister and gave her a slight smile as she stood up and looked at Rose and her sister and shook her head slightly. "You two should make out while we are here." Layla said teasingly as she quickly moved over the bridge that Maddie had made and went across it and over towards the door. She quickly opened it and entered the throne room of sorts, which was a total wreck as she could see the undead dragons had destroyed the room pretty well.

Maleficent was standing in the room with about ten of her own guards there and she glared at the intruders her eyes went directly towards Merlin. "Looks like i'll have to do everything myself." Maleficent said as she quickly cast a spell of her own sending a blast directly at Merlin knocking him backwards. The few remaining guards quickly got into a defensive position in front of their queen as Layla took out one of her knives and threw it at one of them only to miss. Both Flynn and Robin Hood quickly fired off arrows at two of them taking out one of them and injuring the other.

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Cass relaxed when Rose assured her that she was fine. Layla chimed in with her usual sassy comment, and Cassiopeia smirked. ”Why? Was that in some top 20 hot places to make out article you read once?” Instead of kissing Rose, Cassi kissed her twin sister’s cheek.
There would be no time to make out with Rose. Maleficent stood in front of them with ten guards. It wasn’t a lot of protection, but Cassiopeia didn’t underestimate those ten guards. Maleficent had magic on her side. Who knows what those guards could really do? Cassiopeia slid an arrow out of her quiver and notched it. She took aim while Merlin was blasted backwards. Taking a deep breath in and out, Cassiopeia sunk into the comforting space of being a hunter and fired off an arrow.

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Through all the chaos, Willow remained hyper-focused on Sierra’s hand in hers. It was like an anchor, grounding her to this place. Willow kept moving forward, her head feeling strangely clear despite the emotion she felt by holding Sierra’s hand.
Sierra looked back at Willow and tugged her forward across the draw bridge. There was no time for it now, but Willow needed to talk to Sierra after this mess. She could no longer deny what her body was trying to tell her. Willow leaned towards Sierra as if Willow's body was a compass and Sierra was North. Willow couldn’t help but stare at the back of Sierra’s head, looking at the different colours while being pulled along.

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Maddie ignored Rosie's comment as he made his way across the stone bridge. If anything she was probably jealous that she didn't get any magic. That or she truly couldn't see why it wasn't a waste of it. Had he left the rubble before them, they'd all be taxing themselves trying to cross over, or worse they'd injure themselves doing it. He hadn't done much since arriving here, and while magic was strenuous, he typically stuck to smaller spells so he wasn't ever too exhausted. But there was no time for infighting, they had to focus on the task at hand. After all, the sooner they defeated Maleficent the sooner he'd get to go back to Colby.

As the doors to the throne room opened, he saw her standing there, surrounded by guards. He didn't think she needed them, if anything she probably viewed them as fodder for her canons. With a quick motion Merlin was blasted backwards, Maddie torn on if he should help the wizard or press forward with the fight. He didn't want to expend too much magic at first, deciding to try and create some knives of his own to attack Maleficent like he had back when he first met her. Back when he landed a hit. Unfortunately all he managed was some toys, quickly disposed of on the floor before he moved to a new plan.

He tried to call forth vines to burst from the stone beneath their feet and entangle the guards. After all, a stationary target was easier to hit than a moving one for the others. But nothing budged. He silently cursed to himself, wishing Colby was here (he had been much better at all this magic than he was) but he was out there using his skills to distract. It was fine, Maddie decided he didn't need to outwit them just yet, just hurt them. So he summoned a burst of flames that burned at one guard.

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"I would be so lucky," Megan said earnestly. Perhaps it was too fast - perhaps she was playing into a lesbian stereotype, U-hauling with Gabriella - but the idea of the necromancer raising her corpse sent a welcome chill throughout her body. She would gladly serve Gabriella in life and she would gladly do the same in death. There was a pressing need within her, to show Gabriella the full extent of her worship, her ability to be the most faithful disciple. She would bear Gabriella's marks, let Gabriella unravel her and hold her blood in her hands, and she would thank her for it. Death would be the ultimate expression of her dizzying love.

But she could not just think of sacrilege and devotion - the drawbridge had lowered, her brother on the other side of it. They could access Maleficent's castle itself now, no longer engaged in siege-like warfare. The others inside should probably have made good work so far with their efforts, ideally having Maleficent handled, but some reinforcements likely could not hurt - as long as everyone kept focused and on task rather than yelling at each other. So Megan crossed the drawbridge, ready for what would come.

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She wasn't too surprised by the fact that Maleficent had more guards and such in the area who were deciding to attack them. Or that Maleficent herself was deciding to try and attack them. This was not going to work out, and the others were instantly sending out attacks at all of the guards. But that sort of thing wasn't exactly her style of fighting. No, she wasn't a ranged fighter, she did better when it came to hand to hand if it came down to it, though if she had her way, she'd basically never be in a fight like this one. The others were just using their weapons, while Rosalia decided to use her head a bit and try to think of a way to take out the most people in one swoop.

Looking around the area, she glanced up and saw a chandelier hanging above all of them, and following the rope holding it up, she saw where it was tied to the wall. This seemed a bit almost too perfect really and a bit of a cliche, but she instantly started moving towards it, figuring that most people wouldn't notice her moving around. One person did, but she ducked under his attack and managed to race for the rope, before using her knife and swinging, cutting the rope holding the chandelier. Sometimes before chaos happens, seems almost like people could perceive things in slow motion, and that's how it felt for her, as she watched the chandelier come crashing down on the remaining guards, who all were within range of the makeshift weapon. The sound of the chandelier hitting the ground, and the people it had hit, was a bit satisfying for her to say the least.

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Jack was glad that everyone seemed to be still alive, and also thrilled that no one seemed to have question how he had ended up on the other side of the drawbridge in order to lower it. That would have been a bit more complicated to say the least. When Belle asked him if he was alright, he just sort of shrugged a bit. "I mean yeah, I'm alright," he answered, not entirely sure what else to say. Though now he had a cool staff with him that did random stuff, so that was always helpful.

Now though, he had to deal with the bull, and the chaos that was starting to spill into the area, both from their own forces and the new ones. Well, the bull could help deal with the chaos in theory right? So he tried to get the animal to go charging at them now. However it was being insanely stubborn, which he probably should have seen coming honestly. After a few minutes of trying, he did eventually get the creature to go charging into the area, managing to knock down some of the soldiers in the area. Not really injuring them or killing them, but it was better then nothing right?

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"I think I have enough control to not make out in the middle of a battle." Rose rolled her eyes at Layla, but she was smiling. Of course, she'd love to kiss Cassie, but as much as she wanted to now was not the time or place for it. After all the enemies were dealt with seemed more reasonable.

And there were ten new guards to deal with. She lifted her bow, knocked an arrow, and started firing. She figured hitting Maleficent wasn't going to be easy, but she was happy being support and taking out guards. Before she could get off the arrow though Rosalia crushed the guards with a chandelier, it was cliche and hilarious. So she shifted and shot at Maleficent. She sent as many arrows as she could in quick succession, but Maleficient blocked them all.

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Jack had opened the gate for them, giving them access to the courtyard of the castle. How he did that Colby wasn't sure, but whatever they were there now. Guards started coming at them. There was also a bull for some reason, but it wasn't being aggressive so that wasn't his problem.

Colby cast a fireball in the crowd of oncoming guards. A few fell to the flames, but there were still a lot of them. Colby cast another one, this time they seemed to be anticipating it since they dodged it. A third was musted but this one went wide and missed everyone. He needed a moment to compose himself. And figure out a new tactic.

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Chaos continued to reign in on the courtyard as the bull continued to plow through some of the soldiers impaling some on it's horns and sent the body flying around and into a group of their allies. The bull looked at Jack for a moment letting out a huffing like sound before it ended up disappearing most likely back into the staff that Jack had. There was another twenty or so more soldiers as they continued to come out of the woodwork of the castle. One of them ran up and managed to swing their sword at Megan cutting into her armor this time, causing her to bleed a little bit.

Then another soldier came running up and tackled Colby down to the ground and started to try and stab him with a dagger in his hand, another soldier came up and tried to swing at Willow only to miss, and then took a swing at Sierra cutting her slightly with her sword. Gabreilla turned to Megan and quickly started to use her magic and healed her up. Then one of the undead dragons landed in the courtyard to and started attacking some of Maleficent's men taking out five of them with ease.

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Maleficent was more or less focused on Merlin seeing that he was the largest threat to her as Merlin started to use his own magic and knocked her backwards a little bit. Layla looked at her sister and Rose shaking her head slightly once again it was a little bit fun to tease the two of them. "Yeah sure you totally are focused on the battle right now." Layla said to the two of them as she took a knife and threw it at Maleficent managing to get one stuck into her side causing the woman to groan in pain and stared at Layla, and sent a fireball at Layla knocking her backwards and slamming her into the wall.

"Use the lamp now." Merlin said to Maddie who still had it in his hands, as it started to glow slightly they needed to try and end the fight as soon as possible. With all of the guards down protecting her it should be a lot easier to try and take the queen down once and for all. Layla slowly started to get up letting out a slight groan as she had a few small burns around her body but nothing to serious aside from her slightly burned clothes.

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Megan was not too interested in how her brother had gotten to the other side of the drawbridge, given that he was magical now. She was moderately curious about the sudden appearance of the staff, however. She would have to ask about it later - perhaps her brother had a magical weapon of his own now, although she doubted he would be able to do much damage with the staff physically. If it didn't have any sort of an enchantment, then he may as well drop it.

The battle raged onwards, as Megan engaged with the enemy. One of Maleficent's soldiers got in a lucky shot, nicking her in one of the gaps of her armor, her blood flowing freely. But Megan liked pain. A small wound would not be enough to deter her - if anything, it spurred her on. Gabriella healed it up quickly - too quickly, Megan would have liked to fill a vial with her blood and offer it to her love as a present, as a token of her devotion. And she returned to combat, missing first, but her next swing was true and she took out her attacker, before following suit with another soldier.

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Maddie watched as the battle unfolded. Seeing how Rosalia dropped a chandelier atop the guards below and knocked them all out. He didn't think it would've worked, it was too simple, yet clearly it had. All that was left now was to defeat Maleficent. Merlin was still getting up off the ground as Rose fired arrow after arrow at Maleficent, only for each shot to be blocked by a mythical shield. Merlin was once again entangled in a battle of magic against the Dark Queen, and it wasn't until he called out to Maddie that he noticed the lamp was glowing underneath his shirt.

He pulled it out, inspecting it for a moment as he shot a glance between it and Merlin, then to all the others. Why was he the one to make the wish? Why did it all have to fall on him? One wrong move and he could mess with the entire operation. It felt like too much, too difficult. Then he saw the fallen chandelier and thought, maybe it is that simple? He rubbed the lamp, smoke billowing out as the Genie emerged from within. ”Genie, I wish Maleficent and all of her followers lost all of their magic.”

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So... Their fate was being put into the hands of one person in hopes that they made the right wish. Right, this was totally a bad idea, and that would be assuming the person was at least somewhat competent. But putting all of that faith into Matthew of all people and hope he was able to do something even remotely useful? They really should have discussed the wish and what to wish for before they got to this point. Which made the entire situation worse, since all had been discussed was to really free the genie as opposed to what the other two wishes would be.

"This totally is going to end well, at least it's better him then the other idiot I suppose," she commented, staying back as she waited to see what would happen. The wish that Matthew made seemed simple enough, but she wasn't sure if there was any sort of thing that would result in the wish getting twisted or not being super straight forward or anything like that. So all she could really do was wait and see what would happen with it.

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He wasn't entirely sure what to do aside from send the bull racing around the area knocking people out. Unfortunately it didn't seem like that was going to last forever, as soon enough the bull looked at him before disappearing. Well that wasn't a good thing, though what else the staff could do was anyone's guess, or whether it was fully a good thing that it had summoned the bull. No time like the present to do some more sort of experimenting with it then right?

"Let's see if you can do anything else..." he muttered, before he tried using the staff again, except this time a random doll popped up out of nowhere and hit the ground. "Ok then... Was expecting something a bit more useful then that, come on do something useful..." His next attempt to actually use the staff resulted in nothing, which was a little better then causing more issues. His third attempt did something though, as a fireball shot off and resulted in taking out five of the soldiers. "...Guess that's better then nothing but I can already do that without the staff."