"Maleficent? Fae use words for spells, so your name... it must have power. I don't know if you're listening, but I will just say your name again and hope you do. Maleficent listen - please. I'm lost on the Road to Darkness and I need your help to get out. I saw Her Majesty Queen Minnie throw Pete in a Realm of Darkness to 'cool off', but I saw Pete is still regularly online on the Command Board, so someone must have gotten him out. You're the strongest sorceress I know. Could we talk?"

@manipulativeinstincts answered:

Her name indeed had power, as do the true names of all fae. It had been a calculated risk she took when she spread her name around this side of the universe. Where very few people knew the truth about fae, but she took it. Just in case she died, and she was glad she did.

So of course she heard when her name was called in a plea. She followed the call with her scrying orb and found a lost Master in darkness. She could help the poor girl. But there wasn’t anything in it for her as far as she could see. Still, it’s only polite to hear the girl out since she was called.

Maleficent stepped out of a portal, a small distance away from Aqua. “So Pete is slacking off again, you say?”

The moment she heard the sound of Maleficent voice, Aqua whipped around in her fighting stance. She didn’t know how long she had been walking around in the Dark World, but any sound meant battle, and her hand was itching to summon the keyblade. She curled her fingers as if playing the piano, but didn’t ball her fist, because she was looking at Maleficent, and she had never been this glad to see anyone. A person.

My heart... I can feel it again.

Dark or not, her presence brought relief. It meant Aqua was no longer so excruciatingly alone. She could almost ignore the fact that Malicifent’s eyes were frighteningly narrowed, and how she seemed to ooze a darkness that was blacker than that of the Dark Realm. She held a darkness that drew the yellow-eyes in, and at the same time, she repelled them. She was on par with Master Xehanort. But Xehanort was chained in Terra, and Maleficent still roamed free.  Aqua thought she should be more weary, but in fact, she was just exhausted.

“I found a new castle on this side of the universe 3 months ago, and sent Pete on a fool’s errand 4 months ago so I could get a little peace and quiet.”

If it had been anyone but Riku, she would have twisted the truth. But she knew how well he knew her after all that time. He might have even translated whatever half-truths she gave him if she hadn’t decided the untwisted version was fine.

“And how goes your own search?”

“You’re not moved in, so I take it the previous occupants are resisting the repossession aren’t they?” There was a huff in amusement as he processed the later part of her initial statement. “Can’t say I blame you. Good help seems to be harder to come by.” Pete was....not good help. Hades seemed to be doing his own thing, and if Maleficent bothered with Oogie one more time, he might just burn the sack so it couldn’t be re-inflated. 

Reluctantly he chose to answer her own remark, as unintentionally barbed as it was. 

…..new xkit has an outbox, I insist everyone get that