In her moment of glory, watching Auradon Prep burn to the ground and knowing her inevitable victory was just in her grasp, Maleficent didn't expect to see a flabby octopus lady be thrown across the sky in a beautiful arc, screaming loudly.

Yep. Really didn't expect that. It had been quite surprising.

While Maleficent gaped and Virgil waited coweringly for instructions, the others stepped in. Patton was holding a summoned collection of first aid, helping injured students and staff. Everyone had agreed to try keep him as far from the fighting as possible, for he was too important to be lost to Auradon. The country needed him more than the others. Janus and Remus were back to back, Remus with his morning star and Janus with his lamp. The half genie was no longer in his 'human' form and was a fully fledged, smoking fiasco of a golden genie with bronze and copper mixed in. Roman was hiding behind Virgil, prepared to try and snap him out of it, even if last time nearly ended badly. He was sure he could manage.

Logan had borrowed Roman's' sword and had drawn it as he crept up behind the fairy. He began to stand up, quietly rasing the katana to get a clean swipe of her head. The world seemed to hold it's breath as Maleficent watched Ursula fly in the air, mouth open wide. Her head followed the sea witch across the dark sky until it was level again once she had flown out of sight. And, just before Logan took the swing, she caught sight of the fire glistening on the blade and flashed away in a puff of flame as Logan narrowly missed.

"How dare you!" She screeched, appearing a good few metres to Logan's' right. The prince wasn't interested in her monologing, so he just went for another swing, only for the fairy to step back. "Oh, how dare you," Maleficent growled, the surprise fleeting quickly. In a small flicker of green flame, her nails grew wicked, cruel and monsterous, nearly as long as Roman's' katana. Poison dripped of them and sizzled on the ground.

Logan blinked. "Ah," He said and he fight began.

Remus was about to charge head-in, but Janus grabbed him by the arm. "But you might get hurt!" Protested the now giant genie, holding his lover's' wrist in a giant palm.

"So will nerdy wolverine over there," Remus responed firmly. "Besides, I'll be fine. I jumped out of a window, like, ten minutes ago!" And he ran over, shrieking 'Purge of the Octopus' at the top of his lungs before plunging into the battle.

Janus went to follow, only to see Roman about to get himself killed. Nobody saw that coming.

It seemed that the prince had a knack for suicidal missions, as Cinderella's' only son was running as fast as he could up Virgil's' tail, holding his arms out for balance as he raised onto the dragon's' hindquarters, only succeeding in infuriating the beast. He grabbed onto Virgil's' fins as the fairy tried to shake him off vigurously, a roar breaking through the pandomium.

"Get off him!" Demanded Maleficent, breaking from her battle with Remus and Logan breifly to fire a calculated missile of black shards, before being forced to defend herself. Roman just ducked in time, nearly falling off in the process.

Roman was breathing heavily, stumbling along Virgil's' back, holding onto his rigid spines for dear life. Janus appeared next to him, shrinking his giant genie form to be human-sized once more. "This is a fancy way to commit suicide, if that's what you want," Janus snapped sarcastically, turning a collection of Maleficent's' black shards into harmless sand with a wave of his hand.

"I'm not... trying... to die," Retorted Roman grouchily, his exhaustion obvious in his voice. It was harder than it looked.

"You seem to be," Janus responded, turning a flight of ravens into tiny woodlice, that dropped angrily to the floor and bounced off the dragon's' scales.

Roman glanced at the genie. "Any help would be appreciated, y'know," He prompted.

"'Fraid not, princey," Janus said. "I'm not in this form for very long, my dad's vanished somewhere and I need to make sure no one dies so I have absolutely no time to help you." Roman looked at him in disbelief until the genie grinned. "Joke," He added and, in a puff of yellow, Roman was standing on Virgil's' snout, looking into the dragon's' eyes.

"Well, shit," He breathed, just as Logan was scratched by Maleficent's' newly arrived talons.

He'd been holding his own incredibly well, hacking off the fairy's' claws to defend himself and attemtping to stab her at every chance he got and Remus had, surprisingly, been a blessing in battle because he fought with a mad frenzy that kept the villian constantly occupied. But Logan tired far easily than the Isle folk. His dodges became sloppier and his jabs were beginning to carry him with them. It was inevitable and the poison was horrible.

The moment the liquid touched his blood, it felt like it had just electrocuted it. Logan dropped Roman's' katana, shaking madly for a brief few seconds before dropping, sprawled on the ground. A small trickle of foaming dribble began to spill from the corner of his mouth and he spasmed on the ground madly, coughing every now and then. His vision was getting blurry and he kept seeing little spots that he couldn't focus on, despite their growing numbers.

He remembered a yellow, steaming figure of Janus that was slowly turning more human appear besides him but he had blacked out by the time the half-genie had gotten him to Patton.

Patton had been doing very well. He had found a small place as far away from the fire as he could get to keep people from breathing in too much smoke, and was nursing as amny as he could when a familiar villain appeared.

"Patton!" Janus shouted. "Patton, it's Logan!"

Instantly, the prince dropped the bandage roll he'd been holding, his freckled face paled and he was terrified almost senseless. "Logan?!" He cried, rushing over. He looked down at his boyfriend, horrorfied. "What happened?!"

Janus was breathing heavily too. "Maleficent- poisoned him. I-I don't know what it is, I don't know what to do-"

"You can make wishes!" Patton shouted desperatly, only loking at Logan as he tried to smear away the foam and rub away the blood, tears in his eyes. "I wish Logan to not be poisoned! Now do it!"

"I can't!" Janus shouted. "I dropped my lamp to pick him up, it's over there!"

Patton finally looked up. "Since when did you need a lamp?!"

"Since I practically exhausted myself in  your boyfriend's' stupid plan!" Janus retorted, before catching hold of himself. He took in a deep breath, and calmed down, looking into Patton's' eyes. "I'll get my lamp," He said, calmer now. "And then we can end this thing."