The fairies take Aurora to the castle to await her birthday celebrations and be reunited with her parents. Maleficent appears and lures Aurora into a dark tower with the spindle of a cursed spinning wheel, forcing Flora, Merryweather, and Fauna to stop her. But before they can, Aurora pricks her finger, fulfilling the curse, only moments before the sun sets. When the fairies arrive too late to save Aurora, Maleficent taunts the three fairies in their efforts to defeat her and reveal the sleeping princess before she disappears. Feeling heartbroken about what happened, the three fairies place the sleeping Aurora on a bed in the highest tower and cast a powerful spell on everyone in the kingdom, causing them to sleep until the spell on their princess is broken. After overhearing a brief sleepy conversation between the two kings, they realize that Phillip is the man Aurora fell in love with in the forest. They rush to find him, but they were too late as they discovered that Maleficent and her goons have abducted him. At the Forbidden Mountains, Maleficent shows Phillip the sleeping Princess Aurora and says she will lock him away until he is an old man on the verge of death. Only then will she release him to meet his love, who will not have aged a single day.