Finding You Always

Operation Mongoose, Pt 1

Chapter 100: Operation Mongoose, Pt 1

"Cruella!" Charming hollered, as the three of them ran into the open field, plus Regina, Robin, Leo and Killian as they arrived. They could see Eva and Henry tied up and sitting together by some rocky outcroppings.

"Oooh...yes dahling, call my name," she purred. As they got closer, she waved the gun, stalling them. She couldn't actually use, but they didn't know that.

"Bad move, two tone. Graduating from napping puppies to kids won't end well for you," Emma snapped. Cruella smirked, as she brushed the barrel of the gun against Eva's fair cheek.

"Careful Savior. I'd say I'm the one in control," she goaded.

"If you hurt them..." Snow started to say.

"You'll what? You're Snow White. I've done things that would make you double over and wretch. Don't make dark threats you aren't possibly capable of acting on," she interrupted.

"You hurt my daughter or my grandson and you'll see how dark I can be," Snow growled back. But Cruella only smirked and looked around, wondering where that useless author was. But instead of him appearing, Gold and Maleficent arrived in a puff of smoke.

"Gold...stop this now! She's using our grandson!" David spat. He raised his hand and freed Henry of the ropes. He was gone in a puff of smoke.

"No harm will come to Henry. He's safe with Bae now. The same won't hold true for young Eva or your parents, Miss Swan, unless we make a deal," Gold stated.

"Like hell she will," Charming spat. Gold looked to Maleficent and she actually looked sorry.

"I'm sorry, but this is the only way I can get my child back," she said regrettably, as she blew magenta colored smoke at them. They cried out, as thick, thorny vines cropped up, separating them from Emma. The thick snare of vines coiled around Snow and Charming and they huddled closed together. Snow raised the chalice, but a thorn sliced her hand and the chalice fell to the ground. It was quickly cut off from them by the spiky vines. Aphrodite unleashed her pink colored magic on Gold, but he was ready for the goddess and sucked it into the hat and then absorbed her into the hat as well.

"Stop! If I let you absorb me into the hat, will you let them go?" Emma asked.

"No Emma!" Killian cried.

"Emma...don't do this!" Snow cried.

"Yes, surrender yourself and your family...and the pirate will be safe," Gold replied.

"From the author too?" she asked.

"Yes...I will forbid him from harming them," he agreed.

"Then we have a deal," Emma replied.

"NO!" Charming cried with sheer anguish, as she turned to them in tears.

"Emma please..." Killian cried, even as the vines closed in around him.

"I'm sorry...I love you. I'm just sorry I didn't say it sooner," she said, as she turned to her parents.

"Emma..." they uttered tearfully.

"I love you guys. You are the best parents a kid could have. Bobby and Summer need you though, so I have to do this," she said, as she turned away from her crying parents.

"Get it over with and let them go," Emma demanded. God waved the dagger over the hat and it opened again. Emma felt like her body was elongating and her surroundings blurred, as she was sucked into it in a ball of white light. Snow let out a gut wrenching sob and Charming held her, as he cried almost uncontrollably himself. The hat glowed blindingly bright and a shock wave of power blew them all back. Maleficent's vines disappeared, but the danger was only beginning, as an inky mass of black matter seeped from the hat.