Once Upon a Time

Chapter 11

Hope, Mrs Flora and Faith had been walking for a few minutes now, but how further they went down the path, how darker it became.

‘I don’t know if we’re walking right.’ Faith said.

‘I’ve got a feeling we took the wrong direction.’ Faith added.

‘I think Faith is right.’ Mrs Flora said.

Hope sighed and looked around. Then she knew why this forest looked so familiar to her, it was the forest of that nightmare where the Evil Queen first killed Snow White and then Hope. Hope got a huge headache and she felt like vomiting.

‘I’m not feeling well.’ Hope said.

‘Come where going back.’ Mrs Flora said.

‘Faith can you help her?’ Mrs Flora asked.

‘Yes of course.’ Faith said walking towards Hope and placing her arm around her waist so Hope wouldn’t fall over.

Hope felt as if she would faint in a few seconds. Everything around her was turning around, it was making her dizzy.

‘Hope may I ask how you knew out of the sudden how we could come back?’ Mrs Flora asked softly.

‘And why you were talking about a ring?’ Faith asked.

‘A few days ago I was walking through the hallway and I heard a whisper, the first time James was around so I couldn’t look in the room where it came from. The second time I got in the room and found a ring. A few days later the ring started to whisper and it told me that I had to go to the closet, stand in front of it. I just automatically started to think of the pictures in the fairy tales book and then this happened.’ Hope said.

‘The ring… where is it now?’ Faith asked.

‘In my pocket.’ Hope said.

‘Can you give it to me?’ Mrs Flora asked.

Hope nodded and got the ring out of her pocket. She put it on Mrs Flora’s hand and just at that moment, when the ring touched Mrs Flora hand her eyes widened and she gasped, letting the ring fall on the ground.

‘Ouch.’ Mrs Flora said holding her hand with her other one as if it hurt.

‘What?’ Hope asked.

‘This is not good, not good at all.’ Mrs Flora said.

‘What do you mean?’ Hope asked.

‘The ring is filled with dark magic, it can’t be darker.’ Mrs Flora said.

‘But we are in our world aren’t we?’ Hope asked.

‘Yes, but the ring send us to one of the most dangerous places in our world.’ Mrs Flora said.

‘Oh shoot.’ Hope whispered.

‘So I found a ring that is some kind of Dark Magic thing?’ Hope asked.

‘I’m afraid so.’ Mrs Flora said.

‘Oh no! What do we need to do now?’ Faith asked.

‘We need to go away from here as fast as possible.’ Mrs Flora said.

‘But how? Because I don’t know the way.’ Hope said.

‘Me neither.’ Faith said.

‘Okay we need to start walking so which way are we going?’ Mrs Flora asked.

‘Let’s go this way.’ Faith said pointing to the left way.

‘Good for me.’ Hope said shrugging.