Once Upon A Time ~ Book 1

Chapter 5 - The Curse Begins.....

Geppetto an Pinocchio were in the nursery in the castle, creating the beautiful vessel that would trassorted Snow and her unborn child to the land where the evil queen would curse them to for all enterity.
The vessel was mostly a trunk, but there where beautyful doors to it.

Nearby in the castle, Snow stood out in the open balcony, staring out into the distance.
She turned around and walked back inside towards Charming, who stood inside, next to a stove.
"I don't want to do this." said Snow.
Charming looked towards her. "It has to be you." he said.
"I'm not leaving you." Snow said walking quickly over to Charming, her eyes over flowing with tears.
Charming pit his arms around Snow."It's the only way." he said, looking into her eyes. "You'll go in there and you'll be safe from the curse." he said as Snow cryed ferociously.
"He said it would be on her 28th birthday." she said.
"What's 28 years I'd you have eternal love?"
Snow sobbed, her hands on Charming's face.
"I got faith. You will save me as I did you."
Snow kept sobbing and then she leaned forward and kissed Charming, their arms now wrapped around each other, Charming's arms around her waist and Snows arms around his neck.
Then suddenly Snow took her lips from his and stepped back.
"What is it?" said Charming, his hands still around her waist.
Snow gasped, breathing heavily. "Baby." she let out another gasp "She's coming."

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The castle was filled with armed soldiers, they stood at every turn and door, preparing for what was yet to come. Up at the top of the castle, by the curtain walls, soldiers pased and the drawf, Grumpy stood looking over the entrance of the castle.
He took a drink from his flask and stared at the sudden whooping sound in the distance. He squinted, focusing on the distance. Birds cryed and flew towards the castle.
Grumpy turned around and kicked another drawf in the leg, who sat, leaning against the wall, asleep.
"Wake up." Grumpy said to the snoring drawf. "Wake up!"
The drawf suddenly awoke and stood up, next to Grumpy.
"Look!" said Grumpy.
Thunder crashed and a giant griffon, flew over the castle, as smoke, in the shade of blue stared to swim accross the mountains and threw the forest, towards the castle.
"The curse!" shouted Grumpy, running towards the gaint bell. "It's here!" he shouted, as he pullets rope and ran the giant bell, to warn the people of the Kingdom.

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Emma lay, asleep in a strange room and was slowly awoke by a man whistling near by.
She quickly opened her eyes and saw a plain, grey cyling. She turned her head quickly to see bars in front of her.
"What are you looking at, sister?" said a voice next to her.
Emma looked around confused.
"Hey, Leroy, manners." said an Italian voice from the other side of the room. "We have a guest." said a middle aged man, as he walked towards the two cells that both Leroy and Emma were trapped, separately.
Emma stood up and wakled toward the bars.
"So you are Henry's mother?" said the man with the Italian accent to Emma. "How lovely for him to have you back in his life." he said as Emma felt her head with her hand, and closed her eyes.
"Acually, I was just dropping him off." Emma said.
"Don't blame you. They're all brats. Who needs them?" said the short man with a short black beard, in the cell next to Emma.
"Well, I'd give anything for one." said the man. "My wife and I, we tried for many years, but he was not meant to be." he said to Emma.
"Well, cry me a river." said the man in the cell sarcasticly.
"Leroy, if I'm going to let you out, you need to behave." said a man from the mayors house the night before, walking from the door, towards Leroy's cell with keys in his hand. "Put on a smile, and stay out of trouble."
Leroy stood up and stood up as the man opened the cell. He walked towards the man and put on a fake, sarcastic smile, standing in front of him for a moment and walking away.
"Seriously?" said Emma, leaning against the bars of her cell.
The sherif turned to Emma and walked towards her cell. "Regina's drinks, a little stronger than we thought." he said.
"I wasn't drunk." said Emma. "There was awoke standing in the middle of the road."
The shelf sighed "A wolf. Right." he said, smiling disbelievingly.
"Graham?" said a voice from the hall. "Henry's run away again. We have to......" she said stopping as she came onto the room and saw Emma. "What is she doing here?" Regina said. "Do you know where he is?" she said walking over to Emma.
"Lady, I haven't seen him since I dropped him at your house." said Emma. "A pretty good alibi." she said lifting her arms to indicate the cell she was in.
"He wasn't in his room this morning." said Regina.
"Did you try his friends?"
"He doesn't really have any. He's kind of a loner."
"Every kid has friends......Did you check his computer? If he's close to someone, he might be emailing them."
"And you know this, how?"
"Finding people's what I do. Here's an idea. How about you guys let me our, and I'll help you find him?"

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The man with the Italian accent ~ Geppetto

Leroy ~ The Drawf, Grumpy