Once Upon A Time ~ Book 1

Chapter 128 - The Chaos And Catastrophe Begins

Maleficent walked up the steep, high steps to her throne in the great hall of her dark castle, the only light being the sunlight shining through the narrow, bright stain-glass windows behind her throne and the waxy candles burning in the black chandeliers above. She held her staff with the orb on top in her hand and her dark purple, valey dress trailed accross the black, stone steps. When she reached her throne she sat down, facing the empty, silent hall. Then, suddenly the blade of a cold, silver sword wad held up agaist her pale, bare neck.
She gasped, her sharp, blue eyes widening with surprise.
"Where is it?" asked Charming, who held his sword to her neck, the golden egg with the vile inside under his arm. He twisted his sword in his hand so the tip of the blade dug a little into her pale flesh and steped around her throne to face her. "Where is ghe beast that reigns over this castle?" he said a little more demanding.
Maleficent stared up at him and with a flick of her wrist he was blasted back to the cold black tiles below the steps.
"That would be me." she got to her feet and began to walk down the steps. "But beasties so harsh...... I prefer Maleficent."
Charming glared down at the egg in his arms, then back up at her, sighing. "I'm gonna need a smaller egg."
"Such a shame. So handsome."
He jumped to his feet and with that Maleficent blew a wind an ice cold room accross the hall, extinguishing the pale, waxy candles above and then she disappeared, only her crud and evil laughter hanging in the air.
Charming turned around brandishing her sword aimlessly. He ran around the hall, striking his sword in the air where he could hear her cackles.
"Show yourself, witch." he demanded. He stared around the pale air, then heard a low growling from the throne. He turned slowly to see huge, black leathery, wings cloaking a beast beneath the size of the beautiful stain-glass windows. Then the leathery wings were lifted into the air to reveal the fearsome, scaley dragon with sharp, green eyes and horns on her head. She growled loudly at Charming.
He turned and ran down the hall and slid behind a giant grey pillar as she gushed fire from between her razor sharp teeth. He dodged her burning flames quickly, his sword in her hand and the egg in the other.

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The elevator reached the bottom with Emma inside, armed with her father's trusty sword. It hit the ground with a thud beneath the town in a dark, rocky cave mine with little lights hanging from the uneven, rocky roof of the stoney tunnel ahead. She pulled up the gate door of the elevator and stepped into the mining cave, confused and at loss of what to do in the silent, eey, mysterious place beneath the clock tower.
She reached the end of the lit up tunnel and stepped into a giant, high dark cave, this time with no little lights to lead the way, just rock and dusty mist. She stood in the beam of light from the tunnels, staring ahead and above, bewildered and amazed, then stepped inside, holding up the sword. She walked over to Snow White's dusty, glass coffin and stared at it. She then stepped back, leaning against the stone wall, at loss of what to do. Then as her red leather jacket touched what she thought was a wall, a huge, green eye opened next to her. She held her gaze to the other end of the cave, not noticing the eye, but then as her hand brushed off the wall, her eyes widened in shock as she felt the leathery skin. The beast behind her shrugged, lifting it's head. Emma stumbled backwards as the dragon lifted it's head and breathed fire over the roof as it shereached loudly accross the cave, the fire in her chest so wild that it could be seen through her leathery skin. She protected her head with her arm then held up her sword fearfully, gazing up at the magnificent fire-breathing beast.

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The fearsome dragon roamed around the hall gushing fire between ever pillar, attempting to burn Charming who hid behind one of them. He dodged the flames again as the beast moved closer, then as the dragon bent her head around the pillar, scouring with her green eyes he slid carefully and slowly around the other side, opposite her. She turned around, staring around the room, searching for Charming. He peered around the pillar, gazing at her turned head then he hid behind it again, thinking quickly in his mind of some sort of a plan to hid the egg inside the beast. He stared down at the egg, a smile growing on his face as a plan came to mind. He stepped from behind the pillar again.
"Come on!" he shouted.
The dragon swerved round in his direction but Charming ran around the other side of the pillar. The dragon got her head caught beneath the pillar and she gushed the fire from her throat, frustrated and raged.