The Son Of Alice || A Once Upon A Time Story

A Land Without Magic

I ran as quickly as I possibly could in the opposing direction of Jafar's castle and Marvello's shop. Dodging tree after tree and jumping over logs and roots through the woods. "Where is it that you're going?" I heard Chris' familiar half-accented voice. I stopped and he walked over to me. I turned around "You know you can tell me. And besides, I think being on your side would be a good thing." He said.

"You're asking for friendship?" I asked. "After you pointed a bow and arrow at me, twice." "After you tried to swing an axe into my head? Yes." He said. I decided to tell him what I was doing. "I'm trying to get as far away from Jafar's castle as possible." I said "I'll join you on that journey." Christopher said. I nodded and we kept running.

We eventually reached the field where Great Aunt Carol's house used to be. That was over 6 years ago. We got to it and saw the ashy remains. I told him what had happened here, how it happened. "I'm sorry." Chris said "LOOK OUT!" He shouted. I moved quickly. Jafar had arrived with his guards and one swung his sword at me. I stopped it with the Vorpal Blade.

"Hello... Alex..." Jafar said. The guard swung the sword again. I slashed it out of his hand and stabbed him in the heart. That was the first time I had eve killed someone, I felt terrible. Chris aimed his bow and arrow at Jafar. Two or three got behind us and took our weapons. Jafar lifted me into the air with his magic, chocking me.

"There is so much... torture, that I would enjoy doing to you. But I'm going to do something even better. There are far worse things than death." He said. He dropped me and turned to Chris. He had a potion, I knew what it was, Onyx, a potion that if you consume, you turn to stone.

He poured it into Christopher's mouth. He kicked the guard holding him back, grabbed his bow and pointed it at Jafar. But right then...

He turned to stone...

"NOO!" I yelled on the ground. "And now. I am going to send you some place terrible." Jafar said. "Where's that?" I asked, glaring at him. He threw a magic bean. "A Land Without Magic!" He said. A portal opened. "Tell me the name." I said "Storybrooke. I'm exiling your for three reasons, Public Nudity. Yes I know about your run in with a lost boy." Jafar said and threw my sword in, "Robbery." He said and pushed Chris in, "And now, murder." and then he pushed me in too.

A few moments later...

I landed inside a barn. The Chris statue was there too, upright. "Don't worry, I'll save you, Christopher." I picked up my sword and put it inside my holster. I walked out of the barn and kept walking a while. I got into what was a funny looking village, with people walking aside the streets wearing funny clothes. And there were these creatures.

They roamed the streets with light emanating from their eyes and you could see people inside them. They ate people! I backed away into a library.
It all reminded me of The Wizard of Oz for a moment. Like Dorothy had said she wasn't in Kansas anymore, I wasn't in Wonderland anymore. I looked around the library and saw a woman at a counter who looked at my clothing strange.

"I haven't seen you in town before. I'm Belle, I work here at the Storybrooke library." She said. We shook hands "I'm Alexander, may I read some of these books? And I've never seen someone working at a library before." I said "Of course, are you from another realm by any chance?" Belle asked "Wonderland, but tell no one." I said, walking towards the book shelves.

I read books on all sorts of things, everything about this world I never knew. I took a look in a mirror from my pouch. "What am I wearing?" I whispered. I took out a potion and used it. It's called Attire Desire. It changed my clothing into something normal.

Then it hit me

There WAS magic in this land. Jafar just didn't know it. I walked out the library after a few hours of reading. "I'll see you later Belle." I said "Bye Alex, did you? Never mind." She said after looking at the change in hair and clothing. "Welcome to Storybrooke." I told myself as I began walking.