Once Upon a Time: Ever After High (Book 8)

Ch.4 Future visions

Later that night, Elena, Terrence, Darling, and Aidan made their way into the woods to search for the people who came from the Land of Untold Stories. Once they made it to the woods, Elena and Terrence went one way while Aidan and Darling went to other.

"Terrence just texted me" Aidan said as he put away his phone "There's no sign of Hyde's friend in the north side."

"It's already dark" Darling said "It's not gonna get any easier."

"Whoa whoa wait" he suddenly stopped her as he picked up a stick and tossed it in front of her onto a pile of leaves as a net suddenly sprang up from underneath it.

"Wow" Darling said un-amused as she examined the net "Amateurs. They were in a hurry."

She then looked ahead to see a bunch of trees and bushes as a thought came to her.

"They're hiding because they're scared" her face lit up with realization "They don't know if they can trust us."

At that point she stood on top of a tree stump and faced ahead.

"Hello?!" she called, no answer "My name is Darling Charming you can trust me! Hyde is locked up he can't hurt you! The people in our town want to help."

As Aidan looked ahead, he suddenly saw lit up torches and figures of people.

"Darling look" he pointed ahead with a surprised look as more of the people began to appear.

"There's a place called the 'Wonder diner' it'll give you food" Darling added "People who can arrange for shelter. We'll be there whenever you're ready."

And with that she motioned her brother to follow her and they headed off, hoping that the people will trust them.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the woods, Elena was on her phone when she got a text from Darling.

"Your siblings" she told Terrence "They found some of Hyde's people. They told them to go to the 'Wonder diner' for food and shelter."

"I can use some food and shelter right about now" he said with a small sigh.

All of a sudden Elena heard a flapping noise as she looked up and saw a white dove landing on a tree branch as her eyes widen and her hand began to shake.

"You go ahead" she told him as she tried to stay calm "I'm gonna stay."

"Stay?" Terrence said a bit surprised "It's pitch black and freezing. Are you trying to avoid talking to me?"

"No of course not, I just, need to be alone for a bit."

"Elena" he said as he looked down "Look at your hand."

Elena looked at her still shaking hand as she used her other hand to grab onto it force it to stop.

"Elena what's going on with you?" Terrence demanded.

"It's nothing" she lied "Now would you please go?"

As he sighed, she looked up to see that the dove was still there.

"Fine" he said "I'll leave you alone."

As he headed off, Elena gave a sad sigh feeling bad that she had to send Terrence off. But once he was gone, the dove started to fly off as she began to follow it. She ran after it through the woods while keeping her eye on it, she had no idea where she was going, but she was hoping to get some answers. She continued to follow the dove until it landed on another tree branch as she came to a stop, and when she looked in front of her, she saw a girl sitting on a log with her back turned to her, she had long dark hair and was wearing a dark blue cloak.

"I see you've met my pet Elena" the girl suddenly said as she got up and faced Elena.

Elena saw that she was also wearing a long beige dress and had bright green eyes.

"Who are you?" Elena asked with her eyes widen "How do you know my name?"

"I know many things" the girl said "Like why you're here, the visions."

"Why the hell are they in my head?"

"Because, these visions Elena, they tell a story, the story of your future."

"My future?"

"I know your so called destiny to become the next Evil Queen, but I know they you want to choose your own story, and I'm actually really proud of you for that, but since you're also the savior, that means you're going by the path of your other story. And like I said, those visions show a part of your future savior, the end of your story."

At that point Elena was even more shocked, not only did she have another destiny, but it more like a nightmare. Those visions were showing her the end of her story, the end of her life.

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Far out from the town of Storybrooke, out in the farm land was a little abandoned house. But it was about to be occupied when the door was suddenly opened by young Mr. Gold as he made his way inside and turned on the lights.

"Well look who's here" a familiar voice suddenly said.

Wondering who was here, he made his way into the dining room where he was surprised to see Mira's evil self sitting at the table with two glasses on wine in front of her.

"Well look at you" she smirked "All young and handsome again, I think I prefer you like this."

Gold just continued to stand there full of surprise.

"It's been a long time Gold" she continued "And boy do we have a lot to talk about."

"You're alive" he said surprised.

"You can't get rid of me that easily" she smirked as she gave a sneaky giggle.

"You know, I was planning on talking to the other Mira, but you, you seem like a better idea."

"You were planning on seeing my less awesome self? Well good thing you didn't, she's tried to get rid of me, how stupid was that?"

"So tell me" Gold said as he sat down "What do you want?"

"Let's have a drink" she said as she slid him a glass on wine "It's time to make everyone's life in Storybrooke a living hell."

And with that Gold gave a smirk as they both gave a toast as they took a sip of their wine, knowing that this was going to be a very interesting plot.