A Curse that can't be Broken

The Truth

As the car came to a screeching halt Coal reached out his arm across Edith, holding her back into her seat. It happen so quickly that when Regina looked back and asked them, "You both ok?" They didn't realize why they had stopped in the first place.

Edith pushed herself back into her seat when her eyes found the figure standing in the road. "Coal!" She pointed.

Coal spotted the woman and locked onto her. He moved for the door when Regina opened her own. "Stay here." She told them as she got out of the car, shutting her door behind her.

Coal watched as Regina made her way towards the hooded woman.

"What do we do?" Edith asked as she looked from the woman to Coal.

Coal gritted his teeth as he reached for the door. "We fight... Like always.." Coal went to open the door only to look at it as he couldn't find the handle. this world was new... and yet cruel he thought. He found the handle and opened the door only for it to shut quickly on him. David stood outside of the car and spoke to them, telling them to stay in the car.

Coal narrowed his eyes at this and let a deep growl tickle his throat.

"They have no idea what they're up against." Edith stated as she watched.

Coal looked back to Emma and Regina.

"We need to do something." Edith added.

Coal felt his heart start to pound in his chest as he felt hopeless for the moment.

"I won't repeat myself." Regina didn't want to have to really. But the woman was all so quiet.

She twisted a hand up and pointed towards the car where Edith and Coal were.

"You want them?" Regina asked. Her tone of voice was warning and serious. "You'll have to go through us first." She had a hint of cockiness now.

Emma leaned over to Regina, "We have no idea who this is and what they can do... I think being pushy is not the answer." She said in a hushed tone. Emma was never one to run form a fight, but they were going to be shooting arrows in the dark. The only clues they had in their pockets were this strange woman, Coal, Edith and that they were from somewhere else. So running around pushing buttons was not on Emma's list.

Regina narrowed her eyes at the woman before her. She watched as the woman twisted her head back towards Regina and Emma. Her hands came closer together as a black and green mist formed between her hands.

Emma took a step back as she got into a defensive stance. "Looks like pushy got us into a fight." She kept her eyes on the woman but her words were for Regina.

Regina followed Emma's lead as she raised a hand out in front of her. Ready to counter anything that came their way.

Coal couldn't just sit there as told. With each second he could feel his heart race faster and faster. They had no idea who they were about to fight. How strong she was... He reached for the door and opened it as fast as he could. The door flung open and hit David hard as Coal rushed out of the car.

He had to take a second to understand what just happened but caught a hold of the moment just in time. "Run!" Coal cried out as David wrapped his arms around Coal, holding him back.

Regina and Emma looked back to David and Coal out of instinct. They turned their attention back to the woman seeing that the woman now formed a green sphere between her hands. She stepped forward and threw the sphere into motion. It came at a great speed rushing towards both Emma and Regina. The closer it got the bigger it got.

Emma and Regina dove out of the way as the air became silent and the world began to slow down in the moment.

The sphere grew bigger and bigger as it passed them, so big that it started to touch the ground. The ground below the sphere crushed and crumbled. David dove out of the way still holding on tightly to Coal as he did so. The sphere clipped the side of Regina's car, upon touching the sphere Regina's car was shoved to the side of the road. The slightest touch from the sphere showed great destruction.