A Curse that can't be Broken

Where to Begin?

Rumple looked over the new book and slowly looked up to the others standing in his shop. Emma and Charming just got done explaining everything to Rumple and were waiting for his response to all of this.

Rumple flipped through the pages, one at a time, looking over the pictures and words.

He pointed to one of the pictures and looked to Emma. "Time Travelers?" he asked with a slightly amused look.

Emma nodded, "Yeah, they claim to be from the future or something like that." She told him.

Rumple closed the book and shook his head, "Time travel is impossible." He told her flatly. "Even if we took all the magic from all the realms and placed them together in a spell to attempt such a feat..." He waved a finger before placing it on the book. "You would still get no where." he told her.

Emma crossed her arms over her chest and glanced to her father before looking back to Gold. "Are you sure?" she asked. They needed answers. This new threat already placed the whole town in danger. If not she would at some point.

"What about Morgana? What do we do about her?" David asked.

Gold placed the palm of his hand on the book as he thought about the question. He looked to David and Emma who both looked very concerned about the matter. He for one knew that they should be... Especially if they were really dealing with Morgana.

"If... IF, this masked woman truly is Morgana.. then we are in grave danger." He told them in a serious tone.

Emma and David both looked to one another before looking back to Gold. "So who is she? Wasn't she part of King Arthur's story?" Emma asked.

Gold gave Emma a very serious look as he tried to place the words he wanted to say together. "The story you may know is not the one that happened." He started to head to the back room of his shop motioning for the two to follow.

"Morgana was a student under Uthur Pindragon, just like Merlin." He went to a book shelf and looked back to Emma. "There was also another, Mordred." He pulled a large book from the shelf. "There isn't much about Uthur I'm afraid, but their is the story of what happen between his son and his three apprentices." He placed the heavy book on the table and opened it to more of the center area.

"Arthur was to be crowned the next king of Camelot. Morgana was to be his wife... But Morgana loved another..." He started. "She was said to be in love with Mordred... And Mordred was in love with her."

Gold looked to Emma and pointed to her. "Have you ever wondered where true love's first kiss came from?" he asked.

Both Emma and David were on the same page. Neither of them had ever wondered where the magic came from or how it came to be.

"It was said that she was the first to behold such magic with her love Mordred." Gold looked over the pages. The words were written in old lettering and in a different language. "This story is much older than one could ever possibly think. Long before my time, or even my mothers." He frowned a little as some of the past events sprung into his thoughts.

He shook them off and took a deep breath as he looked back to the pages. He ran a finger down the words and stopped. "It says that Arthur and Mordred battled for Morgana's heart. Arthur killed Mordred and Mordred wounded Arthur." Gold turned to the next page. "When hearing of the loose of her love, Morgana became enraged with anger. She turned her magic against Arthur and Merlin, using all of her magic to destroy the world that took her love." gold paused for a moment. "Arthur passed away sometime after his fight with Mordred. Leaving his father Uthur devastated that his only son was gone. Uthur cursed Morgana. Stripping her of all her magic and her memories. She would stay that way until she found true love once more. But Merlin made sure that this task wouldn't be so easy. He too placed a curse on Morgana. Making it so that way her true love would always stay far away from her."