Worlds Colliding (Once Upon a Time) Book Five

chapter 1 - The Dark Witch

Flashback

Enchanted Forest

Night - Village

Young Priscilla and Young Jefferson were running along in the village, sneaking off with people's things, this having been clearly after Young Priscilla had taken some of Young Jefferson's madness so he could control it and it wouldn't consume him, at the price of having madness of her own, and if they were far apart, it could consume them both.

Young Jefferson found the necklace Freya/Priscilla usually wore on a table, picking it up. "Hey, Cilla. This should be a good gift for you after you helped take my madness."

Young Priscilla smiled, laughing. "I love it. Thank you. Come on, Jefferson."

"You know, your father would kill me if he caught us stealing," Young Jefferson pointed out.

Young Priscilla shrugged. "Let him try. He knows he'll lose me if he makes me lose you after he already made me lose Bae and killed my mother in front of me. I don't even think he would be that stupid to risk losing his daughter by killing the one person she has as a friend. One she really cares about."

Young Jefferson smiled. "I care about you too, Priscilla. I'll meet you back at the village."

Young Priscilla nodded. Young Jefferson ran off. Young Priscilla reached out to take more things.

A wizard near Young Priscilla's age named Cyrus appeared nearby to speak to her once she was alone. "Don't."

Young Priscilla jumped. "What?"

"Don't," Cyrus repeated.

"I'm sorry," Young Priscilla told him. "Please don't tell my father. He'll kill you if he learns of this."

Cyrus chuckled, shaking his head. "I wasn't talking about stealing, Priscilla."

"How do you know my name?" Young Priscilla asked.

"I know many things, because my father and my mother had taught me," Cyrus told her. "And I'm here to tell you, don't do it."

"I don't understand," Young Priscilla admitted.

"When you do something that you're not supposed to do, even if you do it for the right reasons, bad things will happen, Priscilla," Cyrus explained. "Bad things. One day, you will have the opportunity to remove Excalibur from its stone, but you must not. Leave the sword alone."

Young Jefferson ran back. "Priscilla! I forgot something."

Young Priscilla looked toward him, confused. "Jefferson, he--"

Young Priscilla looked back to where she had seen Cyrus, only to find him gone.

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Camelot

Day - Forest

Arthur, Lancelot and Percival raced on horses through the forest to the shore.

"Is this the place, Lancelot?" Arthur asked.

Lancelot nodded. "Have faith, Arthur. Merlin and Cyrus's prophecy was quite clear. This is it."

"The prophecy isn't what I'm worried about," Arthur told them. "Someone beat us here."

They drew their swords, approaching the the sword in the stone.

Sir Kay was there. "You're too late."