Worlds Colliding (Once Upon a Time) Book Five

chapter 16 - Our Decay

From 5.15 "The Brothers Jones", in Hades' lair, One of the pages showed an illustration of Lisa and Blake with a strange looking staff with their power combined in a brutal show down.

Freya/Priscilla: (voice over) "Previously on Worlds Colliding (Once Upon a Time)."

Hades flipped to another page, which showed an illustration of himself with Zelena, sighing. "Zelena. My secrets remain safe. And I can't believe you've kept me a secret from your own daughter Faye. No more secrets soon."

From 5.15 "The Brothers Jones", in the Hatter House, everyone was talking.

"The Author's pen?" Mathias asked.

"They're gonna recreate his story," Derek told them.

From 5.14 "Devil's Due", in Hades' lair, Hades was speaking to Gold. "Belle's pregnant. Just like Tori is, with Mathias's kid, Saphira and Faye's little brother. I own your daughter now, your third born child, Freya. I can break her any time I want, keep her down here forever, and make sure she really loses herself to the madness inside her. I knew you were gonna try to get Freya away from me as soon as you found out that I had this contract, which is why I put her name on the stone to make sure you can't save her. And I put Alcina, Rose and Grace's names on the stones as well, because each time you disobey me or try to save your family, you're gonna lose one more of them. If you want to save your family, by marriage or blood alike, you work for me."

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Flashback 1

Oz

Day - Castle

It was Faye's birthday, and she was spending it with Zelena and a cupcake.

Zelena wasn't paying attention to the day or to Faye, watching through their mirror to see Young Cora abandon her as a baby, angrily stopping the scene. "You gave away the wrong child, Mother. Soon, you'll see. Soon."

"Could you please not worry about that right now?" Faye asked. "You know what day it is."

Zelena sighed, walking closer. "I'm sorry, Faye."

Faye ignored her, not in the celebrating mood, blowing out her candle. "You do this every year."

"I'll try to be better," Zelena told her.

Faye pointed at her, tilting her head. "You say that every year."

The door suddenly banged open, and a flying monkey entered, carrying the scarecrow as a prisoner.

Scarecrow was struggling desperately. "Whoa, no, no, no, no, no!"

The scarecrow landed on the floor with a thud.

Faye walked closer. "Well, isn't this nice?"

The scarecrow stood. "W-w-what do you want?"

"Why, you, of course," Faye answered. "You're going to help us create a very special spell, one that no sorcerer has yet to achieve. A time travel spell. We just need the ingredients, symbols of innocence and love and courage and wisdom. A symbol of innocence could be a baby, for instance, and a symbol of wisdom... could be a brain." She chuckled evilly, which caused the scarecrow to gasp in fear. "Your brain, to be exact."

When Faye moved to take his brain, the scarecrow cowered in fear. "Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no!"

Now an adult also, Dorothy walked in, hurriedly walking toward them. "Stop!"