Lithium (Once Upon a Time)

Chapter Twenty-Four: The darkness desire keeps

Hi guys, as promised, here is the newest chapter! I'm so sorry for the delay, I lost my notebook with the outline of the novel, and until I couldn't find it I didn't write. Hope you enjoy! And even if you don't write in the comments what you wish to see next, what you think that will happen, everything! Ly, and good reading! XOXO ;)

Enchanted Forest, before the first curse...

Snow White: "Be careful, when you reach the cell, and no matter what you do, stay back from the light!" The guard warned, as he lighted the passage to Rumpel's cell with his torch. "Don't forget, do not tell him your names. If he knows your names he'll have power on you." He advised us, as Charming placed his hand on my back, comforting me, and I just gasped in fear, protecting my belly with my arms and calming sweet little Emma.

"Rumpeltstiltskin! I have a question for you!" The guard yelled, as a crocodile like figure appeared from the shadows, like a child playing with maniacal gestures.

"No...You don't! They do! Snow White and Prince Charming!" He said, his green eyes pierced our hearts, as I jumped in surprise upon seeing a figure so twisted by evil. "Come up into the light and take those ridiculous robes!" He asked, while giggling and flapping his hands. It looked as if madness had taken over his body and soul completely, without leaving any traces of a man.

"We came here to..."

"Yes, yes! I know why you're here!" He yelled, angrily, his mood swift made me jump in fear. "You want to know about the queen and her curse..."

"Tell us what you know!" I demanded, without being tamed by his fearful shady coil.

"Oh...Tense are we? But fear not, for I can ease your mind."

"How? Can you tell us how to stop the curse?!" Charming asked.

"We?! We can't do nothing!"

"Who can?" I asked, not giving up hope just yet.

"That little thing growing inside your belly..." He whispered, as he almost grabbed my belly." Charming, irritated, picked up his sword and hurt Rumpel's hand, almost cutting it off.

"Nah...Nah...Nah...Get the child to safety. Get the child to safety! And I know that in it's 28th birthday, the child will return...And the final battle we'll begin! Muah ah ah ah!" He yelled like a psycho, as his voice pierced my soul.

Storybrooke, 26th December 2012...

Mary Margaret: Me and David knew asking the dark one for advice was a risky idea, as dangerous as it was putting Emma in the wardrobe. But so far, he was the only person in town more powerful than Regina. Plus, he knew how to protect Emma from the curse, all those years ago, and told us about her role as the savior.

Mr. Gold was more gray and shadowed than "golden", like his surname, yet he seemed to have a keen interest in making Regina suffer. And even though considered a villain, he sometimes played on the "hero" field, or at least, helping us.

In that cold morning of December, we arrived at she shop, where the shady skinny man was cleaning some dustier shelfs, while Belle was next to him, helping with the inventory.

"Charmings, it would appear that when I bought the "closed" sign I was throwing my money throughout the window." He sarcastically wined.

"We need your help." I said, rolling my eyes at him.

David placed his hand on my shoulder, he looked at Belle as if he were begging her to bring some sense to her "boyfriend".

"Hey, Rumpel, let's hear them out." She said, with her sickly sweet smile.

Gold surrended to her wife's sweetness and brought the best and patient side of him.

"What can I do for you?"

"Emma and Regina are dating. We need to know how that will affect our daughter's future."

"Oh, so, Swan Queen was endgame? At last..." He ironed.

He used his cane to help him get to the balcony, from where he picked up a shiny crystal ball.

"Wait, what's your price?" I asked, remembering that with him everything came with one.

"I'm glad you asked. Well, this is quite a big favor, so I humbly ask for you to do the same for me, when I ask." He said, and I couldn't help but feel my mouth dry.

Gold waved his hand and the crystal ball was engulfed by a thick purple smoke. A smoke that later turned into an invisible cloudy breath that whispered Fate on the ball's shiny glass, revealing an image of Emma, unlike anything we'd ever seen.

Her hair wasn't blonde anymore, it was actually whitish and combed in a perfect ponytail with a headpiece in form of a swan wing.

Her piercing green eyes weren't kind or vivacious anymore, they were evil....No.... Dark, very dark, the core of human's primitive nature was stamped by the green in her eyes, screaming evilness.

Her red leather jacket was replaced with black leather, with "dragon like" features. Her face looked like marble, strong, resilient, pure white.

A poor innocent soul was standing in front of her as she held it's pure heart up high, and my eyes couldn't help but scream tears of sadness drunken with fear.

"They said you were a monster..." The innocent pale victim whispered.

"Only on the inside..." Emma replied, and as the shadow of a raven haired queen appeared behind our daughter, with thick red lips, a resonating voice and an aura that would steal your breath away, she looked into the heart and, in coldness, crushed it, until it turned into nothing more but dust.

"No!" I screamed, upon watching that terrifying vision.

"Well done, my love." The Evil Queen whispered with her wicked tongue on the blonde's ear.

The dark swan looked at her, fierce. Both of their eyes melted into one another. Emma placed her hands on the queen's hips and crushed her lips into hers.

As they made out, and their serpent tongues enterwined, a vision that was already disturbing and shivering, dressed up darker tones. Or....should I say...crimson, for like petals of a rose, kissing the breath of summer, yet crying the winter out of their soul, hundreds of bloody corpses painted the field of the Infinite Forest.

Up on the horizon, castles burned to the ground, the skies were red, as if the sun died with them, but it wasn't that. The red came from blood, the blood of the innocents whose lives the Queen and her Dark Swan took.