Rumpelstiltskin's Heir

A Death, A Tear, A Story And A Bean

Aldara's POV
Everything happened so quickly. I had been fighting the best I could, once in a while knocking out a knight or two. Then one of the knights hit me in the stomach with the handle of his sword, knocking the air and balance out of me. I hit the hard ground with my head, and the world began to spin. I watched helplessly as someone's sword went right through Auxi. "Noooo!!!", I cried out. And then the world went black.
I woke up slowly, nauseous, dizzy, and feeling like shit. Yet, I had woken up, which meant I was alive, maybe Auxi was 2 and this filled me with hope. I opened my eyes trying to take in my surroundings as fast as possible. My arms were loosely chained to the wall.  There was a rat near my left foot, but I was to tired to  care about the rat. I tried to sit up, my hand rubbing on to the ruff brick ground. Wait...brick ground+rat+chains= dungeons. Great I though, I'm in the dungeons, that meant we had failed  and now Auxi and I were locked up in this hole forever, but at least we were together...wait. "Axui!", I called out in the darkness. I heard something moving at my right side. I decided that I needed to find my courage in order to find Auxi. I crawled to my right,with my hands feeling what I could not see, due to the poor lighting. Then I hit something soft, it groaned softly as I  touched it. "Auxi? Auxi? Auxi is that you?"
I head his cough and role around so that he could face me. I could barely make out his face, but who could ever mistake his charming smile?
"You're ok ", he coughed
"Yes I'm fine, I'm fine.", I said, brushing his hair out of his face. I put his head on my lap and sat down, he was in pain I could tell, but he wouldn't let me look at his wounds.
"Auxi", I began, "maybe I should look at your wounds."
"Why so you can get even more worried? No. We don't need that right now"
"But Auxi you're hurt-"
"I'm fine-"
"Auxi."
I felt a tear fall down my cheek, it was the first time we had ever had a fight, and it was because we were in the dungeon and he was hurt. Before I could continue talking him into letting me check his wounds. I heard the door of the dungeon open, I turned around with fear in my eyes. Auxi tried to turn his head as much as he could, but ended up wincing and going back to my lap. I saw a light come from the door, and then a shadow cover the the light. I turned back to Auxi, I didn't care who was coming in, or what was coming, what was the worse that could happen? I was already going to die in this freaking, dark hole. I heard the foot step as they got louder and closer. I leaned in and gave Auxi a quick kiss before putting my forehead on his, not knowing what else to do. 
"Well, I see you have finally woken up.", said a voice I had tolerated for nearly 2 years
I lifted my head slowly and raised my eye brow.
"Yes", I answered
"Do you like you're new room? Have you had a chance to check it out?"
I pretended to look around.
"It's spacious, and it's full of  nice pets ", I said pointing at one of the rats.
Uthyr gave me a smile.
"Good, good. I suppose you also like your new room mate."
I didn't answer. 
Uthyr's smile disappeared.
"Did you really think I was that stupid? Did you think I wouldn't find out?"
I didn't answer. I couldn't.
"Today was supposes to be a good day, a day for us to share, to cherish."
And then it hit me, today was birthday, yesterday I had tried to run away with Auxi.
"You lied to me! You were going to leave me! For what? For this?", he asked pointing at Auxi with a disgusted look.
"I never lied to you!", I yelled back, no longer holding back.
Uthyr just stood there, he seemed surprised that I was talking back.
"From the first time you kissed me, I told you that my heart belonged to another, yet you chose to ignore me, and that was your doing not mine. So don't blame all this on me, I'm just trying to find my happiness."
Uthyr just stood there in disbelief.
"Then maybe you can find your happiness here.", he said before turning around and leaving.
I closed my eyes for a minute and took a few deep breaths.
"You are very beautiful when you're brave.", I heard Auxi whisper.
I smiled, "Thanks."
"Then again I think you're beautiful 24/7, so...", he trailed off as he gave me another of his charming smiles.
"You're not to bad you're self", I said pecking his lips.
I frowned, "Auxi, your wounds, I need to check them, you're hurt."
Auxi closed his eyes and shook his head.
"No, we need to talk."
"Well go ahead, we have all the time in the world here."
"No we don't", he said wincing again.
"What do you mean?"
He sighed.
"Auxi?"
"I already looked at my wounds, Aldara I'm not going to heal. I'm going to die."
I felt like I had been hit by a bus.
"W-w-wha-at d-d-do y-yo-ou me-ean?"
"I mean what I said, That I'm going to die."
I didn't know what to say, my entire world was falling apart.
"Auxi-"
"Sebastian"
"What?"
"My name is Sebastian, since I'm going to die, I thought you should know."
"When you said that you fell in love with me, you had told me you had never thought that could happen again."
He nodded slowly.
"Many years ago I use to live in the ocean. It was a beautiful and peaceful place. My father was the royal adviser and I spent most of my time in the castle helping out. I soon met the king's daughter, Ariel. She was beautiful and in no time I fell for her. But in her eyes I was only a crab, so I became her friend. As we grew so did my love for her, and her insert in humans. One day when we were out exploring, we met and saved a human. The human was a young prince and Ariel quickly took a liking to him and searched a way to meet him again. Even though I was against it I went with her to seek help from the sea witch Ursula. At first the deal was to make us human in exchange for Ariel's voice, but I couldn't allow that. So instead she took the possibility of me ever aging after hitting the age of 21 and never being able to return to the ocean. My home was the ocean, everything and everyone I cared about was in the ocean, but I accepted, for Ariel. When the prince met Ariel he fell in love with her and whenever she needed advice, I was there. I was there when they asked, when they needed me, for dinner, for balls, for parties for everything. I was there for their wedding, and I was there when Ariel told everyone that she was 'having a baby with the love of her life', that was when I realized that she did not need me anymore. So I left, I traveled for a few years, yearning to go back to the ocean, for the love I never had. Then I met Dame Gothel, she offered me a job. I changed my name to Auxiliator Artifex, which means helper worker. That's what I always did, help, work. And then I met you and I fell in love again, after so many years."
"Oh Sebastian", I said wiping out the tears from my cheeks, "I love you two, but you are not going to die."
"Aldara...there is more."
And that was when he explained everything about my father, who he was, how my mother gave me away, how my father was the dark one, everything.
He began to cough blood.
"Sebastian, there has to be a way to save you."
He shook his head, "Aldara, I'm dying."
"No no no no"
"And you need to get out of here, you need to find your father and brother."
"Even if you are dying and I do get out of  here, how will I find them? They're are in two different worlds remember?"
Sebastian put his shaking hand in mine and whispered, "With this."
I looked at what was now in my hand, it was a bean. It was unlike any other bean I had ever seen, I could see right through it!
"What is this?", I asked
"It's a bean my dear."
"What kind of bean?"
"It is a magic bean. You will you it to open a portal to another world, where you will wait until the moment is ready and you will travel to another world and wait and-"
"Let me guess go to another world and wait?"
"No, where you will finally find your family.", he smiled, but this smile was smaller. I could tell he was tired, he was dying in my arms.
"Seb, I don't understand."
"You will soon my dear, you will soon. For now, just hold me."
And so I sat there, with him in my arms, until the he took his last breath. I cried for a long time, when I look back, I think I could have died there with him, and I couldn't care less.
Then I heard the door creek open.
My head shot toward the door, "Leave!", I yelled, "Let me be! Have you not caused me enough pain? Leave me alone you bastard!"
"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! You'll Get me caught you will.", said the voice from the door.
"What?",I asked bitterly
"Well you don' wan't to get me caught do ya? "
"Excuse me?", I asked angrily. Did some idiot get into the wrong dungeon? I had no temper for this right now.
Then the idiot stepped into the light, and I realized why he was here.
"Balyn?", I asked in shock
"Hello Aldara, seems your still here."
"Balyn what are you doing here?"
"What do you mean?"
"You a knight, if Uthyr finds out he'll...he'll kill you.", I said looking sadly my poor Seb, as I brushed his to his side. 
Balyn caught sight of Seb's lifeless body.
His eyes teared up, "Oh Aldara I'm truly sorry."
I closed my eyes trying to stop the tears, "I know."
Balyn came over and hugged me. He was the only friend I had made out of all the knights, and normally understood how I felt, but he would never be able to understand how I felt that day, on my eighteenth birthday.
"So now what?", asked Balyn breaking the long silence.
I explained Seb's plan.
"Then why haven you left then?", he asked
"I don't think I want to leave."
"You have to"
"And what? Wait?", I threw my hands in the air with frustration
"Either way you're going to wait, better out there, than in here! Would you rather live here? Without anyone to care for you? If you leave you will have the hope of finding your family one day."
"But Seb-"
"Sebastian is dead now, and he wanted you to leave! He wanted you to find your family!"
I looked down at the magical bean in my hand.
"You have to Aldara."
I looked into my friends eyes. He was right I had to keep fighting. For Seb, For my father, for my brother, for me.
"You're right.",I sighed
Balyn smiled, "Good, now I'll go and make sure no one comes by for a while and you go bean traveling."
And with that he turned around and headed for the room.
Yet before he could leave the room I called out, "Thank you", I wasn't sure if he heard me or not, but at least I was ready to thank him.
I threw the bean a few away, as it touched to ground it began to glow and then a large portal opened. I took a deep breath and thought of the place Sebastian told me to go to, i though of Never Land.