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srry ive taken so long to update! more soon!
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Hours later, and you were on your horses again, heading to storybrooke village. You and Harry glanced at each other, still surprised you had managed to convince Ben to leave the place early and head to a random place that wasn't on his map.
You slowed (horse name) to a stop and unclipped the sheikah slate from your hip, clicking open the map.
".... I don't know where we're going" you muttered, looking up and around, eyes stopping on a tall orange glowing tower. "I think we have to activate the towers to see the map"
Harry nodded, kicking his heels into his horse's side and leading it to trot after you. Harriet and Carlos followed you, dismounting their horses at the base of the tower alongside you.
"so...we just climb?" Carlos asked, pressing his hand against the old design of the tower walls.
"yep" you muttered, hopping up and starting to climb the tower, the others close behind you.
"be careful!" you looked down, seeing ben looking up at the four of you concerned. You simply nodded and continued up, helping the others climb onto the small ledges and finally making it to the top.
"sooo, it's the same thing as the first tower....at least it has a cool view" Harriet muttered as you reached the top, looking around with her hands on her hips.
You unclipped the sheikah slate from your hip and placed it into the plugin stone. The tower started to move, a blue glow rising and the antennas rising and the tower clicked, alerting the slate that it was scanning the area.
-distilling map runes-
You watched as the stone above the platform glowed blue and small letters drip down and creating a small blue glowing water(?) drop.
The water(?) dripped down onto the tablet, the sheikah slate loading the map.
-regional map extracted-
The platform lifted the tablet up and presented it to you, you grabbed it and clipped it back on to your hip.
"Okay now, how do we get-" purple smoke swirled around you, and moments later you were back on the ground, next to the group, mals hands lowering as her eyes glowed.
"It worked!" she cheered, uma smirking and nodding.
"nice, you're getting good at non-verbal spells princess" (mal and uma are...civil in this btw)
Mal smiled at uma and wrapped her arms around bens torso, tightening her arms and ben led his horse back into a trot.
You hopped back on your horse, waiting for harry to catch up to you before pressing your heels into your horses sides.
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You dismounted your horse, staring up at the archways over the path leading to storybrooke. You unclipped the slate and opened the map, nodding as it confirmed you had made it to the village.
"we're here" you yelled back to the group, who were following your lead in dismounting their horses. As you walked through the village, one of the villagers stopped and looked at your hip.
"is-is that a sheikah slate?" you looked down at the tablet and nodded slowly. "oh my, those haven't been seen in 500 years! May I ask how you came in possession of one?"
You looked at harry and shrugged, quickly explaining how you got it and the older villager stroked their chin. "ahh, the hero has awoken then" they muttered to themselves, luckily only you and harry heard them, glancing at each other nervously.
"Are you here to see the elder Regina?" you nodded asking where she was. The older villager turned and pointed to the largest building in the village "right over there, she's been expecting you hero"
"why'd they call (y/n) hero" ben muttered to uma, who shrugged.
"Dunno, maybe (y/n) looks like that hero from years ago or something?" you ignored them, grabbing Harrys arm and dragging him toward the large building that housed the elder.
"Stop! " the two guards standing in front of the gates got into defensive positions "you there, who are you?! How dare you trespass on lady Reginas territory" the larger man huffed out, glancing around you to see the sheikah slate.
"hm, is tha-" he muttered to himself, glancing at his fellow guard "but that's impossible...but" the two slowly got out of heir positions, muttering to each other.
The thinner man looked back over to you "please forgive us for reacting so rudely, lady Regina has told us about the legends, please, go inside"
The two stepped aside, giving you enough room to pass through them and onto the stairs leading to Regina's house.
You nodded and tugged harry with you once more, ben and mal just behind you while the rest stayed behind.
"(y/n) why are we here? I've kept my mouth shut out of respect but this is extremely confusing, first the tower and then all of a sudden you want to come to this specific village?"
You sighed "I have a feeling the elder will just blurt it all out but you won't believe us ben" harry pulled his arm away and pushed open the double doors, stopping ben from speaking.
"well well, its been quite a long time (y/n)" what you thought would have been an old woman was a middle-aged woman, short bobbed black hair framing her face, and her brown eyes had years of knowledge in them "though I haven't aged much since we last met but, you do remember don't you?"
You felt like you should but...you were drawing a blank. Ben looked from you to Regina and looked at mal, pressing his lips together and shaking his hands at you, mal shrugged and crossed her arms.
Regina's eyes widened as she locked eyes with harry "the prince? But how-" she shook her head "not important right now, I assume you know the truth but the two behind you don't?"
You side-eyed ben and nodded "yeaaah, we kinda just....convinced them to come with us?" Regina laughed.
"just as spontaneous as you were back then, all right then, let me tell you the tale of our prince and his knight"
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Ben was now on the floor, staring up at the ceiling as he processed the information. Mal just kinda....sighed and rubbed his shoulders.
"so, you two-" he sat up, pointing at the two of you "are reincarnated versions of a prince and knight form 500 YEARS AGO, and....you need to beat this dark beast whatever thing right now because harry- who is also still in the castle- is losing his power to keep it sealed?"
"that's basically it yeah" you shrugged, watching as Ben had a mental breakdown.
"I have a feeling you don't have a proper place to stay, so you and your friends can stay here for the time being" Regina offered, which Mal accepted for Ben as he was still not...all there.
"thank you" you muttered," Harry and I need to talk to you a bit more though" Regina nodded, watching as Mal dragged Ben out of the room and motioned for you to begin.
You sighed and looked to Harry "why are my memories gone?"
–end of part 15–
sorry its kinda short, had a couple writing blocks during this and did my best!
