A prisoner long forgotten

Chapter 11: Trapped

Everything around the castle was quiet and no birds were singing or flying so they were not disturbed when a bright white light lighted up the darkness around the castle grounds and stables.

As soon as Emma's vision had become clear she moved away from the stables running to the hidden door under the ivy. She would have never thought that she would ever use this knowledge to break into the place she once called home. She runs up the stairs and Soon she finds herself inside the castle.

While walking around the halls everything feels different, there were a lot of black guards patrolling the halls and Emma had to hide every time she could hear their heavy boots on the ground. When Emma passed the doors of the kitchen she felt a pull at her heart. She wished she could hear Granny yelling commands to the other kitchen maids but everything was deadly quiet. After what felt like an hour she finally made her way to the castle dungeons. She had never any reason to visit the castle dungeons but it was the only place she could thing of where her parents would be kept.

Emma had never been to the dungeons before if she had she had probably noticed that the guards were missing and that the door wasn't locked like it was supposed to be. Emma steps forward and looks into every cell and with every cell her hope fads piece by piece. Some cells were empty other still contained bodies of men, woman and even children. Emma had to take a step back because she could feel herself becoming sick and this was defiantly not the right time to vomit.

It wasn't until she looked into the last cell that her heart jumped in joy at seeing her parents. But the joy she felt was soon replaced by worry when she saw that they were hurt especially her father.

"Mom? Dad?" She whispers through the bars. Her mother was the only awake enough to hear the whisper. She had her husband's head on her lap and looked in the direction of the sound. Her eyes filled with tears when she sees her daughter.

"Emma?" She asks not believing her own eyes. Emma gives her a small smile and opens the door using her magic.

"I'm here to help you. We have to get out of here." Snow smiles as well but the smile turns in to panic very quickly.

"No...Don't come any closer! Emma leave. Run!" She yells her whole body shaking making David stir and groan on her lap. His wound was healed but he still had a severe concussion.

"Mom? What's wrong?" Emma takes a step forward but was blasted back. Her back hitting the wall of the dungeon, she could hear a crack and the pain she felt was like she had just broken her spin. The air was pushed out of her lungs and for a moment she saw black spots. When her vision became clear her parents were gone and instead Rumpelstiltskin was standing there was a wicked smile on his face.

"Did you really thought it would this easy? My dear girl, I thought you were smarter." He smiled and snaps his fingers. Two heavy silver handcuffs appeared on her wrists.

"Do you like them? They are not like the last ones, you will not be able to break these with you light magic? Only dark magic can break them and you don't have any!"

Emma looked at the handcuffs and tried her magic but instead of a white light shining from her hands she felt a sharp pain like a thousand needles piercing her hand.

She cried out and felt tears gathering in her eyes.

"My son wants you dead!" Rumpelstiltskin says looking at her with a evil smirk. "And I do everything for my son happiness. You will died tomorrow and your lovely parents can watch before I kill them as well." He lifts Emma up with his magic and places her in the cell before closing the door.

"Why don't you rest it will be very special day for you." Emma can hear his laughter, she stands up and rushes to the door of her cell. She bangs her wrists with the handcuffs against it.

"You can't do this! RUMPELSTILSKIN!I" Emma let herself fall to the floor. How could she have been so stupid! Why didn't she listen to Regina! She places her head on her knees and starts to cry. "I'm sorry Regina, I'm so sorry." She whispers.

The morning light was gleaming through the small window in the cottage. Regina could feel the warmth of the sun on her eye lids and for a second she had forgotten their worries. She turns around trying to find the warm body of the woman she loves but her hand remained empty and cold for she could not find the warm body of her love. Regina snaps awake her eyes looking around she could not find a glimpse of her beautiful blonde.

"Emma!" She gets no answer. Regina grabs a gown and hurries down stairs only to find a sleeping Ruby.

"Emma!" She cries out louder. "Emma!" Ruby stirs in her sleep.

"Regina way are you yelling?" Regina ignores Ruby's sleeping voice and pulls open the door of the cottage. "EMMA!" Still no answers of the blond. Regina runs her fingers through her hair. "No, No, No. Please don't be this stupid! Please Emma." Tears are falling from her eyes like waterfalls.

Ruby is complexly awake now and she takes Regina hands in hers trying to calm her down.

"Regina! Regina tell me what's wrong?" Ruby tries getting through the woman.

"It's Emma, I can't find her anywhere! She's gone!" Saying the words aloud makes her realize the severity of the situation.

"What do you mean she's gone?"

"Gone! Gone! I think she has gone to save her parents. She promise me we wouldn't do that alone and she left me!" Regina cries are becoming louder and louder. Ruby doesn't know what to do to sooth the woman she just met, so she decides to take the woman in her arms and hold her trying to calm her down.

"Shhhh, please calm down Regina we are going to make a plan and figure it out. We will save Emma." Regina starts shaking her head.

"No! We don't have time to make a plan." She takes a step back from Ruby.

"I need to save her right now!"

Regina flicks her wrist and her whole body is covered in purple smoke.

Ruby can't see through the purple smoke but when it clears Regina is gone.