Welcome to my first ongoing fic! I hope you all can find room in your hearts for another post-homecoming story. But I've re-watched it so many times, and finally, I decided to take a crack at it. What an awesome episode. Please feel free to enjoy it (!) and also keep in mind this is just the prologue. Action will come soon. I promise.

Disclaimer: I own nothing. It's all Disney's!

Prologue

"—the destruction of all Huntsclan!"

One girl's wish altered the world drastically, on both seen and unseen levels. It was a mighty sacrifice made by one wise beyond her years, and the depths of that sacrifice was not diminished in the least even though she, in the end, was spared from death. A lifetime of living two contrasting lives, both shrouded in lies, finally reaped her a just reward. Afterall, she may now be living a false reality, one that was not destined to ever take place, but at least she was alive. Alive and blissfully unaware of all the pain she had—or was supposed to have—endured.

Of course, a little bit of magic can always change how and what she sees and lives.

But even though she committed such a perfect and saint-like act, it wasn't without its flaws. She could've been much more specific for one thing. Had the Huntsman succeeded in his wish to destroy all magical creatures, he would've been slightly disappointed (and greatly outraged) to eventually find that creatures of magic were still being born into this world.

It's amazing how the word "permanent" could've made a huge difference.

The mark of the Huntsclan was destined to appear for all time. In a way, they created a yin-yang for the world, both magical and mortal. Good and evil was always meant to dwell on earth together, for one could not exist without the other. And as for the mark of the Huntslcan itself, well, that is another confusing little irony. For that little mark is actually a byproduct of magic! Sort of. Dragons who knew this secret got a good chuckle in each time during battle, before swiftly setting forth to fight. Birthmarks can appear randomly among people, that's a given, but when people sharing a common mark claim that they share a common destiny…well, that pretty much falls under the "magical mark" category. Half magic, half destiny.

Thankfully, that's the extent of otherworldly powers existing naturally within the evil group. Every other facet was completely up to the members. They had to fulfill their destiny, but how they got there was completely undetermined. Many find there are multiple paths to the same destination.

So as sculptors at the Island of Draco tried to figure out how to convert the statue of the Huntsman to mark the clan's defeat, the makings and remaking of sworn enemies were already working.

Hatred would rekindle, wars would begin again, blood would spill, and this time, none of it can be stopped by a single wish.