Prologue:

A Thousand Lost Stories to Find.

Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but once upon a time lasts forever

- Phillip Pullman

Prince Charming ran into the nursery with his newborn daughter, Princess Emma, right in one arm and his sword into the other, straight in a beeline towards the magic wardrobe, lovingly crafted by the Royal Blanclairian Carpenter, Geppetto. One imprecise detail, one little mistake; Emma would be cursed into being sucked right into the Evil Queen's spell. Candlelight had made the purple ribbons of Emma's blanket agleam and the blood-drenched sword alit, heralding the escape of the Crown Princess. The golden, soft light had showed the details of the little princess; her wrinkled, reddish-pink skin, her pale blue eyes, the whiteness of her blanket and the silk of the purple ribbons sewn into the hem of the material. Fragile, helpless, new and absolutely beautiful; all to Queen Snow White and King David's happiness and absolute sorrow within her first minutes of life.

Precious seconds were left before the Evil Queen's guards would find him.

I love you, I love you, I love you; the words ran through Charming's veins and through his blood like a sharp pain as he laid his daughter, caught within her sleep, right into the heart of the tree, magic flowing off the bark of the wardrobe, Charming feeling it within his chest. And lying her within the darkness of the wardrobe, there were so much bound within his heart, threatening to burst free.

There so much that had to be said, had to be done, a hundred moments that would pass for him as a father, a thousand times where she would need him within those long and distant 28 years, those 28 years that seemed to span out from his perception to centuries.

There was so much that Prince Charming wanted to do, wanted to say to his daughter.

Sing her to sleep with his beloved wife, his queen and friend, Snow at his side.

Play games with her around the palace, like hide and seek or chase or peek-boo with Grumpy and the other Seven dwarves.

Hold her when she cried or felt sad with Jiminy Cricket right at his side.

Teach her the ways of all the kingdoms within the Enchanted Forest, how to be a kind and just ruler to her people.

Ride through all of the forests and share a thousand of adventures around the many kingdoms.

But right now, all Prince Charming wanted to do was hold baby Emma close to his heart and never let go. And he nearly did. Pick her back up again and rush back to Snow so that they could share their last moments together, let the Dark Curse swallow them alive while they were still a family.

But Snow would never forgive him. There would be no way out of this spell, this magic-spun darkness. No chance of returning home, escaping the hell they were about to fall into. No chance of his daughter being saved, being protected. But she would she be any safer in a world so far away from this one than what was happening right now?

"PRINCE!"

There were the screams, monstrous and angry as the Evil Queen's guards came rushing down to the nursery, down to where the King and Crown Princess of Dorclair, the Saviour, was in the room silent. Time was trickling, time was water that was slipping though David's fingers as the Curse had drew closer and closer to the palace. There would be soon no more time left.

"No more happy endings," as the Dark One, Rumpelstitskin had described to Snow and David. No more happy endings for all who lived within the Enchanted Forest.

All except for one. (Or two.)

Making sure that her blanket was snugly wrapped around her, that Emma was properly within the midst of the wardrobe, Prince Charming lowered himself with a thousand words he wished he could say in his heart, right down to kiss little, beautiful, sleeping Emma right on her head.

"Find us."

The doors were closed.

There was the snap of the lock.

The guards had burst in and with one fatal slice of a sword did Prince Charming fell down.

And in the swarthiness of the wardrobe, the Saviour was whisked right into another world.

Find us, Prince Charming thought as he lost himself into nothingness and darkness, find us, find us, find us, find us all.

From the east of the Royal Palace where Snow White and Prince Charming lived, the Dark Curse advanced the green and dark forests, rolling over the mirror-like surface of the wide river that looped around the palace and as it came wrapped itself around the stone walls and soon rolled over the great, towering mountains that separated the Eastern Realms of the Enchanted Forest from that of the Western Realms.

The Dark Curse, crafted and spun from the hands of Rumpelstitskin, had first struck the Kingdom of Blanclair, the kingdom once ruled by King George and then by the fair and kind Queen Snow White and King David. But after that, it would strike the other kingdoms too. There was the Kingdom of Dormonde, ruled by King Midas, which was right on the border of the East and the first beginning Western Realm.

Then the Kingdom of Lunaireaux. Then the Kingdom of Corona. Then, Rubisrose and Foireroi, Avalon and Belforet. All the twenty kingdoms and more within the Enchanted Forest came under the mercy of what the Evil Queen Regina, had crafted from flame and from the heart of whom she loved the most. And all the fairytale characters, all the people whom we had knew and loved and were read too as children?

They too, like those twenty kingdoms born from fairytales, were sucked into the dark, rumbling and rolling fog and black smoke; changing the design of the fates with them as the Dark Curse pulled them away from a reality they all knew.

It skimmed over the waters of the oceans and rolled over towering mountains, ran down valleys like raindrops and even reached to the skies of where the Greater Wanded Fairies, the fairies of the Blue Fairy's kind had lived. But it didn't just stop there. It seeped into one world and then to another; people snatched here and there at the desires and wishes of the Evil Queen's plans forged within the enchantment.

A young woman, brown-haired and blue eyed who once looked out at the stars on her window sill was stolen in a puff of black smoke as she looked herself within the mirror, wearing a white, cathedral-trained dress of lace where once all she needed to look beautiful was a long nightgown of Never blue.

A physician, black and white like those films your grandmother maybe would have once watched a long time ago, was right in the middle of undergoing adjustments to a hypothesis over lightening and the nervous system until he swept away in a blink of a eye before he could even scream out in shock.

A princess, a princess who was not really a princess or human for that little matter, held her true love in her arms, even as the Curse came rolling, her head high and red hair blowing around her. The Curse pulled over her, the windows of the wedding suite room blown into glittering pieces. All she could think of was a star-sprinkled night that reflected on the sea.

So many, too many, hundreds of fairytales stolen in their wake, so many fairytales to count on all twenty fingers. Werewolves, ladies donning red hooded cloaks, dwarves, fairies, sleeping beauties, shining knights, long-haired dreamers, noble thieves, princesses, princes; and even a little talking cricket and a mermaid to boot too!

All had went, all had gone. Within one spell, all in the Enchanted Forest was bare.

All except one little princess, a destined Saviour called Emma.

Because all the fairytales you know, they're not true.

Here is what happened...

Author's Note

Hello there, readers!

I hope you enjoyed the prologue! This book along with others, is basically exploring the world around Once Upon a Time and reinventing side characters within the OUAT show; all while having the characters of BONES have some influence into the story of the Enchanted Chronicles. Because of this, the storylines within the world of the Once Upon a Time series will be slightly altered. Characters like Archie Hopper, Leroy, Sister Astrid (along with the occasional OC) will be apart of the main cast but, this does not mean that side characters will be shown. Here, I will be exploring different characters from fairytales and integrating them into the essence of OUAT. Oh, and have the cast of BONES play apart of the plots within the retold stories of OUAT. :3

Please enjoy and feel welcome to review,

Nee