A/N: This is my new story. I hope you all enjoy it!
Arendelle
"Elsa?" Anna called through the castle halls. "Elsa!"
"Anna, what is it?" Elsa asked as she rounded a corner and rushed over to her sister.
"Look outside." Anna pointed at the window and they both watched as purple smoke came rushing their way, covering the land. "What do you think it is? Is it magic? Are we in danger? Maybe the trolls know, could this be their doing?"
"It's dark magic. I only never seen this kind before." Elsa turned to her sister. "Find Kristoff and hide."
"I'm not leaving you," Anna protested.
"I have to get everyone to safety, I'll be right behind you."
"Then I'll help, I'm not leaving your side."
Elsa sighed but nodded, knowing that Anna wouldn't change her mind. They rushed outside. The smoke was coming closer and fast. A strong wind blew through the kingdom.
"Tell everyone to go inside," Elsa ordered her guards and Anna. "Maybe I can stop it."
Elsa raised her hands, summoning her magic but… nothing. She looked at her hands in confusion, the purple cloud blocked her magic, there was nothing she could do. Anna grabbed her arm and pulled her inside the castle walls. The smoke rushed over the walls and they ran to the entrance of the castle but the smoke surrounded them.
Neverland
Peter Pan played on his pan and the lost boys danced on the music. Felix walked into the clearing and Peter immediately stopped playing.
"I know that look, what wrong?" Peter asked Felix as he walked over to them.
"You might want to see this," Felix said and led Peter to the beach.
"What do I need to see?"
Felix pointed at the horizon. "Over there." Purple smoke could be seen coming closer to them, and fast. "What is it?"
"A curse," Peter said. "It looks like Rumple finally found someone to enact it."
"What do we do?"
"I can put a protection spell over Neverland so it won't be taking." Peter raised his hand and slowly a protecting field started covering the island. The smoke still came closer and closer, faster and faster. When the protecting field was halfway it stopped. Peter raised his other hand but nothing happened. The protection field sunk again and Peter stared confused at his hands.
"Why did you stop?" Felix asked confused.
"The cruse, it's blocking my magic."
"What?!" Felix looked at Peter with wide eyes. "How is that possible?"
"I don't know," Peter said honestly. The smoke was now hovering over them, almost consuming them.
"What now?"
"Think happy thoughts," Peter said before the smoke consumed them and the rest of the island.
Wonderland
Will Scarlett ran through the high grass, three guards from The Red Queen behind him. Just a little further and he would be safe. Just a little… One of the guards grabbed him by his leg with a magic rope and he fell to the ground.
"Well, that's no bloody fair, now is it?" he said as he tried to crawl away from them. It was no use, the guards grabbed him roughly and started bounding his ankles and wrists. He tried to free himself out of their grip and was a little surprised when they suddenly just let him go. He fried himself and got to his feet but just before he ran away from them he looked up.
"Bloody hell," he said and the Red Guards ran. Purple smoke surrounded him from above. He ran just like the guards did but the smoke was faster, taking him and the rest of Wonderland.
Camelot
Arthur sat at the round table with his knights, discussing their next move when a servant rushed into the room in panic and pointed at the window.
"My king, something is coming!" he said and all the knights, including Arthur, stood up and walked over to the window. Purple smoke covered the high walls of the kingdom and started surrounding them.
"What is it?" Percival asked.
"Magic," Arthur answered. "Dark magic."
Before anyone could ask anther question they were taken away by the smoke.
Oz
Zelena sat on her couch, bored. "Walsh!" she called and her flying monkey landed before her. "Bring me something, doesn't matter what. Just something so I won't die here of boredom."
The monkey nodded and flew out the room. Zelena stood up and walked to centre of the room, waving her hand so her little sister showed up. Regina threw a heart in a fire at the edge of the forest. From the fire rushed purple smoke up and started covering the ground while Regina smiled wickedly. "What are you up to sis?" Zelena wondered as she walked around the reflection of her sister.
Walsh came screaming and back to her and kept pointing outside. "What?" she snarled but Walsh just pointed at the window. Zelena rolled her eyes and walked over to the window, seeing purple smoke coming her way. "Well, look at that. Sissy learned a new trick."
She waver her hand, expecting for the smoke to just go away, but it didn't. It was still coming, faster and faster. She tried again, and again, but her magic was gone. She walked back until her back hit the wall and smoke entered her palace, consuming her as it had done with all of Oz.
Enchanted Forest
"The curse is coming, what now?" Hook asked Cora as the smoke rushed towards them
"We protect ourselves," Cora said and raised her staff, expecting it to make a magical couple that would protect them but nothing happened.
"Is that supposed to happen?" Hook asked dryly.
"It looks like my daughter is smarter than I thought she was," Cora said more to herself than to Hook. "I guess there is no escaping it now."
"What?" Hook asked confused but the smoke took them away before Cora could even answer.
In another part of the Enchanted Forest Snow White held her husband and daughter close to her while Regina laughed cruelly. Regina's guards had destroyed the wardrobe before they even got the chance to get close to it. Purple smoke surrounded them, her daughter was crying and her husbands was barely breathing. The only thing Snow could hope for was that they would at least be together in the cursed land Regina send them to.
Mary Margaret opened her eyes when she heard her daughter crying in the other room. She had such a weird dream; she was Snow White and the mayor was The Evil Queen and… Mary Margaret shook hr head. It was just a crazy dream, nothing more. She walked over to her daughter and picked her up out of her crib.
"Ssshh, Emma. It's alright, Mommies here," she cooed to her daughter. "You must be hungry."
She walked over to the fridge and took an already ready bottle of milk she prepared yesterday night. She put it in the microwave. While waiting she walked a little around her apartment, rocking Emma a little. Mary Margaret didn't know how she got so lucky to have her little emerald. Emma was the only thing in this town that made Mary Margaret smile and she couldn't be more thankful.
Sure, she was known as the nicest woman in town but inside she was the saddest woman ever. Something was missing, something was just not right until she found out she was pregnant and her little Emma came into her life. Emma filled the hole within her, filled the missing part.
The microwave beeped and Mary Margaret walked over to it, grabbing the bottle and checked if it was on the right temperature. When it was she gave it to Emma who sucked on it happily. Her little angel, her saviour.
5 years later…
"Where are we going, Mommy?" Emma asked as they walked through the streets of Storybrooke.
"You know that Mommy helps in the hospital sometimes, right?" Emma nodded. "Well, today you are going to help too."
"Really?" Emma said enthusiastically.
"Really," Mary Margaret said with a big smile on her face. When she looked up again she almost bumped into Mayor Mills. "I'm so sorry," she said and took a step back. "I should've been looking where I was going."
"Yeah you should," the Mayor said harshly and Emma hid behind her mother's legs. "Who's this?" she asked a little nicer.
"This is my daughter, Emma." She tugged at her hand but Emma stayed hidden behind her lags. "Sweetheart, it's not polite to hide from people."
Slowly Emma appeared from behind her mother's legs but she stayed close. Regina bowed forward so that she could speak to Emma directly.
"Hello Emma, how-"
"You're evil," Emma said suddenly.
"Emma!" Mary Margaret scolded her. "That's not nice."
"But she is!" Emma wined. Regina straitened herself again and looked back at Mary Margaret.
"You should teach your child some manners," Regina said harshly and walked past them. Emma stuck out her tong at her before turning back to her mother.
"She is scary."
"I know, honey. I know."
They walked to the hospital and Mary Margaret gave Emma a little tour through the hospital. Emma helped around as good as she could, cheering up the sick and old and playing with the children there. She was friendly and was very perspective for her age, knowing what people needed to feel better and understanding what they were going through. Mary Margaret couldn't be more proud.
"Okay, sweetheart," Mary Margaret said to Emma who was colouring with another boy called August, "I'm going to get us something to eat from the cafeteria, don't wonder off, okay?"
"Okay," she said and turned back to her drawing.
When Mary Margaret came back she didn't see Emma at the colouring table. She kneeled down beside August and asked, "Do you know where Emma is?"
August pointed at the glass room where a coma patient laid. Mary Margaret rushed over there and wanted to tell Emma to immediately come back since she was not allowed to go in there but stopped when she saw Emma sitting on the bed, telling the John Doe the story of Snow White and Prince Charming while tracing his face with her little fingers.
"Why doesn't he open his eyes," Emma asked when she finished the story.
"Because he had an accident."
"What's his name?"
"We don't know," Mary Margaret said and walked closer. "People we don't know the name of we call John Doe."
Emma looked up at her and said, "He is Prince Charming."
Mary Margaret smiled down at her daughter. "Prince Charming is just a fairy tale character."
"But he is!" she insisted and turned around. "And you are Snow White!"
"Emma, those people never exited, they are just stories, they didn't actually happen," Mary Margaret said gently.
Emma huffed and crossed her arms. "You just don't believe," she muttered.
Mary Margaret sighed and extended her hand for Emma to take and said, "Come on, you must be hungry. Princesses need to eat too."
Emma took her hand and Mary Margaret led her out of the room. She looked one last time back at John Doe over her shoulder, he did look charming.
12 years later…
"Elsa, you promised!"
"I know! I know! But something came up and family stuff and…"
Emma sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. "Okay, I get it."
"Really?" Elsa said on the other line.
"Yeah, but I have to go now, see you later."
"Thank you Emma! See you later."
Emma hung up and threw her mobile on the end of the bed, putting her face in her hands. Great, just great! Now she had to go to the movies with August alone. She liked August but not like liked him, just as a friend. He however wanted to be more than just friends and showed her that more than once. He would sit close to her, put an arm around her, give her compliments, he even tried to kiss her! Twice!
Maybe she could just cancel, tell him that she wasn't feeling well or something. But she really wanted to see that movie too. Storybrooke rarely got new movies in the cinema and when they did you either had to see them on the day they came out or wait another five months for the DVD to finally arrive in the stores.
She had been looking forward to this for weeks. The original plan was for her and Elsa to go but August asked if he could come with them. She didn't mind as long as Elsa would come with them but now she just cancelled last minute and Emma didn't know what to do.
"Mom! I need help!" she called and in less than a minute her mother came upstairs.
"What is it sweetheart?" she asked sweetly and sat down on the bed net to Emma.
"Elsa said she could come to the movies so I'll be alone with August all night."
"Isn't that good?"
"No! I don't like him that way, but he does like me that way and I don't want it to become awkward," Emma said frustrated. "What should I do?"
"Just tell him you're not interested."
"I already did, but he said he wouldn't stop fighting even when I said I don't want him to."
"Maybe you don't want to admit that you like him, yet. You never had a boyfriend before, maybe you're just scared. Why don't you just go and see what happens."
"Fine, but I don't like him."
Not long after her conversation with her mother someone knocked on the door. Emma opened it and smiled at August. He was wearing his leather as usual and a slight scurf started to grow on his face.
"Hey," he said.
"Hi," she said. "Ready to go?"
"Shouldn't we wait for Elsa?" he asked and looked over her shoulder, expecting Elsa to be somewhere inside.
"No. She just called that she couldn't come."
"To bad," August said but Emma noticed the way his eyes lit up at the thought of just the two of them. She wondered for a moment if she shouldn't just tell him she couldn't come either.
"You two have fun!" Mary Margaret called from the kitchen.
"We will," August called back and Emma quickly closed the door with a sigh.
"Let's just see this stupid movie." She walked past him and down the stairs, August not far behind. They walked to the cinema in an awkward silence until August cleared his through and spoke up.
"Excited for the movie?" he asked.
"Yeah," she said shortly. He nodded and wanted to say something again but she cut him off. "Let's just get this over with, this is not a date."
"Wh- what are you talking about?" August said in fake surprise but the blush that creeped up his face confirmed her suspicion.
"Listen August, you are really nice and all that but I just want to be friends, okay?"
"Okay," he said a bit disappointed.
They entered the cinema, August went to get their tickets while she would get them some snacks. In line she fuddled a bit with her wallet and accidently let some money fall on the ground. "Shit," she muttered and bend down to pick it up. Someone kneeled down before her and picked up a penny.
"Penny for you thoughts?" a British accent said and when she looked up she met the most beautiful blue eyes she had ever seen. He handed her the penny and extended her hand to help her up. She took his hand and was speechless for a moment until someone behind her cleared his throat.
"I got the tickets," August said. The handsome stranger nodded to himself and smiled at her with a gorgeous smile.
"Enjoy your movie," he said and walked away. She stared after him until August snapped his fingers before her eyes, making her jump a little.
"Who was that?" August asked annoyed.
"I don't know," Emma answered a bit breathless. She realised how she was sounding so she cleared her throat and shook her head. "Let's go get some snacks."
A/N: Thank you all for reading! please leave a review and check out my other stories ;)
