The Peril of Salvation

(Elijah Mikaelson and Emma Swan)

Elijah had been trapped in the void, a space that separated the real world and magical world, after trying to save his family from a hellish attack that destroyed the entire city of New Orleans by making a deal with the devil. On the other hand, Emma was on her way to the magical world to get something needed to defeat some evil that was foreseen in the future coming after her parents and Storybrooke. This was the story of two saviors trying to make their way back home. What would happen when their paths crossed?

Part 1

The sky was so grey like the clouds that filled it as about to pour their water down. A man was running limply while holding his chest. His breath felt so heavy with the air that seemed to be so thick with dust and dirt that it suffocated him. He fell on the ground and nothing to be seen anywhere around him. It was like anywhere he ran, all was just huge void of jungle like space with less trees.

He took out something out of his inside pocket of his coat, a photograph. He brought the photograph close to his eyes for him to see it clearly. He's barely hanging out but he's not dead. Probably he wished he did but it seemed like this place didn't allow his sufferings to end just easy with death. His eyes were half open. He looked at the photograph of a family. In that photo he's among his family. They all looked happy with the smile on their faces. That's the only thing that he's holding on, the one thing that pushed him to survive, the one and only that got him to have hope even though there might not be any hope at all, not the slightest.

"Elijah, you do not do this. Not on our accounts. I will end the devil myself." Klaus looked so cranky. "You are not," he put his hand on Elijah's shoulder. "No one is going to suffer in that atrocious place for the rest of the eternity for any of us."

Elijah removed Klaus' hand calmly from his shoulder. "This city is going to hell. He will unleash hell on earth, in literal meaning, so yes, I'd definitely take the chances of saving this city for our family and for the greater good." He looked at Klaus straight on his eyes. "Brother, listen. If this is the only way for me, for this family to make amends, let me do it. I want you all to know that you all must stay together and happy."

On other hand, in a place called Storybrooke, Emma was on a quest to save her parents. The town had been attacked by evil magic and some cunning mysterious enemy that was foreseen to destroy the whole town and come after her parents. She knew she would do anything to save her parents and the town, wasn't that she supposed to do after all, as the savior? Emma was determined to do anything. She couldn't risk losing her family and the town in which the people she loved were living.

"Emma you don't even know if the tale is true. What if you cannot find what we need in there? It's called a void for a reason. I think you should be aware of that." Said Belle who tried to warn her about the void. Emma had come to her as she was said as the one who had learnt a lot about the old supernatural tale of that void which kept powerful device beyond magic and supernatural.

Emma with her hands crossed in front of her arms, said. "Belle, I really appreciate your concern but do you have any other options? Please I'm very open to anything and I'd just do about anything to save my parents and my town. No one gets to mess with whom and what I love and walk away with it safe and sound."

"You don't know yet if that prophecy is going to come true. You'll risk your own safety for something we don't know yet."

"Belle, this prophecy cannot be wrong. It's as old as classic tale. Everyone who has magic has seen this coming. And apparently whatever that thing is picks the wrong savior to mess with. I am not going to sit here and doing nothing, waiting for the tragedy unfolds before me."

Belle couldn't say anything. Deep down she knew the old tale of the prophecy had been around for years and this time was coming. Also that going into the void was the only possible way. Even though it wasn't guaranteed 100 percent of success but it was worth a try better than doing nothing at all. Emma was right, that evil might have planned something more than just taking whom Emma loved. He might have had something planned bigger than that in Storybrooke.

"Just be careful, Emma. I wish I could come with you." Bella said.

"Thank you Belle but I'll need you more to be here and help the others to maintain this town. I trust you."

So Emma decided to go on her own with Belle's help who guided her how to get into the void. Emma needed some magic help from Regina because her magic wasn't enough to get to the void. Before she went, she had made sure that everything was in control in Storybrooke and left them to the few people she trusted. She only had a few months before the foretold evil was coming to bring tragedies in the town and to her loved ones.

"Send my regards to whatever is awaiting of you on the other side." Regina pursed a slight smile to ease the tense in that situation.

Emma snorted. "Don't die on my absence, Regina." She was ready to do the magic. "Come one, Belle. You're the guide. We're ready when you are."

One drop of water fell on his face. Elijah looked up and saw the clouds start to pour the water down. He hurriedly kept the photograph. He couldn't lose the only thing he's holding on and which reminded him why he had to survive through it all. He had no idea why the devil sent him into the void for the deal. Whatever that was, he was sure that it wasn't for nothing. But he saw this as a way to redeem himself for the atrocities he had done in all his life. He believed he deserved this.

Elijah closed his eyes and let the rain washed him. From all the things he had been through in that void, the rain was like blessing. It had been dry since forever; he couldn't really count days in that place. The rain after all might be a good sign for something good. Any small sign of hope was all he needed at that moment.

Suddenly his vampire hearing caught a sign of moving thing. It wasn't an object moving. He knew it came from a live thing, human or another supernatural being possibly because he didn't think normal human being couldn't make it here or even stayed alive in a place like that. He became aware. As though the water had revitalized him, he was able to get up and try to get a view of the mysterious being coming his way. Elijah used his vampire sight and tried to get a clear view under rain of someone coming. It was a woman in white top with black leather jacket and black leather pants. Her shoulder length blonde hair caught his eyes.

"Good gracious!" he exclaimed.

She exclaimed in response. "Are you real?"

Part 2

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