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After the ship came out of the portal, the Charmings, Regina, Rumple, and Hook looked around to see that the ship was unharmed by the voyage and they were all perfectly fine, after a moment of silence, Emma looked at Rumple, at first she was shocked at how he looked, but got over it surprisingly quickly.
'I've seen ogres and dragons before, compared to that, what's a gold skinned Gold.' she thought
"So" Charming was the first to speak. "what do you mean by we should fear who has Henry, you're the Dark One, nothing can harm you or kill you here and your all powerful, so what are we up against Gold."
Rumple sighed and then waved his hand, causing chairs to appear in a puff of purple smoke like the globe had, "You might as well sit down, it's a long story" he said in his childish Dark one voice that all but Emma had heard before. "A long, long, long time ago, magic was a neutral force, neither good, nor evil; over time, man and other beings started to use it, and so worlds started to chose, magic, technology, or a mix; over time magic started to be corrupted, becoming good or bad, this is why you can use magic of both types to do the same thing, dark magic can heal, and good magic can harm, but good magic cannot be used to torture or painfully kill a person like dark magic can, and dark magic can't revive a person, healing them, as quickly as good magic can; a pair of very powerful twin brothers noticed this; one of the brothers was good, the other was evil, and so each one wanted to permanently tip magic to their side, so they went on a long quest and after many years, they found the source of all magic, and so they removed their own hearts and tossed then into the pure magic, hoping that there pure goodness or pure evil would be able to tip the scale and cause all magic to be good or evil, what they did was send the magic into a state of turmoil, shifting from dark to light, in the end they both died." he said.
By now everyone was quite fascinated by Rumple's story, so they didn't interrupt him when he stopped for breath. "The magic then entered their bodies, causing them to be re-animated, they each became a genderless form of pure magic, one dark beast, that looked like a half man half dragon, the other, a light ball of energy, with long tentacles of light. Many hundreds years later, the dark magic and light magic fought in an all out battle for complete control of magic, their armies of sorcerers fought for days without rest, in the end the two forces met, and attack with all their might, in the end the light beast was wounded and it's magic fell on top of what is today the dwarf mine, creating faerie dust diamonds, and the faeries were born, the dark beast, was split into three different parts, each one gaining one of the beasts three special powers, a man with scales gained immortality, a small wingless dragon gained the power to go to any and all worlds, even the ones without magic in them, and the shadow gained the power of flight."
"And the shadow became Peter Pan." said Hook filling in the blanks.
"Yes" said Rumple. "After seeing what happened, the armies fled the battle field, as did the most of the faeries; upon the realization of what had happened, the three dark ones started to fight, each one wanting the power of the other two, hopping that by killing them, that they might get the power back; the immortal one quickly gained the upper hand."
"How." Charming was the one to speak this time.
"You power magic using one of three thing, life force, inner magic, or subconsciously making a deal with the pure magic; life force is very simple, you cast a spell, you feel a bit dizzy depending on its intensity, and you will die of old age sooner than before; with inner magic, you tap into a magic that you naturally have, All beings have it, but 99% of the time the magic is so faint that you can't do much more then very weak spells, and have to wait a long while to for it to recharge, so you compensate the rest of the required energy with life force or a magic charm of some kind which contains magical energy; the last way is if you consciously or subconsciously say to yourself, "I don't want to use my life force", but cast the spell any way, if this happens, the magic comes with a different price, the pure magic influences fate so that you losses something, what it is is based on some form of scale of sentimental value to you or something, you might lose it tomorrow, or in 50 years; all magic requires you to make a small deal with the pure magic, but how great depends on how much life force you gave up or how much inner magic you use."
"I still don't follow how the immortal one was winning." Regina said, looking tired of her old teacher's story.
"He won because he could use as much life force as he wanted and not have any negative effects, and he still had his inner magic to use, which I'm guessing was equal to the other two Dark Ones, and because he was immortal, he couldn't be harmed like the others." Said Emma.
Rumple was quite surprised and a bit proud that Emma had figured it out. "Yes, and seeing that, they could not beat him, they along with a few remaining faeries, including a particular blue faerie that had most of the power, cast a spell on the immortal Dark One and a dagger, causing his life force and magic to be bound to it, and then fled, unable to fight anymore and worried about what fate had in-store for them because of all the magic the last attack took. The shadow latter came across the giants, who were being hunted by humans for their magic beans, and offered to help them by creating a beanstalk for them that only those who knew of it would be able to see, in exchange, they gave him two magic beans and promised not to give any of them to the immortal dark one for 1,000 years, they excepted, and the shadow went to Neverland, there, he drove away the dragon, using his ability to stay high in the air, the dragons attacks were less affective; over time, the dragon stayed away from the other Dark Ones, and grew old and weak, 700 or so years later, the shadow used his last bean to find and kill the dragon, gaining his power, and is still looking for away to get the immortal's power, staying on Neverland so he wouldn't age, he then one day found a seer, and in exchange for her freedom, she told him that one day a boy would be the other Dark Ones undoing if he found that boy that lived in a land without magic, and so has spent all these years searching that world."
"And you think that Greg and Tamara are working for him and that Henry is that boy?" Emma said scared of the answer she was sure she already knew.
"I know it's him." Rumple said without emotion.
"WHAT!?" All of them said.
"A long time ago, before Bae was born and I was the Dark One, I was asked to guard a seer on the battle field of one of the first ogre wars, she told me that my actions on the battle field would leave him fatherless, so I crippled myself so I wouldn't have to fight and so Bae would have a father, something I never had. Now what the seer didn't tell me was that Bae would lose his father either to death by the ogres, or by a complicated chain of events including me becoming the new Dark One and him running away. Years later I found the seer, and after telling me to make the dark curse and that I would not cast it or break it, she said if I wanted to know more I would have to take her power, I did, and as gratitude, told me that the future is a puzzle, that I would have to learn to see what can be from what will be, and that you can never be sure if you have found all the pieces or not, with her dieing breath she gave me the last piece, that Bae and I would reunite, that a boy would guide me to him and bring us together, but that the price would be that the boy would be my undoing. She then died and I decided that I would just kill the boy." The others looked very unnerved at this. "What I didn't know was the boy would be my grandson and that he would be Bae's only child."
"So why come and risk your undoing?" Hook asked.
"Because I need to honor Bea, you all couldn't face him and win, and I'm the only way we could get home." Was Rumple's reply
"What do you mean?" asked Charming.
"Peter Pan, is as powerful as two of me, can fly, and is older than me; he will use Henry as bait to lure me here, and will use him to kill me."
"I thought your Dagger was the only thing that could kill you." Said Hook
"Yes that is true, but most magical beings can give up their power, under normal circumstances I can't, but Peter Pan is the exception to the rule, I can only ever give up my powers to him because him and I are from the same original power, but doing so will most likely kill me, like it did the seer when I took her power; after he gets my power, he will most likely kill all of you."
"So why come here Gold?" Emma asked, fearing the answer.
"Because Henry will die if I don't, and I know how to beat him."
"How!?"
"With your parent's help, I made the true love potion from their hair, I can do it again, and with that I will be able to use the potion to weaken him so that I can take his powers even if he doesn't want to give them up"
"I thought true love's kiss broke all curses."
"Yes it does, but this is not a curse, it is pure dark magic, so you need more than one kiss to break it, however, one kiss would weaken me or him greatly, if I can use just one drop of the potion, it will weaken him but not destroy his power so I can take it without risking Henry."
"And why should we let you become more powerful by taking his power, why not just kill him?" Regina sneered.
"Because in case you didn't realize, we are stuck in Neverland with no way back, unless there is another bean just lying around on this ship." Rumple opened his arms, drawing their attention to the whole main deck. "So if any of you want to get back home, then I need his power, also if I get it, we can travel back to the Enchanted Forest without needing to wait for more beans to grow, and could still travel back to Storybrooke, because only beans and Peter Pan's power can travel between magic and none magic words, so Jefferson's hat won't work, plus you must first find a place where the two land's energy overlap, which could be outside the border, so unless you are eager to be on my hit list because you have his power and want to kill him yourself, which could get Henry killed if there life force is linked, which it probably is, not to mention you would need to train with your new powers for years before you could take others to different lands, then yes it must be me."
"What do you mean "if there life force is linked"?" Asked Emma.
"An old curse was once made in order to cheat death; a person could link their life force to another's, so that if they were killed or hurt, the life force of the other person, would bring them back to life, heal them or it could also stop you from aging, but at the cost of that persons own life force, now the person losing the life force, had to have an equal amount of more than the one who was being killed or else it won't work all the way, but they would still die, so if you kill Peter Pan while their life force is linked, then all you will do is kill Henry."
"I thought that curse was lost thousands of years ago." Said Charming, who had heard about it in some book years ago.
"What part of older than me don't you get, he knows all the lost curses, especially that one, he uses the life force of the lost boys to keep him from ageing when he leaves Neverland, but because you don't age there anyway and there are so many of them, they don't really notice."
"And how does your taking his power not kill Henry or the lost boys?" asked Snow.
"It's not 100% a sure thing, considering this has never happened before on this scale in any realm, I'm going off the fact that, if an average magical being gives up or has their power taken, while having their life force bound, they either, don't die but have their life force bound to the person with the power now, or die because their life force was drained to prevent the person losing their power's death."
"So Henry could still die!" asked Regina in alarm.
"No he wouldn't, because there must be hundreds of lost boys, and so if that did happen, only a very tiny amount of Henry's life force would be used." Said Emma, realizing some of Gold's plan.
Everyone seemed shocked at that, especially Gold. "Once again Emma is right, and if Peter Pan is powerless I can forcefully remove the bond he has with Henry and all the lost boys, or even reverse it, and if they are bound to me, I can still easily release them."
"So what's to stop us from using the true love potion on you and finally getting rid of the Dark One forever?" Asked Charming.
"Your wife once asked me something similar, why not just let me die and be done with the Dark One, well like her, I don't think you could look Henry in the eye and say "I killed your grandfather", and also if that won't satisfy Hook, I should remind you that is order to get home you still need me, so killing me won't help you very much." Rumple said, a little annoyed at his stupid questions. 'That and with the full power of the First Dark One, true love's kiss could no longer break or even weaken the "curse" because it would no longer be a cure but a part of me, I could destroy the dagger so no one could kill me, and I will be able to use the extra true love potion to permanently suppress the beastly nature of the Dark One, so I won't need to worry about hurting my new family or imagining up reasons to kill people, so I won't lose them to the curse again.' He thought.
Later that night Emma went to talk to Rumple in private.
"Ok Gold, I know that you're not telling me something, you left Bell in our land, crying thinking she won't ever see you again; you wouldn't do that unless you weren't sure about this."
"I don't know what you're talking about; dearie."
"Don't give me that Gold" she said in a less then happy way.
"Ok, as I said this is entirely experimental, there is no way to know for sure how this will turn out, and so me, Henry, or both could die, Peter Pan could kill us all, or he could let us go, though the first one is a lot more like him; so no, there is no way to know for sure that it will work, or what the outcome will be.
"So, this could either go to the hell in a hand basket, or go off without a hitch?"
"Couldn't have said it better myself sheriff."
After a short pause he spoke again. "I do have one failsafe though, it's a spell I found years ago, you use it on an object, it's like the life force binding curse, only it will absorb the magical signature of a spell or special ability of a certain magical being if they have not been dead long, I modified it so you can use it on anything, even yourself, it's the way old sorcerers made a necklace or ring make so you could swim and breath under water like a mermaid, and how Jefferson's hat can portal jump; use it on Peter Pan if we die and focus on the wish to get home, it will give you the power to portal jump between worlds and get you home, and you can use the magic globe to guide you home."
"What is your price?"
"This is all assuming that I am dead at this point dearie, so, you make sure that Bell is alright, that she doesn't hurt herself when she is grieving, that she gets everything in the Dark Castle, and that no one hurts her because of her association with me or tries to marry her for her wealth or any other reason then love."
Emma thought for a moment and then said "Deal."
hope you liked it, please review and tell me if you want more, this might be a 2-5 chapter thing, not sure yet.