AN: this starts immediately after Emma comes through the portal and lands in another realm. Be warned there is torture. Ouat doesn't belong to me.

Emma hit the ground face first as she fell out of the portal. Before she could even get a look at her surroundings, she was hit with a metal fist to the side of her head knocking her unconscious.

When she became aware again, all she could feel was pain. She was alone in a stone room with little tables scattered around the place and she was strapped in the middle of the room. The pain in her body was caused by giant hooked spikes impaling both wrists and feet. The blonde reacted on instinct and tried to pull her arms away from the spikes but the pain was too much.

'Why is this happening to me?'

The howl of pain she released seemed to alert the man on the other side of the door and he had a huge smile on his face at the sight of her struggle. The man was a tall well-built brunette with short hair and a white chest plate and greaves. He walked up to the pained savior and placed straps on the top and bottom of her head to hold it in place. Emma, in her fear, tried to get herself free even more, making the hole in her wrists and feet even bigger. Her torturer walked over to a tray that had a pitcher and goblet sitting on it and poured a goblet of a dark red liquid.

As he poured the liquid into her throat, Emma tried her best not to swallow any down but he covered her mouth and nose. Once the liquid hit her system, the pain grew more intense and her struggles renewed as her body felt like it was on fire. She saw the monster pick up two more spikes and slam them into her thighs and she let out a loud yell as the tears poured down her face. In her pain, she began to wonder
'Who is this man?' The man just stood back for another moment and watched her try to free herself like he was studying her. He watched her until she passed out again from pain.

The process repeated again and again for what felt like years to the blonde. She had spikes in both arms, legs, and shoulders along with a bigger spike in the center of her abdomen. The man would feed her the same liquid every time before he added more spikes and each time it would hurt her more than her impaled body. In the time, she had spent there she kept hoping for the portal to reopen and take her home or someone to save her and each time it didn't she would feel the doubts creep in.
'Why haven't they reopened the portal yet or my parents tried to save me yet?

'They're too busy with the new baby. The one that they can get right.'

'Regina wouldn't just leave me. Henry would never give up on me.'

'Regina's playing family with Robin and Henry, who dropped your last name the moment he could. You're stuck here in this place 'cause no one cares enough to save the savior.' In that moment, the savior ceased to believe she would ever escape and the hope faded from her eyes as nothing but the darkness remained.

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Once in her conscious moments, she found herself alone but could swear she could feel another presence in the room with her. She looked around to see if she could get help from it.

"Is… Is anybody there?" Emma whispered hoarsely, not having used her voice for more than screaming in pain.

"Always," A harsh voice answered back.

"Please help me," The blonde begged tearfully.

"Only if you say yes to my offer."

"I'll do anything just please help me get out of here."

"Okay, I'll give you my power and you will be able to free yourself. Just know this will stay with you until you die." As the voice finished there was a black silhouette with horns that grabbed her hand.

As the apparition grabbed her hand, the same fire that had been agonizing her body whenever she was forced to drink the liquid spread through her hand and up her body. There even seemed to be a shadow forming across the top of her body as her eyes turned black. With a scream, Emma wrenched her arms free then the rest of her body spikes still impaled through her body.

Two guards rushed in after hearing the commotion in the room. Without truly being conscious of what she was doing, the blonde pulled the giant spike from her stomach and threw it through the head of one guard and set another on fire with magic while they were frozen in fear. As she fled from the castle, she was setting fire and using the hooked stakes as weapons killing everyone in her path.
Down one of the corridors, she came across the man who had put her through hell. As they locked eyes, he came to fear what he had created and the who's and why's of her torture left her mind. He ran at the sight of her and Emma followed after still killing everything in her path. Explosions seem to rain from the sky scattering the debris all over the collapsing castle but the blonde still paid no mind as her sights were set on one man. Set for revenge, the angry blonde never noticed the village they had entered. When she finally caught up to him, all she had was one of the stakes left from her wrist which she had been carrying in her hand. Emma jumped and landed on her nightmare stabbing him in the back through the neck. As she watched him die, she could feel the power receding, leaving her drained.

Emma looked on in horror as the man lay dying at her feet before turning and dropping to her knees at the sight. Where once there was a castle and two villages; now there is nothing but smoldering ruins. Emma grabbed her head as what she had done sunk in and screamed in agony until she felt like she was going to pass out. Not being able to look at what she had done any longer, she stood only to fall back down as the rest of her strength left her but before she passed out, she saw five darkened figures approaching her.

An: please read and review. It's been a long while since I've written anything and I had this beta'd twice. So if you have any constructive criticism I'd really like that.