Clang! Agh!
'Goddamn it!' Emma mentally curse as she watch her father's sword fly away from her. She turn back around, only to be met with the tip of a dagger to her throat by a lady. The lady cocked her head to the side slightly and said "Oh dear, I feel bad for you."
Emma scowled at this lady that she hated and somewhat fear.
The lady smile so innocently, it was sickening to her. "You definitely have your father's charm and swordplay but you also have your mother's recklessness and determination. I just feel so bad that charming face will get hurt"
"Leave her...alone Cora...!" A voice rasped out. Both Emma and Cora turned in unison as they see a slightly deathly pale Snow staggering slightly with a bow and arrow in her hand, ready to shoot and hit her target but judging on how she looks, Emma haves slight doubts.
"Oh my dear Snow. You still alive I see? Guessing that first dose of posion wasn't enough to bring down the almighty Snow White huh?" Snow could heard the venomous attitude in her voice but Snow just ignored it as she tried to focus her arrow on her target. Cora smirked at her. "Well then, at least..." She then turned back to face Emma, who's staring her down the best she could at this point. Even though she and her mom fought Cora before, she still couldn't shake off the fear she haves towards the woman, which probably explain why Regina didn't dare rebel against her. Emma was brought back to reality when she felt the dagger's tip slightly pierce her throat, making a trickle of blood come down.
"No.." Snow coughed out harshly as she let the arrow flied to her target, only it didn't. Instead, it hit a tree a few feet behind Emma and Cora. Both Snow and Emma had a shocked expression display on their faces as they tried to registered the most surreal thing that had just happen: Snow White had missed.
Emma felt fear settled in while Cora smiled "Oh Snow darling, you shouldn't have done that. Do you know you could hurt your daughter that way"
As Cora continued to rant, Snow looked over to Emma and nodded at her, which Emma picked up quickly and nodded back. Snow took aim again, this time at Emma! Cora's eyes slightly widen at this sudden course of action. "Oh Snow, you not actually gonna hurt your daughter are y-?"
Snow then let the arrow fly straight at Emma, who caught the arrow, to Cora surprise, and stab Cora in the leg with it! Cora threw Emma to the ground hard as she screamed out in pain. Emma grunted in pain as she looked back up to see Cora with the dagger hanging over. "Argh! You foolish girl! You made a terrible mistak doing that! Now you will pay the price!" Emma quickly closed her eyes, not wanting to see her oncoming death. But she eventually she opened them after waiting a few agonizing moments.
Emma saw that there was no trace of Cora and her mom standing there a few feet from her. Emma couldn't help but feel the joy welling up in her chest. Her mother defeated Cora! Emma quickly stood up on her feet. And just as she was about to shout "they did it", she saw Snow swaying side to side and coughing harshly, drips of blood hit the floor.
Thats when Emma knew something was wrong. Snow slowly turned around to face her daughter. And what Emma saw literally froze her in place.
'No..." Emma voice dropped when she saw the dagger protruding out of her stomach, blood slowly dropping to the ground.
"Emma..."
Emma snapped her head back up at her mother with fearful eyes. Snow smiled sadly at her. "I-"
Suddenly, Snow fell onto her knees and Emma ran over to her and caught her just before she hit the ground. She then gently lower themselves to the ground, carefully placing Snow across her lap. Snow wheezed weakly as she felt her body starting to shut down. Emma's face was filled with worry and panic all together when she as she cried out.
"No! No! Don't! Stop please! You can't! No!" At that moment, Emma didn't know how to form a single sentence and it frustrated her.
Although, Snow stare weakly at Emma. She could tell her baby was going to start having a panic attack so she tried to calm her but end up coughing up a bit of blood. This quickly caught Emma's attention as she went into overdrive. "MOM?!"
Snow smiled weakly at that word and slightly caressed her daughter's cheek.
"I...I thought you...you will never..call me that...again..."
Okay, I know you guys are all wondering: What did Cora mean by the first dose of poison? How did Snow get poison in the first place? Where is everybody? What happen to Cora? How did they end up back in the Enchanted Forest? What happen between Snow and Emma that will make Emma not call her mom again? Will Emma be able to save her mom?
Well, in order to know all that, we have to start from the very beginning, which will start tomorrow. :D