All Hallows Eve
By: Lord-of-Dragons2007
A/N: I do not own the characters, concepts, and so on. This is my first horror fic so please enjoy.
Time was growing late, it was already past one thirty am. Charming and Snow had been crawling through the vent for what seemed like forever, they had gone what felt like miles though the vents but it felt like they were just going around in circles,
"David, have we passed another vent where we can crawl out of the wall yet?" Snow asked as she stopped to take a little break from all the crawling around they were doing,
"Not yet as far as I can tell." David said as he looked back at her, he wanted a little break too, they could wait around too long they needed to find Spencer and their son as quickly as possible before something unspeakable happened. Snow was about to say something when they both heard something big and live bump into the vent a little further down where it grew darker, Snow gasped out of surprise,
"What was that?" She asked worriedly as she felt like something cold and ethereal had grasped her heart in her chest and started to squeeze a little bit, Charming in the dim light almost nonexistent lighting grew pale, especially when an odd bone chilling growl and scoff came from the bend ahead of them seemed to echo around them and behind them as well. David reached into his pocket quietly, calmly and quickly and fished out the miniature flashlight, he held it in his free hand and put his hand with the gun on top of the wrist of the hand that held the flashlight and held the gun at the ready. Whatever it was he was going to be ready for it, he hesitantly turned on the flashlight and what he saw inspired peer terror. It was another monstrosity like what Ruby and Whale had faced earlier this night, it roared angrily at having the flashlight shining in its face and it did its best to charge at Charming and Snow with the confined space that it had to work with. Snow couldn't see the creature but she heard the roar and felt the way the roar made the immediate area around them tremble and she felt the vent tremble more assuming it was because of the thing moving in the vent. Charming screamed loudly and manly as he drew his gun and started to fire off round after round into the head of the creature.
A little while later after Ruby and Whale had turned the tenth corner they were sure that whatever it was that ambushed them didn't follow them as far as they could tell, the afforded themselves a few moments to catch their breath and freak out about what had just happened, about what they just saw,
"What the hell were those things?" Ruby asked shakily as she huffed and puffed,
"I don't know, if I had to guess I would say they were zombies." Whale answered back unsure of what it was they were attacked by,
"I've seen every zombie movie that was ever made, and those were NOT zombies." Ruby retorted to her boyfriend a little more aggressively but it was more out of fear,
"I don't know Ruby, we were in the morgue, dead bodies and they were reanimated. And that wasn't my doing." Whale replied back a little frustrated himself, he paused and massaged the bridge of his nose for a moment to calm himself,
"Look I'm sorry, just-" He started to apologize to Ruby when she stopped,
"I know…Its ok, lets just get through the night." She said quietly as she held her arms tightly to keep herself from shaking with fear. At that moment they looked around and Whale noticed it first,
"Hey look." He said as he pointed at the office door. Maybe our luck is changing." He said gently as he quickly pulled out his keys to open the door, once he did he peered inside carefully and the office seemed to be untouched and free of whatever those creatures were, he moved aside to let Ruby in first,
"I got some scotch in the bottom right drawer if you wanna crack it open for us." He said in a whispered as he looked around and then quickly closed the door to his office and locked it from the inside. He wasn't done there, not by a long shot. Whale moved one of his bookshelves closest to the door and moved it in front of the door to barricade themselves in, next he took the other much heavier bookshelf and moved it in front of the large air grate. Those creatures were not getting in there to get them, when he was finished he moved over to Ruby and enveloped her in a big hug before he kissed her.
Charming yelled and shot at the creature while shuffling backwards in the vent, Snow at all the yelling and snarling shuffled backward as fast as she could to get out of her husband's way, but stayed ready herself for whatever happens next. Luckily after about six or seven shots (Charming lost count) the creature finally drew its last breath and fell motionless in the vent, Charming let out a sigh of relief when he saw the creature fall lifeless. He stayed at the ready for a moment or two longer making sure the creature wasn't playing possum and that there wasn't another one right behind it. When he felt they were safe David ejected the clip in on his pistol and clicked it against the gun to get a feel for about how many he had, he still had half a clip left. He figured he had enough ammo on him to last the rest of this expedition, but afterwards he and Snow would have to make a trip to the Sheriff station and get some more ammo, maybe some bigger guns at that too,
"...Charming?" Snow called out to him questioningly,
"Yeah Snow, its dead." Charming replied quietly to her, David was still studying the creature from where he stood with his gun at the ready again, it looked like it was once human but it was somehow mutated into this...Thing,
"Come on, we gotta keep going." Charming said quietly as he pushed the remains as far off to the side as he could so they could push forward. As Charming crawled past the mess of the creature he felt his stomach turn a bit when he felt his hand land on the blood of the creature, he hoped that whatever turned this thing into what it was wasn't contagious, he had no desire to be turned into a monster. Snow when she crawled past the creature shuttered to think what it was, she hoped there weren't anymore out there. At that moment she heard a faint distant rumbling and snarling just like this creature when it was a live and before it attacked them, she gasped in fright but then relaxed when it went away and she couldn't hear anything anymore,
"David hurry up we gotta get out of here." Snow said in a panicked whisper, panic was rising in her like the tide in the light of a full moon. She was feeling confined, trapped, she didn't want that she wanted to be out of this dark enclosed space, she wanted to be able to fight back too, she wanted to run and hide and pray that this horrible night was just a nightmare and she would wake up and everything would be fine. David hearing the panic in her voice felt himself panic a little bit as well, though at least one of them needed to keep their heads about them and right now it needed to be him,
"Hang on I see a vent up ahead with some light coming though it, I think we can get out that way." he said hopefully as he lead the way out to the vent. David pushed on the grate and it didn't budge he tried harder and it still didn't give way. His last resort was that he positioned himself so he could kick at the vent, after a few more tires the grate popped off with a lout clank that was sure to draw some unwanted attention. David had quickly crawled out and into the hallway, he looked around and the coast seemed to be clear. What he didn't notice was another one of those creatures on the ground, it seemed to be dead. Charming turned around and started to help Mary-Margret though the vent and into the hallway, at that moment the creature's eyes snapped open and it took a long but quiet breath before he started to creepily rise to its feet, arching its back backwards and finally standing up straight when its feet were beneath it. It started to come towards Snow and Charming who were at this time both standing upright, Charming was facing with his back to the hallway. Snow saw the creature and yelled, Charming quickly drew his gun and turned around as quickly as he could, however he wasn't fast enough as the creature was already on top of him, it knocked the gun out of his hand and fell on top of David trying to eat the man alive. Snow quickly regained her composure and summoning all of her might she kicked the creature as hard as she could with all her might and made it roll over in pain, she drew two arrows from he quiver and sent them flying into the creature's skull before she started to stop ton its body as hard as she could. Because of the undead nature of these beasts they were easy to dismember and take apart once they were dead (again), Snow was so scared and panicked that she didn't notice that it was dead and motionless. All she saw was that the monster was still there, she continued to stomp and stomp. All that was there now was a mess of guts, body pieces and Snow kept going as tears streamed down her face. She was at her breaking point. Charming having recovered and now standing in front of his wife going at it, he knew she needed to get this out of her system. Though when he saw the tears start to fall from her eyes and down her face he came up next to her and gently wrap his arms around her,
"Hey hey, come on its going to be ok-" he started to say before she cut him off,
"No its not David, not this time." she said with a choked sob,
"Its not going to be ok, our daughter is out there with more of these monsters out there and God know what else. Our son was taken from us, and we're here with more of these monsters trying to find Ruby to help us find Neal. David we don't even know if Ruby is still alive, what if shes turned into one of these creatures?" Snow rolled on still in hysterics, David didn't say anything he just held Snow tighter into him, he just held her and tried to calm her down enough to try and continue. It was true there was a lot going on and they didn't even know if they could make any of it better or right for that matter, all he knew was that he needed to try, he needed to find his family again. And right now he couldn't do that alone, he needed his wife at his side and at her best or this was going to be the end of their family and possibly their lives as they knew it.
Regina and Henry still creeped out by the scene they saw some how made it to the main street of town, it seemed like it was so much further than they remembered. They still had their little run ins with some more spirits but nothing like what they saw with their first encounter,
"Mom look!" Henry called to her in a hushed urgent tone as he pointed off in the horizon. It wasn't uncommon for mist to surround the town as they were on the bay which ultimately fed into the ocean, it made for beautiful and at times very eerie scenery. What Henry was pointing to was off in the distance leading towards the forest and the same direction as the cemetery out of the mist slowly appeared a figure, moving slowly and gingerly yet roughly at the same time. Then it was joined by another coming out of the mist moving the same way as the last, then they were joined by three, then by six until what looked like a sea of figures were moving toward the town moving very slowly and roughly, all of which were moaning and snarling despite the fact that they walked and looked like humans, Regina looked at what Henry was talking about and she squinted and tried to figure out what was going on, when the whole mass appeared out of the mass, her eyes snapped wide and she grew pale,
"Henry Run, NOW!" Regina yelled as she stood up and grabbed his arm and started to run with Henry, she concentrated and conjured up a large fireball and shot it close to the herd of zombies that were coming out of the mist as a distraction to get them to pay attention to the fire that she started in order to buy herself and Henry more time to get to Gold's shop. The herd split up, half went to go check on the distraction that Regina made and the other half continued towards the town in search of blood. Henry and Regina made it to Gold's shop and desperately tried the door,
"It wont open." Henry said to her as he started to bang on the door as hard as he could to try and get some attention from the people on the inside,
"Gold! Let us in!" Regina yelled though the door, they both could see inside and see the others around talking and looking at the various books they had out.
Emma recognized Henry's voice and she ran over to the door and quickly opened it to let them inside, she peeked outside and saw the herd of zombies starting to enter the town. Emma closed the door quickly and put all of her weight against it, "We have company." she said worriedly going as pale as a ghost with wide open eyes. At that moment Gold held up his hand and closed his eyes and the shop glow for a moment and then the glow faded away, they all looked at him,
"Rumple, what did you just do?" Belle asked him worriedly, Gold held onto the glass case for some support and then opened his eyes and looked at everyone,
"Its a protection spell, no one can come inside or break a window or the door." Gold started to explain,
"You put a shield over the whole shop." Belle summarized his words,
"Yes, thats a more apt description." Gold replied,
"As an added layer of protection I also cast a cloaking spell on the shop, its almost as if the shop is no longer here." he added in. Knowing all of this everyone felt a little better but it was still disconcerting seeing the zombies walking around outside. The bad thing was that their movements were going to be a bit harder now with the added guests in town, the good thing however was that both conjurers that wanted to raise the dead were in the same place, they could now at least compare notes and figure out whats wrong and how to fix it. At that moment it walked in front of the shop where everyone could see...Neal's body, or rather the zombie that was Neal's was staggering outside the shop. Gold glanced over and saw his son, but it wasn't him. It was just the shell of the man, seeing Neal's body like this brought a tear to his,
"What have I done?..." he asked to no one in particular, when he wanted to raise his son, this isn't what he wanted. He had effectively played a direct part in desecrating his body, tarnishing his memory,
"Son, I missed you so much. I'm so sorry I did this to you boy boy." he apologized as he staggered to the window, not caring what anyone was saying or how they were looking at him. He wasn't Rumplestilskin, he wasn't the dark one, he was in this moment a grieving father who had buried his son. Everyone, even Regina could relate to the pain he felt for losing his son. At that moment Belle came to his side with a tissue,
"Rumple, its not him. What you felt, what you wanted to do no one could blame you for. I know how you feel but this isn't a time to grieve and fall apart, we need you. Well your help in stopping all of this, to stop this evil from killing everyone we care about and love." Belle said gently as she handed him the tissue for his eyes and took his hand her's. Everyone stood by and watched the two, it was hard not to feel bad for what Gold was going through at this moment.
A/N: Alrighty sorry this is late, I wanted to get this out by halloween but didn't happen that way so sorry about that. Just been so busy with work and role playing on tumblr, but i'm still making progress on my stories. Anyway heres the new chapter, I hope its good and I hope you all are still enjoying it. Please read and review, your guy's comments are whats keeping me going on these stories. Catch you guys later.
