Donkeyskin

Chapter 36

Things had been strange for the following weeks. The Author who was found, (his name was Isaac) and wrote a book where the good people were evil while the evil people were the evils, being send to another realm where Elise was evil who wanted to track down her nice step father Yves and Felix was a murderer, killing and abusing his relatives. It was very tiring and now, they had to stay and run with the Charmings, Regina and Robin through the streets because they needed Elise's powers and Felix didn't want to leave her behind. So Melanie and her father told him that they will take care of Duckling as well as the knights and the Sentinels.

The Darkness, a big black puddle who was levitating in the sky, and it seemed to be staring at them. It snarled mockingly at Elise, maybe because of her powers and the fact she was using them for good purposes. Suddenly, it dashed into Regina and started to possess her. Robin turned to Elise.

"Do something!" He pleaded.

She shook her head, knowing that she couldn't do anything, too afraid of what could happen if she dared using her powers but also because of the voice in her head that was forbidding her from doing so. But Emma Swan appeared, the Dark One's dagger in hand. Snow White yelled at her.

"Emma! Stay away from that!"

"What are you doing?!" David screamed.

"Don't worry, I know that you will find a way, a way to remove all the darkness from me, I trust you with that. I love you all." She turned to Elise and Felix who could only stare in sadness, knowing what will happen next. "Take care of her." She told Felix quietly, tears in her eyes. Then, Hook approached her. "I love you Killian."

Then she threw the dagger into the black vortex of Darkness, and it started to possess her violently. Finally, the vortex disappeared and the dagger was on the floor. Elise went to pick it up, as the others were too shaken up to do so. She hold it to have a better look at it and the name of Emma Swan was on the blade and she gulped, while bringing it to Emma's family and to Regina. They understood what it meant and broke down crying.

"Hey… How are you feeling?" Felix asked as he entered the hall of one of the apartment blocks.

The morning after what happened to Emma, it was deadly silent. Everyone looked sad and gloomy, especially the parents of the young woman. Felix didn't know what had happened to Killian after that because he brought back Duckling to his flat and took him to bed. Right now, he observed Elise who also didn't look well and she pinched the head of her nose.

"It's… it's hard." She revealed. "I didn't think her disappearance would affect me that much."

"Yeah me too."

"How's Duckling?" She asked, to change the topic.

"Good I guess. I don't think he understood what happened yesterday. He was really confused." He told her.

She nodded and a silence fell again in the hall. Suddenly, the double doors opened loudly and Alcides ran toward them. He was panting heavily and had a hard time to catch his breath. Felix stared at him.

"What is the matter?" Elise questioned him, worried.

"Some people saw Yves near the town's line!" The Sentinel informed her.

"So he is in Storybrooke…" She growled.

"Yes. I thought you would have liked to be informed of this, to decide what to do."

"What I am gonna do? Track him down and kill him for what he had done!" The teenage girl yelled. "And I want to do it alone."

"I'm going with you, I'm the best tracker and you know it. You will need extra help." He smiled at her as she huffed.

"So you want me to babysit your son?" Melanie asked on the phone.

"Yes pretty much." Felix said. "Me and Elise had to do something very important and dangerous."

"Okay. I hope you guys will stay in one piece. I know the reason why you two are going alone…" The other girl teased as she hung off.

Felix groaned as he took his backpack and a baseball bat. Elise walked beside him, with her dagger, whistle and bow. She also had a bag with her.

"Shall we?" The blond teenager asked.

"Yeah. The quicker, the better." Elise said as they started to walk deeper into the forest.

Felix at first didn't find anything but then he found some footprints that they decided to follow. It felt like the old days, where they used to do this to track down the Dark One's enemies. It was fun back then but now they were more mature and serious. Yves needed to be stopped and killed. He was a criminal, a very evil step father who only cared about having powers and a kingdom full of people to stomp on. Elise desperately wanted to torture him, to strip him off all the powers he had, to make him feel miserable, to make him suffer like he had done it to her family.

"Come on love, keep up." Felix said out loud, concentrating on the tracks before him.

Elise snapped out of her little dream and started to follow him again. Abruptly, he stopped and turned to her. The teenage girl frowned when she saw her face.

"What is it?" She asked.

"Don't you find it weird that someone like Yves would leave those kind of tracks?"

"Come on, eveyone makes mistakes. Even genius murderers." She told him.

"Yes I know but it's like he is guiding us somewhere. Elise… I think we are making a mistake. We should head back home immediately." He tried to talk some sense to her but it didn't worked.

"No. I'm continuing. With or without you."

And they started to walk again… But not far away enough. The air turned cold suddenly. Elise breathed and felt a sharp pain behind her head. She fell on the forest ground and just had the time to see Felix fighting, well more struggling to, someone. Then she fell in the dark.

Felix woke up in a grey coloured room. There was no furnitures around. He didn't have his baseball bat and his things. He heard a groan next to him and he stood up, seeing Elise on the floor. He went to her side and kneeled down. He helped her stand up and asked her if she thinks she had any injuries.

"No, I'm fine I guess. And you?"

"I'm okay."

The blond teenager noticed that her weapons weren't here too.

"Well, well, well, look who is awake."

Yves appeared in the center of the room, a sick smirk on his face. Elise wanted to punch him so bad and she went for it but she suddenly couldn't move her body and neither could Felix. The older man walked slowly toward them, hands behind his back.

"A scarred boy and a miserable princess." He taunted them. "Do you know where you two are?"

They also found out they couldn't speak and it was pretty annoying. Yves chuckled at their attempts.

"You two are in my torture labyrinth, each turn will show you your true natures, what you really dream of and finally… Your worst fear." The man announced proudly with a grin. "If you two find the way out, which is impossible, you will leave the labyrinth. And if you can't find it… well I guess you will stay there forever, nobody will rescue you and you will die here. Have a nice time in my labyrinth!" Yves finished with a bitter laugh.

He disappeared quickly and the walls fell, revealing four doors with letters on it. The two teenagers could finally move their bodies and they looked at each other, worried about what will happen to them once they will choose a door and open it.

Author Note: Sorry for the long wait… Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and that I didn't make any mistake, leave a comment or review and have a nice day or night!