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Chapter Fifty
Emma's POV
I stand there, shaking. Shaking with both rage and even fear. I didn't think it possible to feel fear with the darkness that is coursing through my veins but Jareth's words bring unexpected fear to me. It makes me want to harm myself again. I feel the magic flying to my fingertips, ready to strike any part of my body I feel like inflicting pain on. I tremble as I try to say words that I struggle to form.
"What do you mean by. Killian will perish?" I say his words back to him, glaring at him poisonously. "Emma of you undo the spell and rid yourself of the darkness. It will do the same to Killian and he will die." He puts bluntly. "Why will he die? He can't just die because of that! Does that mean I'll die to?" I question sharply. "No but…"
"Yes then! If I won't die by undoing this spell then why is Killian going to die?" I growl. He sighs before moving closer to me, I back away. He sighs again before looking me straight in the eyes. "You wondered why I asked you to tell me how you and Killian became the King and Queen Of Darkness, yes?" He looks to me. I nod. "Well it was because I feared something like this would happen. That you had become that person because of something that had put either of your lives in mortal danger and you have."
"Get to the point Jareth!" I growl. "When you undo the curse. All the darkness will go and along that with all the powers and the whole reason for you cursing Killian with the darkness was to save his life from the injuries he sustained that would have killed him. Well Emma when you take all that away by undoing the curse. Everything will revert back to how it was. Upon returning to his usual state. Killian will succumb to the injuries he received before he became the King Of Darkness." He reveals. I stand there in shock, unable to comprehend the ultimatum. Keep the darkness and keep the man I love alive. Remove the darkness and the man I love dies and this time there will be nothing I can do to save him.
"Then I remain the Queen Of Darkness." I whisper after a few moments. "You would continue to live this dreadful life Emma? This life that will make you do wicked things that you won't like to do at all. Turn you against your family forever." He reminds me. "I already turned against my family." I hiss. "You have no love for your family Emma?" He questions. I shrug my shoulders and remain silent. "I love Killian more." I say finally. "Yes Killian is the great love of your life isn't he? You would allow your family to die if you could keep Killian alive?" He questions. "No of course not! I could never do that!" I cry. "That's what will happen if you choose this path Emma. I mean a selfish part of me can see why you would chose Killian over your family. You didn't have the best life. You were convinced Caffrey was going to become the King Of Auradon because he was ohh so popular. At school, and at home and at school you were a nobody. No one loved you, no one cared for you and no one ever wanted you to become their Queen. You were the biggest loser at Auradon Prep and then your brother came up with an idea. To invite more children from the Isle Of The Lost and that may not have bothered you at the time but when they arrived. Killian came into your life. Killian probably the only light you had ever seen and slowly but surely you fell in love with him and because of your love for him this is where we are now and because you love him Emma, you are going to undo this spell because if you love him you will let him go." Jareth sighs. "No. No. I do not have to listen to you! I will never harm Killian!" I snarl, yet as I turn to disappear he grabs my face between his hands. A sharp stabbing pain in my head follows soon after.
"What the hell was that?" I question harshly. "The spell. It is now planted in your head for the moment when you finally decide to do the honourable thing and let him go. It's a tragedy Emma but it's a necessary tragedy…" I hold up my hand to cut in. "You said those same words to Merlyn about his Laurel. It was a necessary tragedy. What do you know about that?" I question. "Far to much in the sense I know that Killian did not kill Laurel. Nobody did because, Emma, you may be interested in knowing that Laurel had a rather different fate then you and my son believes." He reveals. I stifle a shocked gasp. "Laurel's still alive? What the hell did you do?" I hiss. He looks down. "One of the darkest things I have ever done. To protect my son from heartache and to keep him safe I promised her away. As there is a price for immortality and the price I paid was her. I sold her to give immortality to Tommy." He reveals. I shake my head. "You sold her? You sold her to who?" I hiss. "Hades." He admits. "You trapped her in the Underworld?" I shake my head. He closes his eyes in what I believe to be shame at his actions. "And you think I should do as you say. You are a monster Jareth! You took away your sons true love then blamed it on Killian? How did you even manage to pull that one off?" I shake my head in disbelief. "It was simple really. I placed a clone of Laurel in the Isle after I took the real one and I got her to fall off a roof. The roof she always went to with Killian when they were a couple. As they were a couple after all so it was ever so easy." He admits, almost as if he feels remorse for his horrific actions. I glare at him. "You would ruin your own sons life like that? If that's how you deal with problems then there must be other ways of ridding Killian and I of the darkness." I look down at Merlyn, still unconscious. "There is no other way Emma. That I am sure of." He sighs. "I'll find another way, I'll create another spell if I have to! No matter how long it takes." I snarl. "I asked you earlier. Your family or Killian? Well you do not have the time to create a spell. It isn't probably even possible!" He snaps. "I have all the time I need. I can have anyone at my disposal just by taking their hearts!" I growl. He holds his hand out and the orb he uses rather a lot appears in his hand.
"What?" I fold my arms. "Would you like me to show you your Killian?" He questions coyly. "Why." I say nervously. The fear returning to me once more as he waves his hand over the orb. Showing me a vision. A vision of Killian. Killian, a woman I do not recognize, Elena and a mass of people all racing across a bridge made up of darkness. A bridge to Auradon… The vision melts away, Jareth standing across from me with a smirk upon his face. "They're heading straight for the castle."
I stand there frozen in shock. Killian and, from what it looks like an army! Is going to storm Auradon. 'I want to hurt you the way you hurt me' was the words he said to me. The words he vowed. He promised that he would go after my family and that is exactly what he's doing here. He's going after them and he's going to kill them…
"Just going to ignore this Emma? Let him carry on regardless? Because he is the King Of Darkness and with an army of what it looks like everybody on the Isle Of The Lost. He will burn Auradon to the ground and their will be no stopping him. Unless, of course you want to undo that spell. Release the darkness…" He trails off as I hold my hand up and make myself and Merlyn disappear in a cloud of darkness…
I take us to the meadow. Mine and Killian's meadow. I undo the spell on Tommy, who gasps and sits up abruptly.
"Where is he? Where is the asshole!" He yells. "He's gone. I left him behind." I mutter. "You know him?" He glares at me. "Not as well as I thought I did." I murmur and I contemplate telling Merlyn there and then about what his father did to him. What fate he bestowed on his Laurel. Yet I decide not to. Instead I walk up to him and shove his heart back into his chest. He says nothing just looks at me in shock as I collapse onto the ground. He kneels down beside me as I rest my hand on my stomach.
"Emma?" He speaks my name slowly. "He showed me Killian. He has an army of probably the entire population of the Isle Of The Lost and they are going straight for Auradon to kill my family." So he can finally get his revenge. I realize as I look away. "What else?" He presses, evidently noticing that I'm holding something back. "He gave me the spell to rid myself of the darkness."
"You want to do that?" He looks at me quizzically. "Yes. Yes I do but if I do. Killian will die and I can't lose him. Not after everything I've done to save him." I whisper. "So you're just going to let him kill your whole family Emma?" He sighs. I bite my lip, the darkness within me wants to smile and agree and do things my way. However…
"My family have done terrible, terrible things. They have caused this whole mess. They condemned Killian and Medea and caused them to become the monsters they became. However, they are my parents and no matter how many times I say I don't care and I don't love them anymore because of what they did I do. I do love them and there is no way I can just let them die." I admit, tears appearing in my eyes, tears that thaw away at the darkness still within me. He says nothing. Just stands their in what looks to be shock. "So what are you going to do then?" He questions softly. "What I am going to do requires your help. Tommy." I use his proper name for once. He nods. "I am at your service, your highness." He nods. I grab his hand and I close my eyes.
Mal's POV
Returning from my conversation with Medea I explain my findings to the others who sigh, groan and shout. Soon a full blown argument is in session and I can't handle it. I just can't and I head for the door. Ben follows me out into the corridor, where I put my head against the cool glass of the window, he rests his hands on my shoulders.
"This is all my fault." I whimper, he places a kiss to my head. "No it's not. None of this is your fault Mal. It's Hook's. It's always Hook's." He sighs. I pull away from him. "Yes it is Ben! It is my fault. Not Hook's. It's never been Hook's fault." I admit after so long denying it. "Mal you're not thinking straight. This…"
"Ben this all happened because I freaked out over a vision of the future. This future. The future I caused. That vision showed me exactly what I was going to do. If I had never chosen that dark path. It never would have happened. If I hadn't chosen the wicked way Hook and Medea would never have lost their families. They would have grown up wicked, yes but they would have arrived in Auradon and we would have been able to change them, just like you did for me Evie, Jay and Carlos. Emma and Caffrey would have changed them and Emma would still probably have fallen in love with Hook. No matter what they would have found each other. Like you and I Ben." I whisper. He opens his mouth to speak but I silence him. "But that's not what I did. I gave into my dark urges and I worked with my mother and I tried to kill two children. Two children who became scarred. Physically and mentally and since then they have wanted their revenge on me for what I took away from them and they have all rights to want that revenge on me. I treated them both horribly when they came here. I made them my enemies and now I've turned my daughter and son against me because of my wickedness and now even my sister! There is nothing you can say to change my mind Ben. This is all my fault and I am finally accepting my responsibility for my actions…" I trail off as I see Evie in the corner. "E…" I start, she doesn't say anything yet races into my arms, hugging me quickly before pulling away. "We have a problem." She whispers. "What?" Ben says, not looking at me. "The barriers down. The Isle Of The Lost is unprotected. They have gotten out. They are headed straight for us in an army. They're here." She indicates to the window. I shake my head in disbelief before taking a look myself and sure enough in the distance I see fires. Fires attacking houses, buildings… The hospital. The castle… They're headed straight for the castle. Here…
"Killian's leading them. He's here. He's already in the castle Mal. Joe's holding him off but…" She trails off as there is an explosion from the distance and everyone else races out of Ben's study. Noticing the commotion. All heading straight for us.
"What the hells going on?" Jay cries. "We're under attack." Ben growls, grabbing a chair and standing on top of it. "Get the guards. Get any weapons you can find. Don't worry about leaving survivors! Just defend Auradon. Whatever happens now doesn't matter. Just defend Auradon!" He commands as most race off to do what Ben says. "Joe's not going to last long against Killian." Evie whispers. I shake my head. "No he's not and he's not going to face Hook alone. I'm going to face him myself." I vow. "Mal no." Carlos grabs my arm as does Ben and Jay. "As your father I forbid this. Carlos can get the dogs and Jay and I can assist young Joe." Diaval moves toward me to. "No. This is my mistake, this is my responsibility to make things right now. I have to do this. Only I can do this." I close my eyes. "He'll kill you Mal. I can't let you do this." Ben stokes my cheek gently, I move to kiss him. "I love you Ben. I always have and I always will but I have to do this now." I say moving away from him to face my father. I look at him for a moment before wrapping him in an embrace. "I love you dad." I whisper before pulling Evie, Carlos and Jay into a group hug. "You are my family. You always will be." I whisper to them, kissing their cheeks in turn before turning to face my demons. My responsibilities, ready to sacrifice myself for all my wrongdoings. Yet when I turn around I come face to face with the last person I ever expected to see at this moment in time. "Emma…" I whisper, she looks at me with a cold look in her usually vibrant eyes. "Hello mother."
Zelena's POV
Auradon soil. It feels wickedly good to step upon at long last after so long. It has been a very, very long time but due to my wickedly amazing magic have have managed to stay young. Well youngish! Doesn't matter anyway now! Now I can have all the magic I want! I look over at Killian as we walk into Auradon. Citizens of the Isle Of The Lost scream and shriek as they race into Auradon, lighting up fires and throwing various objects at oncoming Auradon citizens. The chaos is beautifully wicked! And it's all thanks to Killian. I never expected him to have magic, never in a million years but he does and it is glorious! He's used his position as King Of Darkness in a much more effective way then Maleficent ever did. It took her most of her life to design a plan like this and a plan that quite frankly was a waste of bloody time and a complete shambles! And Killian has created all of this in less than a day! I admire him, I really do and I'm not much for being a follower but Killian I would follow as he knows what he's doing. He is the perfect King Of Darkness and I hope to be his partner in crime as evil and wicked makes such a wonderful combination after all!"
"Zelena. I have a job for you." Killian calls for me just as we are a couple of feet away from the castle itself. "What?" I question. A little disappointed about being send elsewhere as thar is what I'm gathering Killian is going to tell me to do. "Medea. I would like if it would free her for me. Keep her contained though. I have a few things I want to do to her." He growls venomously. I sign in frustration, yet I nod. "Of course your highness." I reply before vanishing in thin air.
I focus my powers on finding Medea and I find myself on a staircase. I follow it down, to what I'm guessing will be the dungeons. I shake my head in disgust. Someone with the amount of talent Medea has should not be trapped down here! I see the end of the staircase in sight. Yet before I reach it a figure appears in front of me. I gasp silently. The last person I expected to see today or ever. He reaches towards me. "Zelena…" He whispers quietly. I fold my arms before replying with extra venom to my voice. "Hades."
Emma's POV
I stare at my mother as she steps towards me. The darkness within me wants me to attack her, the rage and anger I feel wants that so badly… No. No. I'm in control. I tell myself.
"Mother what are you doing?" I question. "Emma sweetie I have failed as your mother. I have failed dismally and I know you may hate me for what I did but I am going to set things right. I have to confront my wrongdoings Emma. I should never have tried to kill Hook or Medea. All that's happened since then has been my fault and because of my inability to see that. I have made an enemy out of my daughter. I allowed you to become this because I was blind to see that what you and Hook have is like what Ben and I have. I should have seen that Emma and I am so sorry I didn't. We'll get the darkness out of you somehow. That I promise you but now. I need to fix my wicked deeds." She whispers. I look behind me to my family, all of them looking at me with eyes filled with fear maybe? Hatred possibly? I don't know. I can't tell. Tommy moves towards them. I let him go as I look at my mother before pulling her into a tight embrace. She gasps and strokes my hair gently, I look up at dad, he races towards us in an instance until I am holding both of my parents.
"What you did to Killian was evil. Malevolent and dark. That won't go away. There's nothing to be done about that now because what's done is done. The past is past. Forgive forget. I have hated you for what you did to the man I love and I have wanted you to pay for your hurt against Killian and I but I can't. Because you are my mother and no matter what you do I love you. I may be mad at you but I'd never hate you, any of you." I gesture to the others. "And I am not about to let you sacrifice yourself. You want to make amends for your crimes against Killian join me now because I am going to face him and I will protect you from them because I can and I will…" I trail off, ignoring the wave of sadness that overcomes me. The darkness comes in handy then and I use it to crush those feelings.
"And I will protect my family even if I have to kill the man I love to do it."
The group of us walk calmly down the corridor. Mom, dad and Spence at my side.
"Emma you can't kill him." Spence whispers. I look up at him. "You're right I can't. It's something I'm incapable of doing for anyone except to save my family. I know how to get rid of the darkness…"
"Why haven't you done it? How do you get rid of it?" Dad snaps in an instance. "Ben." Mom says gently. "My daughter just admitted she knows how to rid herself of this entity that has possessed her and turned her light magic into dark magic and she hasn't done anything about it? Why?" He questions me. "There is a spell but when I use that spell. Killian will die." I say, trembling slightly. "Ohh Emma…" Spence shakes his head before suddenly flying into the wall. I whirl around to face the attacker. Killian.
"Killian…" I whisper. "I keep to my promises Emma." He snarls with a smirk. I close my eyes. "That's enough chatter." I whisper through my tears before waving my hand, whisking the whole room away to the final battle field…
The throne room. It began here with me awakening as the Queen Of Darkness. It's only fitting it should end here. At Killian's feet I notice a bloodied Joe. I bite my lip as I advance on Killian. My family right behind me.
"So this is it is it Emma? Your going to watch as I kill each member of your family one by one as you watch?" He smirks maliciously. I shake my head. "You wouldn't do that Killian. Not to me because you love me. You love me and I love you. We can defeat the darkness if we work together. Our true love can defeat the evil Killian." I protest. "What true love Emma? All I feel for you is disappointment. Hatred I could go on but I'd rather let the pain and suffering commence." He growls, advancing on us all.
"Leave my family alone! This fight is between you and me. I stated this and I am going to end this now!"
"Mom no!" I cry as she rushes forward. "Mal. My oldest enemy. I was going to save you for the last but I've wanted revenge for nearly sixteen years. I'm not waiting anymore." He hisses, advancing on her. "I know and you should kill me for what I did. I was scared. I wanted to protect my children but what I did caused me to fail them both and cause you to become a villain. You are a hero Hook. You really are and I'm so so so sorry Killian." She says, saying his name for the first time to my ears. He looks at her. "Touching. Mal it's bloody touching." He says before smiling. "It changes nothing!" He smirks as he moves to rip out her heart. "NO!" I cry, pushing mom out of the way. He rips out mine instead…
"EMMA NO!" Spence yells as he tries to run towards us. "No. Spence. No." I whisper through my pain as he squeezes my heart between his fingers. "Emma the spell. Use the spell!" Dad yells. I shake my head. "I can't." I whisper, tears coming to my eyes. "What spell may this be?" Killian asks whilst holding my heart. "A spell to remove the darkness. When it's removed you'll succumb to your injuries and die." I say without any choice in the matter. This is how Tommy must have felt when I had his heart. I realize. "Well we can't allow that to happen can we?" He smirks at me before squeezing the heart tighter. I move my hand to my stomach, this is the end. I'm going to die by Killian's hand. Yet it won't just be me who dies. My babies to. Yet I don't beg for my life I just rest my hand against my stomach and look Killian in the eyes. "I love you Killian." I reply and I expect that to be it but it doesn't. He just stands there as if he were frozen. He eyes me, my heart in his hands and then my stomach. It doesn't last long as he starts to squeeze my heart again, the pain is excruciating and I cry out as I fall to the ground. Yet the pain abruptly ceases as Killian groans in pain to. "What is happening?" He hisses. I look up, tears in my eyes. "It's because we're connected anything one feels the other does to. Because what we have is true love. I love you Killian. I love you." I keep repeating as I manage to get to my feet to move towards him. He doesn't move to attack me either, he doesn't even crush my heart. I am eventually facing him and bravely I place my hands against his cool cheeks before kissing him softly. "I love you Killian." I say again as I pull away. He closes his eyes for several minutes before stumbling backwards, before opening his eyes again. "Emma…" He whispers. "Killian." I murmur. "What am I doing? What. No." He whispers before placing my heart back in my chest, keeping his hand resting there over my heart. "It's ok. You're ok." I whisper, moving to kiss him again. "Emma I can't control this for long. The darkness, I'm too weak to resist it. You have to do the spell. You have to free yourself. Our babies." He murmurs, resting his hand on my stomach. "No Killian you can control it. You're doing it now." I whisper. "Not very well love, the darkness. You lifted it for a few brief moments and I can keep it at bay just so I can say goodbye to you." He murmurs. "No. No. I can't kill you Killian. I can't lose you again." I cry softly, hot tears running down my cheeks. "You have to let me go love. Let me die a hero like you should have done on the Isle. It's the only way you and our babies will survive. I can't resist it love. The darkness will take me again and I don't want to hurt you. This is what has to be down I'm afraid. Just do us a favour love. Tell our children stories of a dashing devilishly handsome pirate every once and a while hey?" He strokes my cheek lovingly. "No, I won't do this, I won't survive it. I can't do this without you Killian." I cry. "Yes you can love and promise me you will. Survive for our babies and promise me that you won't harm yourself again love. Keep that promise for me I beg of you and don't put your walls up again just because your about to lose me." He sighs. I shake my head. "No." I whisper. "Let me die Emma. I'd do it myself but I, I don't think I can." He whispers before turning to my parents. "Mal. Ben. I forgive you. Know that." He nods. They say nothing except stand there silently as I approach Killian. "Let me die a hero love. You can do this." He whispers. I tremble violently as I place my lips against his. "I love you." I whisper, he kisses me hard. I knot my hand in his hair. "I love you to." He whispers as I move away from him, closing my eyes. Muttering the incantation I seem to know off by heart. I open my eyes when I'm finished as a wave of magic floods the room. Stripping me of all the darkness I was plagued with. I feel my hair fall from its bun as my appearance returns to normal. "No. No." I sob as Killian returns to his normal appearance, except with the fatal wounds he was cursed with before the darkness. He looks at me before falling to the ground. I catch him in my arms before he hits the ground, sobbing as I cradle him in my arms as we both sink to the floor. I sob loudly, holding him tight against me as he dies in my arms...
Caffrey's POV
An invisible force hits me. Magic. It runs through my veins with every beat of my heart. Filling me with even more power than ever before. New. I am brand new. New…
No Ones POV
Silence. All there is is silence except from silent crying from the majority of room. However, all sounds are drowned out by the heartbreaking sobbing, almost wails of Emma as she lies against the body of Captain Killian 'Hook'. Her head against his chest. Which used hold a heartbeat. Now only silence. Only silence for the villain who became a hero…
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