So yes, it has been several months since I had uploaded anything, but I think I'm now over my writers' block and have the interest to continue with this AU again. The last couple weeks were hell for me and I was trying to figure something out and fix things, but tragically they ended terribly in a way I never wanted, but I guess that's life and thanks to that unfortunate event, it got me back to writing.
So this is the second part of the child of the moon, I hope you enjoy.
Chapter 26: Child Of The Moon Part 2
All three stood by the car they had just recently discovered that hid the secret they were all looking for to solve Rubys' not murder. Snow held onto Neal with David searching more in the car and Granny next to her holding onto her crossbow.
"I swear when I see that King George..." Granny began but was cut off by the loud and bone thrilling howl, "...Ruby."
David picked himself up and started in the direction he heard the howling coming from, "Come on, we need to find her before the mob does, and they do something they'll all regret."
Spencer and the mob stood outside the library, that's where they thought the she-wolf was hiding out with the bookworm and portal jumper. Finally, Spencer thought to himself, finally, he was getting his spot back as the rightful King. But before they could even break the chains off the large double doors of the library there was a howling that came from deep in the darkness of the town.
"This way! She's close" Shouted Spencer for all to hear as he started walking down the street with his torch in hand.
The crowd talked with anger as they followed Spencer, of course none of them really understood Ruby, they were never actually close to her in the Enchanted Forest, they all feared for the safety of the town and their Children.
As Spencer rounded the corner with the crowd behind him, the only thing that stood out of him was the wolf trying to hide between two dumpsters, she looked scared and threatened, its eyes glowed yellow in the light of all the flames and his fur stood up in back of its neck.
"There you are," Spencer spook as the woof growled back at him, as he slowly stepped closer, raising his pistol in hand, aiming it straight at Ruby.
One slow motion of his finger and the bullet left the barrel but at that sudden moment something ended up hitting into the gun making the bullet go off target and hit into a small propane tank that ended up blowing up immediately.
As everyone looked to see what had happened they all saw a small old lady holding a crossbow right at Spencer.
"Next one goes between the eyes!" Threatened Granny as she held up the bow in case she had to shoot again, and she was not afraid of killing this man to protect her granddaughter.
Snow ran through the crowds straight behind David with Neal protectively in her arms. "Ruby!" She shouted, if anything she knew Ruby would have felt comfortable around her, she always did and even though she was in the form of a wolf, that didn't change who she was on the inside.
As they both got to the front of the crowd, David made sure he spoke in a loud voice for everyone to hear. "Listen to me! Ruby didn't kill Billy!" David shouted raising the red velvet cloth in his hands as he turned to look at Spencer, "He did! He stole her cloak and killed Billy in cold blood to make it look like a wolf may have done it, all to get you to think me and Snow weren't leading this town as we should!"
Ruby growled louder than ever at the crowd this time, it was a mean and threatened growl, enough to make the crowd try to push through David and Snow.
"Hold it!" Snow shouted as she did her best not to wake her sleeping prince, "Somebody already died because of what this man terrible actions! We don't need to spill any more blood in the town! She won't hurt anyone!" If Snow was able to get an entire Kingdom to follow her in a battle against the Evil Queen she could get them to trust her able her friend.
As the whole crowd stopped and listened to somebody other than Spencer for once David was finally able to make his way over to the wolf.
Slowly and quietly he stepped, not wanting to seem like a threat. "Ruby? I know you're in there, so listen to me." Ruby growled at David as she watched him stepped closer, her back was arched. "It was Spencer, not you. Don't let him trick you into thinking you're a monster, because you're not, I know who you really are."
David stepped closer and closer with his hand held out carefully, the wolf was showing her sharp teeth and growling more and more as David approached, it was down low on her front legs getting ready to attach.
"Ruby, please. I know you, I know the real you, and I know you can control the wolf." Approaching more he stood low on his front heels, cautiously he stopped in front of the wolf with his hand stuck out waiting for her to come to him now, hopefully not to bite off his hand.
Slowly she approached David, a small growl coming from her throat.
"It's me, David," And those words seemed to have affected the wolf inside, at that moment Ruby came out and was able to control the wolf within her. She stood strongly up and bowed her head down. David moved quickly and was able to throw the red cloak over her body and place it down softly, immediately having Ruby turn from wolf back to human.
She started panting as tears filled up in her bright green eyes, "You saved me."
David helped her up with a big smile, "No, you saved yourself. I just reminded you of what you already knew."
"David! It's Spencer! He's running!" Shouted Snow as Spencer pushed passed everybody in the crowd, she wasn't able to run after him, she was holding Neal still.
Quickly David and Ruby ran over but Spencer was long gone, he was nowhere to be seen. He sure did run fast for an elderly ex-King that just killed an innocent citizen trying to blame it on a human-wolf...wow this town was crazy.
Without even second-guessing, David, and Snow both hopped into the sheriffs' car with Ruby joining them as well. With her being with them they were surely going to find this psycho quickly.
It was no longer than half an hour before the three of them saw smoke rising up from the beach and Spencer standing in front of it, watching the sparks fly from the flames and up into the sky with the smoke.
"You think you can hide from a wolf?" Ruby said making known of their presence.
"I wasn't trying to hide," Spencer spoke with his hands placed in front of him all calmly, not seeming to care.
Snow stayed in the sheriff car, nursing Neal she watched closely at what was happening, she found it quite odd that Spencer was out in the open when he knew he was wanted for killing a man.
"You killed a man!" David shouted as he approached closer.
Spencer didn't care, he didn't see it like that, in the Enchanted Forest this "man" wouldn't have even been cared of...well except by a young peasant woman. "He was a mouse."
"He was better than you'll ever be!" Ruby growled. This man always found a way to ruin peoples lives, with David it was forcing him into a life he didn't want and then killing his mother which trying to keep him away from his true love, with Snow it was kidnapping her and poisoning her not to have a child, and now with Ruby he wanted to frame her and kill her.
David was next to Spencer, they were directly behind Spencer, they could tell he was up to something by how strange he was acting. "You want to make a deal? It's not happening."
"I'm not interested in making a deal. I just want to see your face when you realize you won't ever be getting your daughter or son-in-law back," Spencer spoke in a low, threatening way as he slowly turned around to face the two.
"What are you talking about?" David felt threatened. He was working so hard on getting his family back, he was surely going to succeed...he always did, and plus they were already halfway there they just needed to have fairy dust to Jeffersons' hat.
"You really should be more cautious with something so valuable," Spencer said as he then drew his hands from behind his coat and took out Jefferson's hat, throwing it into the fire for the magical object to burn.
"No! No!" Shouted David as he pushed Spencer and ran towards the flames. There was no way to get the hat, it was already burning.
As soon as Snow heard the shouting coming from her husband she looked up from her son who was back to sleeping and saw the hat burning inside the glow of the yellow flames. Quickly she rushed out of the car. "No! What happened!"
"It was Spencer...he stole the hat," Ruby spoke as she took her friend in for a comforting hug.
"That was our only way to get them back," Snow cried in her friends cloak.
"And we'll find another way...we always do," Ruby watched as the hat turned into a black ash, she couldn't imagine the kind of pain Snow and David felt as they thought they were getting their family back to one and then that was ripped away from them.
Everybody stood there by the fire, David on his knees with tears streaming down his cheek watching the fire consume his only way of seeing his daughter again regretting not putting the hat in a safer place.
Killian sat up against a log, a small stick in hand that he was sharpening with his hook. The night surrounded them with the only light and warmth coming from the fire in front of him. He thought about the ten years he spent with Henry and away from Emma and how things didn't go as he wanted them to. He always imagined the curse would break and then everything would go back to how they use to be.
Mulan watched Aurora from afar as the princess slept under the small tent she had made for her. She couldn't think of anything else but how she felt towards her. She loved Aurora with all her heart, but unfortunately, her heart was with Philip and she knew it would always be that way, Aurora could never love somebody like her, a woman.
Looking up from his handy work on the stick he saw how the warrior looked at the sleeping beauty, there was love in her eyes, the same kind of love he looked at Emma with...true love. "She might feel the same way about you, you know."
That's when Mulan was taken away from her thoughts, "What?" But before she could even realize what was happening Aurora started to cry and pant in her sleep, rushing over she tried to shake her away but it wasn't working.
"What's wrong with the lass?" Killian questioned as he looked over and then heard Emma crying in her sleep as well. Rushing over to her he picked her up in his arms and started yelling her name but the same thing with Aurora, she wouldn't wake up, it was like they were stuck asleep.
"Ah! Ah Ah!" Shouted Aurora as the flames burned close to her body, the room was smothered in flames everywhere she looked, there were no doors and no windows, there was no way out. "Is anybody there? Please help me!" She shouted, she didn't know whether or not this was a dream, it felt so real.
"Aurora!"
Aurora looked over from where the female voice came from and noticed the long blonde locks, she quickly realized who it was. "Emma?! Where are we?"
"Aurora? I can't hear you!" Shouted Emma as she covered her face with her arm from the flames that were separating them.
They both didn't know where they were or what was happening, all they knew was if they didn't get out soon they were both going to be roasted marshmallows.
"Emma!"
Both heard the loud deep voice coming from above and echoing through the room, they all looked around and didn't see anything
"Emma!"
There it was again, but this time it was louder.
"Where is that coming from?!" Asked Aurora through the crackle of the flames.
Emma looked around, she knew who the voice was coming from, it was Killian, was he here too? She looked all around and didn't see anything but flames. Quickly she tried to jump over the flames but they grew in size and scorched her arm.
Aurora covered her face with her cloak and looked over at Emma, from what she could see from over the flames was that she was slowly disappearing, Emma was leaving this room "Emma, what's happening?"
The last thing Emma heard was Aurora's voice calling out to her before she slowly started to feel herself drift away from the burning sensation of the flames and into the chill of wind and the scent of leather and rum. Slowly opening one eye at a time she saw the ocean in his eyes, it was Killian and he looked frightened.
"Love! Thank god you're alright! What happened?" Killian asked he was terrified by what he had just witnessed.
As she fully opened her eyes and realized what had just happened she felt a horrible burning sensation on her arm, causing her to wince in pain.
"What is it, love?" Killian slowly took her arm and looked at it. Immediately he noticed the red and black blistering as a mark from flames. "Emma! Is that a burn mark?" He didn't understand, she wasn't even close to the fire for it to burn her, or at least not like this. Her skin was bubbling from the heat.
"Emma?" Killian turned around and saw a frightened Aurora sitting up from her sleep, he noticed the same kind of burn mark but only on her hand. Looking between the two he was horrified by what was going on here.
Ruby watched as the rightful leaders looked over their sleeping grandson, talking about how he may never see his mother and father again and how they were ever going to tell him, he had just gotten his mother back. It was actually quite sad for Ruby, she understood how it felt to lose a parent when you just got them back.
"I know you two...you'll find another way, you won't have to tell Henry he won't see his parents again," Ruby spoke gently as she told the truth.
Snow turned around at her friend with a soft smile and her arms crossed over her chest, "Thank you, Ruby, but portals are very rare to come by now, it took an entire curse just to bring us here. We may not find another way."
"I know you, Snow, I know you won't stop until you find a way," Ruby told her friend as she let out a soft smile, "And Snow, David, you both won't be alone on this." She gave the both of them a heartwarming hug, letting them know she was there for them.
"Thank you, Ruby," David said as they all pulled away from one another.
Ruby started making her way over to the door then after the hug, it was still dark and she had an idea. "Now, I may have left Belle and Jefferson chained up in the library so maybe somebody should go..."
"Unchain them? don't worry, I got it," David said as he walked over to the door with Ruby.
"Thank you, now if you excuse me, I still have a few hours of wolfs time left and I want to do something I haven't done in so many years," Ruby said with a huge grin on her face.
David smiled, "What's that?"
Taking off her cloak she handed it to David and with a huge smile on her lips, she said, "Run."
And with that Ruby ran down the apartment stairs and into the night where all that was heard was the howl of her taking control. Then everything was calm again, back to the thoughts of what they were going to do to get Emma and Killian back home.
Henry stirred in his sleep, which made him wake up, he couldn't sleep, his parents were about to come home. "Grandma, grandpa? Is it time to fix Jeffersons hat yet to bring home my mom and dad?"
Snow and David looked at each other, they weren't going to tll him that he may not see them again, but they were going to tell him there was a setback.
"Henry...we need to tell you something," Snow spoke as she walked over and sat down on the bed, explaining everything that had happened that night.
I know this was a short chapter but I just wanted to upload something since you guys have been waiting forever. Again I'm sorry it took so long, I'll try to write a little more each and every day to get them up more quickly for you.
Next time - Chapter 27: Burns