"Emma come on!" Called Snow White. Since getting back to the castle the family settled in; minus Hook though he did get a home nearby. Two years passed and Snow White and David Charming decided to train Emma for helping with the throne and one day taking over. This wasn't a dictator ship as it never was with Snow and her hero like family these days. They all work together as a council of sorts. Regina still living in the castle with Henry, Emma and the Charming duo is in the council along with a few of the seven dwarves and of course Killian was a part of the council with Emma. Snow White and her Prince Charming both had the final say in things as they are the King and Queen you could say but mostly they liked to keep things fair.
Though Henry could argue and say that it wasn't fair because he wasn't in the council, yet it did free most of his time up so he could see his girlfriend Violet in Camelot with the help of Regina and Emma 'poofing' him there of course. Now being the age of seventeen he took up sword fighting becoming a Prince and a Knight of sorts. When Henry wasn't visiting Violet he was wandering the forest; the one they first appeared in two years ago.
"Fine what is it?" Asked Emma referring to her mother's earlier comment. "Council, a fire burned down a village." "And who did it?" Asked Snow's daughter walking with her mother down the castle halls towards the council room. "We're not sure; no one saw anything out of the ordinary beforehand so we have no leads either," Snow answered. "Did Regina try going over it with magic?" "She did and found nothing so she wants you to go over it once," The older woman answers earning a nod from the younger. Stopping outside of the Council Room Snow White looks to her daughter "And Emma…take Henry with you," before she could argue Snow continued, "All he's been doing lately is staying around the castle and visiting Violet. He's rarely gone to the forest now," Snow finishes. Emma knows that her mother is right so agreeing with her mother-begrudgingly at that-Emma goes into the Council Room and sees what Regina has found. Emma walked in wearing the Fairy Tale world style of pants and a blouse with her sword on her hip.
"Alright Emma," The Evil Queen begins "The entire place is charred even some of the stones making up the well in the center of the village. When I checked for any magic that could've caused the fire I came up with nothing." With that she continued her briefing and sent off Emma to the site with Henry.
Arriving at the scene of the crime Emma and Henry are immediately greeted with the sight of a circle filled with ash and a pile of rubble in the center with black ash painted all over it. "Ok kid, let's look for some clues," The older says going towards one direction of the houses having the younger go to the other side looking for some non-magical leads on who started this fire.
Henry goes around the pile of ash of one of the few houses that were in the village and grabs the hilt of his sword-a Long Sword at that- and checked over the piles of ash, sifting through them finding nothing. "Mom I found nothing over here," He calls out earning a nod from the other side of the rubble. "I'll check the rest, go and look in the woods." After hearing that and a warning of staying careful Henry has his hands on the hilt of his Long Sword and enters the woods.
Walking through the woods the seventeen year old makes his way through the trees hearing his footsteps hit the leaves. His life for the past few years were both eventful and uneventful. I know; hypocritical thinking but it's true. His life has been filled with doing nothing other than wandering the woods and visiting Violet. Seeing his own girlfriend was quite eventful at times learning new things from her and teaching each other things, normal things that couples do. They've been together before they were all sent back to the Fairy Tale Realm and then found each other again a few months after; they've spent a teen version of happily ever after since. Crunch! Henry moves his Long Sword up a bit slightly removing it from its sheath.
The sounds of breaking leaves and twigs came closer and so did its being. By now Henry's sword is out of its sheath and it's too late for him to run back to his mother in the burnt village. The being is a monster, fur everywhere, a huge mane on the neck trailing down its back. The creature has a set of horns pointed upwards and another directly above twist in front of the first pair pointing upwards framing its long face. Its eyes were next to its set of horns and the snout was inches below and its mouth being obscured in a beard trailing to its neck. "Wh-what are you?" Henry demanded to the monster earning no response. He pulls his sword out readying it for the monster to strike. And it wasn't much of a wait because it did seconds after.
It raised its giant fur covered hands with talons at the end and raked them down having the human teen barely blocking the blow with his weapon. That's when the running started. Henry turned his heel and sprinted away, Long Sword in hand heading deeper into the woods the…thing right behind him. The leaves and stray rocks slowing him letting the monster catch up till until Henry was cornered.
He was panicking and this time when the beast's claws came crashing down Henry wasn't able to hold his sword this time. It dropped to the ground with a soft thud the hilt parallel to his body. With a roar the furry beast's talons were raised and swung down once again. But it never did hit the young teen, the claws were blocked. A tsking noise was made and the talons were blocked by what seemed as wrist gauntlets. With a roar the monster backed up away from the new person who entered with a dark blue cloak pulled together in front of the clavicle by a silver chain locked in the center.
The figure leaned down having a feminine build showing she was a girl and reached down grabbing the hilt of Henrys Long Sword and ramming it into the beasts' wrist sending it screeching. Its figure went reeling away from the girl in the dark blue hood and Henry who was sitting on the ground staring at the girl in awe. She swung the weapon with ease and took off running after the beast jumping up to its shoulder and started slicing away at its back making it go wild. "Easy," She mumbles and spins the sword around and sinks the blade into its back killing it instantaneously. The beast fell, slumping on the ground and the only reason why the killer didn't fall off its back because she held onto the hilt digging the blade into the flesh.
She stepped off its body and moved towards the boy who was scrambling looking embarrassed especially for a seventeen year old to be undermined so easily. Silently she kneeled down and turned the sword so that her hand was at the base of the blade and the hilt towards Henry. He grabbed it still staring at the girl in the dark cloak whose face was obscured by its hood. He grabbed the handle of the Long Sword and takes it from her, moving the blade from over her shoulder. "Who are you?" Henry finally speaks for the first time since the girl appeared. "No need for you to know that," She whispered with a small smile being shown. "Henry, Henry!" Was heard. The girl turned her head towards the voice visibly stiffening. "That's…my mom. She must've heard the noise and came here."
"Don't tell her you saw me alright?" The girl whispered. "Then tell me your name," Henry bargained speaking flatly. The girl hesitated but eventually saying "You can call me A." 'A? That's an odd name' Henry thinks but says instead "Okay A, will I ever see you again?"
Footsteps were heard coming closer as was the boys' mother. The small smile comes onto the girls' face, the only part that the hood didn't hide. Soft blue smoke started swirling around the girl and before she left the girl in the dark blue cloak said simply, "Only if you look," and left in a puff of blue smoke.
Looking back at the girls' appearance he remembered that she had a dark blue cloak with a silver chain tying the entire thing together with a lock. She had bronze colored pants with a playing card pattern with the symbols down the right side of the right led and black knee high boots and going all the way up she was wearing a black top with the silver outline of a heart sewn into it; her cloak covering most of her shirt. And those wrists of hers, the ones that blocked that creatures talons from hurting Henry or worse. As far as he could see they were some sort of reinforced metal or shield at least that's what he could see from the naked eye.