Rothbart let out a monstrous growl and rounded on Emma as she tried to make her way to her family and protect them. She could hear faint voices coming from the mirror in her boot, the rest of their family must have heard what was going on. Emma motion to Henry to get the mirror from her boot as she tried to distract Rothbart.
Henry grabbed the Mirror and saw his uncles' twin faces staring back at him in relief.
"Henry!"
"We need help, mama is fighting the bad man, and papa is hurt, really hurt."
"We're on our way Henry, as soon as we get close enough we need you to make sure the mirror is on the ground where you are."
"Hurry! There are more bad men. I have to go, papa is waking up."
Henry turned towards his papa as Killian groaned. There was blood trickling from a wound somewhere on his head, and he felt as though every single rib was bruised. But the pain didn't matter. What mattered now was keeping his family safe and getting them the hell off this island. He scooped Henry up and dashed them over to a small alcove off the side of the dais.
"Son, I need you to stay here, I'm going to keep the rest of the fighting away from your mother."
With a firm nod from his son, Killian drew his sword again, and used all the adrenaline he had in him to fight off the advancing soldiers, to give his princess as much space to fight the beast. They would defeat him together. Killian held off most of the advancing force, but they were beginning to circle him and soon he would be unable to fend them off. Emma glanced in his direction, and with unspoken understanding the two began to move towards each other. Early in their courtship, they learned what a team they made, whether it was out at sea, or sparring, or just driving Liam to madness. As the couple approached one another, in a swift move they switched places, and Emma took on the soldiers holding them back and disarming them with her magic, as Killian took on Rothbart, guiding the great animal away from his beloved.
Emma hated having Killian fight Rothbart, with nothing but his sword, but she needed to run some damage control on the droves of soldiers, aiming well placed blasts of her magic to disable them and keep them away from Killian, it looked as though they were finally getting the upper hand when suddenly Emma felt a ripping pain in her chest.
She turned just in time to see the great animal had caught her beloved off guard and pierced through his chest with a terrible talon. The world seemed to move in slow motion as Emma felt overwhelmed with emotion and a great blast of magic obliterated the soldiers behind her to nothing but dust. She barely paid any attention to decimation of the army, all she saw was Killian, her Killian grasping at his wound as he fell to the ground. She couldn't contain her grief as she sprinted to his side, as Rothbart began to gloat over another crushed couple. As soon as Emma made it to Killian's side she tried to heal the wound in his chest, the mirror Henry held began to glow, and he quickly dropped it to the floor, and a small portal swirled and opened to reveal Emma's brothers and they quickly moved to subdue the oncoming soldiers. Henry slipped from their radar and ran for his parents. He had seen his father go down and watched as his mother tried to shield them both from Rothbart's attacks. He he spotted his papa's sword behind the great beast and made a dash for it. He tried with all his might to pick up the heavy sword, and as he got a grip on it he began to drag it behind the great animal who had paid no attention to the young boy. Just as it began to rear back, Henry managed to bring the sword down on its taloned foot. Shocked the beast roared out, catching the attention of all those in the room.
Emma froze, there in front of her was her baby boy holding tightly to his father's sword, and he'd managed to injure the great beast. She quickly put a shielding spell over Henry before the monster could retaliate. When she finally began to hear Henry yelling,
"Kiss him Mama, you can fix him you can I know you can."
Emma moved quickly to press a chaste but loving kiss on Kilian's lips, as she could hear Henry running toward them. He had dropped the sword next to them as the great beast had begun to advance toward the small family. Emma's brother's holding off the horde of soldiers with their own swords and magic.
A Flash.
A Gust of Wind.
Killian's wound began to heal before their eyes, but his eyes remained closed. With a sob Emma pushed herself up to face Rothbart. She was tired of this, he had kidnapped her son, hurt her love, and threatened her Kingdom and her family. Now he would pay.
Behind her, she could hear Henry's soft murmurs as he cradled his father's head in his lap. She concentrated all the love she felt for her family and lifted her hands.
This would end now.
Rothbart never saw it coming. The princess was far more powerful than he had anticipated, and now the pure magic being thrown at him began to tear him apart. The magic flowed and burned like lava. Sending the man, the beast, the wizard to the underworld.