Chapter 4
Gideon after leaving the cabin opened up his copy of the blueprints as he walks out of the forest and notices on the school's blueprints there a basement underneath the ground floor that has been sealed ever since the first curse. Gideon knows this could be a lead to what the Dark Ones want him to do. But he can't know for sure unless he sad someone that is similar to the Dark Ones.
"Come on Darkness show you're self" Gideon shouted.
"You don't have to yell Gideon, I'm always with you" The Darkness replied as it appeared before Gideon's eyes and Gideon's eyes only still using the form of Baelfire when manifesting itself to Gideon.
"Enough of using Baelfire's image" Gideon snapped.
"What image would you want me to use Giddy" The Darkness says with a smirk on his borrowed face.
"Don't you have a true form one of your own"? Gideon asks the Darkness.
"Yes, but you won't like it," The Darkness tells Gideon.
"Do you not show you're true appearance because I'm better looking than you" Gideon teased.
"Ha you wish and if you're so desperate to see my true form who am I to deny you that pleasure" The Darkness spoke and then within seconds the Darkness shapeshifts from the form of Baelfire to its true self.
"Y... You look identical to me" Gideon says shocked at the revelation.
"And you thought you were more good-looking than me" The Darkness replies.
"Is there an entrance to the Vault in the basement at school?" Gideon asked.
"No, but there is an entrance to apart of the Vault on the school grounds," The Darkness tells Gideon.
"Can take us there?" Gideon says.
"Of course but it would mean using Dark Magic and mommy and daddy would be disappointed" The Darkness teased.
"Just take us there," Gideon said irritated and a moment the Darkness teleports itself and Gideon onto the school grounds in a poof of black smoke.
Gideon manifests on the school grounds emerging from a poof of black smoke. Gideon just hopes no one can sense his dark magic that he just used. Gideon turns to face the Darkness that is only visible to him.
"We're here," Gideon said.
"What did you expect the magic lessons the Dark Ones have given us has really strengthened our dark powers as I bet you felt when we teleported over here" Darkness replied.
"So where is this entrance to apart of the Vault"? Gideon questions.
"The woodland area on the playground for the four to seven-year-olds," Darkness told Gideon and then Gideon makes his way over to that playground before he decides to ask Darkness for more help.
"Where the entrance than"? Gideon asks.
"The giant oak tree where you use to read under," Darkness tells Gideon, Gideon walks over to that oak tree and sees a wooden door handle on the actual tree.
"Just like the story you told me a door made out a tree that leads to a castle made out of bones of heroes fallen in a forest," Gideon says.
"Ah, so you do remember the stories I told you" Darkness replied.
"I listened back then I just never went looking for these places" Gideon spoke.
"That's what you think" Darkness whispers so Gideon couldn't hear.
"So what happens when I enter this"? Gideon questions.
"I believe we'll find ourselves in another chamber or part of the vault," Darkness told Gideon.
"Here goes nothing," Gideon says to himself as he opens the door built into the tree and enters this chamber belonging to a Dark One that existed a long time alone.
Gideon gasps after arriving at another chamber belonging to a Dark One that existed a long time ago. Gideon finds himself in a massive and vast forest on a dark and freezing. Gideon shivers from the cold but soon finds out that's the least of his problems. An army of howls startles Gideon along with glowing yellow eyes from the darkness that covers the entire forest!
"What's there" Gideon shouts feeling scared.
"RUN" A voice belonging to a woman in her twenties wearing a red hood screams as she runs out from the darkness with a few men and women following her running out of fear and the pass straight through Gideon like he was wind and are oblivious to his presence.
"Oh, no" Gideon screamed as he ran from the wolves following the small group of men and women that are being chased by wolves Gideon chances the group of men and women into the castle that is built from the bodies of fallen heroes.
"We're running into a trap" One of the men shouts in anger and fear the group of men and women are chased into study along with Gideon.
"We're done for," One of the women says as a dark mist manifests in the study until it forms a person a man who wearing clothes covered in scorch marks and has bare feet his face covered in dirt and has scars all over his face.
"I guess I was wrong peasants that run with wolves do you know when they're done for" The Dark One snarls.
"Ben let them go it wasn't their fault" The woman wearing a red hood said hoping to plea with whatever humanity this Dark One has left.
"Oh, but it was my dear as it is your fault to that my precious little Hope is gone" Ben snapped causing the fire in the fireplace made from the skulls of fallen kings and queens to intensify in heat and size.
"I loved Hope too she was my daughter too" The woman wearing the red hood replied in anger.
"If you loved her so much Melinda why would flee the vault in the dead of the night Hope in your arms and put your trust into fools that led our daughter to her death" Ben shouted.
"I-I didn't know the fairies wanted to kill her if Blue told me that when we arrived I would have fled," Melinda told Ben.
"What did you expect the fairies to do when they learned that I was Hope's father throw her a parade she a child of darkness but she was innocent and sweet she posed no harm," Ben said.
"It was a mistake" Melinda yelled.
"A mistake she paid and because of that, you will be punished" Ben replied.
"Ben, honey what are you planning to do"? Melinda asks out of fear.
"Curse one nobody has ever cast before," Ben told Melinda and her friends with a wicked smile on his face. Ben then makes a gesture that releases dark magic in a form a silver smoke that invades Melinda and her friends' bodies.
"NO" Melinda and her friends scream as they find the magic in the silver smoke they inhaled begins to work their eyes glow yellow and every bone in their bodies break before they are transformed into wolves.
"This curse is like no other because now on the night of every full moon like tonight you will become the very creature you trusted to take you and Hope to those fairies" Ben chuckled in pure twisted joy at the sight before him the woman he once loved and her friends transformed into the very animals they trusted more than him!
"And you won't need that red cloak now after all you now have a full coat of fur," Ben says as he clicks his fingers causing the red cloak to appear in his hand and before he makes another gesture teleporting the cursed Melinda and her friends along with the magical influenced wolves out of his castle and into a random unknown forest.
Gideon after witnessing the creation of werewolf and learning of another Child of Darkness finds himself alone with his own inner darkness in the study. In the study, Gideon takes a couple of minutes to gather his thoughts before he can figure out what to do next.
"Now there another reason why I hate Rick," The Darkness says.
"Hey, hang on we've done it we found the Vault we've done what Christine and the other Dark Ones have wanted us to do Darkness," Gideon shouts filled with joy.
"No, we haven't Gideon and it's pretty annoying you using 'Darkness' assuming that's my name" The Darkness replied enjoying he ended Gideon's feeling of joy.
"What do you mean we haven't found the Vault and of course you have a name it's Darkness well actually we're one in the same so your name is Gideon," Gideon said.
"No, that's the name of Belle and Rumple's son my name is Adrien," The Darkness reveals shocking and confusing Gideon at the same time.
"Adrien that doesn't make sense we are Belle and Rumple's son we're one in the same you just have just given yourself another name for no reason" Gideon shouts in frustration.
"No, no I am not Belle and Rumplestiltskin's son because they care nothing for me all they care for is the saint that keeps me captive the saint that abandoned me" Adrien snaps and through the Darkness/Adrien's anger that has been bottled up for years the powerful magic in this part of the chamber does something unthinkable Adrien becomes corporal and for the first time breaths air in and out!
"Oh, my god" Gideon shouts.
"I'm breathing, but that's not possible I'm not supposed to breath or feel hot, cold even pain unless I'm in control of our body," Adrien said as he struggles to adapt to his new found breathing and physical foot holding on the realm. Adrien is wearing black leather boots, long black leather trousers a shade lighter than the boots along with a black shirt and a long black trench overcoat and a black leather groups.
"But you're not in control of our body I am unl..." Gideon replies but before he can finish his sentence Adrien grabs Gideon by the throat and thanks to their shared dark magic lifts Gideon up serval feet and throws Gideon into one of the walls.
"Ow, how are you doing this"? Gideon asks in a scream as he falls down onto the floor.
"I don't know but now I'm no longer tied to you and now I'm the one in control I think its time we have some bonding," Adrien told Gideon with a wicked snarl.
"Bonding huh let's see how you like this for bonding," Gideon says as he stands up onto his feet and flings his arm at Adrien and finds himself surprised when his desire to throw Adrien into a wall for payback doesn't happen.
"Now, now our Dark Magic is my thing remember Gideon and I am an embodiment of dark magic you may have accepted having Dark Magic but when it comes to practising Dark Magic you always come to me instead of practising it yourself," Adrien tells Gideon.
"But you are me" Gideon finds himself telling Adrien.
"No, I'm not you, we were one in the same we were best friends, soul mates but that all changed when you're pathetic, annoying and darn right loving friends came along" Adrien spoke with venom and hatred in his voice as he mentions Gideon's friends.
"Why is it that you hate them so much and they didn't take me away from you if you are with me twenty- four- seven"? Gideon questions.
"You're finally asking the right questions" Adrien replied.
End of chapter 4.