Chapter 5
Meanwhile, back at the Gold house, in the living room, we have Lucy, Laurel and Henry. The parents of Lucy are sat on the floor with her playing a game. While Laurel and Henry are playing a game with their daughter in the kitchen we have Belle and Rumple along with Baelfire dishing out dinner. Gideon has been gone for about two hours now and he hasn't called or text anyone in his family.
"Gideon has been gone for a while now" Belle commented.
"You're right there love" Gold replied as he looked down at his watch on his left arm.
"Where did Henry say squirt was going anyway,"? Baelfire asks.
"I'm not sure I'll go and ask," Belle says as she walked out of the kitchen and then walks into the living room.
"Hey there Mrs Gold" Laurel said as she looks up and faces Belle.
"Belle, please call me Belle erm Henry where did Gideon say he was going earlier on"? Belle questions.
"He said he had to go to Prue's cabin he hasn't text you or called you at all" Henry replied feeling worried and scared for his nephew's whereabouts.
"No, he hasn't I'm going and call Zelena and Red to see if Gideon is over at one of their houses," Belle tells Henry and Laurel before she turns to walk out of the living room.
"Wait, why don't we do that after all you Gold and Baelfire are making dinner" Laurel suggested.
"No, you two are having some quality time with Lucy, we don't want to take that away from you," Belle told the two before walking back into the kitchen.
"Where did Henry say, Gideon went," Gold asks his wife.
"Prue's cabin," Belle said.
"Prue's cabin she repaired that thing and anyway I thought Emma and Regina we're trying to get her into a home here" Gold spoke.
"They still are but she refuses to let them she even has some special vocalisation protection spell that links into blood magic only people she wants can enter or even touch her cabin" Belle explained.
"Never mind but I think we should call Zelena and Red to see if Gideon is at one of their houses" Belle suggested.
"And if he isn't we'll go over to the cabin," Gold said.
Back in that chamber, we have Gideon sat down opposite his darkness who has given itself a name Adrien. Gideon is nervous he's never been under a spell before that will cause him to fall asleep and relive memories he has forgotten or never knew he had before. Adrien can't help but feel that after this spell is cast that he will get what was denied from him that he will get answers for why he was mistreated!
"How can I trust you to wake me up after I see what I need to see"? Gideon questions.
"You don't although you should but then again you lost faith and forgot about our connection" Adrien replied.
"Let's get this over with," Gideon tells Adrien.
"Just take a breath," Adrien says and after Gideon inhales and exhales Adrien makes a gesture using dark magic to make Gideon fall to asleep and soon later one of Gideon's forgotten memories starts to resurface.
Flashback 1:
Back when Gideon is only 5 and a half years old. Today is Gideon's first day at school. Gideon is beyond nervous for school while his parents are so excited for Gideon to start school where he can make friends and learn all kinds of new things. Standing outside the school gates we have Rumple and Belle standing beside each other looking down at their son Gideon. Little Gideon is wearing blue denim shorts with a dark navy t-shirt that has a knight printed over it. Along with some blue trainers. Then finally a Scooby Doo backpack to go withheld on his shoulders by his two straps.
"Are you excited pup"? Rumple asks his son.
"Can't I just be home with you, mama and papa" Gideon replied not wanting to be at school.
"Sorry pup but going to school will give you something no one can take from you," Rumple tells his son as he kneels down in front of his son.
"What," Gideon asked his father.
"An education and an education brings knowledge" Rumple explained to his son.
"But papa I learn all kinds of thingys at the shop and at the library," Gideon says.
"Oh, Gideon at school you get to have all your own adventures and learn things we can't teach you," Belle told her son.
"Really what kind of adventures mama" Gideon questions his mama.
"Who knows Gideon" Belle replies.
After Belle and Rumple left the school grounds Gideon walks inside the school with the other children in his class to their classroom. The first two lessons went slow and Gideon found it difficult to make friends most be unsocial for the most stupid reason of all. That he is the son of the Dark One. On the break, Gideon decides to run over to the small playground and lie down under a large oak tree a good distance away from the taunting kids.
"I hate this" Gideon snapped.
"We shouldn't be here," A voice says in a rather gentle tone Gideon turns in the direction of that voice to see an identical double of himself who is wearing black shorts, a grey t-shirt that has a spinning wheel printed on it.
"Whoa, are you my twin cuz I've never seen anyone look exactly like me before," Gideon asked.
"I guess you can say that I'm the Dark One's child," The voice/Adrien tells Gideon.
"But my papa the Dark One," Gideon replied.
"Then think of me as your double" Adrien said.
"What did you mean by we shouldn't be here,"? Gideon asked Adrien.
"Your mama said you get to have all your own adventures I see no adventures here," Adrien told Gideon.
"Yesterday mama told me, I would make tons of friends but no one likes me, Andi told everyone when a child or a puppy gets ill its because I put curses on everyone," Gideon spoke sobbing out.
"Well your mama was partly right" Adrien commented.
"She was," Gideon says.
"Yes, you've made a friend granted not tones but you've made a true friend" Adrien replied.
"Who"? Gideon questions Adrien.
"Me, of course, Giddy now I say we go for a little adventure," Adrien told Gideon.
"But I, we're at school we can't leave the teacher will be mad" Gideon replies.
"We won't be leaving school Giddy, I want you to picture a play a world anyplace you can think of" Adrien instructs and Gideon follows the instruction and closes his eyes trying to picture a world anyplace.
"What do you see,"? Adrien asks.
"I-I see a large meadow that has big, big trees and the sun shines brightly the grass is really soft like a pillow" Gideon describes to Adrien.
"That sounds amazing what lives there what kind of animals," Adrien asked.
"Dogs, birds and I don't know the horses with the wings," Gideon tells Adrien.
"Pegasus," Adrien says.
"Now that you can picture the world how do we get there"? Adrien question Gideon.
"Erm, a door carved in a trunk of a tree," Gideon tells Adrien and a second later on the trunk of the tree Gideon is laying in front of a door appears out of nowhere carved into the trunk.
"You did it" Adrien shouts happily as he points over at the trunk of the tree Gideon turns to see the new door and smiles.
"We did we have magic like papa" Gideon yells.
"Ready to see our little world," Adrien said.
"We won't be late back to the lesson will we," Gideon asked.
"No" Adrien replied.
"Let's go," Gideon says as he stands on his little feet and opens the door carved into the tree and sees a small portion of the beautiful meadow he imagined Gideon walks through the tree/doorway and is transported to the imaginary meadow that is now real!
As Gideon explores this new world forged from his imagination. The children in his class returned to the lesson only to be left with a supply while their teacher searched the playground looking for any sign of Gideon. After seeing no sight of Gideon the teacher reported his absence to the headteacher. The headteacher is furious that a teacher could lose a child so easily in the school playground. The headteacher phoned Gideon's parents. Upon hearing this distressing news Rumple teleported himself and Belle to the headteacher's office in red smoke.
"Where the hell is my son"? Belle demands to know.
"We don't know" The headteacher replied.
"What was he doing on his own in the first place" Rumple snaps.
"He wasn't he was in the playground with his class teacher and the other children in his class," The headteacher says.
"Belle, I need something of Gideon's what have you got," Rumple asked.
"Nothing Rumple all we have is at home can't we use some of our blood to track him" Belle suggested.
"Yes," Rumple replies as he conjures a small needle and then he picks one of Belle's hands with it allowing it to seep a little amount of blood. Rumple then makes a quick gesture over Belle's bleeding palm and the blood on that palm floats off Belle's palms before forming a ball Rumple then pricks his own palm and some of his blood floats off his palm and mixes with Belle's blood. The ball of blood then fly out of the headteacher's office. The ball of mixed blood leads Belle and Rumple to the tree Gideon was lying down under earlier that break.
"Rumple, why has the ball of blood, stopped here" Belle questions her husband feeling terrified of the possibility that her baby may be hurt.
"It can't be Belle look at the trunk of the tree" Rumple points out holding his finger at door carved into the tree.
"A door since when have trees had doors carved into the trunk," Belle says.
"Never, but there something odd about this door it's obviously made out of magic but the magic its similar yet unique," Rumple tells his wife as he places his hand over on the door.
"What do you mean by similar and unique," Belle asked her husband.
"The magic is dark I know that for sure and similar because everyone's magic has its own signature that sets it apart from other magic, however, people who practice magic in the same family have a similar magical signature for their magic and its unique because its a new signature" Rumple explains to his wife.
"Who magic is it then who would want to take our son apart from Fiona and she trapped in the Dark Realm,"? Belle asks.
"I-I it can't be this magic is so new it's Gideon's magic," Gold said gobsmacked.
"Gideon's magic but Gideon has no magic, how could he create this" Belle questions her husband.
"We always knew that he could have the potential of having great Dark Magic," Gold says.
"If Gideon went through this who knows what trouble he in Rumple as soon as we find our son wherever he may be past this door I want you to take away his dark powers or suppress them somehow" Belle instructs her husband not wanting her son having to fight the darkness that grows in one heart when practising Dark Magic.
"I'm not sure if I'll be able to strip them since his magic is so new and raw it will take me time to access what stage of development his magic is at to do that but I will be able to suppress them once we find our runaway son" Rumple tells Belle before the two open the door carved in the tree and enter this new and unknown world!
Belle and Rumple appear in this world of Gideon's imagination. The two are struck in awe at first upon appearing in this world of imagination. The parents at first found this realm beautiful and spectacular. The two see dogs, running all over the meadow and they look to the beautiful blue clear sky where they find themselves shocked to see pegasuses flying up near the clouds!
"This place it's wonderful, beautiful" Belle commented.
"It is but we need to find Gideon and fast we have no idea how stable this place is and what damage our little boy could cause," Rumple tells Belle the two start to look for their little boy.
"He has to be somewhere Rumple how far does the meadow go" Belle snaps frustrated that they haven't found their son yet.
"We'll find him, Belle, I promise," Rumple told his wife trying to comfort not just herself but for him too.
"Yayyy, faster, faster" Gideon shouts in excitement Gideon's shouting causes his parents to look up to the sky where they see a very young pegasus flying among its elders with Gideon holding on tightly.
"GIDEON" Both Belle and Rumple shout in unison upon getting a clear sight of their son.
"Moma, Papa, I'm flying" Gideon yells as he lifts one of his hand and kneels slightly over to one side waving at his parents Gideon kneels over to one side too much and when a heavy gust of wind hits Gideon, falls off the Pegasus and is falling to a certain death!
"GIDEON" Belle and Rumple scream Rumple acts quickly and uses his magic to teleport Gideon safely in a poof of red smoke into his arms saving his son from a horrible and painful fate.
"P-Papa, that was so scary" Gideon cried out.
"Gideon what were you thinking, leaving the playground for this place on your own you almost died Gideon, and that's something neither me or your mother could ever handle Gideon, you are never to do something like this again I mean it Gideon" Rumple scolded he hated scolding his children he never wanted to see or make neither Baelfire or Gideon upset and sad. But they are times that a parent has to scold their child for the child's own good.
"I'm sorry Papa, Mama I just wanted somebody to play with since the kids in my class hate me," Gideon tells his parents as he snuggles closer into Rumple, Belle and Rumple are shocked at what Gideon just said about the other kids in his class hating him.
"Gideon, what do you mean the other kids in your class hate you"? Belle questions her son hating herself for having to ask this question.
"They, They think I'm a meanie and evil Andi said whenever a child or puppy gets ill its because I put curses on everyone" Gideon explains to his parents trying not to cry any more tears.
"Andi said what baby," Belle says as hugs her son.
"She said I was evil and curse other children," Gideon said.
"I'll be speaking to the headteacher the moment we'll get back" Belle spoke in fury yet still having a gentle tone.
"Is she right Papa, am I evil"? Gideon asked.
"WHAT, no Gideon, you're not evil your good, sweet kind little boy who likes to find adventure although Andi isn't evil she is certainly mean and cruel spreading those rumours around about you, however, people always change especially children," Rumple told Gideon.
"I'm sorry for coming here but my friend said we would be back before break ends" Gideon apologises.
"It's okay Gideon just don't do it again and where is your friend"? Belle asks.
"Over there Mama and Papa," Gideon says as she points over in the direction he sees Adrien.
"We don't see anyone pup" Rumple spoke.
"They can't see me Giddy maybe if you call out my name call out for Adrien" Adrien suggests.
"Adrien, Adrien come on please let my parents see Adrien" Gideon begs to plead to anyone to make Adrien visible to his parents.
"Try harder Gideon you have to believe it works" Adrien instructs.
"Someone let my parents see Adrien" Gideon begs one final time and with all his belief Adrien is granted a threshold onto the physical world and visible to not only Gideon but his parents himself!
End of flashback.
End of chapter 5.