(Hey guys. I am back with another chapter. Hope you will like it the same way you seemed to have liked the previous ones. This one is a little bigger than usual, I guess I got a little carried away, but I wanted to tell the story until the point in which I finished this chapter. By the way, I love the twist in the end of it, and I hope you will like it too. Please keep reviewing so I continue to know what you think of this.)
Zelena's eyes widened and her jaw dropped a bit. She turned to Adda "Wait, you..." She then turned to Lily "He... He's your father?"
"You're asking the wrong person" Lily said, bored "that is what he says anyway. I am not sure if I believe him."
Zelena looked back at Adda. He wasn't saying anything, just smiling. She looked at him curiously before speaking again. "Well, he is obviously lying. If he was stuck all this time, there is no way he is your father. Unless of course, he was lying before."
Adda decided to intervene. He really didn't like to be called a liar. "This really doesn't concern you, Zelena, but I acknowledged I own my daughter an explanation, and I guess the truth is a good first step to trust. "He said looking at Zelena. Then he turned to Lily "Maybe I didn't have the power to free myself until recently, but that doesn't mean I couldn't make an appearance here and there. Not in my true form, and not for long of course, but it was better than nothing. I knew the Dark Curse was going to be casted soon, and then I could really start gathering power. So I decided that what I needed to win was a family that would fight beside me, because that is why villains always lose. I didn't have any family, but of course I could always start one. And so I did."
Lily looked at him shocked. She couldn't believe that. She was brought into the world on purpose to help her father do... whatever it is he wanted to do. No thank you. "Wait, you made me to help you? So what, I am just one of your pawns in this sick game of yours?"
"My pawns?" Adda looked hurt and surprised for the first time since he was free. "No dear, you are my queen in this game. I promised you I would help you get your revenge on Snow and Charming and I will. Isn't that what you want?"
Lily looked at him, not wanting to admit that is exactly what she wanted. With her mother, she had been trying to change, and she put all her efforts into finding her father, not having much time to think about anything else, her revenge included, but she has wanted it ever since she knew what they did to her. And if Adda really was her father, that changed everything, especially if he was half as powerful as he advertised.
Zelena looked at both of them and rolled her eyes. Right then, she was feeling like a plus one and she didn't like it. She was sick of that already. She didn't care Adda had her magic, maybe she could learn to live without it. She only cared that he wasn't delivering what he promised her. She turned around and started to walk away, not caring if she was noticed or not.
"Where are you going?" Adda asked turning to Zelena.
"Home. I don't care about whatever plans you have, I want no part in it." She said continuing to walk away.
Adda smiled. "Really? What about your magic? You don't want it anymore?"
Zelena stopped walking, but she still didn't turn to face him. She sighed, hoping what she was about to do didn't backfire. "You came to me with empty promises and false hopes. You can't give me my magic back, or you already would have."
Adda looked at Zelena, confused. "I would? We just got here. There is still plenty to do. So come."
"You said I could go if I wanted to."
"Well, you can. I won't stop you, but you will be leaving empty handed when you could have so much more."
Zelena finally turned around and faced Adda and a quiet Lily. "So what exactly are your plans?"
"Well, first we give you your magic back, and then we hire a few more soldiers for our army." Adda said with a smile on his face. He had this all planed for a while. He knew exactly who he would need and what it would take to win.
"And who would those people be?" Zelena asked, starting to get a little bit more interested.
"Well, first things first. I will give you your magic back, because we will need it to bring those people here. And then, the battle for Storybrooke will begin!"
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Henry was on main street. It was night and he was afraid, very much afraid, but he was trying his best not to show it. He was looking Adda in the eyes. Not far from him were the bodies of both his charming grandparents. Killian, Zelena and Belle were nowhere to be seen and Emma and Regina were unconscious near where Adda was. Rumple was, not surprisingly, close to Adda not doing anything to help anyone. Adda's look to Henry only said one thing: 'you're next'; and that only scared Henry more. Henry reached his pocket, grabbed the pen, lied on the ground and quickly wrote 'Adda is blasted by light magic' on the road. Soon enough, Henry's words came true and Adda hit a wall, lying on the ground. Henry started approaching him when he started hearing a weird buzzing.
Henry woke up because of the sound of the alarm clock, still shaking from the dream. He turned off the alarm and sat in his bed thinking about the dream he had, smiling. Of course it was horrible that his grandparents were dead in the dream, but he was definitely feeling great. Even though that was only a dream, he remembered how he was feeling in it: alive.
Henry continued to smile while he got out of bed, and thought about his dream as he got dressed. Dreams fade, everyone knows that, and maybe Henry's dream would fade too, it probably would actually, but he knew that feeling would never disappear. That feeling was exactly what he wanted to feel: to finally be the one who beats the bad guy instead of celebrating with the ones who do.
He headed downstairs and found Emma and Killian sitting at the table eating breakfast. "Hey mom. Hey Killian." Henry said giving Emma a kiss.
"Henry. I was just about to call you. I thought you had fallen asleep." Emma said as she continued to eat her pancake.
"No, I was just getting things ready."
Killian gave Emma a friendly smile, and Emma replied in the same language, when someone knocked at the door. Emma got up and opened it. "Regina! Come in. Still no news from your sister?"
Regina sighed and walked in. "No, nothing." It was morning already and Zelena hadn't been seen since the past afternoon, when Regina left to find Adda, who hadn't been seen either since he came out of the clock.
"Well, I am about to finish breakfast, and then I can help you. Did you bring something of hers for the locater spell?" Emma asked while she headed back to the table and continued to eat breakfast.
"Yes, I brought one of her shirts." Regina said starting to sound desperate "I still can't stop feeling like Adda has something to do with this."
"That's because he does." A voice said from behind. Everyone looked back and saw Rumple.
"Oh, hey Rumple. Please, come in." Killian said sarcastically. It was just like the Rumplestiltskin he knew to just come in uninvited. Honestly, Killian didn't trust him very much, and he probably never would. Once a crocodile, always a crocodile.
Gold looked at Killian and was going to say something, but then he just ignored his comment. "Of course any of this wouldn't be happening, if you hadn't simply overlooked the obvious problem." Gold looked directly at Regina.
"Oh, yeah? And what were we supposed to do, just kill him on the spot? I am sorry if some of us don't want to walk down the wrong path again."
"OK guys, calm down." Emma said finishing breaking and getting up. "We're good to go." She turned to Killian "Do you mind cleaning this?"
"Of course not, love. You can go. I'll meet you later."
"Thanks Killian." Emma said walking to him and giving him a kiss.
Henry finished breakfast too and grabbed his backpack. "I'm done too. Let's go."
Both Emma and Regina looked at him like he was crazy. "Where do you think you're going? I hope you are thinking about school, because that will be your only destination for today." There was really no way Regina would let Henry go with them. If what she was thinking was right, then all that would turn to Adda, and it could be really dangerous.
"What? School? Really? I wanna go with you guys."
"Maybe some other time, kid. You know duty calls, and yours is to study. Now, are you okay with going by yourself?" Emma asked, hoping Henry wouldn't start complaining. She knew he hated what they always did to him, but she only wants him to remain safe. With him away from the battles, nothing bad could happen, right?
Henry sighed. Of course they wouldn't let him go. They never did, so why would they start then? "I'm not a kid anymore, mom. And of course I can go alone." Henry opened the door and ran outside before someone could say anything else. Regina and Emma looked at each other and raised their eyebrows. 'Teenagers!', they both thought.
While he was walking, Henry started thinking about whether to really go to school, or to just skip classes and go find a way to help. Because he was extremely tired the previous day, his moms let him skip, but then again, probably many students did that because of the events from the previous night. Henry sighed as he walked, and realized that he would in fact go to school that day, but there was no way the same would happen the next morning.
As he walked passed a dark ally, he heard a "psst". Henry looked around, but didn't see anyone. He was about to call himself crazy and continue to walk to school, when he heard someone call his name. "Who's there?" he asked trying not to show fear.
"Relax, Henry. It's just me." She said starting to step into the light.
Henry didn't recognize her at first, but then he saw it was Lily. "Oh, hey Lily. What are you doing here?" Henry hadn't seen Lily for a very long time. Since a little before Emma became the Dark One.
"I just want to give you something, but no one can see it." Henry looked at her confused. What could she want to give him? And why couldn't anyone see it? Before he had time to say anything, Lily gave him a strong punch in the head and he passed out.
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When Henry woke up. He felt like someone threw a million rockets to his head. He started regaining consciousness and realized he was sitting in a chair, but he wasn't tied up. A few seconds later, he saw someone in front of him. As his vision started to clear, he realized it was Adda.
"Look who decided to wake up." He said with a smile.
Henry looked around and noticed he was in a room which had literally nothing other than the chair in which he was sited. "Where I am? What do you want?" Henry asked decided. He wasn't scared, not anymore. He was tired of being the scared little boy. If Adda wanted to kill him, he probably would have done that already, which meant he wanted something else.
"Straight to the point. Just how I like it. I was never good at small talk. I brought you here, Henry, because I need a favor from you."
"I will never do anything for you." He said getting up quickly. That made his head hurt a little more, but he hoped it would be worth it. He wasn't going to run, he knew that was pointless, but he didn't want Adda to think he had the upper hand.
Adda laughed, amused. "I never said it was for me, did I? It isn't actually, Henry. It's for a friend."
"What friend?"
"Hello, darling!" A voice said from behind.
Henry froze for a few seconds from the shock, not wanting to believe it. In that instant, his head stopped hurting, because he didn't care about the pain anymore. After a few seconds, when he was finally able to move again, he started turning around, already knowing exactly who he was going to see when he fully did, but hoping he was wrong. He wasn't. When he turned around, his suspicious started being the truth. "Cruella!"
"Did you miss me?" She asked with a psychopathic smile on her face.
