Identity- Once Upon A Time

Wraiths and Wrath

The guard wraith stood around 30 feet high and reached the ceiling of the library. As soon as Henry ran inside of the library, the door closed and locked behind him. The sheer sight of a regular wraith would scare anyone to death, so you could imagine how scared Henry was at this moment.

"OH NO!" He screamed. Henry turned on his heels and banged on the door as hard as he could. He tried burning it, freezing it, and melting it, but he could not escape. "HELP! PLEASE!"

The wraith screamed so loudly it nearly deafened Henry. Slowly it swooped down and grabbed him by the throat. Henry managed to burn its hand with fire, which released him but it angered the wraith even further. The creature began to shift back and forth and scooped up Henry with its other hand and threw him against one of the many tall bookshelves. The bookshelf started to sway and fall over upon Henry until a mysterious force stopped it. The bookshelf froze in midair as well as the novels falling out of it. It was if time had stopped, not a book moved, not a breath of air was felt. Suddenly, just as Henry was examining this oddity, the wraith began to scream in pain.

Henry covered his ears with his hands and attempted to crawl out from underneath the frozen bookcase. As he tried to rush to his feet, Henry found that the blow from the bookshelf had broken his ankle. He fell to the ground in a thud in seething pain but still crawled away as fast as he could with the wraith screaming louder and louder still. As Henry propped himself up next to the library door, he looked back onto the terrifying wraith and it burst into a million black shreds. 

Henry shielded his eyes as a blinding light emerged from the dead wraith that quickly disappeared. When the shreds of the wraith and the burst of light cleared, a cloud of purple smoke hung in the air, reminiscent of someone being present in that spot. The bookshelf fell just as the last bits of smoke were clearing which scattered the books all over the ground in giant heaps and left the library silent again.

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"Where were you exactly?" Asked Pan angrily. Dark Lily had just reappeared in the caves and sank into the plush cushions on the pleather couches.

"I said I visited home." She lifted her glass lazily from the coffee table and took a long sip of pomegranate juice. "It was actually quite fun tampering with them and their plans."

"You...tampered with them?"

"Just with the boy, he seemed so...lost and helpless, so I played with him a bit." Dark Lily took another drink, "I simply couldn't help myself!" She chuckled darkly.

Pan's eyes widened with fury and disbelief, "Are you serious? You could reveal our plans!"

"Calm down, it was just killing a guard wraith or whatever. Besides, it was mine to kill anyway."

"That guard wraith protected our plans!" Pan rubbed his temples angrily. "Now they'll catch on about the heart of the story and it's all. your. fault!"

"My fault?" Dark Lily rose angrily. "It's my fault that I don't want to hold out in a cave? Did you ever think that they might corner us and capture us while we're squatting in one place?"

"At least we're not parading around our ideas like some idiot!"

"Idiot? Who was holding out on an island for years looking for the prophesy boy instead of looking for him yourself?" Pan gritted his teeth angrily as Dark Lily continued, "That's right, you did!"

"Well I was also waiting for the heart of the story, so there!"

"Why didn't you just take us both when you had the chance? Why didn't you just darken my heart as soon as I entered Storybrooke?"

"Just shut up, I've already fought with you on this more times than I can count."

"Fine then. We can stop fighting, but I will not stress this enough, you need me. And don't you ever forget that!" Dark Lily stormed out if the caves and into the forest above. While she was gone, her phrase echoed throughout Pan's head: You need me. Pan tried to silence these thoughts, but he couldn't. He did need her, more than she ever will know.