Once Upon a Time

Grieving Souls

I couldn't feel my legs - or any part of my body for that matter. It felt as if every part of me that I valued so much, my heart, my soul... it felt as if they had been ripped from my body and taken for ransom. 

Once James had disappeared so did the 'stepmother' and the 'stepsisters' leaving behind no trace only a flash of power lingering in the air. 

Elena collapsed on the ground in hysterics sobbing and screaming until her throat bled, I could feel my legs buckling too but Jack caught me right as the first sob escaped from my mouth. James was gone, no warning, no goodbye... nothing. 

What hurt the most though was the fact that it was Maleficent's doing, that she had taken over Lady Tremaine's body.... I felt a shiver run down my spine as my mind pictured those magenta eyes glazed with the emotion of false love as she stared at Elena and James. I should have known, the feeling wasn't right - from the moment I had stepped into the threshold, there was something off and now I knew. 

Maleficent must have killed the step-mother and step-sisters long ago, maybe that was why their house hadn't been fixed after so many of the Glass Kingdom citizens trashed it and the thought of that just made me scream even louder. Why did she kill people? What happened to her to make her so horrible? 

Minutes that felt like hours past by and soon it felt as though we were cried out left alone in the barren house with no one but each other. 

I finally lifted my head from Jack's shoulder to look at the others. Elena sat, curled up into a tiny ball on the floor her eyes so swollen they were practically shut as she stared at nothing seeming to have no tears left in her body. 

Scarlet was on her knee's her hand covering her mouth in an attempt to not scream as soft and quiet tears spilled from her eyes like a tidal wave. Flynn had fallen onto the floor his face showing no form of sadness or any emotion for that maybe it was like he was in a state of pure shock only he just couldn't show it. Then there was Jack, he just sat there with his arms around me and eyes closed as we tried to console each other without really meaning to at all, if that made any sense. He had lost his friend.... we all had. 

"I - I...." Scarlet began to say before he choked on her words and broke down into tears. 

I knew one of us had to speak, one of us had to say something but it was so hard. After debating with myself for a good five minutes I finally let out a sigh and wiped any stray tears from my eyes. 

"I'm going to kill her." I meant it to maybe break the air, but the minute I said it I realized just how furious and deadly my feelings were towards the enchantress.

"I'll slit her throat to pieces." Scarlet added finally managing words. 

"We'll feed her to her own thorns." Flynn spoke. 

"And watch her until the light leaves her eyes." I finished. 

My hands were clenched as I stood up and crossed the room reaching into Scarlet's bag for the spell book with the Volens Enchantment in it only I flipped through for spells or potions, anything that could tell us how to end her life. 

"Avalon." Jack called to me as I flipped through my eyes ripping across each page for any sign of a death curse. I didn't reply, I was in the zone. "Avalon." He said again this time his voice was different it reflected an emotion I was trying to hide myself. Fear. "Avalon stop!" He yelled jumping up, he ran towards me throwing the book I held across the world to grab onto my shoulders. "You need to calm down, your scaring us. Please just calm down - " 

"NO!" I screamed pushing him away. "I'm tired of this Jack! We all are, she's killed so many people and for what reason? To show she has power! I thought good always wins in this world! I thought that villains never got to defeat us but look! Look at us, we're loosing. She needs to be stopped and what we're doing with this stupid spell isn't working. We still have 2 things to find and we have no idea what they are! I'm so tired of watching people die - I'm so tired of being here where good for the first time ever is loosing."