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Layla gave a returning thumbs up and nod so Cassiopeia left that alone and watched Rose rejoin them. Cassiopeia shifted so there was more room for her to sit; if she chose to sit near Cassi. Cassiopeia smiled a little at Rose’s answer and nodded, picking up her cup and drank from it. She agreed with Red that it was her decision but Cassi was still worried what it might uncover for her.
”If that’s what you want, I support you.” Robin interrupted them a moment and she looked at her father, smiling and nodded. ”See you later.” She looked back at Rose and Red, trying to make some comparisons before she grinned, a thought coming to her. ”So, Red, what do you remember of Rose as a baby? Was she chubby,” she teased.

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The idea of posing as buyers or sellers, then sneaking in and swapping items was even more terrifying to Willow than just simply sneaking into the place. She kept one hand tightened on her mother’s before running the other hand through her hair and sighed. She looked at Matthew in confusion as well, not understanding the reference.
”What do you want us to do then? Pose as buyers as well or hide?” Willow didn’t exactly feel like a thief or a good liar for that matter. Hopefully, she would be able to stick with her mother and do whatever Aurora was doing. That made her feel a little more comfortable if she had someone else who knew what they were doing to lean on.

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Rose sat next to Cassi. "Is there something you think would be better for me not to remember?" Rose asked her mom. "I had a few start to come back, but it hasn't happened in a while." She wondered if maybe letting it happen naturally would be better. She supposed she could talk to Merlin about it more later.

Rose stuck her tongue out at Cassi for her question about her as a baby. "Doesn't matter if I was or not. I was cute." She nudged Cassi, "Not much different than you now." She grinned and winked at Cassi. Half expecting her mom to say something. She really hoped homophobia wasn't an issue here.

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Colby was still interested. He was only shocked that Willow didn't know what a Wookie was, but he didn't bother trying to explain it to the kid who had grown up in a different world than he had. Colby didn't want to oversell himself though for this situation. "I'm good with sleight of hand and sneaking, but I can't like pick locks or anything."

The truth was if it hadn't been for working with the cats at the pet store, Colby probably would have ended up with a bad crowd. He had always been quick to fight and get into trouble. He wasn't good enough at what he did to really get away with it too. Coming here was good for him. Maddie was good for him too, but Maddie probably would follow him into trouble.

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"Can't you just throw a fireball at the crocodile?" Megan asked Jack. He was insisting that he was useful and capable in a fight, so Megan figured that he'd fare well against animals as well as against humans. Unlike a sword, a fireball seemed perfectly suited to getting rid of a crocodile, whether that be lethally or just as a warning for the crocodile to go pursue other quarry. Of course, Hansel then took care of it with a well placed arrow, as the crocodile dipped beneath the water. Bell then navigated their boat to the shore and they all disembarked, with several of the freed prisoners making their way to the tree line.

"How long is a little bit?" Megan asked, wanting to know how long they'd be hiding for. They needed to be on their way, after all. She didn't claim to be excited or anxious to meet her parents - if anyone asked, she just didn't want to stand still, to stay in one place too long where they could be captured or otherwise endangered. She wanted to keep on moving.

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"Personally? I'd probably go back to the insanity that is me robbing people and probably laughing about it later, maybe getting arrested again, since you know that's always fun. This sort of thing, being in a world of magic, just is weird, and honestly does not sound like a whole lot of fun to run around and do that sort of thing in still. But that's just my thoughts on it and all. I don't know, nor do I really care if you want to stay here or not, this place I'm just not exactly cut out for," she commented with a bit of a shrug, before falling silent again, not really paying too much attention to what was being said anymore.

Rosalia's attention turned towards the others now, as Robin Hood said that he had something to deal with now, as he left with one of his men or whatever. Okay, that was something she was a bit curious about, what exactly was going on now? Of course, she doubted they'd ever be told the full truth or something with regards to it. Things were getting to be a bit boring, just sort of sitting around, doing nothing at this point and for her it was somewhat painful to be more or less forced into having conversations with these people.

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"I did think about it, or at least attempting it, but also knowing my luck and since boats tend to be flammable figured that wouldn't be the best solution given the fact that the fireballs really like to make things catch on fire for a while it seems like. On land, I feel better chucking the things after them, and not like you're much of a ranged fighter either, he commented to her with a bit of an eye roll. Yeah, being in a boat that was already slightly cramped and throwing a fireball at a crocodile seemed like a recipe for disaster. That was just his opinion of course on the subject.

Then, it turns out, they didn't need to truly worry about the crocodile anymore, as Hansel ended up firing off an arrow at the beast and it ended up going away from them. Well that was something then right? Now they were on shore, and needing to hopefully just sit back and wait out the pirates, and just wait around for their guides to show up to take them to where they were heading. "...If I had to guess a little while, since they said meet up with them at sundown or whatever," Jack said to his sister about how long they'd have to wait around and all.

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Maddie hadn't thought about the literal worlds divide between their knowledge on pop culture. Sure he didn't know a whole lot, but in comparison to those here he knew way more. His legs began to shake slightly, feeling as if all eyes were on him to explain what a Wookie was and the plan that followed it. Thankfully for him, his father began to explain a very different plan. His thoughts paused for a moment, it was weird thinking about how his father was here...and helping him. His green eyes flitted over towards where his father stood, watching him as he spoke.

"I've never really tried to pick a lock, but much like Colbs here, I'm not too shabby with my slight of hand and I'm great with puzzles and puzzle boxes. What's a lock but a small puzzle?" He hoped that he wasn't wrong, it'd be a shame if he was wrong and was embarrassed before them all. There was a small pause before he continued. "Anyone else good at doing swaps? Or should I have Colby hold onto the lamp for the final swap? I'd do it myself but...he's so much better at it than me." Maddie said, a bit of blush coloring his cheeks.

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The girl looked a little bit annoyed that none of them didnt really answer the question and shook her head slightly while rolling her eyes, when Mad Hatter spoke again while looking over at Aurora and Willow for a moment. "Aurora can pose as a buyer along with me, and you." He said towards Willow as he looked towards Cheshire. "While he and the boys can sneak into the vault and do that little switch." He told him as Aurora nodded slightly while looking at her daughter.

"You'll do fine." She said towards her they would hear a knocking on the door, the girl looked at the rest of them. "Jaffar's men are here you all should maybe hide or something." She suggested as Cheshire looked towards them and gestured towards a closet as he made his way over towards it. "Just stay in there until one of us gives you all the clear." Cheshire said as he started to make his way up the stairs and into the shop itself.

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Sierra was holding her shoulder as she looked towards everyone for a moment as Belle, Hansel and Gretel made their way into the tree line. Sierra stayed alert she wasnt sure what else were in the woods, she squinted her eyes for a moment and could see what looks like a cabin of sorts not to far away from them. "Theres a cabin close by maybe we can stay there and lay low for a little bit?" Sierra suggested looking over towards the others.

Belle looked at it for a moment and started to make her way towards it and made it over towards the window and looked into it, she could see a few candles there to light up the cabin, and a fireplace going as well to but it looked like there wasnt anyone else in there. "We'll look inside." Hansel said as Gretel nodded and headed inside of the cabin, Sierra leaned against the wall outside of the cabin groaning slightly as she looked at where she had been shot at which still hurt a lot. "It's clear." Gretel said as she poked her head out and waved them all to get inside. Inside of the cabin it looked like it was big enough for probably three people to live in max, in the corner of the room was a large chest as well, as a mannequin that looked like it held a set of armor possibly. There was some food being cooked on a small stove of sorts near the fireplace as well to with a pile of chopped wood close by.

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"I mean you could kinda do the same stuff here if you wanted to or something like that. Also why is going to jail fun? It doesnt really sound like fun to me really." Layla said towards Rosalia as she looked over towards her sister, Rose and Red were still talking amongst each other. She wasnt sure what they were talking about at the moment as her father had gone off to talk to one of his men, she ran a hand through her hair.

"Sadly I dont have anything that could trigger a memory or anything like that." Red said towards Rose for a moment as she looked at Cassi and smiled a little bit. "Rose was a cute little baby when she was little, and not chunky." She said with a slight laugh, when she could hear some yelling, and then an arrow flew by hitting one of Robin's men. Layla turned to hear a lot of fighting happening as she saw some men attacking her father's men one of them had a bow and fired off an arrow aimed at Rosalia.

Not really thinking Layla quickly tackled Rosalia to the ground as the arrow embedded itself where Rosalia had been sitting. "Are you alright?" Layla asked looking down at her. Several more arrows were flying one of them hitting Rose in the shoulder and one narrowly missing Cassi Robin Hood quickly coming back and fired off an arrow at the closest attacker. Red quickly went over towards Rose and looked down at the arrow, and then towards her knowing that pulling it out would do more damage than good she took a nearby table cloth and applied it to the wound. "You'll be alright." Red said towards Rose.

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Rose snorted at her mother's comment. It was a tender moment. Something she wished she could hold onto. But someone was attacking them and she had an arrow in her shoulder. She winced. It was going to be nearly impossible for her to use a bow now. "Thank you." She told her mom as she put a table cloth on the wound. "Go help fight. I'm gonna duck under the table until we can get this out safely."

She took over keeping pressure on the wound and climbed down under the table. She closed her eyes and leaned against the leg of the table. This was not ideal, but it was the first time she had ever been seriously wounded. She knew she wouldn't be any help in the fight. It would be better if she was out of the way so no one had to worry about her.

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"Yeah, Willow has that look of someone rich, who would be into buying weird artifacts." He said when it was suggested she pose as a buyer. She did seem like the nervous type so he wasn't certain how good she would be at lying. That was on her though. If she couldn't keep it together they'd be doomed. "I don't mind doing the switch. I can probably Indian Jones it." And hopefully without the giant boulder chasing him after.

He looked at the closet and sighed. "Yeah, sure I'll go in the closet, but only for a little bit." He said and winked at Maddie hoping he would get the joke. Then he went into the closet to wait. He considered making another joke about seven minutes in heaven but decided against it. Since Maddie was already blushing it'd be hilarious to see how red he could turn.

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Cassiopeia blushed at Rose’s comment towards her about being cute now and nudged Rose with her elbow before glancing at Red and away. Her mother was smiling. That was a good sign, right?
”Was? You still are cute,” Cassiopeia declared. She wouldn’t get an immediate response though. Cassiopeia heard shouting and turned her head to see arrows flying. Cassiopeia dodged the ones that came towards her but Rose got hit in the process. Before she could do anything, Red was on it, securing her daughter’s wound. Cassiopeia slid off the bench to the ground and rested on her knees. She grabbed her bow and notched an arrow. She looked behind her to see Layla and Rosalia on the ground.
”Lala! You good?” She turned her head back to the fighting and sat up, remaining on her knees but locked onto one of the bad guys shooting at them and aimed for his shoulder. She made her mark before ducking down and notched another arrow. She sat up once more, taking aim for one of the other five nearest them. Her arrow went wide though and Cassi cursed before she loaded another and took aim again. Miss.
”I’m about ready for some words of encouragement, Rose,” Cassi declared. Her hands shook as she loaded another arrow. To be fair, this was only the third time she had been fired at in her entire life.

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Willow tried to take comfort in her mother’s words as she expressed that Willow would do well posing as a buyer. She let out a shaky breath but nodded. There was a knock on the door upstairs and Willow jumped a bit, feeling tense and worried all over again. Willow had gone to charity events with her family before and auctions, being interested in odd items was nothing new to her but pretending to be while doing something illegal, well, that was a different story.
Chesire gestured towards a closet for them to hid in and although it looked cramped, Willow was looking forward to a moment of quiet and being given time to process the events that had just unfolded in the last ten minutes or so. Willow grabbed onto Matthew’s hand, since Colby had already gone ahead, and marched into the closet with them. She wiggled around until she found a comfortable space and sighed.
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Megan nodded slightly. It was a bit odd to do things based on the sun's position in the sky - it felt archaic and strange. She was used to being accountable to precise timepoints - everything was regimented and scheduled, even in the morgue. She raised an eyebrow as Sierra suggested that they hide out in the nearby cabin. Megan really enjoyed Cabin in the Woods, and she somewhat doubted horror movies were on anyone else's mind at the moment. More concerning though was that she recalled in the fairytale that Hansel and Gretel trespassed in a witch's cabin. The others scouted inside of the cabin quickly as they neared it, with Megan keeping a watchful eye on Sierra and her wound. "Unfortunately, it doesn't seem painkillers have been invented yet here," Megan apologized.

She vaguely recalled her medical school classes where they had been instructed that sometimes, it was all you could do to keep a patient just talking through the pain in an attempt to keep their mind off of the pain. They were then waved into the cabin when the coast was clear and Megan's eyes widened with alarm, seeing the food cooking. "This isn't clear!" she hissed. "People don't just leave food cooking unattended for long. Someone's here. We need to leave, now." It was that or they'd need to knock out and tie up the owner of this cabin.

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"True, but it's more of the fun of running away and getting away with everything. Plus back home I know how to get out of just about every jail cell, it's not too hard when you know what you're doing. Since after all, it's also always fun to be on a first name basis with a lot of the officer at the department, so that's nice too," she responded with a bit of a shrug. Honestly, she ended up in a jail cell more then a few times, not to mention she practically could engrave her name in the cell, as she always ended up in the same one.

"What's going on out there?" Rosalia couldn't help but comment, hearing the fighting or whatever that seemed to be going on outside of where they were. She wasn't too sure what all was going on, but she figured it wasn't exactly something that she wanted to sit there and ask questions about. Of course, everything seemed to be turning incredibly chaotic rather quickly, but that just sort of was to be expected at this point. Honestly it kind of was their lives or something at this point in this world. The next thing she knew though, she ended up getting knocked to the ground by Layla and getting just barely missed by an arrow. "Yeah, I'm fine. came her response.

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Jack wasn't too sure about all of this. Sure, they'd end up waiting around for a little while, sitting around, doing nothing, but that didn't mean anything wouldn't potentially happen. Though he was a bit surprised that they came across a cabin in the woods, something that anyone whose ever watched a horror movie before in their lives would know. Cabin in the woods typically were typical settings for horror films, hell they had an entire horror movie that also was partially satire for other horror movies titled Cabin in the Woods. Of course, that was one of the many horror movies he and Meg would stay up late watching.

"Anyone else getting horror movie vibes from this place... Typically a cabin in the woods is not a good place to end up..." Jack more of muttered under his breath about it, so only really Megan would be able to hear him as the group approached the cabin and walked inside. Ok, yeah no, this was not a good idea, the place clearly was lived in, who knew how soon the owner of the cabin would return to it. One thing was clear, unless they were dead or already expecting them to show up, things would likely get ugly really quickly. "I'm with Meg on this one, unless they were expecting us this is not a good idea to just barge in and think they are going to stay away for long," Jack whispered in agreement with his sister.

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There was a twinge of ache in Maddie's heart as he heard the plan. Once again he'd have to be separated from his father, with no real promise that they would see each other again. He took a quick breath in to steel himself and give hope that their plan would work. It had to work. Maddie's breath was swiftly let go as Colby likened himself to Indiana Jones. Rolling his eyes as he wondered if Colby recalled how his infamous switch actually went down. With their luck Jafar had a massive magical boulder set down just for this occasion. The thought of it helped to spur a bit of anxiety, only heightened by the knock on the door. He managed to get out a nervous laugh at Colbys joke before Willow pulled him into the closet with her.

It was a good thing too. Had Maddie's fear frozen him any longer they may have well been caught. As Willow found herself a cozy spot in the corner, that left Maddie to be snuggly pressed up against Colby. Instantly his face felt warm, he could feel the fear washing away as it was replaced by the nervousness he felt in the situation. Had his cheeks blushed any hotter it may have well alerted the guards in the same way Rudolph's nose lit the way. Maddie did all he could to remain quiet, keeping his breathing low and slow to avoid detection as his finger wrapped around one of Colbys. He didn't dare move, worried that the slightest sound could alert them of their presence here.

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As the others huddled into the closet a pair of paws started to poke out of some of the clothes that were in the closet and reached out and started to paw at Willow's hair, it was one of those cats that were in the room not to long ago and started to let out a rather loud and annoyed meow. As the cat looked at Willow with a look that it was demanding some food, or attention or maybe both. Though they could hear some footsteps on the second floor no one would be able to hear what the voices were exactly saying as they were muffled by the floor above them.

And then there was what sounded like yelling and arguing now as well to the voices sounded like they were Mad Hatter's and Cheshire Cat's voice, and then a loud crashing sound could be heard, before there was a slamming of the door. The cat then meowed loudly again at Willow and gave her a rather hard bite, though it didnt break the skin. A few seconds later Mad Hatter came down the stairs, and made his way towards the closet. "Sorry about that." He said towards all of them as he took a step back to let them all step out of the closet.

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Sierra didnt like the idea that they were sitting in a cabin that was already lived in, but she was in a lot of pain as well at the moment, as Hansel turned to look at Megan he understood that they were in a place that could have someone coming back at any moment, they could come in and grab supplies for Sierra and leave. "Then we should just take whatever medical supplies there are and then we leave." Hansel suggested, as Sierra leaned herself on a nearby table she wanted to rest a little bit but also she wanted to keep moving as well to as Hook's men were probably after them.

Belle was looking through some of the cabinets for any kind of medical supplies or food for that matter as well to just in case things went bad they could have some food to keep them all fed. When the door opened and a man entered the cabin, as he looked at the group that was there and started to reach for an old rusty sword strapped to his belt. Meg would notice that Excalibur started to glow ever so slightly and it would give off a slight humming like sound as if it recognized it's former owner. "I wasnt expecting any guests here." The man said staring at all of them.

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Some of Robin Hood's men used the tables set up and knocked them over to the side for some makeshift cover to protect them from the oncoming fire as a few more arrows were sent flying. Red turned towards her daughter for a moment telling her that she'll be fine, giving a bit of a hesitated look, Red reached over towards her waist and handed Rose a dagger. "Just in case you need to defend yourself." Red said towards her as she went up and quickly went in and joined the fight.

Layla turned to look at her sister and nodded towards her. "I'm fine." Layla said towards her sister as she looked at Rosalia and nodded towards her. Spotting a knife that was knocked over due to the table getting flipped over she quickly grabbed it and looked towards the nearest attacker. And quickly threw the knife at him as the knife itself flew true and managed to hit the man directly in the chest, she counted about fifteen attackers in all now as Robin hood took down another one as well as Red, leaving only thirteen of them left. Some fires started to happen around other parts of the camp as some of them carried torches to burn the supplies.

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Megan wasn't shocked to see that Jack too was reminded of Cabin in the Woods. She was an insomniac and had spent countless hours watching horror movies at night with her brother, unable to get to sleep. Sure, she wasn't well rested, but being awake during odd hours had always given her a slight edge in school, as she was able to grab extra time to study. And now, working as a medical examiner, odd hours were more or less normal for the job. She didn't work in the middle of the night as she didn't want to be at work at midnight, but showing up a few hours later wasn't an issue if she needed to sleep in once she managed to fall asleep. Megan nodded when Hansel suggested they take supplies and leave. She wasn't opposed to stealing - as long as they got out of here before...

The door opened. Megan's mind instantly created a profile for the person who entered. Male, caucasian, approximately late 50s in age, tall, average build. It was like she was seeing him as a corpse coming into the morgue, rather than a living person. She didn't recognize the man. Her sword began to hum ever so faintly, and her eyes darted towards it, noticing it had begun to glow. It took her a moment before she put it together and Megan's heart began beating furiously fast by a sense of foreboding anxiety. She didn't know why she felt this way - it wasn't logical, she didn't know this man, he didn't know her, there was nothing that tied them together.

"We weren't expecting you either," Megan said, her voice even and steady. "... King Arthur."

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"Stop overthinking your shots. You aim better than that." Rose told Cass. "We both know you beat me 52 percent of the time." That was necessarily true. The two didn't keep that close of tabs of who was better than the other. It would have taken the fun out of it if they did.

When Red offered her the dagger she took it. She hoped she wouldn't need it since one hand was basically useless and the other was keeping pressure. But she held it loosely in the damaged hand, not risking removing pressure. "Fuck em up mom." She said. Her heart started racing though as fires started up.

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Colby nodded and gave a smile to Willow, "Oh just fine. You know. I regularly lock myself in a closet." He whispered back, he had a grin on his face though so it was clear he was making a joke. He listened intently as he heard the arguing part of him ready to fight if needed. His finger wrapped around Maddie's felt warm. If it had just been Maddie and him in the closet he might have gone for a kiss, but since Willow and at least one of the kittens was there he didn't dare.

Finally, the Mad Hatter opened the door. "Everything okay? That sounded rather dramatic." He asked pulling Maddie out with him, fingers still intertwined. "We are done with the closet now?" He asked, though it was almost a statement not a question.

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Cassi relaxed a little when she heard that Rosalia and her sister were okay. She looked back at the fighting, counting thirteen enemies, she noted Layla’s kill shot and was highly impressed. She was also a little weirded out by it. Rose started talking to Cassi, giving her a pep talk and Cassi snorted.
”Only 52 percent?” she joked. She smiled at Rose before shifting and moved away a bit to look around the table. Cassiopeia shifted her weight so she could take aim at the nearest enemy. After they made it through this fight, Cassi was going to have to ask her father how he could shoot people and not be upset about it. Cassi was used to shooting animals but for food. She didn't plan on becoming a cannibal anytime soon.
Cassiopeia strung an arrow and took aim at an assailant’s shoulder. She managed to hit them, hoping the damage would slow them and someone else could make the killing blow for her. Cassiopeia lined up another shot, remembering to breathe before she fired again. Her arrow grazed against the person’s arm before embedding itself into the ground. People moved so much faster than animals. Cassiopeia grabbed another arrow and lined up to shoot the person’s upper leg. Miss. Cassiopeia tried not to let it deter her as she couched back behind the table. Around her fires were starting up and Cassiopeia frowned. Maybe she would be better at putting out fires.

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Willow could hear the smile from Colby in his words, even if she couldn’t see him clearly and she smiled herself, glad that as of right now they were on okay terms. Something wacked Willow and she jumped, hearing a cat meow. Oh great, just what they needed, a cat meowing for food or something. Willow looked up at the ceiling, hearing voices before she looked in the general vicinity of the cat.
”Shh, we can get you some food in a little while,” she whispered, hoping to soothe the cat. Clearly Willow was not a cat person as that did not seem to pacify their feline companion. Upstairs shouting could be heard but the actual words were muffled. Willow didn’t have time to puzzle over it or be worried because the cat bit her. Willow jumped again, mad at the cat but held her tongue. The door opened shortly after and Willow sighed with relief before rubbing her arm.
”Your friend is hungry,” she commented before stepping out of the closet. Once free of the closet, she looked towards the stairs, wondering where her mother was before looking at the Mad Hatter. ”Is everything alright?”

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Yeah, she was not made to be in any sort of direct fight. Honestly, she was probably the least likely to actively try to fight anyone, unless they got right up next to her and she could punch them a time or two. Then typically how that plan worked out was that she'd daze them with a few strikes before taking off running. This all because she typically as she had stated multiple times to several people, she was not much of a fighter, she was a runner and wanted nothing to do with having to fight unless she had absolutely no choice.

Rosalia ducked behind one of the tables that had been knocked over, and she was desperately trying to think of what she could do in this situation. After all, this was not a situation that she was comfortable with, since she'd only be really useful for up close fighting, not ranged. She had nothing to really use to defend herself aside from her fists, and she didn't even trust herself to try to find something to throw, since knowing her she'd likely end up stabbing someone she shouldn't.

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Jack knew that they needed medical help or supplies for Sierra, but being the person that he was, he wasn't too sure if they should result to stealing the supplies. He was a cop, cops tend to stop thieves, or at least he did as one, though wouldn't surprise him if even back home there were a few corrupt ones, he wasn't one of them. So stealing or committing any sort of crimes made him a bit uneasy unless it was absolutely necessary, and since he wasn't exactly a doctor, he didn't know how serious Sierra's injury was.

His attention whirled around as he heard the man walk up and address them, grabbing for his sword or something like that. Meg instantly addressed him as King Arthur, and based on what Excalibur did, he didn't doubt that was who it was. "...Well this is a bit unexpected," he couldn't help but mutter. Right now though, he was wondering what all was likely going through Meg's head, and he sort of wished he could read his sister's thoughts, since he wondered how she felt meeting her father.

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"Yep everything is alright, just some of Jafar's men were coming in and getting their monthly money pretty much." Mad Hatter said as he sighed and looked towards the cat that had bitten Willow and smiled towards it and waved it over as the cat happily trotted over towards him and jumped onto Mad Hatter's shoulder. The cat looked a bit more intelligent than the average cat and stared at Willow giving her a slight glare by the looks of it, for not giving it any food or attention. "Lets head up stairs and we can discuss things more up there." Mad Hatter said as he turned and made his way up the stairs.

Once they were on the top floor where the store floor was there was some vases that were knocked down Aurora was on the floor cleaning it up with a small brush and dust pan to get them all inside. Cheshire was leaning against the counter a bit nursing a slight blackeye as he turned to them and then looked away from Colby for a moment. "Sorry sometimes they tend to get a bit rough whenever we are short on rent and stuff." Cheshire said to them as the cat on Mad Hatter's shoulder quickly went over towards Cheshire and meowed.

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King Arthur immeidately started to relax seeing his daughter for the first time in years and started to make his way over towards her and gave her a hug, and then quickly let go of her. "Sorry about that." Arthur said as he looked at everyone else in the room and noticed the wound that Sierra had, and then gestured towards a nearby cabinet. "There's some medical supplies there you can use." Arthur said towards Hansel and Gretel as they nodded Hansel going over to grab them. Hansel then went over and then started to tend to Sierra's wound to treat it properly.

Arthur's eyes wondered towards Excalibur that was on Megan's hip and then looked towards her for a moment. "Do you mind if I see it again?" Arthur asked Megan hoping to see his sword again after loosing it. Sierra winced slightly as Hansel treated her as she looked over at Jack. "Wasnt really expecting to see King Arthur himself to be here." She said quietly towards him so that Jack could hear as Belle went over and looked towards Jack. "Did you bump into Rumple by any chance?" Belle ended up asking him, she didnt say father to Jack she still hated Rumple with a passion.

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There were some men on horses now with nets and quickly started going into camp and started to throw them at some of Robin Hood's men who werent really fighters and started to drag them off. One of them would also approach Rosalia and would throw a net over her as well and started to drag her off. However she'll see a steak knife on the ground that was knocked onto the floor when the tables were flipped just in arms reach of her. Another one would do the same to Rose and threw a net on her and was quickly being dragged away several feet along side Rosalia.

Layla watched as the two of them were being dragged off and quickly took out one of her throwing knives and threw it, only to miss her intended target. Robin Hood ended up getting shot in the shoulder by an arrow and fired off one as well to, Rapunzel would be seen with a sword fending off some of her attackers, but it looked like she was struggling as she was disarmed easily not being a fighter really. Red was doing pretty well as she took down two men pretty easily and seeing her daughter being dragged off she started to run after her as best as she could trying to keep up.

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Maddie held tighter onto Colbys finger as the yelling started. His eyes darted back and forth between the roof of the cabinet and the floor beneath his feet. He wasn't one to like confrontation and yelling. But he also didn't want to stand idly by as his father was being accosted upstairs. Every part of him wanted his legs to move and help him out, but they remained frozen in fear and indecision. They were told to stay hidden down there, but how would they know if they needed help upstairs otherwise. Or was this cat trying to tell them something?

Maddie wanted to tell the cat to be quiet, keeps its voice down unless it was trying to get them caught, but with the commotion upstairs he somewhat doubted they would hear it. Besides, what's a meowing cat to a guard? Before long the fighting stopped, and there was the sound of footsteps approaching closer. Maddie's free hand made it towards one of his knives, ready to attack a guard if need be. As the doors opened, he let out a massive sigh of relief to see it was his father. He followed behind Colby, glad they kept their fingers intertwined as they walked and followed him upstairs.

When they reached the top the scene was less than hopeful. Willow's mother was cleaning up glass while Chesire was nursing the beginnings of a black eye. Jafar's rule was clearly meant to keep him in power and depower those who may be able to oppose him. It made his stack churn, but as Chesire explained what had happened, something caught Maddie's attention out of the corner of his eye. There was a simple deck of playing cards laying on a table. He made his way over to it and picked them up, inspecting the cards for a moment finding it strange that they'd be in Agrabah. "Playing Cards?"

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Riders suddenly joined the fray of ground fighters. They started throwing nets over people and Cassiopeia’s eyes widened. What the hell was going on here that they suddenly wanted captives? Cassiopeia’s heart kicked into overdrive as she started to become more fearful of what the had all just walked into.
Cassi didn’t notice her father getting shot but she did see the nets falling over Rosalia and Rose, capturing them and being dragged.
”Rose!” Cassiopeia turned and aimed an arrow for the rider. He fell from the horse when she hit him but the horse kept going. Cassiopeia cursed and turned to face the one taking Rosalia. She could aim for the net but that was a rather small target and she would likely hit her companions before breaking the net open.
Cassiopeia fired an arrow but missed the one taking Rosalia, she didn’t give herself time to be angry about it and fired off another arrow. She knocked the rider off but he was still alive as well. The horse continued to run but Cassi saw that as less of a problem. She slipped her bow across her back and started running.

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The Mad Hatter assured the group that this was a routine thing. That didn’t bring Willow a lot of comfort and when they walked upstairs to see the damage done, it certainly didn’t help. Willow walked over to her mother and bent down to see if she needed any help. Willow looked around to try and find a box or something to put the shards in. She didn’t find much beyond another small dustpan in the corner of the room. Willow stood back up and walked over to bring it to her mother.
”Here…mom. I can take that one. Do you just want me to toss it outside?” She didn’t think they had much of a waste disposal service like they did back in the modern world. Willow glanced over at the boys while they talked and saw Matthew wander over to a deck of cards on a table.

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Megan's eyes went wide as King Arthur approached her. Her heart was beating insanely fast, so fast that she was certain it would burst. But then he hugged her - and Megan's body felt like it was screaming. She stiffened up and froze, not making any sort of movement. She didn't like it. She didn't know him. She didn't even hug her brother - she couldn't remember the last time she had hugged anyone. And having basically a stranger hug her... Megan didn't know why she was so violently opposed to it, but she would've rather taken a swig of arsenic. When he released her, Megan gradually relaxed her muscles bit by bit, but she was still tense. She wasn't a touchy feely sort of person.

"The... the sword?" Megan asked. She didn't really need to ask - there wasn't anything else King Arthur would've wanted to see. "You can look at it, but if you want it back, you'll need to win it fair and square." She didn't say it to be mean or anything - but the sword was hers. She wasn't going to give it back to a man even if he was her father without a fair duel first. Megan unsheathed excalibur slowly and held it up in front of herself, not offering the hilt to Arthur, but still allowing him to see the sword.