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Cassiopeia nodded her head from side to side and shrugged at Rosalia’s statement. ”True, accidents do happen.” There were animal attacks every year in the woods back home. Cassi and Layla held classes to make sure people were bear aware and smart when it came to venturing into a wild animal’s backyard. Still, things did happen.
Layla agreed on leaving the horses and the others agreed to taking the men out. Cassiopeia shifted so she could take a few out with her bow. Hopefully. She wasn’t having the best of luck lately in that department.
Cassi went through the familiar motion of notching an arrow, pulling back, lining up her target and then fired. If it had been an animal, it would have been a perfect kill. Quick and easy, leaving the prey limited time to release adrenaline and poison the meat. But it was a human Cassi shot in the neck, not an animal.
The man seemed to drop in slow motion, but Cassi was sure it was faster than that. She slowly lowered her bow, staring at the man she shot. She just killed a man. Cassi had envisioned killing people before, particularly her horrible foster parents from years past. She watched Tarantino movies religiously and he had a beautiful way of killing a bunch of people, but nothing could have prepared her for this. Cassi looked to Robin, wondering what to do now. There were still six enemies running around.

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The look Aurora gave her daughter filled Willow with excitement. It was a look that expressed how much a ruler cared about her home. The way it was described made it sound beautiful and enchanting. Willow hoped to see it one day soon.
They entered a chamber that seemed vast and all encompassing. Creatures crawled along the ground and some on the walls. Willow moved closer to her mother until she felt the comfort of another warm body. She kept an eye on the scorpions while Jasmine lit more torches. It didn’t help matters now that Willow could see better. She looked around the chamber, seeing the old crumbling structures and look of neglect. She frowned a little but pushed forward with the group.
”When do you plan on going back?” Willow continued with her conversation with Aurora from before.

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Maddie eavesdropped on Willow's conversation with her mother. Listening to the description of her Kingdom as they skulked underneath the tunnels of Jasmines. The narrow passage opened up into a larger chamber; it was filled with sand in most places. Large dunes formed around pillars and open spaces while the rest was littered with cobwebs and scorpions. They were warned not to wander off and Maddie had no intention of doing so in the first place. He didn't mind Agrabah, a once bustling city Oasis in a land of magic and myth, but he hated all of the sand.

At first he hadn't minded it too much. But as time went on and he felt his steps in this new chamber, he immediately realized just how tiring it would be. Every step took a little more exertion, some more so than others as the levels of sand shifted throughout the chamber. "So. Smugglers tunnel. Was this before…or after Jafar's takeover? And what exactly did you smuggle through here?" He tried to keep his voice down, worried it might echo across the vast chamber. Maddie swiveled his head in every direction as they walked, taking in the ruins of a bygone Era in Agrabahs history.

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Megan didn't believe her brother when he said that he hadn't thought about it. She was almost certain that he had. If she had to guess, he was fully intending on returning to the ordinary world and just picking back up at work as if nothing had ever happened. Her brother could be a bit of a coward at times, though truly she couldn't blame him. It was a lot to leave one life behind, particularly knowing that in this world, people would see him as the spawn of a monster. Megan was almost a little bit jealous. She would have liked to have a demonic parent - but instead, she had the shining King and Queen of Camelot.

Before she could press her brother further on the matter, the boar Arthur had been tracking showed its tusks. The boar squealed loudly, coming out of the brush, and knocked Megan down onto her back. She sprung back up quickly to her feet, ignoring Arthur's hand, and drew her sword. The boar returned for another charge and Megan swung her sword, wounding it. She swung again, hoping to kill it, but she missed. And before she could finish a third swing, the boar slammed into her, knocking her down to the ground again.

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"This whole thing still seems like a bad idea, but apparently any other suggestion aside from a fight seems like asking for opinions and all is super pointless, since you all tend to swing first and ask questions later," she couldn't help but say, as people instantly were getting ready to go fight everything else. Yup, she was basically useless in this situation since once again, they were doing the stupid thing and getting into a fight which is literally just asking for trouble.

It was a bit annoying that everyone seemed to just be completely okay with doing that whole thing. Actually, it seemed like that no one in this group actually knew a thing about just sneaking around or maybe just monitoring people. Isn't Robin Hood supposed to be some thief or something like that? Actually, the group of fairy tale characters they were with should be really good at sneaking around and making it so your enemies didn't see or notice you. So why the hell did they always want to go the attack everything in sight route?

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Jack wasn't super sure if Arthur knew who his father was or not, but what he said did make him think a bit more about maybe staying in this world. He was a bit torn between the two options, and that was not exactly going to be a super easy solution to figure out in general. So he was being honest about it, he personally didn't really know what to do. However he was taken from his thoughts by being knocked down by the boar that had decided to knock both him and Megan to the ground, well this was going to be a fun encounter.

It wasn't that surprising when Meg pulled out Excalibur and instantly started trying to kill the pig, and he watched for a moment as he got up off the ground. She took a few swings at the thing, managing to injure it a little bit, he instantly was thinking of things he could do. Unfortunately, the simplest solution he had was to throw fire and hope he one, could conjure it up, and two, actually hit the darn thing. Well the good news was that he managed to get a fireball in his hands, not so great news was his first shot missed. On a positive note, the second attempt was much more effective and ended up killing the thing, causing it to drop to the ground.

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Aurora looked over at Willow for a moment and smiled towards her and nodded. "I plan on going back as soon as we are done here." She told her, she knew that Maleficent had made her home there now, and they were going to plan on taking her down as soon as possible. "Well this place is kinda creepy." Tinker said as she looked around the room, seeing the cobwebs and some of the little critters that did call this place home.

Jasmine looked over at Maddie for a moment and smiled slightly. "It's been here for a long time now, even before things happened. Mainly just artefacts that they find, and other magical stuff that we can get out of the city." Jasmine told him as she then headed over towards one of the nearby chambers.

It took her a moment to find it, but found a small lever on the wall and pulled it a wall slowly started to lift up into the ceiling and up another flight of steps. "We are almost out." She told the group as she made her way up, and eventually to another door. Jasmine opened revealing a small house that was just beyond the walls of the city, it looked relatively abandoned for now anyway as Jasmine and the others quickly started to grab some supplies that were hidden under the floorboards of the little house.

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With the boar now dead, Arthur walked up to it's dead body seeing that it was slightly undercooked now he looked over at Jack. "Nice shot there." He said as he quickly made his way towards Megan looking at his daughter with a slightly concerned look as he looked her over, she didnt seem to be severely injured which was a good thing. "Are you okay?" Arthur asked her as he went to help Megan back up to her feet, so far they didnt encounter any of Hook's men which was a good thing then.

"Do you two want to head back or continue forward a bit, it looks like we are clear here for now." He told the two of them as he wondered over to the boar again. "Looks like we have some dinner tonight." Arthor said as he looked at them, whichever they decided he was going to take the boar back to camp that way they could have a big meal before they start the attack later on that evening.

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Layla looked towards her sister and smiled. "Nice shot there." She said, she didn't really care that they had to kill these people, they were close to their camp and if these men stumbled upon in and went to alert more then they most likely would have their cover blown. And their camp could end up being attacked by more of Maleficent's men. There were only two bowmen from the group that was being attacked by them, and their fried off two arrows, but missed easily.

"Lets keep going." Robin Hood said as he fired off another arrow along with Flynn, managing to kill two more of the guards, Layla drew out a throwing knife and quickly got up to her feet, and threw the knife and ended up missing her target as the knife went wide landing harmlessly on the ground. The blade was sticking in the ground now as Layla threw another one, managing to only hit the guy in the leg now as the man howled in pain seeing the knife sticking out of his leg.

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Rose rolled her shoulder and drew her bow. Rosalia was trying to say they not take these guys out. She understood. But there were non-combatants back where they had come from. If these men stumbled upon them, they could cause more damage. The better choice was for those who could fight to take them out. "You don't have to fight, but the options are taking these men out and risk discovery from their absence or risk these men finding the camp and hurting those who can't defend themselves. I know where I land on that choice."

She pulled the bow letting loose an arrow. It missed, but her next two hit home and killed two men. The fourth arrow didn't hit either. But she was okay with that. Two men were dead. But the people she was trying to protect would be that much safer. There were still a few men standing.

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Colby was in awe of the sight before them. The city that had been lost. A chill went through him, though, as he thought about it. So much lost history. He had smiled wryly at Maddie's joke about the skeletons. Suddenly glad Rosalia wasn't with them. He hoped whoever she was annoying was getting through it.

When they entered the house on the surface, he looked around, interested. The place must have been put there by smugglers and intentionally left decrepit. He couldn't imagine someone living there. From here, they could get back to Merlin's tower. They should be far enough away from Agrabah that their magic detecting shouldn't find them here.

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Everyone, aside from Rosalia, agreed on taking out the bad guys before they could do anymore damage. Cassi was still on the fence. She understood the need to protect themselves and their cover but what would have been the issue with knocking the bad guys out and tying them up in order to get some distance?
As Cassi deliberated with her moral compass, her mind flashed to when Rose, trapped in a net being dragged behind a horse and their rider. The fear and rage she had experienced put her in the mindset of needing to do anything to save Rose. Even killing. In that scenario, it was either kill or be taken, killed, or tortured. Cassiopeia wasn’t completely okay with her current conclusion, but it allowed her to reach for another arrow.
Cassi didn’t realize she was shaking until she held the arrow, lost her grip on it and it tumbled to the ground. Cassi stared at the arrow on the ground, frozen for a moment as her mind tried to process and keep up with what was going on around her. She had to keep moving though and she reached for the arrow, even though it felt as if she was moving through molasses. She put it to her bow, took aim and fired. Her arrow soared through the sky and impaled itself into the head of an enemy. Cassi’s eyes glazed over and she looked away, no longer processing the action happening around her, and put her bow away. Subconsciously deciding she was done.

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Of course, Aurora would be going back to her home right away. She had her own people and problems to worry about. Still, Willow wasn’t ready to be separated from her long-lost mother.
”In that case, I would like to return with you.” Willow wanted to see the place she was born, know the people who she would have seen and spoken with daily.
The group finally moved out of the creepy, sand filled tomb to an aboveground home. Willow had to admit that she was impressed with the elaborate escape routes Agrabah had. The house they stood in didn’t look like much, but it was full of surprises. Jasmine and some of the others were pulling out supplies from hidden compartments. Willow watched them but stayed with her mother, eagerly waiting for her reply.

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Megan snorted slightly with amusement, seeing Jack end the boar hunt prematurely with a fireball. "You seem to be quickly gaining a fondness for that - if only I should be so lucky as to be tried as a witch," Megan quipped. Dying at the stake, with the flames conjured by her brother's magic, seemed like a suitable way to go. She had no plans on dying in this fight against the pirates nor against Maleficent. If anything, she hoped she was destroyed by a righteous mob - knowing the rules of this plane of existence, she could survive as a spooky ghostly legend.

"Unfortunately, I still have all of my limbs and have gained no new scars," Megan answered, standing up to her feet. She had always liked the idea of a distinctive scar across the face - particularly ones that went through the eye. She always felt they looked quite dashing. Her mind flickered to a moment to Rose, but she abandoned the train of thought, snuffing it out. Rose hardly knew she existed. "I s'pose we ought to take the carcass back now, ensure that the boar is used in its entirety."

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Maddie tried not to correct Tink when she had called the place creepy. To some extent she certainly wasn't wrong, but if you pushed past some of those elements the place was actually really cool. The idea of an entire city or even section of a city being swept away by the sands as well as the sands of time and hidden remotely beneath the current one, accessed only by the overthrown princess…well, it was like something out of a fairy tale. He sort of chuckled to himself at the analogy, given that all of this was out of a fairy tale.

At the mention of artifacts and magic items, Maddie's hand instinctively made its way towards the lamp. He didn't rub it, though the temptation was there. Not to summon a genie or get granted any wishes, but simply just to feel the texture and metalworking done on it. When they arrived at the end, he watched as a few of them rummaged beneath floorboards and hidden compartments, gather supplies for something. "Speaking of magic items. Where's the carpet? Off with Aladdin or…somewhere in here?"

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"Well I'm sorry considering the fact it's one thing if they noticed us, but don't you think that Maleficent could just use magic to figure out where the guards or whatever last were to determine where we're likely hiding out if they all suddenly don't show up, not my fault I'm surrounded by a bunch of morons who clearly don't try to think two steps ahead of potential freaking problems. One thing if they actually noticed us and attacked us first, but no, go be my guest and actively choose the option that likely will get everyone caught. I have no problem potentially having to fight my way out of a situation. But at least I'm not the idiots likely responsible for getting us caught because apparently no one knows how to use their brains. You all probably would lose horribly in a game of chess. Seriously we're hold up in probably one of the most famous towers in stories, do you honestly think that it might not be on a map if that group suddenly doesn't reappear since we are not super far from it still!"

She was fed up with this, and very much did not like the fact that apparently she was the one who was being made out to be insane. That's just it, as a thief, her mind was wired to think several steps ahead of a problem, and think through the potential consequences of her actions before she acted. It just made sense to think that way, and it wasn't that difficult at all, and personally she wanted nothing more then to not be there, especially because of the group she was with. Either she was basically called crazy or something, or she basically was having it shoved in her face how much the others enjoyed being with their bio parents, and all of them clearly didn't have to deal with no one wanting them or something. Rosalia tended to try and act a bit older then she was, but she was still very much a kid since she never really had a childhood of her own, and because of that she was very guarded about her feelings and what was going through her head. Right now she wanted nothing more then to not be there, to just run off somewhere else.

So she did.

She turned away from the chaos and fighting, and took off away from the area into the woods, mentally trying to paint a picture in her head of where she was going, but at the moment she didn't really care. The group could basically do whatever they wanted, but pretending there was a choice and then acting like she was dumb even though she was the only one that had a full explanation for why she had her reasoning for everything was kind of the last straw at this point for her.

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"Hahaha, very funny. Ironically when we got memories back figured out that I apparently was learning magic for most of my life here... So guess that's a thing," he ended up saying, it really was the first thing he'd really said to her about remembering their lives in this world. Jack hadn't said too much about it to begin with, but he right now couldn't help but laugh a little bit at Megan's disappointment over the fact that she doesn't have any new scars or anything from the fight.

"I mean a scar would be cool, but how would you describe that to people if they asked how you got it? Would you just tell them that you got it from a glorified pig or something like that? That would kind of be amusing to hear how you'd explain that," he added, as it seemed like they were going to head back to where everyone else, which was something he was fine with doing. Though personally wandering around in general to sort of explore might be fun to do, but they did probably need to head back at some point.

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"Well once we finish everything here then we can go back home." Aurora said giving Willow a loving smile as she finished grabbing the supplies that she needed as Tinker watched as everyone was starting to finish getting their own things. Jasmine looked over at Maddie for a moment giving him a slightly sad look as she shook her head slightly. "Their gone, killed by Jaffar." Jasmine answered as she finished with her things.

"Lets get going then." Tinker said as she started to summon up a portal back to Merlin's tower in Camelot, she stepped through first and held the portal open on her end as Mad Hatter, and Cheshire looked at both their sons and quickly went through the portal itself and looked around the tower itself. "Well this place looks cozy." Cheshire said as he walked around the first floor for a moment looking at the various things that Merlin had laying around.

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Arthur looked over at Megan for a moment and gave her a slight smile. "Maybe you'll get some once the real fighting actually starts against Maleficent." Arthur said as he started to slowly drag the boar's carcass back towards their little campsite on the beach, Sierra was sitting down next to her parents as they made a little makeshift map in the sand with their plans. Sierra turned her attention to the others seeing Jack and Megan coming along with Arthur.

"Welcome back you guys." Sierra said as she stood up and eyed the boar that Arthur was carrying. "Looks like you guys did a little bit of hunting to." Sierra said as Arthur nodded and some of the men went to take the boar off of Arthur and Guinevere got up looking at the two of them. "Are you two alright?" She asked as Arthur nodded. "Yep we are fine now." Arthur answered as Belle sat by the fire and looked up at Jack giving him a smile glad that he came back alright.

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Layla threw another knife managing to hit the guy square in the chest, and Robin Hood managing to take the finishing blow shooting him in the head. And Flynn managing to take out the remaining soldier down with an arrow to the head, he looked over his shoulder just in time to see his daughter Rosalia storming off. "Go ahead i'll catch up." Flynn said as he handed the map and stuff to him and quickly started going after Rosalia into the woods, he didn't want her to wonder off alone in these woods either.

Robin Hood looked between his daughters and Red's daughter. "Lets get the supplies and keep moving." Robin Hood said as Layla nodded making her way into the campsite and looked around finding a few things of food, some fresh water along with some other gear. Layla found some arrows and tossed them over to Rose and Cassi for them to use as well to. "Here you guys go." Layla said as she thought about Rosalia as she had stormed off into the woods.

As Rosalia wondered off into the woods the grass was rather thick up to her knees as she continued to go through she would suddenly trigger a trap as her foot was caught on some rope. and hoisted up about five feet into the air dangling upside down in the air. She could hear some barking in the distance as a dog came out and stared up at Rosalia and barked at her.

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The fight was over. Rosalia had run off. Rose wasn't surprised. She wanted to empathize with the girl, but Rosalia made it difficult. She took the arrows from Layla. "Thank you."

Their escape route back to the tower was clear. And now they didn't have to worry about having Malificent's men at their backs. Or the possibility of them coming across the tower and those holed up there. Rosalia had a point in that there were several other ways they could be discovered, but Rose felt better about clearing out the enemies behind them soon.

"Should we wait for them? Get this place cleared and covered. Maybe make it look like the guys moved on from here to somewhere else." She considered putting the bodies on the backs of the horses with their things and riding one of the horses in a direction away from the castle and the tower.

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Colby raised an eyebrow at Maddie's question. He shook his head. Then looked at Tink when she said it was time to get going. She opened a portal, and Colby sighed, a little relieved to see a place without desert on the other side. The blessedly familiar tower of Merlin's.

He stepped through the portal. On the other side, he went looking for the cats. They had been left here for their safety. Considering Silky was basically a pure magical being, that was a good thing. He did not want to think what the guards of Agrabah would have done to her.

"Jackson Galaxy, Silky" He said pleasantly.

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Cassiopeia was barely aware of Rosalia’s outburst. She simply stared into the distance until Flynn ran off and Robin gave instructions to gather supplies. Cassi moved mechanically as she looked for items but didn’t really see anything. Her sister passed off arrows and Cassi replenished her supply, following actions that seemed correct but didn’t really register with her.
Cassi wandered away from the group but remained in the clearing. Her feet took her over to the first man she had shot down. She stared down at him. His skin had started to pale, and he remained unmovable. Cassi visually saw what her brain was desperately trying to comprehend but nothing made sense.

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The news of Aladdin’s passing was bitter-sweet. Aurora had extended an invitation to Willow to return home with her once their task was complete. She was thrilled from the opportunity, but the news reminded her that life was very much sort.
Willow didn’t hesitate to walk through the portal into Merlin’s tower. It was like they were home free now. She sighed and found a chair to sit in and relax. What came nex,t she wasn’t sure, but she just wanted to sit in silent bliss for a moment.

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Maddie had never been a vengeful person. Always opting for the 'higher road' even when he was the subject of bullying. But upon hearing the news of Aladdin and Carpets passing at Jafars hands…there was a weird emptiness inside. A cross between sorrow, pity, and abhoration. He didn't want to kill Jafar, but he hoped once all of this was over that he would get the punishment he deserved. Jasmine deserved at least that. He didn't know what to say, it felt cheap to say he was sorry or even to express his condolences, but cold to stay quiet. "I'm…sorry to hear that."

Tinks voice pulled his attention, but he couldn't shake the feeling he was having. He simply nodded towards her, agreeing. Maddie made his way through the portal last, looking back through it towards Jasmine. "Thank you for your hospitality. We'll make sure to stop her soon." He then walked over towards Colby, kneeling down next to Colby and the cats and simply placing his head on Colbys shoulder. Maddie tapped his leg to call over his own cat, petting it as he thought about what'd just happened.

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Megan was intrigued to learn this detail from her brother. Her eyes darted over at him, wondering for a moment how much of her brother was left - and how much had been replaced by the person he had been here. She felt much the same as when she had entered this world, albeit with the caveat that she now accepted her status as the heir of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere. But the moment passed, as her brother then tried to tease her about receiving a scar from a pig. "A boar, brother dear," Megan said. "And should anyone find it so amusing, perhaps I could arrange for them to have an up close encounter with a boar. They don't have the reputation of, say, a lion - but that's not their fault."

Had she not had her memories restored, Megan might have been surprised at Arthur's ease with her more sour demeanor - but she had always been like this, even back in Camelot. She nodded at his comment about how she might get a scar while fighting Maleficent - a girl could dream.

They returned to camp, and it looked like not much had happened since they had left. Megan noticed for a moment how the firelight caught in Sierra's hair, but she didn't say anything. "Unfortunately, hardly a scratch," Megan said to Sierra.

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She was perfectly fine walking away from everyone else in general, since they were driving her nuts. Plus she thought that they were all a bunch of idiots and she was better off without them. Besides, doubt anyone would actually care that she wandered off, so what was the harm in it? At the moment she was just sort of wandering into the woods deeper and farther away from everyone else. This was going to be a fun little walk in general, for her at least. Then again, Rosalia was just sort of glad to be alone for once since they got there,

Of course that didn't last for long, as because she wasn't currently paying too much attention, she ended up triggering a trap that resulted in her dangling from her foot up in the air. Well this was stupid, but she instantly pulled herself up, allowing her to reach the rope that was wrapped around her foot. After a moment, she managed to get herself free and drop down onto the ground, managing to land without hurting herself. "Well that was dumb, honestly if someone is going to make a trap, maybe try to make it last longer and not super easy to get out of," she muttered to herself, before she started walking along again.

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"Aren't boars literally also called "wild pigs" or something like that? A bit weird or whatever... So the term pig actually is rather fitting for them don't you think?" Jack asked Megan, shaking his head ever so slightly at her seemingly need for a correction. "Pig and boar tend to be interchangeable by people in the same way as square and rectangle are based on their definitions, all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares. So for instance all boars in this case could be considered pigs, but not all pigs are boars, or something like that it's really weird. And why are we seemingly arguing and correcting each other about wild animals. Seems kind of dumb to me at this point."

Things looked a bit boring back at the camp, and a bit strange to him at the moment, since nothing seemed to be going on there at the moment. Of course nothing happening was technically better then all hell and chaos breaking loose, so he supposed that was a good thing. Jack was silent just looking at everything now and wondering what the hell they were supposed to do now, since they had to wait a while still until they could potentially go try and accomplish their plan, which he still wasn't even fully sure of.

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"So what now?" Mad Hatter asked as he looked over at Tinker who had been the one to work with Merlin the most as she stepped through the portal last, once everyone was through she quickly closed the portal behind her. "I'll go and contact Merlin and see what goes on from here." She said as she headed off to get somethings ready for the magical call as it here. Jasmine looked over at Maddie and gave him a slight smile as she sat down setting the lamp down on the table. "Thank you, once everything is finished you all are welcome to stay in Agraba if you'd like anytime to." She offered, as she sat down watching Tinker doing her thing for a little bit.

Once Tinker had gotten her things she started chanting a small spell as a small little portal of sorts appeared in front of them, Merlin was in some tower that looked slightly similar to Merlin's own tower, there were a few people in the room that he was tending to with Rapunzel in the background as well to. "We got what you needed from Agraba, where do you want us now?" Tinker Bell asked him as Merlin got up looking at them and smiled. "Good, i'll open up a portal to our location here and you can come on over, the others are off scouting out Maleficent's castle right now." Merlin said, as he ended the call of sorts, a few seconds later a new portal suddenly appeared in the room for them all to go through.

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Tic Tok the Crocodile quickly perked up seeing the boar and made a hissing sound and licked it's lips wanting a piece of it as some of the men started to get it set up on a makeshift spit for it. They quickly started to clean and skin the animal as well to. Once it was done they set it over the fire it'd just take a little bit of time for the boar to be cooked. Sierra ran a hand through her hair and smiled towards Megan and Jack as the two of them argued over the term for the boar, they were pretty much from the same family that much she did know.

"At least you didn't get hurt to much by the boar. So anyway we were going over the plan, and decided on what to do, we brought our own explosives, and we have one team rig some of them to explode their own supply of explosives or whatever. Then another team will go and weaken the other docks some more as well. And then another team to set the remaining explosives off on the dry docks." Sierra said looking at Jack and Megan to see if they agreed with the plan as Arthur thought it over and looked at the others. "What do you all think?" He asked.

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"We'll wait for a little bit for them to come back if they aren't back in an hour then we move out." Robin Hood said as Layla nodded slightly as she looked over at her sister as she walked over towards one of the bodies. She found a nearby blanket and grabbed it quickly covering the body up with it. "You okay Cassi?" Layla asked looking at her twin as she pulled her into a tight hug and looked at her with a slightly worried look in her eyes. Robin Hood went to start covering up the bodies pushing some of them into some nearby brush that would cover the bodies. "Unhitch the horses and get them out of here." He told Rose.

As Rosalia got out of the makeshift trap the barking suddenly became much louder as a hunting dog came out of the bushes and started to snarl, growl and bark at her. An arrow suddenly flew past her nearly missing her as it passed through her hair and into a nearby tree, she'd see some men in the distance and they were starting to close in on her, Rosalia could hear what sounded like a flowing river nearby that she could potentially get to the voices getting louder now to as they got closer.

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Layla broke Cassiopeia out of her dark thoughts once she was hugged. Even with the shroud over the dead man, Cassiopeia could still see him, but Layla’s touch was a comfort. Cassi was slow to move at first but after her arms were around her twin, she held on tightly and buried her head into her sister’s neck. Tears pricked her eyes but she fought back against sobbing.
”I don’t know if I can so this, Lala. Killing people… It’s so different from animals.”
The first time Cassi had ever killed an animal, she spent days crying. It had oddly fascinated her that the animal moved and was warm before gradually becoming stiff and then cold. Then she had to cut into the animal. That had pushed her over the edge, knowing for sure that the deer would not magically come back to life. Her foster parents had been kind with her though, taking her home and spoke to Layla and her about hunting and the reasons for it. It comforted her in a strange way and helped her develop a deeper appreciation for the circle of life.
This however, didn’t feel the same.

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Willow got herself something to drink before she sat. She fiddled with her clothes, finding the need to do something with her hands. Once the portal was opened, Willow tried to peer beyond to see anyone she knew but the others weren’t at Merlin’s tower. Willow sighed and sipped her water.
She really wanted to know how the others were getting on. What sort of challenges they were coming across and if they would get to see each other anytime soon.

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Rose looked over at Cassi. She knew that Layla was comforting her. But still wanted to be by her side. She quickly obeyed Robin Hood, then came over to her girlfriend's side. She leaned in.

Rose could understand Cassi's feelings, but she didn't quite agree. They had done what they needed to. These people were a threat and needed to be taken out of the equation. So she didn't say anything. She just was there for Cassi.

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Colby pet the cats. He bumped slightly into Maddie. "You sure know how to make things awkward." He said, giving Maddie his goofy lopsided smile.

There was a new portal now. Another place for them to go. He hated to leave the cats again, but he couldn't, in good consciousness, bring them into dangerous territory. It had been good they had left them here, to begin with. Silky should be safe with him. Now that they weren't in the land that banned magic. He tapped his shoulder for her.

"Guess we head to the next place then." He said. Holding his hand out for Maddie to take before crossing the portal to the next tower.

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Maddie smiled back towards Colby. A soft chuckle followed close behind as he looked towards the ground. He spoke softly, almost a whisper, as he pet one of the cats before him. "That - is - my - specialty." each word spoken with a deliberate pause in between as he avoided eye contact with Colby. He knew he hadn't meant anything by it, but Colby was right, Maddie had always had a way to make situations more awkward than they needed to be. Another portal opened up, and he let out a small sigh.

It would seem they'd hardly get a break. From the sounds of it the others were hard at work as well. Scouring Maleficent's castle couldn't be easy, nor safe for that matter. He saw Colbys hand held before him, taking it as he stood up and followed behind him through the portal. His expression seemingly changing as they crossed through, attempting to put on a brave face laced with self confidence to take on whatever they had in store next head on.