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Jasmine took a moment to step forward looking over at the kids as they asked their questions. "The Genie is good, he was freed before Jafar shoved him back in there, so he'll help us with no strings attached." She answered him as she went and sat back down she looked over at the door as Rapunzel came back into the room getting herself cleaned up, she then turned to look over at Merlin to answer the other questions as Merlin spoke up. "We'll decide who will summon the genie and they would be the one to ask for the wishes once everyone returns here safely. As for what the wishes to be, something that would help us get an edge over Maleficent's people and the fight against her as well to." Merlin told them.

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"Good luck." Sierra said looking over towards Jack, she didn't really know Jack all that well but she had a feeling that he'll come out of it just fine, as she made her way down following alongside King Arthur himself. She looked over at Megan since her brother didn't answer the question. "Are you nervous?" Sierra decided to ask her, as Arthur made it closer to the docks and hid behind some bushes along with Sierra. There was a small patrol on the docks right now, but it looked like they were heading towards one of the many campfires that were all along the shore where Hooks men were drinking and by the sounds of it having fun. "Good they are distracted then." Arthur said looking at the two girls. "Stay close." Arthur said as he stuck to the dark and made his way onto one of the docks, seeing that they were in really bad shape it wouldn't really take much to destroy them for good or weaken them even further.

Belle looked at Jack giving him a smile. "Are you alright?" Belle asked Jack as she followed behind Eric, from their part of the docks it looked like there wasnt anyone on there at all which was good then. Eric then started to take out a roll of string that would be the fuse for the barrels Eric turned his attention towards Jack. "I'm going to set the fuse, Jack once it's set up use the magic that you have to set the fuse off, you and Belle keep watch while I set it up first." Eric told him as he started to make his way towards the barrels to get it started as some guards now were spotted on the other end making their way slowly towards them, but they hadn't noticed the group just yet.

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Flynn waited for a moment until he caught movement coming from the cave and sighed seeing that it was his daughter coming out of it, he noticed the arrow sticking out of her shoulder as she explained what had happened. "The woods are full of dangerous people and creatures, other than Maleficent's men." Flynn said as he pulled some stuff out of his pack, luckily he had some stuff and looked at her along with a bottle of alcohol. "If you'll let me I can see about removing that." Flynn offered, knowing that leaving the arrow in for to long would be a bad thing as well he gestured towards a nearby rock for her to take a seat.

Over where Layla and the others were Robin Hood looked over at his daughter asking about Flynn and Rosalia, he then pulled out a map of what the castle looked like and where it was. "Flynn gave me the map, he'll more than likely meet up with us there he knows the woods just as well as I do." Robin Hood told Cassi, Layla looked between Rose and her sister and made a slightly gagging motion towards the two of them teasingly. "Stop being so cute." Layla said to the two of them as she nudged her sister, Robin Hood then paused as he could hear some horses coming through and quickly motioned for them all to get down. Layla did the same as she watched a group of men going down the main road, there were quiet a few of them as they started to slow down somewhat now.

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She had sort of been expecting to get yelled at for some reason or another over the whole, she got herself shot at and injured thing. It was a bit of relief for the to not have happened in the long run, since that likely would not end up in a good situation in general. He said something about there being other people in the woods other then those who worked for Maleficent, but she didn't really say anything else in general about it or anything.

"...Fine..." she ended up saying to him, before she moved over and sat down, not saying anything else, since at this point she had no idea what to even actually say at this point. What exactly was she supposed to say, or whatever, since at this point the others in the group probably had gone off somewhere else, and they were basically in the middle of the woods doing nothing. This was not exactly a fun situation over all for her, and she didn't say anything.

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Well this was going to be fun, since he wasn't entirely sure what to expect at this point for anything. They had to deal with the whole situation of setting off explosives or something like that and hope that things didn't end up going haywire in general for them. That was what he was still expecting to have happen, since things haven't gone this wrong for very long time still, so it was practically a ticking time bomb in his mind. His attention turned towards Belle when she asked if he was okay and he shrugged slightly, "Yeah, I'm fine." he ended up saying to her.

Jack looked at Eric when he then explained the plan after they got into the area that they were going to be working in, and the idea that part of this plan involved him setting something on fire that would then cause an explosion was a bit concerning to him. Since there were so many things that could go wrong in his mind with this. "Sure, sounds fine with me," was all he said, before keeping an eye out for anyone potentially going to cause issues for them, keeping an eye on the guards that had come into view heading their way eventually.

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Sierra asked Megan if she was nervous, and Megan shook her head. "Excited, really. Swinging a sword at someone in practice is one thing - this is something different," she answered. It was true. Rather than feeling frightened, instead Megan's adrenaline was beginning to spike ever so slowly. She could feel her heart quicken, her blood pumping a little faster, and her fingers itched to hold excalibur. Megan moved with Arthur and Sierra, hiding with them in the bushes near the docks. She noticed along with them that there was a patrol going along the docks, but that they seemed to be departing - and she could hear the sound of the drunken pirates.

Arthur crept forward, using the darkness to cover him. Megan had no real difficulty in doing exactly the same, making her way quickly and quietly onto the docks. The docks were really horrible - just completely terrible. Megan wouldn't have been surprised if just bouncing up and down would be enough to ruin them. Did they even really need to try and do so? Maybe the pirates would destroy it all by themselves soon enough... At any rate, she was ready to put the plan into action.

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Robin seemed confident that Flynn would find his daughter. Cassiopeia didn’t really know the man, but she trusted her father, as strange as that was. She didn’t really know him either, but she was instantly comfortable around him and felt safe with him. If he said Flynn and Rosalia would be fine, she knew they would be fine.
They kept walking, Layla teasing her and Rose, which made Cassi laugh and nudge her sister back. She was about to speak when Robin urged them to take cover. She quickly ducked down with Rose, hood over her head as she watched the men on horses approach. They slowed as they passed their group, and Cassiopeia silently cursed. Her heart was pounding in her ears. She didn’t want to go into another fight so soon. She was still trying to get over killing people from earlier.

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Willow glanced at Matthew when he commented on her words regarding the genie. She nodded her head from side to side in agreement. Although, what other word was there for it? Jasmine’s words about the genie reassured Willow; however, Merlin wasn’t very helpful. Willow crossed her leg over the other and rested her arm on her knee and chin in her hand.
”Guess we should brainstorm on something to ask then,” Willow said. They had to figure out something to beat Maleficent. ”Maybe a way to use her weaknesses against her?”

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Jasmine began to answer his questions. The way she spoke, Maddie hoped she didn't take any offense to what he was asking. But in times like these they had to be sure about everything before doing something exceedingly risky. Merlin didn't shed any further light on the subject however. His answer towards Willow being vague and slightly concerning. Mads paced a small length of floor for a bit, trying to shake off his nerves as he thought about what to do next. For the first time he didn't like all this waiting around. Normally he wouldn't mind it, more time with Colby was always welcomed, but after their last moments together alone…he tried shaking the thoughts out.

"Right, so the Genie's good. That's helpful. But if he was freed before, why not free him again? Can he still grant wishes after he's been freed? I mean surely having a genie that isn't bound by the three wishes, free to use his magic to fight Maleficent would be a good thing right? Or is this one of those trade offs? He has these powers because he's confined and if we free him he's just a regular guy? Or perhaps a wizard of some kind?" Maddie rambled on before finally taking a seat next to Willow and placing his head on the table. The sensation of cold wood pressed against his chin helping to distract him from all his thoughts. "Whatever the case, we should free him once more after we've made our wishes."

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Rose nodded at Robin Hood's explanation. It was his mission. So if he trusted that Flynn would catch up then so be it. She smiled at Layla and stuck out her tongue, "No, never." She almost said 'that'll be the day I die' and decided that was a bit too dangerous to say in their current situation. She didn't want to risk the good old demon Murphy coming down on them.

When Robin Hood waved for them to hide she took cover near Cassi. This was bad. She hoped these men weren't expecting to run into the ones they had just taken out. She held her breath, not wanting to risk being heard. If they kept going they should be fine. But if these men looked for the ones they had killed they'd have to fight them. For all the same reasons they had the first fight.

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A sense of relief went through Colby at Jasmin's comment. The Genie was good and had been freed. They could do it again. He was less concerned about the wording now. But knowing what they wanted to ask before they asked would be good. That way whoever did the asking was less likely to mess it up.

"Since, he'll help willingly, the ask can be on the more vague side. We could ask something like 'the forces needed to assault the castle' and I don't know 'a grenade that can kill her while hurting no one else.' Colby gave a bit of a shrug with the second one. He wasn't certain what they could ask for. The Genie might even have some ideas himself.

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"It's best to keep him in there for now until everyone is back and we can get the wishes that we need, he tends to grant wishes just by speaking them, that would be the only downside really and we need all the wishes that we need." Jasmine told them, she didn't want them to
inadvertently make to many wishes that they won't have anything that they could use against Maleficent. For the most part everything was pretty quiet outside and they didn't have any immediate threats either outside. Rapunzel could hear some groaning coming from the other room, and sighed as she got up and headed that way grabbing some medical supplies.

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"Good then that you are excited then." Sierra said giving her a little bit of a smile as she continued to follow alongside Arthur towards the docks, seeing that they were in horrible condition was a good thing then. She started to further weaken the docks. But she paused for a moment when she noticed the large barrel of chum that was at the end of the docks, and made her way over towards it proceeding to kick it off and into the water. There must have been some sharks that were in the water, as she could see barely in the darkness some shark fins breaching the water and started to go into a feeding frenzy then they could hear a scream coming from the distance.

Megan could hear some crying, it was coming from one of the nearby ships she would catch a glimpse of some cages on the closest one, much like what it was from earlier in the day. Maybe there were more prisoners on the ships, whether she decided to check it out it was up to her. Over where Jack was things were starting to get interesting as the pirates noticed both Belle and Jack who were at the docks and slowly drew out their swords. "Hey! What are you doing here?" One of them suddenly asked, as Belle held up her hands when the pirate was suddenly grabbed by her and ending up knocking him into the water. Then a shark suddenly came up a loud scream could be heard as the shark quickly took a chomp out of the poor soul.

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Layla knelt down as she watched the men as they got off of their horses, some of them went to the opposite direction, it looked like they were taking a little bit of a break or something like that. "C'mon hurry it up you all Maleficent is having a number of guests coming in the next day or so." The leader of the group had told them, as Layla listened intently one of the guards turned towards their direction, but one of the guards gets his attention and sighs before heading back and mounted back up and the guards started to continue along the way to their destination. Once they were out of earshot and sight Robin Hood then stood up looking at them all again and motioned for them to continue forward.

"This is going to hurt like a bitch for a bit." Flynn gave Rosalia a warning as he then took one end of the arrow and broke it where the fletching was and quickly pulled it out. Flynn then quickly poured some of the alcohol with him onto the wound, to disinfect it, and then went to a suture kit as well, and started to sew the wound up as quickly as possible. It wasn't going to be pretty and probably scar but she'll live, once he finished sewing up the wound Flynn quickly wrapped it up. "Better?" He asked Rosalia as he handed her the alcohol to her.

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It appeared the genie had some lack of control with his own powers. That is if granting wishes happened just by speaking them and not out of his intention. With that new bit of information Maddie decides it was probably best that they did keep him within the confines of the lamp. Although a part of him wondered if perhaps those negatives were merely a drawback of the lamp itself, or was it truly something to do with the genie. Maddie let out a soft groan as he turned his head on the table, looking towards Colby in the room.

Save for the few disgruntled men injured in the next rooms over, it was fairly peaceful within Rapunzel's tower. For the first time in a while it felt as though they could relax. His muscles, or what little he had of them, ached from the days running, trudging through sand, and all the adventures they'd been having. Hells even the last time they had a chance to rest it was interrupted by a murder of crows bashing into the room through a window. This. This was a nice change of pace. "May as well as for an anti-maleficent sniper and Jafar encapsulating gem." Maddie said, giggling at the idea of wishing for a grenade.

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Cassi remained motionless, breathing lightly while the guards made their way through the area. When the guard stopped to look in their direction, Cassi had an Obi-Wan Kenobi moment and thought fervently of his words: these are not the droids you are looking for. Once they left and Robin stood, Cassi sighed and straightened up.
”A number of guests, hmm? Well, that could prove to be problematic.” Cassi looked at Robin for insight and followed behind him.

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Colby and Matthew’s ideas for wishes to ask were creative, to say the least. Willow looked at Matthew and rubbed his back a little before pulling her hand back. For some reason, she felt he needed the comforting touch, even though it was brief.
Willow sighed and intertwined her fingers. ”Hurry up and wait,” she paraphrased. They could brainstorm all the ideas, but until the others returned, there wasn’t much they could do. ”Colby, your ideas aren’t bad. I’m not sure how a killing option will work. Maybe something that would bind her for the rest of her days plus one or something would be better,” Willow suggested.

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Rose kept still. When the men finally left, she let out a small puff of air. Guests, over the next day or so. That could mean any number of people arriving between now and who knew when. They didn't know how many or why. And the why seemed like a suddenly really important reason.

"I suppose we can make some guesses as to who. But I want to know what they are planning. And obviously, thwart them." She was in a thwart the villain kind of mood. But that was probably the storybook world talking. An image of curling up near a fireplace and reading a book next to Cassi filled her mind. To get there, there was work to do.

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Colby pressed his leg against Maddie's. The touch was a comfort. "Lock her in her own tower? I'd be worried someone like Rumple would show up and free her. But I suppose if we impose some super rules on it, that'd be fine. Do we throw Rumple, Jafar, and Maleficent all into the same jar?"

Colby was getting a little antsy. He hadn't had time to sit still for days. But now that he was, part of his brain sent signals that everything was going to very wrong soon. That or he'd fall asleep. Then his stomach growled.

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For the relative silence that they needed to operate under, it served to make the shrieks of pain that much more piercing. Megan was disappointed she couldn't take the time to enjoy it properly. It was a symphony to her ears, the final performance of a beloved and magnificent opera, about to leave the stage forevermore. Sierra and Megan's father were both sabotaging the docks, whereas Megan heard another noice pierce the tenuous silence - crying. She turned her head, following the source of the sound, and she spotted cages on one of the nearby ships.

Megan didn't say a word to Sierra or Arthur, as she diverted her course, nimbly making her way onto the ship. There, she found more prisoners that she assumed to be merpeople - or merpeople enthusiasts, as they were wearing Atlantean clothing, shells and whatnot. Luckily, they had feet at the moment instead of finds. Chains and ropes kept them bound, and Megan paused for a moment, examining them all. "Don't move," she cautioned, before using excalibur to release them, hacking away their bindings like they were nothing.

"Now go, and quickly," she said, quickly scanning the ship for anything else interesting. The gold might've interested some, but it was dull to her.

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Rosalia wasn't too sure about this, especially since it was likely going to be incredibly painful, and she was definitely wanting there to be some sort of actual pain killers or something. That was something she noticed, this world didn't seem to have anything like Tylenol or something that would have been incredibly helpful in situations like this. This world may seemingly have magic, but apparently had limited access to pain killers or anesthetic aside from alcohol or apparently potentially getting knocked out by getting hit in the head with a rock or something.

"I already know it's going to hurt no need to point out the obvious," she commented. Rosalia had to bite back the urge to let out a scream or something when he went about getting the arrow out and doing a rough stitch up job afterwards. "Sure, we'll go with better probably," she ended up saying, though she more of looked at the alcohol that he handed her without drinking it or anything like that.

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Well he wasn't all that surprised that they got found out by the pirates, but he couldn't help but laugh a little bit when Belle tossed one of them into the ocean, and the guy immediately had to deal with a shark attack. Jack glanced at the commotion, before looking back briefly at where Eric and the explosives were. The best thing he could think of to do would be to throw a fireball at the pirates, but he had to ensure that it was in a specific way that a stray spark likely won't hit the explosives and blow them all up. That was going to be a fun little challenge.

He moved slightly to ensure that the explosives and everything was directly behind him, before he started throwing fireballs. His first attempt missed, but at least it didn't cause them to blow up at the least, but then came the other throw. It managed to hit the guy in the middle of the group head on, lighting him on fire, and somehow it managed to spread to eight of them in total, which was not something he had expected to see happen. "...Well that was a bit unexpected, but okay I'm fine with it."

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Merlin looked at the group seeing that they were probably either hungry or tired, there was still sometime before the others would be able to come back from their missions. "Theres some food for all of you if you'd like, or if you want to rest there are some rooms in the upper tower for you all to rest in if you'd like as well to." Merlin offered the group, they had a few men standing watch outside of the tower, so that way they could alert the others in case anyone else decided to come and attack they would be ready.

"I'm going to see if there is a bath and take one if you all need me." Jasmine said as she headed towards where Rapunzel had gone to and see if there was one somewhere in the tower. "We'll be outside to and keep watch if you need us." Mad Hatter said as he took Cheshire out the front door to keep watch for now as well to.

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"Thank you." One of them said towards Megan when she released all of them and the group of merpeople quickly jumped off of the pirate ship and started to swim off to safety. There was a lot of chests that contained gold, whether Megan wanted to take some was totally up to her if she choose to do so. Sierra and Arthur managed to do what they could as Arthur then started to look around for Megan a little bit worried now. "We finished what we needed to do, we need to head back." Arthur called out as Sierra nodded, and started to quietly try and make her way back towards the shore Megan could hear some more screams and she would be able to see where she was at a little fire appearing in the direction where Jack and the others were.

Eric looked over his shoulder seeing that Jack managed to set the group of pirates on fire, the only one that survived quickly panicked and quickly fled to gather more reinforcements. Eric managed to finish setting up the fuse and made his way over towards Jack knowing that he could use the fire to start it. "The fuse is set just light it on fire and we can get the hell out of here quickly." Eric told him.

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Layla sighed slightly as the men had left hearing that Maleficent was going to be having some guests didn't sound that good to her, but it was probably some information that they could use to relay back to the others. "If I had to guess it's probably the other villains that she's been working with." Layla suggested as she continued to follow alongside her father, it took them a little bit but they ended up making it to the location. Layla stared up at the massive looking castle, she looked at her father, they probably might have to wait or continue ahead without them. "Whats your call dad?" Layla asked her father, he turned to look at them. "We wait a little bit until then we stay hidden if they aren't here soon then we continue forward." He told them.

"Are you able to continue forward or do you want to head back?" Flynn asked looking over at Rosalia, being in the woods was a little bit to risky, he started to put some of his supplies away, when he heard a twig snap and Rosalia would feel the a slight poke to the back of her head, it was one of Maleficent's soldiers holding a crossbow to her head. A few more seconds later more soldiers appeared and they were surrounded. "Hands up and where I can see them." He told him as Flynn started to do what he was ordered looking at Rosalia hoping that she would comply.

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Maddie was a bit surprised by Willow's touch. He hadn't expected it, though it wasn't exactly unwelcome either. It was nice, reassuring even, a way to ground him and remind him that this was all real and that he wouldn't just be waking up back at his apartment or worse, the orphanage. He let out a relaxed sigh at the brief interaction before Willow had begun to speak again. Hurry up and wait if that wasn't an understatement. He wasn't sure how well a passive wish would work for them, binding Maleficent and her goons was all well and good but chances were if they were capable of doing what they've done so far, then they might be capable of breaking that wish. As much as he hated to admit it, a more permanent solution might be the best idea.

Maddie felt as Colby's leg pressed against his. Butterflies swarming inside of him once more. This still felt like a dream. His boyfriend, Colby, right here with him. Never in a million years did Maddie think he'd actually be dating him, his best friend and crush. "Not sure putting them all in one place is a good idea. Too many brains helping each other figure a way out. Especially with that Rumple. All he does is find ways to weasel words into his favor." Maddie could feel Colbys angstyness. He understood, he had it too. Too many things were going well and now there was downtime, that usually meant catastrophe was around the corner. Mads placed his hand on Colbys thigh, giving it a gentle squeeze before rubbing it up and down. "Hey, why don't we go get some food. Doubt we'll get another chance in the moments to come."

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Megan wasn't interested in taking any of the gold - maybe if it had been cursed, she would take some out of curiosity, but money had never particularly interested her beyond as a means to survival. She had what she needed, and she didn't need this. Besides, lifting all the gold would bring unneeded attention to them during their efforts to sabotage Hook's men. So instead of looting the pirates, Megan quietly left the ship, making her way stealthily and quietly back down to the dock.

She heard more screams sounding off, and as she turned her head, she could see the bright red flames in the general direction her brother had gone. She assumed that had to be him and his magic. She just hoped he had it under control - or at least, aimed in the right direction. Megan then turned her attention back to what she needed to do, trusting that her brother would be fine, as she rejoined Sierra and her father and began to make their way away. She didn't offer a word to them as to what she had been doing, mostly as talking was not ideal for being stealthy.

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The idea of multiple villains in one location was unnerving. Most of them had a magical power of some kind. Cassi didn’t have a magical ability, which didn’t exactly comfort her. She trudged along with the group until they reached the castle. Cassi looked up at it and rested her hands on her hips. When her father said they would wait a bit, Cassi looked around until she found a comfortable place to sit.
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Willow agreed with Matthew. Putting all the villains in one room was a bad idea. It would make for a good movie. Willow stretched out a little and rubbed the back of her neck as she tried to think of another idea. Merlin spoke up, suggesting food or rest.
”Well, I think I’ll head upstairs and try for some sleep,” she decided. Willow squeezed her mother’s shoulder as she passed before she headed up the tower stairs to find a room to rest in.

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Rose couldn't help but be impressed by the castle in front of them. On Earth, castles didn't look like this. They had been cramped things. Then modernization changed the building material and you got ones like Windsor. "Are castles like this built with magic?" She asked as she sat down next to Cassi.

Rose had seen pictures of the castles that existed in the medieval era and they really weren't all that grand. The building of them had been a technological marvel. Most of the time castles were multiple buildings and a battlement wall. She leaned slightly into Cassi, relishing in the warmth of her girlfriend's body next to hers.

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"Yeah, let's get something to eat." Colby said agreeing with Maddie. It felt almost useless to be brainstorming ideas without everyone there, but he knew that once everyone did get there he'd hate it all again. With just them, he felt comfortable.

"Sleep well, Willow. Want us to save you any food?" She might want a sandwich or something when she woke up. Then he stood up to look for food. Colby offered his hand for Maddie to take it. Then headed upstairs.

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"I'm fine going on, it's not that bad of an injury. No need to head back or anything right now," she grumbled a bit, not really sure why they'd want to head back already or whatever. They were supposed to go catch up with people she was figuring right now. Her shoulder hurt, but there wasn't a whole lot to do about it, not to mention it would likely be incredibly boring to go back there and sit around doing nothing. Plus she figured Merlin would start asking questions and preferred to not have him potentially chastise her over her choices and all.

Rosalia was about to get up so they could go off elsewhere, when she felt something poke her in the back of her head, and a voice that she didn't recognize at all started talking, basically ordering them to put their hands up or something. This actually was very reminiscent of the cops back home, and the few instances where she did end up getting arrested. So this was a fun situation. As usual, her mind started racing glancing around to try and figure out the best way for escape, but at the moment she complied, putting her hands in the air, clearly a little bit annoyed about the situation at this point.

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Well he hadn't really expected to just full on light someone on fire, let alone eight people all at once. It definitely was a bit interesting to see, but also was causing a bit more damage and destruction then he had thought. Honestly he couldn't blame the remaining guy for taking off to go find more people to come deal with this situation now, it probably freaked him out quite a bit really with regards to it. Jack found what just happened to be a bit freaky if he was being completely honest about it.

He got pulled out of his thoughts by Eric returning with the fuse set to cause the explosion to blow everything up, and he nodded his head at his words. "Well considering we don't know instantly how big this explosion is going to be. Once this fuse is lit we have got to get the hell away from here fast. Like, running since you know, shrapnel and all of that would be fun to deal with," he said to both Belle and Eric, before he aimed at the fuse, and managed to create a ball of fire, hitting the fuse and lighting it up. "Now let's get going," he said, before he started heading away from the fuse and the explosives rather quickly at this point.

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as Willow made her way upstairs she would see her mother Aurora was heading into one of the empty rooms that were on the upper floors of the tower. It looked like she was going to take the moment to get some rest in as well to, Willow could go and visit her mother if she wanted to that was completely up to her if she chose to. Back downstairs things were pretty quiet Merlin had decided to go into one of the rooms nearby when the front door opened again. It was Mad Hatter and looked at the two boys giving them a slight smile, getting a little bit of an idea for them to do. "Hey once you get finished eating, might as well teach you two a few tricks if you'd like." He offered before heading back outside.

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Sierra managed to make her way towards the nearby bushes, she watched things very closely as the pirates finally started to take the hint that they were being attacked after the one that managed to survive them being set on fire. Jack was able to light the fuse, both Eric and Belle quickly made their way towards the same spot that they were at earlier. About a minute later a large massive explosion happened lighting the entire area up in a bright light. And then several more explosions happened as the fire and shrapnel were sent flying everywhere else.

Then there were several loud screams as some of the pirates had crashed down into the water, the rickety looking docks quickly fell due to the weight. Then the sharks that were nearby quickly used the chance to have a free dinner, as the pirates were quickly eaten by several sharks. Several ships were now on fire and were slowly sinking into the bay, and a few more looked like they were severely damaged as well to. "Well job well done." Eric said looking at the group and smiled. "Lets head on back to meet up with the others." He told them as Sierra nodded as she looked over her shoulder and went back after her father to their little camp.

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Layla looked over her shoulder to her sister and Rose seeing the two of them looking very happy made her smile slightly as she leaned herself up against a nearby tree rubbing her arms slightly. It was a little bit cold as she watched what was going on over to where the gates were. The men who were there earlier on the trail had stopped a little bit, luckily they were out of sight which was a good thing then. Eventually the troops were let through and made their way towards Maleficent's castle, Robin Hood turned his attention over to Rose and gave a slight shrug. "Dunno, it's been here for as long as I can remember." He answered her, shooting an arrow was one thing, but magic it was something that he didn't understand at all.

The guards that surrounded both Flynn and Rosalia took out some chains and quickly cuffed them together and gave Flynn a rather hard shove. "Move it." He told the two of them, he eventually started to walk alongside his daughter leaning in to whisper to her. "Well good thing is that these are Maleficent's men, and will take us to where we need to go." He whispered to her, as they were escorted to a wagon much like the one that they had saved Flynn from just the day before, the guards pushed the two of them inside and closed it up and they were on the move once again.

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Maddie gladly took Colbys hand, a goofy smile plastered across his face as he put his hand into Colbys and stood up. "Well aren't you a regular Prince Charming." he quipped just before giving Colbys hand a gentle kiss. "Night Willow. Get some rest for all of us ok? We'll try and have a small feast ready for you when you wake up." Mads followed his boyfriend upstairs towards the food, checking to see what all was around for them to eat. He didn't know what he'd expected, Hazelnut soup? Or perhaps pies or sweets or something princessy, but what he found was an assortment of meats, cheeses, fruits, and other things of that manner. He placed his free hand on his hip, looking towards Colby before back at the assortment of food.

"Charcuterie board it is." Maddie declared before grabbing the nearest knife and slivering off pieces of roasted meats, slicing thick rounds of sausages, and delicate wedges of cheese. This was an ordinary snack for him back home in his apartment, something Colby had probably seen Maddie make a dozen times before when they'd hung out. For a moment, that's what it felt like, as if he was home with Colby, no threats to the world to be seen; only a future for the two of them. As he continued to gather ingredients with dried fruits, jams, and drizzles of honey to compliment the cheese, he almost became lost in it before the opening door and voice of his father called him back. There was excitement in his voice, but also a tinge of sadness. "Be right there! Just fixing something up, Agrabah heat didn't exactly help in the hunger department." Maddie grabbed a few of the items, rolling it in a long slice of meat creating 'the perfect bite' before holding it up to Colby. "Try"