"It's the most wonderful and amazing thing in the world.

Love is hope, fuels our dreams.

And if you're in it, you need to enjoy it.

Because love doesn't always last forever."

Belle to Grumpy about Love

Forbidden Forest, Camelot

King Arthur Charles Pendragon, or Charlie to his closest friends, was riding through the forbidden forest just beyond his Kingdom's walls; flaked by his loyal childhood friend, Lord Maurice Fench, a few liable guards, good huntsmen and their bloodhounds. They were on the hunt for a White stag that Maurice had stated he seen on one of his many hunts, so here the large hunting party made their way to the last location of the animal – unknown what was really awaiting them.

When the King neared the place where the Stag was last seen, he immediately came to a stop when before him was a woman, dressed head to toe in black was waiting for them – a woman that all of Fairy-tale land and Camelot knew all too well.

"Regina." Arthur hissed, as he drew his sword and pointed it directly at the witch Queen. "What are you doing here, witch?"

Regina gave him one of her evil smirks, as the King removed himself from his horse followed shortly by that of Maurice and the guards; she was cloaked in purple smoke – not taking the chance for Regina to get away, Arthur ran sword raised but blindly into the smoke only to run into nothing.

Evil laughter was heard along with yell of surprise, the King turned to see most of his men fallen from their horses dead on the ground or were just been slaughtered by Regina's men and to the King's surprise – he witnessed as Maurice finished killing the Kings bodyguard.

"What's the meaning of this, Maurice?" Arthur demanded. "What is the meaning behind this treason?"

"Treason?" Maurice hissed, as he pointed his blood covered sword to Arthur. "I do not see this as treason – I see this as getting what was once was mine!"

"Yours? What did I take that was yours?"

"Everything!" Maurice hissed again. "The love of a mother, the protection of a father, the throne, the Kingdom and the girl – Gwen. She was mine before you took her away, I was to marry her but you swooped in and took her as your Queen."

"Gwen," Arthur replied, eyes wide. "All of this was for Gwen?"

"That and the Kingdom of Camelot – just think the last of the Pendragons die on a hunt while my bloodline begins." Maurice smirks, as Regina laughs along with him. "All I needed to do was form a deal with Regina and here we are today."

"And that deal was?"

"I take you away to a place where there is no happy ever after and Maurice will sign a treaty combining our two Kingdoms together." Regina states – smirking as Arthur was backed up against a tree, his eyes was scanning over the dead bodies of his loyal followers.

"The people of Camelot will never let this go through," Arthur replied, smugly. "They will follow there one and true King – Me."

"Then they will be put to death." Maurice states, shrugging his shoulders. "Less mouths to feed."

"You will kill innocent people to see this through?" Arthur asked, making Maurice eyes narrowed. "What happened to my friend?"

"He died." Maurice replies, as he turns his back on Arthur then looks to Regina. "I do believe you can do the rest? I need to get back to comfort a grieving Queen."

Arthur watches in horror as Maurice rides of on his horse, leaving the King to deal with the witch Queen and her men, alone. He reacts by killing two of the nearest knights, and then gets knocked in the back of the head, the King falls to the ground – darkness comes over him as the faint laughter of Regina was the only thing he heard.

….

Forks, Washington State

Bella Swan finds herself in the middle of her and Edward's meadow – tears filled her eyes as she comes face to face with a shadowy form of her ex-boyfriend, Edward Cullen.

"I'm coming with you!" Bella snaps to him, trying to move forwards but her legs felt like lead – they wouldn't even budge.

"Bella, I don't want you to come with me." Edward replied, making Bella's heart stop.

"You... You don't want me?" Bella replies, as the feeling of fainting came back to her again.

"No."

"Well this changes things," Bella replies, trying to stop the tears from falling. "A lot."

Edward then disappears from her view, she looks frantically around for him but someone else caught her attention as she looked at a woman – a woman she hadn't seen before – she was dressed head to toe in black, her skin was pale as milk, her hair was black as a raven's wing, her lips were red as crimson – she had the evil look about her.

"Who… Who are you?" Bella demanded, wanting to know if this woman was the reason behind Edward's disappearance from her dream.

"Someone who doesn't like happy ever afters." The woman replies, before laughing and disappearing in a cloud of purple smoke.

"What does that mean?" Bella yells, running through the lavender covered meadow, stopping every now and then when laughter was heard. "Who's there?"

"Did you think you could escape me, dearie?" a man's voice called out from the darkness.

Bella fell to her knees, covering her ears with her hands as she just wanted the voices to stop.

"Belle… Come back to me."

"Bella!"

"Belle!"

Bella wakes up suddenly, her forehead was covered with pasty sweat – this was the second time that strange man with the yellow eyes and the that unforgettable laughter showed up in her dreams. She had a small feeling she knew him from somewhere but she couldn't place her finger on it, Bella shook away the feeling as she looked around her nearly empty room.

Maybe it was something to do to with moving? Charlie had accepted a job offer from another small town outside of Boston – some strange town by the name of StoryBooke that she didn't even remember being there in the first place.

But here she was, sitting on top of her bed – looking around her room that had boxes upon boxes stacked on top of each other, she knew that their moving wasn't a dream. Charlie wanted her to start anew, to get away from the heartbreak that Edward and Jacob both left her in.

Bella was going to make the most of it.