SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
─── all men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with god's madmen too, the rest of the world

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❝YOU ARE NOT
WHO YOU ARE
WHEN YOU ARE
ABOVE THE WATER.
YOU ARE WHO
YOU ARE WHEN
YOU CRAWL BACK
TO THE OCEAN,
AND YOU
REMEMBER
WHAT IT FELT
LIKE WHEN YOU
SAW THE SKY.❞

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HADES IS DEAD AND THE DARK ONE'S power has been destroyed. The residents and heroes of the small town of Storybrooke, Maine believed that they would finally have peace. After everything that they'd been through, the back to back to back villains they'd had to face, blissful days and even weeks go by with not even a dark cloud in the sky.

BUT SOMETHING WICKED IS APPROACHING, far more wicked than they've ever faced before. On what should have been a normal Wednesday, the skies suddenly turned dark and a portal opened up in the clouds, just as it began to pour down rain. With a thunderous crash and an earthquake that shakes the whole town, the residents of Storybrooke discover that they are not alone and the dark world of Nightmoor has collided with their own due to a powerful dark spell cast by the sinister forces of Morgana le Fay and the legendary Bell Witch.

WITH NIGHTMOOR, COMES THE CREATURES of the night that the heroes never thought to be real. that they thought only to be that of myth, legend and nightmare. They will know terror, bloodlust and fear like nothing they've ever faced before. But the question remains, will the Savior be enough? Or will Storybrooke succumb to these new threats of the night?

LUCKILY FOR THEM, REINFORCEMENTS come with these new enemies in the form of two teenagers, Josie van Helsing and Nicholai Dracula. As lifelong residents of Nightmoor, the two may just be the key to keeping Storybrooke from falling. But with Josie's father, the legendary vampire hunter Abraham van Helsing, missing since the first quake hit, can Storybrooke be saved?

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❝WARRIORS ARE
NOT THE ONES
WHO ALWAYS WIN,
BUT THE ONES
THAT ALWAYS
FIGHT.❞

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❝ 𝐃𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐒 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐄 ❞
𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔

☾ ✧ ☽

JOSIE VAN HELSING
( zoey deutch )

NICHOLAI DRACULA
( freddy carter )

MORGANA LE FAY
( katie mcgrath )

THE BELL WITCH
( eva green )

and...

ABRAHAM VAN HELSING — hugh jackman
LUELLA VAN HELSING — kate beckinsale
VICTORIA VAN HELSING — lexi rabe
ICHABOD CRANE — tom mison
VLAD DRACULA — luke evans
JAMES EVANS — oscar isaac
OLIVER SHAW — kit young
EUGENE HUGHES — santiago cabrera
TERESA HOLMES — britt robertson
OUAT CHARACTERS — their actors

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❝THE DARK IS GENEROUS,
AND IT IS PATIENT,
AND IT ALWAYS WINS.
IT ALWAYS WINS BECAUSE
IT IS EVERYWHERE.
IT IS IN THE WOOD
THAT BURNS IN YOUR HEARTH,

AND IN THE KETTLE ON THE FIRE;
IT IS UNDER YOUR CHAIR
AND UNDER YOUR TABLE
AND UNDER THE
SHEETS ON YOUR BED.❞

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disclaimer
I do not own Once Upon a Time. It's shocking, I know, take your time to process that. All I own are my original characters, scenes, lines and dialogue. Everything else goes to the rightful owners.

dedication
this story is dedicated firstly to pepperronys dunbonnet and void-daniella because this fic wouldn't exist without you! without you helping me brainstorm, I wouldn't be writing this out right now! Secondly, this goes to my lovely friends -beewrites- capnbarnes indirys maliraology xonceuponatimex dash-of-clarity arsvenal KookieANDLeo protectremus mithranidel

note
just to make it clear right now, this is a post-season five au. Emma and Killian are not together (I promise you'll see why it's worth it), though they did go to the Underworld to save Emma's love, even though he was not resurrected by Zeus at the end. Robin is alive, as instead of sacrificing himself to save Regina, Zelena killed Hades to save her sister and the father of her baby. This is also book one in the Legends of Nightmoor Series, but the second and third books will not be published until the prior one has been completed.

important notice
just wanted to remind everyone at the beginning of the fic that I want to hear each and every thought you have and I especially want you to leave them in comments. Seriously, I don't care if you are referencing something off of something I wrote, because there's a chance I might have been thinking it as I wrote the line! I want people to comment on it! And I don't care if it's nonsensical "asdfghjkl"'s or anything similar. I am a person that thrives on people responding to my work. It's part of why I write, I want to touch people with my writing. It also lets me know better than a vote that you're enjoying my work. Which is important to me!

ENJOY THE FIC!