Curses
It takes nearly all of Emma's energy to resist murdering Regina with the Darkness. Emma uses the last of her strength to teleport herself and Lily deep into the Storybrooke forest, far from Regina and the rest.
The tension inside her lessens, but doesn't dissipate as much as she'd hoped.
Gasping, she collapses to her knees and drops Lily's heart into the mud. She brings her blackened hands up and cries at their appearance. Rubbing them together, she realizes it is only worsening, and is creeping up her wrists. Emma stares deeply into her unearthly dark hands.
"Emma," Lily says weakly, clutching her chest. "Emma, please."
The Darkness tugs at the back of Emma's neck. Horrified, she digs her fingers at the spot in an attempt to somehow contain it, but it seeps through. She screams and shudders as it overtakes her.
Sputtering for breath, the Dark Swan falls forward to her hands and almost collapses. After a moment, she catches her breath and straightens up to glare at Lily.
"Don't speak," Dark Swan hisses and snatches the heart from the ground.
In her hand, she conjures a red velvet bag and slips the heart inside. She then ties it to her belt loop and wearily stands.
Having become bored of her current, goody-two-shoes outfit, Dark Swan abruptly waves her hand over herself.
Tight, black leather pants replace her bluejeans. To replace her sweater, a tailored, black waistcoat with a train of the deepest black flowing down in dream-like wisps to her feet. Her shoes transform into black leather boots that come to a point at the toes. Her stark white, curly hair is styled in a low half-ponytail, with diamonds studding around her ears and the back of her head. Her hair glows in the contrast of the darkness of her outfit.
The red velvet bag is still secured safely at her hip, though it is slightly concealed. She drops her dark hands to her sides and they become lost in the black mists of her train.
"Lily," Dark Swan says with a smile as she begins to regain energy. "By now I'm sure you've surmised that I have strong feelings for Regina. And, that she feels the same for me. Or at least, for Emma, who is still cursedly inside here somewhere. I can sense Regina's Lightness even from here," she muses, then scoffs. "I detest it. She knows as I do that she can break the Dark Curse I hold over Emma Swan. But, still-"
Emma imagines the immeasurable joy of witnessing Regina's radiant smile, and for a moment the Darkness can glimpse it. The Darkness will never know joy, no- But, pleasure...
Dark Swan can sense the panic of the Savior struggling to break through, but she grins psychotically as she feels the ice cold darkness crawling up her forearms.
She giggles lowly to herself as she realizes how easily attainable it all is to her- Now that she is inside of the Savior.
"Lilith Page," Dark Swan chimes, delighted. "How lucky I was to have found you. You must wait right here for me, though, promise?" she says with a cruelly playful expression.
With that, she vanishes to appear stealthily inside the back room of the pawn shop of Mr. Gold.
She chuckles at remembering having crushed Rumplestiltskin's lover's heart. Because of this, no one has yet bothered to remove his comatose body from the shop. She ignores him and focuses her powers on a familiar source of magic.
Many power sources call out to her, and she struggles to sort through them all.
Concentrating deeply, she locates what she requires at the west side of the back room and instantly poofs herself there.
The layers of garbage the past Dark One had hoarded deter her only for a moment as soon she grasps the Portal Recreating Wand in her hand.
Dark Swan now laughs heartily and magically returns to Lily.
"Now, I know this can't possibly be easy for you, my dearest Lilith. What with having your heart stolen by your closest friend and being held against your will, and all," Dark Swan mocks and steps into her closely, "But, please know that I plan to exploit every. Single. Cell. Of power that you possess, for not even the Dark Savior has enough power to cast another Dark Curse on her own."
Stepping away from her, Dark Swan retrieves Lily's heart with one hand and holds the wand up with the other. She raises them up and touches them together as she gathers her magic. In a strong burst, she forces her Dark Magic to merge with Lily's and a portal shoots out from the end of the wand and into the sky. Dark Swan giddily watches as the portal engulfs the sky and opens itself up to swallow Storybrooke whole.