Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26225812-20150611110107/@comment-26443838-20150622190318

Gnattygan wrote:  ain Arc for whole season: Emma will be the Dark One and the main villain (perhaps the only villain) for the entire season. The Charming's will work all season to find out how to release her and everyone else from The Darkness forever. This plot will be split into two sub-arcs.

 Arc A: We open right where we left off (or perhaps the day after) with the Charming's still looking for Emma and unable to find her. Killian picks up the dagger and is the only one who thinks to return to Belle and check on Rumple. Rumple is in a coma but Belle knows enough about the Dark One to help Killian by using the dagger to find Emma. The dagger helps them find Emma but she is able to resist the dagger's control. They  find out later that this is because Emma was already magical, whereas Rumple and every other Dark One was normal and unmagical before becoming the Dark One. She is able to resist the darkness enough to help them a little but ends up hurting or maybe even killing someone who upsets her. Emma is so upset at what the Darkness makes her do that she runs away telling her family not to look for her until they find a way to reverse it. About a year and a half passes in which Rumple is still in a coma but Belle refuses to let him go, Zelena has her baby (maybe Emma kills her after that), Regina and Robin get married and have adopted Zelena's baby who is almost a year old. Henry, who is about 15, is living with Regina again and has a lot of girl's interested in him, he is working as an apprentice to The Apprentice learning about his new role as the Author and trying to find info to help his mom. Neal is two now and starting to develop some magical abilities of his own and Regina is helping the Charming's with parenting a magical child. Hook is focusing all his attention on finding a way to get to Camelot, meanwhile Lily is the only one who knows where Emma is and has been getting very close to her. Finally after a year and a half of searching Hook and Henry find the location of Camelot and Rumple finally wakes up. The arc ends with them finally finding a way to Camelot and a fully restored Rumple joining the heroes for the first time as a hero.

 Arc B: The heroes arrive in Camelot with Emma. They find out rather quickly that Camelot is under a magical purge. King Arthur was hurt by Merlin and blamed magic (maybe Merlin helped Guin and Lancelot be together). Emma calls attention to them through her use of magic and disappears while Regina is arrested. The rest of the heroes split up into 3 groups with Lily and Hook going after Emma, Henry and MM rescuing Regina, and Rumple and Charming looking for Merlin. All three quests twist and intertwine around each other finally ending up with a search for Excalibur which is the only item that can permanently destroy the Darkness. Arthur of course has the sword and they must find a way to get it away while Emma is also presenting many problems. They will also meet Lily's father  Kilgarrah a dragon who was Merlin's mentor and was imprisoned underneath Camelot after all the dragon's were killed and magic banished. They will finally get the sword and will use it to send all darkness back to its original place (this includes Emma's darkness leaving Lily and returning to Emma). Intro Season 5 cliffhanger...





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 No. The bosses clearly said it will 11 episodes from the first arc. The Second arc would be a different plot line.