Rumplestiltskin's Cell

The Dark Dungeon is a Fairytale Land location on Once Upon a Time. It is the prision of the Dark One, Rumplestiltskin.

History
The Fairy Godmother appears to Cinderella and tells her although her step-mother said she cannot go, she is going to go anyway. However, immediately after, the Fairy Godmother explodes in an horrendous, yet amazing display of fire.

She is swiftly incinerated, and Rumplestiltskin appears and grabs the wand. Cinderella shouts in despair, saying he just killed her Fairy Godmother, and that the wand is pure magic. He replies that the wand is pure evil and that he just saved her. Cinderella asks if he knows her how to use it.

He tells her all magic comes with a price. She tells Rumplestiltskin she will do anything to have her life change for the better. He tells her if she can shoulder the consequences he will give her what she wants. He tells her he wants a favor. Cinderella tells him she will give him anything if he can get her out of her present life of misery. He agrees to do this, for a price: she must give him something of hers, to be decided upon by him at a later date and taken by him sometime in the future. He makes her sign a contact agreeing to his terms. After this, he waves the wand and she has a beautiful ball gown and glass slippers and wishes her to have a good time but to watch the clock. Cinderella and the Prince and the dwarves are in a cave where they have a prison in which they are going to trap Rumplestiltskin. They have a plan, they sent a message to Rumplestiltskin telling him the doctor heard two heartbeats and there has to be a new deal. They show her a red feather quill which has a spell put on it so that anyone who signs with it will be frozen in time. ("The Price of Gold")

As they needed to know more about the Dark Curse, the jailer takes Snow White and Prince Charming to see Rumplestiltskin, warning her not to reveal her name. When they arrive at the cell, Rumplestiltskin knows immediately who they are, and the cloaks are pointless. He says that he can reassure them but it will cost them something in return.

Prince Charming refuses but Snow White insists and asks what he wants. Rumplestiltskin asks for the name of their child and Snow White agrees, and he tells them that they will all soon be imprisoned when time stops, imprisoned somewhere horrible where everything they love will be ripped from them.

When Snow White asks what can stop it, Rumplestiltskin says that her child is their only hope and they should get her to safety. On the child's 28th birthday, she will find them and the final battle will begin. Snow White and Prince Charming walk away and Rumplestiltskin demands the name of the child, saying that it's a girl. Prince Charming insists that it's a boy, but Rumplestiltskin says that Snow White knows the truth. She turns and tells Rumplestiltskin that the child's name is Emma. ("Pilot")

Rumplestiltskin is later in his cell when he realizes that the rat outside his cell is the Evil Queen. She transforms to her human form and tells him that the Dark Curse he gave her isn't working. Rumplestiltskin says that Snow White and Prince Charming visited him, and that he told them that only their unborn child can stop the darkness. She asks what she did wrong, and Rumplestiltskin says that he will in return for a good life in her new life, and that she must heed his every request as long as he says "please." The Evil Queen notes that he won't remember anything if the curse succeeds, and agrees. He then tells her that she needs to sacrifice the heart of something precious. When she states she used the heart of her most prized steed, Rumplestiltskin hisses she needs more than just a horse's heart for the curse to work. The Evil Queen asks what will suffice, and he says the heart of what she loves most. When she says that what she loved most died because of Snow White, Rumplestiltskin says that there must be something else and tells her to consider how far she's willing to go. The Evil Queen says she'll go as far as it takes, and he tells her to stop wasting time and go kill it. ("The Thing You Love Most")

Mr. Gold tells Henry that he has to tell to Aurora that in order to defeat Cora and steal the compass from her they have to go to the Dark Dungeon and find the rests of the magical ink that can paralize any magical beeing. ("Into the Deep")

Trivia

 * The Dwarves have created this prision.