"The Blue Horizon: Chapter Five of The Dark Ages" is the eighty-first issue of Fables.
Publisher's summary
In our fifth and final chapter of this first big post-war saga, you're going to find out why this story was called "The Dark Ages." Yes, this is a dark story, and we're afraid you're not going to like it one bit – unless, of course, you think not nearly enough terrible and tragic things have happened to our stalwart heroes of Fabletown. We now suspect that, if the Fables had truly had any idea of the full consequences, they'd never have gone to war at all.
Plot
As the mundies investigate the ruins of the Woodlands, Mr Dark arrives. Flycatcher arrives, sees Boy Blue and tries uses his magic on him. Mr. Dark discovers that Kay has survived the collapsing, but kills him immediately. Frau Totenkinder tells Snow that there is a dark evil even she doesn't understand. Tired, sad and angry, Rose Red divorces Sinbad. Flycatcher tells everyone that he failed, and that Boy Blue has only enough strength left to say his goodbyes. Pinocchio notices his father is missing, Geppetto wanders off on the Farm where the animals Fables attack him. However since they can't kill him due to his magical force field, Reynard the Fox suggests digging a very deep hole for Geppetto. Mr. Dark controls his victims to make a castle out of the rubble of the Woodlands. Since Rose Red won't leave her bed to say goodbye to Boy Blue, Bigby turns like a wolf and threatens her to get out now. When Rose Red tells Boy Blue that they can still be together, he chastises her saying that he deserves better than her. Doctor Swineheart tells everyone that Boy Blue is dead and requested to be buried next to Flycatcher's baseball field in Haven, which he is.
Deaths
- Kay
- Boy Blue