A/N- Wassup? It be TOBN here with a new STORY! YAY!

First of all; happy birthday fanfic buddy! *Balloons and cake and imaginary cookies EVERYWHERE!* Jokes! But you already got my birthday present, I assume, and I went through all that cheesy stuff, so...yeah! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

And happy day for all you guys, huh? You finally get some closure on the fairytale realm! That's right; the last book in the Kingdom's End trilogy has commenced! And who is as excited as I am, right? RIGHT? Jokes!

Nevertheless, I don't really have much to say about this, as for the fact there will be action, no more really complex plots (lol), and a lot of cute romance to go here and there.

What happened last book, you ask? Well, maybe you should read the first two books, right? Jokes! But in the very last chapter of After Ever After, it had seemed Della was evil, Stephanie wants to helps in some way, and Ross and Samantha have some explaining to do!

This story should be a solid 8-10 chapters. Probably 10, since all the books were 10 chapters. So yeah! There's your heads up.

Let's do yet another age count, shall we: Ross is 45 and Samantha is 40, Stephanie is god know's how long; she's immortal. Oh! And Evelyn is 60 And that is pretty much all I need to say, so yeah. I am terribly sorry if any math in this story is wrong :P

So with that, let's get this started, shall we?

Drop a review, and...

ENJOY!

P.S- Couldn't decide what title I wanted, so I chose both :P

Bolded Italics- Samantha or Ross talking

Bold- Stephanie

The Search For Happily Ever After: Chapter 1: The End Has Begun (Origins)

Ethan, Benny, Sarah, Erica and Jane gathered in the living room with Evelyn giving out cups of tea. They had placed a heavy restoration spell on Whitechapel, and everyone in the town forgot anything ever happened. No shadows, no evil beings, no nothing. No one remembered a thing.

Except for everyone who did remember.

Except for everyone who wasn't gonna forget any time soon.

"Dad, mom," Ethan started, sipping the herbal tea slowly as he stared at his parents, who happened to be the center of attention at the moment. "Care to explain now?" He asked once more, making everyone stare at the pair of parents. Jane was Ross looked at Samantha with worried eyes as he frowned deeply, looking away.

"I don't..." He trailed off when Samantha shut him off.

"We should, Ross." She cried out, startling everyone. "We need to. We owe it to them to have some answers, and after everything that has happened, I don't want to hide anything anymore, Ross! I don't want anyone else to get hurt!" She said, sobbing as Benny rubbed her back.

"Take it easy, Mrs. M." He said quietly. "I don't want anyone getting hurt either, and I want answers as much as you do, but we all need to stay calm." He reassured. Samantha nodded as she wiped her tears. Ross sighed as he looked at everyone.

"Well-"

He was cut off with a stern voice that crept into the room.

"No."

Everyone turned around to see Stephanie, standing near the kitchen. She walked towards everyone with steely eyes as she sat down beside the Morgans. Ross scooted away from her, not wanting anything to do with the evil sorcerer.

"I am not going to let you tell this story without me. It'd be so unfair." She said with a frown. Ross growled.

"Why should you get a say in this?" He hissed, pouncing towards Stephanie, whose eyes flared in rage. Samantha pulled her husband back as he calmed down a bit. Samantha sighed, rubbing the bridge of her nose.

"Let her speak." She said to her husband. "She...she wants to help." Samantha then looked at Stephanie with stern eyes and bit the bottom of her lip.

"But Stephanie, if you dare say one false statement, I will personally kill you." She gritted out. Stephanie laughed.

"Kill me? With what powers?" She teased, making Samantha growl. Ethan just groaned loudly.

"Let's get on with the story already, alright?" He said in slight annoyance. Ross cleared his throat as he nodded, closing his eyes and remembering the day as if it were yesterday. He then opened them and looked at the teens slowly, one by one.

Stephanie waved her hands and a glittery image floated into the air. Samantha nodded for Ross to continue as he took a breath and watched as projections of himself and his wife danced in the air, for everyone to see. They all leaned in close as Ross began his own fairytale.

"Oh, it was a long time ago..."

"...and your mom and I were living in Whitechapel, and the year was 1995"

The gang watched as a younger Ross and Samantha. Samantha was 20, and Ross was 25. They stood happily in front of their new home in Whitechapel, smiling as Ross slung his arm over his wife's shoulder, kissing her cheek happily.

"We're finally gonna start a family." Samantha whispered to her husband, making Ross grin.

"Your dad and I were eager to start a family. We wanted one so badly, and would do anything to have one. But no matter how hard we tried, I could never get pregnant."

Samantha and Ross kissed, falling onto the bed at the brink of night.

"We were so determined; we kept trying, and trying, and trying. It never worked. And I was slowly starting to lose hope."

"Then what happened?" Rory asked eagerly, like a child. Stephanie gave him stern eyes.

"Please, just let us talk, boy." Stephanie sneered. Rory was taken back when Sarah rubbed her back reassuringly. Samantha sighed as she and Ross continued her story.

"But tragedy struck so suddenly."

The gang saw Samantha, crying on a hospital bed, Ross crying beside her. The doctor checked his clipboard with a saddened face, and they all saw him mouth the words "Sorry". Samantha continued to cry, and cry, and cry...

"I found out that I wasn't going to be able to have a baby. The doctor had told me something happened to my body, and we were never to have children."

Samantha sat on the couch sadly, wiping tears as Ross tried his best to talk to the adoption agencies.

"We tried to adopt a child, but we were never a good fit. And Ross and I couldn't bare to tell our child he/she was adopted. We weren't prepared "

Samantha and Ross stood at the adoption house with sad eyes.

"But things started to turn around when we found Stephanie in the same year. She was 17, living blocks away from us. And we found out she was like us: She was an Earth Priestess."

"I suppose they thought I was 17. They didn't know I was immortal, feeding off souls in their own town I lived in Whitechapel all my life. Do you remember the cheerleading incident, Evelyn? The year was 1972; you and I were 17. I wanted to be on the cheerleading squad, and I never made it. I always had beef with you and your family, Evelyn."

"Then why did you go after the Morgans, if it was my family you had trouble with? You should've came to us." Benny said, annoyed and disappointed he couldn't protect his best friend and his family from Stephanie. "Then with the fairytale book; you wanted my grandma. You never targeted Ethan; why then?" Stephanie sighed.

"Trust me, I wanted to. When you, Ethan and Sarah joined the squad, I knew it was perfect payback to suck all your souls. When that backfired, I planted the book. But that was when I realized Jane had come with you guys, and how much lies she had been told..." Jane squirmed uneasily as Stephanie shook her head, not finishing her running sentence.

"I am getting too far ahead; let me finish." She said at last, waving her hands as she projected another picture.

The picture fizzled into Samantha and Ross talking to Stephanie late at night in the forest. Stephanie began to talk.

"They were a promising couple, let me tell you that. They were so desperate to start a family of their own children. So I made them a deal; my help, in exchange for their magic."

Stephanie held an orb and Samantha's and Ross' magic transferred into the orb.

"I had a daughter of my own, which we all know is Della, but I neglected her because of this project. If I could succeed, in making a baby, I could expand the power and make so many minions. I planned that after I give the child to the Morgans, I would steal her, a year after, and raise her as my own. I would duplicate her when she gets older, and continue until I had a whole army. I would dominate the world."

The gang saw Stephanie, cackling over a steaming pot, with Della right behind her, sadly playing with her toys alone.

"We didn't know Stephanie's intentions at the time."

"And honestly? Neither did I."

"But things started to change drastically. And something neither me or my wife expected."

Samantha held a positive pregnancy test, with wide eyes. Ross' eyes brimmed with happy tears.

"It was December, in 1997. Something changed in my body. I thought it wasn't possible. The doctors were wrong; I was pregnant."

Samantha had a baby bump, and Ross rubbed it happily.

"But you have to remember; this was after the deal we made. And I had taken everything in my power to make sure that baby was going to be born. I never heard from them for a solid year."

"And in that year, me and Ross were secretly dealing with a baby. We wanted to back out of the deal, but it was useless; she had our magic, and she could probably use it against us. We just had to hope it would fail."

The gang saw Samantha cradling a small baby boy in her arms, with Ross by her side.

"They 9 months flew, and in the middle of 1998, Ethan was born."

Ethan, now two years old, stayed inside his room, curtains closed, engulfed in darkness.

"But we were fearful for Ethan; what would Stephanie do when she found out? We were definitely going to find out. In the next two years, we kept Ethan hidden from the world, keeping him in his room, where he'd make no contact."

"I never remembered that." Ethan said with a small frown, making Samantha sigh.

"You couldn't remember. Because we...we erased it from your mind." Ethan's eyes widened as Stephanie shook her head.

"Shush, boy. Would you really want to remember such things, anyway? Let's go on with the story; things only go more downhill from here..."

"We didn't hear from Stephanie for three years. We figured she couldn't do it, and didn't want to tell us. At the time, we had no clue Stephanie was evil and she had been working on it all along. We always forgot we made a deal with a witch; and some shady things could happen doing so."

Samantha was seen with her eyes wide open, Ross protectively right beside her as Ethan buried his face in his parent's leg.

"It turned out that I'd have to sacrifice of the Crystal Heart, something so powerful that I had from generations of my family. It disappeared when the spell was complete, and I never saw it again. Of course, not until yesterday. And now Della has it."

Stephanie held her hand towards the family, but Ross blocked it with the orb of magic. Samantha held a baby.

"It was the year 2000; Jane was magically created using our magic, which also had our DNA. Stephanie was furious when she found out about Ethan, and she was determined to get us all killed."

Ross sneaking out an open window, a box in his hand.

"But I didn't know that Ross had stole the box of his and his wife's magic, that excess magic that I didn't need. He stole the orb and used it against me. Defeated, I fledAnd from that day on, I swore revenge on Ethan's family."

"And that is that." Stephanie said slowly, looking at everyone's reactions.

Jane silently looked at her parents, then at Stephanie, and shaking her head, she walked outside, getting fresh air. Ethan sighed, rubbing his forehead as Sarah went out to find her. Samantha broke into sobs as Ross rubbed her shoulder. He looked at everyone, primarily Ethan.

"After that, Stephanie never bothered us again. She moved somewhere, but her house was never bought. Della was transferred to a different family, the one I kept close with. That's why Della and her parents was at the dinner we hosted, Ethan. I never wanted to give them business pitches; I wanted to keep an eye on Della. " Ross said, making Ethan nod.

"We erased your memory of anything you ever saw that night, and I hid the box in the ground, burying it so we would never see it again. Of course, the box still contained bits of our magic, but we never wanted to introduce you to your past." He explained. Erica frowned.

"Why do you have it now?" Stephanie sighed.

"After the failed attempts of the cheerleading plan, turning old, and failing to kill you all in the fairytale realm, I returned to my home in Whitechapel. When you were all in the fairytale realm, I was in a remote area in the forest, controlling everything. When that failed, I went to my old house. I never saw Della since she moved to her own family. I relocated the Morgan's magic, dug it up, stole their magic, and hid the empty box in their closet, to let them know I returned." She explained. Benny bit his lip nervously.

"Okay, we are up to speed. But that still never explains why you went for the Morgans all of the sudden. After our first visit to the fairytale realm, you targeted my grandma and my family. And when you went all shadow crazy on Whitechapel, you targeted the Morgans. What gives?" He questioned. Stephanie shrugged.

"When I found out Jane came into the fairytale realm with you guys, and I saw how much she had grown, I was determined to get her back, erase her memory, and raise her as my own. That was my original plan. Evelyn was never a worthy opponent, anyway." She said, making Evelyn roll her eyes. Ethan started to piece things together.

"And that's why you captured her. You were going to eliminate us, then erase Jane's memory of us, now that there was no proof of us. Then raise her as your own, and possibly create clones of her, making your own army" He said. Stephanie nodded. "Smart boy." She hissed between her teeth, making Ethan growl. Erica frowned.

"How could you do that to a little girl? Do you realize what stress and trauma you just gave Jane? She may never recover from this. How could you be so evil?" She said, all eyes on Stephanie, who said nothing more.

When it was obvious that she wasn't going to respond, Erica sighed, deciding to ask another question.

"What about Della's parents?" She asked. Samantha frowned.

"Ross and I checked that when the battle started. Della killed them." She answered, making Ethan shudder. "She killed her own foster parents, and now wants to spill the blood of her mother." Ethan frowned. "Did Della have a dad?" Stephanie's eyes twinkled.

"That, boy, is a story for another time." She said with a wink. Benny sighed

"So Della has the Crystal Heart now, and she has Rory. Why would Della want the Crystal Heart? Why would Della want Rory?" Stephanie shook her head.

"She wants it because one, it is rightfully hers, since it has been in my family for generations, and two, she wants the power. It had turned out that the Crystal Heart went into the Oblivion when I made Jane, and when the sky cracked open, it was released with even more power from when it started. When Benny shot it, it drifted to its rightful owner; Della." She paused.

"And maybe she likes Rory a little more than we all thought." She added. Erica winced.

"It's so evil." Erica shuddered. "I can't believe Rory used to date her."

Silence crept in as Benny cleared his throat.

"Why are you helping us, Stephanie? After all the hell you dragged us through. Why help us now?" Stephanie sighed.

"Because Della is my daughter. I want her dead, after all she ever did to foil my plan. And you guys know her more than I do." Ross frowned.

"How can we trust you?" He asked. Stephanie smiled.

"You can't." She replied.

Evelyn caught everyone's attention, walking to the kitchen and returning with a burnt book. She chuckled.

"Even after all those flames, the book still lives on. You are all going to go in, and you are going to get Della and Rory and the Crystal Heart back." She said, laying the crispy paged book on the table. Sarah and Jane had returned silently, and Jane still made no eye contact with her parents. Ethan looked at Sarah as she sat back down and quietly explained everything, and when he asked her about Jane, Sarah never responded, but only gave him a sad smile.

"She just needs time." She said finally, making Ethan nod in agreement. Benny sighed.

"Why are we going back in there? What if Della isn't in there?" He asked. Stephanie frowned.

"I made that dimension with my bare hands, Benjamin. I know she's in there. But there is one problem." Everyone stared at her as Stephanie sighed.

"When Rory was in the dimension, he accidently screwed up Hansel And Gretel. It was for a good cause, him being able to escape, but ever since he left, the whole place was going crazy. Not only was half of it burned, but the fire was extinguished by a wave of water that my daughter created. It washed away all the plots of the fairytales, and now every fairytale blocking our path is messed up. The only way we can get to Della, Rory, and the Crystal Heart, is to fix the fairytales." Benny cracked his knuckles.

"Sounds simple enough," He said. Stephanie shook her head.

"Trust me; it's not. The characters don't know their fairytale anymore. The force fields were builded back up, and we need to break through them with the help of the dagger you used," Stephanie said, and Evelyn slid it on the table and into Ethan's hands. Ethan chuckled quietly.

"I thought this was long gone after the battle," He said, spinning it in his hand. Evelyn smiled. "Even without my magic, I am still as wise as it gets; I have my ways." She explained. Stephanie sighed.

"Let's go; we mustn't waste time." She said.

An hour later, Ethan, Jane, Sarah, Benny, Erica, and Stephanie had prepared, bringing the dagger and more ammo. They said their goodbyes and Stephanie whispered the spell.

And for yet another time, Ethan found himself drowsy and sleepy, and was once again whisked to the place he never thought he'd be again.

It was off to the Fairytale Realm for the end, that had just begun.

A/N- Probably as long [and confusing] as this is gonna get. I really hope that made sense. If I am missing anything, sorry. Sorry sorry sorry :P

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