Emma Swan

Emma Swan has lived her life alone since the day she was born; left on the side of the road and found by a seven-year-old boy. She went through many foster homes and group homes watching younger children getting adopted but never her. She did once until they had a child and sent her back. Then there was another family she had when she was thirteen but one of her ex-friends Lily ruined that for her by lying about how the met. And then there was that other woman, Ingrid that almost liked her by pushing her in front of an oncoming car telling her to stop it with MAGIC! Emma Swan was losing hope fast. After many years of abandonment, she is now seventeen and STILL ALONE! Emma made up her mind. She is running away from her current placement.

After a few weeks of grabbing what she can from shops without drawing attention, she wants to move on. She needs to find somewhere she belongs but she knows it's not in Portland where she currently is. Emma debates on stealing a yellow VW Bug that is sitting abandoned in an old parking lot. By debates, she watches it for a few days and finds it's not as abandoned as she believed, someone is currently living in it. That makes her pass on taking someone's method of shelter. Emma uses the last of her money on a bus ticket to the place she was found, which is certainly close to a forest. She almost believes that her parents might have been eaten by wolves but that would just be a fairytale albeit a very, very bad one.

Just for the hell of it and since she has nothing better to do. Emma goes into the forest. It's tiny just a few trees she won't get lost. She time to just think. She thinks about what it would be like to have parents. What it would be like to have friends that don't betray you. Or WHat it would be like to be loved. But most of all Emma wishes and dreams about what it would be like to not be known as an unwanted orphan. There isn't much she can do about it. She is an orphan and when people find that out they either giver her pity or make her feel even more unwanted. So that is why seventeen-year-old Emma Swan is sitting in a small forest where she was found by a seven-year-old boy. She climbs up into a tree that has a small hole big enough for her to rest in, and drifts of to a dreamless sleep.

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The next morning Emma finds herself still in a forest; just not the one she fell asleep in last night. She is no longer curled up into a hole in a tree she is what can be described as a bed made out of a carved out tree. And the forest itself is hundreds of times larger than she was in last night. Now she feels she can get lost. The diner that she was brought to seventeen years ago is no longer to the northeast of the forest the only thing northeast is more trees. The day is clearly not going to go her way or she is in a dream or maybe a nightmare. One good thing is there appears to be a trail and she just hopes that it might lead to someone who can tell her where the in the hell she is. There is one thing Emma Swan doesn't want to do and that die alone in an unknown forest.

While walking down the small trail in the forest she thinks maybe she should have tried to 'steal' that VW Bug from that guy and pretend that she didn't know he had already done that. At least she would know where she was and wouldn't be alone. But who knows that guy could have been a wanted man just looking for a naive girl to take the fall for his crimes. Emma made the right choice, she has always been alone that isn't going to change, well it might have to if she has any hope of getting home. But then that word home is confusing. She doesn't really have one. So if she did go back to Maine she would still be little orphan Emma. If she figured out where she was maybe she can start her life over without the word orphan practically tattooed on her forehead. OR she just really needs to find people because Emma Swan has too much time to think.

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She doesn't know how far she has been walking or what direction she is even walking in but she now knows it's not a dream. She tripped a few miles back and slightly bent her hand back. Which hurt, leading her to realize she can feel the pain she isn't dreaming. Somehow, someway she landed in a different forest or land and really needs to find someone to tell her she isn't crazy.

After what feels like a lifetime later she hears people. The closer she gets she sees them and they look like something out of a medieval times movie. She would think that she was on a movie set but for some reason being on a movie set seemed less likely than landing in an unknown forest. She didn't want to stick out but her clothes were clearly more modern for the people who lived in this… village. So she stuck out like a black sheep.

"M'lady. Are you well?" A man asked slightly nervous looking her up and down. Of course, she is the only one dressed normally and she is getting judged.

"Um. No… Sir. I am not entirely sure where I am. As you can see from my clothing I am from someplace more Modern."

"Well m'lady you are in the Safe Haven of the Enchanted Forest. As for your more as you said modern attire, I don't know what land dresses like that. I do of someone who might be able to help, she has traveled to many lands. Would you like to speak with her?"

"Yes. I would."

"Then follow me."

The man took Emma farther into the Safe Haven and walked straight to a man that was guarding a tent. She figured he must be protecting whoever was inside after all the man called it a Safe Haven they must have survived something big she just didn't know what.

"Jules? Who is this you have here?"

"Lancelot! I found this lady in the forest she says she doesn't know where she is. I thought that maybe Mulan might know how to help her." The man - Jules - used the names of two legends like they were real; in a sentence without batting an eye. Emma either lost her mind or she didn't pay enough attention in history class. If they said the Lancelot, Night of the Round Table knew and helped Mulan, Savior of China, people might actually pay attention. Anyway, the man - Lancelot steps aside and Emma and Jules enter the tent to see a woman who looks like an actress playing the part of Mulan and another woman. The second woman is quite beautiful and based on her clothing choice she looks likes she could play the part of Sleeping Beauty. But how would Mulan know Aurora? The sound of a voice lifts Emma from her thoughts and she looks at the to women looking at her.

"My name is Fa Mulan and this is Aurora. I would like to welcome you to the Enchanted Forest. But I would also like to know who you are." Emma was right the other lady is Sleeping Beauty. She might have just lot her mind because Emma's self-proclaimed lie detector isn't going off. She almost believes that this is real; somehow she is in an enchanted forest with fairytale characters.

"I am Emma Swan."

"Emma Swan. Nice to meet you. Here are some clothes. Yours seemed to be ripped and just slightly different from ours. Some things happened in this land and seeing someone from somewhere different might lead the other to worry. I would like to help you get home. I have one question. Do you come from a place with magic?"Mulan said while Emma eyed the clothes and looked down at herself and realized how terrible she must look.

"Magic? No. Thank you for the clothes. Does this place have magic?" She responded with slight skepticism.

"Yes. Only certain people know how to use it. Anyhow it seems you come from a land without magic and because neither I nor Aurora has magic I must send you off to someone else who might be able to assist you in getting home. He. Um... have many positions he might just have a magic bean to help you get home."

"Okay. Um. Who is this friend of yours?"

"His name is Robin. Robin Hood. I will step outside and get you set up for your travel while Aurora helps you with the corset on that dress." Mulan left the tent and Aurora tells Emma to undress behind a changing screen. Once she got the dress to cover herself, Aurora comes behind to lace up the corset of the dress and Emma almost feels like Rose from the Titanic. Once she is changed. Aurora tells her to sit down while she brushed Emma's hair. A few Minutes? later Mulan comes back with a satchel filled with some gold, a compass, and a map. Mulan shows Emma the way to use the compass and which path to follow to get to Robin Hood and his Merry Men.

"Once you get there, tell them Mulan sent you and they will help you. They are good friends of mine. I almost joined his group of Merry Men. It was nice to meet you, Emma."

"Yes. Thank you both very much." So Emma walks in the direction Mulan pointed her to. Mulan told her it would a half an hour journey walking. They offered her a horse but she didn't know how to ride one so now she has to walk to meet Robin Hood. Emma Swan seriously has to look back at the last few hours of her life. She sees a man named Lancelot standing guard for Mulan and Aurora. And Mulan tells that Robin Hood might be able to help her get home. The weirdest thing is that she believes it. They didn't seem like they were lying to her, or crazy or even trying to cause her to harm they seem to actually care. That in it of itself is difficult for Miss Emma Swan to understand because no one she ever knew wanted to help her even the nicest social workers or foster parents, clearly because if they helped her she wouldn't have been alone for her entire life.

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Emma's feet were getting tired. She walked that whole damn forest to get that safe haven to then walk farther into a different part of the forest so yes her feet were killing her. Luckily for her, she hears voices up ahead. She figured she was getting closer. But then she felt an arrow fly by her face. That immediately told her she had found Robin Hood.

"That M'lady was a warning shot. Who are you and what are you doing in these parts; the safe haven is in the other direction." Emma turned around to the sound of the man's voice and put her hands up in surrender looking at the arrow that he had directed at her.

"My name is Emma Swan. Fa Mulan at the Safe Haven told me that she believed that her friend Robin Hood would be able to help me get back to my home. One which she called a Land Without Magic. Aside from looking for Robin Hood, I would like to find a place to rest. I have no clue where I am. I woke up in the forest many miles away from the safe haven walked there and then I walked in the complete opposite direction for the safe haven back into a completely unknown forest in search for a man that I believed to be a legend by a woman with the name of another legend. So I am completely tired and frankly scared out of my mind." She had no clue why she said all that to that man but he lowered his bow and arrow, walked closer to Emma.

"It is nice to meet you, Miss Emma Swan. I am Robin of Loxley but most call me Robin Hood. If you would follow me I can try to help you on both fronts."

"Thank you. Everyone here is a lot more kind than the people of my land."

"Then m'lady you might have been in the wrong land this whole time."

"Maybe I have." Emma wondered as she walked with Robin Hood. Maybe she has found somewhere she belonged. But just having that thought made her feel crazy. So she walked with Robin and tried not to think about the fact that the only version of is story was told using animals as the characters where Robin Hood was a fox. Clearly, Mr. Walt Disney made a mistake or she has completely lost her mind. At the current moment, she thinks she is just really tired. Robin Hood escorts her to an unoccupied tent and tells her to rest. The minute she lays down she falls into another dreamless slumber.