Chapter 1 In the dead of the night.
The car door slams shut and at a wheel lies a mysterious figure. The sky is pitch black and the wind is cold the black bug blends in the darkness that surrounds Storybrooke at this late hour. The two front seats are filled two adults but in the back resides a two-year-old boy strapped into a car seat. The toddler has a small blanket over him to keep out the cold and on that blanket, the name Neal is written on! The two adults know they haven't got much time before Snow, David and Emma are altered to the two-year-old's absence. The adult sat next to the driver pulls out a magic bean from her pocket and nods at the driver to start the car. The driver drives the car straight towards some traffic lights. In the front passenger seat, the woman who window down throws the magic bean at the ground just before the car reaches the light the bean opens a portal which the car heads straight through leaving Storybrooke!
The following morning, the Charmings wake up and Snow is surprised to hear no cries or giggling coming from Neal's room. Snow walks into Neal's room and gaps upon seeing the empty cot. Snow calls for David at the top her lungs tears already falling down her cheeks. David runs into the bedroom carrying his sword and nothing could be prepared David for what he would discover.
"Snow, what's wrong Neal where is," David asks already fearing he knows the answer.
"My baby, he gone we have to find David somebody has taken our baby," Snow cried out.
"Go and call Emma while I'll phone Regina," David instructed Snow ran into the living room where she picks up her mobile and phones Emma praying she be awake.
"Hey, mom what's up," Emma asks answering the phone first time.
"Emma it's your bro...brother he's been kidnapped," Snow tells her daughter Snow
"WHAT" Emma shouts both in anger and the need for confirmation Emma already started forming tears in her eyes from the silence of her mother. Neal, her baby brother is missing the one she swore to protect like Henry!
"He's gone we have to find him, Emma I don't understand how this could have happened.
"I'm coming over now" Emma replies before she teleports over to the loft in a poof white smoke and appears next to her mother and ends the call.
"We're going to find them," Regina said just after appearing from some purple smoke standing next to Snow as David enters the living room.
"Dad, I need you to check for any physical evidence around the loft while me, and Regina try and look for any possible traces of magic," Emma instructs. David searched the loft and found no sign of forced entry and no fingerprints. Emma searched Neal's bedroom for any traces of magic and found something. Regina is in the kitchen and after using her magic on the surfaces floor to locate any traces of magic but finds none. However, when Regina reaches the sink she notices two unwashed mugs in the sink. Regina picks one up of the mugs and takes a small whiff and stumbles back for a moment which alarms Snow and David.
"Regina what's wrong are you okay," Snow asked.
"Yes, but I've found something Emma come down now," Regina shouts and a minute later Emma is with them in the living room.
"Whatever Snow and David had last night was laced with a potent sleeping potion that put them out for the night it was made to last until morning," Regina tells the Charmings and Emma.
"That's not all in Neal's bedroom there traces of light magic I think someone teleported themselves in there once or twice," Emma says.
"Is the magic's signature familiar,"? Regina asks Emma.
"No, it's new but can we track where the magic comes from Regina to the owner of the magic," Emma questions Regina praying for yes.
"Yes, Emma go back up to the room and collect some of the magic in this enchanted vial," Regina instructs as she conjures the enchanted vial that manifests from some purple smoke.
Emma collected some of the leftover magic from Neal's room easily. After Emma collected some of the leftover magic. Regina used her magic to release the leftover magic. The leftover magic left the loft with the aim of returning to its owner. The leftover magic leads the Charmings, Emma and Regina to the lights where the magic bean was used and all they saw was scorch marks from where the magic bean was thrown. Before Emma, the Charmings or Regina could comment Emma phone begins to ring Emma answers her phone only to receive terrible and disturbing news.
"Hello," Emma says to the person on the other side end.
"Mrs Swan, I have some terrible news King George has escaped his cell," The doctor on the other end said.
"What, how could that happen," Emma shouts down the phone.
"I don't know the door so no signs of forced entry," The doctor tells Emma.
"I have to go," Emma replies before hanging up.
"What's wrong what's happened," David asks his daughter
"George has escaped his cell," Emma told her parents and her parents are already filling with more rage.
"How, when" David questions his daughter.
"I don't know but I'm betting he's the one that kidnapped Neal," Emma said.
"He must know somebody who practices magic and if these scorch marks are a result of a magic bean being used we know the monsters have taken my son your brother to another realm," David replies.
"We need the Apprentice's wand or a bean something," Emma says.
"The Apprentice's wand was destroyed when Zelena was sending people back to the Enchanted Forest after Hades died but I'll go over to Tiny's farm where he grows beans to see if any are harvested," Regina told Emma and the Charmings before teleporting to the bean farm in some purple smoke.
Regina appears right before Tiny the human-sized giant from a poof of purple smoke. If it was anyone outside of Storybrooke, they would have been surprised but since quite a few of Storybrooke residents possess magic teleportation can be seen throughout everyday life.
"Tiny, you're still here," Regina says.
"Yes, but my beans someone has destroyed all of them," Tiny replied as he points over to the fields that carry dead magic beans.
"They knew we would come here to get a bean to follow them George had his partner use magic to destroy the beans so we couldn't follow," Regina said.
"These were the last of the beans I can't grow anymore they contaminated the ground too," Tiny tells Regina.
"What am I going to tell Emma and her parents,"? Regina asks herself.
"I don't know what to suggest Regina," Tiny spoke.
"That sweet bubbly child oh Henry how is he going to cope losing his nephew," Regina says.
End of chapter 1.