"Ow my head." As the magic lifts, Ashley has finally remembered. She becomes angry. "Rumpel!" Then she hears a mob. "Oh no! Regina!"
She panics and then thinks of an idea. She runs to the edge of the forest. "Okay, if magic is back, this should work." She pulls out her necklace and attached to it was a whistle with a skull on it. She blows into it hard and sound erupted into a scream of pain.
Black smoke swirled into the air and right in front of her, it became larger and then neighs were heard. A black stallion gallops out of the portal. The horse goes to Ella and rubs his nose to her.
"Oh, Phantom. I've missed you so.. Has the darkness treated you well?" She asks, she strokes his mane. She gets on. "We have to save Her Majesty! Howdy ho!" He neighs and the darkness enraptures her and she comes out wearing armor.
Phantom gallops to the Mayor's house. As they got closer, Ella slows him down and they hide out of sight.
She hears the conversation.
"We should lock her up for her own sake." Snow says.
"Oh, dear, we'll save her at the jail." She turns him around and off they go. They had to take the back ways so no one can see them. They finally got close enough but Phantom suddenly halted.
"What is it?" Ella asks and looks up and her eyes widen and quickly pulls him into an alley. "Oh of all the bad timing."
She waits for a few minutes as she spies on the right time. Rumpelstiltskin goes in and then back out on his merry way.
"I can see that he doesn't really care about me!" She angrily murmurs. The horse agrees. They look for anyone else and the coast was clear. "Let's go!"
They go in front of the sheriff's office. Ella gets off and runs in, surprising Regina.
"What- Who are you?" She demands.
Ella takes off her helmet. "Your Majesty, I'm so glad to see you're all right." Ella starts looking through a desk for the keys.
"Ella, why are you wearing that? More importantly, why are you here?"
"Regina, whether or not you feel the same way. You are my best friend. I would never abandon you." She finds what she is looking for. "Ah ha!" She unlocks Regina's cell.
Regina gets out and looks at Ella gratefully. "Thank you. I only wish you came here sooner."
"I apologize. You see my ride is not inconspicuous." She takes Regina's hand and leads the way. "Come on, we have to hurry before they come back."
They got outside and Regina looks at Phantom in shock. "Isn't that..?"
"Yep, Phantom from the Headless Horseman, which technically was me. Remember the teacher and no one was available..?"
"Oh, right and this is the demon horse who only comes with the whistle to the 'Chosen One'."
"Yep, now come on." Ella puts back her helmet and hops on. She gives a hand to Regina and she gets on.
"Let's go, Phantom!" He gallops toward the forest.
"Where are we going?" Regina asks.
"To a place, no one will suspect. My house."
"What, why would you-"
"No, not that one. The house that killed my step-family." Ella grins. "Faster, Phantom!" He gallops so fast that his legs turned into black smoke.
In about 10 minutes, they were at the secluded house with scorch marks.
"Voila, home sweet home." Ella announces.
"You did it, didn't you?"
"Do what?" Ella asks.
"Ella, did you set the fire that killed them?"
Ella laughs. "Oh, I wish, but no faulty wiring and too many appliances killed them."
They got off of Phantom.
Regina touches her hand.
"Regina, what's wrong?" Ella looks at her hand and sees the mark. "What is this?"
"The mark of a wraith. A soul sucker. Ella, it's going to come find me and I shouldn't have dragged you into this."
"Where'd you get this?" She asks, concerned.
"Who else do you think?"
"Rumpel. I'll deal with but for now I need to protect you. How can I kill it?"
"You can't kill something that's already dead!"
"Then how about sending it elsewhere?"
This made Regina pause and smile. "That might work, but we need to go back into town."
"Okay."
It was already nightfall and there seemed to be a storm a brewing. The three were near the Sheriff's office.
"What the-! Regina!" Emma calls out as she sees her on the back of the horse. Snow White and David came out.
Ella pulled out her sword, that was attached to the armor. "I will not let you take her away."
Regina stops her. "It's alright." She looks like she didn't want to but had to. She told them about the wraith.
"How do we stop it?" David asks.
"Already tried that. It's already dead. We need to send it away."
"Our land is gone due to the curse. We can send it there."
"How?"
Ghoulish wails are heard.
"It's a ghost, so to speak. Get fire!" Ella yells. Snow goes in to the office.
The wraith tries to attack Regina and Ella hits it with her sword. "Leave her ALONE!"
It knocks her off of Phantom and onto the ground. She groans in pain.
The wraith starts sucking Regina's soul and just then Snow comes with a lighter and a can of hairspray. She lights a tremendous fire and drives it away.
Regina catches her breath.
Ella slowly gets up. Phantom nudges her up.
"Thank you." She pets his nose and she goes to Regina. "Are you okay?"
"Yes, we need to go to my office, immediately. That is going to come back soon."
"Okay, but before we go." Emma turns to the masked Ella. "Who are you?"
"The scorned wife of Ronald Gold!" Ella takes off her helmet. "I should have known there was one before me. No wonder he wanted to name Alexandria, Belle so much."
"Where is your baby?" Snow asks her.
"With Archie. He's the best person to take care of her." She smiles, sadly. "Also I prepared a fail-safe if anything bad would happen to me."
"Okay."
They quickly got to the Mayor's office. Ella stayed outside as a lookout.
"Oh, Phantom. Do you know what happened to our world?" She asked as she sat on his back.
He nodded. "What?" She comments in surprise. Before he could respond, he cries out. She looks and sees the wraith.
"It's here!" She screams, warning the others. She charges at it and swings her sword. She hits it but then it flies high above and over her.
"Damn it." Ella gets off of Phantom and rushes in there. He neighs at her in worry. "Don't worry, I'll be back. I promise."
She gets to the top floor and sees everybody and the wraith.
"Die!" She charges after it and Regina got the hat to work. It started spinning. Ella fell in the vortex after the wraith, then Emma as she pushes Regina away. Snow dives in after them.
Ella realizing what was happening, hurried and put her sword away. She twisted her body so she was going to fall on her back. "I'm going to save them even if I couldn't protect Regina." She puts her arms out and braces herself.
Please review and tell me if I should continue. Also this is the Season 2 edition of my Cinderella and Rumpelstiltskin.