A/N:

In honor of the brilliant idea of role reversals in the upcoming Operation Mongoose season 4 finale (but I heard fan fic writers have been doing this long before, is that correct?), here's some Sea Devil AU.

I get so many feels imagining Sea Devil in these characters WEARING THESE COSTUMES or variations of them (like showing more cleavage?), getting into these scenarios and saying these lines (with slight alterations). Like OMG, this is making me happy. Freak out with me, okay? I see it clearly; they are so cute in these scenarios. Well cute for now, cos as we know, more angst is coming in OUAT ships.

Feel free to make edits or draw them in these costumes, maybe with some fur or show some tentacles or what. Tag me on Twitter or Tumblr so we can go crazy together in the lava of amazingness of Sea Devil.

Upcoming OUAT ships are Rumbelle, Outlaw Queen (w/o Zelenarian), Swan Queen and Swan Fire.

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Snowing

Cru - Charming

Urs - Snow

Madeline - Evil Queen

Prince Fienberg - Princess Abigail

Based on "Snow Falls" set in the EF

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Princess Cruella immediately rode the horse to run after the thief. With her determination and the agility of her favorite horse, she was able to caught up with the thief in no time and began tackling so they would both fall out of the horses.

"Show your face, you coward!" Just as she was about to hit the thief, she stopped in shock when she saw the face.

"Surprised?" the thief mocked Cruella.

"It's just I've never seen a woman thief in the forest before." Cruella stopped and said in amazement, so much so that the thief strategically hit her in the chin with a rock. Cruella fell over as the thief ran to the horse and fled.

Seeing that her own horse ran away, she gave up the chase for now but screamed, "You can't hide from me! Wherever you are, I will find you!"

The thief looked back with a smile of success on her brown face.

Ursula went back to her tree cave to gather her things and be on the move again. As she headed out, much to her surprise she found herself suddenly caught in a net; a trap tied to a tree. She then heard the most evil laugh, off course only secondary to the evil laugh of her stepmother, Madeline.

"I told you I'd find you." Ursula felt a pang of hatred when she heard the voice of her captor. As much as she's irritated, she's also starting to process the fact that the princess who captured her has a half black, half white hair with strong eyebrow makeup. Weird. Apparently, she missed this part earlier. Well she was striving to survive and escape.

"No matter what you do, darling, I will always find you." the two tone haired woman mocked her.

"Is this the only way you can catch a citizen of the forest? By entrapping her." Ursula snarked.

"It's the only way to catch a thieving scum."

Ursula smilingly answered, "Aren't you a real princess charming?"

"I have a name you know, darling."

"Don't care; Charming suits you. Oh and stop calling me darling. Now cut me down, Charming."

Cruella was beginning to be amused with all this. "So you can call me Charming but I can't call you darling? The thing is, I call everyone that. And I'll release you when you return the leather pouch you stole with my blood diamonds."

"Not the jewelry type."

"Indeed, I noticed." Cruella enjoyingly teased the woman in the net.

"What is that supposed to mean? Are you insulting me?"

"You're quite right. My apologies. How dare I cast aspersions at the person who robbed me. Where are my diamonds?

"I sold them." Ursula said proudly.

"What?!"

"What do you care? Don't you have a palace full of treasures somewhere?"

"These were special. Among them was an heirloom, a diamond necklace that belonged to my mother, that I was about to give..."

"The nag with the bad attitude? That's what this is about?"

"If you must know, darling, I have a fiancee, with a mother who doesn't like me at all. So I was gonna give it to her as a gift."

"Good luck with that. You must be getting something impressive to have agreed to that union."

"Excuse me?" Cruella hated the fact that this woman thief was able to deduce what's happening but she needed to act like she's being misunderstood.

Ursula without hesitation answered, "I know how this works. True love? It doesn't exist. It's all arranged marriages and business transactions. There's no such thing as love at first sight or first kiss."

Cruella continued to smile and act like what this woman in the net was saying something false.

Ursula continued, "Let me guess. This fiancee's kingdom wants to take over yours, and this is, what, a last ditch effort to avoid war?"

"Darling, this is not a take-over. It... it's a merger. And quite frankly, it's none of your business. Now this is what's going to happen. I'm going to cut you down."

"Mhhmm."

"And you will take me to whoever has my jewels, and then you're going to get my necklace back."

"Mhhmm. Why would I do that?"

"Because you don't want me to tell anyone who you really are."

Ursula stiffened wondering what could that mean, as slowly, this black and white haired princess pulled out a poster from her jacket. It has Ursula's photo on it, along with the words, "Wanted for crimes against the Queen: Murder, Treason, Treachery."

Cruella then proudly said, "Ursula."

Ursula froze. Cruella continued with her upper hand in this situation, "Help me get my necklace back, or I turn you over to the Queen's forces. And I have a feeling the queen's not as ... Charming as I am?"

Ursula faced and accepted defeat, and finally spoke, "Well, I wouldn't want to stand in the way of your getting "true love." Cruella then cut the net to set Ursula free.

They began their journey into the forest. As they were walking side by side, Cruella noticed something in Ursula's neck.

"I thought you weren't the jewelry type, darling. What's that around your neck?"

"Don't worry about it." Ursula mindlessly answered.

Cruella as impatient as she is, suddenly grabbed that thing in the other woman's neck. In which then Ursula jumped and screamed, "Careful! It's a weapon."

"What, dust? What kind of weapon is dust?"

"If you must know, Princess Charming, even a jar of dirt can prove beneficial. But that, is fairy dust." She tried to grab the mini bottle but this two toned hair woman with strong eyebrow make-up is taller than her.

"I thought that was a good thing." Cruella asked.

"When it comes from a good fairy. This stuff is deadly. It transforms the most fearsome of adversaries into a form that's easily squashed." Ursula grabbed the mini bottle once again but to no avail.

"Then why didn't you use it on me?"

"'Cause you're not worth it." Cruella laughed when she heard that remark.

"It's very hard to come by. I'm saving it for a special someone."

"The Queen. Clever. You've got a lot of anger there, don't you, Ursula?"

Ursula hated it when her motives are being understood. Because the next step to that is people act like they can control her, that they know the exact next steps she would be taking. Amidst this defeated feeling yet again, there's some chill that went into her when this princess called her by her name for the first time.

"The charges on her posters are lies. Didn't stop her from sending her hunting dogs to rip out my heart."

"What happened?"

"Well good thing I was a sorceress before. So I kind of improvised. I used to have tentacles but she found a way to disable them. But during the attack of the dogs, I was able to try some magic and it worked."

Cruella can't help but be impressed by this brown skinned woman who happened to be a former sorceress and a princess but now a surviving bandit. If there's anything Cruella knows best and can take pride of is the ability to survive.

"But now my magic is waning. I've been hiding in the forest ever since, trying to amass some fortune to leave this place, escape to another realm. Somewhere isolated, where I can never be hurt."

"Sounds lonely." Cruella replied as if to challenge Ursula to get out of that fate, because she knows full well what lonely means, as she is headed that way with Prince Feinberg.

"No lonelier than an arranged marriage." There it is. Yet Cruella secretly admires this woman's sensitivity and smartness.

But she needed to act stand-offish and said, "At least I don't prey on the innocent."

"Up until now, I've only ever stolen from the Queen. I thought your carriage was one of hers. No one else uses that road."

"We took the scenic route."

"Well, lucky for me. All I'm doing, Charming, is what it takes to survive. She wants me dead."

Ursula turned her back and began walking. Cruella followed.

"So uhh... darling, what did you do to incur that much wrath?"

"She blames me for ruining her life."

"Did you?"

"Yes." Ursula was faced with that truth again.

They continued with their journey in silence.

At some point they came across a stream. Ursula asked Cruella if they can take a rest and drink up to which Cruella agreed. Cruella herself drank some water from the stream, drank gin from her flask, then scooped up some water from the stream again. Ursula used this opportunity to hit the other woman, grab the pouch with gold, and escape from this alliance.

Ursula ran like the tsunami but as the tsunami of fate would have it, she accidentally ran towards the direction where Queen Madeline's Black Knights were. Without the fairy dust to protect her, she was captured. She thought she was finally going to be murdered, but a knife suddenly flew towards the Black Knight's back.

It was Cruella who threw the knife, and came in dashing and began sword fighting the remaining men. Ursula ran but was captured by another knight on a horse. She was figuring out a way to jump from the horse, when all of a sudden a shot of arrow came into their way. This knight had been hit by Cruella, again. As soon as the knight fell, Ursula rode the horse and ran away, only to stop and meet with Cruella.

"Darling, you scared the hell out of me. Are you alright?

"You... you saved me." Ursula said in amazement.

"Seemed like the honorable thing to do. Are you ready?"

"For what?" Ursula asked as she became confused hearing the other woman's words.

"My blood diamonds."

Ursula snapped and understood, as she replied, "Right. You've got a wedding to get to. The trolls I sold them to are just beyond the next ridge. We need to be careful."

"What, of trolls?" Cruella asked very innocently.

"You've clearly never met one."

"Aren't they just little people?"

"You're thinking of dwarves. Show a little respect. They'll cut your hand off sooner than they'll shake it."

"Well then, let's get this over with, darling."

"Yes, we've both got places to be. So let's go."

"You have your lonely little corner of solitude to find..."

"And you have your fiancee's mother to appease with jewelry."

They continued in their journey until they reached the troll bridge. Ursula sent the horse away because trolls don't like horses.

Ursula was nervous to deal with trolls again but she didn't have any choice.

She authoritatively instructed the other woman, "Follow me and keep quiet."

Cruella isn't one to follow orders unless truly necessary, like her engagement to Prince Feinberg. Even so, she curses and snarks to herself about this fiancee fiasco whenever she's alone.

They walked towards the middle of the bridge. Ursula laid down the gold coins at the platform, and a few seconds later, the trolls emerged from all directions towards them.

Ursula spoke like a boss, "It's fine. I know them."

One troll enquired, "Why are you here? I thought we were done."

"I wanna make another trade."

Trolls are careful creatures. They didn't wish to continue the conversation without knowing who is the other woman with Ursula.

Ursula assured them, "No, she's with me."

"Oh that's good. With you. That makes it all fine." The same troll answered.

"Oh, she's no one. Look, I want to buy back the jewels I sold you."

"Who is she?"

"I said don't worry about it! Look I'll give you back all your money. You just give me the necklace. You can keep everything else."

The trolls exchanged looks, then one of them handed out the jewels to Cruella, as she spoke, "Thank you. We appreciate the help." Those words alarmed the trolls; they thought this was a set-up.

"It's not a set-up!" Ursula screamed.

The same troll screamed at Cruella and prepared to charge, "She's a royal!" The bridge beast then hostaged Ursula while the others attacked Cruella. Cruella got her sword and screamed, "Let her go!" But they were outnumbered and the trolls strangled her too.

Ursula thought, "If only I have my tentacles, this will all be a piece of cake." But she didn't have it. Not anymore. Nor her singing voice.

And so, the practical thing to do is to reason, "No! You can trust me! Look, you can trust me! If I wanted to set you up, I would have. Don't hurt us!"

The trolls are getting more aggressive, "The time for dealing is done. Search her."

The other trolls inspected all the pockets in Cruella's jacket. They even found the mini bottle of fairy dust but they didn't know of its powers. Then they searched her bag and found the Wanted poster of Ursula. The trolls cheered, until their leader spoke, "Ursula. Quite a reward. Take her."

Sneakily, Cruella was able pick her sword up and began fighting them. She glanced at Ursula and instructed her, "Go! I'm right behind you." Ursula picked the fairy dust bottle and the pouch, and ran.

Cruella continued fighting, overthrowing one troll to the cliff. As she tried to run away from the bridge, one troll coming from under, grabbed her foot until all of them were dragging her.

Ursula continued running without looking back, "Follow me! They don't know the forest like I do..." When no one answered behind her back, that's the only time she realized her companion didn't make it. She saw Cruella being attacked in the bridge. She was then troubled with what to do next. Escaping is a luxurious option.

Cruella was being strangled in the bridge. The leader troll is ready to cut her head off, "Royal blood is the sweetest of them all," but to everyone's amazement, the blood thirsty troll suddenly turned into a bug. Everyone then saw Ursula in front of them. She used the remaining fairy dust to turn the other trolls into bugs.

Cruella stood up as Ursula approached her, "Dah... darling, you... you saved me."

Ursula smiled seeing Cruella safe, "It's the honorable thing to do."

Cruella shot a confused look at the empty bottle, then turned back her gaze at Ursula and said, "What about your special someone?"

Ursula looked at the empty bottle then threw it on the ground, "I'll think of something else. Who knows I might find a way to get my tentacles back." Though she knew, that was a long shot.

Still shocked at how Ursula would just throw away her only weapon against the Queen, Cruella answered, "Thank you." They began picking their things up so they can leave that beast bridge.

"How could I let Darling Princess Charming die?"

Cruella began to wear a smile. Ursula called her 'darling', along that hideous but a little bit cute nickname, 'charming.'

"I told you. I have a name. It's Cruella."

Ursula started smiling too, "It's nice to meet you, Cruella."

That smile faded quickly though and Ursula sternly said, "We should go. There may be more of them coming."

They started walking away and in less than half an hour, they arrived nearby Cruella's castle.

Cruella turned so she and Ursula are standing face to face, as she began to pull the pouch from under her bra. "Oh, you probably want this, darling."

"Right, the gold. Thank you." Ursula got the pouch and kept it safely in her vest. "And, um, you can't get married without this." She handed the pouch with the blood diamond necklace to Cruella.

As the practical princess that she is, Cruella inspected the necklace heirloom. She lifted it and eyed Ursula, "I know. Not your style."

Feeling teased, Ursula grabbed the necklace, "Well, there's only one way to find out."

She put it over her ample bosom and liked how it looked on her. Cruella stared too, and enjoyed how it looked on this impressive woman. This lasted a moment.

Ursula finally spoke, "Yeah, not me at all." She handed the necklace over, and continued, "I'm sure your fiancee's mother will love it. You would finally win her over, and you and fiancee would live happily ever after."

Cruella grasped for breath before saying a hesitated "Yeah."

"If I may ask though, since we're... luckily progressive in this land, this fiancee of yours... is it a guy... or a girl?"

"It's a guy. He's Prince Feinberg of the Southern Isles."

"Oh, I see." Ursula felt disappointed but she snapped out of it quickly so it won't show in her face.

Cruella saw the changes in Ursula's facial expressions though, and she actually liked it. "But darling, I wouldn't mind marrying a girl too, you know." It's true. Cruella had been with other girls too.

"Oh, okay." Ursula was shocked but a slight smile returned to her face. It took a few seconds before she spoke again, "We both got what we wanted."

"Well, wherever you're going, be careful. If you need anything..."

"You'll find me." Ursula quickly answered.

A moment as they keep gazing at each other.

"Always." Cruella smiled as she looked at Ursula in such an awe.

But that moment was interrupted when Ursula spoke, "I almost believed that."

Cruella still wearing that smile when Ursula began to pick her things up.

"Well, goodbye, Ursula." She made a bowing gesture.

Ursula imitated and bowed too, "Goodbye, Darling Princess Charming."

"I told you, it's Cruella."

"Nah. Still like "charming" better or "darling charming."

They both chuckled, and then Ursula turned to walk towards the other direction.

Cruella stood as this impressive, former tentacled woman and former princess of a survivor, walked away from her without looking back. There was an air of discontentment but as realistic as she is, she turned and made her journey towards her castle.

Ursula then looked back to see this curious, black and white haired, selfless princess charming, walk away from her. There was an air of gloom but as practical as she is, as always, she snapped out of it and made her way towards her next hideout.

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A/N: I enjoyed antagonizing Prince Feinberg and called him Prince Feinberg of the Southern Isles. Lol. Hmmm... Frozen cross-over? The Southern Isles thing was something I thought on the fly, but it can be totally workable.