So this was my first ever fanfic... Actually it was more or less my first ever creative writing. I wrote two short parts, and even though I had lots of ideas for it, half a year later I've barely touched it. So it's chances of it ever being completed are... slim. But I do have a fairly complete plan of where this story would go, so who knows, maybe I'll get hit with the motivation to finish it.

This part is just a scene form the show to set the stage, the different stuff is in the next part. (Though I went into Zelena's thoughts quite a bit, so this is worth reading)

Zelena felt so nervous, as she quickly walked down the gold and green corridor towards the wizard's chamber. She had been to the emerald city multiple times in her life but this was different. Was this a good idea? She had to get away from her father and look for her roots, but maybe the most powerful and terrifying man in all of OZ was not the best place to start...

But no, he was her best bet, and she wasn't going to wast any more time! and well, she didn't have another plan anyway.

As she approach the doors, two guard in ridiculous hats moved aside to let her in. 'No going back now' she thought, and walked towards the doors.

They opened without her so much as touching them, revealing the grand room behind. Brightly lit green and gold, with structures the like of which she had never seen, and for a moment she forgot all about being nervous. But as she approach the curtain in the centre of the room, which bore the word "OZ" upon it, fire arose from the ground startling her back. Then a voice spoke, a voice attached to no body and was so loud, not unlike some fantasy monster.

"I've been expecting you" it said. And as she watched, the out line of a giant figure formed behind the curtain. 'He really is powerful' she thought 'I must not panic, this is good, if he is so powerful then he must be able to tell me what I so much want to know'

"How did you know I was coming?" she said not bothering to hide her curiosity.

"I see all, I am oz the great and terrible" At that point the flames gushed out of the ground forcing her back again "You've come because you wish to find your family" is all the figure's says in reply. Zelena would be surprised he knew what she wanted, but it seems surprise is something with a limited supply and with all the things that happened today she is completely out.

"Can you help me?" she asked the question that she really needed answering

"I will show you what you seek to know" the wizard said, giving her hope, then he followed it with "But I warn you it won't be easy for you" Causing doubt to seep into her thoughts 'I have to know though don't I?' she did not get a chance to ponder it, because the ground beneath her feet began to swirl, she quickly moved back as pictures began to form. The image of a woman carrying a baby in a basket, 'probably me" she realised, and more importantly...

"Is that my mother?" she asked

"Her name was Cora" Cora. Her mother's name was Cora "She gave birth to you in another land" the wizard said as the woman lay the basket with little baby her in it down on ground, and moved away "A cyclone struck and carried you to this world" at this point Zelena didn't really care how she got to Oz, still stuck on her mother leaving her in the woods.

"Why did she abandon me?"she asked

"You couldn't give her the one thing she truly wanted. The ability to become royalty" 'my own mother abandoned me for that?' thought Zelena, she than noticed the scene in the floor had changed. It now showed an unfamiliar girl, about her own age,

"Who's that?" she said, pointing at brunette in the floor.

"Your sister, Regina" Well, apparently she was not all out of surprise, because that, that she did not see coming, finding out about her birth mother was scary and exciting, but well, she knew she must had one. And even when she did not know about this one, she had a mother, a dead mother, one that, when she was alive, told her to hide her magic, but a mother all the same. A sister though? A sister she had never had. She always wanted one though, someone your age, who is family, that you know completely, and who can always understand you. But she never had anyone like that, except apparently she did.

"Wait, I've got a sister?"

"Your sister could do what your mother wished. Regina became queen" 'my sister is a queen?' She thought 'just like our mother wanted. Just like I never could be'

She glanced down again to this time see a man, a strange man with skin all gold and scaly, clothed in what looked like crocodile skin. He was with Regina showing her a jewel or something. As if she didn't have enough, what with her being queen and all.

"Who is that man?"

"That is Rumpelstiltskin, a very powerful wizard, the most powerful in all the realms. Like you, Regina has the gift of magic" Her sister in the image was trying to conjure the jewel Rumpelstiltskin had shown her, and failing "But she has been unable to develop it" The wizard finished.

"Magic is a gift?" Zelena asked, she been accidentally conjuring things since she was ten. That simple trick would have been a peace of cake for her.

"Yes, and he's trying to teach her that." The most powerful wizard in all the realms is personally teaching her sister? What, wasn't she busy enough with being queen? It's not like the girl was actually any good at magic.

She could feel the anger, and (though she would never admit it) jealousy welling up inside of her "He should be teaching me!. Not her!" She turned back to the silhouette on the curtain "I need to meet this wizard I'll pay whatever you desire. Just, please. Tell me how to get there"

The silhouette waved it's hand and said "Look down" when she did just that, she saw a beautiful pair of silver slippers that shimmering in the light, and looking completely out of place with her commoner clothing.

"When you click your heels together three times, those slippers will take you wherever you desire"

"Well, what do you want in return" Because he must want something, she knew that the shoes she now wore were very powerful magic

"I simply ask that you bring me something of Rumpelstiltskins" OK, that seemed easy enough.

"Be careful" Zelena looked back up at the wizard as he continue to talk "It is one thing to wonder about your past, but another to become envious of things you cannot have"

She won't, this is about making her mess of a life a little better, and she would not let an emotion such as envy stop her. Having said that she did get a bit emotional over all her sister had... No she'll be fine, she will ignore Regina and concentrate on her own life. she takes a deep breath and clicks her heels together. One.. Two.. Three.