Disclaimer: Once Upon A Time does not belong to me! All characters and references to the show belong to ABC and Channel 5.

It was a normal day in the land of fairytales, princesses were marrying princes, fairy's were making fairy dust, and evil queens were feeding pretty girls poisoned apples.

Then, a terrible plague hit, turning the residents of Fairytale Land into carnivorous, rampaging zombies.

These beings are fast, their numbers are increasing, and worst of all, magic doesn't work on them.

Who did the infected find? Who were the ones who were devoured?

And, more importantly, who survived?

Once Upon A Time: Zombie Apocalypse

Chapter 1

They were everywhere.

All over the village, the infected were forcing their way into the homes of her people, dragging out the screaming, fighting, crying humans and consuming their flesh.

And Queen Regina could do nothing, for she was trapped by the starving hoards, who were fighting to get in, pounding on the door and roaring.

Despite her begging him not to, her huntsman had tried to get out there, to protect the people, and they had taken him the second he had walked through the door.

He was gone. One of Them.

And what could Regina do? She was trapped inside her bedroom, with no means of escape.

Except...

Regina strode to her full length mirror, it was the last thing she wanted to do, but she was desperate.

She stood in front of the mirror, and called for help.

"Hello?" she called to her reflection "Can anyone hear me? Please, help me! I'm trapped, they've taken everyone. Is anyone there?" she begged.

A wave of panic took her as her reflection stayed exactly that, a reflection. Those things were going to break through the castle door any minuet, she was going to die-

Then, the glass rippled, and the Evil Queens breath caught as she saw who was in the mirror.

She had expected Maleficent at the very least, maybe even the Blue Fairy, but she never expected-

"Hello, Dearie" said Rumplestiltskin, his clothes were torn, and covered in blood, but he was grinning all over his impish face as he stared through the mirror at Regina "Need a hand?"

Regina nodded, desperation taking over completely "Help me!" she begged.

Rumplestiltskin's grin grew wider.

OUAT

"Thomas!" Ella screamed, scanning the village around her castle as the carriage she had escaped into sped away from the infected hoard. "Thomas! Where are you?!"

"ELLA!"

She nearly cried with relief, there he was, running as fast as he could to the carriage, screaming his wife's name as he sprinted, the zombies following. They were catching up.

"THOMAS! RUN!" Ella screamed, opening the carriage door and reaching out to him, leaning out as far as she could, her golden hair flying in her face.

Thomas caught her hand, momentarily running alongside the speeding carriage before Ella tugged him inside. She slammed the door shut as the hoard attempted to close in on the horses leading it, and as Ella pulled her husband into a sitting position, a wave of paralysing fear caught her as she say the infected at the castle gates, attempting to prevent their escape.

"Oh my gods...HURRY!" Ella screamed at the driver, and she heard the crack of the whip as he attempted to make the horses run harder.

Out of the windows, Ella and Thomas could see Them, running alongside the carriage, their bloody, insane faces contorted in fury as they attempted to stop the carriage.

This was supposed to be the happiest day of my life, she thought as thousands of bloodthirsty zombies ran to the carriage, thinking back to the moment at the wedding reception, right before the horde had run in. Rumplestiltskin had just come and told her his despicable price for her happiness. Her yet to be conceived first born. At the time she had thought that nothing could've made that moment any worse.

Then They had come, the flesh eating army that was now running alongside the carriage, the blood on their flesh and clothing still shining in the moonlight.

Amongst them, Thomas saw a flash of white hair, and suddenly he could see his own father sprinting after them, his clothes and face covered in blood, roaring inhumanely at Thomas' horrified face.

"Father..." he whispered, as the carriage sped out of the castle gates that the zombies had failed to close.

For a moment, neither Thomas nor Ella could say anything. Then Ella turned to him.

"What do we do now?" she whispered, and Thomas looked at his wife, her beautiful face terrified, the lovely eyes he had so admired the night they met showing nothing but fear.

He took her hand in his, and looked into those eyes "We find somewhere safe" he said "Somewhere secure, where they can't get to us"

"Where?" Ella begged, her voice shaking as she heard a fist hit the carriage door.

Thomas suddenly looked grim, he hadn't wanted to resort to this, but now there was no other choice.

"We have to go to-"

And then they were both screaming as the infected caught the carriage, dragged off the driver, and pushed and pulled on the cart until it had come to a complete.

Stop.

OUAT

Snow White stopped, leaning against a tree as she attempted to relieve a stitch in her side. Charming turned to her, lowering his blood-stained sword as he pulled on her hand. Snow White saw it glint in the sunlight.

"No, Snow come on, we can't stop!" he said, attempting to somehow pull her through the huge forest that they had run into when the infected had started to chase them.

They were still following, and Snow White knew that if the didn't move now, they were both going to die.

"Yes, I know!" she gasped, and once again they were running.

They had been running through the forest for what felt like hours, when the horde had attacked, Charming and Snow White had been dancing at Ella's wedding ball,everything had been so lovely and peaceful. Then They had barreled into the dance hall, and almost everyone at the ball had been killed, or turned.

Suddenly, Snow White's foot caught on something, she lost her grip on Charming's hand, and fell screaming to the ground.

"Snow!" Charming cried, bending to help her up "Are you alright?"

Snow White nodded "Yes" she said, looking to the ground to see what she had tripped over "I just fell over th-"

She stopped. She thought she had tripped over a tree root or maybe a rock, but it was neither of those things.

It was a body.

She was young, maybe a little older than Snow White, her silk, gold-trimmed dress suggested that she came from either money or royalty, and her blonde hair was soaked in the blood that was seeping out of missing chunk in her neck.

"Abigail..."

Snow White turned her eyes away from the horrific sight, bile rising in her throat, at the sound of her husbands horrified whisper. He was as white as a sheet, and she could see tears in the corners of his eyes.

"What?" she whispered. Charming blinked firmly, and looked at Snow White.

"I know her. She's King Midas' daughter she...she helped me find you" his voice broke, and Snow White could see tears running down his face.

"Oh my gods..." she said, the wave of empathy bringing tears to her own eyes "James, I-"

Suddenly, she heard movement very close to them in the woods, and from the look she caught on Charming's face, he heard it too.

Slowly, they both stood up, and turned in the direction of the noise. When they first heard it, it had sounded incredibly close, almost as if it were from right behind them.

"We have to get out of here" Charming whispered, raising his sword, eyes scanning the forest for any danger.

Snow White was about to agree, when she saw a flash of light blue clothing, and a corner of a set of gossamer wings.

Snow White sighed in relief, a smile breaking out on her porcelain face "Charming, it's her! The Blue Fairy!" and she ran towards the noise.

"Snow, no! Wait!" Charming shouted, but she didn't listen, and continued to run until she came to the tree where she had seen the mystical fairy.

"Blue-" Snow White started to call out her name, but for the second time that day, her words were stopped by the terrible scene unfolding in front of her.

It was the Blue Fairy alright, but her blue clothes were covered in blood, her hair had come loose from it's usual high style, and was tangled and clotted with mud, and her hands were cut, the fingernails broken and encrusted with scarlet.

And worst of all, she was devouring the flesh from the neck of a blonde knight, who by now was definitely dead.

Snow White watched in horror as the Blue Fairy, the symbol for everything good in the world, tore another strip of flesh from the corpse she was ingesting. From where she was stood, Snow White could see the deep bite-mark in the fairy's left forearm.

She had been turned.

Slowly, she tried to back away, her stomach tightening as she tried not to vomit.

SNAP!

Snow White froze as the twig she had trodden on snapped between her foot. Panic rooted her to the spot and she stood as still as she could. Barely breathing.

The Blue Fairy had frozen too, pausing at the sudden, microscopic sound. Slowly, she turned her head, and Snow White was looking into eyes that were no longer a dark, chocolatey brown, but were now white, with small black pupils.

The princess and the fairy zombie stared at eachother, and it was at that moment that Charming caught up with his wife.

"Snow-" he too stopped a he saw the Blue Fairy, who, at the sound of his voice, jerked her head in Charming's direction. The Blue Fairy snarled, the body she had been feasting on dropped to the ground, and she took a step towards the prince and princess.

"Snow" Charming whispered again, the Blue Fairy took another step forward "We have to run. Now"

Snow White nodded, and they turned back into the forest, running as hard as they could, with the demonic Blue Fairy roaring in hunger as she pursued them.

OUAT

"Hansel!" the blonde girl cried, her head darting around the dimly lit tunnel. "Hansel! Where are you?!"

"Hansel!" called the brunette woman at her side, rubbing her bloodied hands on her blue dress "Hansel! Speak to us! Where are you?!"

"Gretel! Belle! I'm over here!"

Belle sighed in relief, the boy's voice was coming from further in the tunnel, she allowed herself a small smile as Gretel shouted furiously.

"HANSEL! Get back down here right NOW!" she bellowed, and slowly, the small, brown haired boy that had worried them so appeared in the dim light, a sheepish look on his face.

"I'm sorry" he said, moving next to his sister.

Belle knelt down so that she was eye level with the young boy, the long metal bar that had previously belonged to the door of her cell slacking in her grip.

"Hansel" she said soothingly, and he looked into her eyes "We don't know what's out there any more" she used the bar to point at the tunnel wall, where just outside rested an army of starving zombies "This is not the time to go wandering off. We all have to stay together, do you understand?"

Hansel nodded, and Belle pulled herself upright. She then positioned Hansel and Gretel on either side of her, and they continued walking down the tunnels of the Evil Queens palace.

As they walked, Belle glanced at the two children, they were barely twelve, and already she thought they were remarkable.

If it wasn't for them, I would still be trapped in that cell the damn Queen put me in.

Belle thought back to when the zombies had attacked. She had been in her damp, dirty cell, memories of the past haunting her when she heard the first scream.

A little while later, her cell had been surrounded by most of the Queens knights, reaching through the bars and hammering on the cage door in the effort to kill her.

Belle herself had screamed when the door started to give away, a long, metal cell bar falling into the room. Belle had picked it up, telling herself that if she was going down, she was going down fighting.

But then, a miracle happened. She had heard a rumbling behind her, and turned to see that the old stone wall behind her had opened.

Two children had stood there, a girl in a brown dress with long blonde hair, and a brown haired boy in a waistcoat.

Belle had looked into their eyes. They were normal.

"Come on!" the girl had said, looking over at the zombies fearfully "Quickly!"

Belle hadn't hesitated, she had gripped the bar tight in her hand and ran through that passageway just as the zombies broke through.

The stone wall had closed just in time.

The children had introduced themselves as Hansel and Gretel and that they had been running around in the tunnels, looking for a way to escape when they came across a lever in the wall.

Belle's cell had been a secret way into the castle this whole time.

Suddenly, a hungry groan interrupted Belle's thoughts. Quickly, she pushed Hansel and Gretel ahead of her, telling them to run, and then spun around, her bar gripped in both hands.

It was one of the knights who had been turned, his helmet was off, and Belle could see that he had once been handsome, his wavy brown hair was half flattened to his head by other people's blood, and his broad right shoulder was soaked in blood that surrounded a bite mark. He wore a bow and arrow on his back.

Belle had heard rumours of this man. He was the Evil Queens huntsman. He had been a prisoner of Regina's too, although not in the same way as Belle, something for which she was profoundly grateful for...

Suddenly, the huntsman charged at her, his arms already outstretched to grab onto her and bite into her skin.

She didn't even give him a chance to get close. Belle swung the bar as hard as the could into the huntsman's head, breaking his head apart and splashing it across the tunnel walls.

The huntsman's now headless body dropped, and Belle wiped away the blood that had splashed onto her face, then she wiped away her tears as she wept. She hadn't wanted to kill him.

She had never wanted to kill anyone.

But now, things were different. Now she couldn't afford to hesitate, one moment of mercy against the infected could be fatal.

Once she had finished crying, she wiped her face, turned away from the corpse, and found her way back to the children.

OUAT

"Everything alright, Dearie?"

Regina didn't bother to answer him. After he had brought her to his palace through the mirror, she had settled herself in Rumplestiltskin's dining room, she was now sat in the chair at the head of his ridiculously long table.

Maybe he's compensating for something...she smirked as for the first time that day she felt something other than fear.

Rumplestiltskin watched her as she smiled, and felt his own lips twitch "What could there possibly be to smile about, Your Majesty?" he asked her in that high voice of his.

Regina shook her head, dropping the smirk "Nothing. Nothing at all"

They were both silent then, listening to the screams and cries for help that were coming from far-away villages and towns.

Cities.

Kingdoms.

Regina couldn't stand it any more. She had to know "What's happening out there?" she asked the imp.

Rumplestiltskin looked out of a curtainless window. The one's that had never been replaced since-

He shook his head, no, he wouldn't think about her now. He would never forgive himself if he broke down in front of that bitch Regina.

Clearing away all thoughts of his lost love, Rumplestiltskin looked out of the window. The land surrounding his estate was mostly empty, there were few who chose to live a less than a thousand miles away from the Dark One.

Movement from the outside caught his eye, and Rumplestiltskin saw two people approaching the Dark Palace.

For a moment-and this was something he was never going to admit to anyone-he panicked, and almost looked around the room for a blunt instrument to use against the zombies, preferably the queen.

Then he noticed that the people approaching-one a man dressed in princes dress robes and carrying a sword, the other a very white woman with raven black hair and a in a pink dress-were not the blood crazed creatures that he had seen right before he disappeared from Cinderella's ball, these two were running frantically running towards his palace, holding hands in an attempt to keep up with stay together.

At the sight of the Dark Palace, the woman pulled back on her partner, pulling him to a stop. It looked like they were arguing for a moment, the woman shook her head a lot, but eventually they were running towards the Palace again.

He recognised them instantly of course. Who could ever forget the Fairest in the Land Snow White and the dashing Prince Charming?

Rumplestiltskin turned around, a devilish grin spreading across his face as he looked over to the table at the Regina. She raised a dark eyebrow questioningly.

Rumplestiltskin's grin got wider "Well, guess who's going to be joining us for dinner..."

O.K you gorgeous people this is my first chapter for the Zombie Apocalypse, please review it with your honest to God opinions (Can I just point out that I called you gorgeous? Not that that should sway you in any way...) I'm going to be bringing you the next chapter as soon as I can. (I'm determined to have this finished by Halloween, so the second chapters going to be out soooon!)

And by the way can I just thank the Darlings who reviewed Smashed for me? I don't even know you and already I love you because you are so damn kind!