The curse was broken. That much was evident by everyone looking shocked and relieved to see each other. My sister, Emma, and I were walking to the one person who could probably explain everything to us with our parents, Snow White and Prince Charming, behind us. Emma and I had dreamt of everything our parents could have been growing up, but this was a stretch we weren't ready for. When we entered Gold's shop he was making tea behind the counter.
"What can I do for you?" he asked us.
"What you can do is tell us what you did." Emma told him.
"I'm sorry, you're gonna have to be more specific." He told us.
"You know damn well what we're talking about." David said.
"You double-crossed Emma and Sophia, you took your—uh—potion, from them!" Mary Margaret said.
"You did who knows what to this town!" David added.
"And worst of all; you risked Henry's life! Why?" I asked him.
"Well, that is quite a litany of grievances now, isn't it?" Mr. Gold asked.
"Maybe I don't need answers, maybe I just need to punch you in the face." Emma said and I placed my hand on her arm.
"Really, dearie?" Mr. Gold laughed coming from behind the counter. "Allow me to answer your questions with some of my own, alright? Did your dear boy, Henry, survive?" he asked.
"Yeah." She answered.
"Is the Curse broken? And let's see, Miss Swan, how long have you been searching for your parents? Looks like you're reunited. Seems like, rather than a punch in the face, I deserve a thank-you." He told us.
"Twist our words all you want, but it won't help you." I told him.
"What was the purple haze that you brought?" Emma asked him.
"Y'know.. Magic." He said with a flourish of his hand.
"Why?" Mary Margaret asked him.
"Not telling." He told us seconds after there was a rumbling making the entire store shake.
"What the hell was that?" Emma asked as David and Mary Margaret looked out the window.
"That.. is my gift to you. That is gonna take care of Regina." Mr. Gold told us.
"Emma.. Sophia.. C'mon." Mary Margaret called after us.
"We need to go take care of this." David told us.
"We're not done." Emma threatened him.
"Oh, I know. You still owe me a favor." He told her before the four of us left the shop for Regina.
When we got to the prison where Regina was being held this large black thing was shining a light on her face and something was happening to her, but I just didn't know what. David grabbed a chair and ran to it.
"Hey!" David slammed the thing with the chair, which it then sent flying across the room. David attempted to attack the creature, but it only sent him flying as well. Mary Margaret tried to join him but the creature moved a desk making her take a step back. The creature then sent the desk towards David, who narrowly avoided it before it continued to do whatever it was doing to Regina before. Mary Margaret then snuck up to the creature with a can and a lighter in her hands.
"Over here!" she called out. Using the lighter and the canister, she created a flame directed at the creature. The creature then flew out the window leaving the sheriff's office. Regina made a choking noise and Emma and I rushed to help her.
"What the hell was that thing?" Emma asked.
"A Wraith! A soul sucker..." Regina told us.
"Did I-" Mary Margaret started asking.
"-Kill it? No, it's regenerating. It'll be back. It doesn't stop until it devours its prey. Me." She said showing us her hand which now had a strange mark on it.
"So, how do we kill it?" Emma asked.
"There's no way. Can't kill something that's already dead." Regina told us.
"Then we have a problem." Emma said.
"No, we don't. Regina does." David said and we looked him shocked.
"Excuse me?" I asked him.
"What?" Regina asked shocked at his words.
"David?" Mary Margaret asked.
"You wanna let her die?" Emma asked him.
"Why not? If it goes away then we're safe." David said.
"That's quite the example you're setting for your daughters." Regina told him.
"No, you don't get to judge us!" David shouted at her.
"Let me ask you something, where do you think that thing came from!? Gold." Regina told him.
"Sophia and I made a promise to Henry. She's not dying." Emma told the two next to us.
"If it can't be killed, what do you suggest?" Mary Margaret asked.
"Send it somewhere it can't hurt anyone." Regina suggested.
We made our way to Regina's office where she got out a large hat box and placed it on the table before opening it.
"Did Henry really ask you to protect me?" she asked us.
"Yes." Emma told her. Regina smiled slightly before taking the hat out of the box.
"Oh my god." I said shocked.
"What?" she asked me.
"The hat. You had it all along." Emma said.
"What do you mean?" she asked us.
"That's Jefferson's hat!" Emma told her. Regina pause for a brief moment before looking confused.
"Who's Jefferson?" Before we could say anything David and Mary Margaret entered the room holding brooms.
"Torches, for when it comes back. I know it's old fashioned, but so am I." David told us.
"So, how does it work?" Mary Margaret asked motioning to the hat. We followed Regina who held the hat to the main hall as she explained what the hat was.
"It will open a portal to our land. All we have to do is send the Wraith in there." Regina told us.
"Oh yeah, just that." David said in a tone.
"Seriously?" I asked him.
"I don't understand, I thought our land was gone." Mary Margaret said as David started lighting the brooms.
"It is. But sending it to a place that no longer exists... well, that's banishing it to oblivion." She said as she started trying to spin the hat. The lights started flickering and we heard the Wraith's wailing around us.
"Regina..." Emma said.
"Anytime now." I said.
"I'm trying..." she told us. Shortly after the doors to the main hall blew open in front of us. Soon enough the Wraith entered the room and David readied himself to fight it with a torch on the other side of the railing. Regina continued to try and get the hat working as Mary Margaret was readying for a fight on this side of the railing.
"Regina.." Emma said again.
"I know!" she shouted at us as we watched David fight the Wraith with the torch. I watched Mary Margaret pour alcohol along the railing.
"David!" she called to him. He moved to our side of the railing and lit the banister on fire with his torch.
"Hurry!" he told Regina.
"It's not working!" Regina shouted. David continued to use the torch to fight off the Wraith. "It's not working!" Regina shouted again trying to spin the hat.
"What is the problem?" Emma asked her.
"Magic.. it's different here." Regina told us.
"Now would be the time!" David told her. Emma and I knelt next to Regina and placed our hands on her arms. Suddenly the hat started spinning, opening the portal. We stood up and I smiled in joy.
"It's working!" I shouted as the three of us stood. I turned to look at David and Mary Margaret only to see the Wraith headed straight for Regina.
"REGINA!" Emma pushed Regina to me and the Wraith was sucked into the portal disappearing from sight. Suddenly a light wrapped around Emma's ankle and she started to fall in.
"EMMA!" I shouted grabbing her hand only to be pulled in with her.
When we came around there were two women dressed in strange clothing. The Chinese woman tide our hands together and then tied us to her horse before she drug us too wherever they had been going before.
"What is this place?" Mary Margaret asked them.
"Our home." The woman told us. The horse whined as it continued to drag us into their home. When we got closer she untied us from the horse but kept our hands bound and we took a good look around at the people around us who stopped everything they were doing to stare and gasp at us.
"It's like they're refugees." Emma said.
"We're survivors." The woman told us.
"What did you survive?" I asked her. She didn't get a chance to answer me before Mary Margaret kneed the other woman in the stomach.
"Aah!" the woman called out bending over in pain.
"Emma, Sophia, run!" Mary Margaret called out and we all ran away from our captors. "Aah!" Emma and I turned to see Mary Margaret face down on the ground.
"Mary Margaret!" we both shouted turning back for her.
"Mary Margaret! What did you do?!" Emma shouted at them as we both turned her over.
"Take them to the pit." The Chinese woman ordered.
"No." They grabbed us and ripped us away from Mary Margaret before dragging us all underground with only a large hole in the ceiling for light.
"Be careful!" Emma shouted at them before they threw the three of us in the cell. "Oh! Be careful! Hey. Come on. Wake up. Hey. Can you hear me?"
"Come on Mary Margaret, wake up. Please." I begged her.
"Do you need help?" A woman asked us from the shadows.
"Who are you?" Emma asked her as I situated myself in front of Mary Margaret the best I could.
"A friend." She said stepping into the light. "My name's Cora."