Hello everyone, this is my new story and it's thanks to "Bad girl1311" that this is becoming a fic. It was one of her prompts and then we shared different ideas about this and here it is the result!

I hope you guys enjoy it.

Chapter 1: She is Emma Charming

In the middle of the Enchanted Forest

"The sun is setting, sir. Perhaps we should camp here before continuing."

"No, I won't fall asleep till I catch that panther, the Queen herself requested it and we can't go back till we have it and our time is running out."

"But sir, it is a black panther, and it will be pitch black in a while. It will be hard carry on with this mission if we have to carry fire with us."

"Boy! Do you want the Queen of Hearts to have your head over a stupid black panther?!"

"N-No sir…"

"Then let's keep moving. Come on, everyone."

This conversation occurred between the leader of the hunting squad and the new guy. This hunting team belonged official to the Queen of Hearts kingdom and they didn't only hunt for food but also for the fashion desires the Queen possessed. She had set in her mind that her new coat should be made of a black panther's fur, so the men had to deliver her that or else she would literally have their heads because nobody could reject anything from the Queen; and they already saw the Queen killing for less, so they weren't going to take their chances on coming back to the kingdom without the black panther.

…

On the other side of the forest, there was another human, but she wasn't interested in killing any animals, in fact, the animals were her family, or at least that's what she felt like because she only worked through her instincts, just like them. She was sleeping upon a large branch of an old yet very steady tree; her back was against the surface of the branch, but it didn't hurt her one bit because her skin was already used to the environment around her, for a simple reason; this is her home. She has been living in the forest since she remembers, she never met anything else other than this and the only living beings she interacts with are other animals, but there are two specific ones that are very close to her and the three of them were like family. One of them was actually sleeping on another branch on the other side of the tree, he was a gorilla, she remembers the first time she saw him, and they instantly clicked, he was the child of the gorilla family that actually took care of her. The two of them were still young so they did lots of silly stuff and adventures all around the forest, but there was somebody else who balanced them which was a black panther, she was older and wiser and calmer, she was basically the one that usually found them in a dangerous situation or hiding from other animals because they decided to pull a prank on them; last time she found them underwater while she was taking her break for a drink and then realized that their gorilla family was searching for them and they looked rather pissed off, so she assumed they got in trouble again. She tried sometimes to hide their mistakes but other times she would scold them with her growls or basically pinning them against the ground with her strong paws to let them know they shouldn't continue with their attitude.

The blonde human sleep peacefully, unlike her gorilla sibling who liked to wake the entire forest with his snore but after several years she was already used to it. Her left leg was lying on top of the branch as the right one hanged in mid air along with her left arm; her right hand just gently rested upon the tiger fur that covered her breasts. Adding fur to cover her skin was a thing she was determined to make it happen a few years ago because it started to bother how everyone else had fur. At first, she realized that her hair was long enough to cover part of her shoulders and her breasts but it still wasn't enough for her, so when she came across a dead tiger she had the idea of using sharp rocks to remove its fur and put it on her. It took her awhile till she found the best way to make it work and she wasted a lot of the fur in order to get it right, so the only thing she has left of it is only enough to cover her breasts and private parts. – She doesn't feel like it is right to kill other animals if you aren't going to eat them or to protect yourself, so she'd never go after one to get more fur and use it; plus, her gorilla family wasn't very pleased at first when she showed up with that fur but with time they accepted it.

Something woke both siblings and they were very startled by that noise, not because it was loud because it sounded like it came from afar, - their ears were trained to catch those sounds, - but because it sounded like a painful growl from their panther friend.

The human looked at her sibling gorilla and just between staring at each other they knew what they had to do, so they quickly began to move in the direction from where the sound came from by swinging between branches, but it got to a point where the human jumped onto the gorilla's back and that way he could carry them faster to the source of their friend's growl.

But they weren't ready for that they saw, there was a bunch of hunters aiming their weapons at their friend. The human girl slowly got off her sibling's back and positioned herself on the branch just like him. One of the hunters aimed a crossbow at the black panther and shot the strong arrow to its left shoulder, making the black panther growl once more in pain; they had to do something. The first one acting was the gorilla, he jumped forward from the branch and landed on the ground because there was a big gap between the trees on that area, but that also left him vulnerable to the hunters.

"Sir! It's a gorilla!"

"Everybody, stay still!" The leader shouted knowing with gorillas they had to stay very still so they wouldn't get hurt by them, but that still didn't stop the gorilla from charging against another human; clearly angry. The other squad members refused to harm him because it was better losing just one man, so they remained still. However, they realized that the gorilla wasn't going to leave them alone because he was about to charge for another hunter, so they all decided to attack at the same time. They managed to injure him with three poisoned arrows, making him fall on the ground while he groaned and slowly began to lose his consciousness. – Everything happened so fast, but the blonde human was on the branch still watching it all, and seeing her sibling getting attacked was all she needed to know she had to overcome her fear and curiosity (because they looked different from anything she has ever seen); one hunter that had a sword, walked up to the gorilla and rose his blade, ready to strike him, but that was the moment the blonde human jumped off from the branch with all her strength and managed to land right on top of the hunter. Both groaned in pain because of the impact but the hunter was clearly in the worst state because the blonde girl quickly moved away from his body on her fours, like a gorilla.

"Sir! It's a girl!" One of the hunters gasped as he decided to help his injured mate.

"What the hell? What is she doing here?" The leader hunter asked as he stared curiously at the human girl. This didn't make any sense. Where the hell did she come from? And why was she attacking them? "Hey, what's your name?" He asked while approaching her. He decided that perhaps they should help her out, after all, this wasn't a safe place for a young woman like her, plus she had a very odd appearance.

She only growled at them and held her ground even though she was shaking; all she could think about was that her family was injured, and she had to help them, so with all the courage she had, she decided to press her palms against the ground to push herself forward and upwards to tackle the leader. She was doing her best to attack him like she learned with her gorilla family and her panther friend, so it was a fusion of attacks from both animals.

The leader gasped and groaned in pain as he tried to push the blonde off him, but despite her slim figure, she was actually pretty strong.

"Sir, should we take her down?!" One of them asked aiming his crossbow.

"Don't, you fool! You will get me too!" The leader screamed and after a big struggle, he managed to punch the girl and push her aside to get her off him.

She groaned at the sudden pain from the punch against her cheek and slowly got on her usual position on the ground which was just like the gorillas; she just stared at the other humans with pure anger in her eyes and she clearly looked like another animal.

"I-I don't understand. What are you?!" The leader shouted, quick to grab his crossbow and aim it to the blonde.

The girl only did her best impression of a gorilla growl and banged on her chest, ready to attack them again but the newest member of the squad freaked out at such sight and shot an arrow at her way. It wasn't a precise shot because he didn't kill her, but it was enough for her to scream in pain because it pierced her right arm. She had never felt such pain, the only memory she had of a similar pain was when she fell from a tree and couldn't move her arm for a while.

She stared at the arrow on her arm and grabbed it, but then quickly let go of it because it only hurt her more. What was she going to do? They were about to take her down like they did with the panther and the gorilla, but she wanted to save them, she wanted to take them away from here, so she made noises to get their attention, wondering if they were even awake. Her black panther friend was all bloody from her wounds and her gorilla sibling was just lying on the ground, not moving at all. Her sounds became desperate and louder as tears fell down over her cheeks like a waterfall.

"What is happening?" A hunter whispered as they all aimed their weapons to the blonde girl. She wasn't making any sense to them and the only thing that told them she was indeed human was her appearance because other than that she sounded just like any other animal and acted like one as well.

The girl carried on with her random noises that sounded anything but human and realized that her animal family wasn't responding to her and she was starting to feel her heart breaking, an emotion that she hasn't felt before.

"Sir, should we take her down?" One hunter asked.

"Sir, I don't think that's the best thing to do! She is clearly harmless now and something weird might've happened to her. Maybe we could bring her to the Queen? Maybe she is a runaway?" Another hunter suggested.

The leader just kept staring at the girl in front of him. It didn't feel right to kill her. The best option was indeed to help her, even though she just had attacked them, but he figured she was just clueless about everything, she wasn't acting like a rational human would, so there was definitely some big story behind this girl. "Fine, grab her, but be careful," he ordered as he watched his men approaching the human girl, however that clearly wasn't something she'd accept so easily, so she began to crawl away from them as they approached her, but it was a hard thing for her to do because of her right arm. – One of them decided to tackle her but that got him a kick right on his nose and as he curled up on the ground in pain, she figured the best thing she needed to do right now to survive was just to run, even if it broke her heart leaving her family behind.

She began to crawl faster with just one fist against the ground, but she realized that they were determined to get her, so she pushed herself up, to stand up with only her two legs and began to run. This was something she found a few years ago; that she was faster on her two legs, she saw that her family did that sometimes but it wasn't that common for them to do, so she'd usually just stick with what they did but when danger was close, she would use her both legs to run as fast as she could and that's what she did because they keep on following and shouting to each other orders to get her.

She didn't know what was going on, she didn't understand why they were so determined to get her and she didn't understand why they were so different from all the animals she has ever seen. She kind of felt like they looked like her? But at the same time, they didn't, because they were monsters. Monsters, who killed her sibling and best friend; monsters who would die on her hands once she was healed and ready to strike them again. It could take awhile but she was definitely going to make them pay; she had to avenge them, and this was too another emotion she had never felt before, but it clearly started up a wild fire within her gut, even if right now she was scared to death.

"Hey, stop!" A hunter shouted as he shot another arrow towards her direction and the girl had turned her head around to see if he was close resulting on having the arrow scratch her cheek as it flew forward.

Another wound only built up more fear in her, so she tried her best to run faster, with her right arm pressed against her chest. – She came across one of her favourites trees to climb up with her sibling gorilla and when she looked over her shoulder, she realized that the hunters weren't close, so before they could see her, she quickly began to climb it up, even daring herself to use her right arm, even though she groaned in pain every time she moved it.

In a few seconds, she was settled upon a branch that was high enough to not catch the hunters' eyesight so easily, especially because it was dark. As they passed underneath her, she held her breath, pressed herself against the trunk of the tree and hoped they would just carry on with their steps and so they did. She decided to wait a couple of minutes just to make sure they wouldn't turn back and catch her; she also focused herself on the noise they caused to know when it was definitely safe to come down. – When there was no more noise from them nor the sight of their fire, the girl finally managed to breathe normally after such an awful encounter with other humans, but it was now that the adrenaline was disappearing and the pain from her arm was only getting stronger, so she figured the best was to just get down from the tree and find some water to clean herself and drink, then she could search for her family; maybe they were fine, she hoped they were.

The girl looked down at the branches underneath the one she stayed and slowly began to climb down, but unfortunately, she slipped and decided to use her right arm in order to grab onto another branch but obviously that didn't work, so she just fell. Her body hit several branches on the way down till it finally slammed against the ground. – She was out cold.

Next morning in the Enchanted Forest

"Your grace, please wait!" One of the royal guards shouted as he followed the princess with a horse.

The Princess Regina Mills was riding her horse as fast as she could because she loved the adrenaline of it. The guards should be used to this behavior by now, but she always took them by surprise and it was hard for them to catch up with her because she was very skilled with her horse. – Regina just laughed after hearing the distressed guard, it kind of amused her making them chase her because it feeds her ego knowing that she could go faster than them, at least, it was the only thing she felt like she succeeded since her mother was never pleased with anything else she did. "Come on, sir Harry! Keep up with me!" She shouted at him as she didn't slow down on a bit for him.

However, something made her quickly stop the horse, she almost went flying forward because of how brute and sudden she had to stop; even the royal guard passed right by her because he couldn't stop as soon as she did; but once he managed to do so, he left his horse and rushed his way to the princess, afraid something happened to her or else she wouldn't have stopped so quickly. "What is the matter, Princess Regina?"

"There's a girl, over there," she said as she pointed at a figure that was lying on top of the ground and had several leaves covering her body. Regina quickly got off her horse and slowly approached the girl, afraid that this could be a trap and bandits would jump on her on the next second; the guard had thought the same thing because he reached out for his sword and grabbed her by the elbow in order to make her stop.

"I don't think that's a good idea, my lady," he sounded concerned, but he was also very curious about this girl.

"She's injured!" Regina gasped when she caught sight of an arrow stuck in the girl's arm. She removed her arm from the guard's hold and rushed her steps to the girl's body. She quickly got on her knees and began to remove the leaves that covered certain parts of her body, and the next thing she saw made her gasp again and then go extremely quiet and still.

"What is it, my lady?" The guard tighten his hold onto his sword and approached the princess.

"Its-" she bit onto her tongue, refusing to answer him because she figured if she did that something terrible would happen to this girl, something worse than the state she is right now. "We need to take her back to the castle, we need to attend to her wounds," she informed him as she stared at the blonde girl's face. She had wild hair, a scratch upon her cheek and she looked very dirty, but despite all that Regina found her rather…beautiful.

"I don't know about that, princess, I don't think the Queen would allow such thing and we don't even know her. What if she is with the bandits?"

Even if he thought he was being reasonable, Regina knew that she was the only one between the two of them that truly knew the identity of this blonde girl, and she had to take her back to the castle, one way or another. "If you won't help me, I shall take her on my own," Regina said determined as she reached out for the blonde's body but still unsure on how she was going to pick her up and put her on her horse. She wasn't even strong enough to lift her three feet off the ground.

The guard watched her struggle with the injured girl and then he decided to give in because he knew when the princess decided to do something, it was nearly impossible to make her back down from it. "Let me do that, my lady," he told her as he got on his knees and gently picked up the blonde, bridal style, and noticed how light she was, so it was easy for him to carry her to his horse and lay her upon it. – Regina cringed at the position the girl was in and the guard even tied a cord around her and the horse, just to make sure she wasn't going to fall from it as they made their way to the castle. It clearly wasn't the most comfortable thing out there, but it was needed in order to bring her with them.

The Castle - Hallways

"Regina, I can't believe you brought a stranger into our home!" Zelena hissed at her younger sister as she held her new-born child, who was sleeping peacefully.

"She was injured! What was I supposed to do?" Regina said half whispering and half yelling because her niece was sleeping and because she didn't want anybody else to overhear their conversation; she already had to pay the guard that was with her, to make sure he kept his mouth shut about the blonde girl.

"Leave her there! You don't know if she is dangerous, sister."

"She is not dangerous, she is-" Regina looked around to make sure nobody was there "-she is Emma Charming, it's like, impossible for her to be dangerous," she said, remembering how pure and kind the Charming's were.

"How can you be so sure of that? It has been nineteen years since her birth and mother ordered a guard to kill her when she was born," Zelena tried to reason with her sister, but it was impossible, because Regina had enough information to know that the person that slept on the other side of the door they were standing in front of, was definitely Emma Charming, daughter of Queen Snow White and Prince Charming, who were living in the dungeons for twenty years; her mother's doing after taking over their kingdom.

"I spoke several times with Snow White and she told me that her child born with a birth mark on her belly and I saw that birth mark on her," Regina pointed at the door from the bedroom.

"Do you even know how many people exist out there that could have a birth mark on their belly?" Zelena frowned at her sister, she clearly didn't think this through, she just acted because of her kind heart, something that usually got her in trouble because their mother thought kindness was a weakness.

"Maybe, but how many could we encounter in the forest looking like she did? It's clear she has been living out there for a while, Zelena. She was all dirty when I found her, and she was wearing these two pieces of tiger fur to cover parts of her skin," Regina informed her, hoping that her sister would believe in her gut, it was obvious that this girl was a strange encounter and they should find out more about her just to find out who she really is.

"Fine, let's imagine you are right, what will you do about that? Introduce her to the Charmings? They won't and can't be a happy family, Regina. Plus, how are you going to hide her from mother?!" Zelena hissed again, already thinking about how their mother was going to react to this. She would show them a good punishment and clearly, Zelena would be involved in it because she was here, discussing this with her younger sister.

"Girls, what are you two plotting this time?" A male voice broke through the empty hallways as King Henry Mills approached his daughters, one by blood and the other by affection.

Both girls jumped startled by their father's voice, but still relieved that it was him and not somebody else. Zelena looked at Regina, hoping that the brunette princess would tell their father about the blonde girl, but Regina refused to look up at Henry's eyes, so it was clear to him that something happened.

"Regina, my dear, what did you do this time?" He asked with a sigh but still in a loving way. It was usually Regina who got herself into trouble, Zelena decided to carry on with their mother's wishes in order to not get herself into trouble. That's why right now she is married to a lord she doesn't like but is in love with the child that marriage brought her.

"Daddy, you have to understand that I wouldn't do this if I wasn't absolutely sure-" Before Regina could continue, there was a loud crashing sound coming from within the bedroom the blonde girl rested at.

TBC

So, what do you guys think? Should I continue this story or not?