A BAT IN STORYBROOKE:
Chapter 1
Nighttime was covering the atmosphere in Storybrooke. People were going out for dinner at Granny's while others went home to bed. Mr. Gold had closed his pawnshop for the evening and was now returning home, where his wife Belle waited for him. Marco and his son Pinocchio were still working in their hardware store. David and Mary Margaret were in their apartment, watching over their baby son Neal sleeping cozily in his bed. Elsewhere, Regina and Robin were having a romantic walk on the coast. Emma Swan and her boyfriend, Killian Jones, were having a date at Granny's Dinner.
It was a regular evening for all the Storybrooke residents.
But unfortunately, something was approaching.
It was walking towards one of the hills in the forest that gave a view of the entire town. Weird chomping sounds were made as the thing walked to the top of the hill, where it stopped and watched the peaceful town from the darkness of the woods. The wind blew in its long, dark hair as it sniffed the air, searching for the scent of its enemy until he found it.
"There won't be anymore escaping this time, codfish," it growled. "This time, I will kill you for good."
The moonlight shone on the creature. The reflected light gleamed on the peg leg that was on the spot where his right leg should have been. As the creature's fist tightened, bat wings emerged from his back, spreading themselves wide open, with wires and braces attached to the right wing due to its crippled status.
"I swear, codfish," the creature gritted its fanged teeth, "you will die in my hands. In the hands of Fidget the bat."