"She is stable for right now...

But that doesn't mean she out of complete danger and we're know more once the CT scans are done..."

Mary covered in her mouth as she cried, as Doctor Elsa get close to her within the lobby of the hospital. She was never good at this "comfort" thing that was usually Anna's job with the families but she could tell them the cold hard facts that surrounded there love ones.

"Can i see her?" Mary questioned to Elsa

"No...not yet,

she has been moved from the ER to the ICU given how her contention is and we still don't know much damage she actually get from the crash..."

"I could lose her doctor?.."

"Generally my staff is hopeful for recovery but i am the only realist here but yes..." Elsa don't say anymore as Ruby had silently from behind tried to comfort Mary.

Suddenly she herself out of the chair as she yelled out "GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME!"

"Mary, please i heard everything...god am so sorry" Ruby tried to sound calm to her but that wasn't doing it at all

"FUCK BEING CALM, i have just found out that MY DAUGHTER...

my own flash and blood is in the ICU and under the threat of death because i wasn't there for her. That all those years of trying to make her reconnect to me was a fucking waste and am blaming you for it!.."

Ruby was shocked "Me?, Mary please you have to understand.."

"UNDERSTAND WHAT RUBY?, MY LITTLE GIRL THE ONE THING I LOVE MOST IN THIS WORLD IS GOING TO DIE...

YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND ME TO BEGIN WITH AND YOU NEVER WANTED TO..."

"I never brought it up as a issue for you because everything was a screw up til Emma entered into my life too,

she is the reason i wanted a child of mine someday and you can't think am some sort of heartless bitch because of that..."

Mary come close to Ruby now still angry

"YOU don't get to decide her fate!"


The White Kingdom...The next morning

"Koura has decided your fate for you, my dear" Queen Regina said rather sadly toward the still panicky princess

"WHAT IS IT?"

"From what the court magician can gather, you have around your neck a ancient device used to induce pain in others and not harm the actual person wearing it..."

Snow White was shocked "He wants me to use this to hurt people?"

"Koura has magic, some of which hasn't been seen in ages,

the dragon wants to break that wild side of yours..tame you to his will so he can marry you finally..."

"And you just want me to sit here until this dragon comes back in full force to destroy this kingdom!?..."

Regina seemed rather calm that her own kingdom would be in ruins soon as she answered "What do you want me to do then?, have the army slay a dragon that will kill them with its mere breath.

Or do you actually wish me give up my throne for him?"

"Of course not, stepmother but i was thinking of...a hero to slay this dragon and lift this burden off of me!"

"You forget stepdaughter that Koura also has his own army at his command,

nightmarish creatures loyal to him and they will surely kill that "hero" of yours..."

Snow suddenly realized something "Not unless I found a way to kill him first!.."


Within her own room, the princess quickly rubbed the ring as the genie emerged,

she told all about last night including her own hopelessness

"You PISSED off Koura!?I know that dragon and its not a good idea to piss him off!" Cyrus questioned to Snow, he did sound like did personally known him at least

"Okay good so you're slay the dragon then?"

"Hell no...he under a protective magic plus the only one who get close to hurting him was a friend of mine, Ali Baba..."

"Excuse me who?" Snow suddenly questioned

"Do you not know of the legendary bandit and his forty thieves that was Ali Baba, dear princess? He and Koura were the deadliest of enemies if there was one thing the bandit was good at, was pissing off that dragon and his schemes!.."

"He could help me then, we have to go look for him!..."

"Am sorry princess but Ali Baba is not in this world!..."

"You mean he's dead!?.."

"No he has completely disappeared from off of the earth.

I can't think of anywhere else he would be unless you found his treasure and that was something that Koura wanted most of all!.."

"Why would Koura want more treasure from his enemy?"

"He wanted take away that bandit's happiness and that included what he hold dear.

Am sorry princess but you are now one of Koura's possessions, basically that necklace around your neck means that NO MAN can ever touch you again..."

Suddenly Snow realized what she must do and she had only one person in mind to help her as she smiled toward the genie

"Whoever said it has to be a man!"


Within the castle gardens,

a group of solders watched as Ruby and the Ogre Prince take up dull pointed sabers as Snow looked from overhead window.

"I wouldn't want to harm my bride to be with any cuts to the flesh" The prince said as he slashed through the air as Ruby laughed, she taken to wearing a golden dress this day as the prince had wear a simple large white shirt and blue pants. He the fact that she was always a bit of a show off

"And here i thought you liked my flesh..." she said seductively joked as he begin his attack toward her as she blocked her saber still laughing

It was amazing to him because that attack had been successful beforehand but not her as they dueled

In her dress, she was dancing around him and it inhumanly quick on her feet as the sabers clashed against each other

She was also moving in high heels which would have otherwise slowed the movements of any other woman but not the princess Ruby. She seemed also have sensed his next steps as she twirled her blade as if it were apart of her.

She was grinning widely at him as she thought she was winning when blocking the giant's blade...

Princess!

When Snow called out her name, the Prince tripping her feet and landing on her back as the duel ended "So sorry my dear but i win since you clearly get distracted"

Ruby become angry again at him "I WASN'T DISTRACTED...i just don't know that move, that's all!" she answered a bit embarrassed

"I can teach you that movement if you wish..."

"NO thank you, dear prince"

"Will the two of you please shut up and listen to what i have to say..." Snow White said barely calmly as the two of them looked at her


"I hate do this to you, my friend and in front of your bride as well"

Snow said rather quickly to the Ogre Prince as she jumped on his large neck and kissed on his big lips. Princess Ruby had a mixed reaction of disgust and fascination that she don't quite understand how she should feel about this...if any toward the prince but with Snow it was a different reaction.

Suddenly she noticed the prince's lips were burning as back away from her after she finished the kiss "That was painful!"

Then turned to Ruby "Your're turn" she quietly and without much of a warning, she kissed the princess..

Ruby hadn't for the life of her ever acted out that the fact that she enjoyed girls far more then boys. Once she thought a servant boy named Peter would be the one for her but he left the palace before she could acted out her feelings towards him. She didn't dare make the same mistake ever again when it come to being with a boy and she settled on girls basically. She would still try her best impressed them but they had always get away from her among the numerous loyal duties including a brand new one named Perdita and she being the new big sister meant never to feel what a kiss like this was feeling now...

Snow stopped her soft kiss on Ruby's lips, even if her physical lips wouldn't burning, the memory of it was still there

She was smiling happily toward the both of them even though they didn't understand as she spoke to Ruby

"Your lips don't get burned!" she said as if that the best thing in the world right now as the princess give a dirty look

"Ummmm why you happy about that again?" she questioned toward Snow

"Don't you guys see...no actual man can ever touch me and the Ogre Prince is a man!"

The prince suddenly realized what she meant as he smirked "Koura wants all to himself and any man who dares touch you must die by you!"

Snow grabbed Ruby's hand touching her "But you happen to be another woman and this necklace doesn't effected you..."

"Okay, what do you want princess?" she asked blankly toward Snow's still smiling face

"We are going to go after the treasure of Ali Baba!"

"ALI BABA...the bandit? what the hell does he have do with Koura?" Ruby really wanted to know

"The genie told me, he and Koura were old enemies.

He and his forty thieves were great at keeping that dragon guessing by stealing the valuables meant for him

and i bet stole something from you!.."

Ruby don't get at first how Snow know about her one meeting as a young child of seeing the legendary Ali Baba.

And the fact he stole the one important treasure known to her, she closed her eyes and gripped her saber tightly. If she ever saw that man again, she would personally kill him for taking what she needed most in the world. She had told the genie and now Snow know too.

"Okay princess am in as far as getting the treasure but where do we start looking?"

"The city of mystery itself...Agrabah, there's were Cyrus said Ali Baba lived most of his life there" Snow answered

Just then the Ogre Prince realized something "Snow, your stepmother will kill me if people found out your're off on some mad adventure!"

She smiled warmly toward her huge friend "Don't worry, i'll bring back your bride in one piece in time for your wedding and as for my stepmother..

She'll see me saving the whole kingdom from under this tyrant and she'll make me a "hero" to the entire realm!..."

The Ogre Prince laughed nervously as they started walking away from him

"AHAHAHA Am not worry about you then...i just don't like the "getting killed part of it"

From the highest tower window watching like an angry hawk, Queen Regina watched the whole scene played out.

Her mind filled with rage at that "sweet little princess" scam, she would allow this to play out until the time come when she would take her revenge on Snow White.

She closed the red draped curtains as she walked down the stairs toward a black darkened room. She had been chanting in a unknown language, her eyes turned into pure white and her face filled with black line cracks as her very hands changed. The hands were changing back and forth between being solid and almost see through

Finally she stopped the chant as she begin to say...

Magic Mirror on the wall


Agrabah...the City of Mystery, a few days later...

The camels with long brown draped young woman with shorter more looser fitting clothing emerged into the town market center

There veils holding there faces with still some sand on them "That wasn't a fun ship ride down here..."

"Well if you hadn't start throwing up all the sudden, it wouldn't have so bad!..."

"The food was terrible as well as the crew.."

"Oh not this again, the food was fine and so was the company all but the fact that you started to begin to insult that Atlantian Mermaid Warrior!"

"She was funny looking and she happened to call me a jerk!.."

"And she slapped you in the face for it, Ruby...please i don't wish to make Atlantis mad along with the Ogre Kingdom!"

Snow angrily asked as a green robed figure from in front of them followed by a whole group of black gowned solders armed with spears.

"HALT RIGHT THERE STREET RAT!" yelled out the Captain of the solders as one of them, grabbed ahold of the green figure.

The Captain smiled at this as he unveiled the figure's head...


Snow and Ruby saw it was a blonde haired young woman with a boy's buzz cut, her beautiful face had small cuts around all except the fact that the right side of her head was covered with a old bloody white bandage. She seemed to have a more buster figure then ether Snow or Ruby and yet the men around her now failed to noticed it.

"GET YOUR BLOODY HANDS OFF OF ME!" the thief cried out in a Cockney accent as the Captain begin to spoke out

"Know this thief, that under the kind reign of Prince Koura, that those that do not share in his laws will pay the price!"

The blonde thief begin laughing out loud toward the crowd as she spit at his face..

"Your're "Prince" is a coward and IT should be the people making the laws around here, not man or DRAGON can decide the fate of a whole nation.

I may not have been born of the city of Agrabah but will see JUSTICE done one day to make him pay for his crimes against the people!"

Angry the Captain unleashed his sword about to strike the thief as Snow and Ruby take action

As Ruby grabbed ahold of one of the solder's swords knocking him out as Snow simply punched the two guards holding her. She blocked the Captain's sword blow as she tripped him with her feet.

Getting out of the market place, they all now run toward one of the side alleyways as new group of solders showed up

Suddenly the blonde thief noticed the sewer cover as she reached out her hand, emerging from shot out a fast gripping rope and with the power of her arm flung the cover at the solder running toward the tall Ruby, knocking him out.

"Reminded me getting something like that!" Ruby impressively said toward the thief as they entered the sewer system of the city


"AHAHAHA, you guys were great back there but am not usually the one in need of savin..." the thief said as they went through the old warm sewer

"Yes, well anyone against Koura can't all be bad Ms...ummm what's your name?" Snow questioned as the green thief bowed toward both

"I am Lady Locksley of Nottingham, the last of the knight's garrison meant to protected the city of Agrabah..."

Snow realized something "That garrison was a complete massacre!, everyone of those knights were..."

"...KILLED!, yeah i know, i happened to be one of them more or less.

Basically i take a ogre's poison arrow to my right eye and still fought off all ten of them with my sword. Then i found myself in a healer's cabin with word that the war was over and a treaty was signed. I can't believe it at first but then with damage to my eye, i can't go back to Nottingham at least not just yet!..."

Ruby moved toward Locksley "Why are staying here then?"

"Because i have no choice in the matter, case in point Prince Koura and his mad hold over this city.

Not soon afterwards, the dragon begin to gather followers to do his bidding in influencing the sultan's reign in little things. He started telling lies about him and the people begin to eat up every word then with secret help with someone inside the palace finally forced the sultan and his family out.

The people liked this guy and they wouldn't what to hear that his government is stealing from them. He isn't just dangerous as a dragon, he's dangerous because they listened to his every word.

Koura's word is law around here ladies, better get used to it!"

After Locksley's speech, Snow and Ruby looked at each other. This treasure hunt wasn't going to be easy with Koura's forces around...


Locksley had lead into a old abandoned bath house in the very heart of Agrabah, as they emerged from the sewer system

She had turned it into her own little fortress, with various items left from the knights and ogres. She would now used them to go up somehow against Prince Koura, it been a long while for Snow White to even remember half of what those items were. Same with Princess Ruby since half there teenage years was spent in terror of the Ogre/Knight wars covering half the world in battles.

And yet Lady Locksley was a dark reminder of that time since she was now around the same age as them, missing a eye.

"Make yourselves at home...the bathes are down the hall" she helpfully said as Snow had to ask her something

"Don't miss Nottingham?"

Locksley closed her eyes at the question as she smirked "Every single damned day, someone "special" is waiting for me to return and..."

"Those this person have a name?"

"Marian...Maid Marian, and the night after i left the healer's cabin, a friend of mine had give me a letter...

Telling her in someone's forged handwriting of mine that i was a dead woman and all of my lands had taken away and sold.

Whoever that BASTARD is, used my death to get ahold of what he or she wants from me!.."

"But your're just to sit here and let that happen?" Snow said to the tearful woman as she laughed bitterly

"I...i don't know what am going to do once i get back to Nottingham but the threat of Koura is one to worry about, that and his damned bride!"

Snow realized Koura must told the whole entire city about her as Locksley had pushed her gripping hook at her face

"What do these Snow White have to do with anything?" she said nervously toward the tall blonde

"What else, the very second she enters this city...am going to kidnap her and ransom her to make Prince Koura step down!"


The Sacred Temple of the Dragon God...

"MASTER! I have news!" the Captain of the guard yelled toward the green dragon with white horns

The master of all Agrabah raised his long head down toward his faithful servant

"Well then, slave!"

"Master, the guards and i almost caught the freedom fighter known as Locksley, when she was saved by two strange women. Both with long black hair and one of them wearing a Scarab around her pretty pale neck.."

Suddenly the ground with its front foot knocking the Captain down as the dragon sinister laugh echoed through the temple

"SO, MY bride after days on end finally shows her face in my city!.."

"Master, the people we captured from the ship she boarded tell of Snow White questioning them about someone...Ali Baba"

The dragon growled in horrible anger at the very mention of that name

"Fool, there searching for his treasure and one thing to destroy me and ALL i build for myself within this city.

But DO NOT interfere at least not just yet!"

Koura laughed again but don't understand "Master, my men are ready to bring the girl here and..."

"And NOTHING Captain!, soon the far kingdoms will be under my control and with the fair princess at my side...

I will bring about a new age for this realm. Those people of that ship will be sacrificed at my wedding and Snow White will be the pawn to hold all my dreams together.

Let them search the city with that foolish little freedom fighter for the treasure and then Captain, you can do what like with the others but the princess must NOT be harmed.

She has to come of own free will to me!,

she will have decide where her heart and her own fate truly lies and it is with that Captain that i will WIN!"

Finally the black robed solder understood as he bowed toward the dragon

"Of course Master!, i lighten the patrols and lay our trap...Snow White will be yours"


Next Chapter:The Frozen Heart