Thank you for the follows, faves, and reviews. This chapter reveals the villain of the story and has a bit of a time jump since the last.
Disclaimer: I don't own 'VicTORious' or 'Once Upon A Time', or any characters.
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Granny's Diner
A few weeks after Jade met her grandparents, Tori and Jade sit in Granny's diner after school, Jade taking an interest in the others around her, trying to figure out who they were in the Enchanted Forest.
"Where's your mind?" Victoria asks, giving Jade a curious glance.
"Just thinking." Jade answers, looking over at Victoria. "Out of curiosity, do you recognize anyone where from before?" She asks as she gives Ruby a nod in thanks for the coffee the older girl just handed her.
"Hello Red. Where is your hood?" Victoria asks the young woman after accepting her glass of water and plate of fries.
"I don't know. I haven't seen it since the curse broke." Ruby, or Red as Victoria called her, answers. "I asked Graddy, but she hasn't seen it either." She says, shrugging her shoulders.
"What about Rumplestiltskin? Have you asked him?" Victoria asks, giving her a sympathetic look.
"Uh, why would the old pawn shop guy have a hood that seems so important?" Jade asks, giving the two a confused look.
"My name is Red. Or, as you might know me, Little Red Riding Hood." Ruby answers, a small smirk on her face. "And my hood prevents me from shifting into a wolf, because surprise, the wolf from the story is me." She says, turning around to hide the pain in her eyes.
"And what, Rumplestiltskin stole the hood?" Jade asks, not as surprised as she would have been when this started.
"Not exactly." The girls hear from behind them. Turning around, they see Rumplestiltskin, or Gold as Jade and Emma call him, standing there. "After the curse took effect, I kept my memories and did some, collecting, while I could. I found the hood and it is currently resting in my pawn shop."
"Have you considered, oh, I don't know, giving it back?" Jade asks, raising an eyebrow at the pawn shop owner/Dark One.
"Jadelyn, what are you doing?" Victoria asks, staring at the pale teen beside her.
"It's fine, Victoria." Gold says, assuring Victoria. "Ask your grandparents, girlfriend, and her mother about me. Then you'll understand." He says before leaving.
"Yeah, that doesn't make you a creepy old man." Jade says, purposely loud enough for him to hear. "So, fill me in on the truth about Rumplestiltskin." She tells Victoria, relaxing before taking a sip of her coffee, loving the way Granny makes it.
Fifteen minutes later, after Victoria told her all she felt Jade needed to know, neither notice someone walk out. The shorter girl, tanned skin like Victoria's but hair red, hides a smirk as she leaves the diner, a plan forming in her mind.
"So he keeps a storage room for the items he doesn't want seen." The redhead, Catarina, says to herself as she leaves and heads for her apartment to plan.
Mayor's Office
"What's on your mind?" Emma asks as she sits down across from Regina as David takes over at the station.
"This girl, Catarina, looks familiar. I don't know why." Regina says, sighing as she shows Emma the picture.
"I know. She's friends with Tori and Jade. They work on projects together all the time." Emma says, easily recognizing the girl in the picture.
"Not like that." Regina says, waving Emma's comment off. "I recognize her from before I cast the curse. I just don't know why." She says, setting the picture down. "What are Tori and Jade doing today?" She asks, knowing Emma always knows since Tori won't let Jade lie. That she knows about, anyway.
"Tori herself told me she and Jade are going to walk around town. Jade wants to know who everyone is from the Enchanted Forest, and Tori is more than happy to help her." Emma says, relaxing back. "Why?" She asks, giving Regina a curious glance.
"No reason." Regina says, standing up and closing the blinds before walking, or strutting, over to Emma. "Just wondering how long we'll be alone." She says, kissing Emma. "Now follow me, and if your clothes are still on by the time my door closes, I cut them off." She says with a seductive smirk.
"Seriously, how is Jade not your daughter?" Emma asks, standing up and following Regina to her room.
The Enchanted Forest
"What do you mean, you won't train me?" A redheaded woman asks the man before her, glaring at him.
"I have two students already. I don't need a third." The man, known as the Dark One, tells the woman. "We've been over this before, Zelena. You have a great natural talent, but you don't have the dark desire in your heart." Rumple tells her, walking around the castle of Oz.
"And that little girl, Victoria, does?" Zelena asks, glaring at him. "The darkest desire she has is whether to wake up before the sun rises or just after it rises." She says, her skin slowly turning green.
"No, she's the most innocent thing in the world. Her mother has what it takes, and I'm training her because I want to. Do not question me." Rumple answers, his last sentence in a growl.
"Regina doesn't have half the talent I have. Train me." Zelena orders, keeping her harsh gaze at t man before her.
"But she has what I need. And that's that." Rumple says with a warning in his voice before disappearing.
"Once again, my little sister gets picked over me. What makes her so much more special?" Zelena says fuming.
Storybrooke
"Jadelyn, why are we going into Rumplestiltskin's shop?" Victoria asks as Jade picks the lock and walks in.
"Simple. We're going to give Ruby back her hood. It seems important, I'm pretty sure no one wants her to accidentally kill anyone, and it'll piss Gold off. Win win." Jade says as she walks to the back room where Gold keeps his extra storage room.
"This isn't a good idea." Victoria says, softly closing the door while wondering why she's not trying to stop Jade.
"Relax. We'll grab the hood and leave. It's fine." Jade says, easily finding the storage room and opening the door after a minute.
"How'd you know how to do that?" Victoria asks, thinking Jade used magic.
"I know his combination." Jade answer simply, opening it and walking in. "Stay here. Let me know if you hear anyone." She says, going in and looking for the hood, glad she got Victoria to describe it to her after leaving Granny's.
"What if Rumplestiltskin arrives?" Victoria asks, fear in her voice.
"Not a problem." Jade says with a smirk, easily finding the red hood and leaving, ignoring everything else in the storage room. "Already got it." She says, closing the door and making sure it's locked.
"Can we leave now? I don't want Rumple to find us. He scares me." Victoria says, remembering him as she met him, his skin dark and scaley.
"He tries anything, I gut him with my scissors." Jade says confidently as they head out the back door of the pawn shop.
"Easy to do, since he doesn't have his magic." A voice the two vaguely recognize says, stopping them.
"Cat?" Jade asks, staring at the redhead in the office, wondering how she got in there without them noticing her. "What are you doing here?" She asks, giving Victoria a quick glance when the princess' muscles tense up at the girl before them.
"Nothing big." Cat says, her usual airy tone gone, a dark smirk on her face. "Just killing the daughter of the bitch who killed my mother." She says, a green fireball forming in her hand. "And unlike that bitch, the Evil Queen, I can use magic." She says, staring at Victoria.
And that's how I'm ending this chapter. Next chapter for the 'Vega-Marx Secret' sequel will be out next week. I'm having some writer's block for that story at the moment. Same with this, to be honest.
Anyway, thank you for reading. Hope you liked it and review.
Also, I got a few name ideas for the 'Vega-Marx Secret' sequel that I liked. I'll be telling you which I pick when I update the new chapter by simply changing the name.
Blessed Be.