Eyes of the Dragon
Chapter 10
Disclaimers::: I do not own OUAT or it's characters, just my imagination. Time for more drama and action before our ladies and their son have some family time. :) This is the chapter Rumplestiltskin shows up in…
A disturbance happening outside the following morning got everyone's attention as they moved to look out the window. They could see an angry crowd forming at the front steps of Regina's home. Emma shared a look with her mother who had this truly wicked smile on her face as she looked at the newly mated pair.
Maleficent chuckled. "What did you expect after all that action you two had going last night?"
Regina smiled evilly. "Well I knew that was bound to happen. They're not expecting me to be able to do this." She formed a fireball in the palm of her hand.
Henry's eyes widened. "You got your magic back!"
"She sure did." Emma smiled, moving to Regina's side and kissing her. "We will take care of this, the three of us." She murmured.
Maleficent smiled as she joined them. "Of course we will. We're a family now."
They heard Dr. whale screaming for Regina's blood and the crowd agreeing with him. They talked about all the things they wanted to do to make Regina pay for her crimes against them.
Regina chuckled darkly as they heard everything the crowd was saying. "Time to meet the mob." She strode to her front door with both Emma and Maleficent at her heels. She opened the door the normal way, wanting to surprise everyone. "What is the meaning of this? You come here screaming for my blood like the animals you are while my son has to hear everything you say?" Her eyes flashed angrily.
"You cursed us you witch! You must die!" The crowd was getting upset again.
Emma moved to Regina's side. "Nobody is going to lay a hand on Regina!"
Mary Margaret stepped up. "Emma! She cursed us. She took us from our land and brought us here! She needs to be punished."
Maleficent stepped forward. "Of course you would say that, Snow White." Her voice was full of venom as she stared menacingly at the woman responsible for what happened to her daughters.
"She's Snow White?" Emma turned to look at the woman with a cold look in her eyes. "You're judging Regina? What makes you better than her?" You bitch! She thought to herself, wanting nothing more than to strangle her.
"She's evil! You have no idea what she's capable of! The things she has done…" She then looked at Maleficent. "And you! You are even worse. You're a monster!"
Regina had enough she smirked evilly. "You want evil? I'll give you evil." A fireball appeared in her hand as people jumped back in fear.
"She has her magic! How the hell did that happen?! We're doomed!" The people were scared. The other magic users in town were wondering why they didn't get their powers back when Regina clearly did.
Maleficent smirked, feeling the itch to allow her dragon out. "You know, I haven't forgotten what you and your…"
"Snow?" A man's voice called out in the back of the crowd.
Mary Margaret gasped when she recognized the voice as her husband's. "Charming?" She turned to see the crowd making a path for them to be reunited.
After they hugged and kissed, David took in the faces of those who were there. He glared at Regina. "You! Your soldiers attacked me!" That was the last memory he'd had before he woke up in this strange land. He also noticed Maleficent there. "What have I missed?" He asked as he looked at his wife.
Mary Margaret smiled. "It's been 28 years. The curse has been broken." At this realization, they gasped. "Where's our daughter? She was supposed to break the curse!" They smiled as they looked around, trying to find their daughter.
Regina laughed deliciously when she heard what they said. "Well I hate to burst your bubble. The reason this curse broke is because I found my True Love. Can you imagine?" She smirked as she turned to look at Emma who moved closer to her.
Emma had a wicked smile on her face as she kissed Regina in front of everyone, pulling her closer as she growled softly, her eyes dark.
"No! Impossible! Villains don't have happy endings!" The people clamoured. "She probably put a spell on her!"
Emma chuckled. "Say what you like. But none of you know who I am." She held Regina in her arms in a loving way. "I worship the very ground Regina walks on. There is nothing I wouldn't do for her. You say I don't know this beautiful woman. But I do. You call her a villain. But you do not know her the way I do. I love her the way she is, Evil Queen or not. I wouldn't ask her to change her ways. She's my Queen."
Regina's eyes grew dark with desire, loving what Emma was saying about her. She knew there was absolutely nothing she wouldn't do for her. She was irrevocably in love with Emma Swan. She smiled wickedly as she kissed her wife passionately.
"She has you under a spell! You were not here when she did all those things to us! You… You…" Snow gasped. "Can it be? Is it possible? Could you be our daughter? Then we must get you away from that evil witch!" She hated the way Regina was kissing Emma like that and it left a very foul taste in her mouth.
Maleficent laughed. "You think she's your daughter? Oh Snow. Remember when you stole my babies? That day you held my babies in your arms as I begged you mother to mother not to do it? I begged for mercy and you called me a monster. You called my babies monsters too. Remember that? Well. I got one of my daughters back. And you are going to pay for what you did."
"Is that a threat?" David asked, moving in front of Snow, wanting to protect his wife from the evil dragon.
Maleficent chuckled darkly and growled. "It's not a threat. It's a promise." Her eyes glowed as she began to transform.
The crowd screamed as they backed up, trying to get out of the way.
Emma smiled in awe of what her mother was doing. She was getting a kick out of it. And then her mother finished transforming into a beautiful black dragon with a purple belly and purple wings. "Oh mother, you're so beautiful!" It made her so proud to be her daughter.
Regina grinned, loving the look in Emma's eyes. "Now you see what I was talking about."
Maleficent moved closer to her daughter, nuzzling into Emma's hands and arms before she turned to look at the people who were panicking around her.
Snow disagreed with Maleficent. "I saw Emma in a dream. She looked like her." She pointed at Emma. "So I know she has to be our daughter. You think you can scare me with these people around?"
Maleficent laughed throatily and spoke gutturally in her draconian form. "The people are afraid. You think they will help you?"
Emma stepped up after kissing Regina again. "I am not your daughter! If I was, would I be able to do this?" Her eyes glowed neon green like her mother's were, as she changed into a black and crimson dragon and stood by her mother's side, they snuggled.
Maleficent finally got to see her baby girl as a dragon for the first time. "Oh Emma, you are so beautiful. So perfect. I love you so much!"
Everyone could see clearly that they were indeed mother and daughter. There was no mistaking it. The people began to leave, not wanting to stick around in harm's way especially since there were two mighty dragons in their midst.
Maleficent looked at Emma, "I can't wait to see your sister when you bring her home."
Emma smiled knowingly, "And I will tomorrow." She promised as she smiled darkly, wanting so much to torch the Charmings with her fiery breath. But she knew, like her mother, they needed to suffer first for what they did to their family.
David pushed Snow behind him as they began backing up. David grabbed a pair of garden shears, prepared to use it against the dragons.
Henry ran outside and looked at Mary Margaret and David, having seen what they were trying to do. "Please leave my family alone. I just got my mother back! I just got my grandmother. Regina's my mom too! I know she was the evil Queen, but she's still my mom. If you take them from me, you're the monsters!" It was clear that he had heard everything the people said about his family.
Emma and Maleficent turned back to their human forms and Emma and Regina reached out to Henry and held him in their arms. "We won't let them tear our family apart ever again, I promise Kid." Emma kissed his head.
"Henry, they still need to be held responsible for what they did to your mother, your aunt, and your grandmother. We will not let it slide. I know what I did to them. But they attacked me today without thinking of the consequences." She looked at her archenemy. "In all the time you both were here, I could have killed you. I could have put you out of your misery." She looked at David. "When my soldiers attacked you, you were mortally wounded and I could have let you die. Instead I kept you alive for 28 years. Don't get me wrong, I still very much want to make you two suffer. This isn't over. Get out of here. I want to spend time with MY family."
"But what about our daughter? Where is she?" The Charmings asked her.
Regina rolled her eyes. "You're asking the wrong person. How would I know? You got rid of your daughter the same way you got rid of Maleficent's daughters."
Emma glared at the Charmings. "When I bring Lily home, we will take care of what you did to our family. My wife is right, this isn't over."
Maleficent had a dark smile on her face. "I would love to pick my teeth with your bones. But now isn't the right time." She looked at Emma and Regina. "I'm going to have a talk with Mr. Gold right now. Have fun darlings." She hugged Emma and kissed her cheek and did the same with Regina and Henry before she took off.
Regina smiled at her wife and their son. "How shall we start our day?"
Henry grinned. "Can we get ice cream? And then we could go to the movies."
Emma smiled, "That sounds good to me and then maybe afterwards, we could go for a walk."
"And feed the ducks?" Regina smiled knowingly. "It's a favorite pastime of Henry and mine."
Henry lit up at this and grinned. Emma laughed softly. "That sounds perfect."
Maleficent found Mr. Gold in his shop. "Rumplestiltskin."
He looked at the dragon with a small smile on his face. "What can I do for you deary?"
"I need to find my daughter, Lily Page." Maleficent replied.
"And why should I help you?" Rumple replied as he cleaned the counter.
"Because you owe me. I helped you make several curses. You have yet to pay me back. Until you help me, I will not make any more for you." Maleficent replied darkly. Rumple had not been able to make any of the curses on his own without her help. She had no intention of helping him again.
"Very well." The dark one nodded as he took out a map and then had Maleficent use a drop of her blood. They watched as her blood made a trail to where Lily was. It led to Lowell, Massachusetts.
"I need her address." Maleficent replied.
"I believe Emma will find her for you. You do not need any more help from me." Rumple smirked.
The dragon scoffed. "After everything I've done for you? That's all you can say?"
Rumplestiltskin gave Maleficent an amused look. "Your daughter has quite a talent for finding people. She will find her sister without any difficulty."
Maleficent wasn't surprised that Rumple would know that Emma was her daughter. "Fine." She cleaned any trace of her blood from the map with her magic, not trusting Rumple. She then left in a cloud of dark smoke.
Emma and Regina and their son arrived at the ice cream shop and entered, walking towards the many flavors of ice cream to choose from. Emma then looked at a woman working behind the display counter and gasped when she saw who she was. "What are you doing here Sarah?"
"Hello Emma." Ingrid/Sarah smiled. "It's been a long time. You've grown to be a very beautiful woman." She couldn't help u to feel so proud of Emma.
Regina looked at Ingrid. "You know each other? How?" She also wondered why Emma was calling her Sarah instead of Ingrid.
Emma nodded. "This is Sarah, she was my foster mother… a long time ago."
Ingrid smiled. "Sarah Fisher was a name I used in your world. Here, I go by my real name which is Ingrid."
"So why the secrecy? Why pretend to be someone you aren't?" Emma asked.
Regina stood up straighter, wondering if Ingrid had bad intentions for her Emma. She moved closer to her wife while she glared at Ingrid. "Yes, what is that all about?"
Ingrid sighed. "I didn't have my own identity when I was in your world so in order to have a job in the foster care service, I had to use a false name, get a false social security card the whole works. I knew about you Emma. I had to find you. I had to help you and I wanted to teach you how to use your magic. I never meant to scare you away." She moved around the counter and took Emma's hand into her own. "Remember, I wanted to adopt you? I know you had a rough time moving from foster home to foster home. And Rumplestiltskin told me he had plans for you. I don't trust him. He helped me to find you but he intended to use you for his own purposes."
"What do you mean? What does Rumple want with Emma?" Regina was surprised to hear of his involvement.
"Yeah what's up with that?" Emma wanted to know.
Ingrid sighed. "He didn't say, just said he has big plans for you. When I found you, he did too. I caught him sneaking around and I tried to fight him so I could protect you. He got away and said that he would wait until you got older before he got you to do his bidding. He said your powers would continue to grow, the older you got. That once you became an adult, even though you were immortal, your powers would not stop growing. I tried to teach you and to protect you." She smiled at Henry, having seen him multiple times with Regina in the past. "You want the usual?" When Henry nodded, she got him his ice cream and then looked at Regina and Emma. "How do you know each other?"
Emma was still reeling from the information Ingrid shared with her regarding the fact that Rumplestiltskin had plans for her. It only made her have more questions about his intent toward her. She then shared a look with Regina and smiled, letting her wife answer first.
Regina smiled. "We share a son. Emma is Henry's biological mother. I adopted Henry when he was a baby. We just met a few days ago."
Emma smiled. "We did more than just meet." She chuckled. She smiled when Ingrid gave her her favorite ice cream. "You remembered." She shared a look with Regina who also got her ice cream. "Regina is my wife."
Ingrid smiled. "Well congratulations. The ice cream is on the house. You have a very handsome young man right there. Please don't be a stranger and please come and visit anytime you want to. Did you ever find a family to be with Emma?" She asked.
Emma shook her head. "No, not in that world. They were never able to handle me. But when my son found me and brought me here, I found my birth mother thanks to my wife. Tomorrow I will find my sister and bring her home." Emma smiled.
"You have a sister? How?" Ingrid asked.
Emma chuckled. Was Ingrid ready to hear her story? "Do you really want to know?"
Ingrid nodded but moved to turn the sign from open to closed before they moved to the table and chairs. "Please, have a seat and tell me everything."
Regina smiled, "It will give us time to finish our ice cream."
Emma smiled as she nodded, "Alright. You were right about me having growing powers. I've had powers since I was a baby, and I know my sister has as well. We are twins. Not in the identical way. However, we shared an egg and we were hatched from one." She watched Ingrid's reaction to this.
"Hatched? What do you mean? Like a bird?" She asked.
Emma laughed softly. "No, dragons." She shared a look with a smirking Regina.
Ingrid's eyes widened. "So your parents…"
"I don't know yet about my father. But Maleficent is my mother. She actually never gave us up. We were stolen from her, by none other than the Charmings." Emma said their name with disgust. "Somehow we were sucked into a portal after they infused us with their daughter's darkness. I still don't know how I got separated from my sister. But I am sure we will find out soon enough."
Ingrid was dismayed by what she was hearing.
Maleficent was fuming mad as she paced back and forth near the caves. She had a lot to think about. Ever since she lost her daughters and regained one, she thought back to the day they had been taken from her. Soon, a realization hit her hard. She remembered who else was there the day the Charmings stole her girls. Cruella and Ursula. They had vanished with the egg holding her daughters. They had lied to her and told her that they had died, that they had not survived falling through the portal. She growled, feeling rage building up inside her. She knew exactly where they were and being a master of portals, she went to confront them. As soon as she found them, she screamed at them. "YOU LIED TO ME!"
Ursula rolled her eyes. "What did we lie about?"
Cruella smirked at Maleficent. "How did you find out?"
Maleficent growled at them. "Because my daughter Emma is back and she has knowledge that her sister is alive. What in the name of all that's evil did you do?" She glared at them.
Cruella looked nervous. "We um… We took the girls and went our separate ways, leaving the girls with different people. We had to find them a place to live. They didn't want to raise two babies together."
Ursula shrugged. "At least they are okay. Nothing to worry about."
Maleficent slammed the hilt of her scepter and magic reached out and bound Ursula and Cruella.
"Wh..what are you doing?!" They exclaimed as they tried to fight the grip of her magic.
"Taking you two with me to Storybrooke. We will decide your fate there." Maleficent had an evil smile on her face as they disappeared in dark smoke and appeared back in Storybrooke.