...Sorry this is late, exams are coming up and BLEH! Exams.
This chapter is kinda crappy. However, I need your opinions on something...
Chapter 10- Killing the Monsters
Emma's phone rang, "Hi, Emma, this is Dr. Whale. Just wanted to let you know that your friend, May, broke out of the hospital and is now terrorizing people on the streets. Please come... retrieve her before she maims someone. Thanks," The man promptly hung up.
"Well, no shit, Whale," Emma muttered, then she turned to Regina and Gold, "Well?"
"Well what?" Regina snapped, "The girl you invited to come back with us is now terrorizing various townsfolk."
Emma glared, "I meant, how can we get rid of her- it. Obviously she- it- isn't human anymore, and those people are human- so, what can we do? You have to have some idea about what we can do."
The beast screamed angrily again, its clawed 'feet' pounding against the pavement, breaking it apart.
"Think! She said something about fire, right? We can use that someone, right?" Emma asked.
"Yes, but she's covered with some kind of scales. We'd have to find a way to get through those, and get them off first," Gold said logically.
Another inhuman screech rang out, and another terrified human scream.
"Well, hurry and figure it out," Emma hopped nervously from foot to foot, "I'm going to go out now and try and stall it for time. Think of something, quickly!" And she was gone, with Killian, David, and Snow trailing after her.
Another wail from the monster prompted Regina and Gold to think harder.
"Ok, we've dealt with these things before. Dark magic would make this easier, but, somehow, I don't think their Highnesses would go for that," Regina started. Gold cut her off,
"She's covered in scales. Scales can be pulled off. All we need to do is get them out. Or..." Gold hesitated, "She opens her mouth on a regular basis. We could... toss something in there, something like a flail, or a bomb," Gold said.
Regina looked thoughtful, "A bomb..."
The large, scaly monster approached the group. Up close, Emma could see each individual scale on her.
The scales themselves were a goldish-black color, and each was about the size of one's fingernail. They covered her neck and the top of her head and surrounded her ears. The ears mimicked those of owls, despite the creature having the body of a small, extraordinary underfed and skeletal cat (that was the size of a car). The tail was long and thin, and the end was coated in long spikes.
Its eyes were the same slate grey color as May's.
That would have broken their resolve- if it hadn't opened its mouth right then and screeched, showing rows upon rows of needlelike teeth, and a long, forked tongue.
"Stall for time?" Emma said, shifting anxiously.
"Stall for time," Mary Margaret said, notching her arrow. David whipped out a sword, and Killian did the same.
They charged the beast.
The beast whipped out some wicked looking claws.
"Oh, dear," Mary Margaret muttered under her breath.
Killian slashed at the thing's claws, while she slashed at his face.
Killian had over swung.
Part of the beast's paw fell to the ground. It screamed in agony, whipping its tail in distress and backing away. It growled, and immediately leaped forward and swung at Killian. Emma tackled him, and the two landed on the ground while the thing gouged a set of deep scrapes into the wall of a building.
She snarled, turning to face the group—and she was immediately shot in the side by Mary Margaret.
She screeched again, enraged, and lunged at Mary Margaret, raking her claws along her leg. Mary Margaret cried out in pain, stumbling back. David swung his sword at the cat-like being. His sword screamed out against her golden-black scales.
The paw came up before David could react, slapping the sword out of his hand.
Just as she was about to attack again, Regina and Gold appeared.
"Here, kitty kitty kitty!" Regina yelled, "Here, kitty kitty!" She smacked a stick against a metal trashcan and waved something in the air.
Emma stepped forwards and hissed, "Regina, what are you doing with that-?"
The cat's eyes perked up, standing at attention. Its grey eyes locked in on the circular item in Regina's hand. She slowly padded forward, focused on Regina.
Suddenly, Regina chucked the stick at her head. The monster screamed in fury, its jaws nearly unhinging, and then-
Regina threw the bomb in.
The monster snapped its mouth shut and straightened up, confused.
"Regina-!" Emma shouted, then there was an explosion.
Blood coated the street, and the body of the cat slumped against the ground. Mary Margaret gasped,
"Regina..." she whispered, "What did you do?"
The body shrunk until the now decapitated May lie in the middle of the street, covered in scrapes and missing all the fingers on her left hand.
"Oh, God," Regina said, "I didn't now... I didn't know that would happen. I thought that it would kill her, I didn't think she would..."
"May?" Someone called. Heads turned to see a startled looking Peter, and a distraught Felix standing on the street.
"May?!" Felix cried again, stepping forwards out of his leaders shadows. His gaze fell upon the gathered 'heroes' and he said accusingly, "What have you done? What have you done?!" He grabbed Emma's arm and shook her, hard, "What have you done to my sister?!"
Emma tried to shake him off, "She tried to murder the citizens, she nearly killed-"
Felix shook her harder. Killian grabbed his shoulder, attempting to pull Felix off. Peter stalked towards Regina, spotting the guilty look on her face,
"What did you do, witch?" He snarled. Gold tensed up, preparing himself for a fight.
Peter looked at the corpse calmly, "Did you blow her head off? Did you blow the head off of a teenager? Is that was you did, witch?"
"She nearly killed people, and she gravely injured many," Regina started.
"And you haven't done the same? You have portals, why didn't you just send her through one? You should've called the Shadow, sent her back to us," Peter shot back, however, his voice was still strangely calm.
Gold sneered, "Someone I doubt she wanted to be there in the first place."
Peter snarled at him, "What, you think she was happy here with you? She only came here to see some place new before the spell broke," He looked at the body, "And I bet you didn't even listen to her when she told you what was going to happen."
They shifted from foot to foot, before Gold spoke up,
"In all fairness, she wasn't very clear about what would happen, and the time we had to find a solution."
Peter barked out a short laugh, "Right, I'm sure," he shook his head, and was about to say more, when Emma interrupted,
"She was already dead."
He turned around. Somehow, Killian and David had managed to restrain Felix, and Emma and Mary Margaret stood in front of them. Emma restated,
"She was already dead. Right?"
Peter's eyes narrowed, "And?"
"Dead is dead. Maybe she left because she wanted to die. You're not supposed to live forever, Pan. You're born, you live, and you die. That's it. There's nothing more, and nothing less. Sure, she died a little young, but she's still dead. So let her be dead."
Peter looked like he was actually considering it for a minute and Mary Margaret relaxed. David and Killian loosened their hold on Felix.
Just when Peter was about to respond to the woman standing in front of him, Killian lunged forwards.
A knife found its way into Emma's back.
Felix laughed, "Yeah, stay dead, Swan."
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