You spell Evil REGINA

by Vampress2802

This is a one-shot Depending on reviews and who wants to read more. After Emma brings back Marian from he past, reuniting Robin with his wife and Regina loosing hope of ever being truly happy again; she reverts to her old ways and this time not even Henry is safe from the new and improved Evil Queen. Theme is Angst but there is always light where there is darkness SPOILER FOR 3X22

10. Chapter 10

Hey guys I am sooooooo sorry for the ridiculously long ass wait. At first I was super busy, then I just became super lazy, then I became super depressed and I just didn't care nor feel like updating. But I am back now and I won't be leaving like that again. WTF will be getting updated sometime this week if not tomorrow because I was working on both of these at the same time. I have some really great material for WTF and I made this chapter super long just to say sorry.

I battle with depression and sometimes I get into this funk and I just can't seem to fight my way out. So I have been sulking for a few months but thanks too a few of my awesome ass readers, they managed to throw me a life raft in the middle of my pity pool and help me get to dry land. Thank you so much! ^_^

BTW I met Lana! I worked Spooky Empire for 3 days and I got to see her 2 days in a row. I stood at her table for autographs, you know like security so I saw and met a few of you guys. I got to stand there for like 3 hours and I would have stood there for 50 if I could. IT WAS THE BEST JOB EVER! She is so FUCKING SWEET AND HUMBLE. She loves her fans and even got teary eyed when this girl was talking to her about how much she changed her life. I love this fandom! She works so hard; she even spoke to us when they closed her section down, so she could get a break. She looked at us and was like "I am so hungry, the only reason I am still ready to sign autographs is because I have this big ass burger in the back and I am going to kill it. It's got bacon and stuff on it." And then she laughed; I thought I was going to just melt away.

I wanted to speak to her the entire time, but every time I saw her I fan girl the fuck out and just stood there smiling. So I didn't speak but I was spoken too and smiled at so, I was content. I'm doing spooky empire again this time I am paying to get and autograph and picture, so I will be forced to talk to her and hopefully if my friends do it with me, I will be able to actually talk to her. Fingers crossed. ^_^

Okay, so enough with that and now to the story, the beginning of this chapter is going to take an action filled dark ass turn and a few… yes that's right a few of our favorite story book characters will die… a very slow and cruel death.

It's my way of working through my issues LOL. Do me a favor guys when you finish the chapter leave a review of who died so we can honor them. Just leave R.I.P and the name of the character. Remember all this happens in the beginning so be prepared for the wave of emotions…. I am going to hit you where it hurts ^_^ N-joy.

Disclaimer: I Own nothing but my ideas and storylines everything else is Adam and Eddie's… and Disney's.

"I just left the library, Henry, she's not there," Rumple gritted out.

"Did you try calling her?"

Rumple uncharacteristically rolled his eyes, "Yes, I did that was the second thing I did"

"Well let me try, maybe she's just still mad at you" Henry said pulling out his phone and dialing Belle. "It's ringing," he said putting the phone on speaker.

After the first 3 rings Belle's voice came through.

"Henry?"

"Belle, are you okay, my…"

"Henry, put your mother on the phone…" a males voice rang out.

Rumplestilskin moved closer to the boy, as did everyone else.

"Sidney?" Regina questioned as she took the phone from Henry.

"Awe you're Majesty, it sounds so good hearing your beautiful voice," the former Genie said as Rumple snatched the phone from Regina.

"Where is my wife you…"

"Ah ah ah… I wouldn't insult me if I were you Dark One," he said as a whimper and a yelp escaped from Belle.

"He's got Ann…" Belle tried to yell when a slap was heard loudly on the other end of the phone and Belle cried out.

"Shut up book worm!" he shouted, "If you tell them I have the red head, then there will be nothing left to the imagination," Sidney said crazy-mad in a sing along voice.

"Oops," Sidney chuckled "Looks like I gave it away" he sang again. "Well that's what happens when you're left in a dungeon for 3 years with no one to talk to… you start saying things and giving things away and then you start seeing things and hearing voices…" he rambled on.

"I swear to you genie, when I find you I am going to torture you, very very slowly, then when you are at the brink of death, I will heal you and start over again and again until pain is the only thing you know," Rumple growled into the phone.

"Well then it's a good thing you don't know where I am," Sidney said with a chuckle.

"Oh I'll find you,"

"Oh, I'm counting on it and as for you, your Majesty, I look forward to seeing you too, because I won't give up Belle without a proper trade… and guess what I want… you," he said and then the line went dead.

Everyone looked at Regina who was nearly vibrating with anger and then at Rumple, who waved his hand over Elsa, releasing the woman and walking toward the door.

"Gold, wait where are you going?" Snow asked but he didn't respond he just walked out of the diner and toward his shop. The others rushed out to follow him.

He walked into his shop and began rummaging through shelves and cabinets. Everyone just stood there watching him.

"Gold, what are you looking for? Maybe we can help you," Emma said as she watched the man disappear into the back of the shop.

"I don't need your help Ms. Swan, especially since you're useless when it comes to magic," Rumple said from behind the wall.

"Hey that's not true I have been practicing. Besides I can help,"

"Whom does she sound like?" Charming muttered to Snow who looked over at Henry.

"Rumple if you would just tell us what it is you are looking for we can help you find it," Regina said making her way toward the door when Gold reappeared.

"I don't need any of your help but you are coming with me and if you're deranged boyfriend hurts Belle in any way—"

"He is not my boyfriend and maybe if you hadn't lied to your wife and kidnapped someone's sister all of this could have been avoided! And she would be safe!" Regina yelled glaring at the man.

"Enough! Both of you! All of us are going to help, everyone, including Emma," Henry said making all the adults look at him,

"Well then what do we do?" Elsa asked making her presence known for the first time.

"You are not going anywhere with me, the last thing I need for you to do, is screw up something, by taking your revenge out on my wife," Rumple growled out.

"This Sydney person has my sister and as much as I despise you and will rectify the wrong you have caused me and my family, I would never take it out on an innocent. My quarrel is with you Dark One and you only."

Gold mulled it over and then with a grunt he walked past all of them and out of his shop, as everyone followed he pulled out an ring. No one needed to ask him, they all knew it was Belle's wedding band. He poured what they all were familiar with by now, as the locator potion and soon the ring glowed a hue of blue and began floating.

"Henry, you stay here," Emma said as the ring still hovered mid-air trying to locate its owner.

"What? No I want to come, I can help out with this too."

"Henry, no, Emma is right. Sidney is not in his right state of mind. He won't see you as a child, he will try to kill you in anyway he can. And besides with the spell broken, I don't know if his powers have returned or not." Regina said looking toward Gold who was frowning at the ring.

"But mom—"

"No buts Henry, I mean it. Stay here."

Henry hung his head and looked away from his mother, and then turned and slowly to make his way back to the diner.

"Don't worry, I got him," Granny said walking toward the boy.

"Something is wrong, the ring can't find her location," Gold said watching the ring hover and move an inch, then move back.

"It could be a barrier… but I've never seen nor knew Genies could create barriers," Regina said more to herself than anything.

"Okay well where do you think she might be?" Emma asked, "Usually people have gut feelings as to where their loved ones are and the places that they pick are usually spot on."

"That won't help!" Rumple barked, "She isn't angry with me or hurt, she's kidnapped!"

Emma flinched slightly, "Look I'm just trying to help."

Rumple growled and walked a few steps away leaving the ring hovering and looking quite confused as to which direction it's master was in.

"Regina, what about you?" Snow asked seeing her stepmother in deep thought.

"I…" Regina began when she spotted Kristoff walking toward Granny's. Without saying a word she walked toward him. Rumple frowned but grabbed the ring out of the air and followed Regina and so did everyone else.

"Ice man!" Regina called out and Kristoff frowned but stopped and looked in her direction. He was getting ready to tell the Queen that was not his name, when his eyes landed on a familiar platinum blonde in a sparkling blue dress.

"Elsa!" he exclaimed running to embrace her.

Elsa smiled and embraced her brother-in-law.

When he pulled back he looked at Rumplestilskin and protectively pushed the woman behind him.

"How could you take her like that, do you know how hard it is to watch my wife talk to her sister through a mirror for 10 minutes at a time in fear of what you might do to her sister if caught talking to her!"

Rumple opened his mouth to say something but Kristoff was not done.

"I held her every night for the past 3 weeks, while she cried into my shoulder. She wouldn't sleep or eat anything! She practically lived at the library and—"

"Are you finished?" Rumple said cutting the man off. Emma glared at Rumple's rudeness, as did everyone else.

Kristoff scuffed and shook his head his body vibrating with anger, "Yeah I'm finished," he said clenching his fists.

"Good, now—" Rumple began when a strong right hook to his face, cut him off. Everyone watched the older man go crashing to the ground in all the gracefulness of a bull in a glass shop.

"No, now I'm finished," Kristoff, said shaking out his now pulsing hand.

"Kristoff!" Elsa exclaimed grabbing hold of his injured hand, "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine but I'm getting ready to…" Rumple said beginning to stand.

"Not you!" Regina bit at him, "You got what you deserved, Kristoff, could have broken his hand."

Rumple growled at his former student and jerked himself away from David as he helped him back on his feet.

"Well while your busy punching people your wife is kidnapped with some deranged Genie," Rumple barked removing his handkerchief and wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth.

"What?" Kristoff said looking at the older man and then to everyone in the group. "No, she left last night to go to the library, her and Belle do that a lot now to try and get Elsa back."

"Where are Elsie and Elliot?" Ruby asked

"Their with Granny, a blonde woman came an picked them up, this morning saying that I was supposed to meet them here for lunch."

Everyone looked at one another.

"What?"

"What did the woman look like?" Regina asked.

"She was tall and blonde," Kristoff said trying to wrack his brain to find any other characteristics.

"Do you know how many tall blondes there are walking around here?" Regina said, "There has to be something else."

"Well she was strikingly beautiful," Kristoff said off hand but when Elsa looked at him, he cleared his throat. "Oh wait, she carried a staff with a dragon on it, at first I was a little apprehensive about letting them go with her but she said she was a friend of yours," he said nodding toward Regina.

Regina's blood ran cold and she looked at Rumple, "Maleficent."

"Wait a minute, the dragon from under the library?" Emma asked.

"You let your children go off with a woman claiming to be a friend of mine?" Regina growled out at him.

"Are you saying she wasn't a friend!" Kristoff exclaimed.

"Once upon a time she was a dear friend, but that still doesn't—"

"No screw that! She said she was a friend of yours and she said that you sent her because she has the gift of fire as well, and if Elliot or Elsie were to get overly excited she would be able to handle it," Kristoff yelled.

"Alright calm down," Elsa said, "What do you know of this Maleficent woman? Would she hurt a child?"

Regina ran her fingers through her hair and sighed, "No, she kept me from killing a baby unicorn, I don't think she would harm a child,"

"Think or Know!" Kristoff demanded.

"Okay!" Emma said stopping the argument, "This isn't helping, okay, now that Maleficent is in the picture, where do you think they might hide? Now that they have Anna and the children?"

"Wait, Anna was taken as well! What the hell is going on?"

"Kristoff, please, everyone found out just a few moments ago that Anna was taken along with Rumplestilskin's wife, we didn't even know the children were missing until just now. We know just as much as you do?" Elsa said.

"Is that why he released you because he thought that one of us had something to do with it?" Kristoff asked glairing at the older man.

"His releasing of me is just as much a mystery to me as it is to you," Elsa said taking a chance glance look at the man in question.

"This is crazy, why would Maleficent and Sidney take Anna and the children only to place them behind a barrier we can't fi—"

Suddenly Belle's ring jolted from Rumple's hand, hovering and glowing brightly. They all looked at it and as if waiting to make sure everyone was looking at it, it took off toward Gold's shop, and then surged past it.

Everyone followed closely behind it, Rumple surprisingly in the front of all of everyone, the phantom pain in his leg gone altogether. They ran until they reached the tree line of the forest.

"How far is this place?" Emma exhaled grabbing her chest as Gold, ran into the forest along with Regina, Kristoff and Anna.

Ruby groaned and grabbed her hand pulling her toward the forest.

"For someone who chased people down for a living, your stamina is really weak."

Emma groaned but with the help of Ruby's werewolf strength she easily caught up with the others.

They ran for what seemed like another 15 minutes and Gold, Regina and Kristoff seemed to be slowing down.

"I swear Sidney and Maleficent, have purposely ventured out this far to weaken us before the fight." Regina gasped as she tried to keep up with Gold who refused to stop. The ring was still zipping forward with no intention of stopping.

"Are you sure this ring is taking us in the right direction and not some manipulation from Maleficent?" Ruby asked running up quickly beside them. Her werewolf strength and speed making the jog from Granny's diner to almost 25 minutes into the forest a stroll in the park.

Gold growled his answer and pushed himself to continue following the ring.

Ruby sighed frustrated and ran past them, making the ring move faster.

"What the hell is she doing?" Gold demanded finally stopping to take a breath.

"She's running ahead to make sure we are going in the right direction," Regina said as she too stopped to catch her breath. The others caught up to them and they were just as tired as the two of them were. Seconds later Ruby ran back to them.

"It's another mile that way," Ruby said handing the ring back to Rumplestilskin.

"Fine," Rumple said.

"Fine?" Elsa commented, "As much as I am used to walking, I am not sure I could make it another mile." She said as the others nodded.

"I know, this was done purposely," Rumple growled, "Maybe not by Maleficent but maybe Sidney. Maleficent likes playing with her prey to much to warn them out before the game is even started, which means that her alliance with Sidney, was just a means, to go along with a plan already in motion." Rumple said, "Ruby think of the place, imagine it in your mind and only focus on that."

Ruby nodded and closed her eyes, seconds later she felt a small breeze and then the sound of magic whooshing around her. When she opened her eyes again she was standing in front of a large abandoned mansion, which looked like it should be on the most haunted places in the world then in a magical town as StoryBrooke.

"Let's go," Rumple said taking a deep breath and walking up the stone steps, toward the large rickety door.

"You know if I wasn't with two of the most powerful magic practitioners, Snow White, Prince Charming, Little Red Riding hood and an Ice wielding Queen, I would be afraid of this turning out like every scary movie in the history of man," Emma said as she slowly walked up the stairs and watched as everyone entered the dark musky building.

"And what do you think now?" Ruby said beside her.

"We're all going to die," Emma said as she and Ruby passed through the door. The inside was dark, the only light shining into the structure were through the windows. The inside was huge, there were a few pieces of furniture warned down and covered in dust and spiders. On each side of the large room were two long staircases that led up stairs and between them were two adjoining glass doors leading further into the house. The light shining through the windows of that room gave the area inside a blue hue, most likely due to the unpolished windows.

"Shut up," Rumple hissed, his voice bouncing off the termite filled walls.

"No need to be quiet on our account dears, since I could smell all of you the moment you stepped with in 100 feet of here, especially the wolf." A booming voice said rattling the walls and shaking dust from the ceiling.

Ruby gulped as her hackles rose and she felt the wolf growl deep within her.

"Show yourself witch!" Kristoff yelled.

"Witch? No my dear, that's not what I am," Maleficent's said.

A large black shadow passed by the two doors causing the room to go completely black for what looked like forever until the narrow end of a tail whipped by.

Kristoff took a step back including Emma, and Snow.

"I am something a lot more sinister," she said with a chuckle, which seemed to vibrate the floor of the mansion.

"Enough games, Mal, show yourself," Regina shouted.

"Quite the contrary my dear, you know I love games," she said walking past the doors again.

Regina glared and began to walk forward when Emma grabbed her arm, "Where are you going?"

"Through those doors to end this, if you want to stay here then stay but I am ending this now," She said snatching her arm from Emma and heading toward the door. As she stuck her hand out to touch the doorknob a scream came from upstairs.

"Rumple!" Belle screamed from upstairs.

"Help us!" Anna screamed.

Everyone looked up and then at each other, Rumplestilskin dashed up the stairs followed by Charming, and Kristoff.

With a wave of her hand, Regina gave Charming his sword, and Kristoff an ice pick.

"Thanks, Regina!" Charming yelled.

"Really?" Kristoff shouted.

Regina rolled her eyes and reached for the door…

"Wait," Ruby yelled and Regina turned to see Ruby's eyes turn bright yellow and a growl escape from her.

"What is it Ruby?" Snow asked but Ruby was already transforming. She stood in wolf form growling at the archway on the right wall, and then charged through it.

"Ruby!" Snow yelled running after her.

"Mom wait!" Emma yelled looking at Regina who sighed and waved her hand, giving her stepdaughter her bow and arrow set. "Really?" Emma said as Regina turned back to the door, having no desire to follow them.

"I'll follow them," Elsa reassured her and took off after the pair.

Regina turned toward the door; as soon as she placed her hand on the knob, a surge of electricity ran up her arm and soon throughout her entire body. A sharp gasp escaped her mouth as she vibrated furiously, her hair stood on end, her eyes rolled up in her head and her spine became so straight it began to arch backward.

"REGINA!" Emma screamed as she reached forward to touch the brunet but stopped herself. She knew if she were to touch her she would get shocked herself as well because Regina's body would pass the current through her. It was the one school lesson that stuck with her throughout her life and she was sure it had something to do with the video that accompanied the lesson.

"Hold on, I'll save you," Emma said as a painful grunt left Regina. She closed her eyes and focused, a gust of white magic hit Regina and she flew through the door and onto the floor.

The room that they were in looked to be a grand ballroom, it was very large it had stained wood floors and the surrounding walls were accented with white silk wallpaper that had a gold design on it. But that's not what had Emma's attention, it was the gigantic black and purple dragon she thought she'd slain under the clock tower. She was huge, her belly was a dark shimmering grey and her scales was such a deep shade of purple they looked black. Her eyes glowed green and her claws were just as black and sharp as she remembered. Emma was brought from her thoughts when Maleficent began to move again, toward Regina.

Emma ran toward her but was suddenly thrown back by magic.

"Tsk tsk tsk, savior, this is between me and Regina so you need to… stay out of it!" Maleficent yelled as the walls was turned into quick sand and Emma sucked within it.

…

Ruby ran through the room until she came to a long hallway, the light from the several windows than lined the walls gave her enough light to see that she was heading to another part of the mansion. She, Snow and Elsa ran through the hallway and then stopped when they came to three archways and a grand staircase in the center of the room, leading upstairs. They all took a step in separate directions looking in the rooms.

Ruby sniffed the floor and then her ears pinned back and she looked toward the archway in front of her, past the stairs. She unleashed a loud bark and dashed forward. Elsa and Snow followed close behind until they reached another set of closed double doors. There was a light coming from this room and Ruby growled approaching the door slowly. She lifted her paw to touch it when Snow stopped her.

"Ruby wait, when we visited Rumplestilskin's castle in the enchanted forest, he had booby-trapped all the doors," she said grabbing a bow and aiming it toward the lock. She released the arrow and just as she suspected the door fizzled with magic but swung open.

The room was different from the rest of the house, since it was the only room that looked brand new. The walls were lined with silk purple wallpaper, toys lined the bottom of it and lying on two twin-sized beds were Elsie and Elliot.

Ruby slowly walked over toward them and sniffed them fearing the worst. She took turns licking each of their faces and both children stirred and opened their eyes. Elliot giggled at her and wiped his chin sitting up.

"Hi Ruby" he said sleepily.

Ruby transformed back into her human form and sat between the beds while Elsa ran over to her niece and nephew.

"Auntie Elsa!" Elsie shouted rising to meet her aunt halfway with a hug, "Mommy said you have ice like me," she said extending her palm and letting a large snowflake dance in the middle of her small hand.

"I do, and I promise we will talk more about it. Where is your mommy?"

Elsie's snowflake quickly vanished and the bed beneath her began to frost over, "She left this morning to go to the library to see Lady Belle. Where is she? Is something wrong?"

Elsa grabbed the young girls hands, "Honey, she is fine. I was just wondering if you knew where she was in the house. The woman who locked you in here, she is working with a very bad man who took Lady Belle and your mommy. Your daddy and Prince Charming are looking for them now."

Elsie nodded and quickly got off the bed her brother following close behind.

"Can you walk or would you like for me to carry you," Elsa asked the little ones.

Elsie straightened her back and shook her head, "Thank you, but I can walk," she said with a smile.

Elsa smiled "You remind me of your mother, she was so independent too. But if you get tired let me know, hold my hand?" Elsie smiled large at that and quickly grabbed her aunt's hand.

"What about you Elliot?" Elsa asked.

"I want to ride Ruby," he exclaimed and snow and Ruby both laughed.

"You sure, I go pretty fast…"

"Okay," he said with a smile as he stepped closer to Ruby. Elliot looked to Elsie and she looked up at Elsa.

"Go on, it might be safer if you ride with your brother," she said letting go of the young girl.

"Who do you think, put them here?" Ruby asked.

"Well it had to be Maleficent, I wonder why she chose this side of the house and locked the door. You would think she would want them to be near her right?" Snow said looking between the adults. "I mean how easy would it have been to rescue them, like we're doing now?"

"You think this was too easy?" Elsa said moving closer to the children.

"I'm not sure, but something isn't right," Snow said giving a quick nod to the others Ruby transformed and Elliot climbed up. Elsie was getting ready to do the same when she turned back and looked toward the back of the room. She walked over to the window where all the other stuffed animals were aligned and grabbed a scary looking porcelain doll with dark black hair, wearing a long black and lilac gown with glowing Red eyes. As she walked back over to the group Snow looked at Elsa who looked down at Elsie.

"Honey, is that yours?"

"No, but I saw Mal-enfant-cent… put it in here before she closed the door. It was the only one she placed right by the window. I think she likes this one."

"Why?" Elsa asked kneeling down to become eye level with the girl.

"Because she kept touching the shoes." Elsie said lifting the dolls dress and revealing a very intricate se of sliver boots that were on the dolls feet. On the side of each boot were a ruby and a diamond.

"Well dragons like silver things so maybe that's why," Snow muttered to Elsa who nodded and stood. Ruby still lying on the floor awaiting her last rider, stood when she felt the young girls weight on her back, bringing the children almost eye level with Snow and Elsa.

"Okay, lets go find the others," Snow said as they all took off, back the way they came.

…

As soon as Rumple made it to the landing he was faced with a long hall of doors. Belle's voice was coming from one and Anna's voice was coming from another.

"Why don't we check them one at a time," Charming said not wanting to separate in the maze of the mansion.

"You can go in another room but I am going in the one that Belle is in," Rumple seethed running down the hall.

Charming looked at Kristoff who looked at him apologetically and took off in the direction that his wife's voice was coming from.

Charming sighed and ran after Kristoff. As soon as they opened the door, they saw Anna tied to a chair in the center of the room.

Her eyes were red and wet from crying and her mouth gagged.

Kristoff was about to run to his wife when Charming stopped him.

"What are you doing?"

"We heard her scream right?"

"So what!" Kristoff Yelled.

"How did she scream if she's gagged?"

"I don't care! I heard her scream and I'm cutting her loose!" Kristoff yelled yanking his arm from the Prince and running toward his wife.

"Wait!" Charming yelled chasing after the man.

As soon as Kristoff reached Anna, she disappeared in a puff of pale burgundy smoke and reappeared by the door.

Kristoff frowned at the magic and turned toward the door, Charming doing the same.

Anna stood tall in the door frame, her eyes empty and shining like black diamonds as she slowly pulled the gag from her mouth and let it slide from her fingers and pool onto the floor, "Idiots, this was far too easy," she said as her eyes sunk in further and her smile grew until it split her face and razor sharp teeth peeked from her thin lips in layers. She grew taller and thinner, her long red hair turning ghostly white. Both her skinny legs splitting into two more and a few even sprouted from her sides, ripping her shirt and skirt. The thick blood red curtains that hung heavily in the windows quickly shut and a hauntingly hollow chuckle filled the room as she slammed the door, locking them in the now dark room. The scurrying of feet circling them had Kristoff and Charming standing back to back.

"I should have listened to you," Kristoff said looking up, as the scurrying of feet sounded on the ceiling.

"Yes, you should have," Charming gritted back, "But I get it, if it were Snow, I would have done the same," he said as the both began to dashed closer to the door, when a deep chuckle echoed beside them. They instead moved closer to the window.

"I bet you wished you would have stayed with Gold, now huh?" Kristoff said his ice pick held inched from his face the blunt end toward his mouth and the point outward. Charming sighed his eyes and ears alert, as his sword was diagonal to his chest.

"Gold, has magic you do not, on the count of three, the drapes, pull them open," Charming said as he reached behind him to grab one side.

A shriek rang loudly through the room; Charming and Kristoff almost covered their ears, dropping their weapons. Hoping that the younger man had done what was asked and grabbing the drape. Charming pushed through the noise.

"Three!" he yelled and the drapes were ripped back letting the sunlight in. The creature was centimeters from their faces and roared a fierce scream as the light washed over everything.

…

Rumplestilskin rushed down the hallway and through the double doors. As soon as he stepped through the threshold he heard magic sound behind him. He turned to see a shimmering blue glow surrounding the doorframe. He reached his hand out and hissed as it stung his hand. He let out a low growl and turned back toward the inside of the room.

The room's light flickered to life and illuminated the area with a bright light. This room was as large as a stadium and as tall as one too. Rumple's magic vibrated within him as it felt the strong sense of magic beating throughout what he now saw was the library. Books lined the walls and shelves. It was two stories tall but there were sliding ladders and small balconies that spoke of a third level. The room looked to be brand new, the stained wood floors shined as if freshly buffed. The lights shone bright and the shelves seem to sparkle. Compared to the rest of the mansion this room was like the Taj Mahal. There were several bookcases that stood on it's own in rows and then there were the ones that stood underneath the second floor balcony, giving the illusion of supporting it.

Rumple glanced at the first shelf and could see that whoever had stocked the books knew nothing of the dewy decimal system because there were children's books mixed with encyclopedias and novels. The moment he noticed the very carless mistake his magic went on high alert. This room was filled with magic, so much in fact that he could feel it oozing from the floor. He needed to find his wife and get the hell out of there as fast as he could.

"Belle," Rumple said looking around the room.

"Rumple," Belles voice echoed somewhere in the back of the room.

"Where are you?"

"Rumple help," her voice sounded again this time to the right of him.

"Belle, where are you?"

"Rumple please," Belle's voice rang out again this time it was coming from in front of him, from the bookcase. A book shook fiercely causing the older man to frown.

"Belle?" he said stepping toward the shelf. He reached his hand toward a book with the title 'Moby Dick' and hesitantly picked it up. The book jerked in his hand and the cover pulsed as if someone was trying to open it from within.

"What the hell?" he said as he opened the cover of the book. As soon a cover was flipped open the magic within it activated and water pour from the pages. Rumple yelped and dropped the book as more water gushed from its pages. He tried to use his magic to close the book but it just seemed to make things worse. The book lay like a heavy stone on the library floor as the room filled with water. The water was up to Rumple's knees; the room began to darken so Rumple had no choice but to climb. Thunder boomed up ahead and he jumped at its loudness. Soon rain followed and then lighting sparked and lit up the room with a giant flash.

"Belle!" Rumple shouted.

He kicked and pulled books off the shelf in hid ascent to the top but as he did so more monsters was released from their leather bindings.

"Belle where are you?" he shouted as the rain pounded on his back, neck and head. He turned his head into his shoulder to block the steady flow of water; it was heavy and felt as if it would drown him. He gasped for breath as he pulled himself up further on the bookshelf.

"Rumple, help me!" Belle's voice shouted from his right, he could barely see as he peered over to the next shelf. He could make out the book that his wife's voice had come from.

The water was steadily rising and it was now at his waist although he had to have been at least 10 feet in the air. A deep loud groan came from behind the shelf he was currently on. He stopped his blood going cold when the groan came again. Thunder roared over him and then the bookcase shook as if someone or something bumped into it. He looked down into the water and saw dorsal fins along with a massive shadow that was yards long. He frantically scrambled further up the bookcase getting the still rising water to his ankles. He grabs ahold of something hard, he thinks it's the shelf but when he tried to pull himself up, it gave out and a book went tumbling toward the water. He inwardly cursed as he lost his grip and scrambles harder to grab onto the shelf. His heart pounds as he tries to control his breathing and his shaking hands, his hand are slippery from the rain and his clothes heavier but he white knuckles the shelf, determined not to fall.

As soon as he got his bearings he looked down to see a shark coming straight for him. He pulled himself up further as Belle's voice called out again. When he reached the top of the shelf he hauled his soaked and heavy body onto the surface of it and collapsed upon it. The shark pounded into the shelf and it shook… hard, but not hard enough to roll him off and for that Rumple thanked his lucky stars. That however didn't stop the shark from trying to test the shelf's resistance though and it continued to ram into it.

"Rumple help!" Belle calls again as thunder boomed over him.

He rolls over; the bookshelf is thicker than any normal bookshelf because it holds books and ledgers on both sides. He thanks the gods for this and stands. From this height he can see all the sharks and the massive whale that came out of the Moby Dick book.

"Belle, where are you!" he shouted as he scanned the room trying to find the slightest bit of movement. The thick cloud that had gathered at the top of the ceiling made it difficult to see because of the flashes of lightening and the fact that the lights were either flickering or shut off.

"Over here!"

"Where Belle?" he says looking frantically around.

"In front of you! Look in front of you, on the wall!"

Rumple frowns and looks in front of him, he uses his hand to shield the rain rom his eyes, there are rows and rows of shelves and to the very back of the library is a wall, but he still can't see her.

"Alright hold on, I'm coming," he said. He looked down at the shark that was still ramming its head into the shelf he was on and then he looked at the space between, each shelf. It had to have been a 5-foot distance from where he stood and where the next shelf began. He took a deep breath and contemplated whether or not he would make it. Then he brought his palm to hit head and hit himself hard.

"You have magic you idiot!" he said out loud and within seconds he was surrounded by burgundy smoke and he reappeared on the closest shelf to the back of the library. Lightening stuck the back wall where he was and Belle screamed.

So the storm senses magic, I'll have to be mindful of that when I teleport back Rumple thought to himself.

"Belle, I'm here where are you?"

"In the glass hanging below the light fixture to your right," she called back. Her voice so close Rumples heart skipped a beat. He looked to his right and low and behold was his wife the size of a fairy, trapped in a jar like a butterfly that was hanging on a piece of string by it's neck under a light fixture. She smiled at him, whipping at the glass wall that was riddled with water on the outside, so she could see him more clearly. Even though it did nothing, Rumple smiled at the gesture.

"Rumple," she breathed.

Rumplestilskin walked down the length of the shelf and stopped in front of where Belle was hanging. He couldn't reach it and he didn't want to use magic to try and get her down with the lightening aiming right him when he uses it.

"How do I get you out?"

"You have to break it!" she said as the rain disfigured her small reflection in the glass. The room wasn't cold but Rumple was starting to feel it, his clothes were heavy and his right wrist hurt from when he slipped earlier and had all his weight hanging from it.

"I can't use magic Belle, the storm will strike you,"

"Use a book!" she calls back and he could just kiss her. Rumple kneels and reaches down into the shelf and grabs the first book he feels. He pulls it up and its a thick book that reads 'Winnie the Pooh' it has a tree and a yellow bear on the cover of it but it's thick enough to break the jar. This looks harmless enough he thinks as he stands and aims for the jar.

"All right Belle, when I hit it, hurry and swim to me!" he yells as thunder booms again.

"Okay!" Belle said as she backed away from the glass wall of the jar and covered her face.

Rumple pulled back his right arm, bit his lip and threw the book as hard as he could at the jar containing his wife.

The book soared through the air for a split second then with a crack of lightening the book hit the jar and glass and Rumple's now normal size wife went crashing into the water. As soon as the ripples and vibration in the water were created, a loud moan rang out and Rumple turned to see a school of dorsal fins heading straight for his wife.

"Belle!" Rumple shouted as he knelt down and stuck his hand out to his wife who had just resurfaced.

Belle's throat released a high pitch wine as she resurfaced and sucked in air. She coughed loudly as she sucked in some of the rainwater. She turned her head down and away from the rain so she could take another deep breath.

"Rumple," she coughed as she rubbed at her eyes, to see where her husband was.

"I'm right here Belle, swim to me!" he shouted extending his arm out further. He swiped at his face harshly to clear his view and urged his wife to swim faster to him.

Belle saw him and began to quickly swim toward him when the entire library began to shake, including the shelf Rumple was now grasping to. The water in front of Belle bubbled and churned and while she was focused on the water, Rumple turned to see three dorsal fins, now diving under the water heading for his wife. He turned back to see a giant tree emerging from the water in front of Belle. He quickly thought back to the book and could have kissed himself at his brilliance for picking it up. The tree shot up to the ceiling but hoping and praying that it would break through would have been too perfect, since the two could have easily climbed right out, but it stopped.

"Belle, climb now!" he yells and Belle looks up at her husband and then at the water and she sees three large ovals heading toward her. She grabbed a hold of the tree, but there weren't any grips to climb on.

"I can't!" she shouted.

"Over here!" a voice shouted from to the left of her and she swam to see where the voice came from. There was a little dirty-blonde headed boy, no more than six or seven looking down to her from up in the tree.

"Hurry, use the hole in the tree and I will try and pull you up," the little boy said. The hole in the tree was large, large enough for her to put her foot in and her hand to climb up. The cavity of the tree was black but it had no sign of life within it.

Bell hurried and placed her hand in the large hole, around the edges and lifted herself. Her clothes were heavy and she grunted loudly as she hauled herself up enough to stick her foot in.

"Hurry Belle!" Rumple shouted as the shark caught eye of her and was now charging. Belle's heart raced but she focused on getting her other foot up into the hole. She looked above her and the young boy laid belly down on the branch he was on and hung his little hand out for her.

"Grab on," he said with a grunt.

"You're not strong enough, I'll fall," Belle said as she looked from the boy to the water.

The sharks swam with precision but of them speared off into another direction while the one in the middle headed for Belle. It and slammed its side into the tree. Belle grasped the tree with dear life and released a shriek.

"Belle!" Rumple yelled as the shark turned around to do it again.

"Rumple!" she cried as the shark slammed its side into the tree again.

"Please miss, you must take my hand or the creatures will eat you," the boy said as he stuck his hand out further.

The shark was on its way back and Rumple knew Belle wouldn't be able to hold on for long. Thinking quickly he reached down to find another book. His hand came in contact with an encyclopedia; he took a chance and threw it into the water. Nothing. He growled and reached for another one, this time it was a book titled "Rock climbing anchors," Rumple quickly opened the book and the magic inside produced a harness and rope set. He quickly closed the book before something else had a chance to escape it.

The shark was slicing through the water like a knife through butter and heading fast toward Belle.

"Here boy, tie this to the tree. Belle tie this around yourself," Rumple said as he threw her the rope. Belle quickly did as she was told and she threw the extra up to the child. He wrapped it as fast as he could around the thick branch he was on.

Wham

The shark hit the side of thee tree again, and this time Belle lost her footing and she dropped far enough to get her feet back in the water but other than that she was safe.

Rumple kicks off books from their shelves and each one that hit the water or is open emerges and new distraction and or creature. He didn't know what he was throwing down there but all he knew is that he wanted his wife safe and the creature distracted.

"Now, climb!" Rumple said and Belle did just that. She grunted and stuck her feet back into the whole; she then used the rope that was around her and the help of the young boy to pull herself up onto the branch. As soon as she was secured she and Rumple let out a very much-needed deep breath and Belle grasp the boy in her arms.

"Thank you so much," she said as she pulled back to look at the boy, "Sorry," she said quietly when the boy stared at her.

"It's okay, I'm scared too, my name's Christopher Robin, what's yours?"

"My name is Belle," she said wiping the rain from her face, "How did you get here?"

"I don't know, I was in the Hundred Acre Woods when—"

"Belle, I need you to climb up," Rumple said unknowingly interrupting the twos conversation while wiping the rain from his eyes. Belle, looks toward her husband and then back at the tree and follows his line of sight.

The tree's branches reached all the way up to the ceiling and some even coiled and rooted itself along side of it.

Belle looked up to see a thick branch that stretched all the way to Rumplestilskin. She looked down to see the sharks moving away from the tree and dive further under the water. She looked back up and reached for the branch when a small light brown paw reached down and touched her hand and she yelped in surprise.

"Don't be afraid, that's just Pooh Bear," Christopher Robin said as he reached and climbed up onto the branch. Belle peered up to see a light brown and orange bear cub sitting on the branch with the young boy.

"He won't hurt you, will you Pooh Bear," he said petting the cub's head.

"Come on, we have to go," Rumple said watching the water as the three sharks began to circle the tree and the bookshelves surrounding it.

"I'll go first, me and Pooh Bear and then you follow us," Christopher Robin said as he wiped the rain from his face and grabbed Pooh Bear's arms, placing them on his back like a backpack and reached up for the branch. Thunder crashed overhead and Pooh Bear groaned and hugged Christopher Robin tighter.

"It's okay Pooh Bear, its just rain," the boy said as he extended his arm. The branches were intertwined with each other so it looked like a curly set of monkey bars. Christopher Robin gripped the branch tight and swung out, extending his other arm to grab onto the other part of the branch. Leaves dropped under the weight of the rain and the young boy tugged them free as he went across. Another boom of thunder rang through the library and the bear clung tighter to Christopher Robin.

"Pooh Bear," he grunted as the rain pounded on his face, "Don't… be scared its—" he tried to say when lightening cracked and flashed around them. Pooh groaned in fear as he clung tighter to Christopher Robin.

"Pooh… you're holding to tight," Christopher said as he reached out again. The three sharks circling the bookshelf swam toward the tree and began circling the boy and the bear dangling above them.

Pooh Bear wined with fright as he sense the danger below him. He gripped the young boy tighter, cutting his yellow shirt and grazing his side with his paws.

"Ow, Pooh, please, stop it," Christopher Robin said as Pooh Bear clung tighter still, this time cutting his shoulder with his claws as well as digging into his side. Christopher let one hand drop as he lifted Pooh's claws out of his shoulder. Crimson rivers flowed from his shirt in streams as the rain diluted it and the sharks swam faster under them.

"Ah, Pooh Bear, please," Christopher Robin, cried as he grabbed at the paw that was digging into his side, "You're hurting me."

With every tug of his paws Pooh Bear clung tighter with the fear of falling. One of the three sharks jumped into the air as more blood rushed from the boy. Hundreds of sharp white teeth came toward them and Belle and Rumple could do nothing but stare in shock. Christopher Robin released a high-pitched scream and lifted his legs away from the horrible beast.

"Christopher Robin, you have to keep moving!" Belle shouted as the shark hit the water.

"I can't," he cried as more blood fell into the water below. "Pooh Bear… please," he wailed as another shark jumped into the air, closer this time. He screamed as his body began to shake under the weight of him, his bear and his now soaked clothes. Christopher Robin began to cry louder as his legs began to drop and Pooh Bear screamed along with him. Another shark jumped up this time clipping the boy's shoe. Thinking quickly Belle felt for the rope still tied to her waist and untied the other part that was attached to the tree.

"Drop the bear and save your self," Rumple yelled as he watched in fear, as another shark got ready to jump.

"I can't… he's my best friend. Pooh Bear," Christopher cried out as the bear slashed deeper cuts into his sides and shoulders, "You're hurting me, please, I can't hold on."

The bear released a cry for help and moved his paw from the boy's wound and to a less raw area. Pooh groaned what sounded like an apology and licked at his bloody shoulder. Christopher Robin's body shook as he cried and dropped his legs, the latest shark fell back into the water with a huge splash, "Help me… please."

"Christopher, I'm coming, but you must hold on," Belle said as she positioned herself to climb out.

"I can't it hurts."

"I know it hurts but I'm coming,"

"Belle, you won't be able to carry them both, you have to choose one," Rumple yelled to his wife.

"No," Belle grunted out as she swung out to the boy. Christopher Robin was in the center of the large branch, and Belle moved in swift motions toward the boy. Rumple growled out his frustrations as he looked for anything to distract the sharks below. He bent down and began to fling books into the water, some opened, others did not. Birds, insects, and even a few fish fell out of the books and either hit the water or flew away. The new prey floating above the water while the other one got ready to jump again distracted two of the sharks.

Belle reached the boy as another shark jumped into the air this time closer than the others. Rumple found a thick and heavy book and threw it, the same time the shark jumped out of the water. Three of the shark's teeth, scraped down Belle's calf as she grabbed Christopher Robin and the book came into contact with its face. Belle grunted since the bite only lasted a second. She quickly wrapped her legs around the sobbing boy, just in case he let go and peeled Pooh bear from his back.

"Ah," he cried out as Pooh Bear let go of him and grabbed onto Belle. Rumple threw more books into the water as the sharks began to come back.

"Turn to face me," Belle said to the boy, who slowly turned into her. She wrapped the slack end of the rope around him just in case and proceeded to take the bear from him.

"My arms hurt," he cried as he looked up at her. Pooh Bear climbed up and around Belle, the way he did with Christopher Robin and clung to Belle. Lightening and thunder hit at the same time, startling the bear. Pooh's claw came in contact with a chunk of Belle's hair as it shrieked in fear.

"Stop it," she demanded as her head jerked back a bit. She refused to let go of the boy until he was secure. Christopher Robin finally faced her and wrapped his legs around her waist when thunder boomed again this time closer to them. Pooh Bear clawed at Belle's side, causing the young woman to bleed. With fresh blood in the water, the sharks took another chance to jump up to catch their dangling prey. This time they jumped either two at a time or one right after the other.

Pooh dug his claws into Belle who screamed as the sharks jumped closer and closer to them. She pried his claws from her shoulder and the bear just shrieked and dug deeper. The pounding rain on her neck and back added to the weight of the boy and the bear and her arms were beginning to burn under the tension.

"I can't hold on," Christopher said as his legs began to go slack and his arms shaking.

"No, don't let go," Belle gritted out through clench teeth as Pooh Bear grasped tighter to her, "Rumple, help me."

"Belle, you have to move," Rumple yelled as he moved to the other side of the shelf to grab more books, "The sharks are getting closer,"

"Rumple, I can't," Belle said as tears welled up in her eyes. The weight of both Pooh and Christopher was too heavy for her to move and she was afraid the boy might let go if she tried. He barely hung onto the branch as it was and her waist and legs were burning from keeping them out of reach from the three sharks below them.

"Belle, you have too, either move, or drop the boy!" he demanded as Belle's legs began to lower.

"No!" Belle growled out as she forced her arms to move forward. As she moved the sharks followed but did not jump. Christopher Robin's legs began to fall as the boy started to loose consciousness, his injuries deeper then Belle's and his blood loss a lot greater.

"NO! Wake up!" Belle demanded as she stopped, "Christopher wake up!" she yelled as he began to slip down her waist.

"Rumple!" Belle shrieked as the boy slipped further down.

Pooh Bear let go of Belle's shoulder and clasped a paw around his friend's hand trying to hold on to him. The bear growled and groaned his demand to his friend who began to stir. Belle screamed as Pooh Bear dug his feet into her side as he latched the other hand onto his friend, to hold him in place.

Rumple watched as more blood dripped from his wife and into the mouth of whatever shark jumped up to claim the prize. She was struggling not to let go as all the weight was now shifted to her legs and shoulders. Rumple clasped the encyclopedia in his hand with dear life as he watched in horror as another shark jumped up, this time taking with it the boy's shoes.

"Belle, I have a plan but you must move closer to me," Rumple said as his wife shook under the weight. Her eyes were shut and mouth open as the rain poured harder. Her face turned into a deep scowl as she used her legs to hoist the boy up further. A determined growl mixed with an anguished cry, escaped her mouth as she forced herself forward. Pooh dropped back down to Belle's back, placing his paws back into their previous wounds. Belle cried out but refused to stop, Christopher Robin, now half way awake watched as Belle's face contorted to that of pain as Pooh grabbed harder.

Rumple held the book in his hand and then pulled his arm back, aiming for one target. He knew his wife would be angry with him but he didn't care. He would rather her be angry and alive then dead because of her big heart. He took a deep opened mouth breath and launched the book as hard as he could. The book came into contact with Pooh Bear, just in time for another shark to jump into the air.

The bear fell and a shark jumped up to claim its prize.

Rumple had hoped the shark would eat the bear in one bite but no such luck. The shark clamped down onto the waist of the dazed bear, quickly killing it and pouring more blood into the water.

"POOH BEAR!" Christopher Robin shouted as he thrashed against Belle, who watched in shock, as the bear was ripped apart under the water by the other sharks. Belle tightened her legs around the boy and with a newfound strength was able to let one hand go and lift the heavy boy with it. She made it to the other side of the bookshelf with Christopher Robin wailing and looking toward the water. As soon as she touched the surface she knelt down and encircled the boy in her arms.

"Pooh Bear!"

"I know," Belle cried as she tightened her grip on the boy.

"Pooh Bear," he yelled into her shoulder.

Rumple watched as guilt tugged at his heart. He did it to save his wife and he wouldn't apologize for it, but to see the boy and his wife so upset caused him to slightly rethink his actions.

"Belle," Rumple said as he took a hesitant step forward. Belle rounded on him immediately. She placed the boy behind her as if afraid her husband might shove him off as well.

"How could you!" she yelled, "How could you do that!" She was 3 feet from him, covered partly in tattered clothes and blood and although she was soaked to the bone and her eyes red from crying, she never looked more beautiful and all he wanted to do was hold her.

"I did it to save you," he said taking a baby step forward. It was all the movement she needed him to do before she crashed her fists into his chest.

"How could you!" she shouted, "He was a baby bear! He was just scared! And you sacrificed him!" she yelled pounding each word into his chest.

Rumple let her and when she went to shove him, he grabbed her and held her tight. She jerked against his strong hold wailing into his chest, "He tried… he tried…" she yelled as her sobs began to wrack her small form, "Pooh Bear tried to save him," she said as her legs gave out and the two of them fell onto their knees.

"I know," he whispered, "But I had too."

"He loved him," she sobbed.

"I know." Rumple said as he ran his finger over her soaked hair, "I know."

"I… I was so scared, Rumple, I was so scared."

"I know," Rumple said wrapping his arms tighter around her and for the first time in days just held her. When he lifted his hand to run it through her hair, it was stained with crimson and anger surged through him. Sidney did this and he was going to pay for it. He placed his hand once again on her back and vowed to end that Genie the moment he saw him.

…

The light from outside temporarily blinds the creature as she shields her eyes and scurries backwards.

"Head toward the door and see if you can get it open, I'll distract it!" Charming yelled as he swung his sword hard trying to cut off one of the creature's 6 legs. He missed.

Kristoff ran for the door and pulled at it's handle, he turned to tell Charming that the door had to be magically locked when he saw him strike the thing that was once pretending to be Anna. It screeched and used its long dagger like fingers to swipe Charming to the side, ripping his shirt and cutting his stomach in the process.

Kristoff ran to Charming's side helping him stand. Charming winced as an angry red line seeping with blood appeared behind the tear in his shirt. Kristoff looked at him with concern.

"I'm alright it's just a scratch, did you get the door open?"

"No, I think that thing used magic to seal it, which means we either make it open the door or—"

"We have to kill it!" Charming yelled as he quickly grabbed his sword and charged toward the spider-like creature that was now focused on them.

The creature screeched and charged in Charming's direction as well, it raised its claws toward his face to scratch him and when it reached him, he dropped. He dropped and slid on one knee as the creature swiped at the area where his head should have been and he sliced off one of its 6 legs. The creature screamed as a white puss poured from it. It flicked the injured nub toward the Prince and the bloody puss landed on his arm and burned him like acid.

Charming growled out his pain as Kristoff ran and tackled the thing to the ground. Charming rubbed at his arm to get the creature's blood off of him, which only caused the skin to become red and irritated where he smeared it. Ignoring the pain he stood and ran over to Kristoff who was struggling with the creature. It used its strength to launch Kristoff to the other side of the room and pin Charming to the floor.

Kristoff rose to his feet and saw Charming's sword and picked it up, he ran over to the creature and swung the sword hard but the creature was smart this time and moved it's leg out of the way effectively letting Charming up as well.

"How the hell do you wield this thing, it's so heavy," Kristoff complained as he breathed heavily.

Charming nodded his head in agreement, "Well, it doesn't help when you're tired," he said as the creature narrowed its eyes on them, "Okay, when it comes at us we're going to—" Charming didn't finish the plan before the creature lunged at them again. This time wielding magic, it conjured a purple fireball in its hand and threw it at Kristoff who dove out of the fireball's pathway. He fell to the floor but looked up in time to see the fireball hit the wall and like a explosion of water it splatted on the wall and like acid, it ate threw it in record time.

The creature tried to conjure another one when, Charming, swung his sword toward the creature's neck, it avoided it by jumping back and that's when David rounded his sword again and swiped at the thing's legs and it went crashing to the floor. Kristoff quickly grabbed the ice pick Regina gave him and held the creature in a chokehold pointing the spike at its head.

"Where is my wife!" He growled.

The creature chuckled and flicked the still dripping nub at him and some of the puss landed on his arm and the side of his face. The young man dropped the icepick and his hold on the creature to try and get the burning liquid from his face and arm. The creature tried to move when Charming, grabbed and pointed the tip of his sword at its neck.

"What have you done with Anna?" He asked as Kristoff gained control of him self and went back to aiming the icepick at the creature, his face bright red on one side and riddled with angry bumps.

"I haven't done anything to her," it answered back with a sick grin.

"Why did you take her?" Kristoff demanded.

"To watch you kill her," it said as a light layer smoke began to surround it.

Charming and Kristoff looked at each other and then back at the creature. Charming knew that it was performing magic and most likely to get out of the room. Kristoff pulled his arm back, intent on stabbing the creature before it could leave them trapped in this room. Charming watched as the creature, as it morphed right in front of them, the many legs that the creature had were replace with two long legs which adorned a pair of expensive brown boots, the clawed hands, turned into small slender fingers, and the creature's head was replaced with red hair, streaked with white on one side.

Kristoff, so focused on his rage didn't even notice the switch and was seconds away from killing Anna.

"No!" Charming yelled as he lunged at the man, knocking him to the floor on his back.

"What the hell is your problem? Why did you do that?" Kristoff said shoving the heavy man off him.

"To stop you from killing her," Charming said as he sat up and pointed to Anna, who looked at him with tears in her eyes.

"Anna,"

"Kristoff," Anna said as she lurched forward and wrapped her arms around him. Kristoff hugged her just as vigorously.

"I… I… I almost," he stuttered.

"Shh, you didn't," she said reading his scattered thoughts. Kristoff kissed his wife and then looked at Charming with a grateful smile. Charming nodded and the trio stood. Charming winced at his injury and that's when Anna took in there appearances.

"Oh my god, you're both hurt," she said placing her hand on her husband's inflamed skin.

"It's okay, once we get back to the others, I'm sure Regina, Emma, or maybe even Rumplestilskin will heal us," Charming said as he grabbed his sword and the couple helped him to the door. Kristoff hesitantly placed his hand on the doorknob and turned it. To their surprise it opened and without a second thought they headed back down the hall and stairs from wince they came.

…

Rumple and Belle sat holding each other, while Christopher Robin held on to Belle and stared into the water after his fallen friend. Rumple's thoughts took him to the two men he had started this search with. He wondered if they were going through half the stuff that he had gone through already. For a second he even feared that the two men hadn't even made it… then again seeing as how they were the very men that battled dragons and whatever the iceman battled to win his Princess' heart, and lived to tell the tale he figured they were probably fine.

The rain pounded on them and it wasn't until another crash of thunder boomed and Belle shifted in his arms that he released her and the trio stood and looked the way Rumple came.

"We have to get out of here," Rumple said.

Belle sniffed and nodded, "Okay," she said looking back at Christopher Robin and grabbed his hand.

"Hold on to me, I will use my magic to get us to the other side," Rumple said grabbing hold of Belle.

"Rumple, I thought you said the storm will hit us if you use magic."

Rumple inwardly cringed and then looked from her to the boy.

"I'll magic myself and as soon as I get to the other side I will do the same with you two. With magic being used twice it might confuse it."

"Or it could strike us both at the same time," Belle said with a sigh as she frowned and wiped the rain from her face.

"I have to try," Rumple says as he walks away from them just in case Belle was right.

He looked at Belle and then closed his eyes praying that this would work. Feeling the magic swell up within him, he waved his hands over his body and waited for the spell to take effect. When the familiar sound of his magic didn't surround him, he opened his eyes to see both Belle and Christopher Robin staring at him. He frowned and tried the spell again and still nothing.

"What's wrong?"

"The spell isn't working," he said walking over to her.

"Your magic is blocked?"

"No, I used it to come over,"

"What spell?"

"The teleportation one," Rumple said trying to figure out what he was doing wrong.

"Rumple, I think that you might be able to use that spell once," she said sighing and looking down at Christopher Robin who was still clinging to her and looking down at the water. Belle ran her hand over his hair and he didn't even respond.

Rumple thought about what his wife said and cursed at himself and Sidney for this stupid spell. The Genie must have put a limit on what spell he could use in the room, so no, it didn't block his magic but it made it a hell of a lot more difficult for them to get out. He was going to torture that damn Genie until he couldn't remember his own name.

"What do we do now?" she asked.

"I don't know, give me a second," he said looking toward the water where the sharks had just finished their meal and was now swimming around the aisle waiting or another. He wiped the rain rom his face and looked at the walls and the entire room as a whole. There had to be something else he could use, the room was huge and the aisle where close enough for them to jump, but with the rain, there was no way to know if their feet would stick the landing or if they would slip into the water.

He looked to his right there were two other bookshelves in his row but the distant between them was much greater, there was also a better chance that if they made the landing it would be more room for them to catch their balance. He sighed looking at his wife and the young boy attached to her hip.

"Belle, we are going to have to take a chance and jump, either this way," he pointing in front of him where the distance was shorter, "Or this way," he said pointing to the larger gap, "We can use the tree's branches to take us as far as they extend but with you and the boy injured, I don't know how far we will get."

"And if you do a healing spell it will cause the actual spell to strike us regardless," Belle thought aloud as she whipped the rain from her face.

Rumple sighed and continued to look around the library for a possible exit and that's when he saw it, then he looked all the way around and could have shouted from the surge of hope that swelled within him.

"Belle look, this library is two stories," he said pointing to the second floor banister that held even more books.

"Yes, but how do we get to it? The stairs are filled with water and the exit is still down here,"

Rumple smiled at his wife, "We can use the books to get across, we can find some with boats, ships and even more trees for us to climb," Rumple said.

"Okay, but what about the exit? It's still down here with us, under all this water."

"If the library has a second level it means—"

"It has another exit," Belle finished with a smile of her own, "Okay, so now all we have to do is find more books with trees in them," Belle said turning from her husband. She stopped when she felt Christopher Robin still clinging to her.

"Christopher," she said kneeling down to get eye level with the child, "We are going to look for more books with trees in them so we can climb up there," she said pointing to the second floor balcony. Christopher Robin looked where she was pointing, at the water and then at Rumple. Belle followed his eyes and sighed she knew what the boy was thinking. If Rumple could sacrifice his best friend to save her then he was just as expendable.

"I won't let anything happen to you, I promise. Just like I climbed out to get you on that branch, I won't leave this library without you," she said wiping the rainwater from his face. Christopher Robin waited another second checking Belle's face for a lie and then nodded. "Okay, we're looking for books with trees," she said standing and walking over to the edge of the shelf. Christopher Robin was close behind and also looked for books with trees.

The trio began opening and throwing books into the water, with rainforests, and woods in them. Finally the library was filled with weeping willows, tall oak trees, sycamore trees and even a few macro bonsai trees. The library looked more like a bayou then anything else, and there were also birds and other animals flying and crawling around.

"Okay, that should do it," Rumple said watching as the last tree grew and sprawled it's limbs across the ceiling.

Christopher Robin and both Belle stood waiting for instructions on what to do. The boy held a book in his hands and Belle stood watching her husband.

"Okay Belle, you and the boy climb first and I will follow, just in case you two have trouble," Belle nodded and looked down at Christopher Robin.

"Okay, ready?" she said to the boy.

"No," he said looking at Belle with a stern look.

"What's wrong?"

"I want to use this," he said showing her the book he was holding in his hands. It was a rock-climbing book, on the cover were a man and woman climbing, both in harnesses and both sharing the same rope.

Belle sighed, "I told you I wouldn't let anything happen to you. You don't trust me?"

"No," Christopher Robin said surprising Rumple and Belle, "I want this, or I'm not going," he said hugging the book to his chest.

"Well then I guess you're staying here, lets go Belle," Rumple said grabbing Belle and the rope she had earlier and walked pass the boy.

"Wha… no," Belle said as Christopher Robin's jaw dropped and he watched as Belle grabbed Rumple by the arm.

"Rumple I promised him that I would help him get out of here,"

"Belle, I don't have time to deal with this, I came here for you and only you. Regina and the others are all stuck in different parts of this mansion fighting off, whatever magic the Genie and Maleficent have created. I told him to climb and he said no, so…" Rumple said wrapping the rope around his wife's small frame.

"Can you blame him? He just saw a stranger launch a book at his best friend, and then see said best friend get torn to bits by sharks," Belle said folding her arms across her chest, "Either you help him… and me, or I will find away to get out of this library without you."

Rumple sighed rolled his eyes but nodded, "Fine, open the book."

Christopher Robin quickly opened the book and laid it down. The book pulsed with a white light and then jerked. There where Ropes, harnesses, trollies, connectors and a bunch of other stuff, including a First Aid Kit. Before anyone grabbed anything, Belle reached for the First Aid Kit and opened it. Although the rain was getting in the way she quickly stripped Christopher Robin of his shirt and began to dress the wounds as fast as she could before the rain could wash the medicine away. Instead of using Band-Aids she used one of the rolls of gauze and ace bandages. After making sure he was properly dressed she removed her shirt and had Rumple do the same to her. Her wounds were not as bad as Christopher's but they were still bleeding. After making sure her wounds were dressed Rumple helped her with her shirt and then they moved on toward the rock climbing gear.

Belle quickly dressed herself and the young boy while Rumple did himself. There was an abundance of materials so they clipped it all to their waists along with the extra rope that they were not using. Rumple placed a helmet on Christopher Robin and Belle. He looked both over to make sure they were safe and with a reassuring smile from the boy they were ready to go.

Christopher Robin was going to be the first to venture out and Belle closely behind him, the two of course secured by the same rope. Rumple would be last just in case something went wrong; he would have the strength to pull them both to safety. The Plan as a whole was to use the branches to get across the space between the shelves and then once they made it to the shelves closest to the second floor balcony, they would push and pull each other over. Christopher Robin even suggested that they use some of the clips that were let over to attach them to tree branches as they went, like real rock climbers do and that way if they fall their clips would catch them. In theory, that plan had no flaws but executing it was another story.

As soon as Christopher Robin reached out to grab the branch the young boy froze and he stared down at the water where the sharks were circling again.

"Go boy," Rumple said waiting for the young boy to move.

But he just stood there wide-eyed and frozen. His eyes transfixed on the water below watching as the rain made ripples in it and dorsal fins circled in and out of their general area. His heart was pounding and he couldn't remember how to breathe. Then the images of Pooh Bear sprung forward in his mind and he watched in full Technicolor as his friend fell to his death and then watched him get ripped apart by two sharks.

"Christopher," Belle said reaching out to touch the boy, when her hand landed on his shoulder, he freaked out. Christopher Robin quickly turned swinging his fists at the woman, eyes closed and screaming like a banshee.

"Christopher Robin… stop… look at me!" Belle said as reached out to grab his hands. Rumple tried to move her aside so he could deal with the boy but she blocked him and quickly enveloped herself around the boy. He bucked like a wild mare caught for the first time but soon he calmed as Belle whispered soothing things to him. His eyes opened and he held on to her.

"I can't," he whispered, "I can't do it. I'm so scared. I keep… I keep seeing Pooh Bear," he cried slamming his head into her shoulder and clinging tighter to Belle.

"I'm so sorry, we weren't thinking," Belle said as she scolded herself. The boy just lost his childhood friend and now they were asking him to venture out in the same murky waters. Rumple was not by far heartless but this needed to stop, he needed to get with the others and this boy was holding him up. He wanted to find Regina and the others before anyone had a chance to save and or kill Sydney. He knew the Charming's might be in a forgiving and redemption mood by the time he reached them but he knew either Regina – whichever part of her showed up today, or Maleficent – when she comes to her senses – would try to kill the Genie… or the Iceman… since the Genie did technically kidnapped his kids. But Rumple wanted a piece of that deranged Genie and he wasn't going to let something as small as a child's PTSD stand in his way.

"I'll carry you!" Rumple said caught up in his own vengeful thoughts that it took even him by surprise.

"You will?" Christopher Robin and Belle asked at the same time although, Christopher Robin sounded more relieved then surprised unlike Belle, who was all surprise.

"Yes, the boy is clearly frightened, you are still injured and I am truly worried about the others. There is a Iceman and Shepard King down the hall from us with no magic fighting god knows what creature. Regina, Emma and the others are stuck fighting Maleficent and or the Genie, we really don't have time to do this right now," he said grabbing the boys rope, attaching it to his and kneeling for the boy to climb on his back.

The young boy looked to Belle for guidance and with a reassuring nod, he climbed up. Rumple stood and gestured for Belle to go ahead. She winced softly as she reached forward and her shoulder protested the movement.

"Belle?"

"It's okay it's just my shoulder, I'm okay," she said biting her lip and holding back the tears that sprung to her eyes. She reached out and grabbed the branch using her other hand to clip and grab on to the branch. She groaned with the weight of her body on her shoulders and waist but Rumple said nothing and followed close behind just in case she fell. The sharks beneath them followed closely but did nothing else. Belle was half way there when she stopped, her shoulders burning and her body heavy from the rain.

"Belle, you have to keep moving, sweetheart," Rumple grunted out through his teeth.

"I know, I'm just tired and my arms… they really hurt," she said as she slowly tried to extend her hand only to quickly bring it back to where it was last.

"Belle, your half way there please, you have to keep going," Rumple pleaded as he looked down to where the sharks where now swarming.

"I… I don't think that I can," she cried as she tried once again to stick her arm out but her shoulder protested the move. Rumple saw his wife's struggle and if he didn't have Christopher Robin hanging on him, he would be able to maneuver around her and have her climb on to him but he couldn't.

Rumple grunted under the weight of the boy and his own, along with the rain and growled a loud.

"I swear once I see that Genie, I'm going to kill him!"

"Rumple, stop!" Belle pleaded as she reached for another branch but stopped again, wincing at the movement.

Rumple knew he had to do something, Belle's shirt was dark around her shoulders, which meant that he had done a horrible job on her wrappings and the constant uses of her injured arms was causing her to bleed again. He looked down and his suspicions were proved right when the sharks began to gather and swam.

"Belle, I have to do something that you are not going to agree with, but I must do it," Rumple said as a gasp escaped Christopher Robin and the boy clung tighter to the man.

"Rumple—"

"No, I'm not sacrificing the boy," Rumple said quickly hoping that the boy would loosen his grip… no such luck, "I'm going to use magic to send you to the other side—"

"Rumple, no! You will get hurt or I will, besides you can't use the teleportation spell again,"

"No, I'm going to use my magic to fling you to the other side. I will deal with the outcome," Rumple said as he felt his magic stir within him. Thunder began to bang again as it got ready to throw another deadly bolt his way.

"No, Rumple!" Belle yelled but it was too late, Rumple unclipped the hook holding Christopher Robin to him and the boy dropped like a stone, next he reached his hand out and pulled Belle's fingers from the branch and she too dropped and in a split second he flicked his hand. A surge of green magic surrounded her and the boy throwing them to the other side and just as expected a powerful bolt of lighting struck him in the side and with a yell he let go.

"RUMPLE!" Belle shouted as she watched her husband fall toward the sharks below, his side seared and blood flailing like a river after him.

Belle quickly got to her feet and reached over the balcony when suddenly a spear was shot toward the shark that was getting ready to jump and a raft appeared out of nowhere in the water seconds later. Rumple fell into the raft and another spear soared from the other side of the library right into the eye of the other shark. The third got the hint and dived under the water along with it's injured buddies. The rat was bright yellow and had two paddles to steer with. Rumple lay groaning in a ball holding his side.

"Rumple," Belle shouted as she threw off her helmet and searched for the heroes that helped her out, Christopher Robin did the same. Just as she was about to shout out a young hooded figure and a Monkey jumped down into the raft with her husband and began to stir the raft toward the ladder.

Once they reached it the hooded figure shook her husband and once they felt like he was okay, the three climbed up. Rumple of course was first just in case he fell. Belle reached out and grabbed her husband when he was in reach and clung to him as he fell to the floor.

"Rumple, that was so stupid, you could have been killed," she cried into his neck as he hugged her back.

"I had too," he said as he winced and she pulled back. The hooded figure and the monkey climbed over the banister and walked over to them. Belle gasped when she realized what and who she was looking at. Her hooded rescuer was a girl no more than 8 and her monkey companion was Capuchin Money with small red boots and a yellow raincoat, while the young girl wore a purple one, and a purple backpack.

"Hola , siento lo de la caída . Yo no lo podía coger . ¿Está bien?" The young girl said staring at Belle who shook her head, No.

"No, Um… hablo Español," Belle said looking from the girl to her monkey companion who looked back at her.

"Oh, no problem, I speak English too. My name is Dora and this is my best friend Boots. I was asking if he is okay," she said kneeling down to the couple and the boy was watching them curiously.

"I think he's fine," Belle said looking at the girl, "Where… how did you get here? Was it you who was throwing the spears?"

Dora shook her head, "No, it was another boy I met here his name is Mowgli. I'm not sure how I got here, one minute I was in the forest on the way to my Abuela's house when I ended up here. Boots and I must have taken the wrong road," the young girl said taking in her surroundings. Just then a fierce roar came from behind them, followed by a jungle cry and the pounding of feet.

Rumple grunted and aimed his hand at the unknown threat while leaning awkwardly on Belle. He was still in her lap, holding his rapidly bleeding side but holding out a glowing hand at the Black Panther that was growling at him.

"मैं तुम भालू शावक के साथ क्या किया देखा था!" Mowgli shouted.

Rumple turned to look at him. The boy looked to be about 15, he was strong and wearing only a small red loin cloth but he wielded a sharp spear and the tip was directed at him.

"मैं तुम भालू शावक के साथ क्या किया देखा था!" the boy shouted again.

Thousands of languages ran through his head, trying to translate what the young boy was saying.

"Maiṁ tuma bhālū śāvaka kē sātha kyā kiyā dēkhā thā" Rumple muttered to himself, when he finally figured out what the boy was yelling.

"Yes, I know. I had to sacrifice the bear to save my wife and the boy, do you understand?" Rumple asked with a sigh as he dropped his hand.

"The bear… was a child… it did not… need to die," Mowgli stated as he lowered his spear, giving Rumple a nasty glare.

"I know, but I had to save my wife, she is my only family. I won't apologize for it and given the chance I would gladly do it again." He grunted out matching the boy's glare with one of his own.

Mowgli kneeled down eye level with Rumple placing his spear onto the floor but never letting go of it, "Good… because when the chance comes to save Bagheera or them… I will let you fall to the sharks."

Dora took that moment to step in and kneel down as well, "I have something to help with your wounds, but first we need to move out of the rain," she said standing back up, boots at her side and walking over to Bagheera, who was still glaring and quietly growling at Rumple.

Belle stood and so did Rumplestilskin… slowly and Christopher Robin soon followed. Dora led the way and Mowgli gestured with the spear for them to walk in front of him… in order to keep an eye on Rumple.

…

Snow, Elsa, the twins and Ruby ran down the hallway, but came to a forked corridor and stopped. There was a hallway in front of them and to the left and right of them.

"What's the matter Ruby, are we lost?" Snow asked panting.

Ruby's only response was too sniff the ground and look both ways. She stood quietly peering down the hallway to her right. Snow looked at Elsa and the Ice Queen looked back at her, both women confused.

Suddenly Ruby's ears pinned back and a growl escaped her mouth and she shot down the hallway to her right at great speed.

"Ruby!" Snow called as she and Elsa, took off behind her, trying desperately to keep up.

Elsie and Elliot leaned forward, burring their faces into Ruby's fur and held on tight as the wind harshly whipped at their faces. Snow and Elsa tried desperately to keep up as Ruby turned another corner and dashed up a new set of stairs.

"Ruby! Slow down!" Snow yelled as she and Elsa took two steps at a time.

Ruby barked her response but slid to a halt, scratching the already warn wooden floor and stared at the door in front of her. Elsa and Snow brought up the rear panting and gasping for breath as they glared at Ruby.

"You… can't… keep… taking off… like that Ruby," Snow gasped out leaning up against the wall. Not caring that an angry spider scurried away from her ruining its web, "We can't keep… up with you when you're running at wolf speed."

Elsa nodded grabbing her chest and leaning over to check the children. Elsie was panting and her heart pounded against Elsa's hand when she placed in on the young girl's chest, while Elliot was smiling from ear to ear and kicking Ruby's sides to continue.

Ruby turned her head and licked the boy's cheek and wined an apology to Elsie.

"It's okay, Ruby," Elsie said sticking a shaking hand out to pet the wolf's nose. Ruby turned her head toward the door she stopped in front of and lifted a grand paw toward it but was stopped by Snow.

"It might have magic on it," she said when Ruby turned her head toward the opposite end of the hallway and growled deeply in her throat. Snow and Elsa both turned toward the direction and that's when they heard the pounding of footsteps. Elsa readied her magic as did both Elsie and Elliot, Snow aimed an arrow in the same direction and they stood waiting for whatever was coming their way to show their face.

Suddenly voices filled the hallway and then everyone dropped their defenses.

"Anna!" Elsa yelled.

"Charming,"

"Mommy!"

Anna, Kristoff and Charming stopped where they were and then took off in a sprint toward their loved ones. Kristoff ran toward his kids and Anna and Elsa rushed into each other's arms. Snow hugged Charming but quickly stepped back when he winced in pain.

"You're hurt," she exclaimed. Making the others look at them and then at Kristoff.

"You both are, what happened?" Elsa asked grabbing her brother-in-law's face.

"Well, it's a long story, one I would be glad to tell you when we're out of this insane place and we find Rumplestilskin," Kristoff said.

"Wait, he's not with you?" Snow asked taking a glance behind the group.

"No, he left us when he heard Belle, call out to him. Kristoff did the same when we heard Anna calling for him in the room we were stuck in."

"Yeah and if he had to go through anything like what we just did, he's going to need some help." Kristoff said.

Ruby took that moment to wine and scratch at the door again. The group turned to look.

"Well, it doesn't have magic on this door, so lets try opening, maybe he's in here," Snow said putting her bow away and allowing Kristoff and Charming to get in front of them to open the door.

…

Rumple and the group walk over to an open area where there is a table and chairs sitting in the middle of the floor.

"Here!" Dora says as she pulls off her backpack. She places it on the floor and whispers something. Suddenly a giant beige tent erupts from her bag and protects them from the element of the storm. Rumple watches in amazement, as the storm doesn't react to what is clearly magic. Dora then pulls out a first aid kit, a large blanket to cover the wet table and two small stars... yes stars, that shine as bright as candles that she sat on the table. They illuminated the tent with a bright yellow and white light.

"I can help you with your injures now," she said sticking her hand out to Rumplestilskin who frowned but sat down in the chair.

"If you don't mind, I would rather my wife tend to my injuries. After what transpired between me and the jungle boy, I don't exactly trust either of you."

"Okay, then I will help the boy," Dora said walking away from the Dark One.

"Rumple," Belle scolded as she kneeled in front of him.

Dora was busy helping Christopher Robin and talking to him, while Mowgli talked to Bagheera while watching Rumple like a hawk.

"Belle we need to get out of here, we don't know how much time has passed and even if the others have survived," Rumple gritted out through clenched teeth as Belle sprayed an antiseptic on his burn mark.

"I know, but how, we don't know what other creatures are out there and now we have two more children that we need to protect. I know Mowgli seems a bit wild but he is still a child," Belle said as she packed his wound with gauze and was now using a second roll of an Ace bandage to wrap around his torso.

"Belle, I understand that you want to save them but you must realize that they are not real, they are stories and if you keep trying to save them, we are going to get hurt or worse I won't be able to save you."

Belle fell silent as she helped him roll his shirt down, "I can't… I won't leave them to die here, Rumple I can't."

Rumple sighed and looked at his wife as she played absentmindedly at his shirt, "Okay, sweetheart," he said as he kissed her and helped her out of her shirt so she could sit down. Her small to large bloody welts seemed to have stretched on her shoulders from the strain and were once again bleeding. Rumple carefully dressed each one with clean bandages and an extra wrapping of an Ace bandage.

Once everyone's wounds were taken care of Rumple stood looking at the group before him, "I want to thank all of you for your help but Belle and I must get out of this library we have friends stuck in other parts of this house that are in danger. If we don't help them then they will die."

Dora and the others looked at him skeptically, "This is a forest, not a library," the young girl said.

"No, it started out as a library but a Genie put a spell on the books and when one is opened it brings them to this room, it's how you all got here," Belle said looking at them.

"Look, I know this seems weird to all of you but I you help us out of this room, everything including his bear cub, will be back to normal. You will be on your way to grandmothers and you will go back to where ever it is you came from," Rumple said.

"I will get Pooh Bear back," Christopher Robin asked.

Belle nodded running her hand through the boy's wet hair, "All of you will go back to where you guys are from and everything will be as it was, I promise."

The tent fell silent as Mowgli and the others thought it over, "We need weapons to leave the tent, Shere Khan is here," he said using his spear to open the lip of the tent showing the trees and animals flying and scattering around in the rain, "I have not seen him but I am sure he sees me,"

"Shere Khan, the leopard?" Belle asked grabbing Rumple's arm.

Mowgli nodded.

"What about Bagheera, can't he hold off the Leopard?" Belle continued.

"He can but I will not sacrifice my family to save yours. He has made it clear that if there is to be killing, he will start with us to protect you. I will not let my family die, if that same sacrifice will not be shared back," Mowgli stated, "I will help find a way out but if I must choose, I will choose Bagheera."

Rumple thought it over and nodded then he turned to look at Dora, "How does that bag work? Every time I try to use magic, the storm reacts but when you do magic, nothing happens."

"It's not magic, anything I need or wish for appears in my bag all I have to do is reach in and pull it out," Dora said as she packed away all of her things in her bag with the exception of the yellow star to give them light.

"Okay, well we will keep and eye out for Shere Khan, but we need to find an exit. Has any of you seen one?"

"Yes, but it is six rows back from here," Dora said as Boots hopped on her shoulder and curled his tail around her neck.

"We need weapons," Belle said.

Dora took off her backpack and kneeled down opening it, she quietly whispered something and then looked back up at Belle, "What do you need?"

"A sword," Rumple said and Christopher Robin nodded.

Dora reached into her bag and pulled out a long silver and ruby embedded sword, then she reached in and pulled out another short and diamond embedded sword, for the boy.

"What about you?" she said looking at Belle.

"I um…" she said shaking her head with no idea of what weapon she could use when an idea struck her, "A book called the Golden Compass."

Dora looked at her skeptically but reached in a pulled out a thick gold book with a large Golden Compass on it.

Rumple looked at her curiously but she just shrugged and her husband didn't question it. As Dora was getting ready to close her bag, Boots began chirping beside her.

"What? Oh… okay, I'll ask them," Dora said with a pat to the monkey's head.

"Boots want to know if you guys want a rain coat."

"Well, maybe Christopher Robin, I'm already wet, so there's no point really," Belle said looking down at her wet clothes.

"Nonsense, I'll get a coat for all of you, or at least an umbrella," Dora said looking at the gang.

Mowgli shook his head no, but Belle settled for an Umbrella and Christopher Robin along with Rumple got a coat. When Rumple was handed his, he draped it around Belle.

"Rumple—"

"You're injured and shivering, you will wear the coat,"

"But what about you?"

"I never get sick,"

"But your injured,"

"And I trust your healing skills, once I am out o here I will heal properly. Besides my magic has been working overtime to heal me without alerting the magic surrounding this place. By the time we leave I will have a small scratch," he said kissing her forehead and fastening her raincoat, "Okay, lets get going. Keep your eyes open and when this is all over you will all be back home."

The group quickly left the tent and was now back into the elements of the storm.

…

Charming and Kristoff threw their bodies on the door as hard as they could and the door finally gave and it burst open. Both men fell literally into a storm and onto the wet cold floor. Snow and Anna rushed to check to make sure each of them was okay and then stopped to look at the room they were in.

"Is this a… Library?" Anna asked.

"Well it used to be," Snow said as she and the rest of the group took several steps back to get out of the pouring rain.

"You think Rumplestilskin is in there?" Elsa asked.

"Probably," Charming said absentmindedly as he stared at the abundance of trees, wildlife and pouring rain in the room. "I mean Belle is a Librarian so this would make sense."

"You guys ever see the movie Jumanji?" Kristoff asked.

"I was thinking the same thing," Snow said as David and Anna nodded.

"We need to see if they are okay, Rumple and Belle," David said taking a step forward when Snow stopped him.

"You're injured and so is Kristoff. If anyone is going to get Rumplestilskin and Belle, it's going to be Ruby, Elsa, Anna and me. You boys can stay with the children."

"What Snow, I'm not letting you go in there alone!" David said as Kristoff nodded to Anna.

"Why not?" Snow asked with a frown.

"Because you're—"

"I'm what?" Snow said daring him to finish the sentence, "I was a bandit all of my teenage life and most of my twenties. I am more than capable of handling myself,"

"Yeah and I—" Anna began when Kristoff cut her off with a kiss.

"Just be careful," he said when Anna slowly opened her eyes to look at him confused.

"Okay," she said breathy with a smile. Elsa gave a small smile and nodded to the gentlemen that she would ensure their safety as Ruby kneeled and the children jumped from her.

"See why couldn't you just do that?" Snow said halfheartedly glaring at her husband who opened his mouth to say something but closed it. David glared at Kristoff, who smiled and shrugged,

"You should know by now, our women are too stubborn to listen to reason. Just let them go with the notion that if anything happens we will be there as back up," he said as Elsa fashioned two long ice spears for her sister.

As they were about to head out, Elliot called out for them.

"Mommy wait," he said as he created a fireball onto the floor and Pyro appeared, "Take him with you." he pleaded and Anna kneeled down and kissed his forehead.

"Okay, thank you."

"Auntie Elsa, if you use your magic Pyro will change into a ice dragon and he can fly," Elsie said as she too stepped forward.

Elsa nodded and the group took off inside the library.

…

Rumple and the others moved slowly through the library keeping a keen eye out for any movement. Mowgli, Boots, and Bagheera had taken to the top of the bookshelves or high ground to get a better vantage point but with all the tree branches and trees; there was plenty of space for a cheetah to hide.

A loud growl from in front of them had them all stopping and pointing their weapons toward the danger. Bagheera roared again and then Mowgli's shadow sprinted toward his friend. A war cry was yelled and thats when Rumple saw it, a large spotted Cheetah with sharp claws jumping down from the shelf and hurtling toward them. Belle grabbed Christopher Robin and Rumple grabbed Dora, pulling her behind him and behind the closest bookshelf.

"Boots!" Dora yelled as Rumple turned to see the Monkey jump down onto Sheer Khan's head and try and scratch out his eyes. Mowgli jumped down just in time to see the cheetah take a mighty claw and rip the Monkey from his face. Bagheera was next to jump down to help his friend.

Dora jerked her hand away from Rumple and ran to her injured friend.

"Boots!"

Bagheera and Mowgli had the cheetah corner off but the howling of wolves behind them made Belle and Rumple's blood run cold. Rumple turned to see a pack of 6 large grey, black and brown wolves, growling viciously at them, baring all of their sharp teeth. Rumple racked his brain trying to figure out what book could have possibly produced a pack of wolves and then it hit him. He never told the boy to find books solely on trees, so he must have picked any book with a tree in it. Rumple cursed at himself for being so vague and hesitantly took a step forward to get in front of Belle.

Sheer Khan managed to injure Bagheera enough to jump on Mowgli and scratch the boy's chest before turning his attention on the bleeding monkey and 8-year-old girl. Just as the wolves released a loud bark and charged them, Sheer Khan hurtled toward Dora. Rumple felt his magic swell up inside him and blasted a green lighting rod toward the cheetah and hit it and the storm shot a lighting bolt his way but thankfully one of the wolves jumped in the way and took the hit for him.

The wolves pounced and attacked all at once. Belle was pinned to the floor and using her umbrella to keep the beast form biting her face, while Christopher Robin cried out as two wolves tore at his coat, Rumple thought quickly again and decided to try to use the storm to his advantage. He used another surge of power to try and protect Christopher Robin and when he saw lighting headed his way he moved so one of the remaining 5 wolves would get hit.

A high-pitched scream had him turning his head to see Sheer Khan back on his feet and not only ripping Boots to shreds but also mauling Dora's arm.

"No hay Botas! Por favor, ayúdame! Por favor, ayúdame!" the young girl screamed as Sheer Khan flung her like a rag doll. She was bleeding profusely and Boots lay in a bloody mess. His limbs were all bent the wrong way and his tail was missing. Bagheera pounced out of nowhere clawing at Sheer Khan until the cheetah let go of the girl. Dora wailed as she cradled her bloody arm and scooted as far away from the fight as possible.

Belle managed to grab Christopher Robin's sword and stab one of the two wolves on him and then injure the other. Rumple was just finishing up with his two wolves when one of the ones hit with lighting regained consciousness and headed right for Dora. The girl screamed again when suddenly a huge brown wolf, three times the size of the regular wolves soared through the air and took down the wolf headed for Dora in one swift move.

"Ruby!" Belle exclaimed as an ice spear pierced the chest of the wolf attacking her, "Elsa! Anna! Snow!" she yelled as she quickly made it to her feet again.

A loud howl came from above the group looked up to see a pure white wolf, clearly the Alpha, howled and growled at them. Soon they were surrounded by wolves, who coming out from behind bookshelves and jumping down from trees, with glowing gold, silver and yellow eyes.

Ruby stood growling deep with in her chest. Just as the Alpha gave the order to attack Pyro charged in out of nowhere glowing a deep luminescent blue and hurling fire to any and all enemies. Some of the wolves backed off but with a new command from the Alpha the wolves that were not burned scrambled toward the group at great speed.

Mowgli and Bagheera had Sheer Khan cornered yet again and this time the cheetah was badly injured. Sheer Khan backed all the way up to the balcony and giving a quick glance at the water below, he curved a mighty paw in Mowgli's direction making the boy jump back and with that surged over the balcony and into the water below. Mowgli threw his spear into the water for good measure before looking at Bagheera. He placed a hand on his chest and winced, Bagheera whined but Mowgli growled a response to him and took off running back to the others.

Elsa used her ice to freeze some of the wolves and even put up a small barrier in front of Dora. Bagheera launched forward attack some of the wolves when he caught sight of them while Mowgli went to find another weapon. Rumple lost his sword in the fight and needed another in order to help Belle who was being chased into another aisle by three wolves. He knew he couldn't use his magic because there were to many people involved now and he didn't who would get hit. Just as he was going to run off after his wife half cocked her saw Dora's backpack. Lying on the ground next to Boot's disheveled body. Snow was unsheathing arrows in expert fashion, even loading her bow up 3 at a time. When she began to run out Elsa threw ice her way and she had another wave of ice arrows that she sprayed the wolves with.

He quickly ran over to it just as a group of wolves broke through Elsa's barrier and made it past Anna and Pyro. The two wolves both launched at Dora at the same time, each one grabbing a leg and arm. Rumple knew he had to act fast or he would lose both the girl and his wife.

"I need a bloody gun or knife!" he growled into the bag. But when he reached in… nothing. He growled again, "GIVE ME A BLOODY GUN!" he yelled and still nothing. "Dora! The bag it isn't working!" Rumple shouted as the wolves released the girl and she had a chance to run over in the next aisle.

"Dora! Please! How do I make the bag work?" he shouted as he took the bag and flung it into an incoming wolf.

"You have to say backpack!" she shouted as another wolf jumped on her pinning her facedown and biting into her shoulder and she released an ear-piercing scream. Elsa went to the girl rescue as Rumple stared down at the bag.

"Backpack!" he shouted and shoved his hand into the bag before pulling out a large shotgun. He dropped the purple bag and aimed his gun at the wolf getting ready to attack Elsa from behind and pulled the trigger effectively bringing the wolf down. He then ran like a bat out of hell toward where Belle was, he shot two wolves that were attacking Ruby and Snow, who were protecting Christopher Robin. Then he rounded the corner to see Mowgli pulling his spear from a wolf's body and Belle leaning up against the bookshelf.

"Belle!" he shouted running to her.

"I'm fine," she said wincing and grabbing her side, "It's just a scratch and I think some of my bandages has come off," she said as Rumple looked to the floor to see her sitting in a pool of blood. But whether it was hers or the wolf's was unclear. He helped her to her feet and they walked over to where the others were, just in enough time to see Pyro roast yet another wave of wolves. They seem to be unrelenting. The wolves had them surrounded all around, Dora was in the arms of Elsa, bleeding profusely and Ann, Ruby, Snow and Christopher Robin were all standing side by side while Rumple, Belle, Bagheera, Mowgli and Pyro stood on the opposite side backs to them.

"There's too many of them," Snow called out at the wolves moved closer.

"Ruby's injured and I can't hold them all off," Elsa said when Belle kneeled down to pick up the book she dropped.

"Everyone move toward me, slowly and then don't move," Belle said as everyone moved over in unison toward the librarian, so they were now standing in a tight circle with the children and mostly injured inside of it.

"Now what?" Anna asked looking at the wolves moving in.

"This!" Belle shouted as she opened her book, The Golden Compass, and an army of witches, Polar bears, men, and even sparkling animals that shimmered with golden dust poured from the pages and attacked the wolves that jumped at the new threat.

"What it this!" Anna shouted as Belle dropped the book and guided everyone closer to the bookshelf.

"Magic fighting magic!" Belle answered as she grabbed Elsa's shoulder and pointed up. Elsa got the message loud and clear and waved her hand at the floor and toward the top of the bookshelf. Once the stairs were complete they all climbed it, including Ruby who was still in her wolf form.

"Elsa can you create a path for us toward the door you guys came through?" Belle gritted out whilst holding her side.

"Yes," she said as she began making bridges and the other running along them. The rain made it damn there impossible for them to get across on the ice but they refused to fall and those who slipped had a helping had to grab onto. They ran another 4 aisles before they saw the door that David, Kristoff and the twins were waiting in front of.

"We're almost there!" Anna shouted when Mowgli who was in the front was knocked off the shelf and onto the ground by a bright yellow blur. They all screamed and stopped watching as Bagheera jumped down to protect the boy but Sheer Khan had already ripped the boy's throat out. Before Ruby could jump down and give her assistance, the white Alpha Wolf that was supposed to have been fighting behind them, jumped down from a tree and tackled Dora to the ground.

The girl screamed bloody murder but the wolf silenced her by wrapping his mouth around the space between her head and shoulders and removing her corroded artery from her neck.

"No!" Elsa, Snow and Belle shouted as Ruby jumped down and fought he wolf.

"We need to get everyone out of here!" Rumple shouted trying to push Belle and the others toward the door, "There's nothing we can do for them now!"

Anna and the other gave one last glance at Dora and Mowgli before hauling it toward the door. As Elsa, Anna, Pyro, and Snow, made it over the threshold, Christopher Robin slipped and fell and Belle who was now holding the boy's hand, stopped to help him.

Another wolf jumped out of the trees and grabbed Belle as Rumple threw caution to the wind and used magic to slide Belle from underneath the wolf and out the door. Just as he flung his wife out the door the storm reacted but hit the Alpha wolf and Ruby jumped through the door.

Christopher Robin jumped to his feet and ran toward Rumple but just as he reached the man Sheer Khan attacked the boy, digging his claws into his chest and biting the boy. Belle screamed as she fought to go back into the room, but David was holding her back. Rumple now the only one left in the room ran to the boy as Pyro, Elsa and Snow aimed their weapons and magic at the cheetah. Rumple swiftly grabbed the boy's limp frame and ran toward the door. Rumple didn't have to look down to know that the boy was dead. His body was limp and there was blood gushing out of his shoulder, chest and neck. Belle managed to get out of David's hold and ran to her husband and helped bring the boy over the threshold.

Once everyone was out the library, it filled with a bright white light and gust of wind so powerful it made everyone's ears pop. Once the magic settled everyone looked back into the room to find it back to normal. The room was back to its pristine, oddly new attire with the exception of a few scattered books that littered the floor. Belle looked down to see Christopher Robin covered in blood staring back at her.

"Thank you," he whispered looking up at her then glancing up at Rumple who was still holding the boy. Suddenly he too was covered in a florescent white light and when it faded the only thing left was an illustrated picture of Christopher Robin sitting on a log with Pooh Bear smiling.

Belle gasped softly before sobs shook her frame and she fell into Rumple's arms and cried. She was clenching the photo of the boy she came to love and protect as her own and cried for the loss of him. After a moment of silence to get everyone a chance to compose themselves, Rumple healed everyone, in one small wave of his hand. A loud roar came from down the hall and beneath them and they all grabbed the children and raced toward Regina, Emma, Maleficent and public enemy number fucking one! Sidney.

…

Emma fought against the suction of the wall, pulling her body forward as she was sucked back just as fast. She tried remaining still but that only caused her to go further into the wall. She didn't know where Maleficent was trying to send her but she refused to go to any part of this creepy mansion alone. She watched as Regina remained still on the floor and Maleficent's ginormous figure loomed over her like a boot to an ant.

"Regina!" Emma shouted as she tried to use her magic to solidify they wall, "Regina wake up!"

"Yes Regina, do wake up, it's no fun when you're playing possum!" Maleficent shouted as she turned and used her long tail swipe Regina from the floor and throw her into the wall. So hard in fact that when she fell back to the floor, her torso and hips made an impression in the wall.

"REGINA!" Emma yelled struggling even harder.

Regina coughed and began to stir awake when Mal laughed deep within her chest, causing the floor to vibrate.

"When did you start hanging with the so called Heroes?" Maleficent bellowed out as she swiped her tail toward Regina, who rolled out of the way.

"When did you start attacking people while they were down?" she said sarcastically as she quickly got to her feet and brought magic to her hands.

"A lot has changed dear friend…" Maleficent said as she stalked a half circle around Regina. Her mouth sparking with green fire as she spoke, "Of course you wouldn't know since you trapped me in a cave for 34 years!" Mal roared as she spewed a rush of liquid fire in Regina's direction.

The Queen swept her hand around herself and disappeared in a cloud of purple smoke. She reappeared behind Maleficent but the dragon saw that coming and swung her tail hard but Regina disappeared again making Mal slam her grand tail into the wall closets to her.

"Regina," Emma called out as her head began to sink within the wall. Her whole body was gone except her head and her hand. Regina looked over at Mal who was now turning to charge at her. She quickly darted to the other side of the room where Emma was and flicked her hand toward the wall, causing it to stiffen a little so she could reach the blonde before she disappeared. Maleficent let out another roar and a burst of flames as she chased after Regina. Thinking quickly Regina stood in front of Emma and created a barrier around the both of them and the portion of wall the savior was stuck in. Maleficent's flames came but did nothing to hurt the barrier except wash over it like water.

"Emma," Regina called as the blonde's hand was the only thing sticking out of the wall now. She hardens the areas surrounding where the savior's body should be and grabbed her hand. She pulled while Maleficent took a massive paw and struck the barrier protecting them, causing it to flicker but it still held strong, "Come on," Regina growled through her teeth as she placed a high heel on the wall and pulled harder.

Emma's shoulder and top of her head was visible.

"Come on, Emma, God damn it! Help me!" Regina growled as she grabbed the blonde by her shirt and armpit. She placed her other foot on the wall and pulled with all the strength she could muster.

Emma's head was finally free and the blonde took in a gasp of air before screaming when she saw Maleficent's tail coming slamming toward them.

"She can't get us!" Regina growled as she continued to pull on Emma. It was like pulling up a giant suction cup off a glass window. Emma still flinched when the dragon's tail hit the barrier and it shimmered again.

"How long will that thing hold up?" Emma said still looking at an agitated dragon.

"Not much longer if you don't help me get you ass out of this damn wall!" Regina growled out with her eyes closed and her body shaking from the force she was using.

Emma got the hint and tried hard o move her legs, but it just felt like they were in a pit of Jell-O.

The dragon used her tail to hit the barrier over and over again, causing it to crack in some places.

"Regina pull! It's breaking! Come On!" Emma yelled as she glanced from a grunting Regina to a hell bent Dragon.

"This would go faster… if you'd help! Or lay off the damn onion rings!" Regina growled as she pulled her even harder.

When Maleficent noticed the barrier breaking she hit it harder and faster each time. By no Emma's waist was out of the wall with a quick wiggle of her legs she came crashing out of the wall with the gracefulness of a newborn baby calf. She landed right on Regina as they both went tumbling to the ground. Emma looked down at Regina who was breathing harshly and glaring at her. Emma lunged down and wrapped her arms around Regina so fast the brunette could do nothing but gasp.

"Oh My God, Thank you Thank you! Thank you!" she yelled straddling Regina and pulling the woman up so they both where sitting.

"Ugh, your welcome Ms. Swan, now let go of me before—"

WHAM

Maleficent's tail came crashing through the barrier and Regina rolled her and Emma out of the way before they were crushed under Mal's massive weight. When dragon moved to hit them again Regina shot her hands up, shooting a purple power ball into the soft skin under her tail. The dragon roared as the power ball burned her skin and moved to turn around.

"That was close," Emma, gasped looking at the dragon that was moving to switch perspectives.

"Emma,"

"What?" she said looking down at an annoyed Regina.

"Get off me!" she growled.

"Right sorry," she said with an awkward laugh as she dismounted the Queen, who quickly stood and ran to the furthest wall with Emma hot tailing it behind her.

"Okay Emma, I know that you are still working on basic spells and potions but if you're going to survive this fight you're going to have to transform into something!" Regina yelled as turned and threw up a barrier when Maleficent spat fire at them once again.

"What! I don't know how!"

"I know that but your going to have to get the crash course lesson and if anything should happen… I will do everything in my power to fix you!" Regina said as threw a fireball at Mal.

"What?"

"Look I don't have time to argue with you! The transformation is simp—"

Regina was suddenly cut off when she saw Mal dip her head to ram the two into the wall. She shoved Emma out of the way and took the whole force herself.

"REGINA!" Emma belted out as Maleficent pulled her horns out of the wall. Regina slumped limply to the floor. Emma's body pulsed with white light and she shoved her hands in Maleficent's direction, sending a straight hit toward the dragons face. Mal's head jerked up and flipped the dragon her back, knocking her out instantly.

"Regina! Regina please!" Emma yelled as she crawled over to the woman, "Please don't be dead, please don't be dead."

She sat beside Regina, hovering her hands hesitantly over her unsure whether or not to touch her.

"Shit, Regina, are you hurt? I don't know how to heal you if you are?" Emma's eyes started to water as she looked between the knocked out dragon and the knocked out Queen.

"Please. Regina say or do something!" Emma yelled as she touched Regina's cheek.

"Okay okay, I can do this, I'll just try to heal you. I did it with Henry, I can do it with you," she said as she rubbed her hands together and they began to flicker.

Maleficent stirred awake and moved to her feet.

"No!" Emma said aiming her magic at Maleficent again.

"Never try the same move twice, dear!" Maleficent growled as she quickly turned and flung her tail at Emma.

Emma quickly disappeared into a plume of burgundy smoke and Mal's tail hit the wall. Emma reappeared on the other side of the room with the others.

"What the hell?" Emma said as Snow and David helped her stand.

"Mom? We have to help Regina she's—"

"Oh my god Regina!" Snow yelled as they all watched Maleficent snake her tongue around Regina's limp torso and snatch the Queen into her mouth.

"REGINA!" They all yelled as Rumple, Elsa, Emma and Ruby went charging toward the dragon.

Maleficent reacts on instinct as they storm her with magic. She opens her jaw and spews fire at all of them. Elsie and Elliot stand with their parents, Belle, and the Charming's.

Rumplestilskin shoots power balls and spells at the reptile but nothing seems to injure it. Elsa throws Ice spear after Ice spear at the beast and they only do miniscule damage. Ruby sees and opening and jumps on the head of the dragon's head. Maleficent rears back as Ruby claws at her green eyes and the scales on the bridge of her nose.

…

Regina feels something caressing her face and her eyes flutter open. Pair of large grey eyes stare back at her.

"Maleficent," Regina grunted as she grabbed her sides and hissed.

"Don't move, 4 of your ribs are cracked," Maleficent said as she drug a soft hand down the side of Regina's face. Regina turned her head away from her touch.

"No, thanks to you!"

"You're right, it wasn't me," Mal said crossing her arms and glaring at Regina.

"What?"

"When was the last time I fought something that was injured? Never."

"I wasn't injured,"

"Electrocution affects all things the same Regina. Sorceresses included."

Regina grunted and rolled her eyes, "So you're telling me, what? You have no control over your body?"

"Yes,"

"What?"

"It seems that your deranged little genie of yours has a lot more magic then you thought. He also seems to be a few ingredients short of a finished potion, but that could be from his imprisonment."

Regina remains quiet as she takes in the new information.

"He's done something to my mind. Separated it or something, I'm not sure. His spells are just as scrambled and deranged as he is, I can't decipher them."

"What and you think I can?"

"Well you spent the most time with him,"

"Yeah, trapped in a mirror. I didn't exactly sit down and have tea with him," Regina grunted as she grabbed her sides again.

"Stop moving before you puncture something. Why haven't you healed yourself?"

"Because I'm safer like this," Regina grunted out through gritted teeth.

"Clutching your sides and growling? How do you figure?"

"You wont attack me when I'm injured. It takes the fun out of truly mind fucking me."

"Don't be vulgar and besides I won't attack you."

Regina scuffed, "Yeah right, I locked you in a hole for 30 years,"

"Not to mention sending that blonde girl with her silver rocks, to kill me. And what was the pirate? A snack?"

"Silver rocks? I think you're referring to her gun and yes, he was in a way. I wasn't expecting him to survive you,"

"Yeah, well he wouldn't have, if the Calvary hadn't arrived."

"Calvary? You mean Greg and Tamara? How did they best you?"

"That's an topic for another day," Maleficent said closing her eyes and grabbing her head.

"What's wrong?" Regina said trying to sit up but stopped, when her side sent a pulse of pain so bad up her sides she thought she might pee on herself.

"That damn wolf is really doing damage to this body of mine and so is Rumplestilskin. I have half a mind to actually eat the both of them."

"Rumple and Ruby? They're in here? And fighting you? Why?"

"I guessing it has something to do with the fact that I ate you,"

Regina's eyes bulged as she took in her surroundings.

"Mal, where the hell am I?"

Maleficent smiled coyly, "Inside my dragon."

"Where?"

"Somewhere between the stomach and the ass," she said with a small laugh, "Now heal yourself so I can release you. If that flea bag costs me an eye, I'm taking one of yours."

Regina rolled said eyes, waving her hands over her ribs causing them reset themselves. With a short grunt she was all healed. She stood and so did Maleficent.

"How do I get you in control of your body and where is Sydney?"

"On the other side of this castle, I placed two children a boy and a girl. With them is a doll containing my magic. When the Genie broke me from that cursed tomb, he did something to trap my magic so I wouldn't betray him. I removed his spells but in order to do so I had to temporally remove my magic. Long story short I left my magic with the pint size fire and Ice babies. If you get it and get rid of Sydney, I can pull myself together."

"Literally," Regina said with a smile, "Where is Sydney?"

"He's somewhere close playing puppeteer, cut my strings before these idiots weaken my body to the point where I can't heal." Mal said

The Queen nodded and turned to find away out when Mal stopped her.

"Regina," Mal called softly as Regina looked at her. As soon a Regina turned to face her Mal's face softened.

The sorceress slowly lifted her hand to her friend's cheek and smiled. Then it turned into a scowl and she swiftly grabbed the Queen by her throat and slammed her into the soft cavity of her insides, "This by no means makes us even, when all of this is over, you and I will have words. Do you understand?" Mal growled out.

Regina glared at the woman but nodded her response. Maleficent let her go and took a step back. Regina coughed and rubbed at her throat glaring at Maleficent.

"Well, while you're busy choking the person that you just asked for help from, did you figure out a way to get me the hell out of here?"

Maleficent smiled and Regina's frowned deepened.

…

Maleficent's dragon jerked her head hard but when Ruby refused to let up she lifted a grand claw and swiped at the werewolf. Rumplestilskin used his magic to melt the floor and the dragon began to sink. Elsa created chains with her ice, huge chains to attach to the dragon to bring her to heel. Emma created a lasso to attach to Mal's mouth so the dragon couldn't spew fire anymore.

Maleficent bucked at the werewolf and now the rope. Lifted a mighty claw from the liquid floor and clawed at the rope and tried to pry the wolf from her aching eyes.

Maleficent's belly light up a spectacular blue and white as her fire boiled deep within her and her eyes began to shine the brightest of greens. Rumple watched as the dragon's legs and front paws began sink further into the ground but also noticed the very real danger they were all in at that very moment. Rumple had seen this kind of bellow of fire before, back when Maleficent first showed her anger in the dark forest.

Maleficent gave her head a powerful jerk and flung Ruby like a stone across water. Aiming her at the Ice Queen and opening her mouth intent on melting the flesh from their bones.

Rumple shoots his hands out towards the pair and Emma, using his magic to create a giant rope that attaches onto them and jerks them toward him and the others. Maleficent opens her mouth at the same time as they landed and billowed a volcano's worth of fire scorching the wood and melting the wallpaper off on the walls.

Everyone's eyes enlarged as they saw the wave of fire coming at them. All of the magic practitioners stuck between weak and caught off guard. Elsa curled up and hid her face in her arms; Rumple flew his hand up hoping against all odds that his magic would come forth once again and Emma yelped her surprised and face her potential death head on as her life flashed quickly before her eyes.

"NO!" Elsie screamed as she threw her hands up a giant burst of black snow swirled around them and then raced against the floor meeting the fire head on. The Black snow then turned into frost and created and giant wall that separated the fire from the group. Everyone watched as Elsie's magic swarmed her but not only that but her features were perfectly normal, she wasn't straining or exhausting herself all that as showed on her face was a small frown. She had complete control over her magic and she wasn't the only one. While Elsie was doing her ice thing Elliot worked overtime to make sure that they – the ones on the other side of the wall – didn't freeze to death.

The room was warm and he stood just 3 feet from her, both children balancing each other out. The adults stared at them with awe and when the dragon's fire was put out Elsie waved her hand in a smooth gesture and the ice dissipated into a giant ball of black snow.

Maleficent stood stuck as she watched as the Elsie looked at her through hooded eyes and said one phrase that had everyone gulping.

"Pyro, sic!"

The giant ball of black snow rumbled and shook then suddenly two powerful paws burst out followed by feet then a pair of strong wings, a long ice spiked tail and a huge mouth with ice so sharp and cold, the dragon spit out dry ice and liquid nitrogen.

Mal's face grimaced in concern and then as the Pyro began to move, but the dragon would not show fear so easily. She bellowed a deep roar and counter Pyro's movements. Pyro wasted no time in charging at Maleficent, he dipped his head so his sharp horns could pierce her thick skin but Mal was expecting that. She turned and whipped her tail at his face and the young dragon half her size went cashing to the wall. Leaving a frosted impression of his head behind.

Pyro shook the dazed attack off and charged at Maleficent.

"Pyro stand her up and break her down!" Elliot yelled as everyone watched the two dragons fight.

Pyro snorted a cool fog as his response. He roared as he hit Maleficent, the older dragon used her sharp talons to dig into the floor so she didn't slide to far. She stood up on her hind legs as Pyro pushed her back. She growled at the strength of the little dragon and pushed back harder. Suddenly Pyro lifted on if his legs and kicked Maleficent as hard as he could.

Maleficent roared at the pain and bit down hard on the little dragon's shoulder. Pyro began to panic as Mal's jaw locked on his shoulder her fought hard against her bite and continued to kick her… hard. He grabbed at the injured scales on her face and she clawed as his wings.

"Pyro get out of her grip! Kick her! Kick her now!" Elliot yelled as Elsie looked to be preparing another spell of her own.

Pyro released a high-pitched scream and flapped on his wings hard enough to lift him further off the ground. As soon as Maleficent was on her toes Pyro swung his leg back as hard as he could and kicked her with all the force his body could muster.

Mal buckled under the force of the kick and released a roar, which got Pyro's shoulder out her mouth. Pyro then slammed her hard against the wall and kicked her again.

Mal's stomach lurched and the sound of something wet and hard hit the floor with a dud and with a quick head butt to the face Maleficent's body went limp and slid to the left, dropping hard to the ground.

Pyro fell tiredly to the ground on his feet and looked down at the wet substance that fell out of the older dragon.

The group ran over to the dragon to suspect and lying in the mist of white and black mucus was the Queen glaring up at the ceiling. There was a strong pungent smell but in the fear that Regina might be injured everyone ignore it, with the exception of Ruby whose nose was keener than everyone else's.

"Regina, are you alright?" Emma asked falling to her knees beside the woman, coughing at the smell but ignoring it.

Regina didn't respond she just continued to glare at the ceiling.

"Regina?" Snow asked softly as Rumple used his magic to create a handkerchief and wiped the mucus from the Queen's face.

"I'm going to kill her," she growled out as everyone let out a breath of release.

"Just making sure I didn't miss anything, Maleficent shat her out right?" Ruby asked.

"Yeah," Snow said slowly as she and everyone caught on and began to move.

Regina rolled over on her front holding her breath and moving her knees underneath her, while the others grimaced at the smell and sound.

While Regina tried desperately not to throw up, Maleficent stirred and Pyro who was sitting beside the twins moved to attack mode.

"No, Pyro," Elsie said walking over to the dragon. Anna reached out to grab the girl when Elsa grabbed her first.

"Elsie no, come on you and your brother should not be in here,"

"I have to help her, this belongs to her," Elsie said showing her aunt the doll.

Elsa looked at Maleficent and then at Pyro. The younger dragon got the hint and stood to walk along side of her and the young girl.

Maleficent growled at the sight and moved to stand when Pyro moved to her side and slammed his paw on her throat. Keeping the injured and exhausted dragon in place. Maleficent rumbled her displeasure deep within her belly, causing the floor to vibrate. Elsie pulled the rubies and diamonds from the doll's boots and began to climb.

"Wait, Sydney isn't far from here, he's the one controlling Maleficent," Regina said stand… well sliding out of Mal's secretions.

"I know, it's why I grabbed this," Elsie said standing on the bridge of Mal's nose, holding up the diamonds and rubies, "I have to insert theses into her eyes."

Regina swiped some of the secretions from her clothes so they splattered on the ground around her, "How do you know that?"

"I can read magic signatures, Elliot can also. The man you're looking for is running away as we speak."

"What!" Rumple growled out as he looked toward the door.

"Don't worry he won't get far. When we were first brought here I left something outside. It will keep him busy while we are in here." Elsie said as she walked toward Mal's eye.

Maleficent's pupil grew smaller as the girl approached.

"Touch me and I'll eat you whole and skin your brother," Mal threatened.

Elsie giggled and kissed the space between Mal's eyes, "Don't be afraid it will only hurt for a second."

Rumple growled at the child and walked toward the door.

"Were are you going?" Regina yelled out.

"To skin a Genie," Rumple growled under his breath.

Elsie used her magic to frost both Mal's eyes open and when she growled and tried to stand Pyro applied more pressure. Elsa climbed up, to see what her niece was doing.

"Here," Elsie said handing Elsa one diamond and one ruby, "On the count of three shove them into her eyes,"

"Ah, but won't that hurt?"

"Just do it already!" Mal growled.

Elsie and Elsa looked at each other for a second before slamming their jeweled filled hand into Mal's eye sockets. The movement had her jerking and bucking. Pyro bent down and gathered Elsa and Elsie up in his mouth before Maleficent threw them off.

Pyro sat them on the ground as black and red smoke surrounded the dragon. When it dissipated Maleficent stood in a sheer silver gown that barely touched her waist. She waved her hand over her face and healed all the cuts and bruises.

"Wow," Kristoff said as Anna elbowed him and Charming took off his jacket.

"Here," he said handing it to the sorceress.

"No, thank you," Mal said with a coy smile.

"Mal, just put it on," Regina said glaring at the woman while she swiped at more of the mucus covering her, "What the hell is this!" She growled out.

"30 years worth of back up sh—" Mal began when a a powerful roar was heard from outside. Everyone looked at one another and ran out the mansion.

Rumple was standing fist bruised and Sydney bloodied with a large white and blue ice panther, roaring over them.

"Down Snowflake!" Elsie yelled and the panther growled at Rumple but sat in a sphinx position.

"Cool, you made this Elsie?" Elliot yelled in excitement as he ran over to the panther.

"I've been working on her for a long time," she said as she watched Elliot pet Snowflake and watched as her blue and white fur turned yellow and orange.

"Rumple what are you ding?" Belle asked.

"He kidnapped you, hit you and trapped us in that damn library. I'm going to peel him like an orange and then take turns breaking every bone in his body," Rumple growled punching Sydney, who did nothing but grunt.

"Stop! This is why I left in the first place,"

"What?"

"You never learn. You are the reason I was kidnapped in the first place. His beef was with Regina. If you and I had been together this wouldn't have gotten to this point. You lied, I left. You made at the outcome when you started all of this into motion. Thank you for saving me, but I'm still angry with you," Belle said as Rumple let Sidney go and stood up straight.

"Belle," Rumple said walking over to Belle.

"I don't want to talk here. I don't want to talk at all. At least not right now,"

She said turning away from him. Rumple nodded somberly and with a quick wave of his hand they were both gone.

"So Rumplestilskin fell in love with his wench," Mal said with a laugh, "Cruella owes me big."

"What do we do with him?" Charming asked grabbing Sidney by the arm and bringing the man to his feet.

"Let me eat him," Maleficent said walking toward him.

Sidney gasped.

"No!" Regina said making the Genie look at her, "I'll deal with him. And Mal since you don't have a place to stay you can stay with me."

"Wait that's is? We go through all this and now we just break up and go home? My kids were kidnapped by this deranged man and now, we just go home!" Kristoff yelled.

"Look were all pretty tired and in the morning once we all have a clear head we can decide what to do. Dealing with Bad Gina, Marian and Neal not sleeping through the night. I'm ready to cross the town line myself," Charming said, "Let's all just go home and come up with a plan in the morning."

"I agree," Anna said taking Elsa's, "We have so much to catch up on, besides the kids are fine," she said looking down at her son and daughter who nodded and smiled back up at her.

Kristoff sighed and nodded. After agreeing to meet up tomorrow around 3pm Regina's magic surrounded them all and everyone appeared near or in their home.

The Next Morning Where We Left Off At Granny's Diner

Robin was standing in front of her, just 20 feet and not only that he called her Regina, not your majesty, not your highness, not even my Queen but Regina. Her breath hitched in her throat at the sight of him. He was out of breath as if he ran all the way to her, had he remembered something, was the spell broken? Did something happen to… she shakes her head, removing her troubled thoughts, of course he didn't remember, something had to be wrong.

"Robin," she gasps out as he walks closer to her, "What's wrong? Is Roland—"

"No," he said quickly cutting her off, "I…" he stopped, running his hands through his hair and then down his face. He looked so flustered and confused; he took a deep breath and looked her deep in her eyes for a second before looking down at the ground, his eyes moving rapidly as if he was trying desperately to remember something.

"Robin, please, what happened?" Regina asked taking a step forward.

Robin finally looked up at her and then slowly closed the distance between them. He hesitantly reached both hands out to her face and cupped her cheeks. His eyes were brimming with tears and his brow furrowed. In a voice so soft, Regina strained to hear him, "Who am I to you?"

Caught off guard with how gentle his voice was and how close he now was to her, Regina's head scrambled for a response, "I…"

"Please, tell me the truth. What are we to each other?"

That question had her dumbstruck, LOVERS she wanted to scream. She wanted to cry out I love you and Roland and you love me and Henry and I want to spend the rest of my life wrapped in the security of your arms.

"I…" Regina said again her mouth hanging open and her eyes searching his. She wanted to tell him but if she said too much she knew she would scare him away. Right now in this moment he may see her as Regina but when the feeling passes, he will be standing in arms reach of The Evil Queen, "What do you remember?" she gasped out instead.

Robin sighed and stepped back his face dropped and filled with despair as he ran his hands through his hair, "I don't know what I remember or if it's a memory or if it's a spell!" he yelled at no one in particular.

Snow gasped and it was the first time Regina realized she was in the diner and everyone was watching her and Robin.

"A spell?" Emma repeated glancing at Regina.

"I know it sounds crazy because who am I to the Evil Queen that she needs to spell me?" Robin said looking at Emma.

Regina looked away at the use of her former title and quickly wiped the tear that fell.

Then Robin began to chuckle and she looked back at him.

"The Evil Queen," he said looking at Regina who tried desperately not to flinch with every utter of that name, "That's what they call you, what we call you but every time I hear it… I want to scream that's not who you are." He said walking closer to her, "I know you, I feel it," he said walking closer to her, grabbing her hands, "I can feel you in a room without even turning around. I look at you and the need to kiss you almost brings me to my knees," he grabbed her face and wiped the stray tears with his thumbs, "Ever since Marian reappeared in my life, I felt as if something was missing but when I saw you in the diner that day and Roland made you spill your coffee… I just… I felt my heart truly beat or the first time in days."

Regina opened her mouth to speak but Robin sighed, dropping his hands and walking away. She nearly ran after him but his next words stopped her.

"But that's crazy right? You're a Queen and I am a thief—"

To hear him lower himself do to her title made her speak up, "Robin no, that's not—"

"You know what? I felt these things long before the incident in the woods or even before I heard what Marian said this morning," he said as he began pacing the floor.

"Marian? What did she say?" Snow asked.

"I woke up to her and my men talking about The Queen and how we were an item and how she had spelled me and Roland to forget. But then Tuck said that it was not without my consent. I don't know fi I am dreaming or i it was truly what I heard," He said stopping and looking at Regina.

"Is it true? Were we together and you spelled me… at my request?"

Regina looked at him for a long moment, "Yes," she said as another tear escaped.

"Why?" he asked walking back over to her, a confused frown playing on his features, "Why would I ask this of you? Was it because of Marian? ... What about Roland? Is he going through the same thing?"

"No, I… I don't know, but you didn't ask me, Marian did," Regina said as Robin stared at her dumbfounded.

"And you said yes? Why? Were we fighting? Did you have second thoughts about us? Why would I agree to this… this… this torture and then subject my son to it!"

"I… you didn't… and I didn't want to spell Roland but Marian…. I… She—"

"She what, Regina?" Robin yelled his mind was beginning to fog over. He was angry but not quite sure, he knew he could call her by her name and yet it still felt weird on his tongue. He ran his hands through his hair, pulling at it just a bit to send pain running through his system, to make sure he wasn't dreaming. Was Roland going through this? Was his son feeling the same thing.

"Robin, I—"

"No I don't want to hear it! I want to know why! Why would I agree to this, Why would I!"

"Because I needed to be sure!"

"Be sure of what?" Robin exclaimed his arms open wide, waiting for her answer.

"That you truly wanted me. That if you had a chance to be with your wife, Roland's mother that you wouldn't pick her… and you'd… pick me!

"All of this, when you could have asked me!" Robin said getting angry.

"I wanted—"

"No Robin, that's not why she—" Emma began trying to help the frustrated man.

"No! Roland hasn't slept in days because of a woman in his nightmares; he calls the sad lady and Bad Gina. My men look and walk around me like their hiding this huge secret and every time I mention your name or title a fight breaks out! And all of this because you didn't believe in us! In me! If this is what I felt… this earth shattering and breath-taking love for you and this is just from shattered memories… then how could you question it when I felt this fully?" he shouted and Regina gasped a cry as she reached for his arm. He jerked his arm out of her reach and walked a few feet from her.

Snow and David opened their mouths to try and help but stopped when Regina spoke up first.

"Robin, that wasn't the only reason, I did it because Marian was right! I stole her from you! Roland's mother, from him because of a stupid feud! I had to make things right… if not for you and Roland, than for her, she deserved that! I couldn't—"

"And what about us! What about Roland and me! What about what we deserve? To walk around here confused?" he yelled and watched as Regina covered her face with her hands and then slowly inhales and wiped her face with them.

"I am seeing things and images and I suspect Roland is having the same issues since he has been acting strange lately and doing things that… I can't even explain!" he said frowning at Regina.

"I never meant to hurt you and Roland, I thought I was helping," she said softly as she looked away from him. Robin's anger melted away and his heart truly broke at the sight of her crumbling to pieces before him; he wanted nothing more than to hold her in his arms until he took the pain away. There was the shadow of a memory etching at the edge of his mind. She was dressed in a light blue gown, her long and curling lightly down her back and she… was in his arms seconds from kissing him.

The sound of a sneeze in the back brought him from the hazy memory and looked at Regina who refused to look at him.

"How do I break it?" he asked.

"What?" she said looking up at him.

"How do I break it? Is there something that you do or is there some kind of potion?"

"No, I—"

"Is it true loves kiss?" he said walking over to her.

"I…" Regina said as her heart skipped at the thought of him kissing her and she lost all train of thought as he continued to walk briskly toward her, "I don't—"

Robin didn't even give her a moment to think, he ran his fingers through her hair and brought her face and body flush against him and kissed her with all the love and passion he could dredge up within the shattered parts of his mind.

The moment their lips touched a powerful blast of magic surged around them, sweeping dishes off tables and knocking over anything that wasn't heavier than a chair. A powerful light that surrounded them, first a dark purple and then it faded into a dark to light blue and then a shimmering white.

Regina held on to Robin just as tight as he held on to her. Their tongues fought for dominance and when Robin leaned back to take a breath Regina kissed him harder, refusing to let him go. She missed this, his mouth on hers, his arms wrapped around her and she wasn't going to let him go unless she too was breathless.

When they finally parted, they leaned their heads together sharing each other's breath as they breathed harshly. The light surrounding them dimmed down to a light glow as the two still clung to each other.

Robin looked at Regina deeply as if trying to search her face for a reaction.

"You don't remember… do you?" she whispered as another tear fell.

Robin pressed his forehead harder to hers and then shook his head, "Why can't I remember?" he said letting her go and taking a step back, effectively snuffing out the magic that surrounded them.

Regina sniffed, "Because that's how this spell works. I never questioned your love for me. I knew you loved me. But I also knew Marian loved you and you loved her and I had to know if you could truly move on with me and not regret not making things work with her. The spell that I cast can only be broken by the other person who holds your heart just as tightly as I do."

"Marian?"

"She must willingly let you go," she said wiping another tear away.

"What happens if she doesn't," Ruby asked making the couple look at her and the others in the room.

"Then his memories will grow stronger and when he remembers everything they will slowly be permanently erased until the memories we created are truly gone."

"What? How is that fair?" Emma said anger building up within her, "We all know she will never give him up!"

"And that's the point," Granny said bringing the attention to her.

"What?" Robin and almost everyone said at the same time.

"It's like the story of 'The Wise Ruling'."

"The what?" David asked.

"The story of the two mothers and the baby. They both had a baby in the night. They both slept with their baby, but one mother rolled over in the night and suffocated it accidentally. The grief stricken mother than went into the next room took the other child and gave the sleeping mother the dead one. When the sleeping mother awoke she saw the dead baby and new it wasn't hers and when she saw the other mother with her child they went before the king. After hearing the story the King called for them to bring him a sword and told the two mothers that he would split the baby in half that way both mothers could have a piece. The first mother said fine cut it, then we both won't have him, while the second mother cried and told the King to give the baby to the woman so no harm would come to him. The King then gave the baby to the second woman because he knew a true mother would sacrifice their child before they let any harm come to it," Granny said looking at everyone and then to Regina, "Regina and Marian are the two mothers and Robin would be the baby. Regina is hoping that since there is no King involved and it is just the two of them, that she won't hurt Robin and let him go, so he can be with her."

"I get it, so instead of splitting the baby in half we have a mind splitting in two, literally being erased. So in order to save Robin Marian must let him go, it's the ultimate act of True Love… on her part at least," Emma said looking at Robin who walked over to Regina and embraced her again.

"I'm sorry," Regina whispered into his neck.

"I am too, I'm sorry I yelled at you," he said kissing the top of her head, "What do we do now?"

Regina sniffed and pulled away from his embrace, just as the bell rang above the diner, "We have to wait for Marian to let you go," Regina said not hearing the bell nor did she hear the gasps from people walking in or around her.

"Well that's never going to happen," a voice said behind them.

Regina and Robin turned to see Marian and the Merry men standing weapons drawn and glaring at them.

Okay before I get questions, the next chapter is full of outlaw queen and Dragon Queen. I know some of it may have seen abrupt and cut off but I just wanted to hurry and update it. I already have half of the next chapter written, I have two classes this month but since my muse is back and my depression is at bay I am writing like a mad man.

The spell will not be broken until the end of next chapter and the beginning of the following. I have a whole lot of flashbacks I want to use ^_^. Sidney will also be addressed next chapter as well.

Don't forget to give our fallen storybook characters their RIPs and don't forget to review. WTF will be updated shortly, that one is long and funny… if I do say so myself and expect a few sexy times as well.

Read and Review my loves!