"Cora?" Emma asked staring at the snarling dragon in front of her, Cora turned
her head slightly to face Emma and grunted. Emma looked behind her to the large
doors.
"You're helping me?" Emma whispered wide eyed, Cora nodded almost smiling; Emma
smiled back sweetly turning to run. "Thanks Cora!" She shouted.
Emma ran back into the castle-it turned out the front entrance was probably her
only option after the courtyard had turned to a dead end,
I
wonder how Cora found me? Emma asked herself hiding in the shadows as
some guards ran by, it appeared that Cora had caused quite the stir.
"That Evil Witch of course she'd have a dragon!" A guard shouted drawing his
sword from his belt, Emma smirked as she heard the panicked screams of some
guards as Cora swished her tail, she knew she shouldn't really be laughing at
the downfall of her parents castle, Emma ran up the stairs pushing guards out
of the way, perhaps this dress she had chosen to wear was a bad idea, but the
other clothes were covered in mud and she guessed she had to keep some kind of
decorum for Regina's image.
"Crap crap crap crap!" Emma shouted going back on herself as she noticed more oncoming
guards, this made her dash down another corridor. Emma found herself in the
throne room looking around nervously, the stained glass windows reflected
rainbow beams of light across the room.
"Trapped are we dearie?" A voice shouted breaking Emma's concentration, Emma gritted
her teeth and turned to meet Rumplestiltskin.
"You did this!" Emma growled strengthening her stance wanting to fight.
Rumplestiltskin shrugged stepping forward
"I may have done dearie, but it has indeed worked out to my advantage. You two
were the only ones who really stood in my way" He said pointing his finger,
Emma narrowed her eyes.
"Get outta here you little imp" Emma hissed bitterly, Rumplestiltskin giggled.
"It appears you've started to sound like Regina!" He mused clapping his hands
together. Emma exhaled and suddenly went to strike Rumplestiltskin with magic;
he swiftly counteracted Emma's charm and smiled. He then blasted Emma back with
a swift flick of his hand making her smash into the wall.
"You cannot best me dearie!" He said stepping forward. Emma groaned and wiped
some blood from her lip, Emma spat out the blood from her mouth and looked back
up.
"But I know someone who can" Emma growled with a focused expression shakily
getting to her feet. Rumplestiltskin giggled and shook his head in disbelief,
"And who might that be?" He smirked. Emma stood back from Rumplestiltskin which
made him frown slightly
"Cora!" Emma shouted with a wicked grin, suddenly Cora smashed through the
large stained glass window-a rain of coloured glass fell to the ground, she
roared loudly. Cora snarled and grabbed Rumplestiltskin throwing him out of the
window.
"Thanks girl!" Emma said, "See I did learn something in that class, Dragons are
immune to magic, so I guess you can deal with him!" Emma laughed. Cora nodded with
a grin and roared turning to see where he had gone, she then flew after him.
Emma dusted her hands being thankful for Cora, it was a bold but risky move and
Emma hugged herself for having succeeded, she had always been the spur of the
moment kind of girl.
"That's right you don't mess with this chick!" Emma shouted after
Rumplestiltskin snapping her fingers. Emma continued laughing until she turned
and met more guards that had appeared in the throne room.
"Ah fuck" Emma whispered feeling a wave of exhaustion cross her.
"Emma?!" Regina shouted appearing at the bottom of the stairs. Henry looked
around frantically.
"We must have just missed her!" Henry said, Regina nodded looking around.
"Oh Emma" Regina hissed.
"Emma!" A voice shouted, Regina turned nervously and met the gaze of James.
"It's time Emma" James said grabbing Regina's arm and pulling her along.
"Wait what?!" Regina shouted pulling back,
"You're fight with Regina, the guards have her cornered in the throne room"
James said sternly.
"We can finally rid the land of her evil, but it has to be you" James said
pulling Regina up the stairs. Henry gulped and ran round to meet James's face.
"Emma doesn't have to kill her!" Henry said trying to stop him from going
further. James sighed and snapped his fingers, a guard then grabbed Henry.
"I'm sorry Henry but this has to be done, I don't want Regina to harm my family
anymore" he said softly. Henry squirmed as the guard restrained him.
"Come" James said and pulled Regina along.
"Mom!" Henry called as the guard walked away with him, Regina turned back
pulling on James's restraint but didn't succeed.
"You have to tell her!" Henry shouted as Regina was pulled down the corridor
his voice becoming an echo in Regina's mind, Regina felt tears welling in her
eyes as James entered the throne room. Regina's heart wrenched as she saw Emma
was backed up against a wall like an animal. Emma turned and stared into Regina's
eyes her eyes were frantic and full of sadness. Regina felt a tear roll down
her face, James gently pushed Regina
forward,
"You can do this" James whispered handing Regina Emma's sword he smiled softly,
Regina reluctantly took the sword turning it over in her hand. Regina looked at
the words engraved neatly on the sword, 'True loves power'
Regina felt a lump form in her throat as she looked at Emma who watched Regina
with fear.
"Do it" Emma hissed acidly, Regina shook her head in exasperation.
"Why the hell would I?" Regina whispered just loud enough for Emma to hear,
Emma looked to the floor.
"Of course you want your own body back" Emma said rolling her eyes, Regina
shook her head slowly feeling a sudden shyness of what her heart wanted to say,
it had been so hard to admit love since Daniel.
"I said do it!" Emma said pushing Regina back suddenly, Regina fell backwards
her eyes wide with confusion.
"No" Regina hissed, Emma almost growled raising her hand, she then let it fall
limply realising she couldn't hurt Regina no matter how mad she was. Regina lay
back on the floor and looked around at the crowd of guards and Emma's parents. "I
can't" Regina whispered. Emma's breathing accelerated.
"You can Regina, you did it before. Would you do it if your own body wasn't at
stake?" Emma asked challenging Regina, Regina felt her stubborn nature rising
to the top and she stayed silent not meeting Emma's gaze.
"So it's true" Emma said with a small laugh, Regina shook her head slowly.
"Why do you always have to think the worst of me?" Regina hissed her heart
beginning to freeze once again as her anger grew. Emma rolled her eyes looking
around at the angry crowd who stared at her.
"Because you usually think it of me" Emma said her words sharp, Regina felt
them cut through her heart. "I'm never good enough for you and when I am you
usually have some ulterior motive" Emma snapped getting herself annoyed.
"Emma you're just angry, it's the black magic talking!" Regina hissed becoming
more conscious of the confusion growing in the crowd as they used the wrong
names. Emma rolled her eyes.
"There you go again telling me I'm wrong!" Emma snarled. Regina winced at her
anger.
"I only said those things before to help you!" Regina shouted. Emma stood still
perhaps the black magic was making her more angry.
"She's controlling Emma!" Snow said grabbing James panicked. James nodded
stepping forward, Regina turned at this jumping up off the floor her eyes wide
as James withdrew his sword.
"Wait!" Regina whispered holding out her hand.
Henry struggled as the guard held onto him tightly.
"Let me go!" He shouted in frustration kicking, punching and biting at him. Henry
groaned at his failure and thought carefully, he then suddenly remembered a
move Emma had taught him. Henry recalled the memory of Emma telling him about
how a guy who tried to grab her in a club Henry smiled and timed it perfectly,
he waited until the guard relaxed and then kicked at the guard whilst twisting
out of his hold knocking him to the ground. Henry grinned as he succeeded and
dashed up the large flight of stairs desperate to save his two mothers-after
all they needed to be saved from their own stubbornness. Henry dashed down the
corridor and burst into the throne room, his eyes widened in horror as he saw
James advancing on Emma with his sword.
"NOOO!" Henry shouted running forward towards the three making the room fall
deadly silent.