Chapter 14: One Goal

Robin Hood struggled desperately, frozen to the wall with no way to escape. His body temperature was dropping at every moment, he shivered more frequently. The darkness in the library was not doing him any favours either. His body had become numb with the ice and the struggling only made it worse. With no other options, he began calling out for someone to help him.

"Help!" he felt stupid doing it as Robin Hood never called for help. He was the hero of Sherwood Forest, someone to be feared heralded as the greatest outlaw known to man or at least the Enchanted Forest. He was a great fighter against the Sheriff of Nottingham, but the magic was something completely different. His bow and arrows never stood a chance and yet he loved a woman with magic…

…

"Why isn't Regina picking up?" Crystal growls angrily.

"I don't know," Emma snaps as they speed through the streets. "Do you see them anywhere?"

Crystal is searching the town with her special vision, but so far, the auras she sees are not their family or friends. She can see Ruby and Granny with their accelerated heart rates as creatures of the moon in the diner, she can see the distinct green flash of Archie as well as the white gleam of his dog Pongo walking along by the harbour, but no Regina, or Henry, or Elsa, or Killian. As they near the clock tower, the Dark One's daughter can see the damage; it's covered in ice magic and there's only one human silhouette inside. It's green and has the faint image of an arrow. He's surrounded by dark white magic.

"Stop the car!" Crystal shrieks. Emma pulls over and Crystal rushes inside the library without another word. The place is still freezing cold, an obvious sign of Ingrid being there. She spots Robin frozen to the wall.

"Oh my god Robin!" She shouts in pure shock. She races over and conjures up some fireballs. The outlaw flinches in fear, afraid that she's going to throw them at him, but instead she lets the balls of heat float on her palms and holds them near his iced prison. The heat is a godsend for him as the ice begins to melt, pooling as water on the floor and his body begins to regain feeling. Emma rushes in, carrying Neal's bucket and goes over to the two.

"Robin, what happened? Where's Henry?!" the Saviour asks, very distressed and frantic.

"The Snow Queen took them."

"THEM?!"

"Elsa and Henry,"

"Why didn't Elsa stop them?" Crystal asks

"The witch, she put something around the queen's wrist and it stopped her powers."

"Where did she take them?!" Emma says practically panicking. She has to grab a nearby shelf to steady herself from the fear, shock, and emerging anger. The lights above them flicker as Emma Swan becomes angrier, Ingrid has awoken the Mama bear.

"My guess is her cave," Crystal says as Robin is finally freed from the ice that encased him. He rubs his hands together and blows on them to bring back some warmth. She conjures up a dry jacket for him to wear and keeps her palm ignited so the outlaw can continue to warm himself "Did she say anything else?"

"Only that they were going to join the others."

Emma's heart drops to her stomach and one of the lights above them explodes. This awakens Neal and he begins to scream. Annoyed, Crystal reaches down and picks him up. Emma has her fists clenched tightly and tears are pushing their way to the surface of her eyes. Immediately, she turns around, storming towards the door.

"WHERE ARE YOU GOING?!" Crystal shouts over the crying baby.

"To deal with this bitch…"

Instinctively, Rumpel's daughter conjures up a barrier, preventing the Saviour from leaving.

"WHAT THE HELL CRYSTAL?! LET ME THROUGH!"

"We need to think about this carefully. If we run blindly into danger, she'll have us as ice sculptures in no time."

"That's probably what Henry and Elsa are becoming right now!" Emma shouts. She opens her hands and tries to use her magic to break the barrier. "And my parents are already half-way there."

"Parents?" Robin asks in confusion.

"The Snow Queen paid Charming and Snow a visit too" the teen grunts. She's using one hand to keep the barrier up and holds a still crying baby in the other. Finally fed up, she grunts, "Please hold him." Crystal hands the sobbing infant to Robin and uses both hands to solidify the barrier against Emma's Saviour magic.

"What the hell is she trying to do?" Robin asks.

"She's trying to eliminate Emma's family so when the Shattered Sight Spell hits, Emma will want to be apart of Ingrid's family," Crystal explains having pieced it together in her head.

"What about Regina?" Robin's mind suddenly snaps back to his beloved Queen, she was still missing. "Oh Gods, Regina!"

"Where is she?!" Crystal asks, still fighting Emma. It's like trying to keep a five-year-old away from a new game if the "five-year-old" was a powerful adult saviour and the "new game" was taking the head off the Snow Queen. Crystal didn't like this any more than Emma, but they had to be smart about this, Ingrid was very powerful and she had a lot of the family as hostages. They could be used as leverage against them to get Emma to join the family.

"She was going to her vault before the Snow Queen attacked…" Robin says in a hoarse voice.

"You don't think…" the youngest of the group asks.

Emma shoots Crystal an angry look. The Dark One's daughter can see the fire in the blonde's eye, the anger, the need to protect. Both of them knew that she'd had a rough couple of weeks having to be saved from Elsa's snow monster by Regina and Elsa herself, nearly freezing to death in the process. She wasn't doing her job, but now with her family in harm's way, Miss Swan is in full-on attack mode. She wouldn't let anything happen to her son or her parents and possibly Regina and Killian since they too are MIA. She had one goal now, end Ingrid.

"She must've trapped Regina somehow,"

Without another word, Emma used all of her strength, broke the barrier, causing a massive shockwave to go through the library and rumble at the outlaw and the teen's feet. Neal, who was just starting to calm down, became frightened again and began screaming in fear.

"EMMA WAIT!" Crystal shouts, running after her friend in fear. But before anyone could stop her, the yellow Volkswagen was speeding down the street towards the woods.

Now in the darkened street, Crystal begins swearing to herself.

"Damn it Emma!" she hisses under her breath.

There is no way Emma could take on the Snow Queen alone, she and Regina barely managed to take down one of her "warriors" and it took the whole group of heroes and the Dark One to defeat her ice dragon. Despite how powerful she may be, Emma didn't have a chance in a snowstorm at stopping this woman.

Robin continues to cradle a sobbing prince, trying to maintain those fatherly instincts while likely preparing for battle.

"Give him to me," she pants. "I'm taking him to Granny, you start to Regina's vault, see if she's still there."

"What are you going to do?"

"I have to make a stop first."

A/N: Here you go PopPotter, thank you for the great reviews. Guess where Crystal has to go?