"I love the colors dahling." Cruella said, looking around Regina's office.
"Thank you." Regina said, sitting down at her desk and shrugging off her coat. She launched a fireball at the fireplace to warm up the office.
Elza sat down on the edge of her desk, swinging her legs and playing with her fingernails.
"So, how are you going to get my singing voice back? And how we supposed to defeat the Chernabog?" Ursula demanded, crossing her arms and sitting down.
"Straight to the point, Ursie, love it." Elza said looking up. "Okay, this Chernabog thing is a lot stronger than first presumed. It broke my sword."
"Truly?" Cruella said in astonishment.
"Indeed. I'm a little pissed about that, as you can imagine, and it tried to kill Gina, so now it has to die. I need your help to resurrect Mal so she can help defeat it. You two know her better than anyone ever did."
"It will take the blood of those who wronged her the most." Regina added. "Sprinkle the blood on Maleficent's ashes, and she will be resurrected. That's where you two come in. We need to know who that is."
"The little princess didn't tell you, dahling?" Cruella asked.
"Snow?" Elza said. "Tell us what?"
"Exactly how we ended up in this world without coming to storybrooke and long before the Dark Curse." Ursula answered. "The prince and princess stole Maleficent's baby and cursed it with great darkness, then put it through a portal so the darkness wouldn't infect the Enchanted Forest. We got pulled in when we tried to stop them."
"But where-" Regina began.
"The Sorceress." Cruella interrupted. "In order for mommy dearest to remove the darkness from her own child, she had to transfer it to another source. She chose Mal's little egg to condemn, already believing it to be a...monster."
Regina looked at Elza and saw the same rage reflected in her eyes that she was now feeling. "How could she do this?"
"Some hero." Elza hissed with hatred. "How could she do that to a child?" Her voice cracked under the immense emotions raging within her.
"That explains why they didn't want you two to enter Storybrooke. This getting out would destroy everything they've worked for. Clearly they'll do anything to keep their secret." Regina murmured.
"Including destroy Mal's ashes." Elza said.
"What does it matter if other people find out?" Ursula asked. "We're the villains, who will care if someone hurts one of us. This town won't care. They'll just think Mal deserved it and that Snow and Charming were doing in the name of the 'greater good.'"
"No one deserves having to lose their child." Elza said with low intensity. "I know what that's like. No one else might not care, but Emma will, and that will break the Little Bird." She smirked. "I think it's time for me to make an entrance. Gina, show our fine guests somewhere to put their things. Anything they want is on me, except Cruella."
"What? I don't get free hospitality?"
"Thousand dollar coats isn't on my budget dear." Elza said. She waved a hand over herself, changing her clothes into a long backless dress with a thigh high slit and a very low neckline accented with diamonds. Six inch diamond studded heels appeared on her feet and her hair turn dark black, except for a single streak of purple.
"Damn dahling." Cruella said. "If only we've met in the Forest, you and I would have had quite a bit of fun."
A tentacle started to snake its way around her leg and Regina nearly growled as she stepped forward and kicked it away.
Ursula smirked. "See you later Angelfish."
"Thank you Ursie." Elza grinned. She kissed Regina on the cheek. "See you in an hour." She threw up her hands, smoking filling the entire room. Elza planted a fierce kiss on Regina's lips under the cover of the smoke before actually disappearing.
Regina waved away the smoke and glared at Ursula. "Don't get any ideas, fish. She's mine."
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Snow and David laughed as they walked through the door of their apartment. Snow turned to go get Neal from Ruby, when she spotted the werewolf asleep on the couch. Neal was gurgling so she walked into the living room to find her son in Elza's arms. Elza was holding her child, her legs neatly crossed and looking like the old Elza that Snow knew too well.
"Elza, what are you doing?" She demanded.
Elza glanced up at her, but remained mostly fixed on Neal. She held up her hand and Neal reached for her finger. "My, my, what a grip you have, little prince." She cooed at the child.
"Snow, what's going o-" Charming stopped dead at seeing his son in the arms of his worst nemesis. "Elza! Put him do-" He tried to charge her to take back his child when Elza froze him in place.
"Elza, please leave Neal and David alone. If you want to hurt someone, hurt me. Let them go." Snow pleaded.
Elza stood up, practically towering over Snow in her heels and gently bounced the boy in her arms. "Sleep little one." She whispered, placing the boy in his crib. She turned to Snow and the other woman paled at the fury in her eyes. Elza released Charming. "I know your secret, Little Bird." She teased.
"What?"
"Cruella and Ursula told me everything."
"You don't understand." Snow said. "We had no choice."
"You had no choice?!" Elza suddenly roared. Neal surprisingly didn't wake up, presumably under a sleeping spell. "You condemned a child to a life of darkness! You stole a child from their mother, after she begged you not to! You destroyed lives!"
"We needed to make sure Emma didn't give in to the darkness. We wanted her to be a hero."
"Do you think little Neal will be a monster?" Elza asked softly, looking back at the baby.
"Of course not." Charming said.
"His parents are!" Elza raged again. "You called Maleficent a monster and said her child would be the same because that's what she was. By that logic, Neal should be a monster too. Why don't I just throw him in a portal like you did Mal's egg?!"
"No! We were going of bring the egg back. We didn't know the apprentice would send it to another land."
"No? My dear Snow, there is nothing you can say that will justify what you have done. The fact that you would even consider stealing a child to curse it shows exactly what kind of monsters you are. There is nothing that you can do that will change the fact that you are not heroes, you're not noble, you're ugly and despicable creatures that I hope spend the rest of eternity in hell for what you've done. I've caused a lot of pain in my lifetime and I own up to it, but the fact that you think you can justify taking a child from their mother actually sickens me. Me, of all people! You are nothing. I wonder what Emma will think of her noble parents after hearing this?"
"You can't tell Emma." Snow said darkly. Elza smirked at the darkness and fire in the smaller woman's eyes.
"Are you threatening me, Little Bird? I don't care how much you want to keep your secret, remember that I could rip your heart out in half a second if I so desired. Speaking of which." Without warning, she slammed her fist into Snow's chest and wrenched out her heart. Charming tried to attack her and she simply blasted him backwards with magic. Elza examined the heart. There was a small spot of blackness, no doubt from when Snow tricked Regina into killing her own mother. But that was it. "You're not even sorry for what you did." Elza whispered. She gave the heart a squeeze and Snow cried out in pain. At this, Elza had no words. She just couldn't understand how someone could do something so terrible and not care. "Dear Little Bird." She said, replacing Snow's heart. "Or should I say, Little Monster, I do sincerely hope you go to hell." She straightened up.
"Please, don't tell Emma." Snow begged as Elza walked towards the door.
"I won't. Maleficent can tell her when she gets back." Elza opened her arms and purple smoke began to spill from her hands, climbing up her body, engulfing her. She became a violet dragon, shrouded in purple mist and flew around the room. Snow cried out in terror before Elza flew out the door.
Ruby and Charming jerked awake and Neal started crying. Snow was unable to do anything but lay there and cry.
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Regina waved her hand over the ground, drawing together Maleficent's ashes.
"So, you and Elza finally got together, dahling?" Cruella asked, sitting on a rock and lazily swinging her leg.
"Obviously." Regina said.
"It's about time, I say. But even I saw the way the Savior looked at her, and dear Ursula."
"So what?" The brunette snapped. "It's not like they're competition or something."
"I would say they are." Cruella pulled out her phone and began playing candy crush.
Regina rolled her eyes. Elza was hers. Period. She looked up as Ursula walked in and sat next to Cruella. She nearly fried the fish but remembered that jealousy did not become her. The Evil Queen was not envious, of anyone or anything. She had Elza, what more could she want? Absently she put a hand over her stomach.
Elza stalked into the room and walked up behind Regina. She touched the brunette on the shoulder and Regina spun around to receive a kiss on the lips. Elza waved her hand over herself and changed back into the full headed purple Elza in a simple black dress, keeping her heels.
"I almost burned you alive."
Elza smiled. "I wish I could do that to the Little Monster, Snow. Tell me, what's next?"
"Snow will come to destroy the ashes. She can't risk Mal coming back and revealing her secret."
"Then we just wait. She'll probably come tonight. But just to make sure, Ursula and Cruella, go steal something out of Gold's shop to catch their attention."
Ursula sighed. "Fine, but you owe me."
"Mmh hmm, let's go back to the vault, I need some stuff." Elza said.
Regina nodded and poofed them back to the vault. She watched Elza once again retrieve the medallion, wondering what it was supposed to do and her hand unconsciously went to her neck. Her necklace! Where was it?! "Elza!"
"What?!" Elza raced back into the room. "What is it? Is it the baby?!"
"No, my necklace is gone."
Elza let out a sigh of relief. "I'll buy you another necklace, Gina."
"You don't understand. It used to be yours. I've had it since before the Curse. I need it."
"Why?"
"Because it makes me feel like you're here with me." Regina said, looking around.
Elza smiled and magically made the necklace appear in her hand. "This?"
"Yes!" Regina quickly grabbed it and put it back on, letting out a sigh of relief. "This had got me through a lot more than I would care to admit." She whispered. She glanced at her neck. "Did you enchant this?"
"A long time ago." Elza answered, putting her arms around Regina and pulling her close. "I enchanted it so that as long as you wore it, my magic would never hurt you, intentionally or accidentally. I would never forgive myself if I hurt you, Gina."
Regina smiled and kissed her lips. "Thank you."
"Anytime, dear." Elza returned the kiss with an extra bit of passion and fire. She backed Regina against the wall and kissed her again.
"Elza, dear, I would love for to take you right now, but we have bigger fish to fry." Regina panted.
"Was that an intentional barb at Ursula?"
"Happy accident."
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Snow and Charming proved predictable as always. After Charming had searched Cruella's car and found the box, the villains returned to the tunnels to await the heroes arrival, which didn't take long.
Ursula easily knocked Snow and Charming off their feet with a slap of her tentacles. Cruella stepped forward with a knife and sliced each of their palms, the blood dripping onto Maleficent's ashes.
"What did you do?" Snow demanded.
"Did you honestly think we needed some silly trinket from Gold's shop for this? We needed something with a little more kick." Cruella answered, rejoining the others.
"The blood of those who wronged her the most." Regina said, watching as Maleficent was resurrected.
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