There's a Strange Magic In Storybrooke:
Showdown On Main Street
"Bluebeard, what is the meaning of this?" Fidget asked in disbelief.
"How come I didn't know that sick rapist was in town?" Regina said in disbelief as she gave a dark glare at Bluebeard.
"Wait, you know this guy?" Emma asked.
"By reputation," Regina said. "Back in the Enchanted Forest, Bluebeard was known for being a polygamist lord who just happened to be living for over a century. But the truth was that this sick blue-haired freak violated young, lovely maidens, used them for his own pleasure...until the time came for him to do the final rape and rob the maidens of their remaining virginity and youth essence, killing them..."
"And granting me eternal life," Bluebeard finished. "I kept the essences in a blue vial that I hid in a secret room- you know, the infamous one in fairy tales where I keep the corpses of my victims as trophies. I'd drink from that vial once a year, to make sure I had a double ration of essence to remain alive. It went on that way until the Fairy Queen Marianne came in..."
"So that's why Fidget gave you the brainwashed Marianne!" Lily said before giving a brief disgusted look at Fidget, who looked indifferent. "You were involved when Marianne went to the Enchanted Forest to find a cure for her son Marius' curse!"
"Yes, I only heard about the triste historia after she got away," Bluebeard snorted. "After striking a deal with Rumplestiltskin, Marianne tried to sneak into my castle in order to get my vial. I captured her and sought to use for my...essence harvesting."
"But she couldn't have been of any use to you!" David retorted. "She was married!"
"Fun fact about stealing youth essence from virgins, you can take one and give it to one who has been deflowered. That's what I did with the fairy, and I exploited that...gift upon her. After doing some research, I found out that extracting the essence of a fairy royalty would gave me eternal life and spare me from extracting any more essence. So I was going to do the final rape, but before I could, Marianne rebelled and broke free, stole my vial, and fled. I tracked her towards the estate of Rumplestiltskin, but she had left barely a few seconds after he had made her a locator spell to find the cure she sought. I was so angry! My tesoro, my entire collection of essence, was gone as an ingredient for that spell. So as revenge, I managed to find Marianne just as she opened a portal to the 'cure' and used whatever I had left of my essences to freeze the portal before it closed, leaving her trapped in between our world and whichever one she was heading forward."
"But it must have backfired!" Emma realized. "Somehow the portal must have gotten affected by the Dark Curse as it was still frozen and must have sent Marianne to Storybrooke rather than the world she was heading."
"And then to make sure that Marianne could be kept under watch while I worked on my little scheme, I brainwashed her and gave her to Bluebeard as if she were one of his employees," Fidget said. The heroes looked at him in disbelief.
"That was until I found out that you went back on our trade." Bluebeard gritted his teeth and his arms squeezed tighter around Rosetta's neck. He glared at her. "Go on. Throw him the parchment I got."
Rosetta nodded. Her hand pulled out an old-fashioned rolled up paper and tossed it towards the group. Fidget grabbed and unrolled it, reading the bloody red cursive writing on it:
The Batrishan has betrayed you with the help of Anubis's daughter.
-A new villain who just got born today
"The ex-Dark One's child," Fidget realized. "Its unborn spirit sent you this note before its physical body was born."
"Wait, Gold and Belle's child sent this?" Emma's eyes popped. "But that can't be possible! It's only a baby."
"A baby with a portion of the Dark One's powers," Rosetta said as she gasped for air. "Amanda did this."
"Amanda?"
"Mr. Gold and Belle just gave birth to a daughter. They named her Amanda."
"Frankly, I can thank the little devil for the news," Bluebeard said. "Fidget turned his back on our trade by willingly restoring Marianne's true memories, returned her to her husband, and let this little brat find the snake that swallowed Captain Hook and Lilith Page." He nudged Rosetta with his arm.
"What?" Killian looked at Fidget in surprise. "Fitzgerald, is it true?" Fidget, bowing his head grimly, removed the glove and Band-Aid that were covering his cut finger. It still looked ghastly from drying up the ghastly dark blood he had.
"Batrishan blood cures people's memories permanently...," Rosetta said before Bluebeard's arm squeezed tighter around her neck.
"Let her go, Bluebeard," Fidget said quietly.
"How could you do this, amigo?" Bluebeard asked. His eyes were slightly watering as he glared at the Batrishan. "We were associates and friends. You and I respected one another and our villainous ambitions. We were thick as thieves and had so much in common. Why on earth did you have to turn against me because some saberlo todo semidiós palo de golf played her reforming tricks on you?"
"Did he just call Rosetta a 'know it all demigod brat'?" Killian asked in disbelief.
"He did," Fidget answered before turning back to Bluebeard. "I'll admit that at first I enjoyed having an...amigo like you, Bluebeard. But after what I saw you do to the Fairy Queen? That's beyond my limits."
"I'm a violador and you knew that ever since we met!" Bluebeard said.
"Yes, but I've never seen you actually doing it! After seeing the way you toyed with the Fairy Queen as if she were some wench reminded me on how rape is the last thing I'd consider doing as part of a scheme! And now that we're talking about it, you and I have nothing in common. You used magic to remain alive for your own selfish interest, even your revenge on something so trifle without hardly lifting a finger for a century, while I've been severely handicapped and spent almost 3 centuries trying to get revenge on a codfish who killed the last remaining people I loved, and to do so I searched for magic, invincibility, strength, and immortality at the cost of my old goodness!"
Fidget held his hands out and black flames appeared in them. The heroes backed away from him when they saw him summoning flames. Bluebeard cocked his gun above Rosetta's head.
"If you attack me, I'll..." He then noticed something was missing and looked to see Rosetta running away from his grasp. Although technically, he saw a baby jackal running towards the heroes and morphing into Rosetta as soon as it hopped into Lily's arms. "Never mind. We have more open arms now."
He shot straight at Fidget's chest.
"NO!" Killian exclaimed. But, to everyone's surprise, the bullet dropped to the ground as soon as it made contact with the Batrishan's chest. Bluebeard looked in shock as the bullet landed on the ground. He shot more times until his gun ran out of bullets, but Fidget kept walking towards him, untouched by the bullets.
"Cómo es eso posible?" Bluebeard gasped until he noticed some sort of chain around Fidget's neck. He grabbed it and yanked it off the Batrishan's neck, revealing it to be a golden medallion. "I've never seen you wear this before. Did you use this in order to protect yourself from my bullets?"
"No, and seriously you ought to give it back," Fidget said, extending his hand and demanding his medallion back.
"Why? Afraid to get hit by my bullets without it? Because judging by how hot this thing is, I can tell it kept them away from your heart."
"Either that or it's your hand burning," Rosetta said, pointing at Bluebeard's hand. To everyone's shock, except Fidget, the hand that Bluebeard was using to hold the medallion was turning dark as ash very quickly and literally began burning.
"GAAAAAAH!" Bluebeard screamed. He let go of the medallion as fast as he could. Fidget instantly snatched it and put it back around his neck. "How? It's killing my hand after I touch it and yet nothing's happening to you while it's around your neck!"
"Yeah, turns out my medallion burns people who touch it without my permission," Fidget said as he leaned in close to the blue-haired rapist as the latter's arm began to darken as well. "Weird, right? The one thing I have left of my Batrishan heritage and it burns everything."
He then threw a black fireball at Bluebeard's arm, which caused the man to rapidly turn dark until his body began to crumble into ashes and black flames burned them into oblivion. Lily covered Rosetta's eyes while the heroes watched in horror as Bluebeard screamed like a banshee while Fidget turned him into a living bonfire. Finally, the flames disappeared and the remains of Bluebeard's ashes blew away into the smoke.
"You...you just burned that man alive," David said in horror. "You...monster!"
"He's not a monster!" Killian tried defending his old friend. "He's just..."
"Don't waste your time, codfish," the Batrishan interrupted him. "I've embraced for ages the thing that most people assumed I was ever since I miraculously survived my people's death: a monster." He spread his wings open and began flying in the air. "And believe me, I'm still going to get my revenge on you."
"Maybe if you're not so busy plotting revenge, we could set up some hanging out times?" Rosetta offered. The adults were about to protest before Fidget froze them with a spell and flew towards Rosetta. He gave her a silent stare before gently petting her head.
"I think I'll take days off on Thursdays and Sundays," he offered. Hearing him say this made Rosie hug him, much to his surprise again, but he genuinely returned it. "Why do you believe so badly that I can change?"
"'Cause I know a bunch of stuff," she shrugged.
"Then you know I'm gonna have to put a forgetfulness spell on them in order to have them forget our entire conversation, right?" Rosetta nodded and gave him one last hug before he cast a spell on the heroes and flew back to the Storybrooke Forest.