Descendants 2 Chapter 21

Episode 12A

The Finale

Monday morning, Archie was running across town holding a baby Dalmatian. Anita was standing outside the animal shelter.

"I found Dipstick," Archie said. He handed the puppy over to Anita.

"He's the last one. We've got them all back," Anita said.

The day after the wedding, Emma and Killian left on the Jolly Roger a few hundred feet out to sea, still within the town line.

Hope and Neal woke up early to continue their search for the resurrection stone. They checked the Toll Bridge, to no avail.

Lena summoned Gideon at the well.

"Lena," He said. "I missed you during the musical curse. I heard you sang a lot."

Lena smiled at her brother sweetly, then it faded. "I'm leaving today."

"Good." He said.

"Good?" Lena asked.

"The Black Fairy's Curse. Fiona's Curse is coming. You don't want to be here when that happens. Get your friends and leave here as soon as-" Gideon's mouth suddenly closed, as if it was forced shut.

"Gideon?" Lena asked.

"That's enough out of you boy," Fiona said. "I'm afraid you're too late." Fiona used her magic on the well and a big cloud of black smoke came out of it. "My Curse is already here."

Lena took of sprinting back into town.

Grumpy was also shouting, "The curse! It's heeeerre!"

Lena quickly found Lyra, Neal, and Hope at the town square. They all held hands.

"We have to go now!" Lena said.

"It's too late," Hope said. "I love you all."

"What's going to happen to us?" Lyra asked.

"I'm not sure," Lena said. They held each other close as the Black storm cloud consumed them.

- Title Screen -

Lena woke up on the Gold Manor. She went downstairs to find Gideon at the breakfast table. Mr. Gold was making omelets.

"Good morning Lena," Mr. Gold said. "How did you sleep?"

"Uh... Did I miss something?" Lena asked.

"What do you mean?" Gideon asked.

"Did we defeat Fiona while I was out?" Lena asked.

"The mayor?" Gideon asked. "At what? A game of cards?"

Lena's eyes narrowed. "The Mayor?"

"Unless you know another Fiona in Storybrooke," Gideon said.

Lena gave a nervous laugh. She pulled out her phone from her pocket and checked her contacts. No Hope. The think she noticed. She saw Lyra's name and texted her.

"No phones before breakfast," Mr. Gold said.

"Better hurry too," Gideon said. "It's almost time for work."

"Work?" Lena took a moment. "At the pawnshop?"

"No," Gideon chuckled. "The Library."

Lena smiled on instinct. She turned around and reminded herself of the situation.

Lyra woke up in an abandoned home. Lyra looked around confused. "Where the hell am I?"

"Home sweet home," someone said.

Lyra peeked into the next room. "Gretel?"

"I know there's no lighting but you should know my voice. It's Ava," she said.

In the kitchen, there was a teenage boy eating a donut.

"Han-Nickolas." Lyra said. "What's going on here?"

"I'm eating breakfast," Nickolas/Hansel said.

"Why do-" Lyra remembered the curse. "This is part of it. Hansel and Gretel ever found their dad. They're still on their own. But where do I fit in? How am I still here?" She wondered.

Her phone buzzed. "Lena!" She shouted.

Ava and Nickolas looked at her strangely.

"That book worm?" Ava asked.

"I gotta go." Lyra said. She ran out of the abandoned house.

Lyra met Lena at the library. She was confused when she walked in. "Where's the rest of the library?" She asked.

The library had 2 sets of shelves perpendicular to each other. Then there was the desk with an old computer on it.

"The rest is closed off. Walked off actually," Lena said. "Guess Fiona doesn't want us to find the books on legends and myths. These are all world history and biographies of this world."

"So you remember?" Lyra asked.

"Yes," Lena moved from behind the desk and hugged Lyra. "Oh it's so good to have someone un-cursed."

"Tell me about it." Lyra said. "You seem to be doing well. I'm technically homeless. With Hansel and Gretel."

"It's not so good. The library is only open 4 hours a day and no one comes here, except for school research." Lena said.

Fiona entered the Library at the moment. Lena let out a small gasp. "Well, I see you two have been reunited."

"Why are we here?" Lyra asked. "I thought the curse took everyone away except Emma, Henry, and the Gold boys."

"After my curse prevails, you two will still exist." Fiona said. She put her hand on Lena's chin. "And I couldn't let my granddaughter disappear."

Lena moved her head away. "And where's my mom?"

Fiona shrugged, "She's not needed for my curse."

"Where's my mom?" Lyra asked next.

"She's not your mother dear," Fiona said. "Not in this reality."

"Why do Hansel and Gretel have to do with your curse?" Lyra asked.

"I need to populate this town with some of the original residents, who are not a threat." Fiona said. "Now dear, since you're awake, I can't have you ruining my curse. Don't go running to Emma with your tellings. It won't work. And you will regret it."

Lena checked the Storybrooke website to find Emma's whereabouts.

"She's..." Lena said, confused.

"Where's my mom Lena?" Lyra asked.

"The Storybrooke Asylum," Lena said.

"Since when does Storybrooke have an Asylum?" Lyra asked.

"Since the curse. It's located on the second floor forge hospital." Lena said.

"Thank you," Lyra said. She took off across the street.

Lyra got a visitor's pass for the hospital to see Emma Swan. Lyra spotted her from across the 'common room.' "Emma?" She called.

Emma looked over at her, puzzled. Emma was at a small circular table with a deck of cards. She looked behind her.

Lyra walked up to her mom. "Yes you." Lyra said. She sat across from Emma. "What are we playing?"

Emma leaned away. "Do I know you?"

"Look at me," Lyra said.

"I am." Emma said.

Lyra leaned in. "Really look at me."

"I am." Emma said. She shuffled the cards. "The only visitor I get is Henry. Who are you?"

"I'm your daughter," Lyra said. "Lyra."

"I don't have a daughter. I have a son. He's about your age." Emma said. Emma sorted the cards.

"I know," Lyra rolled her eyes. "He's-" She sat back. "Speed! I love this game."

"You know how to play?" Emma asked.

"Of course. It's one of few games you can play alone." Lyra said.

"Go," Emma began the game.

"How did you end up in here?" Lyra asked. She placed a card down.

"After Henry at a poisoned turnover, I believed his story." Emma said.

"His story?" Lyra asked.

"About the Fairytale characters." Emma said. "How they're all real and in Storybrooke. But they're just ordinary people." Emma said. She gave Lyra another look. "Tell me, if I am your mother, why would I name you Lyra? If I ever had a daughter, I'd name her Leia."

"Of course you would," Lyra said. "If you had a choice. Your second daughter is Leia."

"Second daughter?" Emma chuckled. "How many children do I have? And who's the supposed father?"

"3 children. Leia and I have the same dad. His name is Killian."

"And where is this Killian?"

"Disappeared." Lyra said.

"Of course he did," Emma said. Her tone sounded like she wasn't believing any of this.

"Not by choice," Lyra said. "Speed!" She won the game.

"Aww," Emma said.

"Wanna play again?" Lyra asked.

"I think it's time for you to go," Emma said.

"What?" Lyra asked.

"I don't know who you are, but I'm sure you have better things to do. You story is an interesting one, but it is a story." Emma said.

"Mom..." Lyra said.

"Stop," Emma said. "I'm not your mom. I don't know a Killian. Goodbye." Emma got up and walked away.

Gideon gave Lena a piggy-back ride from the library to the pawnshop. Lena was giggling all the way over.

"You gotta lay off the pasta," Gideon teases.

"You need to pick up the weights," Lena said back.

"Touché," Gideon said. He gave a small chuckle and she smiled. He put her down.

The siblings walked side by side. "Gideon," Lena said. He looked over at her. "Do you like working at Dad's shop?"

"What kind of question is that?" He asked. "I love the shop, and I'm good at it."

"And... do you have a girlfriend?" She asked.

He chucked, "Lena don't start. I know I'm 28 and living at home, but our house is big enough for all three of us."

They reached the shop and went inside. Lena thought of all she'd learned. All the fake memories they have of growing up together.

Henry sat alone in the diner with a full plate of food in front of him. He put his elbow on the table and closed fist to his cheek. When he looked up his spirits raised. He saw Lyra walked by.

Henry ran out the diner and called, "Lyra!"

She turned around and walked over to him. "Henry? Wait-how do you think you know me?" Lyra asked. 'Is this a trick?' She wondered.

"You're my sister from the future," Henry said.

"Oh thank God," Lyra said. She sighed with relief. "Someone knows the truth."

"How are you here?" Henry asked.

"According to the Black Fairy, if we fail, I'll still exist. At this point in time I am I that parallel world." Lyra said.

"I've never been so happy to see you," Henry said.

"Hey," Lyra lightly hit him. "This is serious. Emma thinks all the magic is fake! She doesn't believe."

"I know. But I'm going to get proof," Henry said.

"How?" Lyra asked.

"I...haven't figured that out yet." He said.

"Looks like you're need some help," Lyra said. She gave him a sly smile.

"Operation Final Battle?" Henry said. He stuck his fist out.

"Operation family," Lyra said. She put her first out too, touching his first.

News of Emma's probationary release from the hospital spread quickly. Henry asked to meet her on the roof top of Granny's motel. Lyra came with him.

"Hey mom," Henry greeted Emma as she cane through the rooftop door. "Congratulations in getting released."

"Thanks. It's a probationary period, so I can't upset your mom." Emma said.

"But you are my mom. And my other mom- Fiona is not her," Henry said.

Emma let out a quiet sigh.

"And I brought someone up here with us," Henry gestures over to Lyra hiding behind the door of the rooftop.

"You?" Emma said. "How do you know her?"

"She's my sister," Henry said.

Emma gave him a weird look. "Oh, so Neal moved on fast."

"No, you're my mom," Lyra said. "And Killian is my dad."

"Your husband," Henry added. "You were married here. yesterday."

Emma shook her head. "I thought you moved passed all of this."

"I was the best man," Henry said.

"And I a bridesmaid," Lyra said. "Purple dress."

"My favorite color," Emma said quietly. "That doesn't prove anything."

"You have a family," Henry said. "A huge one."

"Spanning 4 generations and hundreds of years." Lyra added.

"How would that even be possible?" Emma asked.

"Magic!" Lyra and Henry said simultaneously.

Emma put her hands on her hips. "This is all you isn't it?" She looked at Lyra. "Henry moved on from all this nonsense when he was poisoned with an apple turnover. Then all of the sudden, he believes it again. And you show up here. Who are you really?"

"I'm your daughter. I'm from the Future." Lyra said.

"Oh really?" Emma said. "Just when I thought this couldn't t get more ridiculous."

"It's all true mom," Henry said.

"If it is, then where's the magic?" Emma asked. "Where's my parents? My so called husband?"

"Gone," Henry said.

"Fiona took away all the magic. My magic. Your magic." Lyra said.

"You need to believe. It's the only way to save them." Henry said.

"We're done with this conversation." Emma said. She left the rooftop, leaving her 2 eldest children feeling defeated.

Lena had lunch with Gideon and Mr. Gold in the back room of the shop. Lena noticed that all the items in the show lost their magic. She swirled around a snow globe that was supposed to magically change from an empty snow globe to the place you miss most. Nothing happened when she swirled it. The wands didn't do anything when she flicked them or said a spell.

Gideon saw her and quietly picked up a wand and pointed it at her from behind. "You're a wizard, Lena," he referenced.

Lena gave him a slightly annoyed smile.

"What are you doing Lena?" He asked.

"Nothing." Lena said. She looked at the gems in the glass counter and remembered the resurrection stone. "I need to do something."

Lyra went to the abandoned house with Ava and Nickolas.

"Yay you're back," Nickolas said. "What did you bring?"

"Bring?" Lyra asked.

"When you left in a hurry, we thought you were getting us food," Ava said. She looked at Lyra's bare hands. "I guess it's Oreos for lunch."

"Where did you go?" Nickolas asked.

"I was..." Lyra stopped, "I don't have time for this."

"Excuse me?" Ava said. She followed Lyra as she walked upstairs.

Lyra found 'her' sleeping back and checked inside it. There was a purse inside.

"You don't talk to me like that," Ava said. "I found this place. I've been here longer. And I invited you to stay here."

Lyra turned her out. She dumped the purse out. There was a few dollars, chaptstick, library card (with her old last name on it - Lyra Belaqua), breath mints, and a necklace. Lyra smiled when she saw it. It was the gypsy necklace Tink showed Lyra.

Lyra picked up the necklace and held it over her hand, waiting to see which was it moved.

"We have an arrangement," Ava went on. "We take turns going out there to find food and money and other necessary supplies. On Wednesday's we work together to get supplies. We check the papers for job listings. I don't appreciate being talked to like that."

Lyra didn't hear anything Ava was saying. She stared the necklace in disbelief. It wasn't moving. "If Roland doesn't exist..." Lyra held her stomach. "I need to get Emma to believe." Lyra stood up and left the abandoned house again.

"Did you hear a word I said?" Ava asked. "Ugh!"

Lena ventured out to the Storybrooke graveyard in the afternoon. She found her brother Neal/Bealfire's Tomb. She knelt down and left a rose for him.

Lena looked at the other graves. She saw Robin Hood's tomb and her face tightened. "We will bring you back." She looked up at Henry Sr. large tomb, which led to Regina's vault. "And I think I've found a way how." A shining light came from the symbol over Henry's Sr. Tomb/shrine.

When Lyra went back into town, she saw an ambulance outside Dr. Hopper's office.

"Archie?" Lyra wondered. She got closer and saw someone young with dark hair. "Henry!?"

He had a neck brace around him and was on a gurney being pulled onto the ambulance.

Lyra maneuvered through the crowd. "Henry what happened?"

"He fell down the stairs," a resident said.

Lyra watched him being put in the back of the ambulance. "No..."

"So sad," Fiona said from behind Lyra. "He went to Dr. Hopper's office to steal files and tripped down the stairs."

Lyra's face tightened. "You pushed him."

"That's what the servalence footage will show," Fiona said.

"He could have died." Lyra said.

"Darling, I took away most of the people in this town. You think I care about one more? I'm here to destroy the savior after all." Fiona said.

—

Lyra ran back to Emma, finding her at the docs.

"You feel it don't you?" Lyra asked. "There's something about the docs. You feel a connection to it. To him."

Emma shook her head, "I came out here for fresh air. In case you haven't heard, Henry was in an accident."

"It was no accident," Lyra said.

"Listen," Emma said, "You need to stop with this. You're feeding into Henry's delusions. Now that I'm released-"

Lyra began to sing, trying to trigger something in Emma. She sang a song that Emma loved. A song that always reminded Emma of her family. A song Lyra and Emma connected over:

"I have died every day, waiting for you

Darling, don't be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more."

Emma tilted her head at Lyra, but listened. "I love that song..."

"Time stands still.

I will be brave
I will not let anything, take away
What's standing in front of me
Every breath, every hour has come to this."

Lyra walked up to Emma, taking her hand. Emma let her.

"All along I believed, I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me, I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more."

Emma stared at Lyra. She touched her face. "You have my chin. And my curls."

"Oh there you are," Fiona said. She was walking over to them.

Emma stepped away from Lyra.

"Emma," Fiona said, "we need to talk about Henry's accident. Lyra, what are doing here with Emma?" Fiona had a big purse on her shoulders.

The two were quiet, so Fiona went on. "Emma, this girl has been stalking you all day. She deluded Henry into believing these Fairytales. She talked him into stealing from Dr. Hopper-"

"That's a lie!" Lyra said.

"-office. This girl is manipulative and a con artist-" Fiona said. She took the storybook out of her purse.

"I am telling the truth. I am Lyra Swan-Jones! Henry is my sister." Lyra said.

"- She let your son get hurt and she's still going on with this nonsense. She's a danger to herself and others." Fiona said. "She should be admitted to the hospital."

"No. Mom-Emma please." Lyra said. "You felt it too. I know you did. You know we have a connection. I can't fake looking like you."

"Please just leave Lyra!" Emma said. Emma grabbed the storybook and threw it into the water.

"No!" Lyra shouted. She went to grab it but Fiona grabbed her arm, pulling her back.

"You heard her," Fiona said. "Don't let me catch you with her again."