- Zoso was the 'Dark One' Rumple killed in "Desperate Souls"
- Remember the ogre war? Yah. References! It's a challenge to make the timeline fit!

"MOMBI, COME TO MOMMY"

(ƒlashback)

At the Land of OZ

Three centuries had passed and the prisoners were still paying for their crime. A fairy life would take no less than a thousand years, if they were at any luck. In the solitude of her cell, the black fay found solace in the companionship of a green-eyed feline that visited her at night.

In a small round window that let a few rays of light shine through; to provide just enough light to keep the fairy alive, a fluffy black cat began to appear every other night and the fairy started speaking to the animal that seemed to be listening.

The lonely girl started to tell her story to the feline and how she had come from The Enchanted Forest, as if the cat could even understand her. It helped her cope with her solitude and kept her mind off the guilt she felt for betraying her own kind.

Little by little, Noir managed to train the feline into bringing random objects her way. The black furry cat was an intelligent pet and after a few months of training, it finally brought what the black fairy needed the most.

- "Mombi, come to Mommy." The fairy called the cat by the name written on a tag.
- "Good girl!" She praised it.

The black cat had succeeded on bringing Glinda's white wand of magic. With the blinking of her eyes, the cat knew she had to drop the wand by the black fairy's feet.

- "Just a little closer." The black fairy said as she moved her nose up, a motion the kitten soon mimicked pushing the wand farther to the front and making it brush against the cold trap. With the simple touch of the magical device, Noir was freed from the column of ice that had entrapped her body for over three hundred years.

It was painful to move in the beginning, as her muscles and bones were weakened by the lack of motion, but she managed to get control of her body and started looking for her Master's cell. The sound of close steps made her return to her own and summon a fake column of ice, similar to the one that had imprisoned her.

It was Glinda, who had come to check on the prisoners after getting a bad feeling inside her chest. Some years ago, she had seen Emerald City burn a vision were the foreign offenders were escaping from the fortress, unleashing powerful black magic behind them.

As she came closer toward the green skinned fay, she caught sight of the vicious cat. She immediately knew this was the day her visions revealed inside dreams. The cat jumped and scratched at the good witch's face, whose blood covered her eyes making it the perfect opportunity for the wicked fairy to escape.

Noir waved the wand, making the fake trap vanish and bind Glinda instead. The black fairy hovered closer to the white sorceress and a glowing precious gem hanging from the blonde's neck in a silver chain was the souvenir she decided to take with her, unaware of the magical item she had just gotten possession of.

- "Pretty! I'd like to borrow this too." The black fairy said, smiling cheekily at the owner.
- "Please don't! You have no idea of what you're doing, little girl!" The Good Witch yelled.

The fairy ignored her and moved to Oscar's cell to free him, but he wasn't a young lad anymore and as they were escaping, guards were quickly coming close behind them. Noir turned to the Enchanted Forest's particular tiny form and managed to hide inside a small mice hole in the wall, but her master and the cat were captured before her eyes. She decided to wait until the following day to help them escape, as it was too dangerous to do it right then.

The cat was freed from its cage, since it seemed stupid to put an animal on trial for endangering the kingdom. The wizard, however, had a different fate waiting ahead of him. The council was still bloodthirsty and didn't want to risk the realm again with the visitant from the human world. The sentence given was death.

They left the tricks master alone for a minute to meditate about his sins, but the mysterious cat joined him when everyone went away. It shifted its shape into an old woman he had had seen at the hut where he made a deal with old Evanora to keep princess Ozma alive.

- "You… How is this possible?" The circus magician asked her.
- "With real magic, but you wouldn't know about that, wizard." The witch answered, marking the last word.
- "You were Evanora's accomplice! You should be paying, not me!" The old man exclaimed.
- "But I already paid and the price was steep." The old hag said.
- "What did I ever do to you, witch?" He demanded to know.
- "You made me loose both of my daughters." She answered.
- "Then just kill me with your hands and get over with it." The white haired man yelled.
- "Oh, I'm over it. I see them now as an investment." She told him.
- "But you lost… What do you mean?" The elder was perplexed with her answer.
- "This realm? Yes. But I've learned from your pet about another even better." The witch revealed.
- "Don't you dare touch her!" The old man was scared for her fairy friend.
- "Oh, don't worry! I will be her happy ending, as you by her side." The witch said laughing proudly as she turned into him and vanished from the cell.

The wicked black fairy was unaware of the destiny awaiting her Master. She was about to look for him in the old cell when the wizard appeared behind her and asked her to be quiet. The fairy transformed them both into little mice to escape the fortress, while guards seemed to be occupied with a fire close to Queen Ozma's castle.

They made it to the pond where they landed the first time in OZ, beneath a huge waterfall that seemed to come from as high as the sky above their heads. The fairy asked her Master for the enchanted mirror and he had no idea what she meant, so he told her the knights who imprisoned them had taken it.

She took a big leaf from a nearby plant, similar to the lotus flower, and picked some of the water from the pond with it. She was using the white wand to enchant it with the looking glass spell when the good witch made her appearance to stop them from escape.

The white sorceress and the black fairy attacked each other with powerful magic, but no matter how strong the wicked fairy had become, the good witch was still above her league, even without wielding her own wand; which Noir quickly lost grasp of. Glinda reclaimed her baton, just in time before the wizard pulled the black fay to his side and jumped with her into the whirlpool opening at the center of the enchanted leaf, disappearing from the land of OZ.