It was another failure. After the smoke cleared out of the room, Mal teleported herself to the training field where she knew her loves were. Their attempts at making a portal without using the dark curse were not going well. She'd made Regina take a break after a particularly bad spell that nearly drained her. She would have to be more conscious of her pregnant lover from now on. At the training field, Alectra was sparring with Regina, going through the motions fluidly, but she still had much to learn. The little blonde had truly embraced this world and had made many new friends. After a small talk with her, where she felt a little inferior and normal compared to the rest of her family, Elektra suggested they teach her magic and telekinesis was the main form she chose. Overhead, Thea was flying with Elektra, as comfortable in the air as she was on her two feet. It brought a smile to the dragon's lips to see her little one finally flying with her mother. Nearby was Lucy sparring with a recovering Merlin, both of them using a longsword. It had not gone unnoticed by Maleficent that the two were extremely close, no matter how much her daughter tried to deny it. Still, it was good to see her smiling and laughing. As long as Lucy was happy...and Merlin was terrified of her dragon mother, then everything would be good. Lily was fighting with Ruby, more flirting with each other than actually sparring. Zelena and Katia were forced to return to Oz on some important matter but promised to contact Lily weekly and would be back when the baby was due so she could go and be there for Zelena when the time came. At the thought of a baby, her gaze fell on Regina again. The queen had been tackled by Alectra and was being tickled, both of them laughing free heartedly. Not a care in the world. Mal noticed Emma walking towards them and quickly teleported in front of the other woman, growling low in her throat.

"Let them have a moment of peace before your mouth and your ego ruins it."

Emma wisely kept her mouth shut and backed away until Regina and Alectra headed in for the day. She decided to go for a quick flight for the day to stretch her wings.

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Alectra went into her room, showered and got changed into a nodded sleeveless pagan style dress. It was blood red with gold accents on it. It was made like some of her mother's dresses, long in the back and short in the front that allowed her to put on some leather pants beneath it and soft soled brown boots. She was just brushing her hair when Emma knocked and peeked in. "Something you need, Emma?" She asked, going to her bedside table and grabbing the daggers she kept there. She slid two into her boots and sheathed her sword around her waist. Mal had made it for her out of black steel.

"Just um, came to talk. See how you were doing." Emma shrugged, coming into the room and taking a seat on her bed. "You seem to be doing well."

"I am." Alectra said, picking up a small golden circlet to place on her head. It was another gift from Mal that would stop her headaches when practicing magic and give her a little more added power until she learned how to provide that power herself.

Emma looked up at the wall, waving her hand in front of one of the little white boxes the dragon had installed. "You guys have freaking air conditioning?"

"Let's just say that Maleficent is a godsend." Alectra chuckled. "She made a lot of this stuff to keep us comfortable, and spread it all over the kingdom. The only thing truly missing is the internet but I think she'll figure it out in about a week or two."

"Yeah, no kidding." Emma stood back up, looking around the room. "Well, I'm glad you're doing so well. You know you could come visit sometime."

"I'll remember that." Alectra replied, putting on a pair of leather bracers.

"So, um, you talk to Henry?"

"We talked...enough." she sighed. "Nothing much has changed, but i didn't really expect it to."

"What do you mean?" Emma asked, looking at her.

"It doesn't really matter." Alectra shrugged. There was a knock at the door and her older sisters stepped in.

"Sorry for interrupting, Little Regina, but Mal has another little invention she wants to try out." Lily said, handing her a necklace. "I think it's supposed to be some kind of phone." Lily teleported away and Alectra put on the necklace.

"She's really getting into making these things." Lucy smirked, not even bothering to acknowledge Emma's presence.

A clicking sound came from the necklace around Alectra's neck. "A? Can you here?" Lily asked.

Alectra touched the necklace. "Yeah. It works."

"It's a little staticy or something, but yeah."

Lucy nodded. "Take it with you on the boat today and call us every hour."

Alectra nodded as she left the room. "I have to go, Emma. I'm late."

A blonde boy came to the door. The same from yesterday. "Are you ready to go?"

"Yeah." Alectra let Emma leave first and stepped out after her.

"Where are you guys going?"

"Sailing. Mom said it's okay."

"Maybe Henry would like to go." Emma suggested.

"I asked him." She shrugged. "He said no. I have to go. Come on, Bjorn." She took the lead out of the palace and into the city. At the river, a longship was waiting with a few other kids around her age. Of course they needed a chaperone, so Karliah had been kind enough to volunteer.

While everyone prepared to go, her eyes fell upon a girl nearby. Alectra didn't know her name, although she was dying to ask. The girl had caught her attention the moment the new arrivals had come to the Blue Palace. She was different than the others, of smaller stature, with long beautiful blonde, almost white hair and blue eyes. She seemed to be a quiet girl and didn't speak much. There was a large scar on the side of her cheek that Alectra noticed she always tried to use her hair to hide. Today was going to be a different day though. Alectra took a deep breath and walked over to the girl as she was sitting on the porch of her house.

"Um, excuse me." The girl looked up, eyebrows starting to knit together in confusion. "I'm Alectra. I was wondering if you wanted to come with us, sailing on the river."

"M-me?" She asked.

"Yeah. Come on, it'll be fun. We'll be back before nightfall, I promise. And we have the best warrior in the kingdom to protect us." Alectra said, hoping it would soothe any doubts or fears the girl might have. She looked around to see if she had any parents that she might need to ask, but she hopped right up and walked down to the boat with her.

"Leah."

"What?"

"That's my name. I know you didn't ask, but…"

Alectra smiled. "Either way, it's beautiful...Leah."

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Regina had just finished a bath and was relaxing on the bed when Lucy came in. She smirked as she pulled a pillow under head to prop it up.

"What?" Lucy asked, looking down at herself. She was wearing a long dark fitted dress. Simple, elegant and reminiscent of her mothers.

"I've never seen you in a dress before."

"I don't usually like to wear tight clothes after I bathe." Lucy shrugged. She scratched at her birthmark and Regina motioned for her to sit as she sat up completely.

"What's on your mind, dear?"

"Just thinking about Morgana." Lucy sighed, sitting next to her on the bed. "I think I know why she needed your blood." This immediately caught Regina's attention. "When I was little, things were okay. She lived in a big house, cooked dinners, brushed my hair. It wasn't until I was a few years old, when I guess she noticed that I must bear a resemblance to you that she locked me in the basement. Before that, she would talk all the time about this woman. I've been trying to go through my memories with Merlin to figure out something to help us with her and I realized...she was talking about you."

Regina shook her head and crossed her legs, brushing down her dress. "I always knew that she had a bit of a crush on me. I exploited that to get her to do what I wanted. What happened to you was my fault-"

"Lots of people get their hearts broken and move on, Regina." Lucy scoffed. "But they don't go out and lock children in a dark basement."

"Well what do you think she wants? I'm certain this isn't over."

"Maybe it is. She has what she needs."

Regina frowned. "What are you talking about?"

"All she wanted, Regina, was a child. With you. She talked about it all the time, she talked about you all the time. She's going to use your blood to make a child."

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It had been a good day. Elektra, after dropping Thea off on the ship, had flown across the Enchanted Forest, spending the rest of the day in the air. There were a number of other small settlements dotting the landscape. Most were abandoned. Only two small villages had a few people in it and she brought them to the Blue Palace with her after gaining any information they could spare. Morgana had been spotted in the area, but she'd ignored the villagers it would seem. Elektra still didn't know her endgame. When she returned home, her wings were aching and she was in desperate need of a bath. It was nearly sunset when she got back and she went straight to the bathroom, filled the massive polished stone tub with hot water and submerged herself in it. When she resurfaced, she grabbed some of Regina's soap and poured it into the water. Magic was sent forth, causing the water to suds up and flow over her body and wings repeatedly, stripping her of all dirt. When she was clean, she sank down in the water again until it brushed her chin and closed her eyes.

"Don't you think you should give your wings a rest?"

Elektra opened her eyes to find Mal and Regina sitting in the water across from her. "I was just scouting."

"Looking for land to conquer, you mean." Mal smirked.

"I was just finding something to interest me while we're stuck here."

"You don't have enough people for what you want to do."

"Maybe not yet, but how's that portal coming along? Not well, I take it. The only way to get back to Storybrooke is the dark curse and I have no intention of killing anyone I love just so people can get back to their cars and televisions and Big Macs." Elektra shielded them with a spell as she sat up and shook her wings before letting them sink back into the water again. "The least I can do is provide for my people. Conjure some horses and stables, some weapons, get some farms going. I know you might want to go home, but it might be a lot longer than we originally thought and if so, I want to be prepared."

"Practical thinking." Regina praised. "But you know the people won't have to worry about a thing. Mal is modernizing the kingdom. Soon, we'll be in the industrial era." She smirked when the dragon glared at her.

"There are merely some things from the other world that are wonderful and useful." Mal said.

Elektra smiled at them. "At any rate, once I've secured the kingdom, my next priority will be to care for our future mother here." she moved across the tub to place both hands on Regina's belly, her wings trembling slightly in happiness. "I love you, the both of you. I love this, our family, our life. I want to make things as easy as possible for you."

"That does not include treating me like I'm broken." Regina replied.

"Nonsense, you will be treated like a queen." Elektra grinned.

Regina looked over at Mal, who was smirking. She sighed. "Lucy thinks Morgana is trying to make a baby with me." Elektra's wings fell instantly, splashing water everywhere. "That's why she needed my blood."

"Are we just going to let her do this?" Elektra demanded. "What's to stop her from doing the same thing she did to Lucy?" She looked at Mal.

The dragon growled slightly. "Lucy caught her off guard. She didn't expect Regina to have a child and she just snapped when she realized that our relationship went so far and hers had gone nowhere."

"She snapped? You think that's what a child needs? An unhinged mother?" Elektra asked.

"Ask her." Maleficent suggested. "Ask Morgana what she truly plans to do."

"Good. I can go right now-"

"By ask, I meant Regina. She still loves her and I don't believe she will hurt her."

Elektra breathed heavily out of our nose. "I'm not sending our pregnant girlfriend into the lion's den."

"At the risk of making Morgana angrier than necessary, none of us can go. Lily, Lucy and Thea look too much like us. Alectra is not Regina's child by blood but her name is too similar to yours. She will fry you on sight and since I am also Regina's lover, my presence wouldn't be appreciated either." Mal said, trying to make her understand the reasoning. Morgana had gotten stronger over the past years and she was a very powerful threat that they simply could not leave unchecked. It was a dangerous situation but a conversation that needed to be had. Elektra still didn't like it.

"Forget it!" Regina roared, climbing out of the tub. "I'll take care of this myself."

"Regina!"

Regina ignored them as she stormed out. Elektra sighed and looked at Mal."She's going to do something crazy, isn't she?"

Mal nodded. "Regina? Doing something crazy? Of course."

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The day had been perfect. Sailing along the river with her newfound friends had put Alectra in a wonderful mood. She and Leah walked back to the castle together, inquiring about each other's lives.

"So, um, how'd you get the scar, if you don't mind my asking."

"Someone shot at my mother." Leah said. "I tried to stop it. I jumped on her to move her out of the way and the arrow hit my jaw." She traced the scar subconsciously with her fingertips. "I didn't stop it."

"I'm so sorry." Alectra whispered. "I shouldn't have asked."

"No, I thank you. Very few people know what happened." Leah shrugged. Alectra recognized that she was going to close herself off. It was the same thing Regina did sometimes when a conversation topic had upset her and she didn't want to think about it anymore.

"So, um, where are you guys from? Over the mountains?" Little was known about the lands beyond the Forbidden Kingdom, the farthermost border of the Enchanted Forest. It was actually why Alectra had befriended Bjorn on request of the Three Queens to find out more about the new arrivals.

"Yes. We were held prisoner for a long time. But now we are free." Leah smiled softly, still trying to hide her scar by combing her hair down.

Alectra scowled and moved her hand away. She brushed the strands of white-blonde hair back behind the girl's ear, showing her scar to the world. "You don't have to hide it, you know."

"It marks me for life." She pointed out. "It alienates me from my people."

"Maybe you need new people." Alectra snapped, suddenly angry at the thought of anyone mistreating Leah because of her scar. She'd spent the entire day with her and found out that she was as quiet as she looked, but she was very intelligent and courageous and beautiful… Alectra coughed and scratched her ear. "Um, sorry about that."

Leah nodded, looking down. Alectra could've sworn she saw her smile. "You probably want to get inside. The sun is setting."

"You should stay for dinner." Alectra suggested. "Please?"

Leah gave her a hug but shook her head. "I should go, but perhaps we can sail again another day?"

"Absolutely." She smiled as she watched Leah strut away. There was something about her that Alectra found most interesting. She wasn't sure what it was yet, but she wanted to find out. "Leah!" Leah turned back around. "Come here tomorrow. We can spar together."

Leah grinned. "We shall see."

Alectra smirked and walked into the palace. She got changed into a comfortable royal blue dress and made her way to the dining room. Regina was angrily setting the table while Lily and Lucy brought out the food. "Mom, you okay?"

"I'm...not going to lie. No, but I'll get over it. How was the river?"

"Awesome. I made a new friend today."

"You mean the girl you were making googly eyes at all day?" Thea asked, skipping into the room in a long dark dress. She took her seat next to Alectra, who glared at her.

"Googly eyes?" Regina looked up. "You mean-"

"Nothing!" Alectra said quickly. "She's just being annoying." She elbowed her sister, who retaliated by hitting her in the face with her wing.

"Alectra Mills." Regina's stern face was firmly in place. "Don't tell me it's that time. Damn it."

"Mom, I don't-"

"Have a crush?" Thea smirked and Alectra pushed her out of her chair.

"Are we to that point already?" Regina sighed. "You're only 13. I need to start practicing my 'touch my daughter and I'll kick your ass face'."

"You already have that down." Lily commented.

"I don't like her like that." Alectra snapped adamantly. "She's just a friend."

"What's her name?" Regina asked.

"Leah." Thea piped in, getting back into her seat. "She's one of the newbies so we don't really know much about her. You could ask A though. She spent the whole boat ride talking to her."

"Shut up!" Alectra hissed, although she wasn't actually mad. She couldn't ever be mad at her little sister, but still...private information. "Let's talk about Jared Blake then-" Thea immediately covered her mouth with a wing.

"Who is that?" Regina demanded.

Alectra forced her wing to the side. "The guy Thea has a huge crush on. He's really cute too, Mom." Thea tackled her to the ground and she burst out laughing. "Not so cheeky now, huh?"

"You know, since we're on the subject of dating and all." Said Lily. "When are you and Merlin going to kiss? Has it happened yet?" Lucila was so surprised by her question that she dropped the tray of lamb that Regina had made. "Oops."

"Why would you ask that? Me and Merlin are just friends." Came the flustered reply.

"I disagree. You two clearly have a thing for each other."

"Oh, like you and Ruby?" Lucy asked. "Here, let me show you how to swing that sword. Hold those pretty finger of yours like this." she mocked with a smirk and a raised eyebrow. "You know she was a general in Snow's army, right? I'm pretty sure she could kick your ass, Princess of Oz."

Regina sighed, listening to her two eldest daughters argue and her two youngest scuffle around on the floor. She put a hand in her stomach and whispered to her unborn little ones. "Please don't ever be this way." She arched an eyebrow and went to go prepare another lamb. "You know, by the time you two come, you might be my only children. The other four are starting to get on my nerves. Just wait until your other mommies hear about this crush situation." She smirked to herself. "Now, that'll be a show."

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