Fawn threw the sheets off her body and marched over to her trunk. She practically ripped the lid off in her rage. She pulled out the vials of blood, holding the precious liquid gently. Before she could begin her spell there was a knock on her door.
"What!?" she yelled as the person knocking stepped inside. It was Lily.
"Tigerlily." Fawn said in shock, "What are you doing here?"
"They broke the Author's spell. I wanted to make sure you were okay."
Tootles stepped out from behind her, "I'm sorry Fawn. I tried to keep her out but she somehow got through the barrier –"
"It's okay, Tootles. The barrier is for keeping out enemies. Tigerlily is a friend." Tootles nodded his head and left the girls alone.
"What was it like in the other world for you?" Tigerlily asked.
"Like a dream." Fawn sat at her desk still holding the vials, "I had my old life back, Peter, Neverland, the Lost Boys, all of it." She sighed, "It felt like a dream, turns out that's all it was."
"You still have the blood." Tigerlily reminded her eyeing the vials in her hands.
"I just hope it works. I have to try."
"When are you going to do the spell?"
Fawn looked her friend dead in the eye, "Now."
Fawn and Lily made their way to the deepest level of the tree, beneath the roots where they wouldn't be disturbed.
Sensing her anger and determination any Lost Boys she encountered jumped out of the way except for Tootles. He followed them down below. Beneath the tree was an open chamber made of dirt and rocks, the ceiling made of woven roots. Fawn and Lily went to the center and began clawing the earth. When they had made a decent pit Lily backed away as Fawn poured in the first vial of blood – Baelfire's; which would serve as Peter's remains.
Next she uncorked the other two vials and slowly poured them in the pit. When the blood made contact it changed color, Peter's turned a deep green, Regina's turned dark purple and Rumple's turned black like his heart. The mixture then began to bubble and smoke as the puddle of blood grew. Fawn backed away, joining Tootles and Lily by the tunnel entrance. The blood continued to bubble and smoke until the cavern was filled with dark mist.
There were flashes of green light within the cloud of smoke as a powerful wind blew from nowhere. The wind picked up and the smoky cloud began to funnel like a tornado before it disappeared completely in a final flash of green light. The three turned away, shielding their eyes from the bright flash. When they looked back the puddle of blood was now gone and in it's place lay Peter Pan.
Lily helped Fawn hoist Peter up off the ground, they each took an arm to support his weight. He was unconscious and felt like dead weight against her side. Tootles made sure the Lost Boys cleared out of the tree so none of them would see Peter so weak.
"What's wrong with him?" Lily asked.
"I'm not sure, let's just get him upstairs."
They'd laid him down in Fawn's bed and began checking him. He looked fine, he was breathing normally and his heartbeat was strong. Maybe it was just a side effect from coming back from the dead? After all, it couldn't be easy going from dead to living.
"When my mother was revived she was fine, what made him go comatose?"
"It might be because Cruella and Ursula used Maleficent's actual remains. I had to substitute Baelfire's blood which wouldn't be as pure as Mal's ashes had been."
Fawn sat on the bed next to Peter holding his limp hand.
"I can't stay long, Fawn. They're having a get together at Granny's celebrating their defeat of the Author."
"And you'd rather be with them?" Fawn asked shocked and offended, "I didn't know you and Emma had gotten so close again."
"We're not. But with everyone getting together it's my best bet for getting the information I need."
"Information on what?" Fawn turned away from Peter to look at her friend.
"My father. I asked my mother about him, but she had no idea."
"How can she not know?"
"Well, uh, it was a dragon thing." Lily said uncomfortably, "It happened in dragon form."
Fawn gave a small chuckle at what Lily was hinting at. She wished she could help her friend. Actually. . .
"I might be able to help you."
"How?"
Fawn got up and dug through her desk until she found the old map of the Enchanted Forest. She opened the old wrinkled parchement and laid it over the desktop, Lily looked at the map over Fawn's shoulder.
"Here in the northeast," Fawn pointed to the spot on the map, "there is a dragon master there called Mushu. But in the west there was talk about a man called Elliot who could transform into a dragon. And further south. . . "
Fawn continued filling in Lily on all the dragon-shifters she had heard about over the years. There were only a handful of them and those were only the ones Fawn had heard of, there could always be more.
"But that should give you a good start on finding your lead." She finished as she folded up the map and handed it to Lily. She took a moment just looking at the paper in her hands, "Thank you, Fawn." She turned to Peter's unconscious body, "If there's anything you need, anything I can do –"
"I know how to reach you."
"My cell might not pick up calls from your shell-phone."
Fawn pulled the clam shell out of her pocket, holding it in one palm and waving her free hand over it, transforming it into a regular cell phone.
"It will now. Good luck, Tigerlily." She hugged her friend goodbye before watching her leave. Fawn turned back to Peter's unconscious from on the bed, sitting beside him and taking his hand again.
END SEASON 4
