Hello guys! I hope you're having a great week!
This week, I started writing a new fanfic (along with this one, don't worry!) called "This Isn't Love" ( you can read that here: story/story_edit_ ?storyid=10040597 )
It's a story about Regina's "life" with King Leopold, if you could call it much of a life. We see all the way from Daniel's death, a sweet, innocent girl, who turned into the dark, evil queen!
*cue evil laugh*
Anyways! Let's get back to this story :)
This chapter has a lot of drama in it, probably even more than in the last one. We find out whether the Boread brothers are alive, and we also see Regina possibly...getting...
nah I'm not gonna tell you...you'll have to read and weep ;) i mean read and see...*cue other evil laugh*
^To my reviewers^
Maria: Bella is definitely a hot head! She's a lot like Regina when she turned bad, except for Bella is more innocent. But she's always ready for a fight, even when a fight isn't what's really needed at that time. And you're very welcome! I'm just super glad that you review all of them, it's very helpful to know that someone likes the chapters :)
Kaityrae33: Are they really? :O And about the hottest place on earth...maybe ;) Thanks for your wonderful ideas, you'll see that I used some of them in the story :) Also, (if you didn't see it above) I wrote a chapter in my new story...though you probably already saw it :P
Thanks for reviewing!
HAPPY READING! :D
G.
"Can't you put a tracking spell on him or something?" Bella asked, while stuffing her face with cereal. Seth not being here made meals a little simpler.
"I don't know if that'll work, Bella." I said.
"Can't we try it?" She asked.
"What would we even use it on?"
"He still has all of his stuff here, put it on that."
"After breakfast." I said, chewing up my lucky charms.
I still wasn't really all that emotionally stable from yesterday. Meeting my sister that I didn't know existed, losing my beloved nephew to an absolutely creepy creature…it was all a little much for this pregnant woman.
"Teach me how to do the spell?" Bella asked, after drinking the milk from her bowl.
"Bella I don't think I should, you're not quite ready for that yet." I said.
"But-"
"No arguing, I'm doing the spell and I'm not teaching you yet."
She leaned back in her chair and crossed her arms, fuming.
"Is there anything I can do?" Daniel asked.
"Can you maybe get this baby out of me?" I complained.
"I meant do anything with this situation." He said, annoyed from hearing all of my recent complaints.
"No, not unless you have magic."
"But I have magic!" Bella said.
"Shut it…now!" I shouted at her.
The doorbell rang and I looked at the clock- 8:30.
I got up and waddled to the door, "Hello Emma." I said.
"Hey, where's the kids?" She asked.
"They're in the dining room. Henry's still finishing his breakfast. Come in." I said, shutting the door behind her.
We walked back into the dining room where everyone was still sitting at the table.
"Holy…" Emma laid her eyes on Mystral. She looked back between me and my sister, almost confused on knowing which was which.
"Yes I know we look alike. Don't remind me." I griped.
"Ouch…uh okay. Hello, uh…" Emma paused, "I don't think I know your name?"
"Mystral." She said.
"Nice to meet you Mystral." Emma replied. She looked over at Bella and Henry, "Ready to go?" She asked.
"Yeah, what's the hurry?" Henry asked.
"No hurry, I just know I was supposed to be here this early for a reason." She replied to the curious boy.
"Oh, true." He got up and put his bowl away.
They grabbed their stuff that they had laid on the couch and went to Emma's house.
"I'm going to do the tracking spell now." I said to Mystral. I began to walk up the stairs to his room.
"But I'm his mother, I should do it." She argued.
"Look, just let me do what I need to do to find him, if I need your help I'll tell you." I snapped at her, then continued putting a tracking spell on one of his shirts.
"But-" She started.
"Shh." I said. I was concentrating on this spell, it took a lot of magic. I had the shirt in my hand and with the other I was trying to activate the spell. "Why isn't it working?!" I said to myself, out loud.
"Here...let me help." Mystral said. She walked over to the bed and summoned her magic, her glow was blue, unlike mine that was purple. She hovered her hand over the shirt, and I did the same.
Suddenly, the shirt began to float. I grabbed it out of the air so it wouldn't leave without us, and it began to tug on my hand, pulling me in the direction it wanted to go. "Let's follow it." I said.
It led us down the stairs and out of the door. I grabbed Daniel to come along with us before the shirt completely drug us out.
"This must be a powerful spell." Mystral said, seeing how hard it was pulling me.
"Why do you say that? Because it's literally pulling a woman who's eight months pregnant?" I said sarcastically.
"Well, yes." She said.
It led us all the way to the town line, but stopped there, still floating in the air.
"Why did it stop?" She asked.
"The town line; no one can leave it. There's no magic outside of here."
"What do you mean there's no magic outside of here?" She asked, "I don't live here, I have it."
She was right, how did she have magic outside of Storybrooke?
"Here," I said, handing her the shirt, "See if it lets you take it."
She took the shirt from my hand, and it immediately took us over the town line.
Because I never had a separate memory, like most people in Storybrooke did, I can leave town whenever. So can Daniel.
"We should've gotten a car or something, who knows how far it'll take us?" Daniel said.
"Good point." I said.
"We don't need a car, we have magic." Mystral said.
"How will that help?" I asked.
"We can fly!" She replied.
"You can fly?" I asked.
"Yes, can't you?"
"No." I replied.
"It doesn't matter, just hold on to me, and Daniel can hold on to you." She said. She stopped the shirt from dragging us any farther, I crouched down and grabbed her ankle, and Daniel did the same with me.
"Ready?" She asked.
"Guess so." I replied.
We began to float up into the air, hovering over the tree tops. That old saying "when pigs fly" had now become "when pregnant women fly".
We flew for what seemed to be like days, but I knew it had only been a few hours.
The shirt began to slowly fall, we were at our destination. Mystral lowered us to the ground, and we were finally on our feet.
"Where are we?" I asked.
"In a desert, it looks like." Mystral replied.
"I knew that much." I rolled my eyes.
She was studying the place around her, taking in her surroundings.
"I don't know. The shirt is still pulling though." She said, trying to hold the cloth back.
We followed it farther, walking along a long road that had miles of sand around us.
We were all hot, we had our winter clothes on. Poor Daniel, he was the pack mule, so to speak, for the trip, holding all of our jackets and gloves.
"There," Mystral pointed, "There's a sign right there."
The sign said "Dante's castle, 10 miles." Under that there was a small writing, "Death Valley National Park."
"Death Valley?" I asked.
"Yes. The hottest place on earth." Mystral said.
"That means we're in..." I tried to think of where Death Valley was.
"California." Mystral interrupted my thoughts.
"Right."
We were still following the shirt. The journey was long and was getting very tiring. On top of it, Pippa was getting agitated; probably from my temperature rising.
"There it is." She said, looking at the giant castle.
"Dante's castle?" I asked.
"Why would Chernabog be taking them there?" Daniel asked.
"It's probably where he is staying. It is the hottest place on earth." She replied.
We cut across the sandy ground and went to the castle.
"How are we going to go in? I don't think a giant beast will just come to the door and say 'Ah guests! Come in!'" Daniel said.
"No, we're going to sneak in." I said. "Follow me."
We climbed through a window, pretty easily actually. It wasn't even a trap.
"Where's the shirt leading?" I asked.
"This way." Mystral said, pointing down the long hallway.
The floors were tan, granite tiles designed to look like sand. The ceiling was a rusty red, and the walls had murals painted all the way down.
Suddenly, we heard a loud roar. Chernabog.
"We're in the right place." Mystral said, sounding a little worried.
I looked at her face, something looked different about her. "Are you okay, Mystral?" I asked.
"Fine." She said. I knew something was wrong, she just wasn't telling me.
We walked down the long hallway and took a right. A large rumble shook the floors, "He knows we're here." She said.
"Great." I replied.
The rumbling stopped, and then we heard a laugh behind us.
"Hello." A man said. He was very tall and largely built. He had dark hair, and bright, red eyes.
"You." Mystral said.
"Yes, me. Welcome to my castle, I'm glad you came for a visit." He said, "Or did you come to stay?" He said slyly. He flicked his hands and slammed Mystral against the wall, letting the shirt fall out of her hands and float off.
Great, I thought, we'll never find him now.
"Stop it, Chernabog." She shouted.
"I've only begun." He said. He flicked his hands again and slammed Daniel against the wall, now holding both of them there.
"Are you next?" He asked me.
I instinctively crossed my arms over my stomach, protecting my child. "You wouldn't..."
"Oh I would. If it wasn't for your little nephew, I would've squeezed the life right out of you, and your little baby." He said.
Tears began to come to my eyes, out of fear and out of aggravation. He was not going to hurt my child.
Without thinking, I flicked my wrists and slammed him against the other wall.
"Do you really think that did much?" He asked. He snapped his fingers, and somehow when he did, I had a pain in my abdomen.
"Stop it!" Mystral shouted.
"Silence." He said. He flicked his hand again, muffling her voice.
"What do you want us to do?" I asked.
"I want to either kill you all, or kill your sister and nephews."
I summoned a fireball in my hand and threw it at him.
It singed into him, without even causing pain. "I'm the king of fire, did you really think that would hurt me?" He laughed.
I didn't think that through, if I would've, I would've known it wouldn't have hurt him. But now all I did was make him more mad.
"Use ice." Mystral shouted at me.
I didn't have the power to use ice! That was her thing, apparently. I could do everything but make ice and fly. Everything...water, maybe?
I faced the palm of my hand toward him and like a water hose, it came shooting out of my hand at him.
Before it reached him, he set himself on fire, blocking my water. I shot more at him again, trying to "put the fire out", but it wasn't working.
Suddenly I got a different plan in my head, instead of trying to battle him, just do what I came here for. I could get Seth and Cal, and they can defeat him with ice!
I made a quick move and began to sort of run down the hallway, to where I saw the shirt go. I could hear Chernabog following me, but I had gotten enough of a head start that he hasn't caught up. I was still running down the hall when I suddenly saw the shirt, suctioned against the ceiling. What was it doing there? With magic, I got the shirt down and it began to lead me again. I got to the end of the hall, and it began to take me up the stairs.
Chernabog's steps were getting closer and closer, I knew the stairs would slow me down. I stopped in the middle of the staircase and focused on the shirt, hoping that when I poofed, it would just take me to where I needed to go. I closed my eyes and purple fog rose around me. I opened them and I was in another room, still holding the shirt in my hands. Now, the shirt wasn't pulling, I was just holding it.
Seth and Cal were in here, now I just had to find them.
I began calling their names, trying to get one of them to answer.
"Seth!" I shouted, "Where are you?!"
I heard the footsteps coming closer now, I was losing time.
I stopped calling their names and began to open all the doors, looking behind everything I could...everything I could even think of doing, but no luck.
I hurried over to the large cabinet that was up against a wall, I needed to get behind it. How in this world was I going to do that? It was huge! I leaned against the large piece of furniture, trying to slide it over. I pushed with all of my night. "What am I doing?" I asked myself. I stopped trying to push the cabinet and snapped my fingers, in an instant it was pushed to the side.
I looked at the wall where the cabinet had been setting, there was a crease in the old wallpaper.
I rubbed my hand over it, and found a small hole. I stuck my finger in it and pulled the small door open. Behind the door was a large knob, I twisted it and the whole wall scooted over.
I entered the dark room and began to go down the staircase, closing the door behind me so it would take Chernabog a little longer to get here.
"Seth!" I shouted, "Cal? Where are you?" I yelled. I got to the bottom of the stairs, there was a whole sea of lava, right in front of me.
"Who's there?" I heard a voice behind me, it wasn't Chernabog.
"Who is asking?" I replied.
"Calais!" The voice shouted back.
"Cal! Where's Seth?" I asked.
"Who is this?" Cal shouted back to me.
"Your aunt!" I shouted.
"I don't have an aunt, this is a trick." He replied.
"Yes you do! I didn't know I had nephews either until your mother sent your brother to me. I have no time for this, Chernabog is coming any time now. We have to get out!" I yelled.
Suddenly I saw a young man walk out of the darkness, he looked a lot like Seth, but a little older.
"Cal?" I asked.
"Yes." He replied.
"Great! Where's your brother?" I asked.
"Seth!" He yelled, "Come out. I need your help."
Seth limped out of the darkness, he had been under the stairs this whole time.
"Aunt Regina!" He said, trying to run toward me, but he couldn't because of his limp. He finally got to me and hugged me. "You shouldn't have come." He said.
"I had to. Your mother is here too, along with Daniel. Chernabog is going to be here any second, I need you two to use your ice to stop him." I said.
"Don't you think we would've done that by now if we could've?" Cal said annoyed, "We're powerless, practically lifeless."
"It's hot, aunt Regina, we can't use our powers." Seth said.
"This fool, she couldn't possibly be our aunt..." Cal mumbled.
"Stop, Cal! She's rescuing us. She's risking her own life for us! If you'd like to burn down here, be my guest, but I'm trusting her." Seth shouted at his brother.
I grabbed both of them by their shoulders, "Come on, we need to get out before Chernab-"
The door above the stairs flew open, Chernabog stood at the top.
"Did you really think it'd be this easy?" He asked.
None of us replied to him. I was too busy thinking of another way to get out.
"Seth, come here." I said quietly and motioned him to come closer. "You too, Cal."
They both came closer to me, I wrapped my arms around them both.
"What are you doing?" Cal asked impatiently.
"I'm giving you both my power, use it wisely." I replied.
"But aunt Regina-"
"Shh, I'm concentrating."
"But Pippa!" He shouted.
"She'll be fine, and so will I. As long as you defeat Chernabog and let me rest, I'll be okay." I said. I was beginning to shake, all of my power was being drained.
I was the most powerful person right now, having the most magic, and in an instant I gave it all away to my nephews, trusting that they'll defeat this horrible man.
"Go." I said, still shaking.
"But-"
"Just go!" I shouted as hard as I could. All of my energy was gone, I fell to the floor.
"Where did she go?" Daniel asked, still hanging on the wall with Mystral.
"She's had to of found them by now." Mystral replied.
"And Chernabog has probably found her." Daniel said.
If he would've been on the ground, he'd be pacing by now. Instead, thoughts were racing through his mind, wondering if his wife and child were okay.
Seth and Cal turned around to Chernabog, "Now you can't win." Seth shouted in a deep voice.
"Who says?" Chernabog replied, still at the top of the stairs.
"Us." Cal said.
They flicked their arms forward in unison, letting ice flow from their fingertips towards Chernabog.
It was that easy, they froze him right there.
"I will get you!" Chernabog shouted the best he could from behind the ice.
Seth and Cal were currently full of power, just from Regina's selfless act.
They ran to her and picked her up, putting her arms on their shoulders. The ran up the stairs as fast as they could with her, dragging her feet along behind them.
They ran out of the room, down the stairs, and back into the hallway where Mystral and Daniel were.
"What happened to her?!" Daniel shouted.
"She's fine, she's just drained." Cal answered.
"Who drained her?"
"She drained herself, Chernabog's frozen, he can't hurt us." Seth replied.
"But we need to leave, in case he becomes unfrozen." Cal added.
"You didn't permanently freeze him?!" Mystral shouted at her two kids.
They looked at each other shyly, knowing they had just messed up.
"I thought I had taught you two better!" She shouted, "Get me down from here, please." She told them.
They did as they were told, and did the same for Daniel.
"Let's go." Mystral said.
Daniel picked Regina's limp body up and carried her in his arms.
They walked back out the way they came in, but were stopped suddenly.
The whole ground shook, and a loud, large roar echoed through the halls, "You will not defeat me!" Chernabog roared. He was in his monster form, outside of the castle.
"On second thought, let's stay in here." Mystral said.
They ran back inside and went as close to the middle of the castle as they could, that way Chernabog couldn't just reach in anywhere and grab them.
"You think you can just hide from me?" He laughed loudly, "Fools." He began to flap his huge wings, creating a massive sandstorm.
"Seth, Cal, how do you have magic and why on this earth is Regina out of it?" She scolded them,
"She gave all of her powers to us, she said that it was temporary and she would be back once she rested." Cal said.
"So she'll be okay though?" Daniel said, leaning over her body that was laying on the ground.
"She said she'd be." Seth replied.
"How are we getting out of here, mom?" Cal asked.
Mystral was pacing the floor, thinking of a way to leave without Chernabog knowing, and without him being able to follow.
"Do you still have Regina's powers?" She asked them.
"Yes." They said.
"I figured, it didn't look like you were melting." Mystral mumbled, halfway to the boys and halfway to herself.
"Yeah mom, you don't look too good…" Seth added.
"Gee, thanks Seth." She said back.
"Because you're melting, mom!" He replied defensively.
"Anyways, I need you two to use those powers…all the way this time!" She said, reminding them to do better than the last time.
"But how? Even with her powers I don't think that we can freeze him permanently, maybe if he was in human form again." Cal said.
"That's it. We need to bring him back to human form." Mystral said.
"And how are we going to do that?" Daniel asked, still crouched over his wife.
"We wait. He'll eventually come in to look for us, he's not a patient man."
"Just wait here? What if our powers run out?" Seth said.
"If your powers run out, Regina should be awake by then. She can do it again." Mystral replied.
"I'm not letting her do this again, Mystral." Daniel said.
"What do you expect us to do then?" Mystral asked him, getting more and more irritated.
Daniel looked back down at his wife, who was still knocked out, "I don't even know for sure if she's going to wake up!" He exclaimed.
"She said she would, you have to trust her." Mystral replied, calming down a little. She reached out and put her hand on his shoulder, "She'll be okay, and so will the baby."
"I hope you're right." He replied.
Hours had passed before Chernabog finally came back in, in his human form. Doors were opening and closing, he was looking everywhere for them.
He finally found the room we were in, "There you are!" He shouted as he opened the door.
"Now!" Mystral shouted at her boys.
In unison again, they shot ice from both of their hands, freezing the large man from top to bottom.
"Do you really think this will work again?" Chernabog said, "It worked oh so well the last time."
Seth and Cal didn't answer, they were concentrating on freezing him. At this point, his legs had a huge block of ice around them, and his top half had a thin layer of ice. They were now working on freezing the top half.
"This isn't going to work, I'm in the desert! I'll eventually melt, you know." Chernabog said. He kept on, "Really, you can stop wasting your magic, it won't work."
Suddenly my eyes opened, all I saw was the ceiling. I got up and looked around, and Daniel, Mystral, and Seth and Cal were standing behind me, trying to defeat Chernabog.
"Oh look who finally decided to wake!" Chernabog said.
"Regina!" Daniel exclaimed, running toward me with open arms.
"I'm fine, Daniel." I said, taking a deep breath, "Pippa's fine too." I added, reassuring him that we were both okay.
"How sweet." Chernabog said sarcastically.
"Actually, it is pretty sweet. Especially when you know what's about to happen." I said, grinning slyly.
"What's about to happen?" Chernabog asked, he sounded a little worried.
"You'll see."
I waited for Seth and Cal to finish freezing him, from head to toe.
"Ready for your surprise, Chernabog?" I walked up to the solid block of ice, his eyes followed my every move. "I hope you enjoy your little…uh…vacation." I said to him, making a full circle around the ice.
I could hear him trying to say something, but the ice was too thick.
"What was that?" I said sneeringly, "Cat got your tongue?" I joked.
He tried to say something again, but no luck.
"Aw, I see…you're frozen." I teased, "Like I said, I hope you enjoy your vacation. Say hi to all of the penguins for me."
I snapped my fingers and he was gone.
"Where did you move him to?!" Mystral shouted.
"Calm down, no where that you'll be…or no where that he'll be able to get out of." I replied.
"Which is where?" She asked again.
"Let's say he's taking a nice swim in the arctic ocean…" I grinned.
"Nice." Mystral nodded her head and patted me on the back.
"Let's go home, your powers are starting to leave and I'm getting extremely hot." Seth said, fanning himself off.
"I agree."
It was a long journey home again, but we made it.
Mystral, Seth, and Cal had decided to stay for a little while, just to make sure that everything would stay okay.
"Lunch is ready!" Seth called out from the kitchen. It was nice to have him back, for more reasons than one!
We all gathered around the dining table like we did almost every day. It was Sunday, so Daniel was home from work and Henry wasn't in school.
We began eating the wonderful cheeseburgers that Seth had prepared for us, I was going to miss this kid…a lot.
"Are you sure you don't want to just stay as a personal chef?" Daniel joked.
"I'm sure…I love you guys, but I want to be where I don't have to worry about melting." Seth replied.
This brought giggles around the table, "Same here, it's been a while since I haven't had that…that melting feeling." Cal added.
In the week that Mystral and Cal had been here, I'd began to realize that they were both really nice, a lot like Seth. Though Seth was more of the chef type, Cal was more of the jock. He was very buff, and liked to be outdoors every second he could.
"So when are you going to come visit?" Bella asked.
"Soon, hopefully. That is, if your mother allows it." Mystral replied.
Bella and Mystral had sort of made up. When I say sort of, I mean Bella is just dealing with the fact that Mystral was selfish.
"Of course you all can come back! But next time, don't bring so much danger with you please?" I joked.
"Right, hopefully not." Mystral laughed.
Suddenly everyone's drinks moved a little bit.
"Was that a rumble?!" Cal asked, worried that Chernabog might be back somehow.
I looked down at my stomach embarrassed, "Um…nope. I think I've got all my magic back." I said, still looking down. I could feel my face getting red.
"What do you mean? Why do you say that?" Daniel asked concerned.
"Well, I should say that Pippa has all of her magic back." I corrected myself and giggled after.
"Pippa has magic?" Mystral asked.
"I think so, she's made me a lot more powerful."
"Wow, it's cool to have magical kids!" Mystral said.
When she said that, I could see Henry's face expression change…he was the only kid at the table that didn't have magic. Though he didn't say anything, I knew that's what was up.
"Yes, it is. But I must say, the eleven years of having no magical kids- in my house, at least- was pretty great too." I said, directing this toward Henry.
He looked up from his plate and smiled a little bit.
"I don't have to worry about Henry, that way. Now I'll have two kids to teach magic to!" I said, joking around with Bella.
"But I'm at least doing better…" Bella said, in her defense.
"Yes honey, you did so much better when you turned the car into an ant the other day…" I teased.
Laughs went around the table again, I could see Bella's face get more and more red.
"But you fixed it, too, that's the good thing." I said with a smile.
"Exactly." She replied.
Oh. My. Gosh.
Did this give anyone some intenseness?! (Yes I made up another word...)
Okay so who's glad that Seth and Cal are alive! *raises hand*
Who's glad that Regina is okay?! *raises hand excitedly*
Who's glad that they're all getting along and Chernabog is floating somewhere, completely frozen in a block of ice?! *RAISES HAND SUPER EXCITEDLY*!
Anyways...
Don't forget to leave your wonderful reviews, and also to check out my other story, "This Isn't Love".
I appreciate everything so so so much, thank you.
Much love,
G.
