As I wrote this, actually even leading up to this chapter, I realized that I really suck at writing angst lol I just want everyone to be happy and love each other, but of course, that's a great wish haha. So, I apologize if the lead up to the fight was bigger than the actual fight. I wanted Harry Potter/SwanQueen kicking ass kind of styles, but like I said… I suck LoL. Maybe in the future, I will stick to romance and drama.
P.S The spell used to summon the Darkness is taken from Season Four of Once Upon a Time. The spell was used to summon the Darkness and contain it in the Sorcerer's Hat. I changed a few words to align with this story.
She watched the flock of witches run towards the side alley as she cackled in delight atop the clocktower. With pride, her eyes flashed a sinister sable color. Her plan was brilliant, distract and attack, as easy as pie. She looked down at the sword in her hand and her lip curled in satisfaction. She had taken the sword from the Sheriff's evidence vault and enhanced it to not only be capable of blocking magic but to drain the magic of whomever it touches. With a wave of a hand, she disappeared from her belvedere to attack her second victim. As soon as she appeared behind the woman, she plunged Charming's sword into the back of the redhead.
"As easy as drinking a glass of water." The Dark One's penetrating voice whispered into Zelena's ear as the sword absorbed her magic. She slowly twisted the weapon before she pulled it out and laughed as the redhead screamed in agony.
A moment later, Dark Snow reappeared atop the clocktower. She could feel the monstrous presence of the powerful magic she had stolen from the two witches. Now, she needed one more to complete her mission. Finally, she will have her revenge on the Evil Queen and reign supreme as she joins Underbrooke with Storybrooke, then, along with her predecessors, they will defeat the Power of Three.
A second curdling scream echoed throughout the streets and redirected Regina's body from the alley to the middle of the road. "Zelena!" She ran towards her sister who laid sprawled on the ground, blood pooled around her. "Zelena!" She cried as fell down beside the redhead. "I've got you, sis."
"Regina." Zelena breathed out slowly. "That bitch got me, put a spell around you and Emma to protect yourselves. She stabbed me from behind." The Wicked Witch whispered
"Stay with me, please. You can't leave me, I just found you!" Regina begged as a lone tear fell and landed on her older sister's forehead. "Zelena, please, please, I can't lose you!" She pulled her sister snug against her chest and kissed her temple as her stricken tears fell.
"I love you," Zelena whispered as her body drooped in her sister's arms.
Meanwhile, Emma found herself to be in the same misfortune as Regina, while she held her mother's body against her. "Mama! You can't die, you can't leave us!" The blonde pleaded as she held her mother's body and felt her tears free fall over Maleficent's face. She tightened her fists in anger. How could this happen? She just found her parents. How did that bitch do this? Emma knew that there was no doubt in her mind, she was going to kill that snarly, deceitful imp.
"Whe… when." Mal stuttered as she tried to reign in a breath. "When I die, my body will turn to ash, collect them. But you will need her blood. Only her blood will work. Mix a drop of her blood with my ashes. You will know how to bring me back. We're immortal. I love you, Emma. Now, go to your wife, she needs you." Emma pulled her mother into her arms and kissed her cheek.
"I love you," Emma whispered before she returned her mother's body into her brunette mother's arms. She placed a kiss to Anita's temple then went in search of Regina.
Emma ran to the middle of the road where she saw Regina hugging Zelena's body. As she neared, a rush of electricity hit her in the chest. Her body was paralyzed, her eyes closed, and her heart started to beat rapidly. She could feel her body heating up and there was nothing she could do. Her breathing became shallow and unable to stop herself, she passed out. What seemed like hours later, but was only seconds, Emma opened her eyes and saw that she was suspended by an electrical force in the air. Her arms were splayed open and her head flung back. To her left, she could just make out Regina in the exact pose before she saw an inferno of red, orange, and gold flames had engulfed the brunette.
"Regina!" Emma tried to scream but to no avail as her vision became clouded by an array of blue hues.
The crowd below gasped in shock as they watched the incandescent colors above that encompassed the two immobilized women. Jaws hung wide open, hands covered jaws, and tears welled, but not one person had panicked at the scene before them. Although they weren't sure what exactly was occurring, it was definitely not part of their plan. It was obvious that it had to be another transition in the status of the royal couple.
Anita could not stop her tears as she held her wife's body tight to her body, but never once dropped her eyes from the two flaming inferno's that embraced her daughter and daughter-in-law. For the moment, she had forgotten that her wife should have turned to ash already, but her mind was enchanted by the beautiful show above.
Regina looked around the cocoon of magical colors and felt a power within her that she had never felt before, a very raw power that brought her inner peace. She could also feel Emma's energy bubbling with excitement. That brought a grin to her features, for she knew that Emma would of course feel excited about their current predicament. There wasn't an ounce of fear within either woman.
Regina thought of Emma and attempted to communicate telepathically. "Darling, can you hear me?"
"Regina? Gina is that you?" She heard Emma's voice respond.
"It is, my Love. I can feel you; you feel excited."
"I am. The colors are magnificent, there are so many blues. And I feel so at peace. The only time I have felt this way is when I'm in your arms. Are you okay?" Emma asked.
"Yes, darling. I am good. I'm not sure what's happening but I guess it has something to do with our new powers. My colors are red and gold."
"I know, I saw your flames. Oh, something is happening. I love you!"
"I love you too, darling." Regina smiled.
A frown stiffened the Dark One's face as she watched the scene unfold. She tried to scan through her Dark One memory to identify the obvious transformation that was taking place. She watched as each ball of fire opened and revealed the Savior and the Evil Queen. Each flame slowly unfurled into magnificent wings as each woman remained suspended. They looked like birds.
"No." Dark Snow gasped in horror. She continued to watch as a myriad of blue-colored flames hung above Emma's head and created the head of a phoenix, and gold flames sculptured the birds intense and brilliant eyes. "This cannot be happening. It's a myth!" Snow screamed. She turned to look at Regina and screamed again as Regina's phoenix head was red and gold with piercing sapphire irises. "How can this be real? It has to be a prank, a joke. They're trying to manipulate me. That's it. It's just magic. This can't be real." The ominous woman ranted and raved.
Once the transformation had been completed, Regina and Emma lowered themselves to the ground and ran directly into each other's arms. Their flames had flared out after the transformation. As their family finally relaxed, no one but the women who held them had noticed two women who earlier took their last breath, gasp as the breath of life returned to them.
"Anita?" Maleficent whispered as she looked up into the crying eyes of her wife. "How?"
"How do you think, dearest? Our daughter." She cried as she pulled her wife into her arms.
"Dottie? What the hell? Am I a zombie?" Zelena shrieked.
"Yeah, Z. You're a zombie." Dorothy rolled her eyes as she pulled her best friend to her. "I'm so glad you're back."
"She brought me back? It is true? She can raise the dead?" Zelena gasped and Dorothy couldn't help but laugh and nod her head in response.
"Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!" The Dark One screamed in defeat as she realized that what she hoped to be a prank was anything but. She helplessly watched the stolen magic leave the sword and return to their truest owners. "Nooooooooooooooooo! How did you take their power from me?" She screeched as she stormed towards the group of women. "I am going to kill your son and your sister, then I will retu…"
She never had time to complete her sentence as Emma had appeared behind the screaming banshee and placed her hand upon Snow's head. Emma called upon her pure white magic and chanted the spell to summon the Darkness from the rambling brunette.
Purest evil, blackest bloom,
Darkness too can find its doom,
Never dying, but contained,
Bound inside the hearts of the progeny,
Shorn of anger, and tempting danger,
There forever to remain.
It was another sight to behold. Dark Snow sank her knees to the ground, with her head flung back. Everyone watched as a black, tar-like substance spewed out of her mouth. The string of Darkness grew in size as it hovered above the now-former Dark One.
Regina flicked her eyes over to two newcomers to the evening's festivities and sighed in relief. Red and Henry had emerged from the Library. She then stalked towards their captive and snarled as black beady eyes flickered between her and Emma.
"Hello, Snow." Regina greeted as she stepped to the left of the ball of Darkness and stood over the woman. "You have been a bad girl, and now it's time for your punishment." She chuckled. Regina was glad that Snow White's mouth was preoccupied as she imagined the whining that would have sprung forth. "You thought that you would win this game by separating the girls from each other, but very typical of the spoilt brat that you are, you failed to do all of your research." She laughed loudly.
Emma continued her hold over Snow as she watched her lover glare at their captive. Regina clicked her fingers and the Dark One's dagger and Charming's sword appeared in her hand. Snow's eyes enlarged in shock as Regina examined the dagger before she transported the sword to her vault to be dealt with later and handed the dagger to Emma. "That's right. You see, when the girls received their powers, one of Lily's powers allowed her to glimpse pieces of the future. So, we countered the split by putting a protection spell over Red. She went willingly with you and kept us in touch with what you were doing. Unfortunately, that did not work out well as you kept your plans well hidden, surprisingly. But that did not worry us, for the Power of Three was still strong enough to defeat you. But then, as it turned out, theirs was not the only ancient power to be returned to the world." She clicked her tongue and teeth together as she contemplated her next words. "You were too focused on your mission and your revenge that by kidnapping our son, you impelled the return of the Lilitu."
Regina stood directly in front of Snow as the last spills of Darkness left her a broken-down wreck on the road. Everyone watched the dark orb as it continued to hover before it swirled into a whirling tornado that seemed to reach the dark sky, yet there were no sounds of jet engines or a breeze of wind. Regina held her breath as the tornado split to form three smaller tornados that flew in different directions in search of their progeny. Emma, Lily, and Red stood firm with their heads high as each was pulled into the tunnel of their corresponding tornados. Minutes passed by, and slowly the tornados slowed as each woman inhaled slithers of black tar through their noses. As Emma inhaled the final cord of Darkness, she held out the Dark One's dagger and with her light magic, eradicated the object into dust. The power of the Holy Grail had been returned. Regina waved for Emma, Red, and Lily to join her and together they stood. "Snow, now that the stolen darkness has been returned to its rightful owners, let me introduce you to the Lilitu."
Snow looked up at the women and scoffed. "Oh please, I could have killed you all." As much as she had liked to believe that, Snow knew that would never have happened. The earlier phoenix transformations were evidence of what the Dark One memory thought to have been a myth. The Royalty of Magic had been restored.
Regina rolled her eyes at the revolving idiot. "Once we received our powers, you were never a threat to us. Why do you think we all separated into groups? Our family only attended because we didn't know what your thoughtless brain would concoct or bring into this war. And what a joke you were!" Regina cried in dismay. "Who brings friends of your enemies to a fight? Excluding my mother, of course. Nevertheless, all Emma and I needed to do was be in your presence. And as you recently experienced, that's how easy it was to defeat the Dark One, dearie." Regina laughed.
"Snow," Emma interjected and knelt down to look directly into Snow White's eyes. "I took all of the darkness but your own. You have a lot of darkness within you and it's slowly growing. I don't know how anyone believed you to be a hero or to be fair and good. You are anything but that. I don't like you. Right now, I am on the verge of taking your life. You killed my mother and I need your blood to resurrect her. Surprisingly." Emma shrugged. "I have no problems with killing you."
"Emma!" The blonde stopped any further discussion when she heard her name called. She quickly turned towards the call and saw her blonde mother standing against her other mother. "Don't kill her just yet," Maleficent yelled.
"Mama?" Emma smiled before the sisters ran over to hug their mother. "Mama? How? What? Who?" The girls had had so many questions.
When Regina realized that Maleficent was still alive, her eyes flew over the crowd to look for her sister and with a smile she also ran towards their family, not without waving her hand first, to send Snow White to a cell.
"Zelena?" Regina poked her sister to see if she were in fact real. When she felt the firm body under her finger, she jumped into her sister's arms. "You're back!" The brunette cried.
Maleficent pulled Emma into her arms. "Thank you, thank you both for saving us." She cried into her daughters' neck.
"We saved you?" Emma gasped. "How?" She asked as she pulled away from the embrace to look at her mother.
"Your tears. The tears of the phoenix are extremely powerful and have immense healing powers. You cried over us as we were on the brink of death." Zelena explained.
"Wow…" Emma was astounded. Although, she witnessed and felt all the changes to her body, and all of her powers, everything still felt out of this world for her. Now she can heal people that are on their deathbeds? "That is just wow."
Regina could feel the overwhelming emotions within her partner and moved over to wrap her arms around Emma. "It's alright, darling. Once we return our visitors, I promise you that we will have time for us to catch up on all of the changes." She gave Emma a quick peck on the lips. "Why don't we reunite with our son, and take our family home?"
"I like the sound of that, babe." Emma smiled.