Hi people of storybrooke. I'm back and ready to write. I had a long month the holidays, and studying for mid-term exams kinda absorbed most of my focus and didn't leave much time for my story. Sorry if you guys have been feeling neglected but i hope this chapter makes up for it. So I saw the mid-season finale of once upon a time and it was both satisfying and sad. Plus the the new plot twist with the queens of evil kinda threw a wrench in my plans so sorry for any inconsistencies with the new story line. But that's enough rambling on my part, so in conclusion I hope you had a happy holiday and new year, and high school sucks.
"We have a chest full of weapons in the living room? This is a weird family." Henry said grabbing a sword and a few knives and putting them in his boots. This was when they all noticed Henry wasn't in his normal attire he was in fact wearing a black shirt, and black jeans, and black boots. Deciding not to ask where he got them or how long he has owned those clothes everyone went to get weapons of their own. "Well we find it best to prepared for anything witches, monsters, and even trolls. Marry-Margaret said picking up a bow and a quiver of arrows. "So how we gonna do this?" Emma asked grabbing her guns.
"Well there's the always effective stealthy search and rescue and then there's the classic smash and grab." David proposed grabbing his own sword. "Smash and grab sounds more fun." Henry offered taking a sheath, strapping it to his hip and putting the sword in it. "But more risky." Marry-Margaret chimed in grabbing a mini crossbow and some bolts. "Then we go with search and rescue but if all else fails we take down whoever we have to and get Regina home." David finalized. Just as they were heading back to the mansion to use the potion Henry stopped. He noticed how much heat they were packin and asked. "Aren't we a little to geared up here?" "No I just told you always be prepared." His grandmother answered handing him another crossbow. "Fine lets get moving." Henry declared leaving the apartment.
While Henry and the rest of the charming clan went to her home to use the potion Regina woke in a strange and unfamiliar place with her hands and feet bound with rings of dark magic around them. "Finally awake dearie?" Her captor asked. When Regina looked to Maleficent she felt anger and disgust. Didn't I kill you twice? What does it take?! The queen shouted. "More than you would think apparently." Maleficent replied her smile never dropping. "Well when I get free of this spell I'm gonna kill you and make sure you stay dead you scaly bitch." The queen spat struggling admittedly pathetically against her restraints. "You've tried twice and I'm still here with you captured if history is anything to go on I don't think you'll be able to make good on that promise. Hook failed, and snow white's brat failed "
"There's always a way to kill people like you even if they claim to be immortal." Regina spat. "We'll just have to see about that. No one has succeeded yet." Maleficent gloated. "Then what do want with me huh? Kill me, make me suffer, take everything I have?" The queen rattled off. "All of the above." The evil witch replied taking out a knife.
She grabbed Regina's hand and slit her forearm letting the blood drip into a bowl. Regina cried out in pain as she watched her blood drip into bowl knowing that what ever Maleficent wanted with it couldn't at all be good. "And now I have all I need to complete my spell." Maleficent said with glee as she placed the bowl between a very familiar looking green pendant and a two sided candle.
Henry and the others returned to the mansion to find a suitable belonging of Regina's to track her with. They entered her bedroom and Henry found a necklace that he had given Regina for her birthday when he was five it was a silver chained necklace with a small red apple pendant, he got it from Mr. Golds shop. He placed the trinket down on her nightstand and poured a blue potion on it. Then recited an incantation. "Magic forces far and wide seek the one I wish to find." The necklace was illuminated with light and began to float. "Why's it leaving?" Emma asked her jaw slightly slack. "The object I enchanted will lead us to its owner. Mom." Henry answered following the necklace with the others close behind him. The glowing piece of jewelry led them to the for some reason very vast expanse of the towns forests. "Uh does anyone else find this part of the woods very familiar looking?" Emma asked a hint of dread creeping into her voice. "Yes and I don't like it." Marry-Margaret answered taking her bow off of her back.
The necklace stopped glowing and dropped into Henry's hand they looked ahead in horror at the place that must hold Regina. "Is that?" Emma asked. "Yeah." David answered. "Zelina's house." Marry-Margaret finished. They were all hesitant to start moving toward the house but Henry took the first steps slowly silently approaching the house with caution the others slowly following behind him. "Stop." David ordered. "The house is completely unguarded nothing, something isn't right. He explained. Henry decided to test Davids theory and took a knife out of his boot and threw it at the door and out of no where tree creatures grew out of the ground and caught the knife. "Aw crap!" Emma exclaimed taking out her gun. "Well looks like the search and rescues out." Henry said drawing his sword.
Emma and Marry-Margaret drew their weapons and fired taking down two while Henry and David charged two of their own. Emma and Snow stayed back as their weapons were better for long range combat taking out the (well lets just call them tree golems) from afar while Henry and David stabbed and slashed their way through them.
Back in the house.
Now that Maleficent had all she needed for her spell she recited the icantation in aloud and powerful voice. "virtutesque veneficas surgere cursus invisus trans caelum venire ad nos dicimus, te ad nos, venerunt, et volunt habitare nobiscum. sanguis sanguinem sanguini vocat ad me redeat sanguis." A thick cloud of dark smoke was beginning to form and the ground was beginning to shake and both women finally took notice of the sounds of combat coming from out side "looks like the cavalry's arrived." Maleficent remarked still admiring her spell taking place. "Yep and you are so gonna get your ass kicked." Regina replied smirking. "Oh no not with what this spell is about to bring forth I wont." The dragon lady retorted.
Outside.
Most of the golems were down and the last one was heading straight for Henry. The monster lashed out it's arm and knocked Henry through the wall of the rotting barn then turned towards the others but never went anywhere. Emma raises her gun and fired a shot straight through it's head. The second it dropped dead the group ran to the hole in the barns wall to find Henry covered in scrapes, cuts, and already forming bruises Emma got to her knees trying to gently rouse him back to conciseness, after a few seconds he slowly woke. "Ugh I feel like a bus hit me. He groaned. "No just a very big, very strong tree monster. Emma said gently helping him up. "You killed it right?" Henry asked weakly. "Yeah honey. One through the head." She replied.
Back in the house.
The dark swirling cloud separated in to two vortexes one swirling with black and blue the other swirling black and green. The door was flung off its hinges and the first to come through the door way was henry with the others close behind him. When they saw the scene that was playing out their jaws dropped. "You again?!" Everyone but Marry-Margaret yelled. "I don't get it who is that?" Snow asked with a dubious tone. "Really, you and I are gonna have a serious talk when this is all over!" Regina shouted. "Well don't get carried away when this is all over you'll all be dead!" Maleficent cackled. The Charming clan went to charge the witch all at once but she sent them all flying into the wall. Dark magic rings bound all of their hands together and their weapons were magically incinerated to ashes.
All anyone could do was watch as the vortexes of the spell cleared leaving to very familiar people in their places. Left in the wake of the spell stood Cora and Zelina.
Ooo cliffhanger. So did anyone see that coming before the obvious clue that I wrote in? I'm sorry I've been gone for so long but some bad stuff got in the way and writing out this chapter was actually extremely hard. I kept rewriting it over and over again so this might not be my best work. But what I am proud of about this is that I sort of turned Henry into a bad ass. That doesn't mean he's going to stop being the kind fun loving sweetie that he always has been but let's face it being a bad ass is sort of a prerequisite for fighting the good fight. Anyway stay charming ;)