Chapter Four

Regina and Henry arrived outside of her vault. Gold was already there patiently waiting.

"Let's get on with it," said Gold.

"I guess we are cutting right to the chase then," replied Regina.

As they turned to walk inside, there was a poof of green smoke and Zelena appeared.

"I hope you were not planning on doing this without me, little sister?" asked Zelena.

"Zelena, what are you doing here?" replied Regina.

"Well, I overheard the boy and Rumple talking about helping you earlier so I decided to come with you. I meant what I said that I am here for you no matter what happens. I think after all that has happened to us, we both need something good to turn out for one of us. I am going to help you find the happiness you deserve," answered Zelena.

"What about Robin?" Regina asked.

"Belle offered to watch her for me while I help you. I think she is rooting for a good outcome for you as well."

"I didn't realize my love life was a concern for so many people. Well, I am touched that both of you feel that way."

"Alright, so what's the plan?" asked Zelena.

"Follow us, and we will all find out," replied Regina.

Regina turned to walk in followed by Henry, Zelena, and Gold. Once inside, Regina turned to face them three. She clasped her hands together and asked, "Okay, Henry. Here we are. What are we doing?"

Henry glanced at Rumple's hand searching for anything but saw that they were empty. "Grandpa, did you bring the stuff?"

With a wave of Gold's hand, a large stone basin with runes and strange symbols carved into it appeared before them on the table.

"What exactly is this?" asked Regina.

Gold glanced over at Regina and then back at the stone basin. "This is called a Pensieve. You can put your memories in there and see what exactly happened in those memories."

"Why not use the dreamcatchers?" asked Zelena.

"This works a little differently that the dreamcatchers. The Pensieve can store a large amount of memories for the user. The user can also "leap" into the memory to experience it as if they are there," replied Gold. He reached inside his jacket and pulled out what looked like a plain, brown stick. "All you need to use it is this wand. Place it to your temple while thinking about what memories you want to extract. Twirl the wand and the memories will come out in the form of white wisps. You can place the memories in the Pensieve where they will be ready to view."

"Sounds simple enough," replied Regina. "Let's give it a whirl then."

Gold handed the wand over to Regina's outstretched hand. She took it from him and stared down at the wand for moment.

"Oh for the love of all things wicked, GET ON WITH IT REGINA!" exclaimed Zelena.

Regina glared at her sister. "Well excuse me that I am not exactly in a rush to see some of the awful things I've done." Regina rolled her shoulders and tossed her hair. She then took the wand and placed it by her temples. She let some of the memories as Evil Queen to come to mind and then began twirling the wand. Slowly, thin, white wisps appeared from her temples connected to the wand. She pulled slightly and the wisps released from her temples. Regina reached over the Pensieve and released the wisps into the basin. The wisps swirled for a moment in the Pensieve, and then an image began to form. Peering down into the Pensieve, they could see a ship anchored by a sandy, white beach.

"So, we just 'leap' into this thing and we experience the memory?" asked Regina.

"Simple as that," replied Gold.

"And you are sure that no one from the memory is going to start attacking us? I would like to avoid another incident like I did with the Black Fairy's curse and her alternate world," Regina replied dryly.

"Yes, I am quite sure. I have used this myself when I needed to look back on some old memories," said Gold.

Regina peered down for a moment longer, still quite unsure if she was ready to do this. "Well, I guess there is no need to wait any longer. Henry, Zelena, take my hand and we will do it together." Henry grabbed ahold of one hand while Zelena grabbed the other.

"Here we go, sister," said Zelena.

"We got this mom," added Henry.

Henry, Regina, and Zelena leaned towards the Pensieve. As they did so, the memory floating inside began to glow bright all around them. Then, the light seemed to pulled them right in as they got closer. In a matter of a second, they were gone. Gold looked down at the memory as it continued to swirl. 'That Henry is something else,' he thought to himself. 'I know they will need some other items so I better go to the shop right quick.' Gold disappeared from the vault and reappeared back at his shop.


Henry, Regina. and Zelena lost their grip from one another as they zipped through the memory. Everything was moving quickly as the colors and images looked warped all around them. Suddenly, they fell awkwardly onto the sandy beach. Slowly, they all stood up and looked around. Regina went to go brush herself off, but realized there was nothing to brush off.

"That was quite the experience!" she exclaimed.

"Yeah, I would have thought that would hurt making a landing like that, but no. It was quite soft actually," replied Zelena.

"I guess Rumple was right. Since this is just a memory, it's not like it's a real, tangible world," said Regina.

"Speaking of memories, where exactly are we, mom?" asked Henry.

"I'm not quite sure yet. Let me look around and see what I can recognize." Regina glanced up and down the beach. She looked up towards the tree line and all the foliage surrounding it. She noticed that the trees were thick and tall, with broad leaves. There seemed to be so many, almost like a jungle. There were strange, animal-like sounds coming from the trees. Regina turned to walk towards the trees. She started picking up a sweet aroma that seemed to waft toward her from the flowers that were growing everywhere. "Oh boy," she said as she realized where there were.

"Oh boy, what?" Zelena asked as she narrowed her eyes suspiciously at Regina.

"I know where we are at and let me tell you, I never thought this would be a memory to come up," replied Regina.

"So, mom, where are we?" Henry asked again.

Regina turned back around and walked towards Henry. "Henry, we are in a place called Mangani Island. I really wish you would not see what you are about to see here."

"I know you were a different person before so don't worry about that. What exactly happened here?" asked Henry.

"I may have come here searching for a weapon to kill Snow."

"Well, that's nothing new," replied Zelena.

"Yeah, well this weapon was different. It wasn't an object but…more like a creature." replied Regina.

"So, what like ogres or trolls?" asked Zelena.

"No, I came here for Mangani apes. They weren't what I expected so I turned them into what I needed them to be. If I am remembering correctly, I sent them to kill a woman I met here to see how vicious they would be. I believe her name was…Jaimie? Janet? Janice…? I am not exactly sure what it was but she wasn't alone. She had some dirty-looking idiot running around in a loin cloth with her. He would swing around on vines and climb on trees beating on his fist making all this ridiculous noise…well, until I put an end to that.

"You mean Jane?" asked Henry.

"Yes, that was it! How did you guess that, Henry?" Regina asked.

"What you described sounds exactly like the story of Tarzan and Jane," replied Henry. "Oh mom, please tell me you did not kill Tarzan and Jane?"

Regina looked worriedly down at her son. "I am not exactly sure what happened to them; however, if this is the memory that came up, I guess we will find out."

"Yeah, let's see what we can learn so that it can help us help them. Where are you now, mom?"

Regina looked over at the ocean and the shipped that was anchored there. "I should be heading this way to the island now. This is going to be interesting to watch."

**Authors note: Hey guys! So, I am a huge Harry Potter fan as well. I mention that because the Pensieve in the story is inspired by the Pensieve used by JK Rowling in her Harry Potter series. I hope all you Potterheads were able to catch onto that. Thank you all for reading my story! Feel free to give feedback and reviews!