2 years later – Storybrooke
A phone rings.
"Hello, sheriff Swan speaking… Wait, say that again… Leroy, are you sure you aren't just seeing things because you're a bit drunk…"
"Hey I can hold my liquor, thank you very much, and yes I'm sure. The freaking thing just flew over the clock tower almost putting the damn thing on fire." Regina could hear Leroy yelling through the phone.
"Okay, calm down. I'll come and take a look" Emma said trying to calm the grumpy dwarf. She pushed the red button on her phone.
"What was the dwarf stressing out about?" Regina asked mockingly but also a bit worried.
"Well…" Emma started: "apparently Leroy saw a very big birdlike creature flying over town that spitted fire out of its mouth."
"That sounds a lot like a dragon?"
"Yeah, that's what he said…I just thought it sounded crazy since the only two dragons that have ever been in Storybrooke are Elliot and Aero. One of them is dead and the other lives in another world."
"Well there's only one way to find out if Leroy is right" Regina concluded and stood up from her place on the couch: "Ready?"
"You're coming with me?"
"I am the mayor of this town my dear" Regina winked.
Emma smiled, grabbed her car keys and walked to the front door. She held it open for her wife and then closed the door behind her. The sheriff's car was parked in front of the house at the side walk. They quickly jumped in and took off. It only took them five minutes to reach the clock tower. Emma parked just in front of it where Leroy was waiting with a flask in his hand.
"Took you long enough" Leroy complained.
Both women looked annoyed at the dwarf. Emma took a breath and spoke: "So, do you wanna tell me what happened?"
"I already told you on the phone. A dragon flew over and spit fire at me."
"And where is this dragon now?" Regina asked, looking around.
"I don't know. It flew away ten minutes ago but I didn't really see where it was going since it's dark" Leroy said annoyed.
"Then there isn't much we can now, is there" Regina replied, getting frustrated with the dwarfs attitude.
"Not my fault you were late. You could've just poofed here then maybe you would have seen the dragon yourself" Leroy grumbled.
If Emma hadn't come between them Regina would have definitively thrown a fireball to the annoying dwarf. "Okay, maybe we can walk around and hear if other people have seen the dragon" Emma suggested. Regina and Leroy shared one more challenging look before Emma pulled her wife by the hand.
Regina sighed loud: "Do you really think that we will find other people who have seen this dragon?"
"No, but it seemed the only way to satisfy Leroy...Maybe we can make a romantic walk around town instead." A loud roar broke the silence of the dark town. "Or maybe not."
Emma slummed in one of the booths in Granny's diner, tired of searching all night for a clever and sneaky dragon. Regina sat opposite her with her head resting on the table. It wasn't very ladylike but at this point the brunette was just too exhausted to care.
"Anyone up for some coffee?" Granny asked, already placing two cups on the table.
"Thanks" Emma smiled gratefully. Regina just lifted her head, only high enough to be able to sip her coffee, and mumbled something that sounded like a thank you.
"Where is David?" Regina asked after another sip of coffee.
"He went home" Emma replied.
Regina groaned: "Not fair. I wanna go ho..." Even before she was able to finish her sentence Regina was engulfed by white smoke. As soon as it appeared it disappeared. Regina found herself sitting on her bed in her bedroom. "…ome too."
"Your welcome" Emma said. She was already crawling under the cover. She didn't even take the time to undress. Regina smiled softly, pushed her shoes of and crawled under the covers too. Emma was lying her right side with her back towards her wife so Regina spooned the blonde. After just a minute or two both women were sound asleep. They stayed that way until phone call woke them up in the afternoon.
"Nooo" Regina groaned: "Let it ring." She had her arms around the blond woman lying next to her, who was trying to grab her cellphone. It was pretty difficult with her wife pulling her back under the covers. Finally Emma was able to grab her phone and answer her mother's call.
"Hey mom."
"Emma, you better come to the toll bridge. Immediately" Snow said from the other side of the line.
"Why, what's wrong?"
"We found the dragon."
"What? How? Who is 'we'?"
"Just come and I'll answer your questions when you get here." Snow ended the phone call.
Emma turned around to find her wife still snuggled up under the covers. She smiled. Emma sighed and leaned forward to press a soft kiss on Regina's nose. "Time to get up" Emma whispered barely an inch away from Regina's face.
The brunette turned around in protest.
"Don't make me tickle you out of bed" Emma threatened.
"You wouldn't" Regina said, her eyes wide open.
"Try me."
Regina didn't wait for another second and jumped out of bed. Normally she wouldn't let the blonde win so easily but when it came to tickling, Regina still hadn't found a way to beat Emma in her game.
This time they decided to use magic immediately to transport themselves to the place they needed to be, the toll bridge. As soon as the white and purple smoke had disappeared the two women saw a blue, almost grey-like, dragon standing tall on the bridge. Its wings spread wide.
"So we found the dragon. We followed the smoke. And the 'we' is me, Ruby, Dorothy and Belle" Snow said to her daughter.
"What?" Emma asked confused.
"The questions you asked on the phone…"
"…Oh, right…Well…" Emma replied, finally catching up.
"We haven't been able to get close to it" Belle said, nodding towards the blue dragon.
"As soon as one of us does gets closer it breaths fire at us" Ruby continued: "And me being in wolf form doesn't help. It sure would be nice to have Lena around now." Regina and Emma shared a look. They hadn't seen their daughter in two years.
"Yeah, but she isn't here. We'll have to find a way to deal with this dragon on our own" Snow said.
"Can't we try to contact Lena in the Enchanted Forest? And then Aero can create a portal to get them back to Storybrooke" Ruby said hopeful.
"And how were you planning on contacting her?" Snow asked mockingly: "And besides, who says she's still in the Enchanted forest?"
"Maybe there is a way for someone to go find her" Belle said.
"What do you mean?" Regina asked stunned: "Are you saying you know a way for us to find my daughter and you didn't tell me this before?" Regina was hurt. She missed her little girl so much. She had tried and tried through the years to open up a portal so she could at least visit Lena but nothing had worked.
"Maybe…It's possible" Belle answered carefully: "It's just…I recently read a book about portals you can open without a magic object. You use some sort of spell instead."
"A spell?" Emma asked confused: "I thought there weren't any spells that could do that." She looked to her wife.
"There aren't" Regina confirmed.
"Well,…if I understand correctly this spell works with love. You have to think about the person who you're trying to find and the spell will bring you to that person no matter where they are. But it only works if your intentions are good. So if you want to hurt the person in any way the spell doesn't work."
"Do you really think it'll work?" Ruby asked.
"I think it's worth the try" Emma said.
"Then let's go" Regina said determined, putting a hand out for her wife.
Emma held back: "Honey, I think I should stay here. You should take Ruby with you."
"What? Why?" Regina asked confused.
"Ruby will be of much better use. If the spell doesn't place you directly in front of Lena you'll need Ruby to track her" Emma explained.
Regina didn't like the idea of going without her wife but understood and agreed. She turned to Belle: "Okay so what do we have to do specifically?"
"Join hands and think about Lena. Think about your love for her and about how much you want to find her" Belle guided the two woman.
Ruby and Regina breathed slowly with their eyes closed, only thinking about Lena and about how much they missed that young girl. A faint light blue light appeared and grew bigger and bigger.
"Oh my god, you did it" Snow said amazed.
"Bring our little girl home safely" Emma smiled softly to her wife.
Regina leaned in for a kiss and replied: "I will." Hand in hand with Ruby, she walked into the blue light and disappeared from Storybrooke.
Next chapter coming soon.