A BAT IN STORYBROOKE:
Chapter 23
"OH C'MON!" Fidget yelled when he saw the Golds and Emma standing out in the open with tar staining their clothes and the ground bellow them. "IS IT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR ONE, TRANQUIL DECAPITATION?!"
"No it ain't, mate," Killian gritted through his teeth. Copying one of his opponent's early moves, he swung his right leg at Fidget's legs, causing the latter to fall onto the ground and let go of his sword. Fidget was too stunned from the attack that Killian took the liberty to rush and confiscate the Batrishan's weapon, but as soon as he touched the sword's handle, his hand's skin began to burn. Killian screamed in pain as he let go of the weapon and fell on the ground.
"Killian!" Emma rushed towards her boyfriend with the Golds trailing behind.
"Idiot," Fidget growled at Killian as he got up and picked up his sword. "After all the pain I endured since my childhood, this sword won't let anyone but me wield it."
"The Blade That Rips Through The Soul," Rumple said quietly. "Which god told you about its existence?"
"What do you, 'god'?" Emma frowned.
"Have you been paying attention at all?" Fidget rolled his eyes before addressing Killian. "Codfish, you really should have thought of checking the intelligent-level before replacing Milah. Oh, not like she was any better than Milah!" His voice went to a mocking level, which began to irritate both Rumple and Killian.
"Let's not get to that point, Fitzgerald…" the pirate said quietly. But the Batrishan didn't listen.
"Oh, my! And what are you going to do?" Fidget gave a dramatic pose of shock as if he were doing a play of Shakespeare and not taunting his enemy. "Wreck my love life? Oh, wait, you already did that by killing Isabella. I do wonder how many couples you've destroyed aside from Rumplestiltskin's marriage with Milah…"
"He did not ruin my marriage! I did!" Rumple said, defending the pirate.
"I'll never forget how heartbroken Ursula looked when I met her!" Fidget continued. "You should have seen the look on her face when she talked about the pirate who stole her voice and happiness!"
"I never had an affair with the Sea Witch!" Killian snapped.
"I wonder what happened to that fairy you encountered in Neverland? Or those countrywomen that you flirted with at taverns back in the Enchanted Forest? Just exactly how many did you deflower?"
"Fitzgerald, stop it!" Killian's calmness began to snap.
"I'm quite impressed that you ruined the Evil Queen's second chance in love by bringing her lover's wife back from the past. But what I would never expect is that you stole the woman of the one person you treated as part of your family even though he was the son of the Dark One."
That did it. Rumple, Emma, and Killian lost their temper at the mention of Neal and immediately attacked the Batrishan, but they all failed. Fidget easily swiped Rumple's cane out of his hands and stomped on his crippled foot before knocking him on the ground, making the ex-Dark One howl in pain.
"OOH! That has got to hurt!" Fidget mocked as Belle rushed towards her husband. "I'll never forget when an eight-year-old girl stomped on my foot back in London." He motioned to his remaining foot.
"This is for what you did to Henry!" Emma shouted as she shot a blast of magic at Fidget. Just as the blast was about to touch him, Fidget held out a thumb and an index finger and stopped the blast, causing for the magic to turn from light to black. Then, he flicked the magic back at Emma. The blast hit her hard on the stomach and she fell to the ground, clinging to her bleeding stomach. Her state made Killian lose interest at confronting Fidget and rushed to the aid of Emma.
"EMMA! Please, not again! Please tell me that this just a minor injury!" Killian sobbed as he held his girlfriend in his arms.
Fidget approached them, his Bat-like shadow looming over them, as he grinned in evil glee.
"Now do you see my point?" the Batrishan asked. "This is what happens when you are a coward, codfish. You get people hurt and they suffer the same consequences than you."
"Because you don't suffer any consequence when you hurt others?" a voice asked.
Everyone turned to see Mary Margaret, David, and Regina rush to the scene, accompanied by a crimson-haired woman (who could have been around Emma's age) with cyan eyes dressed in a black pinstripe outfit and black heels and carrying a crossbow with her. Hounds just like those of Anubis came as well, some running to aid their injured siblings while others encircled the Batrishan. Regina rushed to try healing Emma's wound while Mary Margaret helped Belle and Rumple get up and David joined the hounds and the woman surround the villain.
"Where are my husband and my daughter?!" the woman asked angrily.
Fidget's eyes slightly widened. "You mean…you're Rosetta's mother? You look rather familiar. No, wait! You're one of the remaining members of the Romanov family!"
"How did you know that?" the woman barely flinched.
"Meh, I knew this other guy back in the Enchanted Forest who worked for Rasputin during the Russian Revolution. Apparently his boss nearly died from cold drowning while he was chasing your ancestor, Anastasia Romanov." Fidget shrugged as if he was told that last Tuesday.
"You're Marion? Anubis' wife?" Belle asked when she and her husband got back to their feet.
Marion groaned. "Can I go back to threatening the freak who kidnapped my daughter and did who knows what to my husband?" Her rise in tone definetly showed to others that she had a thick, Russian accent, yet spoke like a normal American woman.
"Technically, I harmed his hounds, not him," Fidget lifted a finger.
"Shut up," David said. "Look, we can do this the easy way or the hard. Just turn yourself in and there won't be any need to retort to more violence. We don't want more people to get hurt."
"You know, you have a weird way of saying that you'd prefer that everyone survives but me," Fidget said in a cocky tone.
"Well you know what? You have quite a weird way of trying to get your revenge," Regina said, using the same tone that Fidget used. "You use defenseless children to do your dirty work or hold hostage in order to get back at a man you wouldn't even want to listen."
Fidget scoffed. "Will you look at that? The Evil Queen lecturing me over how I seek revenge. Hypocritical, isn't it? I mean, c'mon. Your mother, Queen Cora, crushes the heart of your old flame Daniel just so that you could become queen and the only responsible culprit, at least from your perspective, is a ten-year-old princess? Not to mention that you kept blaming her for your unhappiness for decades and you still have to tolerate being treated as the Evil Queen despite all your efforts? Frankly, now I understand why Lady Cora was so disappointed in you."
Regina's confidence broke apart. Usually, she would strike back, but she couldn't. For she knew that the Batrishan was right.
"You seem to know Cora very well," Mary Margaret deducted. "Judging by how you refer to her as 'Lady Cora'."
"Very good observation…Snow White," Fidget remarked with mocking impressment. "I met Lady Cora back in Wonderland, long before the first Dark Curse. She was one of the five immortals I stroke a bargain with, since you know, she ripped out her own heart. In exchange for being her apprentice in magic, I had to loyally serve her for five years. A really nice Queen of Hearts, really. She's the one who taught me how to rip out hearts!"
"Funny that you should mention hearts," David said. "When we went to see Henry at the hospital, he said that you ripped out his heart."
"He did!" Rumple replied. "He had the heart in his hands when he came to threaten Belle and I in the pawnshop!"
"But…how is that possible?" Regina stammered. "I…I put a barrier spell that would prevent anyone from ripping out Henry's heart!"
"I sincerely hope that you don't want me to give you a live demonstration," Fidget muttered in disgust. "Because frankly, I don't have all the time in the world."
"Me neither." Marion cocked her crossbow at Fidget as the hounds growled at him. "Where are Anubis and Rosetta?"
"I recall seeing Anubis run towards the source of the demons," Killian said. "He said that they came from a sort of containment that needed to be destroyed…"
"You mean my vial?" Fidget cut in. "I put it on your ship."
"MY SHIP? WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU PUT IT IN MY SHIP?"
"Oh, you know. I was planning on framing you for the release of demons upon this little town and then you'd lose everyone you loved and your reputation. You know, close to what you did to me all those centuries ago."
"Well, your plan failed," David said confidently. "The demons have all disappeared. Anubis destroyed your vial."
"You know, just because I'm a Batrishan doesn't mean I'm near-sighted. Racist…" Fidget began saying before slipping an "Oh, crap!" from his mouth.
"Oops. I forgot about Plan B!"
"What do you, you forgot Plan B?" Killian said.
"Uh, well…" The Batrishan began to nervously fidget his fingers. "You see, I kinda put a booby trap spell on your ship in case you managed to get rid of the demons before I could kill you myself. It goes like this: if you had come out from smashing the vial, you would have been encircled by black flames that would break the part of the main deck where you were standing and make you crash your way down the ship until you hit the Storybrooke Harbor and well, you know, died from instant drowning."
Everyone gasped in shock! That Batrishan had such a twisted mind!
"Anubis is going to die!" Marion cried in despair. "He can't swim!"
"Well lady, it's your fault if you have to deal with a god who's hydrophobic, not me. Catch you later."
By those words, he spread his wings open and flew away from the docks.
"David, Belle! Go with Marion and Killian to the JOLLY ROGER to rescue Anubis!" Emma said. "Mary Margaret, Regina, Gold, and I will go after Fidget!"
"No, Emma. I have to go after Fitzgerald. You go at my place to the JOLLY ROGER," Killian told Emma.
"Killian, this is insane! He nearly killed you!"
"Let me go, Emma," Killian said. "I'm the only who can appease my old friend's thirst for revenge."
Emma cried as she gave her boyfriend a quick kiss. "Be safe," she said tearfully before the two groups broke apart.