Hey guys! Happy Monday. I hope you're enjoying the holidays. So I have to say this, but I don't think I will be updating next week due to the holidays. It's usually busy this time of year and a little hard to balance family time and this. It was difficult to write this week and finish Dragon Heart. Yes, Dragon Heart is done. If you haven't read it, I would check it out. It's alternative story about Maleficent. But anyway, on with the story.

Maleficent's life was never the easiest. She had a mother and father, like many do. However, not everyone's mother and father were the most feared dragons of all. Grendel, the king of all dragons, and his queen, Morgana, had three children. Maleficent, the eldest, Eraqus, the only son, and Arianna, the youngest. The king and queen loved their children, taught them the ways of the dragon, and prepared them, for one day they would be the rulers of the dragons. Eraqus of the upper lands. Arianna of the lower land. Maleficent of the middle lands.

But like many stories, tragedy struck the kingdom when the king and his mother were slain by none other than Beowulf so he may prove his worth to man. A war between humans and dragons waged on for centuries. Their kind were hunted down like animals. A sport to see the bravery of knights. Many fell, both human and dragons as the war continued on for centuries after King Grendel's death.

Yet, life moved on and so did Maleficent. When she came to age, she received the land she was promised at birth. She had found love with a dragon named Marcus, and had a beautiful baby boy named Morgan after Maleficent's mother. She wanted to name her son after her father, but Marcus beat her to it with his eldest son.

With her husband by her side and son being taught to rule after them, Maleficent ruled the land just and fair. Maleficent loved her husband and son. They were her world. Morgan looked a lot like his father as he grew into a man. Same dark eyes, thick hair, smile and nose. The only thing he got from his mother was her snow kissed skin and blonde hair. She had everything she could ever want with the man she loved and the son she adored. That is until she found out who her son wanted to marry.

Briar Rose. Maleficent had heard of the young princess. Young, fair, heir to her own kingdom, and human. It wouldn't bother Maleficent that much if the girl was human or not, there were some humans that worshiped her and her kind as Gods, but this girl Maleficent would never approve of. For she was the daughter of King William, their biggest enemy and descendent of Beowulf. Maleficent would never allow her son to be with this girl.

Resistant of his mother's decision, Morgan ran away in the middle of the night. Maleficent wanted to go after her son. Marcus tried to talk her out of it. For she was Queen and if something were to happen to her and Morgan, then their kingdom would crumble. Maleficent reluctantly let her husband go with a group of their men to find their son. The king and his men headed South, past Arianna's kingdom and into King William's kingdom.

Maleficent waited for weeks to hear word from her husband or sister to tell he what was happening. It wasn't until one day a knight of Arianna's came rushing into her court. He looked battered and bruised. He carried not only a letter, but a solemn look. Maleficent knew something had happened. It took all of Maleficent strength to not break down in front of her court. Marcus and Arianna were dead. There was an ambush at Arianna's castle by William's men. No one survived. No one could find Morgan.

Maleficent feared the worst, she sent some of her men to scout out Arianna's land and into William's kingdom. When they came back, her men reported that William had brought back no prisoners. Morgan was gone. Brought by distress, Maleficent vowed that William had to pay. He took her child and she would take his.

Maleficent snuck into William's kingdom and lured his daughter out of the safety of her room and into the tallest tower in the castle. There she enchanted a spinning wheel that Briar Rose could not resist, but to prick her finger on. Once she did, the young girl feel into a death like sleep, where only true love could save her. Maleficent laughed at this, true love didn't exist. Now William had lost his only child like Maleficent had lost hers.

What Maleficent did not count on was Briar Rose's betroth, Prince Stefan. Once he had heard of his beloved fate, he kissed her. True love's kiss awaked the sleeping beauty. But the prince couldn't let what Maleficent did go unpunished. So he went in search of fairies to aid him in his fight with Maleficent. The fairies had enchanted a sword that would make Maleficent lose all her powers.

Not soon after, Prince Stefan lead an army of his men to Maleficent's castle. Both armies fought valiantly. Stefan tricked Maleficent to turn into her dragon form and struck her with the enchanted sword. The great dragon fell. Stefan raised his sword over his head, ready to strike, but never did.

A horde of dragons came to her aid. Eraqus's men. His men fought Prince Stefan and his knights off his sister's land. Once they were gone, Eraqus confronted Maleficent. He took her land, claiming that she was unfit to rule. Maleficent did not put up a fight as she felt defeated. She had lost everything. Her husband, sister, child, and now her brother. Maleficent was completely alone for many years. She took up residence in her sister's castle, reliving the moments she was here when her little sister was alive. Maleficent would use her alternative version of the sleeping curse to make her numb and forget her heartache for a moment. It was that way for many years until one day a young queen came asking for her help. Soon, the queen's daughter would ask for help as well. From then on, Maleficent's life had changed for the better.

Present day Storybrooke- Maleficent's house

"So what happened?" Lily asked Morgan as he told her his story.

"Well I ran away to be with Briar Rose. But I soon found out she did not love me. She used me to weaken my family's army and try to take me for ransom. They planned to imprison me and take my dragon scales for armor."

"That bitch," Lily exclaimed. Maleficent couldn't agree more.

"Lily she's not a bitch. That's an insult to female dogs everywhere," Maleficent said. Morgan tried to smile at his mother's remark, but failed.

"I fought to the end and I escaped. I was hurt badly. I eventually healed and tried to go back to our aunt's castle, but it was too late. Everything was gone. Our aunt, my dad. I thought you were dead mother," Morgan looked at his mother. "I heard the great Maleficent had fallen. I couldn't go back. So I ran. I heard about the Land of Untold Stories and I went to find this land. The Enchanted Forest had no need for a cowardly prince.

"I was alone for," Morgan paused and thought about what he was going to say next. "What forty years. That was until I met Sophie. She arrived after she lost her mother and sibling. She blamed herself. I knew how she felt and couldn't leave her. Since then, we've been good friends."

"But she's not Sophia," Lily exclaimed. "Emma has proof of that."

"That may be true that she wasn't born into the name Sophia, but Lily she had been Sophia longer than her old self. So she is Sophia," Morgan tried to reason.

"Do you know who she used to be?"

"I do."

"Will you tell me?"

"No. She's no longer the person she once was. I try not to focus on the person she once was, but the person she is now." Maleficent felt a tug on her arm. She turned around to see Regina motioning for Maleficent to follow her into the kitchen. Maleficent leaves her two children to talk. She couldn't believe Morgan was alive this whole time. She wished she knew; she would had done anything to find him.

"How she doing?" Regina asked.

"She seems okay. Upset with me that I didn't tell her about Morgan, but she's handling this really well," Maleficent smiled at how strong her daughter was.

"That good," Regina let out a sigh of relief. Maleficent raised an eyebrow, not amused. "Not that she's upset with you, but that she's okay," Regina tried to explain herself. "I think I should go."

"Regina wait," Maleficent stopped her from leaving. "I'm sorry about Evie. I wanted to tell you sooner, I didn't know how. I know you're upset with me-"

"I'm not Mal," Regina interrupted.

"You're not?" Maleficent asked in confusion.

"No. I'm upset with myself. How could I let this happen? How did I turn into my mother? I didn't," She laughed weakly, "my mother never tried to kill me."

"Regina," Maleficent lightly grabbed Regina's hand. "Evie loved you no matter what and she knew that you loved her. You were just consumed with grief and anger that you couldn't see it. Not to mention that imp wasn't helpful at all."

"It would be easy to blame him, but I was the one who stabbed her daughter to death. I'm a monster," Regina shook Maleficent's hand away. Maybe she did deserve all this. She didn't deserve to be a mother to her child, for Robin to die, for her evil self destroying everything she held dear. All because she caused thousands pain and unhappiness. Because she killed her child.

"No you're not. If you were, then this wouldn't hurt. You wouldn't care," Maleficent walked closer to Regina and touched her cheek. "You love your kids so much and they love you. I know Lily will too when we tell her."

"What about you?" Maleficent was taken back for a moment, but she didn't move from her spot. "Do you love me?"

"Regina."

"I remember everything from the Enchanted Forest. I remember how I treated you back then."

"Don't," Maleficent interrupted Regina and placed her other hand on the other side of Regina's face. "I forgave you a long time ago," She leaned her forehead against Regina's. "You need to learn to forgive yourself. And to answer your question," Maleficent slowly leaned in closer, Regina didn't move away. Once their lips touched Maleficent felt that she was in Heaven. Regina pulled Maleficent closer, she couldn't get enough. Both woman wanted to continue, but had to stop for air. They breathed heavily, trying to catch their breath. "Always," Maleficent answered. She had always loved Regina and always will. "But I want you to be with me because you want to," Maleficent moved away from Regina, "not because of what a fairy says."

"I want to make it right," Regina was the one to grab Maleficent's hand. "Once all this is over and we tell Lily the truth, I want to do right by you."

"What are you saying Regina?"

"Do you want to go out with me?"

"Are you sure about this?" Regina was a leader in this town. It was one thing saying she had a child with a villain- even that was hard to explain- but to say that she was in love with her and wanted the whole town to know. Well, that was a different story. Maleficent knew in this world, and in the Enchanted Forest, same sex relationships were accepted, but that was not the thing Maleficent was worried about. What she was worried about was if their relationship could be accepted because she was a villain and Regina was a reformed villain. Maleficent knew how hard Regina had worked on being a better person, Maleficent didn't want that work to be for nothing.

"Yes, there's been very few things I've been sure about in my life, you're one of them," Regina didn't give Maleficent a chance to think as she attacked her lips. Maleficent didn't want this to end. This was the dream and she was living it.

"Argh that's too sweet, it's giving me cavities," the Evil Queen waved her hand and the image of Maleficent and Regina disappeared. She turned away from the mirror and continued her work. It didn't matter what Regina did, for her time was up. Regina was a failure. She couldn't destroy Snow White, she couldn't protect her children, she was too weak to get her happiness when it was so close she could feel it. Not the Evil Queen. She knew what she wanted and she went for it. Regina had to go.

The rule in chess was that two pieces could not occupy the same spot, one must be slain. And the Evil Queen would be the one to make Regina disappear. Now she couldn't kill Regina, then she would kill herself. No, that couldn't happen. Instead Regina had to disappear where no one could save her. The Evil Queen had to merge back into Regina, only this time she would be the one in control of their body. No longer would she be stuck in the side lines where Regina would get screwed over and over. No, the Evil Queen would take what she wanted. Her revenge, her family, she would want nothing for all she would have to do was take it.

The Evil Queen took the three vials that contained the blood of her kin and poured it into the cauldron. The potion began to fizzle until it turned a red color. It was ready. All she had to do was drink the potion and the next time she saw Regina, she would enact the spell. She and Regina would merge and the Evil Queen would be in control. The Evil Queen poured some of the potion into a cup and drank it. She waited and waited, but nothing felt different. The Evil Queen growled and threw the cup.

"Careful dearie," the Evil Queen didn't have to turn to see who it was. "You might hurt yourself."

"So you've come back to me after Belle wants nothing to do with you," an evil smirk crossed the Queen's face.

"Quite the contrary, I wanted to see if you had figured it out yet," Rumple smirked.

"Figure out what?"

"Well why your potion didn't work," the Evil Queen didn't like this. The Dark One started circling her like a vulture waiting for its prey to die. Something was wrong and he knew what.

"It did work," she tried to deny his claim.

"Really? Do you feel different?" the Evil Queen stayed quiet, not wanting to give him the satisfaction that he could be right. "Didn't think so," he smirked.

"Okay wise one, then tell me what did I do wrong. I got all the ingredients like the spell says," the Evil Queen placed her hands on her hips. She was annoyed. Why doesn't he just tell her what was wrong with the potion?

"Ah do you have all the blood of your living relative?"

"Of course I do," she had taken Zelena's, Robin's, and Lily's blood. Her mother and father was dead, so there were no other living relatives.

"Do you have her blood?" He asked. It took a moment for the Evil Queen to realized who he was talking about. No. it can't be true. She was gone. There was no way she was alive. Not after all this time. It was impossible. Was it?

So what do you guys think? It's the first time we didn't have Evie in the story, that's a nice break. But you will see her again. I have big plans for everyone. But please tell me what you think. And if you haven't, favorite or follow the story. And with that, I will see you in the next year.