"Good gods." Gustave breathed out as he, Dunstan, Alexander, Patrick, Pinocchio, and Jefferson found the Genie holding the Dark One in his fist as if he were a ragdoll. They'd heard the yelling from the floors above and came running

They saw Snow and Charming watching on with the same mystified looks and further down the hall, they saw Red, Belle, Artie, Baelfire, Hook and Graham.

"I'd no idea he was so… intimidating." Belle breathed, "I mean, Genie's are all powerful. But I didn't peg him for…"

"He's never shown his abilities like this. He does smaller work. Healing, fixing things. Showing Regina certain people in certain places…" Graham started.

"But I've never seen him do this. Do you know what happened?" Hook looked to the Western Royals.

"Rumple egged him on." Red was still looking at the oversized Genie in the hallway, though a smile appeared, "It's kind of beautiful, don't you think? Him going to all this trouble for the greater good?"

Rumple merely laughed as he looked to Red, "He's not doing it for the greater good. He's doing it for unrequited love!" And, in the blink of an eye, the Dark One was gone.

"Genie!" Hook ran forth, "What did you do?!"

The Genie had knit brows that were lost on no one, "I didn't do anything. He shouldn't have been able to use magic in that hold." He started shrinking to his normal size. "I don't know what's happened…"

"Where are Arely, Chip and Regina?" Charming changed the subject as he looked over the group to find everyone but those three.

After looking to each other for a moment, everyone burst in different directions.

"No!" Charming yelled, causing everyone to stop running back the way they came, "We stick together this time."

~0~0~0~0~0~

Cora tried to rip the Pure One's heart out, but it didn't give way. She gripped tighter and yanked another time. "What in the hell?" Cora finally retracted her hand after a third and fourth try.

"Looks like there's a reason why a Pure One's heart has never been documented to live outside of their body." Emma gave the witch a wicked smirk, "Fun fact. A witch or sorcerer or even the Dark One can't rip it out. Only another Pure One can." She looked around the hallway, "Ask me how I know that! Someone! Come on. Don't be shy."

Maleficent shrugged, deciding to get on with it, "How did you know that?"

"I'll tell you, Aunt Maleficent." She gave the witch a cheeky grin, and got an eye roll in return, "I know because over the years I've had these dreams." She turned to Regina, "Like that first night I got the axe. And it's like I've been learning my abilities by watching my forefathers' pasts." She saw Cora start moving, she wasn't sure what the woman was going to do, so she brought the hand that didn't hold the swan pendant up, magically pushing her into the wall behind her, "You don't want to leave now, do you, Cora? This is the big finale." She gave the woman a victoriously malevolent smile as she raised her other hand letting the swan pendent dangle from her fingers.

Cora's eyes widened. She ripped her arm from the wall and reached to her sternum, hoping to find it still there, "No!"

"Oh, yes." Emma nodded, "Dark One. I summon thee."

Rumple appeared before them all, "Well, people just keep showing up, don't they?" He looked around, his stare falling on Eva, "Aren't you dead?"

Eva rolled her eyes at the question this time, "Yes."

He turned, looking for his lover to find her against the wall, "Got yourself into a pickle, did you?"

Cora stared at him gravely, "Rumple…"

"What?"

"She didn't summon you." Emma interrupted.

Rumple turned to find Emma holding the necklace, "…Oh."

"The hallway is hardly the place for this. Let's go somewhere a little more… Formal. Maleficent?"

"What?"

"My axe, please." Maleficent tossed her the axe.

Emma, who had weaved the necklace through her fingers and around her wrist, already magically securing it in place, grabbed her axe from the air and held it in the same hand. She tapped it against the ground twice; her eyes fluttered closed a moment.

Everyone was so rapt with concentration on what the Pure One was doing that they didn't even notice that they were in the dark, overbearing throne room with its show of 'I have power and you minions don't'. Nor did they notice that they had multiplied and the entirety of the castle's living people—including what was left of the guards and Dr. Frankenstein were there.

As they finally did start noticing, thanks to Charming and his group sputtering words of confusion as they were pulled from the hallways and into this room, they all noticed that they were no longer in their fighting gear but all were in royal garb. The royals all were wearing crowns, all the queens' long hair were pulled back and the princes' and king's coats were fitted and chic.

They noticed that Rumple and Cora were bowed before Emma and Regina at the throne. Emma was standing, Regina sitting.

Emma's hair was pulled back at the sides and she donned her tiara. She still had hold of her axe and the dagger-turned-necklace. Instead of a dress, she opted for a coat and pants. It was white and well and iced with diamonds and sapphires along the bust line, only accentuating her curves, showing plenty of bust. She'd taken note from her ladylove for her coat. The coat fit her figure to the waist before letting the tails of the coat become a floor-length, almost obnoxious half-skirt in the back. The inside of the half-skirt was blue, accenting her white, fitted pants and white leather boots.

Regina was in Emma's favorite dress. The red one with the black lace that covered the plunging 'V' of the dress's front, and synched her waist, fitting her form all-to-smoothly. She made sure to put a little extra razzle dazzle to Regina's diamond crown, just making sure that everyone would know just who the most important royal in the room was.

Regina noticed a book and picture on the arm of the throne. She glanced the items over in wonder before she realized what they were—or, who had had them and why they were with her. She didn't make a comment; simply kept them there.

Aurora was alone she looked around, unsure of where her Phyllipina was. Just as she was going to ask, the feeling came and she knew. She looked up at the tall stretches of the intimidating throne room with a squint, "Phyl!" She smiled.

"Phyl?" Red asked the girl she'd been poofed next to and looked up. It was then she saw the animal at the top stretches of the ceiling. "Maleficent!" She said with surprise.

The swoop of wings was heard and Maleficent made her way from the dark depths. The dragon flew in a circular pattern, making sure to make a show of her form before landing, standing just behind the powerless Dark One and Cora. For good measure the dragon blew a fire ball that came so close to Cora, it singed her hair.

Emma turned to the crowd, who had moved to either side of the dragon to be able to see it all. She gave them all a smile before turning to the two she'd manipulated into a bow before the steps of their own throne. She smirked as she looked down at them, "Now…" She stepped forward, slowly, menacingly until the tips of her boots could be seen by the both of them, milking the situation all the more, "What should I should I do first?"

~0~0~0~0~0~

"Why do I get to do this?!" Queen Grace clapped her hands as she sat in her throne on a plump pillow to make her seem just a little bigger than she was.

"Because, your majesty, you are the queen. And one of the guards requested an immediate presence with you." Yvaine said as she stood next to the throne on one side.

"Oh." Grace's crown fell onto her forehead and she pushed it back.

"Don't worry. He's probably just wanting to make sure that we're keeping our promise." Shrek said from behind her.

"What promise is that, Shrek?" Grace looked up to him, this time, the crown falling off her head completely.

"Well, we promised to watch after you." Edward gave her a smile as he picked the crown up for her and placed it on her head.

"We promised we wouldn't let anything bad happen to you, or let the court try to manipulate you." Tristan added.

"What's manip… manip-uh-late mean?"

"It means get you to do what they want by making you think it was your idea." Nancy came in front of the little queen and knelt before her, "We won't let anything happen to you, all right?" She said as she fixed the girl's hair.

"Otay." She smiled. She liked Nancy. Nancy was a good singer. She sang her to bed in the nighttimes.

"Are we ready?" Thomas and Ella entered the throne room, followed by Danielle and Henry.

"Does anyone know that this guard has to say?" Ariel asked as he and Eric were the last to enter the throne room.

All the other royals shook their heads. At seeing this action, Grace followed suit shaking her head.

Eric smiled as he knelt before her, "You are the prettiest little queen I've ever laid my eyes on." He bopped her nose with his index finger.

She smiled and blushed a little, "Thanks, Ewic." She smiled wider when he winked at her.

A guard came in, "My Queen?" He asked, looking at the little girl, he'd been on detail for, for the last year.

"Yes, Malcolm?" She sat straighter, not needing anyone to tell her what to do.

"Are you ready to see Jacob?"

"Yes, Malcolm. Send him in, please." She'd watched Aunt Regina do this a ba-zillion times. She knew what to say.

Jacob walked in with a worried look and made his way forth. He didn't crack a smile to the tiny queen like most everyone else had done. He wasn't sure what needed to be done.

"Jacob." Grace stared down to him.

The guard kneeled and bowed his head, "Your Majesty."

"What have you to say?" She place her little hands in her lap, staying impossibly straight as she waited for the guard to speak.

"My queen. It's Maleficent and Aurora."

"What of them?" Ella interrupted.

Grace turned her head and glared to the other queen, "Hey!"

Ella covered her mouth, trying to hold back her laugh, "My apologies, your highness."

Grace simply turned back to Jacob, "What happened?" She asked him, knowing the guard wasn't coming in so formal just to give a report. That she'd learned from Aunt Regina.

"They… They've… They're gone." He said.

A collective gasp could be heard from the rest of the royals. Grace didn't react though. She looked at him, "What happened?" She asked again.

"Maleficent is powerless, as you've been told." Grace nodded at Jacob's words. "Aurora hadn't acted out in a few days. And they… well, they're so in love. I decided I'd leave the door to the bedroom unlocked for an hour and let them have some time together. But when I came back, they'd vanished. They didn't go out the balcony for it was locked, and I stood at the door half listening—mainly to the tones of their voices when I could hear them for that hour. They didn't leave, but when I walked back in… they were no longer there."

"Obviously Maleficent still had magic!" Henry started. Grace raised a single hand like she'd seen Aunt Regina do lots of times, shutting the king up as he looked down at her, "My apologies."

"What shall we do, my queen?" Jacob asked.

Grace thought for approximately seven seconds, "We shall do nothing." She smiled and jumped off her pillow. "All done." She smiled to the many royals that had gathered at her sides and behind her then skipped down the stairs, "Thank you Jacob." She kissed his cheek before running to Malcolm, "Malcolm, where's Delaney? I'm hungry."

"We shall find her." Malcolm said as he scooped the queen into his arms and walked out of the throne room.

"She can't do nothing!" Henry said after Jacob departed as well.

"Uh, okay… But what can she do?" Nancy asked seriously.

"Well, she can…" Henry trailed off.

"She could…" Tristan had nothing as well.

"Well there must be something…" Ariel said.

"No." Shrek shook his head.

"She made the right call." Fiona said.

"If Maleficent did have magic, she only brought her and Aurora back to the Forbidden Mountain, and if she didn't, then something beyond our control took the two of them away." Edward stated for the entire group. "There's nothing to be done. The little queen was right."

~0~0~0~0~0~

Snow got a glance of everyone that was there, after getting over the fact that she'd been magically transported from a hallway, seen her daughter overpower and make the Dark One and Cora bow before her and watch Maleficent's dragon form make her own big entrance and settle intimidatingly behind the two evil beings. It was after all of this that she saw her mother. Wait… her mother? She did a double take to the woman, then a triple take. She stared at the realization set in, "Mother?" she whispered. It took all of a second for Snow to make her way over to her mother, enveloping her in a hug.

Regina stood and moved behind Emma, "How did Maleficent and Aurora get here? I mean, I love the show, but… how was it even possible?"

Emma turned to Regina, "I magicked them here after finding their hearts… I thought I was gonna need help to get home to you…" She smiled, taking the brunette's hand, squeezing it before she looked to her mother, "Grandmother came from a higher plane to help out." She watched her mother hug her grandmother and smiled at the reunion. She felt, rather than saw Cora try to move to make a break for it under Maleficent's body, but Emma was faster.

The blonde placed the blade of her axe against Cora's neck, "It doesn't just do fun things like bring a lot of people from different places that aren't touching to new rooms with new clothes… And it's not just for magic. If you want a beheading all you have to do is ask." She glared down to the woman. Cora glared back up in defiance. Emma simply chuckled, removing the axe, keeping her intimidating stare on the witch, "And if you'd like to be charred, roasted, burnt to a crisp, eaten whole, or endure a raw dismemberment, again, all you have to do is ask." She stared down to Cora who was still trying to defy her. The evil witch finally looked up to the dragon, who had moved so her head was hovering over her body. The dragon puffed a smoke ring around the evil witch; this made Cora kneel again.

This action also made Aurora laugh. Maleficent turned, her neck easily long enough to reach other girl. She nuzzled her gently and Aurora hugged as much of the dragon's nose as she could before the dragon moved back to where she was, focusing on the two beneath her body.

The Briar Rose felt stares and saw Red and Belle's eyes on her. She stared back a moment, letting her third eye work its magic and smiled, "Like you don't cuddle her wolf during wolf's week."

Red dropped her jaw, amused, and looked to her wife who looked just as entertained. They said nothing as they watched Regina move around Emma and walk closer to her mother, but not too close.

Regina stared at her mother, masking any and all emotion then turned back to her lover, "Darling, what is with the show? I think more than one of us came here to kill them."

Emma took a hand of the woman she loved and kissed it, "I know. And from the moment I awoke in clear consciousness from the lovely torture they bestowed, I wanted the same." She kissed the palm of her Shadow Queen's hand, "But as my mind is coming to even greater clarity, plans are changing." She put the flat of her axe under Rumple's chin, "Rumplestilskin." She looked overly superior to the man.

"Yes?" He regretfully stood up, axe following his chin.

"Yes, what?" Emma looked at him all too smug.

Rumple's teeth grit together, "Yes, Master?"

Emma smirked, smugness ever present as she removed the axe from Rumple's chin, "Where is Cora's heart?" she asked, "No…" She shook her head, "Magic the witch's heart here. In it's chest."

The Dark One brought his fists up to his chest before flicking them, letting the flats of his hands fall as he brought his arms down into an 'L', a black cloud forming over them as the small chest was produced and presented to Regina and Emma.

Emma turned to her, "You wanna see her with her heart?" She nodded to the small chest.

Regina stared at her lover a moment, "Emma…" she mouthed, the mask falling ever so slightly, emotion seeping through at the prospect of seeing her mother with a heart.

"It's your choice."

Regina opened the chest and looked at the heart inside. After seeing the inside, she knew it was too much to ask the gods. She closed her eyes and turned, shaking her head taking a few steps back to the throne.

"What is it?" Charming asked for the crowd.

Emma stopped staring at her ladylove and looked into the opened box. Her jaw jut to the side as she reached in and picked it up. It was smaller than any heart she'd seen—not that she'd seen a lot. It was also completely black and looked as if it were rotting. She couldn't hide her surprise as she turned it around and saw what seemed to be a few dead maggots fall from it. "It seems Cora's heart is no longer usable. It's old and completely black, and definitely rotting." She said aloud. She threw it back in the box. "Thank you, Dark One."

He waved the box away and knelt down again.

"No, stand up. Both of you." She looked to Cora and waited for the woman to stand before looking back to Regina offering her free hand.

Regina took the few steps and took it. She let herself be pulled to the side of her lover and wrapped her arms around her lover's waist.

"Look at all this." She gestured with the axe to everyone around, before pointing to Aurora specifically, making them look at her, "You two took Aurora's heart once, poisoned it and Maleficent put it back together. You tried to take Maleficent's, but Aurora begged for you to take hers again and you did. You took half of Maleficent's to control them both, and you succeeded for well over two years. You drove Aurora mad, gave Maleficent only feelings for her Briar Rose that was no longer there, and you even went to the great lengths of having Aurora drain Maleficent's magic. And now, they both have their hearts restored. They're probably going to be married in a hop, skip and a jump. Aurora now has a third eye as her mind and heart were restored, and Maleficent obviously has her powers back." Maleficent again blew a smoke ring around the both of them, this made Emma and a few others brave enough to show amusement, chuckle, "You two did that. Congratulations. Love wins. Good wins."

She looked to Hook, "Hook stole your wife from you, Rumple. That's how the tale goes. But that's not what happened was it? No, see, you didn't pay your wife attention. You didn't even know she was gone. Meanwhile, she'd fallen in love with another man, a real man. And you had to do something about it. You ripped her heart from her chest, crushed it to dust, and took his hand for good measure. And he lusted for revenge. For years, he lusted for revenge. He tried to find it, but he could never find you. So he started looking for danger. He went to Neverland for that, and eventually wound up drunk and passed out at the Caspian shore. He was picked up by the very new Shadow Queen while she was making a visit. And now he's one of the prominent advisors of the Queen. You've managed to make Killian Jones go from being a lying, cheating pirate, to one of the most respected men in all the lands. He couldn't have done it without you."

She pointed to her parents, "You messed with my mother and father for years, yet they still managed to come to reign over the White Kingdom and out of all the couples in love, real love, true love, they managed to create the first of the second coming of the Pure Ones. You did that too."

Emma pointed the axe to her grandmother, "You've managed to successfully kill my grandmother, yet she is still here, still able to watch your demise." She turned, walked to the throne and took the picture from its place on the throne's arm. She walked over to Cora and showed it to her, "You stole this picture from her after you poisoned her. My mother doesn't even know it exists, but you knew. She told you about it before she realized who you were." She then walked to her mother and gave her the photo, "It's Grandmother's favorite." She walked back to the dark one and Regina's mother.

She pointed to Baelfire, "Rumple. Your son has traveled to different worlds. He's been to England, whatever that is, and all thanks to you, and his knowledge of magic, he saved a family of lifelong suffering by letting the shadow take him to Neverland in the boys' place. He got out of Neverland, and he somehow got to the Shadow Lands where Regina found him and begged for her father to take him in, adopt him." She chuckled, "Who doesn't love the irony of Cora's daughter, and Rumple's child becoming brother and sister?"

She had them turn back around to her and Regina, "And your own daughter. You've messed with her and messed her life up countless times, yet she is everything you could never be. She is Queen of the Shadow Lands—she's made them prosper since your reign. She is in love. Something she refused to do after you murdered her first one only a few paces from her face. Yet somehow, this charming young girl—you both helped make possible, I remind you—came into her life and wouldn't take 'no' for an answer. She is everything good, and that couldn't have happened without you."

She looked to the others, "I'm sure you've made everyone else in this room's lives a living hell at one point or another, yet all of us are here now. We're standing taller, more confident, ever able to defend ourselves as needed. And we owe it all to you both." She looked around, "I think we should give them our full gratitude."

Everyone laughed and clapped, giving their many 'thanks' for all Rumple and Cora had done.

Cora was over it, "If you're going to kill us, Pure One, just get it over with."

Emma pursed her lips and shook her head, "No." She smiled evilly, regally, "I've something far better in mind than killing you." She looked over to the Genie, "Genie of Agrabah?"

"Yes, princess?"

"You and I have had a few conversations over the years as I snuck in and out of the Shadow castle."

He chuckled, "Yes, we have."

"Tell me, what's the worst thing about being a kept Genie?"

The Genie could only smile, "You have phenomenal cosmic powers… and an itty bitty living space."

"Now, Sir Genie, I've never lived in a lamp, but, would you think, based on what you know of these two that living in such a space for the next… How long did you live before—?"

"10,000 years."

"10,000 years would be an appropriate punishment for them?"

Genie smiled a small smile, "Aye, your majesty. I think that they would definitely think twice about messing with a Pure One or anyone for that matter."

"Me too." She looked to everyone else, "Is that alright with everyone? I know that we're not killing them, like a lot wanted, but… I'm more a kill when I have to, punish if I can kind of girl."

There were a lot of small conversations, debating the 'what ifs?' of the situation.

Emma turned to Regina, "That all right with you?" She asked, "I'll kill them, let you kill them, let Maleficent kill them, let whoever kill them, if you want me to—"

"No, I think that letting them spend 10,000 years together in such close quarters sounds like a wonderful plan."

The White Princess smiled and waved her hand producing a lamp.

This was when Cora tried to make another break for it, but again, Maleficent was faster, and Emma was even faster than the dragon. Maleficent breathed fire on the spot Cora was running for, and Emma pointed to the escaping woman and then to the lamp, and suddenly, she was gone from sight. She moved on to Rumple.

He wanted to resist. "I'll get you for this. You, your lineage. I will kill you when I get out. Mark my words." He willed his body to do something, but Emma still had a hold of the necklace.

Emma laughed, "If you're still alive! Your lover will surely be dead judging by the state of her heart, or the fact that you might go after one another in there. And you… magical though you may be, even the Dark One can't live forever." She pointed to the resisting Dark One and the lamp, transporting him to the lamp.

Emma let the pendant fall from her hands to hold onto the chain, but as it dangled it started changing form. Emma looked the dagger over. "This is what gives him all that power that he can no longer use? I've a good place for it." She put it in her belt for the time being.

She walked down a few steps, Regina's hand in hers before she scanned the room again, "Dr. Frankenstein." She dropped Regina's hand, crooking her finger as she tilted her head, waiting for the man to approach. "Are you a little scared of me now? Now that you don't have me strapped down to a table and aren't shooting electrical currents through my body?"

The doctor swallowed audibly, "Yes!" he closed his eyes, waiting for his punishment.

Emma looked his scared form over, "Good." She took a step closer, "Where are your notes on me?"

"In my lab. In my notebook."

Emma closed her eyes a moment. All she had to do was visualize the lab, and see the notebook before it appeared floating in the air before her and her ladylove, "Now it's mine." She took it from the air and gave it to Regina.

"You can't just!—That is research!" He reached for it from Regina's arms, but Emma magically took hold of him and held him in the air.

"Research that you'll never be able to prove or use. I'm sending you back to your homeland. If you ever try to hitch a ride here again, I will see to it personally to take your heart and crush it to dust. You're not to mess with life and death like you have been. You're not to try to bring the dead alive again. It can't be done for a reason."

"It is my life's work." The doctor slumped forward in the air, giving a good impression of a whining toddler.

"Find something else." Emma fisted her hand and opened it to reveal what looked to be fairy dust. She blew it on him and he was gone with a puff of smoke.

She looked around to see the many, many guards, "As for the rest of you. I'll let you go. You get a second chance. Don't work for the bad guy again because I won't hesitate to break your necks." She said before tapping the end of her axe against the ground twice, the guards were all gone, leaving the 22 that remained and the lamp. She casually made her way over to the throne grabbing the book that knew so much about her, putting it with Dr. Frankenstein's notes before turning to the dragon, "Thank you. You can change back now."

Maleficent stretched her neck and looked up, spreading her wings, showing her full size before she began shrinking.

"What are we going to do with that?" Snow pointed to the lamp as she approached her daughter and Regina while the dragon changed back to human form.

"Nothing, mother. We leave it here. No one will ever be able to touch it this way. I'll seal the entire castle magically preventing entrance to anyone." Emma said as she was wrapped up in a hug by first her mother, then her father.

A few moments of hugging went by before Maleficent changed completely and had greeted Aurora once again, "Can we get out of here now?" Maleficent knew her Briar Rose was itching to leave.

"I don't like it here. I feel like I've been here for far too long." Aurora whispered, hugging Maleficent close.

Emma smiled over to the couple, "Keep your gown on, Aunt Maleficent."

"…Aunt?" Regina and Snow both asked.

Emma only smiled.

AN: I know that they didn't kill them like a lot of you wanted, but I hope you enjoyed the chapter anyways! Thoughts and Feels? Please Read and Review!