And this is the last chapter of the Dark Star arc. But season two isn't over yet. Read and enjoy. ^^ The chapter was written by my friend, but edited by me. The edit made it longer than it originally was (it was 4 Word pages, and it turned to be 7).

Disclamer: I own nothing. Non profit fanfiction. OUAT goes to Horowitz and Kitsis, SM goes to Naoko/Toei.

Light Conquers All! The Future of Crystal Forest!

Crystal Forest

"We're actually in the future?" - Alexandra asked in surprise, after her friends explained the whole story.
"And the person in the crystal is Emma?" - Cecilia asked shocked, giving a brief look in the direction of the huge crystal.
"And… she married Hook, and Little Em is their daughter?" - Emily asked confused, to which Emma nodded.
"So, now we have to defeat Prince Ernest and restore Crystal Forest." - Danielle stated as Rose looked concerned.
"I don't think Ernest is behind this." - Rose replied to her friend.
"What do you mean…?" - Cecilia asked her.
"While Emma was explaining you everything, I checked on the databanks and discovered something about the banished prisoner in the Dark Realm." - Rose said.
"And that would be?" - Emily asked.
"Queen Exitumia's oracle!" - Rose exclaimed to everyone's shock.
Killian explained them about the oracle. He was working in the shadows and that was why the guardians missed him when they faced Exitumia and her kingdom. But no one could explain how he managed to survive all those centuries. All of this indicated that his actual plans might be different from what the Dark Star clan had in mind. Suddenly, a huge quake came, almost causing the guardians to lose their balance.
"What the hell is that?" - Regina asked, as they all headed outside to see what caused it.

A second megalith dark crystal impacted the earth to everyone's shock. Prince Ernest and Wiseman appeared in front of everyone.
"I might not have Queen Selene, but I will still have all the realms!" - Prince Ernest said in anger.
"Ernest, don't do this! He is using you for his old agenda!" - Emma begged.
"He is an oracle, but he isn't what you think he really is!" - Danielle added.
"So, you were able to see through me?" - Wiseman asked as his eyes glowed red.
"Tell us who you really are, Oracle, and what you're really up to!" - Rose demanded him.
"I AM DEATH PHANTOM, AND ALL REALMS WILL BE CONSUMED BY THE DARKNESS!"

Tempus Domain, days ago

Emma visited Sailor Tempus, after she almost got in trouble by her mother for entering the forbidden door. The queen hadn't yelled or punished the child, but the girl could hear by the stern tone that she wasn't approving.

"She said I shouldn't have come here… Even after I explained that you and I became friends." – the small princess said with sadness.

"Don't be sad, princess. She's just worried for you, because she cares about you a lot." – Tempus explained softly – "Look, I'll give you something special. So, don't be sad now."

Using her magic, she made the ball Lux T glow for a few moments. Emma looked up at the guardian, and Sailor Tempus explained:

"I gave to your toy a special ability to transform into different things. So, you'll have even more fun playing with it."

"Really?" – Emma asked, her eyes shining of joy.

"Yes. All you have make it transform is to say 'Lux T shapeshift'."

Emma happily hugged her, and she said:

"Thank you for your gift, Tempus…!"

"You're welcome, Emma." – Sailor Tempus replied.

Tempus Domain

Tempus sensed that something bad was happening in the future. She brought her hand to her forehead, as she was questioning her further actions.

"Little Em… she's surely in danger…! What am I supposed to do…? Should I leave my domain to help the guardians, or should I stay there…?"

Crystal Forest

"I can't believe this… you tricked me!" – Ernest shouted at Wiseman in anger – "You said we shall punish all the realms, by destroying it completely! And I thought we were about to create our own new dark realm!"

"You're right, Ernest. I promised you what you wanted only to have helping hands in my own plans… Imagine all the realms consumed by darkness! The darkness on the surface, but also in people's minds and hearts! Light shall be an unknown word."

Hating the idea of being just a pawn, Ernest attacked Death Phantom, successfully wounding him. But this was useless, because Death Phantom's darkness was much more powerful and so, he killed Ernest, destroying him into oblivion. As the Prince got shot by the beam of dark magic and as his body was breaking down, he looked one last time at Sailor Light, the future queen, saying:

"Queen… your wish comes true… you shall never see me again…"

After those words, he completely disappeared from everyone's sight. Then, Death Phantom revealed his true form, which looked like a rotten living corpse, as everyone looked at the scene with evident disgust. Then, Death Phantom shouted:

"You think yourself strong?! Let's see what you'll say about… this!"

With his powers, he summoned one final Megalith of dark crystal. Everyone gasped as they saw it: it was twice as big than the other two they saw before.

"It's huge! How shall we destroy it…?" – Emma exclaimed.

"Admire my work, ladies and gentlemen! This megalith shall destroy everyone and everything, as soon as it impacts with the earth!" – Death Phantom exclaimed with a diabolic laugh, as everyone looked at each other with fear.

Tempus Domain, days ago

Emma, holding Lux T and mentally blaming herself for what happened to her mother and the Crystal Forest, quietly entered the space-time door. Sailor Tempus turned around, and she asked in surprised:

"Emma…?"

"I'm very sorry, Tempus…" – the little girl said quietly.

Then, she quickly ran pass her, and before the guardian had a chance to react, stole one of the time keys that were hanging on the belt.

"Emma…! Stop…!" – Sailor Tempus yelled in worry, seeing Emma run further in the domain.

But Tempus hadn't enough time to run after her, as the small princess disappeared in a flash of light. Emma was gone to the past. Sailor Tempus could only prey that Emma's time travel wouldn't end bad.

Tempus Domain

While Tempus was thinking about what she should do, she saw the kitten Apollo come through the door.

"If you want to help others, you better go to them." – the animal said.

"I really want to, but… you see, this place can't be left without a watch over it."

"I know, I'm just a cat. But I can watch the door in your place meantime." - Apollo suggested.

"Really? You would do that?" – Sailor Tempus asked, to which Apollo nodded – "Thank you, Apollo. You're my little hero."

At those words, Tempus smiled to the kitten and gave him a small kiss, after what she ran through the door.

Crystal Forest

The Megalith was minutes away from impacting the earth. Everyone was looking at it approach in horror, fearing what was about to happen.

"It's approaching so quickly… there's no way we can stop this!" – Sailor Rose exclaimed.

"Is this really the end…?" – Mary Margaret asked with a single tear, as she was holding tightly her husband's hand.

"I hate dying this easily!" – Sailor Fire shouted in frustration, after what she held Regina in a tight hug – "I'm sorry I brought you into this, Regina."

"It's alright, Danielle…" – Regina said, feeling her own tears coming.

"I don't want this to happen!" – Little Em screamed.

Emma knelt to Little Em and put her hands on her shoulders, squeezing it slightly. She couldn't say a word and her expression was blank. Sailor Aqua, Sailor Wind, Sailor Lightning and Sailor Rose just took each others' hands. It was at that moment, as all hope seemed to be lost, that Sailor Tempus arrived. Everyone was surprised to see her there, while Mary Margaret began to remember something from her time as Queen Serenita.

Tempus Domain, eons ago

A very young Sailor Tempus, accompanied by Queen Serenita, arrived in the space-time domain. Queen Serenita opened the door and began to explain about her duty as a guardian.

"Sailor Tempus… you are a chosen guardian to be the keeper of the space-time door. Your duty is to watch over all the worlds and realms. It's a great honor. But keep in mind the three taboos that you shall never infringe."

Sailor Tempus looked at her queen in silence, waiting for her to pursue. Seeing that she was attentive, Queen Serenita pursued:

"You must not travel through time, you must not abandon your post at the door, and..."

Crystal Forest

Mary Margaret realized what Tempus planned to do.

"Tempus…! No, don't do it, you'll…" – the woman yelled, trying to stop her.

But it was too late. Tempus broke the third taboo, by using her ultimate attack. Time suddenly stopped, the megalith and Death Phantom went immobile. The heroes were still able to move. Sailor Tempus then collapsed, after what everyone ran to her worried.

"Tempus…!" – Little Em exclaimed, with tears in her eyes.

"Sailor Tempus, what's the matter? Are you feeling bad?" – Sailor Light asked.

"I just committed the most important taboo… It's forbidden to stop time… if I do, I… my life is forfeit…" – Sailor Tempus explained.

As the Sailor Guardians gasped, Tempus looked at her friend, who was beginning to cry.

"Emma… you shouldn't cry… even after death, I'm with you with all my heart… Goodbye, my princess… you shall become a great heir for your kingdom."

Those last words spoken, she died. Little Em began to shake and then broke in tears.

"Tempus! No!"

Then, something very surprising happened. Little Em began to glow, while not knowing what was going on, and within seconds she transformed into a Sailor Gaurdian. Everyone looked at her in shock, but Little Em was no less surprised to see herself in a Sailor form. Her outfit was similar to Emma's, only her front bow was light pink (instead of Emma's light yellow) as were her heart earrings and the tiara jewel.

"She became a guardian of light, to inherit the previous one…" – David said in amazement as he understood – "She's the new Sailor Light…!"

In the castle, Queen Selene began to awaken due Little Em's awakening as a Sailor Guardian. Time was moving again, after what Death Phantom got very angry and he began to merge himself into the Megalith, to continue its impact.

"You're just postponing the inevitable! Soon, you'll see yourself completely destroyed, after what a new era of total darkness shall begin!"

"No! This will never happen!" – Sailor Light shouted – "Not as long as I'm here to defend this world!"

Sailor Light then flew to the Dark Crystal and entered it, in order to stop Death Phantom. Everyone began calling for her, trying to stop her.

"Emma, what are you doing?!" – Sailor Aqua yelled.

"It's too dangerous, you could kill yourself!" – Sailor Lightning screamed.

"Don't be an idiot! Come back!" – Sailor Fire shouted.

"Emma…!" – Mary Margaret and David called for her, but it was too late.

"Stubborn brat…" – Regina muttered to herself, shaking her head.

Then, they heard someone coming out of the castle. Everyone turned to the entry of the castle, to see that it was… Queen Selene! The queen was wearing a puffy light blue gown with swan wings-like sleeves. Her hair was styled in a hair bun and was a couple of shades lighter than Emma's current hair, and she had red lipstick on her lips. Queen Selene had a tiara-like silver crown with small diamonds on her head and, the most important detail, a golden star mark on her forehead. Mary Margaret and David looked at her in awe, feeling emotional seeing their daughter all grown up and they also felt proud of whom she became (or, more correctly, will become). The guardians were as much speechless. Regina felt different, conflicting feelings inside her, which she preferred to ignore for the moment.

"Mummy…!" – Little Em exclaimed, as she ran to her mother with tears.

She hugged her mother, who immediately hugged her back. They held each other like this for a moment, until the mother broke the silence.

"My sweet princess… Emma, I'm so glad you're okay…" – Queen Selene said, tears streaming on her cheeks – "I am so proud of you…"

"But… if all of this happened it's because of me." – Little Em said – "I thought you would be disappointed."

"No, Emma. How can I be disappointed in you? You're my only daughter and I love you no matter what. Besides, I awoke thanks to you."

"Mum…" – Little Em said feeling more tears coming.

Queen Selene hugged her daughter once more, before standing up and facing the guests from the past.

"So… now that your overemotional moment seems to have an end… It would be nice if you said what we should do about this." – Regina said with a sarcastic tone, pointing the dark crystal in the air, dangerously approaching the earth.

"Have no worries. Today is not the end of the world." – Queen Selene said, before turning to Emma – "Sailor Light can destroy the Dark Crystal, but she needs your help."

Then, the queen granted her daughter a small version of the Nebula Wand. As soon as Little Em took it, Selene smiled to her and said:

"I am so happy that you became a guardian. I'm sure you'll be a great one and that you'll do the job just well."

Little Em nodded, after what she flew to the Dark Crystal and entered it on her turn to help Emma.

Dark Crystal

Sailor Light reached the core of the Dark Crystal. Short after, Death Phantom began to attack her. Emma was using the Nebula Wand to stop Death Phantom's attacks. Her light powers suddenly became stronger, as Little Em arrived.

"Little Em…!" – Sailor Light exclaimed joyfully.

"We shall fight him together, Emma!" – Little Em said with a smile.

Little Em began to use her own Nebula Wand to help Emma. The two guardians of light did their best to harm Death Phantom, but soon enough they felt their own strength leave them, the dark powers of their enemy increasing at each second.

"You're fools! Do you really think two pitiful girls as you are can do something against the greatest power of darkness?!" – Death Phantom shouted.

Then, he shot at them with a huge wave of darkness, which made the two scream in pain, and despite their hard attempts, their rods broke and Emma's brooch shattered.

"What…?" – Emma exclaimed.

"It's because of me, Emma…" – Little Em said, blaming herself again.

"No, it's not you…" – Emma began to say.

"It's my fault! All of this is my fault!"

Then, Little Em shed a tear, which began to glow in a very bright light. Emma looked very surprised and Deaht Phantom shouted:

"What?! What's this light?!"

Then, Little Em understood. "It's… it's the Eternal Crystal! It was within me, the whole time…!" Emma understood too and she then took her own Eternal Crystal of the past out of her shattered brooch.

"Two Eternal Crystals?!" – Death Phantom shouted.

Then, as both girls raised their Eternal Crystals, Emma turned into Princess Selene and Little Em turned into Princess Emma.

"Now, let's put an end to this!" – Selene shouted.

"Yes! Let's save Crystal Forest together!" – Emma added.

Using their crystals, they shouted in unison the quote of their effective move.
"HEAVENS PRINCESSES DUO KISS!"
A powerful light was emitted from the two crystals, which destroyed Death Phantom for good, as well as the Megalith Dark Crystals everywhere.

Crystal Forest

Queen Selene was walking through the corridors of her castle, as she was awakening everyone. She started by Pirate King Killian, kissing him on the lips. Then, she awoke her parents, Lux, Athena and her friends (the guardians), giving them all a kiss on the cheek. Then, Little Em arrived in the throne room, alive.

"Mummy! We did it! We destroyed Death Phantom!" – the small guardian exclaimed.

"Yes. The terror on the lands of the Crystal Forest is over." – Queen Selene said with a smile – "I knew you can do this."

Emma was meantime standing outside the castle with her family, friends, Regina, Lux, and Athena.

"I'm so glad this is over…" – Emma said – "This adventure exhausted me."

"I bet it did. Now that Death Phantom is destroyed, we can return to our era." – Rosalie said – "We all deserve a good sleep."

"A sleep, or perhaps a drink… a bottle, actually…" – Regina said to herself.

The guardians only rolled their eyes at this.

In the throne room, Queen Selene and Princess Emma were still talking together, discussing some important things.

"Your Sailor Guardian awakening was premature." – Selene explained – "And it will take time for you to fully awaken."

"Oh… But why…?" – Little Em asked a little disappointed.

"Don't be sad, it's normal." – the queen reassured her daughter – "Your true purpose, your place in this huge world is yet to be found."

"But isn't my purpose to become your heir? To eventually become the next queen of Crystal Forest?" – the princess asked confused.

"Yes, indeed. But there's a lot of time ahead you before this happens. You have a lot of things of the life to learn. Like about the light and the darkness…"

Little Em noticed that her mother had a sad expression on her face, when she said the last sentence. But it didn't last long, and the queen smiled again. So, Little Em nodded in understanding and she gave to her mother the brooch that contained the Eternal Crystal of the future. Queen Selene took the Eternal Crystal in her hands and with its power of light, she restored Crystal Forest.

Outside, everyone got surprised to see the landscape before them beginning to brighten. They watched in amazement as the trees began to look alive again and regaining their green color, the villages around getting magically restored and a few people beginning to exit their houses, making sure that the horror was over. The guardians then felt some odd warm feeling and they saw their pens upgrading, looking more like small rods. To their surprise, each item had their past-life names written on it: Aquata, Infernia, Aria, Thunda and Rosetta. They then heard Queen Selene's voice in their head.

"Now, your attacks will be more powerful than it ever were before. Keep fighting for the peace of the realms and you'll arrive to this bright future."

Then, Emma saw a new brooch appear on her chest, as well as a new rod appearing in her hand. The girl looked surprised at it, after what she heard her future self's voice.

"This is your new weapon, the Stellar Rod. Take good care of it and work hard, fight for your own future."

Emma nodded, even though Queen Selene couldn't see her. The group then began to head the space-time door. While they were walking, Emma thought:

"It was a… unique adventure. I only regret I couldn't meet Queen Selene… I really hoped I would eventually see her."

She was unaware that at the same time, Selene wanted to see her too. So, before anyone could open the space-time door, Emma and others saw a group of people on the other side of the corridor. It was Queen Selene, in company of her husband and daughter, but also the Sailor Guardians' future selves! The future David and Snow were standing there too, with the cats Lux and Athena at their feet. The past selves were very surprised and slightly shocked to see their future selves stand there.

"Emma Swan…" – the queen said with a smile.

"Queen Selene…" – Emma said, pleasantly shocked to see her future self.

Emma was glad she could see her future self properly now, not inside a crystal. But she also felt strange emotions she couldn't name. So, was this beautiful woman her future self? "Is she… what I'm destined to become…?" – Emma asked herself. Emma felt a bit dumb, just staring at the queen like she was, but Queen Selene didn't seem to mind at all. The woman spoke:

"Thank you, Emma. For everything you did for us."

"No… Thank you, for giving me a foresight."

It was at that moment that Regina opened the space-door a little, and Apollo went out of it, to everyone's surprise. The kitten ran straight to his parents, the future Lux and Athena. The Lux and Athena of the past looked at the family reunion, and felt a strange feeling in their hearts.

"My dearest friends from the past, Princess Emma shall stay in Storybrooke on your side. Crystal Forest has yet to be fully restored. My people need help to recover. Please, take good care of my daughter." – Queen Selene said.

"We promise." – David and Mary Margaret said in unison, as the Chosen Six nodded.

Then, using her light magic, Selene enchanted the last time key. The object began to glow and it was time to return home. The people from the past and the future waved their hands goodbye to each other. Regina, the guardians, David, Mary Margaret, Little Em and the cats then went through the space-time door. Before going too, Emma looked once more in her future self's direction and she whispered:

"Goodbye…"

Storybrooke

A beam of light shot out of the sky, bringing everyone back to the present. Granny, Ruby, Ashley and Sean, who had seen the light, went out the Diner and what wasn't their delightful surprise, when they saw their girls return.

"Cecilia…!" – Ruby exclaimed on edge of tears.

"Ruby! Granny!" – Cecilia yelled.

The girl ran to them and she hugged tightly both her mum and her great grandmother. Alexandra did the same, she hugged her parents and she mumbled:

"I'm so happy to see you… I feared I might never see you again…"

"Oh, Alex… we missed you so much…" – Ashley said as she shed a couple of tears.

"And you can't imagine how glad we are that you returned." – Sean added.

The two families went in the Diner, so they could properly talk. Plus, the girls were starving, which was understandable. Mary Margaret, David, Emma, Little Em and Emily didn't wait long to join them. While the guardians were savoring their meals, after long days being prisoners, it was at that moment that Mr Gold entered the diner.

"Emily…" – he said, seeing his daughter back.

"Gold! Glad to see you again." – Emily walked to her father and gave him a brief hug.

"Did they do something to you?" – Gold asked, worried for his daughter's health.

"No, don't worry, I'm okay… How is mum?"

"Unfortunately, Belle still has amnesia…"

Emily nodded in sadness, but she wasn't hopeless. After her journey to the future, she saw that nothing was impossible. Then, Mr Gold said:

"If I remember well, Miss Swan, you owe me a favor. Now, that everything calmed down and that there are no enemies in sight, I think it's time for you to do your part of the deal. You, along with Emily, will help me to find my son, Baelfire."

Emily and Emma looked at each other a second, after what they nodded. Emily then asked when they would leave, to which Gold replied that it would be the next morning.

A/N: As you can see, the last arc of season two is (logically) about Neal. :) One of my readers shall be happy. Reviews are always welcome.