And we're back in Storybrooke!

Present Time

Storybrooke, Maine

When even Tessa had trouble eating the delicious sandwiches Hazel had bought at the diner across the street one knew something was wrong. Over and over again she glanced up at the clock on the wall, wondering where their friends had gone off to. What if something really bad had happened to them? What if that flying creature that had attacked Toby, Rachel and Filipi had returned?

"Papa?"

The small voice outside the door, accompanied by a knock, caused the members of the trio to look up. Tessa rose from the bed and walked over to the door, turning the knob and revealing a stout, bald man and, standing in front of him, a boy with dark hair who could not be more than five years old.

"My sincerest apologies; we must be in the wrong room", the man said.

"Is papa not here?" the little boy asked.

"No, I think he must be in another room", Tessa answered. "Don't worry, you'll find him."

"I always find him", the boy said with a proud smile. "He's not good at hide and seek."

"Are you, then?" Tessa asked and knelt down in front of him. The boy nodded.

"I always win."

"Well, then you haven't tried playing it with me yet. I bet I could beat you."

"You think?" the boy asked, his eyes wide. "Will you play with me now?"

"Weren't you looking for your father?"

"Yeah, but Tuck said he was sad and when papa is sad he won't play with me", the boy responded and pouted.

"Well, then, maybe your dad needs someone to cheer him up?" Tessa suggested. "Like you. Then we can play, alright?"

"It's alright, Roland", a new voice said, causing them all to turn. By the door leading in to another room stood a broad shouldered man wearing a chequered shirt. He had light brown hair on the verge of golden and, due to the fact that his sleeves were rolled up, a tattoo on his right wrist. He also spoke in a different accent than most of the others; a British one.

"Papa!" the little boy, Roland, exclaimed and ran up to the man, who swooped him up in his arms with a smile.

"There you go, you found me again", the man said.

"You are not good at hiding, papa", Roland said. The man smiled at him.

"I think you should teach me."

He then glanced over at Tessa, who now had been joined by Toby and Miranda in the door.

"I believe some of your friends can be found inside my room", he said. "They are busy arguing about what TV-show to watch."

"How long have they been here?" Miranda asked with a frown. "They should have told us they were back."

The bald man, most likely the one called Tuck, stepped aside and allowed them to walk out into the narrow corridor and up to the man and his son. From inside his room they could hear two familiar voices.

"Jade, can't we watch something else?" Chris asked. "It's not fun watching a show you've already watched."

"Don't you find it hilarious that you're able to predict what the characters are going to do before they do it?" Jade responded.

"It was fun the first five times", Chris grumbled. "After thirty minutes of it you sort of get bored."

"You've been here for thirty minutes and you didn't even consider coming to tell us about it?" Tessa exclaimed, causing both Chris and Jade to jump up from the floor.

"Hi guys", Jade said and grinned sheepishly. "Want to join us?"

"I should apologize for your friends staying in here without alerting you", the man said and put Roland down on the bed. "They were here because of me and the state I was in. Though I must say I have little knowledge about what they speak of they have managed to get me to cheer up a bit."

"This requires an explanation as to how you all met and what has happened", Toby said. "Also, where are the others?"

"Rachel went with Hook and David to some briefing of the situation", Chris answered. "Wolf, Indira and Fili went in the other direction of the street, so we haven't seen them since we left."

"What situation are you talking about?" Miranda asked.

"I knew we shouldn't have split up; I knew it", Toby muttered.

"Oh stop it; you cover a lot more ground if you split up", Jade argued.

"Perhaps we should discuss this outside", the man suggested. "Roland, I'll be right back. Tuck will stay with you while I talk to our new friends."

"Will you read me a story when you come back, papa?" Roland asked. The man smiled and bent to kiss his son on the brow.

"Of course."

They walked back out into the corridor and into the room that the newcomers had used as their headquarters. Jadewas the first to speak.

"Anyway, Rachel, Chris and I went to the hospital where we bumped into Hook, David and Mr Robin Hood here and then we saw Little John being turned into a flying monkey. So that was our adventure."

"A flying what?" Miranda, Tessa and Toby said at the same time.

"Monkey", Chris answered. "A flying monkey."

"But... that's impossible", Toby said with a frown. "Such things do not exist."

"You forget you're in a town filled with fairytale characters, mate", a voice from the door pointed out, causing them to turn around. Both Tessa and Miranda inhaled sharply at the dark-clad man's appearance; he certainly was dangerously handsome. He also had a hook instead of a left hand, which revealed his fairytale identity.

"Are we having another meeting in here?" he asked and stepped inside.

"What are you doing here?" Jade asked.

"I was simply escorting some of your friends back from our previous meeting", he said and waved back at the door. "Granted Swan came along as well; she's staying in a different room, after all."

"But if you accompanied our friends, where are they?" Toby asked.

"Still downstairs with Swan, probably checking some things for tomorrow", Hook answered.

"Why, what's happening tomorrow?" Tessa asked. Hook gave a crooked smile.

"Well, love, I think it's time we find the wicked thing behind this curse."

"Wicked", Toby said. "That's what I thought; flying monkeys were servants of the Wicked Witch of the West."

"Is that who we are facing?" Robin asked.

"It would seem so", Hook answered with a shrug, "unless you know any other villain capable of creating such creatures."

Robin's jaw tensed and he looked away from Hook's gaze, a movement that caused the pirate's features to soften somewhat as well.

"You're alright, mate?"

"Better", Robin answered. He still looked tense and Tessa felt the urge to give him a hug. However, before she could act on that urge steps were heard outside the room and Rachel, Indira, Wolfgang and Filipi appeared in the doorway.

"This is the last time we split up", Toby said. "Next time you lot disappear without any means of keeping touch I might have a heart attack!"

"Seriously?" Wolfgang asked. "Even a Ravenclaw should see the logic behind splitting up."

"This isn't one of my stories, Toby", Rachel pointed out, before her eyes stuck on Robin. "Are you alright?"

"Better", Robin said, repeating what he had previously told Hook. "How is your head?"

"Your head?" Miranda said. Rachel grimaced slightly.

"A minor cut caused by a fall against a shelf at the hospital. Nothing to worry about."

"Apparently she got stitched up by Doctor Frankenstein", Wolfgang said with a grin.

"Wait, the doctor at the hospital was Frankenstein?" Chris asked.

"How come he's here; Frankenstein is a novel, not a fairytale", Toby pointed out.

"Well, Robin Hood is a ballad and a legend, while Hook is from an early 20th century play", Rachel pointed out. "It would seem like anything goes, really."

"Including bits and pieces from Harry Potter", Indira filled in. "We spoke with the Mayor of this town, Regina Mills, and she believed that we might have actually become the owners of some real Ollivander wands."

"Real Ollivander wands?" Tessa asked.

"Yes, apparently Ollivander is a real person in the Enchanted Forest", Filipi explained. "He has made wands for all of the fairies, but it is believed he also creates wands that suite humans."

"Also these wands use a different kind of magic than all the other fairytale characters capable of using magic, so if we can find them we might be able to give the Wicked Witch a bit of a surprise", Indira said with a smile.

"Wait, this is all very confusing", Toby said. "What about our missing memories?"

"Everyone in this town has lost a year's worth of memories, Toby", Rachel answered, "and we suspect we might as well. Not just a couple of months as we first believed."

"We also believe that the vortex that brought us away from Orlando brought us to the Enchanted Forest to begin with", Filipi filled in, "and that we were brought here after spending a year there."

"So these scars and injuries we have we received in the Enchanted Forest?" Chris asked.

"Cool, I might have been in a battle, then", Jade said with a grin and rolled up her sleeve.

"That doesn't look like a battle-scar", Robin remarked. Hook sauntered over as well and nodded in agreement.

"He's right, love. That's not a scar originating from some weapon that could be used in a battle back in the Enchanted Forest."

"Damn it!" Jade exclaimed.

"Alright, let me see if I got this right", Toby said. "We met the real Ollivander in Orlando, received real, proper wands from him, were pulled into a vortex that caused us to end up in the Enchanted Forest, spent a year there and then ended up here thanks to the curse that is affecting the entire town."

"Yep, that's it", Wolfgang said.

"These wands you are talking about, do you still have them?" Robin asked.

"No, we must have lost them when the curse hit back in the Enchanted Forest", Filipi responded.

"However, Regina also mentioned that this might mean they were transported here but might have ended up hidden somewhere due to that the Wicked Witch does not want us to use them", Rachel filled in.

"So our wands might be somewhere in Storybrooke?" Tessa gasped.

"They would certainly come in handy", Jade said. "Can we go look for them?"

"Look for them?" Toby said. "Apparently they might be somewhere in Storybrooke. We're looking for a set of wooden sticks in a town, Jade; it's worse than looking for a needle in a haystack."

"Not necessarily", Chris said. "You're the logical one, Toby; think about it. If you want to hide something that looks like simple wooden sticks, where do you hide them?"

Toby paused.

"The forest", he eventually answered.

"Exactly", Chris said with a grin. "I actually think we have an adventure in the forest to look forward to."

"Rachel, please tell me you're not writing this story!" Toby exclaimed.

Just to be clear; remember that our new characters are from 2017 and have ended up in Storybrooke back in 2014. So that's why Chris and Jade were able to predict the events of various TV-shows; they'd seen them before ;)