Descendants 10

Chapter 10

Episode 5b

"Why does everyone keep looking at me like that?" Killian asked standing right outside of Granny's Diner less than a foot away from Lyra.

"How are you?" Lyra asked sincerely.

"I'm fine," he said. He moved to his left to get passed her.

"You're not alone," Lyra said, moving in front of him.

He looked at Lyra's eyes and the world seemed to slow down. There was something about this girl. Something familiar. There was some sort of a connection or maybe it was the rum. "I have to go."

Lyra tried to grab hold of his sleeve but he was already out of her reach.

Lyra entered the diner where David and Ruby were talking. David sat at the counter at the end stool.

"Have you noticed anything peculiar about them?" David asked.

"I've been a little busy." Ruby said. "I mean between this full time waitress job and being a part time deputy. There's not much time to be a spy too." She went over toa customer and served them their meal. He went back over to the counter and got another order ready.

"My wife has her concerns and with Henry getting closer to Thumbelina, I think we should hold a town meeting." David said.

"Wouldn't they know about it? What are we cornering them?"

"No, a secret town meeting. Just a few people. A dozen at the most."

Across town, Maryanne left the library, looking both ways. To her left were a her residents walking by and talking. To her right Archie was waking his dog. No sign of Will.

Flashback: The White Rabbit took Maryanne back to Wonderland. The led her to the palace where Maryanne saw what was really going on. There were guards everywhere. They let the rabbit pass but halted Maryanne.

"She's with me," he said, but the guards wouldn't allow it.

Rabbit and Maryanne went around to the back of the castle and he called out, "Your majesty, it's the White Rabbit!"

A blonde woman with beautiful lips came out to the balcony, wearing a long sleeved simple red dress. "What do you want?" She had an accent too.

"Can you tell your guards it's okay to let this young lady inside. She's Alice and Cyrus's daughter," Rabbit asked.

She looked at Maryanne and then called her guards. "She can come in," she demanded.

When Maryanne got to the queen's chamber and came face to face with her, she curtsied.

The queen laughed. "How polite. You don't need to do that with me. We're friends. Well I'm friends with your parents. It hasn't been that long has it?"

"I'm Maryanne," she introduced herself.

"Anastasia."

They had a brief talk about Alice and Cyrus. Ana talked about their adventure in Wonderland and Maryanne talked about them as parents.

The White Rabbit interrupted them to remind Ana of the trouble the land is in, once again. Then Ana old Maryanne about what's happened since Alice and Cyrus left.

"For a while it was peaceful. I ruled with my husband by my side. A few years later, Jafar returned and caused trouble. "He broke a rule of being a genie, as cursed. He killed people, if his master wished it. He made his way to the castle and manipulated some of my servants and guards into making his current master make a horrible wish..." She explained.

"What was it?" Maryanne asked.

"He...he wished for revenge on my love, Will..." She answered.

"Which resulted in Will disappearing," rabbit said. "I've been searching everywhere for him. Ana joined me for a while, but Wonderland needs her here. We searched the entire world. He's not here."

"And I refuse to believe that he's dead. Jafar would want us both to suffer." Ana said.

"What about the world he lived in before? My parents told me about it. Storybook?" Maryanne asked.

"Storybrooke," rabbit said, looking from Maryanne to Ana, who nodded at him.

"I'll take you," rabbit said, "after I visit my family."

In the present, the ocean breeze felt refreshing against Melody's face. She was standing at the railing again by the ocean. A seagull flew by and perched on a street light.

"There's a beach down there," a woman said.

Melody gasped, surprised by the noise. She opened her eyes and saw that is was only a nun.

"My fiancé has a boat out here. He took me sailing a few times."

Melody narrowed her eyes. "Okay?"

"He and his friends often eat lunch down at the beach. It's really nice there. You could go for a swim if you wanted-"

"No! I mean I'm good. I'm refreshed." Melody said.

Lyra was back in room 404 all by herself. She checked the bathroom just to be sure. She opened her jacket up and pulled out a slip of paper from her pocket. It was the article about Emma being found on the side of the road as an infant.

Flashback: Maryanne stood on the two lane road where Storybrooke once stood.
"Where is it?" She asked rabbit.
"It's gone." He said.
"How? When?" Maryanne asked.
"A few years ago."
Maryanne did a 360 degree turn. There was no town. No 'welcome to Storybrooke' sign. Not even the town line remained. Just a long narrow road and lots of trees.

In present day Storybrooke, Maryanne went into the forest near the well for her search. He wasn't there either. As she headed out of the woods, she saw someone coming down the path. She hid behind a tree and glanced over. "Will!"

Will Scarlett skid and turned around. "Oh it's just a kid."

Maryanne ignored the comment. "I've been looking all over for you. I need to talk to you about something important. It's about Wonderland-"

"I'm through with that place. Lost everything there and I'd rather not be reminded of it." He turned around and took a step away.

"Ana's alive!" Maryanne said. "And she misses you so much."

He stopped and went back to Maryanne. "How do you know all this?"

"The white rabbit took to Wonderland. I saw it all for myself."

"He took you?" He looked at her. "What's your name?"

"Maryanne."

"Are you Alice's daughter?"

She nodded at him.

Will knelt down to meet her eye level. "Oh my gosh, look at you. You have her eyes and nose. Woah."

Maryanne giggled.

"Wait wait," Will said, "Where are your parents?"

"Back in England. Back in their time. Will, I want you to come back to Wonderland with me. There we'll find the white rabbit and we can both go home."

Will said, "I would like that. But how can we get there? I don't suppose you have a looking glass?"

"Not one that works. We don't have a means of getting there, yet." Maryanne said.

Flashback: Maryanne later suggested the Sherwood Forest in their search for Will. Rabbit agreed and the two of them jumped through a portal there.
The Sherwood Forest was empty, so they had to walk a few miles to find someone. They finally found a woman to talk to.

"Excuse me," the rabbit called, "Can you tell us where we are? The Sherwood Forest, as we planned to go to, was empty."

The woman had long dark hair and wore mostly black and a little red. "What are you looking for in Sherwood?" She asked them.

"Someone," Maryanne said, "Will Scarlett."

"Come with me. I think I can help," she said. "I'm Regina."

"Maryanne." She followed her.

"And I'm rabbit."

Inside a quant village, there was a friendly community of people and families. A few kids waved at Maryanne. Regina talked to Maryanne was they walked into the village, to make sure she could trust Maryanne.

"Do you have magic?" Regina asked her.

"No. I'm not even from a magical land. I'm from England." Maryanne said.

"But not the England you're thinking of," Rabbit said, "Maryanne is from a much earier time."

Regina led the way to a tall white house. There was beautiful furniture and decor inside.

"Robin," Regina said to a man standing in the kitchen, "This girl is looking for your friend Will."

Robin looked over to her and said, "Oh, Uh, I haven't seen him in years." He told her. "We went back to Wonderland with Ana."

"And now he's gone again," rabbit said, "Jafar."

"A genie?" Regina put her hand on her hip, "Believe me I know how difficult they can be."

"Any ideas where he might be? He could be here but we just don't know it..." Maryanne tried.

"Yeah," Robin said. "It's possible."

Maryanne sighed. So it was settled.

In present day Storybrooke, Maryanne went back in her room where she found Lyra and Melody already there. Melody was in the couch and Lyra was looking out the window.

"Calling it a day already?" Lyra said.

"Is Lena here?" Maryanne asked.

"No, thank God," Melody said.

Lyra gave her a look.

"What?" Melody said, "I feel like I can breathe when she's not around. And now we can be honest with one another." She walked over to the middle of the room and sat down, her back strait.

Lyra joined her and Maryanne followed.

"We're all here for different reasons," Lyra said.

"No," Maryanne said, "We're all here for Operation Falcon, but that means something different to all of us."

The three girls looked at each other. No one denied it.

"Lena is so controlling and close minded," Melody complained.

"She's desperate," Lyra said.

"Do you think this is healthy?" Melody asked.

"We all came here to fill out own agenda," Maryanne said, "We're all terrible people."

"Oh come on," Melody said, "When you think about what we'rehere for verses what she is here for, we're the heroes."

"What do you mean?" Lyra asked.

"Lena wants to save the future. Protect it. How do you think she plans on doing that?" Melody inquired.

Lyra realized what she was saying. "No. She wouldn't do that."

"How else would you save the future?" Melody asked.

Maryanne leaned back. "I guess you're not so clueless about the mission as we thought."

"I pick up on a lot," Melody said.

"Why do you want to go home so badly?" Lyra asked Melody.

Both girls looked at Lyra. "My family needs me." Melody said.

"I know, but do you plan on ever visiting us?" Lyra asked.

Melody gave a half smile to Lyra. "Or you could come visit me. You have the means of realm jumping."

"Yeah," Lyra smiled. "I would like to visit your coastal kingdom."

"It would be nice to have a real friend there. "Do you know that my only friend was my servant. And all we did was throw shots at each other... When I go back, I can finally meet my grandfather."

Maryanne and Lyra looked at her, sympathetically.

"When I go home, I'm probably going to stay there for a little bit before visiting more worlds." Maryanne said.

Lyra smiled a bit.

"What about you Lyra?" Melody asked.

Lyra was silent.

Henry and Lena were still in the secret library of the sorcerer's mansion. Henry was going through his backpack while Lena was sitting in the table looking at blank storybook. She looked over at Henry and noticed his Comic books.

"Thor," she said.

"You know about Marvel comics?" Henry asked.

"Oh," Lena said, "I know of Thor and Asgsrd. They're real."

Henry light up as if his greatest dream had just been fulfilled. "Really?"

"Yeah. I've never been there but my friends have visited."

"Wow. That's amazing." He said.

"I didn't know there were books about him."

"Yeah, uh you could borrow them if you want."

"Yeah," she smiled. "Thanks."

Henry continued to smile at her. "Our table has six seats," he said all the sudden.

"What?" She laughed.

"I mean we have room if you'd like to have dinner with us."

"Oh. Uh I don't think I can tonight."

"It doesn't have to be tonight. Tomorrow I'm over at the loft with my Grandparents if you'd rather meet them first."

"I'll get back to you on that," she said.

Back in 404, Lyra stood up, "I need to leave again." About an hour had passed since Maryanne entered the room.

"Where are you going?" Melody asked.

"I need to see something." Lyra said. She stoop up and left the room without her bag.

Lyra went to the shirriff's station and looked around. No one else was there. She saw a photo of Emma and David by the police car on the wall. On the coat rack, she found Graham's coat, Emma's thick black coat, and a hat. She went into the shirriff's small see-through office and sat in the chair. She opened up the drawers and moved things around. She found a shoelace in the first drawer. Behind her was a box that read "Emma's stuff." Lyra placed it on the desk and opened it. Inside was a baby blanket, toy rings, a photo of a teenage Emma, a video camera, and a photo of Emma and Neal. She looked at the photo and read the back.
She heard the front door open and some talking. Lyra ran back down the hallway, scared.

Back at the sorcorer's mansion, Henry handed Lena a few Thor graphic novels and then took out his Storybrooke.

"Oh my God, that's-" Lena said.

"The Storybrooke. I want to look for your story." He opened the book.

Lena closed the book. "That's a little personal. I could simply tell you."

"Okay, that works too," he said. "So what is your story?"

"Oh you want to know now? Maybe in a week when we know each other better."

Henry looked in her eyes then at her lips. He leaned towards her and closed his eyes.

Lena gave a weird look and backed say when he got too close. "Woah Henry!"

He opened his eyes quickly and leaned back. "I - I thought."

"No," Lena said.

"You gave me signals."

"I didn't mean too. I thought we were friends."

"You couldn't see me as more? Maybe if you tried? I'm a great guy."

"We cannot be together," Lena told him.

"Why not?"

Lena looked guilty and left the library quickly, leaving his comics behind.

Lyra quickly put the box back and looked for a place to hide. Having only a few seconds before they would enter the room, She dove under the desk to hide.
David and a group of others came into the Sheriff's station. Mary Margaret, Ruby, Granny, Leroy, Mother Superior, Regina, Mr. Gold, Belle, and Robin were all there.

"We're here to address the growing issue of our four new arrivals," David said. "So please, one at a time, tell me what they've done."

Everyone stood in a circle Mary Margaret spoke first. "One of them, Melody, was lurking around the school. She said she wants to enroll but never talked to Kathryn."

Ruby said, "For the passed week there been mostly waking around and splurging off our hospitality."

"They haven't done anything wrong," Granny said. "They're alone and probably need our help."

"But they won't take it," Belle said.

"I don't care what you all say," Leroy said, "One of them helped me find my way back to Astrid."

"Probably the new savior," Regina said.

"New savior?" David asked.

"The one with orange hair. She said was the new savior. I didn't believe her." Regina said.

"And Roland has seen them messing around at the well." Robin said.

"And today I had a break in," Mr. Gold said.

"Wait what did they take?" David asked.

"You don't know that it was them," Ruby said.

"Nothing was taken but I know someone was there. A few things were moved around."

"You could have moved them or Belle," Granny said.

"I know my own shop." Mr. Gold said.

"Why didn't we invite everyone to a town meeting?" Regina said. "Why are we protecting these girl?"

"Because there is still no evidence that they've done any wrong," Ruby said.

"They've lied to us," Mother Superior said.

"But that's not a crime," Ruby said.

"It is in the eyes of the lord," Mother superior said.

"Oh drop the nun act," Granny said.

"Yeah," Ruby said. "The curse broke five years ago."

"Which one was that?" David asked, sarcastocally.

"If you all we're going to do here bicker," Leroy said, raising his voice, "In going to get back to my fiancé planning our wedding."

He left the room and Mother Superior's expression was unpleasing.

Everyone was quiet for a few moments and then Mary Margaret said, "These girls are planning something. They are looking for ingredients or a weapon. Something-"

"Aren't we all looking for something?" Ruby asked.

"They won't tell us what they're doing," Belle said. "They are so closed off and secretive."

"I don't know, that one girl sure has opened up Henry," Regina said.

"And does he know anything?" Mother Superior asked.

"If he does, he has't told me." Regina said.

"So it can't be that bad," Ruby said.

"Why are you defending them?" Regina asked. "Do you know something?"

"Nothing smells off about them," Ruby said. "I would hear if they were conjuring spells or anything."

"They don't have magic, right," Robin asked.

"Not that I know of," David said.

"What do you want to do about them?" Belle asked. "Bring them in again for questioning?"

"I think they'd be suspicious," Mary Margaret said.

"We need to try something a bit less direct," David said.

"Like what?" Granny asked.

"Putting security cameras in their room." David said.

"Whoa!" Ruby said. "That's a huge invasion of privacy. You can't do that."

"I have probable cause," David said. "And it's already done. The two cameras were set up earlier today while they were all vacant from their room."

Ruby shook her head at David, appalled. She took off her badge and through it in the desk. "I quit."

As Ruby left the room, Lyra remained hidden under the desk overhearing the entire conversation. She had her hand over her mouth and was crying.

Lena was back in room 404 with the two younger residents, Melody and Maryanne. Lena was in her pajamas and so was Maryanne. They had all eaten their dinner over an hour ago. Lena and Maryanne were reading in those bed while Melody watched TV and ate popcorn by herself.
Lyra calmly entered the room and then told them all what happened.

"There are cameras in here!?" Maryanne said.

"They don't trust us," Melody said.

"We have to tell them," Lyra said.

"No!" Lena said. "Think about the future. If we tell them, everything will be destroyed. We won't have a future."

"I've thought about it and-" Lyra tried.

"I've thought about this too. Our mission is very simple." Lena said.

Melody bit her lip an shook her head.

"In all fairness, Ruby, Granny, and Leroy took our sides. Ruby quit because of this." Lyra said.

Lena looked around the room. Well there aren't cameras in the bathroom, so let's take the conversation there."

The four girls huddled into the bathroom. Melody stood in the bathtub. Lyra sat on the counter.

"I have something to tell you all," Lena said. "I wanted to wait for Lyra to show up. I was with Henry today at the sorcerer's mansion. The place was huge. There was a door that takes you to any world-"

"A door?" Maryanne asked.

"Yeah, but it won't take us back home." Lena said.

"How do you know?" Melody asked.

"It will only take you to the present day time of that land." Lena said. "Anyway, there was a ballroom. The ballroom. And then this secret library..." Lena went on.
Melody and Lyra were looking at Maryanne. They knew what she was going to do. They knew what this meant.

Flashback: Maryanne played tag with Grumpy and Nova's child and a few others.

Three teenage girls came over to her and asked her who she was.

"You're a new face," One said. She had long dark brown hair.

"I'm Maryanne and I'm on a mission."

"Does it have a name?" She asked.

"Huh?"

"She got it from her brother. What's your mission?" The taller one said with really long orange hair.

"I'm trying to find someone so I can save a world. I need to hurry because other worlds need me too." She told them.

"A savior of all worlds," The brunette smiled. "Emma would like you."

The third girl with dirty blonde hair made a face.

"We could call it Operation..." The brunette went on.

"...Falcon?" The orange haired girl said.

"Yeah," the brunette agreed.

Maryanne looked at them, "I sort of work alone, not that so wouldn't like the help-"

"Relax, it's just a game we do," the brunette said. "I'm Hope," she shook Maryanne's hand.

"And I'm Lena and this is Lyra."

"I can introduce myself," Lyra said.

Lena rolled her eyes playfully at Lyra.

Flashback continued: Maryanne met up with the White Rabbit after sharing a meal with Lyra, Lena, Hope, Henry, Roland, Robin, and Regina.

"Well Will isn't here, so I think we should move on," Maryanne said.

Rabbit looked defeated.

"What is it rabbit?" She asked.

"I'm tired... I can't dig anymore. I need time to regain my energy back. I'm not was young as I once was." He said.

"Okay, so a few hours?"

Rabbit looked down.

"Tomorrow?"

"Give me some time. It's not so bad here. Everyone seems happy. "

"My parents are going to miss me so much."

"I suggest finding a place to stay and making some friends. We'll be here for a couple weeks." Rabbit told her.

Flashback continued: Maryanne was able to stay with Lena, sharing her room. The two of them spent a lot of time together. Maryanne followed Lena around as they hung out with Hope and Lyra, and went to school. Maryanne watched as Regina taught a handful of students magic. Maryanne tried to copy what she has seen, with no success. She did find out there was a resident named Will in the village, but he was a different Will. She made friends easily with this group of people and was grateful for their hospitality.

Maryanne woke up in the middle of the night in room 404, struggling to stay asleep. She looked at the clock: 12:37am.

"Can't sleep either?" Melody whispered. They were both on the inner sides of their beds, facing the dresser in between them.

"You know what I'm doing tomorrow?" Maryanne said.

"I know you want to bring him home, but are you leaving too?" Melody asked.

"I miss my family and I could send rabbit here to take you all home." Maryanne said.

"If he can. I heard coming here was risky enough. I don't think he could survive a trip here and back to their home." Melody said.

"I guess you're right." Maryanne said. The two girls could barley see each other's faces with only the light from the digital clock to see.

"Don't tell me you're going to miss me," Maryanne asked.

"I've come to think of you as a friend," Melody said. "I'll miss you."

"No," Maryanne played.

"Shhh," Melody warned. She slid out of bed and Maryanne sat up. "This is the last time we'll see each other."

"I'll still visit," Maryanne said, "When you all get back."

"How?" Melody said.

"I'll find a way." Maryanne said.

Melody wrapped her arms around Maryanne. Maryanne hugged her back.

The next morning Lyra woke up two hours before they usually get up. She saw the Maryanne was still asleep and nudged her awake then went back to sleep. Maryanne got up and dressed in her "adventure outfit." She grabbed her satchel and placed it over her shoulder. She wrote a note and left room 404 for the last time.

Maryanne met up with Will outside the diner and went over to the sorcerer's mansion. The door was unlocked and they entered. They walked into the mainroom where the door stood. She open the door and the portal was revealed.

"Thank you for this," Will said to Maryanne.

"Of course." Maryanne said.

"It's been too long since I've visited Alice. I'll have to change that." Will said. He stepped through the portal, leaving Storybrooke and heading home to his true love.

Maryanne gave one last look to Storybrooke before walking through the portal headed for her home. The portal swooshed as she entered through.

Meanwhile over at the Mayor's mansion, Henry was in his room, sleep deprived. He was gripping his Storybrooke tightly. He had been all night looking for Lena's story in his book and every other book in the library. He couldn't find her story which mean Henry now knew something about her: she lied.