Descendants Chapter 20
Episode 11b
"It was only way to get my happy ending. To have you raise me and to love me. Before, I grew up in that land and search for you for so long. I finally found you when I was 12 and you never told my dad about me. I caused the two of you to fight all the time. To resent each other. And Henry hated me. The only family member who treated like they should was David. And Lena. Nevermind who she is." Lyra explained.
"Lyra, you should know that all magic comes with a price. This could have dire consequences. You growing up with me, as you should have, who know what that could effect. Maybe you get hurt here or someone else does. What if I die for you and when you make it back, I'm already gone? Everything could change when you return."
"This was the only way to get my happy ending," Lyra said to her mom. They were both inside the loft. Less than a mile away, the curse was coming towards them and the rest of Storybrooke.
Just under the stairs was Killian coming into view. He was in the loft hoping Emma might show up. Mary Margaret left with baby Neal shortly after David and Ruby did, going to the mayor's mansion to look after Henry and Roland. When Henry left the mansion, Roland went to find the Merri men in the forest. Killian was on the first floor and heard the muffling of a conversation upstairs, until he moved closer.
"Are you sure this is your happy ending?" Emma asked.
Lyra sat on the bed next to her mom. "I've always wanted you. And when I got you, it wasn't what I wanted. It wasn't like it should have been."
Emma looked her in the eyes. "That's still 12 years of your life you are going to completely alter. You might remember it, but your friends in that other world won't."
"And that is the price I will pay." Lyra said.
"It's not that simple."
"Nothing about this is simple mom."
Emma gave a small smile. "No, it's not. Which is why you shouldn't have done it."
"It wasn't my idea."
"But you went along with it." Emma said.
Lyra titled her head slightly.
"What?" Emma asked.
"You just sounded like a mom. Treated me like a daughter. Scolding me." Lyra said. Then she hugged her mom, who was pregnant with her.
Emma hugged her back and that's when Killian started walking up the stairs. He heard it get quiet so he took the opportunity to enter the scene.
As Emma and Lyra ending their big, Emma saw Killian coming and smiled. "I realize this is a huge shock of you," Emma started. Lyra turned around to see who she was talking to.
"Which one? Lyra or..." Killian said.
Lyra looked back and forth at her parents and they looked back at her, with glowing smiles. This is what she wanted. That look in their eyes. That smile. This was it, her happy ending. But this was all in the passed. This moment wouldn't last. So Lyra enjoyed before the moment had gone.
Killian sat on the bed next to Lyra, sandwiching her in the middle. She wrapped her arms around them and they all came together. Lyra broke away when she suddenly rememered something important. She reached for her bag on the floor and pulled out the Dark One dagger. Her parents leaned back when they saw it in her hand. "It was me who took it, dad."
"I know – now I know it." He said. He face turned guilty. "About your friend, with the dark hair-"
"I know," Lyra said. "I really don't want to talk about how she died."
"It was an accident. I didn't mean to hurt her. I tried to grab her before she fell too." Killian said, rushing his speech.
Emma looked at them. "What happened while I was away?"
"Long story," Lyra and Killian said simultaneously. They looked over at each other after saying that and gave a small smile to one another.
"I want to give this to you," Lyra held her arm out, hand open with the dagger resting on top. The one she gave Lena a fake one. "I only needed it to bring mom here. And I didn't want to summon you to me once you were here. I knew I could find you without the dagger once you were in Storybrooke."
Killian took the dagger from Lyra's open hand. He held it in his hands and looked at the name across it.
Emma looked at the name too, her own name, and then back to Lyra. "Can I have a moment alone with our daughter?" She asked.
Killian smiled at Emma and Lyra before standing up and going back downstairs.
Back at the hospital, Lena was holding the newborn baby of Zelena's.
"Give me my baby," Zelena said, growing more weary.
"This is no baby. This monstrosity will be a villain of the next generation. He'll be a demon." Lena said. She knelt down toawrds her bag. She pulled out the fake dagger and held it up.
Zelena raced to her feet screamed, "No!" She ran over to Lena and her child.
Lena grabbed a piece of chalk from her bag and quickly drew a line across the room.
Zelena ran into it and was blocked. She couldn't get passed the barrier. But her voice still carried through. "What are you doing? You can't kill my baby!"
Lena held the dagger up over the baby. "Killing him is a sacrifice for the good of all."
"Please don't do this!" Zelena pleaded. "That's my child."
"This is a vile creature."
"And what are you? Killing a baby. In front of his own mother."
"You don't have to watch."
"You're no better." Zelena said.
"I'm doing this for Hope," Lena said. She raised the dagger up higher and brought it down quickly.
Zelena closed her eyes when she saw the dagger go down. She expected a scream or a horrifying sound of some sort. But there was nothing. She opened her eyes up and saw that her baby was still alive.
Holding the dagger just inches away from the baby, Lena couldn't bring it down any more. It was like a magnet was stopping her from hurting the baby. It wasn't the child defending itself. It was Lena unable to commit this act. "Hope wouldn't want me to do this. I have darkness in my heart and this will only make things worse. Lyra was right...There is another way I can save Hope."
Lena left the room with her bag and the baby in her arms. She put the fake dagger away and held the baby carefully. She closed the door behind her and ran out quickly. Nurse Ratched saw her running out and called "Hey! Hey stop right there!" Lena kept on running out of the basement. As soon as she was out of the basement, she could use her own magic again. She poofed out of the room with the baby before anyone could catch her.
Regina, Robin, Henry, Ruby, and David all gathered at the town square with several other residents. Leroy and Astrid were there along with Lily, August, Maleficent, Mary Margaret holding baby Neal, Roland and the merri men, Granny, the rest of the dwarves, Archie, and Mother Superior.
"We're all doomed!" Leroy shouted.
"No, we're going to be fine," David said.
Robin picked up Roland, and Regina stood next to them.
Belle and Mr. Gold showed up at this time.
"Still think your daughter is innocent?" Maleficent asked Mr. Gold.
He made a face at her.
"Where are they anyway?" Ruby asked.
Back inside the loft, Emma and Lyra were talking alone on the second floor while Killian waited outside the loft.
"I have a feeling that I won't be a dark one much longer, now that I'm in Storybrooke with my parents, Killian, and Henry." Emma said. "So what if I'm not a dark one when you're born?"
Lyra looked down at her shoes. After a moment, she looked back up at her mother. "I don't need my power. I just need you. And dad. A real family."
"We are a family Lyra. And knowing what I know now, when we reunite in the Enchanted Forest, things will be as they should have." Emma said.
Lyra looked are her mom, scared and confused. "Wh-what are you saying?"
"Lyra, I have to go back to that world. You have to be born there."
"No. No!" Lyra shook her head.
"We all know about you now."
"But you'll forget us all," Lyra knelt down. She grabbed something out of her bag. She stood up and lied down next to her mother on the bed. Lyra revealed a small bottle with Emma's name on the tag. "Except for you. I don't want you to forget me. I want you to remember me and our time here. I want you to remember the story I told you of how my life was, and how you won't let that happen." Lyra said. "I don't want you to forget any part of me."
"I won't," Emma said, holding her daughter in her arms, "Because I'm going to go back before this curse hits."
A tear fell from Lyra's eye and she sniffed. "But won't that be worse? Knowing you'll have to wait 12 years to see again?"
"You have a destiny Lyra. You need to grow up the way you did. That made you who you are. You cannot undo all of your history." Emma said. "And it will kill me to be away from you, knowing I will miss everything...Again. But you will find me, just as Henry did. And I will tell everyone about you. And we'll anxiously await that day you arrive."
Lyra cried as Emma held her closer. Lyra hid her face in her mother's arms, unable to see the tear that fell from Emma's eye.
Lena was outside in the town-square, surrounded by a handful of residents. David, Mary Margaret, Leroy, Regina, and all the rest who had gathered there saw Lena and halted her. They eyed her and were not sure of their next move. Lyra came into the scene standing by her aunt. Emma and Killian were just around the corner.
"So you decided not to kill him after all?" Lyra said to Lena quietly.
"There is another way. I can't believe I didn't see it sooner." Lena said.
Mary Margaret held her baby up to her. David checked on them and looked back to Lena holding an infant.
Regina noticed and said, "Where did that baby come from?" Regina pointed at the infant Lena was holding.
Lena and Lyra looked at each other briefly. Lyra stepped forward. "That curse, the one that is just minutes away, is going to take us home. Just me and Lena."
Lena shook her head. "We can't do this."
Lyra narrowed her eyes. "What do you mean we can't-"
"We can't make them forget us." Lena said.
"But I just had an emotional goodbye with my mom. Lyra said. "And they know too much Lena."
Everyone surrounding them was listening.
"They don't. They about me and you, but they're pregnant with us. We didn't say anything about Hope," Lena said that last sentence quietly to Lyra. "Or about how we ended up back in the Enchanted Forest. Or about the Blue Fairy."
"We should warn them." Lyra said at a regular volume.
"No. Lyra, they should remember us. I know that wasn't your plan."
Lyra gave Lena a serious look, almost like she was going to cry. Her eyes were already red from earlier.
"The note. Clever signature. I get it now." Lena said. Her voice was not at a regular volume too. The residents were looking at one another, confused by what they were talking about. "But that's not how it should happen. They need to remember us."
Lyra looked around at the crowd. Leroy and Astrid. They won't remember being engaged. Whale and Tink. Lily and August. Henry. He won't change at all if she makes him forget. Killian. Her dad. Her grandparents. "But it's too late. This is our way home. We can't stop it, then make a new portal without a curse. That would drain our power." Lyra said.
"Don't forget," Emma said, stepping into the center of the circle, made by the surrounding residents, standing next to Lyra, "You have to take me back too."
"What?" Regina said.
"Take you back?" David said.
"Why?" Ruby asked.
"No," Mary Margaret said.
Killian stood next to David and looked at Emma and Lyra. "It's alright. We'll see them again."
Lyra shook her head, and Lena took her hand. Her one free hand that wasn't holding a newborn. Emma grabbed her other hand and squeezed. Lyra glanced at her hands and to the people holding them.
"But first we have to stop this curse," Lena said.
"We can't," Lyra said. "Even combined it's not enough."
"Which is why you're not doing this alone," Regina said, stepping forward. She stood alongside Lena, Lyra, and Emma.
Mr. Gold stepped forward as well, standing next to Lena. "Regina's right."
"Let's do this," Emma said. And with that, all five of them raised their hands and worked together to stop this curse. Their magic was each a different color. The crowd around them moved behind them as they used their magic. Henry looked at the five of them. They are all related to him and they all have this powerful magic. He was reminded of something Regina once told him when he was 11. She told him she could teach him magic. He watched in awe as they made the storm cloud moved away from them and seconds later, disappear.
They all lowered their arms and panted briefly. Lyra on the other hand almost fainted. Emma caught her and Lena helped her up.
"Lyra," Emma felt her forehead.
Lena said, "That's enough magic for you today."
"How come you're still fine? I mean, Lyra's older than you," Henry said to her.
"She hasn't been practicing as long as I have." Lyra said.
Puzzled, Henry asked, "But you two have a parent with magic and-"
"Long story," Lyra said. She got up to her feet.
"Now we need to make a portal to take up home to our time," Lena said. She was still holding the infant her her arm. He was wrapped up in a blanket.
"You're really leaving us so soon?" Belle said.
"You just got here," Mary Margaret said.
"You'll see us again. We're on our way," Lena said.
Lena, Regina, Mr. Gold, and Emma stood along side one antoher and created a portal. Lyra stepped aside and stood with Killian and her grandparents. Killian placed her arms over her. They watched as the four of them created a portal. They used the dagger to prick Lena's finger (she offered willingly) as an ingredient as well was one of Lyra's shirts Melody wore, a strand of hair from Zelena, and bottled true love from Belle and Rumple (which Lena had). Lyra held the baby during all this. All eyes were on the four of them, instead of Lyra or the baby. Another ingredient was a page from a storybook. Not Henry's but Lena's from her time. There was an image of her on the page.
"I though there weren't any more authors," Henry said. He faced Lyra. "I broke the quill."
"Anything can happen," Lyra said. "A quill can be mended or even replaced."
"Does that mean I'm still the author?" Henry asked.
Lyra looked back at Emma and the others. "Not without a quill, you're not." Lyra looked back at Henry, "Not in Storybrooke."
The portal was now open in the middle of the town. It was huge, circle, and stood up vertically. It was windy too.
"Okay, it's open," Regina said, holding her arms up. Mr. Gold and Emma were helping ad Lena went back over to the crowd.
"This is it. This is goodbye," Lena said. She went down the row of them nodding or hugging them. Lyra was right behind her. Leroy thanked Lyra for bringing him and Astrid back together. Lily hugged Lyra when she came to her. Lyra even hugged Roland goodbye and he hugged back after a moment. Lyra Ruby hugged them both.
"I'm going to miss you two," Ruby said. "I can't wait to meet you again," she laughed.
"Thank you so much for your support and belief in us," Lena said.
"We really appreciate it," Lyra said, nodding her head. "And same for you Granny," she looked over to her. Lena and Lyra hugged her too. Lena held on to her and finally let go. Granny looked at Lena like she knew. Lena's reaction also gave it away. This is the last time Lena will ever see Granny.
When they got to Henry, he said, "It's too bad you couldn't make me forget having a crush on my own aunt."
Lena and the Lyra laughed.
"I'm sorry for how that all went down," Lena said.
"They'll never let me forget it." Henry whined playfully.
"I'm glad you're going to remember," Lyra said. "I think that's what we needed to mend our relationship." The two hugged and then he hugged Lena.
"Don't get too friendly," August teased.
Henry broke away from the hug and make an annoyed expression towards him.
Lena hugged her mom warmly and Lyra went over to her grandparents and dad. Lena took the baby back from Lyra.
"I don't know how we're going to be able to wait so long to see you again," Mary Margaret said. Her eyes were filled with tears.
"I don't know how I am going to handle going back to that reality either. But my mom's right," Lyra sniffed, "I can't undo all of my history. I have to grow up the way I did, where I did."
Mary Margaret hugged her and David hugged them both together with his hand on the back of Lyra's head cradling it.
Over to Killian, whose eyes were already red, Lyra took a deep breath in before she spoke. "In six more months, you will see Emma again. On the anniversary of the year she first left, a portal will open and you will summon her back to you."
He wiped his eyes. "But you won't be with her. We're going to leave you behind. We're going to miss everything."
"Seems to be a curse in this family. Little Neal there is the lucky one." Lyra said. "This way you'll all know about me. And it will be torture, I know, but it h-has to be this way" her voice cracked.
Killian quickly grabbed her and wrapped her arms around her. She hugged him back and he lifted her up for a moment.
Lena watched them and then Lyra rejoined her at the end of the line. They walked back over to the portal together, Lena holding the baby and Lyra sniffling.
"Since we'll remember you," Belle said, "How will we know when we can talk about this time. I mean, in the future when you have come to this time? That you've time traveled?"
Lena and Lyra smiled at each other. Lena said, "We'll say Operation Falcon is over."
"Time to go through," Regina said.
Emma broke as from holding the portal open and looked at her daughter. She reached her arm out to her, and Lyra took it. "Together," Emma said.
Lyra's smile faded, "Oh wait a second," she snapped her fingers and Melody's body was over her shoulder. "I have to get her back to her family too." Lyra tossed the body into the portal and then went through the portal herself, while holding hands with her mother, who was off to another land, in another time.
Lena looked around the crowd one last time, as well as the town. She hugged her dad, who was trying to keep the portal open. Lena went over to the portal and was about to jump into it when Regina said, "That's Robin's baby isn't it?"
Lena looked guilty and stammered. "He will grow up to be a monster and this is the only way I know to fix it without killing him, as intended."
"You're going to take him back to your time? To the future?" Regina said loudly.
Robin looked at them. "She has my child," he said.
"You will see him again. I am giving you all your best chance. His best chance is growing up in another time." Lena said.
Regina readied to go after her, breaking her connection to the portal, leaving Mr. Gold to hold it open. Lena backed away from the crowd, getting closer to the portal. "Now Lena," he said. "Remember what I told you."
"Morraine," Lena nodded. "I know papa." She leaned back, going into the portal. A half a second later, the portal was gone.