Regina took one last look at Robin before she puffed away to her bedroom. She sit on the bed and started crying again with a pillow on her face. In that moment she let the tears just roll down her eyes instead of trying to fight them since she didn't know she if she still had enough courage to fight them. She laid in her bed and not long after, she fell asleep.
She woke up about an hour later, when Henry started calling her. He was worried sick after she had just disappeared. They went from trying to find Zelena to searching intensively for Regina, thinking she might have been kidnapped too. It had been Henry's idea to search in her house again, since they had been there before, so he went there with Snow and David, who stayed downstairs. Henry didn't want to wake his mother, but he realized she had been crying before she fell asleep and he wanted to know what happened to her. He started calling and tapping her and that was when she started opening her eyes. "I am sorry I woke you. We were all just so worried about you. What happened?"
Regina slowly opened her already dry eyes, and saw standing in front of her. It may be horrible thing to admit, but she totally forgot about her son, and everyone else who were probably worried. She raised her head and sit on the bed. She was still feeling horribly, but not as much as before. "I'm fine, Henry" she said as she sighed.
Henry knew his mother good enough to know when she was lying, and he knew she definitely was when she said it. "No you're not. Come on mom, tell me the truth." He sit on the bed beside her and put his hand above hers. "You know you can tell me anything."
She smiled and squeezed his cheek a little bit. Normally, Henry would obviously complain and tell her to stop and that he wasn't a baby anymore, but he could see she was definitely not feeling good, and if that helped her feel better, than so be it. "Is anyone downstairs?" Regina asked, knowing they wouldn't let Henry walk around Storybrooke alone. Not after what had happened recently.
Henry nodded. "Yes. Just grandma and grandpa" he said simply.
"Then we should go meet them. I don't want to have to say this twice." She said as she got up and walked out of the bedroom. Henry quickly followed her.
They found Snow and David in the kitchen, waiting for Henry since they had already found Regina in the bedroom. Just like Henry, they both realized something was up, and both of Emma's parents walked toward Regina. Snow hugged her and David put his hand on her shoulder, squeezing it sweetly. Regina accepted the hug and placed her head on Snow's shoulder as she closed her eyes. Not long after, she ended the hug, smiling at David for the kind gesture.
No one said anything for a few seconds. Regina was readying herself to speak, and the others didn't want to force to do so again. "It's Robin" Regina said at last. "Adda brought him back."
Everyone looked at her with surprise as Regina made that announcement. "Mom, thanks great." Henry said with a smile on his face. He never doubted Regina deserved a happy beginning like everyone else, and he had realized she didn't get one. Not really. Sure she had him, and she always would, but it is very different of course. Henry could never make up for the fact Regina didn't have a romantic partner.
"Yes it would be, if he wasn't trying to kill him." She said as she made another pause, thinking of all the terrible things Robin had told her. "Adda casted the Spell of Shattered Sight on him, so now he hates me and only sees me as the Evil Queen. Maybe he's right." She said sighing.
Snow was about to say that is obviously not true, and that they would find a way to bring Robin, the real Robin, back so they could all live a normal and happy life, when they heard a sound coming from outside. She spent a few years in the woods to know that was definitely the sound of an arrow being shot and then hitting something.
Before anyone could do anything, David removed his sword and started walking to the front door. "Stay here. I'll go see what it is."
"David!" Snow was going to tell him she was going with him, when she realized she didn't want to leave Regina alone with Henry. Sure he was a nice boy, but ultimately he was a man, so he couldn't understand what Regina was feeling. "Be careful." She finished.
David nodded and continued to walk to the front door, slowly and quietly. Once he got there he put his hand in the door knob and slowly turned it. In contrary to his previous movements, he opened the door quickly, but didn't see anyone nor anything suspicious. He walked outside to the balcony and looked everywhere, but, again, he didn't see anything out of the ordinary. Then it hit him that whoever it was could have broken into the house already. He turned around ready to head back inside when he saw it in the door. Someone did shoot an arrow, and it landed in Regina's front door. But that wasn't just a warning shot, it was a message. Quite literally, since there was a piece of paper attached to the arrow, stuck at the door through it. David walked to it, removed the arrow from the door and took the paper in his hand. The message wasn't big at all, just 3 simple words, but he knew big trouble were coming. He knew he had to show it to the others.
With his sword still in his hand for if the person who shot the arrow was still around (he doubted it, but better safe than sorry) he walked back to the kitchen. "David! Did you find anything?" Snow asked, not noticing the piece of paper in his hand. Instead of an answer, David gave Snow and Regina the paper. Henry approached them so he could read it too.
'Main Street. 8:15pm' was the simple inscription on the paper, with a very creative and careful handwriting. "Where did you find this?" Regina asked still looking at it.
"It was outside, literally hanging in your door. It probably came from Adda and his minions." If the paper meant what David thought it did, that was an invitation for a battle.
"Yeah, you're probably right about that." Regina was starting to sound angry. She had enough battles in her life, and she didn't want to fight another one, especially knowing she and Robin will be in different sides.
"He wants to start a fight." Sure Henry had been saying he wanted to be a part of everything, but when a showdown was already starting to take place, he wasn't so ready for it. Of course, not just him, but for everyone. He knew that these kinds of things, especially against someone as powerful as Adda, sometimes means casualties.
Regina sighed again. "We need to call the others."
A few minutes after this, all the heroes were reunited at Regina's house, all in the living room, trying to find out what to do.
"Can't we just not show up?" Emma asked, fearing exactly the same thing as Henry. She was tired of having to fight battle after battle. She just wanted to enjoy her new husband, in their new house, having a normal day.
"I don't think that is a good idea. If we are not there, they will probably just look for us until they find us, and what Adds wants will just happen in a different place." Like everyone else, fighting bad guys was the last thing Regina wanted, but they would accomplish nothing but pass on a message of cowardice if they hid. So hide was something they definitely could not do.
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While the heroes started preparing themselves for the coming battle, Adda was more confident then ever that he would win. His goal wasn't to destroy all the heroes, not in such an early stage, but just to start spreading fear and chaos. With these two things, he would have what he wanted in no time. He walked to where he knew Lily and Zelena were, the basement. "Is everything ready yet?" He asked, making sure that was so. He didn't have Robin warn the heroes just so they were still behind in their work.
"Yes, of course. You made sure of that already." Zelena didn't like she was helping Adda, but he gave her no other choice. She thought maybe she could have run away and go to her friends once she had her magic back, but Adda was much smarter than she thought he was. He made sure she wouldn't be going anywhere.
"I know" He said smirking "just checking again." He knew exactly Zelena probably wanted to be everywhere else but there, but he also knew she wouldn't dare sabotage the potion she and Lily were working on.
In that moment, Cruella also walked into the room. "Oh, darling, you brought me back to life and gave me the fantastic ability to kill, so I could die of boredom again?" She said, while walking to Adda and ignoring everyone else there.
Adda smiled at her. He really loved how much of a psychopath she was. Not that he was falling for her, he wasn't, but he just liked her style. "Don't worry dear, you know out first battle is coming. And don't forget you have an important role in it. You will finally get revenge on the person who killed you"
"And speaking of..." Lily said, driving someone to start looking at her. "If this whole thing is for Emma, what about me? What about my revenge?" The only reason why she agreed to join that team was because revenge on Snow and Charming was what she was promised, and there was no way she would let those two walk away. Not anymore.
"Don't worry Lily. Your revenge is going to be much more permanent." He said, as he told them what he had planned for that sickly sweet couple. Lily smiled as she heard it. "What do you think?" He asked his daughter after he finished.
"I love it" She said smirking. "It is just a shame mother won't be there to see it." Lily thought of how she went to Maleficent, asking her to join them, that they would finally get their revenge, but she didn't listen.
"Don't worry, we'll get her. She didn't want to join us yet, but she will eventually. Maybe after tonight's win" Adda said, thinking again of how victorious they would be when the sun rose again.
And there the villains stood all afternoon, plotting on how great their victory would be, not even giving room to the thought of losing. How could they lose if they were so well prepared? In their heads they couldn't. Maybe they were right, maybe they weren't.
The heroes in the other hand, after realizing there was no escaping, started training. Some with magic, some with swords, bows and arrows, but they all did what they could to try to make time go by faster.
On that day, and fortunately for him, Henry wasn't so sidelined. He and Belle spent the afternoon making potions and enchanting their swords, so they could use them as shields against magic. Neither of the two were much fighters, but they did what they could to help.
At 8pm, Rumple and Regina put a protection spell on the house, locking Belle Henry, Neal and Gideon inside, and, more importantly, locking everyone else outside. When everyone got to main street, the clock marked exactly 8:15, but there was no one else there. A couple minutes later, they heard something coming their way, and saw Adda, Cruella, Zelena and Robin approaching them from the sky, sitting on the back of a dragon. Not surprisingly, the dragon transformed back into Lily, and there they stood: heroes and villains standing across from each other, preparing for one of the most intense and shocking battles Storybrooke had ever experienced.
"Let us begin." Adda said, smirking.
(Another chapter completed. Please keep reviewing, it means a lot to me. The next chapter will feature this first battle against the two sides, and I cannot promise everyone will still be alive by the time the chapter finish. Adda really has some bad plans, so stay tuned.)