Once Upon A Time: Second Chances

The Queen

The Woods, just before sunrise

Micah and Sera paced around a clearing in the dark, waiting for Violet-Marie. "Do you think her mother will find us?" Sera asked quietly. "I think Queen Aimee can do whatever she sets her mind to, and if that includes finding us, then she will find us." Micah replied. "Who's going to find us?" Violet-Marie asked, out of breath. "Your mother." Micah replied. "Did you run all the way here?" he asked with a laugh. Violet-Marie grinned. "Of course I did. Now that I'm back living with the Swan-Jones family, they're keeping a close eye on me, but with Aunt Emma still sleeping, I was able to get away easier." Sera laughed. "That reminds me of the time you slipped out of your mother's house into the woods." she said. Violet-Marie nodded. "Anyway, I was able to figure out that Aunt Emma will be asleep for at least four more hours. Six at most." Sera and Micah nodded.  The sun began to rise. "We need to get back, we're meeting with my, uhm, family at 8:15." Violet-Marie said, scratching the back of her head. "Well then, let's get going." Micah said. "So, Sera," Violet-Marie asked while they were walking away. "Meet any cute boys lately?" Sera chased Violet-Marie down the path, both of them laughing, Micah shook his head behind them. "Those two are crazy." he muttered, continuing down the path, whistling. 

Regina's office

"So," Violet-Marie said, walking into the office. "Aunt Emma will wake up in either two hours, or four hours, and we still have no idea who Faith Willows is, plus my mother hunts like a bloodhound, so we have at most four days before she finds me and kills me, and then Grams and Gramps, then me again." Micah laughed. "Well, thanks." Regina said, writing down all of the information. "That actually helps us." Sera came over to look at (younger) Henry's book. "So what stories are in that book?" she asked. "Oh!" Henry said. "Every story in here is true, to start with, and everyone in this town is in the book, or in one of the books." Micah looked at Sera and Violet-Marie. "So our stories could be in there?" he asked. "I don't know, let's see." Henry said. "Maybe Faith would be in here as well." Henry poured over his books, and the books containing stories from The Land of Untold Stories, and the stories of everyone from Hyperion Heights. Faith Willows, Violet-Marie Hunter, Micah Yu, and Sera Sanderson were nowhere to be found." Thought so." Violet-Marie said. "We wouldn't be in there, but maybe my mother would be, she was born in the Enchanted Forest." she reasoned. Snow sighed. "What did you say your mother's name was?" Regina asked. "Aimee, Aimee Hunter-Wi-, uhm, Aimee Hunter." Violet-Marie responded, hesitating a bit. She glanced at Micah and Sera, who had slightly frightened looks on their faces, if Emma would have been here, she would have noticed, but she wasn't so no one did. "Aimee Hunter." Regina muttered, looking at the book. "Yeah, there is no Aimee Hunter in here." "Hm, that's kind of strange." Violet-Marie said, "She should be in there." "Unless," Sera said, coming over. Violet-Marie's eyes widened. "Of course," she gasped. "She's been in our realm too long." "What realm?" Regina asked. "You have to tell us at some point." Violet-Marie sighed. "I swore never to tell, but one of you two can." Sera laughed. "You are finding a loophole." she said. 

"We live in a place called The Forgotten Realms." Sera began. "Every person, or creature, or item, or anything that has been forgotten finds their way to our shores, one way or another." she explained. "We've been there our entire lives, and since yesterday you said you knew who Sera's family, not her father, but her family was, that would explain why they vanished a couple of years ago. You see, whenever something in our realm is remembered by someone not living in our realm, it begins to fade, if a certain amount of people remember it, it fades completely from our realm, and re-shows up here, in what we call the known realm." Micah said. Violet-Marie nodded. "Our realm is extremely dangerous, and if you were ever to visit, without a native to the land, you would surely die within an hour." she added. "That's a happy thought." Killian said. "Your realm sounds like quite the adventure." Regina looked at them, "If your realm is really that dangerous, how did you survive?" she asked. Violet-Marie, Sera, and Micah looked at each other and laughed. "I'm the princess of the Center Kingdom, and we can keep a record of everyone of every age in the library in my palace. The list of children and the list of people our age in the Center Kingdom is about one hundred to two hundred people. In a kingdom of eight hundred thousand people, there are only a few hundred fourteen year old children." Violet-Marie said. "We only survived because Micah's father has been training him since birth, and I made him The Shadow General. Sera has magic and she's also an assassin, so she is My Bloody Handmaiden." at their disgusted faces Violet-Marie smiled and quickly explained. "I was going through a dark time and we had an image to keep up, so that's the reason for the names. That's all." 

"So let me get this straight, you are from The Forgotten Realms, Violet-Marie is royalty, Micah is a general, and Sera is a witch and assassin." Zelena said. Sera nodded. "Yep, in a nutshell." "And your mother wants to kill us." Snow added. "Yes." Violet-Marie said. "I said I would try it my way, but then she said if I failed she would try to destroy you her way." she explained. "And what is her way?" Gideon asked. Violet-Marie looked at her family and friends. "I have no idea, but she is known as the Black Queen, so it can't be good." she said. Suddenly, Violet-Marie's pet raven, Ava, flew into the room. "Hey girl!" Violet-Marie said, letting Ava land on her shoulder. She noticed that there was a note attached to Ava's leg. Violet-Marie's eyes widened as she read the note. "Uhm, we may be out of time." She said. "My mother is here, and she wants us to meet her in the center of town at exactly midnight. Tonight." Regina cursed under her breath. "That's not good." she said. "There's something else." Violet-Marie said. She looked up at her grandparents. "She says 'Prepare yourselves, not-so-Charmings, you have only hours left before your soul is shattered.'" Snow and David looked at each other. "Well, I guess it's time for us to meet our other daughter." 

So? What did you think? Did you enjoy it? I sure hope you did!! Actually, if I'm telling the truth, we are getting kind of close to the end of this book! Wow, this will be my first completed book that is not a one-shot XD Anyway, I think we have like, maybe ten chapters left, maybe less. I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and I will see you later!!

~Ana/Red 💜