Twice Upon A Time~ The Descendants of Once Upon a Time

Piper

Celestia clutched her head, shutting her eyes.

"Celeste?" Alex questioned. "Are you alright?" What kind of nickname was Celeste? This guy was weird.

"I'm having a vision!" She cried out. "I can see-"

"Me and Piper getting married? Me too!" Will interrupted, putting his arm around me. I elbowed him, hard.

"No! Mirabella! She's in a cave!" Cel yelled, falling to her knees and coming to her senses. Alex helped her up and she turned to face everyone.

"The echo caves." Cel proclaimed.

"Let's go then." Dad announced.

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"Looks like love is in the air, sweetheart." Will said, pointing at Alex and Cel who were chatting, then to Roland making another lame attempt at striking conversation with Vi. I laughed at him.

"Okay Will." I replied.

"No punches? No shin kicks? Maybe you do love me!" He exclaimed, pumping his fist in the air. I rolled my eyes and kept walking.

"Up there!" Prince Phillip shouted, pointing at the caves. Aurora put a finger to her lips quickly, signaling everyone to be quiet.

Rumplestiltskin led everyone in, to find none other than Mirabella, on a cliff, about 100 feet away. She was locked in a bamboo cage.

"How are we supposed to get to her with no bridge?" Cel scoffed, frustrated.

"I've been in these caves before," Queen Snow began. "To build a bridge... we have to spill our darkest secrets,"

"Well it's a good thing my life's an open book!" Will remarked. I scowled at him, now was really not the time for joking.

"I'll go first," I volunteered. Courage was supposed to run in my family after all.

What could I possibly not have told anyone? I keep most things out in the open. Ah, yes. I guess this counts as a secret of sorts.

"Well... um, I think I may have feelings for William. At first he was annoying, but after a while he grows on you. And he makes me laugh," I blushed.

Will raised his eyebrows. "I knew it," He smiled. He was beaming, and everyone could see it.

A stone bridge emerged from our cliff, but it didn't quite reach Mirabella's cage.

"There's something I need to tell Rumple, and Mira... and all of you," Belle paced back and forth, clearly apprehensive.

"Go ahead darling." Rumple said warily.

"Rumple, you're not Mirabella's true birth father. A selfish man named Gaston is," Belle started crying as another piece of the bridge materialized.

If Gaston is Mira's father... that makes her Will's sister! Wow.

Rumpelstiltskin just stood there expressionless, but I didn't have time to worry about him.

Everyone besides Rumple took a turn revealing a truth about themselves.

When the bridge was completely built, Rumpelstiltskin walked across it to greet Mira.

"Dearie, did you hear everything your mother said?"

"Yes, but it's okay Papa. It doesn't matter whether you're my birth father or not," Mira insisted.

"Thank you Mira,"

"You know what you have to do Papa, reveal a secret about yourself,"

Rumple took a deep breath, and began to speak. "I've always thought that you may not be my birth daughter Mirabella. From an early age you showed so many similarities to your mother. But you're nothing like me, you have no magic whatsoever. I suppose that's a good thing though, magic can be a burden. So when your mother exposed that you were not my real daughter, I wasn't that surprised."

The door to Mira's cage flew open. Rumple and Mira walked across the bridge, to where the rest of us were waiting.

"Leaving so soon?" As usual, Pan decided to make an appearance. This time, I was ready to fight him. I was more than ready. I was Piper.