Greetings from Underbrooke (5th Book of Heroes and Villains Quintet)

Chp 18: A New Story

Flashback Many days ago in Storybrooke, As Renee and Liam try to spend more romantic time together, they hear a rumbling sound from above and are joined by Zelena, Grace, Edward, and Dorothy to find a dirigible from the Land of Untold Tales hovering above the town. They confront Hyde, who as the new Light One, has brought the residents from the land of Untold Tales with him. Both Renee and Zelena try to use magic to stop him, but fail. When they see the blimp crash into the forest, they search for survivors but find no one, Jekyll tells the residents that they can use the baton that powered the dirigible to create a device to stop Hyde. While the others go through the wreckage, Zelena is afraid to face Syrina because she will be upset about her abandoning her. Grace thinks that Zelena should go see her anyway. After that conversation, Grace arrives at the library and visits Belle and her adult son, Anthony, revealing that Rumple got murdered, Belle and Anthony begins to weep together over their loss of their husband and father. Later on, the heroes create a weapon that successfully takes care of Hyde and he is placed in jail, Renee takes and place the dagger in the sheriff's lock-box. The following day, Zelena is finally reunited with her daughter, Syrina, and Grace watches this from a distance. That night, Zelena and Regina, despite their renewed bonding as sisters, are not seeing things eye to eye as they argue over the loss of Grayson and Zelena's decision to split from her wicked half, and Regina is already looking at moving out and find a new place for her, Robin and her child. Regina is angry at Zelena because she decided to destroy the part of herself that was most like her, leaving the sisters with less in common. After a talk with Dorothy and Grace, Zelena is ready to make amends and start a new chapter in her life. Unfortunately, when Regina returned to her new home while Robin has Daniel Jr. at Roni's, The Wicked Witch of the West is there waiting to offer Regina a drink and to bond together. End of Flashback

Present day Storybrooke, Eighteen months have passed since they defeated Hades, Death was summoned and they returned to Storybrooke, from Grace trying to destroy magic again. At the cabin in the woods, Fiona appears to Death and offers to team up with him, Eclipse accepts and gains her as his first ally. Elsewhere, a now teenage Syrina is learning to practice spells, much to the dismay of Zelena, who is more upset with Regina because she gave her a book of shadows. After Zelena takes away Syrina's phone, Syrina drops a potion and is transported to the Wish Realm. Meanwhile at the Pawnshop, Anthony and Belle is cleaning the place out so they could sale the Pawnshop, as Facilier comes in and offers them $490 million dollars for the Pawn shop since his son, Liam, ain't going to give him back the Emporium. Belle accepts the offer and Facilier gives her the breifcase full of the money, as a skeptical Anthony tries to get his mother to realize to not trust Facilier. Zelena reveals to the major power-players about Syrina is missing, they all went out to search for her, Tiana and Naveen decides to help and gathers the residents and the new arrivals from the Land Of Untold Tales at Roni's to find something that will guide Zelena to the Wish Realm. After a little hesitation and Naveen getting their attention, Dorothy came forward and gave Zelena the Ruby Slippers that she had kept all those years. Zelena place the Ruby Slippers on her feet. Renee wants to help and Zelena reluctantly agrees, Tiana wished the ladies the best of luck, than Zelena used the Slippers to send them to the Wish Realm.

In the Wish Realm: In an alternate version of the Enchanted Forest in which the Dark Curse never happened, Wish Dorothy and Edward that are the elderly version is celebrating their daughter's sacrifice with the kingdom, including a grown up Grace known as the Light One. Zelena and Renee soon arrives, and discovers that Zelena is still regarded as Wicked, after the Munchkins flee from them. They then come across a statue of Dorothy and Prince Edward, which marks the location where they defeated the Wicked Witch in this Realm. Zelena and Renee soon discovers a ladylike, Sorceress version of Grace, and they try to tell her about the real Storybrooke, but Wish Dorothy and Edward, alerted by the Munchkins to Zelena's presence, begin to threaten Zelena and is skeptical about Renee, and refuse to listen to both of them. Zelena teleports to her and Renee now dilapidated castle, and then comes across a prison cell that is holding Facilier, who still calls her his "greatest student and failure," as in this realm, Zelena failed to cast the Dark Curse. However, Facilier offers Zelena and Renee a deal in exchange for his freedom, telling Zelena that he knows Syrina's whereabouts. As he is freed, he tells Zelena and Renee to meet him at the Summer Palace the next day, where he will give her a Magic Bean so they can return to Storybrooke. Zelena soon transforms into the Wicked Witch in order to save Syrina. Afterwards, Zelena and Renee stumble upon a seance conducted by Madame Leota, and finds Syrina there, but defied Zelena and Renee and forced the two to leave. Renee tells Zelena that she can save Syrina by using the power of love instead of magic. Later on at the Fairy vault, Syrina is placed in the middle of a circle to be sacrificed so Leota can be resurrected, and when Zelena sees this she pushed Syrina away and Zelena finds herself making the sacrifice. However, Syrina and Renee both uses their powers to save Zelena by blasting the amulet out of the Wish Black Fairy's hand. Syrina's magic helped free Zelena and her from Wish Black Fairy's spell and they began to bond as mother and daughter. Syrina then decides to keep the amulet for a raining day which has her magic left inside the amulet. Suddenly, Grace appears, ready to kill Zelena, but when she throws her fireball at her, Zelena refuses to attack her, and almost lets herself die by her hand. Renee suddenly freezes Grace with a fireball in mid-air, and catalyzed by Zelena's refusal to kill Grace and her having been about to kill her and in doing so become everything Renee never wanted her to be. The women then meet up with Facilier and he gives them the magic bean, But then, Facilier is killed in front of them... by the Powerful Wizard, as Renee open a portal back to Storybrooke. Before they can leave, they are held by Wish Realm Grayson, meaning to reunite with his lover again, and Zelena is so transfixed by his presence that the portal closes, leaving all Renee, Syrina and Zelena trapped in the wish realm.