Once Upon a Time: Ever After High (Book 8)

Ch.51 Smart plan

When Mira opened her eyes, she found herself in the woods, but what made her concern was that the woods looked familiar. Wondering where she was, she started to walk ahead as she searched around until something spotted her eye, she went over to an object and saw that it was a statue of the grown up Evil Queen, and onto the stand of the statue written in bronze were the words "In this spots, the Evil Queen was defeated by the heroes of Ever After High."

"Really?" she smirked to herself.

All of a sudden she heard someone humming, following the sound, she went down the woods until she spotted Elena now dressed as her old self as Raven Queen who was picking flowers and putting them into her basket while humming a song. Mira was about to talk to her, but then a thought came to her when she realized that Elena might not remember her due to the wish, so using her powers, she transformed her clothes into an outfit that would hopefully blend in as she headed towards Elena.

"Raven?" she called as Raven looked up at her.

"Uh... do I know you?" she asked in a polite tone.

At that Mira felt her heart drop.

"You don't remember me?" she asked.

"Have we met before? Did you go to my Nursery Rhyme school?"

"Uh... no. It's kinda complicated. But uh, since you don't remember me, I guess I should introduce myself again, I'm... Taylor."

Realizing that Elena will think she's the Evil Queen everyone fears, Mira decided to use her fake name when she first came to Storybrooke.

"Well, nice to meet you Taylor" Raven smiled.

"Raven!" a voice suddenly called.

"Over here!" Raven called out as the Good King appeared.

"Ah there you are" he smiled at her.

"David?" Mira gasped in a whisper.

No matter how hard she wanted to hug him, she kept her calm, knowing that he might either realize who she is, or not know her at all.

"Oh who's your friend?" he asked Raven while looking at Mira.

"This is Taylor" Raven replied.

"Uh, hello your Majesty" Mira said with a smile as she bowed, really hoping that he wouldn't recognize her.

"So what are you doing out here?" Raven asked her.

"Oh uh..." Mira said as she tried to think of an excuse "I'm uh, visiting from my hometown, and I'm kinda lost, and I really have no place to stay."

"Did you check the Inns?"

"Yeah, but they're all full."

"Well in that case" the kind said "You're more than welcome to stay with us until further notice."

"Seriously?" she said surprised.

"Yeah" Raven said "We got lots of room, and you can meet my friends."

Hoping that this will give her clues on how to get Raven back, Mira went along.

"Well thank you" she smiled "I really appreciate that."

"Come on" Raven smiled "I know the perfect room you can stay in."

As she followed them, Mira hoped with all her heart that she will be able to figure things out.

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Back in Storybrooke inside Olivia's house along with Jasmine, Terrence paced back and forth as he tried to think of something.

"I can't do this" he suddenly said "I can't just sit here and wait, the queen is out there and she has more wishes."

"Don't worry" Aidan put in "Mira will be back with Elena soon enough."

"And then what?" Terrence argued "What's gonna stop the queen from making another wish from sending them someplace worse?! She has done too much damage to us!"

At that point everyone sighed with sadness, but then an idea popped in Terrence's head.

"I'm gonna get that lamp" he declared as he headed to the door.

"Wait!" Olivia grabbed his arm "There is nothing that I want more than to make the Evil Queen pay for what she did to Elena, but we are outgunned, we don't have magic, we don't even have that sword that we can use to defeat her, we need a plan."

"So-" Jasmine spoke up "Anyone got any ideas? I can't bear to think what she's doing to Aladdin and Whisp."

"I think I got one" Terrence spoke up "Everyone go to the police station, I'll meet you there in an hour, the Evil Queen's raid ends today."

So following the plan, everyone went to the police station as Terrence went to the Mayor's office where he saw Mira at the desk with her back turned to him. And with that he slid a sword at her as he gripped another one in his hand.

"Ah Dexter" she said with a fake smile as she turned to him "I thought I smelled a failure."

"Just pick it up" he urged with a sigh.

"Why me?" she chuckled "You're the one who dropped it."

"Because I'm starting to wonder if you still have it?"

At that point she gave a frown.

"Uh, should I leave?" Aladdin asked who was sitting on a chair near the wall.

"Do whatever you want" Terrence told him.

"Thanks" Aladdin said as he got up and went into another room.

"You have it all-" Terrence said to the queen "Dark magic, a genie, why don't you try doing something else for a change you snake!"

And with that he raised his sword, but she used her powers to send him flying into the wall as he fell on the ground.

"Snake?" she said with a smirk "You do realize you can't kill me you four eyed wimp."

At that point he got up and quickly ran to the desk where he picked up the genie bottle as the queen gave a small gasp.

"Thanks for the tip" he smirked at her "I know I can't kill you, but I can do something much worse."

And with that he rubbed the lamp as Whisp appeared from it.

"Oo" she smirked when she realized what had happened "New master again, and it's someone I actually prefer."

They then turned to the queen who had a mad look on her face.

"You know what you're gonna wish for master?" Whisp asked Terrence.

"Oh I do" he smirked while looking at the queen "I know exactly what I'm going to wish for."