Once Upon a Time...
There was an enchanted forest filled with all of the classic characters we all know and love.
Or, at least we think that we know.
One day, they found themselves trapped in a place where all of their happy endings were stolen.
Our world.
This is how it happened...
《 Fairy Tale World 》
A prince loped through the woods upon the back of his noble steed and they reached the place, that they had been racing so quickly towards. The prince had broken the curse on Snow White, unaware that he had a couple of unknown people as an audience.
"Come now, Serilda. I'm sorry, we must go. Now, before the Queen can find us, and find out, where we have been." The Huntsman urged of his daughter, who had been the one with the idea in the first place.
"All right, we shall go. But, could I go to the wedding? It shan't hurt you nor I... yes? Oh, please!" Serilda whispered to her father, whose face and eyes, all bowed slightly in defeat.
"Yes, you may. But tell no one, who you are. No one at all, may know that you are my daughter. Not even the... a Queen especially not our Queen."
He'd murmur to her, and she bows quickly her head in understanding, as they swiftly rose together and runs off again.
Their green cloaks as swift as they were, snapping in the wind, as they would run swiftly through the woods together, just like the shadows of their own bodies.
At the royal wedding only a mere fortnight later, the Evil Queen had made her promise and vows to be the one who destroyed everyone's any sort of happiness, and in the corner of it all, stood Serilda, an arrow nocked to the string of her bow, pointing it at the Evil Queen.
"This is for my father." It was barely an whisper, Serilda herself could just only barely hear it, as she released the arrow, letting it fly toward the Queen.
Th Evil Queen gasped at the sudden pain in her left shoulder, as she stares at the arrow in it.
Her eyes turned to black orbs of cold expressionless eyes, like stone, except with a burnin' fire in them, as she had swiftly traces the path of the girl's arrow right back to her.
"Your family will suffer for this!" The Evil Queen hissed as the next arrow, it was already ready to fly toward her at once.
"My family is more than prepared to suffer for a cause, that we deem to be noble." She said, and even, her ever at it, her quiet voice would carry far across the hall of celebration, as she fired another arrow, at the same time that Prince Charming had thrown his sword at her.
The sword, the second arrow and the Evil Queen had all disappeared in the second that it took, for black smoke to show up in front of them.
"Who are you?" Prince Charming demands of her at once, as Serilda puts away her bow, slinging it back over her shoulders, along with a blade that was now visible.
"Serilda, your majesty. I am only a simple Huntress." She murmured to the room, as she did a rather lopsided curtsey, before just bowing instead of continuing to embarrass herself.
"She would harm your family... are they being held?" It was only the two royals, and Serilda now, as they sat in counsel at the table of the armies.
"I have only my father, but yes, he is being held as a captive, of a sort." She said quietly.
"Will he be killed, for what you have done today?" Snow White asked and a look of grim certainty, had come over, the young woman's face.
"No, your majesty. He is much more useful to her alive then dead." Serilda, although her voice was certain, inside she was panicking now at the thought of her father being injured or dying at the Evil Queen's hands.
《 Storybrooke, Maine 》
"Henry's back!" Maia shouted loudly over her shoulder to the adults in the room, as she raced down the stairs.
She jumped down, skipping the last ten of the steps, rolling to her feet to stop her momentum, as she tore open the door.
"Henry!" She called out and the boy ran into her, like a cannonball, right into her stomach, as he hugged her a bit too tightly.
"Henry!" Regina screamed loudly for her adopted son as she runs out of the house and forced Maia aside, as she'd hug him.
Maia walked really quickly now, right back over to her dad, who was lookin' relieved now as well to see that Henry was okay.
"Hey sheriff, nice work." She mumbled under her breath to her dad, who stuck out his tongue at her slightly, before snapping his mouth shut at the revelation that the woman in town, was Henry's biological mom.
"We will go check on the lad, make sure he's all right." Her father said at once, as they both wanted to get as far away from this very much a awkward conversation, as soon as they could.
《 Enchanted Forest 》
Serilda's arrows met their targets every time, as she fought her way to Snow White's chambers, to help the guards to defend them further.
She ran out of arrows and tossed her bow to the side, drawing her sword in a valiant effort to keep fighting.
She heard blades clashing against blades, the screeching of metal and the squishing sounds of swords and bodies.
She ran toward that hallway and found that Prince Charming, he had beaten her to it, and was holding the baby as well.
They made their way as swiftly as they could, to the wardrobe room and Serilda went down without a single whimper or any sound of pain, as she was stabbed by multiple blades as she was trying to defend the baby and the prince.
《 Storybrooke, Maine 》
"Henry, why the hell now, would you ever keep running off? It is like trying to keep a horse away from water. You will never get out of here, you know it don't you?" Maia asked, as she walked over to him, and he smirked a bit.
"Yeah, but I bet that I am still giving you, one a hell of a workout. And your dad, him too." Henry said and she was laughing quietly.
"That's true, but I don't think that we really need one to be honest." She said to him and he punched her in the arm and she glared at him.
"You don't need one, but your dad might be the person who does." Henry said, and at that Maia throws back her head as she laughed at his words.
"Yeah, okay, maybe he does. But you really need to stop running off, before you give Regina Mills a heart attack." She says to him, before she stands up and whistles, as she walks him back over to her car, and drove him home.
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[1] That Tomboy [Once Upon A Time]
Fanfiction{Set in Season 1 of Once Upon A Time} [I own nothing except for Maia Humbert and the storylines that only follow her.] Maia Humbert was born and raised in Storybrooke and other than Henry she was the only one who ever aged around the town. When she...