"Hey, I just spoke to Emma. It's a bad wound. She says it's poison. He can only cure it back here in Storybrooke. They're taking the ship home." David said to Mary Margaret and Ella over the phone
Mary Margaret had the phone on speaker so the two of them could hear it.
Mary Margaret was standing by the table as Ella was sitting at the table with a cup of coffee in her hands.
"Well let them know that they have the dagger okay? Who knows what the wicked woman would do." Mary Margaret stated then ended the call
"Nothing, not yet anyway, she could've made me kill all of you but she hasn't." Ella said quietly not looking at Mary Margaret
"Ella... Ella look at me."
Ella did as she was told and looked up at Mary Margaret who was walking round the table to sit next to her.
"It wasn't your fault, she made you, she made you hurt yourself she made you kill Johanna. This is all her none of it was you... We need to talk about what Cora said about you dying"
"She has always threatened of killing me she's never actually succeeded."
. . . .
"Mind telling me why you want to mess with Felix." Ella asked as she looked behind her to look at Peter
He shrugged and said, "Felix hasn't been having a good day, he's in a bad mood."
Ella shrugged and said, "Good enough reason."
She loaded her bow and aimed it at the book the Felix was reading in the camp, just as she was about to shot it she heard, "What are you doing?"
Ella and Peter both jumped back but the jump made Ella let go of her arrow and send it flying towards Felix.
It caught the back of his clothes and pinned him onto the tree.
She turned to look at the kid who scared them, but saw that it was only Zac a five year old who Ella had taken to looking after.
"Ella I'm going to kill you!" Felix shouted
"Oh god." Ella said as she pulled Peter up from the ground and they quickly started running as they laughed.
. . . . .
Ella, Mary Margaret and David had just pulled up to the dock as Emma, Henry, Gold and Neal were getting off a dingy.
Ruby was there to help Neal help Gold walk.
As they got out of the truck Mary Margaret asked, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, yep, I'm alright" Emma said as she finished tying the dingy to the side of the dock
Henry spotted Ella and smiled, "Ella!"
Ella smiled back and Henry ran towards her almost knocking over as he hugged her.
Neal looked at Emma shocked at what he was seeing.
"Told you" Emma smirked "He adores her she is practically his best friend."
"I drove a ship." Henry stated as he still had his arms around Ella
"Did you now?" David said
"Yeah, my dad showed me how." Henry said with a smile
Ella raised an eyebrow as Neal said, "That's me."
"Is Cora trying to control you with the dagger?" David asked as Gold grunted in pain whilst he was sitting on the back of the truck.
Gold gave him a look and said, "Oh you'd know if she was- most of you would be dead by now and Miss Scarlett would be helping me kill you."
Emma quickly turned to look a Ella who just shook her head and mouthed, 'tell you later'
"Well then we'll have to take the fight to her before that can happen." Mary Margaret stated
David nodded and said, "We will."
"And this time we'll finish it-"
Ella cut her off saying, "Mary Margaret"
"Ella, she needs to be stopped she needs to be killed you know that more than anyone. This is our family we are going to protect it."
Ella cut her off again, "Okay but keep the bloodlust to a minimum whilst Henry is here if I have to so do you."
David pulled Mary Margaret to the side and Emma walked over to Ella saying, "Can I have a word."
Ella nodded and headed away from the group as Emma said, "Anna what happened here?"
"You know what I don't even have the energy to protest that name anymore. Your... Our mother found out that her mother was killed by Regina's mother. Then Cora killed an old friend of hers, well actually I did but I didn't have a choice, she can also control me and Will now too. So Now she's kind of turned into me essentially... a vengeance monster and wants to kill Cora." Ella explained
"Brilliant... another thing to worry about." Emma sighed
"One more thing... Cora said that I was dying to them."
Before Emma could say anything Neal walked over and said, "So your Isabella Scarlett?"
Ella raised an eyebrow and said, "And you must be Neal... did I know in our world?"
Ella asked recognising Neal
"Well I used to call you Izzy."
Realization hit Ella as she said, "Bae?"
Neal smiled and Ella laughed saying, "Look at you, last time I saw you, you were a kid."
"Hi, Izzy." Neal said pulling Ella into a hug and Ella hugged him back.
Emma smiled and walked back over to Gold.
"Do you two know each other?" Henry asked as he walked over to the pair
"Yeah kid," Neal said letting go of Ella, "She's an old friend of mine."
Ella, Neal and Henry walked back over to the group just as Gold said, "I'm beginning to feel a little bit stronger. Take me back to my shop, there's magic there that can protect us."
"Let me guess I get to go with Ruby." Henry asked
Emma nodded and said, "You got it kid."
"I'll keep him out of the crossfire." Ruby said as she looked between Emma and Ella.
"Thank you."
"Don't look so worried. You'll stop Cora. You won't let her get away." Henry said as he looked at his family.
He gave them smiles as he quickly hugged Ella again before Ruby took him away from the group.
As soon as they were gone Ella turned to Emma with a look that Emma really didn't like and said, "Let's go kill my Queen."
. . . .
"How did you miss that?" Peter said breathing heavy as Ella had barely broken a sweat
"Zac scared me, not my fault" She said whilst laughing
"How do you do that? Look like you only ran a couple metres?"
Ella gave him a mused look as she said, "I think you are forgetting that I am a thief I do a lot of running mainly from people trying to kill me."
"Right, I forgot."
"You. forget. That's funny you don't forget anything." Ella said sitting up against a tree, "You remember my middle name even though I only told you it once."
"Eva right?"
Ella nodded with a smile
"Isabella Eva Scarlett." Peter said sitting down next to her.
. . . .
"Emma did you find it? Gold asked as Emma was holding an empty jar.
Ella was leaning on the wall next to Neal, who was next to Emma and David was on the other side of Emma.
Emma shook the glass and said, "Yeah, there's nothing in it-"
She stopped because wen she shook the jar there was a rattling sound, "What the hell."
Emma put her hand in the jar and pulled out something, but it was invisible.
Gold answered the question everyone was asking in their heads, "Invisible chalk. Use it in the front door way. Draw a line the rest of you... you might want to prepare for battle."
"Sorry I'm late!" Ella heard from the front of the shop, "There was this really drunk guy, it's the middle of the afternoon-"
Will walked into the back room but stopped talking as he saw that Gold was actually dying, "I didn't think you were actually serious El!"
"Would I joke about that?" Ella said walking out of the back room pulling Will with her.
As David, Neal, Ella and Will grabbed swords, Emma was drawing the line across the door way.
"Hey I found these." Will said placing another set of daggers in front of Ella one with the letter W engraved in and the other with the letter I engraved.
Ella smiled and put that dagger in her boot that didn't already have one.
"We're going to get her." Will reassured her
"I know, but we both know who's going to be queen after Cora, tell me is that worse?"
. . . . .
A few minutes later Ella sat on the top of the counter twirling the dagger in her hand as Will, David and Emma were in the back room
Neal walked over to her and said, "I don't get it."
Ella looked up and said, "What don't you get Bae?"
"How did you of all people fall in love with Pan?" Neal said, "And it's Neal here."
Ella's eyebrows shot up and he said, "Oh brilliant you do it too."
"Do what?"
"The eyebrow thing he does it to." Neal stated
Ella rolled her eyes as she said, "It just happened and you're always going to be Bae to me. What I don't get is how you dated my sister."
"Your sister?... Emma!? Emma is your sister?"
Ella nodded and said, "Yep, which makes me Henry's aunt so you don't have to worry about me looking after him. I've done it a lot longer than either of you."
Before Neal could say anything they heard. "What's wrong?"
Thy both looked at the couple who were standing by the door.
He gave her a look and said, "Did Gold tell you something?"
"No. I mean... he just said that Cora's determined to hurt us." Mary Margaret said and Ella raised her eyebrows.
Ella knew that she was lying
Her heart rate fluttered slightly and that usually means someone is lying.
"We will do whatever needs to be done." David said as he looked at his wife
Mary Margaret nodded and said, "You're right. You're absolutely right."
All of a sudden there was an earthquake that made Ella fall off the counter.
"Ella?..." Ella heard from the back room
"Not every earthquake is a rabbit Will!" Ella yelled back, one day a rabbit really would appear from the floor, when that happens, Then and only then would Ella give up.
Neal looked at Ella confused, whilst David ran into the back room saying, "It's them, Regina and Cora they're here."
Ella handed Emma a sword as she said, "Remember what I said when you were fighting the dragon, if everything goes wrong throw it at them and run."
Emma nodded and walked over to Neal and Ella.
"Hey, Will, Ella you ready to kill your queen?" David asked spinning his sword in his hand
"We've been waiting a long time." Will replied with a smile, just as Regina and Cora broke down the door.
Emma immediately said, "Regina think about what your doing."
"Don't talk to me." Regina snapped
No one had noticed that Mary Margaret had slipped out the side door and Regina made a fireball in her hand.
As she threw it at Emma, David ran in front of her and blocked the attack.
Before anyone could do anything, Regina tossed him out of the shop, shutting the door behind him.
"David!" Emma yelled
Ella was not prepared for what happened next, Emma was pushed by Cora's magic into the doorway of the back room, and Ella quickly put her sword on Will's neck.
"Cora!" Ella yelled, "Think about this for a second."
Neal charged for Cora but she disappeared, dropping the dagger as she did so.
"Don't move" Will whispered and Ella shook her head quickly
Before Regina could do anything to Emma, Emma grabbed the knife that was on a cabinet next to her, wrapped her arms around Regina and held it at Regina's neck.
Cora was looking in between the dagger and her daughter, as Ella dropped her sword with a yell.
That shocked Cora just as Neal said, "What's it gonna be?"
"Mother!" Regina said
Ella, who was on the opposite side of the room from Will, trying to get as far away from him as possible said, "I'd choose wisely if I were you."
Cora used her magic to pull the dagger up from the floor, but before she could do anything about getting Regina, Emma tossed her over the counter.
Emma, Neal, Will and Ella ran into the back room.
Emma drew the line with the invisible chalk and it quickly made a barrier.
"I am so sorry." Ella said to Will who was sitting on the table beside her.
"Honestly, I'm surprised we're not dead yet." He replied
"Why isn't she using us?" Ella asked
"Because she knows your learning to resist her, I heard what happened out there, you stopped her control." Gold said weakly from his seat.
"What the hell is that?" Neal said nodding towards Ella's sleeve which had rolled up.
"What's what?" Gold asked
Ella sighed and took off her jacket, underneath she was wearing a short sleeved top so you could see all the veins on her arms.
"The fail safe." Gold whispered
"Someone somewhere is getting their wish of me dying." Ella joked as Will gave her a look
Ella clenched her fists as Gold, Neal, Emma and Will watched as the black veins moved along her arm and onto her chest. Will walked over to her and pulled her into a hug.
All of a sudden Emma's phone started ringing and she picked it up saying, "David?"
"Are you safe?" Ella heard David say
"For now I've got the spell up in the back room." Emma replied
"Is Mary Margaret safe?" At that question Ella looked up she hadn't seen Mary Margaret when they were fighting, and she wasn't in the room with them
Emma noticed Ella looking around and said, "She's not with you?"
"No"
"Where the hell is she?" Ella said as she looked at Emma who put the phone down.
After a few minutes of Ella twirling her knife in her hands, Neal was standing by the door and said, "It's getting weaker. She's going to get in soon."
"Maybe it's for the best. At least this cursed power will pass from this world." Gold stated
Neal immediately said, "No. No you're not dying."
Neal tossed his sword down on the table which Ella was sitting on as Gold said, "I am dying that much is certain. I need to talk to Belle. Please Emma."
Emma nodded and opened her phone, dialling a number as Neal asked, "Who's Belle?"
"Your dads girlfriend." Ella said bluntly as she winced as the veins continued travelling up her arm.
"You okay?" Neal asked
"I will be when the queens dead."
As soon as she said that the protection wall came down, Emma, Neal, Will and Ella quickly stood in front of Gold.
As Cora walked into the room, she saw the four
She simply waved her hand said, "You three out of the way."
Then she made, Emma, Neal and Will disappear leaving Ella, who was thrown into the wall and fell to the ground
"My, My that curse is working quickly on you dear, maybe I should put you out of your misery." Cora laughed
She was interrupted by Gold saying, "No, Cora you came for me leave her out."
"You feel guilty don't you?"
"For trying to kill her yes, but you need to leave her alone because you have already done too much to her." Gold said, which caused Ella to look up in shock.
"There's one thing I've always wondered." Gold said weakly
Cora sat down next to him and said, "And what's that?"
"Did you ever love me?"
"Why do you think I had to rip my own heart out? You were my weakness. You are the only man I have ever truly loved." Cora said
Ella tried standing up balancing herself on the table and said, "You don't have a heart?"
"No, that's possibly why I was so awful to you and your brother. Maybe if I had one I would've been nicer." Cora said, and just as she held up the dagger, ready to stab Gold with it, her heart got shoved back in her body.
She gasped and dropped the dagger.
At that same moment Ella fell back down to the ground choking up black blood.
Gold looked at her with concern as Blood which was black dripped from her mouth. Ella growled and wiped her mouth with her sleeve , and staying on the floor not even attempting to get up.
Regina and Cora weren't paying any attention to Ella as they were smiling at each other
Cora then fell into Regina's arms as Regina said, "Mother?! Mother what's wrong?"
"This would've been enough... you would've been enough." Cora said weakly and then her eyes shut
Regina looked up at Gold who was now standing up and looking healthy and said, "What's going on?"
Ella who was now putting her jacket back on, looked at the scene with her hand over her mouth
"What am I gonna do?" Regina said crying
"Your mother did you no favours," Gold stated
Regina whipped around as Ella stood up and walked over to Gold leaving the pile of black blood on the floor, "Shut up! You stole her life! You cast some spell!"
"I did nothing." Which made Ella raise an eyebrow and look at him
Realization passed over Regina as they all heard Mary Margaret yell, "REGINA! STOP!"
Mary Margaret and David ran into the room to see Regina holding Cora's dead body, Ella and Gold standing next to each other and... black goop on the floor
"You did this." Regina sneered as she looked up at Mary Margaret
Ella grunted as she had a pain in her heart, "You okay?" Gold asked
Ella nodded and looked down at her wrists that had red cuffs on them, and then they disappeared in red smoke
Ella smiled and said, "The queen is dead."
. . . .
"Long live the queen." Will said from the woods
"What?" Emma asked
"Cora... she's dead." Will said with a smile
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