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Operation Dragon Claus - Prologue: One Movie in under 1000 Words

Here’s my @onceuponafestivegifting gift for @icedteawithlime I hope that you had a wonderful Holiday season and that 2018 is good to you. (And now I can follow your Tumblr).

It was supposed to be a brief story, I solemnly swear. But, it sorta consumed my life (in a good way) for the last few weeks instead. The prologue takes place two years before the show starts, the main part one year before the show would have started. It was inspired by the Santa Clause series, as for OUAT show I’ve basically picked and chosen what I wanted in and out.

I’ll be posting these as chapters here on Tumblr, but, it’s also on AO3 as well.

Prologue: One Movie in Under 1000 Words

Henry hit the tree trunk with his wooden sword. Then with a whoop, jumped, raising his hands. “Take that trolls.”

There was a boom he felt all the way to his toes. Henry whirled to one side, then the other. He dove to the ground as a bunch of deer followed by a sleigh tried to take his head off.

He scrambled to his feet and rushed to where they had crashed. He stumbled to a halt at what he saw and swallowed. He took out the phone his Mom had given him, stared at it for a second, then opened it and hit the speed dial. “M-Mom?”

“Henry Daniel Mills, this is only for emergencies.”

“M-Mom… it is, I mean, not me, but, I think, I think Santa just crashed in our forest?” He sniffled, “I swear I’m not lying Mom.”

There was a pause on the other end of the phone, then the slam of a car door. “Henry, where are you exactly?”

“I-I know I’m supposed to be in school, but…”

Regina cut him off, “I’m not angry, it’s a beautiful day in December. Just, where are you Henry?”

Henry looked up, “Um, between the kissing rock and the Groot tree.”

Regina sighed, “I should never have bought you those Annihilation: Conquest comic books.”

“Mom...please get here soon, they’re all hurt, the deers and the man and…”

“Deers? Don’t go near them young man, they’re wild animals.”

“Duh, I know Mom.” He went over to the man in the red suit, and put a hand on his shoulder, “My Mom is on her way to help you, ok?”

“Suit...suit.”

Henry frowned, “What?”

The man opened his eyes and frowned, “Too young-- your father.”

“No, my Mom is coming, she’s the Mayor and…” Henry looked over as he heard the sound of hoofbeats.

Regina dismounted and knelt down next to the man, “We’ll…”

He grabbed Regina’s hand, “No-- too late, card, read it, put on the suit.”

Regina felt a shock and then the red suit was empty. “What the?”

“Whoa, Mom, he disappeared, ooh, look, a card, just like he said.”

She picked it up. On one side it said, ‘Santa Claus, North Pole’. Regina flipped it over and read the other side aloud. “If something should happen to me, put on my suit; the reindeer will know what to do.”

“Wow.” Henry looked between the reindeer and the suit. “Are you going to put it on Mom? You could be Santa.”

“Henry--”

He picked up the coat, “You have to Mom, it hasn’t been midnight everywhere yet, so if you don’t put on the coat, then not everyone will have good Christmases.”

Regina put a hand on his shoulder, “Henry, there is no Santa. He’s an idea, a-- a way to bribe children to be good.”

Henry hurfed, “But, he does exist, he was right here. We saw him. So, I can…”

Regina yanked the coat from his hands, “You will not put on the coat young man.” She held it with two fingers. “This coat is disgusting, it needs to be burned, and the reindeer need a vet.”

“Please Mom. I just… it feels like it’s the right thing for you to do. To put on the coat.”

Regina frowned, “It’s just a coat Henry.”

Henry shook his head, “No, I just think…. I believe that you have to do this.” He shrugged and scuffed his shoe. “Sorry Mom.”

Regina gripped Henry’s shoulder and pulled him into a hug. “Not very persuasive.”

Henry shrugged again, “But it’s the truth.”

“And what if I put on the coat and turn into a white-haired, white bearded, fat old man?” Henry laughed and Regina smiled, “Oh, you think that’s funny?” He nodded.

Regina wouldn’t have admitted it to Henry, but even though it made no sense, she could feel just a bit of magic simmering in the coat. This was the land without magic. Santa was just pagan myths, a few stories of Odin, all overlayed with a thin veneer of Christianity and Coca-Cola PR. She mumbled, “Bet it won’t even work.”

Henry heard her, “What won’t work Mom?”

“I’m--” Regina shook her head, he was only nine. “It’s a long story, complicated. You believe that I should put on the coat?”

Henry nodded so hard Regina thought his head might go bouncing off, “Yes, yes.”

Regina paused, and then swung on the coat. That one action was like a lighter to kindling. She made an oof sound as she felt power that she hadn’t possessed in twenty-six years.

Henry jumped back as a cloud of red and green engulfed her for a moment. When she stepped out of it, she had the suit’s pants on as well. “Whoa, Mom.”

“Beard?” Henry shook his head, “In that case, I think I need to heal those reindeer, although I don’t know if my old magic and new magic will let me do that.”

Henry frowned, “Old magic?”

Regina held her hand out, palm up. A small fireball appeared in it, and Henry stepped back into one of the reindeer. Regina closed her first, snuffing it out. “Right. So, our plan, first we fix the reindeer, and then we deliver the presents together. That will give me time to explain…” She glanced around, “everything.”

Henry’s frown was still in place, “Mom, are you… I mean, you never lied to me about me being adopted, what else is there…”

Regina knelt down and put a hand on the reindeer whose leg looked very broken. “Each person in the town of Storybrooke used to be a Fairy Tale, Fable, Legend, or other literary characters.”

“Mom, who were you?”

Regina moved to the next reindeer. “I… I was the Evil Queen.”

“Oh.”

“Yes, oh, are you sure you want to know about who everyone in this town really is Henry? They’re your friends and neighbors.”

Henry nodded, “Yes. I love you Mom. So, which Evil Queen were you?”

“Snow White’s.”

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