Summary: What if Zelena’s time travel spell had worked? Belle wakes up in a version of the Enchanted Forest that she doesn’t recognize. Can she use her memories of the past to win back Rumple and defeat Zelena? Season 3 AU
Story is fully written and new chapters will be posted every Wednesday on AO3.
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Chapter Two
A soft knock at her door awoke Belle. She blinked blearily, memories of the day rushing back to her as she sat up on the bed.
Her mother’s voice reached her through the door. “Belle, are you awake?”
“Yes, mother,” Belle said, still not able to believe that Colette was alive.
The door opened and her mother took a step into the room. “Are you feeling better?”
Belle hesitated. How many times since Colette’s death had she wished she could talk to her mother about her problems? There had been many sleepless nights when she wished she could have asked her mother’s advice about Rumplestiltskin or her strained relationship with her father.
Yet telling her mother the truth wouldn’t help either of them. While Colette was certainly more understanding than Maurice, even her mother would find the idea of time travel a bit hard to believe.
“I think my nap helped,” she said, settling for a small truth.
Colette nodded. “Your father would like to call your fairy godmother, just to make sure you are alright.”
She’d almost forgotten about her fairy godmother. If she couldn’t reach Rumple, perhaps this was her best chance at help. Fairy magic could help her track down Zelena and rescue Rumple if he was still captive. Her godmother might even help her defeat Zelena...
yknow I really hate how rumbelle became a scapegoat for Plot Drama in the later seasons bc realistically speaking they should have worked out all of their issues by mid-season 4 at the LATEST. Like the showrunners just made them have the same fight over and over again every season because they ran out of characters to give interesting conflict to. Snow and Charming were doing great, Emma and Hook were working it out, Regina was alone, Zelena was alone, no background relationship was developed enough to give conflict to, and so rumbelle became THE couple to make fight when the plot got stale. Which literally makes no sense, bc we SAW how much they loved each other over and over again, to the point that he literally became a hero for her. Idk I just feel like there were so many more interesting dynamics to explore than “this married couple but dysfunctional”
Summary: What if Zelena’s time travel spell had worked? Belle wakes up in a version of the Enchanted Forest that she doesn’t recognize. Can she use her memories of the past to win back Rumple and defeat Zelena? Season 3 AU
Story is fully written and new chapters will be posted every Wednesday on AO3.
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Chapter One
The portal opened.
All the heroes stumbled, the light from the portal temporarily blinding them.
Zelena let out a cruel laugh that filled the barn. She had done it. After all these years, she had gathered all the pieces for her time travel spell. The brain, the heart, the sword to symbolize courage, and the Charming’s newborn baby boy for innocence - all had come together to enact her impossible spell. Now she could travel back and stop Regina from being born and stealing the life that should have been rightfully hers.
“See you all soon,” she said, waving her fingers at the others. Her gaze locked onto Regina. “Well, perhaps not all of you. That is kind of the point.” She gave her sister a mocking smile. “I wish I could say it was nice knowing you, sis. But I think I’ll much prefer a world where you never existed.”
It would all be too simple once she arrived in the past. All she had to do was get rid of the pesky Princess Eva, who had destroyed Cora’s chances at being Queen. If Eva never revealed Cora’s secret pregnancy to King Leopold, their marriage would go forth as planned and Zelena would grow up as royalty, just as she always should have.
Regina lifted her hand to stop her, but it was too late. Zelena threw Rumplestilskin’s dagger to the floor and jumped into the portal as Rumplestiltskin made a last moment effort to grab at her.
Back in Storybrooke, Belle fidgeted behind the counter of the pawnshop. She had several books open in front of her and a handful of magical items. She was desperately searching for anything that could help stop Zelena. She’d run back to the pawnshop after Zelena had stolen the Charming’s baby for her spell and the others had raced off after her.
She prayed that Regina and the Charmings would be able to defeat Zelena and free Rumple, who Zelena was still controlling with his dagger. But if Zelena succeeded in casting her time travel spell, there was little any of them could do to stop her from changing the past. Belle flipped through the pages of a book that described the history and magic of Oz.
Ever since they had come back to Storybrooke, missing a year out of their lives, Belle had been meticulously going through and cataloging the items in Rumple’s shop. His own inventory system consisted of one cabinet of paper files that she knew could hardly cover a third of the items in the store. And even the ones he had written down could best be described as vague or right down cryptic.
Once she had realized what Zelena was up to, she had turned her focus to searching through these items for anything that might help against the witch. Once it was obvious that Rumple kept his more “specialized” items off the books, she began researching unique items in his many books.
Among the items that Rumple had kept locked in his cabinets, she had found a decorated box full of antique jewelry. A necklace on a silver chain had caught her eye. When she had picked it up to examine it, she had realized why it looked so familiar. It was cut into the same octagonal shape as Zelena’s necklace, except that the stone was white crystal instead of green.
Belle had set to researching the stone. The only references she could find came from the book she had found about Oz. It was one of four matching pendants, each belonging to a different witch who watched over an area of Oz. Supposedly, the pendants helped them to harness, protect, and grow their magic.
Unfortunately, that’s all she could find out. Whether the pendant could help them fight Zelena was unclear. Still, its similarity to Zelena’s necklace seemed promising.
Belle slipped it over her head and tucked it under her blouse, vowing to keep it close. If she could show it to Regina, or perhaps even Rumple, maybe it could help them.
A loud bang on the door brought Belle’s attention out of her book. She looked up towards the shop door as it flew open. A shockwave of magic hurtled through the shop, encompassing the room.
It hit her with startling force, knocking the wind out of her.
Beta designs for once upon a time themed descendants ocs because I can. 😛 Lacey is just pure evil lowk probably would be the villain if I wrote any story (which I would like to eventually)
