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Emma Hamato#23

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                                     Emma Hamato#23


  Emma was all smiles as she and her family huddled together in the living room.  Everyone was exchanging stories.  Snow White and David were the perfect audience.  They gasped, cheered and laughed in all the right places and were amazed at hearing what Emma and ‘her brothers’ had done together.
“Sounds like life is interesting in New York.”  David noted.
“It is.  Can also be hectic depending upon what’s going on.”  Leo said.
“Yeah.  When things are not quiet, we gotta deal with wise-guys like the Purple Dragons, Shredder, and those gangs banging heads and all.  It really ticks me off.”  Raph said with a frustrated groan.
“Raph, everything ticks you off.”  Donnie said with a straight smile.
“Not everything.”  Raph said, but he thought it over, “Alright everything.”
Emma laughed a bit, “Yeah but don’t forget we’ve taken care of those bozos almost every time we’ve come across them.”  
“In some cases yes, but that does not mean you let cockiness get in the way of your training.”  Splinter reminded them.
“Yes Sensei.”  The five teenagers said.
Snow smiled and turned to Emma, “You went to school in New York?”  Wanting every little tidbit, she could gather on her daughter.
“Yeah.  It’s got its ups and downs: prissy girls who think they run the place and jocks who think it’s considered cool to bully people.  I ignore them.  I’m too busy doing Lacrosse, Soccer and Gymnastics.”  
“What’s Soccer and Lacrosse?”  David asked.
“Soccer is where you have two teams playing against each other with a ball.  Each team has their own net and what you want to do: is kick the ball and try to score into the other person’s net.”  Emma tried to explain.  “Lacrosse is kinda similar.  Only you have two sticks with pouches in them.  You don’t kick or pick up the ball, what you do is you have the ball in the pouch of the stick and again you are trying to score the ball into the other’s team’s net.” David noted to Emma.
“I enjoy running so the Soccer and Lacrosse help with that and it helps keep my reflexes and stamina up in between the bushido with the guys.”  Emma said, “What kind of stuff is to do in the Enchanted Forest?”
“Well, there are horses to ride, mountains to climb, lakes and an ocean of course, forests to explore, some places you don’t want to go to because of the ogres, or-“
“Ogres?”  Emma parroted.
“Yes.  The Ogres are not something you want to run into alone.”  Snow said.
“Something tells me I don’t wanna know.”
“Probably best you don’t.”  Snow said hastily.
Emma smiled, “What was it like growing up there for you guys?”
“It was different for your father and I.  I lived as a princess and he lived as a Shepard-”
“You’re a Shepard?”
“Yes.  My mother, your grandmother Ruth, she and I had a farm.  We were raising goats and sheep.  IT wasn’t until I got asked by King Albert to play the part of being his son who was actually my twin brother, James.  I was supposed to make it look like I slayed a dragon, but all the men got scorched and I ended up doing it.  He threatened me that if I didn’t marry King Midas’s daughter-“
“King Midas?  The man who could turn anything into gold?”  Donnie asked.
“Yes.  He wanted his daughter Abigail to marry someone.  This marriage would unite the two kingdoms and bring King Albert’s land out of financial debt.  However, as we were heading though the woods that’s when I got ambushed by your mother.”  David said with a smile.
Emma smiled, “I saw the story in the book, how you two met and what happened.”
“Yes, very different from this lands version of our tale.”  Snow said, recalling the few times she read it to the kids in her class.
Emma and her brothers burst out laughing, “Yeah, yours is a lot better than the one here.”  
“Why’s that?”  Snow asked.
“Because: in your story, you’re not a damsel in distress.”
“Emma’s got a thing with those who hold onto old views of what a woman should be.”  April said.
David and Snow looked at Emma, “Again, I don’t like being looked upon as someone who can’t handle herself.”
“Some of the views of women’s place are different in the kingdom but people are allowed to choose what they want to do.  If a girl wanted to be a knight she would have the chance to prove herself.  Mulan is an example.”
“Mulan?  She’s real too?”  Emma asked excited.
“And the fan-girling starts now.”  Raph sniggered. Till Emma punched him in the shoulder.
“Not one word Raph.”  She warned him.  She sheepishly turned to her parents, “Mulan was always one of my favorite’s stories growing up.  Watched the Disney movie so many times it would drive the guys crazy.”
“Especially when you would train during the song, ‘I’ll make a man out of you’ repeatedly.”  Mikey said.
“Well, most of the story might be true to how it’s told here.  She did serve in the emperor’s army for a long time.” Snow explained.
“Sweet.”  Emma smiled, then she remembered what they were talking about, “Ok.  I have a question:  what made you guys change your plan of sending me into the wardrobe?”
Snow and David looked solemn.  “It was just after I gave birth.  You were crying.  Gepetto told us only
one could go through the wardrobe.  We thought it’d be better for you to go through.”  Snow finished. “But then the Tribunal showed up in the bed chambers.”  David said, “They told us how you wouldn’t have the life you deserved to have if you went through the wardrobe and so they gave us the choice: give you to them and you will be safe from harm.”
Emma nodded.  She understood why they did it.  She shuddered to think what would have happened if she hadn’t lived with Splinter, her brothers, Casey and April.
Running a hand through her, “I understand why you did it.”
Her parents smiled in relief.  Snow said, “We never wanted to let you go Emma, but at the time…we didn’t have a choice…” Snow trailed off.
Emma got up from the couch and hugged her mom.  Snow immediately hugged Emma, running her fingers through her hair, “You’re here and alive and that is something more than I could ever ask for.”
Everyone smiled, things were ok in their world right now.  They’d deal with Regina and everything else later.  Right now all that mattered was they were together.


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  Regina nibbled on the first chocolate bar.  After Emma left the room, she slowly opened the Hershey bar.  As she ate she actually started to think about what she said.  It was like a door had been opened to her that been locked away for a long time and it was finally open.  She knew her mother had crushed her true love’s heart that night in the stables.  Her father had told her before launching the curse that she could stop and find happiness again.  Instead, she took his heart and activated the curse.  Regina felt her eyes water as she thought about him, he was always there for her when she needed him.  He had accepted the love between her and Daniel.  Regina grew cold after her marriage to the King, vowing she would make Snow White pay for all the unhappiness she caused her.  But…was it really her fault?  She was just a child when she saved her from the runaway horse, a child who recently lost her mother.  Cora never liked Daniel, she was always trying to give Regina what she never got, despite Regina didn’t want any of it.  Regina swallowed a piece of chocolate just before she started crying.  

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   Sidney Glass muttered as he sat on the bench in his cell.  The curse was broken and now he and the queen were locked up thanks to that little brat.  Emma.  
“Brooding will not kill the girl.”  A dark voice rang out.
Sidney got to his feet, looking around, “Who’s there?”
“Someone who can help you.”  King Albert stepped out of the shadows wearing a gray trench coat and a fedora hat.  He removed the fedora.
“King Albert?”  Sidney asked.
“Indeed.  I understand that both of us have a common enemy here.  Emma, the daughter of Snow White and David.”
Sidney raised his eyebrow, “I’m listening.”
“Emma was supposed to be impossible.  I gave Snow white a poison to make sure she would never be able to have children.  Only to find out Lancelot betrayed me and gave her the water from Lake Nostros,” His smile turned predatorily, “I’ve heard rumors that young Emma is skilled a sword.”
“She is,” Sidney said, “We walked on her and her family training one day.  She’s good.  Both with the sword and magic.”
“She has magic?”  Albert asked, intrigued.
“Magic I had never seen before.  She is the product of true love, but the control she wielded with her magic.  It was nothing I had ever seen.”
“How so?”
“She was controlling earth, water, fire and air, her dagger that she held in her hand was glowing like her eyes:  white.  It was unbelievable.”  
This got Albert thinking.  His granddaughter wasn’t just skilled with a weapon she had magic?  And powerful magic at that.  Hmm, this child sounded very interesting.  Perhaps, this girl seemed like she could be an ally.  What better way than to crush Snow White and her husband by using their daughter.  He stuck out his hand, “If you agree to do this business deal with me.  I can assure you that, Emma, will be taken care of.  The queen will get her revenge on Snow and her daughter at the same time.”
Sidney looked at the man and with a sinister grin to the match Albert’s, shook his hand.  Albert took out a set of keys and opened the cell.
“Very good.  Now, let us adjourn to a more comfortable place to plan.”
Sidney walked out with the man, revenge set on his mind.
Been a while, but I'm back.

Emma is happy getting to know her parents, but someone else has a bone to pick with the reunited family.  Peace doesn't always stay for long in Storybrooke.
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This was a great chapter😀😀😀😀