Timeline

A timeline compiled of each and every flashback story set in the Once Upon a Time universe, including those of the series' spinoff and other canonical media. It should be noted that some events listed are merely approximated, and may not have officially happened where they are set to have.

Before the Curse
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''A gap of approximately thousands of years. ''

For centuries, the Apprentice protects the Sorcerer's hat from being stolen by numerous Dark Ones, the latest of which is Zoso. However, like in the past, despite every Dark One trying to obtain the hat, every Dark One continues to fail. When sent to live with a couple of spinsters, Rumplestiltskin obtains a magic bean which he takes to his father, Malcolm, allowing them to escape to Neverland together. However, Malcolm is unable to stay on the island due to his increasing age, and so he lets go of his son in order to become a boy again, having the guardian of the island, the Shadow, take Rumple back to the Enchanted Forest while Malcolm takes up a new alias: Peter Pan. He soon learns that his youth is not eternal though, and he now must make it his mission to find a way of immortality before the hourglass on Skull Rock runs out of time.

''A gap allowing Rumplestiltskin to age from a child to a middle aged man. ("Think Lovely Thoughts"/"Manhattan") ''

Rumplestiltskin is summoned to the Ogre Wars, but when meeting with a Seer, he told that his wife, Milah, is pregnant, but his actions on the battlefield the following day would leave his child fatherless. Wanting to prevent this, Rumple injures his leg so he is sent home. However, because of this, his reputation is ruined and he is branded a coward, thus wreaking havoc on his marriage.

Liam and Killian Jones are sent to Neverland with a crew of men to bring back a plant known as dreamshade, which their King claims can heal, but once reaching the realm and finding the plant, they are met by Peter Pan who reveals that in reality the plant is a deadly weapon that he suspects the King will use in war. Liam doesn't believe the story though, but once cutting himself with the plant, the poison spreads throughout his body. Pan saves him with magical water, but the price that comes with it is that he may never leave Neverland. Liam and Killian leave anyway, but when doing so, Liam dies as the poison starts to affect him again. Because of this, Killian and the crew quit working for the King and set out to live as pirates; they rename the vessel the Jolly Roger. When traveling through the Leviathan Shoals, Killian comes across Liam, who is revealed to have never died. However, the crew point out to their Captain that things are off about him, leading them to all believe it's a trick by the Leviathan itself, and so they end up abandoning him, never officially learning the truth.

The village coward, Rumplestiltskin, loses his wife Milah to a pirate by the name of Killian Jones when refusing to fight for her. Rumple is led to believe Killian kidnapped her when in reality it was Milah who chose to leave, abandoning her husband and son.

Rumplestiltskin's son, Baelfire grows to be 14, thus meaning he is able to be recruited for the Ogres War. Not wanting to see him go, Rumple steals a magic dagger from the Duke's castle, thus giving him control over the Dark One, Zoso. However, he kills the sorcerer instead, stabbing him with the knife, thus making Rumple the Dark One himself. Baelfire grows fed up with all the restrictions Rumple has placed on him, as he now fears his son could become a target. One night though, Baelfire is attracted by the sound of a pied piper, so he leaves home. Rumple tracks him down to Hamelin, and soon finds the pied piper, who is none other than Peter Pan. Rumple proceeds to retrieve his son. Baelfire makes a deal with his father that if he can find away to get rid of Rumple's Dark One powers and go back to the way things were then Rumple would agree. Bae then seeks out Reul Ghorm, who gives him a magic bean that will take them to a Land Without Magic, thus making Rumple's powers useless. However, Rumple backs out once the portal has already been opened, and Bae falls through alone.

Rumple meets William Smee, who promises a magic bean in exchange for eternal life. Rumple then runs into Killian Jones and challenges him to a duel, as he is no longer a coward. Just as he goes to kill the pirate, however, Milah arrives and stops him. Rumple learns the truth behind her leaving him, which ends up in him taking her life and cutting off Hook's hand. After Rumple leaves, Killian leaves for Neverland, and Smee joins his crew.

Rumple encounters the Seer once more, and this time chastises her for not telling him the whole story behind his son becoming fatherless due to his actions on the battlefield. At her power's limit, the Seer offers to grant Rumple the ability to see the future as an apology, and as she transfers her powers, she reveals that the Dark One's undoing will be due to the same boy who reunites him with his son.

Baelfire, now in the Land Without Magic, has been roaming the streets of London, England, barely surviving due to severe hunger. He is taken in by the Darling family, where he becomes close friends with three siblings, Wendy, John, and Michael. However, when the Shadow from Neverland arrives to kidnap John and Michael, Bae sacrifices himself instead where he is taken from the Darlings to another realm. Once arriving in Neverland though, Bae gets away from the Shadow, but is taken aboard the Jolly Roger where he meets Captain Hook. Once realizing Baelfire is the son of Milah, the son of his deceased lover, Hook lets the boy live aboard his ship, and lies to the Lost Boys, stating that they haven't seen him. Things go well for a while, but Bae soon discovers Hook has been plotting to kill Rumple, and so he turns on the pirate, thinking he was responsible for Milah's death. Hook tries to reason with the boy, but he just wants off the ship. Hook ends up turning him in to the Lost Boys, but they are told he was not the boy they were in search of, but the picture of they boy they are in search of is Bae's future son.

Three brothers - Taj, Cyrus, and Rafi - spend their days at a local Agrabah tavern cheating at cards in order to win money. However, this comes back to haunt them one day when a spiteful, losing component sets fire to their home with their mother, Amara, inside. Though severely burned, Amara still lives, hardly, and the brothers decide to set out to the Well of Wonders in order to retrieve water and cure her. They are told by the Nyx that guards the well, however, that Amara is not meant to live on, and that she has met her fate. The brothers don't believe this though, and so they steal the water to cure their mother. Amara happily reunites with her sons, but upon learning what they've done, she tries to help them escape, for the Nyx would surely come after them. The Nyx does just that, and as punishment for what the three brothers have done, the Nyx condemns them to spend the rest of their days as genies. They're each sucked into individual bottles and magicked out to unknown locations, leaving Amara heartbroken.

A young man by the name of Jiminy grows up with pick-pockets for parents, by the names of Martin and Myrna, but as he grows up, he begins to regret the ways he lives, and starts plotting to get rid of his parents. He receives a potion from Rumplestiltskin to use on them, and after pulling an "elf tonic" scam on a couple by the names of Donna and Stephen, Jiminy learns his parents switched the "elf tonic" with the Dark One's potion. Jiminy discovers the couple have drunk the potion, and turned into wooden puppets. Sometime after, the Blue Fairy grants Jiminy a wish, turning him into a cricket and tasking him to look after the couple's son Geppetto.

Three Arendelle princesses, Ingrid, Helga, and Gerda spend their days running in the castle gardens. One day, a man tries to kidnap them, hoping for ransom, but the eldest daughter, Ingrid, shoots ice from her palms, saving her sisters. Ingrid's new found powers frighten her, but her sisters agree to help her control them.

On his mother's death bed, Jafar is told that his real father was not the man his mother was once married to, but in fact the Sultan of Agrabah, and so after her passing, Jafar makes his way to the palace to meet his father. The Sultan takes Jafar in, allowing him to work as a servant to him and his other son, Mirza, but that is all. Things go alright at first, but the Sultan grows tired of his bastard child after a few slip ups with the word "father" and continuously outsmarting Mirza. The Sultan ends up drowning Jafar and having his body thrown out of Agrabah. The magic of his healer mother revives him though, beginning Jafar's hatred for the Sultan and the desire for revenge. Jafar eventually makes his way back into Agrabah and is taken in by a blacksmith. One day, the sorceress Amara makes her way through the village, scaring off all those around her. Jafar is mesmerized by her beauty and power, and ends up going to her in hopes of being taught the art of magic, which she agrees to.

A mermaid, Ursula, nearly causes Hook to crash his ship when following her father's orders to use her singing voice to distract pirates, causing them to hit ice. She spares them though, and ends up leaving her father, fed up with his orders. Hook and Ursula run into each other at a tavern where Hook agrees to take her to Glowerhaven as a thanks for sparing his life. However, Poseidon offers him squid ink to kill Rumple if he betrays his daughter. Instead though, Hook convinces Ursula to steal it for him. Once Poseidon discovers this, he takes it back, so Hook steals Ursula's singing voice in return. Poseidon tries apologizing to his daughter, but she doesn't accept, and takes his Triton, turning her tail into tentacles, becoming the Sea Witch.

Cora works as a tavern waitress where she meets a man who claims to be a prince, Jonathan. Believing him to be of such high status, she sleeps with him, and agrees to run away with him two weeks later. Those weeks pass, but Jonathan never shows up, and she soon learns he isn't a prince, but simply the prince's gardener. Cora reveals that she is pregnant, but Jonathan runs away, not wanting to take responsibility. Prince Leopold soon discovers her, and falls for him, while Cora sees this as an opportunity to reach high status. However, his betrothed, Eva, learns the truth about Cora, and rats her out to Leopold. He breaks things off with Cora, and goes on to marry Eva. Cora, meanwhile, gives birth to a daughter, who she abandons in the woods. Cora's abandoned daughter is swept away in a cyclone and taken to the land of Oz where she's taken in by a couple; the wife adores the child's beauty, but the husband believes her to be wicked, seeing her work magic on a tree. The girl is named Zelena, and goes on to grow up in Oz.

Cora claims she has the ability to spin straw into gold, but when her bluff is called and she's imprisoned in a tower for the evening, until the task is performed, all hope is nearly lost until Rumplestiltskin arrives, proposing a deal: her first born child in exchange for teaching her magic. Cora agrees, and is able to spin straw in gold before the entire castle. She is betrothed to Prince Henry, but enters an affair with the Dark One. Time passes, and Cora agrees to run away with Rumple, but goes back last minute when choosing power over love. She removes her own heart, and turns Rumple away.

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Ingrid, Helga, and Gerda grow up, while Ingrid spends most of her time locked away from people of Arendelle. Her sisters try to convince her to attend a ball, which she initially refuses, so she and her sisters travel to the Enchanted Forest in search for Rumplestiltskin, in hopes of finding a cure for her ice powers. In exchange for the set of ribbons the three sisters wore, Rumple provides Ingrid with a set of gloves and, if worse come to worse, a magic urn to entrap her in. The three return home, but after an incident with Helga's new boyfriend, the Duke of Weselton, Ingrid accidentally freezes Helga and shatters her. Gerda stumbles upon this, and without giving Ingrid a chance to speak, she traps her in the urn and has Grand Pabbie erase the memory of Ingrid and Helga from all those of Arendelle.

A TV salesman by the name of Isaac Heller is contacted by the Sorcerer's Apprentice, who interviews him to be the new Author. After choosing the right quill, Isaac is granted the job, and begins traveling realms, recording stories.

Days before Snow White's birthday celebration, her mother, Queen Eva falls ill. Wanting to save her, Snow goes to the Blue Fairy for help, and the magician provides her with a magic candle that has the ability to save her mother's life, in exchange for another. Unable to do it, Snow allows Eva to die. However, following the Queen's funeral, Cora arrives to bid her farewells to Eva in private. She reveals herself to have been posing as Blue, but that now that the Queen's seat is empty, she can put her own daughter, Regina, in it. She also vows to turn Snow White's heart dark.

A young Regina saves Snow White from her runaway horse, but is then proposed to by King Leopold, who has been in search of a new wife and mother for his daughter. Regina goes to reject, for she is in love with the stable boy, Daniel, but her mother, Cora, accepts on her behalf. Regina goes to run away with Daniel, but they're caught by Snow, who Regina's makes keep it a secret. Snow agrees to until Cora manipulates it out of her. Once learning what her daughter has planned, Cora stops the two and murders Daniel. Regina learns it was Snow who told her mother, and from that day forward, her hatred for her new stepdaughter builds. ("The Stable Boy"/"The Queen Is Dead") Regina tries to escape her marriage to King Leopold days before wedding, but is stopped by Cora. Regina soon learns from her father of the Dark One, Rumplestiltskin, who she summons with her mother's spell book. Rumple gives Regina a looking glass that can banish Cora to another realm, which she soon does. Regina ends up not leaving Leopold after all, and instead begins learning magic from Rumple with the help of Cora's spell book. Regina goes through with her wedding to King Leopold, and starts attending magic lessons with Rumplestiltskin.

Years have passed since Jafar (who has aged greatly) began taking lessons from Amara (who has not aged a day), and one day the rising sorcerer converses with a friend of his, Akil. The two share a drink, but Akil's was poisoned, shocking Jafar. He goes to Amara, who offers an antidote to the poison, but states that if Akil has the antidote then the two of them will not have the liver needed for the spell Jafar is meant to learn next. Giving in, Jafar lets his friend die, and he and Amara move forward with their lessons.

Zelena, now all grown up, lives with her now widowed father, who has a deep resentment for his daughter, believing her to be wicked. He ends up revealing the truth behind Zelena's heritage, that they found her after a cyclone dropped her off. She ends up leaving home for the Wizard of Oz, hoping to be reunited with her biological family. She learns the truth behind Cora, about how she abandoned her, and how Regina got everything that was meant for her. Zelena, with a pair of magic slippers, travels to the Enchanted Forest and meets Regina's teacher, Rumplestiltskin. She begins taking magic lessons from him, but jealousy overcomes her, and Rumple is forced to call off her classes. Zelena goes back to Oz where she learns of the Wizard's true identity, and turns him info a flying monkey. Zelena makes friends with Glinda, the Good Witch of the South, and is welcomed into the sisterhood of witches. However, a cyclone brings a young girl, Dorothy Gale, to Oz, who Zelena becomes jealous of, resulting in her reverting to her old ways, proving herself to be the greatest evil of Oz that the prophecy spoke of. After making Dorothy think she melted her, she returns in the form of the Wizard and gives her the silver slippers, sending her home. She reveals herself to Glinda and proceeds to banish the witch. It's presumed she took over all of Oz after this.

Alphonse Frankenstein has his two sons, Viktor and Gerhardt over for Christmas. He gives his eldest son, Viktor, a commission to become an army physician, which he refuses, since he wants to continue working on his scientific projects. Alphonse retaliates by cutting off all his funding for Viktor's projects, however, but the day is saved when Rumplestiltskin travels to the Land Without Color to pay him in exchange for his scientific knowledge. After his encounter with the Dark One, Viktor goes to the local cemetery to dig up a body to use for his experiment, only for a soldier to catch him, and accidentally shoot Gerhardt in the process, killing him. Upon their father discovering this, he further disowns Victor and blames him for Gerhardt's death. Rumple soon reappears to the scientist though, and strikes a deal with the doctor to get him an enchanted heart to use on Gerhardt in exchange for breaking Queen Regina's heart.

Rumplestiltskin sends portal jumper, Jefferson, to the land of Oz to fetch him a pair of magic slippers, only to realize they've gone elsewhere. Instead, the portal jumper brings the Dark One back a crystal ball. Rumple later tricks Regina into sending Jefferson to the Land Without Color to retrieve Viktor Frankenstein, a scientist who may be able to help resurrect Regina's deceased lover, Daniel. Viktor fakes an operation and tells the Queen he failed, thus causing Regina to give up on any hopes of bringing back her true love, which was Rumple's original plan. Having fulfilled his end of the bargain, Viktor receives an enchanted heart from the Dark One and returns back to his own world, where he successfully resurrects his brother. Viktor introduces his father to a recently resurrected Gerhardt, who is pleased at first, but not for long as he comes to realize the monster brought back to life is not his beloved son. In anger, Alphonse attacks Viktor, but Gerhardt protects his brother by beating their father to death. Deeming his experimentation to be a failure, Viktor prepares to shoot his bother, but is unable to do so, and instead leaves him locked in the tower.

Jefferson travels to Camelot to rob the King's treasury where he sneaks into a party, pretending to be an invited guest. After causing a big enough scene to distract all the partygoers, he makes his way to the treasury, only to discover another thief who has beat him to it, Priscilla. Priscilla pretends to be a royal guard in hopes of scaring Jefferson off, but he sees through her ruse, and the two end up robbing the treasury together, escaping through the portal hat before any real guards can capture them.

Regina starts to grow depressed over being trapped in Leopold's castle, and when accidentally breaking the railing of her balcony, and causing herself to fall to what appears to be her death, she is rescued by the fairy, Tinker Bell. Regina and Tink go to a local tavern where Tink questions Regina's, what appeared to be, suicide attempt. Regina explains her situation, and so the fairy offers to help her find her new true love. Tink provides Regina with fairy dust, but once arriving at a tavern where her true love, Robin Hood, is at, Regina decides to back out, not truly ready. Because of this, the Blue Fairy strips Tink of her wings for going against numerous rules that were broken when helping Regina.

No longer satisfied with Rumple's teaching methods, Regina leaves him, in search of the powerful sorceress Maleficent. Upon meeting, the Queen realizes she has let herself go, having been humiliated by Briar Rose and her family. Regina ends up convincing Maleficent to regain her ability to breath fire, and after defeating King Stefan, who has come to stop Maleficent from interfering with his daughter, Aurora's wedding, she makes her way to the palace where she pricks Aurora with a needle, putting her in a deep slumber. This inspires Regina, who nonetheless returns to Rumple, satisfied with him as a teacher after all. However, she has learned one thing: death is too good for Snow White.

After years of being locked up in the attic of her home by her mother, Cruella De Vil sees the perfect escape route in the form of a reporter by the name of Isaac, who has showed up on her door steps in search of a good story. After freeing her from the attic, Isaac takes Cruella out to a night club where she reveals her mother murdered all three of her husbands, and has imprisoned Cruella so she can't tell anyone. As the night goes on, Isaac falls for her, and convinces her to run away with him after confronting her mother. However, it turns out that Madeline didn't murder her husbands, but it was in fact Cruella. After using her new powers, given to her by Isaac, to murder her mother, Isaac learns the truth, and so he writes that she may never be able to kill another living person.

The Queen and King of Arendelle travel to the Enchanted Forest in search of a cure for their daughter, Elsa's, ice powers, but they shipwreck on the voyage home. However, before dying, Gerda is able to write one final note to her daughter and put it in a bottle, in hopes that she will one day find it.

After many adventures of thieving with one another, Jefferson and Priscilla finally settle down back in the Enchanted Forest and get married. Jefferson decides to put away his portal-jumping hat for good, and he and Priscilla go on to have a daughter, Grace.

When searching for quite sometime in the land of Camelot, Arthur and his knights finally come across the all-mighty Excalibur. After Sir Kay's attempt for the sword, resulting in his death, Arthur succeeds in pulling it out, only to realize the a portion of the sword is missing - the potion of the sword belonging to the Dark One's dagger. Arthur and the knights agree to keep that part secret from those of Camelot, for as far as they know, they just have Arthur as their new king. Meanwhile, a search for the missing piece of Excalibur is set out on.

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Rumplestiltskin gathers together Maleficent, Ursula, and Cruella De Vil at the Forbidden Fortress where he concocts a plan for the three of them to help steal the Dark Curse, so he may grant each of them their happy endings. They all go to Bald Mountain where each of them perform a task that best suits their power, but once retrieving the curse for Rumple, he leaves them to be eaten by the Chernabog, a hell-demon that guarded the curse. The three of them defeat the creature though, and end up forming an evil trio known as the Queens of Darkness.

Wanting to save his tavern from going bankrupt, Robin of Loxley travels to the land of Oz, under instructions of Rumplestiltskin, to retrieve a potion known as the Elixir of the Wounded Heart. After a battle with the Wicked Witch, he goes to return home, but ends up giving said potion to one in even more need - Will Scarlet. Wanting to avoid being gone after by the Dark One, Robin casts a cloaking spell on himself, and he and his love Marian leave for the forests as they begin their lives of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor.

Jafar continues to take lessons from Amara, and the two end up entering a romantic relationship. Amara soon shares with her apt pupil her plans to change the rules of magic by gathering the three genies of their realm (who are also her three missing sons.) Together, they start working towards their goal, whatever it takes, but eventually Jafar betrays Amara once he realizes he's close to the finishing line and doesn't need her anymore. He gives her a potion that strips her of her magical essence, and transforms her into a serpent, which he then makes his staff out of. From there, Jafar returns to the Sultan's palace to find his father and brother who have each aged greatly since their last encounter with one another all those years ago. Jafar ends up killing Mirza and then takes the Sultan captive.

One day while strolling the shores, King Leopold discovers a lamp, and upon rubbing it, out comes the Genie of Agrabah, who must grant the King three wishes. Leopold uses his first wish to free the Genie, and the second to give his third wish to the Genie as well. Leopold then offers to let the Genie stay in his palace, where he soon falls in love with Queen Regina, Leopold's wife. Regina manipulates the Genie into killing the King, and rather than use the escape plan Regina had set up, he uses his third wish to be with the Queen forever and always able to look upon her face; it backfires and traps him in a mirror. With King Leopold now dead, Queen Regina decides it's time to have Snow White killed. She searches for and hires a Huntsman to do the job and bring back the Princess's heart, but once taking her out into the woods, the Huntsman can't bring himself to kill her and instead allows her to flee. As a replacement, the Huntsman cuts out the heart of a dear for Regina. This doesn't fool her, however, so as punishment she rips out the Huntsman's heart and keeps him as her slave.

Now on the run from the Evil Queen, Snow White spends one night in a village home's chicken coop, only to be caught in the morning by Red Riding Hood. Red and her Granny allow Snow, who takes a false alias, to stay with them, and she soon learns a wolf has been terrorizing the village for sometime now. Snow and Red go out searching for the creature, and come to the conclusion it must be Red's lover, Peter. That night, they have Peter tied up for safety, but only to discover the wolf wasn't Peter, but Red, however it was too late as she ate him. Red and Snow escape the village while Granny holds off torch wielding villagers. Snow and Red escape the townspeople, but since the night is a full moon, Red has Snow leave her as a precaution. Red ends up meeting with a "pack" of werewolves like herself, and ends up reuniting with her supposedly deceased mother, Anita. The pack accepts her as one of their own and begin teaching her how to control herself when being a wolf, but when Snow finds them, she was unknowingly followed by some of Regina's knights, which causes a fight. During this, one werewolf, Quinn, is murdered, and Anita blames Snow for his death. Red defends Snow when Anita tries taking her life, and during their argument, Anita ends up getting herself impaled and dies. After burying her mother, Red leaves the pack with Snow.

In the land of Arendelle, Princess Anna prepares for her wedding to Kristoff, and her sister, Elsa, gifts her with their mother's wedding dress. Their happiness is cut short though, when Elsa finds her mother's diary, and learns that they died at sea because they were in search of a way to get rid of Elsa's ice powers. Anna believes there is more to the story though, and so postpones her wedding and sets off to the Enchanted Forest for answers. Upon arriving in the Enchanted Forest, Anna finds an old friend of Kristoff's, David, and stays on his farm with him and his mother. However, the Arendelle royal soon learns that the two are being harassed by warlord, Bo Peep, and so she teaches David to sword fight, allowing him to beat Bo Peep in a battle. Anna then leaves the two after being given the name of a dark sorcerer, Rumplestiltskin, who may have the answer to all her questions. Meanwhile, back in Arendelle, Elsa and Kristoff learn that Hans of the Southern Isles has been plotting revenge, and that he is seeking out a key weapon to defeating Elsa. She and Kristoff head out to find it before he does, and the find it to be a magic urn. They ultimately release Ingrid, the Snow Queen, who is none other than Elsa's aunt. She defeats Hans and his brothers, and goes home with Elsa and Kristoff.

Anna meets Rumplestiltskin, wanting to know why her parents visited the Enchanted Forest all those years ago, but instead of answering, he offers her a deal; if she poisons the Sorcerer's Apprentice, he will tell her everything she wishes to know. She agrees to do so, but eventually finds herself unable to, and also realizes that it was actually an antidote to the poison Rumple had used the day before. Anna learns that it was all so Rumple could obtain the Sorcerer's hat, but once she gets ahold of his magic dagger, she is able to make him set things right, and she heads back for Arendelle, bringing the hat with her, and reunites with Kristoff. Back in the Enchanted Forest though, Belle, daughter of Sir Maurice loses her mother Colette during an ogre attack, and so she travels to Arendelle to seek out the rock trolls in hopes of restoring her memories of why she survived but her mother did not. She meets Anna, who has meanwhile met the Snow Queen, and does not trust her. After each receiving the answers they came for, the two gals head to warn Elsa of their aunt, but Ingrid stops them, and imprisons Anna. Belle, meanwhile, gets home, and now regretting abandoning Anna, decides she will be a hero from this day forward.

Now having the Sorcerer's hat, the Snow Queen hides it, and agrees to return it if the Apprentice helps her find a "third sister" to replace Anna, which he initially refuses. Ingrid also lies to Elsa, stating that Anna was trying to absorb her magic, and so she had her locked up, but Elsa knows it's a lie. She puts on a show for the guards and frees Anna; the two of them plan to trap Ingrid in the urn. They also find with a frozen Hans, and Anna is placed back in her cell where Ingrid is waiting, unleashing the Spell of Shattered Sight on her, and Anna traps Elsa in the urn Ingrid is mad and embraces being a monster and freezes Arendelle; she takes Elsa's memories. Rumple shows up and steals the urn, wanting the hat, but the Snow Queen refusing to give it. Ingrid fetches the hat, but the Apprentice gives her a prophecy scroll, sending her to the Land Without Magic. Upon arriving in the Land Without Magic, Ingrid goes to see a fortune teller by the name of Madame Faustina, but quickly realizes she is nothing but a charlatan.

As the Ogres War worsens, Sir Maurice contacts Rumplestiltskin in hopes he'll help him and his people. Rumple agrees in exchange for Maurice's daughter, Belle, to come work in his castle as a maid. Maurice initially refuses, but Belle agrees, and the two leave. Once arriving at the Dark One's castle, Belle is forced to sleep in the dungeons. She later prepares tea for her new master and accidentally chips a cup.

On the anniversary of Daniel's death, Cora returns from Wonderland to reunite with Regina, and tries to make amends by finding her a new soul mate. However, instead of going after the one that was found by Tinker Bell long before, Cora uses the Sheriff of Nottingham as a replacement, going as far as magically giving him the same tattoo Robin Hood had. Regina ends up seeing through this ruse though, coming to realize that Cora is doing this so she can have grandchildren, kill off Regina, and fill in as ruler till they come of age. To prevent this, Regina drinks an infertility potion, and Cora gives up, returning to Wonderland.

The estimated time Hook and Smee travel through the jungles of Neverland, in search of magic to get them back to the Enchanted Forest. Suddenly, Smee is knocked out, and Hook is met by Tinker Bell, who has somehow found her way banished to the realm. She holds a knife to his throat, thinking he is potentially a Lost Boy. After clarifying everything though, Hook offers the fallen fairy rum, for she seems to need it more than him. He discusses his intentions after escaping Neverland, and the reasons for them.

After slaughtering an entire village for not giving the whereabouts of Snow White, Regina is met by Rumple, who agrees to cast a glamour spell on her so she can disguise as a peasant and get to Snow easily in order to kill her. In return, Regina will help cut off trade with King George's kingdom, making him bankrupt. Regina accepts the deal, but this also means that while under the spell, she will not be ale to use her magic. After a run in with some royal guards, the disguised Regina is nearly executed, but Snow ends up saving her life, not realizing it's her evil stepmother. Regina soon realizes that Snow would be willing to forgive Regina if she really wanted to, and so the Evil Queen prepares to reveal herself and make amends, but when she and Snow stumble upon one of the villages Regina had slaughtered, Snow immediately changes her mind. Regina runs away before Snow can kill her, and decides to continue her quest for revenge.

The estimated time that King George's kingdom goes nearly bankrupt. Meanwhile, a giant by the name of Anton starts to feel out of place on the Beanstalk he resides on, with his fellow brother giants. He goes against their orders and leaves the Beanstalk where he meets Prince James and Jack, who welcome him with open arms. However, it soon becomes apparent that the couple was just using Anton to get to the magic beans and treasure the giants possess. Once killing off all the giants (with the exception of Anton), James escapes with treasure for his kingdom, but abandons Jack, who has been injured, leaving her to die.

Belle and Rumple discover the thief, Robin Hood, breaking into the Dark Castle in order to steal a magic wand. Wanting to send a message to all the other thieves, he detains Robin, and prepares to torture him. Belle frees him out of sympathy, however, but once Rumple realizes what she has done, he makes her go with him in search of the thief. They find Robin using the wand to cure his sick and pregnant wife, Marian. Originally, Rumple had planned to kill Robin by shooting him with a magic bow and arrow, but he instead shoots and "accidentally" misses his target. This causes Belle to start to see more of a man behind the beast.

When King George's kingdom becomes increasingly poor, he attempts forming an alliance with King Midas, for he was cursed to transform anything into gold the moment he touches it. Midas agrees to assist George if a dragon that is harassing one of his villages is gotten rid of permanently. To prove his worth to Midas, Prince James takes on the Behemoth, but is killed at the last minute. While mourning his dead son, George makes a deal with Rumplestiltskin to procure James' twin brother, David, to fill in as James to secure Midas' gold. In exchange for providing David, Rumple is given the location of the Fairy Godmother. David succeeds, and is then coerced into an engagement with Midas' daughter, Abigail. David says farewell to his mother, and is given her engagement ring as a parting marriage gift. When, David and Abigail take the scenic route through the woods to the Golden Castle, their carriage is ambushed by bandit Snow White, who robs the Prince of his jewels, which contained an engagement ring he intended on giving to Abigail. David goes after Snow and blackmails her into getting the jewels back, threatening to turn her over to the Evil Queen if she does otherwise. They make their way to the Troll Bridge where a fight ensues, but Snow saves them both by using fairy dust to turn the trolls into bugs. Prince Charming, as he has now been dubbed, gets back his jewels, and the two then part, but have unknowingly fallen in love.

A poor servant girl by the name of Cinderella grows up in a home with an abusive stepfamily, and one night she is saddened to see them all leave for a ball she was forbidden to go to. Her Fairy Godmother shows up, however, but is immediately murdered by Rumplestiltskin, who has come for her magic wand. The Dark One then makes a deal with the servant girl that in exchange for helping her to the ball, she will grant him a mystery favor to be called upon at some point in the future.

Will Scarlet joins Robin Hood's band of Merry Men, and the gang set out to rob Maleficent's Forbidden Fortress in order to obtain gold for the less fortunate. Will has ulterior motives, however, and he steals the Mistress of all Evil's looking glass. Maleficent confronts the Merry Men, allowing them to keep the riches they stole but ask that they return the looking glass; Will refuses to confess, and once Robin learns the truth, the two have a falling out. Will ends up returning home to his beloved Anastasia, and the two prepare to go through the glass to Wonderland. Lady Tremaine interrupts their departure though, sharing a final few words with her daughter. After saying their bitter farewells, Will and Ana jump through the class to the seemingly joyful world. Time passes though and the grow poor, so they decide to rob the Red King's castle and return to the Enchanted Forest. Ana's caught doing just that, but the King agrees to spare her if she chooses to become the new Red Queen, meaning she'd have to give up Will. Ana makes the sacrifice, and is announced as Wonderland's new Queen, leaving Will heartbroken. Shortly before Ana's wedding to the Red King, Will breaks into the castle to try and win his beloved back, and tells her to meet him at their old wagon the following day if she changes her mind. Ana does so, but is stopped by her new "friend", the Queen of Hearts, who believes she has much greater potential. Cora ends up manipulating things to where it appears Will abandoned Ana and that Ana chose the King. Ana goes on to become Wonderland's new Queen while taking magic lessons from Cora, whereas Will gives up his heart to be Cora's knave.

Jefferson and Priscilla spend a few years living off the riches they've collected, but they finally run out, and Jefferson continues taking up an offer from his friend, William, and traveling to Wonderland to obtain the Clock of Evermore. Though Priscilla is against it, Jefferson does so, but only ends up a prisoner to the March Hare. Thanks to some help from the White Rabbit, Priscilla is able to come and aide Jefferson's rescue, but she ends up shot and killed by one of the March Hare's men. Jefferson returns home, and is forced to downsize his living conditions when officially putting away the portal-jumping hat.

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Upon returning home from his trip to Camelot, Rumple soon learns that Belle has been kidnapped, and so he travels to Demon's Bluff to meet her captors, who turn out to be none other than the trio of villains - Maleficent, Ursula, and Cruella De Vil - who attempt to ransom Belle in exchange for a magical gauntlet the Dark One has obtained. Though Rumple gives in at first, saving Belle's life, and also causing her to see more good in him, he ends up stealing the enchanted glove back from the three Queens of Darkness.

When riding through the Forest of the Dead while searching for Snow White, Regina's carriage goes off the road and into a ditch. She is soon met by the culprit of her carriage crash, who she originally thought to be Daniel, only for him to be revealed as his brother, William. William blames Regina for the death of his brother and tries to use a type of magic sand that could neutralize the Queen's powers. However, as Regina uses her magic to fight back, she accidentally kills him, and thus renews her promise to Daniel to avenge his death and make sure Snow pays.

After being refused the whereabouts of Snow White, Regina has Marian arrested, and subsequently executed, leaving it unknown to her family what happened.

When Belle goes into town to pick up supplies for Rumple, she finds her old friend Samuel who has just been injured by an enchanted weapon. She brings him back to Rumple's castle to tend to his wound, and he confesses that his true intentions were to rescue her from the Dark One by trapping him in Pandora's Box, claiming that Maurice sent him. However, she soon discovers that he was truly after the Dark One's dagger, and so she leads him out of the castle, and Rumple punishes him by condemning him to a swamp, while keeping Pandora's Box for himself.

One day while Rumplestiltskin is spinning straw into gold, Belle chats with him while trying to pull open his nailed in curtains. She succeeds, but falls from the ladder and into Rumple's arms, and an awkward, but romantic moment ensues. As a remembrance is held by Rumple to honor Baelfire, it's interrupted by Belle, who wishes to know what he is up to. After being unable to get her to leave, he blows out the candle he had lit and puts it away. Belle notices the shawl laying out, and realizes what her master was doing. She apologizes, and hopes the two are able to reunite someday. Rumple replies that he hopes she's right, but he doesn't expect for his ending to be a happy one. Rumplestiltskin tells Bealle of his long lost son Baelfire; her fiancé, Gaston then arrives, wanting to fight the Dark One for Belle, but instead he is turned into a rose, which Rumple gives his maid as a gift. Rumple then makes a deal to tell Belle all about Bae if she returns from town with more straw for his wheel. Belle agrees, but while on the road, she is stopped by Queen Regina, who tells her she can break Rumple's curse with true love's kiss. Belle heads back to the Dark Castle and tries to, but Rumple catches on and forces her away and out of his home forever.

Alice goes on her first trip to Wonderland as a little girl, traveling through a portal created by the White Rabbit. However, once returning home after an unspecified amount of time, her father refuses to believe where she was, and slowly starts to believe her to be crazy.

A year after the hatching of eight dwarfs, a fairy by the name of Nova gets in trouble, but dwarf Dreamy helps her. Later on at a tavern, Dreamy meets Belle, and after a conversation with her, he realizes he loves Nova; he and Nova later plan to travel the world. After being thanked by Dreamy for helping him with Nova, Belle is convinced to join a group of men to travel off to a far off land to defeat a beast known as the Yaoguai. After being kicked off the wagon, however, and leading them in the direction of the lake, Belle travels to the mountains where the creature is actually to be found, and she joins forces with Mulan to defeat the creature together. However, the soon realize the beast is trying to deliver a message, as it spells "Help me" on the ground. Belle uses the fairy dust given to her earlier by Dreamy, thus transforming the Yaoguai back into Prince Phillip. While Mulan accompanies Phillip on his journey to reunite with Aurora, Belle decides to return to Rumple, only for the Evil Queen to capture her and take her as prisoner. Dreamy gets ready to leave the mines forever, but is stopped by the Blue Fairy and Bossy, and convinced to leave Nova so she can fulfill her dream and become a Fairy Godmother. Dreamy does so, and is left heartbroken. Once going back to mining, his dwarf ax no longer works, so he is forced to get a new one, which now reads the name "Grumpy."

While on the run from Regina's men, Snow finds herself jumping off a cliff and into the water, where she is rescued by a mermaid named Ariel. The two become friends, and once hearing of Ariel's love for Prince Eric, the two attend a ball his kingdom is holding in honor of the Sea Goddess, Ursula. Eric begs for Ariel to run away with him, which she agrees to, but secretly she can't since she is only granted legs for the evening. Meanwhile, Regina decides to use this to her advantage. ("Ariel") Regina visits Rumplestiltskin, who is alone in his castle, where she asks for help with a certain little mermaid. Once hearing he is not in the mood for deals that day, and seeing his current state, she lies to him, stating that Belle is now dead, having thrown herself from a tower. Regina disguises herself as the Sea Goddess, Ursula, where she gives Ariel a bracelet that can give Snow a tail in exchange for her legs. Ariel sees this as a good idea, thinking that now Snow could just swim away from the Queen, but Regina soon reveals herself. Ariel helps Snow escape though, getting back her tail and swimming Snow away. However, once returning to join Eric, Regina punishes the mermaid by stripping of her voice, stopping her from telling the Prince how she truly feels. ("Ariel")

The Evil Queen uses the Huntsman's former connection to Anita's werewolf pack to forge an alliance with them and use them to help hunt Snow White. However, a chance encounter with Red Riding Hood temporarily frees the Huntsman from Regina's control, long enough for them to defeat the wolf pack, and get Snow White to safety.

After going into the woods, Hansel and Gretel lose their father, and are stopped in their tracks by the Evil Queen. Regina offers to help find their father if they steal a poisoned apple from the Blind Witch for her. Seeing how they have no other choice, the children do so and they succeed, killing the Witch in the process. Impressed with them, Regina offers to let them live with her, but Gretel objects, for she and her brother want their father instead. Offended, Regina transports the two children and their father to the Infinite Forest, where they are left to wander, most likely never finding each other again. Meanwhile, Snow White secludes herself in the forest after becoming lovesick for Prince Charming. The only one to see her is Red Riding Hood who brings her food once a month, but this time she brings news of Charming's upcoming marriage: it's set to happen in two days' time. Wanting to forget the love she can never have, Snow goes to see Rumplestiltskin, who provides her with a forgetful potion. Meanwhile, however, Charming is unhappy at his own engagement party, as he yearns for Snow White. King George, however, threatens to harm everything dear to him if he does not marry Abigail. Charming still cannot ignore his feelings, so he sends a messenger dove with a letter for Snow, asking if she feels the same about him and asks for her to meet him at the castle. Snow does so, but is immediately caught and imprisoned by George's men. There, she meets the dwarf Grumpy, and Grumpy's friend Stealthy arrives to free them. Though he is killed as they are escaping, Snow and Grumpy still make it. Snow goes for her true love, but George finds her, and forces her to turn back, threatening to kill Charming otherwise. Snow leaves, heartbroken, but finds comfort in Grumpy and his six dwarf friends. Regina later looks in her Magic Mirror where she finds Snow White with the seven dwarfs.

The approximate time Geppetto and Pinocchio escape the whale, Monstro, and Pinocchio jumps overboard so his father can have the only life jacket. After washing up to shore, Geppetto discovers Pinocchio has turned back into wood, but the Blue Fairy makes him a real boy, and promises he will remain one so long as he is selfless, brave, and true.

Having returned to Wonderland for the second time, now all grown up, Alice antagonizes the Queen of Hearts when stealing from her garden. She is hunted down by Cora's knave, Will Scarlet, but a deal is strung, that being that if Alice retrieves his heart then he will end his hunt for her. She does just that, and the two go on to form a friendship.

King George's men are sent after Charming when he abandons his wedding to Abigail, but the Prince is caught by his former fiancée, who reveals she also doesn't wish to marry him. Abigail reveals she was once betrothed to a knight named Frederick, but when he was saving her father, they touched and he was turned to solid gold. Charming decides to journey to Lake Nostos and bring back water so she can save her true love, which he succeeds at. In return, Abigail and Frederick provide Charming with supplies so he may find Snow White. When the Prince goes after her, he finds Red, who reveals she went to stop his wedding and never came back. The two then flee together as George's men approach them. Having heard the news of Charming abandoning his wedding to Abigail, Grumpy goes to alert Snow, but is devastated to find she has drunken the forgetting potion. Charming and Red continue running from King George's men, but after being ambushed one night, Red stays behind and turns into a wolf to hold them off while the Prince escapes. Meanwhile, Snow, per the effects of the forgetful potion, becomes cold and tactless, something the seven dwarfs don't take well to. Instead of changing like they plea for her to do, Snow decides to kill Regina, blaming her for all her problems. Grumpy tries taking Snow back to Rumple one last time, but since there's no undo potion, the Dark One provides Snow with a bow that never misses its target instead. Charming learns of his true love's plans, however, and makes a deal with Rumplestiltskin himself to track down the fugitive princess. Charming ends up taking the hit of the arrow Snow meant for the Queen, who is riding along the road. Though true love's kiss breaks the potion's curse, their reunion is cut short when George and his men arrive and capture Charming.

Charming is nearly put to death by King George, but is instead given to Regina at the last minute, who promises to have even worse intentions for the Prince. Snow, Red, and the dwarfs plan to rescue Charming from George's castle, having not learned what Regina has done, but ends up meeting with her stepmother via magic mirror, and agrees to meet her at the old stables with no weapons in order to have the Prince back. There, Regina instead blames Snow for the death of Daniel, and gives her stepdaughter the ultimatum of eating a poisoned apple, causing her to fall into a deep sleep forever, or she will have Charming killed. Snow ends up eating the apple, and Red and the dwarfs arrive too late to save her.

Charming flees Regina's palace with the help of the Huntsman, only to end up trapped in the Infinite Forest. Rumplestiltskin arrives, however, making a deal with the prince; he enchants a ring that will lead him to Snow and in exchange, Charming is to put a golden egg inside of a dragon-form Maleficent. Once doing so, Charming is given the ring and finds Snow, awakening her with true love's kiss, and they decide to take back the kingdom. Once learning Snow White has been awoken, and that she intends on taking back the kingdom with Charming, Regina makes her way to a village where her stepdaughter is rallying up people to fight in the upcoming war, and offers the deal of Snow and Charming getting to live in exile and Regina will agree to stop trying to kill them. Snow refuses the offer at first, but once seeing that Regina is willing to make innocents suffer, she starts to contemplate accepting the deal. Charming does his best to talk her out of it, and to continue fighting, and after a while, he succeeds, and the couple agree to fight the Queen together.

Jafar enters a peddler's home commenting on the man's comfortable life in spite of his meager earnings. Fearing that Jafar is after his genie, just as his genie has warned, the peddler retreats to a back room. He summons his genie and wishes that his magical servant would go somewhere far away. After the bottle vanishes, Jafar enters and begins to choke the man. The bottle has meanwhile ended up in Wonderland.

Alice finds herself in the Queen of Heart's maze where she is being chased by royal guards, so she eats a piece of magic mushroom that shrinks her down, where she soon finds a genie bottle. She crawls inside where she meets the imprisoned genie, Cyrus, who grants her with three wishes, and thus, the two begin a life together, traveling through the magical world of Wonderland. ("Down the Rabbit Hole"/"Trust Me")

King George goes after Charming once more, scheming to kill the traitorous prince. He ends up cursing Snow White to be barren forever when tricking her into drinking a potion. Snow keeps this a secret from her true love, and the two of them, along with Lancelot are tasked with getting Charming's mother, Ruth, to Lake Nostos after she was shot by one of George's men. However, seeing how the lake has dried up, the only manage to find a few remaining drops. Ruth sacrifices herself so Snow may drink the water, uncursing herself. Wanting Ruth to be able to see her son get married, Snow has Lancelot perform a small ceremony, and Ruth passes away shortly after.

The approximate time Regina meets up with Jefferson, wanting to take a trip to Wonderland, and in exchange she will provide him with the ability to give his daughter, Grace, the childhood she deserves. Jefferson initially refuses, but finally gives in. However, he soon realizes Regina was there to retrieve her father, Henry, who had been taken captive by the Queen of Hearts. Since the same who came through must return through the hat, Jefferson finds himself abandoned by the Evil Queen. The Queen of Hearts' men capture him, and he is tasked with building a new hat to get him home, which causes him to eventually go mad.

Snow White and Prince Charming succeed in defeating King George and the Evil Queen, and Regina is trapped with help from the Blue Fairy. The royal couple decide on executing her, but at the last minute Snow decides to have the Queen's life spared. Snow later meets with Rumple, who offers her an enchantment that will protect her from her stepmother. Wanting to test Regina to see if she has changed her evil ways, Snow visits the former Queen, who then attempts to kill her. Regina, having failed the test, is then banished from the kingdom and is warned by Snow that if she ever tries to harm anyone again then she will be killed. An exiled Regina is later visited by Rumple who begins getting her ready for the casting of the Dark Curse. Delighted, Regina travels to crash Snow and Charming's wedding ceremony with her threats.

As Alice and Cyrus go on their many adventures together, they finally decide to hide the genie bottle at the Tum Tum Tree, hoping to protect it from harm. What they don't realize, however, is that the White Rabbit sees them, on his way to meet up with his wife. When injured by genie thieves, Alice is rushed to the Rabbits' home by Cyrus, and Mrs. Rabbit heals her. The White Rabbit starts to fear for Alice's safety with Cyrus, but he promises to protect her; he trades with the Caterpillar to procure a secret hideout in the Outlands.

Snow White and Prince Charming are married before the entire kingdom, but their wedding is crashed by the Evil Queen, who threatens to destroy their happiness if it is the last thing she does. The night of Snow and Charming's wedding, Queen Regina visits her friend, Maleficent, whom she steals back the Dark Curse from. Wanting to distract Snow from Regina's threats, he offers to take her on a honeymoon to anywhere of her choosing; she chooses the summer palace that King Leopold had built for her mother. However, what Charming didn't know was that Snow intended on traveling to a cave near by where she'd cut off the head of a beast known as Medusa, and use the creature to turn Regina to stone, defeating her. Charming soon learns of his new wife's true intentions, but accompanies her anyway. As they battle the creature though, Charming ends up turned to stone himself. Snow defeats Medusa on her own, which results in the curse on Charming being undone. Snow decides they can face Regina another way, but for the time being, she wants a child.

Snow and Charming return from their honeymoon, only to find their entire castle put underneath a sleeping curse, which is soon revealed to have been cast by Maleficent. She, along with the two other Queens of Darkness, Ursula and Cruella, wish to join forces with the royal couple and head for the Tree of Wisdom to learn how to stop Regina's pending curse, for the Tree will only answer the questions of those of the most valiant heroes. They do this, but are rejected, and Maleficent realizes Snow is pregnant, but that her child must have the potential for great darkness. That evening, Maleficent returns to Snow, revealing to be pregnant herself, and wishes to join and stop Regina's curse another way. Snow turns down the offer though, not wanting to go as dark as Maleficent has. Months later, the royal couple seek out a way to stop their child from going dark, and they are soon guided by the all-powerful Author (disguised as a common Peddler) to the Sorcerer's Apprentice where he reveals a ritual that can be performed, transferring all of the royal couple's darkness into another child. Snow and Charming decide to do this, and they kidnap Maleficent's recently born child, who is then sent to the Land Without Magic so she doesn't pose a threat. Ursula and Cruella fall through the portal as well. Later on, as punishment for manipulating the events the way he has, the Author is imprisoned in the storybook by the Apprentice.

Cinderella and Prince Thomas are married, and, at the wedding, Rumplestiltskin reveals that the favor he wishes to collect from her is the promise of her first born. The new princess soon becomes pregnant and knows Rumple will come for her child, so she tries to leave, but Thomas convinces her there must be other ways. With help from Snow, Charming, and the seven dwarfs, Cinderella tricks Rumple into believing she is pregnant with twins, and makes him sign a new deal. The quill is of ink that magically freezes the Dark One, however, but Thomas then disappears as payment until Rumple can get a hold of the Princess's first born. Charming and Grumpy take Rumple to the Dark Dungeon where he remains locked up until the casting of the Dark Curse. Snow and Charming receive a unicorn mobile for their child, as a gift from Cinderella. This horrifies Snow though, for it just reminds her of what she and Charming did to Maleficent's child. They come to agree that there is a chance they can redeem, however, and that they just have to be the best people they possibly can; Snow accepts the unicorn mobile as a reminder of how easily one can lose their way.

Alice and Cyrus travel to the boiling sea where Cyrus goes to propose to Alice, but they are interrupted by the arrival of the Red Queen. The couple try to fight off her men, but she ends up using her magic to throw Cyrus off the cliff, horrifying Alice, who is left only to screw his name. Unbeknownst to her, however, Jafar is there to catch Cyrus on his flying carpet and take him prisoner.

Months pass and Snow White is now far into a pregnancy. Still fearing the Evil Queen's upcoming curse, Snow and Charming visit the imprisoned Rumplestiltskin who reveals their unborn child to be the Savior. In exchange for this information, the royal couple provide the Dark One with the name of their unborn child to be Emma. The Blue Fairy goes to Geppetto, seeking help about carving a magic wardrobe which can send two people to the Land Without Magic, helping them avoid the Dark Curse. Geppetto agrees to do so, but makes the Blue Fairy promise Pinocchio can be one of the two to go through, with a pregnant Snow White being the other. Blue accepts these terms, and they agree to keep it a secret that more than one can go through. During a strategy meeting held by Prince Charming about how to overcome the Dark Curse, the Blue Fairy arrives with news of a magic wardrobe. She lies that it can take one through a portal to safety, and that it must be the pregnant Snow White. Geppetto and Pinocchio get started on carving the wardrobe. ("Pilot"/"The Stranger") Snow fears what will happen if the magic wardrobe fails, despite the Blue Fairy assuring her otherwise, and also that no matter what, the Savior would find their way to breaking the curse. After Blue leaves them, Charming tries to convince Snow to still believe in fate, and that they may have lost the happiness they planned, but that it doesn't mean they can't find happiness another way.

Alice once again returns home to Victorian England from Wonderland, but this time distraught having lost Cyrus. Her father remarried and she has a new half-sister, Millie. Her new stepmother, Sarah, tries to set her up with a new man, but Alice refuses, choosing instead to let her father send her to an asylum.

Regina attempts casting the Dark Curse by sacrificing the heart of her beloved horse, Rocinante, and a lock of hair from the darkest wizards in all the land. It fails, however, so the Evil Queen seeks help from the imprisoned Rumplestiltskin, who has already spoken with the royal couple. The Dark One reveals she must sacrifice the heart of the person she loves most - Prince Henry. Regina does so, and the curse is cast. She later goes to his gravestone and leaves a flower.

Captain Hook, who has now arrived back from Neverland, breaks into Queen Regina's palace in order to free Belle, wanting information regarding the dagger with hopes she can provide enough in order so he may kill Rumplestiltskin. Realizing she is useless, however, he chooses to kill her, only to be stopped by Regina herself, who states Belle is a "valuable chess piece." The Evil Queen tells Hook of the Dark Curse she plans on enacting, and states that in exchange for killing the Queen of Hearts, she will help him kill the Dark One. Hook agrees, and the Queen enchants his hook so he may rip out the Queen of Heart's heart and crush it. After making a trip to Wonderland to do just that, the Queen of Hearts, who turns out to be Regina's mother Cora, offers the pirate a better deal, which involves her killing her daughter instead. Hook and Cora return to the Enchanted Forest where Cora plays dead and Regina grieves over her. She discloses her heartfelt love for her mother, but insists she needs her dead because "love is weakness". After Regina leaves, Cora and Hook meet up, and Cora states there has been a change of plans.

Snow White unexpectedly goes into labor and gives birth to Emma, however, thus meaning she cannot accompany her daughter through the magic wardrobe. ("Pilot"/"The Stranger") Hearing of this, the Blue Fairy goes back on her promise to Geppetto and tries to convince him to allow Snow White to go through the wardrobe with Emma. She points out that Emma will need someone to guide her on the right path to becoming the savior, but as soon as Blue leaves, Geppetto makes Pinocchio go through the wardrobe and watch over Emma himself. Regina visits Rumple in his cell to gloat about her success, but he assures her that one day there will be a hole in her heart and she will go to him to fill it. Snow insists Charming send Emma through anyway, as she is their only hope, so the Prince does so, fighting his way through Regina's men. He manages to send Emma through the wardrobe, but then collapses due to his wounds. Snow finds him, but is joined by Regina; the Princess tells her stepmother she won't succeed, and then the curse engulfs them all, sending them to Storybrooke. As the curse continues engulfing the entire Enchanted Forest, Cora projects a large barrier that protects herself and Hook from being taken to the Land Without Magic. This also means, however, that the inhabitants of that particular area will remain in the Enchanted Forest as well, and they are all frozen in time for the next 28 years.

After the Curse
When arriving in the Land Without Magic, Emma and Pinocchio are found and put in a foster home, but Pinocchio soon abandons Emma to run off with a group of orphans to pursue a better life for himself.

Regina grows bored of reliving the same day everyday when the Dark Curse is cast, and when Kurt Flynn and his son, Owen, find their way into Storybrooke, Regina grows an attachment to Owen, resulting in a car chase as Kurt tries to flee town. Owen escapes, but Kurt is caught and killed. Owen then vows to find his father.

During her time spent in the foster system, a young Emma attends a showing of the Disney film, The Sword in the Stone with the other children she currently resides with. Not allowed popcorn, she steals a chocolate bar from a couple when they're not looking - something than an usher notices. The usher turns out to be none other than the Sorcerer Merlin in disguise, and he warns Emma that one day she will encounter the all-mighty Excalibur, similar to that in the movie she is viewing; he begs that she go far from it, leaving the little girl utterly confused.

A teenaged Emma, still in the foster system, watches a young girl by the name of Cecilia leave with her new adoptive parents, sad, wanting the same for herself. The group mother assures her that one day the same will happen for her, but Emma is unable to utter a response. Emma ends up running away from the foster home, hopping a bus to Hopkins, Minnesota where she meets a girl by the name of Lily, who has also run away. The two become the best of friends, going on to steal to survive and living together in a nice home owned by a rich family who only use it for half the year. This all comes to an end, however, when Lily's adoptive father tracks them down. Emma feels betrayed, having been led to believe Lily was like her, without a family, but is disgusted to learn she does have one, but is trying to throw it away. Lily begs for forgiveness, and tries making amends, but is turned away.

Emma is placed in a new foster home, this time with her foster mother being none other than the Enchanted Forest's Snow Queen. Though Emma doesn't wish to stay at first, Ingrid manipulates her into, and the two soon form a friendship, which is all the Snow Queen had ever wanted. Months pass, and Ingrid takes Emma for a day out, where Emma soon learns that Ingrid plans to adopt her. Though happy at first, this all changes when Ingrid believes Emma may be able to do magic now, and she drags her into the middle of the road, nearly getting them both hit. Emma freaks out, believing Ingrid to be crazy, and she runs away, going on to be placed in another foster home. Meanwhile, Ingrid goes to Storybrooke to wait for Emma to arrive 28 years later, and for the meantime she opens an ice cream shop known as Any Given Sundae.

Time passes, and Emma finds a new foster family who seem to be a great fit; however, when planning for a camping trip, Emma comes across Lily, who is in need of help. Emma's foster father discovers them though, and so the two claim to have been friends in an old group home. Emma later privately learns from Lily that she was involved in an armed robbery, but agrees to leave Emma's life forever if the blonde goes to her former boyfriend's apartment to retrieve a necklace of hers - the only thing she has that belonged to her birth mother. Emma does this, but upon returning home, she learns Lily stole their vacation fund, and also have learned of how the two really knew each other. Emma runs away, but also confronts Lily, who thought she was doing the right thing so the two of them could go back to their old life together. Emma rejects her though, and the two part way. On a bus later, however, Lily is met with the Sorcerer's Apprentice, who goes to reveal the truth about her past, starting with the origins of her birth mother, Maleficent... ("Lily")

Emma Swan, now age 17, steals a yellow car, not realizing there's a man sleeping in the backseat. The man ends up waking up, turning out to be Baelfire, who now goes by the alias of Neal Cassidy. A police officer ends up pulling the two over, and Neal lies for Emma, stating that she is his girlfriend and he was teaching her to drive. The officer lets them go with a warning, thus beginning Emma and Neal's relationship. That evening, the two head for an old amusement park where Neal talks a little about his past, though not revealing much, and the two bond. Emma and Neal travel the country, stealing together in order to survive. They finally decide to settle down in Tallahassee, however, but they discover Neal is wanted for stealing a set of expensive watches. Emma agrees to help her boyfriend retrieve them while he runs to find someone to sell them to, but he is soon cornered by Pinocchio, who has taken the alias of August W. Booth, who insists Neal must let Emma go so she may fulfill her destiny. To show Neal he's serious, August shows him a typewriter with the printed words, "I know you're Baelfire." Neal agrees to disappear from Emma's life, which means allowing her to be arrested for stealing the watches. Emma is sentenced to jail in Phoenix, Arizona for her crime, where she soon realizes she's pregnant with Neal's child. ("Tallahassee"/"Manhattan")

Emma gives birth to a baby boy in jail, who she chooses to give up for adoption. ("The Heart of the Truest Believer"/"Going Home")

Regina finally starts to feel that void in her heart that Rumple warned her about before the curse hit, so she goes to him for help with adopting a child, which he procures for her: the future Henry Mills. Regina gets Henry from the agency at three weeks old, and names him after her deceased father. However, when unable to get him to stop crying, Regina worries something may be wrong, so she has Sidney find information on his birth parents. Once learning that his biological mother is the Savior, Emma Swan, she tries to return Henry, but ends up going back on that, as she now believes he is the only one who believes in her, so in order to put her mind at rest, she drinks a potion to forgot Emma is the Savior.

One day, when Snow White, who now goes by the name Mary Margaret Blanchard, and is Henry's teacher, sees the boy looking down, she gives him a storybook she found in the back of her closet in hopes of cheering him up. Because of this, his entire perspective of the town's residents is changed, and he starts to piece together the events that occurred 28 years before.

28 years since the Dark Curse was cast, time finally starts to move forward again when Emma arrives in Storybrooke, Maine, but because of this, August starts turning back into wood since he hasn't been keeping his word to the Blue Fairy: to remain selfless, brave, and true. He travels to Hong Kong to see a healer known as the Dragon, who agrees to give him a potion in exchange for a large amount of cash. August steals the cash from another one of the Dragon's clients, Tamara, but Tamara regains it when August loses it, and then kills the Dragon when it's revealed she is really a magic seeker, and has made all the use of him that she could. Tamara goes on to fake a run in with Neal Cassidy, starting a romance between the two, though in reality just for Tamara to get close to magic.

Now in Storybrooke and working on a relationship with her son, Emma stops by local ice cream shop, Any Given Sundae, where she runs into her former foster mother, Ingrid. She believes Ingrid to have been stalking her, and finds it odd she hasn't aged a day; she goes to call Sheriff Graham, but the Snow Queen erases any memories Emma has of the two of them before she can do so.

Mr. Gold makes a deal with Regina that if she help clear up the charges against him regarding Moe French's assault then he will help her abduct David's wife, Kathryn, and pin the blame to Mary Margaret, thus tearing the couple apart, and granting Regina her victory.

After Mary Margaret, Emma, Regina, David, Hook, and Rumple leave for Neverland to rescue Henry, Belle is left in Storybrooke where she is instructed to cast a spell that will shield Storybrooke from the rest of the world, and so no one else working for Greg and Tamara's cause can get in. She does just that, but before the barrier can cover up entirely, John and Michael Darling are able to get into town.

Before the Second Curse
Upon returning to the Enchanted Forest in order to escape Peter Pan's curse, the former residents of Storybrooke are directed towards Queen Regina's Dark Palace, but they soon discover the Wicked Witch of the West has taken up residence there, and that they are all now in danger. Regina decides to infiltrate the Dark Palace and get rid of the Wicked Witch, but is joined by an uninvited Robin Hood to do so. As they make their way through the Palace, they share bits of their past, and Robin even suspects Regina of being a danger to them all when she begins working on a curse. However, this is revealed to be a sleeping curse, which Regina plans to use on herself in order to escape the pain of losing Henry. Zelena, the Wicked Witch, doesn't allow this though, for the two meet, and after the Queen learns the two are sisters, and the threat the Witch imposes, she decides to stop at nothing to destroy her.

Belle and Neal leave the main group in order to search for a way to resurrect Rumple, which leads the two to the Dark Castle, where they light a candle that happens to be none of than Lumière. He leads the two on a journey to the Vault of the Dark One where Neal ends up sacrificing himself in order to bring back Rumple, which ultimately backfires when Zelena is revealed to have been behind Lumière. In order to save Neal, a now resurrected Rumple absorbs him, while the Wicked Witch obtains the Dark One's dagger. Meanwhile, Belle escapes with the help of the candle so she may warn everyone else.

Following a bad dream about Emma, Charming learns from Snow that the couple is pregnant with a second child; though, he claims to be thrilled, he is secretly filled with dread and fear. Snow and Charming, along with Regina, meet with Aurora and Phillip about announcing their pregnancy to the kingdom. The Queen is against this though, for it could be dangerous with the Wicked Witch posing a threat. Belle soon arrives back to the Palace, revealing Rumple's resurrection and the loss of Neal. Meanwhile, Aurora and Phillip confess to being double agents for Zelena, just as said Witch arrives and turns the two royals into flying monkeys for betraying her. The others fail to fight back, for Zelena freezes them all so she may check on Snow, whose baby she is after.

Fearing he will fail to be a good parent for his unborn child, Charming heads for Sherwood Forest in search of night root, a plant that can cure his terrors. However, before ingesting said plant, he hears the call of a damsel in distress, locked up in a tower near by. Charming climbs up the tower, via the damsel's hair, and is met by a princess Rapunzel. Charming learns her tale, and also the effects of eating night-root, which Rapunzel had done, thus leading to her imprisonment. However, with the Prince's help, Rapunzel is able to conquer her fears and break free from the tower, finally reuniting with her family, and Charming regains confidence in being a good parent.

Though unable to find the Jolly Roger since returning to the Enchanted Forest, Hook and some of his old crew return to their old pirating lifestyle, but instead rob carriages instead of ships. One night though, Hook is met by Ariel, who believes him to have kidnapped Prince Eric, since the pirates who kidnapped her beloved were from the Jolly Roger. Learning this, Hook demands more information, and eventually tracks his ship down to the pirate Black Beard. They soon duel, and Hook wins, but upon learning that it was all a rescue mission, Black Beard mocks the fellow pirate. Not wanting to be seen as weak, however, Hook throws Black Beard overboard, leaving his fate unknown. However, it turns out Ariel rescued him and got the location of Eric, leading to a joyous reunion. ("Fall"/"Poor Unfortunate Soul")

A royal council meeting is held about how to defeat Zelena, and soon everyone heads for the Dark Castle to seek out Rumple's assistance. Belle manages to get through to him, learning that only light magic can defeat the Wicked Witch, and that they must find Glinda of Oz, who was banished to the Dark Forest. Snow, Charming, and Regina do just that, and the former two make their way into the Witch's pocket dimension, and learn from Glinda that a savior is needed. Everyone realizes that this means they must get back to Emma, and so Charming agrees to sacrifice himself, being the thing Snow loves most, so she may cast the Dark Curse to get back to the Land Without Magic. Snow reluctantly does so, but Zelena arrives in time to add a forgetting potion so no one remembers anything from the past year. However, Snow has Regina break her heart into two so she may resurrect Charming, and the curse continues to be cast. Meanwhile though, Neal breaks free from Rumple so he can send a message to Hook to get Emma to Storybrooke. Upon receiving the message, Hook outraces the curse and trades his ship to Black Beard for a magic bean, which he uses to get to New York City.

After the Second Curse
After Robin Hood and the supposed Marian leave Storybrooke, they take up residency in Neal's old apartment, but their lives are interrupted by the arrival of Rumplestiltskin, who has recently been banished from Storybrooke by Belle. He tries to force them out of the apartment so he may take it for himself, but he soon suffers a heart attack due to all the darkness that has consumed his heart. He makes a deal with Robin that if the thief steals him a bottle of the Elixir of the Wounded Heart from Walsh's old furniture shop, Wizard of Oak, then he will let Robin and his family keep the apartment. Robin does just that, but when Rumple goes to drink the potion, he realizes it's a fake. Marian soon makes herself known, revealing to have swapped the bottles, and admits that she was in fact Zelena in disguise the entire time. She makes a deal with Rumple that if he stop trying to kill her and have the Author give her a happy ending then she'll hand over the elixir, which he agrees to. Rumple goes on to join forces with the Queens of Darkness while Zelena keeps up the ruse of posing as Marian, agreeing to work as leverage with Rumple over Regina.

Before the Third Curse
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