Lost. Abandoned, and no way home.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own anything to do with once upon a time.

STORY: This is a sequel I would suggest reading my first story called

Trials and tribulations of Princess Emma Swan

SUMMARY: the curse is broken and a deal with rumple allowed everyone to go back to the enchanted forest. Problem is rumple didn't make it as straight forward as everyone hoped, and what is Regina up to?

Catch up:

"Everyone ready to go home I hope." Rumple said but something in rumples eyes made Emma uneasy. Rumple could see the dagger strapped to Emma's waist. She must have started wearing it after the hospital incident, Rumple thought. So he decided to lunge for the dagger just as the cloud was approaching. But before he reached Emma, Emma took a step back as Regina rammed her hand into rumples chest. Belle screamed, and beneath her breath directly into rumples ear. Regina said. "Dagger or no dagger you now belong to me and what is mine I keep." Rumple looked past Regina wondering what she meant. Wondering if she meant henry. But he wasn't sure.

Just before the cloud swallowed them Regina pulled out rumples heart and held it in the palm of her hands. The first new heart to be added to her collection in 28 years.

Emma, snow, henry and James all looked at Regina but couldn't say anything since the cloud swallowed them and took them away.

CHAPTER 1

The cloud swallowed storybrooke and everyone in it. Emma held Henrys hand and refused to let go. Rumple and Emma might have made this deal but she didn't trust that evil excuse of. Human being as far as she could spit. So no matter what happened she and Henry would be together. She felt her parents at the side of her but she hadn't been fast enough to grab onto them before they had been surrounded by the cloud.

As the cloud started to lift away from them Emma could just make out shadows of thing that where in front of her. With henrys hand still firmly in her grasp she called to her mother. "MUM" there was no answer. Emma was sure she had felt her parent's presence beside her as they had been transported to wherever they were, so she tried again "mum where are you, please answer me" still there was no answer. Emma began worrying but until the cloud completely lifted there was nothing she could do. Emma held her breath and waited. Waiting had never one of Emma's favorite thing.

The cloud had fully disappeared now and Emma glanced all around her. Some kingdom there was nothing but trees.

"Mum where are we. I thought we would have ended in the palace."

"Henry I have no idea where we are but I can tell you this we are not in Kansas anymore." Emma smiled at Henry but the fear she felt was causing her insides to knot. She needed her parents, this was a strange place and her parents were nowhere to be seen. They must have come through somewhere else. Somewhere hopefully close by, so she decided to try again. "MUM" still there was no answer. Emma could feel herself becoming desperate. Emma and Henry looked at each other but they both remained silent. Henry didn't know what to say and Emma was trying to figure out what to do.

"Ok Henry I need you to try and remember what your book said about the kingdom. Did it mention if it was in the north or south? Or any landmarks things like that so we can start heading in that direction. Maybe the cloud caused is all to be scattered about the place. So the first thing your grandparents would do would be to go to the palace, and start a search for us from there. So if we head that way, it will be easier for them and who knows it might even be just around the corner." Emma told Henry hoping so had made it sound like the situation hey were in wasn't a big deal.

Emma was surprised she could see steam coming from henrys ears, because the look on his face was one of pure concentration. If Emma hadn't been so worried so would have laughed, but as it was all she wanted to do was weep. She was stuck in so Forrest and judging by the sky it was going to be dark soon.

"Charming, Emma, Henry where are you." snow shouted. She paused for a moment listening for them to answer her back. This cloud had not been a fun ride at all. She was in the Forrest, and she was racking her brains to figure out what part of the Forrest. Damn rumplestiltskin he could have transported them all back to the palace. Snow was about to shout again. When she heard "snow say something, so that I can follow your voice." "What would you like me to say charming." snow giggled softly "I could always tell you how badly I want to hit rumple for having the cloud deposit us in the Forrest and not the palace." snow shouted back she hadn't needed to say anything else for she felt Charming's arms wrap around her waist. "Hello my love, I do believe I found you. Again I might add." charming kissed snow gently "where's Emma and henry, charming are they following you." snow asked as she looked around Charming's frame for her daughter and grandson. Confusing came across charming's features as he said "what do you mean snow, they are not with me I thought they would be with you." dread filled snow and her face expressed her worry. "EMMA. HENRY." Charming started to shout over and over again. After his voice became hoarse and his throat protested against anymore words coming from his mouth, he finally dropped to his knees, snow embraced her husband as the tears cascaded down her face. Their daughter was lost to them once again. But this time there had been no prophecy about her returning.

The sun had almost completely disappeared when Henry thought of something. "The summer palace I think it was in the east so if we head that way we should be able to find it."

"That's great Henry but it is the main palace we need. The first curse sent everyone through to storybrooke so no one will be at the summer palace and knowing snow and James they will ask for everyone to join in a search for us so they probably wouldn't think to look in the summer palace. I think you should look around for somewhere to set up camp for the night it is getting dark, but at least we know which way is which now. Since the sun sets in the west that means that over there must be the north." Emma had pointed in the direction of north before she bent to kiss Henry on the forehead before she took his hadn't and went to look for somewhere to rest for the night.

Regina held rumples heart in her hand. The cloud had deposited her in rumpled castle alongside rumple and belle. "Well imp nice work, we are home. Now I promise to take care of your heart, extra special care of it, but I must be on my way. Goodbye" with that Regina disappeared to her own castle.

All she had to do now was find out where Henry was she had to make sure he was safe. "Mirror where are you?" Regina called into the mirror which was in her bedroom. As she was placing rumpled heart securely in a box she waited for him to appear. She would put it away after she had seen her son.

Rumple told belle that everything would be fine and she should get some rest. He could tell she was worried, for Regina had just left holding his heart in her hand. He wasn't too worried because as long as his potion worked he would have a bargaining chip to use in which he could get his heart back. All he could do was hope that his hard work and devotion paid off and that his plan was already taking place. Belle was reluctant to leave rumple, since that woman had taken his heart. What would happen if he became the man she had first met all those years ago, now his heart was gone. He had already faced the loss of his son. She just hoped he was right and that everything would be fine.

The moon was full tonight but until snow and charming could get the bearings they would be camping outside. " charming do you think they are ok, I know they came through with us I could feel Emma and Henry right up until the cloud started to clear."

"She is our daughter snow, she is resourceful she will be fine and so will Henry. Now get some sleep when we get to the palace I am sure they will already be there." snow snuggled into Charming's side but charming couldn't close his eyes and relax so he cast his eyes towards the heavens and said I silent prayer. "Please I beg of you watch out for my daughter, keep her safe. I gave my word to snow that I would always find her no matter where she is, she please allow me to be able to bestow the same promise on my daughter. Keep her safe until I can find her."

Hhhhhoooooowwwwwwwlllllllllll

Was the only noise that was heard in the Forrest where snow and charming where. "red." snow looked in the direction of the howl and then turned to charming. "If she doesn't have her cloak on we could be in danger charming and she sounded awfully close by."

Charming wasn't sure what scared snow more the thought of red being a threat to them or the thought of red being a threat to Emma and Henry. not knowing if Emma and Henry where close by made it worse. "Don't worry my love granny will see to it, that red has her cloak and is no threat to anyone." But charming was worried that red might not be herself and she might harm them, she wasn't herself when the moon was full.

Regina was losing her patience with the mirror he still hadn't come to her yet. She needed to see her son and she needed to see him yesterday.

"sorry your majesty but after 28 years there is quite a bit of dust and cob webs hanging over my mirrors, and I sort of lost my way."

Regina chose to ignore his remark and commanded him to do one thing "show me them"

In front of her she could see snow huddled into James in the dark Forrest, but the image that should be Henry and Emma wasn't clear in looked almost foggy. "what is wrong with you I want to see Henry more than I want to see snow so show me Henry now" she was not impressed, had he suddenly turned insolent now they were home. She had to see henry; he was the one thing she truly cared for since her father had died.

"But your majesty I am showing you them. There just seems to be so sort of magic surrounding them."

"It has to be the fairy she must be trying to keep Henry from me and by blocking us she thinks I won't be able to get him. Well she doesn't know me as well as she thinks." Regina shouted as she turned to leave the room. She would make the fairy pay for blocking her from her son. She got to the door before she remembered rumples heart. So she retrieved it and completely left to place the heart where it now belonged. In her heart vault. As for the fairy she would wait until tomorrow she would rest tonight and allow her magic to regenerate, before she challenged the fairy. After 28 years of not having magic and then the last few months she had been using it nonstop had to have effected it so she wasn't about to leave anything to chance. With her magic fully rested and restored the fairy didn't stand a chance.

HOWL

The howling noise was getting closer now to snow and charming. Snow had one thing on her mind. Please let Emma and Henry be in the palace please don't let them be near here.

HOWL

The sound was almost upon them now.

Henry had fallen asleep tucked into Emma. She had managed to light a small fire to keep them both warm. She might not smoke but keeping a lighter sure was handy. Emma had been listening for noises, noises which would signal they were in danger.

But until a few moments ago she hadn't heard anything but now she could hear the soft howl, which sounded somewhere, off to her left along with the rustle of the trees. It seemed the trees where trying to hide the noise but she had heard it anyway. She didn't have a gun with her but she had managed to find a branch that seemed to look very similar to a baseball bat so she had kept it close by her incase.

HOWL

The noise was closer now and Emma's arm tightened around Henry and her other hand grip one end of the branch that was by her side.

There she heard something approaching from her left. She could see the lower branches of the trees moving with whatever was coming towards them.

HOWL

The sound was almost upon them. Snow screamed as the noise seemed to come from behind her. Elsewhere Emma jumped up in front of Henry as the first look of what was coming for them came into sight. Her hand was tightly wrapped around the branch and she was prepared to strike. Nothing and no one would hurt her son.

HOWL

AUTHORS NOTE.

I know it is a short chapter I just wanted to get the foundations in first before I started with everything else, and to continue further would have messed with my cliff hanger. So hope you like the base of the story. Please review, and thanks again for all of the reviews for the first piece.