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Reawakened: a Once Upon a Time Tale Free FREE REAWAKENED: A ONCE UPON A TIME TALE PDF Odette Beane | 272 pages | 13 Jun 2013 | Hyperion | 9781401312725 | English | New York, United States Reawakened: A Once Upon A Time Tale, Book by Odette Beane (Paperback) | The series takes place in Reawakened: A Once Upon a Time Tale fictional seaside town of Storybrooke, Maine, in which the residents are actually characters from various fairy tales that Reawakened: A Once Upon a Time Tale transported to the "real world" town by a powerful curse. In this episode, Emma tries to discover her destiny; and Regina is tied up. Just as it seems he will be recaptured, the Huntsman Jamie Dornan comes to his aid and kills the guards with his arrows, allowing Charming to escape and continue on his quest to find Snow White Ginnifer Goodwin. En route, Charming is transported to an infinite forest, thanks to the Queen and her mirror. Rumpelstiltskin Robert Carlyle appears and offers to help him but Charming refuses. They fight with swords; Rumpelstiltskin toys with him and soon disarms him. Charming notices his mother's wedding ring is missing. Rumpelstiltskin holds it up and he offers Charming a deal: he will give the prince back his mother's wedding ring, now enchanted to lead him straight to Snow White, if Charming will put a golden egg containing a potion of true love inside "the belly of the beast. On his search for the beast, Prince Charming enters a castle and finds Maleficent Kristin Bauer van Stratenseated on a throne. She turns into a dragon — the Reawakened: A Once Upon a Time Tale — to attack Charming. He throws the egg into Maleficent's gills and, after he escapes, Rumpelstiltskin returns the ring and magically dresses him in a new set of clothes with which to make his grand return to his true love. As seen in the series premiere, Charming races to Snow White's glass coffin, opens it and kisses her, waking her up. He proposes and Reawakened: A Once Upon a Time Tale accepts. Together, they begin planning to take back the kingdom from the Evil Queen and Charming's sinister father, King George. Henry Jared S. Gilmore has collapsed after eating the poisoned apple turnover intended for Emma Swan Jennifer Morrison. She rushes him to the hospital. Whale David Anders asks Emma if the child has eaten anything or if anything untoward has happened. She shows the doctor the turnover but he dismisses any idea of poison because Henry is not showing any symptoms. Almost immediately, Emma begins to suspect magic as the cause. She looks at the Once Upon a Time book, which magically shows her flashbacks of her birth and the night the curse began. It is only now that she finally believes. As Regina Parrilla enters the room to see Henry, Emma violently confronts her. A stunned and guilty Regina blurts out that the turnover was indeed meant for her and that the curse is real. The only one who may be able to help them save Henry is Mr. Gold Carlyle who is, in fact, Rumpelstiltskin. The two visit Mr. Gold, who now knows that Emma believes in the curse. He tells them that true love has the ability to break any curse and that, as a safeguard, he had imbued the curse's parchment with a drop of that potion made from Snow White and Prince Charming's love. Since Emma is also a product of Snow White and Prince Charming, she is the only one who can end the curse once and for all. Emma will have to retrieve the rest of the potion from its hiding-place in the belly of a beast. He presents her with her father's sword as a weapon against the beast. As to the potion, it is with Regina's oldest and only friend. Elsewhere, David Nolan Dallas meets Mary Margaret Blanchard Goodwin and tells her that ever since he awoke from the coma, the only thing that has ever made sense to him was her. He goes on to say that he plans on leaving town and moving to Boston unless Mary Margaret gives him a reason to stay. Mary Margaret, moved by his words, still cannot bring herself to take him back and leaves. Before Emma goes on her quest, she returns to the hospital where she apologizes to the unconscious Henry for not believing him. She then goes to August Booth Eion Bailey in an attempt to enlist his help and finds him lying in bed. Now that she believes, she can at last perceive August's body becoming wooden. There is just enough time for her to hear his last words of encouragement before he reverts to puppet form. At the hospital, Regina also apologizes to Reawakened: A Once Upon a Time Tale but is interrupted by Jefferson Sebastian Stanwho has come to demand the completion of the deal made with Regina to reunite him and his daughter. Regina refuses, on the spurious grounds that Emma had not eaten the turnover as planned. Gold and enlighten him about Regina's doings. Regina takes Emma to a secret room inside the boarded-up Storybrooke Public Library clock tower. The room contains an elevator, but only one person can go down while the other operates it. Despite her hatred and mistrust for Regina, Emma decides she will descend while Regina stays above ground. As Emma arrives to the bottom, she sees Snow White's glass coffin, then finds herself face-to-face with Maleficent in dragon form. Emma starts fighting with the dragon, but discards the sword and instead fires her gun Reawakened: A Once Upon a Time Tale at the beast. She soon realizes that the sword is the only way to kill the dragon. She retrieves the sword and hurls it at the dragon, causing it to explode and release the golden egg containing the love potion. Meanwhile, Mary Margaret is reading Henry's storybook to him in his hospital bed. As she reads he begins to flat-line. As Emma ascends in the elevator, it suddenly stops working. She hears Mr. Gold by the controls above her. He tells her that Regina has abandoned her then suggests that Emma should throw the egg up to him and he will wait for her as she climbs up. She complies. When Emma reaches the surface, Gold is nowhere to be found. Regina is tied up and gagged. Emma rescues her, and as they go after Gold, they simultaneously receive calls from the hospital regarding Henry. When they arrive, they learn that he has died and both grieve. A devastated Emma goes to Henry's body, whispers to him that she loves him and kisses him on the forehead. This act is seen as "true love's kiss:", therefore the pure love shockwave occurs. Emma has broken the curse, bringing Henry back to life and causes everyone in Storybrooke to regain their memories. The Blue Fairy Keegan Connor Tracy suggests to Regina that she had best find somewhere to hide as everyone she has wronged will want revenge. Regina runs away, but not before telling a silently-watching Henry that she truly does love him. She returns to her mansion, lamenting her defeat and the loss of the only person she loves. Regaining his memories, David returns to town and finds Mary Reawakened: A Once Upon a Time Tale, calling out "Snow! They embrace and rejoice in the fact that they have found each other again. Elsewhere around town, other Storybrooke residents are hit by the pure love shockwave, and they remember their fairytale past including Ruby Red Riding HoodGrannyand Archie Hopper Jiminy Cricket. Back at the pawn shop, Gold is preparing an as-yet-unknown plan involving the potion, when Belle enters to tell him about what Regina had done to her. Gold is shocked to see Belle still alive and overjoyed to have her back. He sets off for the woods to launch his plan and takes her with him. On their way, the curse is broken and Belle regains her memories, declaring her love for Gold. He tells Belle they will have all the time in the world, but now, they must continue with the plan. They walk further and reach the wishing well in the woods. Gold tells Belle that the waters that run beneath it have the power to return what one has lost. He drops the love potion into the wishing well, which causes massive amounts of purple smoke to spew out of the well and spread around them. When Belle asks what is happening, Gold tells her that he is bringing the magic that they had once lost back to their world. When asked why, he tells her that magic is power. The purple smoke spreads quickly and engulfs everything and everyone in town. Regina watches from her mansion and deviously smiles, knowing that she will once again regain her magical powers. The last scene shows Prince Charming and Snow White standing in the street holding each other as the purple smoke engulfs them and the clock tower. The hand of the clock moves to the infamous special time: The finale saw the series post its best numbers ever from the previous outing, scoring a 3. The show won its time slot for the fifth week in Reawakened: A Once Upon a Time Tale row and helped ABC win that night, despite being up against Reawakened: A Once Upon a Time Tale first half of the Survivor: One World finale on CBS which had its lowest-rated outing ever.
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