Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24863788-20141216060128/@comment-24936039-20141217221707

WorldHopper22 wrote: The Queens of Darkness were seen in the woods outside Storybrooke in the promo. But Rumple wasn't with them. So it appears that Cruella and Ursula enter the town, find a way to revive Maleficent, and then find a way to get Rumple inside the town.

That seems quite logical of how the QofD and Rumples get back into Storybook. Also the author's mansion has a portal to Avendale... perhaps it can reach other places or there are other portals as well.

Maybe all Rumples, Ursula and Cruella need to do is get a message to Maleficent (similarly to how August got a message to Neal in NYC Season 2 (Broken)) instructing her to go to the Author's mansion instead and open a portal in a magical enclave in the LWM (I'm thinking Hong Kong where the Dragon resided as a possible location). There are assorted minor villains residing in Storybrooke (Bo-Peep, the near-sighted witch, maybe even Frankenstein, the Hatter or Nurse Severe... ) that would love to get a 'good' deal with the dark one/QofD for getting a message and freeing Maleficent from the tunnels under the library. None would have any love for the Charmings and by now Regina (turned anti-hero and who isn't even 'the Mayor' as part of the second curse).