A Journey
This is the story of how I think season 3 will go, it will show Neal in the Enchanted Forest and also Emma and the gang in Neverland trying to rescue Henry. I will also show what everyone in Storybrooke is up to.
Chapter 1
Aurora and Mulan were walking through the Forest with Phillip, whose body they had managed to reunite with his soul after all that had happened with the wraith.
"I cannot thank you enough Mulan, you looked after Aurora when I could not"
"You do not need to keep thanking me sire"
"But I do"
"Both of you, look, down there, the trees are thinning, I think we've come to the edge of the forest" points out Aurora.
A few paces later and the three of them leave the forest to find themselves on a beach.
"So much time has passed since I was last on a beach"
"I know what you mean, my mother and father used to take my brothers and I to one all the time"
"Oh my god!"
"What is it Mulan?" asks Phillip.
"Look, down the beach, someone's hurt"
The three of them run the man who is lying face down and turn him over - it is Neal and he is unconscious.
"He is bleeding heavily" says Mulan.
"We must get him to camp"
"We cannot Phillip, we must do our best to treat him here, then get him to camp, he is too unwell to moved, I'm going to need water and something to use as bandages".
Mulan gives Aurora her stash of water and Phillip rips off the bottom section of his cloak and gives it to her. Aurora then pours the water over the wound where Neal is bleeding from which clears it all away. It is then that she notices a little cylindrical object in the wound.
"There's an object in here" she informs the others.
"What, you mean there's something in his wound?"
"Yes, I'm gonna get it out"
Aurora pulls out the object and Mulan says "That looks like one of the cylinders inside Emma's weapon".
"Put it in your pocket, I'm just gonna bandage him up and then we can get him to camp"
Twenty minutes later Phillip, who had been carrying Neal lays him against a tree as Mulan lights the fire a few feet away. Then Neal begins to stir and as he does Aurora tells him "Hi there, try not to move to quickly, you're seriously hurt".
Slowly Neal sits up, holding onto his head as if he has a headache and, looking around at the three people sat around him he asks "Who are you?"
"My name's Aurora, this is Phillip and Mulan, we saved you, we found you washed up on the beach, I did my best to patch you up, but you have a whole in your side, and I don't know how to fix that"
"Thank you for trying anyway"
"You're welcome"
Noticing the clothes that his three saviours are wearing Neal then inquires "Where am I?"
"You're in the Enchanted Forest, didn't you know?" Phillip retorts.
"Not really, I'm not from here, well I am and I'm not"
"I do not understand"
"I was born here, in this world I mean, but I've spent most of my life in another"
"Why?"
"Because I was trying to escape my father"
"Why would you want to escape your father?"
"He betrayed me, he sent me through a portal"
"What is your name, if you don't mind me asking?" asks Aurora.
"Of course not, it's Neal, Neal Cassidy"
"That is a strange name"
"It is not the name I was given at birth, I tried to erase that part of my life, so I gave myself a new name"
"I hope you feel that I am not intruding when I ask this, but, what is your birth name?"
"Baelfire, it was Baelfire, though I would prefer it that you call me Neal".
"Then that is what we shall do" comments Phillip.
"I have to get home, I don't suppose you know of a way to conjure a portal do you?"
"No, I'm sorry, where are you from anyways?"
"Storybrooke"
"Then you must know Emma and Snow"
"Yeah I know them, but the question is, how do you?"
"They fell through a portal to this land and me and Aurora helped them to get home"
"Oh, right, ok"
"How are they?" asks Aurora.
"I'm not sure, a great evil has befallen the town, that's why I need to get back, I need to make sure Emma and Henry are safe"
"You know Henry as well! And before you ask I saw him in a room of fire, thanks to me being under a sleeping curse"
"Of course, you're Sleeping Beauty and yes I know Henry, he's my son"
"Really!"
"Yes, now about a portal, do you know of a place where magic beans grow?"
"No, but I know where we can get a bean"
"You do! Take me there"
"After, we get that wound of yours sewn up, we need to get you to a Doctor"
"Fine, lead the way"
They pack up the camp and lead Neal away.
End of Chapter
