"Hey! Are you alright?" The voice echoed in her head and seemed so far. She opened her eyes to nothing but a huge world of blur in front of her. It gave her an excruciating pain to her head.

"Huuuh?" She slurred in a seeming intoxicating voice. Ariel rested her nimble fingers to her forehead and kept her eyelids in a squint until her vision finally cleared.

There before her was a brunette with long damp hair and a warm smile. She never saw this girl before, so it made her confused as to how this girl stumbled upon her. After thinking hard enough about the current situation, all of her memories came tumbling back.

The sound of the ocean behind her and the soft wind against her skin, finally woke her from the sleep induced trance she had been drowning in. Ariel abruptly stood and began to panic just as any normal person would if they awoke in some unknown place.

"How did we get here?" She questioned the brunette frantically and stepped around the young woman to examine her surroundings. Ruby shrugged and scrounged her rosy nose,

"Beats me. It doesn't make sense right? We should've drown if we were knocked at out cold..."

Ariel whipped around and questioned, "We?"

"Yea! I'm Ruby. I was just looking for food when I found you. There's some others nearby. Do you want to meet them?" Ruby pointed behind her provoking Ariel to look over her shoulder. She hardly knew this girl, but she didn't want to be all alone either. Eric is nowhere to be seen...

"Alright, lets move. And your name is..." Ruby questioned with a smug grin. Just the bubbly look in this girl's eyes put Ariel at complete ease.

"I'm Ariel," she held out her hand but Ruby didn't take it. The brunette just squealed out in awe instead,

"Like the little mermaid?! That's so cute!"

"Yeah...to you." Ariel playful scoffed with an eye roll. Ruby chuckled just a little to take in Ariel's features as they naturally were.

"You even have the red hair and the blue eyes—"

"You have blue eyes too!" Ariel defended to put Ruby's mind somewhere else.

"Yea, but." Ruby let out a huge grunt as she climbs over the huge tree that blocked their path, "I'm not named after a disney character or look like one."

Ariel gives Ruby a warm smile. She follows the girls lead with ease and falls gently on her feet once on the other side, "Let me tell you about the group so far... Uhh there's David who has a wife named Mary Margret but she's M.I.A. There's a cold woman he told us about named Regina, she's M.I.A because before we found David and Henry, David told us that Regina went out to find her other son and left Henry with him."

"Oh that must be horrible to lose a child not knowing if he's alive." Ariel frowns. Her heart set out to that woman.

"I know. I wouldn't wish it on anybody..." Ruby agrees, "Then there's my girlfriend Dorothy, my Granny, and some guy who doesn't remember who the hell he is. That must suck."

"Oh definitely."Ariel frantically nods her head, but she couldn't help but feel like it was her Eric. She hopes it's Eric.

Eric is her boyfriend of four years and had been assigned to captain one of the ships as well. She couldn't find him once everything had suddenly happened, so she doesn't even know if he's alive and well or dead. However, she believes in true love and either way, they will always find each other.

"Did you find any food girl?" An older woman questions with a pointed brow. Her eyes are painfully squinted, signaling that she needs glasses to see.

"No Granny, I will go back out, but I found this girl. This is Ariel everyone." Ruby introduces.

"Hi Ariel." They all smile. Ariel gives a shy wave and proceeds to take a seat next to a man who had a little boy sitting in his lap.

"You must be David." She smiles. David held out his hand and gave a charming smile that Ariel became completely comfortable with.

"In the flesh. How are you holding up?" He kindly questions and shifts his eyes back towards the bonfire that sits in the middle of everyone.

"I'm good." Ariel lets out a soft sigh and rubs her fingers together frantically to gain some kind of warmth. She still can't believe that they are stuck on an island. Not to mention, something doesn't feel right about this island.

"But I did find something important Granny." Ruby announces earning attention from everyone.

"If it aint food I don't give a rat's ass Ruby. My stomach is eatin' my stomach dammit!"

"Ohhh Granny." Ruby chuckles. She's used to her granny being this way when hungry; however, it slightly intimidated everyone else.

Ruby steps up behind her granny and dug in her shirt pocket, just above her breast, for a tiny pair of glasses. Slowly and gently she placed them on her Granny's face earning a squeal of delight from the older woman.

"oh my lord! Thank you honey! You were always so good at finding things." Granny smiles and looks up to her granddaughter with pride.

"Any time granny." Ruby chuckles with a smug grin to follow. But her smile fell when Granny's smile fell.

"Now go find some damn food." The woman orders coldly. Ruby rolls her eyes and began to storm off just as a raven haired beauty stood to her feet.

"I'm coming with you this time babe." That's obviously Dorothy...they are so cute together.

Ariel's eyes shifts to the man who was sitting beside Ruby, but he is, oddly, a few feet away from the fire. He doesn't look too good. She leans into David and whispers,

"Is that man okay?" David looks to Ariel in confusion, but then followed her gaze towards the brunet man who had apparently forgotten everything. He woke up with a clean slate and didn't even remember his son...

"That's Henry's father.."David whispers back, "Henry says so but the guy doesn't even remember who he is. His name is Robin."

"Papa sick." The toddler informed with puppy eyes, causing Ariel's heart to swarm so she returns said puppy eyes.

"Oh I know Henry, but I'm sure he'll get better in no time. Isn't that great?" Henry completely ignores that statement and whines,

"Want mama...Mama still not come bawk." The little boy's eyes fills with tears causing Ariel's heart to sting with a little pain now. She feels it deep in her chest and wishes she could help.

"I know that feeling too." David sighs, "You want to help in anyway you can but you can't; it sucks."

"Yea. It really does." Ariel responds with her eyes forever planted on Henry. She ruffles his straight brown hair, that clearly resembles his father's, and slouches deeper into the sand.

"Don't worry Ariel. We will survive this, and I won't stop thinking of ways to safely get off of this island." David reassures her.

"That's very noble of you. I like you David."

Regina held onto her sleeping son close, still cranky from earlier events. The coconut wasn't enough to fill her tummy but it was enough for her to get by. Another thing, besides hunger, that made her angry was the fact that she had to rip of her shirt sleeves to help the women make proper torches. This shirt was Robin's and it was all she had left of him. It's already being torn apart slowly but surely.

She knew that soon, she'd have to probably use it as a diaper for her boys if she couldn't come up with something else. She hoped that Henry didn't have a rash, but just incase, Emma has dozens of Aloe Vera leaves stuffed into her cargo pants.

"Eek!" Mary screams out of fear and stumbles back, nearly knocking Regina over. Venturing in this jungle had to be the most frustrating thing ever.

"Must you always scream at everything you see?!" Regina snaps through gritted teeth.

"I love nature but it's just so dark, I swear I'm seeing creepy eyes lurking everywhere." Regina rolls her eyes and pushes past Mary to catch up to Emma.

"You're one to talk. You ran out of here thinking there were spiders all over you." Emma chuckles.

"There was spiders all over me. Mary is just seeing things and I'll have you know, Ms Swan, that I definitely conquered traveling through this jungle for a woman with an extreme case of OCD and extremely soft feet." Regina mumbles while desperately trying to ignore the pain in her feet from the rough jungle floor.

"Jeeh. Who would've thought?." Emma gasps sarcastically and pushes a huge branch away from her face. Regina holds onto it so it wouldn't smack her in the face, and a very timid Mary does the same.

"Rude." Regina scoffs.

"I am not rude. You walk around here acting like the evil queen so I'm showing you the same respect."

"Maybe I am the evil queen." That causes Emma to stop in her tracks and give Regina the most unamused look she had. The brunette then turns around to face Mary again.

"Here Mary, if you hold Roland it'll help you feel better but please don't drop him. Please." Regina begs. Mary gave a huge smile and held out her free hand. She loved children so much! "See I can be nice."

"Let's see how long that'll last." Emma scoffs. Why is she trying to prove herself to me anyways? It's not like I care.

All three barefoot woman simply kept their eyes to the ground to avoid cutting their feet but took quick glances everywhere else once need be. Emma had to admit that Regina was right about this island. It's huge! How can an island this huge be free of human's? Surely it's in the radar; it had to be. But obviously it wasn't if there was no sign of human life here. Something really didn't feel right.

Just as she began to feel uneasy, the over growth began to rattle and shake beside them. She and Regina both jumped back swiftly out of fear, but Regina tripped over something behind her.

Emma quickly caught the woman before she hit the ground and held her close. "What the hell was that?" Regina choked out.

"I don't know...Mary are you—" Both woman's eyes widened in pure horror. This new discovery was enough for Regina to finally pull away from Emma, even though she didn't want to. The two spun around, looking every which way. Mary and Roland is gone.

"No no no no!" Regina panicked. She stressfully ran her fingers through her long hair and attempted to steady her breath. "I swear they were just behind me!"

"We have to find them." Emma pointed out and began walking back towards the way they came, but Regina stopped them.

"How the hell are we going to find them Emma? Hmm? Its fucking pitch black and the jungle runs for miles." Emma slouches in defeat, accepting Regina's quips for what they were because she was right. She seems to always be right.

Without thinking, Emma cupped Regina's cheek. Just to reassure the panicked woman, nothing more. It pleased her to know that Regina calmed down the moment her fingers met Regina's soft flesh.

"W-what are you doing?" Regina managed to choke out. Emma shrugged and dropped her hand back to her side.

"I don't know, I just—" the torch blew out. This time, Regina gladly cowered into Emma's embrace.

"Now I'm fucking scared." Emma mumbles and drops the stick.

"We are going to die here!" Regina screamed out in fear. Emma gulped down her bile. She had no choice but to gently pry Regina away from my body.

"Okay listen Regina, we have to be brave. Just take my hand and we'll carefully get out of here alright?" Regina frantically nodded her head and locked her fingers with Emma's.

She ran and ran and ran without a second thought. There wasn't a clarity of when, but Mary had been separated from her friends and her torch blew out right after.

She saw eyes. They were definitely red eyes staring back at her. There was no way in hell that she was hallucinating about it. So, she held Roland extra close and ran like her life depended on it because it did.

Finally, she came to the edge of the jungle. It didn't matter how long it took, but she made it. The sky went from dark to a deep purple and a little of pink to show that the sun was coming back to save the day.

With heavy breathes Mary Margret fell right down on her butt to try and catch her breath from the constantly running. Roland, still laying fast asleep, held onto her tight.

"Okay...now to find others I guess?" She said aloud to herself.

So, Mary walked. It was definitely what she wanted to avoid: walking around the perimeter of this huge island, but she had no choice in the matter anymore. There was no way that she would ever go back in that forest without her hero by her side: Her husband.

"Mama..." a small voice mumbled against her chest. Mary stopped walking to check on Roland for a quick moment. The toddler began to stir and rub on his eyes to wipe away the sleepy haze from them. "Mama?"

"I'm not your mama honey. It's me, Mary." With furrowed eyebrows, Roland took his surroundings and slid out of Mary Margret's arms.

"Mama!" He whimpered.

"No no! Shhhh! We'll find mama I promise okay?" Mary reassures. She rests her hand on Roland's shoulder, looking him dead in the eye, thankfully earning his adorable dimply smile.

"Otay." He agrees.

"Now let's continue to—"

"Who are you and why do you have my nephew?!" A woman snaps causing Mary to stumble back. She had never been so confused in her life.

"Regina?" She questioned... Nephew? What?!

The woman, that looked exactly like Regina relaxed. Her scowl turned into a look of guilt and she stepped back from Mary's personal space.

"Auntie Roni!" Roland squealed. He waddled right into Roni's opened arms and held on tight.

"I'm so confused." Mary mumbled.

"Don't worry hun. I'm Veronica, but most people call me Roni." Mary liked this Roni. She was definitely way nicer than Regina was. But then again, she hardly knew Regina and maybe she was secretly nice too.

"I'm Mary and I'm going to assume that Regina has a twin sister that she didn't mention?" Roni nodded and rolled her eyes. "I wouldn't blame her though, she had lost Roland and spent hours looking for him."

"That definitely sounds like Reg. Where is she?" Mary hated the dose of guilt that injected into her heart.

"Honestly, I'm not sure. We were crossing through the jungle and Roland and I were separated from her."

"She's in there?! All alone?!" Roni panicked. She'd definitely go in there if she had to.

"No no! Emma, is with her I'm sure. And besides, Regina traveled across there by herself. That's how we met."

"She did?!" Roni gasped in shock. Never would she ever think that Regina would risk getting her hands dirty. Mary nodded her head to confirm her accusation and began to nervously rock back on forth on her feet.

"Well...I'll take you back to the rest of my family and then I'll go search for her." Roni informed.

"Sounds like a plan." Mary smiled smiled. She let Roni lead the way back towards where her group had been staying.