Backwards. Backwards. We're going at this backwards. Emma thought as they followed the path of the fury. They were back to trudging through the barren nothingness that was The Underworld, simply hoping that the fury would lead them to Hades.
Emma had been going around and around in her head ever since they left that little village. Hades has a collection of souls, she remembered. Somehow it didn't seem to be much of a leap to assume that Captain Hook would find his way onto that list. She worried for him. Yeah, maybe he was out there, but maybe, just maybe, they were already too late.
"We're doing this the wrong way," She finally spoke up. They were making their way through another group of souls, which Emma did not want to think of as a town, as if they were just living out normal lives, and not wasting away in Hell of all places.
The group paused to look over at Emma curiously. "What do you mean?" Robin finally asked her.
"I've been thinking about what Regina said. For the past few days, all we've been trying to do is get to Hades."
"Well," Regina started. "That is the plan if we're ever going to get out of here, or have you forgotten? The king of Hell isn't going to let you just steal one of his precious souls away."
Snow was about to say something about hope, and how their plan to split Emma's heart would work, how it had to, before her daughter unintentionally cut her off. "It's not stealing if it didn't belong to him in the first place," They were silent for a moment, struck by the passionate tone of her voice. She would leave this place with nothing less than Killian Jones by her side. "And that's the point," She exclaimed angrily. "We can't steal what we don't have."
She was right; they all knew she was. They'd been following the fury for a while now, and were nowhere closer to locating Hades. This plan wasn't working anyways. Their first priority had to be finding Killian.
"And how exactly do you plan to find him? At least with the fury, we had something to follow. He's only one person out of an infinity of others."
She didn't want to admit that Regina may be right, but she knew everyone was thinking it. Was this whole journey just one big lost cause?