Chapter 19: These Tortuous Waters
A magic portal comes to life as the three occupants who were traveling through the portal have all landed into the waters, where a sandy beach is seen. Henry falls on the sand, looking wet, with his hands tied by a cable tie. He looks back and then tries to get up and make a run for it, but Greg grabs a hold of him and tells him to slow down, and that he has nowhere to go. He lets go off Henry again, and we see that he and Tamara are also wet, having just come out of the watery vortex. Greg removes his backpack and Tamara, amused, says, "We made it. Mission accomplished." Henry responds with, "Are you sure about that? Cause my moms' coming to get me." Greg tells him that he might wanna look around, and Tamara does just this herself. Greg asks the young man if he sees any clock towers, and then says that he is a long way from home. Henry retorts that it doesn't matter because his family has been to the Enchanted Forest before and they can get there again. They are interrupted by strange sounds coming from the woods that surround the beach, and Tamara explains to Henry that they are not in the Enchanted Forest, but rather in Neverland. Henry quickly jumps to the conclusion that they are there to destroy Neverland, and Tamara confirms this, by saying that Neverland is the mother lode of magic and that they have hit the jackpot. She then tells her lover that she needs to signal the Home Office, and Greg hands her a device from his backpack. Henry, confused about the Home Office being set in the jungle, asks them who works there. Greg puts his backpack on again and tells the kid that it's not of his concern to know who they work for. "Just know that they take care of us," Henry asks if they do and whether they have told the pair how to get back home after they destroy magic. It wasn't shortly later that to greet their home office has had been made into a ploy as the object to detect wasn't shown to be working. Then the noises kept on coming closer and closer when it has been decided that the adults that running is the best option as they along with Henry heads toward the forest.
As the Jolly Roger, heads towards the island of Neverland, a close-up shot of the ship's steering wheel spinning is seen. It is stopped when Killian Jones rests one of its handles on his hook, and Regina, who had been looking overboard at the waters, turns her attention to him and asks why he's slowing down the ship, reminding him that her son's life is in danger. "Oh, I know, my hot-headed Queen," he tells her, then explaining that he plans to bring them to the far side of the island, link up with the widest part of the river, sail quietly through and take the inhabitants by surprise. Hook then comments on the irony, and she asks him what he means, to which he replies that he's spent more time than he cares to remember trying to leave that place so that he could kill Rumpelstiltskin, and now there he is, sailing right back into its heart with Rumple as his guest of honor. "It's not quite what I was hoping for," he says. Regina then recounts that Greg Mendell told her something funny: that she's a villain, and villains don't get happy endings. Regina asks the captain if he believes that.
Killian Jones gives a thought to what Regina is saying however it doesn't matter anymore, whether she knows it or not about who he is. He wasn't quite the same person the last time he was with Regina which was back in the Enchanted Forest working for her before he met Cora for a better deal. Before Storybrooke that is, and they exactly hadn't come into terms with what he'd done. "It doesn't matter really." He says looking over the ocean into the horizon knowing his children are on that island.
"I didn't expect that answer, Hook," Regina says almost snarly. "It sounds like you don't care about your ending because you've already found it." Regina then says only quietly, knowing with keeping her voice low nobody would hear with what she is saying, besides it's Hook she wanted him to hear of what she says. As she said this, she knows she had struck the man already and so she proceeds. "You've found it with Ms. Swan." She then pauses for a moment, only for a minute.
"What do you know?" Killian Jones asks, almost worried.
"Everything."
"Which means exactly what your majesty?" he coldly asks bringing the pirate Captain Hook into play. His protective side almost showing, almost.
"I know that you are married to her, had a life with her once upon a time in the Enchanted Forest. You two have a daughter named Felicity and that you hate the Dark One because he changed your life." She says first, getting through the facts out of hand before telling her thoughts out loud. "Though I am curious to know who my son's father is." She casually said. "Are you Henry's father?"
" I am." Killian Jones confidently says.
"At least I know now that when Henry visited with you, he was in good hands," Regina said with relief in her voice knowing that her son was fine. She was mad when she heard from Mary Margaret about Henry visiting Captain Hook alone.
"To what should I call you by?"
"Regina will suffice. "She said ready to leave the Captain alone.
However, he had things on his mind. "Regina thanks for taking care of Henry when Emma and I can't. And to answer your question, it's possible to have a happy ending. When I met Emma, I was young that I wasn't a pirate captain yet and when I did become one, she was always beside my side. It's good to have someone by your side Regina, it doesn't hurt to at least try."
Regina was very shocked in the least with what he said. Although she wasn't expected with what the Captain Guyliner said, she wasn't expected that Captain Guyliner could give her advice nonetheless as thanking her for taking care of his son. She then left the Captain by himself, as she contemplated the words he said were now in her head.
Below them, on the waist of the deck, Emma is staring blankly into the distance, looking pensive. Her parents approach her with concern, and Mary Margaret tells her "Hey", but gets no reply. Emma turns to her and says, "I blame you. All this happened because I listened to you. Do you say good always wins? It doesn't. I didn't grow up in some fairytale land. My experience is different. That's all I can go on." Mary Margaret rebuts that all they have to go on is their experience, and she just wants to share their wisdom with her, but Emma, interrupting her, says that she appreciates them trying to be parents, but they are the same age and have equal amounts of wisdom. And all Emma wants is Henry back. She starts to say that she should have never broken the curse, she should have just taken Henry, and Mary Margaret tells her that she's right, then they would be together. She then tells her child, however, that they missed her growing up, and it haunts them every day. David finally jumps in, saying that that's why they are there now, because they don't want her to have to go through the same thing too, and she won't, he reassures her, because they are going to get their family back. Emma, aggravated, turns to him and asks how they can be so infuriatingly optimistic. Mary Margaret doesn't know how to reply, and David tells his daughter that that's who they are. Emma asks why, because ever since they got their memories back and remembered that they are Snow White and Prince Charming, their lives have sucked. David denies this because they found her, and Emma points out that they lost Henry and countless other people. Mary Margaret, calmly, tells her daughter, "Emma, the minute I let go of the belief that things will get better is the minute I know they won't." David grabs her shoulder, and she tells Emma that they will find Henry.
"No, you won't," they are told by a voice coming from behind them, piquing everyone's interest when the Dark One looks towards everyone on the ship. They turn their attention to the quarter-deck, where Mr. Gold has emerged, wearing a different outfit. Hook sarcastically comments that a wardrobe change is a great use of their time. Emma grabs a lantern to get a better look, and Gold says that he is going to get Henry. Regina tells him that they agreed to do this together, and Gold points out that they never made such an agreement. Emma asks why he's doing this, and Gold immediately responds that he wants to succeed. She wonders what makes him think she's going to fail, and he promptly replies that she couldn't possibly win, because she doesn't believe in her parents although she does believe in herself and her magic, it's still not enough. "With what I've been through I can believe," Emma says, and Gold points out even though she does believe he wonders if she ever took a leap of faith, the kind with absolutely no proof. Emma doesn't reply. Gold tells her that he's known her some time, and even with everything she's been through, she's still just a bail bonds person, looking for evidence. "Well dearie that's not gonna work in Neverland," he says. Emma tells him she'll do whatever it takes, and Gold says that she just needs someone to tell her what she needs to do, but their foe is too fearsome for the two of them to hold hands. "Neverland is a place where imagination runs wild. And sadly... yours doesn't." This said, he starts spinning his walking stick on the floor of the deck, and when it finally hits the boards, they all can see that he is no longer on the ship. The gang exchange looks, slightly intimidated.
In the woods of the island, Greg is seen lighting a fire in an impromptu fireplace he made of rocks and sticks. He lights it up with matches, while Tamara looks impatient. Henry asks them if they are making s' mores, and Greg, also looking impatient, denies this, and tells Henry that he is building a signal. He tells Tamara to help him gather some dry leaves, for they need to let the Home Office know that they're there, but his partner asks what about if that's not enough, and what if the empty communicator wasn't an accident. Greg tells her not to let the kid get in her head, and their attention is then caught by the sounds of footsteps approaching them. They turn to see Felix and the other Lost Boys coming out from the wilderness. Greg asks them who they are, and Felix, in a mocking tone, tells them that they're the Home Office, and welcomes them to Neverland. Greg looks back at his lover, who says, "The Home Office... is a bunch of teenagers?" Henry tells his captors that they are not teenagers, but rather the Lost Boys. Felix says, "Look at that...", interested in Henry. Henry asks them why they would want to destroy magic, and Felix says, "Who said we wanna destroy magic?" Greg walks up closer to him and says that that was their mission, to which the leader of the group responds that he was only told so. Felix then tells them to hand the boy over, but Tamara positions herself in front of Henry and says they won't be getting the boy until they tell them what the plan is for magic, for getting home. Felix sneers and makes it clear to them that they are not getting home. Greg affirms that they are not getting the boy then. Felix looks down, smirking, and then looks back at him and says, "Of course we are." Greg looks somewhat intimidated, and then his attention is caught by a strange sound coming from above. He looks up and witnesses the shadow descending upon him. The shadow swoops in and rips Greg's own shadow from his body, and he screams in agony. The fire in the fireplace burns brighter, and Tamara is shocked. Greg's body falls to the ground, and Tamara turns to Henry and shouts at him to run. He does so, and Felix tells his mates to get the boy. Henry manages to outrun them, going into the woods, and as Tamara tries to run for her life as well, one of the Lost Boys hits her with an arrow and she goes down as well. Felix looks around, and the gang then leaves to go and look for Henry, leaving in their trail the bodies of the young man's original captors.
The Lost Boys are seen chasing after Henry through the woods of the island, but the young man manages to elude them, whilst running with his hands still tied. Eventually, he accidentally trips and falls to the ground, and when he does a hand reaches out to grab him and pulls him into the bushes. The Lost Boys make it by them without noticing the two boys in on the other side of the plants, and the boy who rescued Henry removes the hood from around his head. Henry thanks him, and the boy tells him that Pan and his troupe are in tune with every grain of sand on the island, so they must be careful. Henry asks him if he's a Lost Boy, and the boy, whilst cutting off the cable tie around Henry's hands, explains that he was, but he escaped, and now they're after him too. Henry asks what happened, and the boy tells him that there is no time for questions, they must keep moving. This said, he urges Henry to come with him.
Inside the hold of the Jolly Roger, Emma is seen doing pull-ups by grabbing onto a horizontal pole around which some rope is tied. She rests for a while, resting her feet on the bench below her. Killian comes from behind her, asking her "what you are doing, love?".
Emma looks at him and says "you should know by now Killian that it's good to prepare myself for what I'm getting into. Especially to a place that I've never been to before."
"True." He says as he walks towards a cabinet that's full of weaponry. He takes a weapon out and shows it to Emma. As Emma looked at it she remembers the weapon as it is hers, with her initials on the top of the weapon which was a dagger and a set that matches it with a sword, a scabbard as he takes it giving it back to who it truly belongs to with a smile as he then sees Emma putting the belt on and putting the familiar weight of weapons onto herself. He looks at her, well really staring at his wife, as she finished putting the weapons on. Looking at her again like this he automatically says, "I never thought I'll see you dressed like this again. You're looking bloody stunning love."
Emma blushes as he complimented her. She then pulls herself towards him engaging a kiss. The kiss was full of passion and only lasted for a couple of seconds. As Killian senses about what's going to go on next, he hands her a small sipping cup and uses his teeth to pull out the cork from a liquor bottle, pouring a drink for them both afterward. "So, what are we going to do now?" Emma asked.
"When we land, we will find our children, Felicity and Henry." Killian says as he makes a pause before continuing, "are we going to tell your parents about us?" He then asked getting straight to the point, unsure of exactly when they're going to tell them.
"I don't know," Emma says not knowing what to do as she pauses thinking out loud her thoughts to her husband. "Truthfully Killian, my mind is set on finding Felicity and Henry. I don't even know if any time will be the right time. They haven't asked about you yet when Mary Margaret was talking to me earlier. That reminds me what was Regina harboring about when she was talking to you while I was talking to Mary Margaret."
"She knows everything about us, love. She knows that we're married, had a life together in the past, including Felicity and knowing that I'm Henry's father. Other then, that she asked if it was possible if she can get a happy ending and gave her advice. It seems that we have an understanding."
"That's good to know, is there anything else I should know about?" Emma asked.
"You should know love, that I've thanked her for taking care of our lad, Henry when we couldn't." She nodded her head then he talked a little bit more of Neverland as he has been there before and gives his wife some advice as well, telling her more information about the the island as he knows more now than in the past before he was made into Captain Hook.
As they've talked, the ship suddenly rocked leaving them startled as to what's going on with the ship. They then went up and rushed upstairs with Emma behind him. David and Mary Margaret are shown to be struggling with the steering wheel of the ship as they sail through stormy waters, whilst being attacked by something. Regina asks them what they are doing and is told that they are trying to keep it steady. Killian joins them and tells them to prepare for an attack. Regina tells him to be more specific, and he tells her that if she's got a weapon, she should grab it. Emma comes up from out of the hatch and closes it, and asks what is down there in the waters: "A shark? A whale?" David joins in and asks, "A Kraken?" Hook tells them, "Worse", and the rest of the gang look overboard and are surprised to witness pretty women looking at them from below the surface, and swimming around with colored fishtails attached to their torsos. Hook finishes his line, saying "Mermaids!" The school of mermaids is then seen swimming towards the ship and flapping their fins above the surface, as they screech.
"Mermaids! You got to be kidding me!" Emma screams as she looks at the half-fish, half-women creatures attacking the Jolly Roger from below. The sirens' tails glisten in the sea as they swim around and towards the ship, and the storm grows denser. Hook tells his new crew that mermaids are quite unpleasant, to which Regina replies, "You think?" The mermaids hit the ship with their fins, and Emma wonders how many of them there are. David, bemused, says that he will not be capsized by fish, and heads towards the cannon. He loads it up with gunpowder and chains, and Mary Margaret calls for her daughter's help with the fishing net, while Hook tries to maintain control of the steering wheel. David lights up the cannon's fuse and aims it at the school of mermaids. The cannon blasts and hits one of them, who shrieks in pain, and Snow and Emma throw the net overboard. David loads up the cannon again and fires another blast into the sea. A mermaid is then caught in the fishing net. Mary Margaret says they caught one, and Regina, unimpressed, says "One? There are dozens of them." Emma and Mary Margaret pull the net up, David fires another blast, and Regina, having had enough, conjures up a fireball in her hand and throws it at the sea. The fire hits the waters and spreads, and she hurls the second ball of fire afterward, and a third one soon follows, effectively scaring the mermaids away. Their glistening tails are seen distancing themselves from the ship, and Regina says, "There. They're gone." Snow points out that not all of them are gone, reminding her of the mermaid they caught and are trying to bring on board. With a tiny hand gesture, Regina magically brings the net and its captive mermaid onto the deck. The mermaid starts flapping about like a fish out of water, looking frightened.
As the Jolly Roger continues to sail through these traitorous waters of Neverland, the mermaid stills find herself on the deck of the ship, against her will, lying on the net that imprisoned her. Hook, at the wheel, commands that they get the mermaid off his ship, but Regina rejects this because now they have a hostage. David points out that - despite hating it - he's with Hook, for those things just tried to kill them. Regina says that they should perhaps find out why, and Mary Margaret asks, "How, by torturing her?" Regina says maybe, if it is necessary, and the mermaid reaches for a conch shell that was brought in with her and blows on it, causing a deafening sound. The crew covers their eyes, and Emma then asks the mermaid what that was, to which she replies that it was a warning - either they let her go, or they die.
David picks up the shell and asks the mermaid what it is, and what she's done. The mermaid looks at him seductively and begs him to let her go, and Regina tells her they won't until she tells them, or they will make her tell them. Mary Margaret says that threatening the mermaid isn't the way to motivate her, and Regina snidely says that she's all out of fish food. Hook brings up that it doesn't matter if they get her to talk because they can't trust her, mermaids are liars. Emma says, "Of course they are." Snow says that maybe the mermaids are just scared of Pan, and if they let her go the school will be on their side. Regina counter-argues that maybe the mermaid and her friends will just come right back to kill them. The mermaid says that she doesn't need her friends to kill them, they'll kill themselves. Emma is confused. She orders them to let her go, and lightning rips through the sky as the storm surrounding them gets stronger. They are all startled, and Hook says that she called the storm, and tells them not to let her go because she'll swim off and leave them all to die, and at least with her they've got leverage. David picks up a sword and points it at her neck, ordering her to call off the storm, and then they'll let her go. The mermaid, not the least bit intimidated, gives him a provocative look. Annoyed, Charming moves behind her and wrings her neck. Regina, amused, tells him to filet the bitch.
The mermaid starts choking, but David looks at his wife and daughter, who are horrified by his behavior, and lets her go, commenting that they're not barbarians. The stormy waters and winds continue to rattle the ship, and Regina comments that what they are going to be is dead. Hook reassures them that he can turn it around, for he's outrun many storms, but Regina tells the mermaid that either she makes it stop or she dies. Mary Margaret says, with conviction, that they are not killers, but the mermaid herself rejects this, saying that they are and that they brought this death upon themselves. Snow says that therefore they should free her, and Regina retorts that that feel-good nonsense might work in the Enchanted Forest, but this is Neverland. The ship is rattled again as the storm grows more intense, and David shouts at Hook to keep his grip. He says it wasn't him, but rather the ship. Hook leaves the steering wheel to check the deck and says that the ship is taking in water. Regina asks if she may resume killing the mermaid now, to be given a "No!" by both Charmings. Snow tells her that if she kills the mermaid, her kind will have a personal vendetta against them. Hook tells them that the Queen is right, they've already tried to kill them anyway. Emma shouts at them all to stop because they need to think this through. Regina, bemused, looks at the titillated mermaid and says that she already has. This said, she waves her hand and magically transforms the mermaid into a wooden statue of herself. Regina says that that should stop the storm, but quite the opposite happens. Emma says, "Regina!... What did you do?!", as they all look up to witness a giant wave coming their way. They all hang on for their dear safety as the waters fall upon them.
Emma and Hook try to control the steering wheel of the ship as the storm continues to befall them, stronger than ever. Emma reminds Hook that he said he could outrun a storm, to which he replies that this isn't a storm, but "bloody damnation". "Regardless of what's going on love, this is bringing up good memories," Killian said. Then Emma looks at him for only a second as she's still helping him to control the steering wheel. "Not the time for flashbacks, Killian!" Then the waters keep on falling out proving out Emma's point.
Mary Margaret turns to Regina and asks her why she did this, and the Mayor is outraged that Snow is blaming her. Snow reminds her that she turned the mermaid into the wood, and Regina brushes this off by saying that she at least did something, which is more than Snow can say for herself. The princess orders her to undo the spell and bring back the mermaid, and Regina sarcastically asks her if she plans on winning the siren over with her "rainbow kisses and unicorn stickers". Mary Margaret points out that, since the witch's plan failed, at least they can try. Regina calls her a naive princess, and Snow tries to come up with a comeback response, but instead, she just punches Regina in the face, sending her to the deck. As she does so, the storm hits a peak. Regina recuperates quickly and asks her long-time nemesis if that is her best, to which Snow says it's not even close. A strike of lightning hits the ropes of the mast. Snow says she is tired of Regina ruining her life. "I ruined your life?!" Regina says, angrily, and David tries to make a run for them, but Regina punches his wife in the face as retaliation and another ray of lightning comes close to the ship. David is stopped on his track by Hook, who grabs him and tells him to let them go for he needs him at the mast. David, annoyed, tells Hook not to let his wife go as she is fighting with Regina which his wife needs help, then pointedly adds in due from his anger to not go after Emma and elbows him in the gut, before turning around and punching him in the face, leaving Emma as the sole controller of the wheel. She orders them to stop, but the crew, paired up, continue fighting, as the storm grows more and more intense. Lightning splits the cloudy skies and Emma is horrified by it all. As David almost slices the pirate's throat with his hook, Emma realizes that the mermaid isn't causing this, but rather themselves. She tries to get them to listen to her as she says that if they don't stop fighting, they're all going to die because they're causing the storm. She leaves the steering wheel and heads for the border of the ship, holding on to the ropes, and calling out for their attention, to no avail, as the disputing pairs keep fighting. Frustrated, Emma does the only thing she can think of: she turns around - and her husband finally notices her - and then she dives into the waters.
"Emma!" shouted Killian then after that the rest of the crew rush to the border of the ship to try and locate her in the sea. Another wave of shouts came from the Charmings as they figured out as well that Emma is no longer on the ship and has fallen into the waters intentionally. A sheave is dislodged from the ropes of the ship and falls to the sea as well, hitting Emma in the head and knocking her unconscious.
Emma is seen submerged in the waters, unconscious, and Regina, back on the ship, calls her an idiot. Mary Margaret begs Regina to bring her back onto the boat, but the Mayor claims that she can't do so in this storm, she can't see Emma, so she'd just end up bringing a lot of water in and half her leg. David gets ready to jump overboard and Hook tells him to wait; David tells his daughter will drown, and the pirate responds that so will he, and offers help. He grabs some rope and hands it to Snow, telling her to tie up her husband. With the rope around his waist, David dives into the ocean, while the rest of the crew members hold on to the rope. He swims around looking for his daughter and is eventually able to locate and grab her. With Emma in tow, he swims back up to the surface, and Hook tells the ladies to pull. The pirate then hooks the rope to a sheave and pulls them up. David can grab on to the border and soon enough both are back on deck. Emma is laid down on the floor by her parents, and everyone looks upon her with concern. Mary Margaret looks a bit hopeless for a short while as her daughter feels so cold to her touch, but Emma quickly regains consciousness and spits out seawater. Hook is relieved and Emma's parents are delighted. The blonde then looks up to the sky and notices the clouds disappearing, giving place to the full moon.
The Jolly Roger crew makes it to the same sandy beach where Henry arrived earlier with his captors, having gotten there in a rowboat apparently, and Regina tells her companions that they don't have to do things this way because her magic is powerful enough so that she may fix the ship and that they may execute Hook's plans. Emma tells her not to be naive and to save her magic because Pan already knows they're there. She says Gold was right, that land runs on belief and they were all too busy being at each other's throats to be believers, and she confesses she was as wrong as everyone else, and it's time for all of them to believe, not in magic, but each other. Regina asks if she wants them all to be friends, after everything that's happened between them, and Emma says she doesn't want or expect that, for she knows there is a lot of history and a lot of hate there. Hook jumps in and says that he quite fancies Emma from time to time when she's not yelling at him. Emma rolled her eyes at him as if she was teasing back at him with a hint of a thin smile, saying that they don't need to be friends, what they need to know is the only way to get Henry back is through cooperation. "With her? With him?" David says, bemused, before telling Emma that they must do this the right way. His daughter says that they don't, they just need to succeed, and the way they do that is by just being who they are, be it a hero, a villain, a pirate, and it doesn't matter which because they are going to need all those skills, whether they can stomach them or not. Regina then asks Emma what her skill is, addressing her as "savior". Emma turns to her and says, "I'm a mother. And now I'm also your leader. So, either help me get my son back or get out of the way." Emma turns around and starts walking away, and her parents follow her, proudly. Hook, amused, follows them as well, and so does Regina, who doesn't look as pleased. As they make their way into the woods surrounding the beach, they fail to notice the two creatures flying above them, in the nightly sky, surrounded by a magical green light.
When Rumpelstiltskin left, he appeared in a clearing in the woods of the island, and sits down on a rock, before saying, "Come out and say hello, dearie." This said, Felix, the spokesperson of the Lost Boys, makes himself appear and obliges, saying, "Hello, Rumpelstiltskin." The Dark One makes a sarcastic gesture, and Felix, stepping closer to him, lets him know that Pan welcomes him to the island, and wanted Felix to tell him he's excited to see Rumple again. Rumple, also sarcastically, says that he's sure Pan is. Felix then adds that Pan wanted Rumple to know he's welcome in Neverland, for as long as he wishes to stay... with one caveat. Rumple points out that there's always something with him. Felix explains that if he is there for the boy, then that makes him Pan's enemy. Rumple claims that nothing's changed then. Felix warns him that if he goes against Pan, he will not survive. Rumple, slightly amused, says that the question isn't whether he'll survive, but rather, and this he claims as he gets up from the rock and walks over to Felix, grabbing him, how many of them he takes with him. Felix, not intimidated, asks the Dark One if that's his answer, and the latter confirms it. Felix then says that means he'll see Rumple again, in less friendly circumstances. Rumple tells him to count on it and lets him go, before walking past him. Felix, however, tells him there is one last thing. Rumple looks relatively annoyed. Felix points out that Pan wanted him to have something and throws a straw doll at the ground by Gold's feet. The beats look caught off-guard. He crouches down and picks up the doll and admires it with sadness in his eyes. Felix crouches down in front of him as well, supporting himself with his staff, and says, "Isn't it funny?", as Rumple looks at him with teary eyes, "The things we haven't thought about in years... still can make us cry." He then gets up, puts the staff back over his shoulder and says, "See you around, Dark One." He leaves, and Gold is left behind, kneeling on the ground, crying over the straw doll.
As Henry and the boy ran further away from the lost boys, they've stopped for a short break. They learned a little bit about each other of how there were in this predicament. While Henry had hope, the boy was pessimistic. Then they ran again as the hear the footfalls coming near them with the boy leading them both. As they both ran through the forest Henry trips and falls again though he recovers quickly and realizes that the destination they were heading to had to be stopped as the lost boys are closer to them, so the boy leads to them again with a new destination in mind. They kept on running until they are held back as they approached a cliff and stopped, the boy gave his vial of pixie dust to Henry reminding him it doesn't work. However, it was soon proved wrong when Henry used the pixie dust as they ran and jumped the cliff and were soon to be flying away from the lost boys as they saw them now flying.
When they landed at the Echo Caves the boy properly introduces himself as Peter Pan and then apologizes to Henry for lying to him. Henry then recounts that Pan told Greg and Tamara that magic was bad and that he'd help them destroy it, and asks why. Pan, titillated, says that he needed the duo's help, and it is much easier to get people to hate something than to believe. Henry asks why Pan brought him there, and the villain starts walking around the young man and explains that he's been seeking something important for quite some time, something more elusive than the greatest of all mysteries: the heart of the truest believer. Pan then adds that when Henry took that pixie dust and jumped off the cliff - Pan knocks on the base of a tree next to him three times -, he proved himself: he's the lucky owner of that very special heart, and now he and his heart are Pan's. Pan unsheathes his dagger, raises it to the air and calls for his Lost Boys, who all show up, coming from the woods, and gather around Henry along with their leader. Pan, entertained, then says, "Let's play!"