Prologue

A/N: As a heads up I'm currently not working on this story until I finish with my other story, The Rightful Heir. I don't know how long it will take until I finished The Rightful Heir and when I'll be working or posting this story.

He was right was the only thing that was going on in Killian Jones' head. He was right about Dreamshade, the plant that would cure all ailments was a poison. A lethal poison that killed his only brother, his only living family member alive. He was alone. However, he cannot think that for he is not alone, not truly. His beautiful wife Emma is pregnant with their unborn child. Before the trip began, he told Liam about the news that Emma is pregnant and that he was overjoyed, full of pride. Now in front of him Liam is dead as they just landed back on the waters of the Enchanted Forest from that realm of Neverland. Damn that realm. Damn the king that he serves for.

A few minutes came by and no less than thirty minutes later, his brother Liam was tossed to the sea like a true Captain would in the short ceremonious sea burial where any sailor who died would be sent to. The watery depths of the ocean, for all they live for is in their blood. The blood of the sea in them, that bequeaths their souls. He closes his eyes once he saw his brother collapsed once they've landed as the memory surface.

Liam collapses down as he and his crew reached to their realm on the crashing sound of the waves of the ocean. Killian seeing this kneels to him as Liam is shakily breathing in heaps. "Killian, my brother…I am…proud of you…take care of your…. family… I love you my…little brother. Take care." Then he closes his eyes with his breathing no longer shaking, his chest no longer heaving, then Killian's voice is in the background of the room. He is in shock. He doesn't want to believe that his only brother, the only one who was family, is gone. He felt alone. But then he said to take care of his family, he's not alone. He has Emma and their little bundle of joy that will coming in over a couple of months' times. With that, he formulates a plan, with what is now his life. He's captain of the Jewel of the Realm now, he can make changes whether out in time it would be for the good or will it be for the worse.

The image stayed there in his mind, replaying that scene repeatedly. It was that that fueled his anger towards his king. He lied and it cost him his brother. NO! he instilled to himself. He was a man not to be followed and it was high time that the king would serve out justice. And he knows how to do that as everyone looks at him as he's no longer the lieutenant but their captain. They deserve to know the truth about their king, what kind of man he truly is. How they don't deserve to follow him anymore. From that moment onwards, come hell and high water, they would be pirates.

Soon some hats were thrown over the ship as the crewman agreed with their new captain that all of them out of loyalty were no longer the navy men but pirates. Then Killian as his second act of being captain took the helm and steered the ship to a nearby port. There he gotten rid of his pristine clothes to leather garbs and had his hair cut. There at that port everything about him changed as he thinks about what would his and his love's life would be now? He needs to think and plan as he knows that he needs to get his wife safe if the King that he'd served with knew what the plant really does. With that, Liam becomes the forefront of his head, replaying the scene where he died.

Once Liam was tossed in from head to toe in the watery depth of the oceans, there was a pull that was supposed to let him drown in the sea however the pull was different as it pulled back to another realm.

There waiting at the beach stood a teenaged boy that was fourteen years old, he stared at the waters as the body then came towards the sand. He was amused seeing the body that was still was now frantically moving, trying to get out of the sailcloth wrapped around with ropes. The boy cuts the ropes off as the figure of a man frantically gets the sailcloth off his body. Once he does a couple of seconds later, he is panting. Taking quick short breaths as he comes back alive.

Once he was freed and is now breathing normally now, he looks around to where he's at. "Bloody hell," he says angrily knowing where he's at. Neverland. The accursed island that got him killed from its plant. He doesn't deserve this he realizes, he should've stayed dead, that would've been better comfort now more than anything else. Instead, he was brought back alive. Who in the hell would want to bring him back? he knows it wouldn't be his brother.

Oh, gods Killian. He will never know that he was brought back to life. Oh god, how is Killian going through his supposed death. What will he do? He prays that he stays true to that straight and narrow road. He hopes that he didn't avert his ways because he has this feeling that he did something that he wouldn't approve of. That his brother did something drastic. Then he hears a cough.

"You!" he says turning around seeing the familiar boy, "what in the bloody damnation would you bring me back?!" he angrily snapped.

"I've realized something," the boy says looking happily with a grim, "I needed someone to do things outside of Neverland."

"Are you telling me I'll be your errand-boy, a gofer?!" Liam angrily enunciated.

A calm stoic Peter Pan then answered him with a yes, then mentions, "Looks like you should've listened to your brother." He then gave a malevolent smirk.

Then Liam begrudgingly accepted his new reality, working for the devil. This is what he gets for getting poisoned from that calamitous plant. "I rather be dead then being your puppet, you devil." He admitted. It was true as he rather be anything then serving a young teen with a disastrous mind. He may have done an unforgivable act in the past once. He felt regret and sorry with what he had done. However, he was selfish and wanted the jewel of the Eye of the Storm badly, so that he and his brother would earn a decent life. With the jewel it would solve all their life's problems and reputations that his father has wrought to him and Killian. The jewel was bringing a clean slate, a new beginning, a chance to do something good with their lives, it was their future. So, when he took over Captain Silver's ship and was turning it around, he found himself making a deal he made with Hades, he tried so hard resisting to not adhere to Hades' plan, but the jewel was just a hand's grasp away. Instead, he adhered to his plans on the condition that he and his brother survive. Hades deemed the deal and was gone. Instantly once the Jewel was in his hands, he instantly regretted of what an unforgivable act that he had done. Everybody on the ship was going to die, except him and Killian, he basically signed their lives away like it was on a slip of paper. He felt like he murdered them. In a way he did. But it was for the greater good for him and Killian. They need something good with their lives. They have struggled for too long and it was high time they deserve something good.

After his thoughts were finished with many curses later, he was following Peter Pan. Not knowing what will come up next. What will happen to his future? Was this a cruel work of fate or is it something bigger like destiny?

Many Years Later

Captain Killian Jones along with his wife Emma and their sixteen-year-old daughter Felicity were docked at port, they all had a good time in the early morning to which Emma and Felicity both relented to a no and due to Killian's insistence, that they spend time together as a family, Emma and Felicity woke up early to spend their time together. For a couple of hours everything was good, and Emma was happy, she didn't know if this was the best time to tell them, but she thought maybe she could do it tonight.

"I've got to tell you something tonight. It's definitely good news." Emma said while Killian and Felicity were looking until night comes. Then a minute later, a man with crocodile features with a creepy giggle of laughter was relived was brought to their attention. When the Jones family caught his attention, he transported himself and the family away.

"Who are you, you bloody demon!" Killian said with panic and the feeling all the family were experienced somehow tripled.

"I am Rumpelstiltskin, the Dark One of all the realms." The Dark One Spoken.

"What do you want from us?" Killian asked again.

"Oh, actually I don't want anything from you three. However, I've to fix this mess which you" he points to Emma and giggles, "started when you arrived here about eighteen years ago. The Dark One that preceded me which includes myself as well have been trying to find you for a very long time. Now that I've found you, I've got to make everything right."

"What did I do?" Emma asked curious of what she changed. "What did I change?"

"Straight to the point, I like that." Rumpelstiltskin said along with the rolling eyes coming from the family. "Ever since you came here you changed destiny, fate, and alas since you brought too many changes, I've to fix them myself." He turns to the youngest person there, he looks at her thinking what shall he do with her, but he can save her for last, so he transported her in smoke and she was gone.

"FELICITY! Emma and Killian shouted when they saw the smoke, when they saw their only daughter was taken away from them.

The last thing she heard when arriving to a blank space of forest were her parents shouting her name. It happened so fast, not believing of what just happened. She stands up as she somehow ended up on the grass. All she saw was the forest of the trees, branches, and grass with the occasionally sounds of critters going around. The sky was still blue that was starting its descent as the day changes into night. It was only a few minutes of disturbing peace until she hears the familiar cacking of giggles from the Dark One Rumpelstiltskin who was not subtle for making a reappearance. She is easily unnerved by him and is wary for what he's going to do with her.

"What did you do with my parents? What are you going to do about me?" she asks not knowing how she got the confidence to spat at him, clearly angered for what he's about to do.

"What did you do with my parents?" Rumpelstiltskin mocks. "That's what the daughter says. What did you do with my parents? What are you going to do with me? The daughter of the savior and the pirate says. That's interesting." He says while Felicity looks at him thinking is the Dark One delusional. "You got spunk, don't you?" he says while she is getting more annoyed at every second. "Well, I'm not telling," he says in a cackling whimsical voice, "all you need to know is that I'm going to take you away from here." The Dark One looks to the girl and sees her face as it loses color. "I'm not going to kill you," his cackling voice gone, "I'm taking you away from this realm, where your parents won't find you." Then for one last time he calls upon the ancient magic of the realm again as a portal shows and he uses his magic to push her into the portal.

She woke up feeling the grass around her as she stands up and looks around to figure out where she was. At first, she couldn't find anything but trees thinking she was in a type of forest that is until she sees a plant that she's heard about before but never seen it. Dreamshade a lethal plant that her father has encountered with his older brother, her uncle who brought his own demise.

She groaned at the realization where she knew she was at. A place only her papa went to once and that was Neverland. She knew instantly she must be cautious here as she walks through the forest avoiding the lethal plant. All she did was walk through the forest until she stopped at dead end which was a cliff indicating she was on of the edges of the island. She looks ahead, looking towards the horizon with the ocean leering underneath her and suddenly she feels she's being watched. She walked away the edge shouting, "Come out! I know you're there! Come out!"

Then suddenly she feels a swift of a breeze come out towards her. A boy around her age with brown hair and brown eyes that's wearing cloths of dark green appeared to her. He came next to her, floating looking around at the new guest on the island.

"Who are you?"

"I know who you are."

"Who am I?"

She gulped softly before she answered him with, "Peter Pan."

"And who are you?" he asks.

"Felicity Jones," she says looking at Peter Pan as he still looks at her though it was with more of a calculating look. She doesn't know what to do but to stick to his good side now, so she keeps answering his questions.

"Who brought you here lassie?"

"The Dark One Rumpelstiltskin."

"Did he now, did he? What did you do to him for the Dark One to sent you here?"

"Nothing. I did nothing."

"Are you sure about that dearie?" he then adds a dramatic pause, "because usually the dark one has a reason dearie."

"I don't know." She says as she quickly gets annoyed with the boy. "All I know is that he used his magic to move me into a different area as he did something to my parents."

"What are your parents' names?"

"Killian and Emma Jones." He looks up with interest in his eyes with a mad look into his eyes.

"What was your mother's former last name?"

"Swan. What is it to you?" She was still confused with the demon looking very interested with the information that she just gave him.

"Everything my child." Peter Pan says as he then realized that that what he had done was a mistake. "Come with me girl, it seems you are going to be here a while. I have a place for you." He says as he forces her to walk. He continues to talk seeing her reactions of which he enjoys. "You know they are very few of us lost boys including myself that are old enough to know what we want with girls, women. That is, you know, make them squirm, take their clothes off and touch them. I could imagine it right now how nice it would feel." Felicity listens as she feels the magic of the island forcing her to walk as she becomes paler as he continues ranting, she tries to find a way to get out of her state. "The best part is Neverland will do everything I say and do. For example, I can get Neverland's help of magic and make a girl pregnant. Now would you imagine that?! A true child of Neverland! Imagine the possibilities!" He is one sick child she thoughts then rethinks as he's no child but a demon as she becomes as pale a ghost. She keeps fighting until finally she manages to flee as she runs in the forest getting away from Peter Pan keeping the distance as far away from him as she then hears his yell of anguish.

She keeps on running until she falls from a short cliff in which she slid off from and continues her run eventually she finds a stream and a cave and decided to stop there. Once she deems it safe with no one in sight she magically protects the area in case the lost boys or Peter Pan himself would come and find her. She stayed there for a few days until she realizes she needs move to a new location assuming that Peter Pan and his lost boys are still looking after her. She checks her surroundings first, deeming that no one in the area after she cancels the magical protection that she made and makes her way into a new direction.

After a couple of minutes later she unexpectedly falls to another short cliff as she slides down the cliff and as soon as she stands up, she finds herself falling again. This time she collided with someone. She panics at first, lifting her arms and hands to the person that she collided with and prepares to use her magic until she hears a gasp from the person that she knocked over. She relaxes her arms and hands as she too gasps in shock too but also confusion. The person in front of her was definitely not a lost boy as he was a man. But the man she sees has the same type of hair she has, those wavy and curly locks with dark brown hair however his eyes were a lighter blue. She seen those types of eyes before and looks at his appearance two more times before she reaches an impossible conclusion.

"No, it can't be. That can't be. Papa said that you died. What is going on here? Is this a trick?"

He looks at the young woman that's in front of him and realizes that she has like appearance to himself as he keeps looking at her as she talks. She reminds him of his own mother seeing that same hair and eyes that was his mother, Agnes Jones. He remembers the kindness that was portrayed of his mother, but the young woman he sees in her eyes are full of not only happiness but something new as well that is full of a mixture of worry, shock, and curiosity. Then the words that she said finally comes into fruition of his mind. Her papa and then suddenly he thinks that he understands.

"What is your name?" he asks politely as he looks to the girl and realizes why he thought that she was a young woman when she looks at the ages of her late teenage years. To his surprise she answers.

"Felicity Amelia Jones." She said not knowingly saying her full name.

"Are your parents' names Killian and Emma?"

"Yes," she says giving a pause knowing who this man in front of her is, "and you're supposedly my uncle Liam. But according to my papa he says that you died in his arms when you arrived back on the waters of the Enchanted Forest."

"That did happen however I did not die," he says knowing the truth will be the only validity that his niece will believe in, "When we were back on the waters of the Enchanted Forest, I did collapse but I wasn't dead, but I was numb. I thought I was going to die so I told to my brother, your father that I was proud and happy for him. After that I was in darkness and quickly realized that I could still hear everything that is going on and that I couldn't move anything from my body. I knew I was dying but when I was put into the ocean, I didn't feel my body lower the depths of the ocean floor but felt my body being toggled to a different ocean bringing me to a familiar shore. I was brought here, and Peter Pan decided to use me to being his gopher. Traveling to realms, giving him supplies and food, finding potential new lost boys."

"It's really you," she says as she hears his side of the story and realizes that he is really her uncle. Uncle Liam. She couldn't help to cry. She acknowledges that no one would've known that her uncle was still alive, that there was absolutely that Uncle Liam could've done to tell anyone or show anyone anything that he was still alive. "Uncle Liam."

Then unexpectedly they moved closer to each other and wrapped themselves into a hug. At that moment Felicity thought she was going to face this alone, being in Neverland, and learn how to survive by herself but now with this realization that her uncle is truly alive, suddenly she doesn't feel alone anymore. For Liam he was given a new hope that filled him with purpose, and he knew that it was his time to protect his niece if he's on the island he will protect her. He makes a sigh as he knows how much life will be difficult for the both of them.