A thin cry pierces the darkness. Suddenly, Jack understands everything. Getting into Darkness' lair was too easy. Everything Gump has done was for Darkness. As the guards surround Jack, Gump dances with glee.
"Never turn your back on the Gump, Jack! You thought you were so clever. Look what you have done!"
Glancing towards Lili, Jacks sees his arrow never even pierced Darkness.
"Now, little boy, you will see the dawning of a new era! My lady will bring my kingdom into glory with one thrust of the blade."
Darkness motions to his guards to bring Jack face to face with himself. Jack struggles, trying to free his hands from his binds.
Laughing, Gump shoves him. "Here now, Jack! Just go with the nice man. I am sure he will take great care of you! Just as you took good care of Oona for me!" Angrily, Gump slaps Jack across the face. Now he knows the reason for Gump's betrayal!
"But Gump, I do not love Oona! She was only…"
"What, just a plaything!" Gump shouted. "Tell me, Jack. Did you not kiss her? Did you not know her true self? I myself did not know it…."
"Silence! Bring him here." Darkness growled. "Let him witness first hand the birth of a new era!"
"Yes, come to me, Jack. Poor Jack. You really believed you could win me back! You, a little forest boy! I am a princess and I deserve a true King!" Lili howled. Standing next to the unicorn, she looked almost like her former self. But beauty is a dangerous thing. And one such as Lili knew how to use it to her advantage.
"My prince, my king, let us continue with your plan. Dawn approaches."
"Yes, my lady. Soon, very soon, you shall rule by my side. Forever. Untouchable shall we be! Guard, bring the boy to me! Let him stand by my side as your future queen moves us into the next generation."
Struggling against the guards, Jack tries to look into Lili's eyes. Nothing there the Jack could recognize. Just blackness. The inky dark of her soul. Finding his struggle to be in vain, he lets himself be taken. Roughly, the guards push and shove him down to where Darkness is standing.
Gump, strangely quiet since his last outburst, follows slowly. Brown Tom is no where to be found, and Oona and Screwball, well, who knows what befell them. Jack silently prays that they are getting their part done.