Soon, Emma and Hook also began to witness what was going on and eventually, a storm was brought out onto The Jolly Roger. Dee Dee poked her head out a little as she hid from the craziness that was going on outside The Jolly Roger.
"What the hell are you two doing?!" Regina snapped at David and Mary Margaret as she approached them.
"Trying to keep it steady!" Mary Margaret shouted.
"Hold on!" David added.
Dee Dee kept hiding as she looked very unfortunate and nervous especially since she was alone and the adults were too preoccupied to comfort or help her.
"I'm the future Captain!" Harry proclaimed before Evie decided to go and keep an eye on Dee Dee. "I'm the one who should be steering the ship!"
"Harry!" Evie whispered firmly and grabbed him, deciding to make him come along too.
"All hands on deck! All hands on deck!" Samantha called out as she ran around in a frenzy, blowing the ship's whistle.
"There's no need for that, Miss Smee!" Hook told her as he then came running towards David, Mary Margaret, and Regina. He then helped them control the steering wheel. "Prepare for attack!" he then alerted.
"Be more specific." Regina replied.
"If you've got a weapon, then grab it." Hook explained before he was then thrown against the wall as screeching could be heard from the ocean, followed by a song.
"What is that singing?" Evie wondered as she heard the song.
"They are here." Harry said knowingly.
"They? Who's they?" Evie asked.
"What's out there? A shark? A whale?" Emma asked, curious as she looked out to the ocean.
"A Kraken?" David added.
"Worse. Mermaids." Killian told them.
The singing continued as a group of mermaids swam towards the Jolly Roger. Dee Dee tried to peek out to see what was going on as she was left out. Evie looked over, seeing Dee Dee and pointed firmly back inside the cabin as the younger girl should stay there.
Dee Dee winced and grimaced as she kept hiding. "I don't understand. How could mermaids be dangerous?" she then wondered. "They're often kind and helpful souls especially when they fall in love with human princes!"
"Perhaps not all mermaids are like that~" Evie coaxed and advised Dee Dee.
"Evie... I feel so scared..." Dee Dee pouted as she hugged the older girl instantly.
"As she should be." Harry remarked gravely.
"Harry!" Evie hissed in warning as she narrowed her eyes.
"What? You want me to lie?" Harry replied and defended. "A pirate never lies."
"Somehow I doubt that's true," Evie firmly muttered as she comforted Dee Dee as best as she could. "Now, Dee Dee, I know that this is probably very scary for you, but you'll be safer in here, so I need you to stay in here, okay?" she then advised warmly.
"Okay..." Dee Dee said softly and frowned. "I wanna help Henry since he's my best friend, but this is really scary."
"Once the mermaids are dealt with and the ship is calmer again, then you can come out, but you have to stay safe so you can help Henry," Evie smiled at Dee Dee before glaring at Harry. "And don't you say a word."
Harry just looked at Evie nervously in response. "You look so much like your mother and grandmother right now." he then muttered warily.
"Okay..." Dee Dee said softly. "I hope that he's okay."
"I'm sure he will be." Evie nodded and ruffled Dee Dee's hair up gently as the younger girl sniffled a little bit.
"Mermaids?!" Emma asked in surprise.
"Yes, and they're quite unpleasant." Hook nodded at Emma.
"Ya think?" Regina scoffed.
"Those who sail these forbidden waters, Prepare to meet The Sea King's daughters, There is no use to give into this conquest, You will surrender for the glory of Atlantis!~" The mermaids sang as one of them soon submerged from the water and hit the boat suddenly.
Evie looked wide-eyed as she recognized that voice anywhere. "Magda..." she then murmured.
"I'll try and outrun them!" Hook then told the others.
"How many of them are there?!" Emma asked.
Several mermaids then bashed into the Jolly Roger with their tails.
"I will not be capsized by fish!" David soon proclaimed as he grabbed a spear, a chain, and gun powder. He then put it into a cannon and aimed it at the mermaids.
"Emma!" Mary Margaret called and signaled Emma to come to the back of the ship.
Emma did so. "What are you doing?!" she asked.
"Fishing!" Mary Margaret stated.
David soon lit and fired the cannon, while Emma and Mary Margaret threw a fishing net into the ocean as the mermaids scattered until at least one would get caught.
"We got one!" Mary Margaret cheered.
"One? There are dozens of them." Regina replied.
David then fired the cannon another time.
Regina looked around until she got annoyed and impatient. "Enough of this." she then complained before creating three fireballs and throwing them at the mermaids.
The mermaids then scattered away.
"There. They're gone." Regina soon told the others after that.
"Not all of them. What about that one?" Mary Margaret asked about the one they caught.
Harry soon decided to check on the adults while Evie did her best to comfort Dee Dee in an almost big sister fashion. The mermaid was soon shown as she continued to flop on the ship. She looked a little familiar, but at the same time unfamiliar, especially with her dark hair that matched her tail fin.
"Get that thing off my ship!" Hook demanded.
"No. Now we have a hostage." Regina retorted.
"I hate to say it, but I'm with Hook," David spoke up. "Those things just tried to kill us."
"Mermaids are very dangerous creatures." Harry agreed and nodded since that was what he was raised to believe that.
"And perhaps we should find out why." Regina then suggested.
"How? By torturing her?" Mary Margaret asked with a frown.
Harry soon looked down at the mermaid who looked very scared and rather timid about her situation until she took out a seashell suddenly while the adults discussed what to do with her.
"Well, if need be. Sure." Regina defended before a loud sound was suddenly heard.
Dee Dee gasped and ducked down, covering her ears that sound bothered her. Evie grunted and groaned as she also covered her ears.
Emma covered her ears too, as did Harry. "What the hell was that?" Emma asked.
Harry looked down at the mermaid with a frown.
"A warning." The mermaid replied.
There was then a loud clap of thunder.
"Let me go... Or die." The mermaid soon threatened as bravely as she could.
"What is this?" David soon asked as he snatched the seashell away from the mermaid. "What did you do?!"
"Let me go." The mermaid urged.
"Not until you tell us," Regina retorted. "Or we make you tell us."
"Threatening her isn't the way to motivate her. " Mary Margaret told Regina.
"Well, I'm all out of fish food." Regina defended.
"Doesn't matter if you get her to talk. You can't trust her," Killian warned. "Mermaids are liars."
"Of course they are." Emma said.
Mary Margaret looked between them. "Maybe they're just scared of Pan. If we let her go, maybe they'll be on our side." she suggested.
"Or maybe she and her friends will come right back to kill us." Regina retorted.
"Oh, I don't need my friends to kill you," The mermaid challenged. "You'll kill yourselves. Now let me go."
A storm then began to surround the ship as thunder and lightning started.
"What the hell?!" David cried out.
"It's a storm. She called it," Killian warned before giving the others some advice. "Don't let her go. She'll swim off and leave us all to die. At least with her, we've got leverage."
David then suddenly grabbed a sword and got ready to hold it to the mermaid's neck.
"S-Stop!" Harry cried out as he looked concerned for the mermaid about having that happen to her even if his father warned him just how dangerous mermaids could be.
"That's more like it, Charming. Filet the bitch." Regina urged.
Harry blinked before he narrowed his eyes and snarled about how Regina called this mermaid a bitch.
"No..." David suddenly said as he took the sword away from the little mermaid's neck. "We are not barbarians."
"What we're going to be is dead." Regina soon retorted.
"Hold on. I'm gonna turn around," Hook soon said as he began to try to turn the ship around. "I've outrun many a storm."
"Make it stop or die." Regina threatened the mermaid once more.
"We are not killers!" Mary Margaret said loudly to Regina.
"Yes, you are," The mermaid retorted to Mary Margaret. "And you brought this death upon yourselves."
"This is why we should free her!" Mary Margaret argued.
"That feel-good nonsense, Snow, might play in the Enchanted Forest, but this... This is Neverland." Regina retorted.
Soon, the ship was suddenly off balance and everyone was then caught off guard as Dee Dee yelped, nearly falling right out of the cabin door.
"Keep your grip, pirate." David warned Hook.
"It wasn't me, mate! It was the ship!" Hook replied as the storm was getting worse. "We're taking on water! Miss Smee, batten down the hatches!" he then called out.
"Aye-Aye, sir!" Samantha nodded and saluted him as she helped out as best as she could just like her brother did back when he was Captain Hook's right hand man.
"No!" Mary Margaret shouted with her husband, then continued on her own. "You kill her, and her kind will have a personal vendetta on us." she told Regina.
Evie kept a strong hold on Dee Dee as they tried to stay calm while Samantha did what was asked of her.
"The queen is right. They've already tried killing us." Hook reminded.
"Stop! That's enough! We need to think this through!" Emma tried to stop the mermaid being killed too.
"I already have!" Regina retorted before she then turned the mermaid into wood. "There. That should stop the storm." she then said calmly.
"Regina!" Emma yelled, holding on to some rigging. "What did you do?!" she then yelled fearfully as she saw what was ahead.
"We're gonna need a bigger boat." Harry murmured as he also held onto some rigging as a giant wave appeared.
Regina soon looked over behind Emma in horror. "No!" she then cried out. Everyone else soon turned around as a huge wave formed in the distance.
"What have you done?!" Emma gasped in horror as they rode up the wave all of them getting wet.
Dee Dee scooted back a bit as some water splashed underneath the door cracks which deeply concerned her as Evie helped keep her safe and away from the water.
Harry soon rushed over to his father to try to help him steady the ship. "Dad, I thought you said that you could outrun a storm?!" he then complained.
"This isn't a storm! It's bloody damnation!" Hook retorted to his son.
Emma decided to go into the cabin to watch over Dee Dee and Evie. "Hey, kiddo." she greeted her, making sure the storm stayed outside except for the few moments as she entered.
"Oh. Hi, Emma." Evie greeted gently.
"Miss Emma... Is everything okay?" Dee Dee asked as she trembled and hugged the blonde woman instantly. "It sounds really bad out there."
"It's storming pretty badly, kiddo, but don't worry we'll get through it." Emma told the truth but also soothed.
"Sounds pretty angry out there." Evie commented.
"I wouldn't worry about that either." Emma then said to the blue-haired girl.
"Does Neverland have storm power?" Dee Dee wondered as she looked around.
"I don't know, but me and you are going to stay in here... Maybe we can set up these blankets in the cupboard, so they'll be ready as towels for after the storm?" Emma told her then suggested.
Dee Dee looked over. "Yes... We should stay warm and dry," she then said softly. "Hopefully that'll settle things down."
Emma nodded to that.
"Come on. Let's go then." Evie suggested.
Emma let Dee Dee go. "We need quite a few as hugging me made you a bit damp too." she told her.
"Right!" Dee Dee said before she darted off to go and check to find blankets and towels. "All right... Now if I were blankets and towels, where would I be?" she then asked before yelping as towels and blankets suddenly fell on top of her due to the rocking of The Jolly Roger. "...I think I may have found them, Miss Emma..." she then muffled under the kerfuffle.
"Aww... Poor Dee Dee~" Evie cooed as she soon came over to help out the younger girl.
Dee Dee crawled out of the mess and began to help sort out the towels and blankets with Emma and Evie. Emma gave a small smirk to Dee Dee grateful for the help, luckily they didn't hear the fighting or scream. Evie soon decided to check just to see what was going on, seeing that Emma was trying to hide something from Dee Dee for the young girl's sake.
Dee Dee stuck her tongue out as she looked around. "I think this is enough." she soon said thoughtfully.
Emma nodded.
"Oh, Henry... I hope we can find you..." Dee Dee sighed to herself before looking back up at Emma. "We've been best friends for a very long time."
"Don't worry, we're going to bring him back." Emma assured her.
"I sure hope so. He's always been there for me whenever I've needed him and helping me find my story even if no one else believed him until he found you." Dee Dee said softly and dreamily.
Emma gave a small smile. Dee Dee smiled back a bit hopefully.
"You've been a great friend to Henry." Emma then smiled.
"He's been a great friend to me too." Dee Dee smiled back.
Mary Margaret looked up in horror then turned to Regina. "Why would you do this?!" she exclaimed.
"You're going to blame me?" Regina glared at Mary Margaret.
"You turned the mermaid into wood! " Mary Margaret reminded accusingly.
"I did something about it, which is more than you can say." Regina scoffed in response.
"Undo your spell! Bring back the mermaid!" Mary Margaret ordered Regina.
"And what, you'll win her over with your rainbow kisses and unicorn stickers?" Regina reflected.
"Considering that your plan failed, at least we could try," Mary Margaret retorted angrily.
"You're such a naïve princess!" Regina snapped.
"And you are such a-" Mary Margaret started to say only to cut herself off and punch Regina instead.
Regina huffed before taunting her step-daughter. "That your best?" she then asked.
"Not even close!" Mary Margaret retorted. "I'm so tired of you ruining my life!" she then yelled at Regina.
"I ruined your life?" Regina glared as she then began to fight back.
"Hey!" David soon called out during the fight.
"Hey. Let the slags go!" Hook soon called out to David. "I need you at the mast."
"Don't call my wife a slag." David glared before he got ready to fight Hook as the storm got worse.
"Don't hit my dad!" Harry glared as he tried to help defend his father as the fights broke out and the storm got worse and worse.
"Stop it!" Evie soon yelled out loud once she saw the lightning in the distance as well as the rumbling thunder. "It's not because of the mermaid... It's you guys," she then realized. "If you all don't stop fighting, we're all gonna die! Don't you see, you're causing the storm?!" she then added until she soon realized that it would take more than just speaking to stop them. "Everyone! Stop! You need to listen to me!" she shouted as she approached the rail, holding a rope for balance, not planning to jump really but making it seem like she would. However, before anyone could notice where exactly she was, due to the ship's rocking and the wetness, she lost her footing and fell overboard with a scream.
"EVIE!" Everyone soon cried out suddenly, especially Regina who instantly had tears of adult fear in her eyes.
"Idiot..." Regina murmured and firmly pouted as a tear rolled down her cheek.
"Regina! Use your magic and get her up here!" Mary Margaret said loudly, but this time just to be heard over the storm.
"I can't." Regina replied.
"She's your daughter!" Harry reminded her.
"No, it's not that. It's this storm," Regina explained as she kept her tone a bit firm. "I can't even see her. I'll just bring up water and half her leg."
David soon looked like he was about to go into the water.
"Wait!" Hook warned the other man.
"She'll drown." David defended.
"And so will you. Let me help." Hook retorted.
"No. Let me go down there." Regina soon said.
"Are you sure?" Hook asked the former Evil Queen.
"Of course I'm sure," Regina replied. "Evie is my daughter. She's my princess. My little blueberry. You're damn right I'm going after her and if anyone gets in my way, there will be no mercy for any of you."
Everyone else then stepped back nervously.
"Harry, help me tie her." Hook told his son.
Harry gulped and nodded as he grabbed the rope and helped tie Regina properly. Once she was set and secure, Regina soon jumped right into the water and went to go and rescue Evie. Regina waded along before finding her daughter and going right for her, grabbing her into a comforting and secure hold.
"I think The Queen got her princess! Pull!" Samantha soon told everyone as they pulled onto the ropes.
Soon, Regina and Evie were pulled on board and it so far looked like Evie wasn't breathing.
"No... Evie, please..." Regina whispered as she knelt beside her daughter and hugged her while everyone else looked soft and concerned. "I already lost your father, I can't lose you... There, there, there. It's okay, Mommy's here. Mommy's got you. I promise I will never let anything happen to you, my princess."
Evie soon coughed up water and began to breathe again, much to everyone's relief, but especially Regina's. She then looked up to see that the storm cleared away instantly, showing the full moon. "I told you." she then wearily told the others with a small smile.
The others smiled back softly and warmly as they got closer and closer to Neverland.
"Evie... Thank goodness..." Regina sighed in relief quietly before she glared and looked firm again. "Uh... I mean. You scared us. Don't do that again or I'll ground you to infinity." she then practically ordered her daughter, going back into "Mean Old Madam Mayor" at least temporarily.
Evie just gave a small smile at her mother in response.
Back with Emma and Dee Dee...
"I think the others quieted down a little." Dee Dee soon said thoughtfully.
"The ship isn't rocking anymore." Emma agreed.
"At last~" Dee Dee whispered with tranquillity in her voice.
"Alright, I'll pop my head out and then we can take them the towels and blankets if it's stopped raining." Emma told Dee Dee.
"Oki." Dee Dee nodded patiently.
Emma went to the door and stuck her head out. She then looked to Dee Dee. "All clear~" she told her warmly.
"The storm is over and they're not fighting anymore?" Dee Dee replied with a small smile.
"Yeah." Emma nodded, grabbing some of the things.
While everyone else was distracted by helping Evie and the storm had stopped, Harry soon untied the mermaid, feeling sorry for her somehow and decided to set her free. "Go... Go now!" he then whispered to her loudly.
"You didn't have to do this." The mermaid replied.
"I'm sure I didn't, but please, go now before they change their minds." Harry urged her even though he felt like he would be in a lot of trouble with his father if he was seen freeing a mermaid.
Soon, the mermaid was released back into the waters before she faced the pirate teen. "You should avoid the ones called Scarlett O'Bell, Magdalena, or as some people call her Magda the Mad, and Diana of Discordia." she then told him.
"Uh, okay? Who are they exactly?" Harry asked. "The name Magda kinda rings a bell though. Metaphorically speaking."
"She's the Princess Magdalena of Atlantis who is trying to make her own crew of Sirens. She started out in Storybrooke High until The Dark Curse broke in that town and retreated into the sea to get her ultimate revenge on the ones she thought deserved it," The mermaid told him. "I'm sorry, but I can't say too much now. I better get going while I still can."
"Very well..." Harry nodded at her. "Farewell, Little Mermaid."
"Farewell, Pirate Boy." The mermaid agreed before she jumped into the water and began to swim off straight to a lagoon underneath the magic moon in Neverland.
"I don't know who that was, but she was amazing..." Harry sighed and whispered to himself with a small smile as he leaned against the railing with a bit of a dreamy look in his eyes. "...For a fish girl."
"There's no need to fear! Dee Dee and Emma are here!" Dee Dee soon proclaimed as she rushed out with towels and blankets to help out, startling Harry right out of his reverie.
"We thought everyone might need towels and blankets." Emma smirked a little as she helped pass them out.
"Aye... I think I know where to find it too," Killian replied before nodding his head. "Why, thank you very much, Swan and Nurse Dee Dee. I don't know what we'd do without you." he then added.
"Oh, I wouldn't call myself a nurse, but I'm glad to help out." Dee Dee said bashfully.
Mary Margaret smiled at them. "Do you have a first aid kit?" she then asked Hook and Harry.
"Aye." Hook reassured.
"He has to with me around." Harry added.
Mary Margaret chuckled warmly as that was a little cute to her.
Evie rubbed her head a little, wincing as she touched where the pulley had hit. "Next time let's go for the route without the storm of anger?" she tried to joke.
"Get the First Aid Kit, Miss Smee." Hook soon demanded.
"Can do." Samantha nodded as she went off to go and do just that.
"That sounds reasonable." David replied.
Soon, the first aid kit was found as Evie was taken care where it was needed and Dee Dee decided to play "Doctor" for the older girl like when Mr. Gold was wounded on the way out of New York City and back into Storybrooke, even using a tongue depressor on the older woman's tongue and bandaging her up on her head where the sore spot was, trying to be helpful and productive for everybody else.
"Thank you for your time, you were a very good patient," Dee Dee said once she was done. "I'm sorry to say though that I have no lollipops to give you for your good behavior."
"It's fine, Dee Dee, you were a very good doctor~" Evie gave a smirk and nod. She then went to summon them both a lollipop each.
Dee Dee blinked, surprised at the lollipop before she smiled and took the one for her before licking it instantly.
"What do you say?" Regina reminded Dee Dee.
"Oh. Thank you." Dee Dee then said before she continued.
"You're welcome." Evie nodded, then popped her lollipop in her own mouth.
"Alright let's get warm and dry and then get ashore." Mary Margaret suggested.
"Right!" Everyone else agreed to that.
Soon enough the group on the ship came on land as Emma was stepping out ahead of the rest.
"We don't have to do it this way," Regina soon said. "I can fix the Jolly Roger. My magic is powerful enough. We can execute the pirate's plan."
"Sneak attack? Let's not be naïve," Emma scoffed slightly. "Save your magic. We'll need it later, because Pan already knows we're here. It's time we stop running. Gold was right. This land is run on belief. All of us have been too busy being at each other's throats to be believers. I was as wrong as anyone else. It's time for all of us to believe. Not in magic, but in each other."
"That's probably for the best." Evie added.
"Especially with what The Crocodile's younger son wants for Storybrooke." Harry remarked.
"Oh... You remembered." Evie smiled, touched that Harry remembered what Ben wanted for the future of Storybrooke's descendants.
"Well, of course I do," Harry grinned boastfully in response. "I know everything... Except how to tell time on a clock properly..." he then added with a bashful pout as Dee Dee giggled a little in response.
"You wanna be friends?" Regina soon asked with an amused smirk. "After everything that's happened between all of us?"
"I don't want or expect that," Emma replied. "I know there's a lot of history here, a lot of hate."
"Actually, I quite fancy you from time to time, when you're not yelling at me~" Hook smirked at that.
"Okay, maybe we don't need to be friends," Evie suggested. "What we need to now is the only way to get Henry back is cooperation. Besides, we've got bigger fish to fry and you should put your differences aside, because right now we're all on the same side."
"Evie's right," Dee Dee agreed. "Stay together until the battle is won."
"With her? With him? No, guys," David disagreed with Emma, Harry, Evie, and Dee Dee. "We have to do this the right way."
"No, we don't. We just need to succeed. And the way we do that is by just being who we are: a hero, a villain, a pirate," Emma replied strongly. "It doesn't matter which, because we're going to need all those skills, whether we can stomach them or not."
"And what's your skill, Savior?" Regina soon demanded.
"I'm a mother. And now I'm also your leader and Evie is going to help me because her heart is in the right place too," Emma defended bravely. "So either help me get my son and her little brother back or get out of the way."
"And how about you, my daughter?" Regina then asked Evie. "What's your plan?"
"I'm a big sister so I've got the most important job in the world, the one you gave me when you brought Henry home from Boston for the first time," Evie retorted bravely. "Come on, Emma. Let's go save Henry."
"I couldn't agree more." Emma nodded as she pulled out her sword and everyone followed her.
Dee Dee looked around as they settled into Neverland and soon, she followed the others straight into The Dark Jungle. However, just as they left, Henry and his new friend were seen flying in the air. Suddenly, they had to land on the ground as the new friend pointed out a safe spot for him and Henry to land and they soon both fell to the ground, grunting until they got back up.
"See? If you believe, anything is possible." Henry smiled at his new friend.
"You couldn't be more right, Henry." The boy agreed, smiling back, though his smile looked evil for some reason.
Henry's smile quickly disappeared out of fear. "How... How'd you know my name? I never told you." he then replied.
"Let's make it a game," The boy said, his tone shifting from scared and worried into suddenly crafty and clever in a rather dangerous way. "A puzzle to solve."
"You lied to me. You are a Lost Boy," Henry realized out of horror. "You work for Pan."
"Not exactly," The boy clarified rather chillingly. "I am Peter Pan."
"But you told Greg and Tamara that magic was bad, that you'd help them destroy it," Henry frowned. "Why?" he then added.
"Because I needed their help," Peter replied with a sublime smirk in response. "And it's so much easier to get people to hate something than to believe."
"Why did you bring me here?" Henry asked as he still frowned.
"For quite some time, I've sought something extremely important," Peter replied. "Something more elusive than the greatest of all mysteries."
"What?" Henry then asked.
"The heart of the truest believer," Peter told him directly. "And when you trusted your aunt with that pixie dust, Henry, and jumped off that cliff, you proved yourself. You are the lucky owner of that very special heart. And now? You, and it, are mine. Come on, boys!" he then added and called out as he pulled out a knife.
The Lost Boys soon came out and surrounded Henry.
"Let's play!" Peter then added with a haunting grin on his face.
"There's one more thing, sir?" A voice spoke up, annoying Peter instantly.
"What is it, you dunce? This had better be good and important," Peter glared and crossed his arms. "What did you find?"
"Erm... I don't know what use you might get out of it, but... Uh... Here?" Gil spoke up before he brought out what looked like a teddy bear that looked very old and withered.
"Hmm..." Peter paused before he snatched the teddy bear and found a loose blonde hair on it. "I recognize this doll... This doll came from a village in Nottingham where an army would be waiting for us... Until she ended up becoming a Lost Girl of course."
"Couldn't we avoid that army easily even if we're just a bunch of boys?" Gil soon asked. "Also what would a girl who got lost a long time ago help us in any way?"
"Oh, Gil LeGume... Sometimes your brain size lives up to your name... I know exactly what to do while you all tend to Henry in my absence," Peter sighed and shook his head. "Besides, the little Lost Girl will be missing her bear. I'll return it to her." he then added with a terrifying grin on his face as he had a sneaking suspicion about the stuffed animal.