AN: Just a quick note, I've posted a new story!
The Hidden Tales of the Black Widow is now published, it will be a series of one-shots of adventures in the Enchanted Forest with my OC. I've started with a couple of flashbacks that's already been published on the main story to get it started. There will be slow updates compared to this. But there will be new stories that I can't fit into the main story so they'll be in there.
Thanks, enjoy the chapter!
Returning from the ruins of the Jackdaw the assassin easily retraced her steps back to the others with a brown leather messenger bag hung across her shoulders that held her father's journals. It was a comforting weight on her side as she caught up to the group of hero's and villains. No one commented on her sudden disappearance or reappearance They knew where she had gone.
She was greeted with a sweet smile from Snow as she passed the former Princess.
"The ridge is just a few hundred paces up ahead" Hook announced to the group as David led the group hacking away at any foliage that lied within their path
"You really think we're gonna be able to see Pan's hideout?" Emma questioned the pirate
"From there, we should be able to see everything, including where he's keeping your son"
"Can it really be called a hideout if you can see it from the highest point of the island" Amelia grumbled from down the line making the former Queen smirk for a second before putting her thoughts to the hike.
"You know, I could have just poofed us up here in an instant" Regina complained from behind pirate
"Where? Have you any idea what's up here or anywhere? There are dangers all about. Only I can guide us past them" he retorted to the Queen keeping her quiet
"He's right" Emma voiced to the group "Hook's lived here before. If he says hiking up is the best way, then we listen"
Hook being right. Now that didn't sound right, the assassin thought to herself as she breathed in the humid air that surrounded them "I here I thought I'd never see the day Captain Hook was right about something" Amelia drawled out
Hook smiled to himself as the assassin continued to follow him and David uphill. The latter continuing to hack away as he came across a plant with thorns, he went to cut it down only to be stopped by Hook
"No. No!" Hook exclaimed grabbing the Prince's sword arm mid-swing as Amelia caught up with the pair.
"I can handle a couple of thorns" David replied in annoyance
"That's dream shade. It's not the thorns you have to worry about. It's the poison they inject you with. This plant is the source of the toxins I used on The Dark One"
"The poison that almost killed Rumple?" Amelia asked the pirate folding her arms
"Aye" he confirmed "I used a concentrated dose. In its natural form, death would be much slower and far more painful. I suggest we go this way" Hook pointed to another direction
"We'll go this way" David huffed as he goes off with Mary Margaret, Amelia and Regina following behind. The assassin easily trudged up the last incline as they came to the cliffs edge as she let out a sigh at the view and her own weariness catching up on her. It had been a while since she had done a nature hike like that.
"Up here!" David yelled down to Emma and Hook who had trailed back "We made it" he let out a sigh as the pair caught up to them and overlooked the ridge
Hook used his teeth to expand his telescope to survey the dark jungle that lied beneath them "Pan's lair should be just right..." the pirate trailed off trying to find the hideout
"Where? All I see is jungle" Regina sniped at him
"Aye. The Dark Jungle. It's, uh, grown so much since I last stepped foot in Neverland" Hook admits to the group
Emma looked to Amelia who had her arms folded as she looked closely into the distance, she could see in the darkness her eye's were almost glowing as she used her sixth sense, the imaged still freaked her out if she was being completely honest "Are you seeing anything we can't Lia?" the others looked towards the assassin in hope she would be able to see something
"Nothing" the Assassin huffed in frustration as her hands came unfolded coming down to her hips "Something is blocking my it; I can't get through the treetops" she told the blonde as her eye gold eye's went back to normal. This was happening on the Jackdaw, she just about saw the trap door in her father's cabin before giving up. THe only other time she difficulty with her sight was when the curse broke. But at least it wasn't hurting like it did.
"So, this nature hike was for nothing" Regina scoffed
"Hook may have led us astray, but at least we're in a good position to start combing the jungle" David tried to assure the group
"Not exactly" Hook started "The Dark Jungle's the last place you wanna set foot. We'll have to go around it. In order to do that, we're gonna need our strength. I suggest we make camp"
"You wanna sleep while my son is out there suffering?" the former Queen proposed sarcastically
"If we want to live long enough to save the boy. Yes" Amelia silently agreed with the pirate… yet again as she followed David down to find a place to camp for the night.
The redhead was the first to finish her tent as the other's continued set out their own. As she waited for the others to finish there's she thought that she'd get a head start on her father's journals, finding a flat topped boulder that sat in the middle of the camp, using the moonlight as her only source of light, her eyes scanned over pages of information he had found about the island, from the animals that lived on it to the plants, they were brief and to the point with sketches. He had been here for a while. But when?
She had just come to the first page about the poison that Hook had warned them about, dream shade, when she was interrupted feeling a familiar presence in front of her.
"Are you gonna read all night or rest like the pirate suggested?" Regina's voice brought her out of thoughts as she looked up to see the former Queen standing right in front of her. She looked around and saw the other's had finished setting up their camps and start to settle down.
"Neither. I can be lookout while the rest of you sleep" she tells the woman snapping the journal closed and stood up putting it back into her satchel
"Are you sure that's wise dear?"
"What else would you have me do? Wait for the Saviour to come up with a master plan while I have years of information in my fathers journals on the island be put to waste. I don't rely on faith or hope to drive me to get to a target. I'm not them"
"Then maybe you should know that your family, are trying to pry into your past" Regina quietly informed the woman
"Which past? There's a lot of it"
"John and Thomas" she spoke softy to the redhead as the others were milling around preparing for camp "Our fearless leader asked me on the way up here"
"And what did you say?"
"Nothing, of course"
"Let them keep asking" at that the redhead didn't allow the former Queen to reply as she retook her place on the boulder to continue going through her father's journals.
The hours seemed to drag as she continued to sit on the boulder as the other's slept around her. Regina had taken upon herself to take the assassin's tent as her own sleeping soundly with the royal couple and their daughter nearby. A small fire was the only thing that they allowed themselves to have to keep them warm. With a journal balanced on her thigh pulling the cloak that Gold had supplied her with as she started to feel the chill of the night despite the humidity that clung in the air.
Her head snapped up to the edge of the camp as she heard a twig snap in the distance. The red head quickly looked around her to see the other members of the group hadn't been disturbed by the noise as they continued to sleep soundly around her on their cots as she stood up from the boulder forgetting about the journal and headed towards to where she heard the noise as another twig snapped in the undergrowth as she neared the edge of the forest that surrounded the camp.
Brushing the leaves aside she slowly walks into the forest carefully placing her feet on the ground as she scanned the surrounding area as she loaded the small crossbow that rested on the top of her left forearm with a bolt as she proceeded forward carefully.
Swinging her armed left arm out towards a rustle in the foliage she triggered the small bolt loose only to miss a scared squawking wild pig run across the ground. She felt her heart pound against her chest as she let out a puff off air at the rush of adrenaline.
"You must be Amelia" a voice said to her making her whirl around to face a young boy in green and curled blonde hair leaning against a tree with his arms folded
"Pan, I presume" the redhead stated plainly
"The one and only" Pan replied with a smirk as he pushed himself off the tree "I must say it's an honour to have the Black Widow on my island" he says pacing a circled around her
"Skip the pleasantries. Where's Henry?" she asks him outright as she followed him circling her with her eye's
"He's safe. As long as your saviour plays along with my game" he tells her stopping in front of her
"And if she doesn't?"
"She will because you'll make sure she does"
"What makes you think I'll play along with your little game?"
"Because you're just like your father" he tells her "you can't help yourself but to help others"
"You don't know him" she gritted out clenching her fist to her side
"Oh, but I do, you see your father and I had something in common once. I tried to warn him, but he let his heart win over his mind, and he paid dearly for it"
Amelia let her growing temper go and lunged of him taking a hold of the front of his green tunic she pushed him back until he met a tree trunk with both of her hidden blades crossed in front of his throat
Pan laughed at her aggression and looked straight into her eye's "You have your Mothers temper as well; you remind me of her"
Amelia closed the blade together like a pair of scissors making the cool steel rest against his soft throat, he didn't even flinch "How the hell do you know my mother?" she spat at him lowly
"Wake up, my game is about to start" he whispered before Amelia felt him push her off him with minimum effort that sent her tumbling down into an endless abyss.
Her green eye's snapped open as she sat up from the ground next to Regina suddenly with cold sweat covering her forehead and upper lip and her chest rose up in down to calm her hammering heart inside her chest. Her sudden movement disturbed the slumbering former Queen next to her as she heard her name being called out by a groggy Regina "Melia? What is it?"
The redhead ignored Regina and jumped out from the ground grabbing Kukri blade she ran into the forest without a word disturbing the sleeping Charming couple from their peaceful slumber "Amelia!" Regina yelled after the spooked assassin as she rose from the ground with the couple
"It's blank" Emma said to Pan holding the parchment he had just given her in her hands
"You'll only be able to read that map when you stop denying who you really are" Pan supplied before they were disturbed by Amelia suddenly bursting through the bushes wild-eyed. The blonde got out of way just as Amelia threw her blade wildly towards the tree Pan was stood in front of only to miss the boy altogether as he vanished and embed the blade into the trunk of the tree inches from Emma's head.
"What the hell!"
Amelia led the other's back to camp with her Kukri blade in hand after she retrieved it out of the tree as Emma, Regina and Hook followed her. Once back she walked up to the rock, she was sat upon reading the journal in her dream and saw it where she had left it in her dream before she headed into the jungle by herself.
Was it even a dream? She didn't remember falling asleep next to Regina at all. She didn't even remember laying down next to her to she even sleep?
Questions like these occupied her mind as the others eventually returned. Emma was hunched over the black piece of paper that Pan had given her before she threw her Kukri at boy.
"He so likes his games" Hook started as the former Evil Queen paced the jungle floor feet away from the saviour
"What game? There's nothing there" Regina retorted
"If he said there's a map on this parchment, then there is"
"Great" Emma spoke from the floor "So if I just stop denying who I really am, whatever that means, then we'll be able to read this thing"
"But how do we know Pan won't use it to lead us straight into a trap?" Regina replied
"Because he doesn't need to. This whole island's his bloody trap" the pirate seethed at the Queen in frustration as Amelia turned to the stern conversation
David and Mary Margaret come back from searching the jungle. "There's no sign of him anywhere" the Prince informed them
"Maybe he feared the Widow with her blade" Hook spat towards the assassin
"Do you want that blade in your skull instead pirate?" the red head snapped at the pirate only for Mary Margaret to see that something had greatly disturbed the Assassin making her throw her blade at her daughter's head, the woman had become twitchy and anxious as her eye's scanned the jungle around them searching for something.
Instead of asking the woman if she was okay she changed her line of questioning to the subject in hand; the map Pan had given to Emma that would take them to Henry "Any luck with the map?" the former Princess asks her daughter
"Don't hold your breath" Regina tells the Princess
Emma looked up at the dark brunette in offence "What's that supposed to mean?"
"Don't you see what he's doing? Every second we spend talking about this is another second we're not looking for my son"
"You got a better idea?"
"Magic" the others around rolled their eyes at the Queens suggestion "If there's a lock on there, I'll find a way around it" Regina went to snatch the 'map' from Emma's grasp only for the blonde to quickly stop her
"Pan said it had to be me"
"I'd listen to Emma, love. Breaking Pan's rules would be unwise" Hook advised the Queen
"Sadly, I agree with the pirate" David said again
Hook turned to the Prince with a small smile "I'm winning you over. I can feel it"
Mary Margaret continued the conversation and looked to her former step-mother "And your magic doesn't exactly have a gentle touch, Regina"
"Use it on the map, it might blow up in all our faces" David argued
"Well, that's a risk I'm willing to take" Regina tells the Charming couple. Emma stands from her place on the jungle floor to face Regina
"Well, I'm not. If I'm the one who's supposed to figure out this thing, I need to do what Pan said" she tells the former Evil Queen
"Great" Regina scoffed
"She'll get there" Amelia suddenly said her demeanor now calm once again as she saw Emma disheartened face as the pressure of the situation had fallen onto her shoulders. The blonde looked towards at the woman's encouragement "He's playing a game. You can win" Emma gave the woman a firm nod in acknowledgement thankful that one person other than her parent's believed that she'd be able to crack the lock on the map.
With the straw siblings in his hands the Dark One sat by a fire staring at the figures as the sobs had finally dried up. His thoughts were interrupted when he heard a rustle in the jungle surrounding him. Putting down the dolls he approaches the sound wearily
"Who's there? Show yourself" he warned the sound. Behind him a cloaked figure grabs the dolls and flees "That doesn't belong to you, dearie" he tells the figure before he chases the culprit, catching him and removing his hood. To his surprise, it's Belle "Belle?"
"I don't understand. How did you get here?" he asked his love
"I thought you didn't dress like that anymore" pointing out his attire "I thought that was your past"
"Well, this is now my future. Becoming this again, The Dark One, that's the only way I'll save my grandson" he explained to the woman
"But you haven't completely become him, have you? There's still hope" she whispers before. She leans in to kiss him, but Mr. Gold breaks it off suddenly
"You're not really here, are you?"
"No, of course not" 'She' confirms "I'm still in Storybrooke, right where you left me"
"Are you okay? Did the protection spell work?
"It-it did" she stuttered "We're all fine. Storybrooke's safe. We all are"
Rumple suddenly grabs the figure around her neck as he venomously talks to it "How do I know these aren't just lies meant to lead me astray? How do I know Pan didn't conjure up a vision of you?"
"He didn't. You did" Rumple snatched his hand away
"What?"
"The question is why"
He got into her head. No one gets into her head and lives to tell the tale. Not even Rumple or Regina got into her head. She wasn't gonna let that happen again.
As the others gathered in readiness for Emma to reveal Pan's map to his hideout, she stayed on the edge of the camp sat on the jungle floor cross legged, eye's closed as she concentrated on her breathing taking in deep breath's through her nose and slowly exhaling as she built the walls in her mind up high again. Something her father had taught her when she had some time to kill on mission's. A way to calm her mind and collect her thought's to think logically.
Or at least that's what she tried to do. Getting through the first part of her meditation only to be interrupted by the saviour trying to discover who she was. Again.
"My name is Emma Swan" the blonde said to the 'map' as her parents sat in front of their daughter. Regina was leaning impatiently against a tree as she waited for the Charming family
"I'd wager the solution to Pan's riddle is a bit more complicated than that" Hook interrupted the blonde
"I'd wager more she'll never get there if you keep interrupting her" Amelia said from her spot on the jungle floor making the others send a look towards the redhead before they turned back to Emma
"Don't hold anything back" Mary Margaret encouraged her daughter
"I'm Henry's mother. I used to live in Boston, and I was a bail bondsperson. I'm now the sheriff of Storybrooke"
"That election was a sham" Regina suddenly exclaimed from her spot against the tree
"I voted for her" Amelia added to Regina's comments, making the former Queen send a deadly glare towards the Assassin
"Don't you think maybe you're leaving some things out?" Mary Margaret continued to encourage her daughter
Emma clears her throat and continues "I'm the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming, which apparently makes me the product of true love" Emma continued "I was born in the Enchanted Forest and I was sent through a portal in a tree so that I could break a curse"
Amelia let out a huff of frustration as she stood up from the jungle floor giving up on the mediation and join Regina by the trees. Hopefully Pan will drive her crazy enough kill them all and find Henry herself.
"And you were able to break the curse because you're the..." David supplied his daughter
"Come on. You don't need to be embarrassed to say it" Mary Margaret tells her
"Say what?" Hook asked the others
"The "s" word" Amelia answered the pirate
Emma sat up straight and took in a breath staring at the parchment "I'm the saviour" she finally say's, everyone around her looked onto the blank map to see if it worked. Everyone but Amelia that is. The parchment is still blank. Everyone let out a sigh of frustration at the result of the test "I don't get it. I said I'm the saviour. There's nothing I've denied more than that"
Mary Margaret stepped forwards to try to reassure her daughter "No, it's okay. We'll figure it out"
"No, you won't" Regina tells them stepping up and snatching the parchment from the saviour. Emma exclaimed the woman's name in protest "But I can. I'm beginning to think there isn't a map on here. That doesn't mean it can't lead us to Henry"
"I thought we decided that using magic was a bad idea" David supplied
"Like it would blow up in our face's bad idea" Amelia added to the discussion
"For once I agree with the prince and the Widow" David and Amelia looked at the pirate in confusion "Well, I told you we're getting along"
Regina waves her hand across the parchment making it glow "What the hell are you doing?" Emma asked the older woman
"The locator spell. This parchment belonged to Pan. It'll lead us to him" the parchment flew out of Regina's hand and went straight into the jungle
"So it appears we will be venturing into the Dark Jungle after all" Hook says to the group
"You mean the place you told us never to set foot?" Emma asked the pirate
"That's the one"
Amelia turned to the saviour "Well, you said you wanted to be the leader. Lead"
'Belle' leads Rumple through the jungle with his hand until they come to a cliff edge "So do you know why you brought me to the island?"
"I thought you were gonna show me the answer" he retorted
"Only you know that"
"I've already told you" he tried to reason with the vision
"No, you haven't"
"I have no idea" he tells her, the pair continued to go back and forth until;
"What is it you're not saying?
He paused "I'm a coward" he admitted "I'm just like my father"
"You feel better now, don't you? You know why I'm here"
"You always saw the good in me"
"I still do" Belle chuckled out taking his hand "And as much as you deny it, I think you see it too. So why am I here? What are you wrestling with?" she prodded gently
"Pan offered me a deal. I let him keep Henry, and he allows me to live. The boy needn't be my undoing"
"And you're afraid you'll make a selfish choice"
"I generally do"
"You abandoned your son, Baelfire, and regretted it your whole life. You don't need to do the same to Henry. Letting go of the past... it's the first step"
Gold looked down at the strawdolls in his hands "You know, these was the last thing my father gave me"
"And what happened to him?"
"He left me"
"If you don't want to repeat the mistakes he made, you need to let go" Belle departs from the cliff; leaving Mr. Gold with the dolls. He makes the decision to drop both dolls off the cliff
The group followed Emma and Regina through the Dark Jungle following the spelled parchment as it flew further and further into the jungle.
She was stuck with Mary Margaret trailing at the back as they followed the others.
"So, what happened earlier?" Amelia sent a questioning look towards the Princess, silently asking her to clarify "When you threw a knife at my daughters head"
"I was aiming for Pan" the red head clarified for the princess
"It was more than that, you seemed rattled, was it something to do with your father's ship"
"Yes and no" she answered the Princess "Pan got inside my head, I reacted. Emma just happened to be there. That's what happened" Amelia finished moving further up the group leaving the Princess
"Ready to thank me?" Amelia heard Regina ask Emma at the front of the group
"Actually, yeah"
"If you'd let me do it sooner, maybe we'd have found him by now. Wait." the groups suddenly halted at Regina's order seeing that the parchment had stopped "He's there. Pan. I can feel his smugness" Amelia pulled the hood of her cloak up over her head
Emma and Regina parted letting David and Amelia to the front of the pact with sword and Kukri in hand
David looks over to the redhead "Shall we? While we still have the element of surprise on our side?"
Amelia looked up to the Prince finally on the same wavelength with the corner of her lips quirking up "Let's cut his smug face off" before they both led the group further into the jungle ready to face Pan face to face.
Regina followed the Prince and Assassin leaving Hook to walk past Emma "Careful. He may look like a boy, but he's a bloody demon" Hook warned the saviour and Princess darkly
"Hey. We can do this" Mary Margaret told her daughter "You can do this"
Amelia and David led the group into the empty camp, full of littered tents and campfire's. She scanned the dark camp repeatedly looking out for any movement from the dark camp gripping the Kukri in her hand ready for anything.
But tt was quiet. Too quiet for a camp.
The only thing they heard was animals in the distance and the treetops as they walked into the camp downhill
"No one's here" Mary Margaret voiced to the group "Maybe your spell was wrong, Regina"
Offended by the Princesses insinuation Regina looked back at the Princess "Yes. Blame me... again" Amelia and David split off from the group investigating the campsite closely but the fireplace she found was stone cold. No one had been there for a while
"Guys..." Emma said to the group gaining their attention as she see's something in the distance "Hold on. "Is that... Henry!" the group saw a small figure in the jacket Henry was last seen wearing when he was taken by Greg and Tamara
But the figure turned at Emma's voice only to reveal it was Pan "Hi, Emma" seeing the boy made Amelia's stomach drop, as she pulled the hood from her head to stare at the boy that held Henry hostage
"Where the hell is Henry?" Emma demanded out of the boy
"You broke the rules" he accused the saviour as he paced the high ground surrounding the camp "That's not fair. Bad form" he looked at Hook "I expect more from you, captain"
"Aye, and you'll get it" Hook growled lowly in reply
Pan then looked at Amelia "And you Amelia, you were supposed to help her, I see the apple did fall far from your father's tree after all" Amelia replied simply by tensing both her forearms sending her hidden blades out of her gauntlets hostilely at the boy
"Give Henry to me" Emma tells the boy as he walked into a clearing
"Sorry. Can't" he tells her "Don't you know? Cheaters never win" from the tree's boys whooped and shouted as they surrounded the group of heroes and villains, holding bows and arrows, knifes and god knows what else.
With her Kukri in one hand and her hidden blade extended ready for use she counted the lost boys that surrounded them
"Watch out for the arrows. They're laced with dream shade" Hook warned the group
"Duly noted" Amelia replied arming the mini crossbow on her left forearm as Mary Margaret loaded her bow as Hook, David and Emma readied their swords while Regina flexed her hands ready to unleash her magic on the attackers.
Then they attacked.
The first wave of arrows were easily cut through by those with blades as the lost boys jumped down to face them one on one. Amelia moved into space as three older lost boys surround her she let the hidden blade slice back into her gauntlet and raised her fists "Let's dance boy's" she goaded them
The first swung at her with his fist up high only for the assassin to easily slide under the attacking arm and send swift punches to the boy's stomach before hitting him in the face with both fists sending him back as the second went for the attack and did the same until he was almost knocked out. She grabbed her first attacker and threw him into his comrade before grabbing both their arms over her shoulders, sending her fists into their stomachs each before punching them in the faces each then sending her elbows into the back of their heads sending them onto the floor unconscious
The fight continued around her as she saw David push Mary Margaret out of the way of an arrow only to be grazed by it himself. Hook was caught in a one on one with a lost boy while Regina easily used her magic to fight back the boys coming for her.
Out of the corner of her eye she saw a poisoned arrow that was headed straight for Regina that the Queen didn't see. Snatching her Kukri and threw in in front of the arrow heading for the Queen cutting the arrow in half before it hit its mark, Regina jumped and moved her head to the side as she felt Amelia's Kukri fly by her head and imbed itself into a tree in it's path, she looked down to see an arrow cut in half that was heading for her, putting two and two together.
Brown eyes met green across the battlefield as Amelia lifted her left arm that held the phantom blade aiming it straight at the Queen "Down!" Amelia stated for Regina to follow her orders as she bend her knees down covering her head with both her hands for the small bolt to fly over her head barely missing the Queens dark hair as it hit its target of a lost boys cloak pinning him to the tree behind him
Regina didn't have the chance to thank the assassin before the redhead whirled around to grab a lost boy from the front of his tunic, using his momentum against him to send onto his back making the hood from his cloak fall from the boys head to reveal his face as she held him down onto the ground as she knelt over him.
Time slowed down for the assassin as the hair on the back of her neck sprang on end as her green eye's met his set of brown. The boy had tussled unkempt brown hair made her think about her son for a split second. There was something about his lost boy that made her pause. And the way he was looking at her, so did he.
He didn't fight as she held him down as arrow's continued to fly above them. He knew her as well. But where?
A high pitched whistle sounded through the jungle and the fighting suddenly stopped as the boys stopped their attacks and ran back to Pan "Do yourself a favour and stay down" he nodded at the redhead as she stood up to face Pan on the hill with the others
"Remember what I told you" Pan spoke up making the group of hero's and villains to look up at the boy "That map will show you where Henry is... only when you stop denying who you really are. I'll make sure to send Henry your regards" the lost boys whooped as Pan turned to leave the hero's and villains.
The boy the Amelia took down scrambled from his place to run back to Pan. His browns eye's met Amelia's and flashed gold for a split second as he hesitated to leave the red-haired woman to follow Pan into the jungle
She had a feeling that wouldn't be the last time she would see him.
The group returned to camp in silence as they let the defeat to Pan and the Lost Boy's. They had been punished for their cheating. Amelia knew more than anyone the consequences of cutting corners more than anyone in the group. She retreated to her tent and found the satchel that carried her father's journal's taking another one out.
"I guess I should thank you" she heard Regina's voice behind her
"Like old times, right?" Amelia quipped at the former Queen, she heard Regina chuckle under her breath before she remembered something that Pan had said to them.
"Pan said something about your father" the dark brunette stated
"Mmhmm" Amelia hummed in agreement nodded "It seemed they both knew each other, he knew my mother as well" she told the Queen as she turned around to face the woman she trusted. She had to know whether she was dreaming or not earlier "Before we made camp earlier did you tell me the others were asking about John and Tom"
Regina blinked at the Assassin's question in bewilderment as her brows furrowed in confusion at the assassins question "They were, but I never told you, how did you know?"
"Guys!" Emma's voice interrupted the pair as the blonde ran back into camp with the map "The map is working. We know where Henry is" she tells them making the pair forget about their conversation as they ran to meet Emma and the others to gather around the map to see that it was in fact true
"Where?" Regina asked the blonde as Hook took the map from the saviour
"Uh... we're here at the Southern tip of the isle, in the middle of the Dark Jungle, and Pan's camp lies due north" Hook tells them.
"That's where he's keeping Henry" Emma says outload
"What are we waiting for?" Regina said impatiently to the rest
"Well, the terrain's not easy. There will undoubtedly be some nasty impediments along the way" Hook tells the Queen in annoyance
Amelia scanned the map once more before looking to Hook "Is there a highpoint between here and his camp, something that is high enough to overlook the rest of the island"
"Aye there is, bout halfway" the others looked upon the pirate and assassin in confusion on what she was talking
"Good, if I can get a good viewpoint and my father's journals are accurate, I'll be able to see the nasty impediments before they become a problem"
"Good idea" David complimented the assassin on her foresight "We should prepare. We only made it out of our last encounter because Pan let us. We need a new plan"
"Agreed. It's time we stop playing his game and he starts playing ours" Emma tells the group
"And if I disagree?" Regina spoke up making everyone look at her
"Go ahead, but I think you know our best chance is together"
"You better be right"
Rumple continued his trek through the jungle after his slight detour with Belle and throwing the dolls his father had given him and his sister over a cliff edge into the water, it was time to get back on track.
But he couldn't shake off the feeling of unease as the sounds that surround him from the wind rustling leaves and the sound of bird signing in the distance, he looked up to the night sky only for something to fall out of and land with a couple of thuds at his feet, he looked down to see the straw dolls he had just thrown away.
He picks the dolls back up in confusion only to throw it back on the group conjure a fireball and set both dolls alight before stamping them into the ground with his boot.
He continued only to stop and step back in horror to see both dolls intact lying on the ground once again. He picked them up once again and giving up on trying to destroy them he puts them into the inside pocket of his tunic and continues
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