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Here's the next chapter! I hope you like it :)
Chapter 18
Hanna felt the ship begin to shake…it was moving faster, it felt like it was being sucked down into the water. Hanna held on tight and braced herself for whatever might happen. Then all of a sudden the ship popped up and landed back on top of the water again. The boxes around Hanna were wobbling. The commotion of coming up through the portal caused them to move. Hanna looked up at the boxes, hoping they wouldn't come tumbling down and reveal her presence on the ship. She wasn't ready to face the wrath of the other adults on the ship just yet. Luckily, the boxes stopped moving and stayed just as they were. Hanna let out a breath of relief. She scooted her self up a little bit, so she could get a better look and hear what everyone else was saying.
"Is that it?" Hanna heard Emma ask.
"Aye," Hook responded. "Neverland."
Hanna looked up at the sky. It was so dark here. She couldn't see the land that was in front of them, but by the look of the sky this wasn't the happy place it was made out to be back in their world.
Hanna continued to watch and listen to the grown ups. Emma was arguing with their parents, blaming them for this. She told them that she shouldn't have listened to them and taken Henry when she had the chance. They assured her that she had made the right choice. That they would get Henry back. Hanna, then noticed Mr. Gold step into view. He looked more like Rumplestiltskin the way he was dressed. He declared that he was leaving to find Henry by himself and vanished from the ship, leaving his cane behind. After awhile, Hanna couldn't hear Emma talking anymore, she couldn't see her either and Hook wasn't at the helm steering the ship anymore. Her parents were and they weren't doing a very good job. The ship was rocking like crazy. They couldn't control it. Hanna's hideout was about to be destroyed, the boxes were wobbling like crazy. They were going to fall, Hanna knew it. She prepared herself for the impact. She let out a small scream as the boxes crashed all around her. Fortunately, none of them landed on top of her.
"Hanna?" Snow and Charming both yelled in confusion at the same time as they still tried to control the ship. They had left her back in Storybrooke, where she would be safe. They had no idea how she had managed to get onto the ship. They saw her with Belle as they sailed away. They couldn't think about that right now though. They had a bigger problem. They were left in charge of steering the ship and they were failing miserably.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Regina yelled when she saw Hanna among the pile of fallen boxes. Hanna just gulped, not knowing what to say, as she looked up at Regina.
Before Hanna could answer, Hook came up from below, "Prepare for an attack."
"Be more specific," Regina demanded.
"If you've got a weapon, grab it," he warned as he took back control of the ship.
"Han, what the hell?" Emma said when came up and spotted her sister.
"I…" Hanna started to say before she was interrupted by a screeching sound coming from the water.
"What's out there? A shark? A whale?," Emma asked as she looked over the edge.
"A Kraken?" David suggested.
Hanna went to the side of the ship and looked over the edge into water. "Mermaids," she said as she spotted the fin, which was attached to a woman's body, flap up from the water.
"Aye, the lass is right and those are worse, much worse. I'll try to outrun them," Hook told them.
The mermaids were knocking the sides of ship, causing it to rock. They were surrounding it. Soon, they would have this ship on it's side.
"I will not be capsized by fish," David yelled as he went to a cannon and began firing at them.
Emma and Snow grabbed a net. They were going fishing. They threw the net into the water, hoping for the best. "We caught one," Hanna heard her mother yell. She ran over to where they were. She leaned over the edge and looked into the water. They did it. They actually had one in the net. "Hanna, get away from there," Snow yelled at her daughter, she was not about to have her fall into these waters. She could drowned or be taken by the mermaids. Hanna quickly backed away, trying to cause the least amount of trouble as possible.
"One? There are dozens," Regina said as she came up beside Hanna. "Enough of this," she said, getting fed up with all of this nonsense. She formed a fireball in her hand and threw it into the water. The mermaids cried out and swam away. "There. They're gone," Regina said, satisfied with her work.
"Not all of them. What about that one?" Snow reminded her as she pointed to the mermaid that was still stuck in the net.
With a wave of her hand Regina made the mermaid appear on the ship. Everyone looked at mermaid and then at each other, deciding what to do next. Hook wanted it off of his ship. David reluctantly agreed with the pirate. Regina wanted to keep her as a hostage and threatened to torture her if need be. Snow disagreed with Regina, violence wasn't the answer. As they continued to argue about what to do, Hanna was watching the mermaid. "You guys," Hanna said as she pointed to the mermaid, who had just grabbed a shell. Hanna watched as she blew through the end, causing a loud noise to bellow out.
"What the hell was that?" Emma asked as everyone covered their ears.
"A warning," the mermaid said. "Now let me go or die." Just as she finished talking the wind started to pick up and thunder was getting louder. David and Regina tried to get the mermaid to tell them what she had done with the shell. Snow still trying to convince Regina that violence wasn't the answer. According to Hook, it didn't matter because mermaids were liars and couldn't be trusted. Snow just wanted to let the mermaid go, thinking if they did, the rest of the mermaids would leave them alone. Regina was convinced that they would just come back and kill them all. The mermaid just grinned and promised she didn't need her friends—that they would kill themselves. David, becoming impatient, grabbed the mermaid by the hair and placed the blade against her neck. Hanna jumped at her dad's reaction to the mermaid. It looked like he was really going to slit her throat. Regina laughed and seemed to enjoy this new side of Prince Charming. Hanna made eye contact with her dad and after seeing the look on her face, David withdrew his sword and changed his mind about beheading the fish. Hanna listened to more fighting and the next thing she knew, Regina had turned the mermaid into wood. The storm seemed to have calmed down for a second, but then…
"Regina! What did you do?" Emma shouted. Hanna looked where Emma's wide eyes looked with panic and saw a huge wave. A wave that could flood the whole ship.
"No," Regina said with regret when she saw the wall of water.
Hanna felt her mom grab hold of her, shielding her from the impact of the wave. Hanna held onto her mom and braced herself. The waves crashed onto the ship, spraying them with water. Luckily, the worst thing that happened was their clothes being completely soaked through.
Realizing the worst was over, Snow let go of Hanna and started right back at it with Regina. Hanna gasped when she watched her mom punch Regina right in the face. Regina punched her back and that's when it all let loose. They continued to go at it full force. Then, Hanna watched as her dad and Hook started throwing punches. Hanna ran over to Emma, who was now in control of the ship, struggling to keep it steady. Emma and Hanna looked up at the sky, the storm was getting even worse. Then they both came to the same realization and looked at each other.
"It's not the mermaids," Hanna said.
"It's us," Emma said, "The fighting, that's what's causing the storm.
They both tried yell and get everyone's attention, but it wasn't working. They weren't listening. They were too busy fighting one another. They were all going to die, if Hanna and Emma didn't do something fast. The storm was just going to get worse and worse until the Jolly Roger was sunk to the bottom of the Neverland seas. Hanna watched as Emma ran to the side of the ship and stood on the edge. "Hey! Stop! You need to listen," Emma tried once more, but it was no use. Hanna could tell by the look on Emma's face what she was planning on doing next.
"Emma! No!" Hanna said just as Emma dove into the water. "Mom! Dad!" Hanna yelled in a desperate attempt to get her parents to finally listen. Snow and Charming heard their daughter's panicked voice and realized what Emma had done. They ran right over to rescue her from the roaring seas. Hanna watched as her dad tied a rope around his waist and jumped in after her. It seemed like it took forever, but Hanna finally saw her dad resurface with Emma in his arms. Hook and Regina came over, and they all worked together to pull Emma out. They laid her gently on the ground, Snow holding Emma's head. Charming and Hanna kneeled down beside Emma. Hanna noticed that she was not breathing and just as she was about to panic, Emma started to cough and spit out the sea water. Snow, David, and Hanna all smiled and looked up to see that the storm had stopped. "I told you," Emma said with a grin.
Now that the storm had stopped and Emma was safe, everyone turned and all eyes were on Hanna. Hanna let out a nervous laugh and tucked her hair behind her ears as she got up. "Uh…hey guys," she said with a small wave. And that's when they started in on her.
"What are you doing here? What were you thinking? Han, this is crazy! Are you insane? How did you get on my ship?" they all said to her at the same time. Hanna's eyes went wide, she didn't know what to say. She didn't even know where to begin. She didn't know how to explain what had happened. She didn't even know how she had gotten onto the ship.
"Hanna," Snow said calmly as she walked over to her daughter, noticing the look of worry on her face. "Tell us what happened."
"Mom…I don't know. I really don't I…" Hanna paused, thinking back on what happened in that moment she went from standing on the dock with Belle to being among a pile of boxes on the ship. "I just remember being there with Belle, watching you leave and really really wanting to come with you. Then, the I felt myself being pulled away. I couldn't feel the ground and when I opened my eyes I was on the ship. I'm sorry…I don't know what happened."
"You used magic," Regina said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"What?" Snow, David, and Emma said simultaneously when they heard what Regina had said. Hanna just stood there, shocked, trying to take in Regina's assessment of the situation.
"Isn't it obvious?" Regina said with a roll of her eyes. "She poofed herself onto the ship."
"I did?" Hanna asked in disbelief. There was no way she had magic. Wouldn't she know? Wouldn't she have felt it before? But it did kind of make sense. Emma had magic because she was the product of true love, but so was Hanna. She and Emma were twins. The fact that she had magic too shouldn't really have been such a shock, but it really was.
"Yes," Regina said as if bored with this topic. "Now, what are we going to do with her?" Regina asked as she looked at Snow and Charming.
"What do you mean?" Snow asked.
"Is she just going to come trudging through the jungle with us?" Regina asked with a raise of her eyebrows. "We'll have to keep an eye on her the whole time. She'll hinder our mission of finding Henry. She'll be a distraction."
"Regina!" Snow exclaimed. "We can't just leave her on the ship."
"She's coming with us. It'll be fine," David assured her.
"I'm sorry," Hanna started to say as she looked around at everyone. She wouldn't lie, she was glad to be here, but she felt bad. She didn't want to get in the way of finding Henry. "I…I didn't mean to."
"We know. It's okay," Snow assured her daughter. "This is the situation now, so we're just going to have to make the best of it," she said as she eyed up everyone else on the ship especially Regina.
They all made their way off of the ship. Emma told everyone that they're going to have to work together in order to save Henry.
"You want us to be friends?" Regina asked, not too thrilled with the idea.
"I don't expect that. I know there's a lot of history here, a lot of hate."
"I don't hate you. I rather fancy you from time to time when you're not yelling at me," Hook said with a smirk.
Hanna rolled her eyes at the pirate's remark. She really didn't like him very much. Emma continued to explain to everyone that working together was the only way they were going to get Henry back, and they were just going to have to suck it up and deal with it. Eventually, everyone agreed and followed Emma into the jungle.
They had been trudging through the jungle for what felt like hours. Hook was taking them to a ridge where they could get a good look at all of Neverland. They would be able to see Pan's hideout and figure out where he's hiding Henry. Hanna really hoped they would be arriving at their destination soon. It was really hot and she was getting tired.
"Here Hanna, drink some water," Snow said as she handed her the container.
"Thanks," Hanna said as she gratefully took it from her mom and took a long drink.
"Here Em, you too," Snow said as she gave the water to Emma once Hanna was finished.
"Thanks Mary Margaret," Emma said as she quenched her thirst. Hanna noticed that Emma hadn't called her "mom" like she had back in the mines. Hanna looked over at her mom to see how she would react to that.
"You know Mary Margaret is a bit formal. You can call me mom if you want. You've done it before."
"Yeah…well that was back when we were…"
"About to die. Oh no, I get it," Snow said. Hanna could see that her mom was a little hurt by Emma's decision to not call them "mom" and "dad" anymore.
"You know it's not that big of a deal to call them mom and dad," Hanna said when they were out of earshot of their mother. "You get use to it." Hanna assured her.
"Thanks, Hanna. I'll keep that in mind," Emma said as she walked ahead towards the rest of the group. Hanna figured Emma would come around eventually. She didn't like being pushed into things.
When they caught up to the front of the group, Hanna noticed Hook and her dad were arguing about which direction to take. "Your father's a distrustful fellow," Hook told Emma as David walked off in the direction he chose. Hanna looked up and glared at Hook. She didn't like what he said about her dad. He had plenty of reasons not to trust the pirate. "As is your sister I can see," Hook said, giving Hanna a wink. Hanna just rolled her eyes and kept walking.
"He just isn't use to working with the bad guys," Emma told him.
"Well I can assure you, on this island, I am not the bad guy," Hook said.
"Yeah, well Pan isn't suppose to be one either."
"What possibly gave you that idea?" Hook asked.
"Every story I ever heard as a child," Emma said with a raise of her eyebrows.
"Well they got it wrong. Pan is the most treacherous villain I have ever faced. Tell me something love, in these stories what was I like, other than a villain, handsome I gather?" he asked with a smile.
Hanna grinned and tried to keep herself from giggling. She looked up at Hook who was giving her a questioning look. Hanna noticed and tried to keep a straight face.
Emma looked over and grinned at Hanna "If waxed mustaches and perms are your thing," she told Hook as she continued to walk. Hanna didn't even try to hold it in anymore. She just burst out laughing and kept following her sister through the jungle
"I take it by your tone and the girl's laughter that perms are bad?" he asked, but not receiving an answer.
Once they made it to the top, they couldn't see a thing. Apparently the jungle had grown a lot since the last time Hook had been there. They decided to set up camp and get some sleep. This idea was not taken well by Emma and Regina, but they were eventually convinced that it was for the best. They had to survive in order to save Henry and sleeping was something they were just going to have to do.
The camp was all set up and everyone was getting ready to get some rest. "You're with us kiddo," David told Hanna. Snow and David were not happy that their youngest daughter had managed to come along. They had no idea what dangers were in the jungles of Neverland. They wanted Hanna right next to them just in case something would happen while they slept. They were not going to let anything happen to Hanna while they were in this horrible place. They would have both of their girls sleeping right next to them if they could, but Emma was an adult and they couldn't force her to sleep with them if she didn't want to.
"Okay," Hanna said as she rubbed her eyes and made her way over to her parents. She wasn't going to protest. She was too tired and part of her actually liked sleeping right in between her mom and dad. The three of them laid down and drifted off to sleep with Snow and Charming's arms protectively draped over their little girl.
Hanna woke with a start. She sat up and looked around the camp, seeing that her sister had also been woken up. "Do you hear it too?" Emma asked Hanna.
"Yeah, where is it coming from?" Hanna replied. They could both hear cries coming from the jungle. Hanna watched as Emma got up, sword in hand, and headed into the jungle. Hanna looked down at her parents. "Mom. Dad. Wake up," she tried, but it didn't work, they were fast asleep. Hanna didn't want her sister to go out into the jungle all by herself, so she jumped up and went with her.
"Hanna what are you doing?" Emma said as she turned to see her sister following her.
"I'm coming with you."
"No, you need to stay…ugh whatever, come on," Emma said with a roll of her eyes. She knew Hanna would just put up a fight and she didn't have time for that. The girls continued their trek through the jungle.
"You girls hear that too?" said a voice from behind, causing them to practically jump out of their skin. Emma instinctively pulled Hanna closer to her with one arm and held her sword up with the other. "You're Emma right? And Hanna is it?" the boy said as he looked at the two girls in front of him. "I wonder why they can't hear the crying?" Hanna did find it odd that no one else at the camp was woken up by the sound of the cries.
"Who are you?" Emma asked with a distrustful look in her eyes.
"Oh did I forget to introduce myself? I'm Peter. Peter Pan."
At the sound of his name, Emma charged toward the boy, placing her sword to his neck. "Where's Henry?" she asked with determination in her eyes.
"Tell us where he is!" Hanna demanded as she charged towards Pan as well. Emma quickly grabbed her, holding her back.
"You two have got fire. I like fire," he said with a smirk. He continued to assure Emma and Hanna that Henry was indeed alive and that he was a very special boy, but was being very allusive about why he took him in the first place. He then proceeded to give Emma a map…a blank map, which the girls took note of right away. This map would apparently lead them to Henry. He told them that Emma would be the one that would be able to reveal the path to finding Henry, once she stopped denying who she really was.
"What does he mean when you stop denying who you really are?" Hanna asked Emma as they made their way back to camp.
"I don't know, but I will figure it out," Emma said with determination.
When the girls got back to camp, they woke everyone up and told them about their encounter with Peter Pan and the map that would lead them to Henry. David and Snow set off right away to see if they could track down Pan, before he got too far away.
Hanna watched as Emma tried to make the map work. Hanna still didn't know what Pan meant about Emma denying who she really was. What was she denying? She broke the curse and believed everything that she and Henry had told her about the Enchanted Forest. She believed that Snow White and Prince Charming were her parents and that she was her sister. What more was there?
"There's no sign of him," David said as he and Snow came back.
"Any luck with the map?" Snow asked as she walked over to Emma.
"Don't hold your breath," Regina said, obviously annoyed. She suggested that they stop wasting time and use magic to reveal the contents of the map. Emma refused and Hook warned her that breaking Pan's rules would be unwise.
"Can I see it?" Hanna asked as she reached out her hand. She knew she wouldn't be able to get the map to appear, but she just wanted to look at it. She wanted to do something. The longer they sat there trying, the longer Henry was stuck with Pan. Who knows what Pan and those lost boys were doing to him.
"No!" Emma said as she slammed her hand down onto the parchment, preventing her sister from taking it. She looked up at her sister and sighed, "Sorry Han, I just have to be the one to do this okay?"
Hanna nodded her head and went to sit in between her parents. She hugged her legs and rested her chin on her knees as she waited for Emma to figure this out. "She'll figure it out, don't worry," David told her with a wink as he put his arm around her. Hanna leaned into her dad and listen as Emma was telling the map anything she could think of…that she was Emma Swan, she was Henry's mother, she use to live in Boston, and she is the sheriff of Storybrooke. None of it was working. Hook made a snide remark about the solution to Pan's riddle being more complicated than that. Hanna just rolled her eyes at Hook's comment, which was obviously not very encouraging. Snow encouraged her daughter to dig a little deeper, saying that she was leaving some things out. Emma sighed and continued "I am the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming, which apparently makes me the product of true love. I was born in the Enchanted Forest and sent through a portal in a tree so I could break a curse…"
"And you were able to break the curse because…" David said encouragingly, trying to get Emma to admit something that she didn't necessarily want to admit. "You're the…"
"Come on. You don't need to be embarrassed to say it," Snow told her.
"Say what?" Hook asked
"The 'S' word," Regina answered.
Emma took a deep breath and looked down at the map once more. "I am the saviour."
Hanna lifted her head up and watched the map, waiting for it to do something…anything. There was nothing Emma denied more than that, it had to work…this had to be it. Hanna looked with hopeful eyes, but nothing happened. The map remained the same, as blank as it was when Pan gave it to her.
Tired of these games, Regina grabbed the map from Emma's hands. She waved her hand over the parchment, causing it to glow. She informed everyone that it was a locator spell and all they needed to do was follow it and it would lead them straight to Pan. Hanna watched as the map began to float in the air. With Emma at the lead, the group followed the glowing parchment into the dark jungle.
After walking for a while, they came upon a camp. Hanna looked up to see a boy standing on the other side of the camp, in a very familiar coat. It was him. "Henry!" Hanna exclaimed as she ran over to him. Everyone else followed. However, when he turned around, it wasn't Henry…it was Pan. He just smirked and informed them that they broke the rules and that cheaters never win.
All of a sudden the group was surrounded by lost boys with weapons in hand ready to fight. The group got their weapons ready to defend themselves. Snow and Charming stood on either side of their daughter protecting her from arrows that were coming from every direction. Not one of those arrows was going to touch their little girl, they would make sure of it. Hanna watched as her dad deflected the arrows with his sword and her mom shot arrow after arrow at the lost boys. She was just thinking how awesome it was seeing them in action like this when she felt a hand clamp over her mouth and everything went black.
