"Well, then, I'm sorry for you. Even if he or I wanted to, I can't help you."
He looked to Hook. "Why? You're a captain. Can't you take your ship wherever you want?"
"A captain?" Black Beard said. "Is that who he says he is? I thought I told you two to be done swabbing the decks when I return."
"I'm sorry, Captain Black Beard," Hook apologized.
"Wait... He's the captain?" Henry asked.
"Indeed," Black Beard confirmed. "Unless deckhand Hook and Matthew want to keep playing pretend. What do you say, Hook? Beat me, and the Jolly Roger is yours. Or are you still a one-handed coward?"
"What are you doing?! Stand up to him! You can beat him."
"I'm afraid you don't know me very well," Hook said. "I'm sorry. I can't help you."
"Then I'll have to help you," he reasoned as he cut a rope and a pulley knocked out Black Beard.
"Ugh!" Black Beard groaned.
"What the bloody hell are you doing?!" Hook cried.
Henry stared at Hook. "Getting you your ship back. Come on. Let's dump Black Beard and go."
"You think it's that easy? I can't sail the Jolly Roger alone," Hook told him.
"I can help."
"How do you know how to sail a ship?"
"I had a great teacher... You."
Grace smiled at Henry and nodded.
SEA
"Look!" Henry and Grace cried. "We found it!"
"There's a black knight standing guard," Hook told him.
"Only one," Henry said. "We can take him out."
"Well, you perhaps you hadn't noticed, but I'm a deckhand, not a soldier."
Grace thought for a moment before she said, "Then maybe we don't need to fight."
Hook brought Henry to the black knight as a prisoner and said, "We're here on official business for the queen, delivering a dangerous prisoner from the kingdom of Kashyyyk." Henry hit the black knight. "Well done, lad."
"The Wookiee prisoner gag... It always works," Henry said.
"The what?"
"Never mind. Lock the guard in the cell. I'll be back with my mom and Nevaeh as soon as I can."
"What..."
EMMA AND NEVAEH'S CELL
"Hi. My name is..." Henry was cut off.
"Henry," Emma and Nevaeh said.
"Mom? Nevaeh?"
"Henry."
"You... You remember."
"Nevaeh and I knew you'd find us," Emma said as she hugged Henry.
"I don't understand. How do you two remember when no one else does?"
"Must have been part of Gold's plan. Nevaeh's and my punishment in this world is that we know the truth but we're powerless to do anything about it. In this world, I'm no longer the savior and Nevaeh is no longer the White Queen. We've got no magic."
"That's all right. I think I know what to do. Now, come on."
"Wait," Nevaeh called. "Grace and the twins. Are they okay?"
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Sound of Surviving
FantasyNevaeh and her family are transported to another world. One is cursed to forget and two are cursed to remember. A young boy brings his biological mother to his hometown, and everything everyone knew quickly changes. [Tuesday updates (for the time be...
