David was in the front of the group as he cut through more plants. As David cut another branch Hook said, "The ridge is just a few hundred paces up ahead."
"You really think we're going to be able to see Pan's hideout." Emma asked
"Not a chance." Ella said
"Bella's right but from there we should be able to see something." Hook said
Regina sighed and said, "You know I could've just poofed us up here in an instant."
"Where? Do you have any idea what's up here? Or anywhere?" Ella asked
"Well then you do it." Regina said
"I can't magic's not right here, for me anyway, it's like it's weaker than usual." Ella replied
"There are dangers all about only me and Ella can guide you past them." Hook said
"Hook's right. He and Ella have lived here before. If they say hiking is the best way then we listen." Emma said
"Woah, you used my real name well done."
About a minute later David was about to cut at a large bush when Ella yelled, "Stop!"
Hook grabbed his arm and said, "No!"
David gave him a glare and said, "I can handle a couple of thorns."
"That's dreamshade David, it's not the thorns you want to worry about it's the poison they have on them." Ella explained
Hook nodded and said, "The plant is the source of the toxins I used on the Dark One."
"The poison that almost killed Gold?" Emma asked
Hook nodded and said, "Indeed. I used a concentrated dose, In it's natural form..."
"Death would be much slower and a lot more painful believe me it's not nice I would know." Ella said finishing for Hook
"You've been scratched by it?" Regina asked
Ella nodded and said, "Yeah, Pan knows how to cure it."
"How have you left then?" Hook said
Ella shrugged and said, "Honestly I have no clue."
Hook pointed to his left and said, "I suggest we go this way."
Ignoring Hook David said, "We'll go this way."
Ella shook her head as she walked behind David
When they made it to the ridge, Ella heard Emma and Hook coming up behind her
"Pan's lair should be just right..." Hook trailed off
"Where? All I see is Jungle"
"Aye, Dark Jungle." Hook said opening his spyglass, holding it to his eye
"It's uh grown somewhat since I last stepped foot in Neverland... Ella anything?" Hook said putting his spyglass away
"Why are you asking me? I haven't been here in over fifty years if you think it's grown what do you think I'm thinking?" Ella said, a little shocked by how much it has actually grown
"So this nature hike was for nothing?" Regina asked
David sighed and said, "Hook may have led us astray... but at least we're in a good place to start combing the jungle."
"Not exactly... the dark jungle is the last place you wanna go it kind of scares me and that's saying something, we'll have to go around it. And if we're going to do that we're gonna need our strength so I think we should set up camp." Ella said
"You want to sleep whilst my son is out there suffering?" Regina said motioning to the jungle
"Yeah Regina I do and if we want to live long enough to save Henry we will. To be honest I would rather not sleep but I have literally no energy left and I'm dying so I'm going to win this, it just depends are you going to fight me on this? If you are I will quite literally push you off this cliff." Ella said with a glare
Ella then walked back down the hill behind Hook and Regina.
As David, Mary Margaret and Emma stayed behind Ella felt herself get grabbed from behind and pushed against a tree.
She quickly grabbed her dagger and put to her attackers neck.
But it quickly dropped as she saw who it was
"It's about time you found me." Ella whispered
Peter smiled and before he could say anything Ella had her arms around him, hugging him tightly.
He wrapped his arms around her and span her around saying, "I'm so sorry I didn't find you sooner."
Peter set her back on the ground and rested his forehead against hers and said, "I love you so much."
"I love you too, and all I want to do is kiss you right now but we can't." Ella sighed
"Why not? You won't die?" Peter said confused.
"If I go back and I'm not dying, they'll think that we set this entire thing up, they are very distrusting right now."
"And they can't know that you've seen me." Peter sighed
"You're going to lure them into a trap aren't you?" Ella said and Peter nodded, "Okay, I'm assuming knowing you there's going to be a fight so get Felix to fight me and only me so then when everyone is distracted I'll go and they will think that you've kidnapped me."
"Yeah... that could work." Peter said with a small smile
Peter stopped talking because he saw Ella spin around and start throwing up black blood onto the floor. He held her hair back and rubbed her back as she kept throwing up.
When she turned back she saw Peter looking at her with fear laced all over his face.
"I'm fine." She said wiping the blood off of her mouth
"No you're not." He ran his hand through his hair, " We're doing it tonight."
"You're going to do all of that in one night?" Ella said raising her eyebrows
"I don't care how but I will I'm not loosing you again."
Ella nodded and said, "Okay, I need to go they're going to start wondering where I am."
"I love you." Peter said as Ella began to walk off
Ella turned back and said, "I love you too... tell Felix I'm not going to hold back I haven't had a decent fight in a while."
. . . . .
Later that night Regina was asleep on the ground with David and Mary Margaret a few feet away from her.
Hook was also lying on the floor beside Ella was asleep up against a tree.
Emma on the other hand, couldn't sleep because she kept hearing crying.
Emma stood up and grabbed her sword and said, "Guys! Wake up!"
When no one woke up she looked over to Ella who actually looked relaxed for once so she didn't want to wake her.
Instead she walked into the jungle, she looked around for the person who was crying but she couldn't see anyone.
Emma quickly span around when she heard a voice say, "You hear them too?"
Emma saw a boy wearing all green standing behind her as he leaned against a tree.
"You're Emma right." The boy said not even remotely threatened by Emma pointing her sword at him, " I wonder why they can't hear the crying?"
"Who are you?" Emma asked still pointing her sword at the boy
"Oh did I forget to introduce myself? I'm Peter, Peter Pan."
Emma quickly pushed Peter against the tree with her sword at his neck, "Where's my son?"
"You've got fire. I like fire... But not on you." Peter said with a smirk
"You like it on Ella, Where's Henry?" Emma said with a glare
"Henry's still alive if that's what you're worried about." Peter said
Emma frowned and said, "Why the hell did you take him!"
"He's a very special boy Emma."
"I know but that doesn't answer my question. What do you want with him?" Emma snapped
Peter smirked again and said, "I came here to see who I was up against, the saviour. Got to say I'm not disappointed..."
"Are you prepared to go up against your girlfriend though."
"I know, my girlfriend very well, she'd probably ill me to get Henry back, I wouldn't put it past her though." Peter laughed
Emma glared at him and said, "What are you gonna say now? You gonna tell me how I'm never going to see Henry again?"
Peter looked at her acting confused and said, "No, I'm going to help you find him" Peter sighed, "I'll give you a map."
Emma let him go and he pulled a piece of paper out of his shirt and said "A map that will lead you straight to your son."
"If this is some kind of trap-"
Emma was cut off by Peter chuckling saying, " I may not be the most well behaved boy on the island, but I always keep my promises. The path to finding Henry is on this parchment."
"Why are you giving it to me?"
"See it's not about finding Henry. It's about how you find him. And Emma you're the only one that can." Peter said.
Emma glared as she snatched the parchment from him, she looked down as she opened the paper but looked up at him again as she said, "It's blank."
"You will only be able to read that map when you stop denying who you really are." Peter stated
"Did you know that Ella was dying." Emma said as she was about to walk away
"Of course I did!" Peter snapped
"Then why haven't you saved her yet, why haven't you taken her?" Emma asked
"Worry about your problems not mine."
Emma looked back down at the map , but when she looked back up Peter was gone.
. . . .
"He so likes his game." Hook commented as Regina was pacing up and down the clearing
After Emma had come back from talking to Peter she was shocked to see Ella wiping her mouth and moving away from the pile of black blood on the floor.
Emma had immediately told Ella what Peter had said and she simply responded by walking over to Hook and kicking him in the gut, then walking into the bushes to throw up again.
"What game? There's nothing there." Regina insisted
Ella, who was leaning on Hook's knee as he was sitting on a rock said, "If he says there's a map on there, then there is a map on there."
"Great. If I just stop denying who I am, whatever that means. Then we'll be able to read this thing. Emma said as she stared intensely at the paper, Ella actually thought it might combust
"How do we know that Pan won't use it to lead us into a trap?" Regina said
Ella slightly smirked then said, "Because he doesn't need to."
"She's right this whole islands his bloody trap." Hook said standing up from the rock
Ella nodded and said, "This place is full with traps I was actually scared to walk around here on my own until I learnt where everything was."
"There's no sign of him anywhere." David said as he and Mary Margaret came walking out of the jungle
"I told you, you wouldn't find him but hey who listens to me around here not like I lived here."
Hook smiled at Ella as Mary Margaret said, "Any luck with the map."
"Don't hold your breath." Regina said
"What's that supposed to mean." Emma said not looking up from the paper.
Regina sighed and said, "Don't you see what he's doing? Every second we spend talking about this is another second we are not looking for my son!"
"You got a better idea?" Emma said still not looking up
Regina simply said, "Magic."
Ella rested her head on her knees and groaned as David and Mary Margaret sighed
"If there's a lock on there, I'll find a way around it." Regina said as she reached for the paper
Emma slapped her hand down on the paper and said, "Pan said it had to be me."
"I'd listen to Emma love breaking Pans rules would be unwise." Hook stated
"Peter does not like cheaters and if you use magic that's what you'll be." Ella said
David nodded and said, "Sadly I agree with the pirate."
"I'm winning you over I can feel it." Hook said with a smirk
Ella rolled her eyes and stood up as Mary Margaret said, "And your magic doesn't exactly have a gentle touch, Regina."
"Use it on the map and it could blow up in all our faces." David said
Ella and Hook shared a look as Regina said, "Well that's a risk I'm willing to take."
Ella walked in between Regina and David who looked like they were about to fight each other and said, "Normally I would be up for you two fighting and hopefully one of you tearing the other one apart but we're stuck on an island where everything and everyone wants to kill us so for the love of God actually listen to me and Hook we can stop you dying a very painful-"
Ella was cut off by Emma saying, "-Ella!"
Ella span around and said, "I don't take orders from you."
"If I need to figure this thing out, then I need to do what Pan says." Emma said moving away from the eye view of the grumpy thief
"Great" Regina said
"She'll get there!" Mary Margaret said
Everyone sighed as Mary Margaret walked over to Emma and Ella walked back and sat down against a tree.
About half an hour later Emma had resorted to saying different things.
"My name is Emma Swan"
"It is going to be a bit more complicated than that." Ella said as she spat out blood from her mouth to her right.
Mary Margaret and David were sitting in front of Emma like little children waiting to be read a story
"Don't hold anything back." Mary Margaret said
Emma sighed and said, "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 are we really doing this?" Regina snapped
"Don't you think you're leaving some things out?" Mary Margaret said
Emma sighed again and said, "I'm the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming which apparently makes me the product of true love... my sister is the Knave of Hearts." Ella shuffled in her seat from being called that, "I was born in the Enchanted Forest, and I was sent through a portal in a tree so that I could break the curse."
"And you were able to break the curse because..." David asked, "You're the..."
"Come on you don't need to embarrassed to say it." Mary Margaret encouraged
"I would be." Ella said to Hook, "Though I a perfectly fine with admitting that I'm the destroyer and all that."
"Say what?" Hook asked
"The 'S' word." Regina said
Emma's back straightened as she said, "And I'm the Saviour."
Everyone looked at the paper except Ella who knew that it had no chance of working.
"I don't get it. I said that I was the saviour there's nothing I denied more than that." Emma said defeated
"It's okay we'll figure it out."
"No she won't" Regina took the paper from Emma's hands
"Regina!" Ella said standing up from the floor, "Listen to me your magic will ruin it."
"I'm beginning to think there's not a map on here... but it doesn't mean it can't lead us to Henry." Regina said as she held the paper in her hand as she moved her hand over it
David immediately said, "I thought we agreed that using magic is a bad idea?"
"For once I agree with the prince." Hook said and David looked over to him
"I told you we were getting along."
"What the hell are you doing?" Emma said as the paper began to glow
"A locator spell. This parchment belonged to Pan. It'll lead us to him."
The paper then started floating away into the jungle as Ella shook her head knowing that it was not going to end well.
"So it looks like we're going into the dark jungle after all. "Ella said noticing where the Paper was floating towards
"You mean the place you told us never to go?" Emma asked
Hook nodded and said, "That's the one."
"Well Emma... you said you wanted to be the leader... lead." Ella said with a smirk
Ella was in front of the group as they cut through the branches following the paper, she was in major pain, the curse was moving unusually fast today.
"Ready to thank me?" Regina said
"Actually yeah." Emma said which caused Ella to register what Emma had said again
"If you'd let me do it sooner, maybe we'd have found him by now." Regina said as she stopped in front of everyone.
"Wait, Pan he's here, I can feel his smugness."
"I've heard people say some odd things on this island but that... that is the best one I've ever heard." Ella laughed
David moved in front of Regina and took out his sword saying, "Shall we? While we still have the element of surprise?"
David and Regina started walking forwards again when Hook said, "Careful he may look like a boy but he's a bloody demon."
"Didn't you say the same thing about me?" Ella said walking backwards
"And I was right." Hook said with a smirk
"No one's here maybe your spell was wrong?" Mary Margaret said when they had walked around for a couple of minutes.
"Yes blame me... again." Regina said as the walked down the hill.
Ella looked around and stopped when she realised what was happening, this was his plan to get her because this was not their camp.
Right as they got to the bottom and David was going to look around Emma stopped him saying, "Hold on... is that?"
Ella looked over to where Emma was looking and immediately knew this wasn't Henry
Henry was shorter
and he had darker hair
This was Peter definitely
"Henry!" Emma yelled as she ran towards him
"Hi Emma." Peter said as he turned around
"Where the hell is Henry?" Emma asked
Peter simply started walking and said, "You broke the rules. That's not fair. Bad form I expected more from you captain."
"Aye and you'll get it." Hook said with a glare at Peter
"Give Henry to me." Emma demanded
"Sorry can't don't you know cheaters never win." Peter said with a smirk
Just then a lot of lost boys came out of no where and surrounded the group.
"Watch out for their arrows." Hook said as Ella quickly span around and sliced an arrow covered in dreamshade in half.
She glared over to the boy that had shot it at her and he ran
Ella then heard someone behind her and quickly span her sword around hitting it against one of the Lost Boy's swords.
"Felix?" Ella whispered
"Fight." He whispered back
Ella then kicked him in the gut which made him stumble back, "Oh I will." She said with a smirk
Before she could strike again a wave of pain went through her head and she held her head in pain, "Ella? What's happening." Felix said as her knees buckled and he ran to catch her.
"Get me out of here Now!"
Felix and Ella then ran into the jungle leaving her family fighting the lost boys heading to the real camp.
. . . .
Felix had left Ella in the tree house sitting on the bed and twenty minutes later Ella heard the lost boys flood back into the camp and Peter run up the stairs
Ella stayed seated as Peter rushed over to her and before she could say anything, he bent down and kissed her. Ella wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him back immediately.
When they finished the kiss, Ella felt her brain be less foggy, her muscles no longer ached and she then pulled up her sleeves and saw that they were no longer covered in veins.
"They're gone." Ella whispered
"Did you doubt me?" Peter smiled
"Never, I just didn't think I'd ever see you again." Ella said shaking her head
. . . .
Emma ran over to the rest of the group saying, "The map is working, we know where Ella and Henry are."
"Where?!" Regina asked as she ran over
Emma handed Hook the map and he said, "We're here at the southern tip of the isle in the middle of the dark jungle. Pan's camp lies due north"
"That's where he's keeping them." Emma said
Regina then immediately said, "Well what are we waiting for?"
"Well the terrains not easy.. there'll will, no doubt be some nasty impediments along the way." Hook explained
David nodded and said, "We should prepare. We only made it out of out last encounter because Pan let us-"
Mary Margaret cut him off saying, "Only because he got what he wanted, Ella."
"We need a new plan." David said with a nod
Emma nodded and said, "Agreed. It's time we stop playing his game and he starts playing ours."
"And if I disagree." Regina asked
Then they all span around as they heard, "Well you could, but I think you should stick together."
They looked over and saw Ella leaning against a tree, looking healthy and not dying.
"How are you here?" Emma asked
"Do you know how long it took me to persuade him to let me come here? He had the idea that you wouldn't let me leave."
"And he's right." Mary Margaret nodded
Ella sighed and said, "Get Henry, don't come for me."
"Why would we leave you?" Regina asked
Ella smiled and said, "Well he's protective over everything, it's one thing to take Henry, but to take me... oh that's a bad idea it's a death wish. Hook knows... all you need to know is that I'm not dying anymore, I'm fine so you need to get Henry and leave."
Then Ella disappeared in a puff of red smoke and they all turned to Hook who said, "When I was here, I offered to take Ella home but then Pan appeared and she's right it would not be a smart decision to take her with us."
"No we're going to get her, we get Henry and Ella then we go home."
. . . .
"Hold on a minute." Mary Margaret said as they were making food
"What is it?" David asked
"Ella, she said she was older than us back when the curse first broke but Hook said he was here for two hundred years and saw Ella when he first arrived."
"Yeah and?" Hook said
"How old is our daughter?" Mary Margaret asked
. . . .
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