Sound of Surviving

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NEVERLAND - PRESENT DAY

David, Emma, Hook, Nevaeh, Jefferson and Mary Margaret ranged the woods searching for Henry and Grace as they walked single file. Mary Margaret led the way.

David panted and asked, "Hey, need a break?"

"No, I'm good," Mary Margaret replied.

"In this heat, you shouldn't overtax yourself."

"Oh, so you need a break."

"No, I'm good."

""David Nolan" let himself go."

"Does he look like he'd let himself go?"

"How much further?" Regina and Jefferson wondered, looking around.

Emma took a look on the map. "We should be getting close to Pan's lair." They were catching up with David and Mary Margaret. "Going in a straight line course..." She looked on the map and frowned. "Son of a bitch! How is it now behind us?"

"How can that be?" Mary Margaret asked.

"You got us lost," Regina retorted.

Hook held a lamp as he said, "No, she didn't. It's the camp. Pan's moving it."

"He's playing tricks with us," David realized.

"If Pan's camp keeps moving how are we ever gonna find Henry and Grace?" Emma questioned.

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Henry and Grace slept under a tree. Someone cuckooed from behind.

"Wake up. Catch," Pan said as he threw an apple towards Henry and Grace.

Henry sat up and replied, "I don't like apples."

"Who doesn't like apples?"

"It's a family thing."

Pan smiled. "Well, don't worry." He crouched down to the same eye level as Henry and Grace. "They're not for eating. It's for a kind of game. A really fun game." He aimed with a crossbow. "I call it target practice."

Grace glanced at Henry with a fearful expression and Henry pushed her behind him.

THE ENCHANTED FOREST - PRESENT DAY - THE DARK CASTLE

Neal was looking for something in a wardrobe. Robin Hood and Mulan were watching him.

"You found the crystal ball," Mulan said. "What else are you looking for?"

"It showed me where Emma is, not how to get her," Neal replied.

"Um, not sure you can find a horse in there, mate," Robin Hood told him.

"I don't need a horse. I need a portal. A way to create a portal."

"Why don't you calm down and tell me what the problem is? Perhaps I can assist."

"Henry and Grace are trapped in Neverland with Peter Pan who's hands-down the nastiest person I've ever met."

"I saw Emma and Nevaeh in this ball, not Henry or Grace," Mulan stated.

"Listen, I was in Neverland. Pan was looking for a boy and a girl. A specific boy and girl. I know he had some picture of them on a scroll. He called them the truest believer and the kindest soul."

"And you believe that to be Henry and Grace?"

"It has to be. That's the only reason Emma and Nevaeh would be in Neverland. Help me look. Lots of things make portals. Beans. Magic mirrors. Ruby slippers. Some kind of ashes."