I Believe In You

Chapter 7: We will find you

They were unable to calculate the time that had passed since they left Storybrooke. Now that they were arriving at their destination, this was the last thing they wanted to question. The place was quite familiar. In fact, it was far more from familiar.

"Gold. Where are we?" Something was wrong and Emma couldn't waste time by solving riddles.

"Why, the Underworld of course." He said mysteriously.

"This looks more like Storybrooke" David corrected him. They were confused and they hadn't had time for the Dark One's tricks.

The boat continued to reach at the docks and they debarked once it was finally stopped.

They looked around to observe an empty, destroyed Storybrooke. They were the only still living here. The whole town was dead.

"So, what exactly is this?" Snow asked in a try to take more information from Gold.

"This is a place between life and death. For us, it is formed like Storybrook, but it's not really it." He stopped slowly and turned around to look at them. "Here is where our ordeals begun".

"If you're trying to scary us, don't bother. There's no going back now." The leader, Emma had inside her, had been woken up again and here she was walking first, for one more time, with everyone following her.

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They had met every form of damage already. Burned cars, withered flowers, demolished houses... And now she could detect a small space not far away from them. It was like... She run towards the place to find out that she was right. A small graveyard. And amongst the stones, there was one that was holding her man's name.

Killian Jones

"Whenever you're ready, the portal for the real Underworld is waiting for us" Gold's voice prevented her sad thoughts from arising.

"What do we need to do?" Her voice was strong but empty of sentiment. It was just determined. Really determined.

"Nothing by ourselves. Just to face everything it may come up. This trip begins now, miss Swan. No one can predict what will happen. Even me."

The same crocodile as always, ready to threaten and scary the people around him. But his words didn't frighten her. If it was one thing she wanted now, that was to take Killian away from this hell. "Ok, let's do this."

She turned around and looked at him with a cold look. He exhaled, almost disappointed, and then he leaded the way to the fallen clock.

They were about to climb inside the portal when Henry spoke for the first time since they had arrived. "Look. The time has stopped again."

They all looked at the direction Henry was pointing out and Regina was the first to notice. Who else could be? "Eight fifteen" She said and took her eyes from the clock to Gold. "What does this mean?"

"Honestly, I have no idea. It may be a jock about when all started, or an indication. Or something much bigger. I guess we'll find out soon."

Emma examined him. He was telling the truth. This time he did. She took a deep breath and headed to the clock-looking portal.

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The atmosphere was different on the other side, almost suffocating.

Some of them started to look around, others were trying to breath but Henry was still looking at the clock. It wasn't fallen on this side. It was big and high as always. Something wasn't feeling right. Or maybe... it was. Robin's voice interrupted his thoughts.