Greetings from Underbrooke (5th Book of Heroes and Villains Quintet)

Chp 5: Departed Souls

Flashback: Many years ago in the Land of Oz, a young Zelena is asked to do chores around her home by her adopted parents, believing she cannot get free from her adopted father with her adopted mother's passing. After she falls into a Ogre's trap Zelena is saved by Hercules, who is on a quest to complete the final part of his Twelve Labors, which is to hunt down Cerberus. He encourages Zelena not to give up, and he even offers to train her, suggesting that she kills her father with kindness. When Zelena faces her adopted father, she foolishly drops her firewood, then loses her dignity when Hercules defends her. Using his past mistakes and learning from them, Hercules inspires her to try again, and she successfully gets all her chores done and gains her father's love, then she packs a bag and leaves the house, and setting up her future as the Witch of the West. Zelena thanks Hercules for helping her and says she will make a great Witch and Olympus will have a great hero like him and they kiss each other goodbye. End of Flashback

Present day Underworld: In the library, Grace has spent all night preparing a spell to break Hades' protection spell on the elevator by drawing runes all over the elevator door. Renee, Rumple and Zelena use their magic together to open the door as they break the code and the door opens revealing a brick wall, their efforts proving futile. Grace outlines some of the details of the dream believing that she can erase their names from the tombstones for everyone to be able to leave the Underworld. Hades is standing there to see Nyx when he notices a daisy growing in the broken road. Rumple decides to talk to Nyx and to try to make amends, who knows more about Hades rather than the others. When Rumple visits Nyx, she realizes that her and Hades are in love.The burned flower later shows up at Roni's Diner, as a gift to Nyx from Hades. The following day, Nyx goes to Hades' lair, she agrees to try to accept him into her life, and they share a drink, they look at the burning night sky over the Underworld Storybrooke, he explained why he created the world for her, then tells Nyx that he wants to go with her to the real Storybrooke, if he is able to restore his heart and become living again. Back at the Library, a three-headed hellhound creature, Cerberus, chases after the outsiders. At the cemetery, Zelena, Rumple, Grace and Renee look at the gravestones of those who Zelena felt she had failed, But Grace is confident that they can restore Renee to the living and tells Zelena that she can be able to succeed. When she sees the tombstone of Hercules, Grace, Renee and Rumple is surprised to learn that she knew a Demi-God. As soon as they hear the roar of Cerberus, Grace uses her magic to take them to the Underworld version of Roni's. Later on at Roni's Diner, Liam is joined by the others, and thanks to Maleficent, they find Hercules, who they hope he will complete his Twelve Labors so that he can move on. As they reached the tunnel with Cerberus waiting for them, Hercules gives the woman his dagger, then grabs a pipe for himself, and Zelena conjure her fireball. The trio then use their weapons on Cerberus and successfully kill the creature. The woman faints and Hercules catches her, and when she comes to they introduce each other, as she revealed to Hercules her name is Megara, or as her friends called her, Meg. Hades then appears and tells the outsiders that Cerberus was the creature responsible for killing Hercules, then Hades puffs away in blue fire cloud of smoke. Back at Roni's, Zelena believes its time for Hercules, who regretted fighting Cerberus alone, to fight the creature as a team. As everyone meets back together, they learn that it was their "unfinished business" for Hercules to rescue Meg from Cerberus, as he died during his fight with the creature and Meg later died after he failed. The group takes them to the crossing, and Hercules and Meg ascend together to Olympus. As the clock ticks twice, Hades has decided that it's time for the outsiders to pay by punishing them. Hades took the precaution of adding the remaining outsiders' names to more tombstones.

Guest Stars
Greg Germann as Hades
Leah Gibson as Nyx/#1 Fate
Katie McGrath as Fufu/#2 Fate
Jonathan Whitesell as Hercules
Kacey Rohl as Meg