The Girl With a Rose on Her Forehead -Once Upon a Time Fanfiction-

Season 3: Episode 6: Ariel

-Enchanted Forest-

Snow and Azalea ran through the enchanted forest, the palace guards were chasing them...again. But they were getting better at their job, The two ladies were finding it hard to get them off of their trail. Snow jumped off the trail, pulling Azalea behind her as they rolled down the hill and through the branches, but the guards jumped after them. "Don't lose them! The Queen wants their heads!" the guards shouted as the two continued to run for their lives. Azalea spotted an opening and the two ran out of the woods, only to be stopped by the trail ending over a cliff, the roaring waves from the ocean below them. "Really?" Snow asked looking up to the sky, as if it were a gods fault this had happened to them. The guards ran out of the forest and the two were cornered. "Your a long way from home Snow, did you really think that you and your ward could hide from the Queen here?" one of the guards asked. "Actually yes." Snow said, Azalea glanced over at her friend. Wondering how she could be so witty when they were about to get captured by the queens guards. "Well don't worry, we are here to take you back. The queen is eager to see you again...as for you." The guard said as he and the others pulled their swords out looking at Azalea. "We are ordered to kill anyone assisting the outlaw at sight." He said pointing the sword in the girls direction. "Not gonna happen." Snow said taking the girls hand and pulling her over the cliffs edge with her. Both of them free falling into the ocean water.

Azalea felt the rush of cold run over her as she hit the water. She opened her eyes, holding her breath as she looked for her friend in the water around her. She felt the first feeling of panic settle on her when she couldn't find her. She looked down below her and saw a mermaid holding Snow in her arms as she helped her friend swim back to the surface. Azalea swam down and assisted the kind mermaid and the group reached the top of the water together. Snow and Azalea gasped for breath. "Thank you." Snow breathed out as she turned to the mermaid. "No problem, you might want to try diving into calmer waters next time." The mermaid said looking at the two, her eyes freezing on Azalea. "Your-Your the flower maidens daughter...Allie?" The girl shook her head. "Azalea, and I remember you too, you were the first mermaid I ever met when my father took my brother and I with him to trade." she said with a grin. "Yes! Azalea! Your alive! We had heard that your family was killed." the mermaid said. "They were, I was able to escape." Azalea told her with a frown. "It has been haunting news since the day we heard it." the mermaid said. "Azalea-I had no idea you talked to mermaids before...I have never seen one before." Snow said looking at her beautiful tail under the water. "We usually stay underwater...my name is Ariel." She said to the both of them. "Nice to meet you."

-Hook Pov, Neverland-

"We need to talk." I said walking up to where David and Mary Margret sat near the fire. Emma and Regina were distracted with magic training. "What is it?" David whispered. "Pan payed me a visit...He told me that Neal is alive. And that he is in Neverland" I said looking down. Mary shook her head. "But Emma saw him get shot and fall through a portal, no one can survive that." She said looking confused. "Well he did, and now he is here. Apparently he had tried to save Henry and Azalea while we were looking for Neal's cave...but he failed and is now in Pans hands." I told them, choosing to believe Pan. "Then we need to get him from Pan...if he is even telling the truth." Mary said looking even more confused. "But he told you, what does he have to gain from telling you?" David asked me. "Who knows why he does anything? He has his games he likes to play." I said, choosing not to tell David that I had a schoolboy crush on his daughter. "What is Neal is in danger, we have to treat this like it's the truth. We have to tell Emma." Mary said standing up. "no, no, no!" David said stopping her. "What if this is all a game? Emma is still suffering from losing him the first time. We can't give her any false hope." He reasoned with her. "He is right, and either way telling her is what Pan wants. Which is why we shouldn't do it." I said agreeing with David. "You want to try and find Neal without letting Emma know?" Snow asked. "You wont be lying to her or anything, you will just be keeping a secret." I told the concerned mother. "Secrets seem to always keep tearing out family apart." Mary said folding her arms. "And sometimes they protect the ones that we love the most." David said.