Origins
This was a place that she had come to in her dreams since she was a child. It had been a long time since she dreamed about it. When she woke up on the beach that she had been to many times before she wasn't sure why she would be dreaming about this place again. She wasn't a child anymore. In fact she was long past being a child. She was a grown woman. She decided to explore a bit and maybe she could figure out why her dreams had brought her here. She started into the woods. She figured she would just try to find her way to the camp. Peter would know why she was here. He always did before. It wasn't until she had almost reached the camp that things got different than most of her visits. There was a boy guarding the entrance to the camp.
"Stop!" The boy yelled.
"It's OK. I'm a friend. I need to speak to pan." She told the boy.
"You're a liar. You're an adult. Pan doesn't have adult friends or girl friends." He shouted.
He raised the bow he was using to defend the camp and pointed it at her. She thought to herself how different this dream was. It felt like it was slowly becoming a nightmare and she was ready to wake up. It wasn't until she saw him pull the string back that she realized he was going to shot her. She turned and started to run away screaming for help. She didn't get far when she felt the arrow hit her in the back. It had connected with her lower back and made its way through to the front. When she looked down and saw the arrowhead coming out of the front of her. It was that moment she realized that this wasn't a dream. It was real. She was some how on the island. It wasn't a fake made up land in her head. She screamed again when a wave of pain shot through her body again. She realized that she had been shot through the shoulder. She heard a voice yelling as the person came through the clearing.
"What is going on?" The voice said.
She recognized the voice and turned to look back. Just above her the shadow was descending toward her quickly. Through the clearing just in time to see her wrapped in a dark mist came a young man. Before the shadow had completely encased her she caught the eyes of the boy. Her blue eyes locked onto his green eyes.
"Lilly?" he said. Before she could answer him she was gone into the black mist. He went over to where she had been and saw the blood on the ground. She was gravely wounded.
"What did you do?" He yelled at the boy.
"She said she was a friend but she was a grown up and grown ups don't belong here." He told him.
"When did you get permission to decide who is allowed on the island. Last i checked that power belongs to me alone." He said moving to the boy and ripping the bow from his hands.
"I didn't know you actually knew her. Why does it matter she was an adult and a girl neither should be here." The boy said.
Anger flared in pan and he struck the boy so hard he fell to the ground bleeding from his mouth. He keeled down and grabbed the boy by the hair turning his head to face him.
"Don't ever for a moment think that you decide anything on this island. I make the decisions. I allowed you to live because you were useful. That is no longer the case." He spat at the boy.
He signaled for a couple of the boys with him to grab the boy.
"Take him to the pit. He has out lived his usefulness." He told them.
The boys protests could be heard as he was dragged away knowing just what it meant to be taken to the pit.
"Was that really her?" The remaining boy asked.
"I'd know those eyes anywhere Felix. That was definitely our Lilly. Our lost girl." Pan said. "So why would the shadow bring her here just to let her get killed?" Felix asked.
"I don't know. I can't feel her anymore. She lost a lot of blood already i wouldn't doubt if she's already dead." He said pondering what may have happened.
He took of into the sky to see if he could find anything about why she had been brought here or where the shadow had taken her body.
She was dropped to the ground from the mist and let out a scream. It wasn't a rough fall but in her current state anything hurt. The pain was unbearable. She began crying. The shadow again descended toward her.
"Help me please. I can't take this. Please." She begged.
"I will help you but there will be consequences. First lets help you with the pain and we can discuss more." The shadow replied.
Suddenly the pain was gone and the arrows that were impaling her were gone also. She wasn't bleeding either but she still had holes where the arrows were.
"What do you want with me?" She asked.
"Don't move around too much. The only thing holding you together is my magic. Once the terms have been discussed we will see if you will live or die." The shadow said.
"What do you mean? Why did you bring me here if not to save me?" She asked.
"Your life is important but there is more to it. Its more than just your life at stake." He said.
"I don't understand. What more could there be than my life at stake?" She questioned.
"The life inside you of course." He replied. She thought for a moment before putting her hand on her belly. Realization had set in.
"That's right. The child you carry inside you. Now you see how your life isn't the only thing that needs saving." He told her.
"What do you want from me?" She asked.
"It's very simple. Fate has a way of happening no matter what we do. This was my first part of saving your life. I brought you here from the Enchanted Forest because what happened here would have happened there instead. Here i have the ability to save you. There you and the child would have both died." He explained. She took it all in but had some questions that needed answering.
"What do i have that you want?" She asked.
"The child that you carry will be very powerful. I saved you because i couldn't let that power die." He told her.
"Why me? Why this child?" She asked.
"Because of you. The connection that you have with this island. The magic running through your blood and into the child. What you helped to create here. Your strength and energy poured into this island all those years ago made saving you and your child possible. That in turn meant that it was you and the child inside you destined to be the ones who will do what i ask." He explained.
"What exactly is it that you are asking? What do you need me and the child to do?" She asked.
"You will give birth to the one who can save this place. Pan has corrupted this island. The only thing that will save it is the child." He told her.
"So what exactly do you need from me?" She said.
"What i need from you is to agree to the terms i will set before you. The terms are what they are and you may not like all of what has to be done but know this what i set before you is not negotiable. You either accept and live or you decline and die." He said.
She panicked a bit inside at the thought of what he might want. She figured she could hear the terms and then decide.
"OK. Tell me what you need and i will decide my fate." She said strongly.
"The terms are as follows. I will save you and your child's life. The way that will be done is by replacing your child soul with my power. The power that will then live in your child will allow you to heal with the island magic." He said.
"Seems easy enough." She replied.
"There is more. When the child is born she will be taken from this land and placed back into the enchanted forest. There she will learn to control her ability so that when it comes time to save Neverland she will be strong enough to do what she must. But i must warn you with the magic of the island being what holds you together you will not be able to leave. You will have to stay here. If you were to leave, much like the water from the spring, your wounds will open and you will die. Just know that even if it is little consolation she will return." He explained.
"Is my child going to be the down fall of Pan?" She asked.
"In a way. Pan cannot know of this child. It is very important he doesn't know of the child or that you are still alive." He told her.
"I don't understand? I'm on the island? He already knows I'm here right?" She asked.
"This place is special. This is my place. A place that Pan cannot access. Anything or anyone here he cannot sense. You will be safe here." He told her.
She though about all that he had just told her. She would be able to have the child she didn't even know she was carrying until now but she would lose her as soon as she was born. She would never be able to tell her about who she was. she had one last question before deciding.
"When you take her where will she go? Who will she go to?" she asked.
"That is something i will leave up to you. I can't take all decisions from you when it comes to the child's life. However the child will be fated into training with a man called Rumpelstiltskin. He will teach the child how to use the ability. He is the only one that can given how much power it will carry. I understand that this will be hard and i don't want the child to be left to the wolves. You will be able to send a letter with the child when it goes to whoever you chose. But that will be for a later time. You have time to decide who later.
"What is your decision?" He asked
She was happy to have that choice but she knew of Rumpelstiltskin and she feared for her child. Everything she head about the man was bad. It took her only a minute to think on it and realize that anything was better that her child and herself being dead.
"I accept." She replied.
Before she knew what had happened the black mist that had surrounded her earlier was there but this time it was moving into her body through her wounds. She could feel the power going into her body. She could feel it moving through her veins. Into her blood. Into her heart. When the black mist was all gone she felt like her heart was going to burst out of her chest. After a few moments she felt the power calm down. Suddenly she began to bleed again from her wounds.
"What is happening?" She yelled frightened.
"I told you. The child will be what saves you not me." He said.
Suddenly she felt a warmth in her stomach. She felt the warmth move from her stomach to the wound that went through her back. It began to heal. Then the power branched off and began to heal the shoulder wound. After a few moments she was healed.
"It is done. You can pick any of the rooms. Like the rest of the island what you think of will be created." He said.
With that he left her on her own. He knew Pan would be looking for him so he wanted to get that over with.
It had been 9 months since she was brought to Neverland. It would be any day now that she would give birth to the child. It was exciting to her but at the same time a bittersweet moment. The shadow had recruited an ex fairy that was on the island. Her name was Tinkerbell. With the shadows help she would be able to enter the shadows place for a short time to help Lilly give birth without Pan noticing. The birth of the child would cause some of the islands magics to act up. They would use that to their advantage to get her off the island. She had felt full of energy that day. She decided to get some cleaning up ready. It would be any time now and she wanted a clean place to have her. She had just been reaching for a blanket and laying it out when she felt the gush. She looked down to see the mix of fluids on the floor and on her feet. It was time. She called for the shadow. She had gotten the letter ready and the basket the child would be sent in. She also put a few mementos for the child. Along with the letter for the person she would be sent to there was a letter for the child itself when it was old enough. The letter and the mementos were placed in a locked box. When the time came she would know how to open it. In the time she had spent with the shadow he had revealed a few more things about the child's life and things that would happen. She wanted to prepare the child the best she could.
It took a while but finally it was time for her to enter the world. Tink was right there with Lilly to help her through it. The shadow had told her that Pan could feel the strange fluctuations in Neverland and he would go to help distract him. He also warned her that there would be a small window when she would need to be taken off the island so she needed to say her hello and goodbye at the same time. He would return to take her before Pan could figure out what it was.
It was time for her to push and it was a rough process for her. This was her first birth and she didn't know what to expect. She screamed loudly and with one last push the child was born. She was tired but she knew she had to see the child before it was gone.
"It's a girl." Tink told her.
She had cut the cord and did the best she could to clean her up before handing her to Lilly. She looked down at her daughter and smiled. She was the perfect combination of herself and her father. The only thing that really stood out to her was the bright eyes. They were glowing with a white light. They faded into a bright blue. They were the combination of her eyes and the white eyes of the shadow.
The shadow came into the room.
"Have you said your goodbyes?" He asked. She looked from him back to her daughter.
"I love you my sweet girl. We will meet again. I promise." She said.
She gave her a kiss on her forehead then handed her to Tink. Tink put her in the basked with the notes and the box. The shadow took the basket and turned to her before leaving.
"What is her name?" He asked.
"Kaiyala." Lilly said.
With tears rolling down her face the shadow left the island to take her back to the enchanted forest.
Across the island Pan awoke from a sleep at the same moment Kaiyala was born. He didn't sleep often but the strange magic in the air had made him weary. The power she released was like nothing he had ever felt before. He didn't know what it was that he had felt and it was gone as soon as it had come. He still felt tired and decided to talk to the shadow later about what that could have been. Whatever it was he would find out.
The shadow laid Kaiyala's basket on the steps at the door. The note visible. He made a loud knock and took off into the sky. The door opened and a man stood there. It took him a minute and he looked down. Seeing the basket he realized that there was a child in the basket. He noticed the note. He opened it read what was written there. He began to cry. He dropped to his knees with sobs. He picked up the baby who was sleeping peacefully. He looked at her face for only a moment and knew that the letter was true. This was his daughter. He cradled her in his arms and grabbed the basket. He turned and walked back into the castle closing the door behind him.
The shadow watched as it happened. If only so that he could tell Lilly that she was accepted into her home. With that he sped off into the night. Back to Neverland. Back to a very angry Peter Pan. All the shadow could think about was how this little girl would bring back the true essence of the island. She would bring back his home. He wanted nothing more.
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