Chapter One: The Dream

The woods seemed like a dark place at night. Things seem harmless during the day. The mermaids were up in the lagoon and the Lost Boys themselves ran through the woods making everything seem alright. The Indians stayed close to their village, but loved to spy on everyone on the Island. Even Peter Pan flew through the sky keeping an eye on things and making sure the pirates didn't get close to the hide out. Now the woods were dangerous especially at night for a young girl.

Elizabeth was an orphan, she had no idea how she had gotten on the island. She had been there for as far back as her memory could remember and she had been on her own for as long as she can remember.

She was running bare footed through the woods and she didn't know what was following her. All she knew was that she needed to keep running, because if whatever was after her caught her, it wouldn't end well. Twigs were snapping beneath Elizabeth's face and she was trying to find her way through the thick woods.

"Here! Take my hand!"

Elizabeth looked up to find the annoying flying boy offering her his hand. He was hovering just a few feet above her head. Elizabeth had never come face to face with Peter Pan, but she knew all about him. No one on the island knew about her, she managed to keep herself hidden and learned from watching the islanders how to stay alive.

"I don't need any help." Elizabeth snapped up at Peter, trying to shoo him away.

The angry footsteps of Elizabeth's mysterious followers were getting closer and closer. Peter hovered down another foot closer to her.

"Come on, just let me help. You're going to need it." He commented

"What is that supposed to mean?" Elizabeth stopped running and placed her hands on her hips. Her bright green eyes were staring up at the boy above her.

"Well they must be after you for a reason. Did you steal something from them?" Peter asked getting nosy as he flew down another foot closer to her face

"I didn't steal anything from them that didn't belong to me first! They tried to take my locket, and it's all I have left." Elizabeth snapped back

"Hey I wasn't trying to get personal. All I know is that they wont stop until they get back what they want and you're the fool that stopped running." Peter pointed out as he pointed behind Elizabeth's back

Pirates had managed to surround the young girl. Elizabeth grasped the silver locket that was around her neck. She had never been able to get the clasp to open, but she had a feeling that it held something important inside. As they closed in on her Elizabeth finally gave in and stuck her hand in the air, allowing Peter to pull her up and onto his back. He gave her a small smirk as he flew away.

"You know I told you that you were going to need my help." He laughed

"This isn't funny." Elizabeth snapped

"I know I know. Hey I've never seen you around here before. What's your name?" Peter asked trying to look back at the girl on his back

"I'm Elizabeth, call me Lizzy." The brunette stated

"You know you look a whole lot like someone I used to know. Where did you come from?" Peter asked as he took a dip down

"I don't know. I don't even know how I got here. I just remember waking up here on the island a long time ago." Lizzy commented looking around "Where are we going?"

"To where I live, with the Lost Boys. You can live with us for awhile if you want. Unless you've got anywhere better to go." Peter said smiling as he found the tree he was looking for. He swooped around and waited for Lizzy's answer

"Well I do have no where else to go and I mines well be out of the pirates' sight." Lizzy said

As soon as the words were out of her mouth, Peter swung the girl over his shoulders and dropped her into the large hole at the top of the tree. The hole ended up having a large wooden slid in it that ended with a bed. Lizzy fell onto the floor instead of the bed. She looked up expecting to see the annoying boys that she watched everyday, but instead she found pirates in the small house. Peter flew in from another hole laughing, but as soon as he saw the pirates he stopped laughing. His eyes raced to Lizzy and saw that she was standing frozen on the floor. He tried to fly to her, but a pirate grabbed his ankle and ripped him down to the ground.

"Run Lizzy!" Peter screamed "They want your locket! Don't let them have it!"

"Shut-up boy!"

The voice sent shivers down Elizabeth's spin. She felt like she had heard the voice before and it didn't sound any friendlier than the last time she had heard it. Captain James Hook took a step through the crowd and walked over to her. He glared at Peter as Peter continued to struggle in the pirates' grasp. Hook's attention was soon off of Peter though and back onto Elizabeth.

"I feel like I saw you not that long ago Miss. Elizabeth." Hook sneered

"It's Lizzy Mousier Hook." Lizzy said narrowing her eyes "And I have no idea whole you are talking about. You have never seen me before."

"Oh but you are wrong there my dear child. I have seen you plenty of times. You think you are so clever hiding among the leaves. If it doesn't hide those idiot boys of Pan what makes you think they would hide you?" Hook laughed. Lizzy's face went pale as she realized that all of her hiding and spying was being watched by someone else. "You know you're a bright girl, it's a shame I have to kill you. You should have never stolen from a pirate."

"And you should have never stolen from me." Lizzy said before pulling a dagger out of her back pocket. She smirked at Hook's surprised expression. "You didn't really think I would let you just kill me did you?"

Hook pulled his long silver sword out of his belt and began a sword fight with the young girl before him. He refused to let a small girl beat him. A young boy had already made a fool of him by cutting his hand off and feeding it to a crocodile. He wasn't about to be made a foot of again, by letting a girl beat him. Hook watched all of the girl's footwork. She seemed to know her way with a sword as she managed to block all of Hook's blows. He knew he really didn't care about wither the girl lived or not. All Hook cared about was getting the locket back. The stupid locket that the sly little girl had managed to steal from under the noses of his crew last night.

"Ready to give up?" Lizzy asked after she gave Hook a slash across the chest

"Did anyone ever teach you that pirates don't give up? Especially the pirate captain." Hook sneered at his opponent

"No, because eventually after duling me everyone gives up." Lizzy announced giving Hook another slash across the chest. He now had a giant X across his chest

"Give it to him Lizzy, before he tries to kill you!" Peter yelled trying to encourage the girl on

She turned around to glare at him and tell him not to distract her. For the two seconds that Lizzy's attention was off of him Hook managed to find the chance to stab the girl in the chest killing her.

"NO!" Peter screamed as Lizzy's body fell over on the ground

Hook laughed and plucked the locket off from around her neck. "Never steal from a pirate. I'm so glad you finally gave me the final key to controlling this island."

Lizzy sat up shaking in bed. The sun was shinning above her, but that wasn't the reason for her sweating. The dream that Elizabeth had just had had managed to give her a cold sweat. It wasn't the fact that she had died that scared her, she had seen herself die a million times in her dreams. It was the fact that Hook was after the locket that was around her neck and he had stated that it would help him control the island. For as long as Elizabeth could remember, which wasn't long, she had always had the locket around her neck. She didn't know why it was so important, but she knew that the locket was important. This wasn't the first dream that she had had that had Hook trying to steal the locket away from her. For some reason everyone wanted her locket and Elizabeth knew it would only be safe for herself and her locket if she kept hidden like she had always done. There was no way some flying boy was going to help her with her locket. She was going to figure out the secret to the locket, before anyone else can get a hold of her or the locket.