AN: This here is chapter 3 and as I said, it is a little longet this time! Hope you can spare the time to read and enjoy!

Chapter 3: Searching Neverland.

They flew high over London with Tinkerbelle in the lead who was leaving a light trail of glowing fairy dust behind her. It was a struggle for Wendy to remember how to fly at first. But once she was in amongst the clouds and looking down on the pretty lights of the city, she found that flying came naturally and she stretched her arms out in front of her and sped up a little to catch up with Tink.

Wendy was so happy that she almost forgot why she was going back to Neverland, yet upon feeling the dagger tucked into her belt, she remembered about Peter being in trouble and Captain Hook coming back from the dead. Wendy almost fell out of the sky at this unhappy thought. She had fallen a few feet when Peter's face once again appeared in her mind and she regained her position.

Wendy heard three bell sounds next to her ear and looked at Tink who was pointing towards the stars. Wendy nodded and knew instantly what to do. 'John! Take hold of my ankle and pass it on! We're almost there!' John grasped Wendy's ankle and the message was passed down to each boy until they were all joined. Tink made her bell sound constant and the children all sped up. Wendy put her arms down by her side and closed her eyes.

They all shot into Neverland, detaching themselves from each other's ankles as they did. The wind was blowing strongly and the sky was dark with thick black clouds drifting overhead. A clap of lightning revealed a half snow covered island which all flew towards.

'Down there!' Wendy yelled, pointing to the side of the island that wasn't covered in snow. 'We'll land there and find Peter!' Everyone flew along behind Wendy and Tink as they led the way.

They passed over the Jolly Roger and saw a faint glow from the portholes in the side of the ship. 'Hook…' Slightly said with hate. He caught up with Wendy and grabbed her hand.

'Wendy we have to be careful not to be seen by the pirates. We've got to land now!'

'Good idea!'

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'Ah Smee. It seems there is a pretty little formation of birds flying over us. Though they do look too large to be birds. I wonder what they could be. Fetch me my telescope!'

'Aye Captain!' Smee said hurriedly and ran into Hook's cabin to retrieve the telescope which the then handed over to his Captain.

Hook opened up the telescope and pointed it towards the sky. He adjusted the lens and was met with the sight of nine children following a fairy. Captain Hook smirked.

'It looks like things just got interesting Mr. Smee.' He said, handing the telescope back.

'Why's that Captain?'

'It looks like our story teller and the mischievous boys are back.'

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They all landed on the island and looked around. Tinkerbelle flew up into Wendy's face and waved her arms around frantically indicating for them to follow her. They all took off at a fast pace. Wendy found it hard to run with a dagger in her belt, so she stopped for a brief moment and cut some vine from a hanging tree and tied the dagger to her right thigh before taking off again behind the twins.

They had been running flat out for several minutes when they boys in front of her stopped, so she stopped also, catching her breath.

'We can't stop! We've got to find him!' Wendy urged the others.

'We can't keep running like this!' Nibs pointed out, clearly out of breath.

'But we can still walk!' Wendy panted as she started walking off, determined to find Peter.

The boys behind her didn't argue and followed her. They had been walking for five minutes or so when the air around them started to get colder. Wendy couldn't figure out why it was so cold and drew her jacket tighter around her to block out the raging wind that had unexpectedly turned up.

Then Wendy thought of something. 'It only gets cold when… oh no…'

'PETER!' She screamed and broke off into a run with the boys following close behind her, a little clueless as to why she had screamed Peter's name like that.

Tinkerbelle was flying next to her and understood perfectly why she had screamed.

Tree branches and spiky plants attacked her clothing, tearing her trousers high up her leg and ripping at her jacket sleeves. She quickly discarded the jacket when it got too caught on a tree branch and she kept on running.

More rips were made in her shirt sleeves and she was bleeding from a fair few cuts on her arms and legs. But she did not care, she had to get to Peter as fast as she could. She didn't even flinch as she ran past a tree and earned a cut on her cheekbone.

The boys were no longer as close behind her now, as they had taken a bit more care when passing the trees and plants than Wendy had.

As she was running, keeping a fast and steady pace, it began to snow. The ground beneath her feet became covered with the cold, white powder and gradually got thicker and thicker under her tiring feet. She had to slow her pace down a bit when she started sinking into the deep snow up past her ankle, halfway towards her knee.

Wendy was determined to reach Peter. She wouldn't rest until she did.

Suddenly up ahead, Wendy saw a familiar looking tree and she stopped in her tracks. The snow made her feet numb with cold but she wasn't paying attention to that, she was too busy studying the tree. She saw Tinkerbelle fly over and point at a log hanging from a tangle of vines attached to the tree. Wendy darted towards it.

Pulling hard on the log, Wendy saw the secret doorway open and she rushed inside. She slipped on the slide that she'd completely forgotten about and rolled out on the bottom. She stumbled on the ground when she was trying to get up, but once she was standing she looked around quickly.

She spotted Tinkerbelle fly over to a movement over in the corner and she ran over to it. Peter was thrashing around oh his bed, making movements as if he were fighting an invisible someone. 'No… don't take… Wendy… no… Hook you… Wendy!'

Wendy flung herself onto the bed and grabbed Peter's shoulders. She shook him firmly, trying to wake him up. 'Peter! Peter wake up! Please!'

Wendy shook him for what seemed like an hour, but was really a minute or two. Peter's eyes snapped open. He looked at Wendy. His dream was still hanging around him and he thought he was looking into the eyes of Hook. Peter swung his fist right into her face and she fell backward.

AN: So what did you think? Any reviews would be great!

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