Happy Saturday, I'm back with chapter 3 of my final story. Please R&R and I shall see you at the bottom of the page.

Disclaimer: I do not own Peter Pan

Finding my way through the dark tunnel was not an easy task. There were plenty of times that I would trip over protruding rocks and stones along with the slippery parts on the rocks that kept on knocking me down. It was like a patter, walk, walk, walk, trip, and then repeat. It also doesn't help that my body isn't used to this type of exertion. I was, after all, in a sort of coma for an entire month so my legs can't seem to keep me up.

Every step is painful and after a few minutes of leaving the cave I had 'slept' in my legs have begun to shake violently. Sweat has already begun pouring down my face and a few times I begin to believe that I won't make it, but then the thought of Wendy waiting for me somewhere out there pushes me forward and I continue to walk and trip.

Throughout my walk I even begin to hear voices throughout the darkness calling my name and teasing me. There's even a moment where through the darkness I even found a pair of red eyes staring at me before they suddenly disappeared leaving my in a confused stupor. By then I've needed to lean on the wall feeling the heavy exertion begin to take its toll heavily on me making me gasp for air and that's when I decide to take a short break while I catch my breath and regain a bit of energy.

Closing my eyes, I lean my head on the wall of the cave feeling the coolness of it feel pleasant on my warm sticky skin. Soon enough I even feel myself slowly begin to drift off into another wave of sleep when suddenly a small child like voice asks, "Are you dead?" making me shoot my eyes open to be greeted with the same darkness I had been traveling in, but this time a small young girl stands in front of me a few feet away.

She looks to be around ten with long raven hair, though it could be some other color but I can't tell through the darkness, which reaches her knees, pale skin that seems to glow through the darkness frames her face and bear arms and legs. All she's wearing seems to be a thin dress that looks a bit gray from where I'm sitting. Who is this young girl and where did she come from?

"Well are you?" the girl asks again and I stare at her a bit confused until I realize she had asked a question prior to this one.

"Umm, no. At least I don't think I'm dead," I answer still staring at the child. She tilts her head to the side in wonder before moving toward me with a curious look on her face. She looks harmless, but I've learned the hard way that you shouldn't always trust a harmless face.

"Are you headed outside?" she asks and guessing that she means outside of these confusing caves I nod as she leans in closer seeming to examine my face, "Why?" she asks her eyes full of wonder and her face set into a grim expression, almost as if she were keeping some sort of secret.

A bit baffled by her question I rub the back of my head, "Because there are some people that I need to get back to," she blinks but says nothing, "Speaking of getting out, do you know the way for me to exit this dark cave?"

She leans back a bit disappointed and then a look of anger crosses her expression, "The exit is only a few feet away, a few more minutes walking in the direction that you were you would have gotten out in no time," she slowly turns around as if to walk in the direction that I just came from.

"Only a few feet," I ask turning to the direction she had just pointed out to, "But wouldn't there have been at least a small ray of light signaling the exit?" I turn to look at her as she stares at me with not a single expression on her face, "Even if it's night outside, the rays of the moonlight would still have filled this space especially since Neverland always has a full moon outside,"

The girl laughs for a bit and it fills the entire tunnel like the jingling of bells, "There hasn't been a ray of sunlight or moonlight for an entire month," she answers, "The day you died a beam of light shot toward the sky illuminating the entire island and after your heart stopped beating completely all form of light just suddenly vanished into thin air," she turns and begins to walk away, "Also, you should put that cloak on before you continue your trek, you'll feel much better once you have it on,"

Standing up in a hurry feeling a chill run down my spine I call out for her to, "STOP!" she stops and then turns her head to look at me with such a bored expression, "Who are you and how do you know all of that?"

A large vicious smile stretches across the young girls face as her eyes glow red making her look like a demon, but I only catch a second of it before the young girls face returns, "I'm no one," she says bored, "Just a figment of your imagination," and without another word she disappears into the darkness.

With one last shudder I shake my head feeling that it is not the time to wonder about what had just happened. I've wasted enough time as it is and I need to get out, not more than ever since I know that the exit is only a few feet away from me. Before I begin moving I pull the cloak out of the pocket of my pants wrapping it around my shoulders feeling the soft silk brush my arms. I had taken it off moments after I left the cave feeling weird with it on and now as I pull it around my shoulders I instantly feel the scratches on my hands and knees quickly evaporate into nothing but numbness all over my body. My energy has even risen and now a new sense of purpose fills me as I continue to move on further, and to my surprise I find the exit of the tunnels within a matter of minutes, just like the girl had said.

I stand at the opening of the cave looking out at the darkness that is supposed to be the island but am able to see nothing, not even the stones of the mountain that still lie before me. Just when I begin to panic on how I will find my way through the forest a sliver of golden light begins to rise in the near distance.

At first it is only a thin bleak line that little by little begins to grow illuminating the sky and the forest around me making swirls of orange, then yellow, then pink color the sky above me until finally it settles in blue all which blind me for a few seconds as my eyes begin to get accustomed to the brightness. The girl said that the darkness had vanished when I had departed this world and now that I am up and ready to reclaim it the sun rises to be the first of the island to greet me, and I welcome the greeting as I rush down the side of the mountain ready to begin my next adventure.

Boys, Wendy, here I come.

The room is solitary holding nothing but a small bed made out of leaves and a table with two stools surrounding it. In the corner someone is sitting unmoving, uncaring of what is happening outside of her cell. It's been days since she's bathed but she doesn't care, there's no one here to impress and the last time she even talked to someone was the guard only two days ago. That had also been the last time she ate, but it doesn't bother her. Her life means nothing, that is, until a stream of golden light filters in through the window that sits on the wall across from her slowly filling the small cell with light.

She lifts her head watching the light crawl toward her and although it's dim it does not fail to make her eyes, so used to the darkness, burn. Within a minute, though, she's finally able to open her eyes completely only tears are streaming down her face in silent streams as her heart throbs in agonizing pulls, but through the pain she feels happiness. In her head she repeats the same thing over and over again, 'he's alive,' before feeling the darkness consume her once again.

"If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire."
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

So there was chapter 3. Love it? Hate it?

It's basically another filler that has introduced a new character that will be coming out in a few other chapters. I haven't figured out her name yet but she'll be mentioned soon enough.

Shout outs

(From chapter 1)

elking7541 - Thank you for following both me and my story and for favoriting W.I.E as well.

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Abi(Guest) - Alas Wendy's chapter and the lost boys is coming up so look out for that and love ya too.

Well that's all the shout outs for today, Chapter 4 will, hopefully, be coming out on December 18, so look out for that.

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Until next time my lovelies.