Hi there! I know I'm publishing this chapter a little bit later than usual, truth is I had a little bit of difficulty (here comes a spoiler so if you don't want to read it jump to the "By the way")inserting the paragraph I put on the start of the story, but here you have it!

By the way, my holidays are coming to an end so from now on things will get a little slower, although I promise I'll do my best to update as soon as I can. Things will get more interesting from now on, so I hope you guys enjoy it! And please keep the reviews coming, I try to follow all your advices, and they really help me to continue writing :)

Full moon night

Night was falling when the boat full of pirates left the cave, only the full moon watching them. They all had their swords and pistols, but they had something else: poppy pollen. The captain remembered how handy it had been when Zarina stole the blue powder for the first time, and had decided that it could be useful. They carried a lamp but when they were approaching the beach they put it out, although the mist hid them. They had spent all day reviewing the plan so that nobody committed any mistake because, although the fairies were stupid, there was no need to give them quarter. They moored the boat to a palm tree and two sailors were left standing guard, while the rest moved quietly towards the Hollow.

Throughout the year they had spent together, James had obtained a lot of information from Zarina, pretending to get interested in the life she had carried before disappearing. Thanks to that he knew how to reach the tree and also where the powder was. He did not know the combination of the case where it was kept, but he could always steal the box and then break it. "How naïve can fairies be," thought the pirate as they approached the Hollow. "She didn't even realize she had given me too much information until it was too late ".

With a gesture he indicated the others to hide. They retreated behind some tall grass and saw a fairy appear on the road to their right. It seemed as if she was searching something, or rather as if she was guarding the Hollow. Zarina had never told him that fairies had guards, but it could be and, moreover, they were prepared. He slipped his hand into the left pocket of his red jacket and took out a bit of pollen. When the fairy was passing right before him he blew, and a pink cloud enveloped the tiny creature, who fell to the ground, asleep. They repeated this with six more fairies, until they were able to get to the Forest of Spring. They were there when the captain suddenly realized that the sky had been covered with clouds. Leaving the cave he had seen the stars, but now the sky was black as if a storm was approaching. This discovery, along with the fact that there were so many fairies awake at that hour, began to make him suspect, but he didn't have time to anticipate what happened next.

Soon a beam fell just before them, and this one was followed by many others. They fell on top of them as a barrage of flashes, burning them and keeping them away from the Great Tree. The pirates ran up and down between bewilderment and confusion, and pushed each other to be the first ones to arrive at the boat. Far away from the forest they couldn't see anything because of the smoke the burns of the rays had raised.

"Stupid cowards, return here!" shouted Captain Hook to his crew, which was fleeing like a band of hens. "They are nothing more than fairies!" but he also was forced to take shelter from the storm and hid under a tree. The lightning followed the other pirates, forcing them to return to the bay where the boat had been docked. When the crying of his subordinates and the roar of thunder ceased to be heard, fairies began to peek out of the smoke. The water fairies put out the remains of a fire and the garden fairies healed flowers and trees, but they all seemed very happy for having scared all the pirates. All but one.

Captain Hook was hiding behind the tree, and watched warily the fairies who were gathering, planning his next move. It was clear that he couldn't steal the blue powder without being seen, but perhaps he could find a way to fix it. The solution soon arose. Queen Clarion appeared next to her subjects and congratulated them for the success of the operation. He knew it was her because that was how Zarina had described her, a fairy a little taller than the others and shimmering as if made of gold dust. Hearing their conversations he guessed they had been waiting for them since the afternoon, so surely they had seen them arrive the night before. No one had noticed his presence, and he thought that using the very Queen as a hostage could provide him control over all the fairies. He took advantage that the Queen was talking to some other fairies, and lunged to her.

All the fairies screamed when they understood that Clarion was in danger, and they wouldn't have been able to save her if a certain garden fairy, who knew Hook very well, hadn't been replanting flowers there at the moment. Rosetta reacted quickly and the branches of the tree where he had been hiding seconds before wrapped the pirate and tied him to the trunk. He tried to escape but they were too strong.

"Look who we've got here!" said the fairy with a mocking tone. "Didn't you have enough last time? I think Zarina and Tinkerbell gave you a good lesson."

"That's why I came, Miss," he answered with a smile full of rage "I think that you and your friends have something that belongs to me."

The fairy did not like that last comment, and looked at him with contempt. But, before she could respond, something interrupted her. Another group of fairies was approaching from the Pixie Dust Tree. He could hear them laugh and comment how well they have scarred the pirates.

"You see? I told you the catapults wouldn't fail. This grey powder is truly magnificent Zarina, I had never seen..." Tinkerbell suddenly stopped and her face of surprise made the other three fairies who were accompanying her turn around to see what had struck her. The laughter ceased immediately.

"James?" Zarina's voice trembled, but the pirate recognized its jingle even before seeing her. He loved the surprise and fear on the fairy's face, but not so the expression which quickly replaced the previous, when she saw that James was trapped. Fun. Zarina was laughing at him for having fallen into her trap. Fun and satisfaction, that was what her smile transmitted. Of course the captain didn't like this at all, being trapped by those tiny beings again felt ridiculous. But even if he resisted the tree was still holding him firmly.

"Then," said a fairy in a yellow dress that was also around. "you're the Captain Hook which all the pirates were mentioning?" Now he was sure, it was another one of the friends that had helped Zarina last time.

"Thus it is, that's now my name, and my title." added the captain launching a provocative look at Zarina. But she wasn't looking at him. Her pose was now more serious as she approached the Queen.

"Queen Clarion, what are you gonna do with him?" the Queen looked at him long and then spoke to her alchemist.

"I think that you, Zarina, should decide it. You know him better." They all realized that it was the response she had been waiting, but when she turned to him he did not see any trace of amusement in her small face, only seriousness.

"Wait a moment." and she flew to the top of the tree. The fairies who remained gathered at enough distance from him and began to discuss. It was difficult for him to understand what they were saying, with all the jingling, but he could understand that some fairies were not very assured of leaving the verdict in Zarina's hands. "She once worked with him," they said. This satisfied him, in the end Zarina did not have all the trust and understanding of her companions. But then Tinkerbell stopped them.

"Have you forgotten who are we talking about? It's Zarina, guys, do you really think she would betray us? In addition," She said with reproach to the fairies. "if we had not expelled her and we had tried to understand her, she would have had no need to join the pirates, am I wrong?." All those who had protested lowered their gaze and nodded. Queen Clarion smiled.

"Don't worry Tink." everyone became quiet, like little children who had been caught doing a prank. "I know that after what I did it's hard to trust me, but I think they all will change their opinion when they see this." Zarina approached the man and pulled out a handful of light pink powder from a bag in her belt. "Stay prepared Rosetta!", she announced. Then she sprinkled the dust over her victim. The last thing James saw before falling sleep was the look of hatred that glowed in the fairy's eyes for a moment, and he knew that this time a few kind words would not be enough to regain her confidence.