The Legend of Peter Pan
Sorry about last time. I actually got a late start on resuming my work on chapter three. But at least now it has come to pass. I just can't wait to get things going again for Peter and the gang on chapter four.
Alrighty, we finally get to see where the gang is headed next. Our heroes ease-drop on a meeting between the crew of Destiny. Some things will be explained for this chapter.
I hope you guys come to enjoy it.
Just a reminder: I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING!
Read and enjoy the adventure.
Chapter Four:
Another Adventure, Different Day
"Okay, how is this fun again?" Slightly asked as he held his deck of card with both of his hands.
The whole gang, with the exception of Peter and James, were sitting around the camp fire, playing go-fish. The Twins made the fire, once the sun had gone down. How they got firewood was a mystery. It was supposed to be a twin thing.
"It's fun because it is a game that guys like us play all the time," Nibs reponded. "You got any threes?"
Slightly sighed and handed five cards of three over to Nibs, who was smiling.
"You think Captain John is mad at us?" Duke asked.
Nibs chuckled and said, "Which part? When we went underground without asking or that we almost got ourselves killed by some Egyptian trap?"
Binky and Duke laughed.
Curly chuckled under his breath.
Both Slightly and Tootles shook their heads and rolled their eyes.
"Well, I'm just glad we surived," Slightly responded.
"Yeah," Duke said with excitment.
"We live to die another day!" Binky sang.
Curly raised an eyebrow.
"Have you been watching that James Bond movie?" he teased.
"What?! I love James Bond! He gets all the glory!" responded Binky.
"And the girls," Duke added.
"Can we get back to the game now?!" Nibs asked, while laughing under his breath.
They continued on.
"Anybody got any fives?" Duke asked.
Slightly groaned and threw his entire set of cards down on sand.
"How is this fun when I'm losing?" he complained. "I mean... I have way much more fun when I'm making things explode."
The Twins giggled together.
"Slightly is..." Duke began.
"... losing," Binky finshed.
They both began to laugh even harder.
Curly, Nibs, and even Tootles couldn't hold back a chuckle.
Slightly's face turned red and he shot up from where he was sitting. He angerly walked away.
"Hey, we were only kidding!" Curly cried out.
Slightly ignored him and kept walking.
"Where are you going anyway?!" Nibs asked.
"To spy on the grown-ups!" he yelled back.
"But John said that we were officially grounded for the entire time here!" Duke protested. "He said we cannot leave the camp!"
"I don't care! I never listen anyway!" he disappeared into the darkness of the desert.
"Well, he got that part right," Curly chuckled.
The Twins laughed too.
"Lets follow him," Nibs sat his cards down and got up. "But first, lets go get Peter and James. I think they might want to hear what our precious grown-ups have to about those drawings down in the underground city."
Everyone nodded at once and got up from the sand. They headed towards the tent that Peter and James were sharing.
"At least our punishment isn't so bad," James said, lying on his sleeping bag. He flipped his six-inche knife around in his fingers.
Peter was sitting up, reading a copy of one of the Alex Cross novels. Despite that he was too busy into the reading, he could hear and understand everything his friend was saying.
"True," he responded. "At least John understands us. It's nice to have someone who knows what we go through."
"I wonder what we will do when he finally passes away," James said with a sad voice.
Everyone, even the grown-ups, loved Captain John Martinson. He came from a sad and horrible childhood. His mother died at childbirth. His father commited suicide before he was even born. His foster parents were abusive. Even the kids at his school were mean and selfish. But somehow, John kept the good inside his heart and later founded the ship of Destiny. It was sad to think that he never married or had kids. Such a good man, but all alone.
Peter, James, The Twins, Slightly, Curly, Tootles, and Nibs were all, sort of, sons to John. He treated them like as if he was there own father and made sure that they had love and happiness in their lives.
Peter closed his book and looked down at James.
"My guess... miss the old man's lectures."
They both laughed at the joke.
"Peter?"
"Hm?"
"Do you think that we can have a normal life?"
Peter thought about it and said, "Maybe. If we can somehow convince the grown-ups to forget about these adventures and settle down."
James nodded, satisified enough with his anwser.
Suddenly, they heard the zipper of the tent being undone. Then the heads of the Lost Boys appeared.
"Hey, you two," Nibs smiled. "We have a problem."
Peter put his book to the side and sighed.
"What has happened now?" he growled.
"Yeah, what could you idiots have possibly done now?" James teased.
The Twins looked at each and then back at Peter and James.
"Slightly has..." Binky started.
"... gone underground," Duke finished.
Peter rolled his eyes and got up from his sleeping bag.
"Then, we should go get him, before he causes more trouble for us."
James rose too and still smiling.
"On the contray, my friend, I vote we should join him," he patted Peter on the shoulder.
Peter raised an eyebrow at his friend and said, "Fine, lets go. Nothing fun to do around here anyway."
The Lost Boys moved their heads from the entrance of the tent and jumped up and down, cheering. The Twins did a high-five.
Peter and James appeared from the tent.
"Alright, lets go," Peter commanded.
Together, the Lost Boys walked into the darkness and into the entrance of the tunnel, that led to the underground cave.
"Wow!" exclaimed Rufio as he studied the room that he and the others were in, with his flashlight. "This is extrordinary! I mean, the Eygptian writings alone just describe the island of Mollusk perfectly!"
The underground city was truely of Eygptian origin. The tunnels, the paintings, the writing, and the symbols all pointed towards the very people who rules these lands thousands of years ago.
The room was huge. It was the same room that Rachel and Jack had found earlier that day. It was round like a circle. The ceiling even went in a circler pattern to the other side. It was almost like a bowl in other words. In the center was some kind of fountain and inside it was a map. A map of an island that read Neverland in Eygptian language.
"How could the Egptians know about Mollusk?" Sarah asked. "Because, this means that the legend of Mollusk stretches back more than three thousand years ago."
"Four thousand years ago," John corrected. "And I don't believe that Mollusk was the true name of the island."
Sarah frowned and asked, "How do you know that?"
John chuckled and said, "Because every time I read about the island, there is always a name appearing in the sentences." He paused. "Neverland."
"Neverland?" Rufio asked. "Why Neverland? Sounds a little childish to me."
Sarah rolled her eyes.
Jack and Rachel studied the drawings and the writings too. They held hands and kept to themselves as they read.
"You think Frank is alright?" Sarah asked John.
John smiled. He had a pretty good idea that Frank has fallen asleep again, while on teen sitting. The guy always had that nasty habit of falling asleep.
"He's fine," John lied through his teeth, enjoying it too.
Sarah still seemed unsatisfied with answer, but chose to ignore it.
"Everybody!" Rachel called out.
Everyone in the room turned toward her, with their full attention.
"I think me and Jack have found something," she smiled.
"Here we go again!" James whispered to Peter.
Peter chuckled and said, "We'll be fine. Frank is asleep, as always, and we'll be back to the surface before anyone finds out."
"What happens if Frank wakes up?" Duke asked.
"Or, what about if the grown-ups discover us?" Binky added.
"Then I guess we are dead meat!" Curly yelled out.
Everyone laughed at his sense of humor, even Tootles did too.
Finally, they caught up with Slightly, who was having trouble finding his way through the tunnels.
"Anybody know the way?" Slightly asked.
Peter took point and moved forward.
"We'll figure it out as we go," he said.
They continued on until they came to the split point that they found earlier today.
"Alright," Peter turned towards the group. "Last time, we headed to the right. Now, we head to the left. The grown-ups should be down there."
"How do you know?" Curly asked.
"Because the room that the tunnel on the right leads to is completely covered in sand now. That's how I know."
Curly tried to speak again, but then decided against it.
"Alright, lets find out what all of this is all about," Peter began to lead the way.
A few minutes later, they found themselves at the entrance of the large room. It was three times bigger than the one that they had been in earlier. The Lost Boys kept their distance from the light of the flashlights, staying in the darkness.
"Alright," James whispered to the ground. "Moment of truth. Lets play ease-dropping on the grown-ups."
Everyone smiled and turned their attention towards the grown-ups in the large room.
"Alright, what do you got?" Sarah asked as everyone joined in a circle around the fountain.
Rachel pulled out her notes and arranged them out on the died up fountain. She sort them out and smiled.
"Alright," she began. "Jack and I have been able to read the writings. We found some interesting stuff about Neverland, the name that they liked to call Mollusk here."
"And?" Rufio rubbed his chin.
"And, we have discovered that the Eygptains have prove of the location of this island," she finished.
Everyone looked at each other and smiled.
"So, where is it?" John finally asked.
Rachel half-frowned and said, "It doesn't actually say, but the coorinates point to some location off the coast of Florida."
"Which is?" Rufio stretched out his hands.
Rachel looked at her husband and then back at the group.
"The Bermuda Triangle."
The name made the very room feel eerie. Everyone's smile disappeared.
"I know it sounds crazy-"
"You think?" Sarah interupted Rachel. "Do you have any idea what the Bermuda Triangle is?"
"Yes, I know!" Rachel raised her voice. "And that is why must go! These coordinates say that the island is most likely inside the triangle itself."
"What do you mean by most likely?" John asked, all curious.
Rachel sighed.
Jack put his around around her shoulder and kissed her on the forehead.
"Go ahead, baby," he said. "Tell them."
Rachel looked at him and smiled.
She began where she left off.
"The Eygptians believed that Neverland was part of a whole new universe. They say that the Bermuda Triangle is like a portal between dimensions. There are tons of legends about it. Appearantly, a lot of ships and planes have gone missing when they entered the triangle. It was believed that these ships and planes were transported to other worlds that we don't even know about. Neverland, is one of these dimensions. A world that rests on the edge of time and space itself."
Everyone remained silent, staring at Rachel as she got done talking.
Finally, John spoke up.
"You sure about this?" he asked.
Rachel nodded.
He nodded back and said, "Alright, pack things up. We head back for Cairo tomorrow. I'll call Thomas ahead of schedule and tell him that we are on the way. Way objections?"
Everyone shook their heads.
John smiled and said, "Alright, get ready for the long journey ahead of us. Because we are heading for the Bermuda Triangle."
"Right into hell itself," Rufio added and smiled.
Everyone laughed at his joke.
Peter sighed as he and the others heard them talking. He felt a hand on his shoulder.
"Sorry Peter," James whispered.
"It's alright," he responded. "I should be used to it anyway."
"We need to head back up before they find us," Slightly whispered towards them.
Peter and James nodded towards him and they quietly made their way back towards the surface.
When they arrived, they heard Frank snoring in his sleep.
"You think we should wake him?" Curly asked, smiling his most evil smile ever.
Peter shook his head and said, "No, let him sleep. The guy has taken as many hits for us anyway."
For once, everybody agreed and went to their tents.
Peter and James went to sleep in their clothes, not bothering to cover themselves with the sleeping bags. The desert was warm enough for them.
Peter had trouble sleeping. He couldn't stop thinking that his family was once again going on another adventure.
Another adventure, different day! he said to himself.
Suddenly, he heard the zipper of the tent being undone. But he knew who it was. And he was not in the mood of talking to that person now. He made himself appear alseep.
Rachel Pan appeared at the entrance of the tent and came on in. She looked down at her son and smiled. She bent down towards him and kissed his cheek.
"I love you, Peter," she said in a kind and gentle voice. "More than anything else. I wish you could remain young like this forever. I love you more than anything."
With those last words, she was gone from his tent.
Aright, we got this chapter done. Can't wait to get to chapter five. I have big plans for that one.
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