Chapter 7: Attack the Jolly Roger?
Back at the Indian camp everyone celebrated the return of Tigerlily the daughter of chief Great Panther. Peter and the others had been invited to come and celebrate on the way Peter introduced everyone.
"Michael, John this are my friends the lost boys" Peter introduced
"I'm Slightly, 2nd in command"
"Nibs, I plan the battles"
"They call me Curly"
"I'm Tootles"
"Were the Twins" the twins said at once
"If their not talking at one time, their finishing each other sentences, how they do that I will never know" Peter said to Wendy who was walking beside him
"I'm Emily, Peter's sister, you should probably stick with me" she whispered to John and Michael "they can be blockheads, expect for Tootles"
Everyone gathered up in a tent and Great Panther thanked them for saving Tigerlily's life, he also complemented Peter, "You've come a long way from the small boy I once trained Peter Pan" Peter got up and bowed.
A Medicine Woman took a look at Peter's cut then she sewed back on the head to Michael's Teddy Bear,
"Teddy" Michael said happily
Emily looked at Michael and giggled, while Tigerlily smiled at John who cheeks blushed red, Michael straightened up when he noticed that Emily was giggling at him, he smiled shyly to her, which just made her giggle some more, "silly boy" she thought.
The children all sat together and ate in a circle, Tigerlily joined them sitting next to John and noticed something was on Peter's mind, Tigerlily didn't have to think hard to know what."
"Thinking about Hook?" she asked her friend
"He's just going to keep coming after us until were all dead" said Slightly
"Why does he hate you all" Wendy asked
"We don't know" replied Peter "This all started long before any of us came here, probably even before we were born."
"Its said that when Hook came here he started harnessing Neverland's power, its very life force, it made him stronger, more powerful, powerful then any normal man" said Tigerlily
"He would go back to the other world and then come back when he wanted more power that was until a shaman finally cursed him and his crew.
"Yeah he bound him to Neverland, but in doing so he also kept Hook and his crew from aging" Peter replied
"Then he took his anger out on our kind for some reason" added Slightly "there use to be tons of use, we use to grow up here."
"There were even children born here, like Rain was, she was the last one to be born here" added Tootles
Peter quickly got up from the circle "be right back" he said, Wendy looked at him concerned "is he all right" she asked
"Peter doesn't like to talk about Rain" said Tootles
"How come" asked John
"Rain was killed by Hook at The Black Castle" said Tigerlily who turned to see Peter standing alone "Peter was there" she said turning back to the others "the whole thing happened right in front of him"
"Poor Peter" said John
"And Hook still doesn't stop, we have to do something about him" said Slightly
"Like what?" Emily asked
"I think we should attack Hook and stop waiting for him to attack us" Slightly said
"Attack him where" Peter asked from behind Slightly
Everyone looked at Peter, "I said I'd be back didn't I?" Peter then turned to Slightly
"The Jolly Roger, you want to attack The Jolly Roger?" Peter asked
"Why not" Nibs added
"If there were still a lot of us like there was at one time, I might agree with you" Peter said "but this is all of us right here, and Hook has a very large crew, were outnumbered by at least a good five to one, maybe more."
The Lost Boys all glared at him and Peter sighed
"Look I don't like this anymore then you do" Peter said "but one thing I learned when I was being taught by Great Panther was to always try to give yourself an advantage in battle."
"Peter's right, at least here on the island you have the trees and bushes to hide in, that gives you the element of surprise, it wouldn't be the same on Hook's ship, you would have to fight him and his whole crew head on." Tigerlily said
"You don't think we can do it Peter" asked Tootles
"I don't know" Peter said looking at everyone "look, just don't go talking about attacking The Jolly Roger until I've had some time to think" Peter said, with that he turned and walked away, Wendy got up and started following him.
Just then the members of the tribe all started dancing and Tigerlily pulled up John and made him dance with her. Michael nervously turned to Emily "would you like to dance" he asked
"I would love to" Emily said giggling
The rest of the boys kept on talking in a circle
"You think Peter is right" asked Tootles
"I think he's scared" said Slightly
"Peter isn't scared of anything" said The Twins at once
"Yeah then why doesn't he want to attack Hook, he's our leader, he's suppose to lead us against the deviant, not wait for him to kill us all."
"I don't think that what's he's doing" said Tootles "I think he's just trying to protect us"
"Peter wants to protect us, then he should do something about Hook, we should do something about Hook" Slightly said
Peter stood outside the village and was looking up at the sky, he noticed that the fairies were all heading towards a single place, "the fairy dance" he thought himself, and he hadn't been to one since Rain took him and the others when they were really little. He thought to himself, "maybe Tink is there?", it would nice to watch her dance, just then he heard a voice from beyond him.
"Peter" Wendy asked
"Hi" Peter said
"Are you all right" Wendy asked
"I'm fine, just thinking"
Then he looked back up at the sky, "you want to see something really pretty" he asked
"I would love to" Wendy said with a smile
Peter started walking and then with his hand he directed Wendy to follow him.
To be Continued