Chapter 10: Fallen Hero
The next day all the boys were back down in the hideout and they were all sitting at a big table and all talking amongst themselves, including John and Michael. Wendy woke up with her arms around Emily, she had stayed with the little girl all night and she didn't know what time it was or how long she had been up, so she went to go check on everyone else
"Hi Wendy" said John "We saved you a sit"
"Thank you" said Wendy who took her seat at the far end of the table away from where the rest of the Lost Boys were all huddled up and talking. She looked at everyone and wondered what exactly they were all talking about; just then Emily joined her at the other end of the table.
"Knowing them they are talking about how they are going to attack Hook and get themselves all killed" she said rolling her eyes.
Wendy then turned to the lost boys and her brothers "what are you all talking about" she asked them
"Nothing important Wendy lady" Slightly responded
"If it is not important then why not tell me?" Wendy said
"Were just talking about Hook, not about attacking The Jolly Roger, just what we should do about him" said Tootles
"Why do you always have to side with the girls Tootles?" asked Nibs
"Because he's the only one of you who's not a complete blockhead" said Emily
"We don't have to listen to you, especially considering that your brother is nothing but a coward" Nibs angrily said back
"My brother is not a coward!" Emily screamed
"Oh no" said Slightly "if he was no coward he wouldn't be in the other world chasing a ridiculous dream, he'd be doing something about Hook."
"You know I don't find James Hook to be so bad" said Wendy, all the Lost Boys looked at her
"Why would you say that Wendy" asked John
"Maybe because I was on his ship last night, and he treated me quite nicely, he even wanted me and Peter to join his crew" Wendy said
Everyone looked at Wendy in shock and then Slightly responded "so we don't have one traitor, we have two" he said turning to all the others
"You started all of this" Emily said looking at him
"You know I've had with you and always acting like little miss know it all" Nibs said pushing Emily to the ground
"Don't you touch her" Wendy screamed pulling out a sword and then pointing it at the rest of the boys
"Wendy?" asked John
"Enough is Enough" Wendy said "we are going home"
"Leave Neverland" John said
"We must" Wendy said bending down in front of her brothers, she started to remind her brothers about their parents and about Nana, Michael and John realized that they had forgotten all about their parents, and the two started to feel ashamed of themselves.
"Come with us" Wendy said gently picking up Emily
"What about Peter" Emily asked "he said he was going try and find our mother."
"He still can, maybe my parents can help you two, and if even if they can't I'm sure they wouldn't mind you both staying with us." Wendy said smiling
"You think so" Emily said
"Sure" Michael said jumping in, "though father might go on a bit about the expense," he added
"Go on and leave" Slightly said "We don't need you anyway"
John and Michael got back into there nightgowns and then Emily led them outside along with Wendy behind them, when Emily came out the door she froze in shock and the rest looked up to see no one else but Hook standing before them.
"We meet again my dear" Hook said looking down at Wendy, his pirates then quickly grabbed her and the others, Hook then pointed inside the tree house, "get the rest of them" he ordered
Tinkerbelle was flying overhead and she saw the whole thing, she then frantically went to go and find Peter
Peter was leaning up against a tree playing on his pipes in the forest, he could usually come up with some good melodies, but after what happened he couldn't think of much. Meanwhile Tigerlily was up in the tree putting up a net, she climbed down and looked at Peter.
"So are we going to do some hunting" she asked, but Peter just kept on playing his pipes
"Are you even listening to me" she asked him
"Huh, oh yeah, I'm sorry"
"Are you really to let them get to you?" Tigerlily asked him
"How would you be if you got banished?" Peter retorted back
Just then Tinkerbelle frantically appeared in front of him
"Calm down Tink" Peter said "I can't understand you"
After calming down, Tinkerbelle finally told Peter what was going, Peter gave her a look of complete shock.
"What is it?" Tigerlily asked
"Hook has found the hideout" Peter said "I have to go" he and Tinkerbelle quickly flew up in the air
"Peter wait!" Tigerlily tried screaming after him but they were to fast
Peter quickly flew down into the hideout, everyone was gone and the place had been ransacked. Peter quickly grabbed a sword and then went outside when he turned away from the hideout he saw all his friends sitting on the ground bound and gagged and each one of them with a sword to their throat from a pirate standing over them.
"Surprise!" one of Hook's crew members said from behind Peter, but before he could grab the boy Peter had turned around and punched him in the face.
Another one of Hook's crew charged out of the forest, Peter ducked and the crew member fell right over him. Some others came out and Peter pulled his sword, slashing one and wounding the others, the fight continued until Hook finally screamed out
"Stay where you are Pan!" Hook ordered, just then Cookson stepped beside him with a bound and gagged Wendy
"Let her go" Peter screamed
"You want her come and get her, of course by the time you are done getting her away from me all the rest of your friends will have lost their heads, and I've ordered them to start with your pretty little sister."
Tinkerbelle was about to intervene when Smee put his hat right over, trapping her inside, he then emerged from the woods and showed Peter the hat moving back and fourth, showing him that he had Tinkerbelle.
Peter looked at everyone else, he was fast but he wasn't that fast, he couldn't save Wendy from Hook and then save everyone else from the pirates, and if he tried to save them Hook would likely kill Wendy.
"What do you want old man" Peter said turning to Hook
"Just you boy, lay down your weapon"
Peter seeing he had no choice dropped his sword, just then he was grabbed by Jukes and Mullins who wrestled him to the ground, Hook stepped before him and bent down coming eye to eye with him.
"I'm told you like to hear stories boy, would you like to hear one from me?" he asked, Peter glared angrily at him
"I've been working on a way to break that annoying curse that has kept me and my crew trapped here, and I think I finally found the way to break it"
"How's that" Peter asked
"By killing the lost warrior"
"What?"
"The Lost Warrior, the one chosen to wield the magic of Neverland, why do you think you are so strong and quick boy, the island's power flows through you, the lost warrior was suppose to be the one to stop me, but if I killed the chosen one first then I would break the curse, and once I do I will take all the power I need and become unstoppable.
"That's what this has all been about?" Peter asked
"Well I didn't know which one of you little savages it might be, I didn't know until I lost my hand" Hook replied showing Peter his iron hook.
"If I'm the one you want then let the rest of them go" Peter said
"I could" said Hook "but there is nothing I would love more then to have your little friends abroad my ship so they can walk the plank one by one" Hook said
"Go to hell!" Peter said spitting in Hook's face, Hook just smiled at him
"You first" Hook answered back, then he plunged his Hook right into Peter who looked up at him, right after Hook pulled it out, Jukes and Mullins let go of Peter's arms and the rest of Peter slowly fell to the ground.
"A New age begins" Hook said standing over Peter's body, his blood still on his hook, he turned to his crew "Take them all back to the ship" he ordered
Cookson picked up Wendy and put her over his shoulder she looked at Peter and screamed his name through her gag as Cookson took her away.
After everyone was gone Tigerlily emerged from the forest, she bent down next to Peter
"Peter?"
She turned him over and took a look at his wound.
"Peter, Peter!"
To be continued