chapter 11
Henry's P.O.V
We hit sand when we land from the portal and Ella landed right beside me but she was still passed out, but I saw her stir awake a little bit. I tried to shake her awake even with my hands tied together but then I was grabbed from behind seconds later
by Greg.
"Slow down, pal. You got nowhere to go." Greg states before he pushes me forward.
"We made it." Tamara exclaims in happiness. "Mission accomplished."
"Are you sure about that? 'Cause my mom's coming to get us. Both of them." I say full of confidence.
"Look around. Do you see any clock towers? You're a long way from Storybrooke." Greg says.
"It doesn't matter. My family's been to the Enchanted Forest before, and they can get here again." I state while I look down at Ella as she stirs slightly.
"Well, we're not in the Enchanted Forest. This is Neverland." Tamara state with certainty.
"Neverland? You're here to destroy Neverland?" I question.
"It's the mother load of magic." Tamara states as I start to look around.
"We need to signal the home office." Tamara informs Greg.
"Here you go, T." Greg says as he hands Tamara a communicator.
"An office in a jungle? Huh. Who works there?" I ask sarcastically.
"Who we work for is not your concern, kid. Just know they take care of us."Greg says.
"Do they? Can they tell you how to get back home After you destroy magic?" I ask.
"We don't ask questions. We just believe in our cause." Greg tells me.
Greg. I'm not getting a status light on this thing." Tamara says as she passes the communicator to Greg.
"Did you check the batteries?" Greg asks as he opens the battery compartment only for sand to fall out.
"What the hell is this? A toy?" Tamara says with anger.
"It's a good thing you guys don't ask any questions." I state sarcastically.
"Let's go." Greg says before he goes over to Ella and picks her up and puts her over one shoulder. We walk for 10 minutes before I look over to Ella to see her eyes flutter open.
Abrielle's P.O.V
I slowly begin to stir awake when I suddenly realize that I'm being carried over someone's shoulder. I quickly wrap my legs around the legs of who was carrying me and focus all my weight to my back while wrapping my arms around the waist of the person. This ends up causing the person to lose his balance and fall forward and I use this to flip the person over onto his back. I stand up quickly and see Greg on the ground and Henry being held in Tamara's grip.
"Ella are you okay? How did you do that?" Henry asks me with wide eyes.
"I don't know." I say confused at how I did that myself. I look around to see we are in a jungle. "Where are we? What's going on?" I ask, well more demand.
"Ugh, that doesn't concern you." Greg says as he starts to get up. I look over to Henry to see Tamara still has his arm in her grip.
"Tamara if I were you, I would let go of Henry right now." I say while glaring at her.
When Greg finally got up he grabbed my hands and tied them together with a piece of rope, he then started to drag me. All four of us kept walking for five minutes before we reach a little clearing where Greg and Tamara decided to set up a camp. Greg was making a little five or at least he was trying to. I saw a rock with weirdly shaped edges and I slowly bent down and grabbed it with my hands before standing up.
"We making s'mores?" Henry asked trying to be funny.
"No. Building a signal." Greg informed us. I turned Henry towards me and try to cut the ropes but it wouldn't work. I stop when I heard Tamara start to have doubts.
"Don't let the kid get to your head." Greg told Tamara before we all heard rustling. We all turns to the sound when a boy with a club stepped out from the bushes. I instantly pull Henry behind me in a protective gesture when more boys stepped out with weapons also.
"Who are you?" Greg ask while looking at them.
"We're the home office." The boy who I could now see had a scar running down his face says simply. "Welcome to Neverland"
"The 'home office' is a bunch of teenagers?" Tamara says in disbelief.
"Hey don't underestimate teenager. We're tougher than we look." I say while winking at Greg to get my point across from earlier.
"They're not teenager. They're the Lost Boys." Henry states while stepping out from behind me.
"Look at that." The boy with the scar says clearly impressed.
"Why do the Lost Boys want to destroy magic?" Henry asks them and I pull him back behind me.
"Who said we wanna destroy magic?" Scarboy replies.
"That was our mission." Greg states.
"So you were told." Scarboy says in a bored tone. "Now the boy and the girl. Hand them over." He demanded.
"Not until you tell us the plan- for magic, for getting home." Tamara declares while she steps in front of us. The boy just chuckles as he steps up to Greg.
"You're not getting home." He states
"Then you're not getting the boy or the girl." Greg says. The boy chuckles once as the other boys started to inch closer. I got a bad feeling about this.
"Of course we are." Scarboy says. I get this feeling that something was about to happen. That's when a shadow flew down and ripped Greg's shadow from his body and Greg fell to the floor dead. Tamara yells at us to run and I didn't need to be told twice before I turn Henry around and started to run. I could hear Tamara running behind me before I heard a whizzing sound and then a body hit the ground but I didn't stop running and I made sure Henry didn't stop running either. I could hear the boys behind us but we didn't get far before Henry tripped on a tree root and fell down. I reached down to help Henry up and I only got a grab of Henry's arm before a hand pressed against my mouth and I was dragged into the bushes and because of my grip on Henry's arm he was dragged in as well. Henry lands on top of me and we both stay silent when we hear the lost boys run pass where we are hiding, when we're sure that they are gone we sit up. I look over to the person who helped us to see he still had his hood on and it covered his face, but then he pulled it off and I saw a boy with forest green eyes and light brown hair that looked as soft as clouds but was slightly messy, he has smudges of dirt on his face that made him have a cute boyish look.
My head started to hurt and I saw a flash of the same boy but his hair was neater and he had this mischievous gleam in his eyes and a smirk on his lips. Then I was looking back at the innocent looking boy.
"Thanks." Henry says and all I could do was stare at the boy.
"Pan and his forces are in tune with every grain of sand on this island. We must be careful." The boy says with his British accent. He grabs a rock and starts to cut away at the rope bounding Henry's hands.
"Are-are you a lost boy?" Henry ask the boy.
"I was. But I escaped. And now they're after me, too." The boy responds before he turns to me and I see a familiar gleam in his eyes before it disappears and he starts to cut my rope.
"How? What happened?" Henry ask just as the boy cuts through the rope.
"No time for questions. We must keep moving. Come on." He tells as he helps us both up and we start running. After ten minutes of running with the lost boys behind us we made it to a little clearing and we somehow lost the lost boys along the way.
"I think we lost them." The boy tells us as he pants a little.
"Okay. Can we rest for a minute?" Henry asks panting deeply. That's when I realize that I wasn't tired at all. Henry sat down on a fallen log while me and the boy stood.
"You're new. Did the shadow take you, too?" The boy asked us.
"No. We were kidnapped by some people who work for Pan." Henry explains.
"I'm sorry. If he sent for you, he wants you. And if Pan wants you, he will get you." The boy states matter-of-factly.
"Then why does Peter want you?" I say before I could think. I saw the boy flinch when I said Peter instead of saying Pan, but then he moved his scarf and pulled a necklace with a vile out from underneath it.
"Pixie dust. I stole it from him 'cause I thought I could use it to fly away and go home. But it doesn't work. It's useless." The boy explains to us.
"Don't worry. My family's coming to rescue us both, and you can come with us." Henry tells the boy, but the boy just had a look of disbelief on his face.
"You really think you're the first boy to believe that his family's actually coming for them?" The boy says full of doubt.
"My family's different. We always find each other." Henry says with confidence.
"You better hope they don't, or else Pan will rip their shadows into oblivion." The boy says but it doesn't sound like a warning but more of an unspoken threat. Henry obviously doesn't notice as he stands up and places a hand on the boy's shoulder in a comforting gesture.
"It's gonna be okay. I promise. Don't lose hope. All we need is time. Is there a place where we can hide from the lost boys?" Henry asks as the boy has a look of concentration on his face.
"There's a place they can't track us. The Echo Caves, but it's far." The boy states just as we heard rustling.
"Then what are we waiting for? Lead the way." I say to the boy. He nods and we start running again. We run for a few minutes when we hear the lost boys chasing us and it sounded like they were gaining on us. The boy was at the front leading us, Henry was in front of me and I was running at the back. Henry was running as fast as he could but he would lose his footing and trip every once in awhile.
"They're getting closer. I can see them." I tell them as we keep running.
"We're almost to the caves. Come on. Follow me." The boy says just as I hear a whizzing sound. Henry pulls the boy back just as an arrow embeds itself into the tree just inches from where the boy was standing.
"They cut us off. They know about the caves. We have to go this way." Henry states as he points to the opposite direction and we take off running. I could hear the lost boys shouting as they started to chase us again but their shouts got farther and farther away, we were losing them and I smiles in triumph. We run until we reach a cliff which I almost run off of.
"Watch out!" Henry yells as he throws out his arms and stops the boy from falling off.
"They're over here!" One of the lost boys shouts.
"What do we do? Is there any other way to The Echo Caves?" Henry asks while looking down the cliff.
"No. We're done for." The boy says in despair.
"How far down do you think the jump would be?" I ask as I look over the edge to the water down below. I look back up to see both the boy and Henry looking at me with disbelief. "What. I was joking."
" I'll give em the the pixie dust. Maybe they'll let us live." The boy says as he grabs the vile with the pixie dust.
"You want to give up?" Henry states perplexed.
"We don't have a choice. They got us. This is the end." The boy exclaims as out over the cliff. I could see the wheels in Henry's mind turning as he looked down at the pixie dust.
"No. It's our way out." Henry says as he snaps the cord holding the vile off of the boy's neck and pulls him back by his cloak.
"What...what are you doing?" The boy questions.
"Getting a running start." Henry explains.
"For what?" The boy questions again.
"Everyone knows pixie dust is for flying." Henry says simply.
"Don't you remember? The dust doesn't work." The boy tells us.
"That's because you have to believe." Henry states.
"I definitely do not believe." The boy declares. I grab his hand in mine and he looks at me with wide eyes, while Henry grabs the boy's cloak again.
"That's okay." I start and Henry pops the cork off the vile. "Because we do." Henry finishes and we smile at each other as all three of us run towards the cliff edge and jump off. Green dust surrounds us and we start to fly. I look back at the cliff to see lost boys looking up at us. We were flying through the clouds and it felt so natural to me, like I've done this before. I look up at the boy to see him looking back at me, I smile up at him but when he smiled back I felt my heart stop. The look he was giving me tugged at my memory and I saw a flash of the mischievous boy from before.
It wasn't long before we started to slowly fall down as the dust started to ware off.
The boy points to a clearing and we start to descend, the boys fall down but I somehow land down on my feet and I bend down slightly into a crouch so I wouldn't lose my balance. I felt like I've done this before, like this is always how I would land when I would fly. I stand up when both the boys stand up.
"See? If you believe, anything is possible." Henry declares with happiness & a smile.
I look over to the boy to see his innocent features change into the mischievous ones. The mischievous boy from my flashes.
"You couldn't be more right, Henry." The boy says in a familiar dark way. I could see the smile slip off of Henry's face when he noticed the change.
"How...How'd you know my name? I never told you." Henry says slowly backing up.
"Let's make it a game, a puzzle to solve." The boy says and my head started to hurt from the familiance of the sentence.
"You lied to me. You are a lost boy. You work for Pan." Henry states and I pull him behind me.
"Not exactly." He says as he looks me straight in the eyes and steps closer to us. "I am Peter Pan."
When he said that I saw millions of flashes of him pass before my eyes. I knew him, I realized. I knew him from before the curse.
"But you told Greg and Tamara that magic was bad, that you'd help them destroy it." Henry says. I was looking at peter the whole time, and I saw his features go to amused while he still had his dark, evil, and slightly hot look.
"Why?" Henry asked.
"Because I needed their help. And it is so much easier to get people to hate something that to believe." Peter tells us. I couldn't say anything I just kept looking at Peter.
"Why did you bring us here?" Henry questions. Peter turns around a starts walking around us.
"For quite some time, I've sought something extremely important, something more elusive than the greatest of all mysteries." Peter tells us.
"What?" Henry ask as I hold him behind me in a protective manner.
"The heart of the truest believer. And when you took that pixie dust, Henry, and jumped off that cliff. . ." Peter leans over and knocks on a hollow tree. "You proved yourself. You are the lucky owner of that very special heart. And now? You...and it...are mine." Peter explains.
"And why am I here Peter?" I ask with anger in my voice.
"You lass, are here because we have a pass together. But we'll talk about that later." Peter says as he unsheathed a knife and raised it above his head.
"Come on, boys." Peter yells and a bunch of boys steps out of the bushes and holes in the trees and creates a circle around us. "Let's play!"
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