Chapter Twenty-One
I kept watch and let out the whistle as soon as the sun started to disappear, all of us gathered together and pulled on our packs and grabbed our staffs.
Peter, in a surprisingly thoughtful move, had found one for Wendy as well so now we were all suited up.
Taking a deep breath, I nodded to Peter who nodded back and then he flew out of the Hide Out with me right behind him with the Lost Boy's in pairs behind us and Wendy flying in the back.
We flew low to the water to avoid being spotted as we spread out in a pre-determined flight pattern so we would circle the ship.
I could feel my body humming with pent up energy at the thought of the prank we were about to pull.
The sun went down and thankfully the moon was a faint sliver so we didn't have to worry about being spotted as we rose up from our low positions and flew up into the sky.
Surrounding the boat on all sides we all reached into our packs and took out a single bag before flying down towards the Jolly Rodger and sneaking into the kitchen, one of us keeping lookout as we all took turns flying in and dumping highly concentrated caffeine contents into the barrels of drinking water in the kitchen. Then flying up and away from the ship we all grabbed a balloon placing it at the large curved end our staffs we positioned the staffs and then on a flash of light from Tinkerbell we all tossed the balloons towards the ship.
There was hardly any sound when the balloons landed on the deck of the ship causing a collective sigh of relief before we all began to reach for a new balloon and began to throw them in random directions at the ship.
As I was focusing on aiming right outside of Hooks cabin Wendy flew over to me, my tongue was poked out of the side of my mouth as I concentrated on aiming my staff so I didn't spare a glance at her.
"So what's the balloons filled with? Tootles didn't really explain that part." Wendy asked me in a hushed whisper.
I didn't answer as I pulled my staff and with a single motion tossed it towards Hook's cabin door, squinting my eyes I tried to follow the progress of it and felt a smile creep over my mouth as it landed where I had aimed.
Splitting my attention between Wendy and getting another balloon out of my pack I was going to answer when Wendy asked another question,
"What are the balloons made-out of anyway?"
I gently pulled a balloon out of my pack and turned towards Wendy as I cradled it in one hand,
"We made them out of a certain type of leaf and seaweed." I answered proudly.
"What are they filled with? And how to they explode on impact if their made from leaves?" Wendy asked curiously.
I grinned and took a deep breath before I began to explain while setting the balloon on the curved edge of my staff and getting ready to throw another one.
"Well I wasn't sure how to make them or get them to explode either then John came up a great idea. What we did was make like a cranberry and fish guts, the fish guts came from the sirens who threw them at us to keep us away from them. You should have been there it was hysterical fish literally came flying out of the sea and hitting us, anyway we used that and made like a jelly paste and put it into the leaf and tied it with seaweed and put it in the back of a cave to get it cold down enough to stay in shape. And well I'm not going to claim to be smart enough to know what John rigged up but basically when the balloon slams into something solid the balloon bursts causing the fish guts and cranberry paste to fly out and splatter basically everywhere. This is the second stage of our prank. Wait until you see stage three."
I said happily without pausing to take a breath as I threw my last balloon at the ship. There was a moment of silence and I kept my attention on the ship waiting for Tinkerbells signal to move onto phase three.
"You mean, my brother John Napoléon Darling, knowingly helped create these….balloons." Wendy asked slowly as if she was in a great deal of disbelief.
I turned sideways flashing her a grin,
"I know! Your brothers are awesome!" I told her before all my attention focused on the second flair of light signaling the start of the next phase.
"No time to talk now Wendy phase three is starting." I said flying away from Wendy and straight up into the air, coming to a stop beside Nibs who saluted me as I gave him my pack and staff.
Tinkerbell was there was well after she sprinkled the bluish colored pixie dust that was streaked with its natural golden color over my eyes and head I stiffened my back and saluted them both before breaking out in a wide grin as I turned head over heels and flew straight down into the water.
With the pixie dust on my eyes I could see clearly underwater as well as breath underwater finding the anchor I moved the sand away from it and then grabbing it I began to swim.
Slowly at first but soon picking up speed I swam around in a large circle shape underneath the boat rising up slowly from the bottom with each lap I took.
I was when I reached a certain height Peter was waiting and began to swim around in the circle shape with me at the same speed, holding half of the anchor.
Rising up a bit farther we were joined by John, then Nibs, then Tootles, then Curly by this time we were only about twenty feet under the water now and we had created a whirlpool like current that was spinning the ship like crazy.
Peter gave the single and we all let go of the ancho shooting up and out of the whirlpool that we had created and into the air, meeting up with the Twins, Michael and Tinkerbell who were waiting a way's away from the swirling ship with Wendy.
Smiling we gave each other's high-fives as we took back our still half-filled packs and staffs.
"On to phase four!" Peter said.
With smile's we all began to dive bomb the swirling ship whos crew were now awake and shouting out in fear and disgust as they fell on the slippery remains of our balloons.
As the sun started to rise up we all happily flew to the Hide Out which was starting to feel like home to me. We all set our packs and staffs down before climbing into bed exhausted, I was just about to fall asleep when I realized that Wendy hadn't climbed into the bed.
"Wonder what she's doing?" Was my last coherent thought.
(Nobody's pov)
Wendy stared down at the sleeping face of her brothers unable to believe that John had willingly created such a horrible device as that stinky balloon.
"I think you all need to be taught a lesson." Wendy declared as she turned her gaze to the rest of the sleeping Lost Boy's and Ann who was fitting in wonderfully as another Lost Boy.
Nodding her head firmly, Wendy began to think up a plan.