Chapter 2- Not Peter Pan!
"This is a bad idea…" Henry grumbled to the other men there,
"I agree, but we have to do something, or we won't get out of here."
"Why is it only the men?" "Anyone know of any fairytales with a loathing of men?" Puck grumbled "depends, have they been close enough to smell you?" Jake asked, amidst gales of laughter. Puck growled
"I've been showering every day, thank you very much."
"Is it because you were expecting to see a certain young lady this weekend?" Pinocchio asked grinning, "shut it Muppet!" He snapped irked, which immediately silenced the now twenty-one-year-old puppet, who was now a regular man.
"Who could possibly have us? I wouldn't put it past Babba Yaga." Puck said grimacing at his most recent encounter with the woman.
"Nope, not her doing." Henry said.
"I have a good feeling that it's his." He said pointing up to where the shadow of a man was hoping from roof to roof, Puck scanned looking for the source, but saw no other person, finally the shadow stopped in front of his prisoners. He was older, looking near death, but this couldn't be his doing alone, the man, was too frail to do something, it was an odd mix, he would come into focus, and then fade back into the image of a shadow, as though he couldn't hold his shape for long.
"Please tell me that I wasn't kidnapped by Peter Pan…" Puck begged, falling to his knees in front of the shadow and clutching at his hand. He didn't manage to grasp him at all, but instead fell through him and sprawled to the ground. A cold chuckle echoed through the chasm that the Everafters were trapped inside of.
"No… You'd be lucky if you were. I am known to your kind simply as The Shadow." Puck frowned,
"I am not going to call you that, it's like when people call Voldemort, he who must not be named! It's ridiculous, no. Give me another name!" He snapped. "Since when have you seen Harry Potter?" Jake asked,
"What-? Oh, I didn't, I just finished reading the series. Don't tell anyone or my reputation would be ruined if anyone knew I'd actually read a book, they might try to take me back to the fairy kingdom thinking that I'd 'grown up´ or done something rash like that. The horror." He shuttered,
"Um, you have grown up kid." Mr. Canis said, "I don't know if you knew that's what you did, but you're an ad- "
"don't you dare finish that sentence old man, if you know what's good for you!"
"ult." Puck snarled, "I know! Okay! I'm four thousand and twenty-four years old, okay, this isn't something that I would have chosen for myself." He snapped
"Dude, the only way you even can change, is if you decide to do so." Uncle Jake answered rolling his eyes,
"Although, don't feel to put out by this, you still have the mind of a child." Henry said in an attempt to make the fairy king feel slightly better.
"Enough of this nonsense" the shadow creature yelled, a bolt of energy thrust the men and beasts to the ground.
"Tell us what you want, shadow creature." Mr. Canis said calmly, staring as the silhouette again began to fade in and out of view. "I am not a creature, I am simply a shadow."
"We don't care what you are, just what you want." There was no response, the shadow, simply vanished, and a dark cloud went over them, and they all slumped to the floor for the time being, as the creature had no use of any of them at the moment.