Higher and higher rose the golden sun that morning and Linia awoke with a jerk suddenly. Sitting up from her bed on a flat rock, she looked down into the lagoon. There were the beautiful mermaids swimming and playing together like every day. Groggily standing up, Linia floated down onto the shore and dipped her hands into the water and scooped up a small puddle. She splashed it on her face and shivered from the sudden rush of cold and wiped it out of her eyes. The mermaids giggled and shrieked as they darted through the lagoon's waters with ease. Linia smiled softly and stood up, placing her hands upon her hips and deciding what to do. A shadow loomed behind her and she turned around slowly. There wasn't time to catch a glimpse of who threw the sack over her, but Linia let out a loud "Hey!" before being muffled.

It was the sensitive, yet fierce pirate, Smee. He chuckled softly to himself and proudly slung the sack over his shoulder, heading toward the ship of Captain Hook. Linia grunted, kicked and punched but there was no way for her to escape. Smee felt a hard jab in his back and growled, "Hold still, m'lady! Captn' just wants a word with you."

"I can doubt it's just a word." Linia thought to herself and stopped struggling.

Meanwhile, Kaladra had been watching from the other side of the lagoon. Though she wasn't too fond of Linia, she had to do something about her abduction.


The sack opened suddenly and Linia had to close her eyes to adjust to the sunlight. Two muscular buccaneers picked her up by the arms with ease and dropped her down in front of Captain Hook. His smile was sickly sweet and Linia carefully stood up, being ever watchful of him. Hook supposed that it was up to him to break the silence. "My dear… oh… What was your name?"

"Linia."

"Yes! Of course! Linia... I want to apologize for my actions the night before. I was not myself at all…" Hook lied, hoping to convince the young girl.

A sly smile grew over her face and Linia shrugged her shoulders, speaking in a sarcastic tone. "I'm sure you didn't mean to attempt to kill me and slash me across the back. Oh no, that was all because you weren't feeling like yourself."

The captain struggled to keep his temper calm. "It's really a poor illness that I have," He pretended to sob.

Linia rolled her eyes and crossed her arms over her chest, then giving him a glare. "You're a horrible liar. What do you want?"

Heaving a sigh because he knew Linia wasn't easily fooled. "I need to get rid of Peter Pan."

"Excuse me?"

"He's made my life miserable! Broken the hearts of many people! I'd hate to see a beauty such as yourself be put into a world of sadness." He grabbed her chin lightly.

Linia pulled her head back. "Broken hearts? Name one."

"His dear friend, Tinkerbell. And there was another girl... Her name was Wendy." Hook replied smugly.

Linia fell silent for a moment, then looked up at Hook again. "What do you need me for?"

"You're the only person that's able to get close to Peter."

"So what do you want me to do?"

Hook chortled and pointed to Skull Rock. "In three days... I want you to take Peter to Skull Rock. There, we will be waiting for you. We shall capture Peter, and Neverland will never have problems again."

"I'll think about it." Linia said.

Hook smirked and patted Linia on the head. "Good girl. Now go run along."

Her eyes focused to the sky and Linia flew into the air, and out of sight.

Patting his sword, Hook chuckled. "It's a wonderful plan!"

"Tell us!" The crew shouted in unison.

"Linia has no idea what she has gotten herself into. A woman's heart is easily tricked and now… The end of Peter Pan is approaching!" Hook laughed.

"But Capt'n... How will you do it?" Smee asked quietly.

"How?" Hook smirked. "It's simple. When elf girl brings Peter to Skull Rock, we'll capture him and kill Linia on the spot. If she were to find out she had been fooled; she'd come after Peter. We cannot allow her to do this!"

The pirates cheered and Hook nodded his head. "Quickly! We have to plan!"

Linia dropped into the small clearing that surrounded Hangman's Tree and bit her lower lip. It would take a great deal of thinking what to do. Whether to take Peter to Skull Rock in three days or not was not decided yet. The sound of rustling leaves came from behind and Kaladra leapt out. "Linia! Are you all right? What happened to you?"

"I'm fine. Captain Hook just wanted to talk to me." Linia replied, halfway misrepresenting.

"About what?" Kaladra's eyes looked worried.

Linia thought for a moment. She didn't have a good idea on what to say. "Er... I escaped before I was on the ship."

"Then how did you know that he wanted to talk to you?"

"Smee told me that while taking me to the ship." Linia sighed at the quick recovery.

Kaladra seemed to believe her and nodded. "Well, that's a good thing. I bet he wanted to kill you without Peter protecting you."

"What do you know about him?" Linia asked.

Kaladra laughed lightly. "Lots of things! Some are good and some are bad. For example: Peter is a hero and always saves a person in peril, but his ego can blind him and he'll hurt other's feelings. It's half-and-half. At least… That's what I say."

This nearly smacked Linia in the face like a brick. She hadn't really expected that Peter was rude or hurtful. Maybe Hook had been right all along. If she were to let him live, he would probably hurt her or even Kaladra. "Say Kaladra?"

"Yes?"

"Can we be considered... friends?"

For a moment, Kaladra had been silent. "I don't see why not. It gets lonely being the only girl in Neverland. Sorry if I made a bad impression on you last night…"

"It doesn't bother me. I was just... feeling ill. Nothing big." Linia said, kicking the soil out of the Earth.

Kaladra smiled thoughtfully. "When I saw you getting kidnapped, I felt like I had to help you. That's why I was running here so I could tell Peter and he could save you."

Linia's voice sounded cold suddenly. "I don't need his help."

"No need to get angry, Linia. You seem to handle yourself better than most people in Neverland. I'm just surprised you've survived out here for so long without ever needing the help of Peter." Kaladra said, oddly being a chatterbox today.

"Er... Just lucky I guess." Linia shrugged her shoulders.
"Hey-hey! There you two are!" Peter said, gliding down in front of Kaladra and Linia.

Slowly, a flush went over Linia's face but Peter was oblivious to it. "I see you two are finally getting along!"

"Finally? Peter, it's only been a day." Kaladra said in a smart mouth type of way.

Peter laughed which soon was joined Kaladra. Linia, however, searched for her words. "I really can't stay here. I need to… Just don't follow me, alright?" And without waiting for an answer, Linia took wing and flew out towards the ocean.

Peter tilted his head to the side. "What's eatin' her?"

"She was nearly taken back to Captain Hook, but escaped at the last minute." Informed Kaladra.

"WHAT?!"


Linia felt the ocean breeze sweep over her and she smiled softly, loving the feeling of the cool wind sliding over her body. The experience seemed familiar, but the memory was too far away for her to grasp. Her brown strands of hair danced on the back of her neck and it tickled her. A quick giggle escaped her as she drifted down onto the pirate ship. The men were hard at work, but that wasn't the point of interest for Linia. Sauntering down the steps to the desk, Captain Hook put on his frightening smile. "My dear girl! Back so soon?"

This ship was still untrustworthy in Linia's mind, so she stayed on the guardrail to keep from being attacked easily. "Yes… I'll take Peter to Skull Rock in the three days you have given me."

"Excellent, Linia! We'll get everything ready. All you have to worry about is how to get Peter to go there." Hook said in a smooth voice.

"Don't you worry. I'll get him to go."

Hook raised a finger. "Oh and... Avoid Peter's men for these three days."

Nodding, Linia backflipped off of the rail and let the wind blow her back towards the island. Hook turned to his men and admired his metal claw, "We'll have to deal with the Lost Boys afterwards. They are sure to suspect us after Peter's disappearance."