Chapter Four: Ghost Girl
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"Blast you, Pan. Fight like a man, not some flying coward."
"Coward?" Pan crowed "I, my dear Captain, would rather be considered a coward then say, perhaps a codfish?" he laughed at the outrage on Hook's face.
Flying down to the ship, they clashed sword against sword, filling the air with the sound of metal.
Hook finally managed to pin the lousy brat down. "Give up now, boy, and face death. It is the only adventure you have left.
Pan tensed his face as she strained against the force that Hook was using, keeping him pinned.
"Old…Alone…Done for." He gasped out.
"Oh no, boy, that has not worked for a long time." Pan's eyes widened and with a last burst of strength he pushed the captain away just enough to get past with a minor scratch down his leg.
"Curses!" Hook shouted shaking his hook at the disappearing figure of his arch-nemesis.
"Shall I never be rid of that cursed brat?" He stalked back into his chambers and uncorked a bottle of rum, intending to take part of the spirits before his daughter returned.
Meanwhile….
Marina smirked at the two defeated boys that lay before her.
"Kill me now, eh? You couldn't even manage to kill a rabbit, could you?" The hurt pride on the boys' faces stuck out among their bruised and battered forms. However, at that moment a shadow flew overhead. Jerking her head up she saw what looked like some strange bird, but the sun was too bright to let her see what it looked like.
"Now you'll get it. Peter's back and he'll save us."
Marina chewed her bottom lip, she had always wanted to meet this Pan that her father ranted about, but she had already been gone for far too long. There were other days for adventures such as these. As the boys searched the sky for their leader, Marina snuck off silently, leaving no sign that she was ever there besides the wounds that the boys attained.
Just moments after Marina's departure, their fearless leader landed near the two boys and studied their battered figures.
"What happened to you?"
"Peter, you won't believe it. There was this pirate and we fought her. Man, she was tough but we…"
Pan raised an eyebrow at the two lost boys. "She?"
"Well yeah, it was a girl pirate. Only, she wasn't really a pirate. She was like us but said she wasn't."
"Yeah, she was a bit confused. Thinking she was hook's daughter or something, but we all know that Hook's an old, alone codfish."
Peter rolled his eyes at the boys. "So where is this girl?"
"She's right…" they looked where Marina had been standing.
"There's no sign of this pirate. Not even a footprint. Perhaps you two had a dream and beat each other during it. Perhaps, it may have even been a ghost," he taunted. As the boys slunk off, Peter felt Neverland whisper into his ear "Marina." Shaking his head, he thought that the wind was playing games with him.
Back at the ship…
"Smee!"
"Yes, Cap't"
"Where's me daughter, Smee?"
"She's uhh"
"Right here" Marina said crawling over the side of the ship. Water dripped from her hair and she shook it out of her face. Her body ached and her stomach growled in anticipation of dinner.
Hook barreled down the ship and grasped his daughter's shoulder with his good hand.
"And, young lady, what was our deal?"
"That I be back aboard before the sun hit the tallest tree."
"And where is the sun now?"
"Sinking below the horizon" Marina mumbled.
"Now that I know you're not temporarily blind, return to your chambers. I will deal with you there."
However, the crew was unaware that eyes were watching them from nearby. The eyes followed Marina's form as it disappeared through a door. Tinkerbell flitted around the ship catching phrases from hook such as "daughter… death of me… father…"
Clasping a hand over her mouth to stop the giggle that tried to burst forth, she flew towards her home, anxious to tell Peter the news. Hook did indeed have a daughter.