Secrets of Memories Chapter 47: Adults and Confusion or So Peter Pan Says
The gummi ship was in a very bad state. Smoking, buried under rubble, wings rather damaged, it was not very pretty.
Cid was not going to be happy.
" And how are we gonna get that thing back up in the air?" Tarzan demanded.
" Best question that's been asked today," Riku muttered, carefully keeping his balance. Captain Hook's ship rocked violently and wood creaked. He could hear wooden structures collapsing and masts toppling into the sea. This ship was going to sink.
" Sally, your arm," Pooh tugged at Sally's arm as it lay clutched to a piece of wood braced in salt-crusted metal.
" Ah, thank you, Pooh," Sally went and pulled the arm off the wood. She reattached it and strode for the ship, seemingly unaware of its tipping and turning. " The engines, I believe, are still in working order."
" Not easy, though," Tarzan gestured to a wing, crumpled up and mangled. " Bad wings, no control."
" We will make do with what we have," Sally said calmly as she found and entered the hatchway into the gummi ship. She then stuck her head out and called out to them. " Everything in here's in good working order. Its only the ability to pilot it that we may have some trouble with."
" I can lend a hand," Peter Pan offered as he hovered about, clearing away rubble from the gummi ship. It was then the others realized that he was stacking the rubble and tilting the gummi ship in the process, so that the nose pointed skyward. The hatchway had been unearthed in the process and Sally now withdrew her head, as Tarzan quickly made his way to the hatchway and swooped in. Pooh made his way, hesitated, then turned and looked to Riku. " Aren't you coming?"
Riku was busy scouring through what remained of Captain Hook's ship. " Get going, Pooh. I'll be there in a minute."
Pooh nodded and the yellow bear tumbled his way into the gummi ship. Riku turned and went elsewhere, searching, sensing. There was a slight, dark radiance here and he wanted to find it –
He stumbled over a heavy, mobile object. Quickly reaching down, his fingers came across a very heavy logbook. He fingered it and caught hold of its leather cover. His fingers tingled with the slight darkness he felt and he knew it came from the journal.
" Bingo," he muttered.
" Riku, come on!" Peter Pan shouted and Riku felt the ship give a lurch. Groaning, it began to nose dive deep into the dark sea.
Ordering the Dark Keyblade to vanish, he took a good hold of the book, sprinted to the gummi ship and made it in just as Tarzan launched the engines and the gummi ship roared to life. The propulsion from the engines, along with the makeshift rocket launcher Peter Pan set up, catapulted the gummi ship straight into the air. The first thing it did as soon as it was airborne was point its nose south – to the sea.
" Up!" Sally ordered and Tarzan wrestled with the controls. Gritting his teeth, he pulled at the controls until the ship began to shoot northward.
" Follow Peter Pan," she told the jungle warrior, then turned and headed for Riku, who was busy fingering the pages, wishing he could see just enough to read what was in it.
Sally leaned over his left shoulder and looked at what he was flipping through.
" Hook's logbook?" she asked. Riku gave a brief nod, barely visible enough to be seen as 'yes'. Then she saw something scribbled madly in one of the pages. " Give me that!"
" Hey!" Riku yelled as the book slipped away from his grasp. His hands balled into fists, he nearly turned on Sally but took control of his temper at the last minute. Curiosity then overrode whatever feelings of indignation he had and he just had to know what she could see and read. " What does it say?"
" I don't believe this," Sally stared at the entry, her eyes wide with astonishment and a healthy dose of fear. " This…this explains everything."
" What explains everything?" Anger laced Riku's demand. " What is going on, Sally!"
" Someone stopped by Neverland…to ask about a certain black lamp," Sally summarized. " Well, some people, actually. Two people jointly asked Captain Hook about the whereabouts of a certain black lamp."
" Jafar…" Riku bared his teeth. " Wait a minute…what about him?"
" ' Insolent curs they are, demanding to know what I've not the slightest clue about,'" Sally slowly read. She narrowed her eyes as she peered at the pages. " Captain Hook certainly needs to back to school. His writing is atrocious. Of course Dr. Finkelstein will be willing to do surgery…but what will that do for us?"
" Exactly," Riku muttered darkly. A scowl burned its way into his face.
" Cheer up, Riku; Captain Hook's probably afraid of the knife anyways," Sally grinned rather sadistically. " At least…Dr. Finkelstein's knives."
" Glad I'm blind." Riku tapped his blindfold.
" Dr. Finkelstein will be most willing to fix that for you-"
" Just…just please keep reading, Sally."
" Very well, very well," Sally smiled, then her smile faded away as she turned back to the test. " So…Pete's resurfaced, has he? Better watch out, Pete; I'm not the only one to get wind of that."
" Pete? Who's Pete?" Riku looked up upon hearing the name. " I think King Mickey mentioned him before…"
" He has betrayed." Sally's voice seemed distant, misty with time, yet hard underneath with simmering anger. " I say Captain Hook's writing is atrocious. Pete's past…how shall I say it in kind words…Pete's past is beyond atrocious. There really is no word I can say, even with emphasis, to describe the things he has done. Captain Hook may have stood in Sora's way – with no ill side effects – but what Peg-leg Pete has done may have jeopardized our future. If it weren't for him and his actions, and the actions of certain others, you would not be blind, Riku."
" Is that so…" Riku's scowl turned into a grim frown. " Funny…I think King Mickey said the same thing. In fact, I am most certain he said the same thing."
" As well as he should," Sally said serenely as she flipped through each page, biting her lip as she tried to decipher whatever it was Captain Hook scribbled. " In fact, King Mickey has the right to be royally angry with him. Pete used to work for Mickey and he betrayed that good king."
" Oh. Well…uh…hm…well, that explains…quite a bit, Sally. Quite a bit I tell you."
" Indeed it should," Sally looked to the pages. Her eyes widened. " My, my…Advocate's brat, eh? Wondrous spelling for sure. But this is serious…how is it that he would show his face to the worlds as is now?"
" What. Are. You. Talking. About!" Riku shouted. " COME ON, WOMAN! CLARIFY OR BY WHATEVER GODS EXIST I WILL KNOCK OFF YOUR HEAD!"
" Do not lose your temper, Riku." Sally calmly continued to read. " I shall explain all in a good time. Patience is a virtue, as everyone always says. It's an old adage, you know, and you should adhere to it."
She calmly read, or at least tried to, while Riku bared his teeth and his face grew quite livid.
" Oh and Riku, his name is Marucia. Have you heard of him?"
Riku was no longer boiling red and he had withdrawn his fangs. " His name…it seems familiar. Perhaps I have heard his name before. Perhaps in passing…yes, I think he's been mentioned once before…BUT COME ON WOMAN! WHO THE HELL IS THIS GUY!"
" I just told you," Sally said calmly. " He's Marucia and he's the Advocate's brat. How much simpler can it be?"
" Not simple enough." Riku folded his arms in front of him and a furious frown worked its way into his weary face. " More, Sally, more."
Sally sighed. " My god, Riku, when will you ever be satisfied?"
Riku softened a bit and his arms fell to his side. His frown lessened into an unemotional grimace. " I never will be."
" You will," Tarzan called out from his seat; he had heard everything. " Just you watch."
" And we're approaching the place of bright lights!" Pooh's awed voice called out. " So bright…like little bees around the honey tree, hm…"
Sally blinked. " London. We're nearly there."
" Then tell me quick, Sally." Riku was starting to get cross again. " Tell me now whatever you can."
" The Advocate, do you know of the Advocate?" Sally questioned intensely. " Or has King Mickey not yet fully informed you of your task?"
" I know of the Advocate," Riku confirmed. " But brat? Never heard of that before."
" It means ' child', Riku," Sally informed him. " Two meanings: protégé or actual child. Of course that's actually a very good chance that Marucia could be the Advocate's son, since everyone knows that he's got a bad history behind him. Including fooling around too much. But that's all that's been confirmed so far. Though then again, hypothesize a bit and you can guess that Marucia's Advocate's illegitimate son and that means that the Advocate's got official kids elsewhere. But nothing can be proven without some actual names. Marucia's a name, I know Riku, but usually the Society tends to wipe out one's past and lineage so we have no records of him or his parents. And nobody knows the Advocate's true name. He keeps it secret from all but the most initiated, as in the leaders."
" Which is why we call him the Advocate," Riku said pointedly. " Nice story but I think we're avoiding something…"
Sally looked at the troubled, thoughtful face. What else did King Mickey tell you?
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" We can't let the Heartless destroy Neverland!" Peter Pan exclaimed as they approached the Clock Tower. " You can't let them destroy it! Wendy's in danger! She's got nowhere else to go! And if the Heartless destroy Neverland, she'll be gone…forever."
" Who is this…Wendy?" Tarzan asked curiously as he fought with the controls to bring the gummi ship down lower towards the great clock tower and its four huge faces.
Peter Pan looked down at his feet. During their flight to London and its famous landmark, Tarzan briefly stopped the gummi ship and held it at a hover, long enough for Peter Pan to get in. " Well…Wendy's a special friend of mine."
He looked up with a smile. " She helped me catch my shadow for me and sowed it back on."
He was met with looks that really would've been worth a thousand words. " What?"
" She helped you catch your shadow!" Riku demanded incredulously. " What the fk does that mean!"
" Language!" Sally reprimanded.
Riku drew back, surprised by the force in Sally's voice. " I'm…sorry?"
" Many strange things happen in Neverland," Sally informed calmly. " Peter Pan losing his shadow is not a surprise. And the Lost Boys?"
" What lost boys?" Riku scratched his head.
" They're gone," Peter Pan said. " Dr. Finkelbutt popped out of nowhere and hauled them off to Traverse Town, the creep."
" Peter!" Sally actually shouted. " You must show respect to your elders. You may be young in heart, mind, body, and soul, but you are not King of the Universe! Neverland may blow and you're calling important old people names!"
Then she settled into deep thought. " You know, Peter, you may not have to worry about Wendy after all. Meg was mentioning her and I believe Dr. Finkelstein did not forget to get her to Traverse Town as well. She may be safe, Peter Pan."
" But not Tink," there was a sad scowl on his face. He crossed his arms and hovered inches above the ground. Pooh bent down and stared at the gap. He didn't seem to be able to put two and two together.
" If we save her," Tarzan asked from his seat at the nose of the ship, " can we save Neverland?"
" There is a slim chance," Sally said, offering a ray of hope. " Slim but its there. Every world has a slim chance of survival, if the world is not rigged the way Halloweentown was."
There was a wounded tone in her voice and Riku knew that still hurt her, the fact that she had lost her home. The fact that she had seen all of it, the sequences, was more than enough.
She may have lost a home, Riku thought, bitterness unable to stay from his thoughts. She may have lost a home but her friends still breathe and her friends were still there. I, I don't know where they were. Is Destiny Island still standing? Can the world stand against this onslaught? What – what of Kairi? And Sora? Sora…the Keyblade Master, he must stay strong, he must be alive, he must –
" Of course he's alive!" Sally exclaimed.
Riku jerked at her exclamation. He was talking out loud!
" Everyone as of now know Sora's still living, breathing, and kicking," Sally told him. " That means-"
" Those Heartless bastards are squirming!" Peter Pan had a stance of confidence as he stood proudly in the middle of the deck.
" Who said Sora die?" Tarzan demanded. " No speak of death! No death! No death!"
" I get it!" Riku shouted back. But he managed to send Sally some sort of questioning look.
" You know of the term ' falling feathers', this King Mickey must've told you or something must be terribly wrong with that good king," Sally said, as a calm returned to the gummi ship and its occupants. " That is what would warn us. Yes, Riku, we have our own little alarm system. Of course, there's nothing little about it; it alerts every world."
" And that means war," Riku added. " He told me…he told me to look out for falling feathers…because in some damn poetry, it keeps making references to snowing feathers. And the feathers mean war, most definitely he told me. War is serious business and it's our job to keep war from erupting. Of course it's our job to keep the Universe from crashing, too, but….don't you think this is getting a bit confusing?"
There was a sudden explosion, the roar of cannons. Tarzan yelled, " Hook!" and threw the ship to the side.
" I'd say!" Sally hollered as they all slid to the side.
" I second that motion!" Peter Pan hovered above them, unharmed. " I don't get what you're talking about, Riku. Make more sense, will ya?"
Riku bit his lip. " If you see feathers falling from the sky, something happened to Sora. That means war comes. Truth be told, that's better than suddenly the whole Universe collapsing into sea and sky. But King Mickey keeps talking about some circle. Any ideas?"
He was referring to Sally for the answer but, to his astonishment, it came from Tarzan.
" I heard of this…circle once, long ago," he offered an answer as he dove underneath a Battleship. " They say it is full of silence. But silence is golden, people say. To us, this circle of silence speaks the truth."
" Less riddles, more answers," Peter Pan prompted, then flattened himself against the ceiling, watching as Riku, Sally, and Pooh slid to the other side. " I mean, c'mon people, all you guys do is talk in riddles. Why don't you say some answers for once?"
Riku wondered whether or not it was an insult. Well, Peter Pan did make a good point; all Riku knew was spoken in riddles, vaguely, forcing him to speculate, to synthesize, to search for answers, or just pass on the information himself in vague methods. They all spoke in riddles and left themselves with no more answers than before.
" Peter Pan, you're damn right," Riku untangled himself. " Pooh, get in the cockpit, man the guns, and strap yourself in. I don't want you flying out of there when we've got some Heartless on our tail, understand?"
" We have tails?" Pooh looked down and behind him. " Well, at least I do…"
Seeing the burning frown on Riku's face, he hurried off.
" No need to scare Pooh Bear here," Sally reprimanded.
" Sheesh, what's his problem anyways?" Peter Pan stared at the silver-haired teenager.
" None of your business," Riku shot back. " C'mon, Pooh! Start firing!"
He was promptly rewarded with the high shriek of missiles. The next best thing was the sounds of impact, the glorious sounds that told you that your enemy had been hit, with one exception…
" Not the clocktower!" Peter Pan and Sally hollered. The missile had barely missed the venerable building. " Whatever happens, DON'T TOUCH THE CLOCKTOWER!"
" Why?" Riku wondered.
" The Clocktower holds the world's Keyhole," Peter Pan said. " I saw it."
" Exactly," Sally nodded.
Riku scowled. " Well, what are we going to do about it? The Heartless are around the place and we can't shoot them down!"
" It's quite simple," Pooh's voice came out. " Owl told me. If you don't want honey trees knocked down, put yourself in it. If they can't hurt you, they can't hurt the honey tree. I want honey right now…"
" Oh," Riku hit himself on the head. " Why didn't I see that before? Of course. They know we can't hurt the Clocktower so we keep them near it."
" However, we need the fairy dust," Sally said.
" And we have to get Tink back!" Peter Pan added.
" Look!" Tarzan then shouted, waving madly at the view before him. " It's the red man!"
" Hook!" Peter Pan growled. " We've got to get him back."
" He'll want another go at you, Peter Pan," Sally told him. " No doubt that's his goal, what he's trying to get you to do."
" So we should land on the tower?" Tarzan suggested, moving the gummi ship was closer to the ship, just far enough to maneuver against the Heartless.
" He's waving at us," Peter Pan was puzzled. " He wants us to land."
" And there's Smee," Sally nodded. " Always wondered why Smee stuck with Hook."
" Tarzan," Riku knew there was the chance that Hook was just bluffing and that the Battleships would fire once the gummi ship got into line of fire. " Bring the gummi ship close, get the gummi ship within line of fire and pull back out fast."
Tarzan obeyed and noting came out of it, no wild shots. The Battleships simply flew about the Clocktower. They ignored the gummi ship.
" Land the gummi ship," Riku then ordered. Then, as a quick afterthought, just in case Tarzan did not put the two and two together, " On the Clocktower, near Hook."
Captain Hook was waving madly at the gummi ship from the walkway just above the great faces of the noble Clocktower. Smee was standing besides him, holding something quite far away from him, holding something an arm's length away from him. Something in a glass jar that shone and danced, with fury.
" Tink!" Peter Pan stared, aghast. " We've got to get her out of there!"
Sally looked at Riku, who had a brooding look on his face. " Any ideas?"
Riku was decisive. " Land the damn ship. We're meeting Hook. Sally, bring that damn journal you're not reading for me."
He then fell silent for a moment, thinking for a few minutes. " Pooh, if they pull any funny moves on us, fire at everything."
" Okay…"
Carefully, Tarzan landed the ship on the walkway around the tower above the glowing faces. Carefully, Pooh had the arms pointed at Hook. Peter Pan stood near the doorway, ready to rip the door out. Sally stood serenely like a queen, holding the journal in her arms. Riku had not yet called the Dark Keyblade to his side. He calmly waited with Peter Pan. Sally knew something was going through his mind.
Too much, too much confusion, Riku understood Peter Pan's statement, He did not understand. I didn't understand either. I still don't get it. Maybe Hook can give us some answers, maybe he can clarify. Let's have the damn guy clarify and maybe we can understand what the hell's going on here! Besides Sally, that is. She damn well understands and I damn well don't…and she doesn't tell us a damn thing either.
The gummi ship sat on the walkway. Hook had stopped brandishing his sword like a madman…even though he literally was a madman.
Smee looked like he was going to pee in his pants.
Perfect, Riku could feel the fear. Fear from the enemy. Just perfect. Time for the shark in me to bite, tear their limbs apart, hear their pathetic screams, take revenge for what they had taken from me.
Peter Pan nearly ripped out the door getting out of the gummi ship. Sally quickly followed, clinging to the journal.
" Remember, Pooh, keep to the guns!" Riku hollered last-minute instructions, then bolted out of the ship.
"…win again as usual, Hook!" Peter Pan was already laughing, already in the air, already mocking Captain Hook and prodding his soft spots. " This time, you'd fall off and crack your head open! Watch out, Hook! Don't overstep and fall off now!"
" Get back here, Peter Pan!" Hook hollered as Peter Pan rose up again and laughed. " Either fight me or your precious fairy is mine!"
" It won't be so easy," Riku said, his voice cold, like death. " You won't be doing anything at all. You'll answer to us first or nothing happens at all. No duel, nothing, no exchanges."
" Riku!" Peter Pan yelled at him. " What are you doing!"
" We can blast you rats into the Underworld anytime we want. It's quite that easy. We've got nothing to lose but you rats sure do," Captain Hook pointed his hook at Riku, Tarzan, and Sally before swinging over to First Mate Smee and the captive fairy, while his other hand gestured to the Battleships. Tarzan could see quite visibly that all the ships were pointing their massive guns at them. A dozen unintelligible curses ran through his head. Well, they were not unintelligible. Then again, the language of the gorillas is not part of our foreign language curriculums internationally and locally.
Sally was looking at Riku. The smirk on his face was quite…unnerving. " No big."
Riku held out his hand and opened the palm of his hand. Instantly, one of the Battleships scrunched up into something the size of a tennis ball and exploded with a ceremonious BANG! followed by a confetti of remains. The other Battleships shied away from the rather gothic-looking stranger while everyone on the walkway of the Clocktower – and above it, in Peter Pan's case – stared at Riku with horrified eyes.
" Mock us again and soon you'll be left with nothing but yourself and your First Mate," Riku said with sudden and complete calm. Tarzan quietly wished that he would express his rage more than simply talk it out in words; the blindfolded teenager was more fearsome when he seemed absolutely calm. " Of course I could do the same to you, too-" Smee whimpered "-but I'll spare you at the moment, if you could do and answer to our…questioning."
" I don't answer to the enemy!" Captain Hook shot back, angry and unnerved. " Especially those who have betrayed our purpose!"
" I have never been with you and the Heartless in the first place," Riku shot back, just as calmly. " Of course most don't believe it but that's not the point. Just answer our questions and then you can have your stupid joust with Peter Pan over Tinker Bell."
Captain Hook was slowly letting down his guard. He looked a bit hesitant, then his eyes flashed and he held up his saber before him. " Ask. Don't do anything funny. The Battleships will blast you if you do anything funny again."
" Oh they won't be doing anything funny," Riku smiled, holding his hand out and making a fist. He twisted his wrist and dark purple-black jelly bloomed and flowed out of the cannons of the Battleships. " They do anything funny and fire, the gel deflects the blast and they destroy themselves. Therefore, we'll keep to our word and you'll end up keeping to your word as well."
Captain Hook was more unnerved than ever. He knew the word was that Riku would not be using his dark powers again. The spawn of Darkness cannot use the dark powers again after he is gone without being drawn back into the Darkness…unless he has done the unthinkable and mastered the Darkness within him without having the Darkness mastering him.
" Very well then," Captain Hook said, boiling with rage but incapable of doing anything to release it. " What do you want to ask about?"
" The journal, Sally," Riku took the journal from Sally and tossed it to Captain Hook's feet. " Kindly explain to us what those two people in that journal want with you and Jafar's lamp."
The obnoxious pirate captain paled slightly. Riku then added, " And tell us about those two people. Make it detailed or I might as well blast you into space."
Captain Hook bit his lip. So much for his plans of detonating Neverland and giving more power to the Heartless forces. " Who, Pete or Marucia?"
" One or the other," Riku opened the palm of his hand and a Battleship constricted and exploded. " Haven't got all day, Hook. Give us what you've got, nice and quick."
Tarzan, Sally, and Peter Pan were astonished by Riku's brutal tactics, yet Riku knew that they were running out of time. He could feel it, Time slipping away fast like trying to catch water in your hand.
" Pete…," Hook was thinking, passive for once. " Pete was once one of the chief advisors of the blasted King Mickey Disney -" BANG "- alright, alright, so he's not that blasted. Well, he was once a very important chief advisor, well, more like the captain of the Department of Disney's Military Forces. But he started to want more power, like the rest of us. And the Heartless are drawn to those seeking power. So are the Dusk. They were drawn to him and infused him with our hope, of a paradise where whatever we wish for will happen. Meaning I get to wring the idiot boy's neck-" BANG "-I take that back! Well, he attempted a coup to take over Disney and its might but he failed and fled. He is a renegade leader of the Heartless and one of considerable power. He is building his own forces and his alliance with us, the Society, and the Dusk and their leader is very shaky. He had tried to help prove that the alliance is stronger, by stepping on my ship without permission with that blasted Marucia! And searching for the damned black lamp when we all know the blasted Agrabah's been long gone from the Universe!"
Riku thought for a moment. So that's how the whole thing about Pete came out…
" Well, about time things make more sense!" Peter Pan sniffed. " Adults. They're always too complicated!"
" And Marucia?" Riku knew that name was new to him, the name seemed to have surfaced out of the blue.
" He's a secret released from the Society," Captain Hook explained. " He has been hiding for a very long time, since there's been much controversy over his past. He is considered the bastard son of the Dusk's leader and that's what kept him from taking over the leadership of the Society's Elite, the special group of Unknowns with their own agenda for power and Darkness. And paradise, of course. Marucia is the more level-headed of the Elite, which was why he stepped on my ship without any permission whatsoever, looking for a blasted lamp that doesn't exist anymore!"
Riku nodded. The traitor of Disney and the bastard son of the leader of the – wait a minute.
" The Dusk?" Riku questioned.
" The Nobodies, rat," Captain Hook snapped. " Nobodies, Dusk, there's no difference, they are the same thing. It's just more smooth, kinder to the mouth saying Nobodies so people tend to call them as such. The Heartless take hearts, they take souls. And nothing feeds the Darkness like the souls."
Riku nodded slowly. Good, more information. But time is nearly up…
Peter Pan hovered above Smee and Tinker Bell, discreetly, ready to make his move…
" Why are you doing this?" Riku asked calmly. " What is your purpose? Why have you come back?"
" Vengeance shall be mine," Captain Hook's eyes glowed with an inner dark fire. " Once I have Peter Pan's head and his fairy friend, I can sail out of Neverland, lead the Heartless under my command, join forces with the others, and take down the Keyblade Master once and for all! That brat is mine!"
That was followed by successive explosions and the Battleships fled.
" Get back here, you scoundrels!" Captain Hook ran to the edge, waving his arms, screaming. " You cowards! Turn around and come back here! Come back-"
Glass broke and scattered, sliding to the captain's feet. Smee was shouting, " Captain, Captain! Help!"
Captain Hook whirled around, dropping his saber and whipping out a pistol. Tinker Bell scattered fairy dust everywhere. And Peter Pan was holding Smee over the edge of the walkway, holding to the back of the first mate's shirt. The poor man was frozen with fear, looking down and gulping. The look on the boy's face was mocking the captain.
" Fire and I let him go," he said. " If, upon your word, you swear to do no harm, we'll let him down back onto the walkway. We've had just enough, enough to clarify. What will it be, Hook?"
Captain Hook glared at Peter Pan through his arm, through the shaking black pistol. What's it worth, losing Smee anyways? Nothing will happen to him if he loses Smee and shoots Peter Pan. In fact, he'll gain some, oh yes, he'll definitely gain some.
He looked at Peter Pan and Smee. He could feel it, the excitement bubbling up in him. The chance was there, the chance to take it, to take Peter Pan. Sacrifices, yes there will be sacrifices, there will always be sacrifices. But, finally, he'll be able to take Peter Pan, at long last!
" Looks like you've done more than enough to serve me," Captain Hook touched his ridiculous moustache with his hook. " I can't help but thank all of you enough for that."
In not even five seconds, he cocked the pistol and pulled the trigger.