#CHAPTER 11

Disclaimer: Alright. So far, Sarah has met Detris and they are about to enter the thing with the thing and yeah whatever. Here we go.

"Where is this Peru Fantana?"

"Perdu Belezza." Detris corrected.

"Whatever! Where the hell is it?" Sarah asked anxiously while rolling her eyes.

"Right here." Detris pointed straight down into the murky crashing waters.

"Excuse me?" Sarah asked in a stern voice. Did he actually expect her to dive into that? "You mean like underwater? I aint no god damn mermaid. I need air to survive."

"Just follow me!" Detris said with a huff. She could tell that there was a slight hint of exasperation in his voice. Sarah decided that it would best for the both of them of they proceeded in silence.

Sarah watched in shock as Detris dove into the water without hardly making a splash.

"Wow, that was cool!" Sarah said to herself as she tried to mimic what he was doing, but the instant she dove into the water, she realized something……..THAT WATER WAS COLD! She came out of the water panting. Her entire body felt as if it were being stuck repetitively with thousands upon thousands of needles. Her teeth immediately began to chatter. She saw a nearby rock and climbed on top of it. Glaring at a now laughing Detris she said while quivering, "Oh my God! Oh my freaking GOD!"

The sight was somewhat humorous with a hint of hopelessness. There she was curled up with her knees in her chest, water trickling from her hair, on a rock, angry and shivering.

"Why didn't you tell me that the water that cold?" asked in a irritate tone.

"I thought I'd…umm… surprise you." Detris said trying his best to hold back his smile but with very little success.

Sarah then said still shivering, "Is that… right? Well maybe I …should just," Then with out warning, she jumped into the water and thrashed a gigantic splash in Detris' direction. He was shocked.

"Why did you do that?" He asked playfully spitting the water out of his mouth and splashing lightly at her.

"I thought I'd…umm…surprise you." Sarah said sarcastically.

"Well it worked. Here come on lets continue."

He was about to swim away but Sarah grabbed his arm and said, "Waite a minute! Tell me where we're going first. All I've done since I've gotten here was follow the directions if people that I have just met!"

"Oh course how silly of me. We are going to swim under, and pop up, and go through, and there we are."

Sarah had a dumbfounded look on her face.

SARAH THINGING: Was I supposed to understand a damn thing he has just told me?

"Alright, what the hell! Just take me!" She then proceeded to dive for the second time into the ice cold water. They swam to the bottom and Sarah watched in amazement as Detris went over to a gigantic boulder and managed to move it and revealed an underwater cave.

SARAH THINKING: He didn't mention that he had super human strength. Hmmm maybe it's is one of those really light boulders. Waite a minute…there's no such thing!

Detris looked back at a shocked Sarah and gestured for her to follow him.

Sarah had a worried look on her face. She was worried because she could feel her lungs begin to burn. She didn't know whether to follow him or swim to the surface. Any smart person would have swam to the top, but not Sarah she shut her eyes momentarily, opened then and followed Detris.

FLASH BACK ENDS

"Waite a second! You followed him. You had no idea where you were going, you were running out of air and you still followed him? You could have died." Rachel said with a 'have you lost your fucking mind' look on her face………"HAVE YOU LOST YOUR FUCKING MIND!" Rachel finally yelled.

"That was a brave move my dear, a brave move indeed" Hook whispered into Sarah's ear. "Exactly what I would have done."

Sarah then smiled and crossed her arms and said. "Yes."

There was a sudden pause and Rachel suddenly said with a defeated and tired look on her face. "Fine…..continue."

FLASHBACK BEGINS:

They had been swimming for about ten seconds not including the twenty it took to go down and the ten Sarah had wasted deciding on whether or not she should follow him or not. She was getting a little light headed when suddenly Detris grabbed her hand pointed up. Sarah looked up to see the most beautiful sight in the world. Sun. It was beautiful because SUN SURFACE AIR! She wanted that air. She began pumping her arms. I think she set a record.

GASP!

Sarah began coughing and breathing. She had never appreciated air so much. "We….are not doing…. that ever again."

"Well you're going to have to if you ever want to leave."

"I'll….find…another way!"

Sarah was shocked to see that Detris was not in the same exhausted and breathless state she was. Her face was almost completely blue while Detris' face was the same beautiful shade of sun kissed tan.

"How the hell is it that I am about to keel over and you look like you could do this for hours?"

"Practice I guess."

"You must think that I took like a complete and utter idiot then." Sarah said still out of breath.

Detris swam up to her and placed his hand on Sarah's face. Even in the cold and murky water, his hand was still warm. If it were possible, this sent chills up and down Sarah's already frozen spine. "Please don't do that again." Sarah said pushing herself away from him.

"Why?" Detris asked trying to swim towards but Sarah just swam even further away.

"Because," She began "If you do it again, I think I'll suffer from hypothermia."

Detris just smiled and continued to guide Sarah to "Perdu Belezza."

Detrs helped Sarah climb onto what looked like a rock. "Thank you," Sarah said still shivering. She felt as if her teeth were going to crack at any minute from all of the chattering.

"Don't worry everything is going to be alright." Detris said while putting his arm around Sarah. She didn't know what compelled him to say that. Fact of the matter is that, she didn't care. All she cared was that in that moment, in that instant, she felt safe, secure and invincible.

Suddenly without warning the 'rock' that they had been resting on began to move. "What the hell is this?" Sarh hollered. She then felt a hand clamp over her mouth.

"Shhhhh!" Detris said with the craziest look in his eye. "Do you want us to be killed?" He then removed his hand from Sarahs mouth.

"What the hell are you talking about?" She asked in a very concerned whisper. "there are Groadots here." Detris then said with a slight sign of fear in his voice.

Sarah had a blank expression on her face. "What the hell is a Groadot? Why is this rock moving?" She proceeded to ask in a steady whisper.

"This is one of Neverlands oldest and largest seat turtles. You mean to tell me that you don't even know what a Groadot is?" Detris asked with a shocked and somewhat appalled look on his face.

"Sorry….I guess I slept through that part of Science when the discussed the ever famous Groadot." Sarah said with a sarcastic tone now added to her whisper. "Would you be so kind as to tell me?" She said with a fake smile on her face.

Detris proceeded to describe to her what a Groadot is. It is a 100ft tall monster that feeds on any living thing it can get its hands on. Sarah starred in horror.

"Well… I think it would be in our best interest if we try our best not to….meet this…this…Groadot." Sarah said with a petrified look on her face. They continued the 'ride' in silence. All Sarah did was stare at the walls of the cave. She hadn't noticed before how beautiful it looked. The way the water gently crashed against the walls and the small red, orange and yellow fishes that swam alongside them.

"It's so beautiful." Sarah's aid under her breath.

"Yes it is." She heard Detris say. She turned to see that he was starring at her.

"the water…right?" Sarah said trying to see if He was really talking about her.

"OH….uh…yes…" Detris said as she scooted away. She then heard him mumble something's under his breath…"That too."

It sent a warm sensation all through her body. Which was a good feeling seeing as she was drenched in ice cold water.

Sarah's face blushed and looked the other way. Suddenly a warm bright light hit their faces. Sarah blocked her eyes and asked, "Are we here?" Detris just smiled. As they drew closer to the opening, Sarah became more and more worried. She was about to enter, again, in a land that she knew nothing about, with someone she had only just met a few hours ago, again. Why did she trust him?

"How old are you?" Sarah asked.

"eleven.."

"What! What the hell have you been eating to make you look that damn good?" Sarah shrieked. She was in awe.

"…hundred." Detris finished while leaning away from a now panting Sarah.

"Oh," Sarah said with a sigh, "For a moment there I thought that his would be sort of stran—WHAT!" A split second later, Sarah was on her back with Detris on top of her with his hand clasped over her mouth. Sarah's eyed widened as she starred at a now terrified Detris. He removed his hand from her mouth only for it to be slapped back on when she was about to say something else. He then stiffly pointed to left.

She turned her head confusedly only for that confusion to be replaced with fear. Sarah laid in fear as she saw a gigantic serpent looking creature. It was light grey and its tail faded to brown. It looked as if it had thousands of teeth. Sarah felt a lump at the bottom her throat. Tears began to fill and burn her eyes.

She turned to look at Detris who, for some was starring at her with his finger up to his mouth gesturing for her not to say a word. The lump was so big now that, I don't think she would be able to if she wanted to.

It seemed as if the monster was looking directly at them. Sarah shut her eyes tightly as if she were waiting for the monster to strike, but to her surprise, when she opened her eyes she was on the outside of the cave and was steadily drifting downs a small river.

"What the hell just happened?" Sarah whispered.

"Why are you whispering?" Detris asked in a somewhat loud tone.

"Because…that thing? What was that?" Sarah asked whipping the tears from her cheeks.

"A Groadot." Detris said with a sigh. "I should have told you before, they are terrifying predators but they are horrible when it comes to sight. They're blind. They see with their ears."

"Echolocation?" Sarah asked.

Detris starred at Sarah blankly and continued. "That is why I covered your mouth. I didn't mean to hurt ."

"You didn't." Sarah said while rubbing her face. "So where are we going now?"

suddenly, 'Neverlands largest and oldest sea turtle' stopped abruptly sending Sarah and Detris rolling into the water.

"What the hell happened?" Sarah asked after spitting the now cool water from her mouth.

"He stopped because he knew we were getting close." Detris said in a low voice.

"Knew what?" Sara asked confusedly.

Detis pointed right straight ahead. About a quarter of a mile ahead, she could see a small town. It didn't look like any ordinary town thought. It was surrounded with smoke. She could also see small yellow and red flickers.

"What is that?" Sarah asked with a somewhat discussed look on her face.

"Perdu Belezza." Detris said with a small forced grin. Sarah let out a big sigh and said under her breathe, "Oh boy."

FLASHBACK ENDS

"So what was it?" Rachel asked with interested fire in her eyes. She was now just a few inches from the floor. Her hands seemed as if they were about to tear through the floor.

"What was what?" Sarah asked snapping out of her flashback.

"What was the smoke and yellow and red flickers?"

"Oh." Sarah said with a 'duh' expression on her face. "I'm getting to that. You can't just fast forward to that yet… and stop interrupting me! It's confusing the readers!"

"readers?" Rachel asked with a confused expression on her face.

"I mean…Hook!" Sarah said while looking around rapidly.

"Alright! Alright! Go on!" Rachel said while scooting back and folder her arms across her chest just as a five year old would when she didn't get what she wanted.

FLASHBACK BEGINS

"Why didn't you tell me that Fantana Bubua looked like that?" Sarah asked with a now angry look on her face. Her once soft eyes were filled with fire and daggers all aimed at Detris. "And if you say you wanted to surprise me I swear to God, I'll shoot you in the teeth!"

At this point Detris wasn't making any sort of eye contact with Sarah. It was as if, if he even looked at her, he would die from the heat that her eyes were giving. He thought it would be best if he not look or make any sudden movements, other than swim towards the island. "I thought… I didn't want to tell you because I didn't think that you would come with me and I really like you and I wanted you to come with me."

Detris didn't know why but he thought that NOW would be a good time to look at Sarah. When his head turned and eyes rose to meet hers, he was shocked at what he saw.

A smile.

He thought that he would see fire and smoke spouting from her eyes nose and ears or feel a violent tug his leg only to realize that it would be Sarah trying to drown him but instead he saw a soggy smiling Sarah.

Believe it or not, THIS was what frightened Detris the most. "Are you feeling alright?" He finally asked. They weren't that far at all from the island. By now Sarah could see that the red and yellow flashing lights were live rounds being fire. Men shooting other men. Pure pandemonium. She didn't care though. She was still smiling.

"Why are you smiling? I thought you were angry." Detris asked.

"Oh I am! Believe me, I'm pissed it's just that…well… what you said before…about you doing all this just because you liked me and you…wanted me to be with you….I thought that, that was well…sweet. STUPID! But sweet."

By this time, Detis was completely confused. Was this a ploy? Was it that the minute he turned around to continue swimming, he would feel Sarah pounding on the back of his head. He swallowed hard, took a deep breath and turned around and felt,