Okay magical chapter, its pretty woah, so bare with me. Hope your liking it, there's quite a bit more to come.
Chapter 10: The Test of Lucy Chapman
The rain still beat down hard outside the cave, Lucy; now so hyped up from the nights events, lay awake in the arms of a man she'd know for a matter of days. Lucy wasn't sure whether a part was so desperate to feel loved by someone, that, that's why she jumped at the first chance, or whether it really was that she had fallen in love with the man, whose arms protected her now from all of the terrible things out there in the wilderness.
As her eyes looked over his form, his chest slowly rising and falling, she couldn't help but feel like she'd just found the single most important thing in her life... Her own personal freedom.
She'd spent so long being told that she was the worst thing to happen in her fathers and mothers life that a part of her started to believe it.
But this man, the man who'd saved her life; he had never had any intention of harming her in any way. She believed him to be a good man, with a warm heart, that maybe too little people saw.
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"Peter!" Wendy spoke loudly through the breeze, as they flew through the air. "Peter!" She again attempted, but he wasn't having any of it. Peter knew he had to let Wendy in on what he'd saw; maybe she knew something about what had happened to Hook. Maybe she knew who the woman was.
The rain hailed down around them, Peter was in an inquisitive mood, which normally meant the weather was sunny but a few odd showers here or there. The weather was most certainly not supposed to be as it was.
Stopping short of the cave. Peter and Wendy landed softly on the wet, mushy ground. Beneath the same Banana plant leaf her daughter and Captain Hook had stopped at earlier. Peter now decided was the right time to explain to Wendy what he was going to show her.
"Captain Hook is alive Wendy and he is in that very Cave, but he is with a woman, who is old and familiar!" He spoke then started to walk. Wendy knew of Hook but the woman was a mystery. Catching up with Peter, she grabbed his arm gently and stopped him, turning him to her.
"Captain Hook brought me back here from one of the neighbouring islands. I knew he was alive Peter, but who is the woman?" She said. Peter looked at her, then shrugged his shoulders
"Let's go find out!" He smiled broadly and excited, dashing off again. Wendy once again struggling to keep up.
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As she lay there, in the arms of Hook, Lucy could have sworn she heard something and seen something deep inside the cave walls. It looked like a tiny flashing light and sounded like a very distant bell.
Standing she dressed herself in her still soggy, pink, mud covered dress and slowly made her way deeper inside the cave.
As she got further inside the cave, she felt herself becoming aware, becoming more... Awake to the fact that everything around her seemed to be getting further away.
She looked around in the total darkness unable to see anything now. When suddenly the tiny bright object she'd spotted before began to glow dead ahead of her. Looking around, she held her hands out in front of her to stop herself from walking into anything.
Arriving at wear this light had settled, she knelt down and reached out with her finger of her left hand to touch it. As she neared it, the light exploded causing a cascade of a billion sparkles just the same.
Except they did not drop, they hovered above the floor next to the roof of the now well lit cave.
Lucy had been forced backwards a little by the explosion of light and her eyes had gone hazy. She was seeing a multitude of colours and couldn't fathom out an object around her.
Terrified, she let out a scream and scrambled to try and get to her feet and get away. Something, she felt was coming for her.
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Wendy and Peter arrived just in time to hear the scream. Captain Hook had felt the explosion and already had his trousers on by the time, Wendy and Peter arrived.
"LUCY!" Hook shouted, loudly not noticing the pair behind him.
"Lucy?" Wendy asked, gaining Hooks attention and causing Peter to give her a quizzical look. Captain Hook took a few paces forward towards the pair.
"Pan..." Captain Hook uttered. He shook his head quickly looking around for Lucy.
"WHERE IS SHE PAN?" Hook almost growled. Peter shook his head.
"I haven't taken her I swear by it!" He replied. Wendy came to the realisation that the only grown Lucy that would be able to come here would have to be her daughter. But she had to be sure. Just as Hook was about to dive away into the cave she grabbed him by his arm and with all the strength she had left yanked him around to face her.
"Tell me it's not my Lucy..." She trailed looking him in the eyes. He stammered unable to fathom a lie quick enough. She broke down and ran past him first in to the tunnel, Peter was next and then slowly followed by Hook.
He should have taken her straight to Wendy, he knew he should have. But he didn't and now, should Lucy be hurt, he'd have to live with knowing what he'd done. Though he is a cold hearted man, he'd learnt so much out about himself, about whom he was and he'd learned to love. He'd learned to love someone who loved him just as much back.
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Lucy tried to stumble to her feet, her eyes burned and she couldn't see, she was terrified and alone, she couldn't see for her life and the something she was after, was fast approaching.
"Help!" She cried out, just as the three brave people made their way to Lucy's location. As her mother, Peter and Hook all arrived; Lucy had been trapped, inside a bright force of light.
Wendy ran forward but was forced away by a blast of energy, not even Pan himself, who had often pushed his luck in this very cave could get near to her.
"LUCY!" Wendy cried, she didn't understand what was happening. As her daughter was being held in a force field of light, floating mid air. An old woman drifted from around a dark alley and now into full view.
Wendy saw her and made an immediate bee-line for the safety of her daughter. The elderly woman held a hand out before her and shone a blast of light from her palm which threw Wendy backwards and into the arms of Peter Pan. Peter wasn't sure who the hell the woman was, but he had never seen her before in Neverland. Neither had Captain Hook.
Her voice was deep and God like. As she began to speak to the three.
"Lucy will face three tests, I repeat three tests. One being a test of courage, one being a test of faith and the final being a test of Humanity. You will be able to watch, but she will not hear nor see you. Should fail even one test, she will be sent away for all of eternity, should she pass all of her tests, she will remain here and be blessed with a gift."
"A gift? A GIFT!" Wendy cried, "I'll give you gift, get your hands away from my daughter!" She tried to go after the woman again, but Peter stopped her. Shaking his head slightly.
"Do you wish to watch?" The elderly woman asked of the three. Peter shook his head slowly, as did Hook. But Wendy did not shake her head, standing up straight she walked across to the woman and looked her elderly form in the eyes, I wish to watch.
The elderly woman shook her head.
"Your God will not allow your crossing." She replied and turned walking slowly away, Wendy shouting on after her
"WHAT?" She cried. The elderly woman did not reply. Simply vanished into the darkness. Leaving the three and Lucy who was still surrounded in mid air by a powerful light. To sit... and wait. Wait for life, death or for some kind of hope that out there, alone was a young girl who had to find the courage in her, the faith in her and the humanity in herself.
"How can she find them... When I never had a chance to show her them?" Wendy whispered. A darkness surrounding her only lit form being now the one of the form of Lucy.
Okay hope that wasn't too ott. Lol well I thought it was really cool! I really enjoyed writing it, and its even better when you know what's going to happen, maybe it will have a happy ending... but then maybe it wont...who knows >:) lol ;)
