This is a small spin-off story of Maggie Banning, daughter of Peter pan.
In this chapter, we're introduced to a new character named Commodore Charles Corven: a 17th Century, British gentleman and a commander of the Royal Navy. Since seeing the peter pan film Hook, I've decided to write a story of Maggie and her mother about how they got transported to Neverland through magic.
Prologue.
This story begins as it was told.
Many years ago, there once was a man who who stood for principle and his dedication to the morals of his country: England.
His name was Charles Corven of the British Royal navy, a well respectable officer of his crew and his friends as well in the Navy. He had a beautiful wife named Eleanor and the two had two sons; Ronald and Andrew.
His life in the 1630s was so sweet and full for the good years of his life.
Commodore Charles had it all for the time as his career had improved his image in society.
Like himself, his brother Calvin was one of the most respectable gentlemen and a bureaucrat to the British console.
He had his wife and son, and although Calvan was a part military man himself, he was proud of his brother's achievements.
But it was not meant to last as a dark cloud of sorrow and anger had started to grow on the horizon.
In that cloud, a group of scheming cutthroats and scoundrels were seeing him as a threat to their work as pirates, and each of them felt that the Commodore of his majesty's Royal Navy himself was simply too dangerous to leave alone. So they plotted together to destroy this man's repute and stem any chance of a campaign to rid the seven seas of all pirates in the Caribbean.
The Coast of Lyme, 1635.
On the night of his celebration to commemorate the day of his promotion to the rank of Commodore, his family were holding a small gathering with food, drinks and music in the long night time. The hour was a pleasant hour, those within Charles' family members were each dancing about whilst the children were playing about. But that was only the moment until a cannon's fire roared into their place.
Suddenly the front door had blown up from outside the house.
Soon after the explosion, a small group of pirates appeared from the sea. When they came out of each of their boats, some of them attacked the houses whilst a group of forty approached the large house where the Corven family resided.
They went charging in through the broken front door before they were met by the resistance from the men in Charles' family and his wife Eleanor herself.
His brother Calvin had shot down one pirate after another with his own loaded rifle and his two flintlock pistols whilst each of the men in the household had drawn out loaded rifles, one by one, Calvin and Charles had a showdown with each of the oncoming pirates at the doorway before Calvin moved in with the bayonet set on his rifle. Sadly another bunch of pirates had fired upon a couple of the men through the window as Calvin's brothers in law who were just reloading their own rifles when they fell to enemy fire. Three of the men went down with each shot from the pirates.
The women and children had wound up getting shot down in the crossfire as a few pirates were shooting their pistols outside the house.
But Charles and his son Ronald, his brother Calvin and Eleanor and two of their friends held their ground against the pirates. When the pirate's captain appeared he was the first to draw out a couple of pistols.
Before long the pirate's Captain Edward Sephiran the Leviathan Pirate had made his appearance and stepped inside the house.
He was only known by his crew as Captain Sephiran.
At the sight of Charles' brother Calvin who charged toward him, Captain Sephiran aimed his one-shot pistol.
He pulled the pistol's trigger and the pistol fired his shot at Calvin's head instead of drawing his sword to fight him like a man.
Dropping his empty pistol, Sephiran proceeded to aim his other pistol and shoot one of Calvin's men who was getting ready to aim his rifle at the Captain.
Seeing his uncle receive the shot in the head and die at the hands of a despicable cowardly pirate, Ronald dropped his rifle to draw his sword and go after the Pirate's captain. Charles tried to stop him from going but his attempt was thwarted by a pirate coming in through the back window armed with an axe.
As he walked further into the house, Edward Sephiran drew his sword to enter his duel against Charles' son eldest Ronald. The duel itself was a short one when Captain Sephiran's first mate Boris entered the duel leaving his captain to stab Ronald in the back right in front of Charles.
That scene had left Charles himself devastated by the loss of his own son.
Dropping his rifle and pistols, Charles rose up in anger.
He took up his sword, drawing it from his sheath before he slashed the first mate Boris down. Once the first mate fell, he made a duel against the pirate himself. Charles fought him for a short while before the pirate made a cut on his right arm which only left a diagonal scar on him.
After withdrawing his sword from Charles, Sephiran had drawn out a bat from his belt and then swung it out on Charles' sword arm.
The hard swing from Sephiran had broken the inside bone of Charles' arm
Feeling it break, Charles yelled out in pain as he was forced to drop his sword before Sephiran stepped up.
He kicked him away from the sword. The retched pirate himself was about to deal a final blow when all of a sudden, he received a bullet into the flesh of his left shoulder sending him falling backwards. Charles raised his head up to see his wife Eleanor standing there holding a pistol before he sat up from the floor to stand. He turned over to reach out for his sword and sheath it.
Charles then went off towards his wife holding his right arm to his own chest, Eleanor brought him towards the next room. They went through the doorway before Eleanor closed the door whilst the pirates stepped outside the house through the front door, bringing their wounded captain with them.
Later that night.
After escaping the house through an open window, Charles was standing with his baby boy Andrew William Corven who was hanging in a baby sling, he was awake from his sleep but his mother calmed him down after hearing the noise of the massacre.
The Two were waiting for Eleanor who was coming through the window when she received a bullet in the back as she was standing on the ground in front of the window. Charles stood there silently as he watched his wife fall to her knees bleeding from the hole in her back.
Seeing the pirate standing inside the window reloading his pistol, Charles drew out a pistol of his own.
He aimed the point at the pirate before he shot him straight in the head. The pirate collapsed on the floor whilst Charles sheathed his pistol and ran to his wife who was dying on the floor whilst Andrew was screaming and crying his head off from hearing the gunshots.
Eleanor had managed to calm Andrew down before she shared one last moment with Charles as death was lingering on her, the two had an exchange of words together before she succumbed to her death leaving Charles to part from the house as the pirates were raiding the rooms before setting fire to them, intending to burn the place down.
Without any more reason to stay, Charles made a run from the house.
He raced across the road so as to lose the pirates in their pursuit of him whilst the other pirates were raiding upon the houses of town but soon after that, the royal navy might come forth to drive them away from the down, sending them on the run for their ship.
Charles had soon found himself running on the roads away from the town.
He kept on running across the open fields as fast as he could. Charles was running with the baby in his arms like the devil was after him until he slowed down and then collapsed on his knees. Pretty soon his son started crying, realising his mother was not around.
The baby cried aloud in his father's arms whilst Charles breathed heavily from running so fast.
Kneeling down on the spot, Charles looked up with a sorrowful look and prayed for someone to take his son away and bring him to a safe place.
And then something happened that he didn't expect: A wee group of Fairies appeared in front of him offering to take his son to safety.
So he asked for one of them to take his son but to tell him who he is when he grows old enough to understand and to say that his father will come and look for him soon. The fairy who was female gave a nod to Charles' wish. She and the other fairies had then taken the baby Andrew up from Charles' arms and they all flew away into the skies towards neverland which they had come from.
But a few of them stayed with him for the night to grow themselves big and use a small bit of magic to give him the strength to go on through the night.
When their power worked, Charles found himself on the move again and thus he felt strong on the journey to recovery as he went on towards the next town to report an attack on his whole family.
Chapter One.
359 years later:
1994 London England.
It had been at least three years and a few months since the adventure in Neverland and following their return to London, the Banning Family had come close together. Moira had learned from her husband Peter that he was actually Peter pan, which had amazed her completely after she saw Tootles fly in the air to Neverland. Having taken a two weeks vacation from his job as a corporate lawyer, Peter had spent most of his time with his son and daughter much to the relief and happiness of his wife Moira who had been suffering to keep her family together.
In the following days after getting his two weeks, Peter and Jack had been spending some days as father and son in the local park where they played ball together. They next went to the zoo to see some of the animals in the zoo before they went to a shopping centre to play a few games.
Peter made up the time with his son Jack before they met up with Moira and Maggie to have dinner together.
Following their time in London, Peter went back to work for a month before the day he decided to resign from the corporate company so that he can open his own Practice at a new Law firm to make his own hours so that he can have some time to attend Jack's baseball games in the mid-season and also spend time with his daughter Maggie. Jack's relationship with his dad had improved over the months as he had won a couple of games for his team and he got to see his father and mother at the next season's Baseball Games.
When not spending time with Jack, Peter would practice law to balance his workdays in different cases at court as well as take some time off work to spend a day with his daughter Maggie so that he can balance being a lawyer and a good father at the same time. During those times Peter spoke more to Moira about his time as a leader of the Lost boys all those years ago; he further explained how he first met great-grandmother Wendy, leading to the adventures that followed afterwards with their grandmother Jane Darling.
Maggie herself had enjoyed hearing about her father's adventures which Moira had listened to from behind the door.
Sometimes Moira wondered to herself what it might have been like to have an adventure in Neverland where her husband spent his youth for so many years. But Moira mainly had put it aside as she was happy that Peter had finally gone on good terms with his family although most of his work colleagues missed him, they were glad that he was making a good living at his own business.
In the year 1994, they learnt that Granny Wendy was dying much to the dismay of Peter and Moira, so the whole banning family made the preparations to head to London to spend the remaining days with Granny Wendy who was dying and she had wanted her family there for her.
On the night of her death on July 17th, Peter and Wendy had a moment to talk about the first time they met and the fact that he was happy to be with her for the last time since the night he visited her and met her grandchild Moira at that same time.
And then the following day on July 18th, she passed away in her bed with her unfailing belief whilst Peter was at her side.
Although Peter knew that Wendy was gone, he knew that they would meet again someday. Afterwards, the Banning family and their relatives stayed long in England to arrange the funeral for Wendy Darling, they attended the church in London for the funeral.
Present day, March 12 1995 in San Francisco, California.
It was only eight months after the funeral of Wendy Darling, that Peter Banning returned to San Francisco, America with his wife and children.
Upon their return to the States, Peter was still feeling as hurt over the loss of Granny Wendy as the members of his family were, so he decided to take a week off work to spend some time with his son Jack who was also feeling sad that his great grandmother had passed on.
The two decided to take a drive out of the city whilst Moira and Maggie stayed at home so that Maggie can continue the weeks of her schooling at elementary School in San Francisco as well as help her mother in the mourning for Granny Wendy.
Now sitting in her own bedroom alone, Maggie was now 12 years old going on 13 years.
She had finished some of her homework from her school in San Francisco. Turning away from her desk, Maggie looked at the mirror in the corner.
Maggie began wishing that she and her mom could have gone along with her father and Jack or at least a chance to leave home for an adventure within Neverland only she can go on her own terms rather than be kidnapped by a group of pirates. She stood up from her chair at the desk.
From the chair, Maggie walked toward the mirror to get a look at her reflection.
As she stood in front of the mirror, Maggie looked at her reflection to see the young girl that was her and she would soon grow up into a beautiful woman.
She continued to stare straight into her reflection of herself for a long while when she suddenly heard something in her room.
It was a humming sound of some sort and Maggie couldn't tell where it was coming from at first.
She looked around her room to see where it was coming from when her eyes found a glow coming from the mirror and more, it was making blurry and frizzling lines from top to bottom. At first, Maggie thought that it was a reflection in the mirror. But when she found that the sun wasn't shining in the mirror Maggie tried to find if there was another rational explanation or something else.
On the outskirts of the island of Neverland.
On the North-Western Coast of the island of Neverland, there was a fortified town by the docks whilst there was another small town and port with ships parked upon the south near an Indian encampment that has been trading with the army.
The two tribes have been living allies and trading in peace for about a few years and more, it was at those docks on the coast where a large seventeenth-century large warship was sitting upon the sea, parked up by a long pier. It was opposite the Pirate port on the Southwest where the Jolly Roger used to be but now the port was taken over by a new group of pirates.
Within the town on the northwestern coast, thousands of men and women were working together within the town and on the ship, keeping the place and the extended firm wall around the town in tip-top shape as if preparing to set sail or to go to war at any time. Inside the cabin, a captain of the ship was studying a set of maps on the table with his son who was looking over some other papers about the supplies that they had left.
Having played a few games earlier, the captain enjoyed his time with his little boy since he had found him a very long time ago among the other lost boys who fought against the pirates and eventually he befriended him, eventually the boy discovered that the Captain himself was actually his long lost father.
It was hard at first to accept it but the captain gave the boy some time to think about it and it was only a week before the boy finally realised the truth of who he really was before he had come to neverland by the fairies.
After some counselling with the fairies at the end of the week, the boy came to the town.
The boy stood in front of the Captain for a short while before he went forward and embraced the captain, realising that he was his long-lost father.
Since then the captain and his son had become inseparable: the two would play a few games and work on the boy's education, making it a little fun in the process.
But it was not all: almost seventy years before peter pan had returned to Neverland to save his children, Curly the lost boy who was now a young man of 20 years, had come back as well having realised that he missed Neverland but had also found that he had a connection to the Captain.
So the young man Curly came back to neverland where he revealed himself to the captain as his nephew. Soon after that cheerful reunion the captain had promoted a young man to the rank of Lieutenant and had posted him in the Indian encampment for the time being.
After some time doing the study on the maps and lists, the two had become a little satisfied with the lists which were accounted for.
The captain was about to put all of his paperwork away into the cupboard and take his son for a walk outside the town when the two heard a large bang which was coming from the outside of the ship. Even his son heard it as well as he stood up from his chair and looked at the captain.
"Father, what is it?" he asked. The captain went to the window to see some smoke in the background of the town when he realised that the town was under attack. The captain turned to his son and he knelt down to face him.
"Son I need you to stay in this cabin until I come back." he said to his son before he took up his weapons belt.
"Aww, Father can't I come along?" asked the boy. "No you can't, it's too dangerous." The captain said as he wrapped it around his waist. As soon as his belt was fastened, the captain went out the doorway to take command and resolve the defences of the town before another attack comes further.
Outside the ship.
On the pier, about hundreds of soldiers and sailors were busy inside the ship.
Most of the soldiers and Sailors on the pier and ports outside the ship were gathering up the supplies whilst some of the sailors by the buildings were busy arming themselves in response to the next oncoming attack outside their town. Others on the ships' top decks were loading the cannons to return fire.
It was after a short while of loading each of the cannons, the crew opened fire upon their targets in the distance.
Soon after the cannons had fired their cannonballs on their targets, there were a few explosions in the distance but only a couple had blown up their intended target where the opposing cannons were positioned. Smoke had floated up in the air where the explosions stood.
But soon another wave of cannon fire was heard seconds before another heap of explosives appeared. Hearing the explosions had caused some of the crew to crouch down in fear before they immediately got up and worked to return the fire upon where the cannonballs had come from, each man loading each of the cannons to get them ready to shoot back upon the invaders in the distance.
During the crossfire between the ports and the forests of Neverland, the battle lasted for about a while.
But some damage was caused to the front of the fortress.
A few of the cannons were destroyed in the crossfire but there were still enough to hold off the enemy for some time and only the cannons facing the sea had remained unscathed by the bombardment. After a while, the men in the fortress started another job to repair the cannons and prepare for another attack from the far-off enemy.
It was an hour of hard work for the troopers and their cannon crews to prepare their defences for any more surprises from their attackers in the distance, but they had managed to get things squared away before another attack could come upon their walls.
At first, they had managed to hold the fort by the end of the day until there was an attack from the mainland.
The first strike had been followed by a few attacks from a pirate ship coming across the open ocean, Charles was on the decks when it suddenly happened.
What followed was, to be just a first round of cannon fire, the crew of the ports thought that it would miss at least a few of the cannons on the wall or miss the front of the wall. However, it had hit at least a couple of the cannons set in the middle, leaving a small breach upon the wall and another round from the cannons on the mainlands had landed its mark upon one of the food storage which had been destroyed during the bombardment.
It became a serious situation for Charles' crew and those of his army were now with only a few cannons to defend their home and their people and at least enough food to last only a week or two depending on how they would ration it down. Finding that he will need some advice he turned to one of his lieutenants.
"Lieutenant Graham Warton, call the officers in for a meeting. I need to speak with them about our situation, and see to it that my son is escorted to his quarters for the time being." said the captain before he went off to wait in his office.
A while later within the cabin of the whole ship.
Having listened in on the conversations of the meeting between the captain and the other lieutenants, the captain's son had decided to take matters into his own hands for the good of the whole British Navy port.
The boy got himself dressed in some clothes before he sneaked through the hallways and then he went straight towards an armoury room inside the ship to grab a pistol and a rifle and some shots to reload his two firearms when in a firefight. Entering the armoury room through the doorway, slowly opening it he crept further into the room until he had reached the weapons rack where the rifles were stored.
The boy picked up the rifle and then slung it on his shoulder.
He next picked up two pistols along with a pouch full of powder and a box of shots for his weapons.
Once he was armed, he next went down to his father's room and picked up a sword and a dagger from the room.
Coming into the room through the doorway slowly, he checked to see if his father had come back from his meeting. Seeing that there was no one about the boy went in through the doorway and closed it behind him.
Heading further across his father's chambers he went towards a chest in the corner and he opened the chest where a sword lay sheathed in its scabbard and belt, sitting beside the sword was a knife of his father's as well and he picked up the knife before he placed it beside him and he reached out for the sword.
Holding the sword in his, he decided to attach the dagger to the belt.
Tying the dagger to the sword belt, the boy wrapped the belt around his waist and secured it in a knot. But as he was about to stand up and go out the back door, he suddenly heard footsteps coming towards the doorway. So closing the chest, the boy went for the window.
Opening the window wide he took his short rifle off his shoulder and climbed through the window onto the ledge whilst holding the rifle in one hand.
When the door opened up, the captain was standing outside the doorway to see the window was opened. Realizing that someone was inside his quarters, he turned away to head in the opposite direction. He walked along the hallway towards another door before he knocked on the surface.
"Andrew are you in there?" The captain asked, when he heard nothing from the other end the captain opened the door and he stepped inside the room.
Looking both ways around the room he found it deserted.
But what caught his attention was the windows, one of them which was open as he went across the room to check the window.
Seeing that the boy was not there, he realised that the little boy had escaped from the ship somewhere.
"Oh no, he's gone off on his own. I have to call the council for another meeting at once." The captain said.
"Understood sir." said the Lieutenant.
Outside the ship.
After climbing out of the ship's window the boy climbed down into the water.
Once his body was deep in the water, the boy swam his way across towards the pier on the shoreline where he walked upon the shallow parts and then onto the beach line before he continued into the streets to sneak out of the wall and then make his way into the jungle.
He slipped through narrow parts between a few houses but stopped when two straight lines of soldiers came marching across.
Once they were clear, the boy continued on his way across the town until he came to the wall and took the stairs up to the top of the wall. He stepped up each step until he reached the last step at the top.
As soon as he was on top of the landing, the boy went to one of the merlons and then stepped upon it before he made a jump out towards the nearest tree. In flying mid-air across to the nearest tree, he wound up grabbing upon the strong branch.
The Branch had managed to hold his weight as the boy swung forward and backwards whilst holding on for dear life until he stopped swinging and then hung there for a short few seconds. Once he was still, he pulled himself upon the branch and worked his way to the base of the tree before climbing down the tree to the bottom ground which was covered by the forest leaves.
When his feet had finally touched the ground, the boy stood up and looked around to see if there was one about. Seeing no eyes around, the boy then rushed off from the tree before anyone would see him out in the open. He raced further and further into the great woods passing by one of the pirates who was asleep before he finally got as far away from the pirates as he could.
That's the end of the first chapter of Hook: Maggie Pan for the time being. I'll be doing some research in the absent times and I shall be back with a new update on Chapter two. So be sure to give this a like and comment when you get the chance.
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