I'm baaaaack! I would have posted sooner if I weren't being a Beta for chocoyum4. But hey! Her stories are amazing and all of my readers should definitely check her stories out! But that's beside the point. This chapter is in third person narrative and it follows Leo and Peter. Thanks and read on!
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Leo's muscles were on fire as he sprinted with an impulsive urgency. His soul mate was close to death, and he was desperately searching for the most experienced healer on the island. The Mollusks didn't know the techniques that some others did, creatures or not. That took them out of the equation. Mermaids were a possibility, but that however would put Claire in their untrustworthy grasp. Leo immediately crossed that thought out for fear of her safety. Now, there was only one person who he believed could help her. Lieutenant Smee was his name, and he had a very special power that only Hook and he knew of. Hook, actually being a semi-smart man, kept the daft, clueless, and sometimes annoying man around for a reason. Coming to the conclusion of dragging Smee to her, he dashed into the pirates cave unceremoniously screaming, "SMEE! SOMEONE, ANYONE! HAS ANYONE SEEN SMEE?"
"Cap'n! What in the bloody blazes are you doing?" Lucky exclaimed confusedly, being woken up from his quiet sleep. However, when he saw Leo's wide eyes, flushed cheeks, and clenched hands, his face paled with fear. "Claire?" he whispered, taking a guess as to what had happened. Leo's head bobbed in a short jerky nod. Lucky felt his stomach drop into a bottomless pit, as if a ship dropped down a wave steeply; he greatly feared for the poor girl.
Lucky flinched when he stared deep into Leo's eyes as he spoke, seeing the flames of a man burning on the inside. "It was Peter fucking Pan. You should have seen the way he turned dark and destroyed her," he hissed. In the moonlight, it looked as if he was ready to murder.
"Cap'n? What were you calling me for?" Smee's slightly high-pitched voice rang through the pirates cave.
As Leo turned around to drag him off as quickly as possible to save her, Smee noticeably gasped in fright. The look on his Captain's face should never belong to any man. It was full of dark fury that consumed him. Seeing the effect he had on Smee, Leo smirked and said, "This is what happens when Peter Pan hurts my soul mate."
Gasping once more, Smee realized the nature of this very dire situation. His hands automatically lit up with a green glow, followed by his normally blue eyes turning almost fully black. There was only a ring of white around the edges. "Let's go," his voice, no longer his own, turned into an unearthly deep tone. Running with no man's speed, he hurtled towards the girl hanging on desperately to life, feeling her dying aura. Leo sprinted through the sand behind him; feeling fatigue yet not stopping until he reached her.
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(In the meantime)
Heavy sobs racked Peter's body as he lay scrunched in a ball next to the girl he loves. "P-Please C-C-C-Claire, I'm so s-s-sorry!" The last word came out as a wail. "I love y-y-you!"
Little did he know, his beloved heard everything he was sobbing to her. "Peter?" she managed to whisper desperately to him. Before she could get another word out, coughs caused her body to spasm and her mouth to be filled with sticky, hot, choking blood. She wrenched herself to the side to spit into the sand.
An audible gasp came from beside her. Then Peter scrambled to patch up every wrongdoing. "Claire, I never ever meant to keep you locked up. I just wanted to protect and love you. I never wanted to grow up, but your constant stubborn actions towards everything caused me to feel things I never ever should have. I'm unconditionally in love with you! I hurt you, and I will never be able to forgive myself for that. Please darling, don't l-l-leave me." The island immediately responded to his emotions. A landslide shook the mountain as half of its peak separated. Huge twelve-foot waves crashed with relentless force into the reef and beach, scattering the mermaids and sprinkling the two crying humans in the dunes near the lagoon. A roar from Mister Grin, the crocodile, was heard in all corners of the island, striking fear in everything and everyone.
"I forgive my mother and sister by the way," Claire stated dryly with a small chuckle. "But I guess that's too late," she concluded sadly. "I won't ever leave you. I will always be in here." Her hand reached to faintly trace the exact spot where his beating heart was.
The sadness in Peter quickly changed to horror and determination. "Don't you dare leave me! And you know that I'm not talking about in here," he exclaimed profusely, pointing towards his chest. "I can't stand the thought of losing you. I never want to and I never will!" He thought of Leo with disgust. He can never love her like I can. He is just going to use her. I could make her happy.
That was when Claire's breaths came in wheezes. Coughing and spluttering she began to try to talk desperately, but could not get out the words. Her heart began to stutter horribly, which Peter of course felt because they were pressed up together, him supporting her, with her head on his shoulder. Peter heard a growl coming from behind him. Frozen in place with Claire still dying, he felt fear course through him. However, when he saw it was Smee, the gentle pirate, he relaxed. The tension automatically came back when Peter noticed Smee's eyes and green glow.
"I can heal her. Give her to me. She is dying," the unearthly voice commanded. Complying rather reluctantly, Peter handed her over. Then Smee spoke the ancient words. "Visperordinem. Sanaeam.Suscípiet eam.Orcicapiatauxiliumab altoest.Eamnonpatimagno. Egomedicuset vates etelectumpetereauxilium. Adae!Hancanimamvobisdico,utimminente morterefugit. Nuncvitarefluuntin eamiterum!" (A/N See the bottom for translation)
Claire rose from the cold sand in a purple glow as Smee collapsed face forward in place, spent from his hard work. Her body, eyes still shut rose into a vertical position, floating five feet above the dunes. A smoky figure, clothed in darkness, hovered near her, caressing her face. Leo, who had just arrived, and Peter cried out indignantly at this unknown man touching her face. Noticing the two boys, the hooded figure turned towards them, transforming into a handsome man of about twenty with olive skin and unkempt dark hair. An amused smirk showed on his face.
"Who the hell are you?" Leo demanded furiously.
The man clicked his tongue disapprovingly and said, "Why Leo, such a naughty boy. I just saved the girl you adore and obsess over by the request of my 'Chosen One'. Show a little gratitude!" The seventeen year old teen flushed, embarrassed. This drew a chuckle from the man; who then spoke, "My name is Hades. It doesn't matter who I am or from what religion because I go by many names. Satan, Hades, Pluto, et cetera. Although, I am portrayed a little harshly in your religion as going against God and pulling people into Hell," he said thoughtfully, reflecting back on a memory. The boys' faces contorted in surprise. Seeing their shocked faces he continued quickly, "That is beside the point however. I just saved your girl. Just letting you know that she has a pure mind by the way. No ulterior motive, no horrible intentions. Oh, and Peter? Don't give up on this one," he looked pointedly at Peter and dropped his left eye in a single wink. Flustered, Peter's face turned beet red. "Now I have to take my leave. Time to be a Greek God!" he laughed exasperatedly and dissolved into black and grey smoke.
"Whoa," Leo gasped. Claire then suddenly began to be enveloped in a purple light. After the gas surrounded her fully, a shattering explosion that sounded like glass rocked the beach and then her body began to descend towards the sand, free of the vapors. Thrown out of balance, Leo began to stumble towards her body, which was lying on its side. "C-Claire, honey? Answer me please!" he pleaded desperately.
Her eyes fluttered open, revealing her previously amber eyes to be tinged with violet around the outside, which then faded into its original color towards the center. "Leo? Oh, Leo!" she exclaimed in relief. Her arms flew up around his neck to envelop him in a bone-crushing hug. "I thought I was never going to see you again!" they both began to sob into each other.
"Don't you think of ever leaving me!" Leo cried into her back.
"Me either!" Peter interrupted.
"I would never," she replied with a small smile.
For the first time in a long time the three of them felt whole.
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Translation: Let the power course through her. Heal her. Protect her. Take from the deep Underworld to help her. Do not let her suffer, Great One. I, the healer, seer, and Chosen One, request your aid. Hades! I call on you to bring this woman's soul back from the brink of death. Now the life flow back into her once more!
Twists! Haha, I absolutely love them Just saying, I have no prejudices against religions, I just had to include that little blip right there. *Leo's hug for all reviewers!*