I really had stopped being surprised by Peter a long time ago. Listening to him talk with the new kids, who went by the odd names of Nibs and Curly, was rather insightful. So he was the leader of a bunch of kids who went by the name of the lost boys? Okay. He had tried to curse an entire land? Weird and a little cruel but alright I could believe it.
He had explained very little to them in actuality and I myself was confused, but the two boys seemed happy enough to follow Peters lead when he set off for the Merry Men's camp. The sun was setting by the time we reached the boisterous camp, and Peter seemed to feed off of the energy.
"My friends here would like to stay in the camp also." Peter seemed to more command than ask as he approached the woman Mulan, and I could almost feel the energy the two put off interacting. She didn't seem to take his tone well, but seeing that his friends were boys seemed interested.
"Don't any of you have family's looking for you?" she asked, and the two boys shook their heads 'no' in unison.
"The only family we have is each other I'm afraid." Peter responded in a tone that sounded anything but sad.
"Well I'll see what I can do but the camp is reaching its limit." Mulan seemed reserved and not the sympathetic type, so the whole being orphans speech seemed to be little more then a explanation in her eyes.
It made some sense in my eyes, if the lost ones were all family-less in some way. But it seemed that Pan never really thanked anyone or apologized for anything and though it was small it was also slightly irking. He was a cocky idiot who seemed to have a plan though and so I was interested.
The boys were given a tent and they seemed rather eager to sleep and honestly I wasn't too interested in them. A lot of people stressed me out and an entire camp full of them was more than enough to be stressful.
Peter was off doing his own thing at the fireside and so I decided to wander the forest for a bit. The air was gradually growing colder as the sky darkened, and the crisp edge it brought was rather refreshing, especially with my fur coat.
I really wondered how much I was truly fooling Peter. He seemed to be a smart boy and I wasn't exactly an amazing actress when it came to being a wolf. If he knew that I was more than a common wolf he wasn't letting onto it. Surprisingly though the bubble of Pan-emotions was fairly easy to ignore as long as something else was occupying my mind. At least by being a wolf still with no means of communication I didn't have to try and explain being a human familiar. Besides the fact that I was still trying to get my head around it, the entire thing would be rather odd to explain.
The smell of a creature interested me, and so I followed it deeper into the forest. I didn't recognize the scent at all, which considering the animals I had met was rather unusual. And when I found the creature I was stunned by what I saw. It was a monkey thing with wings. I'm not crazy or delusional but I was certain that I was seeing a grey monkey with purple hued feathery wings sprouting from its back.
I wasn't exactly a creature of stealth, and the monkey thing heard me coming. It screeched at a pitch that made me wince and wish to cover my ears, and with a few flaps of its wings began to fly. I wasn't sure what to do, whether to growl or just run, and my choice was made for me when the creature seemed to decide that a wolf was worth attacking.
Screeching it dived, folding in its wings and reaching out with taloned paws. Yelping out of surprise I avoided its strike. It seemed rather angry at missing and landed on the ground. Deciding that running wasn't going to do much to stop it from chasing me I barreled into it, slamming my head into its chest with as much speed as I could gain over such a relatively short distance.
It barely registered that it had scratched my shoulder when I was pulling away from it, and more out of the instinct of my wolf side swung my muzzle into its throat. It seemed dazed slightly and my vision wasn't exactly great from having hit my head against something twice in a short time, but when the only weapon you have is your body, what else are you really supposed to do?
With it dazed I had the question of what the hell am I supposed to do with this to deal with. I couldn't exactly tell the Merry Men about it, and it didn't think trying to lead them to it was going to be great, and so I had the just wonderfully appealing option of pulling the creature to them.
Monkey fur tastes worse than most every thing I've ever tasted. And the creature was rather heavy. I didn't know just how out of it the thing was and I didn't quite feel right just killing it. I preferred to not kill things in general I just had to eat also.
I was really questioning whether or not it was worth it by the time I had almost reached the Merry Men camp. Spitting the thing out I let out a long and drawn out howl. The monkey thing was starting to get up, and panicking that it was going to fly off I rolled the squawking thing over and sat on it, awkwardly pinning it to the ground, though it managed to flap its wings in my face quite a bit.
Seeing some movement in the shadows I began to bark in a rapid-fire way until a few of the Merry Men drifted over. Everything afterwards was simply chaos. The monkey began to struggle more, and I got knocked off of its back. The men began to fight it or honestly I'm not sure what they were doing because it was a mess.
Not wishing to interfere with their mess I began to back off, when with a magical sheen the creature froze in place. Surprised, I turned to see Peter standing a little bit off. I guessed that the magic was due to him, but he didn't seem to wish to draw the men's attention to him.
Padding over to him he reached down to pet my head. He looked rather thoughtful for a moment before more so saying to himself then me, "I think there's someone I need to meet."
•••Authors Note•••
Apologies for the scattered updates but my schedule is a bit of a mess. But this shouldn't turn too AU from the current shows canon but slight changes might occur. Thank you all so much for your reviews!
