Knock Out

Ch.6

Melody had spent the entire day searching around Never Land. Though Peter said not to go anywhere alone since she didn't know the island, she had taken the chance and had traveled around. It was like a wonderful place taken right out of a dream. She had even met the Indian Princess Tiger Lily while walking through the jungle. She was a very pretty girl with darkly tanned skin, a round kind face, bright hazel eyes and raven dark hair. The two girls had gotten along real well.

"It is very nice to meet you Melody." she said kindly as they walked on the beach. "It has been a long time since Peter brought a girl here."

Melody nodded. "Yeah, he told me about them a while ago."

"Do you think he ever misses them?" Lily asked.

Melody thought about this. Peter had never given any indication that he missed Wendy or Jane, and Melody didn't have the heart to ask. Melody sighed and shrugged her shoulders.

"No idea, never asked."

"Melody."

The two girls turned and saw Peter floating towards them. Right behind them was Tinker Bell.

"We've you been, I've been looking all over for you. Hey Lily."

"Hello."

"I'm sorry Pete." said Melody. "But I wanted to see the rest of the island."

"Well, it's getting late, I should probably be getting home. Bye Peter, bye Melody."

Peter and Melody waved as Lily walked off. When she had gone, Melody turned back to Peter.

"Sorry if I worried you."

"It's ok. Just let me know if your going somewhere next time, ok?"

Melody opened her mouth to answer but was interrupted by a sudden loud canon blasting in the distance. Peter and Melody turned searching for the creation of the sound.

"Hook." Peter said harshly.

"That pirate you're always messing with?"

"Yeah, he must be trying to get me to fight him." he looked down at Melody. "You wanna try and get a look at him?"

"Sure."

Peter took hold of Melodys hand and led her out of the jungle, Tinker Bell floating just behind them. As they shot into the sky the landed on an unusually soft and hard cloud. They landed, bellies down, on top of it and started to slowly crawl over to the edge. As Melody looked down she was the large ship she had seen yesterday when she came to Never Land. It was kind of small and she could just make out ant-like figures walking around on it.

"Could we get closer?" she asked.

"Alright." said Peter. "But yourself hidden."

Him, Melody and Tink all floated at least three clouds down before they finally landed. Now Melody could really see everything. It was a large well designed ship, nothing like the one back at home, but it looked alright. She could see multiple pirates walking along the deck of the ship. Some were carrying barrels and crates, others wiping the floor with brushes and mops, but a few were at the canons and filling them up.

"I'm going in." Peter whispered as he turned to Melody. "Melody, you stay here with Tink."

"Why?!" Melody said abruptly. "I wanna go down there too."

"First of all," Peter cut across her. "there's all of them and only two of us, and I don't know if you know how to fight-"

"Excuse me!" Melody said shocked, hands on hips.

"Let me finish! Second you've never fought them before, you don't know what your up against. Trust me they're idiots, but they can still fight."

Melody huffed and rolled her eyes, but she was forced to except defeat this time.

"Fine." she said through gritted teeth.

"Good, so-"

"On one condition," Melody said suddenly. "You have to let me fight them next time no matter what."

Peter smirked and shook his head. "No way."

"Yes way!"

Melody stood up on the cloud and folded her arms defiantly and Peter blinked at her. Melody was the only one that was not afraid to stand up to him, even at his angriest times. She always had a way of impressing him with her daring, rebellious and spunky nature, even if it went a little far sometimes. It was one of the many things about her that intrigued him most. He gave a half smile, half smirk as he continued to stare at her.

"Alright, fine."

"Good."

Peter smirked at her for a moment before jumping up and shooting down fast toward the ship. Melody sat down and laid on her front and folded her arms under her chin, waiting for what was about to happen.

"Oh Captain Hooooook!" Peter shouted as he swerved around the ship.

"Pan!" someone on ship shouted.

Melody squinted down to see who had yelled. She saw just on the deck was a tall man dressed in a red coat and hat with a white feather in it, black shoes and a large sword in it holder. This she assumed must be Captain Hook, the pirate Peter often boasted about messing around with. As he walked on the deck he grabbed his sword and pointed it threateningly at Peter.

"Blast him!"

Peter laughed. "Ha ha, take your best shot captain!"

Peter laughed as he dodged all of the crews cannonballs, fighting the pirates and making the crew hit themselves. Melody laughed as she watched this, and as she watched she began to learn the crews moves and skills. She kept trying to crawl over to get an even better look, but kept getting pulled back by Tinker Bell tugging hard on her hair.

"Ouch!" Melody winced. "Ok I'll stay back."

Melody glared at Tink before looking back down at the ship.

"Just accept it captain." said Peter, swinging on one of the ships ropes. "You can't beat me."

"Don't be too sure about that boy." said Hook. "I know all your tricks."

"Not all my tricks Hooky." Peter laughed.

Hook was about to say something when one of his crew spoke.

"Hey Cap'n, what that up there?"

Hook walked over to the crew member, took out his telescope and looked up. His gaze seemed to be faced towards the cloud Melody was on. Thinking he might be looking for her Melody lowered herself from view.

"There's defiantly someone up there Cap'n." said the pirate. "I saw it moving earlier."

Hook removed the telescope and glared up at the cloud Melody was on.

"It must be an ambush! Fire now!"

Before anyone could do anything one of the crew had already fired a cannon. Even as Tink kept pulling on her hair, Melody looked down in time to see a cannonball shooting right at her. And a second later it had shot through the cloud at her.

A blinding, sickening pain…a flash of light…a distant scream…and the sensation of falling down a long tunnel…

I just love cliffhangers! What will happen to Melody? How will her and Peter find the answers to the necklace? And will Tinker Bell ever stop pulling on Melodys hair? Find out next ch. on…Return To The Sea!