Mal's POV
I lift my head off of Thomas's shoulder and look in the direction of where the voice came from. A boy around our age is making his was through the crowd while glaring at the crying boy in my arms. I glare back at him and stand in front of Thomas protectively. The boy has copper brown hair and is completely dressed in green.
"Who are you?!" I demand, slipping back into my role of the worst vk on the isle.
"Oh did I forget to introduce myself? How rude of me" the boy says, feigning innocence.
"I'm Peter, Peter Pan. Now get out of my way so I can get rid of the codfish" he growls, and I feel Thomas clutch at the back of my shirt in fear.
"I-I'm not-" Thomas starts to stutter as he slowly moves out from behind me and moves towards Peter with his hands up slightly in surrender.
"Shut up or I will cut out your tongue" Peter hisses and before I even have time to react he lunges and shoves Thomas onto the ground. I growl loudly and move to stand over Thomas protectively, glaring at the guy that dared to attack my first mate.
"Over my dead body" I say in a deep angry voice before letting green smoke surround me.
Jay's POV
Everyone gasps when Mal is suddenly surrounded by green smoke and when it clears he is now in his normal vk outfit consisting of a tight black v-neck,black skinny jeans, and his combat boots. His dragon tattoo is poking out slightly from the v-shape over his chest and his bright green eyes glare daggers at Peter. That's when I realize this isn't my friend right now, this is Mal the fearless leader of the Isle Of The Lost.
"This is your only warning, back off now" Mal growls as he carefully moves to stand in front of Thomas, protecting him from any more blows. Lonnie begins moving away from me to try and stop this, but I grab her shoulder and shake my head when she looks at me confusedly. When Mal is like this it's best to stay out of his way. Out of the corner of my eye I see Evie and Carlos do the same thing with Jane and Bella.
"Get out of my way" Peter yells as he shoves at Mal's chest, big mistake. Mal lets out a deep inhuman growl and we all instinctively back up in fear. Mal shoves Peter back and soon they're glaring daggers at each other, it's going down.
Mal's POV
"Why bother protecting him? He is a nothing just like everyone else from that trash pile" Peter hisses as he punches me in the mouth and I feel my bottom lip split slightly.
"The Isle may be a trash pile but it's my trash pile, and I will continue to protect it and the people that live there until my very last breath" I grunt as I slam his back against the stone wall.
"And you're one to talk about being a nothing, who's the one that started all the beef between you and Captain Hook anyways?" I hiss, feeling my canines sharpen into fangs. His eyes widen in fear and he begins squirming in my grasp.
"Last I checked it was you that cut off his hand and fed it to Tick Tock, what did you expect? For him to say 'Oh that's alright Pete' and sing Kumbaya? I know you're from Neverland but not even something as impossible as that would ever happen" I rant, and he looks down slightly. I feel someone grab my shoulder and turn to see Thomas looking at me worriedly.
"Mally stop, he's not worth it" he says pleadingly with tear tracks still damp on his cheeks, and I feel some of my anger melt away. I give him a nod before turning back to Peter to give him some parting words.
"And another thing, call one of my friends a nothing ever again and next time I won't let anyone stop me" I hiss into his ear and he nods up and down frantically. I let him go and let Thomas take my left arm and lead me back towards our friends.
"Look at the fag clinging to his boyfriend" Chad scoffs.
"Do you want to be next Chad? Because last I checked you were too much of a chicken the last time" I hiss and he looks down in embarassment of the shiner I gave him a few weeks ago and I hear several gasps.
"Thanks for defending me Mal, you didn't have to" Thomas mumbles as he lets go of my arm and looks down at his feet.
"Yeah I did, that's what best friends are for" I say with a playful smirk as I wrap my now free arm around his shoulders, and my eyes go from vibrant green back to their smokey grey color, and my fangs morph back into normal teeth. I look behind him and see everyone standing there in shock at what just happened.
"Anyways Tommy how's you-" I start to ask before hearing several gasps and see everyone pointing at something behind me. Before I can turn around I feel something sharp get impaled into the left side of my upper back and gasp when the burning starts,which only means one thing, iron. I fall to my knees and feel the burn begin to spread along my body.
"You bastard!" Thomas growls before carefully removing what ever it is out of my back. He drops it beside me and I see a dagger covered in my blood.
Thomas's POV
I glare at the guy who just stabbed my friend and feel something in me snap. He can hurt me and taunt me all me wants but no one, no one hurts my captain.
"That's it" I growl before running at him and tackling him to the ground, punching him in the face several times before he can react.
"My name is Thomas and I am the youngest son of Captain Hook and I am Mal's first mate" I growl from above him and this time it's my turn to have someone grab my shoulder.
"Tommy it's ok" Mal grunts as he tugs on my arm and I let him pull me off of the blood covered boy. I look at him and see his skin turning slightly red and his veins darkening along his porcline skin. The pained expression on his face makes me bite my bottom lip in worry as I wrap my arm around his waist and help him walk back towards the others when suddenly his knees buckle out from under him. He falls on to the ground on his hands and knees and I crouch down beside him immediately. A girl I don't know runs over to us and falls to her knees on the other side of him.
"Mal are you alright?" she says worriedly and he turns to give her a pained smile.
"Don't worry, I'll be alright Bella" he says reassuringly and I rub his right shoulder comfortingly, knowing what iron does to him.
'Wait, Bella? So this is the girl he tells me about in his letters' I think with a small smile that quickly disappears when he lets out a pained moan.
"Thomas help me get my shirt off" he gasps and I immediately comply, he never calls me Thomas unless it's something serious. Bella and I both gasp as we see his veins surrounding the wound color his back like tree roots among soil.
"W-What's happening to him?" Bella asks me tearfully and I look at her sympathetically, knowing she's probably feeling as powerless as I am.
"It's the iron, it burns faeries, don't worry he'll be fine in a moment" I say comfortingly, putting his shirt over the wound and mumble a quiet apology when he hisses in pain from the contact. After a minute or two he begins breathing calmly and I see the dark lines that are his veins disappear from view. I sigh in relief and remove the shirt and toss it to the ground. The stab wound is now just a pink line a few inches away from his shoulder blade and soon the mark will be comepletely gone as if it never happened.
"Gotta love that self healing" Mal laughs breathlessly as he begins to relax.
"Yeah" I laugh, feeling myself begin to calm down now that he isn't in danger. Suddenly Bella gasps and I see her staring at the two equal sized long parallel scars that run vertically down the his upper back and begin and inch or two below his shoulders.
"Want help getting up?" I ask Mal quickly, knowing this isn't the time or place to discuss what secret those scars are hiding.
"Yes please" he says immediately and I smile before slowly helping him stand up, but not letting him go comepletely just to be sure he won't lose his balance.
"Now we're even" I say playfully and he laughs before shaking his head at me.
"Nice take down by the way, I knew teaching you some self defense was a good idea" he praises and I blush at the compliment, my adrenaline rush disappearing and leaving me with my normal shy self.
"I-it was nothing" I stutter, looking at the ground.
"That was definitely not nothing, I knew you had it in you to fight back, you just had to see it for yourself" he compliments as he and I laugh.
"Keep talking like that and I'll stab you me self" I say jokingly and we both burst out laughing.
Mal's POV
"Oh my goodness Mr. Diaval are you alright?" Flora asks me frantically as she and her sisters join us.
"I'm fantastic now that I'm not being burned alive" I say as I shoot a glare at the boy that did that to me who is now sitting up and looking ashamed.
"Well don't worry Mal Peter will not go unpunished" Fairy Godmother says as she walks towards the boy and helps him up before leading him away, probably to the infirmary. I look over at Bella who is now sobbing in Lonnie's arms before giving Thomas a look, he nods understandingly and pats me on the back before walking to a spot not too far away. I shakily walk over to the two girls and open my arms for her. Bella sobs and lauches herself into my chest and wraps her arms around my waist. I just hug her close and whisper soothing words to her as I let her hold on to me for dear life.
"It's alright love, it's all over now" I murmur as I nuzzle my face into her shoulder.
"I-I was so scared...you looked so vulnurable-" she cuts herself off with a loud sob and instinctively I hold her closer.
"I'm alright now I promise" I say before kissing the top of her head, not caring about who's watching.
"Sweetie you gotta let go of me for a few minutes" I say gently, cupping her face in my hands and she looks up at me with tears in her eyes.
"Just for a moment I promise, I need to talk to Tommy and then I'll be all yours" I say and she sniffs before nodding her head. I give her one gentle peck on the lips before letting go of her face. She lets go of my waist and I smile and kiss her cheek before walking back over to Thomas who is patiently waiting about fifty feet away.
"So as I was saying before we were so rudely interrupted earlier, how are you and your sister doing Tommy?" I ask as I make it over to him, brushing some dirt off of my tattoo. It's a black dragon with a green eye that rests over my heart, very similar to the one I drew for Bella only it's in a fighting stance with it's paws out in front of it ready to strike.
"Which one? The annoying one or the bossy one?" he asks and I let out a big laugh as I wrap my left arm around his shoulder, feeling a slight pain in my chest as I do so.
"Tommy they're both like that, and you know I could care less about CJ so I obviously wanna know about Hari" I chuckle.
"Don't you mean your future wife?" he teases and I blush at the reminder.
"Shut up! Hades sake, why did she have to go through that stupid phase?" I whine and he laughs harder.
"Oh come on Mally it wasn't that bad" he gets out between giggles.
"You're not the one that spent hours almost every day listening to your entire wedding being planned out when you were nine for several weeks" I say with a pout and he buries his face into my shoulder to muffle his laughter, I also hear several other people in the crowd chuckle at my statement.
"She got over her crush on you eventually" he tries to say with a straight face, but I still see his lips twitch as he tries to hold back a grin.
"What is it with all these people on the Isle having a thing for me? First Harriet plans out our wedding when we were nine and she was ten, and now CJ is obsessed with me" I exclaim dramatically, throwing my free hand up in the air before letting it fall back down to my side. I ignore the several odd looks I get from that statement continue my rant.
"And I'm pretty sure one of the Gaston twins has a low-key crush on me, and don't even get me started on their sisters! Seriously what is going on?!" I say, shuddering at the thought of the Giselle twins who are exactly like their father. Thomas just laughs and pats me on the back comfortingly.
"Well it could have something to do with you being the most attractive guy on the Isle Of The Lost" another familiar Scottish accent says, causing Thomas and I to both jump slightly in surprise. I turn my head to the right to see Harriet,Freddie, and Hayden approaching us.
"Geez Hari, give a guy a little warning before you sneak up on him. Don't scare me like that" I say playfully, putting my hand over my heart dramatically.
"Don't scare you? That's my speciality" she teases and I shake my head as a grin fights its way on to my face. Harriet has the same skin tone as her brothers and the same brown hair and silvery grey eyes. The only child of Hook that doesn't look like her siblings is CJ, she has long blonde hair, blue eyes, and pale skin that has a bit more color than mine.
"Well it's good to see some things never change, your humor certainly hasn't Miss Hook" I say amusedly and she laughs.
"It's a gift your highness and it's Captain Hook now if you don't mind" she says, playing along and my smile widens. She looks at Thomas sharply and he buries his face into my shoulder.
"Thomas James Everson Hook!" she shouts and I feel Thomas shake against me.
"How dare you run away and scare us like that! You had me so worried" she continues to shout and I hold up my hand warningly, only having my pointer finger up so she'll get the point to stop. She calms down immediatly and I focus back on the boy that is now crying into my shoulder again.