Chapter 8: Encounter with an old foe
"So you do you know where I can find my mother?" Peter asked
"I don't know things that well" said Tinkerbelle, "but I have been around"
"But what do you wish to accomplish by finding your mother?"
"I have to see her again Tinkerbelle, I know I can not stay with her but I have to see her"
"You did just fine without your mother" Tinkerbelle said "and besides mothers are overrated anyway" she said
"I know they are overrated" Peter said "But I still I have to see her"
"I wonder why you never forgot your mother?" John asked
"I don't know" Peter said "I just could never forget her" Peter said
"You still haven't told me why you started killing things" Maimie said
"I do not just kill things" Peter said "I kill pirates"
"Why?" Maimie asked
"Because I hate them" Peter said
"Why?"
"I don't know I just do" Peter said starting to get annoyed
"And besides those pirates all deserve it for being such villains" Peter said
"And who are you to decide who is a hero and villain?" Wendy asked
"Well those pirates did kidnap us Wendy" John said
"I am not defending Hook" Wendy said "but I believe things are not as simple as they appear, I mean Hook did want me to join his crew, even after he kidnapped us"
"Hook was lying" Peter said
"How would you know?" Wendy said
"I don't know, but Hook is no man of feeling no matter what you choose to believe about him" Peter said
Just then the the group reached the exit to the fairy realm, led by Peter they all jumped out and Tinkerbelle then started to lead the way to another realm when they heard a voice
"We meet again boy" Hook said as he and Smee came out from there hiding place among the people who were just aimlessly wondered and sat around the large cave
Peter turned around only to see his greatest enemy and his boat swim slowly approaching them, he had a look of complete shock
"Did you think I would forget you?" Hook asked "I never forgot you"
"I remember you" Peter said "you are the pirate captain"
"Glad to see you remember me" Hook said "do you notice anything different about me?"
"No" Peter said
"Look again" Hook said raising up his hand, his right hand
"Your hand" Wendy said "you have your hand back"
"The little storyteller" Hook said "how nice to see you again"
"You can't hurt me" Wendy declared "you can not hurt any of us"
"I do not wish to hurt any of you" Hook said "I just want you and only you" he said pointing at Peter
"Come and get me codfish" Peter said pulling his dagger
"With pleasure" Hook said he then pulled his sword and charged at Peter
the two briefly sparred of course Peter could not fly here and his dagger did not have the range of his sword he did his best to try and fend Hook off but it was not enough, soon Hook disarmed him
Peter friends were about to intervene when all of a sudden they were all pushed back by some kind of magic staff that was being wielded by Smee
"A little gift from a friend of ours" Hook said "It will keep the rest of you at bay while we bring this little savage here to face his judgment"
Hook then grabbed Peter by the throat and then lifted him up in the air he then started walking with Peter towards the far end of the cave and Smee walked backwards keeping the rest of Peter's friends all back when they were near the portal they wanted, Smee let them all go and then quickly followed Hook inside the portal
"We have to help him" Wendy said
"How?" John asked
"We can think about it when we find him" Maimie said, she then ran in the direction that she saw Hook take Peter
"Maimie" Wendy said running after her
"That girl is just as reckless as Peter is" John said to Michael and then the two ran after their sister
When they finally caught up with them Maimie started feeling around for any signs of a portal
"There must be one here" Maime said
"Maimie you can not just run off like that" Wendy said
"I have to help Peter" Maimie said "he is is my betwixt and between"
"What is a betwixt and between?" Michael asked
"Part bird and Part boy, that is what Peter is"
"I thought he just used fairy dust and happy thoughts?" Michael said
"I do not know" Maimie said "Peter did not fly when I met him, he sailed around on a boat, he only flew when he left his window"
"Why did he run away?" John asked
"Because he wanted to free as a bird" Maimie said "wanted to have adventures without responsibilities, and he did but then he so missed his mother, he still plays her lullaby on his flute"
Wendy thought back to when she and the lost boys were first leaving and Wendy had decided to give Peter something to remember her by giving her some medicine though it was really just water inside a flower, she remembered he was playing a tone on his pipe, she started to wonder if that was the tone. She had hoped that maybe if she had given him something that maybe he would come with them, Wendy really didn't want to leave Peter behind and she wanted him to come but she knew it had to be his choice, she could not force him.
"I felt ever so sorry for Peter" Maimie said "he was the nicest most sweetest boy I ever met, so full of feeling
"What kind of feelings?" Wendy asked
"Sad feelings, painful feelings, I so wanted him to not hurt anymore" she said
Wendy started to feel sad herself, no child should ever feel unwanted by there parents she just wished that Peter had been open with her, she never would have judged him or thought less of him. If anything she would have taken him into his arms and done everything she could to comfort him and give him peace, just because you can fly and fight that doesn't mean you don't need a shoulder to cry on, maybe she still could
Just then Tinkerbelle motioned for everyone to follow her she had found a portal and she was pretty sure that this is where Hook might have taken Peter
"This way" Wendy said to everyone
To be Continued