Ok, this story is almost done, just one more chapter left after this. And, if you felt this chapter is a bit weak, then it's because I had a hard time focusing on this chapter. Sorry! Hope you like it!

Chapter 15

Ka-Boom!

All of a sudden, a burst of wind flew and pushed Hook's pistol to the side, just in time for Hook to fire the pistol.

The pistol ended up shooting at a spot right in front of a pirate's foot. The pirate jumped back in surprise.

Everyone looked at Hook in pure shock and confusion and Hook stared down at his pistol, scared of it as if his own weapon had turned against him.

He turned to look back at Peter only to be face to face with another fairy.

But this fairy looked different. She had long black hair and was wearing purple clothing.

And she was smirking at him, crossing her arms.

Before Hook could do anything, the fairy pushed her hands forward and, suddenly, more wind flew down and harshly pushed Hook to the deck.

The fairy's smirk grew wider, placing her now fisted hands on her hips confidently.

"Vidia," the captured fairies exclaimed.

The fairy turned to them and said, "Thought you needed some back-up."

She let out a sharp whistle and the wind carried that whistle over the ship.

And then, flying up into view, were hundreds and hundreds of fairies.

Margaret and the captured fairies beamed at the sight of them. But the others gazed at the fairies in shock and wonder.

"Oh, my," Smee spoke first. "They're beautiful!"

At the front of the fairies was Queen Clarion herself. Around her are the Ministers of the seasons, with their fairies behind them. And, right beside Queen Clarion, was Fairy Mary cracking her knuckles, getting ready to kick some booty.

The fairies hovered there for a while. Then Queen Clarion nodded her head and, rapidly, all the other fairies charged after the bad guys, screaming.

It took a while before the pirates realized that the fairies were going to attack them. Before they knew it, they were being hit by pastries from the Bakery Fairies, blinded by the lights made by the Light Fairies, attacked by birds that the Animal Fairies sat on (with Brother Dove leading the way), hit by different contraptions made by the Tinker Fairies, and so on.

Every one of the pirates were attacked by different fairies and, because of that, they were forced to release their hold on their prisoners. The captive fairies are now free and joined the other fairies in the battle. The Lost Boys were free and they excitedly gathered their weapons and went back to fighting the pirates.

But Margaret went straight for a now free Peter, and Tinker Bell and Little went straight to them. They all held Peter, unable to believe that they were so close to losing Peter for good. Peter hugged them back, thinking the same thing.

But unfortunately, their embrace was cut short when a pirate almost sliced them in half if Peter hadn't pulled them down in time.

Angry at their interruption, Tinker Bell flew up and hit the pirate square on the face as hard as she could. With that distraction, Peter pulled Margaret out of battle and entered into the Captain's Cabin, with Little and Tinker Bell right behind them.

Peter shut the door and turned to face Margaret. "Now you have to stay out of danger. Stay here and don't come out until I come get you."

Margaret wanted to refuse his request. But how could she when every time she picked a fight, it always led to someone else getting hurt because of her action?

Perhaps it would be better if she just sit this one out, so she doesn't ruin everything, like she had done before.

Margaret finally nodded her head. "Okay, I'll stay."

Peter was taken aback, as well as Tinker Bell and Little, at her answer.

But she said she will stay, so that should satisfy Peter.

"All right, then. I'll be back."

And, with that, Peter left the cabin, with Tinker Bell behind him (but not before Tink gave Margaret a worried glance).

Margaret sighed, feeling very uncomfortable on staying hidden while the battle goes on outside.

She sat down on the floor and waited. Little silently walked up and into Margaret's embrace, as they both listened to the exciting battle from behind the door.

*PPIII*

"HOOK," Peter shouted at Hook, who was still sitting on the floor, trying to comprehend what was happening on his ship. "I'M GONNA KILL YOU FOR WHAT YOU ALMOST DID TO MARGARET!"

As if broken from a trance, Hook jumped back up and pulled out his sword. "Well, it's not my fault you have a strong weakness for the girl."

Immediately, the furious boy charged after Hook and, once again, began sword fighting with Hook. Only this time, both of them fought each other with pure and uncontrollable rage toward their enemy for their own reasons.

*PPIII*

As the Lost Boys fought the pirates, they couldn't help but get distracted by the countless fairies on the ship. They never even knew there were more than one fairies in Neverland.

In fact, the more fairies there were, the more pixie dust fell on the ship, making the Lost Boys worried that the ship will fly from all those pixie dusts.

It was then that the Lost Boys felt the ship rising little by little. Even some of the pirates noticed this, but the other pirates were too busy fighting off the fairies.

The Lost Boys turned to see Peter fighting against Hook like they always do. But something was very different. They fought more violently, as if they were both desperate to kill their enemy. Worse of all, they paid no attention to what was going on around them. Both of their fuming eyes were only on each other.

This made the Lost Boys scared for and of their leader.

*PPIII*

Queen Clarion stayed above the ship, watching the battle below. She was not a fighter, but she was willing to help when her fairies are in trouble. But all her fairies were capable of helping themselves and they stayed away from trouble, making the queen very proud of them.

She suddenly noticed that their pixie dusts was making the ship rise above the ocean.

Oh, that's not good.

She quickly searched and flew down on deck. She finally found who she was looking for.

Fairy Gary was repeatedly punching a tiny pirate, laughing in enjoyment.

"Fairy Gary," Queen Clarion called to him.

He instantly stopped what he was doing (after punching the tiny pirate one last time) and flew to the queen.

He bowed respectfully to her. "What is ye wish, my queen."

Queen Clarion smiled at his action. "We are losing too much pixie dust on this ship and it is now rising above the ocean."

"Oh, I felt the ship movin'. I thought them big pirates were makin' a ruckus."

"Please gather your pixie dust fairies and collect all of the pixie dust on the ship, so that we will have plenty to return home."

"Aye, m'lady." Obediently, Fairy Gary flew off to find his pixie dust fairies so that they will follow Queen Clarion's orders.

Eventually, all the pixie dust fairies have collected as much pixie dusts as they could, but there were still some on the ship, now making it hover a few feet above the ocean.

Queen Clarion smiled as she flew from the distance.

*PPIII*

Because hundreds of fairies were flying all over the ship's deck, most of their pixie dusts would fall onto the floor.

However, some of the pixie dusts landed on several pirates, causing them to float. When they realized what was happening to them, they wave their arms and legs, as if afraid to be high above deck.

Some pixie dust fairies saw this and removed the dusts from the pirates.

Unfortunately, now with no pixie dust, the flying pirates fell flat on the floor.

But most of the pirates were big and heavy. And, when they fell on deck, they ended up falling on each other, and their impact caused the floor under them to collapse under them, sending them below deck.

They landed on a pile of weapons that no longer worked and the weapons were crushed underneath the pirates' fat body.

The pirates groaned and, getting up, they angrily went back up on deck, back to battling the fairies.

But what they left behind were the ruins of the weapons. Now the only thing covering the floor are the gunpowder from the weapons.

Later, one of the ray of sunlight created by the light fairies appeared down through the hole on deck.

There, the ray light lay on the gunpowder, unnoticed by the light fairies.

Suddenly, smoke starts to rise from the gunpowder.

*PPIII*

The battle continued on for a long while, Peter and Hook still fighting each other and the fairies and Lost Boys still fighting against the pirates.

All of a sudden, there was a huge explosion that shook the ship and blasted through the deck from below, where the gunpowder had been. The ship fell hard back to the surface of the ocean, and the impact weakened the bottom of the ship, releasing streams of the salty water through the bottom. Fire now spread throughout the deck of the ship and some of the wrecks from the floor of the deck were now everywhere, including over at the now crumbled Captain's Cabin.

All the fairies were thrown away from the impact of the explosion and everyone else fell to what's left of the floor.

Some of the pirates and the Lost Boys were trapped under broken pieces of the deck.

Once Hook was able to stand up, he looked over at his once again destroyed ship in horror. "NOOOOOOOOOOO! MY SHIIIIIIP!"

Hook ran around the ruined ship, trying to find a way to fix it.

"Cap'n," Smee cried to Hook as he made his way to him. "Cap'n! We must abandon ship! This place is going to blow!"

"NOOOO," Hook shouted, trying to put pieces of this ship back together with little success. "NOOOOO, I MUST SAVE MY SHIP!"

Smee then wrapped his big arms around Hook and pulled the panic Hook toward a rowboat, where most of the pirates were gathering at.

*PPIII*

Peter finally recovered from his fall and stared at the wreckage of the ship.

Few of the fairies, including Tinker Bell and Terence, flew up to Peter.

"We have to leave the ship," Tinker Bell urgently told Peter. "Before more gunpowder explodes and destroys the ship!"

Peter saw hundreds of fairies flying far away from the ship and back to Neverland.

Peter heard cries and he looked to see the Lost Boys trapped under wreckages on the ship.

"Not without my men," Peter said.

He took a step forward, but stopped. He just remembered something very important.

"Margaret!"

He turned around and ran to the now destroyed Captain's Cabin. He ran to it and tried pulling the wreckages away, but they were too heavy.

"Margaret," Peter shouted through the gaps of the wreckages. "Margaret!"

"Peter, we're running out of time," Tink hurriedly informed him. "Look, I can fit through those gaps; I'll go help Margaret. You go help the Lost Boys."

Peter hesitated, wanting to help Margaret so much.

But he may have no choice.

"Okay," Peter said. "But hurry!"

Tink nodded to him and they both separated to different directions.

As quick as he could, Peter helped the Lost Boys out of the wreckage and (with help from the leftover pixie dust from the ship), he helped the boys fly above the ship and led them toward Neverland.

All the while, his mind was on Margaret, hoping with all of his heart that she will make it out in time.

*PPIII*

Margaret groaned as she woke up. She went to get up, but something was preventing her to.

She looked up to see pieces of the ship covering her.

She suddenly remembered what happened earlier. While she sat waiting in the Captain's Cabin, something exploded. And, before she could investigate, all went blank.

Then she heard Peter calling her name.

But that must have been a dream, for she could no longer hear him anymore.

Then, Margaret remembered something.

Little!

"Little!" Margaret immediately pushed the pieces off of her and searched the wreckage, but she couldn't find Little. She was with her when the explosion happened. Where is she now? "Little!"

She frantically threw the pieces out of the way to find her puppy.

She gasped in relief when she finally found Little. However, Little was unconscious and she had tiny bruises on her small body from the impact.

Margaret hurriedly pushed the wreckages off of Little and carefully took her puppy into her arms.

"Little," Margaret whispered tearfully to her beloved friend. She could feel her puppy still breathing, so Little was still alive. She gently held her puppy close to her, so happy that Little wasn't dead.

"Margaret!" She heard a voice calling for her.

Margaret looked up just in time to see Tinker Bell and her fairies friends fly through the gaps of the wreckages and up to her.

One of the fairies, Margaret remembered it was Fawn, gasped in horror at the sight of Little.

"Margaret, we need to get out of here," Tinker Bell urgently told Margaret. "Before this place blows up!"

Quickly getting the picture, Margaret hastily went to follow the fairies out, holding Little close to her.

Unfortunately, there was a wreckage barrier that was blocking her from the outside, and the gaps there were too small for her to crawl through. Margaret tried to push against the barrier, but it wouldn't budge.

The fairies tried to help Margaret by pushing the barrier as well, but even the little strength they had could not help her.

"What are we going to do," a worried fairy, must be Iridessa, exclaimed. "We'll all be destroyed if we don't get out of here!"

Margaret stopped. Something dawned on her. An idea that was both great, but also terrible.

"But you fairies can get out." Margaret sadly glanced down at her puppy, then looked back at the fairies.

"Margaret?" spoke Tinker Bell, looking at her as if figuring out what Margaret had thought of. And clearly didn't like it.

"Listen," Margaret said urgently to Tinker Bell. "Little can get through those gaps. Take her outside and to safety."

Fawn instantly goes to Little, but the other fairies didn't move, staring at Margaret in shock.

"But what about you," Terence asked her.

Margaret paused for a moment, but then put on a reassured smile. "Don't worry. I'll find my way out."

The fairies were about to refuse, as if knowing she was lying, but Margaret was already pushing Little to them. "No, hurry! I'll join you in a second! Go!"

The fairies hesitated, but they were given no other choice but to carry Little and fly through a gap. Only Tinker Bell look back at Margaret with a worried glance before the fairies disappeared through the gaps with Little.

Now that Little was safely off the ship, Margaret began searching for a way to escape.

She still had no plan to die here. Not like this.

At last, she saw a large gap far from her, where the windows use to be. Now there was only one window and it had been shattered, leaving behind a big enough gap for her.

Margaret could see outside through the gap, just waiting for her.

Overjoyed to see her way out of here, Margaret ran toward it.

Only to be pulled back by something.

She looked down and, to her horror, the end of her nightdress was stuck amongst a pile of wreckages.

Margaret tried to push the wreckages off, but they remained stuck where it was. She started to desperately pull her nightdress as hard as she could.

Her heart began racing with every tug on her dress, feeling a mental clock ticking dangerously for the big explosion to happen.

*PPIII*

The fairies quickly flew up into the sky, carrying the still unconscious puppy with them.

But, as she looked back at the ship, Tinker Bell could not help but feel guilty for leaving Margaret behind.

However, this could mean that Peter will now be hers again.

But would that be right?

"Tink, what are you doing," Terence shouted at her, for Tink had just released her hold on Little and floated there, staring at the burning ship in a deep, mental debate.

Terence went to her and grabbed her hand, but, before he could ask her what was going on, the ship below them exploded.

This explosion was so huge and powerful that it covered the entire ship and blew Tink and Terence farther away from the ship.

*PPIII*

From the rowboats far from the ship, Captain Hook and all the pirates watched the explosion with horror and sadness.

Hook was worse of all and he let out a loud and long, "NOOOOOOOOOO", crying like a baby after losing his favorite toy. Smee only patted Hook on his back in an attempt to comfort him.

*PPIII*

Peter had just helped his men and all the fairies land safely on the shores of Neverland when the explosion happened.

They all watched the ship blow up from afar, some in horror and some in wonderment.

Peter had never seen an explosion like that before and he sure was lucky not to be there. He probably wouldn't have survived from that.

He looked back at the group and instantly noticed something very wrong.

Margaret still wasn't here.

"Look," Slightly shouted up at the sky.

They all look up and saw a few fairies carrying Little to them.

Little didn't look bad, just tiny bruises from here and there. And, by the time the fairies reached to them, Little had started to wake up.

All the Lost Boys immediately rushed over and held out their hands for Little, looking happy and worried for their small friend. The fairies gently lay Little into the boys' hands and the Lost Boys protectively held her, all happy to see her all right. Tootles was the closest to Little and started kissing Little's head.

Little smiled and licked Tootles' chubby cheek, causing the boy to giggle.

Peter would have been happy to see Little alive if he wasn't already worried about the fact that Margaret wasn't with them.

Neither was Tink.

"Where's Margaret? And Tink?"

The fairies looked at him in shock and exchanged depressing looks amongst each other.

Then they turned to the burning ship.

Peter turned to their direction and, seeing the burning ship, a cloud of horror grew inside his head and heart.

"No," Peter whispered.

And, before anyone knew it, Peter rocketed up from the shores and across the ocean, straight toward the destroyed ship.

*PPIII*

"There, there," Smee said to Hook as his captain cried on Smee's shoulder, with Smee still patting his back in comfort. The other pirates looked away in embarrassment. "It will be alright, cap'n."

"Uh," spoke one of the pirates. "Do ye hear something?"

They all quiet down to listen.

There was a ticking noise. And it was coming from the waters.

Turning paler, Hook looked over the rowboat and down at the surface.

"B-b-but," Hook quivered in fear. "It c-can't b-b-be! I was r-r-rid of that m-monster!"

The ticking noise went louder, but the crocodile remained to be seen.

"Uh, cap'n?" Smee piped.

Hook looked up, really not wanting to turn around.

But he knew he must.

Very slowly, he turned around and there, on the other side of the rowboat, was his old enemy, the Ticking Crocodile, very much alive.

And the creature had his huge, vengeful eyes on Hook.

Hook shrieked and the Crocodile roared.

The Crocodile jumped after Hook, but Hook quickly moved aside, having the Crocodile to instead land back into the ocean.

The Crocodile resurfaced and instantly searched for Hook.

Still screaming, Hook took hold on both oars and rapidly started to row his rowboat as far away from the Crocodile.

However, Hook was rowing so face, the rowboat shook and zoomed across the ocean, causing the pirates inside to collapse inside their boat.

Refusing to give up, the Crocodile hurriedly chased after Hook as the frightened captain rowed him and his crew toward the horizon.

*PPIII*

Tink had recovered from the explosion quickly, but it was no use.

She saw below her a giant mess of the remains of the ship floating on the surface, some of them still burning.

And, among the ruins of the Jolly Roger, Tink could not see any sign of Margaret.

Which means . . . she's gone.

Tink could not believe it. It really happened. And not by her hands. Margaret was gone. For good. Like she had wanted.

But instead, Tink started to cry.

Terence, recovering and staring at the ship in shock, sees Tink and wrapped his arm around her, pulling her to him in comfort, allowing Tink to cry on his chest for a moment.

Tink suddenly heard splashes from below and they both looked down.

"Oh no," Tink gasped.

There was Peter, desperately searching through the wreckages and the surface, looking for Margaret.

As he searched, he started to sink lower and lower until his body was touching to waters. But he didn't notice this. He was too frantic on finding Margaret.

Taking pity on him, Tink flew down and went closer to Peter. "Peter?"

Peter did not hear her. He kept on searching, even going so far as to push away burning wood with his bare hands, not even flinching from the pain.

"Peter," Tink tried again. "It's too late."

"No," Peter mumbled. "No, I can find her. She's still alive. She has to be. She has to be."

Peter continues to mumble as his search became more and more desperate to the point that he couldn't stop, holding onto a single, weak string of hope that Margaret was still alive.

What's worse, Peter's body was now sinking into the ocean.

"Peter!" Tink quickly flew to Peter and grabbed his top clothing, pulling him up. However, he was too heavy for her. Terence flew down to grab Peter's top and pulling him up as well, helping her.

But Peter was moving so fast that the two struggling fairies were having difficulty holding him up. And, no matter what, he was still sinking.

"Peter," Tink exclaimed to him. "Peter, stop! Stop moving! She's gone!"

"No," Peter shouted, his voice getting weaker and weaker. "She's not gone! She's not, she's not, she's not!"

This only caused Peter to sink even lower until the surface was up to his chest.

Finally having enough of this, Tink quickly flew right in front of Peter, created a small ball of pixie dust in her hands, and threw it at his face, smashing it against his forehead.

At the impact, Peter suddenly stopped. His face was at ease for a moment.

"Tink!" Tink remembered Terence, who was still struggling to pull Peter above the ocean, which was now up to Peter's shoulders. Tink hurriedly took Peter's now wet top and, with great effort and strength, they both very slowly pulled Peter out and high above the ocean.

The two struggled to carry Peter's weight and were already getting tired of holding him up. Tink looked down at Peter and was distraught to see him now looking so miserable, tears rolling down his unmoving face. His eyes remained on the ruined ship as Terence and Tink began to pull him toward Neverland.

"She . . . She's really gone," Peter very weakly asked Tink.

Tink sadly nodded. "I'm so sorry, Peter."

Nothing else was said on their journey back to the now cheerless Neverland.