Chapter 4: Meeting Henry and Sword Fighting

Back to Sam's POV

Roland and I decided to walk around the island to explore.

The good thing about having no adults around was that they didn't tell you what to do- and that they were constantly around you, hovering.

It was just us two kids."

It has been three days now since Roland and I came to Neverland and we have been living alone.

I had to be a mother figure to Roland- but we were just kids."

Roland told me that he was scared when the shadow took him to Neverland." I got a vision of him as I went into his head.

He was right, the shadow was scary, and it was black- I frowned when I saw Henry.

His scary memory kept replaying in my mind"

I had to find Emmy and tell her."

She'll want to know, as this was important news."

We kept on walking until we came to a hollow in a tree.

Henry came out of it.

He was surprised to see me. "Sammy, how did you get here in Neverland?"

I held Roland close to me and Henry's eyes went wide.

"That's the lost boy that I saw when the shadow brought him from somewhere," Henry said."

"The scary shadow took me from my daddy," Roland cried and I hugged him, drawing him to me.

Henry looked confused at my protectiveness so I projected my memory of imprinting on Roland and Henry stared at me in amazement.

"I guess Roland is a member of our family now," Henry said."

"I can feel Emmy's essence on the island. "She's not far away." "She'll be able to feel mine too."

"I hope she won't be too angry at me. "I disobeyed mummy, daddy and Emmy."

Henry looked at me. "Wow- that's incredible." "You turned into a wolf and imprinted."

"Yep, I'm a shape- shifter and have been since 19, this year" "I had a lot of mood swings and I grew.

"No kidding, you're getting tall," Henry said."

Henry looked at me. "Do you want to sword fight."

"Sure," I said, grabbing a stick. He did the same.

We anticipated each other's movements, before starting to fight. Roland giggled and clapped his hands. He was invisible so that no one else on the island could see him. We were invisible too."

I closed my eyes and envisioned myself holding a real sword and I opened my eyes to see a real sword in my hands.

"You're probably wondering how can a five year old hold a sword, well Sam's a shape- shifter so she has the strength to hold a sword."

I looked at Henry and Henry got the message and closed his eyes and seconds later, he was holding a real sword too.

It was the first time for me, as I've never held a real sword before. I read Henry's mind. This was his second time- he had a duel with Devon, and Henry won.

I was proud of him.

We stood with our knees bent.

"Hah- Yah!" I said, moving my sword towards Henry.

Instinctively, he moved his blade to block mine. I swung mine, using my shape- shifter strength to hit his sword, causing Henry to fall on the ground. I put my blade on his chest.

"Cheater," he said, knocking my blade out of the way and getting up. "Your using your shape- shifter strength."

We battled back and forth, clinking swords in front of us, and when he brought his blade up, I rolled out of the way before getting back up again. I swung my blade and parried the blow by holding my sword vertically.

I thrust at Henry with my sword, blocking his blow.

Sword fighting runs in our blood," I said, proudly.

Henry swung his sword up, but it didn't catch me off guard- I was ready. I lifted my sword up quickly, knocking the sword out of Henry's hands.

Henry grabbed it from the ground and bent his knees again in the starting position, ready to fight.

I did the same and we started again. I kept my body balanced and lunched at him with my sword, hitting it against Henry's blade so hard that his sword fell to the side, again.

"No more Mr. nice guy," Henry said."

We went again, and this time, Henry was faster and quicker." "I think I taught him to go fast on you're opponent."

Henry drew his sword towards me, and we ducked and dodged each other with skill and ease and blocked each other."

Daddy and Neal taught us well."

We deflected each other's forward swings. We advanced on each other and the crash of the swords was heard as we advanced on each other.

We dodged and fought each other, finally drawing it to an end an hour later when my blow made Henry and his sword fall to the ground."

"I just can't win, can I?" Henry asked.

"No," was my reply.

"Sammy, take Roland, you two have to leave now. "I mean it! This is the little boy everyone was talking about.

"Pan will stop at nothing to take him away from you.

"Go now!"

One last look at Henry and I jumped into the air, phasing.

I bent down and on my knees and Roland got on. Then I ran through the bushes until we got back to our camp."

Then we fell asleep. We were tired."