OKAY, BEFORE YOU ALL KILL ME, LET ME EXPLAIN WHY I HAVEN'T UPLOADED IN FOREVER: SCHOOL.

I HAD SO MUCH STUFF TO DO URGHH! WELL, I'M TAKING A BREAK FROM IT NOW FOR A WEEK SO I'LL UPLOAD MORE! I'M HONESTLY SO SO SORRY, I WAS ALSO LACKING INSPIRATION LATELY... BUT IT'S BAACK! YAY.

I REALLY HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS CHAPTER :)

Chapter 12: Skull Rock

"How exactly are we going to kill this thing?" I didn't mean for my voice to come out this squeaky, but I couldn't help it.

"That's what," he pulled out his sword, "this is for."

I glared at him. "Please tell me your joking. There is a gigantic squid in front of us and you plan to kill it with a sword." I couldn't hide the sarcasm in my voice if I wanted to.

My father rolled his eyes. "Faith, Mya." He ran towards the squid, splashing into the water, and tried to attack it with his sword, but the sea creature was faster, or bigger, and it flung my father away with a flick of a tentacle. He fell on his back on the dry sand. I restrained myself from saying 'I told you so' since the squid was getting angry... I could tell… somehow. I ran to my father and helped him up.

"Now what?" I asked impatiently. The sea creature was reaching its tentacles out towards us, I moved just in time for it to miss me. My father picked up his sword once more. Apparently the first blow wasn't enough for him. "Dad-" I called after him but it was too late; he dashed towards the squid and attempted to throw the sword at it.

The sword flew in the air and slightly missed the squid. I cursed under my breath. My father was excellent at a hand to hand fight, but when it came to aim… well.

My eyes widened as I saw the squid's tentacles were about to grab hold around his legs, I cried at him to move but... but they stopped. It stopped. Like, completely… frozen.

My father turned around. "Tinkerbelle."

I frowned in confusion and followed my father's gaze to see a young woman dressed in weird green clothes, her hand was still up. She was the one who stopped the squid, I mentally realized.

The girl let her arm drop by her side. "I leave you alone for barely a couple of days and look at the trouble you're in." She shook her head in disapproval, but she was smiling widely at him.

"...Am I missing something?" I inquired. They obviously knew each other.

"Is this your daughter?" She asked. Great, so she knows me too.

My father nodded and then turned to me. "Mya, this is Tinkerbelle." He introduced us. "She's a fairy." Ah, that explained the whole 'freezing the squid' thing.

"Um, hi." I waved awkwardly.

"Hello." Tinkerbelle greeted me. "So," she glanced at my father. "Why were you about to be eaten by a squid?" Good question.

"We were trying to get its ink. I heard it can paralyze any magical being for a long period of time." My father explained.

"And who- oh." She caught on. "Pan."

"Yes. We were hoping it would buy us enough time to escape the island."

"And how are you planning to do that?" Tink asked, curiously. Another good question.

"We're still working on that."

"In other words, we have absolutely no idea." I corrected.

"Then you must have a death wish." She said. "If Pan finds out he'll kill you both."

"Well... that's encouraging." I commented.

"We just want to leave. We spent enough time on this hellish island." My father spat.

Tink nodded. "Alright. I might be able to help you."

"Really?" I piped up.

"You claimed you didn't have magic." My father raised his eyebrows, then glanced at the frozen squid and back at her. "You were obviously lying."

"I told you there was pixie dust on the highest trees in Neverland. I managed to get there and take some." She informed him. "Enough to take you back to the Enchanted Forest."

"...And freeze squids." I added.

"About that," my father reached towards the squid and opened a small container in he kept in his pocket. "I might as well take this opportunity to get the ink."

I nodded at him to continue and sat on the sand. Tinkerbelle soon joined me.

"How was your stay in Neverland?" She asked politely, but she already knew the answer.

I shuddered at the thought of my last days here before my father found me. "Horrifying."

She laughed. "Pan will do that."

"Do you know him?" I asked, then corrected myself, "well, I mean."

"Not really." Tink told me, "he lived here long before I came. And when I did he let me stay, as long as I didn't interfere with his 'work'." She spoke the last word sarcastically. I think I knew what she meant by that.

I frowned. "Why did you come here?"

"I had nowhere else to go. I was… lost." She stared into the horizon, as if she were recalling past events.

"A lost girl..." I realized.

Tink turned to look at me. "Yes." She paused for a moment. "Just like you."

I was taken aback by this comment. "What? No- No, I'm not." I protested immediately.

"You are. I see it in your eyes." She said gently. "I've encountered many lost boys, they all have that same look in their eyes."

I suddenly felt an urge to hide my eyes. "I don't want to be." I wined stupidly, but it was the only thing that I thought of saying.

"No one chooses to be lost. Either you are or you're not." She shrugged.

"So Peter was right? I belong here?" I asked her, confused. I didn't even know why I was asking a complete stranger this. I just felt like I could trust her. She was a fairy, after all.

"Only you can know that. When you belong somewhere… you can feel it."

I thought about it for a moment. Did I feel like I belonged here? Not coming to a conclusion, I was about to ask her if she felt like she belonged here, but before I could open my mouth I was interrupted by my father.

"Done." He exclaimed, holding up the squid ink in the small container.

I stood up along with Tinkerbelle. "Let's do it." I told him, pulling my sword out. I felt good to hold it. It was like a part of my mother was with me.

…And now that part was about to be drowned in poison.

My father opened the container and spilled the liquid onto my sword, covering it completely. I placed it back in my belt making sure not to touch the poisoned end, even though I knew it wouldn't affect me in any way. It was purely precaution. And slight disgust.

"Now what?" I asked.

"Now we get the pixie dust to get us back home." My father stated.

"Shouldn't we take care of Peter first?" I suggested reasonably.

"We need to be prepared before that. So we get the dust first."

"But then Peter will find out what we're doing. And then we're screwed." I argued.

"The pixie dust is in my tree house. It might take a while to get there." Tink pointed out.

"Exactly. And Pan will never know." He assured me.

"Actually he will."

I swung around and instinctively pulled out my weapon at the sound of his voice. His annoying, cocky voice.

I glanced around to see I wasn't the only one. My father had pulled out his sword too, and Tink had a dagger in her hand.

"Well, it's nice to see you all again as well." He commented sarcastically, feigning to be hurt by our reaction at his presence. He walked towards us calmly, ignoring the weapons pointed at him. "I knew you'd be back." He smirked at me, inches away from the tip of my poisoned sword.

I was about to go for it and poison his ass off when I noticed the lost boys coming forth from the forest. Damn it. Even if I managed to paralyze him, how could we escape all these boys? I slowly lowered my sword. My father and Tink did the same.

"What do you want Pan?" My father demanded.

"What I've always wanted." Peter replied, as if it was obvious and my father had asked the dumbest question of all time.

"No." He snarled. "You're not taking her." Her? Oh... Crap. It was me Peter wanted, wasn't it?

"Oh but I am. And I'd love to see you try and stop me." Peter grinned, grabbing my arm. I struggled away from him but he pulled me closer, tightening his grip.

I watched the lost boys circle around my father and Tinkerbelle as Peter dragged me away into the forest. I glanced at my dad one more time. "I can do this." I mouthed to him. He nodded and smiled weakly at me. I tried to keep my gaze fixed on him until the enclosing trees caused him to vanish from my sight.

"What are you going to do to them?" I inquired.

"Don't you worry, no harm will come to them." He was still grinning. That wasn't a good sign.

"Oh, just like Felix didn't come to any harm?" I mocked, shuddering at the thought of Felix's slashed face.

He stopped walking and turned to face me. "He tried to kill you."

"I'm aware of that."

"So why do you care what happens to him?" He stared at me curiously.

"I shouldn't. But you should." I declared. "He's your friend, isn't he?"

"He's one of my lost boys." Peter corrected. "I don't have friends."

"Well that's depressing…" He glared at me as soon as I said that. Must have touched a nerve. "Why are you so obsessed with making me a lost girl?" I asked, finally.

"I'm not." He replied, simply. As if that wasn't confusing.

"But you-" I started to complain when he interrupted me.

"I made you think that I wanted you to be a lost girl. Truth is, that was never my intention."

"…So what was?" I asked unsteadily. His wicked grin was scaring me.

But before he could answer… "Pan!" A familiar voice called out.

I quickly turned around to see Felix standing there, spear in hand. I grimaced. His cut had turned into a think scar. That looked permanent…

"What is it, Felix?" Peter replied, bored and annoyed.

"The shadow hasn't returned yet." He spoke quietly. Shadow? What the hell was he talking about?

"What's going on here?" I asked.

They both ignored me. Typical.

"Then we'll just have to do this without confirmation." Peter announced.

"What if you're wrong?" Felix doubted. "We could wait-"

"I waited long enough!" Peter shouted at the lost boy, who took a step back instinctively.

"Still here." I waved my arm, trying to make my presence note. "And still have no idea what's going on."

Peter turned to me. "Let's go. We have work to do."

As he dragged me further into the forest, away from Felix, I recalled what Peter meant by 'work'.

I was so screwed.

SO, TINK/MYA BONDING THERE.. AND EVIL PETER :3

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