Second Star To The Right

Chapter 5

Peter, Penny, Wendy, John and Michael were lying down on a cloud in Neverland. The clouds were pink and fluffy and bouncy. Peter was looking through a hand held telescope watching the crew on the Jolly Rodger. Peter passed it to Wendy who had a look too before passing it to John who looked at the crew. 

"Noodler, with his hands on backwards!" John exclaimed as he spotted the pirate. "Bill Jukes! Every inch of him tattooed!" He then gaped. "Hook!" He exclaimed as he spotted the pirate captain.

"Let's take a closer look." Penny said before jumping on the clouds and landing on one. Peter and the Darling children followed.

John and Michael somehow slipped and were now hanging off the cloud. 

"Help! Help!" They yelled as they were fired at.

"Tink, find Wendy. Leave the rest to me!" Peter said as he flew off towards the ship. 

Penny on the other hand secretly followed Tink and Wendy.

"What is it?" The Lost Boys shouted. 

"It's a large white bird." One said. 

"Quite ugly too. No!" Another exclaimed.

"Give me it! When Peter's away, I'm in charge! I get to look through the telescope. It's coming closer." One of the boys, Slightly, said to the others. Tink then flew in front of him. "My God, I've gone blind!" He dropped the telescope and closed his eyes and was now walking around blindly. "I'm blind. I've gone blind. I'm blind." He kept saying.

"Hello, Tink. Where's Peter?" Nibs asked. 

"Hello, Tink." The twins said. 

"She's blinded me!" Slightly shouted as he continued to stumble around.

"Hello, Tink." Cubby said. 

"Hello Tink. Any more news of Cinderella?" Tootles asked. Tinkerbell nodded and whispered in his ear. 

Now, Tinkerbell was not all bad. Sometimes she was all good. But fairies are so small they only have room for one feeling at a time.

"Tink says the bird's called a... "Wendy" and Peter wants us to..." Tootles trailed off. 

The other lost boys waited. 

"Shoot it down!" Tootles exclaimed. 

"Well we have our orders. Shoot the Wendy bird." Slightly exclaimed.

"Aye, aye!" The other boys said. 

Tootles got out his bow and arrows and got ready.

"Ready? Aim! Fire!" Slightly shouted. 

Tootles released the arrow and hit Wendy and shot her down. "I got it. I got it!" He shouted happily. 

The other boys crowded around Wendy.

"That is no bird." Slightly gasped. 

"It is a lady." Cubby stated.

"And Tootles... Tootles has killed her." Penny said from behind them. They all jumped and spun around.

"Ha! I'm back!" Peter shouted as he flew down to them. "Great news. Penny and I know what happened to Cinderella. She defeated the pirates. There was stabbing, slicing, torturing, bleeding... and they lived happily ever after."

"Well, that's a relief, I must say." Slightly told him as the other boys nodded.

"Greater news! We have brought you she that told of Cinderella. She is to tell us stories! She is..." Peter trailed off as the boys stepped aside to reveal Wendy. 

"Dead." Penny told him.

"Tragic." Slightly sighed bowing his head. 

"Awful." The twins added. 

"Good, shot though." Nibs piped up. 

"Whose arrow?" Peter asked looking at them all. 

"Mine, Peter." Tootles admitted. "Strike, Peter. Strike true." He then closed his eyes and pulled down his shirt. 

Peter held up the arrow ready to strike when...

"The Wendy lives!" Cubby told them. 

Peter quickly looked at Wendy. 

"It's my kiss." Peter said as he revealed his acorn to them. "My kiss saved her." 

"I remember kiss." Slightly piped up. "Let me see it." He then took the acorn and examined it. "Aye, that is a kiss. A powerful thing." He then put the acorn back onto Wendy's chest.

"Let us carry her down to the house." Nibs suggested. 

"Hands." Penny ordered to which the lost boys showed her their hands. 

"They're a bit dirty." Tootles stated. 

"She must stay here and die." Slightly exclaimed. 

"No!" Peter and Penny shouted.

"Oh, how could I have thought that? Stupid. Sorry." Slightly replied.

"We shall build a house around her." Peter told them. 

"With a chimney! And a door knocker! And windows!" The boys shouted before they ran off. The twins ran back over to Peter and whispered "Tink did it." They then ran off again.

"Tinkerbell? Oh, Tinkerbell?" Peter asked.

The lost boys built the house and asked Wendy to be their mother to which she gladly accepted.