Peter Pan & The Shadow

Chapter 13.

Peter was sitting beneath a tree, eyes upon the ground when he heard the sound of small bells. He smiled, that was the sound of a fairies wings. It was Tinkerbell.

"Hey Tink." He said and looked up, in the moment his eyes landed upon the fairy, her feet met the ground. She was wearing all green, but it wasn't her bright green dress, but a darker green. She had been through tough times, just as any being in Neverland. She wore faded-gold chest armor over her chest and back. "Back in the armor?"

"It's Neverland." She said coldly and eyed the shadows.

Peter huffed and let his gaze fall to the strand of grass he was twirling between his fingers, his slim eyebrows slid closer together as he frowned. "You've been gone for a long time." He said finally.
"I'm surprised I'm back, Peter." She said and let her round blue eyes settle upon him. "Us who wish for your well-being aren't safe here anymore."

Peter grimaced; looking pained and his gaze landed upon the mountain behind the trees. "It'll change."

Tinkerbell had a look of disbelief on her face. "Oh it will? And how can you be so sure?" Then she shifted her weight from one foot to the other, reading Peter's expression. "Something big happened while I was gone?"

"You could say that." Peter said, wearing a smug smile as he pushed himself up and got on his feet.
Tinkerbell narrowed her eyes. "It's something I'll greatly dislike I sense."

"Feel my heart." Peter said and opened his arms to bare his torso to her. Tinkerbell looked rather alarmed by this action. She looked like she wanted to come with a snarky comment, but instead she stepped forward and hesitatingly reached out to place a palm over Peter's heart. A golden pulse appeared in her hand and surged through her arm and into her chest and suddenly she was illuminated by gold for a short moment.

"True love?" She gasped. "Where? How? She was gone?"

Peter grimaced as if the word Tinkerbell had literally slapped him across the face. "She's not... She's back."

Tinkerbell gawped at him. "She's... back!?"

Fox was sitting by the fire-place beside Felix and Slightly. Felix mindlessly poked the wood swallowed by the flames with a stick, and Slightly ran a hand over his butch cut hair and gazed into the flames. Fox was thinking hard, the memory of his past was slipping away from him. He couldn't understand that, when the Darkness took over Neverland his memories came back crystal clear, but now they were all foggy. This meant that the lot of them would become free from worries from their past lives. Which was a thing Neverland did to them, but why was it beginning to do that again? What had changed? Was it Y/N?

Peter came running into the glade with a bright grin. "Felix it's your turn to take over."

Felix looked up with widened eyes. "Please no." He pleaded but Pan had already run off and Fox turned around to see why he had left only to see Tinkerbell stomp into the glade.

"WHAT DOES HE MEAN THAT SHE'S BACK?!" She shrieked and Slightly covered his ears while Fox nearly fell off his log.

Felix just grinned at her. "Shit happens." He shrugged.

"Okay this was a bad idea." Youmuttered as you looked into a dark cave, a blast of wind soared through it andblew everyone's hair out of their faces, and you squinted not liking thedarkness. "So how will it go down?" You asked and turned to look at Tiger Lily.

"You will bring a torch along. Thereare 4 exits of this cave. It's called the Howling Cave, because somehow there'sa lot of wind inside of it, and it sounds like cries and howls. Inside themountain you'll meet a round cave with two paths, one were the wind isstrongest and one were lava and fire rages. You'll have to choose one of themand make it through."

"I could die!" You gasp and Johnchuckled childishly.

"I made it through it. There are twomore paths you can choose, one with water, which means you'll have to swim anddive, and one with earth, I didn't go through there, what's in there?"

"Rolling hills, you'll have to be ableto find the path others have taken in the earth and you'll have to know whereto put your feet and which ground to trust, because it's tricky.' Tiger Lilysaid, rubbing her chin thinking hard. "I had to go through all."

"ALL?" You exclaimed.

Cal chuckled. "I went through the fire tunnel."

"Peter flew up and out of the very topof the mountain." Tiger Lily recalled and you felt something in your stomachclench painfully.

"Well, doesn't that mean he failed thetest?"

Tiger Lily shook her head. "No, there are dangers above as well, a fog createdby the clouds that make it impossible to see and the sharp edges of the wallscould seriously hurt you. He said he saw a golden trail lead him out. His heartled him up and out of the cave."

You faked gagging and rolled your eyes. "My heart would lead me through therock man, it's rock hard."

Everyone laughed. You couldn't help but chuckle as well, and then you grabbed atorch and went into the howling cave, into the middle of a mountain. Not thetallest one of them, in that was the Echo Cave. Darkness surrounded you andsuddenly you were alone with the only comfort of the burning torch. In thatmoment you couldn't help but wish your heart would lead you through as well.

A/N: I am so sorry for the long wait, I went through a writer's block with this story, didn't really know what to do with the test but I figured it out. What cave do you want to choose? It is after all you who are going through it. <3

I'll wait with the next chapter to see what you guys choose! <3