Warrior

Ready or Not

By the time the lost boys had returned with their choice of weapons, I had successfully made just the right amount of sacks filled with a good size vine, two rocks, berries of some sorts, and cloth. What the lost boys would use that stuff for was up to them.

“So how do we play?” One of the lost boys asked with a curious look on his face.

I grabbed a few of the sacks and started passing them around as I spoke.

“Well Im letting you guys all run and hide somewhere in the forest. Your job is to protect yourself from your other players and from the person who is it, which is me.”

“You all are being given some materials that you can use to your advantage. What you do with them is all up to you. You can hunt your enemies and get them out, or you can hide and hope that you don’t get caught.”

“The last one that has not been captured wins.” I replied as I finished handing the last sack to a brunette boy who took the sack with a greedy look.

“How do you know you have won?” another lost boy asked as I faced the group of boys. Before I could answer Pan stepped forward with a wooden whistle in his hands.

“Here, take it and use it as your way of signaling to the boys the game is over.” He asked as he placed the whistle in my hands. I looked at it suspiciously like it was poisoned or some sort of curse was cast on it.

Pan laughed. “No I did not curse it.”

I shrugged and turned back to the lost boys who now seemed to all look excited about the new game, well everyone except Felix.

“I will blow this whistle three times when it’s time to return to camp.” I replied to the lost boy.

“Oh and one more thing. You cannot kill in this game. Knowing Pans ways of training, I’m sure you guys are used to defending yourself to the death, but not in this game. You cannot kill your enemies you understand?” I asked as I stared down at the lost boys. They all nodded in agreement.

“Good. Now since this is your first game, I’m going to play it easy on you all. When you hear my whistle go off once, you have to be up in the trees at all times and cannot touch the ground. When I blow the whistle twice, you guys can go back down on the ground. Got it?” I asked.

The boys nodded, but I saw a few shift feet uncomfortably as if they were worried. Perfect.

“Well if that’s all the questions you had then I guess it’s time to start.” I asked as I turned away from the boys and walked toward the entrance to the forest. With my foot I traced a long line in the dirt.

“Everyone line up.” I called out. The lost boys followed orders immediately and positioned themselves to start running.

“On your mark

   Get set

   GO! GO! GO!” I yelled and the lost boys sprinted across the line and into the forest.

I turned around and found Pan hanging out by the tree off in the shade.

“You know, when I said I was going to train the lost boys, I also meant you.” I stated as I walked over to Pan.

“Well it’s too late now so I guess I’m going to be following you as you play.” He responded with a small smirk. I rolled my eyes and gave him a glare before agreeing to the plan.

After about five minutes I grabbed a Bow and a set of arrows from the rack and started toward the forest.

“Uh aren’t you forgetting something?” Pan asked from behind me.

“No nothing comes to mind” I replied as I kept walking. I then stopped short when Pan materialized in front of me.

“You forgot me!” He exclaimed with fake sadness dripping off his sentence. He even gave me a small pout that made me roll me eyes again.

“Rule number 1 Pan for you is no more magic during training.” I stated as I pushed him aside and entered the forest.

“No magic? Yeah right!” Pan muttered from behind me quietly.

“I heard that.” I replied with a small smirk.

We walked a short while longer until we reached a small clearing in the forest.

“You know you’re making this game really easy for the lost boys right now.” Pan stated as he walked around the clearing.

“You think I don’t know that Pan?” I replied as I glared back at Pan who returned a glare back to me in return.

Taking the whistle from my neck, I blew it once, clear and simple.

“You don’t have to call me Pan, you know.” Pan muttered as he sat down on one of the logs in the clearing.

“What would you want me to call you instead?” I asked, eyeing him as I spoke.

“Well I’m also called Peter here.” Pan replied with a quick smile.

“Ha! No thanks, Pan suits you much better then Peter.” I replied.

“Now come on, we got some hunting to do.” I stated as I grabbed Pan by the arm and put him to his feet.

It took Pan a moment to get over the fact that I had just touched him, but when he did he gave me a sarcastic look.

“Hunting? We are going to have to walk a few miles before we reach any of the lost boys.” He replied.

I shrugged. “You wanna bet?” I asked as I grabbed an arrow from my set and placed it in the bow.

“What are you doing?” Pan asked as he pointed toward my bow as I loaded it.

“Why, hunting lost boys of course.” I replied as I lifted my bow and let the arrow fly, making it land a few feet above an old oak tree that circled the clearing.

When the arrow hit the tree, a lost boy jumped out from one of the branches, and by the looks of it, got his leg stuck in another tree branch, making him trip and fall down out of the tree and land on the ground close to Pans feet.

CRUNCH

Pan looked down at the lost boy who was in too much pain to move and sighed.

“You know where all the lost boys are right now don’t you?” Pan asked as he looked up at me.

I smiled.

“Of course I do.”

Hello Everybody!!

So here is another update for you all. I hope you enjoy it :) I've posted it earlier this week because Im going to be busy all this weekend thanks to the play I am in.

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