✔️| [2] Straight On 'Til Morning

☆ Chapter 20 ☆

Friendly tip when dealing with cannons: stand back as your chemistry loving friend lights one of the bad boys up. you'll either get thrown backwards or become deaf.

(Fortunately, I didn't become deaf. Just flung to the other side of the ship.)

Honey Lemon helps me up almost immediately, "Dios Mío! I'm so so sorry Valerie! Are you-"

I cut her off, "I'm fine but look!"

I point towards where we had originally come within the forest, where chaos is unfolding there and I smile, "They took the bait. They're coming back."

"Good thing we came just in time."

I look up to see Baymax landing with Fred, Tadashi and Hiro on his back, a cheerful Peter Pan right next to them.

I scoff, "We were doing just fine without you boys."

Hiro raises an eyebrow at me, "You sure? I mean, you did almost get impaled."

I glance at the pirate who had tried to attack us after our call had ending, now unconscious on the deck.

I just shake my head, "Keyword: almost."

Hiro rolls his eyes at him while Peter lets out a quiet chuckle at my humour, to which I nod approvingly at.

"Alright. Peter, have any of the Lost Boys given you-"

I'm cut off by the overwhelming sound of different animals calls. Some seem far while others seem close.

"Nevermind."

"Hook's close by then. Should we let Lily, Wasabi and Gogo make their way back to us? They are guarding the pot."

I nod, "Yeah. Let Baymax pick them up. It's safer."

Hiro nods in agreement before climbing onto Baymax's back and flying of to grab our trio.

I sigh, glancing at the Captain's Door, looking to Honey Lemon for support as I tilt my head in that direction. She glances behind her, as if to make sure I was really talking about her. I nod and urge her to hurry, which she does in an instant.

I stare at the door before grabbing the handle and slowly turning the knob, causing the door to open just as slow. I peak my head in, only seeing darkness. I go in fully and pull Honey Lemon with me, who looks around with wide eyes.

"I can't see anything." She whispers softly but I don't reply, for my eyes have landed on a lantern with a couple of matches beside it. I push up my glasses nervously before lighting the match and placing the flame inside the lantern. The room is lit up just a bit, good enough for the two of us to look around.

"There's a couple more lamps over there." Honey Lemon points out to me and grabs the couple of matches we have left, "I'll light them up for us to see better."

"Sounds good Honey Lemon."

She goes to light up the lamps but me being me, I can't help but look around at everything. From the times Lily would watch Peter Pan as a baby, Hook's quarters looked just like how it was in the movie as well as a few things I don't remember being in the movie to begin with. It was filled with maps in which he was trying to find Peter Pan's secret hideout, clothes just casually lying about, swords lying against a corner wall and papers with messy handwriting scattered all across the floor and desk as well as letters.

Letters that seemed newly send due to the neat condition they were in.

I furrow my eyebrows as I stare at one of the envelopes on his desk. It had no send address, so Hook didn't seem to know who was sending these. But by the looks of amount of opened envelopes, he kept replying anyways.