Cherry and Peter vs Hook

chapter 5

Hook donned himself with his hat and stood before his pirate brethren. "Well, my stupid, sorry, parasitic sacks of entrails. Revenge is mine."

The pirates laughed and cheered while Cherry and Peter stood there, trying to be conspicuous and not obvious as they blended in.

"Long live the Hook!" one pirate cheered.

Hook smiled that he was praised by the others. "I baited that hook and now I'm very proud to announce we have their children."

"My, God..." Peter muttered, feeling horrified for his childrens' lives. "Jack and Maggie..."

"Long live the Hook! Long live the hook!" the pirates cheered, not noticing Peter's shock and horror.

"Finally, I'm going to kill Peter Pan and that little friend Cherry of his, that cocky boy who cut off my hand and fed it to the crocodile!" Hook proclaimed. "Who killed that cunning crocodile?"

"Hook!" the pirates answered with a cheer.

"Who stuffed him?"

"Hook!"

"Who made him into a clock?"

"Hook!"

"Who stole Pan's and Cherry's children?"

"Hook!"

"And who didn't believe I could do it?" Hook asked, twisting the rhyme scheme of the chanting from his loyal crew members who were also his fans.

Suddenly the crew grew silent as his voice grew low and serious.

"Who doubted me?" Hook continued his questions. "Who amongst us does not belong? Someone here does not belong. Stranger amongst the loyal, I will weed you out."

Peter looked nervous, but Cherry remained looking stoic and serious as she almost always was ever since she became immortal. It was as if ever since Forte bit her, his old ways dissolved into her to make her just as cold and sadistic as he once was before he saw her again after the Enchanted Christmas.

"You!" Hook pointed to a random spot in the crowd.

Several pirates weren't sure who he was talking to. They all put their hands on themselves to see if they were being spoken to and called out.

Hook sneered and repeated himself. "You!" he walked down the steps and came back up suddenly, feeling insulted. "Where's the carpet, Smee?"

"Oh, sorry, sir," Smee sounded nervous. He then clicked his foot down on the steps, making royal red carpet appear for Hook's pleasure of basically being a celebrity.

"You!" Hook echoed himself once more, coming down the steps and walking toward the crowd. "You!" He came to see Peter and Cherry in disguise, but focused on a man with a bushy gray beard, not noticing that they were actually the ones who weren't among the crew. "You bet against me bringing Pan and Butler back here, didn't you?"

"No." the man said, lowly.

"Tell your captain the truth." Hook demanded, nearly slimy smiling.

The man grew afraid and squeezed his eyes shut, feeling ashamed and scared.

"Oh, say it, say it." Hook demanded.

The man sniffled and nodded. "I did..."

"Yes, you made a boo-boo," Hook taunted. "The boo box!"

"Not the boo box!" the man cried as he was taken away.

"What's the boo box?" Peter whispered to Cherry.