Neverland's Lovers ⇢ ♕Once Upon A Time

Chapter 5: Training To Win

Sophia's P.O.V.

I wake up in an unfamiliar bed and all of yesterday's events flowed into my mind. I left my father. I met Peter Pan. I am at the lost boy's camp. I am sleeping in Pan's bed. Oh gosh, where is Pan?

I look at the floor where Pan was sleeping last night. The blankets and pillows are there, but no Pan. I hear the tent flap open and struts in Pan.

"I see sleeping beauty finally is awake," he says while walking over to sit on the end of the bed. "Here" he says as he hands me a mug.

"What's this?" I ask, not wanting to get poisoned or anything.

"It's herbal tea. I thought you might want some." he says.

"Thank you." I say as I take a sip.

"Get up, we have a long day of training to do." he says as he stands up.

"Training?" I say getting out of bed to find my clothes from yesterday.

"Yes, and if you are going to be one of us, you need to dress like us," he says. " I got you some clothes, I don't know what you like so there is a variety." He sets down a pile of green and brown clothes. "Come on now get dressed." Pan walks out of the tent while saying, "You don't want to be late on your first day!"

I get up and look through the pile of clothes. I finally found a pair of dark green tight-fit pants and a black crop top t-shirt. I change quickly and check myself in the mirror. I put my wavy brown hair in a side fishtail braid. I walk out of the tent to see boys all with their weapons. There are crossbows to swords to throwing knives.

"Ready to go?" Pan asks behind me. I turn around to face him,

"Ready as I'll ever be," I say with a smile. He smiles back. Damn, his smile is so perfect. I really hope I'm not falling for him this quickly. How long have I know him? What, not even 24 hours? Oh god Sophia, keep yourself together.

"Alright boys, gather your weapons, let's go to training!" Pan shouts. All the boys holler and shout in excitement. Pan leads all of us down a trail that leads to another clearing. On all the trees there are targets hanging and targets painted on the trunks of the trees. In the center of the clearing, there are places for fist fighting and sword fighting. All of the boys run to their stations and start practicing.

I see Pan walking up to me from talking with James and Felix. "Okay Sophia, since today is your first day you are going to start off with the crossbow. Each day you will try something new, like tomorrow you will practice knife throwing and so on. Today you will be working with James. He will teach you how to shoot a crossbow."

I have never used a crossbow in my life, so this is going to be fun (not). My only fighting skills are fist fighting and sword fighting. Being a famous pirate's daughter, you tend to learn a few things. My father taught me how to handle a sword and how to fight. It was either that or do the crews laundry and trust me, you do not want to do a boat load of sweaty old men's laundry. So after a while of practicing, I got pretty good a both those skills. It would really help me because I always use to get int fight with other my age.

"Sophia? Are you ready?" I hear James say to me, snapping me out of my thoughts.

"Yeah, let's do this," I say trying to be positive. It's going to be a long day.

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I pulled the trigger back and, once again, the arrowed missed the target.

"Uhg! This thing just doesn't like me!" I say frustrated to James.

James chuckles,"You are just holding it wrong."

He came up behind he and put his hand on my arm, sending shivers down my arm. He put his other hand on mine that was holding the trigger. His touch made me so nervous, it gave me butterflies in my stomach. He whispers,"Shoot." I pushed down on the trigger and the arrow hit the bullseye.

"Oh my god! I hit the target, I hit it!" I jump up and down like a little kid.

"I told you you could do. I think your aim was just off," James says smiling at me. Oh gosh, not James smile too. His smile gives me a warm feeling inside, I just can't put my finger on it.

"Well, thank you for helping me with that. It really helped." I said smiling back.

"Alright boys, time to head back to camp. Good job today," Pan says across the clearing. All the boys start to pack up their weapons and start to walk back to camp. "Sophia, you did a really great job today with the cross bow." Pan says walking up to me.

"Oh, why thank you, but I only hit the tree once, and that was only help from James." I say shyly.

"Still, you did well for your first day," Pan says.

"Thank you," I say smiling.

When we get to camp, it's already getting dark, so the boys are making a bonfire and cooking dinner. I see the younger boys drawing in the dirt, so I walk over to them. As soon as they see me, there eyes light up and huge grins become plastered on their faces. "Hey guys. What ya up to?" I ask.

"Not much. We are just waiting for dinner," says Kyle.

"How much longer are you going to stay on Neverland with us?" Brodie asks.

"Um... I don't know. I hope a long time though." I say with a smile.

"Please don't ever leave us," Hunter says with almost tears in his eyes.

"Oh... Don't worry. I will never leave you guys," I say. They all come running toward me, so I get down on my knees and they all hug me. "I will never leave you," I say again. They all back away and Luke asks, "Will you eat dinner with us?"

"Of course!" I say.

"Dinners ready!" Felix shouts.

We all go over and get dinner. I sat and ate dinner with Luke, Hunter, Brodie, and Kyle. They were so funny and cute. After we finished dinner, they were all pretty tired, so I tucked them in to bed and then went to talk to Pan.

"Am I sleeping in your tent tonight?" I ask Pan.

"Yes you are. By tomorrow you will have your own tent," he says. We walk in to his tent and Pan says,"here is another shirt since I don't have any clothes for you yet," he says as he tosses me a dark brown, oversized shirt well oversized for me. I walk into the bathroom and change into the shirt. When I walk out again, Pan is shirtless, on his bed reading a book. Again, I can't help but stare.

"Sophia, it's not polite to stare," Pan says as he puts down his book and gets off the bed.

"Sorry," I say as my face turns bright red and I climb into the bed. "Goodnight Pan."

"Please call me Peter," He says.

"Goodnight Peter," I say before I drift off into sleep.

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