She yelped sharply as she twist around and fell on her knees. Grasped her arm, she felt the arrow sticking out the back of arm between her fingers and she began to bleed a lot and her warm blood ran down to her hand.

"Rufio?" Twin blurted.

"I know!" Rufio was already crouching down beside Mara, he grabbed her arm, took a quick look at it as she gasped in pain. "A lot of blood, the arrow must've hit the artery, if I pull the arrow out, you're going to bleed loads, you'll lose a lot, you'll fall into unconsciousness or die if I don't stop the bleeding quickly"

"Do what you think you must do" She winced.

"The boy is gone" Twin said, "He ran off. What do you think is gonna happen?"

"That doesn't matter for now" Rufio stood up, "We need Pan, we need to get her back to the camp because the med stuff are back in my tent"

Just within seconds, Pan's voice rang behind Mara, "What's going on?"

"Some lil savage kid shot her" Twin replied quickly.

"It appeared that it was an accident" Rufio corrected, "It was Niibin, he was trying to shoot the deer but it moved and the arrow landed on her. It was accident!"

Mara had a hard time to think and tried to recall what happened. All she wanted was for someone to help her, take the arrow out, stop the bleeding and be done.

"You need to take us back to the camp so I can tend the wound" Rufio demanded.

Not right away Pan responded, he took the three to the camp and were there in a second. Rufio helped Mara to get to his tent while Pan and Twin stayed outside to talk.

In the tent, Mara was on a table while Rufio was making around the tent, checking little drawers on the shelves and finding one thing in each shelf he needed. He pulled out some sort of a cutter, "Okay, I'm going to cut the arrow in half, from the back, I'm going to pull the arrow forward until the back in your arm. I can't pull it out now, because it's a risk of you bleeding out" Mara could barely understand the boy, her arm was in pain, so she just nodded in agreement. "Okay, it's going to hurt, you know. Of course, you know"

The boy moved behind her, first he cut off the sleeve up near the shoulder, to get the wound more exposed and see it better.

"This is going to sting" he had the cutter biting on the arrow and Mara could feel it moving. It hurt even when it was only the slightest. The arrow was trembling making the arrow hurting her arm more before there was a sudden thick snap and the arrow had been cut in half. "Now, I'm going to pull the arrow frontward a little"

She just nodded again, she grasped onto the edge of the table just by her elbows. Rufio had his hand on her arm and another gripping on the arrow and prepare to pull. Mara breathed in deeply and held it in.

Then there was a slow, burning, pain as the arrow was slowly being pulled forward and it was just couple inches forward. She could feel the air in the back of her wound sneaking into her flesh. "I'm going to stitch the back now"

Something strange begin to happen to Mara, she wasn't sure if she was fainting, the world was spinning slowly, the ground was slowly going down, the hammocks, the tables and shelves were moving away frontward. Like the tent was growing larger. Rufio was already stitching the wound and all she felt was a slight sting and ache. "There's something... wrong" Mara's head was titling, she looked down and it looked like she was twenty feet up from the ground and the dirt on the ground was moving. Like there was thousands and thousands of dirt bugs swarming down there. "Something's wrong" she said it fast this time, "something's not right"

"Oh no" Rufio murmured, he paused for a moment before calling out "Pan!"

Just seconds later, it wasn't Pan who came in but rather Twin, "Pan's gone to find James and they'll be going to see the natives, he won't be back until later" the boy's voice was echoing into her ears.

"But she's--" Rufio paused, she could hear him, she was able to hear his whispering to Twin "--I think the arrow was poison"

"What?" Twin hushed.

"What?!" Mara blurted as she shifted her head and gazed over shoulder. "I'm going to die?!"

"No!" Both boys exclaimed, Rufio proceeded the stitching, "it's a complicated poison, it's not a death type, but it's a nasty one. You're going to see a lot of strange things, Turner. But whatever you see, whoever you see, it's not real, okay? Remember that, remember that no matter what you think is real, it's not. You'll be passing out most of the time but you'll still need to be watched over in case you hurt yourself...or worse, hurt yourself to death"

When he finished stitching the back wound, the front was next, he had to pull the arrow out before stitching and he explained he had to stitch it quickly. But after he pulled the arrow out, the world blackened around her, fell off the table, it felt she was falling for so long and felt she faded out of the world before hitting the ground.

It was all black for the longest time like she had fallen into an abyss. She was emotionless, she felt nothing, no pain, just nothing in the abyss.

Then she opened her eyes, seeing the night skies, there was something glowing of color orange nearly, she smelled smoke, burnt trees and ashes falling like snow everywhere. She stood up, screams were heard in the distance, there was a three loud booms ahead like something exploded. She was on a shore, she was staring at the woods, in the forest there was fire, like the world was on fire. It took her a long moment to realize it was Neverland all in flames, those screams she was hearing could the Lost Boys. Something happened here, something terrible, like a massive battle happened.

Then there was a roar of men shouting on her right side, and far ahead was few dozens of pirates changing toward her, shouting like war cries and they had swords raised. One of them she recognized was Killian Jones, Mara only took a few steps back before she tripped and fell back. Finding herself on the ground and looking at the bodies lying around her; Tootles, Curly, Slightly, Felix, Ace, the Twins, Rufio, all the Lost Boys, even James and Pan, himself.

Behind her was a man, all she saw was a silhouette of a man who had a pirate shape figure as he raised his sword and swung at her.

She tried to scream but only to be fallen into blackness again. Back into the abyss. Like before, it stayed like that for a long time before something appears or wakes up.

This time, she was in a different place, she found herself standing in the middle of a battle field, a large wide open field. The sky looked like it was late evening. There was battle cries behind her and also a monstrous roar was heard within those battle sounds. She turned around to see a battle happening between men and giant monsters. Those monsters were ogres. She was unseen this time as the battle grew and it was now around her.

Men being crushed, picked up, thrown and kicked away as she looked in her every direction. As she was glancing around for few moments before she saw someone familiar ahead.

A man of wearing armour and soldier garbs. Hair of light brown as he was fighting an ogre alone. This man was easily defeated when the giant creature kicked and thrown the man away. "Father!" Mara screamed. Her father barely moved as the creature walked up to him and just seconds before her father got crushed to death, she screamed "NOOO!" endlessly as she sprinted forward but only had taken few steps forward before the ground fell into the abyss and along with her.

There was something that caught her, she felt something holding her, or someone. Grasping around her waists and she couldn't see who. She felt like she was flying and carried. She had fallen into seemingly unconsciousness and before everything faded, she saw a face, a barely blurred face of Peter Pan looking down at her.

Everything that she had seen kept happening over and over, it all became seemingly real when a knight slashed her arm, a creatures clawing her face, trees became alive and grabbed her into the ground and everything always faded back to black.

When she woke up again, she couldn't tell if it was real or not. She even forgotten what she was told that everything she sees is not real. She was in a tent, lying on small bed and someone was sitting on her bedside.

This is also not real, she told herself.

The boy turned, looking at her, saw her waking and it was James. He smiled and gave a big sigh of relief. "You're awake"

That smile he gave her, she loved to see, his smile suited him so beautifully. She turned her head, watched her hand reaching slowly for his hand. She sat up slowly, met James's eyes, she told herself it wasn't real like everything she had seen, he wouldn't look at her this way, he wouldn't smile for her like that but here, he was. In this moment she wanted him, she reached for his cheek, and she leaned closely to him.

"Mara?" He was confused.

She didn't say anything, only to respond by kissing him. It took James a few seconds to kiss back as if he couldn't help it. To Mara, it felt...finally. There was a strange but beautiful feeling she had while kissing him, she loved how he kissed her back, she loved how his hand is buried in her hair and the other between her cheek and neck.

It was one of the best moments she had in her life.

It was her who broke the kiss, she had her head lowered, her eyes still closed and her forehead on his. She then whispered "I know this isn't real" that's when everything turned black once again.

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Hmmmm.... what do you think? Was kissing James real or no? Was she actually awake?

Stay weird, everyone ^_^