Peter Pan (Adaptation)

A Story by Abishai100

An imaginative intelligence-man named 'Peter Pan' must use wits and creativity to rescue two maidens caught in the dark world of blood.

A very different kind of adaptation of JM Barrie's classic story of Peter Pan. Enjoy,

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The world was dark, because there was too much intrigue, with capitalism and terrorism and piracy and betrayals! Well, in such a world, there was an idealist hero who went by the name of Peter Pan. Peter worked to undermine terrorism-financing blood-diamonds which were corrupting work between Sinn Fein and Parliament in the UK. He even wrote a book about it in this new era of darkened ambitions.

Peter enjoyed watching the Alan Pakula film The Devil's Own, a treatise on how such a modern world of complexity would fit into a more sane or Utopian vision of shared empathy or even trust and humility. The film starred two great Hollywood (USA) thespians, and Peter thought about negotiating beauty in this time of great dark intrigue.

Peter had two secret side-show hobbies, which were very eccentric. One was that he believed he liked talking to tiny winged-humanoid creatures called fairies who possessed great magic powers regarding ideal beauty and faith. He believed he'd see these fairies all around him and in the forest and in his dreams.

Peter was a scholarly nerdist of capitalism guerrilla-intelligence work but therefore also a great indulger of fantasy and Utopian visions. He studied in the Ivy League after becoming a US citizen after moving to America from Algeria with his mother Nina. He became a prototypical fantastic James Bond type hero...a nerdy version!

PETER PAN: As a guerrilla-intelligence worker, I like thinking of myself as an infiltrator of civilization aesthetics!

Peter had another eccentric side-show hobby. It was the drawing/sketching of beautiful women. He liked making silhouette images or sometimes shaded/colored images of very lovely women he'd imagined his fairy-friends would help him resolve to make his real wife. He'd just have to find the women who'd match the drawings/artworks themselves.

PETER PAN: My drawings represent my intention to extract heaven from hell.

Well, as it stood, Peter Pan did indeed find two women who matched his drawings of heavenly fantasy perfectly. In fact, he found these two women while working with Sinn Fein in the United Kingdom. They're both non-English, but Peter wasn't English by origin either, and he found them both lovely/charming. The first was a legal consultant named Shelley, a dark-haired raven.

The second was a French-Thai biracial lovely maiden named Lara. She'd work as a freelance painter and liked Peter Pan's characterizations of personal beauty and philosophy towards wrought magic and liked the funny notion that his name sounded like something out of a fairy-tale. Peter had now found the two women (Shelley/Lara) who matched his artworks.

However, an envious wolf villain in England despised this social charm Peter had won and wanted to create danger in the world. He decided to kidnap Shelley/Lara after learning that Peter Pan was frequenting a very popular Dublin pub with them at night. This wolf was Edward and he caged Shelley/Lara and wrote Peter a note, "If you don't want them to witness their own bloody-murder, you'll have to rescue them from my English castle in Westminster."

Peter Pan decided to take two artworks that represented/caricaturized Shelley and Lara. He chose a Green Lantern comic portrait to represent Shelley, since she wielded a certain potion-like magic like a raven.

He chose an anime-portrait to represent Lara, since this figurine characterized some special loveliness about rare creative thinking, which is what Lara possessed really.

Peter drove to the Westminster castle in a stolen Saab to find Edward and try to rescue Shelley and Lara and brought his two characterization-portraits with him to persuade the wolfish villain to let them free.

PETER PAN: I've brought two artworks that symbolize Shelley/Lara.
EDWARD: I can see that Green Lantern raven is a lot like your lovely Shelley!
PETER PAN: You may also notice the anime-figurine is quite like Lara, Edward.
EDWARD: So?
PETER PAN: I didn't make these artworks myself but find inspiration in translated praise.
EDWARD: So?
PETER PAN: Can't you do likewise and consider why these maidens are prisoners of the ego?
EDWARD: Are you suggesting I'm some kind of monster of vanity, Peter Pan?
PETER PAN: You're merely a 'red dragon' of wrath, Edward; you must reform and restore!
EDWARD: Why?
PETER PAN: For the sake of art, of course.
EDWARD: Clever; but true; I'll release your two damsels-in-distress.
PETER PAN: Keep your 'red dragon' title, if you like.
EDWARD: I shall.
PETER PAN: Good; thank you.
EDWARD: Farewell...idealist.

Peter was freed from this death-trap of vanity posed by the villainous Englishman Edward in England. He managed to rescue Shelley/Lara and though he didn't marry either of them, he continued to be their best friends, and they'd considered him something of a special 'flying-boy' of moonlight charms. Peter Pan continued his difficult work with blood-diamonds and anti-terrorism with Sinn Fein in the United Kingdom, but he'd never forget his special 'fairy-like' heroics in England.