Peekaboo

Jonathan was bound to a pole and struggling mightily. He still had on his Prince outfit that he’d been wearing during the attack and his cape was still apart of him, but the whole outfit looked dirty and a bit tattered. He looked awful and helpless. Patrick wasn’t used to seeing him like this...normally he was so calm and collected.

His brunette friend was emitting muffled grunts and it peaked Patrick’s curiosity, but he ignored the sounds and instead was overcome with excitement.

“Jonny!” Patrick exclaimed.

He darted forward and stood before his friend, laughing in relief and totally ignorant to the potential danger lurking. Now he understood the muffled sounds being emitted…there was some kind of foreign cloud stuff over his mouth!

“Jonny?”

His joy and happiness instantly faded away and turned to worry and fear. He suddenly began to realize what was going on. He turned around, but before he could, something shot at him and wrapped around his arms, pinning them to his side. The same stuff wrapped around his ankles. He fell to his knees and sat in a kneeling position at the feet of his friend.

“Wha--?” Patrick began.

Evil snickering erupted from all around him and then a tall figure emerged from the maze bushes and came forward. He had a scepter in his hands and was using it as a walking stick. He came to a halt, towering in front of Patrick, who struggled to slip free of the same cloud stuff.

“Patrick Timothy Kane Jr., welcome,” the man spoke through his cackling, as he gestured to the sides of him in the sarcastic greeting.

“Nemo!! I should have known it was you, you fiend!” Patrick screamed, as he continued to shift his torso and jerk at the restraints wrapped tightly around him. “Let me go and release Jonny!”

"Tsk, tsk, tsk..." Nemo shook his head slowly with a smirk on his face. "...here you were trying to find your precious Tazer, and then you find him, yet...you were unprepared for this--" He extended his scepter out towards the blond winger and a blast of green energy streaked towards it, hitting him square in his chest.

Patrick was thrusted onto the ground by the force of the energy; the cloud stuff did come off of him as well. The stuff practically shattered off of him, thanks to the force of him being knocked over.

Nemo sauntered up to him, looming over him with evilness in his eyes. "Look at you...you can't do anything...without your Showtime." He reached into the side holster of his pants and pulled out Showtime, Patrick's long lost stick-sword.

"Showtime!" Patrick shrieked, extending his hands towards the beautiful sword.

"Nuh-uh-uh!" The Shark held the sword up in the air, way out of Patrick's grasp. "You think I'll give it to you? Ha, in your dreams!" He stepped away from the Blackhawk, studying the sword with inquiring eyes. "Now let's see how well Showtime can wield my power...against you."

Patrick slowly got up to his feet. "No! Give him back to me!"

Nemo answered by extending the sword straight at him, emitting black energy from the blade. It hit Patrick, making him fly back onto the ground.

Jonathan screamed something that was hard to understand.

Patrick rolled onto his back, feeling his body buzz with the weird, dark energy that struck him. 'I need to get Showtime, I need to get Showtime... It's so close to me, I must get it--!' He gathered all of his energy and ran towards Nemo just as he blasted another round of that black energy.

Patrick quickly ducked low, sliding on the sides of his boots, getting close to Nemo and being out of the energy's range. He then knocked into the villain, making them both fall on the ground.

Before Nemo was able to figure out that he was on the ground, Patrick snatched Showtime from his grip and stood up nobly, looking down at the villain.

"Never underestimate me, Niemi," Patrick said in a grave tone with narrowed eyes.

"That's Lord Nemo to you!" With lightning-fast speed, Nemo swiped his scepter from the ground and pointed it straight at the Blackhawk as teal-coloured energy emitted out of it.

Patrick deflected the energy with with the blade of Showtime, absorbing it. "I have Showtime--it's not going to be easy beating me now."

"Let's see about that--!" Nemo got up from the ground and pointed his scepter at Patrick, making the eyes of the shark's head on the staff glow bright red. Patrick knew that wasn't a good thing to look at, so he tried to block the view away by automatically blasting a yellow energy ball from Showtime, straight towards the scepter.

Patrick looked at his sword oddly. "What? I can make it do that--?"

Nemo knocked the ball of energy out of the way with his scepter, letting it burst into glowing dust in mid air. "That won't stop me!" He then slammed the bottom of his staff onto the ground, creating cracks in the grass underneath it.

Patrick was able to hear Jonathan gasp.

Water began to spurt from the cracks of the ground, sprouting up and twirled around Patrick like mystical vines. They grabbed him by his legs and arms, twisting around his limbs while lifting him off of the ground in a tight grip. Nemo just smirked evilly as he saw the blonde winger desperately struggling to get free, but of course failing to do just that.

Then Showtime dropped from Patrick's hand, landing softly onto the grass. A water tentacle grabbed the sword and brought it over to Nemo, like as if it was presenting a crown to him.

"Ah, yes." He grabbed Showtime, grinning villiousnessly. He looked back up at Patrick. "Well, now that you don't have your handy-dandy sword, it should be very easy to beat you now, eh?"

"Let--me--go!" Patrick yelled in fury, valiantly struggling and fighting the restraint on him.

Nemo chuckled mirthlessly. "In your dreams, pretty boy!" He then blasted a streak of black energy from Showtime, letting it strike Patrick.

The force of the energy made him fly out of the water's grasp and fly through the air, landing hard on his back on the other side of the fighting area.

Patrick groaned, getting on his hands and knees. He tried to get up, but he knew he had injured himself somewhere. He couldn't detect the specific locating on his pain. Then he heard footsteps approaching him and felt a cold metallic surface press against his cheek, forcing him to look to his right. He saw his captain staring at him with wide eyes.

"Look at Jonathan, look at that fear in those eyes of his," Nemo told Patrick, holding his scepter firmly against Patrick's face. "Just let that image absorb in your mind...because this will be the last time you'll see your captain ever again."

"NO!" Patrick shouted, trying to get up, but stumbled back down due to the pain he was dealing with from the fall.

"Sorry, Kanerboo, this is something inevitable. It's supposed...to happen." He placed Showtime on Patrick's side and surged energy into his body.

"AHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Patrick screamed in agony, falling flat on his stomach. He tried in vain to fight off the energy that was buzzing inside of him.

Then the energy stopped flowing into him. He started breathing loudly, relieved that it was all gone...but that pain from the fall was still around, bothering him. Patrick looked up at the pole where Jonathan had been strapped to, now seeing that the pole was empty. He began getting up slowly while gazing at his surroundings with huge eyes. Jonathan and Nemo were gone. "Jonathan!" he shouted. "Tazer! Jonny!"

Nothing.

"Ohmygoodness..." He placed his hands on his cheeks. "...they're gone...they got away...I failed...I-- OW!" He collapsed back onto the ground as pain stuck his leg. He sat up and held onto his left leg, which had all the agony packed in. "Uggghhhhh..." He closed his eyes shut, trying to deal with the pain, but he knew he must've landed on the leg weirdly and must've snapped it at least. "No, no, no, I can't be injured now!"

Suddenly, clomping noises sounded and a flash of brown fur burst into the scene. Patrick looked up and saw Jamie cowering in the corner. He was tense and frightened.

“Jamie?”

Jamie looked to him and he seemed to relax a little bit. But Patrick could see that one of Jamie’s antlers was broken and there was red twine wrapped around his face, making it so he couldn’t speak. Patrick coaxed Jamie over to him and the reindeer gradually did so. The blond reached up and took the twine off of him.

“Jamie, what happened to you?”

“Shark guys,” Jamie gasped, gulping in air.

Patrick touched the reindeer’s antler stub. “You poor thing.”

“It’s not the end of the world, Kaner, I’ll live. It’s hard to right my head at time, since I feel a little top-heavy on the left, but those dagone Shark people will pay sooner or later for breaking it.”

“How did it break?”

“One of the guys grabbed me and snapped it off. It hurt and it still kind of does, but it’s more of a tingling sensation now. It’s like ripping a fingernail off.”

“Ooh, that hurts.”

Jamie nodded. “Well, I panicked and ran off, and lost Ariel in the process. I just ran, but the men cornered me and they tried to kidnap me, they put that red stringy twine stuff on my face and I tried to scream for help but couldn’t. Then they attached this rope leash and started to drag me off. I managed to somehow snap the rope and I bolted for it. I turned the corner and found myself in here.” He snapped his head around, but the Shark people hadn’t followed him.

Patrick patted him. “You’re a brave man, Jamie Benn. I feel awkward saying this, but I’m glad you’re okay.”

“Where’s Jonathan? And what happened to you?”

“Long story. Nemo escaped with him again and he has Showtime!” Patrick replied. He touched his injured leg. “Think I can use you as a crutch?”

Jamie dipped his head. “You helped me out, sure.”

Patrick used Jamie, who helped him out and the Blackhawk winger managed to get to his feet. He leaned heavily on Jamie’s left antler, but it wasn’t good enough. Reluctantly the Dallas captain agreed to having Patrick get on his back and ride him like a horse. The two began to trudge toward one of the exits.

“Hopefully, we can get out of this and find the others.”

“Right.”

They launched onto the pathway and followed it around, hoping for the end.

Notes

Oh man...he was sooooo close, but so far. Good try, but alas Nemo is just too smart. You know what's funny? Everyone calls Kaner a "pretty boy" as a taunt, but Kaner's not really a "pretty boy"...I'd say that the "pretty boys" are Jonathan Toews, Patrick Sharp, Tyler Seguin, Gabriel Landeskog, and Valeri Nichushkin. XP
Poor Jamie...he got hurt and lost part of one of his antlers. :(
Kaner and Jamie bonding time!!!! XP


Next up: Depressed Kaner... 8(