Following his banishment from the Pan Clan and the amputation of his hand, James must adapt to life under the care of the Neverland’s pirates. While his crewmates possess confidence in his recovery from the traumatic events that brought him there, James begins to embrace the hate festering inside him since childhood. This hate manifests itself when the pirates depart from the Neverland and enter the Golden Age of Piracy, where he and his small group of former Pan Clan boys transition from ship to ship, captain to captain, and encounter some of the most notorious marauders in history. James takes deep interest in his new profession, a world he long rejected. Once he relents to reality, he finds acceptance, honesty, and purpose. However, his companions do not take so kindly to the new lifestyle or the hook-handed youth’s new character. After years spent establishing his place in the piratical world, after sating physical and emotional desires, after gaining control of himself, James wishes for nothing more than to find the Neverland and put an end to the boy who condemned him to hell as punishment for growing up.