The OT's Are Back
Azalea's P.O.V.
I lead our trio through Tom Sawyer's Island, Finn and Maybeck right on my tail. You know, it seems a whole lot safer in the day. I dodged a tree and heard the pirates catching up to us. It had been a few weeks since the incidents at the Animal Kingdom. Wayne was still missing, and we were still trying to find him.
And every time we crossed over, there were always OT's lurking in the general area. We had to find him. He, being the last Imagineer to have known Walt Disney personally, knew quite a lot. The information he knew was absolutely necessary to defeat the OT's. I dodged another tree, Finn and Maybeck having caught up to me by now.
Finn looked backwards to see our pursuers which led to Maybeck yelling at Finn to not give away our position. "We're literally glowing bodies of light running through a dark forest in the middle of the night, do you really think my face is going to give off our position," Finn retorted. I rolled my eyes at my two companions.
They always had to bicker, and I always had to break the two apart before something happened. Finn passed through a tree, like he walked straight through it. It was what we called going all clear. Finn is the best at it of all of us. I had done it briefly before but Finn had much more experience in that field.
"Show-off!" Maybeck huffed, having to scramble over a rock to catch up to Finn and me. Great, here we go again.
"Elitist!" Finn replied.
"Know-it-all!"
"Eye candy!"
"Would you two shut up? If you babies are finished bickering, we have a bigger problem at hand!" I shouted, to shut them up.
"We'll finish this later," Maybeck concluded.
"Agreed," Finn replied. I rolled my eyes.
"Hey, any of you geniuses got a plan- ow!" I yelped as I felt a pirate's sword graze my arm. With my other hand, I placed my hand over the cut to try and stop the bleeding. "A plan would be much appreciated now, guys."
"How good are you guys at swimming?" Finn asked, looking backwards to see that the pirates, though not as close as before were still not a comfortable distance away.
"Fine, why?" I questioned as we stopped at the edge of the moat. "You've got to be kidding me." I noticed movement to the left in the water and saw an alligator surface.
"I'll have to pass Whitman, I don't want to be eaten by an alligator." But before Maybeck could finish his statement, Finn dove in. I sighed and dove in after him, catching up to Finn easily, Maybeck on my other side. The alligator charged at us and I pulled both boys lower, to dodge the beast. It seemed to disappear as we swam to the other bank. Maybeck hopped out first and pulled me and Finn up next.
We charged into the teepee, surprising Philby, Willa, and Charlene. "You're late," Philby replied. Philby was the geek of our group. Technology problems? He's your guy. Charlene looked the part for a lead cheerleader but her true character was not the stereotype. She wasn't ditsy or anything but because she always wore a nightgown to bed every night, Willa and I had to quite often knock the boys back into reality. Willa was a simple girl in terms of fashion and was calm and down to earth.
"Sorry, pirates," I replied, clutching my cut at the reminder.
"It seemed like they were waiting for us," Maybeck replied. Finn agreed. The teepees were a form of shadow, a place where the DHI projectors did not quite reach so we were invisible to the eye, but our voices could still be heard and we still left footprints.
"This is the fifth time we've searched here in MK, I don't think Wayne's here," Charlene sighed.
"So what are we supposed to do, give up?" I retorted, wrapping the bandana I had worn around the cut, cutting off the bleeding.
"I don't know, but you have to agree that that was a trap, Azalea. And we walked straight into it. It was a close call, next time we might not get so lucky," Maybeck replied, deadpanned.
"We can search AK-"Finn started.
"We'd be mobbed by fans before we even made it past Rainforest Café and we risk losing the college money," Philby interrupted. I had to agree with that point. My family was not exactly what you would call rich, and I needed the money if I ever wanted to get a degree.
"So we just bail on Wayne? That's not going to happen," Finn stated. But he was shushed by Philby who reported that the pirates and their friend Stitch had arrived. I heard a distinct yelp from Finn and an apology from Philby. I shushed them as the pirates got closer. I held my breath as the pirate stuck his head inside the room. I felt something on my hand and looked to see sand cascading onto my palm, courtesy of Finn.
I grabbed some sand and relayed the message to Willa. I grabbed some more sand and waited. Another pirate stuck his ugly head into the tent and I gulped, my heart pounding in my chest. "NOW!" Finn shouted. I quickly chucked sand into the pirate's eyes. He quickly yelped and we rushed out. Charlene was in the lead, Finn in the back. "Quickly, everyone hold hands and get close!" I grabbed onto Finn's open hand and latched onto Maybeck's forearm. Finn hit the button and we were all sent back to our respective bedrooms.
I awoke with a start, soaking wet. I cursed. I had gotten my bed all wet and how was I supposed to explain this to my dad and grandmother? I quietly changed and collected all my wet stuff. I exited my room and made my way downstairs to the laundry room. I closed the door quietly and placed my stuff into the dryer. I closed the top of the dryer as the light outside the laundry room turned on.
I quietly hid in the closet as my grandmother opened the door. She poked her head into the room and shrugged her shoulders. "I could have sworn I heard someone in here, oh well." After she left I waited for the load to finish and made my way back up to my room.