JUMANJI!
"Hey guys! Look what I found in the storage closet!" Mikey shouted from the living room.
"What?" Leo yells back from the other room.
"What the shell?!" Raph growls.
"SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME. WHY, WHEN I WAS PEACEFULLY WORKING..." Came the annoyed shout from Donnie's lab.
"GUYS! LOOK!" Mikey held up a large wooden box with the word JUMANJI carved into it. "Cmon! Let's play! Pleeeeeaaaaasee!"
"I will if you'll shut up." Leo groaned.
"Awesome! Raaaaph..."
"No. No chance whatsoever." He growled back.
"What if we invite over April and Casey?"
"I'm in! Where's this game!" Donnie exclaims rushing into the room.
"Well, I guess I could kick Casey's ass.." Raph says smirking.
"Great! Donnie, tell Casey to bring soda. And pizza! Lots of pizza."
"Everybody here?" Donnie asked addressing the crowd. April holds up her soda can, and everyone murmurs their existence.
"Here's the game..." Mikey looks over the instructions. "Jumanji: a game for those who wish to find a way to leave their world behind. You roll the dice to move your token, doubles get another turn, and the first one to reach the end wins. Adventurers beware: do not start until you intend to finish. The exciting consequences of the game will vanish only when a player has reached Jumanji and called out its name. Simple enough. Roll the dice, doubles roll twice, to win reach JUMANJI and scream it. Let's play!"
"I call the elephant." April says. Mikey gets the lizard, Raph gets the bird, Donnie gets the lion, Leo gets the giraffe and Casey calls the rhinoceros.
"I'll roll first." Casey declares.
"Like hell!" Raph counters.
"I'LL GO FIRST." April groans snatching up the dice. She rolls.
"Five." Words begin to form in the green crystal bowl in the center of the board.
"Well.. Go ahead.. Read them." Casey suggests in a shaky voice.
April takes a deep breath.
"To Rapheal.
In the jungle you will stay
Until a five or eight comes to play
Or until, with much amiss
Donatello and April come to kiss!" She looks up, first to Raph, and then to a blushing, and terrified Donnie. "What the hell? What game is this?! How does it know our names?" Raph begins to drift away into the center of the board.
"Raph!" Mikey screams grabbing for his brother "Someone roll!"
"No! Who knows what's gonna happen!" Leo shouts. Raph is almost all the way sucked in.
"Donnie!" Mikey screams motioning frantically to him and April.
"I.." He protests.
"Donnie!"
He scrambles over to April. "For Raph?" He whispers.
"Just do it." She hisses. He tried not to show how that hurt him, and kissed her. Suddenly Raph is sitting where he was before.
"You do not want to know where I've just been." He says, his voice like a ghost.
"Mikey. Roll." Casey says. The di lands on a two.
"They grow much faster than bamboo,
But do take care,
Or they'll come for you." Mikey whispers. "Shit."
"I'm done with this stupid game. I'm out of here." Raph grumbles, not un-fearfully though.
"You can't." April says.
"What?"
"You can't. We have to finish it. Says so."
"What did we get ourselves in to?!" Leo whispers.
"I don't know, but YOU BETTER MOVE YOU ASS LEO!" Donnie yells as a huge viney plant creeps out from the walls.
"Ok I'm rolling this and were out of here." Leo rolls a nine.
"At night they fly, you better run
These winged things are not much fun. BATS!"
What happens next? Review please ideas welcome along with comments. I don't own anything.