Here's the next chapter of this new Secret Trio fic, where Dani and Haley and June play the game known as Jumanji! I swear, that game is sentient...
No, I don't own Danny Phantom, American Dragon: Jake Long, Life And Times Of Juniper Lee or Jumanji. They all belong to their respective owners.
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Should We Play The Game?
"I think this is a bad idea," Haley said for the millionth time as she and Dani, who were now in the hotel they and June were staying at, walked towards their hotel room, Jumanji still tucked under Dani's arm.
"And I think that you're being paranoid," Dani countered, rolling her eyes in exasperation. Haley scowled, but didn't say anything else.
Shortly, they had arrived at their hotel room. Dani knocked on the door. Immediately, June opened it. She had looked like she had just gotten back from skateboarding practice.
"Hey, Dani, Haley. What's up?" June greeted, letting her friends in.
"Nothing much. Except that we found this," Dani answered, holding up Jumanji. June frowned as she looked at it.
"Jumanji," June read out. "Creepy name."
"That's exactly what I said!" Haley exclaimed, still looking at the game suspiciously.
June, noticing Haley's suspicious look, asked Dani, "Why is Haley glaring suspiciously at the board game?"
"She thinks there's something suspicious about the game, as it appeared out of nowhere and we heard drums playing before they stopped when I said the game's name," Dani explained. "But it's just a game. What harm can it do?"
June frowned. "Dani, maybe there might be something suspicious about Jumanji-"
"Yes!" Haley cheered in triumph.
"So maybe we should show it to either Lao Shi or Ah-Mah when this whole skateboarding business is over," June finished.
Haley looked smug, but Dani was unconvinced.
"Oh come on, June! It's only a game. A game. What can a game do?"
June looked unconvinced. Haley, on the other hand, looked victorious that June was thinking along the same lines as her about Jumanji being suspicious.
"Please? Just one go, and I won't talk about it for the rest of the time we're staying here," Dani compromised.
June still looked unconvinced. And then...
Drums began playing.
June startled, eyes wide. "Do you hear that?"
Dani and Haley nodded.
"It's those drums that me and Haley heard earlier," Dani said. She looked at Jumanji and added, "I think they're telling us to play the game."
As soon as those words left Dani's mouth, the drums stopped playing.
Tense silence filled the air, until Haley suggested, "Okay, who votes we lock Jumanji up and throw away the key until we show it to either Gramps, Fu, Ah-Mah or Monroe? Or even Clockwork! Please raise your hand for 'Yes'!"
She immediately raised her hand for yes.
June and Dani's hands, however, remained down.
"I think you're outvoted, Hales," Dani pointed out. She then looked at June. "What changed your mind?"
The Te Xuan Ze shrugged.
"Curiosity, maybe? Definitely boredom. Despite skateboarding practice, this town is really boring. I'm hoping Jumanji will be a nice distraction."
"So, that means you'll play with me?"
"Yep."
Dani grinned and immediately sat on the floor, placing the game in front of her. June shortly joined her.
The two looked expectantly at Haley.
"Haley? You playing?" Dani asked.
Haley seemed torn. She was curious about the game, and eager for a distraction as well as June in this boring town, but she was also wary. After all, she had literally tripped over it. And yet...
Haley let out a sigh, deciding, and sat down next to Dani with a mumbled, "Fine. I'll play."
Dani smiled at Haley and June, glad that both her friends had decided to play Jumanji with her.
Opening the board game, the three girls inspected the interior.
It was like one of those find the correct pathway games you find on the sides of mall court-food meal boxes like McDonalds. In the centre was a green sphere. The openings were flaps, with writing on them. The right flap had the tokens, which were a rhino, an elephant, a monkey and a crocodile and the dice.
Dani, Haley and June looked at each before June, who was sitting near the left flap, looked at the writing on it and commented, "This must be the rules of how you play it."
Scooting closer to the flap, June read out what it said, "Jumanji. A game for those who seek to find a way to leave their world behind. You roll the dice to move your token, doubles gets another turn, first player to reach the end wins."
"Sounds fun," Dani commented.
"I have to agree with you there," Haley agreed, feeling her wariness go away slightly.
Haley, who was near the right flap, grabbed the tokens out. "So, who wants to be what?"
"I'll be the monkey," Dani said. Haley handed her the monkey token.
"I'll be the elephant," June said, Haley handing her the elephant token.
"And I'll be the crocodile," Haley said, putting the rhino token back.
Dani grinned. "Reference to how you can change into a fire-breathing dragon, Hales?"
Haley mock-glared at the half-ghost girl, causing Dani to chuckle.
"Okay, so where do we-" June started, only for the tokens to fly out of their hands and landing on three of the four corners on the game board.
"Whoa," June said, as they looked at their tokens.
"How did they do that?" Haley wondered.
"Maybe it was magnets or something," Dani suggested. She then smiled and rubbed her hands theatrically.
"Alrighty! Let's play Jumanji!"
And even though supernatural events occur daily to these three girls, they still decide to play Jumanji. *shakes her head*
Anyway, I hope you like this! First roll, rhyme-and thing to pop out of the game-will happen in the next chappie!
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