Hi everyone this took a while but I managed to finish chapter 2. I hope you like it. Journey into Imagination and Figment are not me. Enjoy.
Chapter #2 Evil Clones and Into the Dreamport
When Sharlene came out of the restroom. She looked at the door the employee dragged her away from earlier. She stared at it for a few minutes before she looked at her sister's handbag. Heather would never leave her things laying around. Why would she drop her bag and leave it behind? What's going on?
"Where are you Heather?" Sharlene wondered as she walked away from the restrooms.
The Pavilion was about to close and there weren't many people around so she couldn't stay behind any longer. Shralene knew Heather often go home early because she gets tired early, but she wouldn't leave her bag behind.
Ok Heather wouldn't leave yet Sharlene thought as she checked her watch. So that means she's still here, but where?
"Hey Sharlene."
Sharlene jumped and turned to see her twin sister standing in front of her.
"Heather, don't do that again!" Sharlene said annoyed. "You scared me!"
"Sorry about that." Heather said not feeling sorry at all. "I went to the machine to get a drink then I went looking for you."
"But Heather." Sharlene started as she handed her sister's hand bag back to her. "I was standing near the stairs. You couldn't see me there?"
Heather shrugged. "I guess not." she replied. "I guess I need glasses too."
She chuckled. Sharlene smiled a little. She and Heather always cracked jokes with each other.
"Anyway you ready to go to the gift shop?"
Sharlene blinked in confusion. "What?"
"Are you ready to go to the gift shop?" Heather repeated.
"I thought you wanted to go back to the campsite."Sharlene said.
Heather got tired early in the day. Which was the reason why she wanted to go back to the campsite she and Sharlene were staying at that day.
Heather blinked then grinned. "I'm feeling better now."
Sharlene stared Heather for a few minutes. "OK then." she said.
"We'll get something at the gift shop. Then go back to the camp site."
"Alright." Heather said as she walk to the nearest stairs.
Sharlene watched Heather walk up the stairs. Heather was acting werid and Sharlene had a feeling something was up. Sharlene shook her head, clearing the weird feeling from her mind and went after her sister.
When they arrived at the gift shop upstairs. Heather went to look at the T shirts while Sharlene went to look at the stuffed dolls. She wanted to get something for her parents and a little something for herself. So she bought a mug for dad, a pin for her mom and Heather and a Figment doll for herself. She just paided for the items when she saw her sister talking to one of the gift shop employees. Normally Sharlene didn't mind since Heather talked a lot, but not this time. She saw Heather place her hand on the employee's shoulder and he collapsed onto the floor.
"Heather!" Sharlene exclaimed as she ran to the employee and checked his pulse.
"He'll be alright, sis." Heather said, grinning.
Sharlene looked up at her sister.
"For now."
Sharlene gasped when Heather's eyes glowed red for a second. Then turned to see the employee's eyes open and his eyes glowed red like Heather's did for a minute before he turned to Sharlene, grinning evilly at her. Sharlene backed away in shock as the employee slowly got to his feet. She turned to Heather.
"You...you're not my sister."
"Oh but I am." 'Heather' said "I am Heather Lane."
Sharlene quickly got to her feet and ran to the nearest exit.
Sharlene ran down the stairs and was running to the exit when someone grabbed her arm. Sharlene looked up to see a another employee who has red eyes like Heather and the other employee did.
"Come, Sharlene." the employee purred. "The master is expecting you."
Sharlene stomped on the employee's foot, causing her to scream in pain and let her go. Sharlene was about to run to the exit when she saw more employee's with red eyes had blocked the doors. Sharlene ran to the nearest hallway not caring where it goes as long as she can get away from what ever those things were. As Sharlene ran through the partly dark hallway, she ran into a pole, lost her balance and fell. Losing her glasses and the bag of items she bought at the gift shop.
Sharlene panicked when she found out she wasn't wearing her glasses. As she patted the ground for her glasses, she heard footsteps and voices coming from the main enterance.
"You see where she went?"
"No, but she couldn't have escaped. We blocked all the exits."
"Search the place." Sharlene heard Heather say "She's my host's sister. She won't be too hard to find."
"Oh no." Sharlene gasped in horror as she kept patting the ground.
"You want a light?"
Sharlene jumped when she heard a voice in front of her.
"Who's there?" Sharlene demanded. "And what have you done with my sister?"
"Calm down, girl. I won't hurt you." The voice said.
Then the hall was lite up with a dim light. Sharlene blinked as her eyes adjusted to light. Sharlene blinked again as she saw a purple fuzzy being floating in front of her.
"Who are you?" Sharlene asked as she kept patting the ground. "And what are you?"
"You looking for these?" The being asked, holding up what looked like Sharlene's glasses and ignoring her question.
Sharlene reached out and touched them. As she did, she felt scales against her skin. Sharlene took her glasses and put them on. Once they were on, Sharlene looked up to see a small purple dragon with small orange wings, horns and claws with large yellow eyes hovering in front of her.
"Yikes!" She exclaimed jumping back a foot. "How did...where...?"
Sharlene's voice trailed off when she saw the bag of items she was carrying. She dropped it when she hit the pole. The mug and the pins to her surprise, were still intacted and were laying on the floor in the corner of a door in the hall with the bag beside them. The only thing was missing was the Figment doll. Sharlene looked up at the dragon, a thought hitting hard like a fastball. What if the dragon was...no it can't be...it's not possible.
"What's wrong kid?" the dragon asked as he flew closer to Sharlene.
Sharlene cringed.
"I'm not a kid!" Sharlene said through gritted teeth, trying to stay calm. "I'm a college woman from Canada who's being chased by a bunch of possesed people. One of them is my twin sister!"
The dragon stopped in shock when he heard that. He looked hurt by Sharlene's words. Sharlene realized her mistake and said "I'm sorry, it's not your fault. My own sister did something to that employee in the gift shop and now it's spread to the other employees here and they're looking for me."
"I know you're scared Sharlene." the dragon said as he placed a claw onto Sharlene's shoulder.
"How do you know who I am." she asked.
Then she turned to see the possesed people running pass the hall she and the animated doll are in.
"And why hadn't they find us in here yet? They must've heard us or seen the light."
"I concealed the enterance so no one could see us in here." the dragon said with pride, as if he was proud of his work.
"But how are you here?" Sharlene asked. "You're a made up chararcter for this...once favorite ride to many people."
The dragon Figment was insulted.
"I've been here for years. Since Dreamfinder was still here." he paused and looked at Sharlene for a minute before continuing. "And I think I've seen you before."
"My family and I came here a few years ago." Sharlene said "I don't remember what year though."
Figment thought for a minute "That's must be it. Anyway I was sent here to take you to the Dreamport, bad things have been happening there and only you can help us."
Sharlene blinked in confusion. "Why me?"
"Why you? Because you have a great imagination." Figment answered. "That's why. Now come on. We have to hurry."
"But I don't have an imagination." Sharlene said sadly as she grabbed the bag from the floor and started to pick up the items that fell out of it, minus the Figment doll that came to life.
"I gave up on creating things when my sister and I entered high school because we're not good at anything."
Sharlene felt bad when she said that. When she was a child, she and Heather did a lot of art projects together. But since they're parents weren't around much, they couldn't show their projects. They're parents don't see how great they were. So they give up and hadn't done any art projects ever since.
"Now that's not true." Figment said as he watched Sharlene gather up the items. "I've seen the stuff you and your sister have made and they were great!"
"Why didn't our parents think that?" Sharlene asked, some bitterness in her voice.
"I'm not sure. But now I have to get you to the Dreamport before those clones find us." Figment said. He turned to see the field he put up flicker a little before it went invisible again. " And that field won't last long."
Sharlene straightened up. "Ok." she said as she brush her skirt. "Where's the Dreamport?"
"It's never too far away if you use your imagination." Figment said as he flew down and grabbed Sharlene's arm and waved his claw in front of a nearby door and it opened to reveal a dark room.
Without warning Figment pulled Sharlene into the room, the door slaming behind them and the field collapsed.
"Huh?" 'Heather' said and she turned to see an empty hall.
"Is something wrong?" A female employee clone asked.
Heather stared at the hall for a minute before she turned to the employee.
"I thought I sensed something." she answered. "Keep searching, she's around here somewhere, I know it."
OK Heather is not really Heather and Sharlene and Figment on their way to the Dreamport. What will happen when they get there? Find out in the next chapter of Imagination and Nightmare.