"Okay, what did you want to show me?" Edward said in a professional tone that was on the verge of being funny.
"You'll see," Ariel said with a toothy grin. "You ready?" she said as she looked over at Connie.
"Yup," Connie answered as she jumped up and down in excitement. The two of them clapped thir hands in unison and clasped them with each other to make a circle with their bodies. Their eyes were closed in deep concentration, and at first nothing happened, until a yelp from Ed broke the silence.
"What the hell is goin' on!?" he yelled as he rose into the air.
"Shit!" Ariel said as she opened her eyes and spotted Ed levitating five feet off the ground."We were actually aiming for the trash can next to you." The sudden outbursts broke Connie's concentration and she too opened her eyes. Just as soon as she did this Ed plummeted to the ground, straight into the metal container underneath him. As he looked up and out of his place in the garbage he saw the girls with very embarrassed looks as they muttered,"Sorry 'bout that."
Ed shot out of the garbage can like a cannon and landed swiftly on the ground. "We're really sorry,"they said, while waving their hands defencively in front of them, as Ed took a step towards them.
"Well, it's too bad that 'sorry' doesn't cut it in this incident,"Ed spat before he charged at them, full speed.The girls ran away from the blur of red that was chasing them, with an intent to hurt. Edward chased them around the entire of the train station before slightly slowing down. "When I get you, I'm gonna put some serious hurt on you," he said wearily before noticing that the girls had stopped and were staring intently at the empty train tracks. "Hey wasn't there a train here a second ago?" He asked as he managed to make his way to where the girls were.
This seemed to hit some kind of nerve, because both of the girls turned on Ed with looks of uncontainable rage before Connie shouted," Look at what you've done!"
"You made us miss our train!" Ariel finished while they both crossed thir arms and pouted. "This is all your fault!" she yelled at him.
"My fault," Edward said in a disgruntled tone,"I'm not the one who ran all the way around the train station while the stupid train left!"
"Well, you were the one chasing us all around the station," Connie retorted.
"Maybe I wouldn't have chased you if you hadn't dropped me in a garbage can!" Ed yelled as his anger level seemed to be reaching critical.
"Perhaps, we wouldn't have dropped you in the garbage can, if you hadn't looked so much like trash!" Ariel said rather harshly.
Ed was about to do something very violent and rash when Al quickly stepped in and tried to calm the fued by saying, "Relax. We can stay in this town until the next train comes tommorrow morning."
"Fine. But don't expect to get a free room from us!" Ed shouted at them.
"Wouldn't have accepted even if you offered!" Ariel shouted back.
The teens were about to part ways when they saw that there was only one, narrow path into the town. They walked along in a tense silence and things seemed to cool down as they neared the town.As they entered the outskirts of the slightly rural town of Duluth it looked completly void of people.
"Where are all the people?" Edward said as he looked around.
"The Carnival of Founder James Duluth," Connie said matter-of-factly.
"How do you know?" Edward said in a slightly confused tone.
"Duh!" Ariel said as she shoved a flyer in his face.
"The Carnival of Founder James Duluth," Ed read out loud.
"What a mouthful,"Ariel said in the background.
"Fun for all, join in the celebration of our great father," he finished.
"Why didn't they just call it Founder's day?" Connie asked Ariel.
"I don't know, but even if it's too many words for one celebration, it still sounds fun. So, can we go Connie?" Ariel said like a child begging thier mother for candy.
"Hm, I don't know," Connie said as she placed her hand on her chin with a look of deep thought etched on her face.
"Oh come-" Ariel started.
"Gotcha! Of course we'll go!" Connie said as her look of thought turned to one of glee.
"Yay!" Ariel said as she wrapped Connie into a hug. Ed merely rolled his eyes as he looked at the sudden outburst from the girls. They continued and after several minutes they came to a small inn.
"Let's stay here" Connie said in a sophisticated manner.
"Yes lets," Ariel said in much the same way.
They walked inside the small building and a sign greeted them at the reception table saying, Please check yourself in and leave money on the book. Next to it was a small book with many rows and columns and a few names neatly printed at the top. The two groups signed their respective names and left the proper amount on the small registraton book. They each took a key off a hook from a wall behind them and headed up the small flight of stairs. the girls reached the top and gestured for the boys to go before them.
"Hey what's with this whole mature thing?" Ed said as he stopped them.
"What, would you rather us be screaming lunatics?" Connie asked sarcastically
"You really need to make up your mind," Ariel said as they bounced out into their room leaving a very pissed Edward in his tracks.