Hi again, back with another chapter, you'll have to forgive me if I made any mistakes. It's been a long time since I've been to Walt Disney World and I don't remember much about the ride. So I'm making it up with my imagination and research as I go along. Anyway here's chapter 3. Journey into Imagination is not mine. Hope you enjoy it.
Chapter #3 The Storage Room and Disaster in the Art Room
Sharlene and Figment slid down a long tunnel until they hit a dark dead end. Sharlene couldn't stop as well as Figment can which cause her to hit the wall with a hard thud.
"Ow!" Sharlene moaned as she rubbed her sore shoulder.
"You ok?" Figment asked as he conjured a light source out thin air.
Once her eyes adjusted to the light. Sharlene looked up at Figment with a cold look.
"That wasn't funny Figment." She said coldly. "And what happened anyway? Wasn't this room a broom closet or something?"
"It was a broom closet." Figment explained. "Until I used your imagination to open the door to the Dreamport."
Sharlene stared at Figment wide eyed. "But I didn't imagine anything."
"Ah, but you did." Figment said grinning. "You wanted to get out of that hallway. So you imagine the way out somewhere behind one of the doors. Like that broom closet we went through."
Sharlene's legs shook as she stood up. As she got to her feet. She tried to figure out how she imagine the way out without knowing it. She usually good at controling her thoughts and her emotions but not when she's stressed or scared.
''So my fear of getting caught by whatever those things were must've triggered something.'' Sharlene said as she rubbed her shoulder.
"Exactly!" Figment exclaimed. "I told you you could do it. Now all you have to do is open the next door."
Sharlene looked at the wall behind her. It was nothing but a wall. There were no cracks, no fissures, nothing showing a way out of the cave.
"There's no door." Sharlene said looking up at Figment.
Figment grinned, like he knew something Sharlene didn't know.
"Are you sure?" he asked pointing at the wall.
Sharlene turned to see a door materialized in front of her. Sharlene backed away like it was a diseased animal.
"But how..."
"Go ahead, Sharlene." Figment said. "Open it."
Sharlene stared at Figment for minute before she looked at the door. She slowly walked towards the door and placed her hand on the knob. She slowly turned it and the door slowly opened. Revealing a partly dark room filled with machinery and pipes.
Figment flew into the room and turned to Sharlene grinning.
"Look familiar?" he asked.
Sharlene walked into the room, the door closing and disappearing behind her. She was amazed of how everything looked like the orginal Journey into Imagination ride before the changes ruined it.
"Amazing huh?"
Sharlene jumped when Figment spoke to her. She was too blewn away by how the Dreamport looked like the way the ride she knew and loved when she was a child.
"It is." She replied completely breathless. "I hadn't seen this in years."
Then her heart sank as she remembered Heather wasn't with her. She would've wanted to see this. Then Sharlene's thoughts were interupted when she saw Figment flying into another room.
"Hey, wait up!" Sharlene called as she ran after Figment.
Figment led Sharlene through the room filled with machines and items that that can only be seen in books or movies like plasma balls, a fish tank with a hologramic diver and fish and musical notes that were stuffed into a birdcage.
A few minutes later Figment and Sharlene reached a room that was filled with bright colors and lights. One side of the room was filled with art supplies like paints and clay while one wall as a huge painting of a brightly colored garden. Sharlene was hypnotized by the beauty of the painting. She was about to get closer but Figment stopped her.
"Don't get too close." he said. "Dreamfinder spent months painting that."
"Yeah." Sharlene said, her eyes still glued onto the painting which changed from cool colors to warm colors before her eyes. "Months."
Figment led Sharlene away from the painting to a room that looked like it was made of paper. When they entered the room. Sharlene was more amazed with the animals made from paper along with the trees and pond filled with a dark liquid. Sharlene seen this type of art work in art class when she was in high school, but she can't remember what it was called. She knew it was from Japan, but she doesn't know what it was called.
"This is more amazing then the painting." Sharlene said as she looked in the black water in the pond.
Figment smiled and landed on the pond ledge beside her.
"This is not regular water." he said. "Touch it and see what will happen."
Sharlene reached out and touched the surface of the water. When her fingers touched the water. Brightly colored ripples formed from her fingertips and changed colors as they expand and slowly dissolve into nothing again. Sharlene smiled as she watch the ripples slowly change colors.
"Cool."
Then a black hand reached out and grabbed Sharlene's hair and pulled her towards the water. Sharlene screamed and tried to pull her hair free while Figment grabbed her arm and tried to pull her away from the pond. The hand succeed in pulling Sharlene's head under the water while Figment pulled in vain, but was having trouble because Sharlene was bigger then he was.
"Oh what has this kid been eating?" he wondered as he pulled on Sharlene's arm.
Meanwhile under the water. Sharlene opened her eyes to see nothing but black. A huge black void. Then a silhouette of a man with messy hair and white empty eyes materalized in front of her. He grinned evilly at Sharlene.
"Hello Sharlene Lane." he said his voice hollow and echoy. "It's been a while."
Sharlene gasped then coughed when her mouth filled with water. Then she felt something pulling her away from the man.
Above the surface Figment summonded all his strength and pulled Sharlene out of the water and carried her away from the pond. The water swelled up and rose five feet into the air. White eyes appeared on top and a mouth formed underneath them. The monster turned to see the purple dragon carrying the girl to the other end of the room. It snarled when he saw what he wanted was taken away from him.
"Stop them!" he roared, as he threw black water from his hands at the paper animals and trees.
The animals and trees started to turn black and become evil and menacing. The animals rose fom their posts and started to run after Figment and Sharlene while the trees pulled themselves out of the paper earth and chase after the dragon and the girl. Figment turned to see the black evil looking animals and trees chasing them.
"Oh no, he didn't!" he exclaimed in horror.
"Who did what?" Sharlene gasped. She was still shocked by what happened back at the pond.
Then Figment remembered he was carrying a 120 pound girl.
"Don't worry Sharlene. We're almost there."
"Almost wher.." Sharlene was cut off when she saw the clouds started to turn from white to a thunder storm gray and lighting and thunder filled the air.
"You mean?" she said as she realized which room was next after the Art Room.
"Yup." Figment said as he picked speed. "The Literature Room."
Whoa! what's going on? and how does that monster know Sharlene? Find out in the next few chapters if Imagination and Nightmare.