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Chapter Seven: Opportunities (Part 2)
(PREVIOUSLY ONLOST AT SEA)
Dipper checked his watch anxiously. "Well, here we go. It's seven o'clock, which means it's time to start serving dinner."
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"Oh, right." Pacifica cleared her throat. "This food shortage is absolute cow poop! If I was in charge, we'd eat all the food we want!"
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Dipper stood up on the table. "Listen up! We do not have a lot of food! But we try to give you as much as we can so that we don't run out so quickly! Because if we give it all to you now like Pacifica wants to do, then we'll have no food for tomorrow! That being said, if you're gonna sit here and complain about the portion size, then you may as well not have your ration. So if that's your deal, then leave now or forever hold your silence!"
The party room became dead silent, much to the dismay of Gideon and Pacifica.
"I can't believe you all are buying this!" Gideon scoffed.
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Soos had said earlier that the engine had been dried and reassembled, but it could not be turned on from the bridge. So he and Miranda needed someone who was good with wires and such, like Candy, to help them figure out how to get the engine going.
While the three of them worked, Dipper looked out the bridge's windshield. The sun was almost set, but thick rain clouds made it look darker than he was used to. The wind speeds around the yacht were getting faster and faster each minute.
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Miranda frowned. "So I'm guessing that you don't like that."
Immediately following her comment, there was a nearby flash of lightning followed by a loud clap of thunder, causing her to jump.
"Or that," Miranda added.
"Both of those are really bad news," Dipper said. "We need to get back to the below deck now!"
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"I think Candy and Waddles are still back in the bridge!" Soos exclaimed.
"This is not good!" Dipper said. "They're both in grave danger!"
"What do we do?" Soos said.
Dipper thought for a moment before speaking. "I'm gonna go back to get them!"
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Meanwhile, Gideon sat on the steps near the trapdoor and was miserable. Dipper was still the leader!
Gideon could not take this for much longer! He had to do something.
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Curious, Gideon peeked his head out the trapdoors and saw two things. First, he saw that the yacht was in the midst of another ferocious storm. And second, he saw Dipper running away from the trapdoor and toward the bridge.
This was the opportunity Gideon needed. He could go out there and throw Dipper overboard. With all the confusion and disarray the storm caused added with the darkness from the cloud cover, Dipper wouldn't see the attack coming.
Gideon was not going to let Dipper win.
He was not going to let this perfect opportunity pass him by.
He was not going to lose.
Gideon bolted out onto the main deck and charged after Dipper.
Dipper burst into the bridge. "Candy! What are you still doing here? Both you and Waddles both need to come with me below deck now!"
Mabel's pig squealed in fear, as if to agree.
"But I'm almost done!" Candy protested. "You and Waddles go ahead of me and I'll catch up! There's nothing that will stop me from finishing!"
Suddenly, there was a bright flash of lightning immediately followed by a clap of thunder that nearly deafened Candy and Dipper, causing them both to jump and press their hands to their ears.
"Except for that," Candy said as she cautiously moved her hands away from her ears a few seconds later.
"Then let's not waste any time." Dipper untied Waddles and led the pig and Candy out of the bridge and down the steps on the side of the cabin.
The three of them had been running across the deck for a few seconds when Dipper was suddenly tackled.
Another flash of lightning revealed that Gideon was the attacker.
"What are you doing?" Dipper yelled as he pulled himself free of his enemy's grasp.
"You're getting off this boat, Dipper!" Gideon shouted back. "I'm tired of you being in charge!"
"Nobody is officially in charge!" Dipper snapped.
"Well, the way you've been acting on this yacht seems to say otherwise!" Gideon countered.
Suddenly, Candy (who now held onto Waddles' leash) screamed and Mabel's pig squealed along in terror.
Dipper looked in the direction both of them were looking and saw that they were staring at what appeared to be a ten foot tall palm tree flying with the wind toward the yacht.
Dipper ran over and pushed Candy and Waddles out of the way and the tree slammed into the spot on the deck where they'd previously been standing.
The three of them slid for a few feet before stopping. Waddles immediately got back up, squealed, and ran towards the front of the boat.
Candy and Dipper, however, still lay on the deck.
"Y-you saved me," Candy stammered.
"Well we can't celebrate yet," Dipper said. "We still need to get to safety."
At that moment, there was another flash of lightning and this allowed Dipper to watch in full light as the yacht slammed sideways into a really large rock in the water. This caused the boat to nearly split in half across the middle.
Dipper stood up and watched as several kids ran up from the party room onto the main deck and began to scream and panic.
"Oh, no," Dipper said. "This is bad. This is really bad."
"What do we do?" Candy asked.
Before he could answer, Dipper was tackled by Gideon and the two of them rolled across the deck for about fifteen seconds.
Eventually, Gideon was on top and had Dipper pinned below him.
"HA! I won!" Gideon taunted.
"Are you kidding me?" Dipper screamed. "Can't you find something else to worry about? Especially at a time like this?! All hell has broken loose for crying out loud! The boat is gonna sink, everyone's running to and fro in a frenzied panic, and to top it all off, we're trapped in a monster storm for the second night in a row. We could have wandered into the hurricane for crying out loud!"
"Well, here's what I know," Gideon snarled. "This boat, whether it floats or sinks, will be a lot better off without you!" He pulled Dipper to his feet and shoved him away.
Dipper stumbled backwards and he eventually tripped over the side of the boat. But he did manage to grab onto the railings with both hands.
Gideon walked over to the railing and slammed his fist down on Dipper's hand.
"Ow!" Dipper pulled away the hand Gideon had hit and was now holding onto the railing with one hand.
"Goodbye Dipper Pines," Gideon said with an evil smirk on his face. "Do you have any last words before I make you fall into the water below?"
Before anything else could happen, the side of the boat Dipper and Gideon were on slammed into something really large and hard.
Because of this, two things happened: First, both Dipper and Gideon were thrown off the boat. Then, the yacht itself turned on its side ninety degrees.
As Dipper fell, he closed his eyes, spread out his arms and waited for the inevitable. If he was going to die, then this was the way to go.
A second later, Dipper's body slammed into…sand.
Almost immediately after, Gideon landed face down in the sand a few feet to Dipper's right.
"What in the world…?" Dipper was incredibly confused. But as he sat up, another nearby flash of lightning (it was a really stormy night) allowed him to see that he and Gideon were on a sandy beach. He also saw that the yacht lay on its side near the water and many of the kids who had run above deck in a frenzy were now falling into the sand. But those who hadn't were not streaming out of the boat, most of them screaming and crying.
Dipper even saw Waddles running in a circle, squealing in terror the whole time.
Suddenly it all made sense to Dipper. The tree in the wind, the rock in the water, the constant lightning…the yacht had been approaching an island!
Gideon lifted his head up. "This doesn't…but the ocean…land?" His head fell on its side as he lost consciousness.
Dipper looked at the chaos surrounding him. The kids needed someone to assure them that everything would be alright. He tried to get on his feet, but his head spun too violently and he passed out.
Before I sign out, I thought I might let you all know something. Recently, I've been trying to keep the days I update fan fictions consistent, like how I always update Lost at Sea on Mondays. But after putting together my weekly schedule, I realized that it just wasn't working. So I rearranged the schedule based on my own personal day to day schedule (aka how much free time I have each day) and how well each fan fiction is doing. So the following schedule is the best way to go and will become effective next week (By the way, this author's note will be put at the end of every one of my updates this week): Mondays- Norrisville Lockdown, Tuesdays-Lost at Sea, Wednesdays- 1st Annual Gravity Falls Fan Fiction Awards, Thursdays- Digital Falls, Fridays- Abduction. The reason I'm telling you this is so you know when to check back for my fan fics :). Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter!
~Jameer14
