A/N: This chapter is a little shorter and I was thinking of just including it and the next chapter in Chapter 5. But I thought I would tease up a little more with this quick little scene. Chapter's 7 and 8 should be up sometime this week!
The area music to Toon Lagoon was bouncy and fun. It really captured the theme of the island, which were old comic strip characters and cartoons. If you listened closely when you walked past the gift shops you could hear Betty Boop singing.
"Maybe we should skip this island." Derek said. This was his territory, and he knew that there was no possible way anyone here would be behind something. Bluto would be the only one who could do anything but he was too busy with Popeye.
"It's you're island. You're call." Irene said.
"Skip it." Derek said. Irene shrugged and kept on walking.
"If you say so." She sighed. The group kept on walking. But the more they walked the more Derek felt like someone was wrong. Maybe skipping over the park was the worst idea he ever had. Irene was already taking leadership, so she should have told him no. But he had already made the decision to skip it so he kept going with it. The kept past the gift shops, and Bluto's Bilgerat Barges, then around to the games. Many cast members were trying to haggle them to play their games for prizes like giant stuffed Minions or inflatable's. Irene wanted to stop there and play. She was so good at those games. There wasn't a single carnie game she wasn't good at. Whenever they challenged her to play she felt like she had to accept. But they were on a mission, and a giant stuffed Minion wasn't going to help her.
"Wait!" Tara shouted. She shoved her hands in her pockets and started pulling out spare change. Everyone just stared at her. "I like to squirt the riders on Dudley Do Rights. Can I?" she asked. She didn't wait for a response. She just ran with it. Tara bolted over to a small box and put in 50 cents on three water guns and proceeded to press the buttons. But when the log came around, no one was in it. She waited for the next one, and nobody was in it.
"Really?" she asked. "I wasted so much change on nothing!"
"No one? They're running empty? But it's not even cold out. Why are they running empty?" Alyson asked. She stood on the side of the bridge facing the drop of Dudley Do Rights. Each log flume that dropped down the hill was completely empty.
"Make a note of it." Logan said. "Could be something."
"Or it could be nothing." Elijah said. "They run empty cars all the time. Why is this any different?" he asked.
"When they run empty cars it's for testing. But it's running on its normal cycle." Alyson said. "That's fishy."
"It it's nothing major maybe we should keep going?" Derek asked.
"Yeah, we should move on to Jurassic Park." Irene motioned for the group to come back together and press on.
