I get the feeling this chapter's gonna be long.

Chapter Nine: Donald Appears

"Ok, we're here at Disneyland Paris." NiGHTS announced.

"YAAAAAAAAY!!" Jackle shouted. "Imgonnaridetherollercoastersandeatthesnacksand-- hey, what's with this long line?"

In front of the group was, well, a very long line, full of families with bawling kids.

"Ugh, those baby cries are making my ears bleed! It sounds like a child is crying next to me!" Reala complained.

"That would be Jackle." NiGHTS pointed out.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wanna go NOW!" Jackle shrieked. "What ride are we waiting for?"

"The entrance." Reala responded flatly.

"I don't care about that ride!" Jackle yelled. "There's gotta be a way to go faster. Hmm..." Then a devilish grin came across his face.

"Oh, no. Don't tell me..." Reala groaned.

Jackle reached into one of his cape pockets...

"He wouldn't!" NiGHTS's eyes widened.

Then Jackle swung his arm back...

"He would." Clawz said dully.

And then Jackle whipped out the cards he was holding at the people in front of him. Everyone in front of the line got knocked out unconscious. Behind Jackle, the people ran to the new space. Jackle whipped out even more cards so that everyone else couldn't go in. "What are you waiting for? Let's go!" Jackle exclaimed as he hurried to the entrance.

Charlotte told Reala, "I disapprove of Jackle's behavior. Are you going to follow him, encourage him, or teach him a lesson?"

"Well, he did get rid of the crying baby noises." Reala answered. "I'm gonna go with...number 1." He started to follow Jackle, but Charlotte pulled his arm.

"Ow, ow, ow!" Reala cried, jumping back. He rubbed his sore arm and glared at Charlotte. "I thought you were supposed to make me feel better!"

"I'm also here to teach you proper manners. And that pain that you're feeling is actually helping your arm heal." Charlotte reason. "Anyway, the right thing to do is wait in line."

"But--" Reala began to protest.

"Don't worry, Reala, we'll save you some snacks." NiGHTS promised. She, Jackle and Clawz rushed in, leaving Reala behind with Charlotte.

Reala stiffly crossed his arms and grumbled, "This is the worst vacation ever."

"No complaining." Charlotte said. "We can use this time to do stretches, and to teach you some things about being a proper gentleman."

"Are you for kidding me?"

"Nope." said Charlotte brightly and flexed Reala's arm.

"OWW!"

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Donbalon poked his head up from behind a bench. He cackled quietly to himself when he spotted NiGHTS, Jackle, and Clawz walking towards his trap. "Once they get on the ride, they won't be getting off! I just need to make sure they're gonna go on--" Someone sat on the bench, blocking Donbalon's view. "Hey! Move outta the way! I'm trying to spy, here!"

The man jumped off the bench, startled. He looked uneasily at Donbalon, then quickly walked away.

Donbalon shook his head and resumed his spying. But he lost sight of NiGHTS and the others. "Hey, where'd they go?"

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"NiGHTS, can we go in The Haunted Mansion? Please???" Jackle begged. "It's supposed to be REALLY scary!"

"It can't be any more scary than Nightmare." NiGHTS said.

"But we're humans/animal, so we might find it scary." Clawz reasoned.

NiGHTS agreed. "Yeah, ok. I just hope Ree won't mind we went without him."

Jackle scoffed. "Puh-lease! Ree's not scared of anything!"

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"I'm scared." said Reala in a shaky voice. "I don't wanna do this."

Charlotte simply smiled. "Reala, you need to relax. Just step down from this tree and apologize to everyone. They won't hurt you, I promise."

"Really?"

"Really."

Reala took a deep breath. "Ok. But you better be right." He peeked through the branches and didn't see anyone around. Slowly he climbed down from the tree and quietly sighed.

"Hey, there he is!"

Reala gasped and spun around. He then saw an angry mob of red-faced parents and screaming children rushing towards him. Reala pressed his back against the tree and froze as individuals were shouting at him, getting closer.

"I payed good money for this!"

"I had to skip work to bring my kids here!"

"He must be a terrorist!"

"You're a jerk!"

"Mommy, I saw him in a nightmare!"

Before the angry mob was close enough to beat him up, Reala shouted, "Wait! Please! I...I'm sorry my friend-- my friend's friend knocked you out with those cards!"

The crowd became silent and one man asked, "How do we know you're not lying?"

A woman shouted, "Yeah, why should we believe a weirdo like you?"

Reala looked around at everyone, not sure what to say. He started to panic, then he got an idea and forced himself to be really out of character. Reala started to sniff and spoke in a wobbly voice, "It...It's just so hard..." He pretended to cry. "You know? I mean, every since we got here we've been ridiculed, laughed at." Reala wiped a fake tear from his eye. "My friend's friend is a crazy psycopath. He escaped from the asylum and me and my friends are the only ones who can stop him from...from..." Reala ran out of ideas, so he broke down and sobbed, "I can't say it! It's too horrible!" He pretended to bawl.

Everyone in the crowd now murmured sadly or sympathetically, and a lot were crying.

Charlotte climbed down from the tree and patted Reala's shoulder. She adressed the crowd, "Please, have a heart. Can't you see this poor man's suffered enough?"

Reala was a bit surprised that Charlotte was playing along, but he didn't show it. He pretended to calm down and wipe his eyes. He was relieved to find that the crowd had decided not to beat him up and to just let him go through the entrance first.

"Well that was an...interesting performance." Charlotte commented once she and Reala were inside the park.

Reala shrugged. "I kinda improvised. I mean, not really. The part about Jackle being a psycopath was true. And if he was put in an asylum, he probably would escape from it." He glanced at Charlotte. "Thanks."

Charlotte smiled warmly. "My pleasure."

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Jackle yawned. "BOR-ING!" While everyone else thought that the special effects in the ride were so life-like, Jackle knew that The Haunted Mansion had lots of inaccuracies about horror.

"Jackle, just pretend that you like it and don't bother anyone else!" NiGHTS hissed.

"Pretend to like mere lights, mirrors, and plastic? Yeah, when we're in Home Depot!" Jackle responded flatly. He punched a crappy mechanical witch that kept cackling annoyingly beside him, and it broke down.

NiGHTS groaned and hoped no one saw them.

When the ride was over, Jackle asked, "Where's Reala and his new girlfriend?"

"Jackle, Charlotte is not Reala's girlfriend." NiGHTS said firmly. Jackle and Clawz snickered. "What?"

"Jealous much?" Clawz teased.

"No. It's just that you're wrong about that." NiGHTS spoke. "Uh, let's get some cotton candy!"

"YEAH! Cotton candy!" Jackle agreed. He ran to the nearest concession stand, but bumped into someone large.

"Hey, watch where you're going!" the round man snapped.

"Watch where you're standing!" Jackle countered.

"Jackle!" NiGHTS grabbed his arm and apologized to the man, "I'm sorry, my friend-- my friend's friend is kinda rude."

Then man's mood suddenly changed. "Don't worry about it." he said, smiling. "By the way, my name's Donald. Nice to meet you, NiGHTS."

"It's a pleasure-- wait a minute, I never told you my name." NiGHTS said in confusion.

The man froze. "Oh...uh...yes you did." he lied.

"Uh, no I didn't."

"Well I...uh..." The man glanced from side to side nervously, then ran off.

"That was weird." Clawz muttered. "Come on, I'm hungry."

"Hey, guys!"

NiGHTS and her friends turned around and saw Reala and Charlotte walking up to them.

NiGHTS smiled. "Reala! You made it at last!" She ran over to him and hugged him. She pulled back and looked quizzically at his head. "Why is there a book on top of your head?"

"Charlotte's teaching me how to walk properly. I managed to keep it on for 10 whole minutes!" Reala told her excitedly. "And my back doesn't hurt anymore!"

"He's a wonderful student." Charlotte complimented.

NiGHTS felt a twitch of envy, but tried to ignore it. She wasn't going to be jealous of anyone and that was that. "So, Reala, what ride do you want to go on?"

"DON'T go to the Haunted Mansion." Jackle said stubbornly. "It's a complete disgrace to Nightmarens everywhere!"

Reala thought. "Hmm...how about...Pirates of the Carribean? That one looks cool."

The others agreed and started to head there. Meanwhile...

Donbalon was watching them from under a concession stand. "Finally! Now to follow them." He started to crawl, but felt something on top of him. It turns out he was so large that the stand got stuck on his back, so he had to carry it while crawling after them. It wasn't so bad because it was a useful disguise, but it wasn't so great for the people who were trying to order food from a stand that kept moving.

Once he got to the Pirates of the Carribean ride, he squeezed himself out of the stand and went through the "Do not enter" door. He quickly changed into a pirate costume and hid in the crowd of mechanical pirates. He grabbed a real sword from the "Do not use" boxes and waited.

Back with NiGHTS and her friends, they went through the "Enter here" door. They found themselves on a boat along with other people.

NiGHTS looked around at the dark room they were in. "Nothing seems to be happening." she remarked. "I don't see what the big deal is about--"

All of a sudden, several mechanical pirates (as well as a certain hit-man) came out of the shadows and looked like they were attacking the ship.

Jackle jumped behind Reala and shrieked, "AAAAAHH! REALA! PIRATES!!"

"Those aren't real, Jackle." Reala sighed, rolling his eyes. "See?" He went up to one and yanked the pirate's arm, which came off in his hand. "...Oops." Reala dropped it casually and whistled as if nothing happened.

Jackle saw this and said out loud, "Hey, that's pretty cool! I wanna try that!" He turned around, saw a pirate swinging a sword right at him, grabbed his arm and pulled hard. The "pirate" cried out in a Wilhelm scream kinda manner as he lost balance and fell into the water. Jackle frowned. "Aw, his arm didn't come off." He then brightened. "But at least I defeated a pirate! Yay me!"

Donbalon resurfaced, gasping for air. He remembered he couldn't swim, so he thrashed in the water, trying to stay afloat. Apparently, no one had noticed him fall off. "Help! Pirate overboard!" he yelled. Then Donbalon realized he could touch bottom, so he stood up with the water only coming up to his fat waist. "Oh." He sloshed out the back door and decided to go with Plan B.

Whatever it was. It doesn't matter, because that failed, too. Along with Plan C. And the plan with the clowns and the roast beef sandwiches. Plus various other plans. Wow, he stinks. Let's go see what NiGHTS and her friends were up to.

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"PLEASE, Reala???" Jackle begged.

"No." Reala said firmly. "I'm not doing it."

"Just put it on for a second! One second!"

"Not a chance."

NiGHTS went in front of Jackle. "Pretty please, Ree?" She put her face close to his and batted her eyelashes. "Do it for me?"

Reala found it very hard to look away from NiGHTS' beautiful eyes, so he sighed and grumbled, "Oh, all right. But ONLY for a second." Reala took his hat off, hesitated, then put on the Mickey Mouse ears.

Jackle immediately took a picture with his camera phone. "AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! YOU LOOK SO FUNNYYYYYYY!!!!! I'M GONNA POST THIS ALL OVER THE INTERNET!"

Reala's eyes widened in terror and he yelled, "Nooo!" as he lunged at Jackle. He grabbed whatever was in Jackle's hand. "Ha! Try posting it without a phone!"

"Ok." Jackle said calmly. He burst into laughter. "Because that's not a real phone!"

"Huh??" Reala looked at the object in his hand. It was actually a card that read "You suck!". Reala crushed the card in his hand and glared in fury at Jackle. "You better not."

"Oops, I think I might accidently press...send!" Jackle pressed the button on his phone.

"JACKLE!!!!!!" Reala was about to go for his throat, but Charlotte held him back.

"Revenge is not a motive I promote with my students." she told him.

"But-- but you saw! You saw what he did!"

"Who's the gentleman?"

Reala mumbled, "I am."

Charlotte asked again, "Who's the gentleman?"

"I am!" Reala repeated clearly, crossing his arms.

"Now don't you forget it." Charlotte then chuckled.

"What?" Reala asked.

Charlotte grinned. "It's a little hard to take you seriously in those Mickey Mouse ears."

Reala realized he was still wearing them. "Aah!" He ripped off the Mickey Mouse ears and quickly put on his jester's hat.

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Donbalon realized that he was out of ideas. "What can I do now? Maybe they know that I'm after them... Wait!" He saw Jackle sneak into a door. "If he's going in there, then the others must be in there, too!" Donbalon thought out loud. He quickly went into the attraction...

And found himself alone on a small boat. "...Am I back on the Pirates of the Carribean ride?" Donbalon asked himself. He then heard singing.

"It's a small world, after all! It's a small world after all!"

Donbalon's eyes widened. "N-no! No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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"Jackle, where were you?" NiGHTS asked.

Jackle snickered. He was holding a wrench and some wires. "I rigged the It's a Small World ride so that whoever gets on it can't get off because it never ends! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!"

Reala smacked Jackle. "What are you doing? Get rid of the evidence!"

"Come on, guys!" said NiGHTS positively. "We got all of Paris to see!" So they continued having a good time exploring Disneyland and more of Paris, and then they headed to the hotel. What did you expect?

Really. Oh by the way, I like pie. :)