N/A: Okay, time for Disney World now I'm working off memory here, eight years ago, so somethings might be different from what I remember. Also, Sophie is a little OC in this chapter and she's four and eleven months old. I want Sophie to be like Jack's older sister somewhat, so Sophie is about a year older than Jack. I also now realized that originally in the movie Sophie was like two so we're just going to pretend she's four, okay?
Disclaimer: I don't own Rise of the Guardians or Walt Disney, wouldn't that be awesome though?
Chapter 10
As the plane started to roll down the runway, Jack was startled awake. He looked around worriedly.
"Hey, buddy, it's okay. The plane's just taking off," Jamie said, reaching over to stroke Jack's hair. Jamie could hear Bunny's light swearing coming from in front and North's chuckles. Okay, so Bunny wasn't going to be helpful. As the plane launched into the air, Jack let out a light whimper. Once they were in the air the seatbelt light flashed off. Jamie unbuckled his seat belt, reaching over to undo Jack's before scooping the toddler into his arms. The toddler buried himself into the embrace and sniffled. Jamie began rubbing Jack's back, whispering into his ear.
Sophie peered around the seat, twisting in her seat before pulling on her seatbelt. Looking down, she pressed the middle of the buckle before jumping down off the seat. She came over and crawled onto Jack's abandoned seat and poked the toddler in the arm. Blue eyes peered over at her before Jack raised his head off of Jamie's shoulder. Sophie smiled a big toothy grin before opening her arms. Jack looked hesitantly before crawling over the armrest. Sophie let out a small laugh, enveloping the white-haired boy in a bone-crushing hug. They stayed that way for a few minutes before Sophie jumped down and raced behind them back to her seat, picking her blue backpack off the ground before rushing back. Jack sat confused for a moment as Sophie pulled out the tray on the back of Tooth's seat. She dug through the backpack before pulling out a coloring box and 64-pack of crayons placing them on the tray. She hopped up on the seat next to Jack, the chair barely big enough to hold the both of them. Jamie quietly lifted up the armrest before moving to sit next to Monty behind the two toddlers.
"Video Games?" Jamie said.
"Duh!"
In front, Sophie was flipping through the pages before landing on two that had yet to be colored.
"Okay, you take the wight and I'll take the left," she said, opening the box of crayons. The two began their work, coloring for over an hour. When they were done the two hopped down out of the seat before running up to Bunnymund. The Pooka raised an eyebrow at them before he had a lap full of two kids and a coloring book shoved into his face. Taking the book from their hands, he examined the two pages. On one side was an orange basket with multi colored eggs and the other side was a blue and grey bunny. Emerald eyes looked up to see a set of blue and green looking up at him in anticipation.
"Well?"
"Do you like it?"
Bunnymund looked back down at the two drawings. It was obvious the two toddlers had spent a lot of time working on these. There wasn't a single mark outside of the lines and in some cases extra marks had been added to complete the look. The Pooka smiled, "It's perfect, ya ankle-biters. It's just…perfect."
"Yes!"
"I knew he'd like it!" The two jumped off before going back to their seat and continuing. However, when the familiar sound of crayon scratching paper was no longer heard nor was the giggles, ten sets of eyes were looking over at the two youngest. Cooing and chuckling filled the plane. Sophie was leaning her back against the window of the lane her arms wrapped around Jack's waist. The white-haired toddler was slumped over onto the blonde' shoulder, his mouth hanging open slightly. Sophie's blonde hair was falling into her face but light snores could be heard. Deciding to leave the two to their rest, the Guardians and Children of Burgess turned around again. Not a peep was heard from the two youngest for the rest of the plane ride.
"Jack? Sophie? It's time to wake up, we're here," Jamie said shaking the two awake. Most of the people on the plane were filling the aisles, trying to get out or retrieve overhead luggage. Jamie was busy packing all of Sophie crayons back into her pack. The two toddlers rubbed their eyes and yawned.
"Come on guys," Jamie said. Everyone was filing out of the plane. Tooth picked the blonde girl up while Jamie grabbed Jack's hand. The large group made it to the terminal and then the luggage pick-up. North, Sandy, and Bunnymund went off to get the luggage. The Pooka grabbed Claude and Caleb, who whined and protested as they followed. After several minutes they returned, bags rolling behind them.
"Okay, so now we need to get down to the buses so we can get to the hotel. From there we can check in, our hotel should be ready by two so we can drop off the luggage and go get lunch," Tooth said before leading them down to the buses. The lines weren't very long, with the exception of one which looped around the waiting area. The group didn't have to wait long before their bus came. Loading the luggage into the under compartments before the group stepped onto the bus. Lush velvet seats and a couple of TVs greeted them. As soon as the bus was filled, the bus driver pulled out of the parking lot before beginning their journey.
"Alright folks, it's about a twenty-five minute journey to Pop Century Resort. So please, sit back, relax, and enjoy the informational movie brought to you by Walt Disney, Where Dreams Come True!"
"Where staying in a 1950's hotel? Does this place even have a swimming pool?" Caleb asked.
"What about a TV? You know so we can…find out the weather and stuff?" Claude said. North chuckled, patting the boy on the back.
"This place has everything we will need, do not worry, my friends," North said. They walked into the reception area. Tooth and Pippa went up to the counter to check in while the others either sat down or roamed the area looking at the framed poster's hanging from the wall. Tooth came back over telling North to give the luggage to a bell hop waiting at the door.
"Alright now is everybody hungry?" Tooth asked. A chorus yeses filled the room. "Well, it just so happens that we all have a reservation at the Crystal Palace for Lunch."
The group rode another bus in. No one, however, knew where it was taking them. Getting off the bus and walking though the main gates, after going through the dreaded security check again, the group started down Main Street before turning the corner to see it…
Cinderella's castle.
"Wow, that is way bigger than I thought it was," Cupcake, who had yet to say an entire word on the trip, said. The rest nodded in agreement. Tooth, however, was busy ushering them down the street saying something along the lines of "We are going to be late!" "They won't hold our reservation!," and "North would you move your butt I swear I've seen snails move faster!"
"But Tooth, it's-it's the castle and we're in Disney World. You can't expect us to not want to look!" Monty said.
"We can be tourists later! At the moment we are going to be hungry people who have ten minutes to get to a restaurant on the other side of said castle. Now move you cabooses!" Tooth exclaimed.
After ushering, almost pushing them, through the tunnel in the castle and further down the street the group came to a stop outside a white colossal building.
"This is it, Crystal Palace! Come on let's go eat, I'm starving!"
"They have a buffet! Oh, can I live here!" Jamie said. They had all taken their seats and were waiting on drinks. The waitresses had already put two long dining tables together before they had arrived. "Can we go get food now? Please?"
"Jamie has an addiction to buffets," Pippa said to the four confused Guardians, "You shouldn't worry about."
"Alright, mate, let's go get food," Bunny said getting up, "Are ya'll just gonna sit there or you gonna get your bums up for food. Ain't gonna come over here on its own, ya know." North chuckled before he too got up followed by the rest of them. Jamie grabbed both Sophie and Jack's hands, leading them over to the tables. He handed each of them a plate before leading them over to the kid's buffet.
"Okay, what do you guys want? Don't touch anything just point. It's really hot and could burn you, okay?" Jamie said, receiving two nods. He placed a heap of pasta and cheese onto both of their plates and couple loaves of bread. For himself, he grabbed a few chicken nuggets and French fries. He led them both back to the table before digging in.
They were all almost done with their food when the characters came out. Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore, and Piglet started walking around. Sophie had spotted them first, her fork dropping and making a loud clattering noise on the plate.
"Jack! Jack! Look it!" Sophie said, pointing at the characters that had started to go around the table.
"Oh, right! Where are the signatures books?" Tooth said, digging through the purple pocketbook, "Ah, here they are. Okay, now there's a book for everyone. When you see a character you can go up and get a signature to put in the books, okay?" Mutual nodding was seen and North helped pass out the books. Piglet and Winnie the Pooh came over. Well, let's just say there was a lot of picture taking with disposable cameras. Sophie and Jack had dragged Jamie into a picture with Winnie the Pooh while Cupcake pulled Caleb, Monty, and Pippa into another. Claude had snagged a picture with Bunny and Tigger. After signatures and photos were taken and the bill was paid, the group made their way outside.
"Hotel iz not open till two, right? It iz only one. We should spend day here, no?" North said. A chorus of agreement was heard. "So, what do we do first?"
Sandy walked in front of them, a pencil and pad in hand. That was the only backfire of the spell, there was no way for Sandy to communicate so Bunny had offered a pencil and pad to the distressed Guardian. Sandy held the pad up, "Map?"
"Sandy is right, mate, we need a map to know where were goin'. Where do suppose we could find one?"
Pippa spoke up, "There are information booths around here. We must have passed at least three on the way here." And then began the journey to find an information booth. What really should have taken five minutes, turned into a twenty minute adventure at the end of which a booth and map were found. Bunnymund held up the map in front of the group.
"Where to first?"
"Oh, we should go to the Haunted Mansion!" Caleb said.
"Yeah, it's supposed to be really scary!"
"I don't know you guys," Tooth said, glancing down at the two toddlers, "I guess we could give it a try, it's only down this street anyway."
"YES!"
"This is so awesome!" Monty said. The group was waiting in line, which was surprisingly very short. Then again, most kids were school seeing as it was September. But you know Burgess and their vacation after school just opened policy, ha.
"Do you think this going to be okay for Jack and Sophie?" Tooth whispered to North, "I don't want to scare them already."
"Relax; I am sure they will be fine. They have us and Jamie. It is perfect!"
They were ushered inside a dark room, Sophie grabbed Jack's hand. A booming laughter echoed through the area. A speaker came on, echoing through the room, "Welcome to the Haunted Mansion! Please remember to keep all hands and feet inside the car at all times. I hope to see you the other side…alive!"
"Jack?"
"He's just kidding, Soph," Jamie said. A door opened on the other side, inside a row of carts was coming through. "Come on, Monty, ride with me." Jack and Sophie, with the help of Pippa got in one cart, Pippa climbing into Cupcake's cart. The wins had taken the seats behind Sandy and Bunnymund, leaving North and Tooth in the front seats. The ride started off, passing skeletons and windows with lighting flashing on the other side. There was statues and headless people, cob webs filling any empty corner.
"Jack?" Sophie said, scooting into the white-haired boy's side. The other toddler wrapped an arm around the blonde girl's shoulders.
"It's not weal, Sophie. It's just made to look weal," he said. The other girl relaxed before joining him in laughing at the ridiculous ghosts. The ride came into an open room at the end of a tunnel. Inside thousands of holo-graphic ghosts came flying from the floor to the ceiling in a never ending cycle. After that the ride was filled with more graves, a dining room serving a man's head for dinner, and more ghosts and ghouls. The ride came to an unfortunate end.
"Can we go again?" Monty said.
"Yeah, that was awesome!" Pippa replied. North let out a chuckle.
"We have all week, we come back again. Try something else, da?" he said before being met with six pouting faces. Pippa walked over to Tooth, who had opened the map. She pointed at something at one of the rides.
"This one."
"It's a world of laughter, a world of tears
It's a world of hopes, it's a world of fear
there's so much that we share
that its time we're aware
it's a small world after all
it's a small world after all
it's a small world after all
it's a small world after all
it's a small, small world
There is just one moon and one golden sun
And a smile means friendship to everyone.
Though the mountains divide
And the oceans are wide
It's a small, small world"
"Gah! Get me off this ride before me ears start to bleed!" Bunny said, ripping the seatbelt off of him. He quickly got up and ran out of the ride. The others were laughing too hard to tell him to come back. As it turns out "It's a Small World" was not a favorite of the Pooka.
"Can we go on it again?" Jack said.
"No mate, we are not going back on that again!" Bunnymund said. The other kids shared a smirk.
"Well, how about we split up and meet back at 'Dumbo the Flying Elephant' in twenty minutes. That way Jack and Sophie can go back on and we can go to the Haunted Mansion one more time," Jamie said. Bunny shared a look with North before the three Guardians went off to the Mansion, leaving Tooth behind with Jack, Sophie, and Pippa, who had refused to go back onto that ride. The four were quick to get back in line.
"Alright, guys, one more rides before we have to go back. It's getting close to dinner time," Tooth said.
"Awwww!"
"Can we go on the tea cups?" Cupcake asked. And so Bunny found a new ride to hate as the tea cups spun faster and faster.
"I'm goin' to kill ya'll for this!" But his only answer was the sound of laughter. Afterwards the makeshift family began their ride back to the hotel. The room was ready and their luggage was already brought up.
"Okay, we eat dinner and then go to the hotel rooms," Tooth said. They walked into the dining room only to stop in wonder. The food was broken down into two sections: a pizzeria and what looked like a grocery store set-up. There were even cash registers to check the food out at. "Okay so who wants what?"
In the end they had ordered to large pizza. It was safe to say that there was no left overs.
North and Tooth led the group up to the hotel room but not before passing the pool. The pool was shaped into a bowling in with retro lounge chairs surrounding it and beach balls floating in the water.
"Can we go swimming?" Jamie asked.
"By the time we unpack our clothes, your food should be digested. So, yes," Tooth said. The group was stationed in the middle floor. There was a row of rooms in one hallway entirely dictated to the family. In one room, North and Tooth would be staying. The room attached to that one was where Jack and Sophie would be sleeping. Bunnymund and Sandy's room was attached to Cupcake's and Pippa's room. Finally, Jamie and Monty were sharing the room next to the twins. Tooth handed out the cards to the six children. "Now, you have to be very careful to not lose these cards. If you leave the room without it, the door automatically locks and you're stuck outside, got it?" Now, if in any chance you lose them I have a spare okay. But only if you lose them!"
The children set about putting the clothes their parents had packed away into the drawers. Each room was equipped with two queen beds, two sets of drawers, a table and two chairs, and a 28" plasma TV. It was about twenty more minutes till they all exited the rooms, swimming suits on and cards in hand. Tooth, in order to make sure she wouldn't mix the cards up and taped a piece of paper with each other names on it. She collected the cards from the other kids before sending them down to the pool with North, Sandy, and Bunny. Turning back, she opened the door to Jack and Sophie's room. Sophie had successfully gotten the blue and green striped swim suit on. Jack was in the process of figuring out how to tie the strings on the Nemo swimming shorts. Tooth giggled before reaching down and tying a bow for the boy. She handed them each a white, fluffy towel before grabbing her pocketbook and heading out the door.
Downstairs the Burgess children were laughing and splashing around. Jamie and Pippa swam over to the two younger children as they came down. Tooth secured a floaty on each of their backs before pushing the towards the pool. Sophie hopped in and Pippa gave her a piggy back ride towards the others. Jack, however, stood by the edge nervously looking at the water.
"Jack, what's wrong?" Jamie asked, concerned. The toddler sat down at the edge before cautiously dipping his feet in.
"I don't know how to swim," he murmured. Jamie gave a soft smile and picked the toddler up before dunking him down into the water. The boy let out a gasp before realizing he wasn't sinking.
"Silly, you don't need to know. You have a floaty on to keep you above the surface. Besides, I can teach you!" Jamie said. After reviewing a few swimming techniques, Jack finally got the hand of it and was able to swim over to the group. Jamie picked the white-haired youth up, placing him on his shoulders before running around the shallow end of the pool, doing a celebratory dance. The group stayed at the pool for another three hours before heading up to bed, excited for the adventures of tomorrow.