Disclaimer...It's not mine..."Obviously."
The boat rocked back and forth gently as the flow of water carried them around the curve.
The cheerful tune soon became a chorus of voices singing a repetitive set of lyrics. The boat slowly entered the structure full of singing animatronics. There were bright colors every where and representations of several different countries and nations displaying their customs, ethnicity, and style of dress. The music killed it all. It was sickeningly sweet. Dumbledore was rocking back and forth, clapping his hands in time with the music. He grinned at Severus encouraging him to join in. Snape just stared at the headmaster as if he was a few chessmen short of a game. He buried his head in his hands and waited for it to all be over.
As they all climbed out of the boats Severus scrambled to get out first, nearly tripping on the edge of the boat. He turned to glare at the headmaster who was still grinning broadly.
"See Severus that wasn't so bad."
Severus let out a small sqeek of protest.
Hagrid and Filius where the next two to exit the boat. Flitwick was bouncing around and humming cheerfully while Hagrid looked a little green in the face. Minerva stepped off the small boat and had to fight the smirk that came to her face when she saw everyone's reactions to the ride. Sible stepped off last, and Dumbledore called everyone over to discuss the next ride.
"Settle down, Severus has relayed to me that perhaps more ground may be covered if we split up. Dumbledore smiled. "Are there any objections? No one seemed to be paying attention. Severus sighed in relief, soon he would be able to go off on his own, perhaps find a dark secluded spot and hide. Tom Sawyers Island sounded nice. "Good then we shall pair up." Severus spun to face the headmaster, surely he wouldn't. Would he?
Severus looked to the others for any objections but they had all scrabbled to pair up, not wanting to be stuck with anyone they disliked. Minerva and Filius had immediately paired up. Severus watched in horror as Dumbledore walked over to Hagrid. 'This is not happening.' He thought desperately. He looked at his only option and cringed. She was standing there swaying lightly, she gave out a small hiccup and he could immediately smell sherry coming off her.
'Where in the world did she get alcohol?!" he wondered.
He frowned, "Sible?"
She turned to look at him with large glassy eyes.
"Where did you get the sherry?" He asked.
She frowned and seemed to stumble forward slightly toward him. "I beg your pardon…I am…not dunk." She slurred.
Severus rolled his eyes.
How she got the Sherry past security he would never know, he didn't really want to know, in fact he was extremely hesitant to ask.
What Severus wanted to know was, where the Alcohol came from.
"I'm going to ask you one more time. Where did you get the Sherry?"
She swayed then seemed to consider her answer carefully as if her existence depended on it.
"There was a very nice man, outside the McDonalds." She paused. "He said he'd give me a little if I did something for him."
Snape raised an eyebrow.
Sible leaned in to whisper into his ear, but ended up practically shouting.
Snape winced at the sudden burst of noise.
"He didn't smell very nice so I scourgified him." She stepped back and giggled grinning widely.
"He was so surprised that he just….ran away, leaving all those little bottles behind!"
Suddenly she became very serious.
"I couldn't just leave them behind. That would have been rude!"
Severus noticed the rest of the staff slowly inching away. He turned to face them.
"Oh no. You are not leaving me to face this."
Guilty expressions crossed their faces, and Dumbledore looked as if he was about to run. But the only thing stopping him was Minerva casually stepping on his shoelace.
Due to Sybil's condition it was decided that they would not be separating into groups. Over the next hour the Hogwarts staff spent their time exploring fantasy land. Everything went well until they reached the snow white ride. Just as the evil hag was turning away from the mirror crying "With this disguise, I'll fool them all!" everything in the ride stopped moving. In the first car sat Minerva and Albus in the front and Hagrid took up the back seat. The second cart held Snape and flitwik in front while Trelawney dozed in the back.
"What's happing? Why have we stopped?" shouted a man from further down the ride.
Suddenly the music stopped and the lights turned on, across the speaker system came the voice of the ride operator. "Please remain seated. A ride attendant will be with you shortly to help you to the exit.
Snape groaned and slid further down in the plastic seat covering his eyes from the sudden burst of light from over head. He could feel a head ache starting from just above his right temple.
A few minutes later the ride attendant came around to lead them to the exit.
Sible trailed slightly behind the rest of the group " I ...hic...told you I for..forsaw... dooom." Everyone turned to look at her at the same time with equal expressions of annoyance.
"Might I suggest," Snape sneered "that from this point onward that you keep those kinds of remarks to your self Trelawney." Then turned to billow his non existent robes, and lead the way outside to where the others were waiting.
AN/sorry it took so very long...I'm finishing up school. I exit with my trade certification next Friday. So hopefully You will see more updates from me. I just couldn't write comedy when living at school was sucking all the joy out of my life.
