Chapter 12: The Most Magical Place on Earth
"I'm walking right down the middle of Main Street USA!" Flobie sang loudly, marching along the cable car tracks that led down the center of Main Street at the Magic Kingdom.
I'll admit my eyes did get a little watery when I saw Cinderella's Castle elegantly sitting at the end of Main Street. Pictures, images from other people's thoughts for this matter, just don't do it justice. Fang seemed to look at it longer than I thought he would and let out an almost inaudible sigh.
He came here with Max and the rest of the flock awhile back for a couple hours. Flobie told me.
"Have you been here before, Fang?" I asked, trying to sound casual. I wanted to know more about Fang, but not by having Flobie look at his private thoughts.
"Yeah, I came with my flock. We only got to do a couple things on the left hand side of the Magic Kingdom." He motioned over to the Adventureland entrance which had a wooden bridge and lit tiki torches.
"Well, it looks like an adventure over there. I'm pretty sure we've all had enough adventure to last us a couple lifetimes. Why don't we go into Tomorrowland?" I really wanted to run over there. I could see mini rocket ships zooming around with people in them about a hundred feet in the sky. That's an attention getter.
"Let's go on Space Mountain." Flobie was looking at her map again and started leading us through the land of the future. Everything was structured creatively. Even the palm trees were made out of metal and glowed. Colorful signs about outer space and Tomorrowland attractions were everywhere. The Cast Members were even themed and had their clothes matching the attractions they worked at.
I even saw a trashcan zooming around and talking to guests, asking for their garbage to snack on. Little kids were hugging it. I thought that us bird kids were weird, but then again we don't hug trash containers. Disney World really was its own strange planet. A strange, yet wonderful place.
"That thing better be clean." I whispered to Flobie, pointing at the trashcan that was now telling people to do the YMCA. It didn't have any limbs, but it lead the dance somehow.
"Oh yeah, Disney even uses a special underground trash system. Push, that's the talking trashcan's name, is perfectly clean. I just saw a bunch of cast members wiping down the normal trashcans." Flobie yet again amazed me with stolen knowledge, "Oh, Cast Members are what they call employees here because they're "on stage". I like that. I'd love to work here."
I smiled at Flobie's little fantasy dream, wishing it could come true as Fang commented, "It's amazing what these guys go through to put on a show."
After walking the whole of Tomorrowland, we came to a white building with spires mounting the top. Like the rest of the land it was hard to describe because of its eccentric style. We all eyed it with curiosity.
"It doesn't look like a mountain, but ok." I shrugged, glancing at the stairs we had to descend to get into Space Mountain's line. Small, dark, places weren't exactly on our top destination list. Living in a tight, cramped cage does that to you.
"Let's get in here before an Eraser decides to take a vacation. Besides, that trashcan really is freaking me out." Fang admitted as he began leading the way into the dark abyss.
