Charlene sighed. She had searched every attraction, and looked in every animal exhibit in Animal Kingdom. There was no sign of Wayne.
She was tired, exhausted, and still in pain from the bullet wound. She had enough. First she almost got killed by Gaston, Clayton, and Mcleach and then she got chased and almost killed by Man and his dogs. She got help from characters each time, but it was still annoying, and frightening as well. She was almost killed.
"Well," she said in her mind. "There's just one more attraction to search. It's probably a waste of time, but I have to search it."
She stood in front of Kilimanjaro Safaris. She knew that this was just an open-ride safari attraction that just consisted of looking at animals in the wild, but still it was an attraction, so she had to search it.
She walked through the waiting line until she got to the loading dock. She then realized that there was no one to drive the truck
"Uh oh," she said. "What am I supposed to do?"
She thought for a moment. She then looked at the truck. She sighed.
"You can do it Charlene," she said in her mind. "Your mom has made you practice a few times before. You can do it."
She hopped into the driver's seat of the truck that was at the loading dock. She turned it on; luckily the keys were in the ignition. She heard the engine start. She calmed down, and put her foot on the pedal. She turned on the headlights, and started to drive.
She found this to be easy. She drove slowly because it was nighttime.
Soon she reached an open part of the safari. She took the mic that connected to the loudspeaker.
"Wayne?" she yelled into it. Her voice echoed throughout the safari fields.
"Wayne!?" she said louder. No response.
"What am I'm doing?" she suddenly realized. "Why would I think that the Overtakers hid Wayne in a place like this?"
She smacked herself in the head.
"I'm wasting my time," she said. "I'm going back. Now how do I put this into rever-"
Suddenly, before she finished speaking she heard a boom sound.
"Huh?" she said. She looked around. It started to get louder and louder.
"What the hell is th-"
Before she could finish, something big smashed into the truck and it went tumbling and rolling to the side.
It eventually stopped rolling laying upside. Charlene groaned in pain.
"Ow," she said. "That came out of nowhere."
Suddenly she saw a fire start. She smelled gas.
"Oh shit!" she said, quickly unbuckling herself and crawling out of the truck.
She just made it out of the truck just before it exploded.
"That was close," she said sighing in relief.
She looked up and almost screamed. She saw something in the light of the fire coming towards her. It was big. It had sharp teeth. It looked angry. It was the Carnotaurus from Dinosaur.
"A-A-A-A-DINOSAUR! Charlene yelled while stammering.
She turned to run but then found herself surrounded. From out of the shadows came Si and Am from Lady and the Tramp, Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear from Song of the South, Shenzi, Bonzai, and Ed from The Lion King, Zira from The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, Tick-Tock the Crocodile from Peter Pan, Sabor from Tarzan, Mor'du from Brave, and the Big Bad Wolf. They all surrounded her. She was trapped, again!
She stared at the animals surrounding her. They all started to close in on her. Everyone one of them was licking their chops, except for Si and Am who weren't carnivores.
"At ease everyone!" yelled a voice from the shadows. At the sound of the voice, the animals backed off and bowed their heads to the figure.
Charlene watched as the figure stepped out of the shadows. He was a lion, wearing a golden crown on his head and a red robe with white brims consisting of black lines around them. He also wore rings on his fingers. It was Prince John, the villain from Robin Hood. He was an Overtaker Finn mentioned seeing once but never met face-to-face.
Charlene watched as Prince John walked towards her, being followed by a gray wolf wearing sheriff clothing and a snake wearing a red cape. It was the Sheriff of Nottingham and Sir Hiss.
Prince John walked up to Charlene who was sitting on a ground. She looked up at him.
"So you are the so-called Kingdom Keeper that the hunters have told me about," Prince John said.
Charlene didn't respond.
"What are you doing in my kingdom?" he asked.
"Your kingdom?" Charlene asked.
"Of course," said Prince John. "This is my kingdom. Animal Kingdom is my kingdom. It's all mine!"
He laughed menacingly.
"This isn't your kingdom!" Charlene said. "It doesn't belong to you! It belongs to Walt Disney! It belongs to his characters he left behind to protect them!"
Prince John stopped laughing and now glared at Charlene.
"My dear," he said in a polite tone. "I do not accept people disrespecting me in my own kingdom."
"But it's not yours!" she yelled.
"It is if I want it to be!" he yelled. "It's also my kingdom, because all the animals that dwell in it respond to me."
He looked at the animals around him.
"They respond to me, no matter what," he explained.
"What shall we do with the girl sire?" asked Sir Hiss.
"Want me to lock her up?" asked the Sheriff of Nottingham.
"No, no sheriff," said Prince John. "She deserves a better punishment for disrespecting the king of Animal Kingdom."
He looked at all the animals surrounding Charlene. He smiled.
"Faithful subjects!" he said. "This girl is your dinner! Eat her! She is all yours!"
"With pleasure your highness," said Zira.
"I'm going to feast tonight!" yelled the Big Bad Wolf.
"Come on Br'er Bear," said Br'er Fox. "Let's have some Keeper Stew!"
"I call the dark meat!" yelled Bonzai.
All the animals that couldn't talk just growled or roared.
Charlene stared in fear as the animals closed in.
Sabor attacked first. She pounced toward Charlene. Charlene dodged her, jumping out of the way. The hyenas attacked next. Shenzi pounced at her, but she punched her in the face. She fell to the ground whimpering. Br'er Fox ran toward her yelling while holding an axe above his head. She took care of him easily, by dodging him when he threw his axe down and then kicking him in the back. Mor'du charged at her, but she jumped over him and he rammed into the Carnotaurus' legs, making him fall to the ground.
Charlene started to laugh in victory, when Zira tackled her from behind. She pinned her down on the ground. She pressed the side of her face into the dirt with one paw, and held her other paw in the air. Claws emerged from the paw in the air.
"Finish her Zira," said the Big Bad Wolf who was standing above her.
"Don't worry," said Zira. "I'm about to."
Zira made a small but long scratch across Charlene's face with one of her claws. Charlene whimpered in pain.
"Any last words?" Zira asked.
Charlene had nothing to say. She closed her eyes and awaited death.
Suddenly, Charlene started to hear booming on the ground. Zira must have heard it too because just as she was about to bite Charlene's head off, she got off her and started to look around in fear. In fact, all the animals looked around in fear.
"What are you doing you idiots?" Prince John yelled.
"Do you hear that your highness?" the Big Bad Wolf asked.
"No!" he responded. "But what I don't hear is that girl screaming in-"
He stopped talking suddenly as the booming got louder.
"What the hell is that?" he asked.
Charlene was looking around when suddenly something grabbed her and she was lifted in the air and into a tree.
"Hey!" yelled John from down below. "Come back with that girl! She is-"
"Your highness look!" Zira yelled.
Charlene looked into the darkness and saw a herd of wildebeest running out of it.
"RUN!" John yelled. Charlene watched as all the animals ran away from the stampede chasing them.
"I didn't know that there were that many wildebeest here in Animal Kingdom," she said.
"There aren't," said the figure behind her. "We borrowed them from The Lion King."
Charlene turned around and saw Tigger from Winnie the Pooh standing above her.
"You saved me," she said.
"Hey! Helping people is what Tiggers do best," said Tigger pointing at himself.
"I thought it was bouncing," said Charlene.
"Oh and that too," he responded.
Charlene looked back down at the stampede. All the wildebeest disappeared into the darkness on the other side. Charlene saw coming out of the darkness Aladar from Dinosaur and Timon and Pumba following him.
"That's right you thumb-sucker!" Pumba yelled referring to Prince John. "Stay out of this kingdom!"
"It belongs to Simba and Tarzan!" yelled Timon.
"And all of us animal characters," said Aladar.
Tigger grabbed Charlene and bounced down in front of the trio.
"You okay kid?" asked Timon.
"You were almost killed," said Pumba.
"But I saved you," said Timon proudly.
"Excuse me?" growled Aladar. "May I remind you that it was I who scared the wildebeest into creating a stampede."
"And it was ultimately me who saved the girl by bringing her into the tree," said Tigger.
"But it was my idea that we bring the wildebeest here," said Timon.
Aladar looked at him angrily.
"Okay! Okay!" said Timon. He looked at Charlene. "We all saved you."
"Thank you everyone," said Charlene. She looked up at Aladar.
"Can you give me a lift back to the park?" she asked.
"Of course," he replied. "Here let me help you."
He used his tail to lift Charlene onto his back. Tigger jumped on easily, while Aladar helped Timon and Pumba onto his back. He then started off towards the loading dock.
Charlene looked back at the blown up truck. The fire was starting to go out.
"Security is going to flip out when they see that tomorrow," Charlene said.
"As well as dinosaur tracks," said Timon.
"Yeah that too," said Charlene.
Aladar dropped Charlene off at the loading dock. She thanked everyone before running off towards the entrance to the attraction.
"Well Wayne wasn't there," Charlene said. "He isn't anywhere. It is official. Wayne is not in Animal Kingdom."
She started to run. Her leg was feeling much better that she could run now.
"I better head back to Magic Kingdom and report this to Finn," she said.
She sighed in disappointment. She came here and almost got killed three times for nothing. She ran off towards the monorail, hoping that the others had better luck.
Alright its official. Wayne is not in Animal Kingdom. There are three parks left. Which one could he be in? Will he be found in time. Stay tuned and find out.
See you next update!
Yours truly,
Jacob/Sonicphantom47