Me: In the last chapter, I mentioned the infamous tape recorder. Well…

R.I.P. Tape recorder.

Brutally murdered by Finnegan Whitman.

Always will be remembered by Kat.

Finn: That's right.

Me: He killed the tape recorder.

Finn: She saves the stuff she records.

Me: We had a funeral. It's buried underneath a palm tree outside.

Finn: She dragged me out there. Then it rained on us and she wouldn't let me get an umbrella.

Me: It was sad.

Finn: It's inanimate!

Me: -glare- Mystery quote from 'Bones' in here! Find it and you'll win a piece of cheese!

Finn: Ooohh aaahh…

Chapter… Raisins?

Max POV

You have no idea how awesome it felt to see my best friend and second-in-command. After we flew up and out of the fountain, I heard a "Whoa" from one of the girls and I instantly shot them a death glare, which they didn't see because Willa was looking at her shoes and Charlene was furiously blushing. I felt that intensive feeling in my stomach when I saw Red-Haired Wonder with him. I wanted to scream "Back off!" but that wouldn't help.

"Alright. If anyone has any information on Amanda or where the heck she could be, spit it out," I said. Silence.

"Well I think…" Maybeck began but stopped.

"You think…" Nudge said.

"Did you feel that?" Willa said, fear captivating her eyes.

"Feel what?" I asked.

"She's here. Run for the teepees!" Finn said. They turned to run but I grabbed Philby's arm.

"What is going on?"

"Maleficent is an Overtaker and she tries to kill us on a daily basis, and she's coming because she has a icy cold aura and when you get unnaturally cold, she's coming for you and the teepees are the only place we can hide safely. Now go!" Philby announced in one breath and we took off running, reaching the teepees a few minutes ahead of them.

"Maleficent is the evil fairy witch person from Sleeping Beauty, right?" Nudge asked.

"I think so," I said, though I never really saw those movies.

"Wouldn't she be dead? Because they killed her by throwing a sword at her dragon form." How would this kid know that?

"So to kill her" Nudge was saying as the light kids ran up. "we have to stab her in her dragon form."

"What?" Finn asked.

"No time," Philby said, looking behind him. "In the teepee!" We crawled inside and we stuck to the shadows while Mr. Invisibility vanished after awhile. The light kids sat in one tiny group and vanished like him. It was quiet for awhile, which made me think we were insane to even be in a stupid teepee in the first place. Then, there were footsteps outside, and a shadow, and an unnatural chill cast over the opening. She was here. I had never faced a fictional character before so I was a little nervous. I felt something touch me and I stifled a shriek. It was just Fang, grabbing my hand to comfort me. I'm glad that Willa and Charlene were invisible and couldn't see us. Eventually, the cold and footsteps echoed away but I didn't move a muscle.

"She's gone," Willa whispered. I let go of Fang's hand and stood up. Everyone else stood and Maybeck jumped when Fang appeared out of nowhere.

"So as I was saying…" Nudge began.

"Where would Amanda be?" Charlene interrupted. I couldn't help but watch her every motion and if I was right, she had been moving about an inch closer to Fang every minute.

"Max?"

"What?" I said, startled. I guess I was so deep in thought, I zoned out.

"The Disney Castle could be a place to look," Charlene said. She was now right next to him.

"We team up and explore the Castle," I said. "Even though I nearly died last time. We need at least one bird kid, and at least one of the light kids per group. Only thing is…"

"There's more of you than us," Philby said. I nodded.

"Exactly. Finn and I head for the balcony. Nudge and Willa in the rooms. Angel and Philby explore the blue room. Iggy and Charlene go for the green room. Gazzy and Maybeck look in the kitchen. Fang…"

"I'll go with Iggy," he said. Is he nice or what? He's going to help out the blind… oh fajitas. Charlene is in the group. I mentally facepalmed. I'd have to get Angel to figure out what happened. We all walked towards the Castle when a bird chirped loudly by my ear.

"Oh gosh, we have to go!" Willa said.

"Yeah, see you later," Finn said and pulled out the garage door opener and pressed a green button at the bottom and they vanished. Fang tapped my shoulder.

"What just happened?"

"Oh, they're DHI's. They are projected tour guides of the Magic Kingdom, and at night they pass over to here as their DHI selves. DHI stands for Disney Hologram Interaction or something," Angel explained. I gave her a how-the-heck-do-you-know-that look, and she smiled.

Read his mind, her voice said. I sighed. Nudge yawned.

"Bedtime," I said.

"I'm not tired yet!" Gazzy whined.

"That's what she said," Iggy snickered. I glared at him. Fang whacked his arm.

"Oww…" he said, rubbing his arm.

"Thank you," I said. I pushed Gazzy towards the gift shop.

"Where do we crash?" Fang said directly by me.

"Gift shop," I said spreading my wings. We all flew up to the top.

"Night!" Nudge said before curling up on her Pirates of The Caribbean towel. Fang raised an eyebrow at me.

"This is where you guys are sleeping? Did you ever…consider going to the bedrooms up there?" he tilted his head upward towards the quiet castle. I frowned. I never really considered that.

"Well… you know that people might go up there and fix it up…"

"You're making excuses, now," Fang said. I scowled at him. I turned back to the others who were silently snoring on their towels and other merchandise we stole.

"Check it out?" he asked me. I bit my lip. Our other few escapades had turned into a… umm… never mind.

"Yeah," We spread our wings and I took a running start before leaping off the roof and Fang not far behind. The wind breezed through my hair and I was soaring up so high. I suddenly felt weird. I felt happy, and I felt like tackling someone and being all girly. Must've been the burger for lunch. But there was no way I could ignore it. I quickly flipped around and shot towards him. The last thing I saw before fly-tackling him was his expressionless face turning confused. I slammed into him and we spun around, flipping in a tangle of wings, feathers, and hair.

"Ouch," he mumbled. I untangled myself and shot back up. "What was that for?" I didn't know the answer. Why did I attack him? I didn't say anything for a while until I came up with something.

"That's my way of saying I'm glad we found you," I mumbled, not very good at being all emotional. My enthusiasm had worn off and I felt very embarrassed.

"Oh, okay…" Fang said, giving me a confused look. I shot back up to the Castle and landed on the balcony where I had fallen a few days earlier. The door to the rooms were locked, but I kicked the door with my combat boot. Why pick it when you can kick it, right? I stepped inside and flipped the light on. The beds were perfectly made and I flopped on it. A huge cloud of dust exploded from the bed and I coughed for a bit.

"No one's been here, Fang. Seems like a good idea to bunk here," I called to him. After a few minutes, I got confused when Fang didn't respond. I got up and looked around the room.

"Fang?" I called again. No answer. That's when my senses fired up. My legs got jittery and I was blinking a lot and looking around the room. I went back over to the door and looked over the balcony and didn't see a dark figure circling around the sky. I spread my wings and prepared to jump off the balcony when someone grabbed my wing and yanked me backwards. I shrieked silently as someone threw something around my mouth.

Someone is drugging me, I thought. The only thing I had been able to do before I blacked out was fold my wings back up.

Finn POV

My life was a wreck. Jez was in trouble and Amanda was still missing. If I only had a limited time in Disney, I at least had to help Jez. I grabbed my bike and pedaled off. Earlier, I had googled where Jez lived. Of course, she wouldn't put her address on there, so I called her ahead of time so she could tell me.

"There's still somebody outside, sitting in the car," she had said, sounding panicked.

"Do you have a back door?"

"Well… yeah. But it leads to the front of the house," she had said.

"Ummm, window?" I had asked.

"Yeah. You want me to climb out? Where do I go?"

"I'll get on my bike, be there in five minutes," and I hung up. I rounded Fifth Road and came upon her house. There was a rundown Mitsubishi sitting outside of the old house that Jez and Amanda lived in. Then, I realized that I had another problem. If the Overtaker inside the car saw me, they might call for more buddies. If Max was right, and they were trying to bait me, so that would just be like walking up to the car and asking for a ride. I sat there all confused for a while, just being an idiot, sitting on the sidewalk, on my bike, like I was waiting for Christmas. I kicked the kickstand, I know, ironic isn't it, and walked to the back window on the second floor. I tried scaling the wall to tap on the window and get her attention but I fell a lot. Finally, I gave up and poked around the yard for a bit. I saw rocks outlining a couple shrubs. I had a really random, Romeo and Juliet idea. I grabbed a handful of stones and threw one up at the window. It hit the windowsill and pinged off. I frowned. I guess that was another reason why I never joined the baseball team. I don't really need baseball anyway, I mean, I could care less if I hit that outfielder. Anywho, I threw a slightly larger rock at the window harder. It flew up, up, and above the window. I glared at the window and threw the rest at it in frustration. Three of them hit the wood and plummeted down. Two others, however, slammed against the window. One minute later, Jez stuck her head out.

"Hey Finn, be down in a sec," she called down. She disappeared inside for a moment. Then, a thin rope slid down. Jez inched her way down. She hit the grass and faced me.

"Where's your bike?"

"In the front," I said.

"I think it's Captain Hook's fat friend in the car," she said as we walked back the way I came.

"Smee?" I asked.

"Yea, him," she said and hopped on the handlebars. I pushed on the left pedal and sailed off in the direction to my house.

"Uh oh," Jez said looking behind us.

"Smee's following us?" I asked fearfully.

"No, worse."

"What is it?"

"He's not there," she said.

"That's good, right?"

"No! If he's not there he must be somewhere else."

"I… am lost," I said, looking up at her.

"Eyes on the road. Let's say there's a spider in your room. You go to get a shoe and when you go back to kill it, it's not there. Are you going to say that that's a good thing? No, because it's somewhere, you just don't know where, which makes it unpredictable," she said. I turned down one road and saw a rundown Mitsubishi driving towards us.

"There he is!" Jez screeched. I swerved to avoid being hit.

"Okay, you can't be on the handlebars," I said.

"Why not? Go faster!"

"I can't see!"

"I'll be your eyes."

"Jez…"

"Fine, fine. Pull over."

"Are you insane? I'm trying to out-bike a car!" I exclaimed.

"Pull over, Finn!" she said, exasperated. I turned up the curb and stopped. She hopped off and squished in the bicycle seat with me.

"Go, go, GO!" Jez shouted in my ear.

"Going, going," I grumbled. I hopped off the curb and sailed off, and I could still hear the roar of the engine behind us.

Me: Well? Well? We're nearing the end here people…

Finn: Does that mean you're going to let me go?

Me: no.

Finn: Dang it.

Me: The thing is, after this, I'll be typing up Rhyming Timing, so have no fear!

Finn: However, it's summer, so that probably won't be updated too much.

Me: Yea, I write Rhyming Timing in class, which means, oh! It's summer, so there are no classes!

Finn: In Ramblings, we posted a schedule of what we post each day.

Me: I'm not going to tell you, so you'll have to look and see! Hahaha!

R & R!