The Great Disney Adventure II: The Book of Songs

A Disney story by talking2myself

DISCLAIMER: see chapter. 1

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Just so you know, I might have told a few of you guys some details about this chapter which were incorrect. I had originally planned for this chapter to go a little bit differently. (Slaps herself across the face. Bad writer! Bad!) I'm sorry if this causes any confusion.

P.S. one of my brilliant readers also gave me a few ideas involving Tarzan and George of the Jungle. Please let me know who you are so I can give you the proper credit when I use them in the next couple chapters. (Slaps self again) (VERY bad writer! Go to your corner!) Anyways, on with the story!

Chapter. 37 Pieces of an Old Friend

Jackie and Alice sat in the corner of Jack's office. Jumba was guarding the door. If his four eyes couldn't scare off any buccaneers, his blaster cannon sure could. Pleakley, on the other hand, was hiding beneath Jack's desk. Emma knelt beside it trying to coax him back out. During all this, Rob was pacing up and down the floor, while Stitch was doing the same... only on the ceiling.

"Pleakley, don't be frightened," Emma said gently, "No one's going to hurt you. Jumba won't let them." Jumba let out a snort at this comment.

"That's not encouraging!" Pleakley wailed, "We're being invaded and THAT is all that stands between me and a fiery death!"

"Keep it up and I may be the cause of fiery death," Jumba snapped. Pleakley let out a wail and dove beneath the desk again.

"Honestly!" Alice scolded, "Both of you are being ridiculous! We're not in any real danger!" Alice's voice rang with a confidence she did not have.

"Right," Rob snapped, "We're safe. But Kelsey is still up there! Who knows what's going on?!"

Alice put on her bravest face and gently placed a hand on Rob's shoulder, "Don't worry, Rob. Kelsey knows what she's doing, and she has The Book of Songs. She won't hurt herself."

"Eh... actually, Sh-sh-she doesn't have The B-B-Book."

Alice and Rob whirled around in shock. Jackie was trembling in the corner, clutched in her hands was The Book of Songs. "What are YOU doing with that?!" Rob wailed hysterically.

Jackie shrank back, "I-I-I was helping her w-w-with a r-r-riddle."

"Great!" Rob moaned, "The Book's down here! She's up there!"

"Not anymore she isn't," Elizabeth said as she swept past Jumba.

"WHAT?!" nearly everyone in the small room cried.

"She's down here?" Emma asked scratching her head in confusion, "Where? I don't see her."

"Kelsey's on some sort of flying contraption," Elizabeth explained, "She's trying to lure them off."

"K-K-Kelsey's out there?!" Jackie wailed, "ALONE?!"

"No," Elizabeth said sadly, "Will is with her."

"My sister's flying away with a boat full of bad guys on her tail?!" Rob cried frantically, "Well, catch up with them! We gotta go save her!"

"We can't do that!" Elizabeth said with a heavy sigh.

"Sure we can!" Rob cried, "I've seen the last movie! This thing can go from 0 to 60 in like a second!"

"Rob."

"It's the fastest ship in the freakin' Caribbean! Let's go find her!"

"It's not that the ship isn't capable of doing it," Elizabeth said gently, "It's just..."

"Just what?!" Rob cried, "Is it Jack? Is he the reason?" Rob's blue eyes blazed with hate.

Alice gently reached out and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. Rob shrugged out of her grip as quick as he could. "This isn't fair! Where's Jack?! I'm not a coward like him! We have to try and find her! We..."

"Don't you get it?!" Elizabeth wailed suddenly, "Rob! She gave us this chance to escape! She's doing this so we can get away safely. Don't let her actions be in vain!" Elizabeth glared at him angrily, "And don't forget. You're not the only one who has a loved one in danger."

Rob shoved his hands into his pockets and muttered an apology. Jackie clutched The Book tightly like it was a security blanket. "So w-w-what do we d-d-do now?" she asked anxiously.

"We have to get out of here as fast as possible," Elizabeth said gently.

"And what about Kelsey?!" Emma wailed.

"We'll have to devise a rescue plan once we make it safely to land," Elizabeth said gently.

"But rescue plans don't work!" Emma cried, "We've tried a bunch of times and someone always does something stupid and they get screwed up!"

"Where do we land?" Pleakley asked, he poked his head out from under the desk cautiously.

Elizabeth gulped nervously, "The Jungle."

-888-

As they soared through the air, Will was clinging to The Spirit and constructing a list of the things that he hated. It went something like this.

1. Jack's antics (since they usually got him, Elizabeth, Kelsey and countless others in trouble.)

2. Kelsey's temper (The most fearsome thing to ever behold)

3. Flying.

Unfortunately, for Will, this situation was combining all three of them. He groaned as Kelsey swooped down struggling to avoid Hades's flaming fireballs. "Hang on, Will!" Kelsey cried suddenly as she threw them into a loop-de-loop. Thanks to Kelsey's aerial acrobatics, the two of them managed to avoid another fireball that came dangerously close to their heads.

Kelsey glanced over her shoulder, "You okay?"

"I'm violently ill!"

"Good. Hold on!"

Will groaned and clung tighter to The Spirit. That was when Will caught sight of something out of the corner of his eye. A bright flash of light. A fireball, bigger than any other one they had encountered. "KELSEY!" Will wailed.

Too late. Kelsey swung the vehicle to the right wildly, but the fire ball grazed one of the fins. "Crap!" Kelsey swore, "We're going down! We're going down! Mayday! Mayday! Hang on!"

The vehicle spiraled out of control before it splashed down into The Ocean. The vehicle bobbed in the water before it popped up like a cork. Will and Kelsey scrambled to get their heads out of the water. "Well," Kelsey said as she tugged her crystal free of the vehicle and the blue eyes darkened, "The landing was a little bit rough, but overall not bad."

Will glared at Kelsey, "Oh if I could see straight, I would..." Will groaned and clutched his stomach, "At least this thing floats." he grumbled.

Kelsey looked up at the outline of The Flying Dutchman coming towards them. She swallowed hard, "At the rate, we're going... drowning doesn't look so bad."

-888-

It gave Aaron an immense sense of pleasure watching Kelsey, Will and the charred Atlantean vehicle being hauled aboard the ship. All of them were plopped roughly on the deck. Kelsey muttered angrily, "Nets! I HATE nets! What is it with you and nets?!"

Aaron strode by her confidently. He smirked down at her caught up in the heavy rope net. "Well, Kelsey," he said, "It has been a wonderful chase, but the game is over now." Davy Jones and his crew chuckled wickedly as Aaron drew his sword slowly and placed it at Kelsey's throat. "Hand over The Book of Songs," he ordered.

Now it was Kelsey's turn to smirk, "I can't give you something I don't have."

Aaron's smile fell, "What?! What do you mean?! I saw you take it! I saw you!"

Kelsey shrugged, "I guess I lost it."

"You left it on the ship?!" Aaron roared. He gripped her shoulders and shook her hard. "You were going to fight The Thirteen and YOU LEFT THE BOOK OF SONGS BEHIND?!"

Kelsey shrugged again, "Alas! If only I were smart instead of beautiful."

Aaron shoved Kelsey back to the ground. "Don't flatter yourself. You're neither."

"Hmmph," Kelsey grumbled, "Do you always spend this much time chasing after stupid, ugly girls?"

Aaron let out a roar of frustration. "Wait!" he said suddenly, "You're lying. Your hat?"

"My hat?" Kelsey asked, struggling to keep up her dumb blonde routine.

"I've heard plenty of tales about you," Aaron said, "AND that hat!" Aaron swiped the hat from Kelsey's head roughly. Suddenly, a golden spark burst out and dove behind Kelsey's ear. Tinkerbell peered out from behind Kelsey's blonde locks and made a twinkling sound of fear.

"Yeah, I know," Kelsey said quickly, "I can explain. You see... we were... and then we... and I.... and he... and... Oh screw it! You wouldn't believe me anyway."

Aaron was balancing Kelsey's hat on the tip of his sword, staring at it thoughtfully. Kelsey was watching his every move like a hawk. Aaron shook it out. Several unusual objects fell out. The sword that Will had given to Kelsey. A map of The Kingdom that Kelsey had swiped from Jack during her first visit. A handful of fairy dust that Tinkerbell must have left behind. A purple Ipod. Besides all this, there were several tea cups, two teaspoons, three saucers, a polka-dotted bow tie and what appeared to be the remnants of an ancient jelly roll. Kelsey rolled her eyes. She could only assume that those were a few of the mad hatter's leftover belongings. I really gotta go through and clean that out. Something could be living in there! Kelsey cringed at the thought.

"Are you satisfied?" Kelsey snapped, "Nothing in there! And if you broke my Ipod so help me God...!"

"There's only one way to be sure that there's nothing in here," Aaron snapped. He tossed the hat into the air. He drew his sword again and made several slicing motions. Kelsey let out a wail of protest, but Aaron didn't pay any attention to her. He chopped the hat into pieces until it was nothing more than a pile of scraps. Kelsey fell to her knees besides the remains of her hat. She delicately picked up the scraps and held them tightly. She shook her head over and over again in disbelief. She was surprised to feel the hot stinging sensation of tears behind her eyes.

"Oh what's this?" Aaron asked with a mocking smile, "Are you gonna cry?"

"No!" Kelsey said quickly, "I'm gonna kick your ass!" Even as she said it, Kelsey realized how foolish it sounded. What am I doing? He has an entire crew to back him up! And it's a HAT! You never get this sentimental about clothes! It's totally irrational and... screw it! I'm still gonna kick his ass!

Kelsey nearly lunged at Aaron, but two crew members knocked her flat. Aaron turned to Will and seemed to acknowledge him for the first time. "What are you doing here? What business do you have?"

Davy Jones stepped forwards and examined Will thoroughly, "You are neither dead nor dying! Why are you here?"

Before Kelsey could say anything. Will cried out something, "Jack Sparrow sent me to settle his debt." Will spat it out so quickly no one could understand what he had said.

"What?" Aaron, Kelsey and Davy Jones all asked in unison."

"Jack Sparrow," Will said quickly, "sent me... to settle his debt."

"Will stop talking like William Shatner and speak sensibly!" Kelsey cried, "What debt? Jack's debt?! Are you nuts?! You should know better than to get involved in Jack's affairs!"

Will quickly gave Kelsey a shut-up-this-instant! look. Davy Jones chuckled and gripped Will's shoulder. "You don't say?" he smiled wickedly, "Aaron, this is my business. I'll take care of the boy."

"What are you talking about, Will?!" Kelsey demanded in a hushed whisper.

"The less you know the better," Will whispered back.

Kelsey snorted contemptuously, "I've been hanging around with Jack long enough to know that's not true!"

"Fine," Aaron snapped, "Take him away."

"Will no!" Kelsey cried as two fish like crew members dragged Will away.

"And you!" Aaron said turning his attention back to Kelsey, "I may not have the book, but I still have The One Who Walks Between Two Worlds. That has to count for something." He gently ran a hand down the side of Kelsey's face. Kelsey tried to chomp at his fingers. Aaron yanked his hand away quickly, struggling to look unaffected by the gesture. "I think it's time we had a chat."

"I don't do one-on-ones with bad guys," Kelsey snapped. Her voice sounded pouty and childish.

"Too bad," Aaron snapped, "This is one bad guy who has a lot of questions to answer." Aaron snapped his fingers and two more crew members dragged her off. Kelsey struggled vainly against them for a while, but quickly realized that it was useless. Tinkerbell chattered wildly in her ear. "Don't be scared, Tink," she said quickly, "I'll find us a way out of this yet!"

Tink didn't sound too convinced, but she did calm down. She made a softer, sadder noise. Kelsey let out a heavy sigh, "It's just a hat, Tink. Doesn't matter that much." Kelsey struggled to believe her own words. She clutched the pieces of fabric tightly in her hand, pieces of an old friend. The hat had been with her since the beginning. It had been the first token she had picked up since she had come to The Kingdom. It had helped save her life in countless situations and she felt odd without it. She had gotten used to having it on her head, and the countless cases of bad hat hair it had given her.

Kelsey felt a surge of rage. "I'm more worried about Will. Elizabeth is going to have a heart attack, and darn it! It wasn't my fault!"

Tink made a sarcastic tinkling noise.

"What do you mean, this time?!"