Chapter 1: The adventure begins
In the apartment of Pasco Woods, Florida, a family lived there named the Bourdeaus. The rumors that goes around the neighborhood says that the reason why they moved here is because their oldest daughter is a trouble maker and acts very weird. There's a reason why and how that rumor got around in the first place. Jeliana really didn't appreciate it, but doesn't do anything about it. Because if she did, she's just gonna cause more trouble for her mom. Her mom is already dealing enough of her own problems. She feels like she doesn't want to burden her. So she hides this from her family and continues to suffer on her own.
This leads to constant bulling, but Jeliana doesn't fight back because again, it will only cause trouble for her mom. She tries to make friends, but nobody wants anything to do with her. She was alone and she felt that nobody excepts her for who she was.
Sure. She didn't like what most people like (doesn't like soda, not a huge chocolate fan), and she can't be related (she watch some shows that only boys like and she loves pink A LOT). But she still wants to be friends with someone. Even if she did convince them she's not what the rumors says, the still avoid her.
There was no one she could truly talk to. Except for one person. Or insect.
The thing is that ever since she was a baby, she has this weird power no one knows. Not even her family. She wasn't born with this power, just got it out of no where.
She has the power to talk and understand to any animals and insects. She doesn't really remember how that happened nor she really cared. If anything, it helped her in cases she wish to help connect with the animals. That includes lots of cats and dogs, which she adores to death.
While she was getting ready to go out to the bus stop for school, a caterpillar crawled up of the drawer in front of her bed to face her.
Jeliana was tying her hair into her hair into a ponytail. Caterpillar watch her as she was thinking about something.
"What's wrong?" asked caterpillar. "You seemed to be distracted."
Jeliana looked at caterpillar for a second before letting out a sigh.
"Nothing out of the ordinary. I just keep having the same weird dream," Jeliana said.
He thought about what she said and remember she did tell him about her dreams.
"Yeah, the one where the voice out of nowhere talks to you?" caterpillar asked facing her again.
Jeliana finished getting ready and hold out her hand for caterpillar to climb on.
"Yep, that one. I haven't had any other dream since," said Jeliana as caterpillar crawl onto her hand.
"Maybe its a sign. Dreams do sometimes predict the future," caterpillar said this after Jeliana lifted her hand to her left shoulder to place caterpillar.
"Caterpillar, I hate to break it to you, but that only happens in movies," Jeliana explains as she join her brother and her sister to walk to their bus stop.
"But its possible. You never know," said caterpillar.
Jeliana just rolled her eyes at that as she smiles when her mom came to kiss them and shooed them off to school.
She really has the best mother you could asked for. Her mom came from a far away place from the USA called Grenada. She came here to start to start a new life in America. She is a hard worker, the best cook, and she always there for her children. But she has been through a lot to get where she is now. That is the reason why Jeliana is suffering alone. She doesn't want to put her through the trouble. She loved her too much for that. Her mom already has enough trouble and Jeliana felt she didn't want to trouble her mom with her problems. So she kept her feel of loneliness and bullying from her.
Jeliana, her older brother named Justice, and her younger sister named Jaliayah (Lily for short) went off after saying goodbye to their mom. They would say bye to their youngest sister named Jalissa (Lissa for short) too, but she was asleep in Lily's and Lissa's room.
After walking on the sidewalk underneath the trees, Jeliana was a little behind her siblings. She started to hum the song 'Hakuna Matata' to herself. She rarely sings but she did it to calm herself from the dream she keeps having.
"You're humming that disney song?"
Jeliana nodded her head to answer caterpillar's question.
"You sure do love those disney movies, huh?" caterpillar said thoughtfully.
"True," was all that Jeliana said.
She loves disney classics ever since she saw them when she was very young. Whenever she feels down or depressed, she always watch the disney movies. It always manage to put a smile on her face as she always feel a connection with them. Maybe that's why people thought she's weird. She always was able to connect with the characters in the movies. She laughed with them. She cried with them. She smiled with them. She connect with the characters like no one ever did before. She even has some dvds of the movies, VHS, toys, clothes, and even some merchandise of some of disney. She can even memorized some scenes and lines the character say or do in.
She definitely is the ultimate fan girl. They always been in her life as they taught her life lessons. If Walt Disney never have become successful or even started animation, she wasn't sure she would even survive in this world. That is how much Disney meant to her.
Once they finally reach the bus stop and the bus arrived, she stopped humming and hop on board with the rest of the kids.
~After School~
It was a good thing today was Friday Jeliana thought. Because on Fridays when the kids comes back from school, they get to visit the office to get a free cookie. In the neighborhood of Pasco Woods, there is an office that is set in the middle of Pasco Woods. The office is connected to a small pool that some people used sometimes. Jeliana never knew why they give free cookies, but she wasn't gonna refuse free food. After that they pass the pool that was close to small roofed place where there were wooden benches and tables inside. Right next to it is a playground with some benches to the side. The playground was a huge sandbox with two set of swings and a slide. Their apartment is across the playground and they head straight there.
Once Jeliana and her siblings entered inside of their apartment, they went inside their rooms and change to their home clothes, got something to eat, and do their homework from school. Once Jeliana finished her homework, she went to her's and brother's room.
"No luck again, huh?" ask caterpillar.
"No, at least today I didn't see them," Jeliana said sadly.
At school today, all the other kids do is give her weird looks. She personally hate it when people stares at her. It makes her feel self conscience like she can feel people judging her.
She just wants to be excepted for who she really was. But apparently they just don't want to hang out with a 'weird' girl.
She wanted to watch a disney movie, it always lifted her spirits. The problem is to decide which to pick. She always have a hard time choosing one.
"Can't decide?" asked caterpillar.
"Why don't you pick for me, caterpillar?" suggested Jeliana.
Caterpillar then proceed to crawl off of her shoulder to the counter shelf where the VHS tapes are stacked. He crawled to where the disney tapes are and pointed to one of the tapes. Jeliana picked up that tape and it was "Dumbo".
"Oh! This one is a classic," Jeliana said in a happy tone. Caterpillar no sooner then crawled back to Jeliana's shoulder.
"The one about a baby elephant with big ears?" caterpillar asked.
"Yep. Its really great in my opinion!" exclaimed Jeliana.
"You said that about every disney movie," deadpanned caterpillar.
"Don't be a sourpuss. Let's just put this on already," said Jeliana as she turned on the TV and the VHS.
She puts the tape in and waits for it to come on, but all they see is static for a full two minutes.
"Maybe its not working?" caterpillar wondered.
"I don't know. Maybe its the VHS. I'll have dad look at it if that's the case, but I did have it for so long though," said Jeliana.
After a minute has pass, something was off. There was a little bright light between the static. Jeliana hummed in question as she leans in closer to the TV to inspect that light.
Closer...
Closer...
Closer...
Close-
All of the sudden she feels like she is being sucked in. Like inside of the television. There is this wind that is pulling her closer. She was terrified so she grab the sheets at the end of her bed. Caterpillar had to hold onto Jeliana's clothes as he feels like he's being sucked in, too.
Suddenly the wind picked up and pulls stronger on them. Jeliana can barely manage to hold the edge of the sheets as she's pulled closer to the TV.
"What's happening?!" caterpillar shouted.
"I don't know, but I don't like this one bit!" shouted Jeliana.
"Me neither!"
Then, Jeliana felt something. She look at her feet to see them inside the TV. How was it even possible Jeliana thought. That bright light just got bigger and her feet is going through it. It was almost like it was some kind of portal. But those didn't exist in real life.
Before she thought more on this though, she was ripped from her covers and being sucked into the TV. Both Jeliana and caterpillar screamed as they disappear into the other side and the portal closed.
Jeliana and caterpillar are now floating through the wave of the portal. She opened her eyes and saw that they are going through a spiral wave to somewhere.
"Where are we?" asked Jeliana.
"I don't know, Jeliana. I don't know," said caterpillar as he hang on to her clothes for dear life because he was afraid to float off.
Meanwhile Jeliana is trying to figure out what and how is this happening to her. Maybe she is just dreaming again? But she didn't know when she had felled asleep.
But then suddenly she saw someone else floating. She thought that maybe that person can answer her questions. She moved her arms and legs like she was swimming and went towards the floating body.
"Where are you going?" caterpillar asked as he was to busy on holding onto Jeliana's clothes to saw what she saw.
"There is a person floating over there. They must've know what's going on or where even are we," Jeliana explained to caterpillar.
By the time they got closer, they can tell the person floating is a female. But something off with her. When Jeliana came and look closely at her, her ears looks kind of pointy. Jeliana thought that was weird. But as she saw something on her back. It looked transparent, but she can make out the shape to be...wings.
She just realize what that floating girl is.
A fairy.
She was unconscious and judging how she was taller than Jeliana, she's a teenager. She is wearing a short yellow top and a pink skirt. She has long two pigtails floating by the sides of her head. She has light pink lips and have blonde hair as well.
In other words, Jeliana thought she was pretty.
But other than that, she can't believe she really sees a fairy in front of her. The fairies she only knew of is the tooth fairy and Tinkerbell.
Suddenly she feels the wind pulling her in again. The floating fairy was drifting away and Jeliana grab her by her arms and tries to wake her up.
"Hey, wake up!" yelled Jeliana. "Please answer me! Are you okay?"
She still has yet to open her eyes as both her and Jeliana are being pulled to the end of the portal. Jeliana then hold the fairy close to her and shut her eyes as the went out of the portal.
They then crashed on what feels like grass and they rolled of separately and lay on the ground. Jeliana opened her eyes and checked on caterpillar.
"Are you okay, caterpillar?" asked Jeliana.
"Yeah...," responded caterpillar as he still on Jeliana's shoulder.
Sighing in relief, she checked the fairy lying down behind her. She looks fine. Then, she finally take a look at her surroundings and she was surprise by what she saw. When she looked up, all she sees is a yellow sky. She got up and saw what looked like to be floating islands all over the sky, with portals on some of the islands. When she walked to the edge on the islands they're on. She looks down and all she sees is an endless void of darkness. It looks like if you fall off the edge of the islands, you would keep falling and never reach the end.
She then heard a noise behind her. Jeliana looked and saw the fairy was waking up. The fairy sat up and was rubbing her head. Jeliana ran back to the fairy to check up on her.
"Hey, you've finally awake!" exclaimed Jeliana as she stands in front of and hold out her hand to help her up. But when the fairy saw her, her eyes widen with surprise. Jeliana was confused. Maybe she is afraid of her?
Jeliana ask with a soft voice, "Are you alright-"
Then the fairy glared at her with her eyes turning from surprise to hatred. She slap Jeliana's hand away and said, "Don't you touch me, you disgusting human."
That catch Jeliana off guard. What did she do to make the fairy hate her? All she did was help her from floating to nowhere.
She rubbed her hand and said, "No need to be rude. I was trying to help."
"I don't need any help. Especially from a human like you," the fairy said as she stands up.
"Well, last time I checked, you were off drifting in the middle of nowhere unconscious," Jeliana said sarcastically. "What happened to you anyway? You look kind of beat up."
The fairy look to the side and thought for a moment before saying, "No clue..."
"No clue?" Jeliana asked. "I thought you knew."
"How should I know? I don't even know where we are," said the fairy with annoyance.
"I thought you knew that, too..." said Jeliana as she looks down at the ground in hopelessness.
"You assume a lot, don't you?" asked the fairy. She clicked her tongue before muttering "typical human" as she turned away from Jeliana.
"Well don't forget this 'human' helped you got here in the first place. Your Welcome, by the way," said Jeliana.
She didn't realized that the fairy walked off already.
"Um, Jeliana? She's leaving," said caterpillar.
"Huh? Hey!" she shouted as she saw the fairy leaving.
"Is this how you thank your savior!? You're just going to ignore me?!" Jeliana shouted.
"That's exactly what I'm doing," the fairy said as she continues to walk. Not even glancing at the human. She has no time to talk to the human. She needs to find a way out of here.
Jeliana was growling at the fairy's back. What was her problem Jeliana thought. She finally had enough and shouts, "Fine! Go somewhere else! See if I care!"
She then turn her back and walks off on her own way.
"Jeliana are you sure we should just leave her?" ask caterpillar.
"If she wants to be alone, then let her be! I'll find a way back myself," said Jeliana as she was stomping on the path.
~An hour later~
Jeliana was walking in the middle of the forest she stumbled upon. She didn't know why it was a good idea in the first place. But she thought someone was moving in the bushes. So she decided to follow it, but when she walked into the forest for a while, she suddenly realized that she's been walking in circles.
"We're lost, aren't we?" caterpillar asked in a tired voice.
"Maybe I should've thought this more through before checking," Jeliana admitted.
She sighs as she continues to walk and find a way out of this forest. Suddenly when she tried to walk through the bushes, a black shadowy figure jumped from the bushes.
Jeliana screamed while backing away from the shadow. It was like Peter Pan's shadow, only Jeliana knows that this shadow didn't look friendly. But she didn't just saw one.
She saw two...
Then five...
Then ten...
Fifteen...
Twenty-
She saw twenty of them and they're all surrounding her.
"What the heck are those things?" asked caterpillar in a frighting voice.
"I don't know," said Jeliana as she was looking around to find a way out.
The shadow creatures started to slowly come closer to Jeliana. She watched them with a terrified expression.
~Meanwhile~
The fairy was walking still trying to find her way when she heard someone screaming.
"Somebody! Help me!"
'That voice' the fairy thought. She recognized it. That voice belong to that human girl. It sounds like she is in trouble.
She quickly turn back around and continues to walk.
'Why should I care if that human is in trouble,' the fairy thought.
'They're all the same. Selfish beings who only cares about themselves...' she thought as she clenched her fist.
"Help her..."
The fairy stop and look around to see who said that.
"Huh?" she said.
"Protect her..."
There was that voice again. She wondered who was speaking to her. Why would they tell her to protect a human? Humans are despicable creatures the fairy thought.
"It is your destiny..."
The fairy then thought for a moment before looking at the direction where she last hears the human girl's voice.
Jeliana was running away from the creatures that was chasing her. She was running out of the forest and near the edge of the floating island.
"Uh oh, what now?" asked caterpillar.
Jeliana stopped and looked around. There was another floating island close to this island below. She also a super long vine on the ground. Jeliana just came up with the most craziest and dangerous idea, but there was no time to thought it through. She is being chased and didn't want to think what would happen to her if they catch her.
So she quickly grabbed the vine and tied it to the tree near the edge of the island.
"Are you sure-"
"We don't have time to think about it," Jeliana interrupted caterpillar as she lowers the vine off the edge to the floating island. She holds on tight to the vine as she climb down to the island.
She was almost on the other island, when she felt the vine snapped. She looked up to saw that the shadow creatures cut the vine with their claws.
She screamed as she falls and hit the ground. She struggles to sit up as she saw all of the shadow creatures flying at her ready to tear her up with their claws.
She screams for help while closing her eyes waiting for her doom.
Until she heard the shadow creatures screeching.
She opened her eyes to find that the shadow creatures were embedded by the light and disappears. Behind the light is the fairy who is flying from earlier holding what looks like to be a wand out.
"You...you came back," Jeliana says in both shock and relief as she stands up and stares at the fairy.
"Don't just stand there! More of them will come," the fairy said as she lands down in front of the human girl.
She then grabs Jeliana's wrist and runs as far away as they can. Jeliana stumbles a bit before running with the fairy.
After they got far enough, the fairy let go her and they try to catch their breath. Then after a while, Jeliana approach the fairy.
"Thank you for saving me," said Jeliana.
"I didn't do it for you," the fairy said looking at the human.
"I did it so I don't have to be in debt to you, since you saved me and all. So we're even," said the fairy while crossing her arms and looking sideways.
"I guess we are. Still, I would've been killed if you didn't show up," said Jeliana.
"Good, cause you whine a lot."
"Wha- I don't whine a lot!" yelled Jeliana.
"Yes you do," said the fairy.
"No I don't!"
They were looking at each other until...
"Now now, girls...," the voice said.
"You need to work together..."
They both widen their eyes and they look up to see a light shining down on them.
"That voice...," the fairy said.
"Its that voice from my dreams," said Jeliana.
"You heard it before?" asked the fairy.
Jeliana nodded her head. She thought about that voice that sounded so familiar to her.
She then remembered where she heard that voice before. She was watching the behind the scenes at the end of Peter Pan. There is where she saw and hear him for the first time.
The creator of Disney.
"Walt Disney," said Jeliana.
"Huh?" said the fairy as she was wondering what this human is talking about until the human spoke again.
"Walt Disney! I knew I recognized that voice somewhere!" Jeliana exclaimed.
"That is right. I am Walt Disney," the voice said.
"Wow," she said as she put both her hands on her sides of her face, looking away.
"I can't believe THE Walt Disney is speaking to us," she said in amazement. "From the grave even!"
"Why did you send us hear?" the fairy asked the voice looking up to the light.
"Huh?" said Jeliana looking at the fairy.
"You're the one who send us here, didn't you?" the fairy asked again as she looks up to the light.
"There is a reason I brought you girls here."
Both of their attention is now on the voice that it came from the light.
"It is because you were chosen to help this world."
"Huh?" both of them said at the same time.
"You see the worlds are being corrupted by the dark shadows."
"Dark shadows? You mean the ones who was chasing me earlier?" Jeliana asked.
"Yes, and I believe someone is behind this," the voice said. "So you must travel through the disney worlds, help the people you meet along the way, and find the person who caused this and stop them."
"Wait, you mean to tell me that I got through disney worlds, and meet the characters from there? Like, in real life?" Jeliana said in disbelief.
"That is correct," the voice answer back.
Jeliana thought for a moment before saying, "Okay. Now I know I'm dreaming. Because it sounds too good to be true."
"I assure you that this is real. In fact, this will impact on your world."
"What do you mean by that?" asked Jeliana.
"If you fail to stop them in time and let the darkness spread through all the worlds, all of them will cease to exist and everyone will forget about disney, forever."
Jeliana gasped. Forget about disney? That's horrible she thought. Disney was always been in her life. If that was taken away from her now, she wouldn't be able to go on with her life. Those disney movies helped her through a lot. Now she feels like its her turn to help them like they were able with her.
"Okay, I've made up my mind, I'll help them. I'm afraid I can't do much though," said Jeliana.
"With all do respect Walt, why choose us when there are others more capable than us?" asked the fairy.
"Especially her," she said in disgust looking at the human.
"Well, excuse me!" Jeliana said to the fairy sounded offended.
"Its because I've been watching you, and I think both of you have potential," the voice said.
"You have?" asked Jeliana.
"Yes, you especially," the voice said to Jeliana.
"You have seen their journey through the screen. Therefore makes you have knowledge of their future. Use that knowledge to guide those who lose their way."
"As for you," the voice said to the fairy. "You have felt guilt through your life and have grown stronger because of it. Use that strength to protect others, as you have with her."
The fairy widen her eyes at the 'guilt' part. Jeliana looked at the fairy, then look back to the light.
"Now, you two must work together and save disney," said Walt Disney's voice as it fades. The light disappears into the sky.
The two girls just stand there for a moment before Jeliana broke the silence.
"Well, I guess we should team up and work together for now," Jeliana then looked at the fairy. "We might as well introduce ourselves. My name is Jeliana."
Jeliana smiles and holds out her hand for the fairy to shake. But the just cross her arms and looks away. Jeliana sighs as the fairy continues to say nothing and drop her hand.
"Arwa," the fairy said.
"What?" said Jeliana.
"My name. What else would it be," said as she looks sideways to Jeliana.
Jeliana just shook her head and said, "Well Arwa, lets work together to save the disney worlds!"
Arwa looks away and nods her head. She really didn't want to work together with a human, but if Walt Disney told them they need to join forces to save the worlds, she guessed she have no choice but to listen.
Jeliana hold her chin, looks down and says, "What should we do-"
Before she finish, she felt someone push her to Arwa hard. They both fall to the portal and screamed as they fall through the portal. So both Jeliana, caterpillar, and Arwa are traveling through a portal to who knows where.
Meanwhile, the person who just pushed them to the portal just smirked. Then the person walked away with the dark shadow creatures following behind them.