Chapter Six: Cyclone in the Kitchen
Lissie and herself stood in the kitchen when a wind picked up—an extremely strong wind.
"Woah! This wasn't on the weather channel!" Lissie yelled over the howling wind.
"What's happening?!" Beth yelled back.
They looked into the sink and saw the ocean inside it.
Wait… THE OCEAN?!
They both screamed at the same time and Lissie dropped her glass and it shattered on the floor.
"JACK!" Beth screamed.
"WILL!" Lissie yelled at the top of her lungs.
"HELP!"
They appeared suddenly at the doorway and tried to run in to help them. But an electrical current seemed to be coursing around the perimeter of the room.
Beth was falling backward… She couldn't move… she saw Barbossa… alive…
She woke up, gasping for air.
The long t-shirt that she wore as a pajama shirt was soaked with cold sweat. She looked over, and Jack was still asleep. He let out one big grunt, rolled over and said: "One hot pocket with creamed corn…" then rolled over and started snoring.
Beth stared at him for a minute, it was times like these when he was weirder than Lissie.
Then, she climbed out of bed and walked out of the room to the kitchen.
"Where's my hot dog, Santa?" she heard him ask in his sleep.
She rolled her eyes and smiled as she walked down the stairs. She paused at the doorway of the kitchen. She moved her hand cautiously in front of it, making sure there was no electrical current around it.
She stepped inside and started to examine things. The room looked pretty clean, after the food fight they had only then realized what a huge mess they had made. Nothing looked very abnormal, except for the one, extremely soggy froot loop found in Gus and Bob's tank.
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…One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie…
Chapter One: Minas Tirith
Lissie yawned. She had finished the Two Towers a few minutes ago, and had read the first page of The Return of the King (it's true, I'm actually reading it!!) It was nearly midnight, and she was extremely thirsty. Will was sleeping soundly next to her. She got out of bed and walked down the hall to the stairs. She passed a glass box on a small table that had a gigantic wad of tape inside it. She smiled… a hilarious moment between her, Beth, and their friend Brianna led to one of the many inside jokes that they shared.
"Wad of tape, wad of tape!" she sang softly. She walked down the stairs and into the kitchen.
"Whatcha doin'?" asked Lissie when she saw Beth.
Beth jumped. "What did you have to scare me fore, Lissie Sarah Jade?!"
"That's Turner to you," she said as she took a glass out from one of the cabinets. "Why so jumpy?"
"You know how when we went on that adventure a few months ago?"
"How could I forget?!" asked Lissie in amazement.
"That's not my point. You know how some of our dreams became reality?"
"Yeah…" said Lissie slowly.
"Well, I had one where the ocean was in the sink, an electrical current was flowing around the room, and we were standing in this room when it happened!"
Lissie stared at her for a minute. "Huh?"
Beth sighed, then explained it in a more detailed way.
"So are you saying that we may get transported back into the movie… again?" asked Lissie.
"How can we? The second movie hasn't even been filmed yet."
"I dunno, that may explain why the medallion was acting so weird though," said Lissie as she turned on the water in the sink to fill up her glass. She turned off the water and drank it very quickly.
"Geez, you drink a lot!" said Beth.
"Ah, drink up, me 'earties!" she said, swinging her glass.
"Yo ho!" said Beth as they laughed.
Suddenly, Beth realized something. Lissie had left the water on because she knew she'd drink more. The ocean was in the sink…
"Turn it off!" said Beth.
"Why?" asked Lissie as she did. "You're spazing out, Beth!"
"The ocean was in the sink… why isn't it draining?"
It was true, the water hadn't drained. Suddenly, a wind picked up, just like it had at Lissie's house.
"Woah, this wasn't on the weather channel!" yelled Lissie over the wind.
"You said that! You said that in my dream!" Beth yelled.
They looked down into the sink again. It was turning blue… like the Caribbean Sea. They could even see a ship inside it…
"What's happening?" yelled Beth.
They screamed as the sink seemed to get bigger, the wind stronger. Lissie dropped her glass and it shattered on the floor.
"JACK!" Beth screamed as loud as she could.
"WILL!" Lissie yelled at the top of her lungs.
Both men awoke and raced time as they ran as fast as they could down the stairs. They reached the kitchen, and gasped.
It seemed as though the girls were fighting against a vacuum trying to suck them into the sink.
"LISSIE!"
"BETH!"
They both ran forward, but they hit the electrical current and staggered backward.
Jack, thinking fast, ran to the middle of the hall, wrenched open a small door, and tried turning off the electricity. Will, seeing him do it, ran forward, but got shocked yet again. They were trapped.
Laughter suddenly echoed throughout the fall and kitchen… laughter that they all knew.
Barbossa's.
Lissie and Beth were getting weaker, and they couldn't fight against the force any longer.
Jack and Will were yelling their heads off outside the room.
"HOLD ON!"
"DON'T YOU LET GO!" (ha ha, I LOVE Return of the King!)
Lissie pulled forward with all her strength, but it felt like someone was hugging her tightly. She could barely breathe.
She looked down, and gasped.
Where her pajamas had been, there was now an 18th century dress, and by the feel of things, a corset. Instantly, she knew where she was headed.
Unable to fight it any longer, she gave up. Her final glimpse of things was stuff swirling madly around the kitchen, and Jack still trying to turn off the electricity.
Will tried one last time to run through and save her, but had no luck. By now, he was so shocked that he passed out once the barrier threw him back.
Next to her, Beth was still fighting. They glanced at each other, and Lissie smiled reassuringly like Frodo did at the end of Return of the King. It was as if she was saying, "This is just another adventure… that we're going to get through."
Then, she closed her eyes and fell backward into the sink… and down the drain.
Jack came running back into the doorway, only to find Will unconscious, Beth still trying to move as far away from the sink as she could, and no sign of Lissie.
"BETHY!" he yelled as she was forced back.
The laughter seemed to get stronger along with the wind.
She looked up, and Jack ran through the barrier, but he, like Will, got electrocuted so bad that he passed out.
Beth screamed. She was the only one left. That fact of course, caught her off guard, and she fell backward like Lissie had, and down the drain.
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