(A/N – Hey peeps! We are up to chapter 24 now! Three posts left til the story can be called complete! Hold the applause, though... we still got a bit to go. This is a short chapter, sorry to say. Hope you're enjoying this anyways! See ya down below!)

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Arsinoe Selene – The Disney movies? Just some goofy parody thingy... haven't worked on one in a while cuz I've been killing myself to hit the deadline on this. But you'll see! I'm more than likely doing Wizard of Oz... I'm doing movies with simple story lines basically! And yeah, you'd be dead...lol. Thanks for the review! =))

Riddle-Me-That – Missed you in the last update! Can I have a pixie stick? lol... j/k! I think it's the best chapter so far (ch. 22). Lindsay loved it...lol! Thanks for reviewing! =))

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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: "Cotton Candy is God!"

-- Lindsay's PoV (still) --

I looked around at everyone in the back and the squished Erica between Nicole and the door. We were flying past the gas station and running a red light in a split second. The screaming began... everyone was screaming. As Jack put it, it was the modernized carriage of death... no wonder with Nicole driving! I was gonna start writing up my will at that point, but I was clutching to my seat too tightly to move...

-- 15 min later --

Amazement! Utter amazement! We didn't crash! Nicole was such a speed demon that we ran out of gas first! Well, Robbie and Jared hit the road fast. You really thought they'd stick around after that one?! What is the matter with you?! I'm kidding... Nicole hung with us, though... We ran out of gas down by South Side Elementary School, and we put the car in someone's driveway (hehehe...-evil grin-). Well, we walked along the back streets until we came to pass the playground. This was not too good.
Jessica, Erica, Elizabeth, and I tried to hide the playground from Will and Jack's view, but of course, it didn't work.
"Jack, we gotta go home and get the ruby, remember?" Elizabeth said. "Will? Jack? Come on!" Nope... they keep walking onto the field slowly with their eyes fixed on the metal rocky squirrel. I knew this would happen. I just hoped that it wouldn't be a repeat of their first day here...
"I will kill that squirrel," Jack said. "It's evil."
"It's not real!" I said. "Come on!"
"No," Jack said as he and Will kept walking to the blue swirly slide. "Never did trust that squirrel."
"What?" Erica said. "Jack, way too much rum... let's go back to my house and get some cheese...how's that sound?"
"I don't trust it either..." Will said.
"Oh, come on!" Jessica said. "You're only saying that because if you run away, Jack will beat you down!"
"I am not," Will said.
"You are! Now come on!" Jessica said, tugging on his sleeve. Jack stopped and turned to face us.
"Look, I promised that I'd kill that thing before I go anywhere, and I'm doing it right now," Jack said. "Now, who's with me?"
"I am!" Nicole said, jumping up next to Jack.
"How can you kill an inanimate object?!" I said.
"Use your imagination," Jack said. "Ye've got brains... pretend it's alive. Pretend you'll have fun killing it. Again, who's with me and Will and the speed demon as you like to call her?"

-- Erica's PoV --

I thought about the offer. Not too often me and my friends got to attack a hunk of junk with some pirates... it sounded fun enough. Oh what the heck...
"I'm in!" I said, standing next to Nicole. We did a high five and Jessica smiled. I had a good feeling about this.
"Aye! Count me in!" Jessica said, grabbing Will's arm. "Come on, Lindsay! It'll be fun!" Elizabeth and Lindsay stood there a few moments. They exchanged looks and stepped forward.
"We're in, Captain Sparrow!" Lindsay said. "Now, what's your plan?"
"Stop!" I said suddenly. "It's Holly and Andrew! Over here!" Ok, so now we had our numbers up to nine again. Holly and her boyfriend came over to us under the blue slide. Bringing more people into this wasn't all that smart, but it would be so much fun (-evil grin-).
"Hey," Holly said to everyone.
"Hey Holly. Hey Andrew," Nicole said.
"Nicole! How did you get here?" Holly asked.
"Long story," Jessica said. "Let's not go there."
"Ok," Holly said. "Yes! The pirates are still here!" I looked around... Andrew looked own at Holly.
"Pirates?" he asked. I looked over at Jessica. Take cover, peeps...
"No! Not pirates! What was I thinking?!" Holly said as she saw Jessica's face turn 50 shades of red and purple.
"So, they're not pirates now?" Andrew asked in confusion.
"No!" Holly said. "Just practice for a play." I smiled. Jessica did, too... thank you, Holly...
"Yeah..." Andrew said. "So, what's going on? Rehearsing?"
"Nope," Lindsay said. "We're heading into battle. One that should've been settled two weeks ago." Andrew looked at us weird. Holly (I guess) had remembered from when we told her a few days before at the Holiday Inn.
"Battle?" Andrew asked.
"Aye!" Jack said. "There be the enemy and here be the army to destroy it." Andrew and Holly exchanged looks.
"We're attacking that squirrel?" Holly asked.
"Of course!" I said. "We're gonna have a bit of fun for right now. You in?" I didn't give her or Andrew time to answer. "Good! Now listen up!" Holly looked at me.
"We're gonna kill the squirrel?! Yes!" she said.
"Should be no problem for you, Holly," I said. "You've already killed God."
"Hey! Cotton Candy is God! And very good..." she said.
"She killed God?!" Nicole asked.
"We broke a cotton candy Lifesaver..." I said.
"Oh..." Nicole said.
"Now! Weapons ready!" Jack said.
"What weapons?" Lindsay asked.
"Anything you can find!" Will said. I looked over at my friends. Nicole picked up the empty burn barrel (oh geez...), Andrew grabbed a few rocks, Holly had a giant tree limb, but I just saw Jessica grin evilly.
"What are you gonna do?" I asked her. She just grinned more evilly. I was getting scared. She pulled out a can of silly string. Lindsay and me smiled.
"Yes..." Lindsay said. "Let's hit it." We lined up, and Jack started shouting out junk.
"About face and all that other fancy British talk!" Jack shouted as we lined up. Elizabeth scowled at his comment, but I saw a smile break through.
"Jack, I have a better idea," Jessica said.
"Let's hear it then," Jack said. "You know all those fancy commands? Let's have 'em."
"Ok!" Jessica said. "Here we go..." I was waiting. She had no clue what the commands were. "Ok... On your mark... get set.... GO!" she screamed.
"Good call!" Nicole said as six of us hurtled toward the squirrel at full speed. Jack, Will, and Elizabeth hung back in confusion. They decided to drop it and ran after us.
"Hang on lassies!" Jack yelled.
"Hey!" Andrew yelled.
"Sorry!" Jack said. "Charge!" We piled on top of the squirrel beating it with sticks; spraying it with silly string... it was messy and loads of fun. We threw some tree bark chips at it, and to finish it off, Jack blew the squirrel's head off with one shot of his gun.
"Yeah! We killed the enemy!" Lindsay said. "Victory dance!" Lindsay, Jessica, Nicole, Holly, and I jumped up in down like retards screaming, "Dead squirrel! Dead squirrel! The squirrel of evil has fallen! (told you we're weird)!"
"Whoa! Stop..." Will said. We all stopped are little dance of idiotic victory, and we looked over at Will. He was walking slowly towards the smoking hole where the squirrel's head had been blasted off...cautiously even... We got behind him and we peered over his shoulder. Inside the squirrel was a small red glow...
"What is it?" Elizabeth asked.
"I don't know," Will responded. "Let's find out." We made a circle around the squirrel and looked into the glowing neck of it. Will put his hands down inside it carefully. We held our breath. His hands came up cradling the glowing object. We ran behind him again to see what it was.
"I don't believe it!" Lindsay said.
"Is it really...? Is that the..?" Elizabeth said, staring at it in Will's hands.
"It is," Jack said. "We're going home."

-- 9:30 PM --

Ok, this called for a huge party! So, we headed to Mark's and loaded up on the food and drink. We carried it up the hill (amazing we didn't die or spill the food) to my house and called all of the people who had been with us for the past two weeks to have them say goodbye to the pirates. Hey, we're gonna do this send off right!
So, Robbie and Jared showed up even though they were about killed in the police car with us earlier, Nicole, Holly, and Andrew hung around, and JP couldn't come (obviously) because he's back in California! And Lindsay dumped him anyways...now we got John. But John didn't come... never knew the pirates and we weren't about to confuse him when we're sending them back the next night. So! Onto our party!
Well, since the pirates wouldn't be here four the Fourth of July, we bought a few sparklers and snappers, and Robbie and Jared got us some really cool fireworks to launch. The back porch we lit up with awesome tiki – looking lights and torches, the pool was done the same way, and we had it open with our pool light for night swimming. It was sort of an island send off... we even had inflatable palm trees! Haha... So, the party of eleven was working out great!
"Jack! Launch the next firework!" I said as we stood on top of the pool deck. He lit it, and it zoomed into the sky for the entire hill to see. We cheered, and Jack grabbed his bottle of rum.
"Before I go back to...err..." he said (drunk of course).
"Back to the Pearl..." Will said, helping Jack along.
"YES! The Black Pearl..." Jack said. "Umm...I say we...we..."
"Throw Jack into the pool!" Jessica said. We cheered and ran after him, picked him up, and we walked to the edge of the pool. Jack was so drunk he just laughed.
"Heave ho!" Jack yelled.
"Heave ho!" we all said. Jack did a messy flip into the pool, and he stood up in the pool.
"That's quite fun... who wants a go at it?" he said. We all started yelling. Some of us were jumping up and down. I saw Nicole run up to Jack and slam into him, and they both went into the water. We laughed.
"That's great," I said.
"No, this is!" Lindsay said. She and Robbie came up behind me and pushed me into the pool. I stood up and climbed the ladder as the guys started to push us girls into the pool. Andrew dropped Holly into the pool, and Elizabeth went flying from Will's arms. As soon as I hit the ladder, Jack planted me into the pool again, and we just tried to fight back. It was great until it just had to start thundering.
"Man, Joe Denardo didn't say it was gonna rain!" I said as we jumped out of the pool.
"It's probably just a stray storm," Jack said. "Don't worry about it, luv." I smiled and we ran down to the back porch. It started to look really bad, so we had to unplug all the lights, bring in all the food, and go inside.
"This is great," Robbie said.
"Sorry, guys," I said. "I didn't expect a bad storm. Nobody did." We went into the living room trying to fit everyone in. We sat there talking about all we've done those two weeks, and then the power goes out.
"Ghost stories?" Jessica suggested.
"No way...you pulled that one for the last time," I said.
"Aww...come on!" Lindsay said. "It was funny!"
"Fine! What's this one about?" I asked Jack.
"Don't look at me," Jack said. "Elizabeth is takin' full credit for this one." We looked over at Elizabeth and she shot Jack a look.
"Me?" she asked.
"Why not?" Lindsay said. "I'll help!" Ok, this should be good...
"Alright..." Elizabeth said. "Umm..."
"Wait! Better idea!" Jared said. "Instead of some stupid story, how about a game?" I looked around. Everyone seemed to be cool with that.
"What game?" Nicole asked.
"Well, uh... charades?" Jared said.
"Not enough room," I said. "We're already taking up the entire room." Ok, idea one smoked out... but what about...
"Karaoke!" Lindsay said. I started laughing.
"What does the winner get?" Robbie asked.
"Ummm.... Pixie stix!" Jessica said. "Break out the flashlights, people! We got a show to do!"

-- Friday – 10 PM --

Ok, right off the bat, you should've seen Jack sing the Love Song with Jessica, Lindsay, and Nicole as backup... it was so freaking hilarious! Lindsay and Jessica were laughing so hard they barely sang, and Nicole started break-dancing halfway through... Elizabeth and Will pulled off a Sonny and Cher singing 'I Got You Babe,' and Robbie and Jared did some Switchfoot. Me? I sang alone... I had to sing the Spongebob Squarepants theme song! And the winner? Of course it's Jack and the Beanstalks (lol...nice band name, huh? Thank you, Nicole...)! Their encore was even funnier...
So, we stayed up until four or five (go figure...you gave Jack pixie stix...) doing more dumb crap and waiting for the power to be fixed. It came on some time when we were sleeping...we woke up after lunchtime...lol. Well, we sent the guests home first. The pirates requested that Jessica stay, though...
We spent the day having food fights, more karaoke shows, and some swimming was done. But then we always knew that by midnight, we'd never see them again. And it came that time oh too fast.

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- There! Well, the next chapter will be up in two weeks at the most...I know, I know... but It's been so crazy! Holidays have drove us all over the world, Lindsay and Jessica are at camp this week, so it was really hard to write on my own. I'm so glad you guys are so patient! Lol... BTW, I'm almost done with the overview of the sequel. Let me know in your review if I should post it when I'm done with the story! Believe me, if you hated or liked this one, the sequel is soooo much better! There's actually a plot! Lol... It's really adventurous and has a good story line. Just tell me whether or not to put it up or just to email it to you personally! I know for a fact you'll love it! Now, it's time to go! Four more posts after this (if you guys tell me to post the sequel overview)! Well, thanks for reading, now we'd be much obliged if you dropped us a review. Thanks a lot! See you in the last chapter! -