Carnival
"How are we going to get in, Mike? We have no money." Neil asked.
Mike sighed "It's free for students, Neil!"
"But we don't go to college."
"Ssh! I know but we don't want the security to fond that out!"
"Are you saying we're going to lie about being students to get into the carnival for free?"
"Lie is such a strong word, think of it as a white lie."
"You'd better keep your mouth shut, hippie, or I'll kill you." Vyvyan stated.
"Fair enough." Neil sighed.
After weaseling past the security lying, uh, "white" lying about being students, the four gathered near the ice cream kiosk. Rick insisted on stealing some ice cream and sneaked behind the ice cream man, grabbing a few tubs and sneaking back out again.
"Okay, for Mike the triple world class chocolate." He handed Mike his tub "For Neil the vegetarian carrot and pea mix." He gave Neil his "And Vyvyan the newest brain blower crunch lethal concoction." Vyvyan snatched his and was about to rip the lid off when Rick garbbed it back "No, Vyvyan, we can't have our ice cream now." He took the rest from the others "It'll all melt! We have to keep it somewhere cold."
Vyvyan thought for a second "What about the ice cream kiosk?"
Rick sighed seemingly sarcastic "That is brilliant!" he ran behind the ice cream man once more and put the tubs back.
Mike scratched his head "Why did you steal them before if you were going to put them back?"
Rick smiled "Because I can."
Mike nodded "A good argument. Anyway, come on guys, we'll split off, Vyvyan, you come with me, Rick you go with it, I mean, Neil."
Rick yelped "What!? I'm not going off with Neil! I'm too attractive! It's always the good-looking guys who die first in Scooby-Doo!"
Neil frowned "But nobody has ever died in Scooby-Doo, Rick."
"Yes, well, in the sequel: Scooby Goes Homicidal Maniac and Kills Good-Looking Men." He sighed "That's why they dropped Fred after the sequel's first episode, he was the best looking and Scooby killed him!"
"Alright, stop your wining, we'll stick together." Mike said reluctantly.
"Oh, not with this bogie-bum!" Vyvyan pointed accusingly at Rick.
"Hey, just because when Neil was sick he used my underpants as a handkerchief-"
"Shut up! It's always the same with you! Nag nag nag! Just like my mum!" Vyvyan interrupted.
Rick gasped "I am nothing like that old slag!"
"Come on. The sooner you both shut up the sooner we can have some fun!" Mike then added "Though I use the term 'fun' lightly."
"Fine. Since it's my birthday I get to choose what we go on! So there!" he stuck his tongue out at Rick who then twisted it but received a punch in his temple causing him to stumble backwards "I wants to go on the rollercoasters first!"
"Alright then. Let's go." Mike led the way to the first rollercoaster The GutGusher.
The cars were bright red spattered with yellow paint and there was four to one car conveniently. Vyvyan fought with Rick to get into the front seat but Mike decided the two would sit together in the front. Neil clambered into the back and just as the ride was about to start, Mike hopped off to save himself and have a bit of a puff on a cigarette.
With a lurch, the rollercoaster jolted forwards and began a steep ascent.
Rick fiddled about with his seat "There's no seatbelts!" He cried.
"No, you're meant to hold onto the metal bar, stupid!" Vyvyan replied.
Rick looked around "Well I would if there was one!"
Vyvyan frowned and then grinned "Great!"
"I don't think this is quite safe, guys." Neil muttered stating the obvious.
As they reached the top, Vyvyan stood, not holding onto anything and peered around. Seeing Mike down below he waved but then stopped "Wait, isn't Mike supposed to be up here?"
Rick pulled Vyvyan down "Sit down, Vyvyan! You might get yourself killed!"
"And you would care?" Vyvyan asked surprised.
"Yeah, would you care?" Neil asked too, equally surprised.
"Well, yes, of course. Wouldn't you care if I was in the danger of killing myself?" Rick answered slightly taken back by their surprise.
Vyvyan and Neil looked at each other "No."
Rick's eyes widened and then he shifted to the corner of the car "Oh, okay then."
Suddenly the car dropped down the other side of the steep hill it climbed, crushing the three into their seats. Rick screeched as they went plummeting down, Neil did his usual "Oh wow!" and Vyvyan, well, he wooted all the way.
The coaster turn abruptly to the right, jolting the three into the sides of the car, Rick banged his head and cried out loudly. Vyvyan held up his arms as the G's increased and they dove into a hole causing them to almost fly out of their seats. It flew upwards at gut crushing speed and down again. It repeated this maneuver five times in the dark of the tunnel they were in. Then it slowed and they came into a dimly lit dome like room, still underground. They were at the top and saw the track cascade down in circles all the way to the bottom and then turn and bolt up, right through the middle of the circles. Slowly the rollercoaster accelerated.
"Oh, God! Get me off of this!" Rick cried.
Vyvyan jumped up and down on his seat "FASTER!"
"No! Slower!" Neil moaned.
They accelerated all the way down the circles getting faster and faster, their innards sloshing about, side-to-side and then down almost popping out even, as the coaster jerked upwards through the circles they had just whizzed down on. The coaster pierced through the small hole and they were back outside again. It curved quickly until they were horizontal. It slowed quickly and halted back at the start.
"I think I have to go to the lavvy!" Rick dived out of the car and ran towards the toilets. Vyvyan hopped out watching him flail about as he struggled to open a lavvy door only to be punched and beaten up by a huge thug-like guy who was in the toilet. Neil crawled out and mumbled "oh wow…" over and over again.
"So, you enjoyed it then?" Mike asked smiling as the three recovered and gathered back together.
Rick's left eye was squint and his arms crossed over in pain "Never… Again." He sputtered.
"What's that the fat multi-coloured pygmies say?" Vyvyan asked Mike.
"Uh, you mean the Teletubbies?"
"Yeah! Like what the Teletubbies say before they brainwash little kiddies' minds, AGAIN! AGAIN, AGAIN!"
"Well, you're easily amused aren't you, Vyv?" Mike turned to Neil "What about you Neil?"
Neil looked at his stomach and poked it "Well, my guts have been gushed that's for sure."
Mike waved his hand in front of his face "Thought so."
"Okay, let's go on the next one! The Ripper!" Vyvyan ordered already charging off towards it.
The three sighed and followed.
The Ripper, also known as Whiplash, was a larger, more outdoor ride, and people came out pale holding their necks and shivering. Again, Vyvyan threw himself into the first seat. It was individual seating this time but still four per car. There was a strong metal bar that came down quite abruptly causing Rick to cough and wheeze. Vyvyan turned to Rick who was in the car behind and made a smart remark on how much fatter he was than himself. Rick growled and tried grabbing for him but his movement was restricted due to the bar. Mike sat at the back wishing he had gotten himself out of this ride too. Neil on the other hand leaned on the side of his seat and waited for the inevitably lethal ride to start.
"This is meant to be the meanest ride in the whole of London!" Vyvyan called behind to unnerve his fellow students even more.
A buzz sounded and the ride shot off in a straight line with great power and surprised the four so much they fought to keep there lunch down. It suddenly corkscrewed fifteen times, the speed increasing all the time, barreled left, and right weaving in between other rides. As it did this Rick Neil and Mike gripped their necks for the pain was… well, painful. Vyvyan, on the other hand, couldn't move his arms to do so because the ride's speed was too much. It suddenly bolted vertically swerving madly. It stopped, jolting the four forward harshly. Vyvyan gripped his stomach and swallowed while Neil and Mike clutched their heads in agony from the pain of being whipped around in the back. Rick leaned back trying to gasp for air, winded from the sudden stop. Just as they started to recover the ride dropped, literally dropped causing their hearts to slam into their throats and their stomachs to do various acrobatics. Defying gravity, only kept down by the bar, they tried pulling themselves back into their seats to no avail until the car slowed gradually making the metal bar dig into their abdomen's (Mike's chest since he's short) and they halted still dangling vertically, looking into blackness.
"I don't like this ride…" Rick murmured after a minute of silence and stillness in a whiny voice.
Vyvyan managed to turn as pale as the rest of them "Wh-what are y-you so… Wimpy a-ab-about? It's great!" He coughed although his stomach would protest.
"I feel like I'm going to need a change of underwear…" Mike mumbled.
"I already need one." Neil coughed.
Vyvyan's head pounded worse than the time he had that hang over from drinking industrial strength floor cleaner with bleach and marmalade. His vision was blurred and he could barely make out if they were moving or not "The ride's slowed down an awful lot, hasn't it?"
"It's not even moving!" Rick spluttered concerned of why they were not going anywhere.
Suddenly, the light from the Ferris wheel that was visible from above them but only by a little, shut off and the music stopped.
Vyvyan turned his attention from watching the carnival switch off back to the nothingness he saw in front of him "Oh bugger."
The ride jerked forward and slowly wheeled down until it was horizontal again but kept moving, jumping now and then at the kinks in the track. Without warning it charged forward and up so the silhouette of the closed carnival rides were visible but as they neared the top the speed didn't decrease and it rounded sharply cracking the vertebrae in the four's spines. The carnival lights flashed on again and the music started up once more. The ride whipped around a tight corner and dipped down, gravity and the G's crushing down and headed towards a series of loops, ten of them.
"BLOODY HELL!" Rick's shout trailed along with him as they started the first loop. It was quick and so was the next three but on the fifth it was extended into an oval like shape and bent so the loops after it where sitting next to each other side by side. No sign of the end yet. The gravity pulling out of their seats almost and the constant stop start of the car jolted them around. Headaches, gutaches, painful joints and, in Rick's case diarrhea were all flared by the recklessness of the unmerciful ride. Dipping a last quick dip and a slow rise back to where they started, the car finally stopped.
Vyvyan and Rick used each other to balance and their legs kept spazzing out while Mike crawled across the floor sneaking a few lucky glances up girl's skirts, receiving a kick at one point, and followed them as best he could as he kept stumbling from dizziness. Neil walked normally, apparently not feeling the effect of the ride. The four gathered near the candyfloss kiosk only none of them, not even Vyvyan felt like having a sweet treat at that moment.
"That was…" Mike started "Different." He managed to stand. Everyone looked at Neil who seemed perfectly fine "Why aren't you over your heels in an insane dizzy delusion?" Mike asked.
It was then Neil feel forward flat on his face, just then feeling the effects of the ride.
Rick snorted but winced and clutched his stomach "Talk about being slow!"
Mike dismissed Neil's strange behavior and turned to Vyvyan "Now Vyv, I know you're raring to go on more rides but-"
"Actually, Michael," Vyvyan corrected in a rather civilized voice "I don't think I really want to go on any other rides for a while…"
"Oh, that makes a change. Are you feeling okay?" Mike felt his forehead.
Neil stood and glared at Rick "I'm not slow!"
Sighing Rick gave the two-fingered gesture yet again.
"Fine, are we calling it a day then?" Mike asked, starting to walk in the direction of the exit.
Vyvyan nodded, hesitantly at first "Yeah. I guess so."
They passed the ice cream kiosk and Neil remembered earlier about the taking of ice cream "Hey, I thought we wanted ice cream?"
The turned and glared at him and then, they all ran off to the toilets to relieve their throbbing stomachs.
Yay! Another so soon!