Okay, so here's the second chapter! Hope you like it!
They finished up in Adventureland (dragging Jack away from yet another shocker: T-shirts, pins, purses, DVDs, etc. with his face all over them) and headed to Frontierland. Before them stood Splash Mountain.
"Hold it!" Elizabeth shouted, stopping the men from eagerly running into the line. "I'm not getting on until I watch and see how wet these people are getting."
They all watched the next boat plummet down the drop. Much to Elizabeth's relief, the splash at the bottom missed the passengers entirely. "Good," Elizabeth said cheerily. "Come on!"
They got into the boat, which sat two people across. Jack was infuriated about having to sit next to James, but he got over it once the ride started.
The boat curved through more animatronics. These were animals. Rabbits, bears, birds, vultures, etc. And guess what? They were all talking! "Hurrah!" Will shouted, "They're not singing!"
"I think it's going to drop," Jack said suddenly.
"What makes you so sure?" James looked skeptical.
"Two things, mate," Jack said. "The sound of water crashing, and the fact that the boat in front of us just disappeared downward."
"That would explain things, wouldn't it?" James said, just before the boat tumbled downward. Ragetti's screaming was short-lived. The drop was only about three feet long.
"Oi…" Jack groaned. But soon they were sent down again, this time probably one story.
Does it even get any bigger than this?" Jack asked, annoyed just the tiniest bit.
"You're blind, Jack," Elizabeth said.
They were now outside, cruising along, and just about to turn a corner to go back inside, they noticed another boat. "Hey, look!" Pintel announced. "That boat's goin' down the biggest drop!"
As soon as the last word left his mouth, the splash created from the dropping boat flew into the air, aiming at them.
Everyone screamed and tried to avoid it. Jack even considered jumping out of the boat. But he had no time. Before you could say "splash", it already had. Directly on the boat.
"Bloody h-" Elizabeth covered Jack's mouth again. But by the look on what was left to see on his face, you could read "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Dripping wet, the passengers were sent back inside, with freezing cold air blasting in their faces. And to make it all the more better, they were tilted almost 80 degrees, climbing a hill to get them ready for the five story drop.
"This had better be it…" Jack mumbled.
It was. Soon they were dropping like a rock toward what looked like a giant briar patch. Ragetti screamed like the devil was chasing him, and everyone else seemed completely normal. Well, as normal as one gets while dropping five stories.
None got wet on that last drop, luckily, but they were sent back indoors, back to the cold air, and back to the animal animatronics. Bugger. This time they were singing. And apparently, Pintel and Ragetti knew the words, much to everyone else's' distress.
"Zippety doo da! Zippety yay! My oh my, what a wonderful day! Plenty of sunshine in my way! Zippety doo da, zippety yay!"
"Will you shut up?!!!!" Jack screamed. He was furious because he was certain he had lost a bead from his hair.
They all exited, and after a good long look (and laugh) at the photo taken, they were off to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.
In line, all Jack could think of was that annoying voice recording that was repeating itself every times a train arrived. It sounded like an 80-year-old from the gold rush. He was warning everyone about the ride.
"Shut that bloody thing off!" Jack shouted at the attendants. The attendants looked at Jack, and then went back to their normal routine.
They got in the train, another two-seater. And once again Jack was stuck with James.
They began the climb up a hill.
"Finally! A dry ride!" Elizabeth said.
But she immediately ate her words. At the top of the climb was a small waterfall. All six began shouting at once, so that nobody, not even themselves, could tell what they were saying.
Soon they made it to the top, and the only person who got wet was Will, who got laughed at until they began to drop. Ragetti surprised everyone by shouting "Yeeeeeeeeehaw!!!"
The ride stopped just as soon as it had started. Nobody ever said all rides at Disney World were long! So they all agreed on the Haunted Mansion. Well, I shouldn't say that. Jack didn't agree to anything. In fact, he didn't say anything.
So they entered the room shaped like a pentagon. On each wall was a painting. They were normal enough to Jack, but still the tiniest bit creepy.
Soon the room went dark and an eerie voice boomed. The doors slammed shut behind them, and Jack leapt ten feet in the air.
Then, to horror-lovers delight, and horror-fearers, well… fear, the room began stretching. And along with the walls, the pictures stretched, revealing the bottom halves. This is what made the stretching to frightening. Now the pictures were of things like an old woman sitting on a grave stone shaped like an old man, with an axe through its head. And this only made things worse for Jack. He was incredibly relieved when the doors opened and they were able to exit. But it had only just begun. The two-seater cars glided along, and Jack was, for the third time, now, forced to sit with James.
The restraints lowered on their own, and the seat glided through the Haunted Mansion.
First was the library, where the busts of famous ghost story writer watched with glowing eyes. Jack refused to take his eyes off of theirs until they had left.
Next they passed through a hallway with doors lined up on each side. Each door was doing something. Either a hand was coming out of it, it was moving or bulging on its own, or it was shaking wildly. This is exactly where the ride stopped.
Will and Elizabeth took it well. A little annoyed, but they just had a nice conversation. If you call trying to out-scare the other a nice conversation.
Pintel and Ragetti were pretty darn scared. They were stopped right in front of a bulging door. If you've been on the ride, or seen The Haunted Mansion movie, you should know what I mean. Anyway, they weren't taking it wonderfully.
Jack was another story. Pintel and Ragetti's fear did not even come close to Jack's, and poor James had to live through it. Their car was stopped in front of a door with a zombie-like hand stuck through it, clutching the door, and creating the illusion that it was opening it.
As soon as the ride stopped Jack stifled his screams of terror. Instead he got as close to the center of the car (James got closer to the edge) and shook like a leaf.
James, getting incredibly frustrated with Jack, and wanting to kill him, was completely shocked that Jack Sparrow, the pirate who fought Davy Jones, could be scared of a haunted house ride.
It took ten minutes for the ride to start. Jack suddenly realized what he had been doing in front of a previous commodore, and quickly returned to his rightful spot.
The car went through a cemetery with everything from ghosts playing cards to the classic handing pushing the lid of the coffin up. But what was the worst for Jack, Pintel, and Ragetti was what happened every two seconds or so. Creepy heads would pop out from behind grave stones with a pre-recorded scream.
This made Ragetti scream every time, and Jack jumped every other time. Pintel got used to it. James seemed unmoved. Elizabeth jumped the first three times, but nothing more.
Next came the most famous site in the ride. The cars passed a large glass window, and below them was a ballroom with ghostly ballroom dancers whirling around together. Everyone seemed to like this for some reason. Well, everyone always does.
To finish up the ride the cars passed a mirror. As each car passed the passengers saw themselves, along with the famous hitchhiking ghosts beside. Well, everyone but Pintel and Ragetti. The mirror made it appear that the ghost wasn't beside them, but instead sitting on top of Ragetti.
"There's a fat ghost on me!" Ragetti said. Pintel laughed, and Ragetti joined in, each making stupid jokes about it.
They finally got off, and three particular ones ran out of the place as soon as their restraints were raised.
"So now what?" Jack asked, peeking at Will's map.
Will shrugged. "I don't really know what any of these things are," he said.
"When we pass them we'll know," Elizabeth said.
And that's when they passed it. The Liberty Belle. A three level riverboat that people could ride on.
"There!" Jack said excitedly, "Now we know!"
"How long does it take?" Pintel asked, not wanting to get on a ship while he could be on thrill rides.
Will led them to the gate. "Thirty minutes," he read the sign.
Everyone looked at Jack with annoyance.
"Is the whole world against me?" Jack asked, looking around. He did so just in time to see a teen girl pass by wearing a T-shirt with him on it.
Jack cleared his throat. "Besides…" he said, "It's not like we're running out of time."
"Alright," Will sighed, "I guess it can't hurt."
They boarded, and Jack gaped at the paddlewheel on the back. He decided to explore the next two levels. It was all just too much for him. He'd never seen anything like it.
The horn blew and the boat's engine started. Jack ran down to the first level. He stared at the paddle wheel. "It's runnin' the boat!" he announced to the nearest person in his group, Elizabeth.
Pintel and Ragetti were getting crazy ideas of their own. They had decided to race from the top level to the bottom, and back to the top again. They had convinced Will to be the judge.
"One, two, three, go," Will said.
The two took off. They raced up the first flight of stairs, dodging people along the way. Ragetti beat Pintel to the top, but on the way down things got messy. Ragetti ran right into a 6' tall man and tumbled down the stairs. Pintel, however, was oblivious to this, and made it down to the bottom.
Just as Pintel was going to rub it in Ragetti's face that he had won, he saw Ragetti already at the bottom, but he was lying on the ground.
Finally one of the workers forced Pintel and Ragetti to quit their activity.
Will and Elizabeth were on the second level, sitting together and watching the scenery pass by.
James was leaning against the railing doing the same, and sometimes seeing Jack scamper around, scrutinizing the boat.
Jack, as I just said, was carefully looking at the boat, and, believe it or not, planning to commandeer it.
Thirty minutes passed, and the boat was about to dock. Jack frantically searched for his weapons so he could threaten the captain.
"Will! Where are my effects?!" he asked in a panic.
"The airport confiscated them," Will said, "Remember?"
"Then how am I supposed to commandeer this vessel?" Jack's eyes were huge.
"Jack!" Will shouted, "How could you think of something like that?!"
Will had to get James' help to drag Jack off of the boat. But in the end Jack just gave up.
How was it? What I'd give for reviews... I don't get a lot of 'em.