Another Piece
"If your doing this, it's a short time frame." Isabel, Jen friend said looking at her computer.
"It's there. I promise you, Izzy." Jen always called her Izzy, she didn't know why that nickname was the best, but it just fit.
"There is one thing I don't understand though," Izzy tilted her head. "I could easily hack the system and see a utiladoor there, but it's not showing." She clicked a few buttons on her laptop and sighed. "Nothing here, I promise you."
"That's because it's in the old white water rapids." Jen said putting an old map on the school desk. "It's right there, all we'd need to do is drive to Downtown Disney, take a bus to Fort Wilderness, stay there until dark, and the head to River Country."
"Why can't we just do this during next summer? I have an exam on monday, and it's in English. Plus, I'm pretty sure this whole years going to be full of craziness." Isabel Andrews was probably Jen's best friend. She could always count on her. She was incredibly smart to, to the point where she was taking part-time college classes in graphic design this year.
"Because now we have the main part of the opener!" Jen said.
"The opener?" Izzy said totally lost. One of the things they differed on was information on Disneyana. It was never easy to explain most things to Izzy, because Jen had always worked with her grandfather who practically knew everything, she always found it hard to explain such things.
"It a type of object. Its about a big as a lock for a school locker." Jen said as she started fiddling through her book bag and then she came across a small sketch book she used for art class. "It looks like this." She drew a poorly drawn light grey circle with three dark, almost black circles in the middle with white inscriptions on them.
"Ok? So why do we need this opener? I thought you just needed the journal."
"The opener isn't just an object, it works like it's name, it's a key." Jen paused to think of a better way to put it. "My grandfather used to tell me a story when he discovered one again, back in the early 2000s." She began to tell the story.
"There I was, in the middle of New York City!" Said her grandfather, in a course, weary tone. "There was a portal glow, coming from one of the sewer holes!"
"The sewer?" The small, five year old Jen said, making a disgusting face.
"Yes! The sewer! Since portals don't always come around for long, I decided to open it and jump in. But it wouldn't let me! I just stood there on thin air!" He then took a sip of water.
"But I thought you said if you ever find a portal, you get to Disneyannia." Jen said mispronouncing the name.
"I thought so at the time to! But then I remembered something! Before we left Disneyana, Roy and his friend put a lock spell on all the portals! And to keep them sealed forever, Roy took the key with him, and ripped the combinations of the lock!"
"What ever happened to it?"
"We never found out. Before Roy and I went our separate ways, he gave me one of them. Hold on!" He said digging in his pocket, and then handed her a disc wit odd marking on them. "There you go Jenny! The first piece of the puzzle."
"Don't you want it Grandpa?"
"No, I'm getting to old for this!" he said laughing "Now, it's your turn to find the treasure in the family Jenny."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes! Yes! Take it. It's all yours!" Jen then put it in her own pocket.
"Grandpa, how many of those things are there?"
"What? Combinations?" Jen nodded her head. "There are three. One is with the opener, as far as I know, the second is unknown, but I know you of all people can find the second one!"
"Grandpa." Jen said getting his attention. "Will you help me find Disneyannia?"
"When your older, I'll try my best."
"How old, Grandpa?"
"Umm..." He paused and thought for second. "Thirteen. No sooner."
"That's crazy!" Izzy said, sort of amazed.
"What's crazier was my first expedition, I got the first combination."
"When was that?"
"Did you ever wonder where I left to after my fourteenth birthday party last year?"
"You went spelunking for a disc?"
"More like digging on private property."
"What?"
"Now that I look back at it, It wasn't one of my best moments..." Jen said trying to joke around. Just as she did, the school bell rang. They excused themselves from study hall last period, to work on a project. Not really specifying that the project was breaking into an old waterpark.
"I have to go, Jen." Izzy said while helping Jen pack her maps and books into her backpack.
"Ok, we'll talk on the phone tonight?"
"Sounds good to me!"
"Ok, see you soon, Iz!"
"See you later! I'll see if I can hang out at that cool place on Friday!" Izzy said from the hallway.
