It would be hard to believe that this one place used to be a place of fun and fancy-free for the young and young at heart from all over the world. There were a few who could entirely disagree on that fact. There was no way of leaving this invisible wall, especially to one young girl who once called her closest friend crazy when she brought a little mouse to school, stashed in a box inside her backpack. Kate was worried and curious all day since her father dropped her off at that fancy mall strip. Of course, Jackie had to be crazy, going off and on about her parents disappearing — Anyone in their right mind would think that.
Right?

Something had to be going on with Jackie if she even thought that a mouse could talk, or had trained it to put its paws on a phone screen. Little did Kate suspect that it felt like a storm was coming. Everything went quiet later that day when she started getting weird texts from Jackie. Living this close to the Park had its perks since she knew a classmate having a sleepover at the Disneyland Hotel for the weekend… Of course, it was a girl who enjoyed including Jackie out. Typical of blonde popular powder puffs. But getting these strange texts saying that Jackie needed help, Kate decided to do some digging. It was usual for her to go walking about the mall after school and asked if she could get a new pin for her collection. That was a lie she told and the last thing she told her father before he kindly dropped her off. Just like how it was with Jackie.

Right when she was dropped off at the Disneyland Hotel for an hour, Kate started her search, starting with that slumber party. It was the one place to check on her own. As far as she knew when she stopped by Jackie's house earlier, no one was there. Which peeked the best friend's interest even more so…. It was when Kate actually walked into the mall when things started to get very strange. It all started like a typical afternoon, built on edge of course, with Kate begging one of the girls to tell her where Jackie was. That only led to being talked to by her mother though. It was overall frustrating though that these no one to care enough that Sarah and her family were missing and Kate was so close to telling the police…. She would have if she was able. That was when the power went out, causing a widespread panic. Kate was told to stay in the room but she had a feeling that something much bigger was on the rise.

It all began with good intentions. A careless moment was all it took. Once everyone came in, everyone who stayed at the hotels could not leave. Kate was given permission to stay with this friend and her mother and had given her a stay over bag before she was dropped off earlier that day with 40 dollars to spend for herself. Little did her father know was that something was going to come over the Parks, including the hotels and mall strip. It was as if they were suddenly thrown into a paranormal vortex, or something other. Kate was stuck with Lindsey. A girl who never really enjoyed Jackie's company, nor Kate's for that matter. For the moment, when phone connection for some reason wouldn't work, the girls took refuge inside the hotel room. Lindsey's mom left and for some reason, the hotel door wouldn't open. The girls were scared and unsure if any of this was real. They couldn't call the police because even they had no idea of what to do either… Above everything else, the sky all around the property looked unnatural like something out of a horror movie. There were constant yells and arguments overheard from next door and from the floors above them.

Out of fear, neither of the girls wanted the curtains to be opened and they stayed curled between inside the bathroom in the tub with the sliding door shut and locked…. Lindsey was a 13 year old 'a mean girl' to say the very best of it and Kate hardly liked her. She had bright blonde hair and green eyes, and she wore striped pajamas since the night ended in fun. Lindsey seemed to always give Jackie trouble, never inviting her to fun things like Disneyland unless something was done for her. She was not so much a friend but she was a usual face the two saw every day.

Kate just wanted to help Jackie out of mere guilt that she treated her badly the day before. Perhaps Jackie was onto something and all this was linked? Kate had to make a connection, especially now that they were trapped.

"A stupid mouse talked to you with a phone?" Lindsey sourly asked in a shaky tone of voice.

Kate took deep breaths as she picked up on eerie silence outside besides the constant frightening voices of other vacationers in the hotel building. "…yeah." she answered quickly. "I think Jackie tried to tell me something else, but she didn't get it— Like us, right now."

"My mom is missing! We are locked in a room. I can care less about Jackie!"

"We need to try something, Lindsey! We can't just stay here, crying all night~ something is going on! It's not just your mom! Jackie's family went missing too."

"We can't call anybody, we can't get out — What can we do!? Oh my god…" Lindsey's sharp tone suddenly went to a low whisper when gunshots could be heard again in the distance outside. She began to cry again. "… what is happening…?"

Kate continued to listen as she bit down on her knuckle, fighting tears of fear herself. She checked another strange text on her phone which still said in the corner that there was no service. Every single message appeared to come in fragments as if Jackie was in a panic, constantly saying things like getting out, help me, where are you and you need to find me. It was all very confusing.

"Will you shut up?" Kate snapped at Lindsey's sobbing. "I'm trying to think…"

"I just want to go home…. I don't know what's going on…"

She did it again, not caring how Lindsey felt, but her mind was elsewhere. "I need your help. Come on." Kate took Lindsey by the hand. Having an idea in mind, Kate began to look around the bathroom, finding a few things. "Get those glasses out there~," she told her.

"There are people shooting guns! I am not leaving this bathroom!" Lindsey countered as Kate took all of the hanging shower towels and piled them onto the middle of the floor.

"Fine. Stay." Kate snapped, having enough as she daringly opened the door before taking all of the towels out into the hall.

Kate knew there was danger out there and Lindsey would only hinder her progress if she would have any. After latching the door, she went to where the TV was and took all of the water glasses that were set out, putting one glass into each towel. She made a small weapon. It could work if anything bad was coming to this room. She took the ice bucket as well.

"What are you doing?"

"Making myself useful. We might need to defend ourselves…"

"Yeah, as if towels with glass in them will help. They have guns!"

"Well, I want to find my best friend. Just ignore it!"

Of course, as far as kids go, yelling did not bode well on their end. Of course, there was a loud knock at the heavy hotel room door. The girls froze like deer in the headlights. Lindsey's face went pale. After a moment of silence, the knocking got even louder.

"This is all your fault ~" Lindsey hissed before Kate slapped her hand over her mouth.

The girls had to improvise as a strange light like a flashlight began to appear from under the door.

"Serves me right of ever coming back here… You're completely useless…" Kate grumbled. "I came to you for help, and as usual you shut me out… Just like what you always do to Jackie."

"I am scared and you expect me to be all nice—"

"Ssh!" Kate suddenly hushed doing her best to hide under the bed with a heavy towel in tow. "Get in here~"

Lindsey got down to her knees and crawled as the knocking got even worse. As she followed Kate she caught a glimpse through a slight opening through the window curtain. There was a slight view of the Downtown district that was left in disarray and slight fires could be seen up ahead. None of this looked good. Lindsey soon made a wise choice and joined Kate tightly under the bed. A towel was swept over their faces and they stayed quiet. The thick and securely locked, card key activated door started to jam and get shoved. Just then something sharp began to get jammed between the wall and the door beside the knob. It was no card but a strangely curved knife which then damaged the door to an extent just enough to get the door to slightly open. But it was latched. Someone gruff and tired cursed from the other side… Lindsey could hear the tone of a man trying to get in and tried to stifle her cries with her hand. Yet the voice was sharply familiar.

Yet the moment there was more space, something made purely of golden light shot into the room.

"Stupid head!" snapped another strange voice that accompanied the strange other.

"You are this close to becoming a nice heirloom in me cabin. Ye try it ye'self, savvy? Make yourself slightly useful."

Something cackled and growled before a loud thump struck the room door, with a force strong enough to snap the latch right off the door. The girls tried not to scream in fright and stayed frozen under the bed. They heard scuttling of quick feet and claw accompanied by deep heavy set weathered boots and this ugly smell of alcohol or beer. They couldn't tell…

"Among the hundreds, this better be the right one, miss…" the gruff voice, sounding just like a specific pirate captain.

Much to the girl's absolute horror, the gold bundle of light shot quickly under the bed, spotting the two. Panicked, not knowing what it was at first, Kate slammed a towel over it, trying to stifle the bell sounds.

Lindsey gasped when she saw a pretty but terrified face in that dash of light.

As soon as that happened, there came a very disappointed hiss from the other creature that had eyes glowing in the dark. With an unnatural strength, this beast proceeded to lift the end of the large bed, revealing the hiding girls. Wide black eyes met four terrified ones. The one that lifted the bed was a stout, weird creature that looked like a mesh with a koala and a dog with a wide toothy grin and blue fur. The man was dressed in an old raggedy brown jacket with thick cuffs. Underneath, he wore an almost silvery blue vest, held tight by a thick old belt that had so many things hanging off of it. There was no doubt a pistol in it, accompanied by a torn up voodoo doll of some sort with a black box latched there beside them. His face remained quite fair amidst a head of thick dreadlocks and beads. He stared down at the girls gruffly with oddly sharp brown eyes. As Kate was frozen, Lindsey ultimately tried to flee before her arm was caught in the man's thick grip. She screamed as loud as she could before her mouth was muffled. Kate naturally thought that he was going to hurt her, but was surprised when this pirate only pressed a grimy finger to his lips to hush them.

"Don't want the whole place to spar now, do we?"

"You've got to be kidding me…" Kate uttered, feeling like Johnny Depp himself was right there before her eyes.

The blue creature who they both knew was Stitch, seemed to snarl at the two, almost thinking that he was going to attack.

"Hang on…" Kate started, trying to connect things over Lindey's muffled cries. "Am I dreaming right now~ ah!" she gasped when the alien began to crawl right up to her. In a fright, she backed against the curtain. "Please, please, what the heck are you doing!?"

"Dreams can be real if you'd like 'em to be…" the pirate added. "Have no fear, lassies. Now if you scream, ya might bring some unlikely friends along," he said, letting the blonde one go, gently.

"She! She! She!" Stitch suddenly screeched, bouncing with a pointed claw pointed at Kate's nose.

"She…?" the pirate pointed at her awhile staggering forward. "…do ye know a lass who goes by the name Jackson, by any chance?"

Lindsey ran to Kate who was basically cornered beside the bed. Hearing her best friend's last name, Kate could not help but feel righteously angry.

"What did you do to her?" she outright found blame before boldly charging at the man.

He had a pistol and slightly rose it up at her as a warning. "Ah-ah, now, silly girl, don't you play stupid with me."

Kate had to step back, realizing her mistake. "What are you going to do? Please… I just want to help her."

"So do we, girl. Perhaps we should have begun with formalities…"

"You're not Johnny Depp…" Lindsey spoke up for the first time.

The pirate looked like he tasted something rotten. "… Bugger — everyone keeps callin' me — Ye forget about that! It is Sparrow. Savvy? Captain Jack. Sparrow. It's not hard."

"Okay, okay — sorry…" Kate stammered before glaring at Lindsey. "Captain. I am seriously freaking out because… you, him and…"

"The pixie you just muffled with a blanket…?" Sparrow looked irked as he spoke while inspecting his compass.

"Oh shoot!" Lindsey gasped when that formerly gold light darted from under the towel. It was beaming red this time and seemed to almost smack Kate's nose.

"Sorry-sorry! I didn't know what you were ~ oh my God! T-Tinkerbell!?"

Inside all of that dazzling light was a beautiful face belonging to a little fairy dressed in a green laced dress made of leaves. As she was usually golden, she was as red as a Christmas decoration, waving her fists at the offense of being held down by a bathroom towel.

"I didn't mean it! Me and Lindsey, we're scared! I-I just came here to look for my friend! Then all this is happening…"

Tinkerbell sighed, rolling her eyes with arms crossed while the girls were having another panic attack, as it were. Stitch grumbled, clawing at his eyes in annoyance.

"Deep breaths, ladies, it is not the end of the world. Yet." Jack came to the two, helping them up to their feet.

"What are you talking about!?" Kate gasped when he took her by the arm.

"You'll see your friend again, aye. Had to find ya before someone else did."

"Who?"

"Maleficent."