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El Lugar más Feliz de la Tierra: Chapter seven

To all that come to this happy place, welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. - Walt Disney

Luna had never heard these words before, nor had she heard of the man who had said them... well until she and Mateo end up having a movie night and Luna comes up with an idea. If there is really a place that can be called "the happiest place on the earth" she wants to see it for herself. So she and all her friends leave on an adventure ... an adventure over to a place where you can leave today and enter the world of the past, future, adventure, and fantasy.

The song of the chapter v ¤

Nothing can stop us now

“Uuuuu, uuu, what do you think he’s gonna be like?” Luna was skipping ahead in the queue, “I mean I read like that he’s like the boss.”

“I don’t know if I could ever work for a mouse,” Matteo joked as he walked behind her with Gastón and Nina.

“Well, good thing you don’t have an employer,” Gastón patted him on the shoulder. “You could never survive with my boss.”

“I thought you liked your boss,” Matteo rolled his eyes at Gastón, “Or. Don’t you have like multiples? I will never understand how that works.”

“I mean, there’s my direct supervisor who answers to the division manager Mr. Gomez. We all contribute to things the executive works on, and they are under the CEO’s direct management.”

“Stop talking about work!” Luna turned around frustrated and linked her arms with Nina and then went to grab Ambar as well. She started dragging them further along the queue.

“I think it’s safe to say that this Disney obsession of hers won’t end anytime soon,” Gastón noted as he and Matteo kept on walking as well.

“As long as she is having fun,” Matteo shrugged and look ahead at Luna.

“Okay, next group!” The character attendant yelled and opened the gate. Luna could almost burst from excitement. The rides were awesome, of course they were, but she absolutely had loved meeting all the characters. It was so cool seeing them basically come to life, with the costumes and everything.

Obviously, she knew that they weren’t real, she wasn’t stupid, but it was fun to pretend. The characters with the big head—Nina had called them something fur—were especially adorable. They were fuzzy with big eyes and mouth… In short, extremely huggable.

“Hello my friends!” A high-pitched voice was heard as Luna entered the area where Mickey Mouse was standing.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa,” Luna was suddenly taken aback. “You talk?? He talks? This is so awesome!”

None of the other characters that had these big heads talked.

“It is so nice to see you!”

“It is so nice to see you too Mickey!!” Luna started jumping up and down before hugging a ginormous character.

“Have you had fun at my home!”

“Absolute best!” Luna continued, “We’ve been here for a long time now. We’re going home tomorrow, but I don’t want to leave.”

“Where are you from?” Mickey kept asking Luna questions.

“Buenos Aires!” She responded enthusiastically.

“Thank you for coming so far to see me.”

“You’re welcome! But like, it’s not that far,” Luna started, “Or is it? The flight was very long, let me tell you…”

“Have you visited that one house on New Orleans Square?” Mickey started asking.

“What house?” Luna looked at him confused.

“I once went there, and I think it was haunted.”

“Oh!” the realization hit Luna, “YES!! We went there on our first day here! It was spooky.”

“I think a ghost tried to follow me home from there,” Mickey continued.

“Oh me too!” Luna looked over her shoulder, “Hopefully it didn’t happen… Matteo! Has there been a ghost chasing me this whole time?”

“Not that I have seen,” Matteo laughed and walked up to where Luna and Mickey were standing and offered his hand. “Hello, Mr. Mouse.”

“Mr. Mouse?” Luna looked at Matteo.

“Well, he was the boss, wasn’t he?”

***

“So, my Jaz-fans, today we start our day with some culinary delights—”

“Jazmin were going to be buying churros,” Delfi noted as Jazmin kept hyping up the snacks to her camera. “I don’t think you can really call them the most exquisite culinary delights.”

“How do you know?” Jazmin turned to her after shutting the camera off. “Have you ever eaten churros?”

“Literally the last time we went to Costa Park, but you didn’t want one because, and I quote “they would destroy your outfit.” So, yes, I have had them,” Delfi rolled her eyes. “You surely have too, they’re super common, you probably had them at ours. Those were Aaron’s favorite dessert.”

“I mean maybe I have, but these are Disney churros,” Jazmin shrugged, “So must be better and make better content.”

“Delfi just shrugged and laughed as they received their long treats.

“Uuf, all this cinnamon is ruining my outfit!” Jazmin started complaining.

“I tried to warn you.”

“Anyways,” Jazmin grabbed a few selfies with her churros and then pulled her camera out, “So, who guessed right? The answer is Churros! So, all my Jaz-fans, you get to see me take my first bite of a Disney churro.”

“Can we get these for the wedding?” Pedro asked as he was munching on his own churro.

“So, a finger food buffet isn’t enough for you?” Delfi raised and affectionate eyebrow at Pedro. He had been surprisingly involved with the wedding planning, especially when it had come to the food.

“Isn’t this finger food?” He countered, “I don’t see forks.”

“We’ll see what we can do once we’re back in Argentina.”

***

“Where are they?” Luna was tippin on her toes as they were waiting on for the others in the middle of Toon Town.

“Delfi texted me that they are on their way now,” Ambar looked at her phone, “Now that they’re done with their churros.”

“I wanna churro,” Luna stopped on her tracks, “Matteo! Why haven’t you gotten me a churro?”

“Because you literally had three macarons and an ice-cream sundae,” Matteo responded, “No one wants to deal with you while you’re hangry. But wait like an hour, because you’re really hopped on sugar right now. You’ll get your churro.”

“I’d better…” Luna rolled her eyes.

“We’re here!” Suddenly they saw Jim, Yam and Ramiro jog toward them, “We almost got kidnapped by pirates!”

“Only because Ramiro neglected to tell us about the drops,” Yam scowled at Ramiro.

“I thought it was obvious.”

“We’re very close to banning you from third wheeling us ever again,” Jim continued.

“And now we have entered the world of cartoons…” Everyone turned around as they started hearing Jazmin’s voice. Low and behold, she was walking toward them—camera in hand—with Delfi and Pedro. She directed the camera toward Luna, “So, tell us. What are we doing here?”

“So, we were just meeting Mickey and heard that he has his own ride here.” Luna started, “I can’t believe that I almost completely missed that while doing research. It was called a run-away way or something like that, so basically a train ride! Now we just need to find it.”

Luna started scrolling through the map. She had never been good with maps—that had been very proven when she and Matteo had once taken part in a city orienteering event at Buenos Aires, because it had sounded cool. They had gotten pretty lost. She finally found the attraction she had been looking for after swiping around for at least 5 minutes.

“So, we need to be heading toward a theatre of some sort,” She looked up and started looking around, “I have no idea where that could be though…”

“Right there,” Nina pointed behind them. Luna turned around and saw a cartoonish looking movie theatre. It had a billboard that read: “The grand World Prem-Ear”. “Huh, what does that mean?” Luna stared at the sign.

“A mouse pun?” Gastón shrugged. “Are we gonna stand here the whole day?”

“Lets go in.”

As they entered, they walked over a carpet that said: “El Capitoon Theatre”. Then there was a display that read: “Mickey Mouse and the Perfect Picnic”. It looked like one of those shorts that Luna had watched on the plane.

“High School Goofical?” Luna read off one of the posters. “What does that mean?”

“I guess it's a parody of High School Musical,” Matteo had appeared on her side.

“High School what now?” Luna looked at him. “Why would someone make a musical of a high school? Imagine if someone made one of Blake, it would be ridiculous.”

“They made three movies,” Ambar remarked as she came behind them, “And a streaming series. I used to love those movies, but they were a bit silly.”

“Those movies had the best songs,” Ramiro suddenly started doing some random choreography, “I’m not gonna stop, that’s who I am…”

“Has everyone heard of the High School musicals except me?” Luna looked around. “That’s it! Matteo, we’re watching those movies on the plane back.”

“Sure,” Matteo made a few faces that very clearly tried to convey a message called “help me”. It would be a very interesting flight back.

They walked forward in the queue and Luna tried to look at all of the posters. They all seemed to be some sort of parodies of movies… not that Luna had ever heard of any of them. Maybe she really should ask Nina to hold some sort of an old movie marathon, so she could get more up to date. But at the same time… She had terrible track record with falling asleep during movies if she was even tad bit bored—one of the reasons why the Star Wars thingies would never work out with her.

Next, they walked under a banner that read “It was all started by a Mouse”. Since Ambar had apparently read multiple books on the Walt Disney guy who was the founder of all of Disney, she and Nina—who just had known about the history, because of course she did—had given her a crash course on some of the history. The whole company really had been started by a mouse, Mickey to be exact.

The queue continued onto the next room which looked like a museum display. There was a helm of a ship and a plane hanging off a ceiling. It looked very cool.

Luna stopped in front of a mannequin that looked like Mickey. It was wearing a red rope and a pointy blue hat. Why she had stopped was because the hat just spoke to her. It had a white moon and stars on it.

“Oh!” Luna staggered back. “It flew! Everyone else saw that right?”

“What are you talking about?” Matteo looked at her confused.

“The hat just flew off the head of the doll,” Luna pointed toward the mannequin.

“It’s a hat. You sure you weren’t just dreaming like you usually are?” Matteo looked like she was trying not to laugh, “Those don’t float—Ah, what was that?!”

The hat had started levitating again. Matteo jumped back scared like a bunny.

“See, I wasn’t just inventing things,” Luna laughed at him. She looked at the hat again. It was floating and she could see sparkles around with some magical sound effects. “This is actually really cool.”

“Whatever you say,” Matteo nodded, “Let’s move along.”

“Hey, this mirror is haunted!” Jim seemed to be yelling from further up the queue. “I swear I saw a ghost!”

“Nope, not even gonna comment on that,” Matteo shook his head and turned to grab Luna by her shoulders. “Come on…”

“Wow! A beanstalk!!!” Luna had already dashed away, “Mom always used to read me that story.”

“Here we go again.”

Soon, they were standing in front of the double doors which had three circle windows, making a Mickey shape on the door. The doors opened up and they walked into a space that looked like some sort of a movie theatre.

“What are we doing here?” Luna was bouncing on her toes excitedly. From what she had learned of the ride, it was supposed to be some sort of a train, so she didn’t fully understand why they were in a movie theatre.

As they all had entered the room, the screen lit up and started playing a cartoon.

The cartoon depicted Mickey and Minney apparently going to take a picnic. They came across Goofy who was driving a train. Then something weird happened…

The train that Goofy was driving suddenly rode into a barn and then exploded.

The weird thing was that the screen they had been watching the cartoon on exploded too. There was a concrete hole in there and now they were directed to go through it.

“What is going on?” Luna looked around intrigued.

“We’ll just have to see,” Matteo took her hand, and they started walking.

***

“No.”

“Well, what about this?”

“NO.”

“Why not?”

“I am not buying that.” Matteo sighed as Luna showed him at least a hundred silly looking hats.

“You can’t be that grumpy all the time,” She rolled her eyes at him. “You promised me that you’ll buy me ears.”

“Yes, for YOU,” Matteo countered. “I’ll buy you ten pairs of ears, but I will not be wearing any sorts of hats.”

Luna was holding a giant green hat in front of him. As far as Matteo was able to deduce, it was Mad Hatter’s hat.

“You’ll need some sort of a souvenir,” Luna gave him her best puppy eyes and Matteo almost gave in… He really needed to stay strong, otherwise that hat would end up in their next Christmas card. That would be a field day for his fans.

“I have a souvenir,” Matteo continued, “The lightsaber. That’s enough… Okay, you can pick something else, but not a hat. Okay?”

“Yayyyy!” Luna jumped on her feet and dashed toward the next display.

“Don’t get lost in here,” Matteo yelled after her. “Our flight leaves in five hours!”

“I am trying not to think about it!” Luna yelled back at him. “Oh, I listened to some of that High School music yesterday while you were asleep. I want to walk down the aisle to one of the songs.”

“Fun.” Matteo didn’t know if he wanted to cringe or smile.

The past days had been so much fun but also exhausting… he was looking forward to just crashing on the plane.

And if Luna had already picked the processional music, maybe they should now actually get some wedding planning done.

All that said, this had really been an adventure.

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So, our journey come to an end, but yours continues on... Anyways, the story is done now. I gotten be honestly, writing this time to time has kind of been mentally taxing on me. It's probably because this idea is years old, and part of those cookie cutter ideas I for project post MOT. This story is very reactionary and nothing really happens so it's not that exciting to write. That being said, I'm not unhappy about how this turns out and I'm hppy this exist. We can move onto some more wacky projects and I hope everyone enjoyed the adveture.

#Soy Luna #soy luna fanfiction #Going to Disneyland #Disney #disney chaos #lutteo #gastina #simbar #Pelfi #Jam #Chaos will reign in the happiest place on earth #Roller crew goes to Disneyland #Lugar más Feliz

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countessofravenclaw · 1 year ago

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El Lugar más Feliz de la Tierra: Chapter four

To all that come to this happy place, welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. - Walt Disney

The song of the chapter V ¤

Life is a Highway

“I can’t fully believe it. Everyone was awake today, on time no less.” Ambar exclaimed as everyone walked through the gates of the Disney California Adventure at 8:00 Am.

“Well, why on earth would we want to sleep in when there is fun to be had,” Pedro remarked and Delfi struck him on the ribs. He looked like he would still need to rub some of the sleep out of his eyes.

“Yeah, why would you wanna sleep when this is so fun!” Luna didn’t appear to register Pedro’s sarcastic tone as she was skipping ahead. Matteo was holding her hand quite firmly so she wouldn’t run off again.

It was their second day at the parks.

Gastón had to admit that Matteo holding Luna back from her full zoomies potential, was quite of a comical sight, but neither of them seemed to mind. He wrapped his arm around Nina as they formed a semicircle with the others as the last person, Jazmin with her tripod and camera, to come through the gates.

“So, what are we doing first?!” Luna was jumping up and down again. “I think the first ride needs to be something we do together.”

“I absolute agree,” Matteo started speaking and then exchanged a glance with Gastón.

As soon as the trip had become a reality, Matteo and Gastón had been hatching a plan.

“I second that,” Gastón continued, “Matteo and I have an idea…”

“What kind of idea?” Ambar furrowed her brow at them, “Do we want to know?”

“You absolutely will,” Matteo smirked, “Follow us.”

They started walking alongside the Buena Vista Street and then turned left toward the Hollywood land and walked again until a tall, steam punk inspired, building loomed over them.

“Uuuuu, what is it?” Luna had already tilted her head.

This had been the plan. Matteo had apparently noticed quite early on in Ambar and Luna’s planning process that they only had focused on the Disneyland side in the majority of their research. So, they didn’t have that much knowledge on DCA, which had given them an amazing opportunity. Matteo and Gastón, the ones who actually had been to a Disney Park before, couldn’t let it pass up. They had to see if they were able to get everyone on a ride, without them knowing what was actually going to happen.

Their planning had been extremely secretive, to the point that Gastón actually had been able to keep it from Nina, and that was hard—Even before becoming his wife, she had always been able to read him like an open book.

Their disappointment had been beyond any imagination when they had found out that the Tower of Terror didn’t in fact exist anymore… Such a tragedy truly, but their plan could work with its replacement as well. As long as it fell.

“Let us present to you, Guardians of The Galaxy—Mission: Breakout.”

“This is the ride you want us to go all on?” Ambar was eyeing Matteo suspiciously, “Why the secrecy? What kind of ride is this? I didn’t have time to look all of this up.”

“A dark ride of a certain sort,” Gastón responded and smirked toward Matteo’s direction. “It’s a Marvel ride. Most of you are probably not going to be familiar.”

“Well, let’s go in then,” Luna didn’t seem to find anything to question, as she was the first to enter the queue.

“Gastón?” Nina asked as they entered the inside part of the queue. It was beautifully themed, having all kinds of vaults from the Collector’s collection.

“Yeah,” Gastón who had been looking at one of the animatronics, turned toward Nina. “There must be so many easter eggs here, have you spotted any…?” Nina had a very questioning look on her face, “What is it?”

“You and Matteo were looking at each other a little too much,” Nina crossed her arms, “What are you planning?”

“Just a small surprise,” He should have known that he couldn't get anything past her. She was his wife and knew him way to well. “Don’t tell anyone.”

“So, this isn’t just a dark ride?” Nina continued with a low voice that only he could hear, “I knew the way you said it sounded funny… This is a tower… It’s going to fall, isn’t it?”

“Pretty much.”

“Free fall?”

“Actually faster.”

“Fabulous.” There was a sliver of fear in Nina’s voice as she wrapped her hand around Gastón’s arm.

“You okay?” Nina had never been fond of anything going fast speeds, but she had been a pretty good sport this far during the trip. That being said, Gastón's protective instinct kicked in right away. “We don’t need to do this.”

“Yes, we do, this won’t be scary after all, or have lightning in it,” Nina looked at him, “I don’t want to opt out of everything that seems a tad bit imitating. I’m just going to squeeze the circulation off your arm.”

“You have my full permission to do so,” Gastón answered, amused that she felt the need to inform him of that. He already knew it and would never mind.

“I was not going to ask for permission,” His amusement seemed to start catching on to Nina as well, “Although, I’m not scoring many in-law points with your parents if you’ll need to get a limp amputated.”

“Well take that risk,” Gastón laughed and wrapped his arms around her waist pulling Nina closer. She was being so adorable right now, and he couldn’t resist.

He kissed her on the temple before leaning down and whispering something to her ear. Her gaze shot up at once like how he could have possibly dared to say something so scandalous to her in public… Well, it wasn’t that far from the truth. But the look in her eyes actually was telling him, how much she was not opposed to what he had just said. They could get out of the dinner with everyone else and just eat in their room—

“I know... carefully scrutinized, each and every piece that comes to me from different parts of the galaxy, da-da, da-da, let's mute this guy! Hearing your incessant blathering on a constant loop was a big motivation for me to escape. I go… OUCH!”

They had entered the preshow room and the animatronic of the Rocket Raccoon appeared from the shelf on the wall.

After the preshow, they made their way to the elevator. Their group was so big that they got a one-ride vehicle all to themselves. They went inside and sat down and fastened their seatbelt and the elevator’s doors started to close and more narration could be heard.

“My dear friends, this is the moment you have been waiting for…”

“Yeah, when Rocket unplugs you, AND STARTS THINGS ROCKIN!!! Now show me those hands, people! You've got clearance, let's roll! Okay! Woah!”

Suddenly the elevator started accelerating upwards. Nina’s hold on Gastón's arm tightened and he could hear almost everyone screaming in surprise.

“I thought this was going to be a dark ride!?!?!”

“Well, it is in the dark.”

“Dark rides are slow!!!”

“That’s not a rule or a fact.”

“I almost dropped my camera!”

***

“So, what is this?” Delfi questioned as she, Pedro, Matteo and Luna were following Nina, Gastón, Simon, and Ambar across the Pixar Pier.

“Just follow us,” Simon stated. Ambar rolled her eyes. She knew what was going on. Gastón had come up with the idea and roped Simon into it with him. Simon had been so excited that he had told Ambar right away, and surely Nina knew as well.

Ambar had to admit that she also was looking forward to the outcome of this experiment that their lovely betrothed couples were about to go through.

“So this right behind is the Pixar Pal Around,” They had stopped in front of a huge Ferris wheel that had Mickey Mouse’s face on it, “You four have all made a promise that you are gonna commit to each other for the rest of your life…But the wedding days are not here yet, are they?”

“So, we’re going to lock four of you into one of those cages,” Simon took over the explanation from Gastón. Ambar turned to glance at Nina to see, what her reaction to this hullabaloo their husbands had created was. Her face seemed to be in an amused, but serene smile. “And see if the engagements are still intact when you come out.”

“So, you think a Ferris wheel will make us hate each other so much?” Pedro's face was completely blank.

“That’s the point,” Gastón shrugged, “We’ll see, you see. If you survive this, you can survive everything.”

“Uuuuuu sounds fun!” Luna grabbed Matteo’s—who looked like he was in complete disbelief—arm. “Come on Matteo, lets show them.”

“I doubt this will be so hard,” Delfi shrugged.

“Do you think we should have told them that the gondolas swing?” Simon asked Gastón after the two couples had entered into the line.

“Absolutely not,” Gastón shook his head, “It would have taken all the fun out of this. It’s a durance test for a reason.” He peeked at his watch, “This might take a while… How about we go grab some cookies from that stall we saw?”

“Good idea,” Simon nodded, “Girls, you won’t mind watching over our experiment for us?”

“No, “Ambar responded, “But bring us some too.”

“Of course, do you think we want to die?”

Both Ambar and Nina burst into laughter after Gastón and Matteo had gone.

“Idiots,” Ambar rolled her eyes after getting her laughter under control, “I hate to say it, but it is our problem… since we married that.”

“Yeah…” Nina was looking really softly after her husband.

“Do they all adopt the same humor after the ring? I shudder to think what happens when Matteo joins. What do you think?” Ambar looked up at the wheel, “Will they make it?”

“I mean depends on really,” Nina responded, “What we always say with Gastón, we’re cautiously optimistic about everything to do with Luna and Matteo—don’t tell them we say this. You can only know for sure once it happens. I think Pedro and Delfi will do just fine, they’re quite steadfast. It all honestly depends on how much the shock will affect them.”

“That’s a really good assessment,” Ambar nodded, “I could almost vouch for a spot on… You’re good at predicting this.”

“Well, I am married now.”

“You are,” Ambar smiled. Honestly, she had been looking forward to finally having a so-called “wife friend”. Someone who she could talk about the actual marriage with, without bringing the wedding into it. “So, tell me. How has it been, two months in?”

“Well… pretty amazing,” Ambar saw how the slightest blush rose on Nina’s cheeks. She knew exactly what she was thinking, “He’s—He’s amazing and I thought I knew what happiness really was, I didn’t think you could be happier than that, but now I am, even more. Nothing has really changed, but at the same time, it feels like a whole new world that we can now explore together. Obviously, it’s not a checkpoint, it’s a journey, and you’re not given a map, but there always a way when you’re together.”

“Nicely said,” She was an author, what had Ambar been expecting? “I wouldn’t be able to put it so poetically but, it’s true. When we can, lets go grab a coffee just the two of us, one wife to another. I wanna hear all about the honeymoon, and I don’t mean what you ate and what sights you saw.”

“I didn’t think you did.”

“I know you haven’t gotten a chance to speak about all of that from that side of things, because you don’t really ever get into it with Luna.”

“You really don’t.”

“Primita is such an innocent baby,” Ambar chuckled, “On the other hand, she is getting married… Well, that’s Matteo’s problem.”

“I probably didn’t tell you that Luna pestered me about kids,” Nina added, amused.

“You too?” Ambar stared at her shocked for a moment. “I thought I told her not to do that? Sorry about not warning you, I thought she wouldn’t. Good luck to Matteo.”

“Excuse me,” Suddenly, a family had walked up to Nina and Ambar, “Any chance you could take a picture of us?”

“Of course,” Ambar let Nina answer, she was practically a professional with the camera. Ambar had taken to photography little bit, because she had really enjoyed it at Blake, but she was in no way in the level of Gastón or Nina. “Where do you want it?”

“In front of the wheel. Thank you so much.”

“Don’t mention it.

Ambar had to admit that she was just a tad bit jealous of Nina’s flawless British accent and the way she fluently spoke English. Well, that was a bit given, she had lived in England for five year. Ambar was “fluent” in English in the way that she had no difficulty understanding it, and speaking wasn’t difficult either. Still, sometimes she did have to stop to think how you said something again… and no matter how grammatically correct her speaking was, you could tell that she was a foreigner speaking English.

***

“I still don’t understand how they think that a FERRIS WHEEL will somehow test the strength of our engagements?” Delfi crossed her arms when the line moved again.

“I guess it has something to do with the gondolas being very cagy,” Pedro placed his hand on Delfi’s shoulder. “They lock us in the cage and see if we survive.”

“This can’t be that hard,” Matteo huffed. “It’s a Ferris wheel. There is something that doesn’t add up here.”

“I don’t see anything wrong,” Luna skipped as they came to the end of the line.

They entered inside the gondola. There were two benches opposite of each other, so Luna and Matteo took one and Delfi and Pedro took another.

“There aren’t even any safety restraints,” Delfi looked around, “This has to be a huge joke.”

“Well, better for us,” Matteo said and leaned back. “Who said that marriage is going to be hard—”

The wheel started moving and their gondola suddenly swung violently.

“Okay, these swing a lot,” Pedro noted, “Maybe because of the wind.”

“But it isn’t windy,” Matteo looked outside of the gondola, as it kept swinging more and more.

“Then why is this moving so much…” Pedro questioned, “It’s not broken right?”

“No, it is not broken. Look.” Delfi piped up pointing upwards, “We’re on rails…We’re going to move—”

Her sentence got interrupted by the wheel moving again. This time instead of just swinging, the gondola full-on slid down on the rails it apparently was on now.

The movement was so sudden that it made Delfi shriek and grab onto Pedro’s hand. Matteo had also grabbed on at the side, while Luna seemed completely unbothered.

“Weeeeeeee!” She raised her hand up as the gondola moved again.

“How are you enjoying this?” Matteo turned to her. “We’re going to be rattled around on this for who knows how long, with no safety restraints—”

The gondola moved violently again before Luna was able to answer and Matteo let out an incoherent noise.

“This was the test—” Pedro looked around in the gondola, “—wasn’t it?”

“You think?” Delfi gave him an annoyed look.

***

“What do you think? Was that Luna or Delfi?” Ambar asked Nina as they heard another scream come from the wheel.

“I bet my degree that it was Matteo,” Gastón’s voice sounded as he and Simon came from behind them. He automatically wrapped his arms around Nina’s waist. “No rings have been thrown out yet?”

“No,” Ambar shook her head after Simon kissed her on the cheek as a greeting, “But we can’t really hear if any arguing is happening. I think this round will be done soon.”

After about three minutes, they saw four figures walk out of the exit.

“So how was it?” Simon asked as Pedro, Delfi, Luna and Matteo walked back up to them.

“You knew it was going to move, didn’t you?” Matteo started pointing fingers toward Gastón and Simon.

“Of course, we knew,” Gastón shrugged, “So are the engagement still intact?”

“Of course, they are,” Delfi grabbed Pedro’s arm, “I haven’t lost half of my mind planning the wedding to cancel everything due to a 3-minute Ferris wheel ride, no matter how much it was moving.”

“Matteo, Luna?” Gastón asked.

“Why would have we broken up?” Matteo shook his head, “It’s not like some excitement got us arguing…”

“That was fun.” Luna leaped up by pushing up from Matteo’s shoulders.

“Well, that means our experiment was a success,” Simon clapped his hands.

“Maybe, but I need some ice cream right now,” Matteo seemed a bit unsteady on his feet, “That was more than enough spinning for today.”

***

“Why did we agree on this again?” Yam questioned as she, Jim and Ramiro were waiting in line for the Incredecoaster.

“Because the married people wanted to take the betrothed ones somewhere for some challenge. Oh, and Jazmin went to go shoot footage of the Campus thing.” Jim hoisted her arm to Yam’s shoulder. “What are you sneering at?” She turned to look at Ramiro who had a sly smile on his face.

“Nothing…” Ramiro laughed, “Gastón and Simon told me what they are doing… You might still need to return those bridesmaid dresses.”

“Why did they tell you?” Yam’s face turned very questioning, “You’re not married.”

“I very much am not…” Ramiro looked horrified. “Those rings look uncomfortable. Don’t know how Simon and Gastón stand them.”

“Maybe it’s time we find you a girlfriend? Or a boyfriend… What are you even into?” Jim rolled her eyes, “So you can start appreciating the appeal. I mean Nina’s rings are so beautiful, and Ambar’s too.”

“If you love those rings so much,” Ramiro smiled shortly, “Maybe you should get engaged. I’ll be the best man.”

“Well, maybe we should,” Jim shrugged and her and Yam started laughing.

“But let’s no chance the subject,” Yam pointed towards Ramiro again, “How good idea was it to join you in another rollercoaster…after last time.”

“Hey, it’s not my fault you two almost assaulted the cast members when the ride broke down.” Ramiro shook his head.

“You could have told us they were going to push us forward,” Jim continued, “I thought they were going to kill us.”

“Why would they have done that?” Ramiro rolled his eyes again, “You are not that important that someone would order your assassination.”

“Hopefully this won’t break down like the Space Mountain did.”

“That was awesome!” Ramiro did some dance moves after walking through the exit of the ride, “What is taking you two so long?”

“We’re coming!” Jim and Yam were holding each other by the arm as they finally came out of the exit.

“Was the ride too fast for you?” Ramiro questioned as he looked at the girls’ wobbly legs.

“No,” Jim and Yam shook their heads, “This ride made me super hungry for cookies.”

***

“Okay, this ride is a race!” Luna jumped up as everyone gathered up in front of Radiator Spring Racers.

She had been really looking forward to the Cars Land. It was one of the only things she had known about in the Californian Adventure… Yeah, she and Ambar had really dunked it on research for this other park…

Anyways, why she had been looking forward to the talking cars place? Back to the topic.

Matteo had been out for a couple of days for some recording sessions outside of Buenos Aires and Luna had been scrolling aimlessly at the Disney+ app and then a movie with cars that had eyes and mouths had caught her eyes. Those movies had been awesome, and the race car had reminded her immensely of Matteo.

She had watched all three of those movies in one night… Matteo had found her sleeping on the couch when he had come home early in the morning.

Anyways, there was a whole land about the movies and talking cars, so of course she had been excited.

“We’re so doing girls vs. boys,” Luna continued, “Just like old times.”

“Oh, because we all miss the Opens that ended in a wild chases,” Ambar crossed her arms, chuckling lightly.

“I really do miss them,” Luna continued, “Uuuuuu, we should do a reunion Open. I need to talk to Juliana about that.”

“We’re already having a reunion next year,” Delfi pointed out, “Roller’s 15th.”

“Oh right—” Luna looked blankly ahead for a moment, “—back to the topic. We’re gonna race cars against the boys and we’re going to win!”

“You can’t even drive,” Matteo was rolling his eyes at her, “So, I’m sorry Chica Delivery, but this time you’re gonna lose.”

“Well…” Luna tried to come up with a comeback, “I don’t need to drive, someone else will do it.”

“I’m pretty sure no one will actually be driving,” Luna could hear Ambar saying to Nina as they walked into the queue. They most likely were right, given how many kids were in the line with them.

“Let’s go!” Jazmin was holding a camera up as the ride vehicle—It had been made to look like a car with eyes. It was so cute—jerked forward. “Why is it moving so slowly? Wasn't this supposed to be a race? I wanna beat the guys too.”

Luna was wondering the same as they kept moving until they suddenly came outside and rode around some beautiful rock formations. There even was a waterfall. It was so pretty.

Then they entered a dark tunnel—And also ran into a truck.

Huh? So, there was some kind of dark ride portion before the race? Interesting.

“Slow down. You’re not racing yet.” Suddenly the police car from the movie came from behind the bush.

The robots, or well, Luna remembered that they were called animatronics, looked so cool. They looked almost like animated.

Finally, they got into a place that looked like a starting line. Now they were actually going to be racing!

“Pronti, partenza, via!!” The yellow car animatronic started.

***

Matteo blew a raspberry as he rolled over on the bed. Another day, another extremely exhausting day, no matter how much fun they had had.

Good thing he had been able to get some downtime after leaving the park. Girls had wanted to go shopping so the guys had hit the pool and then gone to take well-deserved naps. He needed another two-hour nap or buck load of coffee.

“Wakey wakey sleepyhead!” Matteo was jerked awake by a way too-sunny voice, given his current mood. Luna’s smiling face was looming over him as he opened his eyes. “How can you sleep?”

“How can you not sleep?” He rolled over again reaching to the nightstand to drink the rest of his coffee, “You are scaring me a little bit. Again, you are not exhausted at all. How?”

“I’m having too much fun!” Luna jumped onto the bed next to him. Matteo gripped his mug tighter as she did so, so nothing spilled. He had gotten used to this at this point.

“I’m glad you are,” Matteo smiled before looking at his phone, “How are you even here right now? Did you finish all the shopping this quickly at the Downtown Disney, or whatever it was?”

“Oh, I did buy stuff!” Luna jumped up and went to grab a bunch of bags and dropped them on the bed, “I’ll show you in the second. Jazmin wanted to get some footage of something outside of the park, and Delfi went with her. Jim and Yam got distracted by cupcakes and then Mrs. Alvarez dragged Mrs. Perida somewhere where you weren’t allowed if you didn’t have a wedding ring.” Luna rolled her eyes playfully.

“Speaking off,” Matteo propped himself up on his elbows, “I still wanna kill Simon and Gastón. I did not consent to be a rattled around in a cage for minutes.”

“I thought it was fun,” Luna continued, “and, we absolutely nailed it.”

“I would still want to see them do it.”

***

“Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Disneyland proudly presents our spectacular festival pageant of nighttime magic and imagination. In thousands of sparkling lights and electro-syntho-magnetic musical sounds. The Main Street Electrical Parade!”

“You know, this very merely might make up your betrayal today at the race track,” Luna was stuffing popcorn to her mouth while the glowing parade float rode past them.

The view was stunning. She had always liked stars and constellations on the sky and but these kind of light shows were almost like from another planet.

“You do realize right that none of us had any kind of control over the outcome,” Simon stole couple of corns from her bucket, “It was random game. It’s was not our fault we won.”

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I don't have much to say about this chapter, except that I had the planned it being the Tower of Terror, but luckily I remembered that it doesn't exist in DCA anymore, which is sad... Also I just wanna note that I am writing this kind of expecting that the reader has some base knowledge of the Disneyland and the rides, because going into very deep detail about everything isn't gonna work for this story

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