My aunt had the map and my step uncle had the com. As long as we don't lose both of them, we're good. As we started walking away from the cabin, I got more worried about my dad calling but I turned around and walked away anyways. I walked next to my aunt since she had the map and my brother wanted to have Louis's com but he didn't let him have it.
"Aww why?" Troy said groaning.
"You'll... Lose... it."
"No I won't you can trust me."
"You dropped the plate of turkey on Thanksgiving and you spill almost everytime you pour yourself or anyone else a drink. So no you can't have Louis's com." I said.
"I'll be careful with it."
"Nnno." Louis said.
"Hey what did I just say aboot fightin? Naw mair of that." Matilda said.
I then changed the subject quickly before our fighting got worse like any normal sibling rivalry. Yeah we fight often but we make up for it we don't hate each other or anything I just wished that my brother would listen more and not talk over me and other people when we're still talking but that's not important right now.
Half an hour in from following the map directions in the rain forest and it started raining. I opened an umbrella for my brother and cousins to walk under since my coat didn't have a hoodie unlike Matilda's and Louis's. Me, my brother and cousins were cold, some of them had to blow their nose. My hands were numb and so were my feet I just wished the rain stopped but it kept raining. I brushed it off because it rains more in the spring, fall and winter but weird enough, it kept raining. I got to take some photos of animals we saw in the woods they were pretty but then Troy decided to be a jerk and have a snake try to slither on me.
"AAAAA STOP STOP IT!!!" I said running as fast as I can.
"HAHAHAHAHA this is funny." Troy said.
"That's... a... Dangerous snake."
"How do you know Louie?"
"It's... head is... triangular... shaped... and it's neck... is more... skinny... because-
"Because why?" Troy interrupted.
"Because... that's... where the... poison... is. Drop it. Also... because... I've... been lost... in the... woods... before."
"Aye my poor wee lamb that chancer took him to a boat race around the country just to get them both the lads lost FOR ALMOST 6 MONTHS!"
"We... well."
"They lost the race and it was all thanks to yer step uncle's Dunderheid cousin makin it worse!"
"I... tried... to... tell him... but... he didn't... listen."
"He never listens and that's what I hate aboot him."
"He's... not... all... that... bad."
As Matilda and Louis were talking, Troy was playing I spy with Chloe and Zoey. Jacqueline and I walked along talking to each other about if pineapple was good on pizza. Well tomatoes are in pizza why can't pineapples be a topping on pizza? We then started laughing because we think it's hilarious. Pineapples on pizza or not to us, it was like a comedy show. We kept laughing until we started to walk across the mouth of the river. We manage to get across safely until something dragged Jacqueline from the ground.
"AAAAHHHHH!!!"
"JACQUELINE NAW!!! GRAB MY HAND!"
Aunt Matilda reached for Jacqueline's hand as she was sinking with her hand up scared. Matilda pulled Jacqueline out with as much of her strength as she can but surprisingly, she was still stuck. The quick sand that was dragging her happened to be really deep. It felt hard like if someone was trying to suffocate you.
"MOM I-... I'M SCARED!!!" Jacqueline yelled as tears started to fall out of her eyes.
"DINNAE WORRY LAS, IM TRYIN... AAACK!!!"
"MOM?!?!? NO!!!"
"I'M SLOWLY BEIN DRAGGED ALONG!!! HELP!!!" Aunt Matilda cried.
We immediately went to go behind her to help her pull Jacqueline out of the deep quicksand. We kept on pulling and pulling but then something touched both her feet. It gripped onto them and pulled her back down. She screamed more loudly than ever hurting our ears and moving quickly to get herself out but we kept on trying to pull her out.
"STOP... MOVING!!!... IT'LL ONLY... SUCK... YOU... IN FASTER... STAY... CALM..."
"O-OK."
After what felt like hours which was actually 5 minutes, She was finally free from the quicksand. Louis grabbed her bottle of water to give her to drink.
"Drink... you're... water."
"It's barely empty lasse."
So we continued walking while Jacqueline was drinking from her water bottle. All our feet were wet from the mouth of the river and now we were even colder than we use to be. That is until it stopped raining for a bit and the sun started to shine. I checked the time on my watch and it's currently 6:11PM. I felt worried as in America it was 10:11AM over there because he would've already called us by now or spamming the call button all worried because we're not answering him. I tried to ignore that fact and continued on our adventure since we were already so far from home.
Me and my cousins saw mangos on some trees. When we all looked around, we saw all kinds of fruit on trees. I was amazed at how many we managed to walk across. I know we already have food with us, but I decided to try mango for the first time when it was done growing on a tree we all did and it was well... Delicious.
"Better than the grocery stores." Troy said.
"Yeah why buy fruit from the grocery store when you can grow your own?" Chloe and Zoey said.
"Because you have to buy the right fertilizer and the right seeds. That costs more money together than buying fruit depending on the price." I said.
"T-They're better than the grocery stores because these grew naturally see? N-no bugs were on any of them they all still look fresh." Jacqueline said showing us the mango.
"There's oranges, there's apples, heck even bananas! We're surrounded." Troy said running around the trees.
"Cmon noo don't get distracted from the fruit we still have a treasure chest to search for. We still have a long way to get there. A very long way." My aunt said looking at the map and pointing to where we're at right now.
"We're gonna have to call dad when we get back." I said.
"Yer dad's a worrywart of course we have to." Aunt Matilda said.
"Oh we'll come out just fi- AAAAHHHHH!!!" Troy said falling onto a bush full of thorns. "Ow ow owww."
I got him out of the bush thorns he turned out OK just a lot of small cuts from the thorns. We walked for a while and my Aunt looked at the map again and then looked around to see a spot big enough for a tent. The sky was all cloudy again and began raining.
"Alright, We walked far enough lads and lasses we're callin it a day and continue tomorrow."
"Wait!" I said.
"What is it noo Scott?"
"A boat!"
There was an abandoned boat on the river next to us laying on some trees on the ground. We all went to take a closer look at it. I had a strange feeling when we walked towards it. It made me feel uneasy of my surroundings and made me wanna back away but I didn't since I asked for an adventure. The sun was setting and I checked my watch again, it was 9PM. I started getting the chills and had so many thoughts around my head. I sorta froze like ice, Wind blew harder as I got more colder.
"Scott are you ok?" Troy said hopping onto my back like he always does.
"I'm just not sure about this ship. It looks haunted." I said. "Wandering into an abandoned ship at night? I don't think it's a good idea how about we wait till the next day?"
"Oh don't be such a scaredy cat Scott we'll be fine." Troy said.
"You don't know the dangers of walking into a ship that screams danger."
"The quicker this goes, the less days we keep dad worried."
"This can make findin the treasure faster." Aunt Matilda said. "Let's have a look inside."
"But-"
"Dinnae worry Scott, we'll be fine it makes a good transportation to the treasure."
"O-ok." I said nervously.
We all walked inside and it was surprisingly small. The size of the boat looked big up close but pretty disappointing seeing the inside. I wished it was more bigger but it was big enough to fit all of us plus our stuff. Louis was trying to work the boat while me and everyone else went next to Aunt Matilda and Troy still on my back.
"You can get off my back Troy." I said irritated.
"No." Troy said.
"Look I know we've been doing this since we were little and I can take your weight, but now's not the time GET off my back please."
"Hmph fine!"
After a while of my aunt telling us scary stories in a possibly haunted boat, The boat moved. Louis managed to work the boat to get it moving. At least we thought so until he walked to us with sweat on his face.
"The... boat... is moving... by... itself."
We all looked at the window seeing the moving boat and then at Louis standing terrified.
"WHAT DO WE DO?!?!?!" Jacqueline said cowering in fear.
Louis ran to the steering wheel of the ship along with Matilda with the map on her hands looking from there. Louis grabbed the steering wheel and tried getting control only for the steering wheel to break off the ship.
"IT... BROKE!!!" Louis shouted.
"NOOOOO WHYYYYYYYYY!!" Troy said hugging me in fear ever so tightly.
I looked for a plug-in in the ship but it was hard to see because of the lights being dim and it was dark out. I turned on a flashlight and flashed at the walls for any of them. I luckily managed to see only one but we didn't bring the landline. The ship took a sharp turn making us slide sideways. Eventually some Ghosts were floating around the ship scaring us all but my aunt half to death. Louis unfortunately couldn't get the ship in control but at least it was going for the direction that the trails are showing on the treasure map.
"How are you going to fix the steering wheel now?" Chloe and Zoey asked.
"I'm... not... sure."
"Let's call it a night and all get some sleep." I said.
Everyone else tiredly nodded their heads and tried getting comfortable to fall asleep. After a few minutes of finding comfortable spots on the ship, We finally fell asleep peacefully.
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Ey I finally finished chapter 2 after a few days. Alright time for me to relax by eating a thick KitKat bar for the rest of the day and watch some more ducktales episodes.
More Scottish words I used and what they mean:
Mair - More
Aye - Yes
Chancer - trickster or troublemaker
Dunderheid - Idiot
Dinnae - Don't
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