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Daniel's jaw dropped when he heard Maria's line, missing the threatening undertone. Say what? He dropped his fist and looked to Maria, confused as hell. Only to witness her striking him between the legs. Both Daniel and Lance winced, both covering their respective crotches due to sympathy pains.

"Now, I would suggest that you get your bony a** off of the ground and out of the park before sunset or you'll be jaw dropping again."

Daniel began looking sympathetically down at Derrick, knowing the pain of being stricken in such a place. However, he did condone Maria's actions as Derrick was being a p***k.

Lance cowered slightly when Maria turned to him. She was in scary mode. "I-I'm pretty sure they're at the Ripcord...." he said.

Still somewhat disturbed by Maria's attack on Derrick, Daniel stood by Maria, looking at the map. He scanned it, looking for some way that would be faster than the other possible routes.

"I don't see anything," Daniel admitted in defeat. After getting a quick bearing on his directions, he began slowly walking with Maria towards the Ripcord. Daniel made sure to stay pretty close to Maria, still not forgetting the incident with the old man.

As they began to walk, a sort of awkward silence feel between the two of them. After all, how would one respond after being blatantly told that they should be a couple with one of their friends, then witness said accuser be assaulted to the groin?

When they showed up, Maria stuttered out a "T-that's it!" before looking over the line like Daniel already was. Unfortunately, it was looking like once again they were a bit too late. Daniel couldn't see either Bill or Ted in the line.

Daniel opened his mouth to say he couldn't see them when a loud yell could be heard above them as the next rider of the Ripcord swung above them. However, there was a familiarness to the voice of the yeller, which drew Daniel's attention.

"Found Bill," Daniel said dumbly as he watched Bill swing on the ride, laughing like a madman. It took a few minutes for his momentum to slow enough to stop him, but soon enough he was walking back towards the two, grinning like an idiot.

"Aw, look at the..." he began, but he stopped when he saw the look on their faces, "... good... friends... what's up? What happened?"

"Derrick," Daniel answered plainly, causing Bill to wince. Derrick was renown amongst their little circle for being an a**. "Where's Ted?" asked Daniel looking around.

"I dunno..." Bill said, looking around, "He was here a minute ago..."

Bill looked between the two upon the word 'important'. It was obvious he was becoming worried.

"Like, how important?" he asked, "Mondo-super-life-or-death important, or wanting to date somebody's relative important?" Daniel made a confused face at Bill, wondering how a guy could be that weird.

"Listen," Daniel cut in, "We were just wanting to get the hell outta here before night. We need to get everyone to agree to it, and you and Ted are the only ones who haven't agreed yet."

"I'm in," Bill immediately said, causing Daniel to c**k an eyebrow, "This place has been creeping me out all day, bro. I've been seeing weird s**t."

"Cool, but where's Ted?" Daniel asked, knowing he had to get Bill back on track as he was easy to distract.

"Right, uh, he could actually be over at Fear Mountain," Bill began, looking up and making a strained face, showing just has difficult it was for him to think. "Just when I was getting ready to go, I saw him talking to this chick... I told him that we were all supposed to ride Fear Mountain together, but you know Ted, he doesn't think with the head on his shoulders."

Upon Maria's complaints of the distance of Fear Mountain from their location, Daniel just rolled his eyes. Not giving her time to react, Daniel ducked down and positioned his shoulder to her waist while wrapping an arm around the back of her knees. He then stood up.

Said actions resulted in Maria over Daniel's shoulder like a sack of potatoes. Bill snirked at the 'couple', but immediately looked away when Daniel's gaze rolled over him in anger. He attempted a straight face before turning to Maria, which was amusing because this caused Daniel having to turn around so they could speak face-to-face. Which made Bill begin shaking from holding in laughter.

"Yeah," he said shakily, failing horribly at trying to keep his amusement to himself, "I'll go with you two." Daniel began marching off, Bill following along, heading towards Fear Mountain. At first, Daniel felt at ease due to the shenanigans, but the closer they got to Fear Mountain, the more Daniel felt a knot of fear grow in his stomach. Something about Fear Mountain seemed foreboding to him, like he was somehow in some ridiculous funeral procession.

Daniel ignored this sensation, however, trying to keep the facade of merriment. Bill was still trying to maintain his composure, not able to look at the two, while most people around them were either snickering slightly or cooing at the quote unquote 'cute couple'.

"Hey...can you please put me down? I'm starting to feel light headed."

Daniel knelt down, setting Maria's feet on the ground safely. When he got back up, Daniel messed up Maria's hair like adults did affectionately to little boys and began walking along before she announced the time and how long they had until dark. Daniel turned around to Maria, motioning her forward.

"Then we better hurry," he reasoned, "C'mon!"

Daniel turned back around, leading the group towards Fear Mountain. When they arrived, however, they found something odd. The whole group was standing in front of it, looking at it excitedly. Well, the whole group minus Ted. Daniel walked up to the group, ignoring the still-in-pain Derrick.

"Hey, you guys seen Ted?" he asked before having a round of denial around.

"S-since everyone is here, shouldn't we head back to the van?" Maria asked nervously. Daniel opened his mouth to agree, only to be interrupted by a loud "Hell no!" Daniel turned to the source, Tommy, cocking his eyebrow.

"Dude," he began as if it was obvious, "We're riding Fear Mountain first! This was the one thing we all wanted to do. So come on, let's go!" The rest of the group agreed and cheered, leaving Daniel and Maria behind, looking after them.

Daniel looked over at Maria, knot of fear and self-preservation strong in his stomach. "So, uh," Daniel began before hearing yells from the group. Daniel groaned and rubbed his eyes.

"Looks like we're riding Fear Mountain first," Daniel said. Truthfully, he really didn't want to. He just wanted to get the hell out of this place. Daniel got into the line behind the rest of their friends, and all too quickly they were next in line. It was a five-cart train, each cart housing four seats in two rows. Derrick and Lance took the front like agreed to, and everyone else took the middle carts.

The only seats left were in the far back, and Daniel reluctantly made his way to the back. Some random couple got ahead of them and took the front-most row in the back cart, leaving the very last row.

Daniel got into his seat, unable to shake the feeling he was about to go to his grave. But, hell, nothing wasn't going to happen, right?

After the safety lecture, the ride began. It ominously clacked as the chain began pulling it forward, up to the first hill of the ride. It was a really large hill. Daniel looked to the side and saw Maria literally trembling in fear. Not knowing anything else to do, he placed his hand over hers assuredly as the roller coaster began going over the hill.

Daniel released Maria's hand and gripped the safety bars nearest him as he knew that soon the ride would really start. They were really high up in the air, and could practically see the whole amusement park. Soon enough, they built momentum and began what seemed to be free-falling down the track before being diverted just before they were splatted on the ground.

Daniel had to admit, it was a fun ride. They went upside down once or twice, and there were lots of twists and turns. It wasn't too bad. There were cheesy little pop-outs meant to scare them around corners, but they were more comical than anything else. Daniel felt relieved. It wasn't as bad as he thought.

Soon, they were progressing up another hill. This hill was about the same height as the other one, so when they were close to the top they needed extra assistance getting to the top, so another chain caught them and took them to the top.

Soon, they were free-falling again, only this time the track disappeared into the ground. Daniel couldn't help but let out a yell, like everyone else, when he thought they were going to become nothing more than a smear on the ground.

Except, they didn't. Instead, the well-camouflaged curtains brushed past them as they began going underground on the track. Daniel turned to Maria, smiling.

"Looks like we were worrying for n-" Daniel began yelling at her over the roar of the air before he was cut off by a loud clack. Daniel's head whipped forward as he briefly saw the rest of the train continue going off as their own individual cart diverted course before being dropped into a vast, black pit.

So much for nothing to worry about.