Chapter 331 - 331. Arcade!

The group was very lucky that there were not many people ahead of them and they had arrived just in time for them to all take an empty slide. "Remember the bets!" Asher was sure that he was going to win but everyone else knew that this was not about luck. They all had slides that twisted and turned and it would come down to whoever was the quickest when they said go. 

"Oh, you kids are tracing? That's pretty normal for us. But based off of experience the muscly one should win." The staff member had seen this many times. The heaviest person would always win because they would gain more speed. 

"We know that, we gave him a three second wait before he is allowed to go down." The staff member heard Laura and smirked. He was sure that this was going to be a good race and he would be amused to see who would come out on top after it all. It was the small fin he could have before the park became crowded and he would have to deal with the myriad of trouble makers. 

"Alrighty, then let me start you all off.. Three...two….one….Go!" The group jumped in to action. Unfortunately, most of them slipped or ended up backwards in their rush, Asher included. "And Go!" The secondary go was for Jackson who slid down normally with his hands safely tucked in. "Oh...I never explained the rules. Eh, Whatever. I bet that muscly kid will still win." The staff member was not even phased. 

Sammy and Laura were screaming in unison as they had the identical but different color slides. Their twists and turns caused them to spin in a loop almost making Sammy who was just barely recovered from the roller coaster have to start all over again with the process. 

Louis could feel the speed at which he was going and was doing his best to focus on his lightning. The slide was plastic and even though there was a lot of water rushing down the slide with him he could feel the static in the air. "Hold on just hold on. You can do this. Just wait. It's over in a blink." There was no more reason for him to want to win. He just didn't want to zap everyone else since this had been the ideal training so far in the detailed control of his super power. 

Jane and Art were similar to Sammy and Laura. But their slide was much more of a challenge. They flipped upside down multiple times while going incredibly fast. Art was regretting going up to the top to race since it was the longest and highest water slide ever. In the midst of these loops Jane was grasping at her sunglasses even though her senses had been thrown off too much already. There was no telling f she would have them y the time she reached the bottom. 

Meanwhile, Jackson was just sliding down gaining speed and speed and even more speed. He lacked the loops and instead had the straight shot to the bottom. This was not a good thing. He was the heaviest and the fastest. Meaning when he got to the bottom it would be the worst result. 

"Is this even a slide!?" Asher's yell echoes all the way back up to the top where the staff member was laughing hysterically. He always knew that those who got stuck with the green slide would yell or wine. It was the slide for the children. Now, this didn't mean it wasn't a good slide. However, this did mean that it was made to be slower on purpose and also so that it would not scare them during the experience. 

Asger was slowly heading down the slide at a leisurely pace, "This is worse than the lazy river!" 

The first one down the slide was technically Jackson. But when everyone else got down they found that they had ties and the only people missing were Jackson and Asger. The two seemed as if they had vanished in thin air. The slide Jackson had gone down was empty and not even the sound of someone getting ready at the top was made. 

Asher on the other hand could be heard cursing the slide until he showed himself and stepped in to the large pool. "I understand that Asher was stuck with the lame slide, but where is Jackson" Sammy was worried that Jackson may have ended up at the bottom so fast he had left tor even that he had fallen t the bottom of the pool. 

The massive splash that caused everyone to become blinded was met by a familiar voice, "Who puts a jump at the bottom of the insane slide like that!?" It was Jackson. The super fast slide he had ended up on was made with a jump at the end to give a big splashing cannonball opportunity. Unfortunately, this was not told to them and Jackson had been surprised by this, especially when he was in the air. 

"Wait, if Jackson was in the air, does that mean he is technically the last down? Or is he the first because he was at the bottom of his slide and just not in the water?" The question was posed by Art as they struggled to make it out of the deep end of the pool. 

"I think we all kind of lost here. Everyone but Asher and Jackson were down at the same time but we all tied. It was pretty lame…" Laura felt that the challenge had kind of been ruined since they had all ended up at the bottom at the same time and they had not thought to have someone act as the judge with a photo finish. 

"All I know is that I got the worst slide and Jackson got the craziest. Also, what the heck i with this wave pool? The waves are so…" Asher was going to say the wave pool has small waves when he felt a pull on his legs. The water was surging and he had seemingly jinxed himself. 

The large wave caught all of them and pushed everyone to the very shore. They all found themselves in the shallow end looking at the sky. "You just needed to mock the wave pool. At least we decided who is buying the ice cream." Cara gave a glare to Asher since he had definitely been the cause of their sudden wash up on the man made shore. ''Jackson laughed a little, "I thought you were all going to decide on me-" 

"Oh, so nice of you to split the cost with me. I knew you were a great friend Jackson!" Asher spoke up making Jackson regret his accidental taunt.  With the group's decision made they moved toward the nearby ice cream stand and surveyed the area. 

"It's really warming up here and look at that, it's a school field trip." Laura had caught the field trip from across the pool area and saw that the kids were stealing all the lockers to store their things that were left. 

"We should get out of here before we end up swimming in pools that suddenly get warmer and warmer." It may have been a gross reason but Art was not wrong. The group grabbed their own things from their lockers and wandered the park. 

"What now? Do we just kill time before the haunted house is open?" Jane wanted to know what they should do. She had the goal of hitting the Ferris wheel at some point to get a picture of the highest point in the park. But that would be best done at sunset before the haunted house. 

"We hit the games. There is a whole arcade here that we can win tickets at. I hear the top prize is supposed to be unobtainable." Louis was the one who had been looking on to the games. Ever since Art had shown him the fighting games they learned some of their moves from he had been a little addicted to skill games. The arcade was the ideal place for him to show off his skills. 

"Then, what is the pize?" The question sounded simple enough but Louis remained silent. Jackson spoke up a little louder, "What is the unobtainable prize?" 

Louis turned suddenly and looked Jackson right in the eyes, "No one knows. It's hidden in a box that cost a million tickets. The closest anyone ever got is the jackpot on a fishing game for four hundred thousand tickets." 

This brought a little mystery and challenge. "So what your saying is, if I have a certain little brother that has a lucky super power it would be best for me to bring him there to try and win luck based jackpot games so we can be the first to show off what the reward is?" Cara didn't beat around the bush and spoke with a calmness that the others didn't have while they realized they could own the entire arcade if they played their cards right.  Asher just stood still and wondered when they were going to ask his opinion.