Word Count: 1987. Here's my entry guys, right on time! Hope you enjoy! Don't forget that Friday at 6pm central is the due date. So far, I only have one handed in, so get to it! You've got little over two days left! I don't wanna get them all last minute! Enjoy! :)

It had been a long time since Isaac had felt fear. He'd been in the face of death many times and each time a small part of him had been afraid. He'd lived through gunfire, seeing his buddies die, killing men, the things he had to do overseas... Everything he'd seen since—all the killers he and the BAU had caught. He'd felt fear. Each and every time.

But this...

He couldn't quite remember how he'd gotten caught up in all this. One day he'd been assigned a case, a particularly troubling case, and the next thing he knows he's staring at people from magical worlds he'd only ever dreamed of. The last thing Isaac had expected was for his mother and sister to be kidnapped and used as leverage against him.

The Fire Lord and his other "soldiers"—as Isaac liked to call them—forced him and about twenty others to do their bidding. His first mission? Travel to another realm and rescue someone that he was going to have to teach to survive in this sadistic psychopath's Games. If he didn't, his mother and sister would be killed, followed by himself and the tributes he was supposed to teach. Innocent lives were in his hands. It was a familiar situation, something he'd dealt with in Iraq and Afghanistan many times, something he dealt with on almost a daily basis in the FBI's special BAU profiling unit.

But other realms? Magic? Teleporting? This was well beyond what he knew and understood. Way out of his comfort zone.

Your tribute will be found near an Island to the east within the Disney Realm. Isaac stared at the words in his file over and over again but all he could do was open his mouth without saying a word. He looked at the Fire Lord and Unseelie King first, then traced his eyes around the table at all the other "mentors" staring at a similar file.

"Each of your individual tributes are in different places. This way," the Unseelie King said.

He led them through the ornate oak double doors decorated with elaborate, twisted carvings of leaves and leaf-shaped ovals, and down a long narrow hallway. It was the same way they'd come in, but instead of turning right—back toward their rooms—they turned left. That hallway was even longer, the walls made from dark oak and just as intricately carved as the doors. At the end, reinforced steel doors —plain and smooth compared to the decorative carvings—opened wide.

Inside was the largest warehouse he'd ever seen, and he had seen a lot. A warehouse with hidden weapons, littered with bodies—He shook the thought off before it would lead to an attack, or worse: a flashback.

Isaac intensely focused on the warehouse and what was inside it. On the far right was a black, four door, 1967 Chevy Impala. Isaac whistled. "Hello there, sweet thing," he whispered. He and his father used to collect old cars and this one was a beauty.

"Each of these vehicles will transport you to the Disney Realm and other assigned Realms throughout these Games. You will use them to transport you, along with all of your tributes from now on," the Unseelie King said. He stood with his back facing the "vehicles," looking at each of the mentors.

Isaac stared at his face, half normal and half grotesque, and cringed.

"Um, Seelie King, sir," one of the other Mentors started shakily, "This isn't a vehicle..." The young girl, pointed to a red wardrobe.

"Neither is this." One of the other mentors, an older woman, gestured to a cape hung on a rack in mid-air. "But I'm not sure that's the point..."

The Unseelie King shifted his odd and harsh gaze to the mentors, standing in a line across from him. "No, it isn't. Much like the many portals in the Unseelie Lands that drift from Realm to Realm, these vehicles can cross into other dimensions. We have enchanted them with our magic."

The Fire Lord stepped forward. "Choose your vehicle. It will be yours through the entire games. You have your location and a tribute to rescue there. Now go."

Before anyone else moved, Isaac darted to the Impala, opened the door, and slid in. His knee throbbed as it usually did from his old injury, but he ignored it and traced his hands over the steering wheel. Much to his surprise, the keys were already in the ignition. "Here goes," he muttered, turning it over.

When she started up, she basically purred, which was music to his ears. Smiling from ear to ear, he shifted her out of neutral. Where am I supposed to drive her? he wondered, glancing out the windshield.

He'd been expecting the warehouse. Instead, colors from all hues of the spectrum exploded. The Impala jolted a bit, but by the time he blinked, the car was still.

Slowly, the colors outside began to recede, leaving a bright blue sky with the sun beating down overhead in their place. All around him was nothing but the blue-green of the ocean. Waves lapped at a shoreline a few feet from him on every side. When the file said island, I didn't think it meant this small... Isaac thought as he slowly opened the door and stepped out.

The "island" was really just a tiny reef that was large enough to keep the Impala's tires out of the water and wide enough for the car, leaving Isaac hardly any room to stand.

He turned and looked out at the ocean-filled horizon, but there was no other land as far as he could see. Alright, so how am I supposed to rescue someone when the island isn't even big enough to hold them? As he shifted, he noticed movement behind him. On a piece of the reef that jutted out of the waterperched a seagull.

"There you are!" the seagull shouted enthusiastically.

Isaac blinked and almost stumbled backward. "Wh—what? D—Did you just..."

"You're going to need the dinglehopper if you're going to get down there! I've been waiting up here all day." The seagull slowly enunciated everything it said.

Furrowing his eyebrows, Isaac wiped his eyes and looked back at the bird in shock. A talking seagull? Sure he had just taken a beautiful Impala across dimensions or whatever, but... a talking bird? Like straight out of a Disney movie?

That's when he suddenly realized: Disney. The file said the island was located in the Disney Realm. He knew that before, but he didn't think it literally meant Disney. "Skuttle?" Isaac felt stupid for even asking, but he figured he would take his chances. It was just a seagull after all. Was it possible to be embarrassed in front of a bird?

Suddenly, a yellow and blue fish emerged out of the water, screaming. "You gotta come, you gotta help her! They have her! Come on, hurry!" With that, the fish disappeared below the waves.

"You're gonna need this!" Skuttle used his wing to grab a fork out of a pack at his feet and shoved it in his hand. He opened his beak and screeched right in Isaac's face.

The surprise of it threw him backwards, making him lose his balance on the narrow reef. He tumbled, falling into the water faster than he thought possible. Instead of water choking him, he could easily breathe even though he was underwater. What? How is this possible? Isaac floated there, beneath the waves, in total shock. Why isn't the water drowning me?

The fork slid out of his fingers, slowly drifting down to the blackness below. The instant it left his hand, the water choked him. You're gonna need this, Skuttle had said.

Isaac swam downward, holding his breath until he grasped the fork tightly in his left hand. Air whooshed into his lungs harder than he expected. Now what? Almost before he finished the thought, in the distance and far below him, sparks and light danced wildly, revealing glimpses of an underground cave. My tribute has to be there, he concluded.

Without letting the fork go, Isaac swam leisurely, conserving his energy, toward the cave in the distance. It was so dark it was impossible to see what, if anything, might be out there. Initially, he had been expecting schools of fish or the beauty of a coral reef, but he couldn't see anything... Nothing except the dancing lights.

As he neared the edge of the cave, he stayed hidden and peaked around the corner. Fortunately, it wasn't really a cave with multiple rooms, just a large, single cavern. The lights allowed him to clearly see inside.

Two... half-women half octopuses were swimming around the center of the cave. The fatter one wielded what looked to be a trident and was using it to throw energy around the room. In the center, tied to a stalactite in the ground, were two mermaids and a girl. I'm guessing this is Ursula with the trident... Isaac struggled to remember more of the movies, but it had been too long since he'd seen it.

Water movement to his left shifted his attention. Two long shapes with electricity buzzing across them charged toward him, much faster than he expected. Ursula's two pet eels. He had no weapons and going up against two eels was incredibly stupid, especially since they had the most advantage here in the water.

He had no time to figure out which of the captured people was his tribute, so he made an instantaneous decision to rescue them all. The only way he knew to do that would be with the trident. His only advantage was surprise, so he charged in, using all the energy he'd conserved earlier. While the skinnier one had her back turned, he swam up behind the fatter one. Knowing the water would slow down his momentum, he grasped her right wrist—the one holding the trident—not bothering to try to attack her. Underwater, it would be no use. He twisted it backward, using a controlling hold. She cried out in surprise and pain, dropping the trident. The water slowed it, so he was easily able to catch it in his right hand.

He aimed it at both of the octo-women, wondering how to use it.

"Think of a creature!" one of the captured mermaids shouted.

A kraken...? It was the first creature that came to mind. Energy zipped across the trident, exploding out of the pronged tips. The light appeared just in front of the octo-women. Emerging out of it was a massive creature with dozens of long tentacles. It stretched and made a strange sound that Isaac didn't know and suddenly the cave shattered all around him.

Swimming over to the captives, he used the tridents prongs to slice their binds free and then grabbed the girl. Both of the mermaids grabbed his arms and the girl's and swam them through the water toward the surface. The mermaids were much faster than he had been, fortunately, and they were able to reach the Impala within a minute or less.

When they breached the surface, the redheaded mermaid held onto the girl's arm. "Use the trident," she said, gesturing to herself and the other mermaid.

Isaac furrowed his brows, but wasted no time, pointing the trident at both of the mermaids. The energy swirled around them and by the time he blinked, they were both human.

Ignoring the fact that they were naked, he swam a few feet over to the reef where the Impala was still waiting. The sounds and crackling below him made shivers run across his spine, especially as a massive tentacle charged out of the water ten yards to his left. "Get in!" he shouted.

They clambered into the backseat just as he shifted the ignition and turned it into drive.

Lights and colors danced around them as the Impala teleported them out of the Disney Realm.