11. Family Adventure Pt.2

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 It took an hour of Della insulting Launchpad, Huey's constant references to the JW-Guidebook and Dewey doing stupid stunts for attention, for the McDuck clan to finally arrive back into civilization.

They had arrived in a small town, with buildings built with bricks, the colours of the sunset, orange, red and yellow, it gave the town a warm, inviting aura. It reminded him of that town he visited with Uncle Donald and his band, without the sinister secret that the town hid... He hoped.

He suddenly had a depressing thought. Uncle Donald. He hadn't seen him once since he got back, did he know? or was he purposely avoiding him? He had to ask someone. - It was a topic he didn't want to discuss with Huey or Dewey, and he wasn't really fond of Della, Scrooge was being hounded by shopkeepers, so that just left Webby. 

He quickly yet quietly moved to the middle of the group, hoping to avoid any unwanted attention. - "Hey, Webs?'

"Yeah?" - The overly excited girl replied.

"Can I ask you a question?"

"Sure."

Louie stuttered. - "Does Donald... Does Donald know i'm back?" - Webby blanked, then hesitated before she answered.

"I don't know," - she scratched the back of her head. - "you should ask Della or Uncle Scrooge."

"Yeah... No." - Louie muttered, guess he had to wait and see if Donald would contact him or visit. He wanted to see him one more time before he disappeared again.

Scrooge shouted at the all the local merchants who were surrounding him. - "Curse me kilts, yur' all a bunch o', greedy thieves." - He began swinging his cane wildly at the ones who didn't back off, scaring them away. - "I hate this town, does no-one have any decency?" - Scrooge remarked.

Huey spoke up. - "Not to interrupt you, Uncle Scrooge, but shouldn't we continue the adventure?"

Scrooge took a calming breath and agreed with Huey before immediately getting angry again. - "The only one who knew where we're going was the tour guide, and he's at the landing strip we were supposed to land at in," - Scrooge pulled out a pocket-watch. - "10 minutes!"

"Then call them and tell them to come here." - Della argued. 

Huey chimed in, again. - "One problem, where is 'here'?"  - Everyone stayed silent, no-one knew where they were.

"Well we can't be too far away." - Della sheepishly reasoned.

Still, everyone stayed silent, no one had a clue, even Della and Launchpad who had flown the plane, scratched their heads. - "We could buy a map." - Launchpad suggested, and everyone waved his idea off, before they realised what he said. 

"Good idea, Lad!" - Scrooge marvelled at the pilot, and while Louie heard Della mumbled something under her breath, he couldn't hear her exact words, but he could say the tone was definitely bitter.  they had went looking for anyplace that sold maps of any sort, eventually finding a hole-in-the-wall shop displaying postcard and maps.

"How much?" - Scrooge asked the shopkeeper, who stared at the old scotsman, with literal dollar signs in his eyes.

The shopkeeper mulled it over for a few seconds, before responding. - "50." 

"50 Euro." - Scrooge gawked at him. - "That's too much."

"You can afford it." 

"It's highway robbery!" - Scrooge shouted.

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