"Dean, friend this is too weird, too much not said, as my dad has said, if the deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is not too good for anything!" Jake said, saying softly as if to whisper, but other ears heard what he said too!
"You are very likely correct at what you say! That guy in red offers too little information and he reminds me of someone.... not too all trustworthy. Hey there Mr. Red, I want to get off the boat!" he said, but not softly, he stated his want loudly. His request made many other boys and some girls on board as feeling uneasy, as they then made the same request.
Meanwhile, Jake with Dean following began pushing their way through the crowd aboard the boat, trying desperately to get to the stern and walk back down the gangplank to the docking area.
A few others saw the two new friends trying to exit the boat and they began to follow the lead of Jake and Dean.
The man in red waved his hand to the boat captain up on the wheelhouse-bridge. The ferryboat whistle blew twice quite loudly as the rear paddle-wheel began to turn. Jake being taller than Dean stopped and watched as the gangplank fell away into the water, effectively trapping all aboard for the hour ride out to the amusement park private island.
"Dean my friend, we are in deep-shit trouble!" Jake said, as he turning to look back at Dean, saw Dean looking with wide as scared eyes at then two hunks of men standing up on deck.
"There they are, those two are the malcontents who tried to arouse and scare my passengers." The man in red said, hes pointing at Dean and Jake. As then he hand motioned and gave an order to the two big men, to take hold of the two friends, and both were taken below to the ferryboat cargo hold.
Roughly dragged inside and down the wooden stairways from deck to deck going down into the bowels of the ferry, first it was Jake and Dean but others were selected from the crowds on upper decks to go along as if discontented about riding the boat. Soon then, there was a dozen or so young people all huddled together standing in the dimly lighted ferryboat cargo hold. The floor there was a mess of animal poop and puddles of urine. There were narrow stalls for animals to stand and feed while tethered in place. In one corner was a jail cell, made of iron bars, looking terrifyingly ominous, as from the cell hung a set of chains and wrist shackles tainted with blood.
Jake being the taller of all there being held incommunicado from the other ferry passengers, waved his hands at when the man in red appeared.
"Sir, sir, man in red, sir, I mean no disrespect sir, but what you stated up top to all, if someone wished to leave they could, but now we can't and your men have given us the bum's rush, taking us down here into this stinking place. Sir, what sort of jobs are, or were we applying for to do for the summer months?" Jake asked as all their stood and looked at Jake or some at the gruff big men.
The gruff looking big men, of which when they had rushed all into the cargo hold stood nearer the one door entering or exiting the cargo holding area. The men if a person studied their facial features would think these hulking muscular fellows were once as circus freaks. Dean stood looking at the men and making whispered comments about them to others also eying the men-creatures.
"See that darker looking guy there, his nose as nostrils, his upper lip, its like he had a muzzle of a cow. And there too, see the man to the far right of them all, his ears, they look pointed and maybe furry!"
The man in red then pointed toward Jake, as he said, "And I trust you are the ringleader of these scurvy bunch of discontents!"
"No sir, I, or we, my friend Dean and I took your suggestion to leave and get off the boat, but the ferry pulled away from the dock, that rather stunned us." Jake said as he tried to explain.
"No go, there take the shorter fellow, named Dean and place him in the interrogation cell for my pleasure, as put all the rest in shackles and set them in each a stall to wait until the ferry docks on the island. OH, the bigger mouthy fellow, bring him along, I have something in mind for him, and him alone!" The man dressed in red so said, as ordered the big men to do.
Girls and guys were yelling and begging not to be shackled as made it sit then down on the filth coated deck there in the animal stalls.
Dean yelled to Jake, acting as if all they were planning to do to him was the fault of Jake.
One of the odd as huge muscular men grabbed hold of Jake and hustled him from out of the cargo hold and along a hallway to another cell made of steel bars, floor and ceiling.