A/N: Hey people, what's up? A few things before we get this show on the road, the first chapter was just a prologue, this chapter is going to start at the beginning of his trip to the base, and to those of who mentioned it, I will rotate chapters between journal logs and real life, thank you for suggesting that, marvelous idea! You're words (orders – Vampire Diablo) meant a lot to me! Keep them coming!

IMPORTANT! DANNY IS 19 YEARS OLD PP NEVER HAPPENED! GET IT? GOT IT? GOOD!

Disclaimer: Alas, I do not, for if I did, it would still be going!

Stepping up onto the bus I looked around nervously, trying to find an empty seat. The bus was crowded and hot, everywhere I turned I saw men and woman in their marines clothing. Finally finding a seat towards the back, I swung my bag off my shoulders and onto the floor taking my seat.

The bus moved forward and I felt my heart wrench as I saw the bright glowing neon sign of Fenton works disappear into the background. Boot camp had not been fun, and those two weeks at home had really allowed what I was getting myself into to sink in.

I wasn't really scared for my physical health, I knew I could easily dodge bullets, but my mental health was a whole other story. I wouldn't be able to protect myself from what I would see.

Trying to ignore my depressing thoughts, I looked around the bus again, a few people were taking quietly to one another, but other than the occasional whispers it was pretty quiet.

Getting bored with the inside of the bus I turned my gaze to the outside. The mirror reflected my face, and I saw my newly buzzed black hair along with my marines outfit. I wasn't fawned of the new hair dew, but I liked the outfit, looking down at my dog tags I laughed quietly to myself, the irony was just too much.

Fenton

Daniel J.

O-positive

811 36 4514

USMC

No preference.

The bus came to a halt causing me to come out of my musings. I stared up to watch the next passenger climb on. He looked to be around my age with a distinct middle-eastern look about him. His eyes were a dark brown, almost black color, and were slanted a little, not enough to be Asian, but enough to have an almost Egyptian kind of look to him. He had the same cropped hair cut the rest of us had, and his hair was black too. His skin was a dark tan color, definitely middle-eastern.

Many of the other soldiers on the bus gave him dirty looks because of his appearance, comments could be heard throughout the bus in whispers, but my ghostly hearing could pick them up.

"Since when did we recruit the enemy?"

"I don't know, but he should go back to Iraq"

"The nerve of that dude."

Tuning the comments out, I looked back towards the man, he seemed to not have noticed the death glares that people were giving him, or maybe he just didn't care. Everyone scooted over in their seats, not allowing him to sit by them. Really for people who were going into the Marines, the still acted like a bunch of high school brats.

I waved a hand over to him motioning him to come sit by me. He nodded and sat down next to me.

"Hey, My names Dan," I told him, trying to make polite conversation.

"Mine's Nui." He said curtly. I looked at him as he leaned back in his seat and closed his eyes. He obviously didn't want to talk.

So much for polite conversation.

"Line break"

The bus ride was hot and stuffy and very quiet. Nui didn't talk the entire trip and opted for pretending to be asleep. I decided to follow his lead and slept for some of the trip too.

Soon the bus pulled up to a military base, and we unloaded. We had an hour to stretch our legs before our plane for Afghanistan left.

The surrounding wasn't much to look at it to be honest, there was an electric wire fence surrounding the whole encampment, a few snack machines here and there, a bunker or two, a couple of pay phones for people to call home I guess and a landing pad for the helicopters.

I decided food would be a good place to start, but as I was making my way over to the machines I noticed that a bunch of other marines had circled around Nui.

Curiously, I made my way over to the throng of people to see what was happening.

"- ugly little rock, go back to where you came from. We don't want your type here you tian." I watched as an older man with brown cropped here and blue eyes roughly shoved Nui by the shoulders, the rest of the group went wild with laughter, it made me sick.

Laughter and chants ran throughout the crowd.

"Get out of here"

"We don't want your type here"

"Nasty ass tian"

Other comments were shouted out of the circle towards Nui, and none were very nice.

Deciding I had had enough of this I pushed into the middle of the circle and shouted at all of them.

"What the hell, stop acting like fucking little high school brats? You're in the marines now, there's not room for petty bullshit." I turned my stare to all the faces around me.

The man who had pushed Nui stepped forward and pinned me with a hard stare. "Who the hell, do you think you are, huh? Some kind of Superman? Back down, boy!" His gaze would have crushed a less strong man under foot. But I had dealt with ten times worse than that. Heck the box ghost's glare was worse than his.

"Why don't you make me?" I spat into his face.

He took a bold step toward me. "Fine, then."

He hadn't even finished his sentence before he raised his fist and threw it at me. I easily dodged it. The force of his punch threw him forward allowing me to grab his other arm and pin it behind his back. I kicked his legs out from underneath him.

Forcing him to the ground I asked "You had enough?"

He grunted a cuss word and I just pushed his arm up further.

"Fine" he muttered.

"Leave Nui alone, and act your damn age." I told him as I let up on arm and got up.

The crowd had gone quiet long by now. I could feel the stares drilling holes in the back of my head. Yup high school all over again. Great.

"You tian lover." Mr. Brownie spat at me.

"Whatever dude." I said with a wave of my hand and turning back toward Nui. "Hey you ok?"

He looked at me and said nothing, walking past me and ignoring me completely.

Jeeze, what was this dudes beef? I just saved him.

"I didn't need saving." Nui muttered as he walked off.

OH boy, this was going to be fun.

A/N: Ok well it was a little late, so I am sorry to all those people (VampireDiablo) That I told it would be out earlier. Ok well I hope you guys liked it see you later!there was also some marine slang in this so here is a dictionary for you.

Rock- Dumb person idiot.

Tian- derogatory term for Egyptian people.