It was my first day at school, I had been sent there by 'Masquerade' to meet-up with Dan and try to join his group of friends and it had worked, he invited me over to his house after school he spent the whole time boasting about how great of a bakugan player he is and how he could have beaten Masquerade if he had been 'prepared' for his bakugan and doom cards,
"But to be a great bakugan player, you need to be ready at all times... right?" I asked him did he normally talk others down like this?
"Yeah, I guess but I will be prepared next time!" he exclaimed,
"Next time?" I didn't know that they were going to fight... again?
"You're going to fight again?" I wanted a serious answer, not just a dilly dally excuse and I got it, he told me about Runo, Alice, Julie, Marucho and about how his friend Shun has stopped playing bakugan without any apparent reason, then he said something I really didn't expect,
"Are you and Justin working for Masquerade?" I was totally shocked but did he really know or was he just throwing a line and hoping for a catch?
"Of course not! What made you think that?" Had he really caught on this quickly?
"I don't know, I've been asking a lot of people lately, but they all said no" He seemed quite disappointed with the result however I have to be much, much more cautious in case I get suspected again, I mean as if he would just waltz up to random brawlers and ask if they were working for Masquerade, besides what I said wasn't a TOTAL lie I am NOT working FOR Masquerade, I am working WITH him. I can be sly like that sometimes, anyway I'm only his apprentice nothing more and nothing less, when we finally got to his house he introduced me to his cyber friends and we all had a good time, when Dan left for the toilet they all told me to tickle him when he came back in, I said OK and hid under his bed, by-the-time he had gotten back and noticed that I wasn't in view he asked the others and said they didn't know, whilst he was rubbing his head I presume it was because he didn't know where I was and was wondering where I had gotten to then he punched his hand and said,
"I've got it!" The others asked what he was talking about but he just waved it off with his hand, after that they had all stayed quiet as they were pretending they didn't know what he was doing (even though they did) when he suddenly bent down, lifted up the quilt cover and shouted FOUND YOUUUUUU! To the empty space under the space
"Huh?" It wasn't just Dan who was stumped, they all were but when none of them were paying attention I made a switch, the air on the roof for me, so now there was nothing but air underneath his bed and I, well I was sitting on the roof the only thing was how am I supposed to get back inside? And that's when my training came into use, see my dad WAS an assassin for the military so he taught my brother everything and then when my father left for some-kind-of business and never came back, he never taught me anything unlike he did with my brother AND he was EXTREMELY sexist, he believed that men belonged on the battle field and women belonged in the kitchen, so as-soon-as he left brother taught me everything he knew, basically I am extremely flexible and sneaky, it wasn't too hard to sneek back in, the other saw me as-soon-as I jumped onto the bed... but Dan didn't seem to notice? Well whatever I tickled and sent him running around the room we were all crying with laughter, and then I started to think... how could Masquerade hate them... all...? I spent the night at Dans house, sleeping in the whilst his mum made him sleep on the sofa he threw a bit of a jokey strop about it and then ran off, at around 12 at night he snuck into his bedroom (where I was sleeping) and woke me up, he said he had heard a funny noise downstairs, so I went to check it out, it turns out it was only an owl and I went back to bed... only you find Dan sleeping on top of the quilt so I took his shoes off, for some strange reason he still had them on, and put the quilt on him, then I went to sleep downstairs, when I reached the door I heard a slight 'thank-you' from Dan, I laughed a bit and said you're welcome, it sounded like it wasn't every day that he said that, so I ran down stairs and went to sleep on the hard, old, lumpy, disgusting sofa, only joking it was lovely and warm and cushy and it definitely NOT old, I woke up to a breakfast in bed and Dan snoring like an elephant, his mum and dad are so sweet, they even invited me to come to the Zoo with them that day but I said no because I had to meet-up with a friend, before I left, just after I opened the door, I heard Dans mum whisper to his dad,
"He must like her, he only just met her and she slept the night and they seemed to get on quite well"
"You heard them laughing together and having a good time to, huh?" they both laughed and then said something, however I didn't listen because it was getting late (it was about 5pm when I left and I was supposed to meet Masquerade at 4:30pm... so he won't be very happy...) I thanked them for having me and shut the door quietly, trying not to awake the sleeping elephant and ran down the street...
NEXT TIME ON: DARKUS VS. HAOS what will Masquerade say about her being so late? And does Dan really like her? Or is it just a thing that parents say when their kids are not around? FIND OUT IN THE NEXT: DARKUS VS. HAOS!