Chapter 4 : Dan
Dan had never been this impatient before, sure he was but this was beyond the limits. He tapped his foot on the ground, waiting for Marucho to open interspace.
Runo was standing beside him, Aria was up to something, Shun and Alice were waiting. And Julie was applying makeup. While Fabia was in her own world.
"How long does it take to open interspace?" Dan asked. Runo whacked him on the head.
"You idiot! We just got her 5 minutes ago!" Runo yelled. Dan grinned sheepishly.
"Dan?" Aria asked.
"What?" He asked back.
"Me have sausage for you!" Aria said as she held out a sausage.
Dan looked happy and gobbled the sausage but ran off holding his mouth by his two hands.
"What did you do?" Alice asked the gleeful little girl, who was laughing.
"Me put pepper and sugar in Dan food." Aria replied.
Everyone burst out laughing, Marucho would open interspace by the time Dan came and they wouldn't need to deal with Dan and his impatience anymore.
Dan was in the nearest washroom, he spat the sausage out and washed his mouth a billion times, he had learnt one thing, never ever eat anything given to you by Aria.
He came back only to find the others entering interspace, he ran in but collided with Shun, Alice and Runo.
All four tumbled on the ground in a heap. Dan and Shun laying on their backs on the floor , Runo's head on Dan's shoulder and Alice's head on Shun's chest.
Julie squealed and took a picture, while Dan, Runo, Shun and Alice blushed. Marucho and Fabia burst out laughing.
Runo was up and Alice followed, Shun jumped up the second Alice got off him. Dan sat up and then slowly stood.
"Dan! Be more careful!" Shun yelled.
"Sorry?" Dan said more like asked. Shun sighed.
Besides that had to come their to talk more about Neathia and Gundalia.
Dan decided to start the conversation, so he said, " Let's do what we came here for!"
Fabia nodded. "The palace of Neathia is mostly technology and I guess Marucho would absolutely love it, whereas the Gundalian palace is a maze with traps, the ones who have the Baro- string, will know to navigate the maze and they will be safe from the traps. And only people who are special can navigate it without any string." She said.
Dan made an 'o' shape with his mouth. While the others nodded.
Aria was sitting on a chair and playing games on Alice 's phone. She didn't even mind anything, she was in her world of games.
"Can I practice my hacking skills?" Marucho asked.
"Sure!" All of them said.
About five minutes later, Marucho squeaked which made Dan jump.
"What?" He asked angrily.
"Ren has hacked into interspace!" Marucho yelled as he ran from place to place to fetch something.
Dan looked like he had seen a ghost.
"What is he doing? Can you trace it?" Fabia asked.
"I would like to! But we are the ones who are locked out!" Marucho said as he tried his best by typing random buttons on his keyboard.
"Hack in, then!" Dan said.
"I am doing that, it will take a while! Wait...Ren is inserting something in interspace." Marucho said, but kept the last part in whispers so that the others won't hear him.
Dan started to grumble about the situation, but stopped after a whack on the head from Shun.
"Which means we have to wait." Shun said.
Everyone nodded.
Dan was hungry, but he was sure that everyone would pulverize him if he mentioned that.
Suddenly, Aria said,"Pretty hole!"
"Hole?" Dan asked.
Dan watched in horror as Aria fell into the 'hole' face first and was getting sucked in.
"A portal!" Marucho and Fabia shouted.
Everyone tried to move, but their legs were frozen.
"Hey! I can't move!" Dan announced.
"What do you think we can do?! Even we can't move!" Julie yelled.
In the last 10 seconds, Alice got free, she grabbed Aria's legs, but started to get sucked in herself, next all of them got free.
Julie grabbed Alice's legs but she too started to get sucked in, in desperation she grabbed the nearest person to her, without looking.
"Julie! Let go!" Runo yelled as Julie caught her.
"Runo!" Dan yelled as Fabia and the others ran to help.
But the portal closed as soon as Runo got sucked in.
"Marucho! Try to open that portal again!" Dan said.
"I can't! It's traces are gone! But it leads to Gundalia!" Marucho said, trying to bring a bit of hope.
"Now what do we do?" Shun yelled, it was obvious to Dan that he was worried about Alice.
Dan too was about Runo, all that had happened so suddenly that Dan couldn't exactly say what happened.
All he knew was that he,Shun,Marucho and Fabia had to go to Gundalia to rescue the girls, but he needed some help and he knew who's help he needed.
"We are going to Gundalia and we need help from a certain someone." Dan said.
Everyone except Fabia understood what Dan meant by a 'certain someone'.