A/N: I am terribly sorry about the long wait. I have a plan now that I know what is going on. I will update monthly definitely. I want to thank you for the reviews for last chapter. I was blown away! 13 reviews for last chapter. I was so excited! Oh and I also want to thank mystery girl234, LeorioHeart, montydam, and Lakyy G for the alerts that they did. I also wnat to thank the people who gave me some riddles. I still need them, so keep them coming. Hope you enjoy this chapter!
Chapter 7
Danny found it hard to fall asleep, but his friends found it easy. He tried to relax his body but his mind just wouldn't let him. He kept thinking about his brother, Matt and his daughter, Grace. He sighed, he just couldn't get comfortable. He kept tossing and turning for a few minutes before sitting up. He looked around at his friends and realized that he was the only one that wasn't asleep. Sighing again he looked over at Steve and got an idea forming in his head to prank him. He stood up and walked over to the groceries from yesterday and pulled out a sharpie marker. He smirked; knowing that Steve would kill him if he found out it was him who did it. He put the sharpie marker in his pocket for another time. Going into the kitchen he started looking for a glass. Looking in each of the cupboards he finally found one in one of them. He filled the glass with the water from the faucet and didn't even notice a mist of something in it. He drank it with a huge gulp and was suddenly very sleepy. He put the glass in the sink. Stumbling back to his spot by his friends, he fell asleep fast.
Danny was in a fog and it felt like he was floating. He couldn't see what was in front of him because the fog was blocking his vision. Suddenly the fog gradually faded away and what he saw made his breath go away. He saw his brother Matt, Steve and him, along with Rachael and Grace.
It was a good morning and the others were starting to get up. Steve yawned and looked over at Danny to see if he had woken up and noticed that he looked really happy about something that he was dreaming about something that made him happy. He looked at Chin and Kono and gave them both a look. The cousins looked over at Danny and noticed the same thing Steve did. All three of them chuckled.
"Danny looks happy," remarked Kono.
Steve and Chin both agreed and nodded.
"I wonder what he is dreaming about?"
Both of the boys just shrugged.
He felt happy because that was the last time he saw his brother alive and happy. He was anticipating the blowout between just them and wasn't looking forward to it. The scene changed at that moment and he saw himself along with his brother and they were arguing. His brother was getting on a plane and the Danny that was by the fence was heartbroken. It took Danny some time to realize that Matt wasn't looking at the Danny by the fence but at him. When he looked at him Matt was saying over and over, "Look for the key in a lighted place, Look for the key in a lighted place."
Everybody saw the look on Danny's face and got worried.
"I hope Danny is okay," Kono said.
They all saw his face change from happy to mad and mad to sad and sad to confused in about thirty seconds.
"Do you think we should wake him?" asked Kono.
Steve shook his head. "No I think we should wait him out and see what he does."
"Yeah, I agree with Steve," Chin said, "when we tried to wake you up from that dream you had the first night we stayed here, you kept trying to get away from us until we just let you dream."
Kono just shrugged and let things be, even if she didn't agree with them.
Suddenly everything changed and Danny wasn't looking at the last time he saw his brother but the first time he saw Grace when she was a baby. He was so proud to be a father and so excited about being a father. Images flashed before his eyes of memories of his daughter. It stopped at the most recent one and that was the time he and Grace went for a walk and he bought an ice cream cone for her. He felt really happy in that moment.
Everybody looked at Danny now and they are relieved to see that Danny is okay and happy about whatever he is seeing in his dream.
The scene ace changed and not for the better. Danny looked around and he couldn't see Grace anywhere. Danny got an uneasy feeling in his stomach and started to search for her. He found her in the storage unit where he later would find her and he knew that Peterson was close by. There was a rage that built inside him and it reached to its boiling point when Danny saw him. He went over to Peterson and tried to punch him but his hand went right through him. He looked over at Grace and she kept saying something over and over, "Look for a secret passageway, look for a secret passageway." With that, he turned around and saw Peterson coming toward him and Grace. He stood his ground and Peterson went right through him. Next thing he knew was waking up in a house.
"NNNOOOOO!"
Everybody jumped back because they were startled by Danny's outburst. Danny was looking wildly around and not recognizing anything. The three friends went cautiously near him and put their hands on his shoulders and Danny just snapped. He started to flail around and move his body away from his friends. Steve gave the cousins a look and they backed off. He looked toward Danny and quietly went near him. He stayed there until Danny recognized him.
"I'm sorry, I just had the strangest dream and I freaked out."
"Don't worry about that, I freaked out too, remember?"
Danny sighed and nodded. He did remember.
"I need to speak with Grace but I know that the service doesn't work here unless they call us."
"I know, just calm down as much as you can and we'll go from there," Steve said softly, a little worried for his friend.
Danny took a deep breath and tried to calm his nerves, but it didn't seem to be working. He kept thinking about his two weird dreams and it was freaking him out. Suddenly he felt his phone vibrate. He took it from his pocket and looked at the caller ID. It was Grace!
"Hey, monkey! How are you? I really miss you."
"I'm doing great Danno. I really miss you to. When are you coming home?"
"I don't know, monkey. I'm in a house and I have to stay here because we are all trapped in here."
"Who's 'we' Danno?
"Well Steve, Chin, Kono and I are all in this house together. Don't worry I will come be with you in a couple of days."
"You promise, Danno?"
"Yes monkey, I promise."
With that they said their goodbyes and hung up. Danny felt calmer than he did before and everybody relaxed.
"You okay now, Danny?" asked Chin.
"Yeah, I'm okay now."
Everybody was relieved that Danny was okay and Danny was relieved that Grace was okay. Steve backed away knowing that Danny was indeed okay and he didn't notice the weakened boards that were behind him. He stepped on the boards, heard a squeak and fell through the boards with a huge crash.
"STEVE!" Kono, Chin and Danny exclaimed, worried for their friend. They all cautiously went over to the hole that Steve made and looked down. They couldn't see him through the debris and they were scared that Steve was really hurt. They heard a groan from the hole and were relieved that Steve was alive.
"Steve, are you okay?" Chin called down.
Silence, then "Yeah, I'm okay. Just a little banged up. I can't see anything at all. It's so dark sown here. Could you throw a flashlight down here while it's on?"
"Yeah, hang on a second," Chin replied. He went over to where they put the groceries the day before and grabbed a flashlight, went back over to the hole, turned the flashlight on and dropped it down the hole.
"Got it," Steve said, after a minute.
"What do you see down there?" Danny asked, really curious.
"I see bookshelves with some bowls and other stuff on them. There's a table that hasn't been dusted in years, a couple of rugs that are rolled up, and a lot of junk."
"That's weird, why would there be junk down there?" asked Danny.
"Gee, I don't know," said Steve sarcastically, "Could you please just get me out of here?!"
"Yeah, hang on a second."
Danny, Kono, and Chin all look for something to pull up Steve. After a few minutes, Kono finds some rope hidden underneath a small table. She rolled it out and threw down one end of it to Steve and took the other end of it and held onto it. They all heard Steve grunt and groan while climbing up to safety. At last, they all saw Steve's head, then his body coming from the hole. He rolled over and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Whew! That was hard. I'm hungry, let's get something to eat."
Danny, Kono and Chin were hungry too and they all got something to eat from the groceries. When they all got what they wanted they all took a seat by the one of the rugs that was beside the window.
"So this house is throwing us some surprises that we didn't expect," said Steve.
"Yeah, like your dream the first night we were here," Kono supplied, while Steve blushed a little still embarrassed about his dream. "I had that hallucination of Danny being killed."
"I got kidnapped by something and came back a few hours later with almost no memory," Chin piped in.
"Man we had a lot of things going on here," Danny said, "We need to figure a way out and solve whatever is going on here."
They ate in silence for a few minutes, finished eating and threw away the trash in a trash can they found in the kitchen.
"Okay, now what?" Kono asked.
"Well, I think we should explore a little more," Steve stated, "And this time we go in twos. Danny, you're with me and Kono, you and Chin check the other side of the house while we take the other side. We meet back here in fifteen minutes."
Chin and Kono go down a hall and go into a room. They brought flashlights with them and turned them on. What they saw made their mouths drop.
Steve and Danny walked into a room full of tools. They looked at each and shrugged. They both didn't know what the tools were used for. Danny and Steve took some to show Chin and Kono. They got out of the room and went back to the meeting place.
"I wonder what Kono and Chin found?" wondered Steve.
Danny just shrugged. "I don't know, but I bet it's a lot more interesting than this." He picks up a tool and lets it drop on the floor. "Man, I wish we could get out of this house. It's starting to spook me. I mean with Chin disappearing and the dreams you and I are having and the hallucinations of what Kono saw and just about anything weird in this house just gives me the goosebumps."
"Yeah, me to Danno, me too," agreed Steve. "I wonder what else the house will throw at us."
Just then they both see Kono come from the hallway with a shocked look on her pale face.
"Kono, what's wrong? Is Chin okay?"
"Um, yeah Chin is fine, but you will never believe what we found in this room. Come on and take a look."
Danny and Steve share a look of disbelief and reluctantly follow Kono to the room that Chin is in. They went in and their jaws dropped in awe at what they saw.
A/N: *sigh* Whew! that was good cliffhanger, I hope. Anyway, I hope you guys are still reading this, because it's about to get interesting. Oh and for the people that sent me riddles I would really like the answers from them so I can fit it in too the story. Please reveiw!
