Hey readers! I'm back with another chapter of Halfas International (finally)! Remember to read the outro and enjoy!
Chapter 6
The tour group left the Hilton Garden Inn at 1:30 p.m. for Augusta to visit the Kennebec Arsenal. They walked around the rooms that formerly housed munitions and firearms, and even more recently, mental patients. The place had been shut down, but was being slated for redevelopment (or at least that is what the guide said).
After leaving the Arsenal, they continued to Saco Bay and a few other places to see various attractions and sites. By the time they returned to the inn, the group was certainly ready to wind down for the day. The Fentons and Co. rushed through supper like everyone else and then went about their various activities. Jazz decided to go to the room and read while Tucker had made a new gaming friend who led him off to show him a game he'd been playing. Meanwhile, Maddie and Jack decided to hit the pool and Danny and Sam went up on the roof to watch the stars.
Danny leaned back on the red tile roof of the hotel, Sam lying beside him with her head on his chest. The couple felt totally content to just lie there all night, the sounds of the city making them feel as if they'd never left Amity Park. Sam snuggled closer to her boyfriend and looked up to see Danny staring blankly up at the sky. This wouldn't have been surprising, except that his face seemed to be fixed in concentration.
"Danny?" Sam asked, her voicing shaking Danny back to reality.
"Huh, yeah?"
Sam chuckled. "Hey, what were you so spaced out for?" Now Danny laughed. "What?" she asked.
"'Spaced out,' Sam?" Danny replied. He watched as the realization hit her and braced himself against the punch in the shoulder that followed. "Hey!" he protested through his laughter.
"You jerk!"
"Yeah, but I'm your jerk." The two lay silently for a few seconds before Sam poked Danny in the side. "What?"
"You still haven't answered me."
"Oh, that," Danny replied. He took a few seconds to consider his words. "Last night, I had a dream, or I thought it was a dream. More like a waking nightmare, I guess." He looked down at Sam and saw her urging him to continue. "My ghost sense went off as I was falling asleep last night, and I was attacked by –"
"Attacked by what?"
Danny took a deep breath. "Vlad."
Sam's eyes grew wide and her jaw dropped. She recovered a few moments later and sat up, beginning to look Danny over.
"Sam, stop!" he said. He grabbed her wrists and held them as he looked into her eyes. "I'm fine. The bruises healed this morning –"
"The what?!" Sam and Danny both jumped and turned to see Jazz standing on top of a ladder.
"Jazz? What are you doing up here?" Sam and Danny said in unison.
"I was looking for you guys. Everyone else was going inside to go to bed," Jazz replied as she pulled herself onto the roof. She stood up and dusted off the front of her shirt. "Now, what were you saying about Vlad and bruises?"
Danny sighed and told his sister and girlfriend exactly what happened. By the end of it, the two girls were fuming, and Danny decided to take a few steps back. This was a bad idea, since the part of the roof they were on was great for lying on, but not walking around. The two girls gasped as they saw Danny disappear over the side of the roof. They rushed over and nearly fell off themselves, only to see Danny had gone into a roll when he hit the ground and fell into the pool.
He emerged spluttering and flew out of the water, falling to the concrete, and gasping for breath. Sam and Jazz burst into fits of laughter despite him, and he smiled mischievously as he came up with a revenge plan. He stood up and willed his cells to divide rapidly. He imagined he was two parts of a whole and pulled to one side. He felt something similar to duct tape being ripped off his skin, but all over. He gasped in surprise and fell to the ground again. Rubbing his head, he opened his eyes and looked beside him. Sitting there, cold and drenched like him, was, well, him.
Jazz and Sam suddenly stopped laughing and stared. What was he doing? Danny and his dupe stood and lunged towards them, then the next thing they knew, they were in the pool themselves! The girls spluttered as they swam to the edge, while Danny stood a few feet away laughing and high-fiving his duplicate. The fake Danny dissipated as Sam and Jazz pulled themselves out and death-glared him. Well, I guess I better go intangible! Danny thought.
The next morning Danny awoke with a soreness in his side and bruises that would have made Vlad proud. Jazz hadn't been quite as violent, but Sam wasn't quite so forgiving either. He was thankful for his accelerated healing, but that didn't make it hurt any less.
He got up and changed into his day clothes before heading to the dining room. Despite Aaron's request, Danny found himself cornered by a group of Phans right outside his door. He turned intangible, slipped through the floor, and emerged by the table his family and friends. He became tangible and jumped everyone, but he ignored the muttered words around him as the other diners cleaned up their messes.
"Well, someone finally got up. Mr. Lancer and your other teachers emailed us that you have some classes this morning before we go on today's tour."
"Okay, thanks Mom," Danny replied as he sat down and grabbed a menu right as a waiter walked over.
Sam, Tucker, and Danny all yawned as they finished their respective assignments and shut down their laptops. "Well, that was different," Danny said.
"Hey, I'd rather do school like this all the time," Tucker replied.
Sam shrugged as she put her laptop back into its bag. "Personally, I'd prefer to just learn from the books and have a teacher there only to answer questions. That way we could learn on our own instead of . . . And you guys aren't listening, are you?" she said as she realized Danny and Tucker were just staring at her.
"No, Tucker responded. "We're listening. We just don't care, right, Danny?"
"Hey, I'm not jumping in that boat with you."
Jazz poked her head into the room. "Hey, you guys. We're about to head out. Come on!"
The trio packed up their stuff and followed Jazz out of the room.
Okay, so I know it's been a while since I updated this story (a month and 17 days, to be exact), and my explanation is the same as always: life and procrastination. However, good news! I will be finishing my first year of college on May 10th! This means that I will have more time to work on this story as well as other projects I have going on, like my YouTube channel (go check it out: Prof_Jake_MQ on YouTube!).
Anyways, I know what you're all thinking: "where's the OC?! You said there would be a new character in this chapter!" And dear readers, the answer is I wrote this out a few weeks ago, and got to my writing limit. So the next chapter, which will be uploaded moments after this one, will introduce the character. So go read that one when I get it uploaded.
As always, please review, fav, and follow, and I'll see you in the next chapter!
