Danny Phantom/Godzilla (HAHAHAHA, HOW MANY OF YOU THAT I DIDN'T BLUNTLY TELL SAW THIS COMING? HUH, HUH, HUH? NOBODY, RIGHT?)(Yes Kinzy, I am completely serious. This is the mystery chapter you sobbed over. XD *laughs hysterically*)


Ch.7: Wound Healing

When Sam woke up, the first thing she felt was sand under body and clinging to her wet face as she laid on her back. Her body ached and throbbed unbearably. Her clothes were uncomfortably clinging to her skin, drenched and sticky. She could feel her slick hair all along her face, sticking to her skin. The air was warm and the sun beating down on her felt amazing. However, the breeze blowing over her bare flesh was bone-chilling; she could feel the goose-bumps crawling over her skin. It made her shiver as her muscles ached.

Cracking open her violet eyes, her vision was blurry for a moment. The only thing she could make out clearly was a dark mass hovering above her face, outlined by the blue skies and the fuzzy white mass of clouds drifting high in the atmosphere. The mass tilted to the side as the ebony-haired girl tried to remember what happened. Sam could just barely feel the way a worried aura came off the mass in waves. The girl wondered what or who the dark shape was.

Closing her eyes, Sam settled down again and waited for a few moments in the dark. Someone was saying something but it was like she was underwater; the sounds were muffled and disoriented. The person continued speaking though and, slowly, their voice became clearer, as if she were rising towards the surface of the water she felt she was drifting in.

As the voice became clearer, she realized that it was definitely masculine and the pitch was that of someone her age, if a little bit older. He sounded worried, though Sam had yet to figure out what the heck he was asking. She knew he was speaking English but the words just made little to no sense to her. Hopefully, her comprehension of words would come back to her soon so she could reply to the boy and ease his worries.

Before she had time to work on her understanding, the stranger's voice suddenly came closer to her and Sam forced her violet eyes to open again. Unlike the last time, her vision almost instantly snapped into focus, allowing her to finally see the owner of the voice ringing in her ears. She also saw that the boy was hovering a measly four inches above her face.

Sam screamed, making the boy above her yelp and jump back. The ebony-haired girl shot up and looked around her surroundings, only seeing lots of sand and the wide ocean in front of her and they debris that lay around her and floated in the water in disarray. Sam, seeing as there was nothing to see and not interested in the debris, quickly turned around to face the boy, who was kneeling a few feet away, paralyzed from being startled so suddenly. Behind him lay a huge, tropical rain forest with a dominating mountain range in the distance.

The girl couldn't help screaming again and the boy across from Sam waved widely, a completely horrified look on his face. "Don't scream! You're going to get us in so much trouble! Now stop!"

She was unsure of why she listened but Sam stopped screaming instantly. Breathing heavily, the ebony-haired girl looked the boy over as he gave a relieved sigh at her sudden quietness. While Sam was still utterly horrified by everything around her, the other teen gave her a reassuring smile that did nothing to qualm her fears.

The first thing Sam noticed about the other was his lack of wearing a shirt, leaving his chest and back completely bare. His skin was tan from the sun but dusty from all the dirt he was covered in. Very few places were left clean and, what little skin wasn't completely caked in mud revealed faint, white scars marring his skin and muscles forming along his torso and arms.

Even worse was the state of disrepair his jeans were in. Holes littered the material and strings were popping from the seams, sticking out painfully against the sun-bleached fabric. Nasty brown stains had become a permanent part of the scene, forever ruining the pair of jeans, and just below the ends of the legs, the teen's bare feet stuck out.

His face was easily the prettiest thing to look at since it wasn't so crusted in dirt and mud. The boy's features were sharp against his skin and the reassuring smile he gave her was blinding. There were straight, thin, brown streaks across his cheek, probably from being smacked with a tree-branch or two. There was another mud smudge above his left eyebrow from who-knew-what. There was also a tiny, white scar across his right eyebrow, barely seen through the dusty dirt covering his tan skin.

The boy had the clearest blue eyes she had ever seen and, though it seemed they were trapped on an island, they were laughing and happy. His bangs fell in his face and the strands were uneven from a choppy hair-cut he had probably done himself. The mop of black hair on top of his hair was ruffled, streaked with dirt, and overrun with knots. It ran down the back of his neck and the ends were, once again, uneven from a messy hair-cut.

Of course, Sam didn't really care how terrible the boy looked. She was just as disheveled as he was, after all. The goth girl just wanted to know what the flip had happened and to figure out where the hell she was.

Still in shock over waking up with a boy her age hovering mere inches from her own face, Sam quickly questioned, "Where am I?! Who are you?! What happened?!"

Laughing nervously, the ebony-haired boy held up his hands in the universal signal for surrender and moved so he was standing in the sand. He towered over the sitting girl but his height wasn't at all intimidating. If anything, his height made Sam feel safer since he would be labeled a 'shrimp' back at her school. Dealing with him, if need be, would be easier since she wasn't all that tall herself.

"Calm down." The boy said soothingly, still holding up his hands. "You're fine. Well, mostly… My name's Danny. I have no idea what happened to you; you just kind of washed up on shore. As for where we are… Yeah, you probably don't want to know the answer to that one."

Though her breathing was finally calm and her heart had slowed to a steady drum in her chest, Sam leveled a glare on the boy, revealing the levels of her mistrust. "Where the hell are we?"

"Uh…" The taller teen, Danny, mumbled, eyes shifting around nervously. With a sigh, he responded, "We're on a huge island that has been oh-so-affectionately named Monster Island."

Sam could feel her heart stop. Her breath caught in her throat. She could feel her blood run cold through her veins. Time seemed to stop and Sam completely missed the way the taller boy looked nervous at her frozen state. Danny called to her, not saying her name because he didn't know it but still trying to earn a response anyways. However, his voice went in one of Sam's ears and slipped out the other a second later.

Monster Island. Home of the world's most feared kaijus and their notorious "king."

She couldn't have ended up anywhere worse.

"Uh, girl? Hey! You ok? I know it's kind of a big shocker and all but it's not that bad! Really..! Hey girl, come on! Please answer me!" The ebony-haired boy continued calling, waving his arms around and tilting back and forth to get her attention. Sam noticed he didn't dare move closer to her spot, despite the fact she had gone completely inactive.

"You… You mean we're stuck on Godzilla's home turf?!" Sam shrieked hysterically because how on earth was anyone supposed to survive that?! She and this random teen were stuck on the King of Monster's home-base! Everyone knew the devastation that happened when monsters invaded from space and tried to stand up to the King of Monsters! And who could ever forget what happened when Godzilla had merely decided to rampage without any reasoning so many years back? Man, she was screwed.

Once again, Danny gestured wildly for the girl to keep quiet while shushing her. "Don't scream! Yes, I know this looks bad! It looks terrible, even! But screaming makes it worse! Just stay calm and be quiet for a minute!"

Sam's mouth shut with an obvious snap. She stared up at the ebony-haired boy with wide, terrified eyes but he was, once again, smiling reassuringly at her. That stupid, toothy smile made Sam want to scream her head off at its total obliviousness but she kept her trap painfully shut.

"Alright, look. Living on the island isn't nearly as terrifying as it sounds. Yes, it is scary sometimes but not full-blown horror movie material. The monsters that live here are pretty peaceful. …most of the time. I mean, I've only seen Godzilla, considering this is his part of the island but the entire island tends to shake when any of the monsters are having problems with each other. And that doesn't happen often so they're moderately peaceful creatures." Danny explained nervously, reaching his hand around his head to rub the back of his neck with a nervous smile.

Shaking her head to clear herself of all the off-the-wall questions she wanted to ask, Sam asked, "How would you know all this?"

Danny's nervous smile faded into one of hollow amusement. His hand dropped from his head to his side and his other hand balled into a fist, resting lightly on his hip. "I don't think you quite understand how long I've lived on the island."

The ebony-haired girl didn't have time to ask what that meant as the ground under her and the other teen suddenly shook. The trembles rumbled through the earth, shaking the tiny grains of sand around them. The tremors stopped moments afterwards but there was no time to say anything as Danny shot forward, grabbing Sam's arm and pulling her up on her achy legs as she yelped. Without an explanation, he pulled her along towards the forest, hurriedly saying, "We need to hide!"

Another tremor vibrated the earth under their feet, making Sam stumble. She would've fallen, had it not been for Danny quickly jerking her after him without a word. He shushed her when she yelped and pulled her from the sandy beach, ducking into the trees. He stopped just inside the tree-line, looking around hurriedly before pulling Sam after him again. The ebony-haired girl wanted to ask what was going on but Danny practically shoved her to the ground and into a tiny opening in the side of a large rock wall, telling her quietly to get in as deep as she could.

Without hesitation, Sam crawled into the hole that was barely tall enough to fit her lying in a plank. She found the back and pressed her body against it, allowing enough room for Danny to crawl in after her. He was barely covered entirely, even though his side was pressing into Sam's. He wasn't concerned with the lack of personal space, though; his eyes were drawn to something happening outside the cave.

Sam squirmed beside the still boy, wriggling around until her chin rested against his shoulder. She could see outside the tiny cave they had taken refuge in as the ground rumbled under them again. Dust and tiny bits of rock rained down on them from the ceiling and Sam worried for a second before seeing Danny's unconcerned expression. He was worried, of course, but it wasn't directed to the tremors around them, more focused on the force causing them.

The ebony-haired girl almost screamed when a giant foot covered in black, rough hide entered her line of view. She did gasp but Danny didn't even hear it and he was right beside her. Sam was utterly surprised when Danny didn't react with any form of shock, just worry as he carefully peeked his head from the cave. The sun shined down on his ebony hair and lit his tan face as he looked up at the tall, impressive frame that couldn't be anything or anyone else other than Godzilla.

Danny didn't stay out in the open for long before he quickly ducked his head back into the cave. Before Sam could ask him what happened, he shot a look over his shoulder that said not to make any noise yet. Sam's mouth closed again and her chin continued to rest comfortably on the other teen's shoulder as he rested his own chin on the dusty ground under him, fully prepared to wait however long it would be until the King of Monsters was gone.

Sam continued to watch out the opening of their hiding spot as the foot lifted off the ground and felt the tremors under her body as it landed a distance a ways. The image was soon replaced by Godzilla's large tail that followed after the large beast as it snaked up and down in the air. The scene made the girl's heart pound but she stayed perfectly quiet, as Danny had gestured that she should do.

The image of the roaming tail began to leave her line of view as she heard large splashes in the distance. The two teens listened closely as the King of Monsters entered the ocean, slowly disappearing under the surface and swimming off to who-knew-where.

Sam was startled when Danny began to leave the cave as the waves continued to splash and romp around loudly in the distance. He seemed to notice her hesitance to leave and shot another one of his reassuring smiles over his shoulder, saying, "It's fine. He's gone now. It'll take awhile for the waves to calm down but it doesn't take anymore than a few seconds for him to get below the surface."

"Are you sure?" Sam asked hesitantly, still shocked by the sight of Godzilla. Somewhere in the back of her mind, she wondered what her reaction would be if she saw his face. After all, she was in shock after seeing just part of the King of Monsters. What would she do if she were to see his entire self?

Danny nodded and hummed soothingly, rolling out the rest of the way. He got onto his knees before hopping into a crouch. One of his hands slipped back into the large cave, holding it out for Sam to take. Still hesitant, she took it and allowed Danny to pull her out and get her on her feet while he continued to smile. She wondered how his lips could still turn upwards like that in the situation they were in, especially since he had eluded a little earlier that he had been on the island for a long time.

"You know… You never did tell me your name, even though I gave you mine." Danny said, unclasping his hand around hers and crossing his arms over his chest.

The ebony-haired girl raised an eyebrow at the barely taller boy who was just so perky. However, she answered, "My name's Sam."

"Awesome! You already know my name so we're even!" Danny chirped, having brightened at her name before turning and walking away, journeying further into the woods. Sam watched him for a moment with wide, confused eyes. She was perfectly still, which caught Danny's attention as he turned back towards her with his perfectly goofy smile. "Well Sam, are you going to follow me? I'd be kind of offended if you didn't want to be with me, seeing as I am the only other human on the island."

Snapping back to attention, Sam stumbled after the taller boy, ignoring his laugh, and joined his side. Once she was beside him, he linked his arm with hers and began walking further into the woods with the ebony-haired girl by his side.

Sam almost asked why he had suddenly linked their arms before being painfully reminded by her memory that the other teen had been alone on the island of monsters for a unanimous amount of time. She couldn't imagine the suffocating loneliness he had no doubt felt during his stay and it was probably a huge relief to finally have a companion, one even roughly his age. If it had been her, she would've been bursting at the seams with excitement.

Feeling her lips twitch, Sam tightened her arm around the boy's and was happy to see him beam down at her gleefully.

"So Sam, what happened that led you to drifting onto Monster Island's beach?" Danny asked, dodging past shrubbery and shying away from tree-branches that would surely scratch his skin.

The ebony-girl hummed as she thought, her small smile turning downwards into a frown. She hadn't really lingered on the thought when she woke up, more concerned with where she was and who the heck the shirtless teen beside her was. But now that she thought about it, she remembered going on a boat-ride with her parents and her parents' wealthy friends.

"I was on a yacht." Sam started, still frowning as she began remembering everything that had happened. "It belonged to my parents' friends. They were excited because it was new, expensive, etc. They had never had a boat either and it was their first. Like typical snobs, they wanted to show it off and invited my parents to go along and I was roped into going with them. It was fine for the first couple of hours, I guess, but, then… Something happened down below. I don't know what but, suddenly, the boat was on fire and people were jumping ship. I, obviously, jumped as well with a life preserver under my arms. I floated for a bit, trying to find my parents in the confusion, but the boat blew. I was hit in the head with a wooden plank and the next thing I know is your face hovering above now." Sam gave her companion a teasing smile now, despite her worries for her parents.

Danny laughed at her prod and ignored the lizards scurrying away from his bare feet as he looked along a path that had been well worn with use. He subconsciously stepped over the bugs in his path and Sam smiled as she watched her step, noticing the way Danny effortlessly molded to the path around them.

"So how did you get here?" Sam asked curiously, blinking up at the taller figure owlishly.

The raven-haired male shrugged and responded, "I was in a plane crash. I don't remember anything that happened, just that I washed up on shore with a few other survivors on a bunch of suitcases. I must've hit my head on something hard during the crash. The other survivors and I lived here for awhile but, one by one, everyone just disappeared or died until it was only me."

Sam sputtered up at Danny, wide-eyed at his short but tragic story. "H-How long ago was the crash?!"

"Do you know the date?"

Taken back by the sudden question, Sam robotically responded with the date of the yacht accident (seeing as she didn't know how much time had passed), which had been April 30th, 2014. She watched as Danny's face scrunched up and heard him mumble, "Damn. Time flies when you're having fun…or fighting for your life. But what's the difference really?"

"How long ago?" Sam asked again, ignoring the boy's mutters.

Danny shrugged and smiled his irritating smile, replying, "I was just about to turn twelve at the time and, according to your timeframe, I turned sixteen just a few weeks ago. It's been roughly four years."

The girl's feet froze on the ground and Danny, who had continued walking, jerked back when Sam refused to move from her spot. Their linked arms pulled before Danny snapped back to the girl's frozen side. The ebony-haired boy looked down at Sam with his own wide, blue eyes.

Four years. Sam was blown away by that. She had known it was going to be a long time but… That long? Danny had been stuck on Monster Island for four years with barely anybody else with him? How was he not completely insane? The loneliness should have long since driven him mad and, if not the isolation, the worry of never leaving Monster Island should've done the job instead. How was he so calm and collected, despite encountering the King of Monsters so many times? She would've lost her mind within the first week!

Oh gosh, would she be stuck there for as long as Danny? Would anybody come for them? Would they live the rest of their lives on the God-forsaken island with nobody but themselves and the monsters around them? They couldn't be forgotten, swept under the rug, so easily though, could they? People wouldn't do that to them, would they?

But then again… Four years Danny had been there…

"Sam? You ok?"

Looking up, Sam saw Danny's worried look and saw it was all directed at her stupor. There was nothing else for him to worry about. He wasn't anxious about the coming day. He didn't ponder over the other people in the world who may or may not be looking for him. He wasn't cursing God for his predicament and he didn't pity himself for the mess he was in. Danny just seemed to live in the moment and go along with life like it was his best friend. It was the only reason he could smile with the ever-changing hell around him and how he hadn't gone completely bonkers with having no one but himself to talk to.

The goth girl hadn't thought the amount of admiration she had for the other teen was possible.

Danny waved his hand in front of his companion's face while frowning. "Hey Sam? Are you ok? I know Monster Island is kind-of a shocker but-" The boy was cut off when Sam suddenly hugged him tightly around the middle, startling the crap out of him. He froze in his spot, eyes wide as his arms hovered in the air, the smaller girl wrapped around his waist. "S-Sam?"

"I'm sorry."

"What for?"

"I don't know. But I'm sorry."

And she was. Maybe it was because she hadn't known about the boy earlier; someone who could have easily been one of her classmates. Maybe Sam was sorry because the world had left him on a kaiju-ridden island for so long. Maybe she was sorry simply because, out of all the islands spread across the earth, his terrible luck got him stuck on the God-forsaken Monster Island.

Sam felt Danny finally relax under her arms. He wrapped his arms around her frame, resting his head on her head gently. He didn't say anything.

The goth girl ignored how out-of-character she was being but, then again, who could blame her? She was stuck on an abandoned island with one teen boy and they could run across a kaiju at any given time. She worried about the other people that had been on the yacht and wondered if her and her new companion would ever leave.

It took a moment for her to stop all those thoughts. Sam calmed herself down by thinking of the way Danny handled everything by not handling anything at all. He just went along with whatever he needed to and that was how he survived. She just needed to follow the boy's lead. He was obviously getting somewhere with his happy demeanor.

Then Sam had to wonder… If she went back in time and met the Danny before Monster Island, would she meet the same person or someone completely different? After all, she hadn't been awake for more than half-an-hour and already most of her dominant personality traits had been thrown out the window. Had Danny gone through some epic character change?

Somehow, Sam doubted he had. This thought made her grin and laugh. A second laughter, Danny pulled away from her with his ever-present, obnoxiously optimist grin and he asked her, "What are you laughing at?"

Shaking her head, Sam responded, "It's nothing. Although, I am curious… Were you always so painstakingly optimistic?"

Another laugh fell from the ebony-haired boy's mouth and he shrugged as a response. "I don't know. Maybe? You should probably ask someone who knew me before all this crap happened. I don't think I'm much of a reliable source."

Sam laughed again and allowed Danny to tug her hand, walking from their spot and further into the woods. They slipped into an easy, companionable silence. It eased all of Sam's nerves and made things seem not so bad in an impossible situation. The girl couldn't remember feeling so relaxed in a long time.

Soon enough, they were walking beside a shallow stream that ran towards the direction of the ocean. Sam's breath was taken away by how clear the water was, sunlight sparkling off the surface as small fish swam in the shallow waters. There were a few plants trapped between the rocks with the ends being pulled along with the current, though they never got anywhere.

Danny smiled at her astonishment, saying, "In all of my four years here, I never get tired of the view."

The girl hummed in response, tearing her eyes from the scene to look at the boy walking in front of her. Their hands were still clasped together as they stepped over the roots of trees and pushed past the bushes and ferns. Sam watched Danny's expression as he looked over the familiar path with the same wonder she had twinkling in her eyes.

Though Monster Island was filled with kaijus that could kill them at any given moment, it sure was a beautiful place. It was nice to see it so completely untouched by humans. Well, all humans except for one (that continued to live, anyways).

Sam's face scrunched up in curiosity. "So what's it like living here?"

The raven-haired boy turned his dirty face towards the girl and shrugged again. He ducked under a low-hanging branch and stepped over a fallen tree. Responding, he said, "Well, it's kind of boring. I mean, every day I go out and find food. I always make sure I have enough wood to burn. I don't have to worry about water much; the stream is freshwater and clean. Really, I just make sure I have everything I need. If I'm all set for awhile, I like to explore, though I'm sure I haven't even made a dent covering the entire island."

"And what do you do when Godzilla suddenly appears?"

"What we did today: hide. I don't know why I bother. He's never been aggressive towards me. I seem to be a mere nescience and he always manages to find me anyways. Even today he saw me." Danny said while shooting a ruthful smile over his shoulder at the girl. "Sometimes I think he gets a sick enjoyment watching me scramble around."

Sam frowned in slight worry. "Do you think he'll be aggravated by me?"

Danny shrugged but the look on his face said he wasn't overly worried about the reaction of the King of Monsters would have. "I don't see why he would. After all, there used to be more of us and he wasn't overly concerned. In all seriousness, I don't think he really cares we're here. I know this is going to sound kind of insane but… I think he and I have a weird, mutual respect thing going on between us. I mean, he's the frikkin King of Monsters and I managed to stay alive this long on his island. That's got to count for something, doesn't it?"

The ebony-haired teen was right; he did sound completely absurd. But then again, who knew what was going through Godzilla's head at any given time? Besides, Sam was curious as to how her companion came to his conclusion. "And why do you think that, Danny?"

Smiling at the use of his name, Danny looked over his shoulder and had a far off look in his eyes, though his blue orbs were supposed to be locked on Sam's violet eyes. "Well, there was a time not too long after all the other survivors disappeared and/or died that I caught some bug. I stayed in my shelter for the entirety of a couple of days, which the old kaiju seemed to notice. He started coming by my shelter, briefly checking up on me each day until I finally got better and started leaving. He stopped coming by after that."

The goth girl raised an eyebrow at the story but didn't deny the truth in it. For a moment, she thought Danny might've been hallucinating or dreaming but soon dismissed the idea. When Godzilla walked, the ground shook under him and the earth trembled. It would bring any person out of an ill-induced stupor or deep sleep within seconds.

So it left her wondering why on earth the large beast would even bother acknowledging the presence of the boy, much less make sure he was still alive when the teen hadn't been out and about in days.

It also left Sam with another question… "How often do you see Godzilla?"

"Eh, around five or six times a week, I figure. I mean, I don't keep count of the days so I'm guessing but it'd explain why my absence was so noticeable." Danny replied, shrugging his shoulders again without much thought as he ducked under another branch.

Sam did the same and clutched Danny's hand tighter as the jungle around them suddenly grew denser. The teen boy squeezed her hand reassuringly, getting the ebony-haired girl to smile as her companion continued, "Although, when he suddenly goes off into the water like he did today, he's usually not back for a week or two, leaving me totally hanging. It's a weird thing he does. I've been worried lately, though. His trips just keep getting shorter and he keeps appearing more frequently."

"Do you have any idea why he's suddenly restless?" Sam asked curiously.

Danny snorted and shook his head, shooting and amused look over his shoulder at his companion. "Not a clue. It's not like I can just go up and ask him about his problems. Yeah, that'd go over real well."

"Ah, shut up."

"But you love my voice!"

"Pushing it, boy."

The ebony-haired boy laughed as he pushed past a wall of ferns and low-hanging branches, allowing himself and his companion to enter a large clearing. Sam immediately noticed the cave off to the side and the stream parallel to it and off to the side. The scene was literally every survivalist's dream-come-true and the way Danny stopped showed he and his old crew had taken advantage of it.

Smiling down at the girl by his side, Danny commented, "You know, you should probably go wash off in the river. You're covered in sand and dried blood."

"What?! Blood?!" Sam yelled, quickly looking down at herself for the first time since waking up. She noticed just how ripped her clothes were. Her shirt was stretched out and one sleeve had slipped off her shoulder. Her shorts looked a lot like Danny's jean but, fortunately, on a lesser scale of destruction. Her shoes were the least of her worries, as they nothing more than soaked through completely with saltwater.

True to Danny's word, there was blood along her legs and down the back of one of her arms, though most of it seemed to have been scrubbed off. However, much to the girl's confusion, there were no wounds that would tell her where the blood came from. Just… Thin, white scars that hadn't been there the last time she was awake?

Shocked out of her mind, Sam yelled, "What the hell?!"

Danny chuckled nervously beside her, rubbing the back of his head in an anxious gesture. "Uh, yeah, you see… Um, how do I explain this simply as possible? When you washed up on shore, I think you were hit with more than just a plank of wood because you were covered in gashes… That's not the point, though. The point is I'vegotthisfreakyabilitythatletsmehealmyselfandothersreally,reallyquickly."

Sam couldn't make out whatever the heck it was that Danny said last and asked him to repeat himself. With a sigh, he repeated, "I've got a freaky ability that lets me heal others and me quickly. I healed you before you woke up because it's kind of painful. You probably feel really achy right now because of it but I don't think you've noticed with how much crap's been going on."

Of course, now that Danny had pointed it, Sam realized there were aches throughout her body but, like he said, they had been easily ignored with the abundance of new things being thrown her way. Now she half-wished Danny hadn't said anything until the aches in her muscles disappeared so she wouldn't have to deal with them.

"Alright, yeah, I think I'll go wash off, like you said." Sam said, noticing the way Danny seemed relieved by her lack of response to the reveal of his special abilities. She smiled up at him and began walking towards the river. Danny called that he'd be inside the cave and walked off, leaving the girl by herself. Sam shuddered as she began noticing all the foreign feelings across her skin and wandered over to the river.

The girl scrubbed off all the foreign substances clinging to her skin and scrubbed her clothes clean as well, watching to make sure Danny wasn't anywhere close when she did. Thankfully, he was preoccupied with whatever it was he was doing in the cave and paid zero attention to Sam.

When she got out, Sam joined Danny in the cave and found out he was attempting to make a second bed inside for her later that night. However, he laughingly told her that he was failing and was probably just going to let her take his spot that night and worry about it in the morning. This made Sam laugh before she pushed him out of the way so she herself could work on it instead.

Sam looked around the space Danny had occupied for the last four years, noticing the disarray of things he had. There were clothes of various styles and sizes, which is what he mostly used for his bedding. There was a fire in the middle that wasn't very big but it sufficed. There was a pile of dry wood stacked up along one of the walls and a small pile of fruit near it. Sam also noticed a pile of miscellaneous things not too far away but they wouldn't be of any help, considering it was all just useless trinkets.

"Where'd you get all this stuff?" Sam asked curiously, continuing the work Danny had left off. He was pretty much separating some of the clothes from his and had been doing it with a calculation that wasn't needed.

"Like I said, I woke up floating on a suitcase that was my make-shift raft. The others were the same way and considering how hard it is to get materials on an untouched island, we pretty much kept everything. Anything can be useful around here." Danny answered casually, shrugging his shoulders as he watched her work. "I plan on going back to the beach later to pick through the debris from your crappy mishap. You can come if you want."

The girl nodded before asking, "What was your group like?"

It was quiet for a moment and Sam paused, wondering if she shouldn't have asked. Beside her, she felt Danny shake his head and laugh breathlessly. "Well… They were cool, I guess. I was the only kid. The rest of the group was made up of the leader, Skulker, a guy named Johnny and his girlfriend, Kitty, an egomaniac, Walker, a college student named Elliot, and a dancer named Desiree.

"The only reason any of us made it as far as we did was because Skulker was one of those extreme survivalists. It sure came in handy and he whipped us into shape real quick." Danny said with a smile before he sobered. "It wasn't enough for some of us, though. We all had wounds from the crash but everyone noticed mine had healed and scarred way too quickly for normal. It was the first time I used my abilities and I tried my hardest to fix the others. I got through Johnny, Kitty, Skulker, and Walker without too much trouble but, at the time, my powers were still unstable. I caused them a lot of pain healing them up.

"When I tried to heal Elliot, I ended up making everything worse instead of helping. Again, my abilities were unstable and it was hard enough getting the other four back together. Skulker made me stop trying and figured we would find a way to heal Desiree and Elliot normally. I guess it wasn't meant to be because they both got an infection and, eventually, died."

Sam frowned and drew back from working, sitting down next to the sullen boy. She put a hand on his shoulder comfortingly. "You couldn't have done anything; I hope you know that."

"I know. It doesn't stop me from thinking I could've done something, though." Danny replied, shrugging again and giving her a sad look. "The others lasted a lot longer, at least. I'm guessing we were a few months into it when Kitty and Johnny went out to find some food. Kitty was the only one that came back. She never told us what happened to Johnny.

"The next person to go was Walker. He was bitten by one of the few snakes on the island. It was poisonous and he died a few hours after the incident. When Walker was bitten, I had gotten better at my powers by working on any wound, big or small, the others came back with so we could avoid even the smallest of infections. I tried with Walker but my powers don't really work with venoms, it seems.

"After that, it was Kitty. I don't know how but she somehow managed to contract some kind of virus. Once again, my powers were completely useless and a few days after catching the bug, she died. That left me and Skulker."

"You know you don't have to be sharing any of this with me, right?" Sam cut off, not liking the sullen air that had fallen around the teen boy beside her. It was a huge difference from his usual perky self and she didn't like it. The girl wanted to make a smile come back to his face.

Though a tiny grin did sprout at her words, it was laced with sadness. "I know but I like sharing with someone. I haven't had the chance in a long time."

Sam nodded in understanding and let him continue without another word.

"Anyway, with no one else left to help, Skulker began teaching me all about 'the fine art of surviving.'" Danny said with a mocking tone in his voice. It made Sam laugh and Danny continued, saying, "He taught me everything he knew, making sure I knew how to take care of myself so I could help the two of us survive. It was just us for the longest time and then, eight months ago, I guess, he went off to find food and never came back. I don't know if he's dead or alive and I probably never will, unless I find a body. I've been alone since."

The goth girl didn't say it aloud but she was relieved Danny hadn't been alone as long as she originally had thought. He had had a hard-ass survivalist for the majority of the time but it was better than nothing. Beggars couldn't be choosers, after all.

Grabbing her new friend's hand, Sam gave the boy a hesitant smile and said, "Well, you have me now and I'm going to make sure you teach me everything Skulker taught you, got it?"

An amused grin spread across the boy's face and he cackled. "OOO, this is going to be fun~!"

Sam laughed with him and finished her work, managing to make her own spot to rest before she and the other teen went back to the beach to pick through the debris for anything they could carry back to their home-base. They chatted lightly as they worked and Sam told the other boy all about her life back on the mainland. When she was finished, she asked Danny about his. She froze when she heard that nervous chuckle of his and, though she didn't see him, Sam could feel Danny reaching to rub the back of his neck.

"Um, well… Remember how I told you I don't remember anything about the plane crash because my head must've hit something really hard? Well, that also goes for pretty much my entire life. I don't remember anything other than my name: Daniel James Fenton." Danny admitted to her, another one of his breathless laughs falling from his mouth.

'Of course,' was the only thought that ran through Sam's mind after hearing that as she sighed, feeling rather sorry for Danny, despite the fact he was one of the happiest people she had ever come across.

Danny seemed to realize his lack of memories made the other teen depressed and began regaling her with tales of his Godzilla sightings. While most simply had him and the King of Monsters making eye-contact, there were a few, such as the time he was sick, where Sam found herself curious beyond reason about the kaiju. Danny's stories only fueled this curiosity.

There wasn't much to find on the beach, no matter how much the two teens looked as they tossed stories back and forth. Most of what was found was boat parts and, while they could be useful, they weren't desired over more pressing materials they would need in the near future. Some of the parts were simply too big to drag back to the shelter anyways.

The two left the beach as the sun began setting and only a few trinkets were in their hands to put with the pile. Hopefully, they could find some use for the objects in the future but they didn't have any ideas on what they would be good for at the moment.

When they got back, Danny tended to the dwindling fire for a little bit before eating the fruit he had picked earlier that day and split the portions with Sam as they continued to talk. The two chatted well into the night, just getting to know each other better, before both teens grew tired and decided to bed down for the night. Curling up in their beds, the two smiled before drifting off to sleep.

A few hours went by and the fire crackling in the center of the cave began dying out, casting the cave in shadows and darkness that the two sleeping teenagers didn't notice. However, just as the last of the flames died out, leaving glowing embers in the circle of burnt logs, a tremor was sent through the ground.

Danny awoke immediately to the vibration, sitting up in his bed with tired eyes as he directed his gaze to the mouth of the cave. His blue eyes could see the moonlight shining down on the clearing, casting everything in blue-grey light. He half-expected to see an animal of some sort but there was nothing but the sounds of the river trickling a ways off.

Another tremor shook the ground and Danny's eyes widened in shock. He got up, not noticing the way Sam stirred this time, and stumbled towards the opening of the cave. He fell onto his knees before he could exit completely, looking out the opening and putting his hand against the cave wall for support. A gasp fell from his mouth at what he saw.

Godzilla was walking across the island a few hundred miles away but his huge size made him seem as close as a few feet. An irritated expression seemed to be dominating his facial features but Danny had never been good at reading the kaiju's expressions. The monster shone in the moonlight; his hide was slick with seawater but Godzilla didn't seem to care or notice.

Sam came up behind Danny and kneeled down behind him, placing her hands on his shoulders as she looked out the cave with him. Danny heard her gasp in his ear, mirroring what he had done.

What was the King of Monsters doing back already?! He'd only been gone for half a day!

Danny was unconcerned when the huge monster paused in his steps, his head turning towards the dark cave. The teen wasn't surprised to see the giant's large eyes lock onto them, wondering how he did every time, no matter where Danny was or how good he hid. The black eyes saw Sam, something Danny worried about for a moment, before the kaiju simply turned his head and began walking to his destination again. The ground rumbled with each step he took.

Leaning closer to her new friend, Sam whispered, "I thought you said he was gone for a week or two at a time."

"I also said he's been acting weird but… Even in his agitated state, it's crazy for him to be back so soon!" Danny replied, confused and worried about what had the great Godzilla restless. The King of Monsters was a force of nature that was feared everywhere. Nothing scared Godzilla, of course, but what was off with the world that had him so shaken?

The ebony-haired muttered, "I wonder what trouble the world is in now…"


IT'S GODZILLA, GUYS! OH MY GOSH, IT WAS FRIKKIN GODZILLA! I AM SO HAPPY I GOT TO FINALLY DO SOMETHING WITH HIM! HAHAHAHA! I'MA SO HAPPY~! KINZY, DON'T YOU DARE KILL MY HAPPINESS EVEN THOUGH I PROBABLY KILLED YOURS, YOU LITTLE FREAKISH MONSTER~! *dies*

*revives* Alright, I got that out of my system. Now, this specific universe takes place after pretty much all the movies but right before the 2014 one (which was a total disappointment because, seriously? They showed Godzilla for, like, fourteen minutes of the entire movie. Really? The villains had more time than he did and it's called GODZILLA! NOT FREAKY ALIENS!) As for Danny's power, would healing is a lot different from a healing factor. Did you notice? XD

Now, if you need me, I'll be re-watching Godzilla vs. Biollante on VHS and I'm taking my Gameboy Advanced SP with me. XD

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Guest(1): I'm glad you enjoyed it. ^^

Secretwhovianpon: Well, Danny also thinks he's doing good. Brainwashing~! XD You named a bunch I already planned on doing or didn't even know existed. You'll find out which ones I know in the future. *winks*