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This chapter was hard for me to write for some reason, but I forced myself to write this for you guys!

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Chapter Eight: Another Emotion, Another Adventure...


The Darkness made it's way slowly through the school. The last thing he wanted was to stumble upon the class with two people who can do him harm. He just wanted to destroy one of them and make the class' life horrible for everything that they did to Danny.

After all, He was Danny in some aspects.

He walked through the school, hoping to at least see anything that would give the others away, and sure enough, there was a dirt trail leading to a classroom door. He opened the door cautiously in time to see Daniel carrying a figure through the chalk board.

He crouched there behind the door for a couple minutes. It was luck that Daniel didn't look back and see him.

After their fight, he knew that brute force would get him nowhere, because Daniel was slippery. He had to set a trap. The only way to do so would be to let Daniel think he was safe and far away from him.

He waited a little longer before going through the secret portal.


After the group went through the portal, Mr. Lancer did a head count and found out that one of his students was missing, and not just any student either. Dash Baxter was not with Paulina, or with any other student. Not even his best friend, Kwan.

His mind started racing with all of the different possibilities that could've happened to his young charge. He quickly marched up to Dan, and had to look up to fully see him.

"What do you want, old man?"

Lancer swallowed, and decided to ignore the 'old man' comment and get directly to the point. "One of my students is missing, and-"

"So? They decided to get lost here. I only said I could show you the way out. I didn't, however, say that I would babysit all of you as you went through." Lancer was speechless. Even though that this person was a part of Danny, he couldn't see it. How could one of his favorite- yes favorite- student have this part of subconsciousness in himself. He never acted like this to anyone he knew, but then again, in Danny's mind, he saw all of the different parts that define him. And not all of them were good, which was to be expected.

He realized that he had his mouth open like a fish throughout that entire thought process, so he quickly closed it. Dan was giving him a weird look, but before any of them could say another word, two people walked out in a flash of light from the chalk board.

Mr. Lancer and Dan quickly rushed over and grabbed the figure off of Daniel's shoulders. It felt better to call him Daniel instead of Danny to Lancer, because he seemed like a more mature version of the playful boy who asked for way too many bathroom breaks.

They carried the figure over to two of the student's' desk that Sam and Tucker pulled together. They forced him to lay down and breath in and out slowly. Daniel seemed to be part ghost, because he slipped silently behind the group and made his way over to three people in the back corner of the room.

Lancer was only able to hear the beginning of the conversation before they walked outside the classroom. He couldn't miss the nod that Dan gave in Daniel's general direction.

He decided that Dash was more important right now, so he focused all of his attention to him. He rubbed the jock's back, and waited patiently until he caught his breath completely.

Dash coughed, before he spoke. "I-I need to talk with Fentonai- Daniel…"

Lancer stared at the teen, not believing that he heard Dash call Danny by his real name, nonetheless his full name.

Dash looked over at Dan, but he quickly looked away upon finding an evil smirk, showing off his fangs and forked tongue. He paled. He quickly looked over to the only adult in the room. Did Dan count as an adult? He was Danny after all, who was only a fifteen year old teeneager…

Lancer nodded, thinking that he gave enough time for the others to talk. He helped Dash to his feet and walked him over to the door. He watched his student walkout and march over to a group of his students who were having a hushed conversation. He watched Dash walk over to the group, and he turned back to walk into the classroom.


As soon as he stepped into the classroom again, he knew something was up. He quickly walked in, and looked around, and noticed what was wrong. The class was absolutely silent. There was always a little bit of background chatter, with the students talking about their situation, but looking around the classroom, everyone was frozen in mid action. Some of them had their mouths open, while others were making hand gestures. Dan seemed to be the only person who wasn't frozen, and he looked annoyed.

He was walking away from a group of girls, which included the popular ones, with a scowl on his face.

"Stupid high schoolers, I forgot how annoying they could be…"

Lancer walked in front of a student, and waved his hand in front of their face. He got no reaction, and looked over at Dan. "What did you do to them?"

He couldn't hide the mortified tone of voice, and Dan knew it. He smiled, showing of his fangs, and replied. "Oh, don't worry, I can reverse it. I just wanted a break."

"You still didn't answer my question."

Lancer saw Dan give an eye roll. "I froze them momentarily. They're not even aware that any time has passed…."

Lancer thought about that and decided that that was fine, or it was until he saw Dan walk over to Dash and bended his arm in the right order to stick Dash's own finger in his nose. While Lancer was flabbergasted, Dan walked over to Paulina and broke one of the heels of her shoes.

Dan stepped back to admire his handiwork, and Lancer snapped out of his daze.

"I-I think you need to stop, Dan." Dan looked over at him, and Lancer felt the urge to step back.

"Why should I?" Dan took a slow step forward, and Lancer took a small one back. Upon seeing this, Dan smiled.

Lancer knew how to win this battle without looking intimidating, and he repressed a smile. "Some part of you is still my student, and you will listen to me, because we are in a school after all…" He gestured his hands around the classroom, and he was amazed to see Dan smile at him.

"That's more like it, Lancer. Take responsibility and maybe we'll start listening to you." Dan snapped his fingers and the class was back to making noise.

Lancer saw Paulina stumble and fall flat on her back. While Star tried to help her up, Paulina accidently pulled her down with her. Most of the students snickered at Paulina's dismay.

Dash looked surprised, and then the color drained from his face. He quickly took his finger out of his nose, and looked fearfully at Dan.

He saw that Dan melted into the shadows, and just smiled at the chaos he created.

Lancer cleared his throat loudly, and everyone looked at him instantly. Before he could say a word, the door to his classroom opened.

Everyone's attention snapped to the figures who entered. Daniel was at the head of the group, while Sam and Tucker stood directly behind him. Dash and Valerie stood outside the door, waiting.

"We need to move if we want to get out of here on time." He then proceeded to turn around and walk out the door with Sam and Tucker following.

The class awkwardly shuffled out of the door, with Lancer on the rear.

Daniel walked through the school like he owned the place, and in that moment, they knew that if they were probably a little nicer to Danny, he would walk the same way.


It was a long walk from the school to the park, especially because of all the rubble in the streets. None of the memory flies were anywhere, and it truly looked like a ghost town.

Paulina was having a lot of trouble walking with her broken heels, and Nathan knew that if he couldn't get Valerie's attention, he would try to get Paulina's.

Daniel originally walked on the path, but he quickly went off of it. Who knew how many holes they all stepped in already, and they were still walking.

A lot of the kids were grumbling, and Sam, Tucker, Valerie, and were very close to saying something about a break, when they stopped. Everyone instantly collapsed, except, of course, Daniel and Dan.

This part of the park looked exactly the same as any other, but Daniel acted as if it wasn't.

"What are we doing here?" Everyone looked at Mikey, and he gulped, not liking to be put on the spot like that.

Dan seemed surprised that he could talk, and his eyebrows almost fully disappeared in his flaming hair line. "Looky there, the nerd has a voice…"

Mikey pretended not to hear that, and looked at Daniel, who seemed to have expected this.

"The next entrance is right here, and if you want to get out of here quickly, we need to go in there." He pointed at the tree behind him, and all eyes followed as he walked to the base of the tree, and felt it with his hands.

Some of the class looked at each other, wondering what the heck he was doing, and if he lost his mind.

They heard him gasp, and all of them looked back at him in time to see the tree glowing a bright pink radiating from where he put his hand. Some of them stood up and took a couple steps back, ready to run at a moment's notice.

Dan quickly flew over to Daniel with a grim expression in place. They exchanged words before Dan quickly flew away back in the direction he came from.

There was a bright flash and everyone covered their eyes. By the time it went away, some of them, like Paulina and Mikey, had to open and close their eyes to get the bright spots out.

When they all looked over to the tree, their jaws dropped-yes, even Sam's, too.

Where the tree was, there was now a massive hole that glowed pink.

Daniel was on one knee, looking down into the hole, when the class decided to venture up to him.

Kwan and even Dash, resisted the urge to push him, but they thought better of it. They both decided that it would be best if they went on the opposite side just in case.

Sam knelt down next to Daniel, while Tucker did the same on the other side. "What do we do now?"

Daniel looked up at her, and with all the seriousness he could muster, he said,"We jump."

Silence followed that statement, but then they heard Paulina laughing. The group instantly looked at the Latino girl, who didn't care that they were looking at her.

This was her chance for payback. "I'm sorry, did I just hear you correctly? You want us to just jump into a hole where we don't even know where it goes, or how deep it is?"

She looked over at Daniel, and her smile faded when she saw him smiling a smile that didn't belong on his face. She knew she messed up, but she already digged her grave, and now it was time to lay in it.

"Why, of course we are. And I thank you for volunteering to be the first to go!" He spoke with a scarily calm voice. He closed his eyes, and vanished in a swirl of memory flies, and reappeared behind Paulina.

The girl in question knew she was done for when he picked her up bridal style, and carried her over to the mouth of the hole. She tried to get out of his arms, but the more she struggled, the tighter his grip became. He carried her over the hole, and she stopped fighting. Her eyes widened, and she instead, gripped Daniel harder, refusing to fall into it.

No one tried to stop him, and they didn't know why they didn't, but they didn't even blink an eye when he let go of her.

Lancer just watched as a part of his student dropped the most popular girl into a hole, and he didn't even try to stop it. That thought would race through his mind even after a couple days.

They heard her scream as she fell, and they all felt a jolt as if they should jump, too.

Her screams disappeared, and Daniel turned to look at them. "You can either jump in there willingly, or I can push you in. Either way, you are going in there."

The class slowly shuffled forward, and they danced on the balls of their feet, none of them wanting to be the first one to go willingly, but not wanting to be pushed into it either.

Finally, Sam took a deep breath, and walked away. All eyes were either on her, or on Daniel, waiting to see what would happen.

Daniel seemed to have a hint of a smile on his face, as if he knew that this was what she was going to do the entire time.

Sam abruptly turned around, and gave a battle cry. She quickly ran towards the hole, and the class parted for her, letting her do whatever stupid thing she wanted to do. She jumped into the hole, still giving her battle cry.

Tucker followed, but he just stepped into it, instead of running up to it like she did.

Valerie followed him, but she did a cannonball into it, yelling, "Geronimo!"

Dash followed after. Then Kwan, then Mikey, then Nathan and Star. It went like that until the only people who need to jump was Mr. Lancer, and Daniel himself.

Lancer placed his hand on his student's shoulder. "I'll see you down there, and good luck on whatever's troubling you."

Daniel turned to him, surprised that the overweight teacher figured it out that he was thinking about something.

Lancer smiled at his student's expression. "I'm a teacher, Daniel, I can pick up on that sort of thing."

Before Daniel could respond, Lancer walked over to the mouth of the hole, and followed in his previous student's footsteps.

Daniel slowly walked over to the mouth himself. "You were always too smart, ."

He closed his eyes and leaned forward, plummeting straight down into the hole.


After they all went through, the hole closed in another bright flash of light, and the tree that once stood there was back.

On the base of the tree, right where Daniel put his hand, was a message carved into the trunk.

It said, "Dx?"


To Be Continued...


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