"Dinner time!" Lunch Lady called out.

Valerie, Tucker, Kwan, Ghoul and Tina all sat together around one of the campfires each of them holding a food tray ready for dinner. Lunch Lady then came over and they all cringed in disgust as she put some sort of orange fish stew on their trays.

"Enjoy your fish stew" Lunch Lady said with a smile. "And remember to eat all the meat"

"Are we sure this is even casserole?" Valerie asked as she poked at the sludge on her tray. "Or that it's even edible?"

Ghoul of course dug right into it earing strange looks from the others. Lunch Lady then came up to Danny who was sitting at his usual study area and handed him a tray.

"Here you go Danny" Lunch Lady said as she placed the food on his tray. "Now make sure to eat it all up. You're skin and bones"

"Uh thanks Lunch Lady…it looks…" Danny began to say nervously. He knew that she would often get really mad if you insulted her meat dishes so he lied with a weak smile, "Really good"

"Oh thank you sweetie" Lunch Lady said with a bright smile and then headed for the other camp fires.

"Hey guys we've been pretty tough on Danny lately. How about we cut him some slack?" Kwan suggested.

"You're right Kwan" Valerie said and then called out, "Hey Danny do you want to come and sit with us?"

Danny smiled and nodded. He picked up his food tray and the journal and headed over to them as he said, "Thanks guys"

But as he sat down on a rock, Ghoul placed a whoopee cushion underneath which made a noise as he sat down. Ghoul then laughed hysterically at his prank but the others were not amused and they all glared at him and shouted, "GHOUL!"

"Oh come on! It was funny!" Ghoul protested as he finished laughing.

As they silently ate some of the food in silence, Valerie noticed that Danny was reading the journal and asked, "Hey Danny don't you ever close that book?"

"You must've read it a dozen times by now" Tucker said after eating a spoonful of the food. "Is everything okay?"

"I'm not really sure. Something about this book doesn't make any sense because there's a passage here that leads up to something called the Heart of Atlantis which maybe the power source the legend refers to but when I turn the page it just cuts off" Danny explained. "I think there might be a missing page"

"Dude relax a bit. We don't get paid overtime" Tucker said.

"I know sometimes I get a little carried away" Danny said with a chuckle as he closed the book. "This is just really cool I mean discovery, teamwork, adventure that's what this is all about. Unless you guys are just in it for the money?"

"Money" All of them answered.

Danny then started rubbing his sore neck, Kwan noticed and asked, "Hey is there something wrong with your neck?"

"Yeah I think I must've hurt it sometime on the road" Danny answered.

Kwan stood up and then held Danny's head, he then twisted it to the left and then the right causing Danny to yelp in pain for a second but after Kwan let go he felt his neck was all better and it was better than ever.

Danny smiled and said, "Thanks Kwan"

"No problem" Kwan said returning the smile as he sat back down. Danny then asked, "Where'd you learn to do that?"

"My dad actually taught me, he was a doctor in the US Army" Kwan answered. "After serving for two years he met my mother and they married each other and had me a year later. At first in high school I was one of the star football players but instead of pursuing a career in it, I decided to get a medical degree so I went to Harvard Medical School and earned my degree, I served in the army for a year as a medic but then was hired by Walker"

"Oh yeah you were on the original team that brought the journal back with my dad right?" Danny asked.

Kwan nodded and said, "That's right. I will say this, your dad always had good advice and was really funny"

"Anyone for seconds?" Lunch Lady offered.

"That's okay I'm full/ I couldn't eat another bite/ watching my weight" All of them answered.

As soon as Lunch Lady turned around, they all dumped the rest of their food in the campfire. A few minutes later, everyone had finished pitching their tents and were placing their bed mats inside ready to get some sleep.

Danny got inside and laid down on his stomach in his tent as he said, "Wow it's been a long time since I went camping. Last time I went was when I was 10 years old and it was a fishing trip with dad"

"I never got to meet your dad Danny. What was he like?" Valerie asked as she laid out her sleeping mat in her tent.

"He was pretty awesome. He was one of the people I could look up to" Danny answered. "My mother died when I was three years old and Jazz was five, it was hard the first year but we all pulled through and he was there every step of the way. He was also really funny, yeah he messed up sometimes but that what was great about him, he never looked down at himself but kept going. He also always encouraged me to never give up on stuff"

"Really?" She asked smiling. He nodded and continued, "Yeah I mean one time in freshman year in high school there was this huge fitness test I had to do and honestly I thought I was never gonna pass it, but dad he wouldn't stop me from training for it and on the day of the test I passed it and he just ran onto the running track and spun me around in the air and every time we talked about one day proving Atlantis is real, he would never stop showing me anything he found about it in books or research"

"Oh that is so cute" Ghoul gushed as he walked past them.

"What about you Valerie? What got you into becoming an engineer?" Danny asked.

"I took a part time job with DALV Co fixing most of their machines whenever they broke down or needed maintenance after my dad got fired from Axion Labs but then hired as a security guard there" Valerie began as she laid down in her tent. "He got a better job once DALV Co bought the labs and I would go after school and work on their machines still, after high school I went on to study engineering. After college I worked full time at DALV and my dad then retired and then I took on this job. Anyway I'm saving up so I can open up my own garage shop with dad"

"How about you Tucker?" Danny then asked.

Tucker laid down and answered with a shrug, "I'm just a typical handsome guy"

"Tucker tell him the truth" Kwan pressed.

Tucker groaned and admitted, "Okay I'm a techno geek. I really like technology and I'm always creating new types whenever I can. I want to open my own lab and create brand new technology for the world"

"Then how'd you become a demolition expert?" Danny asked.

"One day I was just tweaking with the toaster just to make toast cook faster and then…BOOOM! The entire thing exploded and shot me right out of the window of our kitchen" Tucker answered. "It was like a sign to become a demolition expert. So after high school I studied science and technology plus a degree in demolition"

They all then heard the sound of digging and turned to see Ghoul digging himself in a hole and then nothing but a chuckle. Danny then asked, "What's Ghoul's story?"

"Trust me on this you don't want to know" Kwan said. "Valerie don't you tell him. You shouldn't have told me but you did and now I'm telling you, you really don't want to know"

He then turned off the torch and everyone laid down and went to sleep for the night.

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