Well, this is the last update for a couple of days. Instead of updating Monday, I'm gonna update Tuesday, just so I can use Monday to try and write. I am WAY behind on it really sorry about that. So next week I will update on, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. I will try my hardest to write this weekend and during the off days.
I would love to do review replies, but I am too tired. *sigh* It has been a very long day. I hope all you in school enjoy the long weekend, because I know I will.
I couldn't decied what they would eat in space, so I didn't even try to fake it. It would've changed the entire chapter, and probably story progression. But if anyone has any ideas, I may be able to make it work in later chapters. But for now, it will be a mystery. Mystery Meat. heheheheh
I'm so sorry I am exausted. Anyways let's get on with it!
Dinner was fairly calm. The food tasted great but I didn't ask what is was. I was too afraid of the answer. Most of the time Peter kept sneaking glances at Vlad when he wasn't looking with a look of hurt on his face.
"SO! *ahem* Is this how dinner usually goes? Awkward silence?" I said because the quietness was annoying me.
"Yes. But we don't know too much about you. Care to share?" Rocket stated flatly. (A/N: heh that rhymed!)
"Ok. What do you want to know? Ask away." I responded.
"How long have you lived on Earth?" Drax asked first.
"Uh, my whole life?" I answered. A little surprised at the question.
"I am Groot." I looked to Rocket. " 'What exactly are you?' he asked. Which is a question I also am wanting to know the answer to."
I wasn't surprised by that question. I knew it would be asked at some point. I was just surprised that it was so soon. I had taken a bite while Rocket was talking, so I was grateful for the moment to think carefully about my response. Should I go ahead and expose Vlad right now, or should I wait? I decided to wait. "Well,-" I started. "-I was born a human. But an accident happened about 5 years ago in my parents lab. My parents are the worlds leading ghost hunters, so they built a portal to another dimension called the Ghost Zone. At first the portal failed, and my parents gave up on it; their life's work. Then one day I was showing it to my two best friends, Sam and Tucker, when Sam convinced me to go in. I somehow turned it on from the inside, and my DNA got coated in ectoplasm, giving me ghost powers." I finished. The various Guardians looked at me with shock, minus Vlad, who already knew all of this, and Peter had a more surprised look on his face since he hadn't gotten that much detail.
"Are you the only one of your kind?" Gamora asked after a minuet of silence.
I looked to Vlad and, although he acted casual, I could see right through that and see that he was preparing himself to be humiliated. I smirked as I answered, "Yes."
Peter looked shocked, but then understood and went back to his normal expression. It was so quick I almost didn't notice it, so I doubted that the others noticed. Vlad had a look of both relief, and suspicion on his face. He narrowed his eyes as he looked at me cautiously.
"He is much like you, Quill!" Drax yelled.
I raised my eyebrow at Peter. "How so?" I addressed to Drax while looking at Peter.
"Quill is also half terran. Like you. Except he is not half ghost." Drax stated happily
" 'Terran'?" I asked Peter.
"It's what the rest of the galaxy calls humans. What you call Earth, we call Terra." Peter clarified
"Oh."
"I am Groot." I looked to Rocket.
" 'Does anyone know about you being half ghost?' he asked." Rocket said in a bored tone.
"Oh uh not many Groot. My two best friends who were with me when it happened, and my sister." I responded. I choose that moment to take a bite.
"I am Groot."
"Yeah good question Groot. Your parents don't know? What they didn't find you? Why don't you tell them? It's not like they're gonna shot you or something." Rocket said, not unkindly for once.
I was still chewing, and about to respond when Peter spoke up. "Vlad you have been very quiet this entire time. Is there something you would like to share?" Peter asked in an accusing tone.
Vlad looked startled at this. I looked to Vlad with anticipation. I was excided to see how Vlad will handle this. I pictured in my head that he would freak out. Of course I was wrong. He is Vlad Masters, after all. And Vlad Masters does not crack under pressure. "Why, whatever could you be suggesting? I've already known Daniel for quite some time. None of this is news to me. I already know about how he lies to his friends and family and the entire world!" Vlad finished off, an evil grin plastered on his face.
I growled at him, and I was sure my eyes flashed green, because all of the guardians near Vlad jumped back in surprise.
"Oohh the scary eyes." I knew what was coming next and beat Vlad to it. Before he could shoot an eye laser, I shot two of my own at him first. He fell back in his chair and yelped in surprise. My eyes stayed glowing green while I said, "Hit me once, shame on you. Hit me twice, well, that didn't happen now did it?" I finished with a smirk. I allowed him to get back up and for me to take a bite of food before I let my eyes go back to crystal blue. "Sorry Unkie-Vlad. I guess I let my temper get the best of me." I said with an innocent look on my face. I heard him growl as he got up from the floor. I enjoyed that moment very much. Very, very much.
As Vlad got back in his chair, I turned to Groot and Rocket. "Now to answer your question, in order, no, my parents do not know I'm half ghost, my friends were already there and so they helped me get up and out and I changed back to my human form before my parents got down to the lab, I don't tell them because 1, they are ghost HUNTERS. I'm afraid of that and that they won't accept me and cast me out, and 2, they often threaten to 'rip me apart molecule by molecule' to my ghost from, and show me their inventions and how they are going to rip me apart 'molecule by molecule' to my human form; and lastly I seriously doubt that wouldn't shoot me. They do it on a daily basis without even realizing it." I finished.
"Hey, I'm really tired. I'm gonna go to bed." I got up and left the room, before any of them could say anything, and left many guardians with open mouths and depressed looks on their faces. It wasn't an entire lie. I was tired. I had had a long and stressful day. But I just mainly wanted to get out of that situation and avoid any more questions that night. I put on my PJ's, brushed my teeth, and lied down on my bunk. And I allowed sweet, sweet, sleep to wash over me. The nightmare however, was not welcome.
I will be honest and say that the nightmare is kinda over the top, but I need it for story progression. I did not enjoy making Danny suffer this nightmare in the next chapter, which by the way, will either be really long or really short. We'll see
Anyways, hope this will satisfy till Tuesday! Bye!