Man, this chapter was tougher than I expected! I had many bouts of writers block during the writing process, but nevertheless, it is finally finished!
I thought this chapter would be 2,000 to 2,500 words but it ended up nearly passing 4,000 =O
And if you want some sort of music to go along with the chapter listen to:
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess – Ganondorf theme
OR
Legend of Zelda: WindWaker – Puppet Ganon (snake theme)
(LOL, any Legend of Zelda boss music will work…these are just the best ones, in my opinion)
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Chapter 10
The team stepped into the cafeteria looking at the remains of all the empty tables. Most of the tables were left with unfinished food; some were flipped from the panic of forced evacuation. But what was the most interesting was the three scorched impact marks. Two of the marks to be tables, the tables were now in shambles with a dark scorch mark on the floor, cracking the floor.
The third impact mark was what used to be the cafeteria's serving counter. Now it had a huge hole through the stainless steel, the metal melted and warped around the impact edges.
"Well were going in the right direction" House remarked, looking over the scene. "Now where did they go from here?"
Just as House stopped speaking they all heard a loud crash of plates come from the kitchen.
The team all looked at each other nervously. "We should hide…" House told them all. They all nodded in agreement and quickly found a flipped table and crouched behind it.
Just as the team got themselves hidden, the ghost had fazed through the kitchen into the cafeteria carrying Danny by the neck as though he'd caught a dead rabbit.
The blue skinned creature dropped Danny unceremoniously on the ground. Danny hit the ground with a thud, gasping for air as though it was his only lifeline.
The team winced as they saw the blood slowly leaking out of small holes in Danny's neck, luckily not piercing one of the major arteries.
Danny crawled half a foot as a feeble attempt of getting some distance from the monster. The boy looked like he couldn't keep going anymore, like his body had gone through too much punishment.
"It's no use Daniel. I'm going to kill you. And there's nothing you can do about it." The floating figure said evilly.
Intimidating green energy started to pool up in the monster's palm. He started to point it at Danny who was now leaning his head back, ready for the coming energy.
'What can we do to stop that thing?' House thought looking at the scene from behind the table looking for any type of solution.
Out of the corner of House's eye he saw Thirteen stepped up from behind her cover and with a swift run and jump, diving into the creature.
The creature was hit out of the air and landed in a heap. Thirteen started to claw at it the monster trying to inflict as much damage as possible.
The creatures burning hair flared up as it snarled in anger towards Thirteen, who still tried to scratch away at the creature.
"Get off me you insubordinate pest!" The thing said in a dark snarl. But Thirteen just ignored the monster's words and continued to hit it in the face with her nails.
Suddenly a glowing hue of energy went around the monster, starting to become brighter and brighter while the monster's hands glowed a powerful green. Green electrical energy started to hit Thirteen, stopping her movement completely as she shook from the electricity.
Suddenly Thirteen was sent flying off the blue skinned horror, sliding across the cafeteria floor a dozen metres away. Smoke wafted from her skin as she laid unconscious near one of the cafeteria tables across the room.
House rushed to her side and started to check her condition. Remarkably Thirteen still had a pulse even after the horrific shock. He looked over her body to check for bruises and broken bones but found nothing. One thing he did notice was the lack of hair on her arms and the smoke still coming from her head.
'The shock must've burnt the tips of Thirteen's hair' House thought in shock.
House soon heard another loud boom; he turned around and saw a large crater now formed in the middle of the cafeteria floor while Kutner and Foreman were both on the floor looking startled up at the floating specter.
And before the two doctors could do anything else, the monster came up to the both of them and grabbed the two of them by the throat in each arm. It started to float a metre in the air with the two doctors still in the blue skinned monsters hands.
"What should I do with you?" The thing said as it looked at the two of them in its grip.
House watched in horror as the monster started to squeeze harder on the Kutner and Foreman's throats. He just stood there shocked and too afraid to do anything as he watched the life of two medical colleagues be squeezed out right in front of him.
"Let them go!" Someone yelled from the side. Suddenly a man in a white lab coat came in and jumped onto the floating monster.
The thing gasped in surprise as it fell down to the ground letting go of Kutner and Foreman.
House limped forward and found the man who'd jumped the creature was none other than Taub, who was now scrambling to make his escape. But, as quick as a cat, the specter took its pincer talons and stabbed them into Taub's back. They went a few inches into the man's back and leeched out blood.
Taub's body gasped in pain as the talons were now twisted and turned as a cruel way to increase the pain.
The creature preoccupied his time with Taub's pain for only a few minutes before it turned its attention back towards Foreman, Kutner and House.
"Who wants to go next?" The thing said with a smile, its tongue slinking out of its mouth, snake like and unnatural.
Kutner stepped back instinctively, not thinking clearly in any way.
"Thanks for volunteering."
Now the thing inched its way towards Kutner, its hands starting to glow a sick green. Kutner backed away wide eyed, looking for any kind of escape.
The creature rose its glowing hand towards Kutner, making it the appropriate time for the Indian doctor to start running for his life. The monster followed Kutner, a sick smile on its face as it let go a barrage of ecto blasts.
House watched as Kutner dodged the shots by outrunning and jumping out of the way of the explosive energy. Foreman followed behind, possibly trying to get behind the monster for some sort of surprise attack.
House turned away, trying to get some sort of plan of action instead of just going up against that thing, just to die an excruciating death.
'We need a plan, we to find some sort of weakness…' House thought when it dawned on him. 'The kid! Maybe he knows something!'
House now looked around desperately for the kid.
He first looked where he was House and the rest of the team had found him at the mercy of the thing but found that the kid was gone.
"Where did he-" House said to himself before he noticed the trail of blood going towards underneath a cafeteria table.
House limped over hurriedly towards the table and kneeled down. He found the kid, Danny lying on his back underneath the table, his breathing laboured, face blank and expressionless.
"Kid, are you alright?" House asked concerned.
"I'm not… doing so good…" Danny said slowly in between his pained coughs.
"Kid, you must know how to stop it? You've got tell me how to stop him." House said with haste.
Danny glanced at the doctor, his eyes squinting in pain. "There's no way, he is too powerful."
"No Danny there must be…" House begged, trying to get some sort of advice out of the injured teenager.
"This ghost…is the two halves of two of the most powerful ghosts put together. There is nothing here that can stop him. No ghost weapons at our disposal to fight him." Danny coughed roughly, his chest wheezing in pain.
"We're doomed"
The statement was said so glum and grim that House could not even believe it. The boy in front of him had lost hope in any types of salvation.
'That thing is a ghost!' House thought in disbelief.
"There must be something" House said through gritted teeth, getting slowly frustrated.
"No there isn't." Danny said with fidelity. "You better run while you still can."
"I will not run like a dog with my tail in between my legs!" House said harshly towards the injured teen.
Danny just looked up at House, not saying anything when his eyes suddenly widened. He tried to back his way up to the other side, trying to do anything possible to get himself to move backwards.
House didn't know why the black haired teen was acting so strange all of the sudden when he felt something grab at his neck. The doctor was spun around quickly. The flame haired ghost looked at House with a smile, his fist connecting into House's face.
House flew through the air from the strength of the punch, landing hard on a cafeteria table. He rolled off and landing on his side on the cafeteria floor, luckily not landing on any of the discarded chairs.
Before House could get up he felt a kick land in his gimped leg. He hissed in pain refusing to scream. His whole body shook in pain from the hard impact.
'Arrgh, that hurts! Why can't I just have a whole bottle of Vicodin.' House thought angrily.
"Leave him alone! It's me that you're after!" Danny yelled angrily at the ghost.
House looked up from his spot when he saw the flaming haired ghost turn his direction now towards Danny, who was now cowering below on the floor to the side. Danny made no attempt of escape as the ghost approached, he just watched as the paranormal monstrosity came closer and closer to him.
The ghost took the teen by the throat and lifted him off the ground. Danny did nothing to resist, instead he just stared into the ghost's evil red eyes with as much spite and hate he could muster.
"Don't look at me like that Danny, you know it was inevitable." Dan told the boy his claws.
"Doesn't mean I have to like it." Danny said, giving a feeble kick into the ghost's midsection. Nothing happen at the result of the kick, not even a flinch or a grimace. The ghost just continued to smile.
"Feeble."
Then with a quick motion of his arm the ghost slugged Danny in the face with a right hook.
"And pathetic"
Danny's nose, started to bleed out with a steady flow. The blood trickled down his upper lip and got into his mouth.
"It's time to die" Dan said, his hand starting to glow with bright green energy.
Danny looked at the glowing palm in fear but still did nothing to try and shake himself out of the ghost's grip.
House was still not able to get up from the pain coming from his gimped leg. A hopeless feeling went through House as he watched the boy glare down the paranormal creature in his final moment.
'I'm most likely next…' House realized in horror.
But there was nothing he could do, there was no way he going to be able to get up anytime soon. House quickly went for his vicidin when he saw some movement coming from the side. He turned his head and looked at the entrance of the cafeteria and saw a tall man with long grey hair grabbing something out of a big duffel bag.
House recognized the man but he could not remember where he'd seen him before. The man had now put on big medal gloves on, giant menacing metal claws extended out of the tips.
House watched as the man walked as quietly as he could towards the ghost and Danny. As the man got closer and closer to House, he finally realized where he had seen the man before.
'It's the man I saw a day ago in the lobby!' House thought amazed.
The man hadn't changed at all from House's last observation of the man. He was still in the worn out suit, his facial hair now longer than before and the limp from before was still present.
As the man neared the ghost, Danny noticed the man coming up from behind the ghost. Danny looked astonished to see the man, it was like he could not believe his eyes.
"Any last words?" Dan mocked, catching Danny completely off guard.
Danny took a second to think before he smiled and spat in the ghost's face, catching blue skinned specter off guard.
"Go to hell" Danny yelled.
"Ragh!" Dan yelled in disgust, wiping away the blood uncoated spit off his face. "You'll pay for that!"
The distraction was all the man needed as he pressed a button on gloves, suddenly they started to glow the same powerful green colour that the ghost had. The glow engulfed all of the metal of the gloves, even the metal tips.
"Your time is up!" The man yelled just as he pierced the gloves right into the ghost's back.
The ghost adolescent ghost screamed in pain when the glove claws pierced right into the core of the ghost. The ghost's flaming hair went up everywhere, looking like it was on the verge of exploding. The green energy coming from the gloves glowed even brighter as the claws went deep into the ghost's form. The ghost dropped Danny to the ground, not able to keep the grip on the teenage boy. Danny scrambled himself away from the ghost, looking up at the scene in awe and shock.
The man suddenly started to try moving the claws to the side. A bright light came from the ghost making a complete spectacle out of the situation. Soon, to House's utter amazement the ghost started to morph its looks. The blue skin started to fade away, the flaming grey fire started to be replaced with dazzling white hair and the visible fangs and tongue started to shrink down to human shapes. The suit though stayed the same, the black and white design was exactly the same and the logo hadn't changed either.
Through gritted teeth the mysterious man continued to push the claws to opposite directions until suddenly another form seemed to appear out of nowhere on what looked to be the empty right claw.
The new form had blue skin with black spiked hair; visible fangs appeared over top its lips and had a black goatee of facial hair. The form wore a brilliant white suit with a white cape.
'Did that…ghost, just split into two other ghosts?' House thought as he watched the spectacle.
The man dropped onto the ground, visible exhausted from the splitting process. The two ghosts on the claws both still impaled into the two of them. The two ghosts looked unconscious on the claws until the ghost in the black hazmat suit started to twitch itself awake.
"Danny, merge back with your ghost half now!" The man said while dragging the ghost closer to him. Danny looked at the ghost apprehensively, his eyes gazing over the spectral figure.
Danny nodded, slowly crawling his way over to the black suited ghost. And with one more burst of energy, Danny jumped onto the ghost. Meanwhile, the man had just done the same with the blue skinned ghost.
The two ghosts disappeared and both Danny and the mysterious man both glowed brightly. Danny glowed the familiar green colour while the man glowing a powerful pink colour.
The two of them quickly spun off the gauntlets, the both of them screaming pain on the cafeteria floor. The two ghost forms merged back together with the two halfa's human DNA. The experience was painful the first time and now it was just as painful the second time.
Danny screamed as his limbs felt as though a cold fire was set underneath him, it burned but strangely was frostbite cold as well. It wasn't something that could be easily explained just something that needed to be felt. Danny's eyes burned as he felt his irises being completely shocked with energy. His hair felt like it should have let off steam but nothing was probably there.
Soon a white halo ring appeared around Danny and split from the middle going up and down. Soon the white t-shirt and jean combo was replaced with a signature black and white hazmat suit.
As soon as Danny's ghost half appeared, it quickly disappeared with another flash of the white halo rings. Danny was too exhausted from use any more energy to keep up his ghost form. His vision was completely blurred, eyes lids as heavy as tanks. His whole body felt like had been beaten like a piece of flabby meat.
'It's over, he's gone' Danny thought happily before he passed out.
House watched amazed as his patient Danny turned into the ghost that had before caused so much destruction, except for the lack of flaming hair, blue skin and visible fangs.
At Danny's side, the man went through a similar transformation except for the fact that he had black halos surround him instead of white ones and the man was able to stay in his ghost form.
House watched apprehensively from the side as the blue skinned and caped ghost got up from the floor. The man then noticed Danny beside him, now passed out from exhaustion. The ghost kneeled down beside Danny as he tried to shake the boy awake but he wouldn't respond.
"Dammit" The ghost said to himself angry. He then turned towards House.
In a quick flash the black rings appeared again. A second later the man House had seen before was now standing before him.
"You're a doctor, right?" The man said turning to the gimped man.
House nodded numbly, his mind too rattled from the recent events to form any sentences. His head was spinning like crazy, it was a wonder that he didn't pass out.
"I need your help. We need to get this boy in a hospital bed as soon as possible." The man said pointing towards Danny.
House nodded again towards the man, staring at him confused.
'Is this man a ghost?' House thought puzzled. 'No, that can't be, he's completely solid…'
House tried to get up from his sitting position from the cafeteria floor before he just sat back down hissing in pain.
"Here, take my hand" The man said extending his arm out, though not very enthused to do so.
House looked sceptically at the hand, not trusting that it would be completely solid. The grouchy doctor also did not trust the hand in front of him.
'He's still a ghost.' House thought stubbornly.
"Come on" The man urged.
"How can I trust you?" House asked the man.
"Listen, I know why you wouldn't want to trust me, but Danny needs our help right now. You're the doctor, so let's go."
House thought it over and realized the man was right, he'd made this fair trying to help the kid, why stop now.
House took the man's hand, grunting in pain as he got lifted off the ground. He winced in pain the moment he put any weight on the leg. Searching his pocket instantly, House found his vicidin and took more than he's supposed too, not caring for the consequences.
The man picked up House's cane and passed it over to him.
"I have questions you know." House told the man plainly.
"Of course you do. And I will answer all of them, just be patient." The man explained.
"Now, where too?" The man asked, as he single handily picked up the passed out teenager bridal style.
"We need to find a stretcher, he can't be carried like that" House explained as he pointed out the bridal style that the man carried Danny in.
Suddenly a flat slab of pink energy appeared out nowhere floating above the ground.
'Looks like some sort of energy shield' House observed.
The man carefully laid the boy on the stretcher. Put him in the middle of the floating shield.
"Ok, let's get him to the ER to check him over" House told the man. He nodded and started to walk down the hall.
"I believe I haven't introduced myself. My name is Gregory House" He said to the man, not bothering to shake his hand since they were in too much of a rush. "What's yours?"
"My name is Vlad Masters"
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There will be only one-two more chapters that will act as a conclusion and epilogue to the story. So look forward to that!
It may take some time because of essays due in the next two weeks, then finals in April D:
Until next time,
Prophet =P