Vlad stared at the glowing computer screen in rage. Why won't the blasted machine tell him where Daniel is?!
Calm down, breathe in, and breathe out. When the white-haired man calmed down he opens a blue eye to stare at the machine, whirling away to find Danny's ecto signature.
The child has been gone for the better part of a year, along with his ghostly persona. People were starting to connect the dots; he was doing everything in his power to keep anyone from knowing. If Daniel was here he would be screaming why.
The truth is that he really does care for the boy, although the heat of battle does make him say a few things that make him look down-right evil, not the malevolent being he is. He sincerely worries for the boy, he is powerful and kind, people might take advantage of that and heaven knows what they will do. Taking a deep breath he put his full attention at the glowing screen.
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Dyako (Danny) woke up with a start, sweat weakly dribbling off his forehead. Looking around the room he saw nobody except his faithful white fox. For the past 2 weeks he was here he spent most of time in his room after he was banned by his (surrogate) mom to venture outside for anything of the mischief category. Thus he spent a lot of time in his room, he also got to know his fox better.
Shikyo the fox liked anything except toast, which they both despised, she was a girl (don't ask him how he found that out, he'd shudder and tell you to go away) and she treated Danny like an equal, something that even mom and Toshiro were struggling with.
The reason for the sudden awaking was the series of nightmares he was having for the past week, he forgot most of them the moment he awoke, but he knew that they scared him.
The few things he remembered were thus, he was strapped to a cold, cold desk, (place of hurt/fear) he knew, men in white suits would hover over him and stick things into his naked body, he would not have even the slightest sliver of power to fight them off. They would strap a translucent face mask to his face and the world would fade. Everything before and after would be forgotten by him.
He felt that they were real, but definitely not memories, not his at least, though the things he felt could only be felt by him. Weird huh? (This is a bit a spoiler for an upcoming story, hur hur hur)
The nightmares kept him awake, he already has thick black circle around his eyes.
Not only do the nights torment him, but the day as well. He very often gets very dizzy, dark circles gather in his vision and sometimes he sees something in the corner of his eye, but as soon as he turns it's gone. It's keeping him paranoid.
He also can't seem to keep down food, if he ate a bowl of rice, he would vomit it out in the next 2 hours. He's only getting the smallest amount of nutrients from food, though thankfully, water stays down.
His head almost constantly throbs and his legs are starting to get numb.
He hasn't told anyone else except Shikyo, since he doesn't want to worry them and take more of their time. Lately though he was getting a bit more worried. It happened only three times but there where times when he fell to the ground and started shaking. Shikyo would always sprint to his side and when he looked at those big, green eyes he would go back to normal.
He hadn't noticed the green energy she gave off when she saw him, he never saw the green energy becoming tendrils and slowly snaking towards him, stopping at his head, and sinking in.
He didn't see that Shikyo got more and more worried when it happened.
At night he didn't notice his tattoos glowing a cold crimson colour. He did notice that each day he felt worse and worse and he saw his mom less and less.