I HAVE RETURNED!
There was a resistance in District 13? How was that even possible? It didn't even fully exist yet, the few rumors I'd heard were all about the construction of the Capitol's new district. I heard that it was progressing at a slower rate than expected, but that was about it. It finally hit me that it was fully possible that things were moving so much slower than expected because a resistance was building up more than the Capitol realized.
I shook myself out of my thoughts to focus on the new sparring match Fish had just entered. She was losing badly, but that wasn't much of a disappointment considering who she was up against. I honestly doubted all of us together could get the better of Fritz, much less just one on their own. I watched the two fight for a few minutes as Fish beat her record time before I saw it, at least I'm pretty sure I did.
Fritz went in for an uppercut that should have hit her jaw, but Fish pulled the same stunt I did a few times when bullies tried ganging up on me. Fish's chin flat out disappeared for a second. It was clear neither one of the fighters noticed it and as far as I could tell, Fish hadn't done it on purpose.
I caught sight of a slightly confused look on Asa's face from across the "arena" as Fish pulled her little stunt. Ben must have seen it too as he asked her what was wrong and I heard her reply.
"Fish flickered." I didn't have a clue what she was talking about, but it was clear Ben did.
"I thought you said you couldn't see anything around her."
"I usually can't, but her aura showed itself to me for the smallest fraction of a second when she dodged that punch." I didn't have time to question Asa's words before Fish found herself on the ground, finally losing to the master of masters.
Fritz helped the tired Fish up and back on her feet before Fritz called out to Jon. "Is there something special about Fish you forgot to mention again?" His tone sounded slightly peeved, but you could tell most of his question was in a teasing manner.
"Not as far as I'm aware." Jon went silent for a second before returning to the conversation. "Nope, there isn't anything I've forgotten in this world or the others."
"Then why, pray tell, did she manage to dodge several punches that should have been a sure shot?" Apparently, I wasn't the only one who noticed her little stunts though I must not have caught on to them all.
Fish cut in. "What are you two blabbering on about?"
"This." I saw Fritz tense ever so slightly as he spoke before suddenly turning and throwing a punch at Fish's shoulder. The girl barely had time to react and even though she was already moving away when his fist passed her shoulder, I knew there was no way she could have moved fast enough to dodge that punch. It wasn't until I saw a small piece of her shoulder reappear that a possibility finally hit me. But there was no way, right?
"Take your eye patch off, Fish." Fish looked confused, but obliged. When I saw what used to be the brown eye she'd lost in the Ghost Zone, I could hardly believe it was even possible. In place of her human eye, a new one was forming and while it didn't have a pupil yet, I could see a glowing, silver iris forming.
"Fish, did the Box Ghost hit you with a box he just had laying around or did he form it on the spot?" There was no possible way the Box Ghost had managed this, but the evidence I could see was disproving that.
"He formed it on the spot, why?" Wow...the things that idiot was capable of.
"What's going on Danny?" Sam spoke up from the sidelines. Apparently even she couldn't figure out where my train of thought was going.
"The box that took her eye was made from ectoplasm and she keeps doing that same thing I used to avoid a punch from a bully." Sam's eye's widened in understanding.
"You don't really think�" She trailed off, but I understood what she meant, she'd finally figured out what I had.
"Okay, I know we usually get on to you about being clueless, but I haven't got a clue what the hell you're going on about, so would you care to explain Danny?"
I couldn't help the slight chuckle that came before I answered Fish. "When old Boxy managed to take your eye out, he formed a box from ectoplasm and I think it left some residual plasma where your eye used to be. It looks like ectoplasm integrated itself into your blood system and has begun to reach into the rest of your body as well as it started to replicate." Good god, that sounded like the kind of explanation my mother would give. I knew way too much about the properties of ectoplasm, but most of it was out of necessity.
"In other words, you're slowly becoming half ghost and, among other things, a new eye is forming as a result of the transformation." Sam managed to simplify my explanation as Jon approached and seemed to study Fish's new silver colored eye for a few seconds before he disappeared all together.
"Where the hell did Jon go?" Fish exclaimed in surprised as Fritz just smirked.
"He'll be back in a minute. He forced himself to stay rooted to this reality for a few seconds to get a good look at your eye and now he's being physically thrown through the other realities to make up for the lost time. Even I don't fully get how it works, but apparently when he normally moves between worlds, it's just his conscious that gets thrown around, but when he forces himself to stay rooted in one world for a few seconds at a time, his physical body is transported as well." Well...that made almost no sense.
Jon reappeared just as Fritz finished his explanation. "You seem to piece together more and more every time I do that." Jon smirked in the direction of Fritz as he continued. "I highly doubt anyone will ever fully understand the concept, but Fritz can explain it better than anyone else. Don't bother trying to ask, you will only get more confused and I somehow doubt we have time to try any clear anything up. I think it's more important that we look at the unique circumstances we have working for us." I wasn't going to question Jon's judgment, I had already had one headache from trying to piece together something about his abilities, I didn't really care for another one.
Jon faced no objection to his proposition, so he just continued to speak, carrying on the longest dialogue I'd ever heard him speak. "I live in hundreds of realities, but I have never seen this set of circumstances. Never has there been both Danny and Dani on the side of District 13 and never have I seen Fish develop a ghost half. In the few other realities where I've seen her lose that eye, it has always been with a normal object never something made out of ectoplasm. What's happening here is vastly different from the other worlds."
"So in other words, you don't have a clue what the hell is going on with any of this." Ben had spoken up, though I couldn't tell if he was teasing or if he was a little irritated that our best source of information didn't know what was going on.
"As much as I hate to admit it, yes. I don't have a clue what's going to happen. Normally I can make predictions based on what has occurred in other worlds, but this time I cannot." You could tell this was unnerving him slightly, he was obviously used to having at least some idea as to what was going to happen.
This is a little later than I had planned on getting it out, but consider it a Christmas present. :)
On to my mini-rant about the computer virus...
Apperently, life has decided that I will always be a procrastinator. The one time I tried to start a project before the night before it was due, I got a computer virus. -_- What a way to encourage being a responsible student. :P
Anyway, comments and feedback are as welcome as always! :D
Invisible One
