21.

'Danny said he's going to save this world by healing it. How is he going to heal it?' Mino said thinking out loud. He was pacing for more than half an hour now when he suddenly snapped with his fingers.

'They're going to the heart of the planet, THAT'S IT!'

He quickly ran through the palace. I was surprised he knew where he was going. The place is like a labyrinth, everything looks alike.

Mino suddenly stopped before a door and when he opened it I saw a staircase that goes down. We went deep into the ground, in dark and scary tunnels. The stairs went on and on, it was like there was no ending.

But I was glad I wasn't alone now. Even though there is only one person walking, I'm still able to feel, hear and see everything. And right now I feel scared. Scared for this dark tunnel and scared for what's coming. While Mino was brainstorming where Danny and co were going, I was breaking my head for an idea to stop Mino. Looks like he found a solution and I didn't..

'I can feel that you're scared' Mino suddenly said after an hour of silence.

'Yeah so?'

'If it is any consolation, I'm going to kill you too after I've killed the others' he said enjoying himself

'Oh, I feel so much better now' I said sarcastic and rolled my eyes.

Mino chuckled and continued his way. I was just thinking it was taking very long now, we must have walked for miles, when I saw a little light deep inside the tunnel.

Mino saw it too and stopped for a moment. 'Get ready, we're almost there'

I swallowed hard and the nerves started to strike in. I still haven't got a plan to stop Mino! What am I going to do?

While last minute thoughts ran through my brain, we arrived at the light. It was a door, standing ajar. Mino pushed the door quietly and carefully open. And there they were: Harry, Dougie, Vicky and Danny.

'Tom?' Vicky asked. She was the first one to see us. Danny quickly turned around. First he looked at Vicky but his glace was then fixed on me.

'Tom?' he also asked. Now everyone was staring at me. 'What are you doing here?' Danny asked 'Didn't you promise to stay at the courtyard?'

'I know but I was so worried' Mino said faking

'How did you even know how to find his place or that this place even existed?' Harry said interrupting

'I errr.. I heard about it when Mino held me prisoner in my head' Mino lied

Now everyone was staring at me with frowning faces. I was glad they started to find it suspicious. Of course I never heard about this place!

Suddenly everyone turned their heads to Danny who was looking at the ground now. He took a deep breath and looked up with angry eyes to look in mine. A strike of fear hit me when I saw him like that. He was scary!

'Do it' Danny said determined. The rest nodded and before Mino could react he was being captivated. Harry held him the hardest because he is the strongest. Dougie and Vicky each stood on a side, ready to attack if necessary.

Both Mino and I asked ourselves what was going on. And I got an inch of hope that they found out that I wasn't me.

'You did your best.. Mino' Danny said and Mino, who had been struggling to get free, froze.

'How..' he started but Danny cut him off.

'How did I know?' he said with a half smile. 'Before Tom passed out I had a vision. It showed me how to save this planet but also how you held him hostage in his own body. When Tom passed out I told the guys about my vision and we came up with a plan to stop you and save this planet at the same time. So we played along but it was so obvious that Tom wasn't himself. When I told him I could tell him the plan because he had to stay behind your frustration got the upper hand and reacted in the wrong way. That's when I knew that my vision was right. So I told you that I was going to save this planet by healing it, it would have given you just enough information to eventually find out where we were heading but it also gave us the time we needed to start the procedure.'

'You.. knew? All this time you knew?'

'Yep, that's a killjoy isn't?' Danny said smiling and walked to us.

'You knew? Oh my god Danny! I knew that you should have seen a difference. You're a good actor I have to say but NEVER do that to me again! I was so scared and worried I was going to lose you again!' I said enthusiastic but then it hit me that he still couldn't hear a word I'm saying.

'Don't worry I won't do that to you ever again because it's never going to happen again' Danny said. Everyone stared at him. Danny just pointed at his head and said. 'I can hear thoughts if I want to remember? And I heard yours the whole time. I'm sorry I didn't do something sooner but I had to wait until the right moment and that's now.'

Danny took my head between his hands and Mino started struggling again. 'What are you going to do?' he asked panicky. But Danny ignored him and talked to me.

'See you soon' he said and closed his eyes. His hands started to glow. My head started to feel really light and I felt how Mino disappeared from my body.

I opened my eyes, it might sound ridiculous, but I was glad I was able to do that again.

Danny stood before me with a questioning face and I smiled warmly at him before jumping in his arms. We hugged and kissed for some time until we got interrupted.

'Why did you do that? That wasn't part of the plan!' Harry said

Danny sighed and let go of me. 'I know but I wanted to feel him before..'

'But now you're not going to have enough energy!' Harry said cutting him off

'Of course I do! Healing him didn't cost me that much energy!'

'What's going on?' I asked

'Danny wasn't supposed to heal you then. He was supposed to heal the planet and the planet would have healed you'

'I told you I wanted to see him, feel him before I give my energy to this planet!' Danny said angry

I didn't understand and looked confused at Danny but he just sighed and sat on the floor with his head buried between his knees.

'It's not certain that he's going to live afterwards' Dougie said passing me while he walked to Danny and hugged him.

'What do you mean? You're immortal!' I asked

'Yeah, but there is a difference between dying and giving your life away.'

'Then don't do it!'

'I have to'

'No Danny you don't..'

'Yes I do' he said cutting me off. 'It was my destiny all along to heal this planet, so that's what I'm going to do'

Determined Danny stood up and walked to a circle on the ground. It was just drawn on with chalk by them. It were all special symbols and characters and in the middle was a little circle drew on with red chalk.

'No don't!' I yelled and wanted to run to him to stop him but instead I was stopped by Harry. That really started to annoy me because he's way too strong for me to struggle with.

Danny looked at me with fear in his eyes. 'I love you' he said and then pushed his hand on the ground with unbelievable force. He pressed his eyes together and his hands started to glow.

The red circle now also started glowing and it spread out to the rest of the ground. I looked into the tunnel and saw how the light was continuing his way up.

10 minutes passed, we had to wait until every earth of the planet was lit up. We had to take cover ourselves because the light was too bright for our eyes.

But every time I peeked behind the wall where I was hiding I saw how Danny became weaker and weaker.

After half an hour we saw that the light was coming back from the tunnels, back to Danny. When the light disappeared completely Danny fell but Dougie raced to him and caught him in time.

He immediately checked his best friend's heartbeat and relaxed with a smile when he found one, so did the rest of us.

I ran to them and went through Danny's hair when suddenly the ground started to rumble.

'What's happening?' I asked

'We have to get out of here NOW' Harry yelled and took Danny over from Dougie. 'You take Tom out' he said to Dougie.

Dougie took me on his back and ran outside the tunnels to the palace where the ground wasn't rumbling. He went back and took Vicky with him then Danny and then Harry.

Not even a minute after we got out the tunnel started to break down. The passage was blocked.

'The planet chose to block the entrance to its heart so no one can corrupt it ever again.' Harry said

'The planet chose?' I asked frowning

'Yes Tom, earth lives'

I looked around, everywhere were people holding their heads. 'So... is it over?'

'It's finally over' Harry said and we all looked at the unconscious Danny in his arms.