DannyMay 2019. Day Ten

"Water"

Team Phantom explored the cavern in silent wonder. The zone (in the Zone, yeah) where this island was had already been mapped, now they just needed to figure out if this place was not, mildly, or very dangerous.

(Any responsible adult (or older sister passing as one) would have told them it was a bad idea to do so so… unprotected.)

But as the teens walked further and further into the place, they could only stare in amazement, lanterns doing lazy arcs to take in more of the place.

"That over there definitely looks human to me." Tucker said, as his light pointed towards what was drawn -written?- in one of the cavern's walls. "Can't tell what or where, though…"

Sam came closer, a searching look on her face. After a few intense seconds, she sighed and looked away.

"Nope, no idea."

"Uhm, guys…" They turned towards Danny -the only one who could see in the dark without aid-, and lifted their gazes -and lanterns- to where Danny stared: a hole in the cavern's ceiling, with boiling water calmly bubbling inside it, not a drop being affected by gravity.

Sam seemed about to use some very colorful explectives, but then just rolled her eyes and took a few steps back, followed close by Tucker.

"Fine, whatever, a gravity-defying well; not the weirdest thing we've seen."

Danny approached, floating up to it and taking off a glove to stick his hand in there.

"Dude! Gross!" Tucker grimaced.

"Relax, guys! It's cold-"

The well swallowed him from the waist up, silencing him and leaving only his wriggling legs for his friends to cry at.

The water was cold, something he had found quite common in the Zone.

It was annoyingly weird, sinking in the well, in a way Danny was used to and still disliked very much, because he could feel himself falling even if he knew he was going up, and the time and the span space between reaching the end of the well was practically non-existent and eternal at once. Just another Ghost Zone oddity.

He broke to the surface, slowly instead of launched as he expected, and only to the point where he could see what was in the other side -which implied that between this place and the Zone there was barely a foot in water, since he could feel his waist down dry, but that didn't seem right, somehow.

When he opened his eyes, he was surprised to find himself staring at two martial artists in the middle of a fight.

One was an old man (older than Vlad, so, incredibly old) and the other a small boy that reminded Phantom of his Fenton self, the difference being the kid's darker skin and hard eyes.

Danny found himself tranfixed by the display of ruthless combat skills and the performance of the kid, seemingly keeping up with someone who was many times his age.

"Damian…" The old man said, and as one, they both turned and attemped to charge against Phantom, attempted being the key word, since Danny was yanked down, his green eyes shining under the surface of the water for just a second before disappearing.

Danny gasped as he crashed down on Sam, with whom he crashed down on Tucker; the three of them falling to the cavern's hard ground.

"What the hell, man?! What happened?" Tucker was the first to recover, sitting up and rubbing at his sore back.

"I… don0t really have any idea. But I think we should leave this place alone. C'mon, I'll catch you up in the Speedster."

Ok, just to be clear, yes, this is a crossover with DC, bevcause that's the only thing that came to my head. I just googled about the Lazarus Pit and said 'why the hell no', so, this came to existence.