Chapter 27
Danny POV
It was dark. I felt a cold, smooth surface on my back. Straps restraining my movements. The feeling of swaying on the spot.
I opened my eyes and saw the lab for their favorite experiment. I looked down from where I was hanging. A tank of blood blossom extract below me. I struggled against the restraints. The last time they did this to me, I almost went into complete organ failure. I looked down when I saw movement below. Brown was adding green power to the tank. Generously I might add. He must have felt that I was watching, he looked up to look at me.
"Ah, you're awake now. I know we have done this experiment before but this time, we are trying something new."
He grabbed a handful of dust and rubbed on my leg. It started to hurt as soon as it touched me. I started to move, trying to shake the dust off to no avail. The pain was gradually increasing.
"Painful isn't it, it took some time to find this, as it doesn't come from earth. Some miners found it in Peru. What is it called again? Ectoranium?"
The pain was unbearable, Brown got sick of my struggles and wiped it off. He walked away a short distance to grab a remote and walked back. With a push of a button, the chains I was hanging from moved and lowered me to be right next to Brown and the tank.
Brown grabbed a bucket as I blinked away the tears of pain. He smiled at me as he filled the bucket with the red and green liquid.
Without warning, he threw the contents of the bucket onto me. The pain was unbearable. It felt like as if my own skin was attacking me. I didn't dare open my eyes for fear of damaging them. I screamed until brown got sick of it and stuffed a dirty rag into my mouth.
I felt a prick in my neck through my pain. I begged clockwork for it to be an anesthetic. When I felt a burning spread out through my veins, I knew he had injected the solution into me. I opened my eyes to see that my veins were popping out in a bright red color. It started to become black around the edges of my eyesight. I saw Brown stick a scalpel into the solution and he was coming closer to me.
"NO!"
I woke up from my dream screaming no. It took me a while to register the fact that I was awake and then someone was talking to me. I looked to the right to see Ben and Rex sitting next to my bed with worried looks on their faces. Soon after, my door burst open and Noah and Caesar ran in their pajamas.
"What happened?! Is something wrong?"
It took me a while to answer but I did.
"Nothing, it, it was just a nightmare."
Ben and Rex looked worried but didn't press the matter. I started to get off the bed when I noticed the blankets and pillows on the floor.
"Did you two sleep here?"
"Yeah, we didn't want to leave you alone."
I started to get up to go to the bathroom to take a shower.
"Where are you going?"
"To take a shower."
"Do you want me to cut your hair first."
I noticed the hair that was sticking to my sweat and that was blocking my eyesight.
"Sure, in the same style please, just make it fast."
Ben quickly took me to the bathroom to cut my hair, and in 10 minutes, he was done. I helped him clean up and then slipped into the shower. As I was washing my hair. I saw a lot of brown and red colors go down the drain. Once I was done. I wrapped a towel around myself and went to the bathroom mirror. Using my hand, I wiped away all of the steam. What I saw shocked me.
Over half of my hair was white. It was a pure white like Ben's and Rex's but I had so much more than them. Upon closer inspection, my black hair had a mixture of dark red hair mixed into it, as my ghost form does. My face was pale like always, but it was thin and hollow. My eyes were sunken into its sockets and my cheeks were also on the same condition. Overall, it looked like I was doing some type of zombie cosplay.
I put on the clothes that were left for me and walked out. Ben and Rex were still there waiting for me. I looked down at the floor to see more blankets and pillows.
"Are you guys going to sleep here?"
When Ben and Rex answered yes, I kinda got frustrated.
"Just go back to your rooms, I'll be fine."
When they tried to argue against me, I told them to go back to their rooms again and they listened to me this time.
"Just promise you'll come to one of our rooms if you have another nightmare."
"I will be,now go back to sleep Ben, you too Rex."
Ben walked out along with Rex and closed the door behind them.
I walked over to my bed and got into the blankets. Ready to go back to sleep, hopefully without nightmares this time.
