Candy- I'm so sorry. I haven't had time to update the story yet. Well, I have a good reason to. Uh-huh-Nods head quickly- I was on camp vacation starting the 26th of June to July 1st. (It rocked by the way) and then, week later, when I was oh so tired to update this (dramatic music) I went to Hawaii with my friend for a whole 'nother week. It was until the 16th. At the airport...I bought the Harry Potter book and I've been reading it for a long while.
I hope you all aren't to disappointed in me. I sure am because I WAS THINKING ABOUT UPDATING FOR A LONG, LONG VERY LONG TIME. I swear. Really. But the long break has given me a long while to think about what really should happen. Even while I write this I'm not sure which I should update first. But what ever I decide to choose in the next like 5 seconds, I hope you enjoy and think it was all worth the long, long very long wait.
But I'm looking over the reviews for 'With One Roll Of The Dice' and I assure you it'll be that one. As you can see below. HA HA! For a couple reasons because it has like zip, nada, zero and almost a nothingness of reviews. HA! I'm just kidding. It has a lot for only two chapters and I'm proud of you all. You rule!
So, with out further to do...
I will answer your questions. HA!
Master-Of-Procrastination: Okay, we can take this one slowly. -Breaths in- Okay. Lets do this:
The name of the game hasn't been determined I guess yet. It might be used in this chapter, but it'll be at the spur of the moment and might have something to do with why Danny is on the cover. Hmm...The rules are simple. If you loose, then you die not making it out of the game. If they win, then they can go free and know never to use the game ever again. That's the hard part. One wrong move can be harmful. I don't think they're should be any point after life or ding. If you had to play for life or death, wouldn't you play your little heart out? LOL...there may be some tricks up my sleeves of what else to add to the board game though. And I do have plans on people finding out Danny's secret. But like in my last story, "What You mean To Me", the least expected person did and the may as well be with this one. You never know, or do you? xo;;
Finally, to you, I'm sorry. You asked me so many polite times to update soon and I'm sorry. Read the pathetic explanations over again and you might understand. If not..sorry agin. HA!
Worker12: Thanks. But not exactly a crossover. They're might be a few things that happen in the movie, but I haven't seen that thing in so long, it could be just coincidence. HA HA! But I'm very glad that you want to read more and I hope you continue.
Faunamon: Wow, let me just say first, cool user. I don't know why I like it. But it reminds me of cinnamon. Weird? Well, so are you! Ha ha! Just joking with you. But it's like cinnamon with fawn instead of cinn. You know? Fawnmn. A deer spice? Sad, but cute as a name. Anyways, hopefully you'll be saying 'FINALLY' when I update this. HA HA! I'm a loser, I know.. xo
RiverFox237: Thanks. Let me say, your review really caught my attention. Thanks. I meant to do a little drama and create the tension that something weird was going on, obviously duh. HA! But I have always imagined when I write this one as a movie also, so I hope it really fit together. No, your correct, The game isn't Juman-ji. Thanks. I was really into it when I wrote it because I knew you'd all want something while I took a long while vacation. I hope you think this one is as well written. I know who you are, silly!
ChiaDeDanny: Thanks! I'm glad it made it to your favorite list! And I'm glad you liked it! YAY ME! Sorry this review seems so short compared to the others. I'm truly sorry. Maybe if you have a longer review, young lady. HA! I'm just kidding. But I love getting reviews from you all. They totally rock!
VenusGal100: Sorry, it was so confusing. If you read over the first response to Master at the top, maybe you'll get it even more. I'm trying to make it less confusing as possible. Um, what's been going on is that Danny and his friends have just been sucked into a board game because Paulina rolled the wrong number on the dice for the game. Danny is now passed out in front of them all and the story will continue from there.
Squeaky The Wonder Mouse: I'm glad that your intrepid by this. Really glad because I haven't heard that word in a long while. I hope if you read this chapter you'll have made your decision because I really hope you'll like it. Thanks for reading.
Cakerut12: It's always nice to get reviews from you. Al of you, but you know what I mean. Yeah, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I did make up the rhymes. I'm glad you liked them. But to be honest it took me about five seconds for each. I didn't think they'd come across as good. LOL. They sure weren't for me. They're will be rhymes like that through the story so you can know what's going on. But only a few of those poems here and there. Ha, to find out what happened to Danny, you'll have to read the next chapter, but he isn't going to be completely safe through the story, neither are his friends. Dun dun dun. Well, I was at camp, then Hawaii. Then just being lazy. LOL. Please don't be too mad. I will be back...now. -evil laugh- I'm baaacckkk!
Sam Manson Rulez: Thanks! I'm glad you can't wait. Even I couldn't wait because I was so lazy and wanted to start typing for ya all. I'm glad it's a lot clearer now because I don' want you all to be confused while your reading. Wouldn't want that. LOL.
Emria: Thanks! I love the ending thing you added to your review. LOL. I think it's very cute. I will defiantly be crazy, but cool, I've already got down, don't you agree? (HA! I'm being sarcastic) I'm me! YAY! Or am I?
Marenda Coxy: Really? It was supposed to be like that b ut not a copy. The idea is being used everywhere now, notice? Like the new kids movie or something like it. But it's written by the author of Juman-ji, so whatever. But anyways, I'm glad you dig it!
Unlikely-To-Bear-It: Your computer is broken? That stinks. I hate that. Virus maybe? Thanks for pulling the cords to review though. I love hearing from you. Again, sorry to you it took so long for me to update, honestly. I've been really busy reading. LOL.
SetSuntaMew: Thank! I'm really glad you like it. I'm not sure I'm familiar with you. Have you ever reviewed on any of my other stories? I not, hi. I'm Candy. I always like the meet new people
Well, as you can see, just replying to all you has got my hands tired and took up a long of room.. So, I think its best to just start the new chapter.
Chapter 3:
Sam Manson rushed along side Tucker to her friend, lying face flat on the dirty ground. Paulina, in the background, muffled her voice low and yelped, staring at the sight of Danny's body, mangled with his hands ben awkwardly. "Oh no!" She whispered to her self. She had never responded to Danny. But as she watched his bod as it fringed slightly, she bit her lip, feeling a little more respect than she ever thought she'd have for him.
Dash winced. He played all the sports you could imagine, but when it came to aan injury, he couldn't handle it. His eyes, behind shut lids, his eyes crept about, thinking it was okay. Fenton, he told himself, was okay. There was not one splinter on his body...not a scratch.
But as Dash winced in the privateness of his eyes, forcing himself to believe there was nothing wrong with the kid he'd hurt everyday, Sam and Tucker had reached the body of their friend, the dice, clutched in his fist.
The minutes past and the crew hadn't muttered a word. Besides the constant nervous mutterings of Paulina, who had finally sat besides Sam, ignoring the fact that on school grounds she had made a rule never to come within ten feet of her. Keep your distance, she'd told herself, loser is contagious.
The sky started to calm down as the pale green color turned to a bright blue, like the normal sky. There were no clouds to be spotted although as the day seemed like, even trapped in a gam, it would get better. Tucker Foley, lay down on the ground, searching for the second dice.
"Danny?" Kwan heard a mutter from the goth's lips as he'd finished glancing about the jungle area. "Danny? You awake? Please wake up!"
There was a sudden moving motion and Danny muttered under his breath, "Paulina."
And at the mention of her name, the brunette teenager flicked her head in the direction of the ground on which he lay again. She grasped her thigh, nearing into his face and ignoring the newly found huffs from Sam in the corner.
"Ci, Danny?" She muttered, staring at the chest of the fourteen year old hero she'd not known was the same hero she'd fallen madly in love with.
A zapping noise filled the ears of the confused teens and as they grasped their ears to hide the sound, Danny's body lifted a tad and flopped hard back on to the ground, the dice in his hand spinning to the ground below.
And then they saw it.
The bright blue sky that had just seemed normal faded. It regained it pale green color and then spun darker green until it was glowing with envy of the color it had been. The board game in Tucker's arm's twitched and the marble was a dense black. It took no longer to notice the tiny purple card laying face down on the board's surface.
Tucker winced.
"Pick it up, Foley." Kwan said, biting his finger nails and cuticles. Tucker stalled, afraid to lift the paper in which told their fate. "Just do it!" Kwan screamed, letting go of his nails with his mouth, letting the hands drop to his sides like a doll.
Flood.
Was all it said. No rhyme or poem. Tucker's eyebrow lifted as he hear the roar of the skies and the cloud start to form. "Danny!" He cried, staring at his friend, lifeless on the jungle floor.
"We can't leave him!" Paulina shouted, her hair in her mouth due to his wind blowing it rapidly.
Sam stared at her friend. As secret crush and he moaned, Paulina's name floating in her ears as he said it over and over. She crossed her arms, not daring to move as the others hadn't either. Pshh, Paulina, she thought, what the hell is so great about her? She was only the prettiest girl in the whole school. That doesn't mean anything. Looks are deceiving, Danny, she'd told him. Looks are deceiving.
But his body struggled, paralyzed in sleep, he tried to get up. As if he was only half conscious to the world. Half conscious to their position. The storm got worse as Samantha Manson heard a wince from Kwan as a heavy raindrop hit hard on his head. "We have to find shelter!" He'd cried, pointing to a cave in the distance.
The cave as a little farther away. You could tell by the size it had appeared to be from their standing ground. Dash moaned, "It's more like half a mile, Kwan!"
"I know!" Valerie said, her eyes fixated on the entrance, "But we can make it. The worst way to die is drowning!" She screamed.
Ever since a little girl, Valerie had been scare of the water. She'd played in it. And she'd swam, but the fear was always in her mind. The sudden rush of pain you must have felt and the burst of your lungs, gasping for more. Her throat ached as she thought about it, but lessened as she took her very first and brave step towards the cave.
"I think you just have to leave him!" Somebody managed to say. "It's starting to flood already.
Paulina's name haunted Sam's mind.
And she turned away from Danny and walked closer to the cave.
"What are you doing?" Tucker said as he'd raced to get to his friend. "Danny will die!"
"He wants to be with Paulina!" She sapped, "Fine!" But Tucker noticed the look in her eyes change as she'd remembered the first time she'd met Danny. The flood in Sam's eyes had already begun.
"Move, Tuck!" She said with a regaining of confidence as she pushed him aside, not aware of the other trailing behind her as if they had all had a revelation about Danny. The wind kicked in more, blowing the hair into the teenagers face as they briskly brushed it away. Dash Baxter bent down to pick of the boy's legs in his arms, heaving him to the air.
"No!" Sam said, rushing forward and pushing his legs out of Dash's strong arms. "You'll drop him! Let me do it!" She said, with a sudden strength rush as she lifted him into both arms off the floor.
Paulina rolled her eyes and trailed on, almost confident that whatever had happened, Sam would never let go of Danny.
Dash led the way to the rotting cave now only half of one half mile ahead. The teenagers had been walking for almost five minutes now and they'd got there faster than they'd expected. The water had rose up to the hip now and Sam, being the shortest could barley touch. But the water made Danny lighter and she managed only to keep his head above the water.
Danny moaned Paulina's name again, but in the muffle of the water, Sam had smiled, thinking it sounded good on his lips. "It's okay, Danny. I will never drop you." She told him, lifting one hand out to stroke his raven hair. "Just try to help me with your head."
Paulina turned toward the unconscious Danny rapped in Sam's warm arms, "Is he heavy?" She wanted to know.
Sam just shook her head, watching nothing but Danny's eyes.
The first to near the cave was Valerie. She sighed as she got there, noticing as the water hadn't been as high. She sat down on the ground and started a wall with the few boulders laying around the tunnel.
"What's that gonna do?" Dash said, tossing his hands up as the wall reached his chin quickly.
"Uh, genius, It'll stop the water." Tucker said, lifting his glasses from his nose and wiping them with his tee-shirt.
Dash smiled slyly, "Well, if you haven't noticed the water's already up to out thigh's in here."
He turned around as he hear the scraping of sand. Paulina looked up like a guilty criminal and smiled, "It's smart right?"
"What is?" Sam said, not turning away from Danny's face.
"Digging a hole, duh." She said, looking back at her work. "The water. It'll rush out."
Sam smiled, laughing to herself as she shook her head back and forth, "I didn't think you could be that dumb."
"What the hell do you mean?" Paulina said, shooting up from her reserved spot on the ground. "If it wasn't for Tucker, Danny would be laying dead back there."
"I was going back." Sam said as she dropped Danny's body lightly on the sand and watched him mutter lightly to himself.
Paulina sighed, "He's your friend!"
"And yours too!"
"Eww!" Paulina said, "That loser isn't my friend."
But even as she said it, she bit down on her tongue, regretting it all. She wanted to eat her words as Sam's eyes darkened as she looked as if to commit a murder. And she had almost. Sam Manson's face was red with hatred as she leapt forward on top of the soaking wet girl.
It didn't last long. The outraged teenager pushed her off in one swing, sending Sam crashing into Danny, who moaned loudly.
"Watch it!" Paulina called as she eyed Danny, "You almost crushed him."
Sam huffed, her face redding as the rani pounded harder on the rocks around the cave. The flood was getting worse as it pounded harder on the cave rocks. "Fine!" Sam squealed, "Act you you damn care." Sam hustled to the nearest rock and took a seat.
"Who has the board game?" Kwan asked with a wince of fear.
"I do." Tucker slowly raised his hand.
"Well, I guess we just keep playing?" Kwan answered back, not looking at the African-American boy.
"I guess." Dash replied for Tucker.
"No!"Valerie said, sliding her hand slowly over the game's surface. "It says something in small prin under the fonts."
Tucker and the others squinted, staring hard at the small fonts under the bigger text. "It says something about Danny!" He chocked, staring at his unconscious friend. "Something about dice..."
"Rolling the right dice!" Valerie read over Tucker's small shoulder. "If we don't roll the right one, he won't wake up?"
Sam chocked and rushed over to her friends side.
"I'll roll it!" Valerie said, checking on the dirt for the needy dice.
Tucker winced, shutting his eyes slightly.
And Valerie, quickly lifted her hands in the air and tossed the dice in the corner of the cave.
Candy- There is a reason Danny muttered Paulina's name and it's not for romance. Although many inthe cave think it is since that's what they are all used to. Read and review. Thanks.