I woke up in the closet after I don't know how long. Sam and Tucker were next to me looking around dizzily. "Whoa!" Sam said. "Major head rush." We stood up and listened at the door. It was surprisingly quiet so Tucker opened the door and peeked out.
"Um guys? Where are all the party guests?" We left the closet and looked around. Food was spread out in the dining room and everything looked ready for a party except that there were no guests. Sam looked around and mumbled something about déjà vu.
Mr. Manson walked by and said, "Sam, don't forget to get dressed in your party dress, oh and Tucker, please don't get your outfit dirty, the party is still a few hours away." He completely ignored me and continued walking. Sam looked more confused with each passing minute.
Her mom walked past and Sam said, "Mom didn't we already have the party? Why another one so soon?"
Mrs. Manson walked up to Sam and put her hand to Sam's forehead. "Sam honey, are you sick? We've been planning this party for ages. By the way don't forget to get dressed." She also ignored me and left.
Sam had a very nervous look on her face. She pointed at the golden belt wrapped around her waist and started talking. "Um Danny? If this belt is made out of Clockwork's time medallions do you think that maybe we went back in time by using the belt?" I blinked and thought about it. It did make sense and would explain why everyone was acting strange.
Tucker had a skeptical smile on his face. "You guys actually think that that belt is a miniature time machine?" Sam and I nodded. "If that were true then it would mean we could alter the time stream. Do you think we could go back in time and predict all of the sports events and get rich like they did in that one movie?"
I frowned at Tucker. I was actually thinking of far better uses for the time belt. Stopping a certain forty year old halfa from coming into existence for example…
"We should probably get back to the present." Sam said. "Um, any ideas how?"
Since Tucker was the one who loved technology, he figured it out first. "When we first used the time belt all three of us were touching it. Sam said that she just wanted to get away from the party so we went back in time before the party started." He pushed his glasses farther up on his nose in a very nerdy way. "We all just need to concentrate on going back to the present and poof we'll be there."
I had forgotten that I wanted to change something in the time stream and took one side of Sam's belt. I concentrated on going back to the present. Sam said, "I want to go back to the present. There's no place like home."
Tucker snickered and said "Aunty Em! Aunty Em!" Sam glared at him as he walked up and grabbed the belt. The feeling of cold water happened again and we opened our eyes to find ourselves in a spreading field. You could see flat horizon from every angle and it reminded me of that one movie with a girl named Dorothy and a twister.
A farmer came up to us and looked at us like we were aliens. "Welcome to Kansas strangers. What brings you to the middle of this here field?" We were silent until Sam politely asked what day it was. "Shoot honey if you city slickers have that bad a memory then I would wonder what those fumes are doing to your noggins." He walked away and never told us the date.
Sam was glaring at his back as he strolled away and then switched her glare to Tucker. "Can we try going home again without the smart remarks please?" Tucker shrugged and grabbed the belt. Sam tried stating the present again. "I want to go back to the present at my house please." My turn to grab the belt came and we disappeared again.
To all of our relief we found out that we were back in Amity Park at Sam's house. The party was still in full swing (if you can call a bunch of old rich people mumbling about the lack of waiters a party) so we snuck over to my house. My parents were still looking for the fake ghost in the basement and my sister was reading a book in her room. As soon as we got to my room and I phased us through the door, (I left a chair in front of it remember?) we talked about the possibilities of the belt.
"I still like my idea about getting rich the best." Tucker said.
"We could go back in time, and make sure that the first man never discovered meat! We could be an all vegetarian race!" Sam of course was the one who suggested this.
"That's silly. People need meat to survive. We could teach them not to eat plants!" Tucker and Sam were back to their old meat or veggie argument. I sighed and worked on my idea in my head.
After several very argument filled minutes they turned to ma and both said, "Danny, who do you think is right?"
Since I wasn't listening to anything they had just said I simply mumbled, "What?" they both interpreted that I was agreeing with each of them.
"See! Danny agrees with me. No he agrees with me!" they were saying the exact same thing at the exact same time and I was quickly getting board with the whole conversation. My idea for the time belt was perfected and if I didn't say it then I would probably forget it.
I finally cut in to their argument and said, "Could you two just let it die? We do have a strange ghost belt here and I think I know how to use it." They glared at each other and then looked at me with interest. I took a deep breath and explained my idea.
"We all know that Vlad Masters got his ghost powers through an accident in college right?" they nodded. "What if we go back to a little while before Vlad got his ghost powers and stopped the accident from happening? Vlad wouldn't get his ghost powers and I would have a lot less ghost to fight. At least half the time the ghost I'm fighting is working for Vlad."
Sam looked uncertain. "Danny, that's a pretty big change in your own life. If you think about all the things that could happen from that…"
I smiled at her and assured her that everything would be fine. Actually I wasn't so sure about it now. What if changing Vlad's life caused terrible changes in my life? Time travel was unsettling and I'm pretty sure that Clockwork knew what he was saying when he said that I wouldn't understand because I was fourteen.
"I think we should make sure we know exactly how it works first." Tucker said. "Let's see how far that thing can take us." We decided to go to somewhere not extremely far away and in the present time. It was Saturday so we decided to try Casper High.
It worked very well and we found ourselves standing in our empty homeroom. "You know what this means," Tucker joked, "We'll never be late for school again."
There was something about time traveling that disturbed me. We never met ourselves. What if we went back in time to a critical point in our lives and our past just disappears? My head grew dizzy at the thought. I insisted that we should fly back instead of using the time belt. Sam and Tucker protested but I refused. I was concerned about the way the seemed addicted to time traveling.
I carefully made sure that I was in between Tucker and Sam when we flew home. If all three of us touched then we would probably time travel again. When we landed back in my room I asked Sam for the belt back. She tugged at it as I moved the chair from in front of the door. Several minutes later she was still pulling fiercely on her belt.
"Danny!" she said nervously, "I can't get it off!"
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