CHAPTER 5: ALIEN ABDUCTION
That first hard summer, just as Danny finishes pre-school, becomes four years old, and while his mom and dad were working overtime fight ghost and building technology and inventions, Danny found a place away from disapproving eyes where a funky little halfa could be himself.
Danny changes into a ghost and flies away onto a steep hill. He looks around to see people, even his parents, nowhere to be seen. Danny wanted to tap dance, but his dad doesn't want him too and luckily he can dance where he can't be seen by him or his mom. Danny starts with one little foot, then the other. He jumps to the left and continues to dance. He was happy again and dances once more, hearing something inside him. 'Maybe this is my Heart Song!' Danny thought. He dances once more with a laugh.
He stops and sees something in front of him. It was a green Ghost Vulture with a Jewish cap on his head and red slits for eyes, looking like an elder but unlike Squidward and the other elders.
"Hey, what you doing here, flying boy?" The ghostly vulture said to Danny in a Jewish accent.
"Nothing," Danny answered, "What are you doing?"
Two vultures fly next to the other vulture, which are his minions. "Nothing," the boss vulture said, "Just dropped in for a little lunch."
"There's food?" Danny asked eagerly, "Here?"
The vultures chuckle a bit and come closer to Danny. "Leg or arm?" the second vulture said looking at Danny with a smirk.
"Oh, no, no, wait!" Danny cried realizing the vultures want to eat him, "Not me! I'm part human, part ghost!"
"Exactly," the Boss Vulture explained to Danny, "The flying boys and human boys, that's you, eat the food. The flying birds, that's me, peck the flying boy to death and eat the flying boy and the food. And lately, there ain't a lot of food." The vultures chomp their beaks, ready to peck Danny.
"This time I'm getting the juicy bits," the third vulture said.
"Me first!" the second vulture yelled out.
"Hey, you want a piece of me?"
"Hey, hey, hey!" the Boss Vulture slaps them with his wings, "I'm trying to think about lunch!"
"Wait!" Danny cried with the vultures looking at them, "Watch this!" Danny tap dances, hoping to impress the vultures and not eat him.
"Yeah, that's weird, all right," the Boss Vulture said seeing Danny tap dance, "Listen. For once, we're gonna do this civilized." The Boss Vulture stomps on Danny, holding the ghost boy with his talons. "Now, get in line…"
Danny was scared but saw something. On the Boss Vulture's left leg, it had a metal beeping ring around it. "Hey!" Danny spoke to him pointing at the device, "What's that on your leg?"
"What?" the Boss Vulture said looking at the metal ring, "You mean this little thing?"
"Oh no!" the second vulture moaned, "Don't start on him on that."
"Shut up!" the Boss Vulture cried slapping the second vulture, "The flying boy asked me a perceptive question. A question like that deserves an answer."
"Here we go," the third vulture said.
"I got two words for you," the Boss Vulture said to Danny, "'Alien Abduction.'"
His other vultures groan. "Oh you had to ask!" the second vulture said.
"Have mercy!" the third vulture said.
"Quiet!" the Boss Vulture cried and hits them again. He turns to Danny. "Now little buddy," he said to Danny, "There is something out there. Creatures. Not like us. Bigger fiercer, and smarter too. Ask me how I know."
"How?" Danny asked.
"Because I've been captured by them, that's how," the Boss Vulture answered.
"Unbelievable."
"What do you mean 'unbelievable'? It's true! I'm sitting on a rock, minding my own business when suddenly, they're onto me. These beings, big, ugly, and inhuman! Some of their skin color is green, some of them are a puddle or goo with robot suit, some are like squids that shows their large brains, and some are spineless! These nonhumans! They probe me. They tie me up. They strap me down. They take this needle and they stick it into me. And then, black out."
"Gosh," Danny said, seeming amazed by his story.
"I woke up and there's this--this thing on me," the Boss Vulture explained showing Danny the metal ring, "Every flying bird is dissing me, 'Hey, what's happening, metal leg?' It was humiliating!"
"And then what?"
"It was humiliating!" the Boss Vulture cried, "What more do you want?"
"They could have eaten you." Danny spoke.
"Yeah, yeah," the Boss Vulture agreed, "I guess my pitiful cries for mercy appeal to their better nature."
"Can I appeal to your better nature?" Danny asked to the vultures.
"Nice try, kid," the Boss Vulture said with a laugh, "But no." The vulture laugh and snap their beaks, about to peck Danny.
"No, no, no!" Danny cried. He flies away to escape but the Boss Vulture grabs him by the shoulders and flaps high into the air, about to drop Danny to his death, so they can eat him. "No!" Danny cried looking at the heights. Suddenly, Danny who still can't control his ghost powers, accidentally turns intangible and phases out of the Boss Vulture's grip.
"What the?" the Boss Vulture wondered and looked down to see that Danny was gone, "Where are you, flying boy?"
"Get back here!" the second vulture said.
"Yeah! Get back here!" the third vulture said. Unknown to them, Danny was invisible as the vultures can't see him. Still invisible, he hides underneath the steep hill. He hears the vultures fly away and talk to each other.
"Oh great! You let him get away, didn't you?"
"All your screwy alien talk!"
"Hey, I'm an abductee."
"Abduct this."
"Don't make me call Uncle Angie."
"Oh fine."
"Where you going? I'm an abductee."
"I don't care what you are, I'm hungry!"
"Would you like to hear our specials?"
"How about food? There's no food. How about human? There's no human."
"What are we gonna eat?"
Danny turns visible again and sees that the vultures were gone. He clutches to himself, shivers, and pants, feeling frightened from almost getting eaten. He decided never to go out on his own again, until he's old enough.
It's back to school, and the class was now a choir. They sang as Mrs. Puff conducts.
Class: There's a world where I can go
And tell my stories to
In my room
Danny was at the back of the class, watching them on a table. He sighs sadly. He looks out the window to see the clouds as he daydreams.
Paying no mind to his dancing heart, the kid saw out his school days at the back of the class, lost in his imaginings.
Now it's dark and I'm
As the class sings, Danny, with his hand on his head and his elbow on the table, looks at the window.
What fabulous worlds lay out there, far beyond the Earth?
I won't be afraid
Was there any place where one small halfa without a Heart Song could ever truly belong?
In my room
Danny smiles looking at the window and wondering about. He hoped one day, he will find his Heart Song and find somewhere where he can fit in.
-End of Chapter-
Poor Danny...what will happen next? Find out in the next chapter!