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From last chapter

Danny looked at the writing once again why was he here? How did he escape? The name echoed in his mind.

Dark Dan.

11. MELTED

(Third person)

This was bad, very bad. Was he planning on taking over the whole world? Was he here for revenge? Danny thought so, he read it over again but it just made him feel more uneasy. The writing slowly started slowly fading away, and everything else around it started to melt around us.

Sam gasped, "What's happening?"

Danny wondered the same, but didn't know why, "I don't know, maybe after we find the clue it goes away?"

"I highly doubt that," Sam said dryly.

"Sorry man but I have to agree with her," Tucker said.

"It's alright, I was just saying," Danny replied.

"So, what do we do?" Dash asked. "Sit here and talk till it all goes away?"

"Um," Sam said, "I don't know."

Everyone looked at Danny, who took that by surprise, "I'm not the leader here."

"Um," Tucker said. "Yes you are."

"Since when?"

"Let's just start with you being leader!"

"Whoa, chill out," Danny said.

"Okay, sorry, so what do we do?" Tucker asked.

"Find Dark Dan?" Sam asked.

"Dark who?" Dash asked, completely confused.

"Nothing!" The three teens said in unison.

"Oh," Dash said. "I see how it is; you just want to play around, eh?"

"No Dash," Danny said. "It's a really, really, really, really long story."

"Is it bad?"

"Yes!" Everyone said together again.

"We need to stop doing that," Sam groaned.

"Agreed," Tucker said.

"Let's just go back to the school and see if everyone is alright," Danny announced.

Everyone agreed and headed to the school.

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When they got there, it was fine, but some things were damaged. The place looked deserted, papers were on the floor, lockers were bent, floors and ceilings were cracked, and even some of the school doors were beaten down. And it wasn't like this when they left.

"Whoa," Dash said. "Did someone start a party without me?"

Everyone glared at him and Dash shushed after that. They all walked through the halls the lights started to work again, but just barely. Water was pretty much everywhere, because of the ice.

Danny insisted they go different directions to find more clues faster, but he also felt worried for them and something would happen. He headed down his hall and looked for some clues.

Nothing so far.

Just papers, lockers, cracked floors same with ceilings, just everything was damaged. Like a stampede of horses came crashing into the school without anyone's permission.

Danny changed to his human form, just in case anyone just woke up and saw him and they wouldn't be like… well you know. He went to classroom to classroom, getting worried by the second; no one was in any classes. It was like they just froze then vanished. And Danny definitely hoped that wasn't the case, he came upon another classroom. Relief came to him as he saw a kid on the floor, maybe everyone did wake up and they made a run for it.

Danny ran to the boy who lied on the floor unconscious, he checked the boys heart beat and sighed as he felt one. He picked him up and right when he did the boys eyes snapped open.

He seemed confused for a minute then went to panic, "Red light, cold, dark, couldn't see, the world swallowed me."

Danny gave him a puzzled look, "It's alright kid you'll be fine."

"So cold…" The boy shivered.

Danny bit his lip, "Don't worry we'll be alright, where is everyone?"

The boy seemed to come back to his senses, "I don't know, all I saw was a shadow and everyone screamed. And I just blacked out."

"Did you see who it was?" Danny asked, thinking he knew already.

The boy nodded, "Yes, I think it was a ghost though. He laughed so evilly, I thought I would be scared for the rest of my life. But all I saw that he was wearing a black suit and had red eyes."

Danny's heart dropped, he just knew who it was, and he was scared to admit it. He looked at the boy who shivered slightly, he needed to get him out of here, "Come on, I'll protect you."

The boy gave him a warm smile and Danny pulled him up to his feet, "Thanks."

Danny smiled back, "Okay, don't let go of my hand no matter what."

The boy nodded in respond.

Danny started to head to the door when the ceiling gave out and blocked the door way, Danny jumped back and the boy hid behind him, scared. Danny was just about to go see how bad it was when a voice stopped him.

"You're too late," The voice said coldly. "You'll never beat me."

Danny growled, it was Dan, "What do you want?"

"It the voice," The boy whispered.

"The same one you heard before?" Danny asked, hopping the boy would say no. But there was no luck.

"Yes," The boy said. "The same one."

"Oh, the kids are fine," Dan sneered. "I'll kill them later."

"You'll have to go through me to get them," Danny said firmly.

"Such a child," Dan mocked.

"Do you know him?" the boy asked. "The voice?"

"Yes," Danny replied.

"Do you hear that?" Dan chuckled evilly. "The screams?"

Danny tried to avoid it but it scared him, it was about of kids screaming. Something was happening.

"Leave them alone," Danny demanded.

Dan scoffed, "Actually, I love to go and make them scream more, by killing them."

"No!" Danny shouted, but Dan was already gone.

"See?" The boy said. "He's mean."

Danny almost chuckled at that comment, but nothing happened. He was stuck, sure he could phase through, but the boy was with him. He didn't know what to do.

"What will happen?" The boy asked. "They just can't die what if my best friend was there?"

"Don't worry, we'll get them." Danny insisted.

"How, we can't get out," The boy said. "Please, what do we do?"

"We phase out," Danny said, he wished he closed his mouth at that part; he couldn't believe that he just did that. But lives are worth more than a secret, and Danny would do that to save them.

"What?" The boy asked.

"I said we phase out," Danny said.

"But only a ghost could do that, unless you have a suit that will allow you to phase through stuff," The kids said.

"I know," Danny said. "I know, just hold on to me and we'll get your friend alright?"

"What are you going to do?" The boy asked.

"Something stupid," Danny admitted. "Something I don't want to do."

"Then we shall wait, if it means that much to you, then we wait for help," The boy insisted.

"No," Danny chuckled softly. "Lives are more than a secret."

"Are you sure?"

"Positive."

"All right, let's go." The boy grabbed for Danny's hand again, and waited.

Danny sighed; did he really want to do this? He looked at the boy, "DO you promise to keep it a secret until we are all safe?

The boy smiled warmly, "I promise."

Danny sighed in relief, and then he closed his eyes and transformed.

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Guys I have excuses!

1 I had writers block.

2 I had two big projects.

3 I was really, really, really, really (500 'really' later) Really, busy!

4 my sister kept pushing me off of the computer chair and took it, it didn't really matter 'cause I had writers block.

ENJOY THE CLIFFY! (I know i'm mean today) *EmberMclain13 and GhostDog401 growls at me* Hehe, um...

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