Ch.4

"Sir, Sir….Sir please wake up."

"Ugh, what, what is it?"

"Well it's just that we've landed."

The groggy teenager turned to address the flight attendant, the young man was trying to blink the sleep out of his eyes and was suffering from major jet lag, he waved the attendee off, and gathered up his belongings before he exited the plane.

He stood at the end of the drawbridge stairs of the aircraft, and began to stroll to the main airport to collect the rest of his things at the baggage claim.

He casually strolled in through the airport doors and made off with his belongings, he was in kind of a rush because he's supposed to take a ferry to his final destination in half an hour. However, rushing would require losing his cool.

And rule number one of being cool, was to never lose it.

And he was making damn sure that wouldn't happen anytime soon.

Jade's island was about an hour or two away by boat, and he wanted to get there before nightfall. Being in the middle of the ocean at night did not sit well with Dave, neither did trying to navigate a uninhabited island by himself.

Well almost uninhabited island.

Now, there was Jade plus twelve obnoxious trolls on the island.

Any sane person probably would have avoided a visit like this like a germaphobe avoids a family reunion, but, like Rose had told him;"someone obssesed with looking cool probably h some serious mental issues..."

So if he was crazy for being cool, then he was the most asylum bred son of a bitch there was, and that's all there was to say on the matter.

Dave looked at the watch on his right arm, he had about twenty minutes before he had to board that boat to get to Jade's island. He was looking around the docks where he found what he was looking for; a older man by a an even older looking boat- the paint was peeling off and it creaked eerily as it rocked back an forth; bottom line it looked pretty unstable.

Dave heard a gruff harrumph, he looked up to see the old man eyeing him suspiciously. He hadn't realized he had been staring.

With a roll of his shoulders and turn of his head Dave gave the man the most nonchalant look he could give.

The old man's response to that was to give Dave a cold stare.

It lasted for a few seconds before Dave held out the ticket in his pocket for passage on the water vessel, the older man took the ticket out of his hand gingerly and then proceeded to board the boat. Dave followed close behind and dropped his bags on the deck of the boat. The two made eye contact once again before the man slowly walked up to the steering wheel. It wasn't long before the boat was traveling along the waves.

Dave sat down net to the right edge of the boat toward the back.

He texted Jade so she knew he would be there in a few hours, after that he sighed and put his head down, and again he was left with his thoughts. I had been a little while since he had talked with anyone really, so this trip was a good thing... maybe. He was still excited to see the trolls, but at the same time they all had went through the game. This relaxing trip could backfire in their faces real easily, he knew John had a real rough time adjusting, John had texted him late into the night for months before Rose had started assisting the troubled boy with his mental troubles. However it wasn't just John, Terezi he remembered had often came to him to talk about the nightmares she had about killing Vriska, and her mind being haunted constantly by the images of her friends corpses she had came across.

This and the issue of conflicting personalities was going to get in the way for sure.

*sigh*Oh who am I kidding, this trip is just a disaster waiting to happen...

"Hey kid."

Dave's head shot up, he looked over to the older man steering the boat. The he was looking in Dave's direction expectantly, his eyes devoid of any hostility it had held before.

"Why do you want to go to the island in the first place."

Dave didn't answer right away, he let the question sink in for a second before answering.

"You know... to see the sights...see more of the great world we live in, stuff like that.

"Hmm" the man hummed, "Well, if you see an old man much like myself over there tell him I said hello." And the conversation ended. Dave was then left to his thoughts on last time. Briefly he thought of John and Rose before falling asleep.

John fidgeted uncomfortably at the train station, he wasn't very used to traveling and even through all he had been through during Sburb he was still as awkward as he had always been.

He was to meet Rose in New York and she said her mother had a private jet that would drop them off at Jade's island. He was grateful that Rose's mom would give them such a privilege, but Rose told him to think nothing of it when they were on the phone with one another last.

He felt bad for bugging her so often with his own insecurities, and this trip didn't help, during the game they had set goals and powers and crazy abilities that helped them on their journeys, now the only real guide for anything was the book of life, and if he was honest with himself it scared him.

The train made its way into the station, as the other passengers got off and the conductor took the tickets of all boarding into the train. John's assigned seat was next to a window which was a good thing because being able to look at other things would take his mind of confusing things that made things a lot more confusing and more difficult to deal with.

It was night time so most people spent time reading or sleeping, but he spent it thinking about; how were the trolls going to interact with everyone else?, would the visit be a complete disaster?, would other trolls start coming to Earth?, would meeting with his friends again be awkward, or completely fine?, Would he still have his friends after this trip?

John gave a frustrated sigh, the window didn't help him at all with his confusing thoughts. Oh well, he was going to see Rose in the morning, Dave hadn't texted him since earlier that day, and Jade was probably busy with the trolls at this point.

The game had left a bitter taste in his mouth and there were a few loose ends that he knew needed to be tied up. John pulled his phone out of his pocket, he texted Dave a quick message before shutting it off, and tried getting in a comfortable position before falling asleep.

This was going to be one hell of a trip.

A/N: I need to upload more often, so yeah hope you enjoyed