OK so. I'm going to be a year older in 4 days. Sarcastic Wooo* Going to be celebrateing at Universal Studios on Friday and working on my actual birthday. Sarcastic Wooo #2* BUT at least I'm still keeping up with this story XD. I think it's going quite well actually. I'm still trying to figure out some stuff like the new characters that are going to be introduced in a few more chapters (hint hint) but other than that, I;m still having fun writing this story. I hope you guys like this next chapter to. It's not really as exciting as the others but it needs to be there to explain some stuff and to set up the next chapter.
I woke with a start. I groaned as I lugged myself out of bed. My body protested and I wrapped an arm around my torso felling the bandages there. Huh, I don't remember putting those on. Oh well, there's a ghost somewhere that I need to take care of.
Changing into my ghost half, I looked around the room. What the hell?
"And where do you think you're going?" I heard a familiar voice ask. I whirled around intending to be ready for a fight but the movement jolted the wounds across my chest, and even worse my back. I wrapped my arms around myself hissing at the pain but keeping my eyes on Plasmius. He was in his ghost form, but he was docile.
His hands were crossed in front of him, and he had an eyebrow raised in my direction, but there was no tenseness to his body. He wasn't prepared to attack. I knew that he could change his posture in a moment's notice but to a ghost who often fought others willing to take his life, a moment was all that was needed.
So I didn't move. But I stood ready, glancing around the room every few seconds, looking for ways of escape if they were needed. My body was weak, that much I could feel, so I wouldn't last long if this came to a fight. But where in the heck was I?
The room was familiar, but my memory was fuzzy at best. It looked like a hospital room, but cozier, and it looked as if every machine in the hospital was stuffed into one large room rather than put in seperate ones like they usually do.
"Oh come now Little Badger, you should know I would not attack you while you were under my charge." Plasmius said, changing back into his human half and taking a step toward him. Under his charge? What? I tensed as Vlad reached out to me, as if he intended to lead me back to bed, and he stopped. Sighing he continued. "I promise you Daniel no harm will come to you here. Now let's get you back to the cot so I can re-dress your wounds."
My mind raced with the implications. What was the fruit loop talking about? I looked to him confused and took a step back as he took another forward. His eyebrows furrowed.
"What is it, Daniel?" Vlad asked. Sounding slightly irritated but still with a gentle voice. "I have given my word and you know that I do not take that lightly."
"What? Why-" I tried to ask him what was happening, but the words jumbled in my mouth. Realization seemed to dawn on him.
"What is the last thing you remember?" He asked me. My own brow furrowed in confusion but I thought back, because when a memory didn't come to me immediately, I got suspicious. Did he do something? I concentrated on my thoughts, letting them travel back to before.
For some reason my mind didn't want to. I hesitated, feeling like I wouldn't like the answer, like someone was pleading with me to not look. But I needed to know, so I continued on.
And like a sledgehammer to the chest the memories hit me.
That's why.
I slumped. The thoughts seemed far away, like they had happened years ago. But the dull ache in my chest flared all the same.
"You remember?" Vlad asked taking another slow step towards me. I did nothing to stop him, but nodded in confirmation. "Good." I glanced up confused at the relief in his voice. He explained, "I do not want you trying to go back there Daniel. It would have been dangerous. Not that I would have let you." I scoffed quietly at his words. He started to lead me back with a gentle hand on my shoulder. "But you would have put up quiet the fight, and in your current state you may have hurt yourself further. Not to mention you wouldn't believe me if I tried to explain what brought you here."
It was true. I would have never believed anyone, least of all Vlad, if they told me my parents would have tried to kill me even though they knew that me and my ghost were one in the same. Albeit they didn't believe me, they should have believed me. People like them, my genius parents, they should have known.
I sat down, and laid back as Vlad coaxed me into the possession. I noted that I was my human half again. When had I changed back? Letting the question slip by with a mental shrug, I watched Vlad as he got to work. He unwrapped my the bandages around my chest first, placing an ointment that was cool to the touch and left a tingling sensation as it was spread across my skin. I sighed, letting the ointment seep into my very soul. It felt amazing. My eyes fell closed and my head lolled back against the pillow.
"Better?" Vlad asked as he finished up, wrapping my back in new bandages a few minutes later. I sat up and nodded. "Good." He said. "Now I believe that some washing up is necessary before dinner." I grimace noting that I smelled like week old trash.
I glanced at the clock. It was about twenty minutes till seven. Was it really that late? Had I slept all day?
"You do not need any assistance do you?" Vlad asked almost uncomfortably.
"NO!" I said immediately wincing at my louder-than-intended voice. "No." I said again. "I-I'll be fine. Just… is there anything I could wear?" I asked him looking down at my tattered jeans. Also where is my shirt? I glanced around.
"Yes I will leave it on the bed for you." Vlad said starting to walk to the door. Now come, I will show you where you will be staying" I followed him out of the room, self consciously wrapping my arms around my bare stomach as we walked. Most of my torso was covered but my stomach had already healed the small amount of scares that were there, leaving nothing but tiny white lines that spiderwebbed across my skin. You could barely even tell now which ones were new and which ones were from past ghost fights, they were so well blended in.
We walked up a staircase and down a few halls before we reached a door that Vlad turned into. He didn't bother opening it, just phased through it like it wasn't there. I surprised at the action for a moment hesitating before I grabbed the handle and opened it the regular way, and stepping in.
The room was big. Like, the size of my living room back home big. There were couches set up in the middle, along with a few Lay Z boy chairs facing a coffee table. On the opposite wall there was a large flat screen TV mounted on a wall over a fireplace. The fireplace didn't look like an old fashioned ordinary one though. It was a stark white, modern looking one, with crystal looking pebbles all along the bottom, and flames seeming to ghost over them. Air vents at the top kept any smoke from lingering in the room.
The floor was a rich light brown wood, or it looked like it anyway, but I would find out later that it felt more like tile than it did wood. There was also a carpet laid out under the 'sitting area' as I dubbed it in my head.
Doors were on both sides of the room. And two glass sliding balcony doors laid opposite of the front door that we just came through, on either side of the fireplace. I gapped at the room. This is where he wants me to stay?
"No Daniel." Vlad said and my attention snapped to him "To the left is the bedroom, there is a master bathroom in there that includes a bath, shower, and of course a toilet and sink. It also contains a walk in closet that I'm sure we will have to make use of soon. On the right is another bathroom, but this one only contains a toilet and sink. A guest restroom so to speak, though I doubt that having guests over will be much of a problem for you. At least until you start school and make friends. IF you decide to bring them home that is."
I continued to gape at him. I get this entire thing? Walk-in closets? SCHOOL?
"Tomorrow, if you are feeling well enough perhaps we could go find some clothes for you. If you like that is. Otherwise I could always just send a servant to do the shopping, but your measurements will need to be taken either way. Would you like to go yourself Daniel? Or a servant?"
"Wha- I… I can go." I said trying to get control of all the frantic thoughts running through my head. It was just too much right now.
"Very well. I will make plans for us to go into town tomorrow. As I said the shower is through there." He pointed at the door that is supposedly my bedroom. "And dinner will be served in forty five minutes. I will have someone wait outside you door, in the hall, to lead you to the dinning room when you are ready. Please do not be late dear boy, for the staff will not be able to eat either until we are served. Ta ta for now Little Badger." And just like that he phased back out the door and left me alone.
I stood there for a good few minutes, still taking in my surroundings and letting everything he said sink in. My biggest concern being that he said I would be going to school. I REALLY didn't think that would be a good idea. I would have to talk to Vlad about that at dinner. Until then I'd just have to do as he said. Now let's see about that shower. I feel gross.
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~Dragon~
