"Dreams. Destiny."
The soft, calming presence is floating next to me again, speaking those words to me. I look at the blue light. I am afraid again. Those two words are repeated again to me. I look back at the blue light. It has now become blinding, but I can somehow look straight at it.
The presence beside me keeps repeating the two words.
"Dreams. Destiny."
I am nervous. What lies beyond that light?
Dreams. Destiny.
I hear a mixture of my own thoughts and another's.
Here goes everything.
I float forward...
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My first conscious memory was of floating on soft clouds. As I woke up more, I realized that clouds didn't make beeping noises. It also didn't smell like the antiseptics that hospitals normally used. I opened my eyes. I was staring at one of those whitewashed ceilings that are common to hospitals. I looked over towards the source of the beeping. I saw my heart rate monitor and respiratory monitor. Everything looked normal.
I sat up slowly. My room was a decent size. There was an extra bed next to mine which was separated by a thin sheet. Through it I saw Liz asleep. Betania was sleeping in cat form on the floor. On closer inspection I realized that this was the same room that Jazz had been in, only redecorated. I looked at the clock. 5:33 P.M. Good, I thought. I've only been out five hours.
I looked around for my jewelry, since it had been taken from me. I spotted them on the table next to my bed. I touched them gingerly for fear of having another attack. Nothing. I put the necklace on slowly, ready to rip it off and throw it across the room if needed. Again, nothing happened. Same with the rings. I steepled both my index fingers and began to think. My head was filled with so many questions that my head was swimming. What's going on? Am I being affected by the environment? Why only with the jewelry on? Am I going to die?
The last question was the main one on my mind. I really didn't want to die.
As I was worrying over this, the door opened. A man who I could only assume was a doctor stepped in.
"Ah, Mr. Verde. Nice to see you up finally."
"Thank you."
"How are you feeling?"
"Like I've been torn apart and sewn back together rather poorly."
"Ah." he wrote something down on his pad and then continued.
"I'm Doctor Perez and I was the one who examined you when you came in a week ago. Oh yes. You've been here a whole week. After a quick examination we could find only that you had suffered minor injuries. I'm here to ask you a couple questions. Now, have you had any of these attacks before?"
"Only once, and that was only a year ago. I don't understand in."
"Neither do I, son. Now, can you tell me what happened? Your friend there described what she saw. We need a report from you."
I told him what happened, excluding the glowing blue part. He took more notes, and then requested that I take a cat scan later. I thanked him and he left. I lay down again and continued to think. I was still tired, though so I dozed off.
I woke up an hour later. It was around 6:40. It was getting dark outside. I lay there with my eyes closed, absorbing the silence.
My daydreaming was cut short by the opening of the door. I opened my eyes a bit. Instead of a nurse or a doctor, I saw Jazz. I closed my eyes and began to breathe in normally. She came up to the side of the bed and began to scan me with a strange device. It beeped for a moment and then she shut it off.
"We were both wrong," she said. I wondered who she was talking to. As soon as I thought that, I realized who she was talking to. Sure enough, I saw Danny Phantom appear holding Sam and Tucker. They looked over at Liz and floated silently over.
"I'm still positive he's a ghost. When he fainted a year ago, Sam, Tucker and I saw him glowing for a second or two while his girlfriend ran to get the other kid to help. You know how Dad's inventions never work most of the time."
"True, but wasn't he glowing blue?"
"Yes he was, but color doesn't matter. Vlad—"
"Shh! I just remembered something. He listened to me tell the story that time when he and his friend saved me a year ago. He could be doing the same now. We need to be careful what we say."
I smiled and said, "Too late."
They started. I sat up and Liz did as well. I hadn't realized that she was listening as well, but I wasn't surprised. She had pulled that trick on me many times when we were much younger. That was where I had learned to do it. I looked back and winked at Liz. She winked back and smiled at me. I then looked back at them. Danny had pushed the other three behind him, a look on his face that told me he didn't trust me. I frowned. I was unsure why he distrusted me.
"What did I do? I know just as much as you."
"Too many coincidences, Morbius, if that is your real name."
"It is my real name. Why won't you believe me?"
"Why? My ghost sense tells me that you're a ghost. What other proof do I need?"
"I don't know what a "ghost sense" is, "I lied, "but couldn't it be wrong?"
"It never is," he replied.
Timmy chose that moment to walk in the door. He looked around, saw Danny Phantom and smiled.
"Danny Phantom! You're one of my favorite heroes! Can I have your autograph?"
Danny sighed. "Can it wait till later, kid?" I'm busy here. I think that he's a ghost."
"Ghost? He and Liz are my babysitters. I haven't noticed anything odd about them."
"Babysitters…" he trailed off. He looked back at me and Liz with a confused look in his eyes. I gave him the I told you so look. He looked back at me apologetically.
"What about the fact that we all saw you glowing blue?"
I rubbed my chin. I had seen the blue and knew that I hadn't seen any illusion, but I had to lead them off track, I knew.
"Maybe your eyes were playing tricks on you," I replied. They nodded in agreement.
I began to feel strange. I feared that another attack was coming, but it wasn't. I saw blue light in the room. I looked around for the source, fearing the worst. Finally, l looked down at myself. I was the source of the light.
"Morb…?" Liz said with concern in her voice. Everyone else was looking at me, eyes wide.
The lights in the room went out with a spark. The blue light was now more visible. By this time I was very frightened. I didn't know what to do. Everyone else was backing away from me. I got the feeling that either the room was shrinking or I was growing. I looked down. It was neither. I had begun to levitate.
The light intensified. My rings and necklace were the brightest of all. The brightness peaked for about a minute. I learned later from the others that it had gotten about as bright as the sun. I shut my eyes to block out the powerful light. I felt something flowing through me. I couldn't describe it then, and I can't describe it now. That is all that I can describe. Eventually I floated back down and landed on the floor.
When I looked at everyone else, I wondered how I was going to explain this to them. I heard someone gasp from behind me. I turned.
Cosmo, Wanda, Betania and Poof were floating over my bed in their fairy form, their frightened faces stark white.
Wow! Now what? And this is (I think) the end of all the bleeding.
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