Phantom stopped Anya in the hallway the next day. "The strangest thing happened today," he said to her. He said that all he remembers is right before he came to school, Mr. Johnson asked him to do his chores and he did them. Right after that the serum wore off. "What happened to me yesterday anyway?" Phantom asked Anya who was trying to ignore him. "Nothing, now if you excuse me I have to get to class," she said quickly. She then dropped her books. Phantom helped her pick them up, but accidentally turned on her cell phone. The voice mail came on and did the conversation that happened the other day.
After the voice mail was done, Phantom looked at Anya. She was about to run off, but he quickly grabbed her arm. "Let go of me! You thing!" she yelled. She slapped him and ran off to class. One book fell when she made her exit: MAR.
Monday the next week, Anya walked past Phantom in the hall and just blurted out: "I still want to be friends. I don't care if you are a zombie or not. I just want everything back to normal. I promise that I'll keep your secret; yours, Ivan's, and Lilly's." Anya noticed that he actually is smiling a real smile, not a fake one but a real one. She now knew why Tom attacked Ivan in the lunchroom last week. Ivan was really Ian, and Lilly was really Loco. They both walked off to class.
In class today they were introduced to two new kids: Pike and Alan. Pike had gray colored hair that looked like most of it was in his black bandana that he was wearing. Alan had bluish colored hair and wore glasses. Pike's interesting fact was that he was a black belt in almost any kind of martial arts. And Alan liked spying and journeys. Phantom wasn't keeping his mouth shut when Pike said he was a black belt in martial arts. "I doubt you could beat me," he said. Anya looked at him with a shut-up look. "Oh really," Pike said, "after school you and me. Lets see whose better?" "Your on!" Phantom said. They both shook hands.
"Lades and Gentlemen, we have on this side of the gym: Tom! And on the other side we have new be student Pike!" Anya shouted out to the audience in the gym. "Ok guys, I don't want to see any funny business, so give us all you got. The person who is down after the count of three loses!" She asked if they understood and they said yes. "Lets get ready to fight!" After saying that, she ran over to Phantom. "Tom please don't kill this guy, ok? Just try to let him hit you every once and a while?" She whispered to him.
Once Anya got out of the way, they started fighting. Pike ran up trying to hit Tom, but he moved over to the side like he would do if anyone would try to hit him. Pike didn't have time to wonder what happened. Tom just then grabbed his arm and through him over to a bunch of equipment. Pike got up and snatched a pole that was in the pile and ran back over to Tom. He tried swinging it to nock him down, but Tom kept on getting out of the way. When Pike tried swinging toward his chest he leaned back. And when he tried to knock him over by tripping him, Tom jumped up onto the pole. "Is that the best you got?" Phantom said with an evil grin across his face. He jumped off the pole and landed a few feet back. "TOM!" yelled Anya. Oh yeah I'm trying to lay low thought the disappointed Phantom.
The next few times Phantom let Pike knock him down a few times. Anya walked out of the gym to get a drink from the bubbler, but then noticed Mr. and Mrs. Johnson talking to the principal. (They just got out of a meeting) She was going to go say hi but then remembered that Phantom and Pike were still fighting. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson don't know about Tom. I got to get him out of here! Thought Anya.
She ran back in there noticing that their fight had turned in to a bloody one. "Tom!!!" yelled Anya. "What?" he said trying to block one of Pike's attacks. "Your parents are here! So I recommend getting out of here quick!" Phantom had no idea what she was talking about at first, but then he remembered that they don't know his secret. He ran into Pike while doing a Phantom Canon. Luckily no one saw the fireball that came out of his hand, but it still sent Pike flying. When the audience was wondering what happened, Phantom grabbed Anya and quickly teleported out of the gym.
Principal Dakota came into the gym and wondered what all of the commotion was about. Pike got up and noticed that Tom was gone. How on earth did he do that?! Thought Pike.
"OWWW!!!!" yelled Phantom. "Hold still! This will be done faster if you stop squirming." Phantom had a black eye (luckily the one that no one sees), a bad cut on the side of his face (that was bleeding some blue liquid), and a bruise on his good arm. "I told you to let him win sometimes, not actually beat you up," Anya said while trying to stop the bleeding on his face. "The weird thing is that, it looked like he was going easy at first. But then he started fighting almost at the same level as me," Phantom said.
Anya ran off to the kitchen and came back with an ice pack and a piece of stake. "What's with the stake?" Phantom asked putting a band-aid on his face. "Put it on your eye," said Anya giving him the ice pack and stake. Phantom was confused about putting meat on his eye. "It helps with the swelling of the eye," Anya said moving his hair to one side, and putting the stake on it.
Just then the Johnson's came home. "Oh, Tom!" Mrs. Johnson said noticing the ice pack and bandages. She ran over to him and asked what happened. Anya lied saying she thought that Phantom was a burglar or something trying to take her. They didn't buy it. Mrs. Johnson looked at his eye and noticed that his cut on his face was still bleeding. "Tom, we have to get you to a doctor. That cut needs to be stitched up!" she said trying to get him up. But then she noticed that a weird shade of blue liquid was starting to drip down from the wound.
Anya noticed, she tried to tell Phantom by pointing to her face but he had no idea what she was trying to say. "Tom," said Mrs. Johnson touching the blue colored blood on his face, "is this blood?" Phantom now noticed that he was still bleeding. He quickly rubbed his sleeve against his face and said it was nothing. But by doing that the band-aid started falling off, showing a bluish colored cut on his face. Mrs. Johnson noticed the wound and so did Mr. Johnson.
It was too late to lie now, or Mr. and Mrs. Johnson would still be asking questions. Phantom sat back down, "Mr. Johnson…Mrs. Johnson…I need to tell you something."