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Chapter 4

The woods, snuggles and Vlad

Danny's Pov

Alagasia? Hmmm, never heard of it, but it is very familiar. Oh well, I'll think about it later.

"Anything else Clockwork? Is there any other warnings you have for us?" I asked.

Smiling ruefully, Clockwork said very pleasantly, "I just wanted to congratulate you for gaining such a wonderful mate."

Rahne and I blushed red enough to make a tomato jealous. Saying a quick farewell and thanks for the warning and complement, we headed out and to the portal where Wulf was waiting. Saying our goodbyes, we headed back through the portal to our home.

4 days later:

Sighing tiredly, I trudged my way into the kitchen. I don't understand how Rahne can be such a morning person during the breaks. It's spring break for Pariahs sake! Ooh, that rhymed!…wow I am tired, I wouldn't have given that a second thought otherwise. Anyway, as I sat down at the table I felt a hand rest on my shoulder. Looking up I see Rahne. Smiling at her happy face, I said, "How are you such a morning person on spring break?"

With a quiet laugh, she said, "I wanted to make breakfast for everyone. Can't you smell it?"

Taking a small sniff, I smelled the tantalizing aroma of pancakes eggs bacon and sausage. Growing wide-eyed and mouth-watering, I asked my mate incredulously, "How much did you make?"

"Enough to feed the entire institute." She answered simply while sitting down.

I gaped, "HOW did you find the time?"

She shrugged, "Multiple and Jean are very good cooks."

Closing my mouth I shook my head and started to laugh, low chuckles at first then a full-blown laugh.

"What?" she pouted.

Getting my breathing under control, although I still had to stifle chuckles, I asked simply, "What did you do to get Jamie to help out?"

Smiling widely she understood. You know me too well, Danny.

I know love, I know.

Leaning back, she showed me what she did to convince the duplicating boy:

:Flashback:

Rahne's POV

Walking towards the room that Jamie shared with iceman, she knocked quietly. Luckily, iceman was the one who answered, "What is it Rahne? It's too early."

"Is Jamie in there?" I asked.

"No, he's in the bathroom, had too much soda last night." He said tiredly.

"Good, I need your help to convince him to help me make Breakfast. I already got Jean to help." I said back in relief.

"Alright, what do you want me to do?"

:End Flashback:

Danny's POV

Smiling in mirth, I asked her, "What did you do?"

Grinning toothily, she stated simply, "Did you hear the explosions and screams earlier?"

Pausing, I said with a growl, "That woke me up."

"Oops." She said sheepishly, "I was going to wake you up with a kiss, you know."

Grinning, I leaned forward and captured her lips in a passionate kiss. Just because I'm awake doesn't mean you can't kiss me. She was too into the kiss to answer.

Parting when we needed to breathe, I got up and pulled Rahne to the kitchen to eat.

After eating and a good deal of conversation with multiple and Jean and after many of the students from the institute entering for breakfast; hank, kitty and the professor walked/rolled in. kitty sat down across from Rahne, the professor rolled to the end of the table and beast stood off to the side. The professor spoke up after the three ate, "I have an announcement to make." He continued when everyone looked his way, "Mr. McCoy is willing to take those of you who wish to, on a field trip to the forest. It will be a nice retreat for everyone."

I noted that several students (sunspot, Rahne, kitty and bobby) perked up at this, myself included, and others (Evan, multiple, ray, and cannonball) groaned. I just rolled my eyes at their antics. I looked at beast when he cleared his throat, "This is not mandatory, it is completely by your choice."

That earned some cheers and sighs of relief. Turning to the Prof. I asked him, "Where can I sign up?" Rahne, bobby and sunspot nodded enthusiastically and kitty said, "Like Yah, What he said."

The next day after a lot of packing:

We landed the X-copter in a clearing in the woods, hopping out and helping Rahne down, I went over and helped Roberto unload the cargo. Putting our backpacks off to the side, everyone who had come (kitty, myself, Rahne, Roberto, Bobby and Amara) put large branches filled with leaves over the copter to hide it.

Grabbing our packs, we headed out to the campsite that beast had chosen previously. As we walked, kitty and Roberto talked the same with Amara and Bobby. Rahne and I, however just walked side-by-side, hand-in-hand. We were silent to all the others, but we were truly expanding upon our psychic link that we have. When we finally got to the campsite and had set up, we all started doing what we wanted. Beast was climbing and swinging through the trees, Amara and Bobby suggested that we go swimming in the nearby lake. Grabbing on my swimsuit, and enjoying watching Rahne put on hers, I left for the lake with my towel while holding hands with Rahne. Putting out my towel I laid down to relax and get warm from the sun. closing my eyes I started to drift off when I felt Rahne straddle my waist. Opening my eyes, I saw her snuggle down into my chest with her legs pulled up to my sides. Smiling softly I wrapped an arm around her body and looked up towards the sky to watch the clouds. Soon, I felt a small nudge on the top of my head. Looking that way, I saw kitty's smiling face holding Rahne's towel, folded up into the shape of a pillow. Lifting my head, kitty placed it underneath. Settling back down, kitty said, "Since you two lovebirds are snuggling, I thought you like would be more comfortable with a pillow."

Smiling my thanks, I settled down again and relaxed. Kissing the top of my mates head I closed my eyes to relax. I must have fallen asleep, because the next thing I knew was that the sun was up high in the sky, instead of closer to early morning and I was being kissed awake by Rahne. Smiling softly, she said, "It's time for lunch sweetie. Come on."

Standing up, I picked up the towels and walked with Rahne back to camp. When we arrived I saw hank at the fire pit with a grill over it, cooking hot dogs and hamburgers. Feeling my stomach rumble, I went over to the tent I shared with Rahne and changed into my normal attire.

When I got out, I saw that the food is nearly finished. Going over to Rahne, I sat down in the chair that I had brought that was next to her. I only got up to get my food and help out bobby when he almost spilt his food when kitty fazed from the ground in front of him.

After lunch, everyone went and did their own things. I grabbed Rahne's arm, and motioned to the treetops. Shall we?

Smiling happily, we shall! I leaped to the nearest tree trunk and extended my talons. Climbing up I turned my head to glimpse the final stages for Rahne's transformation to her werewolf form. Leaping to the same tree, she dug her claws into the bark and clambered after me with an excited look on her face. Slowing my climbing, I waited for her to catch up. When she did, we climbed up at the same pace and got onto the thicker branches to keep balance easier. Looking around, I noticed bobby relaxing by a nearby tree with many branches easily within my reach of him.

Looking at Rahne, I shushed her and pointed at bobby. Grinning, she nodded and motioned for me to go. Creeping along the tree and tree branches was easy. So was getting into position. It was amazing how bobby hadn't yet noticed me. Looking at Rahne, I saw her grin at me. Smiling back with a mental kiss, (Hey! I hadn't done that yet!) I crouched down close to him and wrapped my tail around the branch for balance. Swinging down I ended up in front of bobby shouting BOO! Bobby screamed and fell to the side as I climbed away as fast as I could to Rahne, where upon reaching her; we looked at each other, then the fuming Bobby, then back at each other where we finally split our sides laughing.

When we got under control, and kept our mirth to a big grin on our faces, we climbed to a tree near our tent and looked for a suitable place to sit. We eventually found a very thick branch above our tent just to the side and settled down on it. I was leaning against the trunk with my tail wrapped around the branch with Rahne sitting on my lap while leaning against my upright legs.

We just talked and laughed at some of the pictures that were sent to each other via our mental link. Soon we settled to just snuggling and some teasing of the others by shouting and letting them try to figure out where we are. It was very amusing. Eventually, Beast came and settled on a branch a little ways away. "Hey lovebirds how are you?" he asked after a comfortable silence.

Rahne and I answered simultaneously, "We are happy."

I continued, "I am amused at their reactions to our yelling."

Rahne grinned hysterically and said with a suppressed laugh, "The one where we screamed about looking for my shirt was very amusing, especially when Danny called about finding my bra on top of Sunspots tent."

"I heard that one and their reactions," Beast said with a humored laugh, "That was not my favorite though. My favorite was when you were screaming about losing quote 'My lucky knickers' unquote. Now that was funny to see the freaked out expressions. I especially enjoyed seeing bobby start to go into a freak out state and chattered about nonsense."

With a chuckle, I said, "That was still not as good as when sunspot himself ran to his tent to see if we left any 'other' underwear on his tent."

Beast laughed at that, "but still, despite how funny their faces were, can you yell something different? I saw some shadier people due east a couple of miles who were leering at each other in a way I didn't like. I think one of them heard your shouts."

Pausing I nodded along with Rahne and said, "OK. I think we can do something along the lines of finding a bear or something equally as scary."

Beast chuckled, "That is something I would pay to see."

At that all three of us laughed heartily. Turning to us again, he said, "Well, I'll give the first roar, Alright?"

Our unison grins are all the answer he needed. After that, there was a lot of tormenting our friends. We only stopped when dinner rolled around. After dodging attacks and rants from the others we ate dinner, though the others still glared at us and beast for the jokes. I just kept my cheeky grin on.

After dinner, we had the usual campfire routine for campouts. Bobby even initiated a Campfire song song from spongebob! That was fun! After the song, it was scary story time. Needless to say, I had the scariest, especially when I told the story of my first encounter with undergrowth and Fright Knight. I thought I saw bobby soil himself when I mentioned the horrors I could see just waiting to be released from the green beam being unleashed from the sword. The final tale of the evening was when I fought Pariah dark.

After all that fun (it was very fun for Rahne and I at least) we went to bed.

The next day was the day we went home. After a lot of messing with the others and packing up and out, we headed home. As we went back to the institute, I felt my gaze continually drawn back to the forest. I don't know why but I felt more at home there than anywhere else.

When the institute came into view an hour later, I suddenly got a very bad felling. Rahne looked at me nervously, sharing my concern. Taking a risk, I turned on my inducer. After landing, I pressed the call button on it to get Kurt down here. When he BAMFED in, I motioned to Rahne, myself and our bags. Nodding silently, he grabbed our arms securely and wrapped his tail through the top loops on the tops of the bags. When we appeared in the correct room, Kurt released both of us and left in a ring of smoke. Looking at each other, I asked nervously, "Did you get a bad feeling like me?"

At her nod, I sighed and said, "Better check the professor then huh?"

"Yeah… do you think it's Vlad? He is still after you, you know." She asked apprehensively. I caught the silent I don't want you to leave that she sent out. Don't worry my love, I am not going anywhere.

Heading out into the hall, we went to the professor's office. As we approached the office door, we heard extensive arguing, one voice was the professors, and the other is a voice that I hoped that I would never hear again. "Vlad." I whispered in sudden anger, both vocal and mental.

Marching to the door, I yanked it open suddenly, startling the occupants into silence. Looking at Vlad, I glared with more vehemence than seen in an enraged dragon. Either the fruitloop didn't notice the glare or didn't care, because he smiled triumphantly and positively purred with a sickly sweet voice, "Ahh, Daniel. How are you this fine evening?"

Not lessening my glare, I growled in a very threatening tone, "Cut the crap, Plasmius. Why are you here? You should already know that I am never coming with you."

He frowned slightly, and growled dangerously, "Daniel, I would not test me, if I were you."

Smiling in a way that would make Pariah Dark nervous, I removed my inducer and growled in a very threatening tone, "Do not test me Plasmius, I can and will neuter you… or maybe disembowel you, I need to decide." I spoke the last part with a thoughtful look on my face. I felt Rahne shudder slightly in fear across our link. I quickly figured out that it was fear of actually seeing it and not because of it.

Focusing back on Vlad, I smirked when I saw the fearful look in his eye. He shook it off and growled in a conversational manner, "Daniel, you will come with me or else. I will use all of my resources to get you to come, even if it means telling the GIW…" he let that last threat hang in the air.

I merely smirked and motioned to the professor. Taking up his cue, he used his mind and told Vlad something. From the way Vlad's expression became angry with a hint of fear, I figured that it was a nasty warning. I also derived from the professor's expression, he wasn't happy either.

Vlad glared at me and straightened his back. "I would watch yourself Daniel, I am not finished with you." He threatened sinisterly before vanishing in a swirl of pink mist.

A/N I am not sure if that classifies as a cliffhanger or not but… oh well. Anyway, I want to ask of your opinion of something. Should I bring in the GIW or not? I want to know our opinion and any ideas you have on that. So see you next time.

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