WAZZUP?! Hey-o! It's me again! I bring you chapter 17! Whew, this is the longest story I've ever written, no joke. I hope I can improve and make longer chapters one day!
PsychicEevee0103: I didn't think they fit last chapter, but more will come! I promise you! :D
Shelby-The-Red-Mew: Dan will make an appearance, don't doubt it!
princessbinas: Hmm… maybe, maybe not… I don't think Maddie deserves Danny in this fanfiction, so I doubt it'll happen.
Turtledude83: Why, thank you my friend!
Let jump right into the chapter, why the crud not?
Danny had been awake for an hour before anyone else had even opened their eyes. He was pacing around the room, literally making no noise whatsoever.
Cujo was the second to wake up, making a loud, doggish yawn. "G'morning Master Danny…" he murmured tiredly.
"Morning," he replied, not missing a beat. He sighed and walked over to his dog, with a small smile.
Cujo's head cocked to the side in slight concern. "Are you okay?"
The teen ran a hand through his raven bangs. "I'm just worried about Him. I mean, I just have a bad feeling about the whole 'humans in the Zone' thing, they aren't meant to be here."
Cujo nodded in understanding. He opened his mouth to reply, but was cut of by the other ghost. "Mia amiko!" he thundered, running over to Danny and licked him.
He laughed, but then realization washed over his face. "Estas tempo por veki aliuloj. Ho, knabo." It's time to wake up everybody else. Oh, boy.
"Tempo?" Time?
"Seven o'clock, Wulf," Danny replied. He put a finger up to his chin in thought. "How should I do this…?" he mused to himself, before smirking evilly. He brought out his ice core and dropped the temperature drastically, the two other ghosts not noticing.
The teen saw people start to shiver, and some already woke up. After about ten seconds, everybody had woken up. He quickly absorbed the cold back into his core, and clapped loudly to get everyone's attention. "Listen up, people. It's seven o'clock right now, about to become 7:01." He grinned cheekily at their expressions. "So Wulf is going to make the portal to the Far Frozen, and yes," he rolled his eyes, "they have food."
"How'd you know what I was going to ask?!" called Mikey.
"Me too!" Nathan exclaimed.
"Same here," Kwan muttered.
Danny smirked. "It's obvious. You're all pretty much rubbing your stomachs right now, and I can hear some growling."
He saw Dash in the back blush, he was the one with the loudest growling stomach. He quickly glared at Danny, who just smiled and waved back, making the jock fume.
"Preta por la portalo, Wulf?" Ready for the portal, Wulf? Danny asked in Esperanto, making Wulf nod in eagerness.
He raised a paw, and his claws came out. "W-Wait, aren't wolfs p-part of the d-dog family? How does he have r-retractable claws?" Mikey stuttered.
Danny shrugged. "Beats me. Let's go, everyone!" His eyes scanned everyone, before frowning at Maddie. "If you can, try not to reach for your guns here, alright?"
Maddie looked at the halfa in shock. Her hand was barely even skimming her ecto-gun! How had he even seen her to try pull it out?! The huntress reluctantly put her hands to her sides, though still weary of the wolf.
Wulf's claws started to glow green, but they suddenly fizzed out. His eyes narrowed in suspicion, and he conentrated harder. This time, the claws barely even glowed. He shook his hand in exasperation, before turning to Danny and shrugging. "Mi ne uzis miajn ungojn ekde Clockwork korektitaj, do eble gxi estas pro la medikamento li uzis. Mi bedaŭras amiko, mi ne povas fari portalo." I have not used my claws since Clockwork fixed them, so maybe it is because of the medicine he used. I'm sorry friend, I can't make a portal.
Danny nodded in sympathy, before sighing. "Mi supozas ke ni devos iri, kiu estos ĉirkaŭ unu tago. Volas veni kun ni, Wulf?" I guess we'll have to walk, which will be about a day. Want to come with us, Wulf?
The wolf shook his head. "Mi havas multon por fari, kiel ekzemple akiri Walker sur mia dorso. Sekura vojaĝoj, mia amiko." I have many things to do, such as get Walker off my back. Safe travels, my friend.
With that, the ghost gave a smile and phased out of his cave, leaving the humans (mostly human, at least) in the dust.
Danny turned to his half class, which still looked at the halfa in shock. "Geez, it looks like you people have never seen anybody ever speak a different language." He rolled his eyes.
Mikey surprising spoke up, and raised his hand. "Well, I'm sure we have all heard Paulina speak Spanish," cue the nods, "and a lot of the nerds acutally speak Esperanto, but only know a few words, or even sentences. But actually full out speak it! How is that even possible?! I only made out a few words, like 'friend' and 'safe'. How do you know it?"
"I grew up with it, just like Latin, which you all heard earlier in class yesterday." Danny explained boredly. "Those are the only two languages I know, by the way."
Everybody stayed silent, so Danny continued. "I'm sure that you people are wondering what's going on. The thing is, Wulf is pretty powerless right now," he jabbed a thumb behind him to point to the wall the ghost phased through, "so we'll have to walk." Groans, groans, and more groans. "The good news is that the walk is a day-ish, the only concern being food. I can last a long time without food, for unknown reasons of course, but I'm sure you guys need some quickly." He suddenly started pacing. "If only we had a portal, then I could send Cujo to find some, but then again, we wouldn't know where or when he would end up."
"Mr. Work." Lancer spoke.
"Still, I don't know if Cujo needs any food at the moment, and I probably have some dog treats in my pockets or something.
"Mr. Work!"
"Maybe they can last long enough so we didn't have to get food, and get to Frostbite's fast enough. But who knows the last time they ate, it could have been-"
"DANNY!" Sam yelled.
"What?" he asked, looking at his friend.
Sam sighed, but grinned nonetheless. "I'm pretty sure we can live a small day without food, but a lot of people brought bags with them, correct?"
Mikey put his hand up shyly, making Danny raise an eyebrow. "You don't have to do that, you know."
The redhead blushed. "I brought a few chip bags, about four. I promised Nathan that I would share two with him."
"That's good, does anybody have anything else?" asked Cujo, but then bowed his head, realizing that no one could hear him.
Danny looked at his dog in sympathy before literally quoting the dog. "That's good, does anybody have anything else?" he gave a barely noticable grin to his dog, who in return, smiled back.
"I have two apples in my backpack!" Kwan exclaimed, patting his bag as if to prove it.
Dash and Paulina looked two different ways, finding the cave's walls suddenly very interesting. They didn't have anything. Neither did Lancer or Maddie.
Valerie was next. "I had a homepacked lunch, but some got squished, namely the sandwich and strawberries." She put down her red backpack and rummaged through it. She soon brought out a paper bag, and pulled out a small container with smushed strawberries, the same for a sandwich, an orange that surprisingly didn't get damaged, and a water bottle. "Here's all the stuff I have."
"I think we'll be okay," Sam smiled to Danny.
"Valerie, can you put the strawberries and sandwich in the same container?" She complied. "Cujo can eat these, is that okay with everyone?"
"No one will eat that junk, only a mutt would…" Paulina muttered under her breath.
"Excuse me, Paulina, but my dog means the world to me. If you so much as even try to be rude to him, I'll double the pain that Dash was in, except to you." Danny growled in rage.
She scoffed. "Yeah right, loser. I'm pretty, popular, rich-"
"Shallow." Sam offered with a smirk.
"Right, shallow-" the cut herself off with a blink, before glaring at the goth. "Hey! Who do you think you are, tricking me like that?!"
"Someone with more intellect?" the halfa grinned.
"Exactly!" the Latina shouted.
Blink blink.
"Seriously?!"
Mr. Lancer cleared his throat, getting the teens' attention. "Enough of that, who will carry the food?"
"I will," Sam volunteered. She shrugged when everybody looked at her. "Why not?" Nobody responded. "Thought so." Danny handed her the food bag.
"Okay, let's move out!" Danny grabbed everyone's attention by shouting. He led them out of a cave and down a path to the right, which was followed by thick, glowing green rocks. He took the lead, much to Maddie's annoyance.
MY OLD FRIEND WAS A LINEBREAK WRITER, BACK IN HIGH SCHOOL!
"I'm tired~!" Paulina groaned. "How long have we been walking for? It feels like hours!"
Danny rolled his eyes. "Thirty-eight seconds, and if we don't keep this pace up, we'll never make it by the end of the day, so we'll have to walk tomorrow as well."
"But my feet hurt, and the path is so long and bumpy and weird looking and-"
"Shut up!" Almost everybody yelled, not including Maddie and Lancer.
"Maybe you should have thought of not wearing high heels for school."
"Nobody needed your input, Manson!"
Danny was silently screaming in his head. Quit it! A voice suddenly erupted in his mind. I can hear that too, you know!
Sorry Cujo… Danny sent back, giving an apologetic smile to the dog to his left. "Hey Paulina, if you're that desperate, you can just take off your shoes." He suggested in a bored tone.
He heard Paulina huff quietly. "But then my tights will be ruined!"
"It's either the tights or shoes. Take your pick."
The Latina bickered more before finally giving up, taking her shoes off and placing them in her hot pink purse. "Now how long have we been walking for?"
"Two minutes and fourty-three seconds." He called back instantly.
Cue groans from a certain someone.
TAKE THE LINEBREAK, TAKE IT UP, IT'LL BE GONE, IN A DAY OR TWO~!
"We can take a break now, if you guys want," Danny said, though he himself wasn't very tired. Everybody fell to the ground, except for Cujo, Sam, and Danny.
The teen himself walked behind a large boulder on the path after grabbing the smushed sandwich for himself and Cujo. Sam, not surprisingly, followed him. "What're you doing?" she asked when they sat down.
"Cujo needs ectoplasm," Danny explained and he ripped the sandwich in two, "and so do I, but I have to insert it first." Suddenly his hands started to glow green, forming ectoplasm around his fingers and the sandwich pieces. The pieces started to suddenly glow a faint green itself, before Danny called back his power. The two pieces surprisingly stayed glowing, causing Sam's eyes to widen.
"That's cool."
The ghostly duo stuffed their faces with the sandwiches, making Sam laugh. "Could I ask you some things?"
Danny raised an eyebrow and swallowed, but nodded.
"What's it like to fly?"
He smiled, and closed his eyes. "It's absolutely amazing. I love the feeling of being free, defying all laws of physics and gravity. The wind in your face, the thought of nothing can hold you down- man, it's one of the best powers I have."
Sam smiled back, before asking one more thing. "I remember when you were flying Tucker and I to the mall, but you had no feet. What's that about?"
The halfa laughed. "It's called a spectral tail. It forms when I want to fly fast, and I can do it to my arms too." He held out his arms like a zombie, and suddenly they formed wibbly-wobbly lines.
"Woah," the goth looked in awe, before poking the thin mist that was Danny's hands. "And your feet?"
His hands became solid again, but his feet merged together to form a tail. "What does that feel like?" asked Sam.
"Like my legs are together, but asleep or something like that." He shurgged, before standing up and held out a hand for Sam to grab. "Come on, it's time to get moving again."
Sam gratefully accepted the hand, and the trio ran back to the group, ready for another two hours of walking.
There you have it! Another chapter! :D
QotD: What are you guys going as for Halloween? Me, I'm going as Dipper from Gravity Falls!
The songs used for the linebreaks: 'Glory Days' by Bruce Springsteen and 'Take on Me' by A-Ha.
See you guys next time! -salutes-