"I can't believe I was such a jerk" Danny face palmed after seeing himself. Maybe I shouldn't have showed them the episode 'Livin' Large' but then again it was hilarious. We were still at my house and I was showing them the Danny Phantom cartoon and they were switching between disbelief, shock and complete embarrassment.
"You were totally a jerk" the three of us chorused together. We continued laughing at the halfa as he buried his head in his hands in embarrassment when the room suddenly started shaking.
"What's going on?" I hear Frostbite shout.
"Earthquake!" Solomon exclaims. I stood up and shakily walked to the window. My attention was drawn to something in the sky.
"No, worse" I tell them as they turn to see what I was seeing. A large castle on a piece of land was literally flying in the sky. Ghost skeletons were flying in all directions and on the ground and people were panicking and worse, dying. I averted my eyes quickly, shut the windows close and pulled the curtains close as well.
"We have to close all the windows and curtains, maybe they'll think this house is empty!" I shouted as I ran off to do what I had stated. The sound of the others footsteps followed behind me as all windows were shut close and curtains pulled. With all the curtains pulled, the house was plunged into darkness; the only light was a dim green tint coming from behind the curtains.
We gathered once again in the living room. Frostbite had a lighted candle and placed it in the centre. For now, it would have to be our only source of light.
"What now?" Solomon asked quietly. Everyone exchanged glances; none of us had any idea on what we could do. Unless…
"Maybe Phoenix could help us" I offered.
"Are you crazy?"
"You would just be bringing yourself to the enemy!"
"What if you ran into his father? You would get captured!" more and more protests sounded from each and every one of them and I had to agree, it was a crazy idea, but it was all we had at the moment.
"Look, if I can get into the castle maybe I could convince Phoenix to help us. Like dad said, I still have my intangibility I could get out of there easily and I'm still human so I would just phase out of any of their attacks" I explained.
"It's still too risky" says Sam. I sigh in desperation.
"Do we have any other choice?" I asked. Silence was my only answer until Frostbite broke it with a sigh.
"We are tired and stressed. Let us get some rest and tomorrow when we have a clearer train of thought, we will make a plan" he suggests. I stomp off to my room afterwards and search my cupboard. I had taken off my hoodie earlier on and it was now laid out on my bed. I had not bothered to change out of my uniform, I normally never changed out of it for some reason anyways, and I was searching my cupboard for proper clothes.
"I know I have those pants somewhere" I say as I practically tore my wardrobe apart.
"What are you doing?" I turn around to see my brother staring at me curiously.
"I'm going out there" I declare as I finally found what I had been looking for, a short sleeved plain navy blue tee, black cargo pants, I began to grow a dislike for jeans now, they were always too tight, and black socks.
"You're crazy" he says as I drew a black and white floral curtain in front of him, which I was given so that I could have some privacy in my section of the room.
"So I've been told by everyone" I said as I changed into the clothes I had taken out and my hoodie. I drew the curtain open once again and went for the balcony. It seemed like everyone else had gone to bed or otherwise but the living room looked abandoned.
"I'm not letting you go" Solomon says, grabbing onto my shoulder. I pushed my glasses up and gently removed my brother's hand and gave him an awkward hug.
"I'll see you as soon as I can" I said once I let go and ran out the balcony and onto the railings. The castle was still making its slow progress patrolling the city and by now was almost past my home. With one final glance towards my house, I leapt for the castle.
Wind rushed past me and I almost flew through the air. My hand brushed against dirt and I quickly grabbed onto the ledge of the floating ground and pulled myself up. Never had I been so glad to have consciously made an effort to practice my training. With one last look around I quickly ran into the bushes.
I pulled my hood up and peeked out from my hiding spot. Majority of the skeletons were around the city so there weren't many guards however there were about three guards outside the castle. I quietly moved along the bushes to the nearest wall and poke my arm through it. It phased through and I walked the rest of the way through the wall.
I looked both ways to see an empty hallway and ran through a random one, phased through another wall and hid in a corner at the sound of marching. I glanced carefully around the corner but ducked back in at the line of at least fifteen guards marching by. I sighed in relief and peered around the corner once more to check if the coast was clear before I ran off again. I moved to run to the next corridor when a hand grabbed my arm and pulled me back.
My hood fell of and I felt my glasses bounce slightly as I looked up at my supposed captor.
It was Phoenix.