A/N: Hello, I hope you like this chapter and will continue reading. I am apparently obsessed with not sleeping till after it's been the next day, I have been doing that for so many days and it's because of reading fanfics.
Disclaimer: I do not own Bakugan or its characters.
Chapter Seven: Brawling Panic
Dan's POV
I woke up at a pain in my side and when I tried to move a pain shot through my body, I pushed through it getting up and pulling the covers off my body. I looked at my right side to see my bandage was bleeding, I looked to the clock to see that it was six 'o' clock so I have enough time to change my bandage and get enough gauze to change it at school.
I got out of bed wincing as I sat up and when I did I took off my shirt putting it in the trash since blood sticks out on stark white. When I had taken off my shirt I winced since the wound opened up even more, I walked to the first aid kit and grabbed out a needle and thread.
I threaded the needle and unwrapped the bandages grabbing clean ones and a water bottle, I grabbed paper towels as well and poured some on to the wound to clean it since this is the most I can actually do. I stitched up the wound and the best I could and wrapped the gauze around my ribs and hips.
"Dan? Are you sure you're okay?" I heard Drago ask from behind me startling me "I'm fine Drago, this is the only thing I can do" I said and I could tell he was worried. I finished wrapping the bandage and looked at the clock to see it was 6:15 which means I might have enough time to make it to school on time.
I picked Drago and my bag up after putting away the kit and putting a black t-shirt on, careful of my wound, before going downstairs and putting my shoes on. I walked to school wincing at some points on the sidewalk especially when I stepped on a concave in it "Dan I don't think you should go to school today" Drago told me when he jumped on my right shoulder.
"I don't have a choice Drago and at least if I collapse there'll be someone who will call 911" I said and I could tell he was concerned. "That isn't something to joke about Daniel" he told me and I nodded as I reached the school's garden, Shun was sitting on the fountain like he usually was.
"Hey Shun, what did you get on your project?" I asked him when I sat down trying to hide my wince at the pressure I just put on my wound. "It went well, I had an art test yesterday as well" he said confusing me since I didn't know you could have tests in art, except for sculptures.
"Did you get your grades back for those to?" I asked and he nodded before saying he got an A on the project and a B+ on the art project. "Man! What did you get wrong on it?" I asked surprised at ow far that went down, he only shrugged which I couldn't get since it wouldn't be good for him.
He told me once he wants to work in Art and Design when we were kids, we used to ask that all the time. Mine kept always changing while his stayed the same, it was nice always knowing that he never wavered in his dreams but it was depressing always wavering in mine.
I looked at the clock and noticed that I had fifteen minutes till class starts ""I'll see you in lunch right Shun?" I said waving at him. He smiled at me and like all the other times my heart stopped for a few seconds and I had to hold down a blush.
I turned back around and started walking inside the school having to stagger up the steps wincing when I almost tripped on a stair, it annoyed me when Drago expressed his worries again. When I finally made it to the room I leaned against the wall to steady myself against it when I got dizzy.
"Daniel are you alright?" Drago asked in a worried tone again "I'm fine Drago don't worry" I said lifting my shirt to see I wasn't bleeding. 'I guess it's from the blood I already lost' I thought before I walked into class to see Mr. Ruke grading tests at his desk.
"Good morning Daniel, are you okay? You don't look so well" he asked me and I nodded grabbing out my notepad and pencil when the bell rang. We had to write down notes on Friedrich Accum who was interested in Frederick Winsor's work in introducing gas lighting in London.
I love learning about new things especially about things I learn in school, ever since I went on the trip I realized I actually like school. When I finished writing down the notes the bell rang which means I have to go to my Indian English class with Mrs. Carbuckle.
I headed to class and saw her at the board writing that we had a test today, I sat down in my seat and waited till the bell rang before the test was handed out. I finished the forty-three questions easily and with fifteen minutes to spare to so I went over the tests I had for Daisuke, Morikawa, and Kise.
The Follow-up tests looked good so I was glad that it was today that they would take it, the bell rang not long after I finished looking at the tests. I headed to AP Calculus with Mr. Cross, Runo, and her friends to see them in their assigned seats behind mine which I don't really like but I can't do anything about her attitude.
We had to do a worksheet while we took notes on a French mathematician who's famous for the Cartesian Coordinate System, Rene Descartes. Rene Descartes is seen as the father of analytical geometry and the explanation of Infinitesimal Calculus and Analysis which is cool in my opinion.
Writing notes and answering questions on the worksheets didn't take too long since we had finished the notes in twenty minutes though it wasn't very fun when Runo started talking. "Dan are you okay? You look a little pale… not that I really care" I heard her say and I figured the last part was because her new friends looked at her weird.
"Then there's no need for you to since I'm fine" I said before the bell rang and we had to head to lunch which was fine with me since it's another hour till I get to my room at home. I went to lunch but I felt dizzy again so I leaned against the wall as if I was waiting for someone, oddly enough I was waiting for someone.
"Hey Dan, are you okay?" I heard Shun ask as he approached me, I nodded glad I wasn't still dizzy before getting off the wall. "Just fine Shun" I said before we walked into the cafeteria and sat down at our table before Alice joined in along with Runo.
"Dan are you okay?" Alice asked me in a worried tone making me smile at them for still caring about me so much. I might be telling them today or tomorrow so just hearing them say that despite my constant assurance is nice.
I decided to leave early to check my stitches so I told them bye for now and left the cafeteria and went to the bathroom. I bumped into someone however and landed on my right side, the on with the stitches, which isn't good.
I headed to the bathroom and sat down using the wall to lean against before taking off my shirt and unwrapped the gauze to see about two stitches had come undone. I can't fix it but I can at least stop the bleeding for a little while, hopefully long enough to get to my next class because home is way too high of an expectation.
I grabbed the roll of gauze from my jacket pocket and wrapped around my ribs and hip tight enough to add pressure but not constrict my blood in one place. I saw I had fifteen minutes to get to class so I put my shirt back on and headed to class once I had my back pack and Drago on my shoulders.
I headed to the football field and sat down feeling a headache come on before I saw my students come out. I stood up and took out the three Follow-up tests and role sheet, when everyone was present I told them they could do what they want except for Daisuke, Morikawa, and Kise.
They all dispersed except for the three who I gave the tests to. Una and Donna came up to me and asked me if I could watch their brawl and see if they got any better. (1)
As I watched I felt even more warm liquid fall down my side and my vision became very blurry, the pain I kept feeling on my side since I fell increased to. I got light headed again and I couldn't hear much other than muffled voices either, guess bad luck hits when you don't want it to.
I heard Una say something similar to 'how was that?' but I couldn't hear very clearly from my muffled hearing. "Dan!" "Mr. Kuso!" "What's wrong Mr. Kuso?!" "Are you okay Mr. Kuso?!" is all I was able to hear clearly before I felt like I was falling.
Drago's POV
"Daniel! Someone get the nurse or call 911!" I said as I jumped off Daniel's shoulder to see Una running into the school and Daisy take her phone out. "Should I call my sister and tell her what happened?" she asked, I wasn't surprised when she did though and told her to do it later because I was sure I know why he collapsed.
"What happened?" I heard someone yell, I looked to where the yelling was coming from and saw someone in her mid-twenties running towards us. "Daniel collapsed while Donna and Una were Brawling" I answered her as she came to check on him.
"I think to should call the hospital, I don't think the school's equipment can help with this" she said sadly with a frown. "Hello my sister's friend needs help… we're at Vestroia Middle School… he's a student teacher… thank you" I heard Daisy say before she said they were on their way.
She had a worried expression most likely for Dan's safety, after about ten minutes the paramedics arrived asking what happened. I told them Daniel collapsed after not responding to Una's question, they ran a light over Daniel's eyes and checked him over.
"We need to get him to the hospital Stat! He's losing a lot of blood" I heard the paramedic who was looking over Daniel say. Two men with a stretcher rushed over and put Daniel on it before rushing him into the ambulance.
"Do you know this man personally ma'am?" a paramedic asked Daisy who said she did but not as well as me. "Then come with us while Drago gets his parents to inform them of the situation" he said and I nodded even though I wasn't going to.
Time Lapse: Before School Shun's POV
I was sitting on the fountain in the school's garden when I heard Dan's voice, I looked up and saw something I never want to see. He sat down and I saw him wincing which is one thing I don't want to see.
I never asked if he was okay since I know he isn't and because he still doesn't want to tell us what's wrong. I went to class after Daniel said he had to leave, I was really worried when I was in class that I didn't take notes on Agnes Robertson Arber.
I already know about her form a different class since she's a British Plant Morphologist and anatomist, a Botany Historian, and a Biological Philosopher. She's very famous and interesting but I'm more worried about Dan than someone I already know about.
I headed to my second hour once the bell rang and saw Alice by the door again, this is confusing me because she keeps doing this now. "Hey Alice, why do you keep waiting out here?" I asked and she got off the wall "Dan looked really hurt earlier and I'm wondering when you'll tell him" she told me as we walked into the classroom and took our seats.
"I can see it's getting bad so I'll tell him in sixth hour alright Alice" I said and she nodded before our teacher started a lecture on Leonardo Pisano Bigollo. He's an Italian Mathematician famous for the Fibonacci Sequence, a sequence of numbers mentioned in his Book of Calculation.
I wrote down notes with Alice and most of the rest of the class did the same, when the lecture was over I kept worrying about Dan. "See ya Alice" I said as I packed my bag "see you at lunch Shun" she told me and I nodded before I left the room.
I headed to class and walked inside the room wondering what Dan is keeping from us, he tends to hide his own pain. 'He's doing it now so does it have to do with his family? Or is he trying to protect us somehow?' I thought before the bell rang breaking me from my thoughts.
"Today class you'll open your books to page thirty-six and write notes on the Historian first mentioned in the chapter" he told us so I opened the book to the mentioned page to see it was about Michael Beschloss. He wrote a thesis in college that is currently a book called 'Kennedy and Roosevelt" The Uneasy Alliance' because he wrote about John Kennedy in the past.
The rest of the hour since I finished in twenty minutes, I thought of what Dan could be hiding. I thought about it for forty minutes and thought he could be hiding a wound somewhere on his body today.
If it's bleeding however lack of blood and food will cause his baody serious damage but I don't know when it'll be too much to be irreparable. I don't want that to happen before I tell him I love him, the bell rang not long after that so I left to lunch.
What I saw worried and scared me when I reached the cafeteria doors, Dan was leaning against the wall and he looked to be in more pain than this morning. "Hey Dan, are you okay?" I asked as I walked up to him, he leaned away from the wall and what he said next I knew was a lie.
"Just fine Shun" he told me and I knew that it was a lie, it took everything in my power not to try and find the problem that's ailing him. we went inside the cafeteria and sat down at our normal table and talked about our day, or at least about the lectures we keep having in all of our classes.
Alice joined us not long after that and said the same thing about the lectures also asking about Dan's condition. She gave me a concerned look and I shrugged it off telling her not to continue.
A/N: Hello, I hope you like this chapter and will continue writing. I finished writing this at 1:58 A.M. on June 24, 2106. I have short summaries compared to the ten page notepad limit I set for the chapters so I might add different POVs, flashbacks, or off topic stuff that has nothing to do with the chapter to actually make it to the page limit.
1) Sorry it changes pace so much after this I already had the scene written down before I even wrote the first chapter of this on paper.
Again I hope you like this chapter and story and I hope you continue reading, hopefully I'll see you next Monday.