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I totally forgot that I was supposed to do the faves and follows as well!!! Apparently instead of finishing the chapter I had already started I started a whole new chapter and I only figured out this one was a part of the story by seeing the "Chapter 17" on top so needless to say...I was confused. I'm typing like 3 or 4 stories at once so I thought it belonged to one of those, but it didn't and here it is now.
Observation Theater
"They've been walking for quite a while," an Australian man observes, "I'm surprised that they haven't ran into any creatures yet." Murmurs of agreement sounded throughout the theaters in compliance with his statement.
They all watch as Danny turns his head to look in a far-off direction. He narrows his eyes and makes moves to go off only to be stopped by Valerie. They were now walking through a trail with trees that had vines that hung down occasionally. The vines were not low enough to touch anyone until one did. It set off a chain reaction. First someone screamed, then someone ran, and then the group was gone. They had dispersed in a matter of seconds.
"They really all," a teen started in disbelief, "just left at the drop of a hat."
The Teens
Even though the teens all ran off in separate directions they all ended up at the same location, a clearing. Some teens fell to the ground while others bent over in exhaustion.
"Why were we running?" April asked suddenly causing Tucker to snort. "In my defense if I see someone running, that usually means I should run too, especially black people, if they run, they are definitely running for a reason."
Valerie nodded in agreement slightly winded, "Someone screamed."
"Oh," April hummed. "Where's Mikey?"
"Mikey?" Gilian asked briefly looking around. "He was just here."
"Well now, he's not," Megan said needlessly.
"Drop the bags and have some people stay here," Dash instructed, "we'll look for him."
Observation Theaters
"That's my boy," Mr. Baxter's voice booms throughout the theater's, "being the leader."
Kidnapped teens
"Wait," Danny barks and everyone freezes mid-motion. "What's that sound?"
"What sound?" Molly or Holly asked fearfully.
"Wait," Valerie spoke up, "I can kinda hear it too."
Something shifts in the plants in front of them causing all the teens to tense. The ones closets to the bags move to pick them up in case they have to flee. The teens in the front prepare themselves in case they have to fight whatever is coming towards them off. The tall grass in front of them rustles again. A soft growl can be heard. Danny skillfully maneuvers his way to the front of the group, gesturing for them to get back as he pulls out the pack of cards he had been tossing back and forth between his hands.
"Now is NOT the time to PLAY cards," Megan yells out hiding behind Ricky who glares at her.
"What the hell are you doing Fentina!" Dash hisses lowly. "What are a pack of cards gonna do against whatever the hell is in that grass!"
Danny shoots him a droll look over his shoulder and focuses his attention back on the matter at hand. He opens one pack and tosses the empty box to Tucker. He does the same thing for the second box. The class watch with bated breath as somehow the contents of the two packs come together to make a small gun.
"You know how to shoot that thing, my guy?" Adam calls out lowly face confused.
"Of course," Danny nods not taking his eyes off the forest in front of him. "But I'm not shooting it. Tuck," Danny hisses taking careful steps toward his friend who was only a few paces away from him.
"You're letting Foley shoot!" Star hisses loudly at the boy. "Maybe you are as dumb as they say Fenton."
"He has better accuracy," Danny shrugs yet the gun remains in his possession.
"He wears glasses," Kira says blankly.
"Um...Kira?" Dylan interrupts with a chuckle, "So do you."
Kira's reply is cut off by the bushes in front of them rustling loudly. The teens held their breath as whatever was in the undergrowth (ha!) crept closer to their location. A bunny abruptly hops out the bush causing majority of the class to scream in alarm.
"Who's high pitched girly scream was that?" April guffaws thoroughly amused.
The bunny pauses looking at the teens curiously. Kwan goes to touch the small animal.
"Kwan, no," Danny warns him.
"It's just a bunny dude," he replies uncaringly.
"We don't know that for certain," Valerie agrees glaring at the creature.
Observation Theater
"Something tells me that that ain't no bunny," a little boy tells his mother frightfully.
Kidnapped Teens
"Nobody make any sudden movements," Tuckers says to the class softly.
"Kwan," Danny's voice commands, "stop moving."
Frightfully Kwan nods taking several small steps back. The bunny hopes closer then stops leaving a gap between it and the class. It regards them with a critical eye then hops in front of the bush it came from. A branch snaps and the bunny is no longer a bunny.
"Yo! What the fuck!" Dylan yells out in shock taking as many steps back as he can.
"Oh my god," Sofie gasps in shock.
"It turned into a fucking bear!" Kelly says blandly looking completely done with her life.
"Shoot it!" Paulina demands.
"The fuck?" Tucker says confusedly.
"Everyone," Danny's voice breaks through the haze of fear that surrounds the teens, "slowly back away from the bear and back into the direction we came from. Who knows what else it can turn into."
"Oohhh," Nathan pipes up, "what if it turns into a wolf!" The class round on him with angry looks.
"Then we're sacrificing you."
The bear stalks closer stopping a hairs breath away from Danny at the front of the group. It sniffs him experimentally then snorts and backs away uninterestedly. It turns into a bird then flies away. The class let out sighs of relief.
"We still haven't found Mikey," Abby says after a beat of silence.
"He's in that bush," Danny says uncaringly moving to lie down in the grass, "he's the one who stepped on a stick.
"Why are you laying down Fenturd," Dash demands stomping over to the boy, "we gotta move."
Danny hums not moving an inch. Tucker decided that Danny had the right idea and sat down next to him. "Who has the map again?"
"Don't ignore me dweebs-."
"We didn't get one," April says dropping down next to him.
Michelle sighed going toward the bush her brother was hanging out in with reluctance. She bends down to peer into the bush just as Mikey stands up, startling her. She gives her brother a heated glare noting that hi glasses were missing. "Why did you run off?"
"Huh?" He says unsurely looking her directly in the eye, "The vine scared me."
Danny watches their interaction from afar. Tucker pulls out his PDA and starts fiddling with it. The screen shows that he's on an app that's running longitudes and latitudes. He closes the app then open another one that seemed to be loading. It was at 95% and was steadily making it's way to 100. It then says scan complete showing a dome shape with a list of number and words. Tucker furrows his brow and runs the program again except this time it goes much quicker and give slightly different outcomes. He does it a total of five times confusion evident on his face.
"Danny man can you take a look at this," he asks the other boy lowly.
Danny sits up and grabs the PDA from his friends hand and looks at the screen in confusion. He looks at the finding of the device and immediately tries the program again. And again. And again. And again. "That's not right, the reading have to be off. It says we're not even,…" He stands up looking around the clearing in alarm. "We should make a shelter,."
"Yeah," Dash agrees hauling him up by the front of his shirt, "in the original clearing that we woke up in!"
"Good idea," Tucker agrees standing and grabbing his bag from Gilian who was guarding them. His PDA beeps suddenly startling everyone.
A figure appears in the clearing. A beat passed as the teens stared at the person in complete and utter shock. Sofie who had been playing with a piece of grass looks up with a smile, "Oh, hey Lancer."
"Phantom of the Opera!" The man yells noting that the teens have rapidly lost interest in him.
"Tuck," Danny says under his breath making sure that no one was paying attention to him, "those reading are completely off. There's no way that it can be ran 10 times and have different reading each time."
"Now, now young one aren't you being a bit unfair." A voice says to him and only him.
"The wind just spoke to me," he face palms dragging a hand down his face tiredly. "My life officially got weirder, now," he moves his head to the left acting as though he was gonna pop his neck then straightens up, "thw wind can speak to me. What could I have possible done now to deserve this." He bemoans slipping into Latin as the situation took hold of him.
"I'm trying to help you, don't be rude." It snaps at him. "The plans that this being has for you in the next two days are not good ones."
Observation Theater
"WhAt ThE hElL iS tHiS," the thing that brought them to the theater rages, "THIS ISN'T A PART OF MY SHOW! WHO THE HELL IS MESSING WITH MY FUN!"
"You mean that this isn't a part of your little fucked up scheme," Kiyannah asks with a yawn.
Kidnapped Teens
"I like you, so I'm going to help you." It seemed like the everything around them was smiling happily the longer that the being spoke. "But in exchange I only require a strand of your hair."
Danny makes a face at the request. Tucker watches him with narrowed eyes. The air around Danny was weird, almost like there was someone standing right next to him but there was nothing there.
Observation Theater
"How can we hear the being but not see it," Jazz wonders aloud.
"Fine I'll switch to the brats vision and you can see what he sees." The kidnapper seemed to be pouting as he does what he said he would.
They soon discover that next to Danny is a figure shrouded in white with a strange light emitting from its body. Danny doesn't seem the least bit perturbed by the creature. It was a figure dressed in white big whoop. The camera shifted and screams rang throughout all the theaters. It didn't have a face. Or at least the face it had was falling off, the skin was slimy and dripping like candle wax, bits and pieces of what looked like either hair or teeth were scattered around the remaining part of its face that was left. The skull could be seen along with it tongue as it whispered to the boy in a strange tongue that didn't sound at all familiar to anyone in the world.
"Switch it back to normal!"
"YoU hUmAnS aRe No FuN!"
Kidnapped Kids
"Can everyone hear me, young master? Can everyone see me?" The creature presses as its voice bounces around in the air.
"No," Danny answers with a glare.
"How about now," the being appears with an ethereal appearance it's face pleasing to the eyes and its clothes pristine and white. He chuckles as the class jump at his sudden appearance, "No need to be alarmed children. I am merely here to offer you some aid."
"Why," Kira demands noting that while everyone else seemed perturbed by the creature's sudden appearance Danny seemed annoyed.
"The plan that that little bastard has for you are downright horrible," he mock pouts, "so I'm here to help you. And get a bit of entertainment myself." It switches the language to something that the humans should not be able to understand.
"Watch your words," Danny growls to the thing lowly. It blinks at him in surprise then looks at the blue eyed boy with a more critical eye.
"How peculiar."
Observation Theater
"Wait you said that you were switching to a brats vision. By brat did you mean Danny?" Jazz speaks up again.
"nO i NAMED ONE OF MY CAMERA'S bRAT," the thing says with a droll look. "yOU wOULD bE mORE cONCERNED aBOUT tHE vISION rATHER tHAN tHE fACT tHAT yOUR bROTHER aUTOMATICALLY sHIFTS tHE lANGUAGE hE iS sPEAKING iN sO tHAT tHE gHOST cAN uNDERSTAND hIM."
"He's gotta a good point," someone points out.
Kidnapped Teens
The one in white faces Danny with curious eyes, "You are vaguely familiar. Like someone I met but then forgot. Interesting." It hummed with a smile, "I was going to make you sleep for 3 days but that would be a problem for all those involved. I have seen what you must go through and I have decided that all parts of that struggle are necessary."
"No," Dylan speaks up in a flat tone, "it's really not."
Kira nods in agreement with Dylan, "No parts of the struggle are necessary."
The being smiles as the wind picks up. Cries of alarm and surprise ring throughout the clearing as some people start to float midair.
"Lancer! Do something!" Kelly demands.
"What do you want me to do?" He questions frightfully noting that his students just now were acknowledging him.
"I don't know be an adult!" Kira calls desperately as she hangs onto a tree branch.
"He's just putting us back in our original clearing. We weren't supposed to find this one till like a few days from now," Sofie says with an eyeroll.
Paulina scoffs, "Of course you would know that."
"Fuck you too," Sofie chirps back in reply.
The group are transported back to the clearing minus Lancer who mysteriously disappears, but the teens pay him little regard. They instead watching the being watch Danny who looked vaguely annoyed. "You should make camp," the being addresses them all while not moving his eyes from the dark haired teen.
"Dude," Tucker calls noting that everyone seems apprehensive to start moving around with the being still there, "he won't disappear if you look away. Stop staring at him before he snaps ."
Danny snorts dropping to the floor to sit in a thinking pose. Dash who was warily eyeing the being looked between the gun in Fenton's hand to Foley and back. Why isn't he shooting it. Aren't his parents ghost hunters?
"Not a ghost," Danny hums out, "Not a spirit. No, something older. Much much older."
"Sun's going down," Valerie says from the edge of the clearing. She was slowly but surely making her way to the boys in hopes of reaching the gun in Fenton's hand so that she could shoot the thing in front of them.
"We gotta make camp," Dash announces with a clap. "You, you, and you remind us what in your bag again."
The three he pointed to give him dubious looks as if asking the same question in their heads, 'Is he stupid?' "Nothing." The three chorus with confusion.
"Someone has a tarp right?" He questions a loud with a small nod. "We need sticks."
"Was anyone a cub scout?" Kira asks blankly as she stared at the blonde with a done expression.
"Kwan," Star starts turning to the boy with a smile. "You like, like nature and shit right? Right. So you should like use that and like make a shelter or some shit."
"Not bad blondie," Kelly nods to the girl. "Well are we gonna be superglue and stay stuck or are we gonna get like deodorant and roll on."
"What the fuck?" April side eyes the girl and takes a step away from her. "Are you possessed right now? We don't have time for that."
"Just GO," Dash sounds completely fed up as he sighs harshly through his nose, "find some strong sticks."
"Branches," Mikey pipes up.
"Whatever," he shakes his head exasperatedly, "just go do it."
"And what will you be doin', huh big fella." Abby demands with a hand on her hip.
"Rethinking life decisions," Danny mumbles lowly startling a laugh from Tucker.
"Making sure everyone does their part."
"Where'd Lancer go?" Nathan asks after looking around.
Observation Theaters
Laughter spilled from Kiyanah's lips as Lancer seemingly falls from the roof just to land on the cushion he was previously seated in.
"We found Lancer," a teen sighs.
"Yay," reluctant cries of elation from his students.
"Why has the being not left," a Korean woman voices her confusion.
"He does seem to be sticking around for quit a while," a Russian man notes.
"And what is it?" a Latina woman ponders.
"It's a ghost!" the Fenton's chorus.
"No its not," it seemed as though the whole world worked together just to sync up that one sentence.
"Damn," Kiyanah whistles, "and there wasn't even lag."
"Logically speaking," Maddie Fenton says huffingly, "it has to be a ghost. Despite the glamor that it has put up it is old and decaying. Flesh falling off its face all the makings of a more vengeful spirit seeing as it only worried about putting up an appearance after it finished speaking to Danny."
"Danny said it wasn't a ghost." A child's voice says helpfully.
"Well," Maddie says softly, "Danny's wrong. Maybe we should have him attend another session Jack dear."
"Danny-boy seemed to be certain of his conclusion though," her husband responds with furrowed brows.
"NoT a GhOsT."
"Then what the hell is it," Damian Gray demands hotly. "Even you said it was a ghost."
"It'S nOt."
"Ancient," a frail voice answers for them. "How peculiar."
"Poor boy, that one is. But at least he managed hmm."
"The birds predicted this," a voice younger than the first two notes.
"No Fuming way!" A man's voice come later disbelief coloring his tone. "That's him! THAT'S the guy you've been talking about!" his voice seemingly gets quieter as he realizes the whole world can hear him.
"Don't be shy," the Vicki Vale speaks up, "speak some more."
"Livia that you," Beatrice calls out happily.
"Hello Ms. Mourner. Pleasant surprise hearing from you. How is Jared?"
"Jared's fine how's your little carnivorous plant thing getting along?"
"Quit well, he no longer wishes to eat the blood of humans. Only 'mortals do it now."
"Bea," Ben Beuacanon sighs not shocked at the development, "do you know these people."
"My trip to Salem was wild," the woman cackles.
"You went to Salem?" He questions intrigued.
"The birds told me too," she shrugged.
"Yes," a woman from New York sighs out, "because that makes sense."
I'm gonna end the chapter here and post it. I'm gonna do a throw back and do something that I noticed I stopped doing.
What the hell is going on? Where is the class and who are the new people that hot dragged in? Just what is that...thing dressed in white and why is it so interested in Danny? Why did I forget that Sam is literally amongst the theater goers and how long will she be among them? Why did Beatrice (who forgot she existed not me legit love her for no reason. Probably authors preference though) go to Salem and why does she know the people speaking? What question does the word Ancient answer and will it be important ? What did the birds say? And why are people anticipating and waiting on someone? And, who is that someone?