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*3rd person POV*
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"Look Danny, we need to talk about this! You can't just spring something like this on us then refuse to talk about it! I mean seriously?! They're crowning you king of the Ghost Zone?!" Sam Manson barked at their long time friend and honorary brother.

"They're right Danny! You can't just drop a bomb like that and walk away!" Tucker Foley squealed, backing up his best friend/sibling.

"Guys, I would really just appreciate some support and understanding right now! I'm freaking out just as much as you, if not more! I just want to get to home room and forget about everything the council and clockwork just told me! I already missed half  of our classes today and I don't want to add another to the very long list!" Danny whisper-yelled at them seeing as they were in a crowded school hallway. "Besides I'm getting crowned on my 14th birthday, which is in like a week! I want to spend as much time relaxing as I can before then, and not stressing about it!"

The two sighed in defeat as they gave their honorary little brother a hug, and dragged him to class as he had requested. When they arrived and sat in their seats they were rudely interrupted by someone tripping and falling on top of Sam, knocking them out of their chair. The person quickly apologized and helped right all of the things strewn across the floor, then when the person straightened up as they helped Sam off the floor and the three friends were surprised to see Paulina Sanchez's long, wavy, dark hair and sparkling aqua eyes staring remorsefully back at the trio.

"Oh Sam! I'm so sorry, I tripped over that guy's backpack!" She exclaimed. The three shared a look, sure she hadn't really picked on them in like three years but she hadn't exactly been friendly either. At least, not till today.

"Oh, well it's ok Paulina, it was just an accident." Sam said hesitantly. Paulina smiled and looked like she wanted to say something else but just then the bell rang and Mr. Lancer ushered everyone to take their seats as class began.

As class went on Sam and Tucker took notes and Danny tried to pay attention, he really did, but he just couldn't. The reason being a boy sitting in front of him who had blonde hair, gorgeous blue eyes, and a distinctly muscular frame. The distraction's name was Dash Baxter, he was the school football team's quarterback and king, with Paulina as his queen. Though the the two never dated it was widely assumed that they would be high school sweethearts and live happily ever after. If it wasn't obvious enough Danny had a huge crush on Dash and really hoped he liked him back. Just like Paulina, dash had bullied them back in elementary school, but had stoped after Danny had found Dash crying behind the school and had comforted him, after that they were generally left alone by all the populars, and Danny and Dash kept in touch to talk and, on occasion, to comfort each other.

Danny thought back to a conversation they had a few months back when they were hanging out at his house, playing doomed.

"Hey Danny can i tell you something?"

"Of corse Dash," Danny snorted at the stupid question,"Anything."

"Ok um I think I'm bi, or gay? I don't know but what I do know is that guys are a lot cuter than girls!" Dash giggled nervously, tapping away at his controller.

"I know, right!" Danny giggled without thinking. His eye widened in realization at what he had just said as he slapped a hand over his mouth. Danny and Dash stared at each other in shock for a moment before Dash cracked a grin, his eyes sparkling as he let out a choked laugh. The laughter grew until he was rolling around on the floor, clutching at his stomach, and soon Danny was on the floor, laughing just as hard.

When they settled down they looked at each other still smiling and Danny said,"Well that's one way to come out!" And Dash snorted in agreement, glad that Danny was ok with him being gay, and maybe, Danny had a crush on him like he hoped.

*End flash back*

Danny was brought back to reality when his Ghost Sense suddenly hit him like an icy freight train, crushing the breath out of him. Something really bad was about to happen.

"Oh no." Was all he could get out before a huge portal opened in the floor and sucked the whole class in along with all of their things and the furniture they were seated at. Then everything went black.

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When Danny woke up he was strapped to a metal table. He looked around checking for his class and saw them all slumped in the corner of the small room that they were stuck in, inside a cage. They all had some weird looking things that sorta looked like colanders strapped to their heads and they had their hands cuffed together in glowing, green, thick, metallic shackles, that honestly looked really heavy duty.

Just then his Ghost Sense went off alerting him to a ghost near by, and a pretty strong one at that. A young man about 6 foot tall, and extremely thin, with burn marks covering his entire body, along with smoldering clothes, walked into the room and glared hatefully at Danny as he came to stop a few feet away from him.

"Hello young, ghost child!" he growled.

"What do you want from me? Who are you?" Danny demanded with a steely gaze.

"You mean you don't recognize me? I'm hurt, young one! You would think you would remember someone you murdered in cold blood!"

"What?! I didn't do that?! I save people not harm them!" Said Danny in complete shock.

"Oh, you may not have killed me directly but my blood is still on your hands!" The man screeched back.

Danny shrank back in horror and kept his mouth shut, figuring he should see where this was going to go. The man took a deep breath and shut his eyes as he reigned in his anger.

"I," he started again," was in an apartment building, in my own home, when you were fighting some vampire looking ghost and you dodged one of his attacks with his rays and it cot the building on fire! It collapsed on me and I was trapped in the rubble for an excruciating hour before search and rescue found me empaled, burned, and bleeding out! I died on the way to the hospital without my wife even knowing I was hurt! I had a promising engineering job! On track to become one of the head designers! I lost everything and it's your fault, My death was your fault!"he said, menacing waves of power rolling off of him.

"What?" Danny said, remembering the fight he was talking about,"but everyone was supposed to have evacuated the building!" The man continued talking as if Danny hadn't spoken at all.

"You May not know who I am now, but mark my words! My name will be engrained into your memory or the rest of eternity!" He let out a crazed laugh as he picked up another one of those strange helmets with a bunch of wires attached and placed it on Danny's head. He walked over to the wall where a large switch/lever thing resided, and harshly yanked it down turning on some kind of machine, and everything, once again, went black.

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All around the class was filled with white noise, the darkness around them suffocating. Then suddenly green light shown through the dark and the class fallowed it to the origin. Out of the darkness came a glowing figure that they were undeniably drawn to, there was a bright flash then what sounded like a crowd of people shrieking in horror as the sound of something heavy hitting the ground from high up echoed through the room.

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When everyone woke they had huge headaches and bruises from head to toe. Looking around it looked like the class was in some sort of hallway with a high roof and doors every four feet. They all got to their feet, terrified and void of sound. When they looked around more they saw Danny standing in the middle of the hall in front of the class with his head bowed. When he lifted his head what they saw made them sick and made everyone who cared for Danny want to cry. His cheeks were tear stained and his lips were a grotesque, bloody, mess of stitches, sewing his mouth shut. He was hugging himself and shaking. He suddenly lifted a hand and motioned then closer to him. Surprisingly Dash was the first to react. He raced forward and envelop Danny in a gentle hug, even more surprising was the fact Danny hugged him back as if they were long time friends. When the finely released each other Danny motioned Sam forward. They went up to Danny and watched closely as he began making gestures with his hands, they quickly gestured back then turned to the class.

"Ok, Danny said that a ghost kidnapped us and used some sort of machine on us that he thinks transported us into his mind. He also said he is supposed to lead us through but he's not supposed to interfere with anything we do, that's why........... that's why his mouth is...... is....... ya know." They said, on the verge of tears.

Everyone nodded, speechless, while Paulina went to Sam to try to comfort them.

"He said that anything happening in the real world will effect us here, hunger, exhaustion...... I-injuries." They cleared their throat and continued, trying not to show their worry and sadness,"and, likewise, anything that happens in hear will manifest in the real world. You die here, you die there...."

Now everyone understood the gravity of the situation and why Sam was so choked up. If the Danny in here had his mouth sewn shut then the one out their.... well, he did as well....

They all felt like vomiting. Some over the possibility of their own death, and others like Dash, Sam, Tucker, and Paulina, at the fucked up nature of the torture their captor was putting Danny through.

Everyone was freaking out and no one knew what the hell to do!

All, that is, except one.

Well, sort of....