Dan's Job In The Woods (A DanTDM fanfiction)

Chapter 5

Last night: Dan makes a new friend who is way younger than him and also ends up meeting what lurks in the woods at night, we also discover that we don't like Ross lol

"So, how old are you exactly?" Dan asked Chris while looking down at the animatronic, that refuses to leave. It makes eye contact with Dan and claws at the tree with its hook.

"Oh, I'm 15," she replied. He was about to ask another question when Chris silenced him. "I think I see other animatronics," she said, her eyes opening wider with fear. Dan looked in the direction she was staring at, and sure enough, others were approaching the tree they were perched in.

"Great," he said while grumbling. Chris looked around, "There! Follow me, Dan," she said while standing up on the tree branch. "What if the branch breaks?" Dan asked with worried expression.

"It won't, see?" Chris demonstrated with stomping on the branch, which freaked Dan out, cause he isn't really use to being this high up in trees. "I'll hold your hand so you won't fall," Chris gave Dan her hand and they both traveled the tree tops.

Then they arrived at this little tree house. "Come on in, its lit up and dry in here," she told Dan. He entered the tree house and asked Chris, "did you build this yourself?" He looked around, amazed. Chris looked at him and snorted. "I couldn't possibly have built this with killer robots on the loose, I found it" she replied.

"I wonder how it got here..." Dan wondered out loud. "Maybe people use to live in that abandoned building we saw, and they had kids," Chris said and shrugged. "I don't know actually," she added.

"Well, how did you get here?" Dan turned to face Chris. "Well, I, being an ignorant teenager, made friends with a bunch of jerks. They invited me to camp out here in the woods with them... but they left me alone when I was sleeping." She said with anger visible on her face.

"I was scared and alone, not knowing what to do. I also was nearly killed by one of those things. But I'm a fast runner and good at climbing trees, so I got away just in time." She said while walking towards one of the windows.

"Its pretty late, we should get som-" she was interrupted by Dan. "So you never escaped these woods? You're just stuck here...?" Dan asked. "Pretty much," Chris replied. "The days seem so short, not giving me enough time to travel far enough. To find the end to these woods," she said sadly.

"I really miss my family, and you will never know how happy I was when I saw you running through the woods, to know that I wasn't alone." She looked at Dan. "How about you? How'd you get here?" She sat down on the floor facing Dan.

"Well, I was stopped by a stranger who offered me a job which was to collect drawings from these woods." Dan's face then lit up. "There's an office near the edge of the woods! We can try going there tomorrow!" He exclaimed.

Chris was about to say something when they heard scratching from below. She leaned out the window and saw an animatronic scratching their tree. "We need to get it away from here," Chris whispered to Dan.

She was still thinking of a way to get the animatronic to leave when Dan found a stone. "How about this? We can throw it somewhere away from the tree house, and hopefully it catches the animatronics attention," he told Chris. "Sure, let's give it a try," She said.

Dan chucked the stone out the window and it worked. The animatronic heard it land in a pond. "Good, it worked," Dan lay down on the floor. "Lets get some rest, it's pretty late anyways," he said as he was drifting off to sleep. "Yeah, let's," Chris replied.

Back at home the next day

Jemma woke up from her restless sleep. She saw that the sun was up, so she went to find Dan. She ran up the stairs to their bedroom, "Dan! I'm so glad you're finally h-, oh," she found the bed empty.

'Maybe he's in the bathroom? ' she thought. Jemma knocked on the bathroom door softly, "Dan, are you in there?" She called. The door was unlocked, so she looked inside. 'Still no one here... ' she was beginning to worry.

'Dan should be home by now... ' she grabbed the phone and dialed in Dan's number. 'Please pick up, please pick UP ' but no one answered the phone.

(Forgot to mention that Dan's phone fell out of his pocket when he was being chased. I wanted to edit it into that chapter but wattpad wouldn't let me -_-)

Dan woke up and stared at an unfamiliar ceiling. 'where am I...' he thought to himself. Then a head appeared over him. "Dan c'mon, the sun just started to rise, lets search for that office you were talkin' about" Chris said.

'Oh, now I remember ' Dan thought miserably. "Alright, just let me grab my stuff," he got up to grab his bag. "Alright, meet you down there below," Chris replied while climbing from the branches.

'Hmm, I need a weapon...' Dan thought as he remembered about the metal bat he threw in his panic. He walks towards the entrance of the tree house and starts to descend to ground level.

"Alright, so do you remember which way it might be?" Chris suddenly said. "Actually, I don't. But we could travel up in the trees right?" Dan suggested hopefully. "Well, we could try, but these trees are dying and the branches might break if we step on the wrong ones," Chris replied.

"Hmm, well before we start, do you are any extra weapons that I could use? Cause as you very well know, mine flew into the darkness when I fell over that tree root," Dan said.

"Not at the moment, no. But while we're climbing around up there," she gestured to the tree tops, "we could look out for your bat as well, right? And it might give us a lead." She shrugged. "I guess so," Dan said.

"Well, c'mon then," Chris was already half way up a tree. "I'm coming, I'm coming."

Well den... sorry for the hiatus lol but man America sure is beautiful! Anyways sorry if there are any typos or grammar mistakes (cause of autocorrect) I'll be sure to TRY to correct them, tho I doubt wattpad will let me -_- also about chapter 4 THERE WERE SO MANY GRAMMAR MISTAKES AND WORDS SEEMED TO DUPLICATE COT GLOMIT sorry bout dat :p HOPE U ENJOYED THIS CHAPTER ✨ btw if u find any typos or grammar mistakes, TELL ME