Book 1: Shattered Harmony

Chapter 15: Surprises

Unwanted Path

Chapter 15

Surprises

It had only been three weeks since the incident. Three weeks of Dareth helping Danny move in with him, three weeks of the best time she ever had, three weeks of realizing that she probably wasn't going to walk normal ever again, and she didn't really mind. Dareth helped her along as she went. She never thought she'd find someone so kind as him ever.

She found her way through the store, she had to grab a few things. She was planning on making him his favorite dinner to say thank you. She couldn't wait to see that look on his face. He always got it when she brought over those puffy potstickers. She was glad she had gotten the recipe for them.

She bought the ingredients and left the little shop less then two blocks away from the apartment.

"Alright I think thats everything." She whispered to herself and tried to list off a few things in her head. When she looked back up she could see three androids walking her way. She gasped and went down a sideroad. She went into another store hoping they didn't see her. She walked to the back of the tiny store. It was a bakery, so the whole room smelled great. She pulled out her phone and dialed Dareths number.

"Danny baby!" Dareths voice bellowed from the phone.

"I'm being followed..."

"Whoa...calm down Danny. Where are you?"

"That bakery next to the library." Danny said her hands were shaking. Dareth could hear the fear in her words.

"Alright I'll be there in five. Just sit tight alright?"

"I'll try."

"Keep your phone on that way I can find you." Dareth said. Danny breathed in an almost silent 'okay' before Dareth hung up. She stayed behind the bun rack. She put her phone back in her jacket pocket and zipped it up. It was incredibly cold outside now. Just a few days before Christmas. Dareth and Danny had made plans go to a secluded island not to far from Ninjago City where the weather was tropical year round.

The bell above the front door dinged. Danny peaked through the racks and spotted the familiar black suits the androids wore. The first one she seen was the blonde with the four under his eye. He asked the teller something and he pointed to the back of the store.

'Oh great teller guy, they'll find me now.' She watched for which way they went, and went down the opposite aisle. She opened the door and someone grabbed her bag. Danny turned and gasped seeing one of the assembly line androids. Their was a 7 under his eye. He pulled the bag and the strap broke. All the ingredients for Dareths potstickers went all over the dirty snow. She gasped and backed up. The other androids piled out of the shop to stand in front of Danny. She turned and ran. Sadly with how short she was her legs didn't move very fast. Almost like a child running away from its parents. It didn't help that she still had a bit of a limp. One of them grabbed hold of her arm and she swung around and landed in the wet snow.

A loud engine reved up and road up onto the sidewalk. Danny knew this motorcycle to be Dareths. He leaned over and helped her off the wet ground and brushed her off. He handed her a bike helmet. She climbed up behind him and held onto his hips.

"They made me drop all the ingredients I had to make you potstickers tonight." She was angry about that. The bike swung around as the accelerator was hit knocking 7 and 2 on their butts and spinning blackened snow at 4.

"You deserved it!" Danny yelled as they went by. She sighed looking around at everything that went by. She loved riding the bike. She leaned forward and hugged Dareth closing her eyes and sighed. The bike veared right into a stores parking lot. Thats when she felt it. She probably would have noticed it sooner, but the layers and the jacket caused her to miss it. When the bike stopped completely she jumped off instantly and stepped around the driver and narrowed her eyes. She reached out and pulled up the visor and her eyes went from slightly fearful to soft. She even had a minute smile on her face.

"Hello Zareth."

"Hey babe." he pulled off the helmet. Danny stepped forward and hugged him to her.

"Missed you." She said. Zareth chuckled and kissed the top of her head.

"Yeah...me too." When talking to Ronin on their way from the lighthouse he had voiced his opinion that he believed they were brother and sister sort of types. Which was fine with them.

The secret though, the secret of Danny being an android created to get close to Zareth was only known by Zareth and Ronin. No one else was supposed to know. Zareth was glad Ronin was able to fix her, as well as put a new hard drive in. Luckily the tracker was turned off too. Well...sort of. Ronin removed it and attached it to a wild dog out in the woods. They must have only just found that out.

"Come on babe...lets get out of here before they find out we're parked here." Zareth pulled back on his helmet and helped her back onto the bike.

Zareth felt Danny lean in closer to him, he figured he might want to tell her he wasn't Dareth, he didn't want her trying to kiss him or anything. He wasn't her guy. But back on the road again her hands sat on his hips and she watched the buildings go by. Then the trees, and then the waters. He promised her a vacation and regardless of weather he was Dareth or Zareth he was going to give her one. At least...one vacation before they realized they couldn't take out her emergency shut off switch without turning her off completely. The idea hurt the she wasn't going to stay with Dareth forever, so they decided to give her the time of her life while she was there.

"Hey we're gonna stop soon, I gotta get some gas." Zareth yelled over the large engine. Danny nodded in response. She found that when she yelled she squeeked and it sounded like a teenage boy finding his man voice.

Zareth turned the bike into a gas station. He parked and got off. He held his hand out for Danny who pulled her helmet off her head.

"These things stink...might want to get some Febreeze or something." Danny giggled.

"Or maybe hang one of those little fabric pads in there...might help." Danny looked in thought and nodded.

"Yeah it probably would." She said and giggled seeing Zareths helmet hair. She reached around pulling his comb out of his back pocket and pulled him down and running it through his hair a few times. Zareth chuckled and nodded his head.

"Smooth babe." He fitted a toothpick into his mouth.

"I'm going to go to the restroom." Danny said and turned to run into the store. She walked inside and looked around, the usual mom and pop gas station. She went into the rest room and walked in and looked around and gasped when she saw a cork board with business cards, and notes to people, but what caught her eye was a wanted poster with hers and Zareths picture on it. Danny pulled it down and nearly ran out of the gas station. She casually walked over to Zareth and handed it to him.

"Whats going on...?" Danny asked shaking her head. Zareth sighed putting back on his helmet.

"I'll tell you when we get to the resort." Zareth said. Danny looked slightly amazed at him. She fitted the helmet back on her head too.

Zareth pulled into the resort parking lot and walked into the lobby. The place was huge, a whole lot bigger then Danny thought it was going to be. She thought it was just going to be a tiny quiet place, but this place had a lot of people. But then again she figured it would be since it was the day before Christmas. She walked in after Zareth and saw a huge tree in the middle of the floor. Zareth smiled at her as she limped up to him.

"Your leg still hurts you?" Zareth asked. Danny shrugged and nodded.

"Not bad mind you, but I was thrown to the ground so it did smart a little." Danny told him. Zareth made a mental note to break number 7s arms off. Zareth never did tell Danny about the meeting between Gaya Works and himself. She just assumed the damage to his body was from the cornfield. She never asked.

"Zareth this place is huge."

"Yeah he won some sort of raffle and he got this place instead of that smaller one. Which I'm not complaining either." Zareth chuckled and held up a key. "Shall we?" He held out his arm. Danny linked his arm around his and started to walk toward their hotel room.