Book 1: Shattered Harmony

Chapter 22: Surprise...again

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Chapter 22

Surprise!

Dareth smiled at the customers and nodded his head before giving them their drinks. The ninja sat in the corner eating dinner, and on occasions one would get dared into going on stage alone and singing. He propped his arms up onto the counter. Danny sat over with them near Zane and Pixal. She had talked to them earlier about what it was like being a nindroid and what she could do about it. Wasn't much mind you, but it felt better to talk to someone who had the same situation as she had. She had been slightly ill lately. At first she was a little melancholy about it and didn't feel like Dareth would still want her since she wasn't human anymore. But he proved to her that it wasn't the case.

Dareth realized that Danny had been having such a good time with them that she didn't even realize that their was a storm going on outside. It was pretty gnarly too. Dareth grabbed a wet rag and started to buss the tables and take the glasses back over to the sink. He walked over and picked up a few of the empty glasses from the ninja's table.

"Hey there sweetheart." Dareth said setting another glass of sweet tea with a lemon down in front of her. She blushed and smiled at him. Her blond hair fell down into her face to hide the blush.

"Dareth you got it good. When a girl still blushes at you for no reason months after you start dating...you still got the moves." Cole said. Dareth chuckled and ran a comb through his hair.

"Yeah and it helps with the fact that I'm drop dead handsome too." Dareth said putting his comb back in his back pocket.

"It helps that your kind, and funny, and you..." She squeeked when there was a loud crack and the lights went out. Everyone in the room freaked out for a moment. Their was pushing and shoving and people falling into each other. Their was a loud pop noise. Finally after a few moments their was calm. Kai stood up using his hand as a torch.

"Everyone alright?" He called out and looked around. Jay and Nya were standing close, Lloyd still looked half asleep, but smiling, he turned to look at Zane and Pixal...but Zanes chair was overturned as was the table.

"Zane?" Kai looked under the table were he spotted Danny she was rubbing her head. She had been sideswiped in the panic ands hoved into Dareth...who also fell into Zane. To Kais amusement there lay Zareth. Danny rubbed her head and looked around at the others and then looked down at the glowing blue eyes just inches from her face. She gasped and sat up, her hand in front of her face and the look in her eyes told him that she wasn't aware of what had just happened.

"Hey babe...nice to see you again." He said. He could see the tiny bump on her head that she got from hitting the table on the way down. "You okay?" He reached up running his fingers over her head. She grimaced and looked at his hand. Their was no blood so she supposed she was okay...right?

"Yeah I think so." She looked up at Nya. She sat down beside her hand began to feel along her forehead plate and shook her head. Danny gasped when she felt something cold on her forehead. Zareth had went and got a small bag of ice. He looked around at the other people. A lot of them had panicked and left, while some still sat down to finish their beverages. He walked behind the counter and pulled out a box and started to put candles on the table and lighting them. It at least brightened up the place.

Finally all the guests had left Pixal and Danny stayed behind to help clean. Zareth had begun to put the chairs on top of the tables. He looked slightly tired. Danny had heard that fusing was exhausting sometimes when its forced, but if they did it by choice their minds were prepared for it and it wasn't as tiring. But this was not only tiring, but she had bumped into them to cause it. She felt incredibly clumsy and she really wanted to apologize, but didn't want to seem like she wasn't glad to see Zareth again in a non threatening environment. Their vacation had been ruined, and they weren't able to finish it because her body was destroyed. She looked down at herself and sighed. It had been close to a year since they had first met. It was still warm outside, and the changes in the weather had provided more storms.