Lucy is now in the hospital. Her wound is really deep. However ,doctor was able to stitched her wound ,but she'll have to stay in the hospital for the next fews day.
After what happened, Darren went back to his house really late at night. He thought by now his parents might already be sleeping ,so he quietly use his key to open the door. However ,as soon as he got in. He saw the light was open. His dad was standing right in front of him, He asked, "Tell me, why are you home so late?"
Darren didn't know if his dad will believe what he was about to tell or not ,but he decided to tell him anyway, "I, uh, went to a forest with my friends, and we encountered a shadow demon or monster. It hurted my friend , I don't really know what it was." said Darren.
His dad replied, "I'm sorry, what? "
"Okay, look, Dad, it doesn't really matter. I'll go to sleep, and I'll talk to you later," said Darren.
"No ,it does matter." said his dad ,his dad continued speaking, "I don't mind if you want to be outside with your friends till midnight ,but you should tell me. You had both me and your mother worried ,do you know that?"
Darren answered, "I know and I'm sorry. You probably won't understand what I've been through today."
Her mother came out of bedroom. She saw Darren and quickly came to hug him. She asked, "What happened?"
"He hanged out with friend until late. What else could happen?" said Darren's dad.
"Darren is a good person. He'll never do that without telling us ,let him explain for himself." said Darren's mom.
Darren then told his dad and mom about what happened. After Darren told his dad and mom everything , His dad whispered to his mom, "Do you actually believe what he was saying? It's insane."
Darren's mom whispered, "I don't know ,maybe he's sick?"
"I think he just made this crazy story up ,so we will forgive him." said Darren's Dad.
Darren's mom walked closer to Darren and spoke, "Are you okay? Darren."
Darren replied, "I should have known you won't believe me." Darren walked away.
"That's not what we meant ,son." shouted his dad. However ,Darren just continued to walk to his room. He knew he needed to find a proof or else no one will believe him at all.
Since it is really late ,Darren was also tired from all that happened ,so he went to sleep.
The next day, Darren woke up and come down.
Darren's mom and dad was also there. They're eating breakfast together. His dad spoke, "Look ,son. I'm sorry I didn't believe you yesterday."
His mom added, "We just heard what happened to Lucy ,is she okay?"
Darren replied, "Yeah ,she's okay. She is recovering in the hospital."
"Thank God ,you're okay." said Darren's mom.
"You sure what you saw wasn't a thief ,right?" asked Darren's dad.
Darren answered, "Yeah ,definitely not."
"Okay ,I'll talk to you about it later after I came back home. Stay safe." said Darren's dad.
"Wait. Dad, what about my school?" asked Darren.
His dad replied, "Today's Saturday, son." Darren suddenly realized , he thought he had to go to school all along.
A moment later ,His dad quickly went out side and drove his car out.
Darren wanted to visit Lucy ,and talk to Janet and Brian about what happened yesterday ,and Since Darren didn't have to go to school anymore. He decided to text to Janet and Brian, "Shall we visit Lucy at the hospital? I want to visit her and talk to you about what happened yesterday."
A few minutes later, Janet texted back, "Sure. I was just about to head there anyway."
Not long after ,Brian texted back, "Okay ,I'm heading out now."
20 minutes later, Darren and Brian arrived at the hospital. They arrived around the samw time ,so they walk into the hospital together. They came in Lucy's room. Once they've entered. They saw Lucy sleeping on her bed ,Janet was already there waiting.
"hi" greeted Janet. "hi" Darren greeted back.
He came to sit and ask, "How's Lucy?" ,Janet replied, "She got better. Doctor said she should get some rest and she'll be okay."
Darren answered, "That's great."
Darren continued speaking, "Okay, Janey um, I know this is a lot to take in, but I think I might have superpowers. I don't expect you to believe me ,but."
"I believe you," said Janet. She continued speaking, "If it's possible that shadow monster existed ,then people with superpower is not too unbelievable right? Besides yesterday, when you used your hand to block the attack of the monster, I saw some kind of energy coming out of your hand. I haven't thought about this till now, but if you didn't really have superpowers, I don't think you'd be able to block an attack like that."
"Whoa what? I thought it just you dream of what happened in the future. So what? You're some sort of wizard in a movie?" said Brian.
Darren replied, "Look ,I don't know, but until I can figure it out, I don't want any of you to get hurt."
"What happened to Lucy is my fault. I'm the one who invited her to walk into those woods, I shouldn't have done that. Especially not if people keep disappearing. " said Janet.
"Hey ,stop blaming yourself. If you hadn't walk into that wood ,maybe Darren wouldn't discover his superpower at all." said Brian.
Janet replied, "Okay, look, the point is, whatever is going to happen, I'm not afraid."
"Me too. You're my friend, right? Whatever is going to happen, just let it happen," said Brian.
"There's got to be someone who would believe what we said ,right?" said Janet.
After hearing this, Darren suddenly realized. He said, "Dr. Deno! Yesterday, I met him in the ESP Lab. He studies this kind of stuff. He'd probably believe us."
"That's great! When should we go to him?" asked Janet.
Darren replied, " How about now?"
Not long after ,All of them got on Darren's car and headed to the ESP Lab. Darren park his car. They got off and walked into the lab. The door opened ,this time Dr.Deno was right there in the lab. He looked and said, "Hey, I didn't think you would stop by. Oh nice, you brought some friends too," said Dr. Deno.
"Look, I'm sorry about how I ran away last time. My friend was in danger." Darren started.
Dr. Deno interjected, "It's fine, I get it. You don't have to apologize."
"Oh" replied Darren.
Dr. Deno continued speaking, "You wanna tell me what happened?"
"Yeah." answered Darren.
Dr. Deno took Darren, Brian, and Janet to the elevator. Once they arrived at 23rd floor, Darren spoke, "Okay ,this might sounds crazy." ,then he told Dr. Deno about what happened.
Dr. Deno replied, "So this shadow monster ,did he say anything?"
Darren answered, "He said that finally I have come. I think he wanted me for something ,maybe that has something to do with me having this dream powers?"
"That'd be make a good connection." answered Dr.Deno.
Brian asked, "What about last time you scanned his brain waves. Is there anything weird?"
"Yes ,but without more time I can't identify what it was." replied Dr.Deno.
Dr.Deno continued speaking, "You said you did block the attack of the monster ,right?"
"Yeah ,I did." said Darren. Janet added, "And I saw some kind of energy came out of his hands too. Maybe that's what stopped the attack."
"Can you try doing that again?" asked Dr.Deno.
Darren replied, "Okay," Darren moved his hand to the front. Everyone backed up. He closed and opened his eyes exactly like how he did yesterday. However ,nothing appeared to happen.
Darren spoke, "Hold on a second. Um, I need to concentrate. " Darren put his hand down and put it up again. He repeated what he did ,but the result was still the same; nothing happened.
Brian couldn't help but laugh. He try to not laughing but he can't. "I'm sorry ,it's just so funny." said Brian.
"It's not working. " said Darren. Janet suggested, "Try it again." ,Darren tried ,but it didn't work.
"Perhaps, you need to access your dream to use your powers?" suggested Dr. Deno.
Darren opened his eyes and replied, "Yeah, we can try that."
Darren and his friends followed Dr. Deno to the brain scanning machine. "Sleep over there ,I will be scanning your brains for an anomaly." said Dr.Deno.
Darren replied, "Okay" He lay down on the bed and not long after , he started having a dream again. However, this time Dr.Deno was able to scan his brain and saw weird energy moving inside.
In Darren's dream, he saw his friends and Dr. Deno, they were all walking into the woods, "Do you think he'll show?" asked Janet. Brian replied, "I think so."
Suddenly Dr. Deno looked back, he spoke, "I'm sorry ,kid." He turned into the shadow monster within a second, leaving everyone in shock. That monster started attacking again, a second later , Darren woke up. He was shocked, he didn't know what to say or of the dream is telling the truth or not ,but as far as he have dreaming ,the dream never lied.
He quickly spoke, "We've to go now."
"What happened?" asked Janet. "Yeah ,where are you going?" added Dr.Deno.
Darren didn't want Dr.Deno to find out what he saw ,so he lied, "Uh ,it's Lucy ,she's dying. We gotta help her."
"Oh my God." said Janet.
Darren and all his friends quickly got into the elevator and headed down.
They all got in Darren's car ,Darren quickly drove as far as possible from the lab. Janet spoke, "Wait ,The hospital is that way. Where are you going?"
Darren was certain they were far enough, so he park the car near the street and told them what happened, "Lucy is okay. I was lying."
"What? Why?" asked Brian.
It's Dr. Deno, he... ,he's not who we think he is. I saw him ,he is the shadow monster."
Brian was shocked ,he didn't know what to say. Janet thought for a while and said, "If that's true ,then we just told the killer everything we knew so far."
"Yeah ,I'm afraid so. I'm sorry ,I thought he was trustable." said Darren.
Janet replied, "It's not your fault. No one could have known that." "Yeah ,he totally tricked us." added Brian.
"Wait ,If Dr.Deno is the shadow monster ,then maybe reading his articles will get us some answer." suggested Brian.
"Yeah ,Can we do that?" asked Janet.
"Okay, I'll see if I can dig any information about him," said Darren.
Darren came out of his cars and came to sit in the back seat with Janet and Brian. Darren took his notebook out of his backpack and they began searching.
Darren searched, "ESP Lab" and went to their official websites. There he started looking for an interesting headline. There were many articles ,most of them is about Dr.Deno's experiment which did not pointed to shadow monster or anything similar at all ,but eventually he found one interesting. The headline was, "Alternate dimension exists!"
Darren spoke, "Guys ,look at the headline."
Brian read it out, "Alternate dimension exists? That's impossible." said Brian.
Janet replied, "Look at the date. This article was written 2 years ago ,and it has yet 0 updates." ,Darren clicked at the headline to view more about the article."
The text read, "Hello, I'm Dr. Deno, and after many years of experimentation, those experiments have pointed to the existence of multiple dimensions. This could change the way we understand science and everything. But that's not all. Today, I'm going to conduct an experiment to prove multiple dimensions really exist. The experiment will be done inside these woods ,so if anything goes wrong there'll be no casualties. Sounds exciting, right? I'll write down the results when the experiment is finished and see you then."
"That's it, that's all?" asked Brian.
"Yeah ,there are no more articles related to do that." said Darren.
Janet said, "Do you think he did an experiment inside those woods and something happened to him?"
Darren replied, "We don't know for sure ,but I have an idea." He looked at the list of scientists who contributed this project, The name Dr.Lukas was on top as a main contributor. Darren said, "Look ,Dr.Lukas. He's the main contributor of this project ,but it said he got fired ,maybe he knows something that can help us."
"Well ,I certainly don't think he'd put his location on this website. Would he?" said Janet.
"No ,but I know how to find him." said Darren, "How?" asked Brian.
"Well ,he still linked his account to his other social media ,so maybe we can try reach him out." answered Darren.
Darren texted him to ask for his location ,he answered ,then Darren drove to his location.
They got out of the car and walked to his place. Darren tried knocking on the door but there're no response.
"You sure you're in the right place?" asked Brian.
A second later, the door opened. A man, "Sorry for keep you waiting ,You're DarTheDog1237 right?"
Brian replied, "I'm sorry ,who?" ,He laughed. However ,Darren answered? "Yeah ,that's me."
"Seriously? DarTheDog?" said Brian. Darren replied, "Well ,I wantes a disguised name so I came up with that."
"Oh ,still funny" Brian laughed again.
"Come on inside." said the man.
They walked inside and looked around. This place have so many stuff and it's quite very messy.
"What happened to this place?" asked Brian. "Don't ask." said the man.
"So you're Dr. Lukas, right?" asked Darren.
The man replied, "Yes, I was. Since I got fired I am not quite a scientist anymore."
"So what really happened between you and Dr. Deno?" asked Janet.
Lukas replied, "Around 15 years ago, when Deno decided to open this lab, he recruited scientists from all around the world. I was interested, so I joined him. It turns out we had a lot in common, with the crazy theories and ideas we had for experiments. Soon, we became best friends. We were friends for a long time until three years ago when we decided to do an experiment about multiple dimensions. We did it; we opened a breach between dimensions. Just then, Dr. Deno went back to the lab to get more tools to run some tests. I waited in front of the breach, waiting for him. However, night fell, and he still didn't show up, so I decided to leave. The next day, I came to see him in the lab. I tried to ask him about what happened. He denied the question, and when I asked him to go back to the breach for more tests, he fired me. I don't know what went wrong or what even happened, but after that day, we never spoke again. It's like after that he changed to a completely different person."
"We're so sorry about what happened, Dr. Lukas," said Janet.
Lukas replied, "So what did you want to tell me?"