DP: Betrayal & Corruption (Unrevised Version)

Song: Spektrem - Shine [NCS Release] by NoCopyrightSounds

Tiassale summoned the gained energy and concentrated a reasonable amount to start hovering off the floor. The shadow smiled triumphantly at the good news and he looks at Danny for any reaction, which he grins at the results. The shadow giggled at his friend's gawked and amazed expression, hiding it behind a hand as he failed to stop his giggles.

The shadow guesses that with some of the injuries littering his being, it would look like he has been furiously attacked by a wild animal. He's possibly thinking that he wouldn't have the energy to pull off such a stunt, let alone move easily, but now, the wounds felt like they're healing themselves right away. Nonetheless, that stunt was worth it.

He hid the mixed bag of fearful emotions as to not make the other worry. A being such as himself and a friend who fights his enemies for him without compensation needs to have their fair share of battles.

"Come and quit looking at me like that, please? You look very much like a gobsmacked expressive mask!" He quietly chuckles. "Why not take my hand instead?" He sticks his right hand out towards his friend, eagerly awaiting the flight they will endure to escape this hell of a blank world.

Confused by Tiassale's fight performance, the Halfa takes his friend's hand with no hesitation and was assisted upon getting off the floor. He nods his thanks with a small smile. The void figure then lifts him into the hollow air and getting too excited to normally pull his friend up, he quickly pulls his hand back and lets Danny's body lie over his right shoulder.

Surprised by this action, the ghost teen felt himself being thrown over the shadow's shoulder and, thinking that he'll let him do this on their way out, he escapes behind a sudden giddy Tiassale. The ghost flips himself up-right before he crashes onto the nonexistent floor, getting himself floating back beside Tiassale. Disbelief takes over his face as he witnesses a slightly crazed, yet joyful, expression on the doppelganger's face.

... It was as if he had suddenly switched personalities.

"Uh, what was that for?" He asks, skepticism filling in his voice as he quirks an eyebrow and crosses his arms over his chest.

Tiassale chuckles happily, a little too happy, before blinking his eyes a few times as if he had gotten back under control from a sudden takeover. "What are you talking about, my friend...?"

Danny sweeps a hand gesture towards the other. "I mean, why the heck did you throw me over your shoulder like I was a doll?"

Tiassale blinks again as confusion settles into his eyes and he gives the Halfa a thoughtful side glance before answering. "I have no reasonable explanation towards that question. I do not know what you mean, but I did not do that action on purpose. In complete honesty, I have nothing justifiable to say without accidentally sounding like a young one. I apologize, however, to pull off an outlandish stunt such as that without my notice. I doubt that you will forgive me..."

Danny searches through the answer given to him, suspecting that the abrupt changes from the joyful expression to the uncertain mien have to mean something. A suddenness of blackening out for less than a minute or two, some sort of takeover, or something that unexpectedly showed itself to be noticed... There're too many questions for him to answer.

He came up with no answers as there wasn't anything to exactly pinpoint what happens for real or not. Maybe if it happens again, it'll confirm his suspicions. Dang, Jazz's psycho-babble can make itself his acquaintance...

For now, he nods with a smile, punching him playfully on the shoulder. "You're forgiven, dude. Just... be aware next time when it happens, okay? I don't want to end up nearly falling flat on my face." He throws in a chuckle to reassure the shadow.