10-Day Successor Frontier Arc

This is a story that's taken place in the middle of the World Adventure Era from the series Donsday. Don't expect me to write another arc anytime soon lol.

## Blurb

Dons’s rankings overall in the Pretzel Cup Championships Tournament is in 538th place which is C-Class. You’d have to be in the top 500 in order to be in the B-Class. So, Don has decided to put his focus on that just to be in the B-Class. Why? Well…at the University One Stop area, Don, Aaron, Laura, and Vanessa were just chilling and talk about their plans for the next upcoming month. However, Mallery, one of Don’s friendlier rivals just dashed right in and accidently pushed Don into the fountain. *(It’s a gag, wherever Don and Mallery meetup, he somehow gets pushed into a river or fountain by her.)* After Don has dried up, Mallery came by and dropped the news that she recently reached to B-Class. Don and his friends were impressed by the results and he realized that he’s slightly behind some of his other friends/rivals were already in B-Class. Except Shooster though.

However, Mallery noticed an opportunity to help Don reach to B-Class faster than the average of how people climb up the rankings. She suggested that Don should participate *“10 Day Catch Up Sweepstakes”* it’s an occasional opportunity to give participants double the points they earn when they defeat other players and they have 10 days to do it. What’s the catch? You have to be teamed up with other people throughout the span of 10 days that has never participated on your team in your battle history record. Don was surprised by all this and believes he can pull it up, but the downside is that he can’t have Laura, Venessa, and Aaron on his team throughout the span of 10 Days. Don is fine with this since he hasn't brought in his recent companions into battle and always likes to mix up his team every now and then. The hard part is who he wants to have for 10 days. He’s done with most people he knows well like from the gaming club, his classmates, and even some of his old friends too. But an idea sparked by! He decided to ask his good friend Daniel and Jessica to help him out on this. His big concern about this is Daniel's sister, Dani. He’s had an interesting history with her, but he believes this could work out well in the end!

## Characters

Don Haven: **(Protagonist)** A young man who is aiming to become a High School Teacher and loves to have adventures with his friends and battle too. With his outgoing personality, he builds to have people together and overcome any challenges that they all face through and many people have respect for him for who he is.

Dani Dani Blu: **(Temporary Ally/Rival)** The sister of Daniel who can be sweet, caring, and a bit timid towards people at first. She knows deep down she would like to help people which is why she wants to be a doctor since she has knowledge with science, chemistry, and medicine. With the help by an unknown mysterious "white hand" named Rodin, (that's been the talk of the Pretzel Kingdom History since its existence) she's able to multitask and function many different things at once to process things faster with its help. She is also the secretary of The Green Society. However, her relationship with Don is a bit complicated due to her being associated with Shooster. For some reason she can be cold hearted towards Don sometimes. The weird part is that some interactions she had with him is that she tends to be helpful and nice to him in some occasion and do the opposite at another day. Very weird of how Dani's mindset plays…

Rest is WIP

## Story

### Day 1

Daniel has accepted Don’s invitation to be part of the 10-Day challenge even though he doesn’t experience battling much compared to his sister, Dani. But he loves to watch them so he knows how the rules work and whatnot. Daniel has invited Don over to his house just to hang out and talk more about it and also meet up with Jessica later too. Don has reached to Daniel’s house and he felt an overwhelming pressure coming towards him and it’s probably because of Dani. Don thought to himself if he’s really doing this to get to B-Class or just to befriend with Dani. Who knows honestly and he just brushes it off as soon as he gets to the door. He nervously rings the door bell and just mentally prepares for any outcome. The door opens and it looked like a feminine figure. “Could it be her or Daniels’s mom??” Don asked to himself. But as soon as the door opens, it was Daniel actually. Don was confused but it turns out that it just a mop in the way to make it look weird. Daniel brought Don inside and welcomed him to make it feel like at home. He told him no shoes in the house so he brought Don over and told his sister Dani that he’s over right now. Don freaked out and didn’t know how to react at first because this is the first time he’s ever been over at either or their house before and the fact there’s been some friction between Dani and Don isn’t helping his current impressions. However, Dani was focusing on a game, paused, and said hi and welcomed him over and asked if he needs anything, he can ask her for things. Don was confused and a little relieved honestly. So, he just smiled and appreciate the welcome and she was smiling too! Later down the line they’ve met with Jessica at a park and did things lol.

### Day 2

After getting the group assembled, Jessica, Daniel, and Dani’s journey to help Don reach to B-class has begun. They went their way to Pyroad Park to seek some players there since there is bound to be people who are eager to battle for some points! To gain more than the average amount of points, the challenger can set the matchup between the opponents. Let’s say that you can earn more of the points if you set more players in battle like a 6v6 format. With the match concluded from a 6v6 battle, the player who won could gain the drastic amount of points they earn compared to the points they earn if they request a 1v1 battle. Just think of gaining exp points from an RPG game or something. With Don having 3 other people by his side, he can take the advantage of that because he’ll know for sure that reaching to B-Class could be a quick process if he requests a 4v4 battle for the most part. Eventually he stumbles upon a random classmate that he recognizes from his Spanish class. Don observes his group and realizes that a 4v4 battle could happen coincidentally. He challenges his Spanish classmate to a battle and Don was confident enough that he got this in the bag. He chose Daniel to go first in the battlefield. Even though he isn’t experienced much in battling, he can pull it through. However though, he didn’t win that match up. Don felt puzzled by the outcome, but it was to be expected that there’s going to be loses regardless. He sends out Jessica this time to avenge Daniel for his first lost, but as the battle goes on, Jessica wasn’t doing so hot and lost too. Judging from the results so far, Don felt slightly embarrassed by this and could’ve approached a little bit of training first just so they can have a little more experience and not rush things through. Luckily, Dani could be his trump card because she’s done a lot of battling and maybe could do a little bit of carrying for the team and Don could finish things off to turn this rocky start of a match around. When he told Dani that she was next, she refused to battle. Don, Jessica, and Daniel were confused by her decision and the opposing team just got awkward vibes witnessing the rejection. Don felt even more embarrassed than he did and didn’t know what to say or anything, all he could do is laugh and smile awkwardly and maybe ask her why later just to communicate with his friends more. He brushed that moment aside and got his head into the game, but he was able to take out 2 people, but he was getting slightly exhausted because he’s been doing the work mostly himself. As he reached to his final opponent, he didn’t have much energy left and lost to the battle. It was getting close, but Don was bound to lose anyways due to the lack of teamwork and Dani didn’t bother helping. He said good games to his opponent and part their ways for now. At the end of the day when the gang was together, Don asked Dani on why she refused to battle and she didn’t really say much out of it. She just told him that she didn’t feel like it and Don addressed that she could’ve just sit out on this one and told him to suggest a 3v3 than 4v4. He would’ve understood, but he just felt slightly overwhelmed how she wasn’t vocal about it and just backed out last minute. Don suggests Jessica and Daniel to do some training and start small tomorrow.

### Day 3

On the third day, Don has to seek opponents to gain back the points that he lost yesterday. Their next location they seek to is The Pearl.

*The Pearl, located north of downtown of the Pretzel Kingdom, provides a unique experience as a top culinary and cultural destination. The mixed-use space features retail, dining, picturesque green spaces, a riverside amphitheater, and the third campus of The Culinary Institute of the nation. As a former brewery operating from 1883 to 2001, Pearl reflects a vivid past while embracing the future with environmentally sustainable buildings mixed with historic architecture.*

It was a nice sightseeing spot, but Daniel wants some energy in order to prep his battle if Don needed his assistance. Jessica suggested this ramen shop that was 100+ feet away from them, so they went and eat. When Don was about to order his ramen, he sees a familiar face working there. When Don was ordering his ramen, he treated this individual like a stranger because they don’t talk anymore since it’s been so long that they’ve talked. It was an old friend of his named Brianna. She was a supporting friend back in 9th grade of high school and one of Don’s earliest friends he had there since he didn’t really have any friends when he started high school at first. They were pretty good friends in the beginning and like in the middle of Sophomore year, they just stopped talking as time go by. Somehow and someway, Don has confidence to ask the person who he was ordering to if it was Brianna and she recognized Don right away and had their small talk. When Don ordered his ramen, Brianna is about to start her break and asked Don if he wanted to have lunch with on her during her breaktime and with how Don felt with what happened yesterday, he wanted to distance himself with Dani, Jessica, and Daniel for a bit. He thinks they’ll be fine and won’t notice anyways. So, Don decides to have his lunch with Brianna and talk about how things are lately after they both graduated high school. Later on…Brianna was impressed how Don is in the Pretzel Cup Championship Tournament and is getting close to B rank. He felt complimented about it, but back in his mind, he feels a little unconfident with how the process is going, but just shrugs it off since it’s not really her business for her to know. He just wants to keep the conversation light hearted. Brianna finishes her bowl and insisted to take Don’s bowl with her. As she heads to the Kitchen, she stepped on an object that felt like a rock and it oval shaped too. She looked below and notices this creepy like mask in the floor. It was a deformed like skull and was wondering why Don owns one. Don was surprised about it and it wasn’t the first time seeing this thing around him either. He wasn’t sure of the answer and just said it was his lucky charm. Brianna was confused and just not let it bother her. Don picked up the mask and threw it away. After having that little reunion, Don came back to sit with Jessica, Daniel, and Dani to see how they’re doing. That had some food left to finish. Jessica was wondering where Don went and he just told them he had an interview. Dani was confused about it and thinks Don is lying about it, but she let it be. Brianna came by with the tab and lent it to Don and is expecting a good tip just for cleaning up after him and smiled off.

Later on, Don got his next battle request by a random passerby and wanted a 2v2 match. Don wanted to ask Dani if she would like to help him on this, but didn’t want to save him the trouble since he’ll know what the answer will be. Instead he chose Jessica to assist him on this and they had their battle. However, Don lost once again in this match. He was confused with the outcome and thought thinks went well, but at the same time he is noticing some weird feelings going on with his head. Jessica told him, “Hey man, it’s okay that we lost again. People have their off days and we ate a lot too, so we didn’t go too crazy during these matches. There’s always next time to catch up. Keep your head up and let’s keep going!” Don appreciated his wisdom, but it wasn’t the case for what happened. Jessica caught up to Daniel and Dani when they were talking. Don looked at Dani behind and thought to himself, “Is she the problem?”  He was unsure of his thoughts at the moment. He couldn’t help stop thinking about it. As for now, he’ll go with it and see how tomorrow rolls.

### Day 4

Don is feeling down in the dumps as thinks about what he did wrong and what he could do differently as he looks at the river reflecting the past couple days about Dani's mindset and decisions that possibly impacted his battles. Later at the River Center Mall Food Court, Professor Lewis gives Don a banner made by his friends over at the Game Club, his co-workers from his school field job, and his classmates. Then Professor Lewis hands Don a postcard from Duane from his foreign travels. As he looks at the postcard, he imagined himself at a foggy location where trees are scattered around with a lake being surrounded by it in the center. Duane stated that Don shouldn't let a loss get him down.

**Duane:** Everything’s cool. Just hang in there.

**Don:** Huh, Duane?

**Duane:** Hey, did you forget that you’ve managed to beat me back then and still do. You’re telling me that you’re gonna hang it up over this?

**Don:** I know what you mean…

**Duane:** You do? Then you know gotta keep on keeping on!

**Don:** You’re right. I’m going to win next time for sure!

**Duane:** I don’t think this losing streak is something someone like you that has to go through. Is it girl problems that’s messing you up? Hehe.

**Don:** Hey! What do you mean?!

**Duane:** Hahaha! I’m just messing with ya, just like old times, you know? Good to see you’re fired up again. Looks like this session is over. I don’t have any time wasting on some loser anyway! Hahaha!

After daydreaming that sequence from the postcard, Don decides that he is going to work even harder and end this losing streak he’s been having.

### Day 5

Today is like a checkpoint day. After losing 3 battles, Don would believe it’s time to take a break and strategize for the upcoming battles he’ll face.

Around the sunset time, Don and his team were walking and Dani was feeling light headed and needed something to snack on. They were in the middle of nowhere in a trail heading to Don’s house. On there way to his house there was a tree with oranges surrounding it, Don used a bit of his soul ray to knock the orange out of the tree. (It’s a finger gun basically) Dani got her orange, but then it got snatched by a robotic wasp. It must be from Dr. Dome for all we know. However, Daniel used his power to get Dani's orange back and took it back from the wasp. But then Don swarm of robotic wasps came by and chased after Daniel, Dani, and Jessica. Don got worried and used his Soul Ray at the swarm and they blew up. He was relieved that he rescued them. However, that moment brings him back memories from a couple years back. He got a vibe that this is all familiar before…It reminded Don the time where this similar situation happened, but a lot worse. When he met his good old close friend Alyssa, it wasn’t the best start they both had. They also got chased by a huge swarm of robotic wasps, and saved by a spirit ghost. (WIP for Name and Specie) The eventually lead them to both becoming good friends and went from there. Looking back at it, Don is wondering if this is a sign from this similar scenario could happen with Dani. But who knows? It’s just a strange coincidence.

It was night time when the gang arrived at the Don's house. They were exhausted after a long day and Don has offered them to spend the night over with a couple of extra rooms that he has in his house. Dani asked Don if she could have a glass of water when she sleeps. He was happy to help and he did that. When he was in the refrigerator, he was thinking if things could be better from here. From Day 1 all the way through 5, it’s been pretty rough. All he wanted is to hang out with Dani a little more and just show more care into his progress reaching to B-Class because sometimes she does and then just doesn’t. As he goes to her room, she already was sleeping. He quietly came in and dropped the water off at the table nearby. He looked at her briefly and was shredding tears. He’s been feeling hurt lately and feels like he can do nothing about it. He was just overwhelmed and doesn’t want to upset her or anything. Eventually he left the room and went to bed.

*"It's okay for you to believe what you're changing. On the path you take, not knowing how tomorrow will go, the day after, and even beyond that. A new day rises, a new opportunity to change things for the better and what you can control in the present creates a new future. The first half of the 10 Day challenge may be rough, but a possibility of tides changing for the better could happen in the remaining days. Never stop believing in hope."*