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  Rating:
      Explicit
  Archive Warning:
      Underage
  Category:
      M/M
  Fandom:
      Danny_Phantom
  Relationship:
      Danny_Fenton/Vlad_Masters, Ember_McLain/Skulker
  Character:
      Sam_Manson, Tucker_Foley, Ember_McLain, Clockwork_(Danny_Phantom), Vlad
      Masters, Danny_Fenton, Dash_Baxter, Dan_Phantom, The_Lunch_Lady_(Danny
      Phantom), Jack_Fenton, Maddie_Fenton, Jazz_Fenton
  Additional Tags:
      ancient_story, Danny~Jaqueline, Vlad~Jonas, Underage_-_Freeform, but
      they're_halfas, Justification_for_my_ship, Blegh_to_the_hatahs, twue
      wove, True_Love, otp
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      Published: 2015-04-14 Updated: 2015-06-24 Chapters: 23/? Words: 31161
****** Live Once, Live Twice, Love Forever ******
by Narumina12
Summary
     Danny and Vlad have been getting subtle hints from the universe
     around them that they're not supposed to be enemies,that they were
     actually lovers in a past life They don't actually find out until
     after Danny's assignment to read Jonas of the Living Dead and he
     becomes infatuated with it and since big things can happen in a
     day,what about a weekend alone with the frootloop? VMxDF
***** Chapter 1 *****
A small village resting on the shore, small and seemingly peaceful.
Unfortunately, while it normally was, today was not a day for such kind
activities as was the norm, today was the execution of two people, said to be
born of Satan himself. A young woman with brown hair and icy blue eyes was
kicking and screaming in the grasp of the villagers, her clothes were ratty and
looked as if they'd been worn 10 times before. Near her, a man with graying
black hair and dark blue eyes just accepted his fate.
Their eyes met for a split second but she instantly knew what he wanted, she
stopped her struggle and fell limp, doing the same as the man. He smiled softly
to the woman as tears ran down both of their faces.
Once they reached the center of the town the were tied to stakes beside each
other, but instead of the usual wood being placed at their feet, there was
currently nothing.
"Jonas, is this it?" The woman asked.
"Unfortunately, yes, my love."
"Why are they so angry over something we had no power over? Something we had no
choice on?"
"It doesn't matter what we say, they'll believe whatever they wish. Though it
is important that we know the truth, it does not matter otherwise. Will you
heed my words, Jacqueline?"
The woman took a sharp breath in, "Of course, Jonas. I'll miss you."
"Do not speak like that, we will see each other again, hopefully in a time when
ghosts like ourselves are accepted instead of shunned."
The villagers each brought a basket full of blood red roses with purple stems
and leaves instead of green.
"I love you, little badger."
"I love you as well, my crazy old man..."
"-And that's the end of Jonas of the Living Dead" Mr Lancer said to his class,
"You will have a test on this on Monday when you return, so some of you may
want to reread the book so you remember even the smallest detail and-... Mr.
Fenton? Fenton. DANIEL!"
Danny jumped in his seat, for once he wasn't sleeping in class, he was actually
entranced by the book and began rereading it constantly since they started
reading it, this wasn't the first time he had been caught in his usual trance.
Mr. Lancer sighed, "Well, I expect Daniel to do well on this for once, so that
should motivate the rest of you to hop on it so you don't get left in his
footsteps. Mr. Fenton, I expect to see you after class, again"
Danny groaned and set his book down once the bell rang, Mr. Lancer had
impeccable timing when it came to the bell. He walked towards his teacher,
"Yes, Mr. Lancer?"
The older man sighed again, "I can understand you being entranced in this
book," He took a deep breath in and looked away, "Even more then you know, but
I would appreciate it if you would at least listen during class. Even if that
means just leaving your book with me at the beginning of class."
"I'm sorry Mr. Lancer, but I just can't help it, this book... It just..."
"Feels familiar? Almost like you've lived through it?" Danny looked shocked to
have his teacher say what was on his mind, but thought nothing of it and
nodded. "It is considered to be a true story by some, I'm one of those people,
it's very well possible you might've been either Jonas or Jacqueline in a past
life."
"What? How could I be Jackie in a past life? She was a girl!"
Mr. Lancer smiled, "That's not the way past lives work Daniel, every soul has
two different sides, one that's soft and fragile, that side is known as the
female side, the other is rough and hardened, that is considered the male.
Which ever one shines through the most doesn't make your sex any different.
That's why some people tend to become cross dressers and the like. I've noticed
that although your male side shines through a good amount of time, your female
side shows just as much. Does this make any sense?" The older hoped that his
speech was not too lost on the boy.
"Y-yeah, I think, the way someone thinks isn't the way the body is perceived?
Right?"
Lancer smiled, "Yes, exactly. Now, I can't believe I have to tell you this, no
more reading in the middle of class?"
"Sure, I'll just give it to Jazz before school and get her to hide it
somewhere. I'll only-" Danny was cut off by the breath of cold air that slipped
through his lips, "Sorry, may I leave?"
Lancer nodded and Danny shot out of the room. The bald man shook his head, 'It
seems the boy has more in common with them then he cares to admit to me. No
matter, it is not my job to meddle, it is to push them together. All I need to
do is find the other, hopefully the gods will show me mercy...'
Danny ran into the boys bathroom and looked under the stalls for people,
whatever creator is out there he was thanking them as he transformed and flew
out of the bathroom.
It didn't take long to find Vlad just standing on the side of the gate to the
school, he just stood there silently. Danny floated over him then lowered his
face to Vlad's height, hoping to scare him, "What's up frootloop?"
Vlad didn't jump but just stared into the boy's curious eyes, they reminded him
of something, something that once stood out in his memory as a happy, yet pain
filled memory. "Nothing that concerns Phantom, but it does involve Fenton."
"Ok, just hide me so I can change back."
Vlad raised a brow at the boy's sudden trust of him, but did so none-the-less.
He looked at the boy to find him holding a book at his side.
Danny's voice pulled him from his thoughts, "So what's going on? Mom and Dad
going on another convention and leaving me with you so we could have 'bonding
time'?"
Vlad gave a smirk at how well he knew his parents, "Yes actually, you'll be
staying with me at my mansion for the weekend."
"Yep, and Jazz is going to stay with Mom's sister right?"
"Oooh, nope, that's wrong, she's staying with her friend for her birthday."
Danny rolled his eyes, "Let's just get this over with, I have a book to read."
Vlad walked over to a sleek black porsche and opened the passenger door for the
boy, who raised a brow at the gentle-manliness the other was showing, but
thought nothing of it and got in anyway. Vlad walked around to the other side
and sat in the driver's seat.
"Didn't know the frootloop could drive." Danny teased.
"We 'Fruitloops' still have normal skills besides ghost-hunting and the like. I
wonder if badgers do anything besides school and ghost-hunting as well." Vlad
retorted with a playful smirk.
"... Not really, I hang out with Sam and Tucker every now and then, but time
with them has gotten shorter and shorter..."
Vlad felt a slight joy in this, 'this means I spend more time with him then his
own friends! Granted, not in the way I would've liked, but it works for me!'.
He also felt slightly guilty, it also meant he was the one stealing the boy's
sleep and study time. "I'm sorry to hear that, I'll try to dull down on the
'evil schemes' a bit." he smiled to the boy and found that he was smiling at
the window. "So, what are you reading?"
Danny jumped a bit, his mind wandering to lost memories that he only remembered
for a split second, "Oh, um, Jonas of the Living Dead, I'm no expert, but, It's
a good story... To be honest, I've already read it like 70 times already. It's
good for a romance novel."
"Hm, I've never heard of it, would you mind summarizing it for me?"
Danny hesitated, but saw no harm in telling a story to the older. 'I mean
really, how is he going to make an evil plan from an old romance?', "Well, It's
about a Prince, Prince Jonas von Shay the..."
"The third? If I remember my history correctly he was a prince of a small
country that only had three nearby villages, he never became king because of an
incident concerning his lover. I thought that was foolish of his father to even
consider taking his inheritance for something as foolish as that."
"Yeah, him. Well the story says that he was made a half ghost because he had
been deathly ill and was fed... um those flowers you used on me back when you
had the infa-map."
"Blood roses."
"That's it, he was fed blood roses as a way to ward off the evil spirits that
were plaguing him, but, you know how that works, death and ghost hunting stuff
tend to not mix well."
"So he became a Halfa? Interesting, that would explain why he had so many
sudden disappearances."
"He was scarred from the experience and his fiance refused to go through with
the wedding. He cut himself off from the rest of the world for years until he
started sneaking out to an abbey to pray among the nuns. One in particular he
came by just to see her. Her name was Jacqueline Honri she was a runaway from
her home of France and became a nun that he was closest to."
"I take it, they fell in love at first sight."
"Hardly, she was forced to look after him and while he flirted with her she
would argue with him about all the things he's not doing for his country, she
actually hated him."
The car stopped, "Well, I'll find a copy of the book to read myself, for now,
I'll show you your room and we'll get to bed."
Danny nodded and followed the older.
***** Chapter 2 *****
Chapter Notes
See the end of the chapter for notes
"So, you're here again?"
Jonas turned to see the blue eyed nun he met the day before with a pocket bible
at her side. She had such a young face, about 20 or so, next to her, he felt
ancient at his age of 43.
"Yes, you could say I felt god calling for me."
"Stop lying. I can easily tell you came here for something else." she said.
"Besides, there's a rumor among the nuns that any one who lies in front of that
particular statue is cursed with bad luck worse then breaking a mirror."
Jonas was taken aback by the woman's retort but chuckled as if she told a bad
pun, "I felt compelled to come here. As if by instinct, I even waited here."
"What do your instincts tell you now?"
Jonas walked to the woman, "They're telling me to kiss you."
"It seems your instincts are completely useless then, I was hoping you could
share some wisdom with me."
Jonas raised a brow to the woman, "Wisdom? What kind?"
She pondered for a bit, "... Why do you always look so sickly?
Jonas growled in his throat, "I prefer not to speak of it. It was merely the
beginning of a long painful time for me."
"Fine..." Jonas began stroking her face with his finger, "Why do you wear a
hood?"
His growl deepened, "Another part of that time."
"Fine, then here is my final question, why does your aura reek of death?"
His growl intensified and his hand gripped her throat, "I swear woman, do not
continue your talk of such things that bring horrid memories of mine back to
life."
The woman held slight fear in her eyes, but you'd have to dig deep to see it.
"I don't know of your past m'lord, forgive me if I hit a sensitive subject. I
will not ask any further questions." his grip loosened and she turned on her
heel to walk away. He stood there in shock and regret as he watched her
retreating figure.
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Vlad woke with a start at his dream. It was so life-like, he was someone else,
a man named Jonas. He had all of the man's memories at that moment, but they
left him once he woke up. He could remember his dream though, what happened in
it. The woman was very familiar, and while her voice had a bite to it, he loved
hearing it. Vlad closed his eyes and took a deep, shaky breath in. She had left
him breathless, even in his waking.
The billionaire pushed it to the back of his mind for now, he probably had to
wake up Daniel so they could start their days. He felt a shift next to him and
saw Danny sleeping on the edge of his bed. Vlad's eyes widened at finding the
boy in his bed and he fell of off the side he was on and caused the boy to jump
and shoot up from his laying position.
"V-VLAD?!" Danny exclaimed as he mimicked the older's previous actions of
falling over. Unfortunately, Danny decided to just sleep in his boxers so when
Vlad peeked over he saw slender pale legs spread out and gripping at the bed as
an attempt of staying up. Danny readjusted himself so he was glaring at Vlad
from the other side of the bed.
"What are you doing in my room?!" Danny yelled.
"I do believe you are mistaken my boy, this is MY room. So I must ask what you
are doing here?" Vlad stood up, lucky for him he had his black pajamas instead
of just his undergarments.
Danny seemed to shrink as he curled up, "I-I don't know... I remember having a
nightmare and going to get a glass of water. Everything just breaks off there."
Danny felt around his throat and flinched, Vlad noticed the bruise on the boy's
neck and flinched, could he have tried to strangle the boy in his sleep? All
because of a dream?
"Where did you get that?" Vlad pointed to the bruise on the boy's throat.
"I don't know, I don't tend to keep track of my injuries anymore..." Danny said
spitefully. And even though Vlad could hear the venom in the younger halfa's
voice he was more focused on the boy's neck and legs, he licked his lips
unconsciously. Danny noticed this and blushed, but said nothing as he walked
away silently.
Vlad was brought out of his fantasy by the slam of a door. He realized what he
was doing and growled at his own foolish actions. He pulled off his pajamas and
switched it out with his usual suit, brushed his teeth and pulled his sliver
hair back in the usual ponytail. He looked into the mirror and saw the flash of
a man with blue skin, red eyes and a purple cloak, a smile splayed across his
face. Vlad jumped as his mind wandered to his dream yet again.
'I don't know what I need, but if anyone knows... Una will.' Vlad began
thinking up a scheme to have Daniel distracted long enough to sneak into the
Ghost Zone long enough to seek out his old friend.
Danny was having his own problem concerning the other Halfa, he liked to have
Vlad stare at him like that, that disturbed him greatly. He walked into his
temporary room and pulled on his jeans and T-shirt. Though once he walked into
the bathroom he realized he forgot his toothbrush at home and groaned.
"Forget something?" Danny's head whipped around to find Clockwork in the
doorway holding his usual time staff in one hand and his toothbrush in the
other.
"Clockwork? Why are you here?"
"Two simple reasons Daniel, 1: Toothbrush," Clockwork handed said object to
Danny, "and 2: Vlad will try to ditch you so he can go to the Ghost Zone, I
want you to follow him, and don't reveal yourself until you are told. Are we
clear?"
"... Ok, I guess... Hey uh, Clockwork, would you mind telling me something?"
"I'm sorry Daniel, but you can wait for that question, it would be best if you
do, she's much better at explaining then I am." Clockwork waved his staff to
the mirror and flew in with out even listening to Danny's protests.
Danny pouted, "Maybe 'she' is better explaining because she listens more!"
Danny growled at the mirror.
After brushing his teeth he got lost on his way to the dining room and had to
have one of the maids guide him down. Once they finally got there he turned to
her and nodded with a small "Thank you."
Vlad was already sitting at the head of the table and felt jealous of the maid
for a slight moment but quickly shook it off.
"I see you are now fully dressed." Vlad teased as Danny sat at the other head
of the table. "Now why must you sit so far away? You must know the expression
'Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer?'."
Danny tsk'd and sat in the chair closest to Vlad, his face turned a slight red
at Vlad resting his head on his arms and smirking at the boy.
"What's for breakfast?" Danny asked to try and hide his embarrassment from the
older.
Vlad frowned at the lack of reaction from his teasing, "Well, I've got some
business at the office to take care of so it might be best to have cereal as a
quick meal."
The maid that guided Danny came back out with two bowls, "I'm sorry Mr. Masters
but we haven't gone shopping for your usual cereal yet, the others and I
thought you wouldn't mind eating some of the child's cereal you reserve for
guests children."
"Of course not, what is it?"
"Fruitloops." The bowl was lowered and both halfas saw the bowls full of milk
and fruitloops. Danny stifled his laughter until the maid left, then burst into
laughter, tears prickled his eyes as he lost his breath. Vlad just sat there
watching the scene with crossed arms.
"Are you done yet?"
"N-no... Oh god... I- Th-that was..." The boy was thrown into another violent
fit of laughter and Vlad couldn't help but smile and shake his head at that
point. Danny finally calmed down, "That was as funny as putting a smiley face
on Sam's cake for her birthday. We told her that since she was an ultra-
recyclo-vegetarian she couldn't eat it and we'd get most of it."
Vlad chuckled, "That was good, I haven't laughed in a while."
"Don't you mean 'haven't laughed NORMALLY in a while,' you always are laughing
about some stupid plan of yours." Danny said with his signature smirk, happy
that his embarrassment was forgotten.
"Yes, well I'm glad that you were there to stop those 'stupid plans'." Vlad
laughed, then stopped and realized just what he had said, "Well, a few anyway,
the ones that put too many people for my liking in danger."
Danny felt Vlad getting flustered, but unlike the man near him, he wasn't going
to push it, "So you said you had to leave for work?"
Vlad jumped and looked at his watch as to act like he really had to go to work,
"Ah yes, well it seems breakfast will have to be on the go, farewell Little
Badger." As Vlad ran out of the room, Danny couldn't stop the pain that came
from that nickname. He knew it was annoying before, but painful is new, yet
fairly familiar, it reminded him of... 'Jonas...'
Chapter End Notes
     Naru: Yo, sup my peeps! *licks the sugar off of a peep*
     Danny: How'd you get that? It's September.
     Naru: Vlad owns a small peeps factory.
     Vlad: I do?
     Naru: You do if I say you do... So, yeah ya do.
     Vlad: Well, I think you know what that means *looks at Danny evilly*
     Danny: *looks at Naru nervously* That we all are gonna get peeps for
     Easter?
     Naru: Nope, means yous gon get raeped! Now Vlad, bondage? *holds up
     handcuffs*
     Vlad: Please
     Naru: *Looks behind Vlad to find Danny gone.* Aw damn it he got away~
     *smirks evilly* You could use it for something else ya know?
     Vlad: I'm not using bondage on you.
     Naru: What? I was talking about using the handcuffs to hang my basket
     of peeps from the ceiling... Though that works too.
     Vlad: *groans* Narumina12 doesn't own anything.
     Naru: But I will!... Not really *sits in the emo corner*
***** Chapter 3 *****
Chapter Notes
See the end of the chapter for notes
It took a while for Danny to find Vlad in the huge mansion but he eventually
found him in his lab. He was looking for something and was tearing the place
apart. Once he finally found it, Danny saw it was a map from only one place to
another, written in similar green ink as the one clockwork gave him.
Vlad morphed and went through the ghost portal quickly. Danny followed as
quietly as was possible from floating like a ghost (insert sarcastic laugh).
They passed by Skulker's territory, Ember's lair, the Far Frozen and loads of
other ghost lairs, some that Danny had never seen before. It was a surprise
when they arrived at a tower that looked almost exactly like Clockwork's only
instead of clocks everywhere it was books, it was like a library instead of a
clock tower.
Vlad stepped into the territory, morphed back to Masters and begun to walk to
the door, he knocked on the door once and it opened. Danny rushed in after Vlad
was already in, and the door closed behind him.
"Ah, Plasmius, Phantom, how nice to see you. Though I'd prefer that you come
into my home in your human form, Daniel." Both turned to see a woman with pale
green skin and green eyes. She wore a blue cloak that looked similar to
Clockwork's only hers had a pin that was shaped in a fancy 'U'. Her green eyes
shone through the shade of her hood and a smile showed through the bottom. She
had on an elegant dress that seemed to flow with the ghostly energy around it.
"Una? What are you talking about? Daniel is not here, I left him back at the
mansion." Vlad said calmly.
The newly named Una sighed, "Really Vlad, you've never noticed his presence as
easily as most. Daniel, it's fine, Clockwork sent you correct?"
Danny became visible and transformed into Fenton, "Y-yeah, he told me to follow
Vlad. How did you know? Were you the 'she' that Clockwork mentioned?"
She nodded and motioned to a door nearby, "My husband is waiting for us in the
commons, please follow me."
Vlad glared slightly at Danny, and Danny just laughed nervously as they walked
into the commons. Danny saw Una and Clockwork sitting on the love seat each
with a cup of tea.
Clockwork smiled, "I see you two have decided to join us."
Vlad seemed a little shaken at seeing the figure that appeared in his mirror
that morning but thought that if Una trusts him then he is a possible ally.
"Clockwork? What's going on?" Danny asked.
Una's smile softened in slight sadness, "We have decided that you two are too
thick-headed, that may be my fault, but what's done is done. The point is, you
just ignore even the simplest of hints, hints that some would've gotten almost
a year ago. So we're just going to say it. Now sit."
Danny sat on the end of the couch and Vlad took the middle by instinct.
Clockwork smiled at the unknowingly familiar closeness they were at, Una
giggled slightly.
"First off, I trust The Jared has already explained the composition of the soul
to Daniel, correct?" Clockwork asked.
"Uh, who's Jared?"
Una giggled again while Clockwork just shook his head, "Jared Lancer, he is the
reincarnation of a monk you both knew, he only had one mission, but seeing as
though it is more difficult then anticipated he will have his mission pardoned
and be left to live the rest of his current life. You two, however, are not so
lucky."
"What do you mean?" Vlad asked.
"He means that we have to go through some big time-traveling adventure that
concerns our past lives, yadda yadda." Danny said boredly.
"Close but no, I have to say that I'm glad our positions aren't the reverse,
you'd make a terrible time lord." Clockwork replied with a smirk. Danny pouted
and Clockwork continued, "In your past lives, the two of you were Jonas and
Jacqueline."
Vlad was slightly shocked as he heard that those two particular people were
lovers, while Danny was full on panicking. "WHAT?! BUT THEY WERE LOVERS AND
MARRIED AT THAT AND JACQUELINE WAS A GIRL, IF YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED WE ARE BOTH
MEN!"
"One 43 year-old man and a 16 year-old teenager if you want to be specific."
Una added.
"Daniel, Lancer explained it to you, sex doesn't matter to the soul, Jacqueline
had your same attitude. Jonas was a lonely man that was never married.
Jacqueline's nickname from Jonas was even little badger and Jonas was her
'crazy old man'." Clockwork said calmly.
"No, no way, I'm not in love with the frootloop AT ALL! Besides he's after
mom!" Danny yelled.
"I do love Daniel," Vlad said, earning a shocked blushing Danny, "But as a son,
I could never love someone THAT much younger then me."
"See?!"
Una shook her head, "I was afraid this would happen." She sighed, "Vlad, Maddie
was never meant for you, I had her fall in love with Jack instead of you for
the only reason, that it was wrong. Maddie had to have Danny and Jazz, you
would've never had any children with her for the mere fact it was not meant to
be. Daniel, you have seen this in process correct?"
Danny growled, "Yeah, Vlad still had the look in his eyes like he wanted more,
like mom just wasn't enough for him."
"Why do you think that is? This is a world where you were never born, where
Vlad didn't have any ghost powers, but Jack did. Even if you didn't interfere
in the timeline, Maddie would've eventually killed Vlad and taken his money and
everything. Though it would've taken a while to convince her that Vlad was
lying to her about Jack, she would've eventually just gone running to him
anyway, otherwise, she'd die old and alone, with no children to inherit the
money, the mansion or anything. Nobody would've won in that." Una said, "I
create and recreate people's souls and can influence their thoughts if they're
weak enough, what I can't do is control them. I build them up, and once they're
born they're let go, it's my husbands job to make sure they go down the right
path."
Vlad and Danny were speechless, even as Una sighed, "Promise me you will at
least live together for the rest of the weekend. If that doesn't work, you'll
stay every other weekend for a year."
"What?! We can't live together in peace now that we know this!" Vlad growled.
"I was right, I made you too thick-headed." Una added. "Fine, you'll just be
reborn again in a similar situation. Daniel, do you have your book with you?"
Danny pulled out his copy of Jonas of the Living Deadto Una. She opened it to
the back, to the last page where they died by blood roses.
"Does this sound familiar '- We will see each other again, hopefully in a time
when ghosts like ourselves are accepted instead of shunned.' Jonas said that to
Jacqueline. You aren't the first reincarnations, Jonas and Jacqueline were
reincarnations of another couple, though not nearly as close as they were at
their second attempt. In fact all of the ones that came before you had failed
as well, they were too trusting of the people around them, and once they told
their friends about becoming a halfa, they were killed. We had to wait
centuries before trying again." Una said sadly, "Just try, please."
Vlad and Danny looked at each other and Danny sighed, "Fine, I'll agree to the
arrangement, but I can't and won't guarantee that I'll fall in love with him."
"Agreed." Vlad added. The two halfas stormed out of the room without another
word and flew back to the mansion.
Clockwork shook his head sadly, "I guess, we'll just take what we can get."
Una clung to her husband's arm and he placed his hand on hers reassuringly.
Danny and Vlad didn't speak on the way back until the box ghost appeared in
front of them.
"BEWARE~~~! FOR I AM THE BOX GHOST!"
Danny growled, "Not in the mood for this!"
The box ghost sensed Danny's rage, cowered, and ran.
Vlad raised a brow before flying after the enraged Phantom. Once they finally
made it back to the lab, Danny turned into Fenton and attempted to stomp away,
though Vlad grabbed his shoulder and stopped him, "May I read your book? I've
been getting impatient as it was, but now, I NEED to read it."
Danny grumbled and handed Vlad the book, before stomping away.
Vlad shook his head, "How could I be in love with that boy?"
Chapter End Notes
     Naru: Yo.
     Vlad: Anything wrong?
     Naru: Tired, math teacher loves homework. Me HATE HOMEWORK!
     Danny: here's your registration form *hands Naru piece of paper*
     Naru: *reads* Homework Hatahs?
     Danny: Yep, Sam's club.
     Naru: *gasps* dude! Sam is cool! What do we do?
     Danny: We watch movies and play video games and stuff.
     Naru: SIMS!
     Danny: *takes paper back* Hell no.
     Naru: Aw *sits in emo corner again*
     Vlad: Narumina12 doesn't own Danny Phantom, no matter how much she
     wants to.
     Naru: D-DAAANNNNNYYYYY!
     Danny: *Shoves a sock into her mouth* Shut up.
***** Chapter 4 *****
Danny was tired and just laid in his temporary bed. It wasn't even 3 hours
after they ate breakfast, and that was near 7 and out of pure habit! Danny
flopped over in his bed and screamed into the white pillow. Once done, he set
his head up and looked around the room itself, not too big, not too small,
beautiful furniture littered the floor, with only a few paintings of planets
and nebulae here and there. The walls were wooden panels, the carpet was fluffy
and stainless white, while the ceiling was black with white dots in a specific
pattern to show constellations.
The halfa sighed, how could he love Vlad? He was controlling and old, not to
mention he's been trying to kill his dad for years. 'And why does he want mom
so much? Wouldn't I be enough?!' Danny jumped at his last thought, 'Wouldn't I
be enough?' what the hell was happening to his mind?! I mean sure, the thought
of having a guy with billions of dollars would make any normal human jump up
and scream "I love you, let me have your babies!" or in the guys case, "Let's
have hot sex every night!"... Yeah, that's about right.
Danny sat up and squeezed his eyes shut, 'I'm not in love with the frootloop,
I'm not in love with the frootloop.' he repeated in his mind. His eyes opened
and he sighed, 'Now, let's test it.' He began imaging a naked Vlad in his mind
and much to his regret his problem was worse. He gasped as his pants got
tightened to where they were almost cutting off circulation, with his eyes
glazed over he was unconsciously reaching for his not-so-little problem when
his phone went off. He realized what he was about to do and blushed furiously.
He opened up the flip cell, "H-hello?"
"Danny? Are you alright? You sound scared, where are you?" Tucker said through
the phone.
"Oh, god, Tuck. Sorry, mom and dad dumped me off on Vlad instead, sorry I
forgot to tell you, things have been... happening." Danny replied nervously.
His erection still there, but not as bad as before.
"Vlad?!" Sam yelled from the other side, he could just imagine Sam taking
Tuck's phone, "Are you alright?! He didn't hurt you did he?!"
"No, he's, actually been pretty cool, though uh..." 'Should I tell them? It's
so embarrassing...'
"Danny?" '...I should, they're my friends.'
"Yeah, well, Clockwork stopped by and said that, um, well that... me and Vlad
are... Do-do you guys remember that book we just finished in Mr. Lancer's
class?"
"Yeah, Jonas was pitiful, and was a poor excuse for a halfa based on their
power. What else is there to know?" Sam stated angrily, "I don't even know why
they make us read that stupid mushy shit."
Danny was slightly angry at his friend insulting his past lover, and was
growling lowly when he realized what he was thinking and stopped, "Well,
Clockwork told me that I was Jacqueline in a past life..."
"WHAT?!" Sam yelled, Danny could hear Tucker choke on something and Danny
remembered that it was his 9:50 feeding. "You're supposed to be Jacqueline?!
She was a-"
"A woman I know, but like Clockwork AND Mr. Lancer said to me before, 'The soul
knows no gender'."
"... Who's Jonas? Do you know?" Sam asked worriedly "I bet it's Sa~am." Tucker
teased, Danny heard a smack and an 'ow' from Tucker.
"No, no it's..." He sighed, "Please don't tell anyone, not even Jazz."
"Promise."
"... It's Vlad."
He heard a scream from the other side that made him have to pull the phone away
from his ear.
"Ok, Sam just fainted, but, I'm still here for you buddy. I have to ask are you
really in love with Vlad?"
"No!" Danny calmed down then remembered his previous actions, "N-no, I don't
think I am?"
"Danny, don't hide it. It doesn't matter to me, Sam on the other hand, she
might be in shock for a while but I'm sure she'd be on the same boat as me. If
this is what I think it is, you're supposed to stay with him. Maybe you could
change him."
"Tuck! I'm not in love with him!"
"Dude chill out. This might end up being a good thing for both of you! Just try
to get to know him a little better, you might actually end up liking him."
"Tucker really-"
"I'm serious dude, just try. I have to go, mom's got more meatloaf." There was
a click, then silence. Danny sighed 'Just try, just try. How can I try when
this is already going to be awkward as is?!'
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Vlad on the other hand, chose to ignore the previous statement about his
opinion on Daniel, he only wanted the boy as a son, nothing more, nothing
less...
Though the thought of Daniel calling him 'honey' or 'dear' filled him with
slight glee (and fear(mostly fear)).
Vlad sighed and leaned back in the chair of his study, he had read to chapter 4
of the book, and in only a few minutes, despite the fact the chapters are about
33 pages or more. He began to understand why Daniel read this so much, it felt
like he was remembering lost memories that he just couldn't remember all at
once for fear of his mind exploding. He could see it from Jonas's point of view
and couldn't help but wonder if Daniel saw Jacqueline's.
Vlad looked at the clock to find it was 10:00, near time for lunch. "I guess I
better go get Daniel." he said aloud to himself.
"No need," Danny said from the doorway, a blush across his face, "I thought
you'd be too sucked into that book, like I was... So I came to get you."
Vlad was shocked, "Thank you."
Danny's eyes widened and he turned away with a blush, "I guess I didn't really
need to come though..." He turned away and walked away as if nothing happened.
Vlad couldn't help but smile as a slight pink dusted his cheeks. He had to
admit, making the boy blush was fun. Even if this 'romance' thing doesn't work
out, he was gonna have to continue that little past time.
Vlad walked as fast as he could to catch the boy, once he finally did, he
placed a hand on his shoulder and smiled. Danny's blush increased, but didn't
make any motion to move Vlad's hand. "Stop trying to be all mushy, frootloop."
"Well, as long as you're going to be living here, and attempting to avoid your
undying love for me." Danny blushed and Vlad smirked, "I feel as if this needs
to be said, I will not allow for you to sleep in my room."
Danny's already rosy face had darkened greatly from the mentions of this
morning. "Fine by me."
"Unless you at least tell me."
"VLAD!"
***** Chapter 5 *****
The weekend went by quickly for Danny, thank god. He was doing things to the
thought of Vlad that he shouldn't.
He was also thankful that there was only one ghost that made an appearance,
this one was too weak and stupid to know about Vlad and Danny's temporary
truce, but just powerful enough to have a basic human form. Yup, you guessed
it, the Box Ghost. He almost had to be scraped off of a far wall if not for
Skulker coming in and telling him.
Danny sat next to Vlad on the couch trying to read a small novel that Vlad
suggested while they waited for his parents. Key word: trying. He wasn't as
interested in this as much as he was the one that Vlad was reading. He shut the
book and glanced over to see Vlad with a tear rolling down his cheek. He peeked
over the man's shoulder to read the words.
"NO!" Jacqueline screamed, "You're always comparing me to her! I do not wish to
be compared to that woman, I do not want to be compared to that, that goddamned
woman!"
"Jacqueline! Calm down!" Jonas said as he wrapped his arms around her. His eyes
darting to and fro around the crowd that was slowly gathering around them.
"No! I will not! Public appearances mean nothing to me. Let me go now Jonas, I
am leaving."
"Jacqueline, Little Badger, please do not leave me, I will cease and desist, do
not leave. I have never been as happy as I am with you." Jonas begged as he
clung to his young lover.
As much as Jacqueline wanted to stay, she needed this to be done already, she
couldn't take living in an extravagant castle with a fiance she hardly ever saw
because of his duties as prince. She couldn't take being compared to his first
fiance either, THAT woman left him because of the scar that stretched from the
corner of his chin to his left eyebrow. THAT woman was heartless and cold in
Jacqueline's eyes...
Yet she could never compare to that woman's outer beauty.
"Let me go before I scream, Jonas."
"No-
Danny was startled by Vlad's hand when he touched the boy, "Daniel? Are you
alright? You were crying."
Danny touched his face and found that the Frootloop was right, he wiped them
away, "I'm fine. I always got really sad reading that part."
"... I'm sorry."
Danny jumped a bit, "F-for what?"
"I always compared you to my ex-fiance and now I compare you to your mother, I
guess some things are just too hard to forget."
A silence filled the room until their faces grew closer and closer, they were
mere centimeters away from each other when the door slammed open and Jack
walked in. They jumped to opposite sides of the couch and were both blushing.
"Danny-boy! How was your weekend!?" Jack grabbed his son into a huge bear hug.
"Was he good for ya V-man?"
Vlad cleared his throat, and composed his stance, "Yes, Daniel and I have
actually 'bonded' quite a bit."
Jazz and her mother came in, "Hello uncle Vlad." Jazz said with her voice
dripping in sweet venom. "Danny are you alright?" She whispered to her little
brother.
"Yeah I'm fine. Vlad didn't do to anything to me, in fact there's something
I'll need to talk to you about once we get home." he whispered back.
"So Danny, what were you doing before we came in?" Maddie asked.
Both men's blushes came back and they turned away from each other, "Um, I was
explaining my book to Vlad. He got really interested in it but couldn't
understand Jacqueline's actions, so I tried explaining it to him. But he's too
much of a frootloop."
"Oh, what's it about?" Jack asked.
"Prince Jonas von Shay III and his lover Jacqueline Honri." Vlad answered,
"It's really a quite interesting read."
Vlad handed the book to Danny and Jack laughed, "That big of a book? No no no,
I can't just sit still for that long! I'm surprised Danny could!"
"I've read it over 70 times dad, I'm to the point where it's etched into my
memory."
Vlad chuckled, "Wasn't it already?" Danny hit the older man in the arm for that
little comment. Jazz raised a brow but left the question aside for later.
"Well, come on Danny, you have school tomorrow and you can't get there from
Wisconsin." Maddie said as she herded him away from the frootloop. This made
Vlad frown a bit, and when Danny took a shy glance back, he knew it would be
near impossible for this little romance to just die and be done with.
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"Danny," Jazz asked her brother from the back of the FAV. "What is it you need
to talk about?"
Danny sighed, "Jazz can't this wait until we get home?"
"No, this seems to be eating at you a lot. So spill it."
"Jazz, do you believe in reincarnations?" The girl's eyes narrowed, but she
nodded, "Another vital question, Have you heard of Jonas of the Living Dead?"
"Yes, Lancer brushed to my class after reading the book. Why? Do you think you
might be the reincarnation of Jonas?"
Danny scratched the back of his head and turned away, "No, no... Not quite...
Um, actually, I am a reincarnation of someone from the book... Not someone
you'd expect though..."
"Number it off if that'll help get everything off your mind at once."
"Ok. One, I'm a reincarnation of Jacqueline." Jazz's eyes widened but she did
not interrupt. "Two, I already know for absolute sure, Clockwork and Una
confirmed this. Three, I know who Jonas is as well."
"Alright, in the order of your statements I will ask my questions. One, how are
you the reincarnation of Jacqueline, you're a boy. Two, who is Una? Three, who
is Jonas. And Four, should I get the anti-creep stick and beat whoever he is to
death?" Jazz gave a dead serious look at the last part.
Danny panicked, "NO, no no! Jonas is-"
"Danny? Is anything wrong?" Maddie yelled from her seat.
"No mom!" Danny yelled back, he quieted his voice to talk to Jazz, "No, Jonas
is-"
"You sure? We have some fresh fudge up here if you want any!"
Danny and Jazz groaned, "No we're fine dad."
"Anyway, Jonas is..." Danny waited for another interruption, when there was
none he continued, "Vlad Masters."
Jazz froze in absolute shock.
"Jazz? Jazz! Come on Jazz wake up!" Danny pouted, "Fine, ignore me, I'm going
to sleep." He leaned against the side of the FAV and fell into a deep slumber.
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Clockwork scowled, at first glance, it looked like they'd get along and
eventually fall in love, but you never judge a halfa by mere glances. While
they have unwillingly accepted the program, they plan to just ignore the other
and the recent information given to them.
"It seems that the only way to get them to talk to each other is to lock them
in a room together." Una said calmly as she sipped her tea.
"Even then it won't be a friendly conversation, nor with it avoid bloodshed."
Clockwork added.
Una sighed, "It's been a while since I had a personality personally made,
nowadays they're just reused on their own. The first time in 3, 659, 078 years,
to be precise, and I made them too stubborn and hardheaded."
Clockwork chuckled as he played with a lock of her hair, "It isn't your fault,
I was the one who created Dan, even when I was trying to prevent it. This is
another reason they to go through with this, if they do, Dan won't be a problem
any longer."
"But he won't disappear."
"No, his ghost halves will sense the tranquility of their original hosts and
calm as well."
"... The Observers are going to have us replaced for sure." Una and Clockwork
shared a short chuckle at the predicament they put themselves in.
***** Chapter 6 *****
Jazz woke with a jolt and saw Danny shaking her awake, "Good, I thought it'd
take longer since you don't have 'The Fenton Trigger'."
She looked left and right, to see that she was in her own room, "Danny, what
were we-" Her eyes widened as she remembered why she passed out, "Oh, Danny how
long have you known?"
"Like I said, I was only told just this weekend. Clockwork even has a schedule
for us to at least try and go through with it. I'm going to have to spend every
other weekend with him, I was thinking that the rest of them Sam and Tucker can
come over and stay with me here on the remaining weekends."
Jazz jumped up in a panic, "Danny, you can't, what if we need you here? We
can't possibly survive without you!"
Danny raised a brow, "Jazz, I've seen you hold yourself against Vlad, and he's
the highest level ghost we know."
"No, I'm not talking about ghost wise, I'm talking boredom-wise, parent-wise,
and all the other stuff. You aren't just Amity's main ghost defense Danny, you
may be considered a loser at school, but that's one of the most important parts
of our school, without the losers there would be chaos!" Her arms flailed
around as she spoke.
"Relax, Jazz, It's not permanent nor will it be very long, just every other
weekend. Even then it's just until me and Vlad give into this romance thing."
Jazz sat and thought for a moment, before her face turned a cherry red and her
eyes were as wide as dinner plates, "So... You and Vlad... I guess it's ok. I
mean, he's the lonely old guy who needs someone to love and to love him back,
he might even stop attacking us because of mom, if he has you..."
"JAZZ! I don't want to fall in love with the frootloop! he's such a... a... A
FROOTLOOP!"
"Yeah, but what are his reasons for his frootloopi-ness?"
"Let's see; wanting to kill dad so he could have me and mom, raising up a 1000-
year-old ghost king who wanted to destroy the world by accident all because he
wanted more power so he could kill dad and take me and mom. There was the
mother-son convention thing that was supposed to go to Florida but instead took
us to his chalet in Colorado so I couldn't be home when he attacked dad etc."
"Well yeah, but-"
"Then there was the Dan incident, when he had this great idea to separate my
ghost half from me, who, might I add, WAS PISSED AS HELL and separated Plasmius
and Vlad and fused with the ghost half and MADE DAN!" Danny was panting, in
both fear and anger, soon the anger disappeared and fear remained as he went
into a panic, "Oh my god, what if he tries that again? What if I'm the one who
ends up killing my friends and family this time? I DON'T-" Jazz smacked her
brother across the face and pulled him into a hug.
"Danny, that won't happen, he met Clockwork before for the explanation before
right? Get Clockwork to explain why that would be bad idea. And the main reason
for all of that is because he wants a family. Remember when I first found out
about your secret and I ran to him and acted as his daughter? He seemed really
happy that I was there, he even ranted about how much he wanted a loving wife
and a kid to teach the meaning of life and stuff."
"... I'm going to bed." Danny said as he tried to process the information. He
trudged to his room, leaving Jazz to shake her head.
He fell on top of his bed with a groan, his back was still hurting from when he
tried to get Cujo calm enough to get a thorn out of the dog's paw. He was
thrown into 7 trees 5 bushes and 2 old people until he finally got it out. Good
side, Cujo shrank and licked him with lots of love, and the old people were
unhurt (YAY), bad side, his entire body was sore for a few hours and still
showed signs of it every now and then.
Vlad wanted his mother, he could really care less about the boy. He'd probably
end up like Dani, on the run from him because he no longer wanted him. Danny
couldn't help but grimace, the man was nice when he first met him, sure the
occasional halfhearted pick-up line directed at his mom but... Wait, they were
always like that. Vlad didn't flirt with his mom with the whole of his heart,
sure he still flirted, and it seemed real at first, but you could tell only
part of him loved her. It's even at a point where all flirting stopped, and the
'witty banter' with Danny increased.
"Oh come now Daniel, of course you wouldn't understand how I feel. All I want
is you and your mother. Though you would probably be best, even if you don't
consider me a father."
"Now Daniel, if It didn't care, would I be holding back? No, if I didn't care I
would have already ripped you to shreds and thrown you in the ghost zone.
Fortunately, I do care, I care more then you know, that's why I make such a
huge effort on making you mine,"
"Making you mine..."
'Oh my god. He's been flirting with me!? AND NEITHER OF US COULD TELL?!'
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Vlad's head throbbed, Between his businesses, keeping the box ghost out of his
house, and this new, thing, with Daniel, he was exhausted. He almost kissed the
boy for Pete's sake, it was out of control even before he found out about their
past lives, around the time he woke up with the boy in his bed.
He poured a glass of wine and slumped on a nearby chair. 11 at night,
everyone's home, Daniel's probably trying to sleep. Might as well analyze the
last few days.
Here's what we know; 'I am the reincarnation of a lonely prince who was, I am
assuming, was one of the first halfas. He could have anything he wanted, unless
it was still (somewhat) alive. Jacqueline, my past lover, her soul took refuge
in Daniel's body, who, unfortunately, can't see me as anything other then an
enemy.' he sighed. 'I've also developed an addiction for reading that book,
it's difficult, it won't stay memorized. I could read a single page 10 times
yet still not have it memorized. This may be why Daniel had read it so many
times.'
Vlad chuckled, "He said it was around 70, maybe that's how long it'll take me
to have this burned back into my mind." he said to no one in particular.
He frowned, Daniel really thought of him as his enemy. Sure, looking back, all
those times he ended up hurting too many people, that's only because he could
never see past having another halfa under his wing. Danielle, was too much like
him, yet nothing like him, she didn't have the same warmth in her eyes, nor the
delightful ring of her voice.
The man jumped when he realized what he was thinking, "There is something wrong
with me... No, no, Una told me this was normal. I can trust her, she was the
one to teach me about my powers."
'Though that Clockwork man seemed to like teasing my Little Badger.'
Vlad groaned, 'I'm never going to come out of this sane am I?' He glared at his
glass of wine and just randomly poured it out on the floor without even
drinking it. 'I have a meeting tomorrow, then I have to get Daniel's parents to
agree to letting him stay with me according to the schedule. I should get some
rest before most of the bones in my body are broken.' He got up and headed down
the hall of his mansion.
Those empty halls disturbed him greatly. He wished he could have a normal
family living with him, a kind wife that could make him smile just from a
glance at her. Children giggling and smiling everywhere.
The dark halls were always empty, mere reflections of his own loneliness,
suffocating him. It had brightened considerably with Daniel around, and was
beginning to miss his little badger.
***** Chapter 7 *****
"Alright, now. Flip your tests." Danny flipped his as fast as he could and
wrote as fast as he could. He knew every answer, by heart more then memory, but
if he sat and thought about it too much he would forget. He took a quick read
at the question then wrote the answer.
Jonas first confessed where in their hometown? Town square, in front of the
fountain, near noon.
How long did it take for Jacqueline to realize what caused Jonas' ailment? What
was it? 3 days, he was poisoned by an assassin that worked for his power-hungry
cousin.
It didn't take long until he was finished. It only took 7 minutes for a 34
question test, that shocked everyone when he stood up and gave his paper in.
"Thank you, Mr. Fenton, I have a feeling you'll do well." Lancer smiled warmly
at the boy, who nodded and headed back to his seat for a good nap.
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"Jacqueline, your stance is off balance again, shift some of your weight to
your left." Jonas said with a chuckle. Jacqueline pouted and felt his hands on
her hips to help emphasis what she needed to do.
"I know what I need to do Jonas. Please refrain from touching me during
training, or I will be forced to freeze you to death."
Jonas pulled away with a nervous chuckle, it wouldn't be the first time he was
frozen by his young student. "Alright Little Badger, continue."
She breathed in a single breath, held it and snapped into action. Jonas threw
knives at the young ex-nun, who dodged every one, doing all sorts of jumping,
ducking and mid air somersaults. She smirked and rushed in towards her teacher,
who was shocked at his student's closeness, but took full advantage of it and
pulled her into a kiss. The shock switched to her face, and dissipated as they
continued to kiss lovingly, passionately.
Once they pulled away, there were no more questions in their minds, and their
love for each other shone through their green and red eyes.
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Danny couldn't help but smile softly as he ate lunch, which honestly scared his
two friends.
"Danny?"
Said boy jumped 5 feet at the sound of his own name, "Y-yeah?"
"You've been staring off into space for hours now, since English this morning."
Tucker said, "Is something going on?"
"Uh, no. Just, thinking back..." Danny set his head on his hand and looked at
his food.
Sam swallowed hard, "You mean the thing with Vlad?"
His eyes looked at Sam, but his head did not move. "Yeah, I can see how I fell
for him as Jonas definitely, but as Vlad... I can't quite see past the Things
he's done."
"Then don't." Sam said, "Danny, you shouldn't have to go through this, no
normal teenager does. I mean don't you-" She growled out the next bit, "like
Paulina?"
"That's the funny thing. I never really did, not compared to these dreams I get
of Jonas. No one really does."
Sam felt defeat over that, she would just have to move on, "What about Vlad,
anything?"
Danny's eyes glazed again and a dusting of pink fell across his cheeks, "Y-
yeah, kind of. Though, only during those few times he was nice, almost like
that was Jonas..."
"Dude," Tucker laughed, "This is worse then we thought, you're going schoolgirl
over this!"
Danny snapped, "AM NOT!" he didn't notice as he knocked Dash's lunch tray into
his chest as he walked by.
The entire cafeteria turned to him and his face turned completely red as he
covered his mouth.
Dash growled, "What's the idea Fentina?"
"Um, s-sorry. I-it was an accident, I was overreacting." Dash gripped Danny's
shirt collar.
"Doesn't matter, Fenturd, it seems you just couldn't wait for your 4 o' clock
waling huh?!" Dash had a fist raised to hit the boy caught in his clutches, but
instantly felt an unbearingly hot hand touch his fist and he turned to see Vlad
Masters glaring at him with red eyes. He almost melted in fear at the other
man's gaze.
While Danny was mid flinch and didn't feel anything resembling pain, he cracked
and eye to see Vlad holding Dash's fist.
"What do you think you're doing to Daniel?"
"N-nothing. Mr. Masters, sir."
"Set him down before I'm forced to rip your arm out of socket and beat you with
it."
Dash set Danny down and pushed him in between the two larger males. "H-here."
Vlad caught Danny's arm and pulled him close, not breaking his glare at Dash,
"Thank you, now, Mr..."
"BAXTER, uh, D-dash Baxter."
"Mr. Baxter, if I find one bruise on this boy from now on, not only will your
parents be informed of your misbehavior, I will personally pay for military
school for you and a vacation for your parents."
"Y-yes sir!" Dash ran over to the popular table, not wanting his lunch at risk
of getting any closer to the silvenette.
Vlad sighed, "Honestly Daniel, I give you too much credit, I would've thought
that you would at least had any bullies too scared to come near you. I come to
return your book, and catch you in the clutches of such a brute. I've decided
that as long as you'll be staying with me, even if it's temporary, I won't be
as 'fruitloopy' as you say." he handed Danny his book.
"Uh, Vlad, it's 'frootloopy'." Tucker said calmly.
Vlad raised a brow, "What's the difference?"
"It's pronounced with a double 'o' instead of a 'ui'. Fruitloops is a cereal,
Frootloop is... well you." Sam said with a slight glare.
Vlad sighed, "Whatever, Daniel, I've already spoken to your parents, I'll be
back from Wisconsin to pick you up next week. Until then, ciao." Vlad walked
out of the cafeteria standing tall.
Danny had just processed what had happened. Dash was about to 'wale' on him,
but was scared off by Vlad, who, to be completely honest, made his heart
flutter a little. He couldn't hold back his blush, while some brushed it off as
embarrassment, three people knew what it was and who caused it.
Sam couldn't hold back a smile as her friend sat down, Tucker was chuckling
mainly.
"Not going schoolgirl, hm?" Sam said.
Danny's blush intensified, "Shut up..."
***** Chapter 8 *****
How dare he! How DARE that BRUTE touch HIS Daniel! Vlad was filled with such a
rage he couldn't see straight. He managed to keep his cool in front of other
people, mainly because it was a reflex, but once he got home, he immediately
went towards the kitchen. He gave the maids the day off in case something like
this would happen. Travel to Amity always wore him out mentally, be it from
that damned Box ghost, or the bumbling idiot of a father Daniel has. But no,
never the usual, always the unusual, the abnormal place it is, he had to find
his strong courageous Little Badger, being bullied!
He stomped through the door of the kitchen and immediately grabbed a piece of
coal from the nearby bag that is normally for grilling. He squeezed the coal as
he growled and hissing erupted from his hand and his grip shrank. Steam could
be seen coming out of the few crevices of his hands. Once he had calmed, the
hissing stopped and he opened his hand to reveal an uncut diamond. Though it
was no mere diamond, it gave off a warm heat and had a subtle pinkish glow.
He stared at the thing in his hands for a moment, the coal was not really
needed to make it, he just needed something to squeeze and crush. The entire
diamond itself was made form his core as a form of core release, they are still
dangerous, incredibly so. Only the maker of said gem could hold it without
having the fiery ectoplasmic jewel burn a hole through your hand. Fortunately,
they do not effect nonliving things and are mainly used in his weaponry.
'Daniel's core must be ice, it's the only explanation as to why he would be in
the Far-Frozen and have the ability to freeze me so thoroughly.'
It took a moment until ALL of what he was mentally ranting about caught up with
him. He merely smirked, 'Well, I guess there really is no denying it. Just a
different reason to have Daniel by my side.' he chuckled at the thought of
Daniel's shocked face of next weekend when he confesses to the boy.
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The 2 weeks passed by without anything too major. Skulker came by a few times,
Ember had a team-up with Kitty and Johnny 13, which was quickly torn because of
their constant bickering. Oh and the box ghost made an appearance twice every
day and another whenever Skulker came and dragged him along. The Lunch Lady
also made an appearance in his house, she actually saved him from eating
leftovers his mom made that tried to attack him. She shook her head and said
she'll clean out the fridge every now and then for more minions. Danny couldn't
help but worship the woman for her bravery.
Sam and Tucker stayed the weekend and they stayed up all night playing video
games and watching TV. He had good fun with them, he loved spending time with
his friends, he loved his friends period. They were close almost like triplets
(who didn't end up hating each other).
Danny had even forgot about his situation for a while. Until Friday anyway,
when he found Vlad waiting for him outside of his school with the same black
porche from when Vlad picked him up, and the start of his entire ordeal.
Vlad smirked playfully at his Little Badger, the shock and realization of
forgetting what was supposed to happen flashed across the boy's face before he
groaned.
"Hello Daniel. Forget about me already? I'm hurt." Vlad teased, he placed a
hand over his heart and attempted to frown while holding back a chuckle.
Danny blushed, "W-whatever Frootloop. Let's get this weekend over with, I don't
wanna catch your frootloopy-ness."
That actually did hurt Vlad a bit. Like a needle threatening to stab through
his heart, nevertheless he opened the door for the boy and watched as he
nervously climbed in with all of his peers staring at him. Wondering how he
could easily look past the older's evil demeanor and find the courage to insult
him. Vlad smirked evilly and sent a glare towards all of them but Sam and
Tucker.
Sam walked up to him and growled, "I swear, if you hurt him, in any way, I'll
tie you up and Jazz, Tucker, Danny, and I will take turns shooting you with the
ectofoamer."
"I assure you Saman-"
"I'm not finished, once we get bored, we'll feed you blood roses and send you
off to the box ghost where you can spend the rest of your afterlife."
Vlad was shocked. That actually made him scared of the girl and her friends,
including Danny. He swallowed, "I assure you Ms. Manson, I have no intention of
hurting Daniel, mentally or physically. He will come back to Amity Park as
healthy as he left it."
Sam gave one last growl before storming off with Tucker in tow. Vlad sighed and
got into the driver's seat of the car. He heard a slight snicker and instantly
turned to see Danny facing out of the window with a smile and a hand trying to
cover it up. Vlad smiled softly, "Did that amuse you? My Little Badger?"
"Y-yeah, Sam gets violent when either me or Tucker are involved. It's kinda
funny the kind of things she could come up with there was this one time-... Did
you just call me yours?"
Vlad raised a brow, "Yes, and? Apparently, while I have come to accept my
feeling for you, you still have yet to do so." Vlad drove the car out of it's
parking place and down the road towards the road that was the quickest route to
Wisconsin.
Danny blushed and pouted, "I never said anything like that..."
Vlad slammed on the brakes in shock and looked over at Danny, who almost jumped
out the window to prepare to 'go ghost'. "What?"
"WHAT THE HELL VLAD! Keep going we're in the middle of the road!" Danny shouted
in panic.
Vlad fumbled with the wheel and the brake and gas pedals until he remembered
how to work it. He drove on with the question nagging him in the back of his
mind. "Daniel, does that mean you love me too?"
Danny furrowed his brow, "I think so..." He noticed the extremely happy look on
Vlad's face, and that he wasn't watching the road again. "VLAD! ROAD!"
Vlad snapped out of his stupor and drove along with a happy smile across his
face. Danny didn't dare speak again for the rest of the ride, for fear that the
man would be too distracted and make both of them fully dead.
***** Chapter 9 *****
"I hope you don't mind that we're staying in my mansion in Amity." Vlad said as
he opened the door to the extravagant house.
"Ok, Vlad, the next time there are confessions, either I'm driving or you're
hiring someone to." Danny said as he glared at the older halfa.
Vlad chuckled, "Well I wasn't expecting you to feel the same, it seems I've
underestimated you yet again." A thought formed inside the older's mind and he
decided to voice it out, "So, do you want to stay in your room or mine?" He
joked.
Danny blushed furiously, "Y-your room..."
Vlad was shocked yet again, 'Really now I must learn to control myself in front
of Daniel better.' "Well then we should get your things to my room, then, maybe
I can take you to a movie?" Vlad held out his hand in a gentlemanly manner.
"Would you care to have me accompany you?"
Danny couldn't help but smile and respond in a similar manner by gently placing
his hand on top of the larger, "Why, I would love to." Danny had to resist the
urge to skip and giggle like he would do with Sam as a way to mock the popular
girls. Though this time it would be genuine.
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Jacqueline sobbed into Jonas' shirt, she couldn't stop the tears that poured
from her eyes. She hated to cry, especially in front of her husband.
But this reason was quite logical, and could knock any of the strongest women
(and ghost) down.
"Jacqueline, the reverend offered to give it a grave, he wants to know if you
wanted to leave it unnamed or not." Her first child, not even 6 months into her
pregnancy, died. Jonas was right, she never should've transformed just to help
him get rid of a ghost he could easily beaten.
"No, I'm naming it, did he find out the gender?"
"It was a boy..."
"... Perseus, Perceus von Shay."
Jonas nodded, 'With my first son goes my name.' "The next one will be named
after you, I do not wish to use my own any longer."
"Alright... Jonas, if he had survived, would he have our abilities? Would he be
half dead as well?"
"Most likely, Little Badger. He may have even had your eyes and your smile."
"Your strength and charm."
Jonas chuckled as his fingers combed through his young lover's hair, "Yes, if
you say so."
They sat in a somewhat comfortable silence. Jacqueline's eyes weren't as red
and puffy as they were before, her face was changing back to that healthy pale
of hers, while Jonas had a scowl stretched across his face. Though his eyes
looked upon Jacqueline in love and pity.
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Vlad woke up with Danny holding onto his arm tightly and a wet spot on his
sleeve. 'It appears we shared the same dream, perhaps that is what happened the
first time I woke to him beside me in bed. That still doesn't explain the
bruise...'
Danny sniffed and held tighter to Vlad's arm before waking up. At first he was
calm then his eyes widened in surprise, he looked around and remembered what
happened the night before. Luckily it was before he suddenly shot Vlad in the
face, the older would definitely not like that this early in the morning.
"Good morning, Little Badger. How was your first willing night in my room?"
"Morning, Frootloop." Danny replied as he rubbed his eyes. "S'ok. I guess, I
was asleep through most of it you see."
Vlad let out a smooth chuckle, that made Danny blush intensely, "Well Daniel,
you might need to get ready if we're going to go to the movies. As cute as you
look right now, I'm sure the odd attire would attract too much attention."
Danny stood up from the bed and stretched, he actually wore real pajamas to bed
last night, much to Vlad's dismay, but as he leaned back to pop his back, Vlad
got a good look at the top rim of the other's boxers and his stomach.
"Well, what kind of 'attire' would attract the least amount of attention?"
Danny inquired as he straightened and pulled his shirt down. "A dress, so we
can cuddle during the movie?" He teased.
Vlad smirked, "Yes, to be completely honest. I agree completely."
Danny paled, Vlad had his frootloop smirk on meaning Danny was about to regret
his previous statement. "No, I'm not wearing a dress. I'm fine with just going
as the 'father-son' image for maybe a few hours. But I am not dressing like a
girl!"
"Daniel, there are plenty of men who wear skirts."
"Yeah, cross-dressers and the Irish." Danny retorted.
"In Greece it was normal for men to play all roles in theater, even the female
ones."
"Women were seen as property and couldn't leave the home is why, it was that
way for centuries!"
Vlad was getting pissed. He didn't like losing an argument over anything, but
this was serious, he wanted to dress the boy up, so now out comes the big guns.
"You probably have your mother's figure under all that baggy clothing. With the
right make-up and clothes you could easily pass for a woman I'm sure."
Danny pouted, Vlad had a point. None of the people from his school pay much
attention to him any way, they would probably recognize him as a girl as well
as they recognize him as Phantom. "...Fine. But if I'm going to be dressed as a
girl, it needs to be casual and you can't wear that damn suit."
Vlad bopped Danny on the head, "Alright then Daniel, and watch your language."
"If I'm gonna be dressed as a girl don't call me Daniel!"
Vlad smirked, "Fine, I'll be Jonas, you be Jacqueline."
"I'll just call you frootloop."
"Little Badger."
Both were getting increasingly pissed, while also getting closer and closer to
the other. Vlad noticed this and took advantage of their distance to peck the
other on the lips as an experiment. Danny blushed and almost fell back onto the
bed. "So, have we come to an agreement?"
"M'kay..."
Vlad grinned and guided Danny to a closet where he kept all sorts of clothes.
He was going to have a LOT of fun with this. He shoved Danny behind a folding
screen.
"Now, strip down to your underwear. If you're wearing boxers switch to normal
underpants." Vlad tossed a pair of said clothing to the teen.
Danny hesitated, but did as he was told. He was wearing boxers so he switched
to the previously air-borne underwear, surprisingly enough they were a little
big on him. "Hey Vlad, how did you know my size?"
"I only assumed based on looks Daniel. For the longest time after the incident,
I was a tailor, so I can naturally assume these things." He didn't argue, but
assumed Vlad knew what he was doing.
Vlad looked through the assortment of women's clothing in a small section of
his closet (These were for Danielle, he assumed she would be the exact same as
Danny other then gender because of a small mishap. Unfortunately she never had
the chance to because she was too small). He looked at a lacy blue and white
skirt, but just couldn't picture Daniel in it. He tossed it aside. Next was a
black and white laced skirt, that would probably reach the boy's legs near his
knees. He was about to toss it aside when his eyes darted to a black baby tee
with a white tank-top over it, then to a pair of white gloves. He couldn't hide
the smile on his face from what he was planning.
"Hey, Vlad, can I pick out your clothes now?" Danny asked from behind the
screen.
"Go ahead, Keep it within the appropriate dress code though will you? I don't
wish to end up looking like a mobster."
"Pfft, I can't see you as a mobster, that would be rather stupid looking."
Danny walked into the section with Vlad's usual clothes. He already knew how he
wanted Vlad to look. Sure, it wasn't too different from his usual attire, but
it would be more laid back. A simple long-sleeve dress shirt with black
trousers, maybe a hat... No, no hat, the only thing that came to mind was a
fedora. It's simple math, Casual Vlad + fedora = mobster/ Mafia boss.
Sunglasses, that's better.
"Vlad, I've got yours together, by the way, do you have any sunglasses?"
"I have yours and yes, top drawer of the dresser near the door." The two
switched piles of clothes and Danny left to get the sunglasses for Vlad's
outfit.
Vlad found it rather odd what Daniel picked out for him. It was his usual with
only a few missing components, he shrugged it off and buttoned his shirt all
the way.
Danny was shocked, it wasn't an 'oh my gods that's so fucking wrong' or 'Fuck a
duck, I actually look good as a girl' kinda shock. It was somewhere in between.
Now he could understand why Sam always felt the need to take him clothes
shopping, or why Dash called him 'Fentina'. He doesn't look like a Tina though,
more like his past self, Jacqueline. The skirt that Vlad picked out was the
estimated length, accompanied by white thigh high socks and black ballerina
flats. The baby tee fit against his body perfectly and covered the top rim of
his skirt, Vlad had obviously took one white glove and paired it with a black
one. They both were only a couple inches from his elbow.
"Well Vlad, I'll tell you this much, you didn't lie about being a tailor, that
much I know." Danny walked out and saw Vlad's shirt buttoned all the way. The
smaller scowled and walked over to fix it. "Don't button it all the way, it's
casual this way." He unbuttoned the top three buttons.
Vlad hummed and couldn't look away from the boy. Clothes didn't mean much to
Vlad's taste, but the white and green reminded him of Phantom, while black and
blue reminded him of Fenton. He wrapped his arms around the small of the
younger's back and pulled him closer so he could kiss the boy's hairline. "You
definitely look like a girl, but I'm glad that I can't cover up your attitude."
Danny blushed, "Th-thanks, Vlad."
"Now for some make-up. I was thinking to just let Marion have her way with
that. Before you ask, she's a maid."
"A-alright."
Vlad cupped Danny's chin and brought the teen's face closer to him, he kissed
the boy gently on the lips. Danny melted almost instantly into the kiss and
whined when they separated.
Vlad chuckled, "Come on, we need to finish up."
Danny only nodded and held Vlad's hand with both of his own as he was guided
along the hallway.
***** Chapter 10 *****
Danny held onto Vlad's arm out of nervousness. He was really hoping that nobody
would recognize-
"Vlad, where's Danny?" Both Halfas turned to see Jazz, walking with Dash right
behind her, carrying various textbooks.
"Um, D-daniel is back at the mansion, he didn't want to get out of bed just yet
so I let him sleep in." Vlad lied.
Jazz couldn't help but glare at the man. While Dash couldn't help but stare at
the girl who held onto the man's arm so tightly.
"Who is this?" Jazz asked angrily.
"J-Jacqueline Honri." Danny stuttered in a slightly high pitched tone. Jazz's
eyes widened to the size of dinner plates.
"Oh uh, w-well, e-excuse me, Mrs. Honri, may I speak to you alone?"
Dash watched the two girls walk off to the side and he never took his eyes off
of the seam of Jacqueline's skirt. Vlad growled and got the boy's attention.
"You'd best not be staring boy, my threat from last week still stands and it
applies for Jacqueline as well."
"What? I was just looking at her. What are you to her anyway?!" Dash growled.
This senior citizen already took away his favorite punching bag/ chew toy, now
he's telling him he can't look at a girl who is prettier then even Paulina?
"... she's my lover."
Dash was shocked, "Isn't that pedophilia? That's disgusting, she looks maybe
14!"
"She's 16, turning 17 in only a few more months. I met her during one of my
business trips, I wooed her until she finally said yes. In her country it was
normal for a mere 15 to 20 year age difference between couples." Sure it was an
out-right lie, but like that brute was going to dare and prove him wrong. Vlad
was damn sure the blonde couldn't even spell his own name.
"Really, what country?!"
"Terra mortuorum." That wasn't really a lie, land of the dead in Latin,
tranlates to terra mortuorum.
Dash glared at the man before looking away.
XxX-DP-XxX
"So, Danny." At the sound of his name he jumped a bit, "Why are you dressed
like a girl?"
"Well, uh, I... I gave in Jazz. Vlad told me that he loved me, and I kinda
just... caved. We're going to the movies, but I just had to open my fucking
mouth, now I'm stuck in this." Danny brushed a falling leaf off of his skirt.
Jazz examined her brother, then glanced over to find Dash staring at him.
"Danny be careful. I can tell Dash has taken a liking to your new found girl-
self. You might think that ghost hunting is hard, just wait until the football
team (or Tucker) sees you. You'll be living every straight guys' nightmare."
"Why? I don't see much of a problem. If Dash likes Jacqueline, I'll just tell
him I'm going out with Vlad."
Jazz glanced over to Dash and Vlad again, they looked like they were about to
rip each other's throats out. "No need, Vlad just told him."
"Well then, that's one less thing I have to worry about."
Jazz set her hand on her brother's shoulder, "Just be careful, treat this as if
you're Phantom, once this little date is over, don't EVER wear woman's clothes
again. You may end up getting raped or worse."
Danny could understand his sister's worry, "I won't, these are too
uncomfortable. Now come on, don't you have to teach the chimp how to read?"
Jazz smiled, "It's the equivalent, or probably worse. So he just up and
confessed?"
Danny shuddered, "Yeah, while driving, it was horrifying." Jazz laughed as they
returned to the two men.
"Alright Vlad, you're good to go. Take care of 'her'." Jazz herded Dash away,
who was still staring.
Danny exhaled, "So what movie are we going to see?"
"Well, I thought about what you normally like: space and action. I came with
the conclusion that maybe The Green Lantern was best."
Danny grinned widely and his eyes practically sparkled, "I'd love to! I've
wanted to see that for a while!"
"Well then let's go." Danny hooked back onto Vlad's arm with a shy smile.
"I never knew you had a clingy side." Vlad teased as he bought the tickets.
Danny blushed, socked him in the arm and let go. "I also never said I didn't
like it." Vlad pulled the smaller into a hug. Danny's blush darkened even worse
and he clung back to Vlad's arm, just to hide it. Vlad guided them to their
seats in the theater.
They just sat there for a minute until Danny felt his ghost sense go off and he
felt a cold hand touch his shoulder. "Hey, what's up baby-pop?" Danny turned to
see Ember staring maliciously at him. Then her expression turned to one of
shock once she saw his outfit. "What are you wearing?"
Vlad turned to see Ember as well, "Ah, Ms. McClain, I assume Skulker is
somewhere nearby?"
"Ember's shock only grew, and to make it worse, her curiosity was beginning to
get the best of her, "Yeah... How are you two sitting so close to each other
without Plasmius trying to kidnap Phantom?"
Vlad smirked, "We've... resolved our differences. And, due to some twist of
fate, time and space, are dating."
Ember sighed, "Took ya long enough. Everyone in the Ghost Zone was wondering
when the hell it might happen. I thought I was going to have to use my love
song again, the last time made me barf, just so you know. And I ask again, what
are you wearing?"
"A skirt, I picked his outfit out, didn't I do a good job?" Vlad said with
pride.
"I have to say, yea, if I wasn't already dating Skulker, I might have had to
kidnap you myself and do unspeakable things to ya." she teased.
Vlad did not take her teasing well and growled, "The boy is mine, Ambrielle."
Ember's face turned a darker shade of blue as she growled back at him, "That's
not my name anymore."
"Whatever." Vlad turned back around and placed his hand on Danny's.
Skulker came in and saw Danny, he almost jumped up and started a fight, then he
saw Ember fuming. He decided that helping her calm down was more important. She
explained why they were there and that they shouldn't attack them.
Danny and Ember talked again once she calmed down, but once the movie started
they quieted and watched.
***** Chapter 11 *****
The two couples exited the theater and went their separate ways. Danny and Vlad
held hands as they walked down the street, Vlad had his sunglasses on and they
weren't being bothered at all. No odd stares, no paparazzi any where. This was
one of those few moments where Danny felt truly at peace. Vlad stopped walking
for a moment and turned to Danny, "Would you like some ice cream?"
Sure enough they were stopped in front of an ice cream shop, Marble Slab
Creamery to be exact. "Sure."
"What flavor?" Vlad held the door open for the smaller.
"..." Danny scanned through the flavors. "... cheese cake, with strawberry and
graham crackers please."
"Would you like a waffle cone or a bowl?" Vlad asked.
"Waffle cone."
Vlad ordered the ice cream for Danny and couldn't help but laugh when some of
it got on his face. "Jacqueline, you're eating like a teenage boy."
Danny glared at Vlad, "You seem to forget who I am, Vlad."
Vlad leaned towards him and licks some strawberry cheesecake ice cream off of
his face. "Never, my Little Badger."
Then a shriek filled the room, making both of them jump and turn to where it
came from, "IT'S FOLEY!" it was the cashier that was yelling. Danny looked at
Vlad's watch, "Oh, it's his 1:05 feeding."
Vlad raised a brow as Tucker came in with Sam in tow. Sam had her head in her
hands and attempted to blend with what little shadows were near.
Tucker tried to start his order before Sam pushed him away, "I'll have a double
scoop dark chocolate with strawberries and coconut shavings on a waffle cone
please."
"Sa~m" Tucker whined, "I was going to go first!"
Sam glared at her friend, "Your orders always take forever, if mine goes first
I get mine and I can eat it while yours is still being put in the 'Foley' size
cone."
Vlad raised a brow as he looked at Danny, "Foley size is three times the size
of a normal large it's the only size they have that would fill him up before he
heads of to find more meat. Sam once had them drug it so he'd shut the hell
up." Vlad chuckled as Sam walked over to their seat.
Sam stopped in her tracks and just stared at the two, there's Vlad, and a
pretty pale girl with black hair and blue eyes. "Hey Vlad, what corner of your
lab did you stuff Danny in this time?" Sam growled to the older.
"None Samantha." Sam growled louder at the use of her real name.
"Yeah Sam. I'm Danny." Danny waved shyly as Sam's jaw went slack and her ice
cream dropped, Vlad just shook his head, 'What a waste of good ice cream'
"D-danny? You, you're in a dress, sitting calmly, with Vlad..." her voice was
quiet and panicked, "Did he do anything to you? It's only been a night since I
saw you."
"I'm fine Sam, ask Jazz, she's the expert in human emotion and she saw me
earlier, she had Dash carrying both of their books."
"Dash saw you in a dress? And you survived?" Tucker said calmly as he walked up
with his Foley size ice cream cone.
Danny raised an eyebrow, "Why would you question that? I mean, it's not like he
knew it was me or anything." Sam pinched the bridge of her nose while Tucker
just sighed. Vlad shook his head, "Wait, did he actually think I was a girl
named Jacqueline?" his gaze turned to Vlad angrily, "What did you tell him?"
"That you were my lover from Terra mortuorum. When he argued about Pedophilia I
said it was normal for your country."
Danny's mouth went agape, he was considering just smashing what was left of his
ice cream onto the man's face, then freezing him for good measure. "You what?"
"Really? 'Land of the Dead?'" Sam asked.
"It's not like that brute can look it up, much less tell me what the first
president was known for." Vlad said as he draped a warm arm over Danny's
shoulder. Danny calmed a bit, and it slowly increased till he snuggled into
Vlad's chest. Sam could help but smile.
"I'll leave you two alone." She got up and dragged Tucker and his ice cream
away (AN:That's gotta say something about her strength).
Danny continued with his ice cream with a blush.
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"You say her name is Jacqueline Honri?" Kwan asked his blonde friend.
"Yes, short black hair, kinda messy but not quite, looked like it had been
combed, but not full of hairspray like the other girls. Glittering blue eyes,
god she looked so small and pale too, almost like she didn't eat much or get
any sun." Dash sighed dreamily.
"Are you sure she's with Mr. Masters?" Star asked, "Cause that sounds kinda
gross, I mean he's like, 40."
"You seem to think she was prettier then me." Paulina complained.
"Yeah, but apparently she was from some far-off country, tear-a... something."
Dash groaned, he couldn't even remember the name of the country she came from,
he was such an idiot.
"-Would you like a waffle cone or a bowl?"
"Waffle cone."
Dash turned to see Vlad and Jacqueline entering the shop. Vlad went to order
the ice cream while Jacqueline sat in the nearby booth. Dash's heart was
beating fast and he was sweating. This became visible to the others and they
looked into the booth quickly, once they were back to their normal sitting
positions, Paulina and Star were gaping, while Kwan was blushing.
"You were right, she's gorgeous." Kwan said.
Once Vlad came back with the ice cream, Jacqueline had apparently dug in.
"Jacqueline, you're eating like a teenage boy." The populars noticed the
sarcasm in his tone and the chuckle.
"You seem to forget who I am Vlad."
"Never, My Little Badger."
A shriek then filled the shop as the cashier pointed out the door, "IT'S
FOLEY!" All of them raised a brow as Tucker Foley and Sam Manson came in.
They ignored the two losers and focused on Jacqueline.
"Oh, it's his 1:05 feeding... Foley size is three times the size of a normal
large it's the only size they have that would fill him up before he heads of to
find more meat. Sam once had them drug it so he'd shut the hell up."
All of their mouths dropped, Foley was so scrawny, how could he eat that much
and be that skinny? Sam walked over to the same booth Jacqueline was in, they
noticed she was glaring, and assumed it was at Jacqueline for wearing 'too much
white'.
"Hey Vlad, what corner of your lab did you stuff Danny into this time?" she
said with a growl.
They were surprised, they knew that Danny had some connection to the local
billionaire, but to be stuffed in a lab? No wonder he was such a freak.
"None Samantha," Sam's growling increased.
"Yeah Sam, I'm Danny." they heard Jacqueline say. Dash paled, as did the
others, Danny was dressed up like a girl? Why was he in a dress? Why did Vlad
tell Dash they were lovers? Paulina and Star's mouths were open (and just
waiting for a fly to fly in) Kwan stared as his long-time friend, went into
shock.
***** Chapter 12 (original) *****
Chapter Notes
     Thanks for coming here fanfiction users, to read the original chapter
     12, and those who came here through Ao3: thank you as well
Danny was exhausted, that goddamned dress made him tired with all those
encounters, trying not to stand up and scream, "YES I DANIEL ALEXANDER FENTON,
AM IN A DRESS. BY THE WAY DASH, YOU'RE A FUCKING IDIOT, I'M NOT A GIRL!" it
took A LOT of willpower to not do that while trying to hit the taller teen with
the nearest object. Luckily Vlad was there and could calm him down.
Danny flopped onto the nice warm bed after his shower. He couldn't help but go
face first too, he sighed in content as his body relaxed onto the memory foam
of the bed. His back was sore for a minute as it began to get used to his
position, and he held his breath as the dull pain disappeared.
"Tired Daniel?" Vlad teased. The elder halfa had been sitting with a book in
his hand and sitting up right since Danny came in, Danny expected him to have
reading glasses, but 'with great ghost power comes great eyesight, I guess'.
"Yea, you have no idea how hard it was to just keep from running."
"I do have some idea, your muscles were quite tense during the entire ordeal."
Danny couldn't hold back his smile and chuckles, "So, you were feeling me up?"
Vlad blushed but glared in mock anger at the younger halfa, "You teens have
such dirty minds, honestly, I can't seem to have a decent conversation with one
without it ending up over PG-13."
"I blame hormones." Danny added as he crawled next to Vlad. "... So what now?"
Vlad was confused, "What do you mean Daniel?"
Danny couldn't help but curl up a bit and blush, "What are we going to do now?
Or tomorrow, whatever." Vlad could tell that Danny didn't quite say what was on
his mind, but he could tell what it was.
"Daniel, I have absolutely no problem with whatever you want. Ask and you shall
receive as some would say, though if you don't speak up, you may never get it."
Vlad set his book on the table and gave his full attention to his Little
Badger.
Danny mumbled something into his knees, but Vlad could understand what he
asked. He still felt the need to tease the teen, "What was that Daniel?"
"..."
"Louder this time Daniel, you know just how 'old' I am."
"I WANT A KISS!"
Vlad complied and kissed Danny on the forehead. "Really Little Badger, mumbling
is such a bad habit, if you mumble everything you want from me, you may never
get it."
"That was pathetic for a 40-year-old man. Oh wait you're a virgin, a 40-year-
old virgin." Danny said with a sly smile. "You know, if you really didn't know
what I REALLY wanted, I wonder if you could really satisfy me?"
Vlad growled as he tackled Danny and held him down with his hands, "Boy, you
have no idea how much I have to hold back so I don't end up hurting you!"
"Then don't hold back."
Vlad's eyes instantly widened as his guard dropped. He kissed Danny
passionately while rubbing his knee against Danny's newly arisen erection.
Danny moaned and broke the kiss, "V-vlad..."
"Daniel, breath through your nose." Danny nodded as they were once again
kissing. Vlad bit Danny's lip, Danny knew what that meant and opened his mouth
for the older. Vlad and Danny's tongue fought for dominance, of which Vlad won
easily by merely rubbing his hand near the teen's stomach.
The younger halfa gasped, "V-vlad please."
Vlad moved to Danny's neck and began to bite and suck at the sensitive skin,
"Please what, Little Badger?"
Vlad bit the same place twice and made Danny gasp, "Please take them off."
Vlad ceased his movements, "What is 'them' Little Badger, really you must be
more specific."
"Clothes."
Vlad smirked as he phased off both of their clothes with ease. "My my, aren't
we impatient?" Vlad took note of Danny's growing cock and smirked. He ignored
it for the moment and focused more on Danny's slightly toned chest. 'It seems
the years have been somewhat kind to the boy.' Vlad took a pert nipple in
between his teeth, he bit hard enough to give the other chills down his spine
that lead straight to his crotch. Danny couldn't help but whimper and buck his
hips as Vlad did so. Unfortunately for Vlad, Danny's bucking was rubbing
against his own in such a horridly pleasant manner that he felt the need to
just shove into the teen raw.
When Vlad groaned, Danny rubbed his cheek, "Go on."
With his lover's consent, Vlad reached his hand under the pillow to find the
bottle of lube he kept there (What? Just cause he's single, 40 years old, and
chases after one woman doesn't mean he doesn't at least masturbate). The elder
positioned his large pulsating length at the boy's entrance, his Little
Badger's pale slender legs hung over his shoulders. He rubbed some lube on his
cock before rubbing the head against the boy's puckered hole. "Relax, Daniel."
Danny was, to be honest, scared. He heard from a couple of guys outside Sam's
usual hangout about how one guy's ass hurt so bad from last night, the other
just told him that it was normal. He thought he knew what they were talking
about, but when he looked it up later, he was disgusted and fearful. "Vlad,
please, go slow."
Vlad kissed the boy one last time as he entered the boy. Danny gasped in pain,
his body kept telling him that it was wrong, that Vlad's dick was NOT supposed
to be in there, but during his research he found out that there is a nerve,
somewhere, that would make him feel better about it. Suddenly, telling Vlad to
go slow didn't bode well with the pain. "God, a bit faster, you're like a
snail."
Vlad smirked at his smaller lover, ever one for their witty banter and slight
abuse of each other, "Oh?" he stopped all movement, "How fast do you want me to
go exactly?"
"... Fuck this." Danny gave up, he couldn't explain how he wanted it, he was
still a virgin too, but you know how it is 'Haha I'm younger, you're a virgin?
I am too but it's worse for you because YOU'RE OLD!' plus the fact it was more
of a spur of the moment thing.
Vlad's previous smirk faded, "Daniel?"
"I don't know how I want it Vlad, just, go on."
Vlad frowned, "No, I'll narrow it down to multiple choice, A) fast B) slow or
C) moderate."
Danny groaned, he never liked to be quizzed, and it seems to be even worse for
him during sex, "A, I guess."
The older halfa rolled his eyes, Daniel was a virgin in this case, and possibly
the other as well. And the teen was accusing him of being one, HA. Vlad's
virginity was lost in high school to one Miss Marie Jeannette during a stupid
rave Jack dragged him to. Even after that he's had 'experiences' with various
women, all of which he did not like and honestly wanted to murder after they
got what they wanted.
"I'll be gentle." Vlad continued to push in, this caused Danny to groaned and
writhe underneath him, often times the boy's shaft would rub the man's stomach.
Once he was in all the way, Vlad waited for Danny to adjust, "You doing
alright, Little Badger?"
Danny attempted to mock glare at the man, who's cock was buried to the hilt in
his ass, "Just peachy, frootloop."
Both halfas smiled to the other as Vlad began to pull out, Danny whimpered at
the loss, but screamed when he pushed back in roughly. Vlad's smile was
replaced with a look of guilt that Danny didn't think suited him, "Come on
frootloop, it'll take a lot more then your dick to put me down for the count."
Vlad sighed as he repeated his last ministration, this time, Danny didn't
scream, he did groan, but that's because he was getting used to it and was
expecting it. Vlad did the same thing a little faster this time, at a different
angle and hit Danny's prostate, "VLAD! OH god."
Vlad couldn't hold back his smirk, "My god, Daniel, I never knew you would be a
screamer."
"Shut up and fuck me."
"I don't think I should if you're just going to order me around like that.
Maybe I should just stop." Vlad began to pull out.
"No~" Danny whined, "Please, Vlad."
The smirk on Vlad's face widened, "Only because you said please, Daniel." Vlad
continued hitting that same spot with lots of vigor and soon the room was
filled with multiple moans and skin slapping sounds.
Danny finally hit that point, "VLAD, I'm cumming!"
"Wait a moment, Daniel."
There was one last thrust, before, Danny's cum covered both of their chests and
Vlad was filling up Danny with his own. Vlad collapsed next to Danny in a mess
of silver hair and sweat.
"Ok, you aren't as old as I thought."
***** Chapter 13 *****
"Jacqueline. Please, we have to leave, the reverend says that the memories of
the church might be causing your stress." Jonas said delicately, as to not
anger his young wife and partner.
"How many has it been Jonas? How many will it be, until whatever God or creator
is satisfied with his work with us!? I know what is causing the miscarriages."
Jacqueline stood and turned to her husband with tears dripping down her face
fiercely, "It's us Jonas, we are hybrids, not human, nor ghost, we aren't
allowed to live normally, like a normal family. No, we have to be tormented for
a reason that was caused by mere chance of fate!" She broke back down to her
knees.
Jonas looked behind her, six tiny crosses were stuck into mounds of dirt, which
he knew held each of his unborne, he would've joined Jacqueline and shared in
her sorrow, if he didn't have his duty as her emotional stabilizer. He kneeled
and took her into a strong hug, "That is not true my love, you are too
stressed, or as the reverend suggested, they were just not meant to be born
here, mayhaps their souls were not yet ready to attach themselves to their
bodies."
"And you really think moving to Kale will help that?" She challenged.
"The main worry you had would be if they were to be safe, Kale's crime is much
lower then here, they have schools that people of all ages can go to. Just
think Jacqueline, our children will be able to read and write, possibly even
challenge Leonado Di Vinci himself in the sciences. Or even their art could
litter the halls of our home and many others." Jonas said with a smile. "But it
will never happen," he wiped a tear from her face, "if we just give up."
Jacqueline smiled softly and made Jonas' heart race, he loved his wife, ever
since he first actually met her. It hurt him to see her grieving over their
lost children, and much worse when she cried out with false superstitions. He
has tried to console her on countless occasions, and he hoped she could just
get over it as well as he could.
Unfortunately, she was too emotional for such a 'heartless act'. He didn't mind
her showing so many emotions, it fit her beautifully, though he always told
her, 'Happiness fits my little angel best.'
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Vlad woke with a cold spot where Daniel was, and woke with a panic. Did he miss
seeing the boy off? Was he already gone? Vlad jumped out of bed and dressed
himself in his suit, then decided to take off his tie and jacket before running
down the halls of his mansion screaming like a lunatic.
'Would Daniel really just leave me to go home? Maybe he just lied so he could
stay home instead of coming here' "DANIEL!" Vlad yelled as he power-walked down
the hall.
"Yeah?" he heard faintly. It was from his room, he peeked inside to find Daniel
stepping out of his bathroom, with nothing but a blood red towel hung around
his bruised hips, "What's up frootloop?"
Vlad sighed as he fell back onto the bed, "Nothing Daniel, just, nothing."
"If it's nothing why were you screaming, it's not like someone like you to
scream." Danny stated with his toothbrush (actually Vlad's) hanging out of his
mouth.
"My problem has been dealt with, I also do not feel the need to embarrass
myself with the tale." Vlad draped his arm across his eyes.
Danny could only smile, Vlad was becoming more and more predictable, 'I bet he
thought I left already.' "Vlad, you do know I've been dreading leaving since I
first came as much as you have. I would like to see my friends and family, but
only if I have our hands surgically attached so you can't leave me."
Vlad smiled, "It sounds nice, to be with you forever, but I'm afraid I'll only
get in the way in certain times."
"Hey man, don't mess with me when I'm trying to be all mushy." Danny smiled
when Vlad laughed and mumbled, "I'll remember that next time Daniel."
"Come on, we got a good 5 hours before Mom and Dad expect me home." Danny's
smile turned into a smirk, "Wanna go make out on the couch for 5 straight
hours?"
Vlad took one look at Danny's face before laughing, "Why not just the front
steps?"
"Oh, now I'm more for the driveway."
They shared a laugh before shaking their heads, neither could understand why
people would do that, just start randomly making out in public. To be honest,
they didn't care, but you think they'd have some shame once they got past 10
seconds. But nope, they just keep sucking face.
"So, can I expect to see you around town?" Danny asked as they walked to the
dining room.
"Of course, you can't expect to be Danny Phantom, without Vlad Plasmius
SOMEWHERE in the the mix." Vlad replied with a smirk.
"Oh please tell me I won't have to kick your ass yet again." Danny groaned.
Vlad took a false hurt expression across his face, "Why Daniel, did you attempt
to insult me?"
Danny glared through the other's mask, "You know what I mean, frootloop."
Vlad smiled happily, just speaking with the teenage halfa could put a large
smile across his face, "I was thinking I could work at the school as a business
and law teacher, I'm more then qualified, what with my experience and my
degrees."
"Don't you dare. Remember the 'Mayor Masters' incident that only lasted about 4
months? I was blamed for every shitty thing you did, and with this, every time
you do something the other kids don't like then I get dirty looks, or waled on
by Dash."
Vlad growled at the mention of the blonde idiot, "And your parents don't do
anything?"
Danny looked away to the nearby blue china vase nervously and stuttered out,
"They don't know, I never told them."
Another growl escaped his lips, "I doubt they could do much anyway, possibly
just trap him in a net and have him listen to one of your father's flashbacks."
The younger stifled a laugh, "Yeah, he just sorta stands there and rambles. He
goes on and on and on. I'm starting to numb up to it a bit."
The billionaire spared a small smile for his lover, "Yes, I'm still very
annoyed by it."
"You didn't grow up with it."
Vlad choked up a bit, "Quite right. Well, remember that you're always welcome
at my home, Daniel."
Danny smiled and hooked arms with Vlad, happy with the change of subject. "...
You know, I was only half kidding about making out on the couch."
They shared another laugh before making their way to the living room to wait
for Danny's parents to call, pestering him about when he was going to be home.
***** Chapter 14 *****
The weekend went by way too fast for Danny's liking, he wanted more time with
his new boyfriend/mate-thing. Now that he thought about it, what was the ghost
term for boyfriend? He always just assumed it was mate.
Never mind what he needs to worry about right now is avoiding Dash, no doubt
the guy wouldn't want to be late for his first waling of the day. Even if the
jock is more sluggish in the morning and doesn't hurt too bad, it still hurts,
and it gets worse with each successive 'waling'. So he avoids them as he can.
He looks left and right before closing his locker, unfortunately, he didn't
notice that Dash was behind his locker door and once he saw him gave a very
'manly' squeak. His muscles tensed to run but he was caught by Dash before he
could. The larger blonde held the boy in a tight, yet surprisingly breathable
grip.
"D-Dash?! What are you-?"
"Shut it, Honri," Danny's eyes widened and he tensed further, almost to the
point his ice core was beginning to flare up. He kept still as stone as Dash
dragged him into an empty classroom. Well, almost empty, it occupied Paulina,
Star, and Kwan already. Dash tossed Danny into the room haphazardly, but even
with his amazing reflexes, he couldn't avoid hitting a desk on his way down.
"Now spill it Fenton. Everything, between you dressing like a girl, and going
on a 'date' with Mr. Masters. Don't tell me it was a bet either, I heard the
two of you flirting in the ice cream shop." Dash growled.
"W-well, we... uh, I, I-I don't know what you're talking about." The smallest
boy in the room stated.
"Don't act stupid! Is this what you do whenever you run out of class? Go to
your little boyfriend for tea and a good fuck?" Dash growled.
"Dash, you're taking this way too seriously, I kinda think it's cute. Besides,
it amused me to see him dressed like that." Paulina said.
"Are you kidding me? This just proves that Fentina here is gay!"
"Why are you so offended man? If he already has a boyfriend then it's not like
he's going to hit on you or something. Right Danny?" Kwan added.
Danny couldn't speak, he was too wound up at this point, his core was flaring
and releasing cold air from his mouth at an increasing rate. He didn't want
them to see his breath, if they could find out about his little cross-dressing
incident, what about his ghost half?
Everyone was getting cold and curious as to why Danny seemed so nervous.
"G-get me out of here. Please, now."
"Dude what's wrong, why are you shaking so much?" Kwan tried to ask past his
teeth chattering.
Danny gave up and darted out of the room to a closet so he could stay calm
enough to create a core crystal. The crystal was about half the size of his
palm and made the air around it as cold as the earth's poles. He must have been
extremely nervous and scared to make one quite like this. Large and rather
powerful. It's just another one that he'll have to store away from his parents,
in a box under his bed labeled 'Motnahp slatsyrc' or 'Phantom crystals'
mirrored. Written in ectoplasm that only responds to his ecto-signature.
But for now, he'll have to keep it in his pocket, and hope nobody notices.
He stayed in the closet for all but a minute after until he was found by Sam.
"There you are! I heard you were kidnapped by the jocks." Sam pulled him into a
hug. "Are you hurt at all?"
"I'm fine. A little shaken, but fine."
"Did you panic earlier? Is that why it got so cold?"
"Yeah," He rubbed his neck nervously. "I panicked a little."
Sam seemed to pale, "Did they find out your secret?"
"I- I don't think- Maybe?"
"Danny," Sam became absolutely serious and held his shoulders tightly, "Did
they find out I can't just take a 'Maybe'."
"I don't know, which secret are you talking about?!" Danny growled, "Because
they definitely know I dressed up as a girl named Jacqueline yesterday!"
Sam's panic shrank a bit, but was still there. "Danny, please, I was just
trying to help."
The Halfa sighed and ran his fingers through his raven hair. "I know, I'm still
a little shocked from the confrontation, it seems that only Dash was disgusted
by it though. Paulina didn't seem to care, neither did Kwan."
"You only have 4 more days after this."
"Yeah, 4 more days before I can go back to Vlad."
"4 more days of every inch of hell stuffed into a mile and a half by two
stories of school."
Danny smiled as they began to walk down the hall to their first class. "I've
been doing some research in the ghost zone for you, mainly from Clockwork.
Apparently this kind of relationship is pretty normal, apparently since long
before the first halfa."
"Yeah, Jonas and Jacqueline probably did start that whole 'normal is for the
mob mentals' thing."
Sam raised an eyebrow, "No, there were halfas long before that, not as
mainstream as you and Vlad, or even Jonas and Jacqueline, but they were there.
The Observants even have a small rule book on these things, but it was lost
once they found out halfas can't have kids. Clockwork said it only had 4 rules
in it anyway. Since the book was lost, there were no rules added, but they
still apply." she pulled out a small book, "Clockwork gave me this, it has the
rules written down, even if it's not the original. We can't add any amendments
to it unless we have the original."
Sam handed the book to Danny, who immediately began reading the first rule as
they walked into their class.
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As Danny walked over to his friends' usual outside lunch spot he took out the
book that Sam gave him and began quietly reading it to them as he dropped to
the ground underneath the tree with them.
"Sam, listen to this, 'Rule One; Under no circumstances shall a halfa be left
homeless. Should this matter occur, the halfa will be given his or her very own
lair that shall be allowed to be shaped to that halfa's particular needs at any
point in time. If a ghost is responsible for the complete destruction of a
Halfa's home, that ghost shall be reprimanded immediately. Should it be a
human; they shall be faced with 10 years of sparse, yet increasingly horrible
bad luck. If it is another Halfa, the first halfa involved is entitled to
whatever punishment the homeless halfa feels is necessary. Otherwise (Being
natural disasters or self destruction) no punishment shall be dealt out.'"
Danny paled as he realized what Vlad deemed a 'punishment they feel is
necessary' was about a week of torment. He didn't need to get the Observants to
do it for him either. "Damn, that little prank war we had could've ended worse
than it did."
Tucker took the book and began reading the next page, "'Rule Two; Because of a
Halfa's split selves, they are easily separated. Should a Halfa's human and
ghost sides be split (though each side will still be referred to as a 'Halfa')
each side must live together for as long as it will take to merge them together
again. If the ghost sides of two different halfa should merge before a solution
is found, all halfa in the involved party shall participate in the group
lockdown,'" Tucker's eyes widened," Depending on the outcome of the two merged
Ghost halfa, common protocol shall take place. If it turns to a destructive
path, both halfa involved shall be exiled or exterminated as accordingly."
"That explains the Dan incident then." Danny said as it was passed to Sam.
"Just wait, Rule Three is ridiculous." she turned the page of the book to
aforementioned rule. "'Rule Three; Should a halfa be born of a ghost and a
human, that child shall be raised as a human until they are 14 years of age.
Once the child reaches the required age, they shall become formally trained in
their specified powers. They shall become an apprentice of their element's
master until they are deemed to be worthy.' You were trained by Frostbite
right? That was during the Undergrowth attack, how long did it take?"
"It felt like a day, but it was actually about four." Danny now held the book
while his two friends looked over his shoulder.
"Alright, 'Rule Four; Halfas are not above average laws that can easily be
under their control, human or ghost laws can apply to them based on their
current plane of existence. Punishments for each shall be as if they were not a
halfa, but the species associated with the laws in that plane or the defending
species. This includes the Christmas truce and Halloween's haunting.'"
"Nothing against you and Vlad dating." Tucker added.
"Yes, but according to human law, not only is gay marriage not allowed in many
places, Vlad could be stripped of everything he owns and thrown in jail for
pedophilia." Sam added, "If we find that book, maybe we could amend that. We
could make it legal for them to be together without having to lie to everyone
about their relationship."
Danny and Tucker took a moment to assess the info that was thrown at them, "But
what about Danny's secret, if we say they're allowed to be together based on a
ghost's rules that only apply to halfa, we'll have to-"
"Reveal everything. I know, but we could amend that too."
Danny smirked and leaned back onto the tree, "Guys, I know what this weekend
will be about."
***** Chapter 15 *****
Danny wasn't surprised about the detention he got on Tuesday for being late to
Lancer's class for beating Skulker in between classes, nor did the fact that
Lancer sat there reading Jonas of the Living Dead. What did surprise him, was
the fact he tried to converse with the teen. At first it was just questions
about how the rest of his classes were. Then he was shown his test on the book,
he had gotten the highest grade in the class at a 100. It would be 105 if you
counted extra-credit. Lancer smiled at Danny when he saw that the teen was
being filled with pride.
"Now Mr. Fenton, I expect this nice little stroke to your ego shall do some
good to the rest of your grades."
Danny added a nervous laugh, "Yeah, same here."
"Danny, the only reason I ask this of you is because I've watched you grow into
the young man you are now. I went from the dream job any teacher would want as
being the teacher of usually calm 5th graders to a freshman teacher for the
very reason that you used to enjoy my class. You paid as much attention as was
humanly possible for a 5th grade boy. You loved to read aloud to the class.
When I heard that you were having trouble in your freshman classes, I
immediately snatched up the English teacher promotion I was offered and allowed
the previous one to retire." Lancer looked at the boy, "I even seem to know you
better than your own parents at times. Of course this is none of my business."
"Trust me Mr. Lancer, no one knows me quite as well as my friends do." Danny
leaned back in his seat and crossed his arms.
"I believe you, I was the same way, most teenagers are. My reason is different
though, I was the highest grade in my class, but my parents didn't pay any
attention to me, they instead focused on my younger siblings and my older
brother. My older brother was the average hippie of the time, constantly on
drugs and a believer of non-violence. He had no cares in the world, and
eventually ran away. My younger siblings, twins in fact would try as hard as
possible, and only get average grades. They would be compared to my
achievements, this made all of us very angry. As the most subtle form of
rebellion, when my parents favorite science fair came out, they entered me in
it." Mr. Lancer's serious face turned somewhat jovial, "Of course I complied
with their request. Whenever they offered to help me with it, I would politely
decline their offer and say that it wouldn't be all that hard."
This piqued Danny's interest, "And then? What did you do?"
"Nothing. I grabbed a potato from the cupboard and placed it on a table. I
asked the judges if they could evaluate me privately later. Whenever people
came around to my table they would ask, 'So what is your project?' I'd simply
reply, 'Obviously, it's a potato.' When my parents came by I did the same thing
and they were so shocked and asked me why. 'I'm sorry, I couldn't come up with
anything.' That was a constant response they got from the twins, so it made
them quite furious."
"How did the private evaluation go?"
"I pulled something out of a hat on how potatoes are the most interesting kind
of food and got away with a 73."
Danny was shocked, "Wow. That's kind of cool."
"Sometimes issues start with one's parents. If you want I could hold a
conference with yours to discuss the oh-so-obvious neglect they show both you
and your sister."
"No, that's fine, I'll survive. It's not like they'll end up going insane and
kill me."
Lancer glanced to the clock, "That's time, Fenton. You can go now."
"Thanks, Mr. Lancer."
Danny gathered his stuff and walked out of the classroom and to the front of
the school and found Vlad waiting for him outside with a nice cherry red
Ferrari. Vlad seemed to be wearing the same outfit from their date only with a
rusty red tie.
"Sup frootloop."
Vlad turned to see Danny and smiled, "Another detention I see, Daniel. Your
parents asked me to pick you up since they had some sort of huge breakthrough
in their studies."
"Thanks Vlad." Danny smiled as Vlad opened the passenger door for him.
"No problem little badger."
Vlad sat in the driver's seat and started on the way to the Fenton household.
"So what did you do to get detention this time?"
"I was late to class again, it was Skulker this time."
"This is nothing new I assume."
"Nope, the new bit is next, I got a 105 on the test. I answered every question
right."
Vlad smiled, "Hopefully you can do better. If you want I could try to tutor the
untutorable."
"You can try, doesn't mean it'll work, then I'll just fail everything to get on
your nerves." Danny returned the smirk.
"Is that a challenge, little badger?" Vlad leaned closer to Danny's face after
parking in front of the Fenton home.
"Only if you take it that way, Frootloop." Danny leaned closer in with half-
lidded eyes.
Vlad frowned, "Not here, Daniel. Anyone could easily video this, then life will
be much worse. For both of us"
Danny sat back up and blushed, "Y-yeah, sorry."
"It's fine."
Danny had his hand squeezed comfortably by Vlad and was given a smile, "I'll
make up for it next weekend."
The teen halfa remembered the book that Sam left for him to go through, "Oh
yeah, did you know that there are actually rules for halfas, of course there's
only four since we're pretty rare." Danny pulled said book out of his bag and
handed it to Vlad.
"Ah yes, I have heard of these. I've never actually bothered to have them
written down, since I stayed mainly in the human world. I Never much cared for
the Ghost Zone until you came along."
"Oh and another thing." Danny reached into his pocket and pulled out his
Phantom Crystal, "I made this today, out of a panic, but I managed to coat it
in top coat nail cover stuff from Sam. I hope it doesn't freeze you or
anything."
"I doubt it little badger. The last time you froze me was because of those yeti
friends of yours. I managed to thaw using my own core thankfully, otherwise I'd
still be in that accursed ice prison." Vlad gently took it from Danny's hand
and held it. "Though it may need to be recovered in that nail varnish again. It
also dulls the glow of your core, that is an unfortunate thing."
Danny's brow furrowed and he frowned, "Give it back."
Vlad looked at him questioningly as Danny snatched it back. "What-, Daniel!"
"I'll give you something else then." Danny quickly opened the car door, grabbed
his things and ran to his front door.
Vlad groaned and hit his head on the top of the steering wheel, "You idiot." he
then drove off, all the while insulting his intelligence on the comment he made
of Daniel's gift.
Daniel Fenton however had something else planned for his picky lover.
***** Chapter 16 *****
Jacqueline was a strong woman, faithful, and also quite beautiful. Many men
have often stated that it was such a waste of beauty that she became a nun
instead of the wife of a rich lord, or even a prince. Though in equivalent to
her strength and beauty, she was respected, and because of this respect was one
of the kindest nuns in the church. She easily knew each of the usual families
faces and names.
What she did best though, was tell stories of myth to the children. Jacqueline
enjoyed seeing their expressions change with the mood she created. and she
never told the same story in the same manner. The mood she'd create with each
time she'd tell it would change, and the children would be excited to hear
every different version until the story itself was worn. That wouldn't stop her
though, she would merely begin a different story.
The arrival of the strange hooded man baffled her though. He would stay during
church and mass. He would attempt to engage the nuns in conversation, or even
the pastor. He never once approached her though, but he would make eye-contact
every time their paths crossed. Occasionally he would smile and nod.
She never would've thought that that man would become the husband she vowed to
never have, nor that said husband was the missing prince of their kingdom. When
they were separated, she thought she would never see him.
Oh ye of little faith...
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Danny woke with a start as he felt a strange invasion of privacy approaching
"Danny! I'm respecting your privacy by knocking, but asserting my authority as
your parent by coming in anyway!"
"Oh god" Danny quickly buried his head underneath his pillow. He just narrowly
missed getting hit by a splinter of his now destroyed door.
"Come on Danny-boy! Today is Saturday, you told us you had something planned
for you and your little friends and to wake you up when they came over." The
large man left the room leaving Danny in a silent stew.
Danny attempted to go back to sleep, but when he looked at the door frame, and
saw his two best friends he immediately groaned.
"You ready to start looking for that book?" Sam asked. She started going
through the 3rd drawer on Danny's dresser, aka the weapons drawer. Most of it
was just for self-defense in case of an attack.
"UGH!"
"Come on Danny, we have to get started early." Tucker quickly tugged Danny's
comforter off and laid it on the ground. Danny twitched and reached for the
missing blanket.
"Fine, fine, jeez. Let me get dressed, get out." as his friends left the room
with a shrug, he sat up on his bed and scratched his head. He looked over to
the box he had set on his desk. The box held Vlad's new gift. It took two days
to make, and about 5 dollars to get the required materials. Danny felt rather
proud of himself on the gift. It was handmade and looked almost like something
a typical boyfriend would give to his girlfriend. The thought of himself and
Vlad as boyfriends made him a little giddy, and sick whenever he added his
parents into the equation. Until he thought of all the support he had from
different people, his friends, Lancer, Clockwork and Una, and then there's the
countless ghosts in the Ghost Zone that were good and didn't mind helping out a
stranger.
If things get rough, he always had a place with Vlad and the ghosts of the
Ghost Zone.
A place with Vlad.
Vlad Masters was the man he had come to hate. A man he came to despise for a
seemingly logical reason. Now that he could think of it, Vlad probably saw his
reasoning as pretty logical as well, thus why he went through so much trouble.
Of course it was for the wrong person, but Danny didn't want to worry about
that. Vlad was his now, and if Vlad ever strays, any number of Danny's friends
could set him straight without even having to give the word. This was something
he didn't have to worry about. Because Danny just knew that Vlad would never
leave him for anyone else, the man obviously had standards to relationships and
the like. Vlad was a gentleman in nearly every sense of the term.
As Danny finished getting ready he took one final glance to the box, 'just
until next weekend Fenton, you can't go flying into his office and give it to
him. Well, I could, but that would just cause even more of a disturbance.' he
took a deep breath in and let his excitement out.
"You ready yet, Danny?"
"Geez you're taking as long as my mother!"
"Hey!" Danny opened the door of his bedroom and crossed his arms. "I am not!"
"Whatever Danny, come on, Jazz had to distract your parents. I think she's been
tortured enough for one day."
"Alright, come on. I'm thinking DMP classic number 2 would work just fine."
Danny said to his two friends as the bounded down the stairs.
Tucker smiled and instantly went to work on his PDA. He typed in the
appropriate code, sending a signal to one of the various speakers around the
house. The speaker let out a shrill shriek and a shout of 'GHOST'. This worked
like most of their escape plans, with Maddie swiftly grabbing her ectoblaster
and Jack fumbling with his, letting out a few curses on the way.
"I can't help but wonder when they'll find out those are just speakers." Tucker
looked to Sam and Danny for an answer.
They both shrugged, "Doesn't matter, let's go."
They hurried down the stairs to the lab and saw Jazz, equipped with a newer
looking ectoblaster. "You owe me a day off from this."
"Jazz I promise, once you find a good boyfriend who doesn't want me dead I'll
do the exact same for you." Danny said as he went into his ghost form.
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"Una, have you need of me?" Clockwork asked gently.
"I need a second opinion on this." Una held up a sheet of paper and let her
husband read over the story line she had already written. "I start losing my
grip around the middle."
Clockwork focused around the specific area she spoke of, "So this isn't
avoidable?"
"I'm afraid so. I've had to try and rewrite it for a while. I lost track of how
many I wrote that had those exact events." She looked to the large waste basket
that was filled to the brim. "I never thought I'd be forced to empty a trash
can that was near bottomless."
Clockwork saw the stress on her face, and couldn't help but smile, "Is this the
best one you can come up with?"
"Yes, unfortunately."
He gently kissed her forehead, "No matter how disastrous it seems, we'll make
it work."
"But Clockwork, I lose control after a point, and you know that means you do
too!"
"Una." He pulled her to her feet and held her hands. "We are not powerless
without our power. We are not useless when we have nothing to do. You also seem
to have forgotten our little Halfa friends. They can help, Danny and Vlad would
do it, because this not only affects us, it affects everyone."
The ghostly glow around the smaller brightened as she smiled, "I hate how you
steal my words to others before I even say them."
Clockwork kissed her temple, "Tell Walker, Pandora, and Dorathea. Let them
spread the news. We need everyone prepared for this."
She merely nodded before leaving her study. Clockwork frowned as he looked to
the trash can that had rarely ever been full. He had to select a few to have as
alternate timelines, Una obviously knew this and left a few out and
straightened. The most prominent one was a continuation of the one in his hand.
This one was in messy charcoals and on an old piece of parchment. It was
probably the first one that Una made, before she became the Lady of Writing.
The timeline that started and ended it all. He smiled at the results on it and
slipped the parchment into his cloak.
***** Chapter 17 *****
The phantom gang started in where they thought would be the most obvious place.
The place where all things lost end up being found,
and placed in a box.
"Do we really have to start with the box ghost? Aren't you afraid we'll catch
his stupid or something?" Tucker whined while gorging himself on the various
snack foods they brought for the trip.
Sam snatched the bag of Chex Mix from the boy and put it away, "Yes Tucker, we
should start there. The Box Ghost's Warehouse is infamous for finding random
lost junk. Ever wonder why he's been accused of stealing so many of the other
ghosts' stuff? He returns some things but likes to keep the stuff that
interests him. More important things normally, like jewels and gold and things
like that, or just stuff you probably won't miss." Sam took out one of the
large tomes she brought in her bag. "It says here that any who keep the
Warehouse will be a controller of All Things Lost." She slammed it shut with a
dull thud, "This is the most obvious place to start."
"Huh, maybe I can trade him something to get my core crystals out of my room.
I'm getting paranoid with them just laying around." Danny added through the
mic.
"Aren't those the things that power these ecto-blasters?" Jazz inquired.
"Yeah but they last forever, no need to keep the extras when I can just make
more."
After some while, the usual plain floating rocks were exchanged for the odds
and ends of different objects; toothbrushes CDs, fake arms, a wizard's hat*, a
few books, electronics, there was even a huge-ass statue that passed right in
front of the Specter Speeder. The belt of junk only got thicker as they
progressed and only through Tucker's excessive use of the Specter Speeder (and
the millions of video games he played with similar controls) did the group of
three get to the Warehouse's island safely.
Danny however, was hit by a bucket to the face*, nearly got a concussion from
running into an old looking chest, and was almost decapitated by a chainsaw.
All because he shot straight for the door of the Warehouse, instead of just
following Tucker.
"Whoa, dude are you okay?" Tucker asked through the mic of the Speeder.
"I'm fine, the sooner we're out of here, the safer I'll feel. Who would've
thought that I'd miss those stupid little odd rocks floating around, doing
absolutely nothing."
Jazz laughed as Team Phantom piled out of the Specter Speeder, "Don't worry
little brother, you'll have time to recover before we have to go through it
again."
"So are we negotiating or, 'negotiating'?" Tucker asked as his hand twitched
toward his ectoblaster.
Danny rolled his shoulder and looked at his friend with a single raised
eyebrow, "It's the Box Ghost what do you think?" His foot impacted the door and
it swung right open to reveal millions of crates, boxes and any related
container piled into mountains upon mountains of boxes.
"Where do we start?"
"I'll fly above and see if there are any hints to where it might be."
Danny thought it would be a simple search. He thought that there would be a few
boxes that were labeled and they'd be able to go through only the ones labeled
as 'books' find out if the Halfa's Rulebook was there or not then move on.
He didn't seem to understand just how much stuff people lose around the world.
This is why he was a C student.
(Because obviously if he took the amount of stuff he has lost alone (crap-ton)
times the number of people there were in the world (A whole fucking lot) he end
up (crap-ton x A whole fucking lot (Crap-ton times lot cancels out leaves crap-
ton, carry the three = ) with A whole fucking crap ton of stuff.)
There were entire mountains of boxes. What they all saw out front was not even
close to half, half of it was a certain mound shaped around an ecto-plasmic
river of floating boxes and that was only the beginning. Everything was a brown
sort of color, but ever so often he saw a small dot of a random hue, somewhere
on the mound.
Danny took a picture of the over-head to show to the others. Because he
couldn't describe the awe and horror of the area around him with mere words
(gestures mayhaps but he doubted anyone would understand his charade).
"Sam what do you make of this?" He asked when he finally returned.
Her eyes widened and she paled (further). "This is worse then I thought. We're
going to be looking for days."
"Do you think the Box Ghost might have a catalog, like a library does? Or maybe
it's just arranged alphabetically?"
"No time to ponder, no time to think, and definitely no time to look for a
catalog, grab a box and look." Jazz opened the nearest box and started flinging
the random items everywhere.
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After hearing about Daniel's urgency to find the Halfa's Rulebook, Vlad had to
say that he was curious.
He had his computers read out all four to him and still couldn't quite tell why
the teen wanted it. It was a simple book, Una had once described it to have an
'unfortunate obviousness' about it. She then proceeded to tell him why it was
lost.
'Long before Daniel, long before you, long before even the halfas before you;
there was a book of rules. These rules are still in place today, I had read
them to you when I first met you, do you remember?' 'Of course.' 'Good. The
Halfa's Rulebook was written by the first halfa and a couple of the Observants
in secret. The book only started with the four laws you know now, but was
planned to be much longer later on. The few Observants officially announced
it's publication into the Library, and the Ghost Zone cheered,' Vlad remembered
watching Una twirl in happiness like a little girl at the memory, 'Though,
unfortunately, not every saw this as a good thing. One Observant completely
opposed the idea, and tried to implant the intention, that halfas were the
greater being. No one agreed with him.' The sparkle of pink in her red eyes
ceased, and she seemed to shrink, 'I myself watched as he stole the book, right
under my nose, and slice it in half. The blank pages disappeared, the only used
page; I managed to get it back with my husband's help at the cost of his eye.
He stole the covers, and no one was able to track him even after he supposedly
expired. Walker has the remaining page under a complete lockdown and the covers
are believed to be completely disposed of.'
'It seems as though Daniel doesn't realize that looking for it is a lost
cause.' Vlad picked up a recent picture of Daniel in his dress and couldn't
stifle a laugh, 'I'll tell him the next time I see him.'
***** Chapter 18 *****
Danny was not known for having an amazing track record in... well anything.
Oddly enough, he's only good at either A) kicking butt or B) getting his ass
beaten by some ghost's unknown powers.
Take about 10 seconds to think on which one Danny is doing right now!
(Jeopardy Theme song plays softly with all characters swaying their heads and
humming)
If you guessed B, you're correct! If you guessed A, you must be new here (Hi,
I'm Narumina12, I'm an aspiring Andrew Hussie-esque author and I'm starting my
career with fanfiction)
But yes, Danny was currently flying hopelessly around (what he had just named)
Boxsylvania, while being chased by the Box Ghost, who was oddly larger and a
lot stronger. Danny couldn't help but remember the Box Ghost ten years from now
with the deeper 'beware'.
"How dare you enter my realm! How dare you come here! Entering my domain
without my consent, this is a deed punishable by dismemberment!"
"Oh god, Sam, Jazz, Anyone, please. The Box Ghost is too powerful right now"
'That felt weird to say' "Has anyone gotten the speeder running?!"
'Don't worry Danny, it's engine is running, you can come on now!'
Danny looked back to see if he could toss in a one-liner, but saw the close
proximity of aforementioned specter and thought better of it.
Once the Speeder came into view, Danny began making frantic motions for them to
leave. They got the hint and the Specter Speeder began flying off into the
distance with Danny following close behind.
The box ghost stopped on the edge of his domain and shrank to his normal size.
"Well that was... enlightening, I guess?"
"That seems to be as enlightened as you can get little brother."
"And that's why I am a C-student."
Jazz looked over to her watch and gasped, "We spent nearly 9 hours in there,
it's six pm! Danny, grab hold of the speeder, I'm setting the auto-pilot for
home."
"Oh god, I'm on, go!"
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"-And that's why you kids shouldn't be out so late at night!" Jack finished.
By the time the average lecture was over, Danny had bags in his eyes and Tucker
was acting like he was starving. Jazz had gotten a pardon and Sam was already
sent home for the night.
"That's great and all Mr. Fenton, but can we eat? I'm starving," Tucker
groaned.
Maddie looked over to Jack, who grinned wide at the prospect of food, "Fine,
there's pizza on the dining room table, and don't ask about the strange brown
marks on the wall behind the stove." She seemed to glance at Jack with a slight
glare, "It's too embarrassing to talk about."
The two boys saw said brown mark and glanced at each over, "Looks like she
tried to make spaghetti."
"Or the spaghetti from last week came out from under the fridge..." They
glanced to the floor of the refrigerator and both would swear to their dying
days that something stared back.
"So how's the thing with Vlad been coming along?" Tucker asked as he took a
large bite of pepperoni pizza.
"It's been good so far, I made him something."
Tucker tried not to choke up on a laugh (the pizza was too precious to have it
squish out of his nose like a play-doh toy), "O Goh, dit id-" he swallowed,
"Did it finally come to you Danny?" "What-" "Your inner Japanese school-girl?"
he cleared his throat, " 'Kyaah, Senpai has finally noticed me.' " then the
African-American teen burst into laughter.
Danny didn't even think about it, but yeah, he had to agree with Tucker, always
did. He started laughing with the boy and quickly added, "Doki-doki" with the
required hand-motions of a heart-beat. They burst into large boisterous laughs,
drawing the attention of Danny's parents. They saw how happy he suddenly was,
and couldn't help but smile to the pair.
The duo of teens soon reported to Danny's room for late-night gaming, only to
have the two fall asleep with each other holding their controllers. Their game
of DOOM was already over and the TV was already off due to the auto-shut off.
And Danny was dreaming of another time...
It seems as if there is no rest for the good souls, am I correct Daniel?
A woman about the size of Danny walked up to him and straightened his shirt
softly.
'Are you Jacqueline?'
She merely nodded, Call me Jacque if it makes it easier, Jonas always called me
that to tease me. That or-
'Little Badger.' Danny smiled to her.
I sometimes wonder why Una was cruel enough to reuse our souls and change our
personalities. Have you ever thought of that?
'Maybe once or twice, but not long enough for me to remember.'
I'll tell you right now, she never did it just so we could be together again.
We would've had our own little book in her library had she not needed us again.
She needs the Rulebook, Daniel. And the average ghost is not strong enough to
bind it without help. That's not why I'm here though, I want you to stop
looking for it.
'Why? That's what's going to make me and Vlad able to be together without
interference from humans and ghosts. If you haven't noticed already, pedophilia
isn't approved of socially, and being gay just adds fuel to the fire.' He paced
the empty space on an unseen floor.
The woman frowned, Daniel, I know this, I am you while simultaneously not. I
have access to your memories with a different opinion on what should've been
done. Stop looking for it. When she noticed no change in his behavior
Jacqueline switched tactics. How did you finally realize you loved him? That
caught his attention. You never actually realized it, Danny. You danced right
into his arms all while following the line that was pre-set. You made the
choice to love him.
'But, it was because of you and Jonas that we-'
She smiled It seems that destiny is being quite fickle with your fate. You only
saw those memories to push you closer to him, Daniel... Danny, You make
choices, and timelines have to be created, Una predicts these and writes them
down, but both her and Clockwork enforce them. She took his hand. Besides, you
and Vladimir have a bigger story than that of fate-bound lovers trying to stay
together when the world is trying to pull them apart. You'll have to understand
Danny, not everything affects only you, and it's your choice to filter the bad
for others. His look of confusion stuck. You'll realize it later, I'm sure, but
heed my words, Phantom
Nothing is just about you.
Danny woke up to find Tucker splayed across him like a blanket, and drooling on
the floor. Danny haphazardly pushed his friend off, with the slight hope that
he will not awaken the drooling friend of his. This tiny hope is shattered with
a loud snort from said friend and a soft (but clear to Danny because he knows
his friend just that well) mutter of 'Breakfast'.
The raven smiled at his friend and said, "Go downstairs and see if Mom's
cooking already."
"I'm too tired."
"I think I smell bacon." this wasn't a lie, last time his mom tried to make
bacon, it hissed and ran into the air ducts. Nobody knows what happened to it,
but Jazz swears up and down that it is still alive and tried to strangle her in
her sleep. Nowadays Maddie just goes to a fast food restaurant that serves it.
Tucker took a moment to think, the moment was long enough for Danny to blink,
and soon he was gone. The remaining teen glanced over to his present and
sighed. Vlad said before that Halfas should be able to do whatever they want,
but we have our own rulebook, so that's not true. Maybe if we can just hold out
a bit longer...
"Yo dude, your mom went to Nasty Burgers for breakfast, she's got all kinds of
munchies for the remainder of today too. I told her that we had to go around
town and take a poll for a project later so we can look for the Halfas
Rulebook. You know I was thinking we should change the official name to 'Da
Rules' or 'Da Halfa's Rules' kinda like Fairly OddParents." Tucker glanced to
the raven, who was waiting impatiently for his turn to speak.
"Tuck. I don't think we should continue looking for the book."
The african american teen seemed to turn a pale green, "Danny, that's the only
thing that could help your relationship with Vlad go on without a hitch!"
"I know, but-" tell him about Jackie and risk seeming insane he looked Tucker
in the eyes maybe not insane so much as panicky, "I just have a bad feeling
about that expedition we had. You saw the Box ghost, and we all know that the
'home team advantage' works best when a ghost is in their specified territory.
That was the box ghost Tucker, THE FREAKING BOX GHOST what if we decided that
invading Pandora's lair was a good thing?"
Tucker stared at his friend, and although the excuse was obviously fabricated
(in Tucker's mind: pulled out of his ass) he could tell that something was
troubling the other.
"Alright man, I'll go tell Sam, you want to do anything on the last day of our
weekend together?"
He seemingly pondered the question before smirking, "Arcade and pizza day?"
"I've got a ten and two dimes."
"Five and a nickle. Take the nickle."
"Maybe we could ask your parents for some money?"
"The most we'll get is a twenty, and the worst is they won't give us any."
"Maybe they can buy more pizza?"
"Did you leave any yesterday?"
"I don't think so."
"I'll ask them to buy more pizza."
***** Chapter 19 *****
Finding Daniel was a simple task, nearly child's play for Vlad. His energy was
always different from other ghosts; cold like death, but with the peaceful
aftermath of it and the comfort of an old friend.
Vlad knew that once he came out of his manor the entirety of the town's
paparazzi would be on top of him in seconds. Who he didn't expect however, was
Jack and Maddie looking around triumphantly while holding the Fenton thermos.
The man had never heard of them catching anything from Daniel, or the news,
much less had he seen it. Of course with the risk that he knew that Daniel was
in the area and getting closer as they did, he had to check if his idiot
parents had caught him finally.
"Jack! Maddie!" he faked warmly.
"Oh, hello Vlad."
"VLADDIE, how are you man, Maddie and I just had the best time!" Jack bragged.
"We just caught one of the more dangerous ghosts of Amity Park!" Maddie
squealed with joy. Vlad felt a pang as they went on about what happened. He
didn't care that it was a huge fight, or that Jack nearly died. He didn't care
that Maddie saved his life, yet again. Everything they said at that moment;
worthless.
Daniel and Is he the one they fought were the only thoughts that resonated in
his mind.
"Would you mind my asking, just who you caught?"
"Not at all V-man! We just so happened to catch Ghost X!" Vlad tossed a
dumbfounded look to the pair, and lifted an eyebrow for good measure. He saw
Daniel and Tucker stopped behind the boy's parents. They both made motions for
him to stay quiet about their whereabouts. Of course Daniel would take Tucker
and slip silently as possible into the nearest alleyway. The two would probably
not even care, even if they did know.
Ghost X? At least I know now that it's not Daniel.
"Ah well, I thank you for the story, both of you, but there is something I need
to attend to that has just come up." Vlad waved goodbye to the Fentons and
walked casually over to his little Fenton.
Danny started by laughing, "What were you doing, talking to my parents,
frootloop?"
"I was looking for you when I heard them speaking of their latest catch. Trust
me when I say that I would never speak to your parents without some form of
ulterior motive." Vlad crossed his arms and leaned back onto a nearby wall. "I
just remembered something that Una had told me about the Halfas' Rulebook."
The billionaire flinched when his young love's eyes had brightened and his
hands grasped his arm. "Vlad! Do you know where it is? Or any idea?"
"No, only that it's in two parts, the single page and the covers. It's useless
to try and look for it." Danny let go and sighed, "I must wonder though. Why
are you looking for it?"
"I wanted to write a rule in it. One that could help us if anything went
wrong."
"Wrong? What could possibly go wrong my boy?" A million different things of
course, but I can't let him know that little fact or he'll just end up even
more discouraged.
Danny laughed, "I dunno just-"
Tucker cleared his throat, "Dude," he held up a twenty dollar bill, "Pizza
remember?"
"Oh right!"
"I do have to get back to the office, terribly sorry for bothering you and Mr.
Foley. Goodbye for now little badger."
"Bye Vlad." Danny glanced to Tucker to see his mischievous smirk out and about.
"What are you smiling about, geek?"
Tucker started with a mock-dreamy sigh and started to bat his eyelids, "Bye
Vlad~" he said in a high pitched, tittering voice. He let out another sigh.
"Wow Danny, you've either completely lost it, or you're fucking crazy. I'm
still total support, bro; always will be, but you're fucking crazy to me."
"Shut up Tucker." Danny walked out of their hiding place and strode in the
direction of Amity Park's pizzeria.
Tucker laughed as he caught up to his friend, "Is he sugoi Danny? Does he make
your kokoro go doki doki?"
"I thought you were support?"
"In all manners of your relationship, minus-" he pointed both of his thumbs to
himself, "This guy!"
Danny rolled his eyes and continued walking.
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"I have plans already Clockwork. I can't just drop them to guard that stupid
page." Walker was leaned against the wall behind the bureau, eased out on his
desk chair. His feet were blocking out most of the Time Master's face, but
completely blinded him to his other guest.
"Walker, Might I remind you of the fact that that single page is one of the top
priorities of this facility? If it were to be destroyed by some reckless troop
of yours-" Clockwork nearly growled when the Ghost Sheriff held up his hand to
shush the other.
"It's all under control sir. Locked up in a safe of ectoranium. No ghost could
even hope of getting in there. That; and the dozens upon dozens of various
booby traps, just waiting for someone to set them off. Finally we have-" he hit
a button on the underside of the chair's armrest. The wall to his right
displayed aforementioned page in a small space barely as big as the very
artifact it contained. "An entire set of security cameras; not only inside the
case focusing on the page-" the screen turned to a room full of lasers that
surrounded the safe. Lasers of pure ectoplasm, could easily disintegrate a
ghost in their focus in no time at all, literally. "but they surround the room,
and the entire maze around it. Then there's the matter of them attempting to
just go under, or over. NO! Hahaha, any disturbance to the entire floor; any at
all, will cause a teleporter to send it all the way back to the Library."
"Walker, with all due respect-" Walker's feet finally moved to reveal the
Librarian. "I implore you to guard it carefully." Una nodded and curtseyed
before calming exiting the office.
Clockwork pinched the bridge of his nose before following her.
Walker was silent, before scoffing. "Doesn't think I can guard a damn page..."
this turned into a series of grumbles before he shut off the security screen.
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A soft flute played as an old man drank his coffee. The sky was a peaceful
blue, with soft wispy clouds all floating to the left of the man's sight.
"About our deal, young one-"
Another man, true to the old one's words, he was quite young; near his early
twenties even. "Forget it old man, you may have helped me out of my prison, but
don't think we're in the clear for what you did to me." His black hair glinted
in the sunlight and his green eyes never left the natural view of the
mountains.
***** Chapter 20 *****
At first it seemed that no one outside of Danny's tight-knit group knew about
him and Vlad other than Vlad himself. Then Danny went out in public dressed as
a girl.
This previous situation leads us to a sunny, yet gloomy Thursday morning. Dash
Baxter had been out most of the week, and Paulina and her gang would check in
on Danny every now and then. Ask if he was ok, shove him, call him gross and
storm off as a show to the surrounding public. Kwan had taken to slight glances
and a wink every now and then (of which Danny never returned because it was
creepy and he did not want to have to scrape Kwan off of Vlad's lab walls).
He walked out of the school on the Friday he was supposed to go to Vlad's only
to find his parents waiting for him beside the Fenton RV.
"Hi sweetie! Vlad asked us to take you over to his mansion in Wisconsin since
he had to go there early for business." Maddie herded the boy into the RV while
Jack haphazardly threw his bags into the back of the vehicle.
"He did? I thought he would've told me before hand."
"He didn't have the time sweetie. Vlad was rushed out at around 2:00 with no
warning." Maddie cooed. She looked at her son sweetly, "I can't help but
remember when you were so small and your father insisted on giving you a mullet
like Vlad's"
Danny cringed, "Please tell me you stopped him!"
Maddie laughed on her way back to the passenger seat. "Unfortunately, no, but
we fixed it by just making it even all around."
'I like Vlad and all, but I would never want to have a mullet like the one he
had.'
"Are you ready for a long drive to Wisconsin son?!" Jack yelled out.
"Dad, I kinda need my clothes."
"Already packed hun." she pointed to the pile of bags next to him. Nearly five
suitcases in total along with a teal draw-string bag. 'Am I going away for a
weekend or a month?'
"Of course it's only a weekend, silly!" Maddie assured. Danny's eyes shot open
and looked at his mother.
"How did you know what I was thinking?"
"Mother's intuition Danny." she replied without missing a beat. "I did pack a
few extras in there. Extra PJs, extra day clothes, extra work clothes. Oh, and
a suit in case Vlad has a client or employee over. Then there's some of your
games, some movies, toiletries."
"Toiletries? Mom Vlad has plenty of stuff for me to use."
"Now Danny, just because Uncle Vlad is the richest man in the world, it doesn't
mean you can't be polite and bring your own things. At least so that you don't
look like a beggar."
The Halfa pouted and pulled out his little box. Vlad's gift was in there, and
had been with him for the entire day so he would not forget it. H his dad
started the Fenton RV and began their road trip at a nice 75 miles per hour.
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Within the shadows, a man strode forth and glanced at the retreating for of the
Fenton's choice vehicle. The man's green eyes continued to stare until it had
completely disappeared from view. He pushed his raven hair out of his eyes and
showed a sharpened canine peeking from his mouth.
"So they've already got him. Damn." A wisp of white flame engulfed him and
showed no trace of his existence in the area.
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Sam and Tucker watched their friend get in the RV. They heard what was going on
and why they were there in place of Vlad. The pair was just leaving in the
opposite direction of which the Fentons left, just in time for an expensive car
to pull up to the school. Vlad stepped out.
"But isn't he-"
"I know Tuck, that just means one of two things; Danny was kidnapped by ghosts
impersonating his parents or that's someone impersonating Vlad."
They nodded to each other. Sam ran after Vlad and Tucker set up with a ghost
tracker and headphones.
"Hey, frootloop." Sam snidely said.
"Hello Ms. Manson. Please do not call me that, that is a 'Daniel-only'
nickname."
"Whatever. So what's up?"
He seemed to glare at her. Vlad could tell something was off by not only the
innocent 'hands behind her back' but also by the fact she was even speaking to
him without Daniel around.
"I believe I should be asking you that, shouldn't I?"
"It's the real thing. That means Danny was kidnapped by Fenton doppelgangers."
She relaxed a bit. "No. In fact you should be worried right about now. Danny
just took off with his parents to go meet you in Wisconsin." "Why would they-
" "I'm getting there. They said that they were called by you to come pick him
up and take him over to your mansion there. They said you had to go early for
some business thing."
"I do have a meeting with Dalv planned around this time, but I'd rather be late
than have Daniel's parents bring him."
"We could try tracking him with the Boooomerang. It's still locked on his ecto-
signature." Tucker pulled the device out of his pack. "I'll activate it, and
since Vlad is here he can track it all the way to Danny."
"You two sure have become quick on your feet."
"Of course. With all of the bounties you've put on Danny, we had to." Sam
replied in a voice laced with contempt.
"Got it. Ready Mr. Masters?" Tucker prepared his arm to throw.
Only to have his arm held in place by some other stronger (meatier) hand. "Just
what do you dweebs think you're doing?"
"Dash, let go of him!"
"Were you gonna throw that piece of junk?"
"Mr. Baxter I would advice against halting our progress. Yes he was going to
throw that 'piece of junk', as you so kindly put it, but if you so much as lay
a hand on these young adults. You will find yourself drowning within an ocean
of pain, right after being beaten to death with your own immaturity." Vlad
hissed.
In Dash's eyes the man's skin turned green and bumpy and his eyes red. The sky
seemed to crack open with lightning and the winds howled in agony and terror.
To Sam and Tucker, they were just annoyed at how long this little confrontation
was taking them.
"G-go ahead and throw it. Dweeb" Dash glanced back, "But only if you tell me
why you guys are so determined to do it."
Sam scoffed, but Vlad already had a twisted story prepared; "It's a new toy
that one of my companies is attempting to produce. It was given to me to see if
I would approve. I have had yet to test it, but my old arms can't throw as well
as I used to. So I came looking for-"
"For a techno-geek? Puh-leez. If you just need someone to throw a stupid
boomerang than you should've come to someone on the football team." Dash
snatched the Fenton device and threw it as hard as he could into the sky. "That
really is a stupid boomerang if it doesn't even come back." he stormed away,
back to his group.
"Mr. Foley, if you would mind driving my car to my home. As long as it gets
there I don't care what happens in between here and there." Vlad opened the
back door like he was getting in, but hid in order to transform. He went
invisible and flew after the quickly retreating machine.
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A group of people, all dressed in rags looked to their familiar sky of green.
They saw something quickly falling through the sky and plow a hole, right in
the middle of their town square. A woman with pure white hair that was
tarnished by dirt and dressed in a pitch black gown accented with white lace
was laying in the middle of the hole. Two white rings ran over her body to show
a woman of the exact make-up in inverse. Her long black hair was dirtied by the
stone from the statue of their mayor that she had crushed. Her gown was
scratched and blood that was both red and green flowed freely onto the fabric.
'A halfa!' the mayor cried, 'A blessed one has finally visited us!'
Her eyes opened for merely a second before they closed once again. Her blood
soon turned black and sank deep within the soil. The woman's body itself,
merely faded, leaving behind a small glimmer that was soon collected by the
Librarian, Una.
'Demon! Devil! What have you done to the blessed one!' the people began to
voice their protests.
'She was dead to begin with! I did nothing that would harm her. Rather, I am
saving her soul. For a bigger fate.'
'Liar! She has come to destroy it.'
Una grimaced at the group of villagers, ghostly and humane before disappearing
completely.
That was the first time this village of humans and ghosts alike were able to
see a halfa. Not the last, but the next time, they would never let their
blessed soul leave in the hands of the torturous deity.
***** Chapter 21 *****
Fear crept into Danny for the first time since the Nasty Burger incident. It
was the first time in nearly two years that he was petrified with fear. There
was no windows, it was dark, damp, and cold. The air had no circulation
whatsoever, and there was a stench of Death that could quite possibly make him
vomit. In truth though, the silence scared him the most.
He moved only the slightest, just enough to back into a wall behind him. The
halfa soon dropped to the ground and curled into a tight ball. His breath was
cold and no matter how long he stared into the darkness, he couldn't see the
danger that seemed to lurk in it, just out of reach. His only ghost power that
worked was the ghost sense so there was no 'valiant escape' planned that
involved any ecto-blasts or otherwise. He'd tried phasing through the floor,
only to find that plan stopped before his hand even entered the odd substance.
It was obviously ghost-proof, like so many things in the ghost zone, but to be
human-proof as well, that had to be a feat pulled by the only substance that
could repel humans and ghosts alike; Ectoranium.
Suddenly a door opened and the figure of an old man stood in the light that so
easily reached him.
"I see you are finally awake oh blessed one."
Danny at first cowered against his wall, but at hearing the voice, stood up and
walked towards him.
"Please do not fear this old man. I am merely a servant for the blessed race of
the halfas." he attempted to bow, but nearly fell flat until Danny caught him.
"Well, when I've been thrown into a room where I can't see and reeks of mold
and mildew, I tend to freak." he chuckled sarcastically.
"I am quite sorry my lord, but we don't have any other rooms available but
here. We wanted to wait until you had awoken so you could assist us in building
your home."
"My home? Sorry, but I live in Amity Park and I haven't been thinking of moving
out at all."
"But sir, you must live with us. Those humans you live with have done nothing
but attempt to hurt and hunt you! The humans in the Living World do not
appreciate what you have done for them, and the ghosts of the Ghost Zone think
you are nothing but a nuisance! Or only want you as a rare pet or pelt!" he
stumbled a slight during his stride, but managed to pick himself back up. "This
village is the only one that allows both humans and ghosts to live in peace if
they so wish it. You as a halfa could live just about any life you please! You
could be a human, you could be a ghost; but everyone would treat you kindly in
either form, unlike those hooligans of the outside."
Danny laughed nervously, "But those hooligans were what raised me to be the
kind of person I am. The humans mostly regard me with fear, and I understand
this because they don't understand. I was in their shoes at one point what with
my parents being ghost hunters. There are still some people who believe in me
as a ghost and treat me as a normal teen. The ghosts aren't all bad either; the
Lunch Lady was my enemy once, but at seeing one of my weaknesses (by accident
of course) she made an agreement to help clean my house of leftover food as
long as she didn't hurt anyone. Princess Dorathea only wanted her brother's
approval, but once I helped her she became the ruler of her terrain and once of
my greatest allies." he scratched the back of his head, "I guess I have a knack
for helping people of all kinds."
"But here you only experience the good of others, no need for bad news here. We
may not look it but we have vast amounts of technology and have educational
systems that could rival Harvard, Yale, and Oxford. Our people are kinder to
everyone, and the only need we had for weapons is for hunting and fishing."
they stopped near a large crater in the middle of town. "Many centuries ago,
another halfa came here before you. She was quite beautiful, but was minimally
damaged. We could've saved her if not for that demonic Lady of the Blue,
dissolved her body and stole her soul away."
Danny could almost see the scene that was described A woman with pure white
hair that was tarnished by dirt and dressed in a pitch black gown accented with
white lace was laying in the middle of the hole. Two white rings ran over her
body to show a woman of the exact make-up in inverse. Her long black hair was
dirtied by the stone from the statue of their mayor that she had crushed. Her
gown was scratched and blood that was both red and green flowed freely onto the
fabric.
"If not for that demon, we may have one of the blessed ones to assist us in
spreading the word of their purity."
Her eyes opened for merely a second before they closed once again. Her blood
soon turned black and sank deep within the soil. The woman's body itself,
merely faded, leaving behind a small glimmer that was soon collected by the
Librarian, Una.
"But now you are here, oh, blessed halfa. Help us reach out to the other
spirits and mortals, help us in our quest to prove that you are gods in the
flesh!"
'She was dead to begin with! I did nothing that would harm her. Rather, I am
saving her soul. For a bigger fate.'
'That was Jacqueline... That was me in a past life. They didn't see her fading
over the fact that she was here.'
"No." Danny said sternly. "I won't help you to prove that."
The older one seemed shocked, "But halfas are so rare that they have to be gods
in the flesh. Are you telling me differently?" he seethed behind a mockingly
curious voice.
"Yes. For starters, you do realize I was not born this way right?"
"Of course not, no halfa is born, a human cannot have a ghost's baby or vice
versa, nor can two halfas have children! Besides, you had to have been chosen
before you were made."
"I became a halfa after an ectoplasmic explosion that I caused through my own
stupidity."
"Fate is quite fickle with how halfas are chosen."
Nothing is just about you. "I am not above humans, nor am I above ghosts. I am
supposed to represent the bridge between. And I will not stand to be put on a
pedestal above others."
The older man merely smiled, "That is even more so why you are. But you seem to
have been brainwashed a bit while you lived with those humans. Allow us to fix
that." He motioned over and a few humans dressed in Roman armor attempted to
grab at Danny, only to fly out of their grip.
He flew as high and as fast as he could, only to be stopped by some sort of
force field in the way. Then a shadow crept over his vision and after it passed
he saw a grey figure with a large top fin and a tail that swished back and
forth consistently. Then he soon spotted a school of fish, and an entire reef
on a shelf above him.
There was a sharp pain across his back that spread through him quickly, he
found himself turning back into a human and falling the way he came. He vaguely
realized someone caught him before he hit the ground, only to black out after
hearing from the old man, "Let me welcome you again dear halfa. Welcome to
Atlantis."
***** Chapter 22 *****
"WHERE IS HE?!" Vlad growled to himself as he flew over the Atlantic, nearly
halfway to Europe based on his GPS. The Boooooomerang had been flying for hours
and had been dropping in height until it just stopped. Vlad stopped abruptly in
shock and once the device just fell, he shot down into the cold salt water,
following close behind.
The deeper he swam, the less he could breathe, ectoplasmic particles didn't
exist near the bottom of the ocean, nor did much air, with both being lighter
than water. Why would Daniel be where he couldn't-...
Oh no...
Vlad's lungs screamed in pain, but he ventured on with determination. His voice
was garbled in the water, but it rang loud and angrily through every particle.
He dove deeper and deeper on and on. Daniel's safety being the only thing in
his mind. Then he stopped, and the colorful fish became apparent to him, and
the darkness of the water. He had lost the Boooooomerang sometime ago. He
thought of Daniel. His smartass of a little badger. And as he did, his vision
went black.
First the Dark was unwelcoming, cold, loveless. Then he was content.
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Danny was shut up in his room again. Cold, dark and wet, and no one to keep him
company. No Jazz, no Sam or Tucker, not even Dash. Even less likely; Vlad. The
frootloop must have set this up, why else would he pull such a dirty trick!?
Sending Fakes of his parents to kidnap him, and take him to a fake Atlantis
city and hold him as a "Deity" but really, the prison cell is a bit much!
Danny curled up in a corner, his end seemed near, but also far. It was the end
of Danny Phantom, the vigilante of Amity Park, and also a new beginning. As
Danny the god.
He thought of Vlad again and started crying. Why hadn't he come? He had been
missing for days now, why hadn't anyone come for him? He stopped crying when
the door to his prison opened.
"My lord!" The man was the one who fed him everyday. "Another Holy One has
appeared, he is gravely injured, we would like you to see him to determine if
he shall live?"
'Vlad' "Y-yes! I'll see him!" Danny stood up and flew out of the room
excitedly, Vlad was finally here for him. He already knew where the med house
was, and flying there was easy enough... wait... why was Vlad hurt? Why did
they have to take him to the med house?
Danny burst through the doors, and into tears at the sight of Vlad.
He looked weak and thin, barely able to move. The younger rushed to his side
and held his hand lovingly.
"Well, my lord? Have you made your decision?" The Elder of the city asked.
"About what?"
"On whether this man should live or not. There can be more than one god, but we
must prepare to take him in."
"NO, YOU ARE GOING TO HEAL HIM AND HE WILL LIVE!" Danny growled with a force he
had never known he had. He turned back to Vlad to find him awake, and looking
better already.
"Vlad?" Danny whimpered a bit, hoping Vlad wasn't too hurt. His response was a
smile with the rare tears from his lover, a loving embrace that the teen felt
he needed to survive.
"Daniel, goodness I was so worried."
"You were worried?! I was so scared! I-I thought you sent me here for a while,
because you never came to get me!" Danny kissed his lover, and hugged him more.
"How long have you been here?"
"Days Vlad! I've been so lonely here"
"Actually, Time goes by quicker down here my lord. Our promise with Kronos
ensures that, though days come and go and feel the same as the ones on the
surface, our lifespans are still accustomed to the way of the surface. Our days
are about a third of yours,making us able to reach 300 years old."
"Blah blah blah. Go away for now, Vlad needs to heal and I don't want any more
people around me other than him." Danny shoos them away and kisses Vlad again.
"Are you alright little badger?" Vlad pet Daniel's soft raven hair.
"I'm fine, what about you?"
"I honestly wonder what happened to me. I met with your friends, about sometime
after your school let out and they seemed worried. Eventually they told me what
happened and we used the Boooooomerang to track you down. It stopped in the
middle of the Atlantic and just dropped into the water. I didn't realize that
the batteries must have died, so I followed it. Only to wash up on the shore of
some strange Greek village, of... whatever the people call it." Vlad's
frustration was let out in a tight squeeze of Danny's hand.
"We're in Atlantis."
Vlad glared at Danny, an whispered urgently, "This is no time to joke Daniel.
We have to get you home, and soon. If they are anything like the original
Greeks, then they see us as a treasure to behold and worship, not a living
being to consider basic needs for."
Danny gave him a daring look with a raised eyebrow, "I'm not joking. The
Boooooomerang has one of my crystals in it. It'll run for, like, forever. The
batteries didn't die, you went the right way. We are in Atlantis."
Vlad was dumbfounded, "We can't survive underwater, Daniel. It nearly killed me
to come get you."
Danny laughed nervously,"Killed you? Stop exaggerating. My trip here was pretty
easy and safe... Minus the rope and chloroform."
The older halfa pinched the bridge of his nose, "Daniel, Humans rely on air to
breathe, correct?"
"Yeah."
"Ghosts rely on a certain form of ectoplasm."
"OK"
"As halfas, we need both. On the surface, the ectoplasm is easy to come by
because it is given off when something dies, or a portal is opened. It also
does not deteriorate with time, only use. Ectoplasm is abundant in the air on
the surface and though the particles are small and sparse, it is there. That is
how we breathe on the surface."
"And? Tons of things die at the bottom of the ocean."
"Ectoplasm floats, Daniel. If we truly are at the bottom of the ocean: What
keeps the ectoplasm in the village?"
"The Barrier probably, it's a permanent structure that blocks anything, but you
can see through it."
Vlad sighed. He wasn't doubting his precious Daniel, but it seems that
captivity has "altered his reality". "Daniel, how populated is this village?"
"About 1,000 people."
"How often do they die?"
"Um... I don't think many of them get sick, and not many of them are very old.
And considering they live for about 300 hundred of their years... and a little
less than half are ghosts..." Danny started turning pale.
"So, not very often I take it?"
"They don't have a portal either..."
"Daniel, are you alright?"
"Vlad I don't want to stay here, not another minute. We need to go."
"Daniel, what is the matter?"
The Elder decided to come back in and greet the pair. "Hello my lords. We are
about to start a festival in your honor,will you join us?"
Danny shrank back, leaning closer to Vlad with wide eyes.
"Yes, but only for a short while." he turns and whispers to Danny, "Is that
alright little badger?"
He nodded and the Elder left. "Vlad, how did the Greeks used to "appease" their
gods?"
***** Chapter 23 *****
Danny and Vlad were lead outside and around a small volcano, sculpted into a
large pot, it seemed to be calm, but active. Ghosts and humans alike gathered
here, children played with each other happily and people did their hobbies such
as knitting or wire work but there seemed to be no real separation of gender.
There were men who had breasts and women who didn't (but some seemed to pack a
little more between their legs). Womanly people would knit or crochet, but
there were others who seemed to be blacksmiths or butchers. Men would do the
same jobs, not always better, or even worse. Vlad sighed, it seemed that this
was a perfect community... minus the imprisonment.
"This place is beautiful..." he said vaguely. "I almost want to stay..."
Danny squeezed his hand and pouted, "I wanna go home Vlad, please don't say
that..."
"I know, little badger, I am sorry." the group quietened and the children sat
upon their parents laps, who in turn fussed about their child's dirty feet.
"HELLO MY FRIENDS." the elder yelled, his voice loud for all to hear. "TONIGHT,
WE CELEBRATE THE COMING OF THE GODS!" cheering arose from the crowd. "TONIGHT,
IS ALSO THE CONTINUATION OF ENERGY." he waved his hand to a large ghost next to
him next to him, "OUR OLDEST BROTHERS SHALL PARTICIPATE IN TONIGHT'S
ENTERTAINMENT. MAKE MERRY MY FRIENDS FOR TONIGHT WE FEAST FOR OUR BROTHERS." a
roar of cheering resounded through the area. "NOW TO PREFORM, MYSELF AND OUR
FELLOW HERE, WILL PREFORM THE AGE OLD RITUAL TO RENEW THE ENERGY IN OUR FINE
CITY."
Danny and Vlad waited anxiously and watched the ghost overshadow the old man.
They did a very tribal style of dance around the fire, before the old man and
the ghost jumped into the volcano, and quickly burned into the lava as Danny
screamed in horror.
Vlad stared in shock, the suddenness of the act catching him off guard. He held
Danny tighter, closer to him. A ghost's body can't disappear, not unless it's
overshadowing a human... So poor Daniel just watched two men die in a fire, for
their sake.
Then there was a loud knock, as if someone hit the bubble that protected the
city. Everyone's cheering went silent, the crowd stunned in fear. Another
knock, Children were drawn closer. There were more knocks, one about every 10
minutes, then 20, then soon they seemed to disappear. Vlad took Danny off to
the side and kissed his forehead. "Daniel, we're going to get out of here, I
promise you."
An old man tapped Vlad's shoulder."My Lords, I am the new leader of Atlantis,
and I have been told to show you to the ancient treasures of Atlantis. If you
will please come with me." He waved them to the largest building in the city,
not too far from the festivities. They reluctantly followed.
"Here is where we keep the treasures found by our people before the separation
of our people from the land." he opened the door and there was a lobby where a
woman ghost sat, reading a large book. The man waved, and the ghost waved them
in, opening the large ornate doors. Inside this room was the most gold and gems
that either halfas had ever seem. There seemed to be more money in this
treasure room than Vlad had ever earned, they were lead past that to a glass
elevator. Setting in the elevator was a small boy who quickly asked the old man
what floor he wanted, thought the halfas were too amazed by the brilliance of
the treasure to listen. The group was soon ascending into the ceiling.
"This is Bartolomew, he attends the elevator here. His parents went missing
while fishing, so we gave the boy a house and a job. he's a hardworking boy and
we're all very proud of him." he patted the boy's shoulder and the boy
grumbled.
"Father, I am Bart, please do not call me by my full name."
Danny and Vlad were the first out of the elevator when it opened. They all
(sans Bart) stepped into the large room that was filled to the brim with books.
And on display, there was a book, sealed behind glass and obviously well
guarded.
"This, is our most precious treasure." the old man said as they approached the
book. Upon closer inspection, Vlad notice that the 'book' held no pages. "These
are the covers of the Rulebook of Halfas. The attempted chains on our Holy
ones. Our Master wrought them from the Space wench's hands himself, destroying
it completely, other than the covers, and one page. The page is lost, the
covers here, but while we retrieved you, my lord Daniel, one of our friends
stole the single page from walker's prison!" Danny stared at the words on the
page, they seemed to move and squirm across the page. The man brought the two
together and they all stared as the single page reattached to the cover. Blank
pages sprouted from the inner spine of the cover and perfectly aligned
themselves with the first.
"wow."
"Now, this damned rulebook can be properly disposed of..." Louder knocks
resounded through the city, until there was a shatter of the dome. Laughter
resounded through the city, and as it grew closer to the building that they
were in, Danny snatched the book from the man before dragging Vlad to the
elevator and smashing the button to close the door, leaving behind their guide
to fall through the crumbling floor.
"Bart, take us to the floor level." The boy pressed the button with wide eyes
before cowering in the corner.
"Daniel! What is going on?"
"That... That sounded like Dan... I panicked and grabbed the book..."
"Well do you have a plan?!"
"No, I panicked ok?! And if that really is Dan, then we need to run, and not
stop." Danny curled up in the corner opposite of the boy.
"Who is this 'Dan'? Did he hurt you?"
"Yes but-" the elevator door opened and the three ran out into the lobby,
careful to avoid falling rubble.
Outside seemed to be a massacre. bodies were strewn about, dead, or just laying
down in fear of the events.
"Danny!" the trio turned to see Clockwork, riding in a chariot of purple
ectoplasm. he held his scythe in an angered stance, motioning for them to get
on the chariot with him. Bart quickly crawled on with them, clinging to Danny's
legs. "Clockwork, whats going on?!"
"Your friends told us about the kidnapping! Not to mention Dan returning to the
tower-"
"You let him out?"
"Who the fuck is Dan?!" the other two ectoplastmic beings shared a look of
shock at Vlad's use of words.
"Uh, me, but older. And more evil? And again I ask, YOU LET HIM OUT?"
"He had something like a shock collar on. But anyway he told us that he made a
deal with the late leader of this civilization to steal the page. The only
reason he's helping us is because he was cheated out of his reward. And he's
been stabilizing as well, he's not as crazed as he was before."
"Makes me feel so much safer."
"it should, but this little spree might earn him some time-out in the thermos."
Clockwork rode off after nodding to Dan.
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