Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom or any character from the series. Jake Fenton/Shadow, Abby Fenton/Abby Phantom, Tori Gray, Matt Foley and Thrasher are characters created by DPcrazy.
Claimer: Johnny 14 is a character of mine.
Betrayal and Revenge
Two weeks have passed since Danny discovered his son Jake is Shadow and the bonding between then has increased since then. Jake still wants to keep his identity a secret from his other relatives (minus Dani, who had discovered the truth on a previous occasion) and his friends other than Matt Foley, who was trusted the secret by Jake from the beginning. Danny, Abby and Shadow are now fighting Jonny 13, Kitty and their son, Johnny 14.
"Shadow, go get them." Johnny 13 commands.
Before Abby happily tells once again that they shouldn't have trusted the ghost boy (is the reminder still needed?) 13's shadow attacks. Danny uses a lantern to scare the shadow (13's shadow can't stand light, remember?) causing Johnny and Kitty to flee. They use the portable ghost portal Johnny 13 stole to replace the one Danny destroyed after helping Johnny and Kitty to make up. 14, however, stayed there to fight on his own motorcycle.
"You don't wanna lose your shadow like your Dad lost his. Do ya?" Danny asks.
"I don't depend on it like my Dad." Johnny 14 responds.
14 proves his point by blasting Danny away with beams from his fists. Abby tries to blast him but Johnny 14 uses a shield to block her attack. However this shield wasn't strong enough to resist Shadow's X-shaped attack. Danny then sucks Johnny 14 into a Fenton Thermos.
"Humpf. My blast probably weakened the shield." Abby says with a mixture of anger and jealuosly.
Some reporters arrive and start making questions.
"Mr. Phantom. How can you work with such an evil ghost like Shadow?" A reporter asks.
"Shadow isn't evil." Danny answers. "He just fell victim of tricks and prejudices like I used to be."
"Then what about the attack he made to town a few months ago?" A second reporter asks.
"My investigations helped me to discover he was brainwashed by a ghost known as Nocturn. I know the feeling since my first run-in with Freakshow." Danny explains.
"Abby, how do you feel about Shadow?" A third reporter asks.
"I still think he's just waiting for a chance to betray us as part of a big plan." Abby answers.
After the interview, they go back home where Danny phones his Mom about a surprise party they're planning for Jazz Fenton. After discussing that Maddie starts another subject.
"Danny, dear. How're my grandchildren?" Maddie kindly asks.
"Jake is OK, Mom." Danny says happily. "But I'm worried about Abby." Danny says worried. "She keeps prejudging Shadow."
"Perhaps she needs a lecture from someone who used to commit this kind of prejudice." Maddie says.
"It would be worth a try, Mom." Danny responds. "But Valerie also prejudges Shadow." He pauses, realizing what she meant. "You were talking about you and Dad, right?"
"No wonder you used to be called 'clueless'." Maddie responds. "When can we wait for her?"
Reluctantly, Abby agrees to go to her grandparents. After she leaves, Sam talks to Danny and Jake.
"All right, guys. It's time for you to open the secret to me." Sam says.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Danny says, worried.
"Come on, Danny. After that body swapping incident between you and Jake Shadow has been closer to you despite the fact Shadow wasn't anywhere to be seen during this whole mess. Jake is Shadow, right?" Sam correctly deduces.
"Fine, Mom." Saddened by the fact Sam figured it out, Jake goes ghost. "I am Shadow."
Jake then tells how he entered the ghost portal hoping to become a Phantom and use the got-powers-late excuse but became Shadow instead, deciding to keep it a secret.
"Who else knows the secret?" Sam asks.
"I told Matt Foley right at the beginning and was thinking about telling Tori but I changed my mind when she also prejudged me." Shadow explains. "I told Plasmius in that moment of anger after getting rid of those bracelets Dad used to force Abby and I to stay together. Aunt Dani found it out during the last visit she paid before we started working on that surprise party for Aunt Jazz and Dad found it out during the body swap incident."
"And when will you tell Abby, Tori and Val about that?" Sam asks.
"I don't know. Even if Abby accepts me as an ally I'm still afraid she's gonna tell Tori and Mrs. Gray and that they won't accept it." Jake says worried.
"Relax, Shadow. I think that after whatever my parents are going to tell her things are gonna change for the better." Danny says showing optimism.
Danny shouldn't be so sure. Abby just arrives at Jack and Maddie's place.
"I'm glad you're here, Abby. Now we can plan how to capture Shadow." Jack says with the enthusiasm he usually shows whenever he talks about ghost hunting.
"Capture?" A confused Abby asks. "I thought you believed him to be a good guy."
"No, darling. It was just a trick to keep your Dad from interfering. The only way we would actually trust Shadow would be if he was a half-ghost like you but in that case he wouldn't need to hide it since we all know and accept half-ghosts." Maddie calmly explains.
"So, what do you have on mind?" Abby asks, happy that her grandparents believe Shadow is evil.
"Since Shadow is so willing to earn our trust we are thinking about how to use this to our advantage." Maddie says with a malicious smile. "We will trick him into coming here where we'll use this device that cancels some ghost powers (it's that device used on Danny and Amorpho in Forever Phantom) and then we'll capture him."
"And than we'll torture him until he confesses he's evil so Danny will finally realize he can't be trusted." Jack says with pride.
"Grandpa, even I wouldn't hold a forced confession against him." Abby responds.
"We'll force Shadow to tell his plan and who else is involved. Even if we can't make your Dad accept the ghost boy is evil we'll at least stop his plans." Maddie explains.
"I'm in." Abby says. "What do I have to do?"
Oh, no. Jake is in danger. Please R&R.
Disclaimer: I've already planned this fic before Jack and Maddie appeared in 'Adventures after a Mistake' so any similarity on whatever they think about Shadow in each fic is a coincidence.