It was a beautiful day. There were birds singing in the trees, children playing games outside ,setting their imagination free, the parents maybe sitting on the front porch drinking lemonade with ice and smiling as they listened in on conversations about things that they only could imagine when they were children. It was a great day indeed...
...Unless you lived in Amity Park.
The streets were empty, no living creature could be seen save for a rat or two sniffing around in the gutter, and Maddie Fenton running down the street as fast as her legs would carry her.
Her throat was dry, and her heart was pounding loud enough for her to hear over her heavy footsteps. She didn't know how much longer she could keep running. She decided to take a risk and slow down. She looked all around her, all the while still breathing hard, trying to get enough oxygen in her lungs.
She didn't see anything, but she knew he was still after her. Ghosts could turn invisible, she knew. In her whole life, she was never afraid of a ghost, but this time it was after her the one time she didn't have any weapons.
Suddenly, she heard something faintly in the distance. As hard as it was for her at that moment, she stopped breathing and listened. Sure enough, it was the faint pitter patter of footsteps on the side walk. They were getting closer.
'Someone's coming! Maybe they can help me!' She ran towards the sound, but as she turned a corner around a tall building, she realized it was a trap she had walked right into.
He had caught her.
She struggled against his grip, but he twisted her arms around behind her back in one swift movement.
"Ah, Maddie, you should know better than to run from someone you know is going to catch you anyways. You gone and wasted all your energy. Ah well, I've always thought you were smarter than that, but I guess I was wrong."
"Let me go" Her voice was cold, but it expressed her fear more than she intended it to.
"now why would I do that?" He said with a slight amount of humor in his tone.
Before Maddie could answer though, she heard a frosty voice behind them answer for her.
"Because I said so"
Maddie would recognize that voice anywhere, but she'd never heard it so serious nor did she know it could be so threatening. It even scared her.
The ghost whipped around, still keeping Maddie's hands behind her back. He faced the one who dared to face him. "Daniel, I took advantage of your powerless three hours this time. Last time, I learned that if I want a job done, I should do it myself. It works, see?" He shifted Maddie's hands so that he held both in one hand. With his other hand, he gestured toward Maddie.
Maddie looked at Danny bewildered. He was all by himself, taking on the Wisconsin ghost, with a glare Maddie thought was the scariest glare she'd ever seen, and it was on her 15 year old son. Her baby boy. By the sounds of it, Danny had fought this ghost before, but didn't tell her. Why not?
"Let her go, Vlad"
'Vlad?' Maddie only knew him as the Wisconsin ghost, but it sounded like her son knew a lot more.
"And what, may I ask, will I get out of letting her go?"
Danny looked thoughtful for a second. "I have a proposition for you." He said finally.
"What might that be, dear boy?"
"I'll leave Amity, and never come back if you leave Amity alone for good."
"Danny, no-!" Maddie started to yell, but she was cut off by the ghost's free hand covering her mouth.
"Why would I want to do that, hm?"
"I-" Danny started, but got side tracked by Maddie, staring at him with a desperate look in her eyes.
Danny's eyes got a determined look in them suddenly. "Because, if you don't, I'll take all the money you worked so hard to get, and I'll put it somewhere you'll never look, and then I'll tell everyone where you got it, and how."
"Well, Daniel, I could always get more money you know."
"Not if you're locked up by the Guys in White."
"Oh, you got me there." He paused for a second in thought. "Very well Daniel. I'll leave if you leave, but how will I know if you come back?"
"I could ask you the same question."
"I'll simply pay someone to come to Amity and keep watch, and cause a little destruction, maybe."
"I'll get some friends to keep watch for you, and keep the destruction down. 'Cause I have friends."
"Ha ha Daniel, thats very funny,"Vlad said sarcastically. "But I suggest you start now, I'm giving you the rest of the time that you're powerless to leave. I'll be gone by then too."
Danny turned and started to leave, but even as he was running to tell his friends, he heard when Vlad yelled after him.
"If you're family leaves Amity though, they're mine!"
Maddie watched as Danny ran away, he turned back to her before he was out of sight and yelled "I love you, mom" before turning back and running again.
She was going to yell back, but was distracted when the ghost disappeared into thin air, leaving just a small puff of smoke, which soon disappeared as well. then she came back to reality and started to run after Danny. She ran fast, but her legs felt like rubber and she couldn't run very fast. she came up to a split in the road. She wasn't familiar with this part of the town. The streets were still deserted. She didn't know which way he had gone. She gave up and sat down on a bench on the sidewalk, and cried. She would never see her son again.
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Yeah... this is my first story. I've been reading all of everybody else's stories, so I figured I owed it to them to write a story for them to read. A big thank you to all those writers out there! Also, if you didn't figure it out already, Vlad zapped Danny with the Plasmius Maximus again. That's what he was talking about when he said three hours of powerless time. Also I don't own Danny Phantom.
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