Bonds That Transcend Time 1
Chapter 1: Strange WorldOk new fic here. Don't kill me please! I know I have other stories to update on but I'm getting to them. This was a story I wrote earlier and didn't post online. Why? I have no clue. This would have been a great story to post online. This is a Vlad/Danny bonding fic. It's not a father son bonding fic but Danny and Vlad will still end up becoming great friends. There's going to be a bit of fluff but it's definitely not slash! No lemons involved either! Danny and Vlad are purely friends in this story.
Any way I'm sure your itching to read it. XD So Disclaimer:
I don't own Danny Phantom, or any of the other brands I may or may not mention in this story. Please don't sue my ass. I don't have any money.
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Danny's head began to hurt and he found himself wondering why. For all he knew he was fighting Vlad and then suddenly ended up with a killer headache. A flurry of questions popped into his head and then he jerked up in complete caution. If he was fighting Vlad and had a killer headache it could only mean one thing right?
Oh how wrong he was...
For you to understand the poor hybrid's story you would have to go back a day or two ago... better yet a couple of decades into the future.
Danny was anything but normal. His life itself was a story even before he got his ghost powers. The Fenton family being a bunch of misfits and outcasts hadn't helped with their social status. His parents were ghost hunters, and his sister a genius who craved for perfection. Danny was the polar opposite of Jazz. Being a normal, under-average, short, lazy, and middle-class child you could see why he was disregarded by society. His sister on the other hand strived for perfection, was good looking, polite, and an outstanding member of society was everything anyone would crave to be- if it weren't for the fact that her family was anything but.
Despite the craziness of their everyday lives one event would change it all. It was the day the Fenton couple had decided to plug in the ghost portal. Danny had walked in, in hopes of turning it on and raising his parent's spirits- but also partly because of peer pressure. It had gone horribly wrong- or horribly right, depending on how you perceived the event, and turned the 14 year old into a half-ghost.
After that life-changing event, Danny Fenton had become Danny Phantom. His alter-ego inspired the minds of his peers, and brought about a positive change to the lives of the people around him. The responsibility was something he cherished, although at times it cost him much pain. That pain was the pain of rejection on his parent's part, and the pain of being ostracised by his peers, although his valiant efforts demanded otherwise. Today was just one of those days.
"Danny I am sick and tired of having to constantly pick you up from your detentions! I'm tired of having you come home late only to not eat the food I make you, and have to deal with your emotional bouts!"
Danny flinched at the raised voice of his mother. The older woman had just about had enough. It was frightening and strange to her to have to continuously tell herself that her son was alright. All this stress was getting to her, and now it not only affected Danny but herself as well.
"I'm sorry mom I'll try to be more diligent," Danny whispered guiltily.
"I'm done listening to your excuses Danny. I don't want to hear it anymore. I actually want you to carry out what you say instead of giving me empty words!"
Although Maddie Fenton's rage was justified, Danny himself had reason to be angry. To him his world revolved around his ghost self now. It was a part of him like Danny Fenton was, and yet it was a part of him no one understood fully but himself. There was no sympathy, or empathy from anyone's part on what he was going through, and to him his mother had no right to yell.
"You don't know about anything that's going on in my life!" Danny yelled.
"That's because you don't tell me!" Maddie screamed back.
"You're the worst mom ever! If you just bothered to connect the dots and just realise, we wouldn't even be having this conversation!" the boy screamed back in utter rage.
"Don't take that tone with me Daniel James Fenton! I want you in your room for this night. You are grounded for a week!"
"I hate you!"
There was a tense pause for a few eternal seconds as those words echoed in the individual's minds. The anger had died down but the severity of what was said could never be taken back. The teen realised what he had just done and moved a step forward to correct himself. The older women just turned her face away as disappointment laced her eyes. Danny realised just how much he had screwed up- he had justified his actions. His mother was at fault here! She was the one who never bothered to notice- right?
Deciding his best course of action now was to go patrolling, he hastily made his way to his room. The night sky, above the spectral beings he was handing their asses to, made him feel at ease. Although it was a chaotic structure of life, it was still a structure nevertheless. To Danny it had become a constant and 'normal' part of his everyday schedule. It also helped to keep his mind at ease.
"Hello little Badger."
Daniel turned around swiftly as he aimed an ecto-blast at the man. Vlad Masters aka Vlad Plasmius easily dodged the well-aimed shot like it was nothing. The younger boy didn't look pleased at all but then again Vlad knew all the reasons why. The only reason he hadn't quit was because deep down inside he knew he was aching. Without anyone to love him or care for him, his attention went to what he desired- in a violent way. Despite his slightly malevolent nature Vlad did have a heart; a fact that Danny seemed to forget every time the name Vlad was mentioned.
"Plasmius what are you doing here?" Danny spat with laced annoyance and anger.
"My, my little Badger, can't we just become family? There's no need to resist and fight when all you need to do is give me a chance," came Vlad's reply.
"When that 'chance' of yours entails splitting up my family, killing my dad, and becoming your evil half-ghost apprentice/son I don't think so," Danny answered with a growl.
Vlad just hummed a small tune in reply. The man had, had his sights on Daniel for a while now. Every-time he saw the boy he saw a potentially great relationship. Sadly the little badger of his would never agree to accept his terms. He had solemnly come to accept that fact although he would never give up trying to win the losing battle. Today however he hadn't come to fight the child, he had come to see his beloved.
"No need to be so hostile Daniel. I only came to wish your mother a happy birthday," the older hybrid said with a chirp.
Danny was surprised but slowly that surprise turned into clenching guilt. He had told his mother he hated her on her birthday of all days. What a great son he was. Vlad noticed the pained expression on the young ghosts face but chose to say nothing. Daniels problems with his mother was nothing of his concern after all.
"If that is it then I will be on my way," Vlad commented before flying past Danny.
"I'm not buying it Plasmius. I know you're up to something or you wouldn't be coming here in your ghost form!" Danny shouted with redirected anger.
"Danny my boy you seem to be extra perceptive today. What brought about that pleasant change?" Vlad asked mockingly.
Danny didn't bother retort as he sent an ecto-blast Vlad's way. Plasmius easily dodged the younger halfa. To Vlad, Danny's attacks were all sloppy and un-calculated. He so badly wanted to correct those mistakes but if only Danny agreed to it. Today however he realised that those attacks, although sloppy, held a lot more power than usual. He came to the conclusion that Danny was angry, and it was that dangerous rage that was fluctuating his powers.
Vlad cursed as he dodged the raging hybrid. The boys ectoplasmic signature fluctuated and released a current of ectoplasm. Vlad cursed as he looked down to the side of his pouch. The 'present' he had planned to give Maddie today was glowing brightly. The artefact was being triggered and he didn't like what that entailed one bit.
"Curses Daniel, calm yourself!" Vlad cried out with worry etched all over his face.
"What- finally afraid I'm going to properly beat you?!" Danny screamed back.
"For the sake of- Daniel listen to me, your power is shifting at an unnatural level. Calm yourself before something bad happens!" Vlad warned as he took a glance at the brightly glowing artefact. Danny took notice of the subtle side long glance to the glowing object hidden in Plasmius's right pouch. Taking flight at an alarmingly fast rate, fuelled by his anger, Danny accelerated at an inhumanely fast speed and phased his hand into the pouch before Vlad could expect a thing. Spinning out of Vlad's reach just as quickly Danny paused for a second to look at his catch. The orb was a smooth white with a milky structure. The middle glowed brightly while blinking on and off.
"What the heck is this?" Danny mumbled.
"Something you shouldn't be holding. Now give it back!" Vlad snapped.
"Why do you keep thinking that you can order me around?! You're not my dad and you'll never be!" Danny screamed back in anger and frustration.
Vlad didn't care for that jab, instead his sole attention was on the unstable orb. Danny was subconsciously activating the artefact and that was bad news for the both of them.
"Dammit Danny just give it back!" Vlad screamed a hint of desperation in his voice.
"No!"
Vlad had just about had enough. The child was messing with something beyond his capability of understanding. He needed the boy back under control or his raging emotions were going to ruin everything he planned.
"Daniel I'm not messing around. Give me the artefact," the older hybrid said in a low, dangerous voice. The unsaid threat did not take well with the young halfa. He was both stressed and angry before this encounter and right now he was just letting out that frustration. It wasn't a surprise considering he had bottled up all that pain and angst inside him for quite a while.
Before he knew it the globe shone brighter than ever before as a blinding light encompassed his body.
And then in a flash there was nothing...
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Danny's head began to hurt and he found himself wondering why. For all he knew he was fighting Vlad and then suddenly ended up with a killer headache. A flurry of questions popped into his head and then he jerked up in complete caution. If he was fighting Vlad and had a killer headache it could only mean one thing right?
Danny jolted up and in the span of a second took in his surroundings. There was no threat, and there was no Vlad. Instead he found himself in a foreign shed on a pile of hay. His body was still tense from the fight but he found himself ignoring that as he went to search for the orb he had taken from the evil man. It wasn't there! Danny was on the verge of panicking when he heard the clang of metal falling on the ground. His attention turned to another teen about his age who was staring wide eyed at him. The older teens body shouted fear and he had an expression a child would have when he was caught stealing a cookie.
"Hey..." was all Danny managed to say sheepishly in response.
The teen just jolted away much to Danny's erk. The half ghost chased after the boy and stopped him with a tackle.
"Go away monster!"
"Look I'm not out to hurt you ok! Don't freak out please! I need you to tell me where I am," Danny tried.
"Wait you aren't going to hurt me are you?" the teen asked cautiously with a bit of bafflement.
"If I wanted to I would have already. Look all I want to know is where the heck I am," Danny grumbled.
"You don't know? You're in Wisconsin," the teen replied.
Danny tensed for a second at what he heard. 'Was that orb meant for mom to teleport to Wisconsin with'? His thoughts went to the teen sitting in front of him who looked eerily familiar.
"Sorry about that I'm Danny. I didn't mean to scare you um..."
"Vladimir, but you can call me Vlad."
Danny froze in the spot for a second. He was in Wisconsin and there was a kid sitting in front of him called Vlad. He quickly shrugged it off as a coincidence. There were plenty of Vlad's right? Still it irked Danny that this Vlad looked eerily like a younger version of Vlad Masters.
"Umm... So what exactly are you?" Vlad asked.
"Oh right I'm a ghost. I guess to be exact a friendly ghost."
Vlad looked at Danny disbelievingly. The idea of meeting a ghost, better yet, a friendly ghost was just too far-fetched for him. Danny didn't seem to realise how weird and unusual a situation like this is though. To him the world knew Danny Phantom and seeing him would be like seeing any other celebrity- so why didn't this teen know him? Wisconsin was pretty close to Amity and was one of the states that knew of ghosts.
"I'm seventeen ok and I'm not falling for something like that," Vlad said huffing in annoyance.
"No I'm not kidding I'm actually a ghost," Danny retorted.
"Prove it," Vlad retorted with a bit of scepticism. He had believed that this child in front of him was in fact a ghost but he wanted to know how much a ghost could do.
Danny put his hand through Vlad's chest and took it back out. Vlad patted his chest wide eyed and surprised.
"Amazing! What else can you do?"
"I can fly, turn invisible, shoot ecto-blasts and create ice," the halfa answered.
"Ok this is amazing!... What now?" Vlad asked as his excitement died down and he realised how utterly random this situation was.
"Well I go home and leave you to do whatever it was you were doing," Danny said frowning. Vlad didn't know what to say. One moment a ghost just pops in on his life and a few minutes later it just decides to up and leave. This was extremely random.
"Well visit sometime. This farm is quite boring and I don't have much to do in my spare time," Vlad replied with his hand out. Danny smiled back and shook. For some reason he couldn't shake of the feeling of familiarity when he saw Vlad's face. It was like he knew him but didn't.
"Well see ya!" Danny called out before he flew away.
Vlad watched as the ghost flew away. This was by far the weirdest thing that had happened to him. Vlad had grown up in a pretty ordinary household after all. His parents were into business and ran a farm plus Vlad was the youngest out of three children so he wasn't noticed. Most of his life was spent on the farm doing work, and studying so he could get out to become a doctor. Vlad was so ordinary to the point where no one really knew him at all. Today however had changed it all.
Vlad's mind wandered off to the younger ghost he had just met. You would expect that the first time you met a ghost it would scare you away and not chase you down, but then again life had its twists and turns. What the boy did know however was that his life would never be the same again. Hell he didn't know if he could sleep at night knowing ghosts after all the ghost did emphasise on him being 'good' subtly stating there were also evil ghosts!
"Vladimir why don't you come help milk the cows," said a gruff voice, snapping the 17 year old out of his thoughts.
"Yes father," the boy sighed. He walked over to the taller man and frowned. He would get out of this shambles of a farm one day and leave a mark on the world; a very significant mark. Staying here on the farm could be handled by his older brother. Vlad knew for a fact that his sister and he were destined for something far greater.
"Boy you need to learn to get your head out of the clouds and into the real world," was the older man's reply.
"Yeah poke those fangs out will ya?" came the deep voice of another male. Vlad growled in reply. His family found it a great pleasure to mock his vampire sounding name. He had gotten it because when he was born he had a sharp pair of teeth much like a vampires. It annoyed him to no end that his late mother would name him Vlad just because of that.
"Be quiet Jason or I might just suck out all your blood," Vlad retorted
to the offhand comment.
"Sheesh little bro, why are you always so uptight? Wait never mind I asked that."
"Would you boys stop bickering and come milk the cows like I asked you to," asked Vlad's father.
"Yes father/dad," came the drawled reply of the two boys.
Vlad sighed and went to work. Cows in his opinion were horrible and evil creatures. He was forced to drink the white liquid that came out of them right after he scooped up their large pieces of methane filled dung. It didn't help that the ones he owned smelled disgusting.
"I have a date to the dance finally!" Jason exclaimed trying to make conversation.
"That's nice but don't get too attached unless she's a farmer's daughter," the older man said laughing.
"Haha dad, you know I'm going to stay on this farm no matter what."
"It's not you I'm worried about."
Jason's attention went on his little brother. For as long as he could think he wanted to get his younger brother to open up. Vlad had always been so secretive and silent. Despite that introverted attitude Jason knew his younger brother cared deeply for his family. He knew that Vlad would die for them if asked to do so.
"What about you little bro?" Jason asked trying to make conversation.
"What about me?"
"You got a pretty girl you're waiting for?" Jason expanded.
"Wh- no I don't. I'm not really interested." Vlad replied hiding how flustered he was under a facade of indifference.
"Come one Vladimir don't lie. Tell us of your secret infatuations." Jason prodded.
"Jason lay off of your poor brother," the father warned although it was more of a resigned sigh.
"Ok, ok I was just asking..."
Vlad ignored his brother and continued milking the cow. The two older men started talking about some subject or another but Vlad didn't listen- no his mind was on the ghost he had just met. Brushing off like it was a daily occurrence wasn't something he could do.
But for today that was all he could really do...
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Ok how was the first chapter? No need to lie if it was horrible. I found creating Vlad's personality and back story a bit interesting. Most fics tend to ignore the fact that he had a family. The cartoon didn't even mention Vlad having any relatives. I mean he must've had someone to give birth to him. Right?
R & R please!
Curry-llama out~