Author's Note: Hey everyone! This is the first time I'm writing a Danny Phantom fanfiction, so I hope you guys like it :D First off, this is an M-rated story for language, a small amount of graphic content, and sexual content. Second, this story was inspired by Frodo01228's story The Unborn. So I'd like to give a huge thanks to her once again for giving me permission to use her story concept! Third, this story will end up being about a dozen chapters and SHOULD be completed around the middle of August.
Disclaimer: Danny Phantom was created by Butch Hartman and thus falls under his copy write. I hold no claims to the cartoon. This story line was inspired by Frodo01228's story The Unborn so credit goes to her for the originality of the plot.
Chapter 1: Abduction
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Sam stares up at the full moon lazily. It holds an orange-ish hue amplified by a few wandering clouds and lights the park up brilliantly. From the grass, she can clearly see the outline of all the trees, benches and the leaves of the treetops. Sure the orange color makes the night seem more eerie, but to the goth, it suit her just fine.
Shifting slightly, she pulls a lone twig from under the small of her back and chucks it to the side. The summer grass smells sweet and soothing, and if she were stressed it would have melted away. Instead, she had not a care in the world. High school graduation had been only a few days ago and she bid a very happy farewell to the school. Summer held no plans for her, no homework, no job, just time with her two best friends. And to make the summer even more enjoyable, they got to look forward to the next four years together.
Sam smiles at the thought. Her parents had venomously argued against her going to school since she would be taking over the family business, but she had managed to sway them into letting her go to the near by school to study. Sure she had lied and said it was to learn more about business, but it had been enough for her parents to hesitantly agree to additional schooling. Besides, she could still be successful with a degree that fueled green projects. Oh yes, for the next four years she'd be studying how to get energy from natural resources by non-destructive means and that suited her just fine. Besides, her two best friends would be there.
Tucker, of course, would be studying computer engineering. With all the technology he had upgraded by toying with the Fenton's old gadgets, he had a lot of experience to bring to the table and would surely be successful. He hadn't changed over the years. Sure he could show some definition to his torso and biceps to "the ladies" from ghost hunting, but his luck remained scarce. He was forever labeled as a techno geek in a red barrette.
Danny was a different story. Sam frowns as her thoughts drift to him. Years of ghost hunting still took a toll on him. His frame had become riddled with scars from wounds his ghost self couldn't heal and his grades had continued to suffer. Many nights and even days of fighting ghosts to throw them into the portal only to have them escape was like trying to keep a floodgate closed with only will power and bruit strength. No matter how hard he tried, they would still slip out. He had graduated with only a C average; enough to get a degree, but not enough to get into the Amity Park University. She had to bribe the dean with a new wing for nursing students, but he got in…of course he'd never know that. He had been so happy when he got that acceptance letter that she didn't have the heart to tell him get in on his own.
"Sam? How's your area on the scanner?" Danny's voice rings through the Fenton Phones with the hiss of wind, indicating he is flying.
Sam lazily looks at the scanner next to her. It chirps softly every ten seconds and no blips are present, indicating no ghosts near by.
"Clear."
"Tucker? How about your end?"
"Clear here as well. By the way, the battery on my Fenton Phones is about to die." Tucker sounds distracted, more then likely playing a game on his phone.
"Oh, alright Tuck, I think I have a spare set of batteries in my bag, I'm on my way."
Sam smiles and looks back up at the moon. Nights like this she could get use to. Staying up with her friends, not a care in the world, everything was perfect for once.
"Hello Miss Manson."
Sam jerks her head back and sees the suave Vlad Masters smiling down at her. She opens her mouth to scream but a hand shoots forward to cover it. She growls and tries to bite at it as she brings her hands up to claw the thing off. The other hand quickly grabs both her wrists in one quick motion and he hugs her to his chest. Instantly he morphs into his hulking ghost form. Sam shivers as body heat disappears into ice. The scanner next to her starts beeping hysterically but only for a second before a foot crushes the device.
Sam screams behind the hand and starts thrashing against him, kicking madly in an attempt to hit a delicate spot.
"Now now, that's not nice." Vlad shoves Sam to the ground and she lands on her stomach. He had retracted his hands to free hers but only for a second before they're pinned under her own body. His knee lands in the small of her back to keep her immobile and Sam let's out a soft cry of pain. He reaches into a bag attached to his hip and pulls out a roll of duct tape. He rips a strip off and slaps it over her mouth. She winces at the sting and instantly her mind goes from fight mode to panic mode. Vlad didn't take her seriously when they were fighting in the past, he just focused on Danny and treated her and Tuck as tagalongs. Being stuck in this position though, her mind begins to race with various thoughts and a few of them make her stomach twist horribly. As he yanks her hands out to tape together behind her back, Sam starts to hyperventilate.
Never had he shown intent on hurting her, but this time….the look in his eye scares her. The smirk on his face, it chills her to the bone. By now her ankles had been secured as well and he sat there for a second, simply smiling at her.
"Such a good deal of fight in you, and you know when to give up. A smart girl, you are, I do believe I made the right choice." Sam's blood runs cold as she realizes that there really is a big plan for her.
"Hey Sam, I'm headed your way. I think tonight is clear so I'll come grab you and we'll meet Tuck at the Nasty Burger for a snack, sound good?" Danny's voice rings out loud and clear over the Fenton Phones still in Sam's ear. She stiffens and watches Vlad's reaction. Instead of looking surprised, he looks more sinister with a larger smirk on his face. Sam screams into the headphones, trying to get Danny to stay away. The duck tape muffles the noise and all that happens is her heart rate triples.
"Sam?" A few lone tears streak down here cheeks. She knows things wont end well tonight, she only hopes that this isn't the last time she sees her best friend.
Vlad disappears before Sam's eyes. She blinks for a second in bewilderment before she hears his voice.
"SAM!" She looks up and sees Danny racing towards her in his ghost form from the park's path. She shakes her head quickly, begging he understands to stay away. A blue mist escapes his lips but he ignores it, all thoughts tunneled to helping Sam.
Once he is within a few feet of her, it happens. Instantly, Vlad reappears, laughing and holding a palm sized box. He throws the contraption at Danny and it begins to expand and encase him. As soon as the box reshapes itself around Danny back into a perfect square, Danny let's out a pained scream, turning back into his human form in a bright white flash and the box tips forward from the momentum of him moving forward. Danny's chin slams into the asphalt walkway and his chin splits open a bit. Blood from his lip where a tooth snagged it drips down and mingles with the blood on his chin onto the dirty ground.
Dazed, it take's Danny a second to regain his bearings. He looks up at Vlad and sneers.
"What the fuck do you want fruit loop? Let Sam go, you have me so she's no use to you!" He winces slightly as his injuries are made more apparent from talking.
Vlad laughs. Not just the normal villain standing over a prone foe laugh or even a victory laugh, no, this was a laugh of madness. "Not this time my dear boy, you have to be patient to find out what I have in mind for you two…"
"Danny? Sam? You guys coming or what?" This time both pairs of headphones scream the message. Danny and Sam look at each other wide eyed before looking at Vlad.
"On the other hand, one extra guest can't hurt…" Vlad begins to float off laughing deeply.
"No! Leave Tucker out of this!" Danny bellows at the retreating form. Sam attempts the same, but only frustrated mumbles are heard.
Giving one last sharp laugh, Vlad disappears.
Danny looks back at Sam and sees her eyes wide with fear and unshed tears. Her chest is rising and falling too quickly beneath her black and purple lace top. Never had Sam shown fear like this…that alone makes Danny begin to panic. Sam had always been the cool and collective one, the one that made the plans, talked sense to everyone and gave orders when they were all stunned like deer in headlights.
"Sam? Sam it'll be ok, we'll get out of this, we always do." Sam gives a short nod to him but looks away. He doesn't understand what she's feeling. Her instincts are screaming at her that this isn't like all the fights before. Vlad always had some crackpot scheme, but this one….this one was planned out, details had been focused on. Not like past plots like cloning Danny where he simply obsessed over the idea and let details end up being the reason for the fallout in the end. No, this time he was hell bent on getting what he wants…
Author's Note: Thanks for reading! The next chapter should be up in about a week or two. Please send reviews (criticism is accepted) and not just adding as a favorite!