Chapter 2: The Best Christmas Ever
Three months later,
Davy Phantom had woken up a month ago and needless to say he was shocked at the knowledge he had partially returned to life. However, Clockwork 'forgot' to inform him that it was the cost of half of Danny's life.
Davy sat down on a chair after making sure there was no chance of another portal forming. Lately Clockwork had been acting really weird…weirder than usual that is.
Suddenly, Clockwork walked/floated in holding what looked like a high-tech thermos
"What's that?" Davy asked
"A ghost that exists outside of time" Clockwork said "Luckily, the ghost's younger self has vowed never to become the monstrosity in the thermos"
"Who is it?" Davy asked
"The ghost in the thermos is known as Dan Plasmius" Clockwork said "He is the merge of the two other halfas who were formed as humans"
Davy nodded. He had heard of the two other halfas, but hadn't met them yet. Vlad Plasmius was a halfa of 20 years and Danny Phantom had been a halfa for 3 months. Both were humans who had their D.N.A (whatever that was (Remember. He has the mind of a 4 year old))) fused with ectoplasm
However, something about Danny Phantom had bothered Davy ever since first hearing about the guy.
"Clockwork?" Davy asked "Is Danny Phantom…the reason I'm half alive?"
Clockwork nodded
"He's also the reason you weren't vaporized in that accident" Clockwork said
"I want to see him" Davy said "Not the evil him because that's not really him, but him as he is now"
"All in good time David" Clockwork told him using the boy's REAL name "I know you're eager as you've probably sensed that he is the key to get your mind up to speed with your body, but it is not time. He had just fought his ultimate enemy and needs rest"
"Can I at least see what he looks like!" Davy asked
"You will know him when you see him"
"This wouldn't happen to be the reason everyone suddenly hates me now would it?"
Clockwork merely smirked knowingly knowing that Davy hated it when he did it
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A month later
Davy was getting much better at controlling his new ghost powers and he was now eagerly looking forward to the Christmas party in which he was FINALLY old enough to attend.
He couldn't help but to smile. In life, he hated Christmas. He couldn't EXACTLY remember why, but he did remember hearing a lot of fighting during this time of year.
He was now flying around the ghost zone in his ghost form just to get out of the lair
"Santa, No Santa, Santa, No Santa! Every YEAR!" a semi-familiar voice shouted
Davy turned and followed the sound of the yells and the ecto-blasts.
He found a teenage ghost with a shopping bag. The ghost had white hair and had on a black with white-trimmed hazmat suit.
Davy blinked and looked again. It was like he was looking at himself from behind
"AND I'VE HAD IT!" the other ghost shouted
"Excuse me" Davy said when he saw the other ghost blow up a toy Santa
The ghost turned and Davy felt like he was looking at a mirror, mainly because the other ghost was doing it too
"Y-You wouldn't happen to be Danny Phantom would you?" Davy asked
"Yeah" Danny said looking like he was figuring out who this look-alike was but couldn't believe it (especially since it had been around the holidays when he last saw him)
"Why are you blowing up Christmas decorations?" Davy asked
"Because I can't stand Christmas" Danny told him. "For 14 years I've had horrible experiences with the holidays. Some more gruesome than others. The worst being on the last day of school before the holidays when I was four. I was sick and because Mom and Dad were arguing, the neighbor went to go pick my brother up from pre-school…they never returned"
Seeing his double look so depressed, Davy placed a hand on his shoulder. Something clicked in his head as memories and knowledge entered his mind. Danny also winced as lost memories returned. They doubly winced as their twin connection was reestablished
"Danny/Davy?" the two ghost boys chorused
Smiles formed on their faces and they hugged each other
"How come I've never seen you in the ghost zone before?" Danny asked his long-lost twin
"Well, I was unconscious for half the time because I got stuck where a man-made portal was forming. It's how I aged from a 4 year old to a 14 year old. Then I've been trying to figure out how to work my new abilities because the shock brought half of me back to life. I haven't returned home for two reasons: I wasn't sure how Mom and Dad would react and I was a 4 year old trapped in a 14 year old's body"
"That couldn't have been fun" Danny said
"I'm okay now" Davy said with a shrug. "So Mom and Dad are still at their annual Santa fight?"
"Yeah and it's getting harder and harder to deal with. And this keeping the fact I'm Danny Phantom from them isn't helping" Danny groaned
"If it'll make you feel any better, you can spend Christmas with us" Davy said. "We have a Christmas Truce in the Ghost Zone. No fighting whatsoever"
"So I get Christmas off?" Danny asked excitedly
"Yep" Davy said knowing what all his brother does having heard the stories from the others
The two were silent as Danny debated. On one hand, spending a happy Christmas with his long-lost twin brother was a dream come true. On the other hand, their parents and sister would miss him.
"Let me tell Jazz first" Danny said making up his mind
"The more the merrier" Davy said indirectly inviting her. "Unless…Jazz hates ghosts like Mom and Dad do"
"Are you kidding? Jazz has been a bit of a help by covering for me whenever I have to go ghost" Danny said as he offered a hand towards his brother. "Wanna come home for a few?"
Davy smiled and grabbed his brother's hand. The two halfas zoomed through the ghost zone and landed in the Fenton Work's lab. The two then turned into their human forms.
"I see a replay of a 'Torture Jazz' moment" Davy smirked when he realized that he and his brother were once again wearing identical outfits (with Davy's oval being blue and Danny's being red)
"Forget Jazz. Tucker's always going on about how me and Sam are lovebirds" Danny said getting a sense of vengeance
"But you wouldn't mind being lovebirds though, right?" Davy teased
Danny gapped at his brother
"Twin telepathy was re-established" Davy reminded him
"Right" Danny said uncomfortably. "Don't say a word about it"
"I won't" Davy promised
The two walked out of the lab. Everyone was still out shopping.
So, the two halfas went to the mall.
"We don't know them" Danny groaned when he heard his parents arguing about Santa in front of the mall Santa and Jazz was trying to be the peacemaker
Suddenly, Dash and Kwan walked by and Dash did a double take
"AGGGHHH!"
"DOUBLE THE GEEK!" Kwan yelled as the two ran away screaming
"You'd think they'd seen a ghost" Davy said with a smirk
"Don't worry. Dash may be popular, but he's an idiot. And so's Kwan" Danny said before turning to about where the parents were arguing which could be heard from the door "I'm going to go save Santa"
"Good luck" Davy said not really wanting to freak out their parents just yet.
No sooner had Danny left, a 14 year old African American boy with glasses and a red beret walked up to Davy
"Hey Danny. Get some of that Holiday Anger out?"
"Uh…yeah" Davy said "I feel better though"
Meanwhile with Sam,
Sam was passing by the Fentons. Danny and Jazz were back to back trying to push their parents away from each other
"Where's a cookie when you need one?" Jazz asked Danny
"Don't look at me" Danny said under his parents' argument. "I can only duplicate halfway without the ecto-suit
Sam rolled her eyes. If every Christmas was like this for Danny, it was no wonder he hated it
She walked over to the food court where Tucker was going to meet her. She froze when she beheld the sight
Tucker was with Danny.
Sam ran back to the corner she had just rounded and saw Danny one nervous breakdown away from revealing he was Danny Phantom. She turned back to the table with Tucker and saw Danny
But I thought he said he hadn't mastered duplication! She thought frantically.
She suddenly thought of an excuse and walked up to him.
"Danny?" she asked "Have you been near the Fenton Ghost Catcher again?"
"Uh…No?" Davy said wondering what the heck that was
"Why do you ask, Sam?" Tucker asked
Davy held in a gasp. So THIS was his brother's crush. He had to admit, she wasn't too bad looking, but not his own type.
"Look around that corner. I might just be seeing things" she said
Tucker got up and looked.
"Why are there two Dannys?" Tucker asked
"Danny didn't tell you?" Davy asked though he did understand why
"Tell us what?" Sam asked dangerously. "Who the heck are you?"
"The name's David Fenton. But everyone calls me Davy. I was killed 10 years and 5 days ago to date in a car crash. However, four months ago, I got trapped in a forming man-made portal in the ghost zone which allowed me to become a halfa thus giving me half my life back."
"four months ago?" Sam asked "Not when Danny…"
"If both of us hadn't been in the portal at the same time, whoever was would have been vaporized" Davy told his brother's friends
"So…you're Danny's older brother by 10 years?" Tucker asked
"No" Davy said "The shock that brought half of me back aged me. I was 4 when I died."
"Wait…so if you were four when you died and you've been dead for 10 years…you're Danny's TWIN!" Sam realized
Davy nodded
"How come he never told us?" Tucker asked
"Let's see…I died around the Christmas holidays, I was his only best friend for the first four years of his life, we had been together FOREVER as we're identical twins…I certainly wouldn't want that constant reminder"
"No wonder Danny doesn't want to tell his parents about the half-ghost issue" Tucker mused
"So what brings you out of the ghost zone?" Sam asked as she sat down
"Pranking my sister, Wanting to see my home again, pranking my sister, allowing Danny to invite Jazz and perhaps a few friends to the celebration of the Christmas Truce Party, and did mention pranking Jazz?"
"You really like to prank her" Sam pointed out
"We did it all the time." Davy said fondly "Its what little brothers did to their big sister. You know… screw the Christmas party!"
He got up and went around the corner and saw his family together. Jazz and Danny had given up and just watched with embarrassment
"HE DOES!" Jack yelled at Maddie
"HE DOESN'T!" Maddie retorted
Davy walked over on the other side of Jazz and sighed
"Just like ten years ago" he said before turning to his sibling "on the count of three, lets yell 'shut up'"
"Good idea" Danny agreed
Jazz looked at Davy and then at Danny and then back at Davy
"I thought you still haven't worked the kinks out of your duplication power?" she asked
"I haven't" Danny said. "You remember Davy"
Jazz turned back to her other younger brother.
"But…but….you died ten years ago!" she gasped
"Glad you remember Jazzy" Davy said with a smirk
"But…you were four. How'd you age?"
"He was also caught up in the accident that gave me my powers" Danny explained, for the first time GLAD his parents were making spectacles of themselves "It made him half alive"
"So you're back?" Jazz asked
"If Mom and Dad will have me. I'm still technically half dead"
Jazz hugged him tightly
"Jazz! Air!" he chocked. "I'm in human form!"
"You're the one who showed up" Danny reminded his brother
"Let's get our parents in on this" Jazz said before the three of them cleared their throats
"SHUT UP!"
It didn't work
"In hindsight…we probably should have tried that when we were younger" Jazz mused
"We need something to distract something. Something that they share a mutual interest in" Davy mused glad his mind was now a bit more mature than it had been when he was four.
"We'll be back" Danny said getting an idea and whispered it to his twin
The two Fenton boys ran into the bathrooms and came out as the ghost boys. Danny floated behind Maddie and Davy floated behind Jack
"HEY!" both Phantoms shouted
"YOU!" the parents shouted and pulled out their weapons and pointed them to the ghost boy that they were looking at. Seeing that the other was looking the wrong way, they checked behind them and saw a duplicated ghost boy
"How are you doing that?" Jack asked
"Long story" Danny said with a shrug as Davy crossed his arms
Maddie looked at the two boys. They looked like they could be twins. However, they probably died at different times as one of them had on a jumpsuit and the other was in a black shirt with a gold oval on the chest and gold jeans and black and turquoise tennis shoes
"You know, you ghost hunters blame US for scaring people" Davy pointed out. "Yet look around you at all the scared faces"
"That's because you're here!" Jack pointed out
"We came because we heard a kid was scared of something" Danny argued
"Besides, ghosts have a Christmas truce. No….schemes or fighting during the holidays. We're just here to lecture"
"I thought you jumped from 4 to 14. Not 4 to 40" Danny teased
Davy responded by sticking his tongue out at Danny
"That age jump was NOT part of my plan for that day" Davy retorted "YOU were genius who got himself trapped in that damned thing that just HAD to open where I was sitting"
"Hey. I thought that damned thing was busted. And it wasn't MY idea to put the on button INSIDE"
"Oh well" Davy said with a sigh before smiling at his brother "What does it matter? We're together again."
"Yeah" Danny agreed with a similar smile "For Christmas…say! We should get Plasmius a cat!"
"Did I miss something?" Davy asked
"You have no idea and you're better off clueless" Danny told him
"Like you are when it comes to a certain friend of yours who's name rhymes with 'ham'" Davy teased
"David" Danny warned
"Don't you use my real name, Daniel" Davy retorted
"I think they forgot why they're here" Jack told Maddie
"I think you're right" Maddie said
"So are they" Jazz said picking up where her brothers left off. "Ever since I can remember, every Christmas except that ONE had been you two arguing over the existence of Santa. Did you know that Danny HATES the holidays because of you?"
"WHAT!" Jack and Maddie exclaimed
"No Fenton hates the holidays!" Jack defended
"Danny does. And so did Davy until…the incident" Jazz said "Danny's hatred grew when you only mourned Davy's death that ONE year when it happened. He felt like you didn't care about Davy anymore. And sometimes I wonder that too."
The two ghost brothers stopped arguing to hear the parents' retort to that
"Oh honey" Maddie said. "Of course we still care about Davy. Just…it's easier to deal with the pain for us by moving on. But we will always love him the same way we love you and Danny"
"Now that our work is done, we have a Christmas Party in the Ghost Zone to get too." Davy said "Especially since this is my first Christmas back with my brother"
Davy then gave his sister a look that clearly read, 'you wanna come?'
She smiled and shook her head to indicate that the twins needed more time to catch up
TBC