Ghost 2
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Vlad it is!
Phantom directed the classes outside including his parents. Danny mentioned fudge stealing ghosts in the cafeteria and Maddie had followed her husband trying to remind him of the ghost at hand. Most everyone had run screaming except Sam and Tucker who ducked under their desks.
Danny reabsorbed the duplicate into his body as Dani charged up an ectoblast. Vlad floated there in all his (not) glory. Danny rolled his eyes glaring at the man before him.
"Did you really come all this way just to interrupt my class?" Danny asked exasperated with the man. Vlad laughed manically. Danny rolled his eyes.
"I have come to claim what is rightfully mine!" Vlad said as if this should be common knowledge. Dani shot at Vlad but Vlad just turned intangible.
"How the hell do you have a right to my DNA?" Danny asked taking a fighting stance and transforming into Phantom.
"I created her, I gave her life, she is my daughter!" Vlad growled. Danny shot at Vlad.
"Dude, you are a horrible father… oh! I have an idea, you should father a flower sack, maybe that would teach you something about responsibility and what not!" Danny said with his usual snarky mask in place. Vlad laughed absorbing the energy from Danny's ecto blast and shooting it back out at him tenfold. Danny dodged dive rolling to the side. Dani took advantage of Vlad's distraction and jumped onto his back pulling on his pointy ears. Vlad flung her off, she ran into Danny. Danny glared at Vlad as he jumped up and delivered a flying kick to Vlad but ended up passing right through him. Danny growled in frustration and the man's maneuvers and proceeded to blast him over and over again, Dani blasting from the back. They managed to discombobulate Vlad who slammed into a wall.
Danny then froze the shocked Vlad then Dani shattered the ice delivering a punch to Vlad's face. Vlad reoriented himself and took the high ground blasting at the younger halfas from the air.
"You know Daniel once I have your mother at my side, and you father ten feet under I might as well finish my plans and dissect Danielle's ectoplasmic remains." Vlad taunted. Danny grew more enraged and became somewhat sloppy making room for error.
"Tsk, tsk, and to think the entire city is depending on you when I could wipe you out with one finger." Vlad smirked. He shot at Danny again. Danny growled ferally.
"Trouble is you aren't even worth my time, even your friends cower before you. You are superior to them, they will eventually hate you for it." Vlad smiled fangs glinting in the light, "You are just a freak in their eyes, and the eyes of everyone who knows you." At that Danny lost it. It struck a chord with him, his eyes flashed a deep, beautiful crimson. Red filled his vision as he flew at Vlad intending to hurt him with everything he had.
He knocked into the older halfa knocking him through the wall. People jumped as they saw what was happening and took out their phones. Danny started laying into Plasmius, hands glowing with raw white ecto energy Danny punched Vlad over and over again in quick precise hits. Once the man was on the ground Danny kicked him forcing him onto his back. Danny then straddled his opponent's chest and began beating his face in. A slew of blood shot across the grass and Vlad groaned. Danny hands still glowing with energy clasped his hands around the older man's neck. He began squeezing, all his hat aimed at this one man.
Vlad gasped for air surprised at the boy's ferocity, no normal human would have survived that. Vlad smiled, there was hope for the boy yet.
As a gruesome smiled marred Vlad's features, Danny's eyes narrowed his hands squeezing harder and harder till a look of fear began to leak into Vlad's expression. Danny's eyes narrowed further he wanted to make Vlad scared, make him pay. His thoughts dark, Danny watched with disgust as the ring of black light engulfed the two of him leaving Danny Phantom on top of Vlad Masters squeezing the life out of him.
"Danny!" Sam and Tucker pulled Danny back from the man. Vlad coughing, a little bit of blood coming up as he rolled onto his hands and knees, unable to support himself Vlad fell back onto his side and gasped for air.
"Don't you ever, ever threaten my family again." Danny glared kicking toward the downed mayor as Sam and Tucker pulled at Danny attempting to pull him away. Danny glared at the man once more then shook of his friends and took to the air. Dani silently watched as her cousin flew away.
Once free of everyone Danny let all his anger out attacking a stone boulder outside city limits. Punching harder and harder with each throw of his fists Danny let out his frustration. When he stepped back he surveyed the no oddly shaped green splattered boulder. Danny let out a stream of curses and took in his hands. His knuckles were a bloody mess, the gloved tattered and ripped, scuffed and shredded. The flesh beneath the fabric was mutilated and oozing a steady stream of ectoplasm. The wounds were healing though at a good pace. With one last burst of anger Danny shot at the boulder with an ectoplasm ray and kept shooting till the energy went white and the boulder was left in a smoking ruin. Then Danny sat down and cried.
Gripping his head and shaking with anger and self-loathing Danny let tears of bitterness stream down his cheeks. He hated crying, it just sometimes happened, nothing he could really do about it. Danny spent the next twenty minutes like that, angrily sobbing his head in his hands.
(BEWARE MY LINE BREAK!)
No one would go near Vlad, not even to help him up. Slowly the crowd dispersed and Vlad was forced to get up on his own and try to maintain what dignity he had left and walk home. Once in his house he knew it was only a matter of time before the GIW got to him. He had to work fast.
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Danny entered his house in a slightly better mood. His sister gave him a sympathetic look.
"Young man where have you been?" Maddie asked, Danny hid his hands behind his back, his knuckles still split and bruised.
"I was… uh hiding from the ghost." Danny said nervously. Jazz popped up.
"See I told you he was alright." Jazz smiled. Maddie's eyes narrowed in suspicion.
"I thought you said he was at the library." Maddie said wondering what her two children were keeping from her.
"I was, hiding from the ghost." Danny finished, then he sighed holding his palms out, "Look mom I'm really tired, running from ghosts, and so on, I think I'm just gonna go to bed." Danny then buried his hands in his jeans pocket wincing as the bruised flesh scraped against his pants.
"Ok… ok." Maddie said warily, "But you better be in class tomorrow." Maddie said watching as Danny bolted up the stairs into his room. Jazz turned to her mom knowing the wrath to come. To her surprise Maddie just sat down and patted her husband on the back. Jack Fenton was in a state of shock that his best friend and old college buddy had been a ghost. Maddie always knew Vlad was a vile creep, but this took the cake.
Danny sighed slouching on the bed. He glanced over a the clock, 6:30. Great. Too early to go to bed but too late to do much else. With a groan he laid all the way down looking at patterns in his ceiling. He had a biology lab report to turn in, and an essay for Mr. Lancer. Also his engineering elective had given him homework to research on the aerodynamics of a plane's wings… something about foil maybe… Danny's eyes glazed over as his brain processed all the homework he had piled up.
Now was not the time to do it. Danny just wanted to never move again. Vlad had pissed him off. And Danny was sick of it. Sick of everything, being half ghost, protecting ungratefully people, the threats made against his family, and most of all what Vlad had said. Whether he admitted it or not those words bothered him. Did Sam and Tucker really see him as a freak? Did they see him as any different for being half ghost? Was he less human for it? Or just human with perks?
Sighing and going to his door he paused as he heard voices outside.
"I know Jack… he is a vile… thing… not even human." Maddie was saying, Danny froze, "such a creature could never have been our friend. I think the Vlad we knew has been replaced by that thing. I'll begin work on it tomorrow, but one thing is for sure, a creature like that doesn't deserve to survive." Maddie said. Danny cracked the door open to listen in more.
"I know Mads… but he was Vladdie… I… we were friends." Jack couldn't seem to wrap his head around this fact yet.
"He is a vile ghost Jack, he isn't even supposed to exist. Whatever happened to Vlad he isn't Vlad anymore, not the man you knew, not the man I knew, he's just a ghost." Maddie said. Danny slumped. Just a ghost. Was Vlad really so different from Danny. Danny thought back to the circumstances in which his parents had accepted him. Of course they hadn't known about Vlad then. What if this changed everything? The way they looked at half ghosts, the way they'd look at Danny? Danny stood there in shock for a minute.
"Danny?" Maddie asked. Danny jumped and pulled instinctively away, Maddie looked at him confused, "are you alright sweetie?" Maddie asked, Danny looked at the ground.
"If… if you found another half ghost… what would you do?" Danny asked. Maddie paused.
"Half ghost? Are you crazy?" Maddie started to laugh, "You say this because of Vlad right?" Maddie laughed, "I'm sure there's no such thing, Vlad was taken over by that awful Wisconsin Ghost, he's probably using Vlad as a Human suit, Vlad might not even be in there anymore." Maddie said, Danny grew fearful.
"Not to worry, it's probably only a very rare case that will never repeat itself. " Maddie patted Danny on the head, "Would you go be a dear and wash up some potatoes."
"Yeah…" Danny said then walked off in a zombie like state. Maddie frowned suspiciously. She guessed the Vlad thing had shaken him up more than he let on. She got Jack into bed and paused at Danny's room, she slowly opened the door, messy piles of clothes everywhere, his space rockets. She noticed something shiny sticking out under the bed. Curious Maddie went over to inspect. She dug under the bed pulling out a shiny silver Fenton Thermos. Frowning Maddie turned it over in her hands, what was this doing in Danny's room. She looked over at the computer which was still on, the screen saver of a ghost running across the screen chased my Scooby-doo and the gang in an endless loop. Maddie hesitated then moved the mouse. A chat popped up.
Gothgirl-lovesblack: Danny are you ok?
TooFineFoley: Dude!
Gothgirl-lovesblack: Hey Tuck.
TooFineFoley:Hey Sam… you think Danny is ok?
Gothgirl-lovesblack:IDK, he's logged in, but he hasn't answered so…
Gothgirl-lovesblack: I'm not really sure.
TooFineFoley: Yeah, did you see him laying into V-man like that, that dude needs to take some chill pills.
Gothgirl-lovesblack: totally, but I do hope he knows we are never going to think that about him.
TooFineFoley: yeah, no matter what.
Gothgirl-lovesblack: Ok, I got to go… 'rents want to do some bonding… ugh, at least I got to pick the movie.
TooFineFoley: Horrify them! Bye Sam.
Gothgirl-lovesblack: Bye.
TooFineFoley: Hello?
TooFineFoley: Is there anybody out there?
TooFineFoley: Come on man, you there?
TooFineFoley: YEAH TOAST!
TooFineFoley: Because you hate toast.
TooFineFoley: Hello?
TooFineFoley: Hey we should get you to drink four six packs of soda again.
TooFineFoley: Or we could get some Nos, Red Bull, and Monster!
TooFineFoley: Let's see if you could reach the speed of light, you did surpass the speed of sound.
TooFineFoley: Didn't you end up in Japan, and then you got mobbed by fan girls?
TooFineFoley: You there dude?
TooFineFoley: DUUDEEEE!
TooFineFoley: Yo!
Maddie hesitated then clicked out of the browser and exited her son's room. She glanced back into the room at the thermos she left by the computer.
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