Chapter 3: Clever Girls
Hey guys, just a couple updates. First, having talked with some of my reviewers, I have decided to go with the ending that I had originally planned. Thank you guys for the input. I also hope you the readers don't mind this detour from my usual style of integrating music with the story. Without further delay, let us get back into the story. I do not own Danny Phantom. R&R and Enjoy.
As the two girls rushed down the path, they were both filled with hope. Ember was hopeful to reunite with the twins and to deal some long overdue justice to the son of a bitch that put her through this ordeal. Sam, on the other had, was having different hopes. While she did hope that that the babies would be alright, she was also hoping that this alone time with Ember would be as brief as possible.
After several minutes of running down the path, the two finally reached a clearing. The area appeared to be an abandoned village with several tin roof buildings, some abandoned cars, and a small creek running through it.
"So if I were a self absorbed ghost hunter, where would I put the bait for my enemies?" Sam asked aloud.
As if to answer their question, they heard a baby begin to cry. Ember rushed to the sound while Sam cautiously followed, looking around for any traps that Skulker may have set. Coming around a hut, the two saw what appeared to be a baby laying in a bundle of blankets on a pedestal. Before Ember could head towards the bundle, Sam put a hand on her shoulder.
"What the hell, Sam?" Ember said, shooting the goth a frustrated look.
"Can't you see this is an obvious trap?" Sam replied, trying her best not to lose her temper with the ghost that stole her ex boyfriend.
"Well how else are we going to know if my baby is here or not if we don't inspect this?" she answered. "Besides, we only have a few minutes before Skulker's deadline before he decides to kill them."
Knowing that there was no reasoning with the mother, Sam said, "Just be ready to run if something happens."
Nodding, Ember slowly made her way over to the pedestal with Sam close behind. Reaching it, they both looked at the bundle to see a baby boy with a head of messy black hair crying.
"Is there anyway to be sure that this is your son?" Sam asked.
Smiling, Ember tilted her head over the baby and said, "Lucas, honey. Mommy is here."
Immediately, the baby stopped crying and began to laugh, his tiny arms reaching out for his mother.
"That's it, sweetie. Now go ghost for mommy." Ember said, holding back her instinct to simply pick her son up.
A black ring formed around his middle, splitting in two as they traveled up and down his body. By the end of his transformation, the boy now had blue skin, a head of flaming blue hair, and a black spade over his right eye.
"That's my boy!" Ember said, scooping her son into her arms.
Sam cringed, hoping that she didn't trigger a trap by removing the baby from the pedestal. After a minute of nothing happening, Sam let out a sigh of relief.
Suddenly, she heard clicking coming from the pedestal. The two girls turned to see that a small screen had emerged and was currently displaying the smug face of Skulker.
"Congratulations, you found your boy." he said in a condescending manner. "Any last words before I end your miserable lives?"
"Told you this was a trap." Sam said to Ember.
"Fuck off, Sam." the ghost replied, staring daggers at her. "Would you mind telling us how you plan on killing us?"
Skulker laughed, "Nice try, but I'd rather it be a surprise. I will tell you that it was unbelievably difficult to capture these. I had to spend an entire week in the more ancient part of the Ghost Zone to capture them."
As the screen went blank, they heard several shrieks and snarls closing in on them. The two quickly rushed towards a hut and climbed on to of the roof. When the creatures came into view, Sam and Ember were both shocked and frightened at the sight. Out of the jungle came three reptilian creatures standing about 5 ft high, patches of flesh hanging from their otherwise skeletal bodies, and vicious looking toe claws.
"How the hell did he find and capture raptors in the Ghost Zone?" Sam said.
"You would be surprised what you can find in the Ghost Zone." Ember replied, clutching her son close to her chest.
The dinosaurs quickly noticed the two girls and the baby and rushed the building. They leaped and snapped their jaws at the two but could not reach them while they were on the hut's roof. They soon began to circle the hut, trying to figure out how to attack their prey.
"Looks like we will be safe up here for now." Ember said, sitting down and cradling her son.
"Well, I'm glad you can be so comfortable in a situation like this." Sam said in an irritated voice. "I'm not so keen on becoming breakfast for these lizards."
"Why because they eat herbivores like you?" Ember joke, going into a fit of giggles. Hearing his mother laughing caused the Lucas to start laughing as well.
"SHUT THE FUCK UP, EMBER!" Sam screamed at the top of her lungs. This not only stopped the laughter but also caused the little boy to cry.
"See what you did, Sam? You can't take a joke so you go into a hissy fit and make my baby cry." Ember said, glaring at the goth. Turning back to her son, Ember loosed one side of her shirt, exposing her breast, and brought him up to breastfeed in an attempt to calm him down.
"Oh so this is my fault now? We would have never gotten into this situation in the first place if you would have held your liquor and kept your legs shut. If Danny hadn't gone to that party with you, he never would have gotten drunk with you, never would have had sex with you, never would have broken up with me, and never would have pissed Skulker off to land us in this situation! And put you tit away! Now is not the time to be breastfeeding. Now is the time to figure out how to get out of this situation."
Ember stood up, still clutching her son to her breast while he fed. "First off, grow up. If you haven't already noticed, you have a set of tits yourself. What's the problem with me trying to calm him down by feeding him? Second, are you still pissed off that Danny and I are together? I thought we dealt with this a year were being extremely controlling with Danny and jealous of any girl he talked with. When I offered him the opportunity to escape from you for one night, he jumped at it. I may have gotten drunk with him and made love to him, but he was willing to go a second round with me and decide for himself that you were not meant to be his girlfriend. Besides, we managed to get rid of Dan Phantom."
"That still doesn't mean that I'm pleased with how things turned out." Sam replied. "Do you know how I felt when I saw you two kissing above the crowd? Do you know how I felt when I saw you two fucking when Vlad transmitted that recording? I felt like shit! You are living the future that I so desperately wanted while I have to go on and pretend everything is ok."
Sighing, Ember made sure that her son was calmed down before she took him off her breast and put her shirt back up. Then she slowly walked over to Sam and gave her a sympathetic look. "Look, I know that life isn't fair. Hell, I died a teenager. That doesn't mean that things won't get better with time. I thought things would be terrible after I broke up with Skulker a year ago. As it turned out, I found a much brighter future with Danny. I know it has been a year since your break up with Danny but trust me when I say that you will find that special someone. When you do, they will treat you like a queen. I still enjoy hanging out with you and Tucker and I know you still want to hang out with Danny. Can we get along, for the sake of Danny and our twins?"
Sam was quiet for a few minutes. Slowly, she cracked a grin. "I guess I have been rude to you lately. It doesn't really seem fair to Danny when he sees his wife and his best friend fighting all the time. All this obsessing over what could have been with me and Danny also hasn't helped me look for a new relationship. About time I stop living in the past and look to the future."
Smiling, Ember put an arm around Sam while cradling Lucas in the other. "Thanks Sam. I promise when we got out of this, Danny and I will help you find that special man."
"By the way. How do we get out of here?" Sam asked.
As if to answer her question, the floor beneath the two began to creak and moan.
"Oh shit." the two said before the roof gave way. Ember and Sam fell into the hut. Sam was the first to get up while Ember checked to make sure that her son was unharmed from the fall. As the two recovered from the fall, they heard the screeches and snarls from the ghostly raptors outside.
"Well, at least there are no doors for them to open to get in here." Sam said.
All of a sudden, the three dinosaurs phased into the hut and began to back the girls into a corner.
"Right, their ghosts." Sam said.
Ember, on the other hand, was furious. She had just managed to rescue her son and she had worked things out with Sam. Now Skulker's pets were going to finish them off.
"BACK OFF!" Ember screamed at the raptors. Much to their surprise, Ember's scream turned into her ghostly wail. The raptor howled in pain, their bones turning to dust and their remaining flesh disintegrating. By the time Ember calmed down, there was nothing left of the dinosaurs and there was a gaping hole in the side of the hut.
"Your powers are back!" Sam said excitedly.
"I guess they are." Ember replied, grinning from ear to ear. "Now it's time to pick up the other two and our daughter and deal some justice to Skulker."
Grabbing Sam's hand, the two girls and the baby teleported out of the hut in a whirlwind of flames.