Phantom Rider: A Ghost Rider Parody
yay! another chapter! I hope you enjoy this one! Please review when ya can! Last time, we left off with Danny making a promise to Carrie they would leave on Esperanza...however, Danny later finds out that Jack has cancer! What will happen now?
Chapter 2: A Ghostly Deal
Danny Fenton was at the stables with Jazz and Timmy. They were brushing the coat of Esperanza and her baby colt, Spirit. Since Spirit was born, he and Danny became fast friends. The young colt wouldn't stop following Danny around.
Danny would have been happy, but he was getting upset. He has explained to his sibs of what happened.
Jazz gasped. "Dad is dying of cancer and he didn't tell us?!"
"Weird, I thought he would die of fudge," Timmy mentions, frowning.
"Knock it off Tim," Danny snapped, "It's bad. How can I leave with Dad sick?"
"He's right, I'm not sure if we're old enough to take care of him," Jazz said sadly.
Then, three flies appeared and poof into three fairies: Cosmo, Wanda, and their baby: Poof. They are Timmy's fairy godparents and godbrother. Only he, and his brother and sister know about this.
"I know! We can wish Jack's cancer away!" Cosmo smiled, holding up a finger.
"Cosmo, we can't do that," Wanda said, "Remember the last time you used your magic to cure people, the docs got jealous and nearly chased us out of town."
"Oh yeah! Good times…good times…" Cosmo smiled.
"Poof!" Poof giggles.
Danny looks at Esperanza's hooves to make sure they're ready for tomorrow's show. He bows his head. "I'm not sure what to do," Spirit neighed and nudged Danny; the young boy smiled and rubbed the colt's head, "Don't worry about it Spirit," Danny inhales and let out a deep breath.
But somehow…when Danny puffed an icy cold blue breath came out of his mouth. The three are puzzled. Jazz then blows to see her breath also and Timmy suddenly shivered, like there was a cold breeze.
"That's weird," Danny stated softly.
"Yeah, it's chilly," Timmy said with teeth chattering.
"But it's summer," Jazz mentions.
Outside, it was raining as a storm a brewed.
But out of the darkness was a mysterious stranger was walking as the lit lanterns blew up into sparks as the dark figure walks by. The figure didn't even notice about this.
The kids forget about the cold air and continue to brush down the horses when…
"You three," a dark voice called.
The three kids gasped to see a figure in the doorway. Cosmo, Wanda, and Poof gasped also and quickly turn into ponies.
Danny looks up to see the figure, which seems to be an white pale old man with seemingly glowing green eyes and holding a mace with a skull on top, at the entrance of the tent. Spirit glared angrily as he stood behind Danny.
The fairies gasped more. "No…it can't be," Wanda spoke.
"I'm looking for Danny Fenton," the man said.
"He's Danny Fenton!" Cosmo smiled pointing his hoof at Danny.
"Cosmo!" Wanda snapped at him.
"Yeah?" Danny asked.
"Caught your show today," the figure answered coldly, "Just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed you ride."
"Oh, thanks," Danny spoke and continued to brush Esperanza down.
"Perhaps you'd ride for me one day," the figure suggested.
"You run a show?" Timmy asked, frowning.
"Greatest show on Earth," the figure answered.
Danny looks at him, with a quirked eyebrow, "Thanks, but no thanks," he said.
"Yeah. Us, Fentons, work together," Jazz said.
The figure grunts a bit and walks to them. "What's wrong kids?" he asked, "Worried about your daddy?"
The three stopped with stun looks. Danny turns to him. "What do you know about that?"
"Even a blind man could see he's sick," the figure said, "Thing about cancer is the time it takes…" Lightning strikes at his words. Danny and the others turned to see the lightning and didn't notice the shadow of the figure turning into a ghostly creature. "…The toll on the loved ones," the figure continued, "Danny…what if I could help your Dad?"
Danny looks at him. "Yeah? How?"
"Yeah, how stranger?" Timmy asked.
"Guys! Don't!" Wanda tried to warn. But the three kids are still listening to the figure.
"How is not important," the figure spoke, "What if I could make him better…give him back his health? Would you be willing to make a deal?"
Danny, Jazz, and Timmy could guess what the figure was saying. They look at each other, wanting to make a deal to help his dad. "Name your price," Danny said.
"Oh," the figure said, "I'll take…" He turns like he was looking for something and smirks at the 10 year old, "…Your soul."
Danny gave him an odd look. Then, the sibs burst out laughing. They thought the figure was making a joke. "Okay."
"By sunshine tomorrow, your father will be healthy as a horse," the dark old man said talking something out. Danny looks at the object the figure was holding. A rolled up paper scroll and held it to Danny, "All you have to do is sign."
Danny stopped laughing to see the parchment handed to him.
"No Danny!" Wanda cried.
Sadly, the kids aren't paying attention to her. Danny takes it out and unrolls it, showing writing that he didn't understand. He reached out for the paper and gazed at the edge when suddenly, he grunts as the paper gave him a paper cut, with his blood dropping onto the signing point of the paper.
"Oh, that will do just fine," the figure said. He smirks at Danny with flaring green eyes.
"GAH!!"
Danny opened his eyes and woke up, shocked to see he was in the trailer, back in his bed and bedroom, and it was the morning. He turns to see Jazz and Timmy awake with Timmy holding a goldfish bowl containing his fairies in fish mode.
"Glad you're awake Danny," Jazz said.
"Whoa…I just had the strangest dream," Danny said.
"Me too," Timmy said.
"I agree," Jazz mentions, "I wonder who that figure was…"
They were thinking about the shadowy stranger, about helping their dad, and the parchment that Danny bled on.
"Dang," Danny spoke to himself. He gets up and groans a bit.
Jack Fenton comes in for the kids to see him out their bedroom door. "Good morning, sleeping beauties," Jack greeted.
"Dad?" Jazz asked.
Danny froze. His dad didn't look pale or sick. He seemed alright. "You look…"
"Great, right?" Jack guessed, "Least that's what the doc said when he looked at my x-rays this morning."
The kids look at each other and felt a bit shocked. "What are you talking about?" Timmy asked.
"I've been sick, kids," Jack confessed, "When I finally get up the nerve to tell you and your brother and sister about it…I'm not anymore. I can't explain it. But I feel healthy as a horse like Strider."
They froze. Danny was stunned at his father's words, remembering what the odd stranger in his dream said to him: 'By sunshine tomorrow, your father will be healthy as a horse.' The kids felt speechless.
"Now, come on, hotshot," Jack said, "I got a show to do. Now, get my rodeo ready. Don't wanna keep those people waiting. And maybe after the show, we can catch ghosts and get some fudge!"
Jack walks out of his trailer with the kids still staring. Danny was worried about his ill father and now Jack was better now. Maybe the stranger did cure him. "But how?" Danny wondered.
"Who knows," Timmy said, "But at least Dad is okay!"
"Yep," Jazz smiled. The kids run off.
Wanda was still worried. "You shouldn't have done that Danny. Why wouldn't they listen?"
"What was that?" Cosmo asked, turning toward Wanda like he didn't hear her.
Wanda glares at him, "Poof?" Poof questioned, with a frown.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Jack Fenton!" Mr. Barkin announced. The rings of fire lit up and the ramp was ready. Jack was about to ride and make his stunt, riding on Strider. The crowd goes wild for this. Jack smiles and rides off for the crowd to cheer more.
Unknown to the crowd or Jack; the figure was at the entrance and watching. But it was no dark figure at all, it was Pariah! The ruler of the darkness, Underworld, and the Ghost Zone. He eyes the flaming rings and Jack and his steed going through the ramp. Suddenly, the fire rises up. Strider neighs in fright and rears on his rear hooves and Jack falls from him. Some of the people scream to see this. Pariah just looked on with his flaring eyes.
Outside, everyone turned to see the main tent lighting with people screaming. Danny was just about to meet Carrie, but first was gonna get Timmy and Jazz ice cream to celebrate.
That's when they saw what was happening at the tent.
"Isn't that the tent Dad is going to?" Timmy asked.
Danny gasped. "Dad!" He quickly runs up to the back and gasp in shock.
"Danny! What's going-" But Jazz froze, also Timmy.
The ring of fire was highly damaged and Jack Fenton was badly injured and burnt, lying on the wooden ramp as some of the carnies try to put out the fire. And sadly, the steed, Strider was dead. They were taking his body outside. Danny, Jazz, and Timmy were all shocked to see Spirit's father was dead.
"Ladies and gentlemen, head for the exits," Mr. Barkin spoke caution, "Please stay calm."
The crowd leaves and the kids run up to their father. "Dad?" Danny asked. Jack slowly opened his eyes to see his kids.
"Dad, it's all right, we're here," Timmy spoke.
"That's right. It's gonna be okay," Jazz said putting her hand on Jack's shoulder, "Dad? Daddy?"
Jack smiles but it soon fades, "Dad? Dad?" Danny asked.
Jack lay on the ground, motionless. Danny was horrified that his father was dead as well. He hugs Jazz and Timmy as they sobbed, crying over their now dead father.
Danny was glad that Jack was cured, but now he died of a stunt accident, as Strider was as well. As he hugs his sibs, he looks up and sees the figure he saw in the dream, near the entrance.
Pariah laughs, fading away before Danny's eyes. 'What was he doing here? He promised Dad will be okay! I don't understand' Danny thought, looking coldly at the disappearing figure.
Esperanza neighs loudly in both sadness and fright. Danny was on her with Timmy and Jazz at the back. Since, they are orphans now; they ran away, riding the empty highway.
Danny was planning to get Carrie, but he was too upset to be happy now. His dad is dead when the stranger promised he'll be alright. And Jazz and Timmy? Without Jack, Danny guesses that Timmy and Jazz will have to come with him and Carrie; including Timmy's fairies. They took Spirit as well as the little colt ran with his mother along side her.
Spirit looked very sad as did Esperanza. Danny didn't blame them, since Strider was no longer with them as well.
"Dad was supposed to be alright!" Danny yelled angrily, "He promised!"
"Danny, there's something we have to tell you," Wanda said, "That figure? Well, he was-"
Suddenly, in the middle of nowhere, Pariah appears in front of them in the middle of the road.
"The Ghost King!!" Cosmo and Wanda gasped
Danny was shocked and before he can react, Esperanza neighed in fright and gets on her hind legs, making Danny, Jazz, and Timmy fall off the horse, hitting hard onto the hard pavement road.
Danny groaned a bit, thinking a hit like that could give him a broken bone or something. But he was okay. He heard the tap of Pariah's cane. He looks up to the shadow.
"You're no good to me dead," Pariah spoke.
Jazz gasped and clutches to her brothers. Wanda holds her baby Poof. "Hey Pariah!" Cosmo laughed. Wanda quickly zipped his mouth.
Danny angrily gets up from the blacktop to point at Pariah, realizing something. "You…you killed him!" he accused.
"I cured his cancer," Pariah explained, "That was the deal. But I didn't want him to come between…us."
"How dare you Pariah!?" Wanda yelled.
"You know HIM?!" Danny asked, "And you didn't tell us?!"
"I tried to warn you," Wanda said, sadly, "But it's too late now."
"She's right," Pariah laughed.
Jazz glared at him. "You evil ghost ecto-thingy!"
Danny was SO mad that he charges at Pariah, wanting to knock him out and beat the heck outta him. But Pariah wasn't there. Danny hits the empty air to see him gone.
"Where is he?" Timmy wondered, feeling scared.
"One day…" Pariah said as Danny turns to see Pariah behind him, "When I need you, I'll come. Until then, I'll keep in touch and be watching…"
Pariah touches Danny. Danny strains in a heat of pain as something was coming out of Pariah, into Danny feeling. Jazz, Timmy, and the fairies would have done something but they were TOO afraid to do so. Spirit neighed, wanting to help his best friend, but he couldn't do anything.
Danny wasn't sure what it was but it froze him with his blue eyes lighting up like green flaring fireballs. "Forget about friends…" Pariah continued, "Forget about family…Forget about love. You're mine Danny Fenton." Pariah smirks and taps Danny on the back.
Danny falls on the ground and lays there, "Danny!" Jazz, Timmy, Spirit, and Esperanza rushed over, seeing if he was alright.
Spirit neighed and pushed his muzzle into Danny's cheek; Danny put his hand on the colt's soft nose and breathed, "I'm ok…" But he didn't feel ok. He gets up to see Pariah gone again. Thunder strikes again as it started to rain.
Carrie had all her things packed in her suitcase, waiting for Danny. She smiles to see Danny riding on Esperanza by Toon Hill. She notices Jazz and Timmy (holding his bowl with his fairies) with Danny, oddly, wondering why they are here.
Danny looks at her, looking at her joyful smile. It just broke her heart. Now, he has to break hers.
He remembers about what Pariah said to him, 'Forget about love.' After his encounter with Pariah, what will happen with him and Carrie? Will something bad happen to Carrie also like Jack and will it be Danny's fault? Carrie stops smiling, wondering why Danny was looking at her sadly.
Danny's face was saddened. 'Sorry Carrie,' Danny thought.
"Let's go," he spoke to his sibs and the colt, Spirit.
Esperanza neighs loudly and runs away with the three, leaving Carrie behind. Carrie seemed stunned, watching her boyfriend run off.
Danny's heart sank. He had to let her go…for his and Carrie's sake if Pariah appears to them. Jazz and Timmy felt very bad for Danny, knowing that he will NEVER forget about this.
The kids rode on the horse following by Spirit and the fairies and they head off to a new life…