So, I would like to thank Angel, my newest reviewer and Hellbreaker as always. Yeah, Ember can be pretty predictable with her lack of patience, but what happens next doesn't really play well into what most probably think will happen.
The van before them swerved one more time causing Tucker to gasp as the car spun wildly before them and into another van before landing in a ditch. Danny's whole life with Sam flashed before his eyes as he screamed, his pain echoing around them as he rushed forward to aid the girl he had come to love with all his being.
Danny phased through the van to find it empty. He stood there in shock at what he was seeing. Where were the band members that had been escaping just moments before? Where was Sam? That's when he saw the blood that stained the bottom of metallic interior. He moved to touch it, but was brought to a stop as Tucker reached out and grabbed him by the arm. The halfa looked back at his friend, his green eyes flashing dangerously, but the techno-geek shook his head and held his ground as sirens filled the air. Finally Danny accepted that he had to step back and let the police take this one, though with the kidnappers being ghosts, that would not end well and he feared that the police would give up.
In another part of the states Sam was waking up, her head pounding as the light in the room bombarded her head with more pain.
"Ug," the Goth grunted as she tried to sit up, only to find that though she could move her body, was strapped to a big queen sized bed. Her amethyst eyes flickered back and forth as she took in her surroundings. If anything, the room reminded her of her own parent's house. It was a large room with pink walls that held pictures of red roses and white baby's breath. The room otherwise was sparse in décor while it held minimal furniture. There was the bed she was in with a large profession oak desk to her right. On her left was door that she supposed led to a bathroom while an oak dresser guarded the left of the door. It was all around nice, but she couldn't enjoy it right now. There was something definitely wrong with this picture, with this whole damn frame! "Let me out of here!" the dark haired beauty screamed causing more pain to her head, but she could care less. She wanted out. She thought about her last moments at the school. She had been so mad at Danny for letting her go, but now she was even more desperate to get back to him. She loved him and although he had chosen more than one female over her she still loved him and had planned on coming back hoping her life had changed. She knew that when she came back that he would have moved on and she had hoped that she would so the pain would leave her heart and her soul. Just then the door in front of the bed opened with a slight squeak. She tried to sit up and see who was entering her space, but her neck couldn't crane that far of an angle and the straps that held her in space wouldn't allow her that much freedom.
"Oh, Samantha, you can struggle all you want, but you won't be free of that bed until it is time for that," came a very familiar voice from the foot of the bed. Sam grunted as she tried to remove the straps that confined her with the one person who had an agenda against Danny and his family. This was not the person one wanted to be left alone with. Human or ghost.
"Vlad," the Goth hissed, her eyes closing for two seconds as she tried to see the half ghost. She refused to think of him like she thought of Danny. He was not a good guy and would never be considered a halfa."What the fuck do you want, you stupid little prick?" Vlad chuckled, his voice dark.
"Well, not what I want. It is what he wants and he wants you little dark one. Well, more like ones like you." He now moved to stand over her, his eye flashing red. "You see little one, you will be a princess to a very dark prince. He will not ride in and save you, no, you will wish that there was such a saving from his bad graces." Sam looked up at him in fear, but she refused to show such a weakness to one that would exploit it to his fullest advantage.
"Why? Why would you do such a thing?" At this they both turned as Ember appeared, her normal demeanor sad and worried. Sam was agog at this new Ember! She was nothing like the impatient little girl that darkened Danny's door on more than a few occasions. "He is the mainstream of all evil. Even the dark lord, Pariah Dark is nothing like this male!" Sam shuddered. If Ember feared such a male then he was the worst thing for the Goth. Vlad smirked.
"Nothing but the best for Danny's little missus." Now Skulker appeared, his arms going around Ember who looked up at him with sadness. "Now, I suggest that you go away and have fun while you can. I might change my mind and get rid of you in a most unsavory way." At this the large robotic ghost growled and led his female away. Even as they left Sam could tell that Ember still feared for the Goth's safety. Now the demonic ghost glared down at her. "You will have fun with him. He likes his girls a little on the rough side and I figured that you could handle that." With that the rich monster of a half ghost disappeared in a wisp of smoke.
Danny sat in his room, alone, contemplating what could have happened. He and Tucker were planning a long trip to get to Vlad's estate in Wisconsin. They just needed to get everything together and that was what he was waiting on right now. His parents were doing some maintenance on the Specter Speeder while Tucker and Jazz headed for the store to gather supplies. He had wanted to help, but his parents had refused as well as Tucker and Jazz. All had been worried for his well being and had told him to rest up. He would have gone ghost to find her, but knew that he needed all the energy that he could save up to fight Vlad. The man was still slightly stronger than him in so many ways that Danny knew to plan an attack before ever thinking to fight the half ghost without one.
"Oh, Sam," the halfa groaned. He had put her through so much in his ghost form. Tucker had never suffered much because of his ghost powers. There were days that he wondered why he had let her tag along with him, but then he remembered that he never felt right with her gone from his life. That had been proven when she had made that wish with Desiree, the ghost genie, so long ago. He had lost so much with her gone. Then he remembered all the other times he had almost lost her and then the time he had given up his powers. She had stuck it out with him after all the problems he had had. He had never truly told her how he had felt, but somewhere inside of him he felt that she had known. He would save her. He had too. She was his and only his to protect.
"Danny!" his mother called up. "The speeder is ready!" Danny smiled as he ran downstairs and right into his mother who fell back onto the door that was opening. "Danny?!" she screeched. She knew that he was wary from waiting for them to be ready to leave, but damn, that boy was like running into a rock!
"Hey!" a voice screeched from behind the front door. It was Jazz. She had just been opening the door when Maddie had fallen back into it. "Can we get in now?" Danny quickly turned ghost and phasing through the door pulled his sister and Tucker into the now crowded hallway. "We got enough to last a month," the red haired girl stated as she headed for the basement where the lab was. Tucker walked behind her with a cooler containing most of the cold foods.
"Your new Fenton Frozen Cooler works great," he told Maddie, who smiled. Danny followed them as they headed for the Speeder that filled the large room. After getting everything in the contraption Danny and Tucker got in the front before powering up the large submarine looking vehicle. With a wave to his family they were off into the Ghost Zone to head for a ghost portal that would open up out into the real world. It would take at least half a day to make it to Vlad's but they knew this was the best way. Sure, Danny could have turned the Speeder intangible so he could go through the other Ghost Portal at Vlads, but that was not a chance they wanted to take. They wanted him to be caught off guard when they arrived.
Sam sat in that room for God knows how long before she grew to hate the white ceiling and pink walls, not that she liked the color anyways.
"Stupid mother fucking," she cursed to herself as she squirmed again. She knew that he had strapped her in good, but she still was going to try. She would never give up her fight against that stupid male and his plan to give her away like some father-of-the-bride! As she struggled a little more she realized with a shiver that she was not alone. Looking to her left she saw as Ember came into room, her eyes still sad, but now she looked frightened as she looked around to make sure that they were alone. In her hands she held her guitar. "What do you want?" Sam asked as she eyed the idol before her with disdain. Ember shushed her with her finger to her lips.
"I don't like you either," the ghost whispered, "but no one deserves the fate that Vlad is about to send you on. I can't free you, but I can give you a heads up on who you are about to meet." Sam stopped glaring at the teal haired girl. "You will be taken to Castle Agian, where you will meet King Rotarepo. He is not all that bad, but he can't control his son, Prince Reeb. When they were human it was a little different. Reeb was to be married, but he could never find the girl of his dreams until one day he came to a village where a young maiden had just been married to their prince, Prince Adi. The girl's name was Eniw. She was a very beautiful girl, but she did not love the prince that she was forced wed. When she saw Reeb she fell madly in love with him and he with her. They started to fuck around causing her husband grief. The father, Rotarepo, was not aware that all this was happening and the prince Adi wasn't aware who his wife was with. He just knew that she was and when she became pregnant it was confirmed." Sam sat stone still. "When the Prince came to see Eniw he found her dead in her bed and Adi waiting for him. He challenged the offending Prince to a duel to the death. Reeb won. All his anger for the death of his love fueling him. After killing him he went home to find his father waiting for him. He told him that he knew what he had done and that he was wrong for it. He lost more then the woman or the babe in her womb. He lost his father's love. The father killed his son and then was killed by the sister of Eniw. She had come to see whom her sister had fallen in love with. When she saw the father kill him she was filled with anger over her sister's love killed. He now looks for a new wife to be with and when he finds her he kills her. He then holds onto her for as long as he can, making her do what he wants and when he grows bored with her he kills her."
"You can't kill a ghost!" the goth protest. Ember shrugged.
"I don't know. They say that he has done it plenty of times to plenty of women." Suddenly the air grew colder and Ember disappeared. Sam looked around her. Where was he? She knew he was in the room.
"So, I see that the idol has done what she can to prepare you, but nothing will prepare you for your own death," said Vlad as he came out of the shadows. "Are you ready?"
Hope you liked. This is not the last of her time with Vlad! Don't worry. He has plans for Danny's goth. Mwah ha ha ha.
