Chapter 3: Discovery

-- Draconum's Tomb --

Draconum looked down at at his still traped legs and smiled. He flexed arms that had not moved for centuries.

'My power is returning.' he thought as he watched the shadows around him dance with glee.

He opened his hand and an orb of green light appeared, grasped in his claws.

"Show me," he whispered, "the most powerful creatures of this time!"

The orb flashed and an image began to form on it's glass like surface. Pariah Dark's tomb appeared.

Draconum smirked wickedly. "Not so high and mighty these days I see oh 'King of Ghosts'." His malicious laughter echoed off the unseen walls of the tomb. "Show me more."

The image of another ghost appeared, this one female. Her hair was blue and danced like fire. Strapped to her back was what appeared to be some kind of stringed instrument. Draconum looked her over and guessed she was around 19 when she died.

"Her death?" he asked the orb and it flashed brightly as it complied with his request. A moving image began to appear in the orb and just as it finished coming into focus a haunting yet beautiful human voice filled the tomb. Draconum looked on silently as the girl in the picture sang her song in a blazing inferno that she had started. The fire reached her, but she didn't seem to feel it and just kept on singing. As the flames consumed her, the last line of her song reached him along with the dieing screams of the man who had betrayed her, the man who she burned.

"You will remember my name!"

"Ember, such an vengeful death." he said nodding, he would remember it, "Tragic, but what a beautiful voice." He grinned darkly. "I'll bet her screams will sound divine. Show me another."

The orb flashed again and another image appeared, this time Draconum's eyes blazed with amusement. It was the image of a ghost boy no older then 16 if that. He was garbed in a black and white outfit with the symbol of a white 'D' on his chest.

"Interesting." Draconum said, "Show me his death." The orb glowed as it tried to do as it was told but went blank without forming an image.

Draconum thought for a moment. "Show me his true form."

The sphere flashed and now where stood a phantom stood a human teenager similar in appearance. Draconum chuckled.

'So a half-ghost then!' He thought with a great deal of interest, 'I would like to meet this boy!'

More of the crystal crumbled off. Draconum looked over his shoulder and moved his now freed wings, stretching them to a wing span of nearly 30 feet. He looked back to the orb still containing the image of the boy.

"His name?" The orb turned solid green but a voice echoed out of it.

"Danny Fenton get out of that bathroom right now or I swear I will phase in there!"

'Danny Fenton.' He thought as if tasting the name then he smiled, 'No, more like Danny Phantom!'

Then he realized something and his spiky eyebrow ridges rose in surprise. The voice had been Ember's!

"Show me!" he hissed with interest.

The orb flashed again and showed Ember standing outside of a door banging on it in frustration. Another girl was standing behind her, arms crossed. She looked about the same age but was very much alive and had long red hair.

Draconum released the sphere and let it float in the front of him. He watch the scene silently with a small amused grin.

"Danny get out right now or..."

-- Fenton's Home --

"...I'll phase in there I swear it!"

"Just give me another second would you!" Danny yelled back.

He heard both girls mumbling as he got out of the shower and grabbed a towel. He tried to dry off fast then wrapped the towel around his waist and headed for the door.

"That's it!" He heard Ember shout as she phased through the door her hair blazing. "OUT!"

"Ok, ok I'm going! Jeez!" He ran for it before she decided to blast him. He bolted out as fast as he could and ran past a very irritated Jazz. He slammed his door in a rush and looked around for some cloths to throw on. He opened his closet and grabbed a random assortment. He heard footsteps coming down the hall.

'Oh god, please tell me she cooled off some!' he thought.

Ember phased through the door her hair still dancing, but more calmly. She was irritated but not as much as she had been. He almost sighed in relief then noticed she wasn't wearing anything but a towel. He stared at her a moment then turned his back quickly.

"Whats your problem?" Ember asked. "And get away from the closet I ain't reaching around you for my cloths!"

He hadn't even known ghosts took showers! He moved out of Embers way as she reached for her cloths. He heard a shuffling noise and devolved a small nose bleed when he realized she was getting dressed with him standing right there. He could just turn around and act like it was an accident...

"Alright baby-pop, I'm decent now." He heard Ember say behind him sarcastically.

He sighed as he turned around and started to say something but cut off short. She wasn't wearing anything but a bra and a thong. His nose erupted.

"Whats wrong now?" She asked again as she pulled on a pair of HIS pants!

He slapped a hand over his nose to stop the bleeding and tried to act nonchalant. "Nothings wrong! And those pants are mine!"

"So? What do you want me to run around in my panties for you all day?" She ask sarcastically.

"Thats not what... I mean... I didn't say..." He took a deep breath, "Why do you have to do that to me?"

"Do what?" she asked innocently. She smiled like a fox as he sat down on the bed and grabbed a pillow to put on his lap.

"You have to learn some modesty." He mumbled.

Ember grinned again, "I love you too baby-pop." She said with a giggle and she went back to the closet to find a shirt.

'So close...' a voice whispered in his head.

Danny froze. He glanced at Ember and saw her staring at him. "Did you just hear that?"

"Yea." she whispered.

"What was it?"

"I don't know." She looked out the window, "Something bad..."