Alex: "hi guys. well i finally posted the next part of this story. i'm sorry for taking so long but i have been vary busy this whole month and this week i'm going to new mexico for a wedding so i dont know how long that will take and wont be posting anything for a while. i will write more when i have the time so dont worry ok?"
June: "so just be happy she even wrote this chapter so shut the fuck up and enjoy!"
Alex: "hoipe you like this chapter its a lot longer then the last one."
Luel Lunith ch 4
Luel looked up at his captor only to see it was a man made out of metal and flaming green hair. He had a grin on his face as he looked at Luel but then frowned.
"Your not the ghost boy?" said the metal man then he looks at the devise on his arms that tracks half ghost, like Danny. "There must be something wrong with this blasted thing!" he growled angrily as he hit the devise to try and get it to work properly.
"Can you let me go? This thing hurts." Luel said as he notices that the metal man was not after him specifically and hoped that he would just let him go. Luel didn't have time for this, he needed to find Undergrowth!
"Silence!" the metal man growled at Luel as he tried to figure out his devise. "My indicators are telling me that your half ghost like Danny Phantom" he said looking at Luel carefully. "So unless my indicators are wrong then that means your half ghost too." he stated.
"No! I'm sure there wrong. I'm one hundred percent ghosts" Luel said with a fake smile while struggling with the bonds. "Really? Why don't I just test that out myself." the metal man said grinning and zapped Luel with another devise on his shoulder.
"Aaaaaaaaaah!" Luel screamed in pain as he was shocked yet again but this time it shorted out his powers and he reverted back to his human form. Now powerless and in his human form, Luel couldn't fight back even if he wanted to, it took all his will power to just not pass out again.
"I was after the ghost boy Danny Phantom but you will have to do." the metal ghost said grinning. "It's a pity that you didn't put up much of a fight."
"P-please let me go. I ...I have to find Undergrowth." Luel begged for him to be let go. The metal ghost looked at him with interest "Undergrowth? Why would you want to find him?" the metal man asked.
"I have to stop him." Luel said weakly. "Hahahaha! You? Stop Undergrowth? Please, how is a weak child like you supposed to stop a powerful ghost like him if you can't even get away from me?" the metal ghost laughed at Luel.
"That's my business and mine alone! Now let me go!" Luel yelled, suddenly becoming angry with the metal man's insult; this was not the time for Luel to be scared of everything. "And why would I let you go? I have caught you, it's only fair game" the metal man said amused.
"Fair game? I'm not just some animal you can catch for your own amusement! Who are you?!" Luel yelled becoming angrier. He hated this! He hated that he was being mocked by his weakened state! He hated that he was being treated like an animal and most of all he hated being here when he could be out there looking for Undergrowth! 'No! Calm down Luel, you need to stay calm or you'll lose control!' Luel thought to himself as he took a deep breath and exhale to calm down.
"I am Skulker! The ghost zone's greatest hunter!" the metal man presented himself. "Well Skulker, as much as I like to be tied up and all, I really need to be somewhere right now!" Luel said sarcastically as his kind mood was shot and all. Luel doesn't like to be unpleasant and mean but this guy was seriously getting on his nerves and the fact that he could not use his powers to help him out was not making his mood any better. True he doesn't like to use his powers to begin with but he knew when he really needed them and this was the time, unfortunately.
"Feisty aren't you" Skulker said smirking. "What do you want with me?" Luel asked seeing he couldn't get away from this ghost. "I capture rare ghosts and things and you child are just that. Normally I would go after Danny Phantom but it's about time I had one of your kind at least, in my collection." Skulker said, grinning at Luel.
Luel swallowed the lump that was forming in his throat but kept his focus on Skulker. Luel stopped and thought for a second on how he can get away from this guy, and then it hit him! He had one chance of getting away; all he needed to do is focus and wait for his chance. Luel could already feel his powers slowly returning so he had one shot at this so he couldn't afford to screw up!
"Well it's time to show you your new home, ghost child." Skulker said as he grabbed Luel to drag him off but only to be stopped by a tap on his shoulder by a white gloved hand. Skulker looked back to see who it was only to get punched in the face.
'Or not. Or that can happen and I don't have to do a damn thing.' Luel thought almost relieved that he didn't have to use anymore of his energy.
Skulker let go of Luel as he stumbled back from the force of the punch, once Skulker got his balance back he glared back at the owner of the gloved hand. Danny Phantom stood there arms crossed and a frown on his face "What's wrong Skulker? Got tired of me always beating your sorry ass?" Danny said narrowing his eyes at Skulker.
"Don't take this the wrong way ghost boy, I'll still come and hunt you down" Skulker said grinning and Danny just raised an eyebrow. "What do you want with Luel?" Danny asks seeing Luel with a net around him.
"Nothing really. I thought it was about time I had one of your kind in my collection." Skulker said then got all his weapons out "But now that your here I can finally get a real fight. This one is not worth my effort" Skulker fired some rockets and lasers at Danny, who dodged them with ease.
"Tucker! Sam! Get Luel and get out of here I can handle Skulker" Danny yelled at as they just arrived in the specter-speeder
"Roger that Danny!" Tucker said as he steered the specter-speeder away from the fight and towards Luel. As they pulled up next to Luel, Sam opened the door and quickly grabbed Luel and pulled him in then closed the door. "Ok I got him!" Sam said and Tucker nodded back to her and drove off away from Danny and Skulker.
"Luel are you crazy! What the hell were you thinking! You can't just go off on your own like that!" Sam said already scolding Luel for taking off. "Yeah dude, it's not safe here in the ghost zone by yourself" Tucker said backing Sam up.
"Can you get this off of me?" Luel said still trying to get it off. Sam sighed and pulled out a pocket knife out of one of the compartments in the specter-speeder and cut the net off of Luel "If you didn't want to go home you could have told us." Sam said.
"I know and I'm sorry but I can't go home, not with Undergrowth still out there." Luel sighing and sat down once the net was off of him "I have to find him."
"And what exactly are you planning to do once you find him? I'm sorry to say this, but you're in no shape to fight him." Sam said bluntly and crossed her arms as she sat down too. "Your just lucky Danny came when he did, to save you from Skulker." Tucker said from the front seat as he was making their way back to the ghost portal.
"Is he going to be alright by himself?" Luel asked worriedly. "Yeah don't worry about him. Danny can take care of himself plus he fights Skulker all the time." Tucker said smiling and confident in Danny.
"Yeah don't worry about me too much. I pretty much have him beat" Danny said suddenly and phased into the specter-speeder. Luel sighed, how was he going to find Undergrowth now? That damn metal man zapped most of the energy he had gained this morning and he was hoping he could use that to get away from everyone.
'Ok Luel all you have to do is get some rest and get at least most of your energy back, then I can find out where undergrowth is. I can't find him if I don't know where he is. Something tells me that these guys are the only chance I have to finding him. All I have to do is play my cards right and I can get to him before they do. Last thing I want is for some to get hurt because of me again' Luel thought to himself.
"Sorry for causing trouble. Everything is happening so fast that it's a little too much for me. My head is spinning just thinking about it." Luel said apologizing to Danny.
"It's ok Luel. I understand that this is hard for you being in a different time and all. It's kind of my fault though, I should have asked you about what you wanted to do." Danny said feeling a bit bad about rushing Luel. "We should have let you rest some more so you had time to adjust and not freak out about everything." and because of that Luel got hurt, because he was probably confused about everything and it was Danny's fault for rushing into things again.
"Its ok I don't really blame you for wanting to get me home. You have a family of your own to take care of and most likely can't afford to always watch after someone else." Luel said looking down at the floor feeling like he was a burden to Danny and his family. Luel wasn't too surprised about it, after all his grandmother always said he was good for nothing and that his singing was the only thing that even qualified was what mattered. He was almost glad that he wasn't back home.
"Oh no don't worry about it. You don't have anywhere to stay and my parents will be more than happy to let you stay until we get or find you a home to stay" Danny said seeing that Luel thought he was being a burden. "Until we can figure out what to do you can stay at my house ok?" Danny stated.
Luel sighed and slowly nodded his head. Luel then leaned back in his chair to get some rest and just stared out the window to a world that was so new to him. "I'll be back. I still have to talk to Clockwork about some things. You guys watch him and make sure he goes nowhere and gets some rest" Danny told Sam and Tucker and they both nodded. "Alright, we'll contact you on the Fenton-phones if something happens." Sam said giving a pair to Danny. "We'll let you know if something is up." Tucker added and Danny nodded at them both and then turned intangible and phased out the specter-speeder and headed back to clockwork's tower.
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Danny soon found himself inside Clockworks tower and walked around looking for the time ghost. He soon found him right where he had left him, in front of different portals of time watching the time-line but this time in his old age form.
"So your back." Clockwork said addressing Danny, not turning to see who it was.
"I want some answers, answers I'm sure only you can give me" Danny said waiting for the time ghost to say something. Danny had a feeling that clockwork already knows what he is going to ask so there was no need to say another word.
"I can't tell you anything Danny, At least not without Luel's permission." Clockwork said looking at Danny sternly as he floated towards him. "Why not! I mean he just came out of nowhere and is half ghost like me! I want to at least know something about him." Danny begged.
"But you already know some information about him Danny." Clockwork said as he slowly floated around him and changed into is baby age form. "That's not what I meant. Yeah I know he is from 20 years ago and that he has a bad relationship with his grandmother but that still doesn't tell me much or what I'm supposed to do?" Danny said then looked at the ground as if it held his answers.
"Then why don't you ask him yourself instead of coming to me for all the answers." Clockwork said. "It's not that easy. We just met and I highly doubt he will be so open to tell me his entire life story. It will be a long time before he does." Danny said sighing and looked up at the time ghost.
"And there lies your answer Daniel, time is all you need. Luel has been here for only two days and needs some time to adjust to his surroundings. He will tell you everything in time but only if your patient." Clockwork said as he floated in front of Danny and turned to his adult age form.
Danny thought for a moment, Clockwork was right. Luel needs time and he knew he shouldn't be always coming to Clockwork for answers but there was still something that Danny didn't understand. "Why can't you send Luel home? Yeah, I know other then the fact he doesn't want to go home because of undergrowth but besides from that, why?" Danny asked.
"Danny, everyone has an important role in the time-line. There are some who have little roles in history that I can change to my will as long as it benefits the time-line, and then there are those whose future cannot be change or it will disrupt the balance of time and space." Clockwork said, looking at Danny with the knowledge that many would not understand.
"What do you mean?" Danny asked not completely understanding.
"Follow me." Clockwork said as he turned to his old age form and floated to one of the portals of time and it showed an image of Danny's parents in their collage years. "Hey I remember this!" Danny said as he looked at the portal.
"Yes, and do you remember what happened when you tried changing their history?" Clockwork asked as he looked back at Danny. "Yeah, I was never born and my mom was married to Vlad which is a total ew!" Danny said looking back at Clockwork and stuck out his tongue with a grimace as he remembered the gross memory.
"That Danny, was a fix point in time that was never meant to be changed. If it were to be changed then not only would you have never been born and Amity Park would not have its hero but war would have clashed with the ghost zone and the human world and it would all end in disaster." Clockwork said showing Danny a gruesome future where he was not born in. "I suddenly feel better about my life." Danny said looking at the destruction before him.
Clockwork then turned to his baby age form and changed the time portal to a different scene. This one was Danny's evil future self time. "Dan!" Danny said narrowing his eyes at the portal.
"The observers had asked me to kill you so that this future did not happen but I did not." Clockwork said looking at Danny. "Why didn't you?" Danny asked.
"Because if I did then there would not have been anyone to stop the disasteroid and there would be no future at all." Clockwork said. "I was actually wondering where the disasteroid is in my evil future?" Danny asked.
"It was never there in your evil future. You see Danny because you lost your family in that time you went to go live with Vlad. That caused your ghosts half went and merged with his making your evil future and because that happened, Vlad had no reason to go to space and caused the incident to happen. If I were to have killed you, Vlad would still go on with his evil plans to take over the world and the disasteroid would have still happened weather you were there or not." Clockwork said as he changed to his adult age form.
"That actually makes sense." Danny said thinking about it.
"That Danny, was a point in time that I could change to benefit the time-line." clockwork said. "Ok but what does all this have to do with Luel?" Danny asked wondering why clockwork was explaining this to him.
"Luel is a fix point in time. He is meant to be here in your time and he will die here in your time. So in the end Luel has to live the rest of his days out of his time." Clockwork explained.
"So if Luel is a fix point in time then something is going to happen soon isn't it" Danny asked understanding that fix points are very important meaning something very drastic is going to happen. "Yes." Clockwork said and nothing more.
"Clockwork, what's going to happen?" Danny asked sternly a bit worried now.
"I can't tell you much Danny but I will tell you this. You must keep him safe. If he dies before his time then the world is doomed." Clockwork said and Danny's eyes widen in fear.
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Luel watched as Danny turn intangible and phased out the specter-speeder, He sighed and looked back out the window seeing different ghosts pass by as they drove off. Luel then wondered if this is where people go when they die and slightly wondered if his mother was here too. He thought it would be nice to find her and gets to know her but then decided against it, for he was afraid to find out what his mother was like and slightly wondered if she even cared about him or would even love him.
"Are you okay Luel?" Sam asked as she sat down next to him. She thought this would be a good chance to get to know him a little better.
"Yeah, just thinking." Luel said as he kept staring out the window. "Thinking about what?" Sam asked.
"Nothing important." Luel said, refusing to open up to anyone. Sam sighed, this was not going to be easy. She can understand that Luel is having a hard time adjusting but he needed to open up if they were going to be able to help him.
"You know you can talk to us Luel. We just want to help you" Sam said with a worried face.
"I know but it's just. I'd rather keep some things to myself" Luel said looking at Sam with an apologetic face.
Sam sighed and sat back in her seat. She knew she was not going to get through to him. If anything Danny may be the only one who can, for now all she can do is try but that's about it.
'Danny I hope you can get though to him. I have a bad feeling that something is about to happen' she thought worriedly.
Alex: "sorry that there was not so much action in this chapter. i'm not so good at writing fight scence but i will try next time. this whole chapter is just about trying to find out who luel is and how he acts. its not much but i still hope you like it"
June: "dont forget to review"
