Danny Phantom, chapter 4 unexpected allies

Danny, Tucker, Jazz and Sam had arrived at fenton works safely. Sam and Tucker went home and Danny went up to his room to get some sleep.

Dannny's view:

I couldn't really fall asleep. I was worried about the words of the observer. Normally they wouldn't do a thing to help. There was a reason for calling them observers. This observer, he had warned me and sends me off to ensure less chaos. It was in no way normal! Didn't he say that the ghost king awoke? They would need my help, wouldn't they?

I heard a soft tick on my window. Tired as I felt, I let myself float towards the window. I nearly had a heart attack when I saw Sam in the window. My room wasn't located on the ground. She smiled as I opened my window. I landed on the ground and let her in. Coming to my room at this hour, made me feel awkward. She started to laugh. "So I'm not the only one that has difficulty sleeping?" I nodded. Right now my head was extremely confused. My cheeks looked red.

It lasted till Tucker came in my room, completely dressed for combatting ghost. "It's good to see that I'm not the only one worried about the ghost king." Tucker completely destroyed the mood. Maybe I was overthinking things. Sam sat down on my bed and started talking. "I'm worried about clockwork. What kind of monster could stop him? Be honest with me Danny. He even stopped your evil incarnate Dan. I mean it was Dan, the strongest ghost ever right?" I nodded at her words. She was worried too. Tucker reacted. "Yeh, I don't like the idea of a ghost stronger than clockwork flying around."

But what could we do about it? The observer was literally threatening us to go home. "We can't reach clockwork, which has the answer. The ghost king is apparently awake and we were sent back to the human world." It became really quiet in my room. Sam signed. "The first thing I would do as the ghost king is seeking you out. The one that defeated him is the one he wants revenge on the most. It has been several hours already. No ghost ever waited so long to strike at you." Tucker started typing on his PDA. His face grew dim.

"Guys , I think I have more bad news. The whole time stop thing disabled the ghost radars for Vlad. I was searching for information on ghost activities. They are not working." Even I felt bad after hearing that. So we did not only have a problem with clockwork and the ghost king. Vlad could appear any moment, because of the clockwork problem. He could even be here on the planet already.

Suddenly the air shook. Majestic aura soared trough my room. My ghost breath went off. There he was, the ghost king. I could feel him, even from here. Tucker looked at his PDA in disbelief. Why is the ghost king using your parents' portal to come here? Couldn't he make his own portals and stuff?" A green alarm went off in the house. My mom had installed it to be sure of breaches at the ghost portal.

I looked at Tucker. "You're right. He doesn't need portals. He transported whole Amity Park the last time we met." I whispered going ghost, even though my friends knew my secret for a long time, I didn't want to risk making shouting an automatic response again. The cold spread through my body. My bedroom was cooling down. My hair became snow white. Tucker shuddered. "It is getting colder every time you do that." I smiled. "That's a good sign you know?" Tucker didn't agree with me on that one.

I made myself intangible and flew towards the lab. Sam and Tucker were running from the stairs. Mom and Dad were fully dressed and even Jazz came running in her specter peeler. I arrived first. The ghost king stood at the opening of the portal. Unlike before he was in tatters. Actual wounds were seen on his body. It was like he was attacked by a monster. Even with those wounds he stood there majestically.

My parent, sister and friends stood behind me. They all were shocked about his condition. Dad was the first to speak. "What is your purpose of coming here? We have defeated you once already!" The ghost king smiled. Not like the last time. He looked worried. "Halfa, you are the one that has defeated me, the ghost king of this realm. Of course it was with the help of others, but you're strength made the victory possible." Why did I get the feeling that he wasn't planning on attacking me? Why was he so beat up? The ghost king kneeled with one knee and looked at me.

"Halfa, I ask not as an enemy, but as a fellow ghost brother, for your help. An enemy that you're quite familiar with has risen and taken on new powers. My army and I could not stop him. He is closing in on the sealed gate." Tucker looked at him from his PDA. "What sealed gate. We have looked at the infi-map. That so called gate wasn't written on it. I have almost all destinations in my PDA." The ghost kind started laughing. "You foolish human, the gate has been erased from history. No one should know of it. Yet the other halfa found out about its existence. He is helped by an unknown power." Why did I get the feeling that he was lying about the last part? Wait, halfa?

"Don't tell me Vlad did this?" Tucker and Sam were shocked looking at the ghost kings face. It was a mixture of anger and shame. I was flabbergasted. Jazz looked at him. "How? You beat his ass the last time you met. Vlad crawled towards Danny so that you would be defeated." The ghost king showed a small grin, but his eyes didn't laugh. "He has acquired powers from an unknown entity. His might was stronger than before. My army didn't have a chance. I battled him for 8 hours and I lost as a result."

My mom signed and let her weapon down. "We can at least listen to your proposal." The ghost king nodded and looked at me. "Brother, help me defeat Vlad before he unseals the gate!" Okay, the whole brother thing felt weird. "Why is that gate so important?" The ghost king bit his lip. Was he going to keep that secret? Sam stepped in. "We can't help you if you don't tell us what we need to protect. Why shouldn't that gate open?" The ghost king looked at us and sighed. "As you wish!"

He sat down as his wounds were slowly healing. He looked at me. "This information is only known to me and clockwork. Normally I wouldn't have awakened from my sleep if clockwork was around, but he was the first victim of this attack. Only I know what lies behind the gate and that halfa Vlad for some reason. I believe that Vlad has obtained aid from a most sinister existence called Momentum." Sam interrupted. "How certain are you that he is called Momentum?" The ghost king smiled wryly.

"That is human, because he was the only one capable of neutralizing Clockwork. He is Clockworks one and only archenemy." Tucker interrupted with disbelief. "Clockwork has an archenemy?" The ghost king shook his head. "Momentum should have been sealed shut behind that gate. Together with the greatest monsters the ghost zones ever knew, erased from existence." Everyone was silent for a little while. I tried to swallow it. "So Momentum, who neutralized Clockwork has ordered Vlad to open the gate and free all kinds of monsters?"

The ghost kings face didn't agree to my words. "No brother. Momentum wants him to open the gate and wake up the ancient ghost zone with all its inhabitants." The ancient ghost zone? I looked at Tucker. He was already seeking the term on his PDA, but to no avail it seemed. "Why haven't I heard of the ancient ghost zone before? Wouldn't other ghost find out about it?" The ghost king sighed once again. "Because we have erased its existence from the memory of both ghost and humans, there is no one that should know of it. If Vlad succeeds, your job of protecting Amity Park will change to a whole different level. The ghost you know and fear are nothing in comparison to them."

I didn't like that idea. There where almost no ghost around that I absolutely feared except for the ghost king. And the ghosts I normally fought could still fight me. I smacked against a tree when I fought Undergrowth. "How are we going to fight Vlad if he is helped by that Momentum guy? What's the plan?" The ghost king seemed to get a little hope in his eyes. "There are two options. One is to defeat Vlad and lock him up in one of your thermos!" His eyes grew dark. "The other option is stalling the fight for 48 hours. That's how long it will take for Clockwork to release himself from the moment of time he is trapped in. He would be able to change or destroy the timeline that freed the ancient ghost zone."

48 hours? That was two freaking days. I rather go for the lock him up option. The ghost king looked at me with his green eye. "Suit up, so that we can fight on equal strength brother." Wait a sec, did he mean the ecto-skeleton? "I'm afraid that the ecto-skeleton has been destroyed in battle." The ghost king didn't seem to like that fact. Dad interfered. "Maybe not. I quite liked the idea you see. I used Vlads idea for power storage and created a new version, the ecto-skeleton two!" He opened a secret hatch. Wait, he had a secret hatch and I didn't know about it? In it stood the ecto-skeleton that was destroyed in the battle with Vlad.

Dad looked at me. "Bring it home safely please?" I changed back to human form, so that I could get in the suit. The ghost king silently watched. Dad checked the ecto-skeleton and laughed. "Ready to go!" I nodded and turned into a ghost again. Just like the other time, the ecto-skeleton transformed with me. I liked the design of this suit because it became a lot smoother. I didn't feel it draining my powers. The ghost king nodded. "You have grown even stronger than before. You may choose to let those humans fight with you, but be aware that the danger will be great."

I rather not put them into danger. I was planning on telling them that, but it was useless. For some reason they had already fully equipped themselves. How did they all get dressed in a specter peeler? Only Jazz had one right? "Were did you get that equipment?" Mom smiled from ear to ear. "I made them of course? I have one for each, with their design." All four of them wore suits with their own colors. Moms suit was bleu, dads was orange and Jazz was white like the normal version. Sams suit was completely black and Tuckers was yellow. Dad handed everyone a rod like thermos over. "Each of you will have tree ghost rods. Activate them with the red button. No matter how strong the ghost is. Once he is out of strength the rods will form a prison strong enough for him."

The ghost king laughed. "I never expected to have such a strong ally backing me up. Let's go. It won't be long before Vlad gets through the slithering plants of the garden." My father stopped him and handed him an earpiece. "Accept this, so that our cooperating will be even better!"

I flew together with the ghost king. My parents' and friends hurried into the specter speeder and flew right behind us. The ghost king laughed at the weird vehicle. "You humans have grown. The technology has advanced since I ruled before my imprisonment. We may actually stand a change." I flew towards the ghost king. "How bad will the outcome be if the gates open? Does earth have to ready their defenses?"

The ghost king shook his head. "No boy. Earth won't be in immediate danger. It will take a long time for the inhabitants to wake from their forever sleep. Neither can they leave the ancient ghost zone for the first months, but we ghost can enter and leave." Over the earpiece I heard Dad talking. "So what you're saying is that the real danger lies in the ghost entering and leaving?" The ghost king smiled. "You're quite smart for the man I heard stories about. Yes, many parents of the ghosts you know sleep in that dimension. Knowledge, martial art and ecto-energy techniques can be passed down to their brethren."

Tucker answered. "So they will all get a level up. Why can't the ghosts leave the ancient ghost zone?" The ghost king looked proud. "My father, the ruler of the ancient ghost zone won't let them pass. None of those ghosts ever won from my father… Neither did I. If it wasn't for the protection of the gate, I would never have been crowned king." The line on the other end fell silent. We flew straight towards his castle. It lay in ruins. Giant craters were all over the place. Sam started talking in her earpiece. "Guys, were did those craters come from?" The ghost king turned his head away from me.

"It is that halfa's new power. Their like bombs, but with enormous destruction. Don't get hit by those annoying balls. They hurt like hell." I flew closer to a crater. It was huge. How did Vlad obtain so much power? Yeah, he was a more experienced ghost, but he never used this power on me? Suddenly mom interrupted the silence. "Nice, I can test out the fenton specter reflector." I talked back to mom. "Isn't the name supposed to be the fenton specter deflector?" She laughed. "Silly boy , of course not. It's a new toy I made. It bounces back all possible ghost attacks. At least it was designed to do so. It will be his first test ride. Isn't that exiting?"

In the background I heard my friends and Jazz sigh. I would feel a lot safer if she actually tested it. A bit further behind the castle was a giant garden. With plants I hadn't seen before. They bloomed and attacked a being in the middle. Vlad was throwing large balls of ecto energy towards the plants. Instead of harming the plants, it was swallowed whole. They became even livelier. I stared at the strange sight of Vlad struggling with plants.

"What kind of plants are those, able to handle Vlad when even you were defeated by him?" The ghost king smiled. "They are my father's favorite plants. Ectoria Flaunorians. They eat ecto-energy. The more you feed them, the stronger they become. When we are tired, they can cause problems for him. But they won't hold forever." I nodded. "Let's kick his ass." I concentrated my ice powers in a large beam and shot.

Vlad had turned into a large ice mountain. That was easier than expected. I spoke to soon. The ice was melting. I shot my ice ray again, trying to keep the ice from melting. Suddenly the ice exploded. Vlad flew up. His former pink energy was dark purple. What had happened to him? Vlad laughed. "Well well well, if that isn't Daniël? Did you come for a beating?" I readied my fist. "No, I was told that I could beat you up for free!"

Vlad smiled. "I became even more powerful than before. You Daniël won't be able to stop me. After I open this gate, Momentum will give me even more power. I will become the ruler of everything!" I sighed. "Did space erase your brain? How can you be ruler if Momentum is stronger than you?" He grinned. "We shall see!"