YAY for long chapters! I don't mean to go back and forth like this but it what happens. i don't have my chapters set up to reach a certain page/word count so they will vary from time to time.
To: jeanette9a, thank you for the awesome poem! To: whiteflower122 Thanks for the review and love of clockwork XD
Welp on to the disclaimers!
Who do we have today!...Uh-oh...umm hey Spectra
Spectra: Why hello darling~ nice day isn't it? That jacket looks terrible on you btw.
uh...hehe right. Just do the disclaimers.
Spectra: Well since your too simple to do it and I'm much more capable then sure!~ Danny Phantom does not belong to ConArtist643, and while this story is her idea and Ellie is her creation she didn't even have the originality to make her own character from scratch she had to base it of the show's main character so he had partial ownership of her.
...why is all you ghosts being so mean to me...whatever plz R&R...
Ellie stretched as she rose from her bed. After the whole Vlad Plasmius incident, Vlad had a mysterious meeting that couldn't be avoided and was gone before they even woke up. With the reunion cancelled and the severe insistence of her mother, the Fenton family went back to Amity Park.
It had been over a month since then and Ellie had been taking care of the ghosts like usual. Thinking back on the last few weeks' worth of ghosts' encounters Ellie got ready for the day. First there was, of course the Box ghost, needless to say he was harassing the post office again, but as usual he was quickly dealt with. Then there was Skulker who was pleased to see that she got out but was miffed that his trap didn't work. After a bit of banter and a few ecto-shots he ran off.
Then there were a few new comers. First was Spectra; a ghost who fed off of young peoples depression and misery to stay young. Next that came up was Freakshow and his group of tag along ghosts. This guy was nutty; he hated ghosts but used them to do his bidding. He controlled Ellie and mad her steal and perform in his circus of Goth, but in the end Sam and Tucker saved her skin by getting his control ball away from him…and Sam falling off a high speed train. Ellie managed to break the spell and save her before any damage was done. After everything was over Sam got a bit clingy but Ellie just accepted it was 'post-nearly-dieing effect' as Tucker called it and just decided to wait it out.
Than this random police guard ghost named Bullet showed up. He kept flying right into the busiest parts of town and scaring people for no reason. Ellie tried to reason with him but then he started yelling something about the 'law' and attacked. While he was fast he wasn't very strong and it only took two hits to make him turn tail and run. But its what he said before he left that stuck.
"You'll get yours ghost girl! Just wait until the warden hears about this."
Ellie hummed as she dried her hair after her shower. That even happened a little over a week ago and while it stuck to her mind, he tried to push it off as simple ghost complaints like usual. Brushing out her hair she noticed that her black hair had gotten a bit longer as it was now sitting on her shoulders. Ellie sighed but just threw her hair up in a high pony tail and fixed her bangs so that they hung over her eye and happily noticed that her bangs seemed to grow slower than the rest of her hair seeing as it sat in the same way it always did.
"Hey you up yet?" Sam knocked on her bedroom door. Ellie sighed and opened it for her. "Morning!" Ellie groaned at her morning happiness.
"How can you be so cheery on the mornings? It's not natural." She grumbled as she phased her hand through her dresser to pull out her basic short sleeve shirt to go over the black one she was wearing.
"You are pulling your shirt out of your dresser without opening it and you want to call me unnatural." Sam teased.
"Touché." Ellie replied.
"Any bad dreams?"
"Surprisingly; no." Ellie then pulled her shirt on. "Its kind of nice getting a full nights sleep again, almost for got what it was like." She laughed. Not long after her tussle with Vlad her odd dreams began to happen less and less. While Ellie wasn't anywhere near complaining, she did miss those few and far in-between dreams that brought her so much comfort.
A soft hand would brush through her hair and whisper sweet nothings in her ear or she would be talking to someone who smelt of ink and cinnamon, but she wouldn't be able to see or fully hear him. Other times she would be lulled by a ticking sound and a different muffled voice. It always sounded as if she were underwater when she had those happy dreams. Ellie knew it was silly to waste her time on dreams but she liked to wish that that person were real. Some times she can't help but think they are.
"You know you really should just ditch the white top the black looks good on you as is." Sam pulled her from her thoughts as she adjusted her shirt.
"Sam you think everything looks good in black." Ellie laughed as she put her shoes on.
"That is besides the point." They shared a laugh and headed to meet Tucker at the Nasty Burger.
Tucker had already gone about eating over seven super sized burgers before the girls had showed up. Ellie started munching on some fries and Sam got a salad. As they began their daily argument of 'meats or veggies' Ellie let her eyes wander to the patrons around them.
Some random people of all shapes and sizes were gorging on whatever food they ordered. But one group she knew on the spot. The popular kids. Sure Ellie had her little bout of wanna-be popularity around the time Technus showed up but for the life of her she couldn't remember why she wanted to in the first place. Those teens were horrible.
There sat Star, Dash, Paulina, Valerie, and Kwan. Star and Valerie are your typical mean girls, they hang around (and on) the jocks to be popular and take pleasure and putting every one else down. Of course there was Dash, whose nose had already healed from meeting Poindexters' locker door, jock that lived on a pedestal cause he could throw a ball and tackle people. Kwan, unlike the others, didn't appear to enjoy bullying, as far as Ellie could tell he did it so he wouldn't have to be alone. He was a nice guy though.
Kwan noticed Ellie looking in his direction and gave her a friendly wave of his hand with a big happy smile. Ellie chuckled and gave a short wave back. Unfortunately, Kwan's wave was noticed by Paulina who glared daggers at her. Paulina came in halfway though the year and immediately used her looks to her advantage, she even got Tucker to do her homework, and disliked Ellie and Sam with a passion.
Why she dislike Sam was probably because she and Ellie were friends and helped her snap Tucker out of his 'new-girl' trance. She hated Ellie because Dash often showed his interest in her and shot him down leaving him to flirt with Paulina as a second instead. In Paulina's book that meant that Ellie was the enemy. Any girl that got even one guy's attention before her was going to regret it.
Ellie sighed when she saw Paulina's glare and just turned back to Tuckers disturbing display of stuffing five nasty burgers in his mouth. But she managed to get a good laugh out of it when he had to chug water so he wouldn't choke. Ellie closed her eyes and focused on the sound of her wristwatch. The ticking of a clock always put her at ease and could more often than not put her to sleep. Her mother told her stories of when she was little and couldn't sleep all her parents would need to do is put a ticking clock by Ellie and she would be out like a light. Ellie laughed at the memory, but her moment of comfortable bliss was cut short when Dash walked up to then.
"Hey Fen-Tina! How's it going?" Ellie decided to try and ignore him completely and see if he'd get the hint. Sadly he didn't, he squeezed into their booth causing Sam to fall off her end as Ellie was pushed into her from Dash's bulk. "How's about you and ditch these losers?"
"Do you make a habit of insulting people and shoving their friends around before you ask them out?" Ellie hissed. "Leave me alone Dash!" Ellie then hopped off the booth and helped Sam up. Dash made to grab for her but a hand on his shoulder stopped him.
"Some on Dash. Leave the nerds alone." Paulina said in her thick accent. "Who cares about them anyway?"
"Yeah just leave them alone. They're not doing anything." Kwan reasoned but Valerie and Star smirked at him.
"You're just saying that cause you have a thing for Fenton." Star giggled as she noticed Ellie pause slightly. Kwan turned beat red but denied their claims.
"No, you got it wrong Star." Valerie laughed. "He's got a thing for the ghost girl."
They all had a hearty laugh at Kwan's expense. Ellie growled but managed to get Sam on her feet and for her not to tackle Dash in rage long enough to notice her ghost sense going off.
"Oh crud!" she moaned. She grabbed both Sam and Tucker as the Nasty Burger's old soon to be thrown out grease suddenly exploded from their containers, coating the entire restaurant in used cooking fats. Ellie had made herself and friends intangible just long enough to avoid the mess. The trio ran outside in everyone's chaos and began looking for the ghost.
A deep pained howl echoed from the alleyway. Ellie ran to find out what only to find one of her new acquaintances, Bullet, blocking her way.
"Move it or loose it pal!" she warned. He just smirked as he raised his baton as if to hit Ellie but in the last second he turned and hit someone else. Again a pained howl filled the air.
Ellie could now see a very large, like bigger than a human large, scruffy black…werewolf for a lack of better term. He had torn green pants and thick bandages around the middle of his feet and over the palms of his hands. He had long sharp green talons that only complimented his menacing white fangs. He had a large metal collar around his neck that looked a size too small and a broken metal shackle with one chain link attached to his left wrist.
On any other day Ellie was sure that this wolf ghost would be a menacing creature and an even worse enemy. But as he looked up at her with pleading green eyes and whimpered like a puppy in pain; Ellie knew that this was just torment. She pushed her way past Bullet and made a dash for the wolf only to be stopped by another ghost.
He wore an all white suit that was neatly kept. He had a set of sleek black gloves, boots and a hat. He had an all white face that blended in entirely with his outfit and if not for his black tie; one would think he was not wearing a shirt under his suit coat. He had a grimace on his face and after Ellie took a quick look at the smirking Bullet she decided to take a shot in the dark on this ghosts' identity.
"Let me guess…you're the Warden?" Though his hand kept Ellie from passing she took solace in the fact that the other guard ghosts were distracted enough by her presence to stop tormenting the poor wolf ghost who was taking deep breaths on the ground in a heap.
"That I am young lady. The name is Walker and you must be the Halfa ghost girl?"
"That's what they call me." Ellie rested her fists on her hips and thinking of a way to stall long enough for the wolf ghost to catch his breath and run. "Mind explaining what's going on here?" Walker frowned but responded anyway.
"A simple search and capture. This ghost broke the law and escaped our prison and we are here to take him back." He pointed to the wolf who growled at Walker in return.
"Yeah…um okay. That's a new one." Ellie wasn't sure how to process that the ghosts actually had a legal system but far be it from her to argue that. "Look I can understand that he may have done something wrong but does that warrant physical torment when he can't even sit up on his own?"
"You sympathize with this beast?" Walker spat. "Fine you want to be so friendly," Walker stepped to the side and held his hand out to let Ellie pass. "…by all means go ahead." He smiled crookedly but Ellie walked passed him right up to the wolf.
At first he growled and looked as if he was going to bite, but Ellie kept her hands where he could see them and gave him a slow gentle pat on the head. He flinched at the first contact but after receiving not pain he looked up into Ellie's green eyes and calmed.
"Hey big guy, can you get up?" Ellie spoke softly but didn't make herself sound childish for the risk that the ghost would take offence and her arm at the same time. The wolf glared at the guards but slowly rose to a hunched sitting position with Ellie kneeling in front of him. "See not so hard? You got a name?" she smiled.
The wolf studied her for a moment and after realizing that she was in no way planning to hurt him he smiled back softly and answered in a choked breath; "Wulf." Ellie than smiled again and began looking him over for any obvious injuries.
Wulf watched her movements carefully. His state of unease was clear in his eyes. He looked from Ellie to Walker who was holding out his hand and making it glow. With an evil grin he let the blast fly and it hit the dead center of Ellie's back before the wolf could move her out of the way. With a scream she was forced forwards into Wulf's lap. He quickly grabbed Ellie and held her close to his furry chest, mindful of her wound, and howled with such force it broke the nearby windows.
"ELLIE!" Two voices rang out in the after shocks of his howl. Wulf saw Sam and Tucker and immediately picked up his fragile and injured packages' sent on them. He raised his claws and cut a hole clean through the air exposing a world of green vastness with random floating doors and dark islands of all kinds.
The Ghost Zone.
Wulf quickly close the portal behind him before Walkers men could follow and reopened a portal just large enough to pull Sam and Tucker in. Both freaked out at seeing the large ghost but held their screams as they looked at Ellie. Her skin was paler than it should be and she was unconscious.
"Vi du scias la fantomon fraŭlinon? Nin devas ..i pren ŝia ie sekura! Kie ni povas ir?" Wulf growled out to them.
"What did he say?" Sam asked.
"He's speaking another language. Hold on my PDA should be able to translate." Tucker recorded what Wulf was saying and an electronic voice provided the translated questions; "You two know the ghost girl? We need to take her somewhere safe! Where can we go?" it said before going silent again.
"Okay so he's friendly at least right?" Tucker awkwardly laughed.
"Tucker! Ellie's hurt, we don't have time for jokes." Sam looked up a Wulf. "Do you understand us?" he nodded. "Alright if we give you directions can you take us to Ellie's house?"
Wulf paused for a moment to look down at his new injured friend. He held Ellie easily with one arm and kept her snuggled to his chest. She breathed slowly and shortly against his fur. To him she looked like a child, on he owed his life to. He looked back up at Sam and nodded his head again after he realized that they couldn't understand his spoken language.
A few hours later Ellie awoke on her bed in a cold sweat. Jumping up she cried out in pain as her back protested to the movement. She immediately felt two pairs of hand push her to layback down and then a furry one laid over her forehead. Some one said something in some form of gibberish in a voice that Ellie didn't recognize.
Opening her eyes she was met with an odd sight. Sam was sitting on the bed next to her and gently patting her hand while she explained what happened. Ellie only half listened to her as she watched Wulf and Tucker across the room. Tucker was trying to turn off the torture part of the collar and instead turn it into a translator. He found out that Wulf spoke Esperanto, an old and dead geek language by quick sum up. Ellie sat up this time but at a slower pace so her injury wouldn't plague her so much.
"So what's the plan?" she asked. "I mean Walker is going to chase you again Wulf, you can't run forever." Some garbled tech noise came from Wulf collar before it became actual English.
"I am happy for your worry friend. But you are hurt. I will be fine." He tried to reason. "Warden may chase Wulf if Wulf run. Leave friend alone."
"You mean you plan to lead Walker away so that he might leave me alone?" she clarified. Wulf nodded. "Not a chance! Wulf you and I are friends now you can't do something like that."
Wulf looked solemn but sobered up and patted Ellie on the head gently.
"Wulf be fine. Wulf lead Warden to ghost zone and loose them in realms. Zone Wulf's home, Warden no get me there." Wulf gave her a toothy smile, which Ellie couldn't help but return.
So it was decided that Wulf would lead Walker and his men back into the Ghost Zone and loose them in there. While Ellie didn't like the plan she knew that there was only so much she could do in her injured state. So with a promise to meet again Wulf opened up a portal and jumped through. Tucker looked out the window and saw Walkers men zoom right into one of Wulfs portals with the warden himself in tow.
"Well that's that." Tucker clapped off his hands in success. Sam placed her hand on Ellie's shoulder and gave a few words that Wulf could handle himself, but it was all drowned out by a howl of unimaginable anguish.
"WULF!" Ellie hopped out of bed and ignored the pain of her wounds as she went ghost. "I'm going to help him, don't try and stop me." And with that Ellie phased through the floor and went into the ghost zone through her family's portal.
Ellie charged straight through the portal and tackled 3 guards on her way to Wulf's side. He was a bit ruffed up but that looked like a scrape on the knee compared to the gash in his side and on his leg. Ellie worried for her friend but knew that the best way to help was to weed away the trouble. She pulled together as much energy as she could and blasted a stunned Walker right in the gut, knocking him out cold.
Ellie was drained of strength from her all out attack and missed the guard popping up from behind her and whacking her upside the head with a sickening crack. Wulf went into a fit of rage and plowed through the guards to her. He cradled her the same as before and ran for the hills. The guards gave chase but couldn't keep up and lost sight of Wulf as he slipped behind one of the small meaningless islands that drifted the zone.
"You go now. Be safe." Wulf whispered and opened a portal to an unknown destination He gently let Ellie drift through before closing it and making his own escape in hopes that his friend was okay and that the guards would loose interest in their game of cat and Wulf.
The Ghost Zone Library was a vast and often unused island in the zone. Unused, except for its one and only resident; The Ghost Writer. Said ghost was currently grumbling over a cup of coffee and staring at one of his most recent works hoping the paper would disappear in his grasp. He sighed and leaned his head back.
"I hate freaking oranges…" he muttered. Looking back to his work he put the papers down and sipped his coffee. An unusual sound came from the room and Writer jumped for he knew every sound his home would make and that was not one of them. He looked up and saw a green portal overhead and a still object falling from it. With an irate 'Oof' he caught what fell out of the portal and in the process covered himself in coffee.
"Son of a…" he paused as he looked at the form that lain across him. "Ellie Phantom?" he whispered. She gave a soft moan and looked at Writer in her hazed state. Bright emerald green eyes met dark peridot.
"Writer…?" Ellie mumbled. Writer himself was shocked that she knew his title but it was short lived as Ellie lost unconsciousness and lay limp in his lap.
"Well this is great…" Writer worked over his nerves and managed to slip out from under her and gently place her on the couch. He took a moment to debate over tossing her out the door or just leaving her till she woke up, but such thoughts were stopped as a book was thrown at his head. He glared at the book and then to the shelves on the walls. "Fine! I'll help her!" he yelled loudly.
For whatever reason this unknown girl knew his title and his own home had taken an immediate liking to her to the point where it threw its own life at him for her well being. Such things had never happened before but one thing was for sure. If Ghost Writer wanted to find out why; he would have to help her recover first.
Vlad: Sure I made the dear go mope in the corner but Spectra has her moping under her desk!
Clockwork: This does seem to be a reoccurring problem. What do you think Writer?
Ghost Writer: I think that she just needs some more reviews. It worked last time no reason it shouldn't again.
Vlad: Please reader take a moment to R&R you have no idea how insufferable she is when she gets like this!
Clockwork & Ghost Writer: Agreed! plz R&R! its only takes a moment!