PLEASE READ: Thanks for all the reviews~! But MAN! My story got pushed aside in the blink of an eye! Where did all these other stories come from! They're pushing my story to the back! No one's gonna read it if it's in the back! *cries hysterically*
*sniff, sniff* I'm ok, I'm ok. Any way let's just get back to the story. To recap, Danny has just flown off somewhere cause he thinks Vlad doesn't want him and Vlad has gone to Ember's concert to try and stop her not knowing that Danny ran away crying because of him.
OK, let's read, Chapter 4: Hidden Feelings? Twisted Feelings? What?
"Ember, you will remember~! Ember, so warm and tender~! You will remember my name~!" The singing was growing louder as Vlad flew toward Ember's concert. The thoughts of his actions toward Danny were still vivid in his mind. Including Danny's reaction…
Vlad shook his head pushing the thought aside. Right now he had to focus on stopping Ember and nothing else. But honestly, how hard would it be?
The vampire like halfa stopped right above the pop star's stage where hundreds of teenagers were chanting her name. Not to mention all the people around the world who were also cheering her on. Ember's flaming blue ponytail was now burning a good 15 feet in the air.
Ok, maybe this would be a little difficult. Well, might as well get started.
Teleporting himself right in front of the dead diva, blocking the audiences' view of her, Vlad forced a smirk. "Remember me?"
Ember rolled her eyes clearly annoyed at the interruption but still unafraid. "Oh great, Dracula's back for an encore."
"Just the opposite," Vlad replied darkly, his pit-less red eyes glowing dangerously. "I'm here to stop you, permanently."
"Awww, what's the matter graps? (shortened version of grandpa) Didn't you like the last song I played for you and shorty?" Ember gave her most innocent face but her tone was still mocking.
Vlad growled as his glare intensified.
"Speaking of," the ghost girl continued ignoring the threatening glare. "Where is shorty? Shouldn't he be glued to your hip or something?" She smirked lowering her guitar pick dangerously close to the strings. "Or was the little prick not good enough for you?"
The spark of anger in Vlad's chest suddenly burst into flames. How dare she call his little badger such a name! How dare she suggest that Daniel wasn't good enough for him! The man had never felt so outraged by a single comment in his entire life!
Seething with rage insomuch that it was practically radiating off him Vlad grounded out through clenched teeth, "You, little, WRETCH!" The man sprang forward, both hands outstretched in an attempt to strangle the already dead pop star. But Ember was ready for it.
She jumped back at the last moment striking the strings of her guitar. A large fist formed out of the sound waves hitting Vlad in the face and knocking him back several feet. But that didn't stop him, not for a second. The halfa was determined to put his anger and frustration to good use, and that meant taking all of it out on Ember McLain.
And should the infuriating girl be destroyed in the process… It would be a shame but…
Tch, yeah right. Who was he kidding? Vlad would've preferred it that way.
The half ghost fought with a fury Ember didn't even know existed. Fortunately though for her all the fighting on stage was really stirring up the crowd and they were shouting her name over and over again in an instant, making her a fair match for the powerful Vlad Plasmius.
Vlad quickly realized this as well, but it didn't stop him. Whether he got Ember's mind controlling music or not, he would defeat her.
After only a few minutes of intense fighting, (maybe five min.) Ember suddenly stopped and said, "As much as I like dancing with you graps, these people came here to hear me sing and that's what I'm gonna give em." The audience stopped chanting her name to scream in excitement.
"And for as much as I hate to rain on your parade," Vlad stated making Ember freeze just before grabbing the microphone. "Your show is about to be cancelled by a sudden change in weather."
"What?" Ember let out a laugh. "You're going blind grandpa. There's not a cloud in the sky." She stated looking up at the clear star filled sky.
"True." Vlad agreed. "But I wasn't referring to a rain storm." An evil grin spread across the halfa's face, his sharp fangs gleaming. Vlad's black gloved hands started to glow a pinkish purple color but unlike before small sparks seemed to be flying from his finger tips. "I was thinking more along the lines of a lightning storm." (Oh my gosh! So cool! I wish this was in an episode!)
As quick as the flash of a camera lightning shot out of Vlad's hands hitting the pop star before she had time to blink. But it didn't actually hit her. It hit her guitar.
The instrument went crazy as the electrical current raced through it. The strings snapped like rubber bands. The buttons shot off like bullets. And to top it all off, the entire guitar burst into flames.
With a shriek of fright Ember pulled the guitar off and threw it across the stage.
"You idiot!" She screamed at Vlad. "Do you know what you just did? !"
"Not as much as I had hoped." He admitted with a sigh.
"Why you-"
"Freeze spooks!" A voice Vlad knew all too well shouted and Vlad practically felt like groaning. Jack and Maddie Fenton had somehow made their way on stage and were currently pointing two large shiny guns at both Vlad and Ember. "Wait a minute," Jack said slowly. "You're the Wisconsin ghost!" He accused pointing one large finger at Vlad.
"Can you ever make an entrance without pointing out the painfully obvious?" Vlad rolled his eyes.
"I've got this one Maddie." Jack told his wife confidently. "You just take care of that Amber ghost."
"That's Ember you big idiot! Ahh!" The ghost girl was blasted after rudely correcting the man.
"No one insults my husband while I'm around!" Maddie shouted springing into action.
Jack aimed his gun at Vlad and said, "Get ready to be blasted back to the ghost zone spook!"
"Mr. Fenton! Wait!" Danny's slightly geeky friend, Tucker was his name if Vlad remembered correctly, jumped up on stage quickly pushing Jack's gun away from its target.
(Let me just pause the story here for a second, if I may. Sorry it took so long for Danny's parents/friends to get there. But come on, with a crowd that big it would've taken some time. OK, back to the story.)
Out of surprise Jack accidently pulled the trigger sending a blast of ecto-energy straight into the air, the miss fire pushing him onto his back and knocking the wind out of him.
"S-Sorry." Tucker said nervously though the man probably couldn't hear him any way. Danny's other friend, the goth girl Sam, then climbed up on stage and hurried toward Vlad. The half ghost drifted down until he was floating just an inch above the stage so he was face to face with the teen.
"Sorry we're late." Sam said a little breathlessly.
"Where's Daniel?" Vlad asked instantly.
She hesitated before sadly answering, "He's gone."
"Gone! What do you mean gone? !"
"I mean we don't know where he is! When you left Danny started crying and saying you didn't want him and then he just left!"
Vlad was speechless. Danny had cried? He had made the boy so upset that he actually started to cry? Once again Vlad felt like he had been stabbed in the chest, and once again, it was his own fault…
"Look, we can find Danny later." Sam's voice broke through his thoughts. "Just tell us what we can do to help you."
"Keep Daniel's parents busy. I need to speak with Ember, alone."
All three of them turned their attention to Ember who was currently trying to avoid getting blasted by Danny's mom. That's when Vlad noticed that Ember's flaming hair was still pretty long, but that it looked like she was having a hard time fighting back and even defending herself.
Perhaps the guitar was the real source of her power? Maybe now she was defenseless without it…
Maddie had her gun aimed at the ghost girl and Ember had nowhere left to run. It also didn't help that the crowd was no longer chanting her name but were instead "booing" the scene before them.
But before the ghost hunter could fire-
"Mrs. Fenton! Wait!" Sam and Tucker jumped directly between the gun and its target, their hands up in the air as if trying to block a soccer ball from its goal.
"Sam! Tucker!" Maddie quickly pulled the gun away from the teens before she could accidently shoot them. (That would be hard to explain to their parents)
In the midst of all the chaos Vlad grabbed Ember by the shoulders and went intangible dragging the girl backstage and out of sight. She protested of course but it made no difference as Vlad pinned her against a wall and hissed, "I've got some questions for you and you're not leaving this place until they're answered."
"Or what? Ya gonna kill me?" Ember replied equally irritated.
"Destroy you actually," Vlad corrected darkly. "I'll send you into oblivion so fast that in the next few weeks your name will have been so forgotten, no one will even believe you ever existed."
Ember squirmed in the man's grasp, quickly becoming nervous. "What do you wanna know?" She asked begrudgingly.
"First, what did you do to Danny and how can I get rid of it?"
"What, the ghost boy? My song just brought some hidden feelings to the surface, that's all." Ember answered with a shrug.
"But how can I…" The halfa paused for a moment. Had he heard her correctly? "Wait. Did you just say, hidden feelings?"
"Well duh! My music can't just put the feelings there! There has to be something to work with."
"B-But that…"
"Look, let me explain it like this." The diva said impatiently. "Do you like hip hop?"
Vlad arched an eye brow at the unexpected question but decided to play along. "No."
"Do you like my music?"
Vlad's face hardened. "NO."
"That's because you can't relate to it. You don't agree with it. There's no connection. The only way you can even like a song is if you can relate to what the artist is singing about." Ember explained in a surprisingly professional voice. "Like I said, music doesn't put feelings inside you, it just sort of plays off of them. That's why songs about sadness, anger and love are songs that everybody likes. Because those are feelings everyone gets."
Vlad let Ember's words sink in, and though he'd never admit it, when he thought about it, she was right. It made complete sense. But…
"But Daniel was acting so… I mean his actions were sort of… Arg! I mean the boy couldn't really have a crush on me! It's impossible!"
Ember shrugged helplessly. "Who knows. Like I said, music plays with your emotions. Shorty may not have some huge crush on you like he's acting now, but he must have some positive feelings for you. He must like you in some way otherwise my music wouldn't have taken effect."
"I see…" Vlad muttered thinking back to how Danny was acting and how upset the boy must've been at this very moment. It was one thing to push the boy away and yell at him when he thought the feelings were fake, but NOW. Knowing that in some way, twisted or not, those feelings were real…
Vlad's stomach was doing flips.
"Wow, that's a new look for you." Ember smirked seeing guilt written all over the man's face. "You must've hurt the kid pretty bad huh? Broke his heart, am I right?"
"You have to snap him out of it." Vlad half pleaded, half demanded. "Use your music to undo the spell of the love song."
"No can do Dracula." The diva shook her flaming head. "I would need my guitar for that and thanks to you it's busted." She reminded him bitterly.
Vlad sighed. "So you can't control minds anymore then."
"Well, I didn't say that." Ember gave a smug grin. "It's my singing that puts people under my control. My guitar only added to my power. But since I used my guitar's music on ghost boy I would need it to undo the effects. So it looks like you'll have to handle that on your own."
"Me? How?"
Ember huffed in annoyance. "You're a smart guy, aren't you? You'll figure something out. You just need to do something he wouldn't expect. Do something so unbelievable that he'll know something's up and then he'll realize what's going on and he'll snap out of it."
(o.O Ummm, did any of you get that? Cuz I sure didn't.)
"Thank you. That's incredibly helpful." The halfa replied sarcastically.
Ember rolled her eyes. "Any more questions? Like which came first, hip hop or rap?" (That's suppose to be like, which came first, the chicken or the egg? Only in Ember speak.)
"Just one more. If I leave are you still going to go back out on stage and try to pull this off?"
The ghost girl grinned liking where this was going. "You know what they say, the show must go on."
"I was afraid you'd say that." Vlad sighed as he released his hold on her. "But just know, this is far from over." His eyes glowed blood red as he warned her. Vlad then turned and flew away without a second glance.
He knew it wasn't wise to leave things unfinished but there was something much more important for him to do.
Find Danny.
PLEASE READ: I was going to make this longer but I don't want to wait any longer to post this so I'm breaking it into 2 chapters.
So what did you think? I'm sorry if this one dragged a bit but Vlad had to fight with Ember for some time and then Danny's parents and his friends were thrown into the mix.
I also wanted to take the time to explain what really happened to Danny when that love song hit him. I hope I had Ember explain it clearly enough. If you have any questions please feel free to put them in your review.
And REVIEW~! You KNOW I need them to continue so don't disappoint me! Please… The next chapter will have LOTS of Danny and Vlad and that's where the romance part will come in.
I can't wait! So review and thanks for reading~!