Hey, y'all! Sorry this one took a bit to update. I didn't have an idea for this chapter until I watched the old Disney Classic Mary Poppins. Part of this chapter was inspired by that movie. So, enjoy!
Disclaimer: I only own Rebecca (Phantana), Phantina, and Clocktina. Danny Phantom belongs to Nickelodeon and the movie Mary Poppins belongs to Disney.
Chapter 7: A Book's Magic and First Trouble
A couple days later, Clockwork and Phantina were called to the Observants tower for a meeting and Clockwork was annoyed as he knew the Observants were still trying to get past him to get to Rebecca.
"Dear," said Phantina, leaning against her husband's side as he placed an arm around her in response. "Why do they wish to either hurt or destroy our daughter?"
"They simply want things their way," he said, but then tightened his hold on her a little. "Don't worry, my sweet love, I won't let them take Rebecca away from us."
Phantina placed her arms around his neck. "I'll fight for her along with you, Clockwork," she promised. She wouldn't let the Observants do as they wanted.
Clockwork called the Ghostwriter and asked if he could watch over the girls and the book-writing ghost agreed and both girls were transported to the book-filled lair.
"Uncle!" Clocktina cried out in joy as she hugged a ghost who definitely looked like a book-writer. He smiled and hugged the small ghost back.
"Hello, Clocktina," he said and saw Rebecca. "Ah, you must be Rebecca." Then he realized something. "Oh, er, my apologies, Phantana."
Rebecca smiled. "You may called me Rebecca," she said. "I don't mind."
Ghostwriter was relieved that she wasn't upset that he had almost forgotten what her ghost name was and watched as she looked around at the massive library. Suddenly, Clocktina came up to them with a book in her hands.
"Story?" she asked Ghostwriter hopefully.
He smiled. "I have a better idea," he said and went to his computers and saved his story he had been working on and then took out some notebook papers with writing on them and took out a pen. "Would you like to go inside this story?"
Clocktina nodded happily, but Rebecca looked a little worried. "How can we go inside a story?" she asked.
Ghostwriter smiled and made a circle with his pen and a portal opened up, pulling all three in. When they landed, they saw a beautiful field and heard people scurrying towards someplace and that was when they saw a fair going on. Ghostwriter took both of them to it and they were enjoying themselves on the fabulous food that Rebecca realized was tastier than any food she had eaten before and Clocktina was having a wonderful time too as they watched puppet plays and other spectacular shows.
Then they sat down for a break. "Are you girls having fun?" he asked them.
Rebecca nodded. "A lot of fun, Uncle. If we could go into stories like these ones, reading would be so much more fun," she said.
Ghostwriter chuckled. "I agree," he said.
All of a sudden, people began screaming and running. "What's going on?" asked Clocktina as Rebecca scooped her up in her arms. Ghostwriter saw a huge wave of brown liquid coming their way and quickly drew another portal, which took them back to his lair.
And they landed right in front of Walker, who grinned.
"Having a halfa here is a violation of the rules, Ghostwriter," he said, holding up a coffee cup and the now-soaked papers, making them realize the Walker had spilled coffee on the papers to make them come back.
Ghostwriter stood before the lawman. "The children have done nothing wrong," he said. "I won't let you take them away."
"Then I'll have to take you in as well."
To Rebecca's shock and horror, the ghost policemen shocked Ghostwriter and knocked him out. Then she felt the electric shocks run through her as Clocktina cried out to her.
"Rebecca!" she cried out as she was currently in Walker's arms and trying to get free. He then cruelly shocked her, knocking her out too as he and his men headed back to the prison.
Ghostwriter woke up and looked to see that he was in Walker's prison, sharing a cell with Rachel and Clocktina. "Girls," he said, going over to them and they slowly woke up. "Are you alright?"
Clocktina started to cry softly. "I want Mommy and Daddy," she said as Ghostwriter held her in his arms and then hugged Rebecca to his side, comforting both girls.
"Shh. I have a feeling your parents will be here soon," he said.
Not a moment after he said that, they heard a loud crash as the doors of the prison were blasted by a blue ghost ray. "WALKER!" a voice called angrily.
"WHERE ARE MY GIRLS?!" came another angry voice.
Rebecca quickly moved to the cell doors. "Mom! Dad!" she called out.
"MOMMY! DADDY!" Clocktina screamed out, hoping their parents would hear.
To their surprise, Walker crashed beside their cell, and was almost pummeled by a white flash. "Where are my daughters?!" asked Phantina angrily.
"Mom!" Rebecca called out and Phantina turned to the cell to see both her daughters and the Ghostwriter inside, but they had burns on them caused by Walker's men using the electrical rods they had. Phantina was furious and to everyone's shock, her brown hair turned black as she whipped her hand away from her body, making her weapon, a glowing whip, appear and she moved her hand again, making the whip crack around Walker and his men.
Clockwork then arrived, looking just as angry as Phantina. "Phantina," he said. "He's not worth it."
Though shaking with anger, Phantina let her whip dissolve and her hair go back to its natural brown. No one really knew why her hair would change color when she got angry, but many didn't dare to stick around when she was mad.
Clockwork then turned to Walker. "Release my daughters and the Ghostwriter immediately," he said, to which the lawman quickly did. Rebecca and Clocktina hugged their parents, who returned the hugs before checking to see that Ghostwriter was alright. Seeing that he was, they turned to Walker.
"Never come near my children again," Clockwork said sternly to Walker. "If you dare hurt them or capture them again, you will suffer very severe consequences." Clockwork's staff glowed when he said that.
"You will also answer to me," said Phantina, who held her youngest daughter close.
Walker nodded rapidly, not wanting to anger the Master of Time and his wife any farther. Clockwork then teleported the five of them back to his tower, leaving Walker's prison damaged.
Back at the tower, Phantina got out the first-aid box that she had in the bedroom and began to treat both her daughter's burns and Ghostwriter's burns as well. Thankfully, the burns were minor and would be healed soon.
Rebecca looked over at Ghostwriter. "I'm sorry, Uncle," she said. "This is my fault."
Ghostwriter looked at her. "It's not your fault, Rebecca," he said.
She looked at him. "If I hadn't been at your lair, your story would not have been destroyed and you and Clocktina wouldn't have been hurt," she said.
"Rebecca," said Clockwork, making her look at him. "You are not responsible for Walker's actions."
"But he was after me," she said. "And they got hurt because of it."
Clockwork did wonder why Walker was after Rebecca, but quickly shook his head. He'd worry about that later. "You are not at fault, my little Rebecca," he said.
Rebecca looked saddened still and Ghostwriter placed a hand on her shoulder. "Your father is right, Rebecca," he said. "But it's alright. My story was saved into my computer. That was just a rough draft I had."
Clocktina gave her big sister a hug. "Don't listen to that meanie," she said. "He's just a big old windbag."
Clocktina's description of Walker made them all laugh as they agreed that Walker could be a pompous windbag and Rebecca felt better that they didn't blame her for what happened.
But sadly, this was only the first trouble to come.
Walker contacted someone in the human world. "I'm sorry, sir," he said. "I lost her."
The man on the other end sounded angry. "What do you mean?"
"I mean Clockwork came and I had to face an angry Master of Time because she is his daughter."
The man was a bit stunned and chuckled. "So, my old friend decides to step in," he said. "He's going to pay, because no one crosses me."
Walker gulped, feeling very afraid now. Whatever was going to happen wouldn't be pretty, and he knew it.
Yes, Rebecca now called Phantina 'Mom' and Walker is working for a human. Who is that human? Stay tuned as the mystery will be revealed in the next few chapters.
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