Authors note
Reid9587- Hello, long time no see. There's being lots happening, for me lately, i'm not saying the same excuse again. XD I've got a job and speeches has to be done. Also 13 people that stayed for a week to be dealt with. XD Actually that week was fun anyway. They were only here for a immersion course. So yeah more work is on top of my head! Lasty its 2 week hoilday for me same goes for my friend, for we live in the same country. XD
Weatherkitten- Hiya peoples of the earth! All I can say is we're sorry for the delay and we haven't finished yet, we're just getting started * whoops*
If you figure out the pun in the title, you get some cyber lollies of your choice XD
Reid9587 says (just reminder, the word 'dairy' is a very small shop to buy ice cream, milk products, bread, and news paper)
Chapter 7- Don't catch the blues
Danny found a quiet shady meadow, which was the perfect place to practice his time powers as it was far enough away from the camp for him to be undisturbed by other campers.
Danny sighed. He stretched his muscles, feeling the sharp pain, yet it felt good in a way. The young boy took a deep breath and slowly exhaled. Focusing on his task, Danny closed his eyes, blocking out the sound of the soft crickets and the owls hooting around him.
Danny thought back to his discovery of his ice powers. He searched for the strange feeling that he had found during his few days of practice. He felt the strange buzzing and energy began to build up inside of him, and his aura began to glow softly in blueish purple glow. Danny picked up a rock that was the size of his whole palm. Danny threw it in front of him, then pushed the energy and focus on that rock. The world blew in a sudden wave of a variety of blues, pale purple and green, blocking out the background noises and becoming completely silent. Everything.
It was as if he become completely deaf, lost in in the silent world. He could hear a creepy soft music to his ears, which he could always hear when using his time powers to freeze the world. But again he wasn't sure if he was hearing it, as it was heard only in his head.
Danny wasn't exactly sure if he actually froze the whole entire world, it scared him to be honest. He didn't like thinking about how powerful he really was, after his encounter with his evil future self years ago. Danny internally shuddered. He promised himself and his family and friends he would never become him.
The rock froze in midair in front him, then floated upwards ever so slowly. Danny shivered slightly, not just from the power, but the extreme coldness that washed into his body, starting from his ghostly core. Danny shook his thoughts out of his head as he gazed around the silent world.
He was getting better at freezing the world for longer periods of time. The first time he froze the world, it was by accident, and it only lasted for a second.
(flashback)
"Hey Danny, want a marshmallow?" Sam asked, waving the bag of marshmallows in front of his face as he stared at the burning wood. Danny paid little attention to Sam, lost in his thoughts. He was supposed to practice his time powers, yet he had no clue where to even start. It wasn't like Vlad gave him any instructions on how to use them! He sighed, wishing for the millionth time that he could tell his friends about his predicament. He knew that they would figure out a way to help him if they could. However, his instincts told him if he broke one of Vlad rules, he would know. Geez, Vlad was probably watching right now, he thought.
Suddenly, his thoughts faded away, a chilling feeling filled his entire being. It wasn't the feeling he got when his ghost sense went off, but something entirely different. He decided to focus on it, to let the feeling grow deeper and deeper, curious to see what would happen. The intense coldness spread rapidly through his body like an arctic wave, and all the noise around him vanished, like someone had pressed the mute button on the world. The fire no longer flickered in front of him, and everyone around him were frozen like statues.
Freaked out, he snapped out his trance. He frantically looked round to see that everything was back to normal. "Danny, what's wrong?" Sam asked, concerned by Danny's weird behaviour. "Nothing, nothing ,everything's fine," Danny spoke quickly. "I just thought I heard… a w-wolf?" Danny grinned sheepishly.
"Riiight Danny," Sam rolled her eyes, unconvinced. "Do you want a marshmallow or not? You better grab one before Tucker eats them all."
"Hey!" Tucker argued. "Am not!"
Danny grabbed one and put it on a stick, hovering it over the campfire for about a minute before drawing it back. He bit into it, and smiled, showing his sticky teeth. "Thanks," he garbled.
Sam grinned back, glad to see Danny had recovered. "No problem and that's pretty gross!"
(present)
Danny smiled at the thought, he shook it off, as he pushed himself into the air. He soared over the trees, heading towards the campsite. The first thing he saw made him laugh. Poor Mr Lancer had his daily newspaper clutched tightly in his mouth while trying to climb over a small fence. It looked like Lancer was coming back from a nearby dairy.
He then saw some students sitting on one of the outside benches, their mouths hung open in mid sentence. Sam and Tucker walking on the footpath towards the hall with Valerie following behind them. Dash and Kwan were throwing a book to each other . The cover read Mike's diary. Mike was distraught, jumping up to try get it back from the bullies. Danny smirked, an idea forming in his mind.
Danny grabbed Mike's dairy and placed it below the nerds feet. He then grabbed Dash and Kwan and pulled their pants down, revealing Kwans bright green boxers and poor Dash in his pink boxers with Danny's logo on it. Danny fell to the ground and chuckled at once, accidently letting his time power unfreeze again. Danny shrieked in fright as the world started moving again. At once, he heard the laughter behind him. He turned to find everyone pointing at the two boys who were half naked. Mike tapped Danny on the shoulder. "Hey thanks for taking care of them Danny," he said smiling, waving his book to Danny. Danny blinked, he quickly look down at himself, he was still in his ghost form. "Oh- n-no problem" he stuttered, standing on his feet again. He looked to Dash and smirked, as he floated in front of the embarrassed boy. "Well Dashy, eh- nice boxers,"
This comment made everyone laugh harder.
"To kill a mockingbird, what is going on?" cried Mr Lancer who is rubbing his back, due to his little exercise. Sam and Tucker, Valerie and few of the kids came running over to join him. Danny chuckled, before he quickly put on a straight face as he changed into his human form, the flash of white light temporarily blinding the students. "Nothing Lancer, let's just say they stole Mike's diary, and I got it back," he smiled. "Sometimes it's good to be immature once in awhile," he thought.
"My hero!" Mike cheered.
Danny only blushed.
Next morning
"Alright students, I hope you have all packed your day bags for our hike today, because we won't be turning back if you've forgotten something," Lauren announced, as she zipped up her big day bag.
"I'm so looking forward to our hike today guys," Sam enthused, patting Danny and Tucker on the back. "This time, we'll be going out into the real outdoors, amongst the trees, and the birds!"
"Geez Sam, the last time I saw you this cheery was at christmas," Tucker said. " What's up with you?"
"Well I just love nature, that's all," Sam blushed, embarrassed.
"Is everyone ready to go?" Ms Tetslaff yelled. "YES!" the class shouted back.
"Let's go then!"
Everyone followed Lauren across the campsite to its boundary with the forest, to the beginning of a brown dirt track.
hours later…
"I'm so tired!" Tucker moaned, rubbing his stomach. "Annnnd hungry!"
"Aw come on Tuck, it's not even lunchtime yet!" Danny replied.
The boys chatter was interrupted when they heard a loud series of pecks. "What was that?" Paulina squealed. Sam looked up and searched the trees for the source of the noise, and pointed. "Look everyone, it's a woodpecker!" Sam beamed. A black and white striped bird, with a bright red head of short feathers sat above them on a high branch, busily pecking against the pine tree, looking for insects to eat.
"He's pretty!" Star exclaimed.
"Squeak, Squeak, Squeak," a Bluejay called. Another Bluejay flew down and landed on a nearby branch and replied "Squeak, Squeak, Squeak".
"Ooh what was that?" Mikey asked.
Sam grinned, recognising the call. "It's Bluejays!"
"Hey Mr Lancer, could we have lunch here and listen to the birdsong?" Danny asked. "Sure, I don't have a problem with that," Mr Lancer answered. "How does that sound everyone?"
Everyone cheered getting to the ground at once, ready to pull their lunches out of their bags.
More bluejays appeared, creating a symphony of squeaks as the birds sang to each other.
"So Danny, what did you set up for your lunch?" Sam asked munching on a container full of salad.
"Oh, just a sandwich with chicken in it, lettuces, tomato, and peeled carrots, oh yeah and my energy drink, ectoplasm," Danny said pulling out a small flask with the glowing green contents. Danny needed ghost energy before seeing Vlad, plus the last nights time power practices really took a lot out of him.
"Danny! You always have that, whenever you are low on energy, why do you need it now?" Sam frowned.
"Huh, eh- I'll explain about that later, it's to do with Vlads letter b- oops!" Danny covered his mouth.
"WHAT?" Sam screeched, attracting the attention of the students, who looked at them.
"Oh great!"
"Danny, from Vlad? Come on tell me what did it say?"
Danny paused, before opening his mouth to reply "Sam, I-I..."
"What you two aguing about?" Henry cut in. "Yeah Phanterd and what the heck is that green thingie?" Dash spoke wearily, thinking they were arguing about the green flask that Danny was holding.
"Oh it's nothing, just ghost energy and none of your bees-wax Dash," Danny said before opening the cork of the flask and downing it. At once Danny glowed green for a second, feeling the energy reached to its full, deep inside of his core. "Thats better, now for lunch"
"EWW!" The whole student group grimaced, Mr lancer shook his head, wishing Danny didn't have to drink the ectoplasm in front of them all. He had heard that ectoplasm was toxic to humans and tasted very bad. However, he knew it was normal for the young halfa. He wondered what it tasted like to Danny.
After the students disgust, everyone continued their lunch. Sam calmed down, after Danny promised to tell her what he meant after the camp had ended.
"Ok everyone pack up, we are heading out again," Mrs Teltaffs order got everyone up. Feeling a bit more refreshed and their stomachs full, the campers headed down a steep hill, as they followed the narrow path that led to the caves.
(Hours later)
"It's already 4:20pm!" Danny moaned, looking at his watch. It had black straps and a little screen with white numbers, and the clock hands were fluro green. It also had a little black and white DP emblem in the center of the screen. His dad had made it for on his 17th birthday, and was designed so it was powered by his own eco-energy. It had been built in with extra features, like a ghost detector. Danny doubted he would ever need it; it was a precaution, in case he needed to give his watch to his friends, or if his powers got somehow shorted out.
It even had a Microscopic radio , that was activated by his ecto-signature, that would connect to the Fenton Works so he could contact his parents or sister in emergencies.
"Danny, stop complaining!" Sam scolded. "We are almost there, look you can see the caves in the distance," Sam reasoned, as she shielded her eyes from the sun. The students were on a small grassy cliff, a rocky area with dozens of bluebells below. The students exclaimed at the pretty sight. "Everyone keep moving!" Ms Telstaff shouted pushing Wes forward.
"But my feet are hurting me," Pulia whined, rubbing her sore legs. "Plus my flawless skin has being bitten by those stupid mosquitos."
"You know Sam, that kinda reminds me of back when you guys were bitten by these ghost bugs, which gave you guys ghost powers for about 7 hours or something," Danny laughed.
"Don't remind me, I was floating like a balloon or something."
"Yeah Danny, I managed to do eight clones of me," Kwan chuckled, poking Danny on the chest. "Man, at the time, I was so annoyed that you could do that!". It took me months to be able to do even half that many clones!" Danny frowned at the memory, while the rest of the class chuckled.
"You know Phanterd, we all remember what it was like to have ghost powers like- l-like you, do you ever feel sick?" Dash said, remembering how terrible he felt when he was part ghost for that short period of time.
" No, because the accident fused ectoplasm into me and became part of me on a molecular scale, making me become half ghost. You all had ghost bugs in you, which is completely different because the powers were forced into you, making you guys have unstable ghost powers, which is one of reasons you felt ill, so you guys weren't actually part ghosts at that time all along really."
Everyone went silent absorbing on what Danny said, they were learning much more about him than ever before for the past few years. Danny was starting to show his inner scientist like his parents, just by the way he explained to them.
Danny sighed. "Eh- yeah so s-shall we get going?" he pointed his thumb behind him, feeling suddenly awkward about it.
The students walked through the fields of bluebells, entering a forest full of pine and oak trees, and they could see the caves not to far away. At last they entered to the caves, they were large red and brown rock.
Everyone dumped their bags, flopping on the cool grass under a shady area where a huge tree hung over like a swaying roof of some sort.
Thats when Danny's ghost sense went off. Eyes wide, he looked around. "I'm going to the toilet, then i'll explore for a few minutes," Danny used his old excuse.
"Alright Danny, don't be long, you still promised to tell me whats up with you ok?" Sam piped up, reminding the halfa. She nudged Tucker.
"She's right Danny!" looking up from his PDA that he hid from the teachers.
"Alright you two, I will, don't worry," with that Danny turned and walked off, he walked around the old cave. He at once transformed to his Danny phantom form.
"Argh where are you ghost, come out so I can kick your butt!" Danny growled, his eyes glowing an eerie green, tossing a ball of ecto energy back and forth between his hands.
"Tsk, tsk, that's no way to greet your father to be."
Danny's inhuman reaction, spun around, facing his archenemy. Danny rolled his eyes knowingly. "Figured it was you. And early too, what a surprise," Danny remarked sarcastically. He looked at his watch. "4:59pm, really?" he mocked. "He couldn't wait any longer, huh," he muttered under his breath.
Vlad heard the last remark due to his super hearing, and grinned. "Indeed. Time is precious, Daniel hmm?"
"Whatever," Danny grumbled.
"Now, I've heard from my informants that you've been behaving well and practicing your time powers, little badger."
"How did you kno- actually don't answer that question," Danny replied, knowing Vlad probably had spies watching him at camp.
"But I want you to show me," Vlad said. "I need to see with my own eyes that you have harnessed your time powers."
"Buut how will u know, you'll freeze!" Danny stuttered.
Vlad explained, "As long as I stay in contact with you, I won't be affected by your time powers."
Danny slapped his forehead "Duh!"
Vlad grabbed hold of Danny's arm, which danny yelped at his hot touch due to his fire core, and motioned for him to begin.
Danny concentrated on a crack in the cave wall and suddenly the cold fusion feeling washed through him, feeling like he'd suddenly swallowed an iceberg. At once a burst of varieties of purples and blues painted the world like water ripples. Returning to normal colour and the world shut the sound off.
"Incredible," Vlad breathed, staring wide eyed, the birds frozen in mid peck, as well as the still pine trees that once wavered in the wind.
It was minutes, giving Vlad a good look around for such prove.
When Vlad turned to Danny, he gasped nearly letting go of the boy, when he saw the boy's scrunched up face looking rather red of a ripe tomato.
"You can let go now Daniel."
With that, Danny exhaled, letting the variety of blues absorb into him with visible ghostly energy crackling around for a few seconds. Vlad analysed the boy carefully, he touched the boy on the chest, feeling the small whine of his core, sensing the energy was low.
"Stop staring and probing me like I'm a centipede at the zoo!" Danny snapped, turning away.
"Oh Danny, but you're much more interesting than a centipede," Vlad chuckled, ruffling the boy's hair goodnaturedly. Danny jerked away.
"Mad scientist much," Danny grumbled, grabbing his own arm as he took a few deep breaths. "Are we done now or what?"
"Yes, I've seen enough."
"So can I go now?"
" No Daniel."
"Why not?" Danny complained sounding very much like a five year old, he played along to annoy the fruitloop.
"You haven't changed one bit, little badger."
"Yeah well neither have you fruitloop!" Danny quipped back.
Vlad sighed, rubbing his forehead. "Can we stop with these childish games?"
"What do you expect, I'm talking to bitterly single old man, who is a cat loving cheesehead," Danny smirked "oh yeah and an evil halfa and mad scientist as well, making me an evil apprentice," Danny said doing a fake frown, with a topic sign.
Vlad eyes glowed red for a second, "Says the immature, naive, goody goody teen superhero who protects people who think he's a freak, and don't appreciate or respect him?"
Danny's eyes flashed a dangerous green. "Hey, that's not true!"
"Daniel, stop. We are getting nowhere. Can I just talk to you, then you can go?"
" Fine," Danny huffed.
"Well when you wake up, you will be at my mansion. And I'm sorry, this might hurt."
"Wait, what?!" Danny backed away, towards the the entrance of the cave. He turned around, only to walk into a glowing green ghost shield. " Vlad this isn't necessary, really? Can't we talk about this?" Danny stuttered, knowing he was cornered. He didn't have time to turn human and try to walk out, but he doubted that would work. It's probably a ghost and human shield, he thought.
Without hesitation, Vlad flung his arm around Danny's neck, pulling him towards his chest. He whipped a strange device out of his pocket, which Danny hadn't seen before. Vlad struck the devices two sharp tiny nibs onto Danny's chest, letting the boys ghost core go into overdrive for a few seconds. Danny screamed and struggled against him. Relief washed him, when he felt the device being pulled away. Slowly his eyelids became heavy, closing them shut. With no strength to hold himself "I can't wait for you to use your power for me Daniel."
"Curse you Vlad," as he fell face first to the ground. Black.
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