Revelations
So I had a bit of writer's block with this one, but I managed. Hope you all enjoy and thank you to everyone who has read, reviewed, faved and followed. You're all wonderful. Anyway, I had to put in at least a little blood and guts. It wouldn't be my kind of story without it in there at least once.
Jake held Randy's mask behind his back, taunting him.
"You think you can grab this, Cunningham?"
Randy snatched at his mask again before Jake jerked it back away from Randy's grasp.
"Nope! Didn't think so! Why do you even have this? It's weird."
Randy reached for the mask again, missing entirely, and then responded.
"No reason. even if I did have a reason, why would I tell you, Long?"
Danny watched the exchange cautiously before he piped up, trying to help Randy.
"Jake, dude, c'mon, just give him back his mask thing."
"Not quite yet, Danny. I want to know why he's got it with him at camp. He's not getting it back 'til then."
Randy gave Danny a thankful glance, then turned to Jake and glared at him.
"Just give it back you schoob."
"And there's that slang again. Where do people even say that, yo?"
Randy lunged again for the mask, but Jake was still too fast. Danny was about to say something, but was interrupted by a screeching noise.
A large gravelly looking gargoyle-type thing burst through the front door of the cabin with a shriek. It spoke in a high pitched, girlish voice.
"Which one of you is the American Dragon?"
Its beady eyes flicked between the three of them before settling on Jake for a moment. Its face twisted into a grim smile.
"Meet me in the forest. I'll take something dear to you to ensure it."
The gargoyle shot forward and grabbed Randy in its talons. Turning around quickly, it flew back towards the door and soared into the sky.
Jake and Danny chased after the gargoyle, but it was already gone by the time they got out of the cabin.
"L-let's split up and find an adult. I'll go this way, you go that way."
Danny pointed in two opposite directions, and without waiting for a response, ran off behind a cabin. Jake blinked and did the same.
Jake wasn't really sure if he should even go after Randy. He hated the kid. He didn't know how Danny could stand being around him. But, he was the American Dragon, and the thing that kidnapped him was a gargoyle. It was his responsibility to save Randy. Besides, that gargoyle wanted to meet him any way. Jake quickly transformed, holding Randy's mask, and chased after the gargoyle, flying fast.
Danny was determined to get Randy back, but what was the thing that had kidnapped him? It wasn't a ghost. His ghost sense would've gone off. And who was the 'American Dragon' it wanted? Danny quickly went ghost, and flew off after the gargoyle-thing.
After a few minutes of searching, Jake saw a small, black shape slithering through the sky ahead of him. He sped up, trying to catch up with it.
It was a kid. A flying kid with white hair and green eyes in a black jumpsuit.
"Hey."
The kid yelped and jumped away from Jake.
"Geez, you scared me. Can I help you?"
A polite, weird flying kid.
"Not that I know of. Just- who and what are you?"
The kid's legs melted into a tail and flicked below him, seemingly keeping him up.
"I'm Danny Phantom. I'm a ghost. Who are you?"
Phantom's eyes narrowed at Jake.
"I'm the American Dragon."
Phantom's expression grew angry.
"You're coming with me. Something was looking for you and kidnapped a kid from the camp."
"I know. That's why I'm here. I want to rescue that kid and talk to the gargoyle."
"Gargoyle?"
"That's what the thing was."
"Hmm. Well, if you're helping, let's go. We don't want the kid to be away for too long."
The two flew off, in search of the gargoyle and Randy.
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They came across a clearing deep in the woods. They'd been flying around for the better part of an hour, and they were both nearly dead on their feet. More dead, anyway.
The trees were tall and ancient pine trees. The darkness weaved between the trees, creating an almost bowl-like effect on the clearing. A boulder stood in the middle of the clearing. And, on top of it, stood the gargoyle, Randy unconscious below the gargoyle.
"What do you want with me?" Jake asked
The gargoyle smiled almost lovingly.
"My father told me that I have to marry someone respectable. Who's more respectable than the American Dragon?"
Jake choked out a "What?" while Danny held in a laugh, coughing instead.
"I have to marry someone, and this is how I'm supposed to do it. I'm supposed to take something you like, and bring you to a forest. Then we fly back to my house and get married."
Jake looked at Danny as if to say "Can you believe this?", Danny shrugged and chuckled.
"Yeah, I'm sorry, but that's not gonna happen."
The gargoyle's eyes narrowed into slits. She pounced on Jake with the speed of lightning. Her talons ripped through his stomach and shredded his skin. He cried out in pain.
Danny charged some ectoblasts and threw them at the gargoyle. They gargoyle only yelped and dug her talons into Jake, prompting a scream.
Randy slowly came to, blinking and holding his head. He sat up and was hit in the stomach by a white haired boy.
"Sorry, Randy." he said.
'I never told him my-what? Who is he? What is happening?' Randy looked around the clearing. A red and yellow dragon was fighting a grayish gargoyle-type thing. The white haired boy flew into the air over the dragon and gathered a green light around his hands, then shot the light at the gargoyle-y thingy.
The dragon was bleeding from a bad looking wound on his stomach. It was slowing down.
Suddenly, the dragon was surrounded by a ball of orange fire that shrank down to a human sized fireball. Jake fell out of the fire, making it dissipate.
Randy's eyes widened. Jake is a dragon? What? The boy with the white hair was shocked too. The boy was leaking some kind of green fluid out of some injuries on his arms, legs, and face. He had a long scratch along his stomach. Green- what was that? Blood?- streamed out of the cut, staining the jumpsuit a shade of green.
His bright green eyes were wide, but he didn't notice the gargoyle thing flying at him from the side. It hit him in the side and knocked him out of the way. The boy laid on the ground, unconscious.
The gargoyle humphed and mumbled something about unworthiness before flying off.
Randy looked back at the white haired boy and jogged towards him. He was stopped by a white ring of light forming around his waist and splitting. The rings slowly travelled over his body, transforming him into Danny Fenton.
What? What is Danny, though? Jake is a dragon, but what is Danny? He could fly and shoot those green blasts, but- what?
Jake started to stir.
Randy rushed to his side and gasped. Jake's wounds were already healing shut. Jake groaned and looked up at Randy.
"Are you rescued yet? Because I'm not doing it again."
Randy chuckled.
"Yeah, but it was the worst rescue ever. You were both unconscious at the end. What kind of rescue is that?"
"Wait- I'm not in my drago- What do you know, Cunningham?"
Randy smiled at Jake
'I know that you're a dragon some of the time, and that Danny over there could blend into a snowbank on a good day."
"What? Danny? He wasn't with me. Do you mean Danny Phantom? The ghost?"
"So that's what he is. With the white hair and green eyes?"
"Yeah." Jake answered uncertainly.
"Yeah, there's only one Danny. One Danny with two forms. Like you."
Jake stared at Randy.
"You're taking all of this awfully well."
"Yeah, well-" Randy grabbed the mask that Jake had brought with him from his hands "-I'm the ninja."
Randy pulled the mask over his head. Red and black ribbons wrapped around his body, covering everything but his eyes.
Jake could only keep staring at him.
"So- what you're saying is, you're a ninja, and Danny over there is somehow a ghost?"
"Why don't you ask him yourself?"
Danny struggled to sit up, his wounds already healing.
"What?" he asked "Why is everyone staring at me?"
Randy cleared his throat.
"Dude, um- you're a ghost."
"Well, yea- wait. How did- Oh."
Danny looked down at himself and saw that he was in human form.
"I guess I owe you an explanation, but Randy, what are you wearing?"
Randy pulled the mask off of his head, blushing.
"I'm the ninja."
Danny creased his eyebrows and nodded, looking at Jake he asked
"And you, What are-?"
Jake interrupted before Danny could finish.
"I'm the Am-Drag, yo."
Danny nodded.
"I'm a half ghost half human hybrid."
Randy and Jake nodded.
"So, want to go back to the cabin and talk or do you want to stay here?" Randy asked.
"Pshh, cabin, obviously. I've got some candy there." Jake responded quickly.
Randy, Jake and Danny started in the direction of camp, telling different stories about their adventures as they walked.