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Danny walked into his room. His new clothes were in his closet, and the other things were where they belonged. It was still so strange. He wondered how his sister and friends were doing. Did his sister know about him? Did she hate him for it like their parents? Danny sat on his bed. It was almost midnight. He sat there for a few more minutes, then went into the on suite to take a shower after getting some pajamas.
Danny settled into bed, and looked up at the ceiling. Vlad had one of the servants put glowing stars there. They made Danny smile. Vlad was a good man, and he was nice too. As he drifted off to sleep, Danny wondered if he should tell Vlad about his ghost powers.
Sam and Tucker sat int he bed of a truck going down the highway. They had asked the driver to take them into town. They were getting closer and closer to Danny every second. They wouldn't get to him for awhile though. They still had several miles to go, and they were really worried. Danny hadn't moved since they had started the machine. Was he okay? Either Sam and Tucker always kept an eye on the screen.
"Hey Sam look!" Tucker said.
Sam looked at the screen. The blimp was moving, if only a little. "He's okay." She said. "Danny's okay Tuck." Both teens smiled. An hour later, the truck driver stopped and Sam gave him a hundred dollars for the ride. They looked around. They had made it halfway to Danny. "Let's find something to eat." Sam said.
"Okay." The teens looked for a restaurant that served salad and meet. It wasn't too hard to find a buffet restaurant, so they went in to eat. The waitress asked them why they were there by themselves. Sam and Tucker answered, saying they were out seeing the town with a few friend, who all went in different directions.
"I wonder what Danny's doing? I hope he's okay. I wonder what he'll do when he sees us." Tucker said.
"I don't know Tucker, but I hope he's okay and is happy to see us." Sam said.
"Me." Tucker agreed as he ate the food on his plate. After eating and paying, they set off on foot, until they found a bus that would take them close to where Danny was. Just as they were getting closer, Danny moved again, but not too far. By the time the bus stopped, it was dark, so the teens found a hotel to stay the night at. The next day, they would be with Danny again, hopefully.
Danny woke the next morning to find himself downstairs. He looked around. He was in the room directly under his. Had he phased through the bed and floor in his sleep? He had to have, unless he had slept walk. Danny looked around, then flew back into his room, phasing through the ceiling. He landed on the floor, then went to the closet to find something to wear. He picked jeans, and a yellow t-shirt. He changed and found his way to the dinning room.
"Good morning Little Badger." Vlad greeted.
"Good morning Vlad." Danny said, sitting down as the maid put a plate of eggs and bacon in front of him.
"Have you decided about the schooling thing. There is a nice private school in town. No one will know who you are and send you back to your parents." Vlad said.
"That would be okay with me." Danny said. Maybe he would actually do better in school and do sports. Naw. He was more content with being an outcast.
"Alright. We'll have to set that tomorrow." Vlad said. "I'll have to make a few more papers for you."
"Okay." Danny finished his food, and went off to find another book to read. He took it outside in the garden out back. It was a great day, not one to be spend inside.
Sam and Tucker left the hotel and headed toward the area the machine said Danny was. The closer they got, the more excited they became. He had only been gone a few days, but they missed him dearly. He was the glue that held them together. The one who put out the fires when they fought. The one who accepted them. He was their best friend. It was almost three in the evening when the large castle come into view.
"It's huge." Tucker said. He looked at he screen. "That's where Danny is. It's blinking really fast now."
Taking deep breaths, the two teens went up to the gate. It was open, so they slipped in. the driveway was really long, and led up to a huge set of steps that led to a huge front door. Sam walked right up to the door, Tucker right behind her. sam knocked on the door. A tall, brown haired man answered the door.
"Yes? Can I help you two?" He asked.
"Our friend is in this house. We would like to see him." Sam said, puffing out her chest, showing to fear.
"You're friend?" The man asked.
"Yeah. Our friend..." Sam started.
"Johnson, who's at the door?" A voice asked.
Johnson turned and looked at the man. "Master Vlad. These two young people say their friend is in the house." He said.
"Your friend? It's okay now Johnson. I'll handle it from here." Vlad said. He turned to the teens. "You're Daniel's friend?" He asked.
"Danny? Is he really here?" Sam asked.
Vlad looked at the goth girl. "Yes. He's in the garden out back. I'll take you there." Vlad started to lead the two into the house and out the back. "I'm Vlad Masters by the way. You must be Sam and Tucker. Danny has talked about you." Vlad said.
"Why is he here?" Sam asked.
"The other night, I almost hit him with my car. He passed out on the road, so I brought him here. He told me something bad happened, and he can't go back home. I told him he could live here with me." Vlad told her. "Daniel. You have visitors." Vlad called once the teen was in view.
Danny jerked his head up from the book in his hand, scared. He got one look at the two, now crying, teens and threw the book down. He ran to them and they hugged. "What are you two doing here?" He asked.
"We came looking for you. Your parents said you were dead. We were afraid they had found you." Sam whispered.
"No. I'm okay. I was running through the woods when I tripped and landed on Vlad's driveway. He almost hit me with his car and then brought me here. He and I made up a story about Vlad being my new guardian. I can't go back home guys. Who knows what they'll do if they see me again." Danny said as they let go of each other.
"You're right. We were so worried about you Danny." Tucker said.
"What about Jazz? Does she hate me too?" Danny asked.
"She's like everyone else. She thinks you're dead. You're parents told her you were." Sam said.
"Don't tell me she believes the stupid lies. I thought Jazz was smarter than that." Danny said.
"Jazz has no reason to think your parents would lie to her. They never have before." Sam said.
"You're right. But then again, it doesn't matter. I'm staying here for as long as I can keep it a secret. I can't let Vlad know why I really had to leave. He thinks me and my parents had a falling out. I want it to stay that way for as long as possible." Danny said. "I'm even going to start going to a private school in town soon."
"I wish we could stay with you. I don't want to go home. I'll miss my parents, but they never understood me anyway." Sam said.
"What about you Tucker. You're parents are great. They understand you." Danny said. "I can have Vlad send you home."
"I want to stay with you too. My parents won't listen to me. I kept telling them you weren't dead, but they, like everyone else, think's I'm just upset you're dead." Tucker said.
"We'll have to ask Vlad if you can stay. I don't know how he'll react to that though." Danny turned to his new friend. "Can I talk to you Vlad?" He asked the elder man.
"You want to know if your friends can stay with us don't you?" Vlad asked. Danny nodded. "Of course they can Daniel. You're friend are welcome to stay as long as they like. Would you like me to set them up in the new school too?" He asked.
Danny looked at his friend, then turned to Vlad. "If you can? They can't go home either." He said.
"Can't, or won't?" Vlad asked. "Either way, I'll help them as long as they need it. Any friend of yours is a friend of mine as well Daniel. Welcome to my home. I'll have Johnson set you both up with rooms." Vlad left the teen in the garden to talk. He had heard everything the three teens were talking about. He had superhearing after all from the ghost powers he got in college.
Vlad remembered the day like it was yesterday. He, Maddie, and Jack were in the lab with a prototype of their ghost portal. It was a small round hunk of metal on a similar hunk of metal stand.
"There is something I've been meaning to tell you Maddie." Vlad said to the red headed woman.
"Hold on Vlad. Jack, did you remember to fill the filtrator?" Maddie asked Jack.
"On it." Jack picked up a can of diet cola instead of the chemical he was supposed to pick up.
"I'm telling you Jack, it won't work." He had told the bulk of a man.
"Sure it will V-Man." Jack said, picking up the remote.
"Wait Jack, these calculations aren't right." Maddie started to say.
Jack didn't listen, only pushed the buttons. "Bonzai!" He yelled.
A blast of light came from the portal. It hit Vlad in the face, and went for Maddie. Jack jumped and knocked her out of the way. Maddie looked dreamily into Jack's eyes, then turned to Vlad, who was covering his face. He removed his hands, and the other two gasped. His face was covered in ectoacne, and his black hair had turned white.
Vlad fled the room in shame. The woman he loved was sure to never want him. She would go to Jack like Vlad always hoped she wouldn't. It was later in the hospital that Vlad found he had ghost powers, and he spent the next few years learning how to use them once the acne was gone.
Sam and Tucker had been talking about a port. Could they have been talking about a portal? Did Jack and Maddie make a new one, and did Danny get blasted by it. If he had, then he would have ghost powers, and he showed none of the signs of new ghost powers. He wasn't randomly phasing through things. He wasn't randomly turning invisible. Vlad thought back to the day he almost ran the teen over. Had Vlad turned the car intangible or had Danny really turned intangible. Vlad shook his head. Even if Danny had ghost powers, Jack and Maddie weren't the type to turn on their son. They were loving people, and even though they hated ghosts and wanted to study them, they wouldn't do anything to hurt their own kids, even if one had become half ghost. But why would they turn on one of their children period? Vlad didn't dote on it too much. He had things to do to help Danny's friends. He had papers to make and rooms to prepare. Vlad stopped Johnson and told him to make up the two rooms closest to Danny's for his friend. They would be staying for awhile.