Hey, I promised that if I got one review, then I'd put up Chapter 9, and I am. It's really short please bear with me on that. Anyways... hope you like it.
Chapter 9
Sam and Tucker looked at their friend. Danny had eventually stopped crying and they left him alone. He was now watching the flames of the fire, the reflection of the flames dancing in his eyes. Sam and Tucker thought they knew their friend but after today's events, it was like they just met.
"Tucker, look at him," Sam said to Tucker. "He looks so scared. We shouldn't have pushed him so much."
"And now that I know what happened, I sorta think I was better not knowing. Now we know what was keeping the truth from us, a freaked out kid who didn't want to scare his friends," Tucker said. Sam nodded. They looked back at the half-ghost, who was still watching the fire. "I guess we never knew the real Danny."
Danny heard all this but didn't move his gaze from the fire. He felt so alone inside. All he heard inside him was the cold laughter of his future self; it scared him. He knew he looked pathetic but he didn't care, he just wanted to be alone.
"Danny?" Sam said and Danny noticed that his friends had sat down beside him. He didn't answer, he just continued to look silently at the fire. "Danny, you don't have to answer if you don't want to but please just listen. We're sorry, we didn't how strongly you felt about what happened," she told him.
"And it didn't help that we kept pushing you to tell us. I mean you tried to tell us but we didn't listen," Tucker added in. "Anyway, we're sorry." They got up to leave him alone but a voice spoke up.
"Well don't be," Danny said apologetically, his gaze still on the fire. His friends were relieved to hear his voice was back to normal. "I've should've told you guys a long time ago, but… it was just so hard."
Smiling to Danny, Sam said, "It's fine Danny. But, if there's anything you wanna tell us, we'll be here."
Danny smiled but did not tear his face from the fire. His smile disappeared as his face clouded with thought. He finally looked at them and sighed. "It's my biggest fear," he said to them, his face looking sober.
"What is?" they asked him, happy that their friend was talking to them again.
"My future self. When I saw the damage that he-I did, my heart sank. It was like no matter what I did to do good for the town, I would eventually be the one to destroy it, just like any other ghost," he told them, his body shuddering at the thought. Tucker put his hand on Danny's left shoulder, Danny winced in pain and Tucker withdrew his hand.
"Danny, you changed your future, remember?" Tucker said reassuringly. "So you don't have to be too worried about it."
Danny smiled again. Danny was happy that his friends were here; they made him feel stronger and safer. He knew that deep down he won't get over this easily, but with his friends here, he knew he'd be ok. Danny looked at his friends and truly smiled at them, something he hadn't done in a couple days. They smiled back, happy to see their friend acting normal again.
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Clockwork watched the teens on his screen. "Everything is how it should be," he said smiling. Then he frowned and flew up to a cabinet that had a huge old lock. Clockwork put his time staff up to the lock and waved it. The cabinet opened and revealed a small green orb. It had a name on it but Clockwork covered it with his hand. Clockwork sighed and put the orb into a pouch. He then went back to the screen and watched Danny and friends, talking and smiling.
Clockwork sighed knowingly and continued to watch the teens, hoping that Fear will choose a different path to use, yet knowing he wouldn't.
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"Clockwork's a fool," Fear told the ghost blobs. "If he thinks I will be intimidated by a threat, he is most gravely mistaken." Fear picked up a round gray disk. "The boy's weakness is his future, and his friends are the key. I've made a copy of his future self that is more powerful than the boy's future self or the boy will ever be. With the amount of fear that I have captured in this disk, that copy shall be unstoppable. When that boy loses to his biggest fear, he will be mine." His voice was as cold as ice as the blobs cowered beneath him.
They always hated when Fear spoke to them; his icy voice scared them to bits. After 10 years of servitude, you would've thought they were used to it by now.
"The boy has tremendous power, even if he doesn't know it, and if I trap him on the island, then I will be the most powerful ghost in the ghost zone!" Fear laughed an evil laugh as there was a flash of light. A dark figure stood where the disk had been and began to laugh evilly as well.
The blobs disappeared, not wanting to know what happened next. All they knew was that they had to get help and fast before Fear took over the ghost zone. They quickly flew to the only person that they thought could stop this, not knowing he already knew.
Not much changed I know, but I tried. Pwease review.
