Danny's POV
I need to tell Mom to get me a new mattress, this one sucks. It's hard, and it has a bunch of things sticking out of it, one in particular is getting on my nerves, maybe if I roll a little bit to the left; that's weird, it feels like I'm attached to this mattress. My eyes shot open and all I found was darkness, and the fact that I was tied to a pole.
"You've finally woken up, I was close to thinking that our parents had finished off what ever life you have left." Dan! What in the world is going on! First Clockwork hands me to my parents, and now Dan has me tied to a pole!
"What do you want Dan? I've beaten you once, I can do it again!" Big words for being tied to a pole, but I was mad.
"Oh, you'll see soon enough Danny." Just the way he said that made me think I was in for a world of pain. "You know, to tell you the truth, I didn't think that I would be able to get back into the human world after Clockwork took me to his domain."
"What are you talking about Dan? All you would have to do is use the ghost portal in my, our, house!" Dan was off his rocker, plenty of ghosts got through the Ghost Portal without me knowing.
"So Clockwork hasn't told you yet," the look of confusion on my face, I'm sure told him to continue. "Every portal has a power limit; ever wonder why Clockwork never uses your portal? He can't, he's too powerful, every portal has a limit to the power it can let in, and out. My power level has gotten so high from being in the thermos that I wasn't sure how to get out."
"Why would being in the thermos make any difference in your power level?" I didn't know what to believe.
"The fact that I was in a thermos made no difference, it was that I didn't use any of my power, causing it to store up making my power level rise significantly. Which was good and bad news, my power level is twice what it was when I fought you before, and that also means that there were no portals powerful enough to let me pass through them."
"Then how in the hell did you get out!" he was batting around the bush, and I knew it.
"I used the All Ghost Portal, it was created so that all ghosts, no matter how powerful, could pass through it; but when some of the more powerful ghosts came into the human world they created quite a mess. After that Clockwork and the other two elders sealed the portal, but when I stumbled across it by accident, and found that it was operational, I came back to finish what I started. Speaking of which, I have a city to destroy and you are going to have a front row seat."
Jazz POV
Danny has been missing for two days now, the "incident" that happened right before Dan kidnapped Danny is far from being forgotten. Despite what they did to Danny was horrible, they actually got some useful information out of it, his ectoplasmic signature. We put it into the "Boo-Merang" and it was supposed to intensify the sensitivity of it to make finding Danny easier. So far nothing has helped, it's like his signature is blocked by something. Just then, Mom broke the silence.
"Jazz! Danny is on T.V. as a hostage!" I looked over and I saw Danny, in his ghost form, suspended in air by some kind of ecto-energy, probably coming from Dan who was near by torching the city, forcing Danny to watch.
"We've got to go get him! Come on, get in the van, I'll drive you two aim the guns!" There were no questions asked, just three people running to save public enemy number one.
Danny's POV
If I could just get out of this binding, I could do something! This is so frustrating!
"You think this is hard to watch, it would have been even better if I wouldn't have lost that Ghost Blade when I came through the portal, but I can't have everything my way."
"Excuse me, but I am the only one allowed to torture Daniel, physically and mentally." No. way.
"Hey Cheese Head, I was wondering when you would show up!" Oh great, my worst enemy is defending me against my other worst enemy, someone should get this on tape. Oh wait there is the news crew; I'll just borrow it from them.
"Now don't start the party without us!" No way, Jazz was not only participating in ghost hunting events, she was driving the R.V. and using the speaker system, go sis! While Mom and Dad were trying to shoot Dan down, Vlad was trying to get me out of my restraints.
"Daniel, what kind of power is he using?!"
"I don't know! I don't have half his powers yet!"
"Well I can't get this undone unless I know what he is using!"
"Well I am sorry I'm not an expert on my powers!"
"BOOM!" When Vlad and I looked over, the R.V. was in flames. I caught sight of Mom, Dad, and Jazz a few feet away, one more blast like the one Dan let loose and we were all done for.
"Why don't you save them? Oh right, you can't," just then, the restraints disappeared, "I'm letting you go, but only to show you how much I've destroyed everything you love, eventually you will see things my way; but until then, try to save this shit of a town." After that all I remember is a green ecto-blast heading my way, then I blank.
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"Danny?" That sounded a lot like Jazz, but my head was pounding, this was the second time today.
"What happened? I feel like some one ran me through seven brick buildings." For some reason Jazz frowned,
"How did you know? Weren't you knocked out cold?" she had never been through a brick wall before.
"When you get thrown through as many buildings as I do, you get it to an exact science." When I tried to get up, my previous statement was confirmed, there were holes in the walls of seven brick houses. Then Mom piped up,
"Don't move Danny, you could undo all of the medical work your sister and I have done. Heaven knows that I don't want to stop any more bleeding."
"Actually Maddie, he should be fine right now, just a major head ache; only the bigger wounds haven't healed yet. Am I right my boy?" Great, Vlad was still here.
"Yeh, I'm fine." Even though I hated to agree with Vlad, he was right, all I had left to heal was a bump on the back of my head and a few scratches, and of course the head ache.
"That's the Fenton spirit Danny!" So that's where Dad was; working on the RV that now looks like toast. "Every one knows, Fenton's are the fastest healers around! But really Danny, you need a little more R and R before you can get up and move around."
"Actually Jack," Vlad cut in, "Danny really is fine, it's part of the whole being half ghost thing."
"I'm not convinced," Mom always was the skeptical one, "lift up your shirt honey, I want to make sure your ok." I guess I should have seen this coming, I never exactly told anyone how fast I heal, so I lifted up my shirt and Mom took off the bandages and she was very surprised to see what once was probably a very nasty gash, turned into what was a little worse than a scrape.
"An hour ago I couldn't get it to stop bleeding!" Mom really sounded surprised, but we had bigger things to think about, like how to stop Dan. And where in the world are Sam and Tucker!
"Where are Sam and Tucker?!"
"Honey, don't worry they are helping people to the safe shelters, they were here about ten minuets ago, but there parents wouldn't let them stay any longer." All I cared about was that they were safe, but then what was going on with Dan, and-
"Danny, get control of your thoughts!" great, now Vlad is using that ghost's only connection to talk to me in my mind, perfect.
"Fine they are in control, now what are we supposed to do about Dan?" If he was going to stay, he was going to help.
"'WE' Daniel, I do believe that you vowed to never work with me," he was being a smart ass.
"If you remember VLAD, I said I'd never work FOR you."
"Of course Daniel, of course."
"What are you two talking about?" Jazz shouted,
"Nothing"
"Nothing" Vlad and I said at the same time.
"Well what are you going to do about Dan?" What were we going to do about Dan? Wait a second, the portal.
"We are going to look around the portal," When Dan was telling me how he got out, he told me he dropped a ghost blade, what ever that was, somewhere around the portal; all I have to do is find it and use it against him, he wouldn't have mentioned it if it didn't matter!
"Daniel, we are looking around what?" Oh right, none of them had heard the conversation. I quickly put my hand on Vlad and sent him my memory of the event and as it played through his head, you see him figure out my plan, step by step. Then Dad piped up,
"All right Danny, where is this portal?"
"You guys can't come!" I was horrified that they would even think of coming, if Dan came through that thing who knows what else could!
"I agree with Daniel on this one, this portal will let any ghost go through it! Who knows what kind of evil thing could come out while we are there!?"
"Exactly! That is why we are coming with you!" Mom just didn't get it, "We are professional ghost hunters, and we can handle it!"
"Madeline, how would you defend yourselves? Because Daniel and I will have trouble enough with the portal it self and we will not be able to help should anything come out and try to attack you." Vlad had a point, if one of us went into the ghost zone we would both have to go, and that left Mom, Dad, and Jazz unprotected.
"We have ghost wepons, I'll have you know!"
"Where are these wepons coming from Madeline?"
"The RV, we programmed it with thousands of wepons." Right then the RV's tires fell off and a few sparks flew from the dash board. Vlad just gave her a raised eyebrow look that said, 'are you serious' and that's all it took.
"Mom, even though I hate to agree with Vlad, the RV is trashed." I really did hate to agree with Vlad, but I really didn't want anyone but Vlad and I there, the only reason Vlad would come is because he has ghost powers and I couldn't stop him if I wanted to. "Go help Sam and Tucker with getting every one to safety until we get back." She wasn't happy with the decision, but she knew that she couldn't help us.
"Ok, we'll be waiting for you Danny, The shelter is beneath the Manson's home, apparently who ever had their mansion first was terrified of the end of the world, and they have been keeping it as a storage room. Just knock four times on the basement door." With that they were off.
"Well then Daniel, are you ready to go?"
"As ready as I'll ever be; where is the portal anyway?" Apparently I had forgotten that little part of my plan, I had no idea where the portal was.
"Well Daniel, do know of any this recently being destroyed on accident? Probbly the size of a small house, or it could be larger." I don't really recall anything like that, I've been so busy with school and getting Vlad out of my house that I didn't even notice anything else. Like when that reporter was talking about when that old house was knocked down by accident, all I could think about was how that could ever relate to ghosts. Oh.
"Yeh, there was an old house that got knocked down by accident, but no one cared because no one lived there."
"Where is it Daniel?"
"It's on the out skirts of Amity."
"Well, I think we've found our portal."
Sorry it took sooo long! My beta has dropped off the face of the planet so I am just going to post this chapter as-is; sorry in advance about grammar and spelling!! Please review!! :D