Quick little thing readers! Before this chapter starts I have to fulfil something that the ghost Clockwork has been bugging me about.
*cough* I do not own Danny Phantom; if I did I would still be airing it. However I do own the other characters not under Nickelodeon's hands. I also do not own the song I Write Sins Not Tragedies belong to Panic! At The Disco. I just think it really fits to this chapter.
And I ask of you guys for fallows, favorites and reviews if you can. It tells me if you guys want more and what you think about the story. It really does help.
Oh and anything Underlined means singing. Now enjoy!
"Why are we doing this again?" Toby asked as he fallowed Cory and Zeeki up a flight of stairs, carrying several boxes filled foot stools, picks and guitar strings.
Right now the three friends were still in school. It was after school on a Friday so the school was empty of students. Only ones left in were teachers, janitors, aids or a small handful of other students helping teachers. The three friends were one of the few teens that stayed to help. The guitar teacher asked Zeeki if he could help him with the new delivery of supplies he bought so of course he agreed to it, but not without dragging his two best friends into the mess as well.
"Ask Zeeki," Cory asked tiredly, not wanting to spend her Friday in school "He's the one who got us into this mess."
Zeeki sighed, getting tired of the two bickering about this, and said "Hey, it's rewarding to be nice. Besides, Mr. Gomez is pretty cool."
"Yea but still…" Toby said, trailing off a bit as they gotten into the guitar room. It was a decent sized class room with dozens of chairs in random places, a small desk in front of the chairs and two other doors that lead to the storage room for all the supplies and the other that held the guitars.
They set the supplies down by the storage room but stopped when they heard someone playing with one of the guitars. The three exchanged looks before walking over to the closet, ready to see if it was either a student or a ghost. The three carefully walked over and Zeeki pushed the door open, seeing Frostbite. He looked a bit different from the last time the three had seen him. His hair was paler and a few strains from his icicles were drooping over his face. He stuck to his normal attire of baggy clothing, minus the fact of him now wearing tight looking jeans and a leather jacket that looked a size too big for him. Lastly there was the fact that his pale, light blue skin was much whiter and he had a small red scar on his cheek, no doubt from Zeeki when they first meet. He was sitting on a cardboard box, starting to grow icicles, and in his hand was one of the student's acoustic guitar with his own being set against one of the many guitar cases.
"Sup." The blue haired ghost said before having two Plasma Rays and one ghost ray pointed at him.
"Why are you hear Frostbite?"
"What? Can't an old friend come by and see how his favorite rockers are doin'?"
"First off we're not friends," Cory said angrily, still having a grudge against him "and second; you better answer us before we throw you back into the green swirling shit hole you call home."
Frostbite placed a hand over his chest, acting to be hurt and said "Ouch, that wasn't very nice."
"Since when were you?" Toby asked with a hint of monotone in his voice.
"Now that you mention it, I was being a real jerk with you guys. And to make it up, I have a deal for you, Flame-Head."
He gestured towards Zeeki and he returned it with a scowl and asked "Make it quick."
"Awesome! Now I ask of you one solid, and that's all! If you help me out then I will try and not destroy your little dust bowl of a town you call home." He looked over to Cory when he finished, which she returned with a huff.
"And if I refuse?"
"You're mates will have their lifetime to be together." As he said that he got up and kicked the box from under him. It pooped open and two pairs of hand cuffs hovered out and flew towards Cory and Toby. It was too fast for any of them to react and the two were suddenly hand cuffed. The handcuffs then attached to each other and incased the two humans together, their backs towards each other.
"Guys!" Zeeki yelled as he ran to them and tried to break them but was sent a shook that started to burn his clothes.
He let go immediately and heard Frostbite say "Nope, you can't break that. Got it specially made by Skulker. Gave it to me so I'd stop annoying him."
"Zeeki," Toby said, grabbing his attention "Do whatever he wants. I don't want to be attached to Cory forever."
"Ditto," Cory agreed "plus I don't wanna start smelling like hotdog water."
Toby was about to yell at her but Frostbite interrupted him "Listen to 'em Fire-Breath, you help em and I let 'em go."
Zeeki sneered, knowing his only choice was to help him. He sighed in defeat "Fine, I'll help."
"Cool," Was all he said as he grabbed his ice cold guitar "You meet me outside your portal and then I'll explain to the lot of yea."
And with that he flew off, leaving Zeeki to get his friends home and get himself prepared for whatever he had in store for him.
"Zeeki, I think it would be better if we go with you. Y'know, to make sure you're okay." Toby asked as Zeeki placed him and Cory against his living room couch.
"Really?" Zeeki asked half annoyed.
"Remind me why we have to stay at your place?" Cory asked mostly annoyed.
"Because your parents are still in town and mine are gone for the week along with my sister." Natalia butted in, sitting in her father's recliner with her little ghost boxer sleeping on her lap.
Cory sighed, not appreciating Zeeki's littler sister looking after them while he's gone. Zeeki noticed it and said "No worries guys. I'll make it quick and be back before you could say Ghost Zone."
"Ghost Zone." Cory said in a monotone voice but with a mischievous grin.
"Shut up," Zeeki said playfully before turning into his ghost form and flew down to the open ghost portal and into the Ghost Zone.
He looked around and saw a swirling green vortex like area with dozens of doors floating everywhere along with dozen other floating green rocks. He stared at it all in awe but was quickly taken out of his trance as he heard Frostbite's voice.
"Awesome, you made it."
He turned around to see Frostbite with his ghost drummer Ali and ghost bass player Snow. They both looked like their humans forms with their punk and rocker looks but only difference was that their skin was green and eyes dark blue. Ali had icicles hanging from his large mustache, as did Snow but from her long blue hair.
"Yeah, let's make this quick."
Ali gave a small snarl before Frostbite raised a hand, as if calling him off, and said "Fallow me then."
And with that Zeeki fallowed the three ice ghosts deeper into the Ghost Zone in silence, dodging doors and rocks and ignoring other ghosts that eyed Zeeki.
He finally spoken up and asked "Hey, how come there giving me a wired look."
"Been a while since they'd seen someone like you. That and you've been getting a rotten reputation around here for putting us lot back in."
"Oh…" Zeeki returned, feeling like an idiot for asking "But where are we going?"
"There…" Snow said quietly and angelically as they stopped.
In front of them was a medieval purple castle on a large island floating in the Ghost Zone. It had an even bigger moat surrounding it with dragon statues by its side and an even bigger forest surrounding it. Zeeki's mouth was open in awe as they floated down. It didn't close until they landed in the forest and Frostbite pulling something off from a tree's bark.
"This is why we're here." Frostbite said bitterly, holding a medial looking flier that said "Here thy, here thy. All thy filthy peasants are here by invited to Prince Aragon's wedding. All peasants are to come into the Prince's chapel for the wedding of Prince Aragon and Lady Ember."
That's when something clicked in Zeeki's mind. He remembered Frostbite mentioning he had a sibling, but didn't know it was Ember; the one-shot super star and ghost singer.
Frostbite saw the look on his face and answered his mental question "Yup, that's my sister. Aragon must have used a spell or somthin' on the lines since my sister has been acting really wired. She wouldn't even play her music with me anymore and when I mentioned of her guitar she looked at me like I just spit her face and started acting girly. Then one day she disappeared. I had Ali and Snow here to look for her and found her here. I did my fair share of spying and now were threatened to be chopped if we even go near the bloc's brick house."
"Sorry to hear that," was the only thing Zeeki could come up with. He understood what Frostbite was talking about. Heck, Zeeki would do the same if someone brainwashed either of his sisters into marriage "but what does this has to do with me?"
"I'll admit I did my own share of spying on you too, Hot-Head. You got some good pipes, and that's the key element in getting my sis out."
Zeeki got a bit angry, for he didn't appreciate one of his enemies spying on him. But he quickly let it go, knowing his motive and sighed to release the tension.
When he calmed down he asked again "Alright, what's the plan then?"
"That," Snow said again quietly, pointing at black and green carriage heading for the drawbridge.
"Quick," Frostbite said, running towards the drawbridge "We only got one chance at this."
Ali and Snow didn't hesitate like Zeeki, but he did end up fallowing them. When the carriage was over the bridge Ali and Snow both grabbed the edges of the draw bridge and slowly incased it in ice, stopping it from retracting and letting Frostbite and Zeeki to run across. As they ran across the bridge two ghosts appeared behind the giant dragon statues.
On the left was a buffed ghost that was missing legs and covered in chain armor that covered all of his body and face. If Zeeki didn't knew better he would have thought it was Ali, only real difference was Ali's use of drumsticks and this ghost had a giant double bladed axe. On the right was a ghost also missing his lower half but was covered in a red hood and red robes that had its own little cape and able to cover his face. Only part of him that showed skin was his arms that weren't covered in sleeves and in his hands was a green bow with a quiver full of arrows attached to his back.
"You take right," commanded Frostbite as he flew towards the axe wilder, with his own ice guitar axe in his hands.
Zeeki flew towards the archer and blasted several of his ghost rays. They all missed and were returned with several green arrows. He dodged them as well but one nicked at his arm, cutting his black suit and caused green ghost blood to drip out of his arm.
He flinched and quickly blocked at the archer launched several other arrows at him. Zeeki dodged them all again but was nicked again by several arrows. Zeeki knew if this kept going he would be down with even getting a hit on him. He quickly looked over at the three ice ghosts, seeing the two goons still attaching ice to the edge of the bridge so it would stay so they wouldn't be any help. He saw Frostbite struggling to keep the axe wielder at bay and thought of an idea.
He flew over to him and blasted the axe wielder, to stun him for seconds. When he reached to him Zeeki said "How's about a trade?"
Before he could respond they both had dodge a large green axe that was about to slice them in half. He looked at Zeeki and gave him a nod, flying towards the archer with his guitar axe. With that Zeeki flew at the executer like ghost and flew around him, blasting several ghost rays at him before diving at him. But right before Zeeki could even touch him he was smacked down like a fly by its large hands.
Zeeki looked up from the ground and quickly grabbed the blade before it could make contact to his face. He heard the struggling in the executioner voice as Zeeki put pressure back at him, starting to raise the blade away from his face. The two had a little game of mercy before Zeeki twisted his hands like how his uncle did to him, causing the executioner's blade to shatter.
The executioner looked at its broken weapon in confusion and looked back to Zeeki who returned the look with a punch towards its face, knocking him out, and saying "Sorry 'bout that."
"Whoa," Frostbite said behind him, grabbing his attention. He saw Frostbite sitting on the knocked out archer with his broken bow by its side "Glad you didn't do that to my guitar."
Zeeki let out a small chuckle before they were welcomed by Ali and Snow, who now had down and unable to retract.
"Next step; disguises." Frostbite said with a little bit of enthusiasm and looked at the two unconscious ghosts.
Zeeki floated along with Ali as they got Snow and Frostbite into the castle. Zeeki had to be disguised as the archer since he didn't trusted either Frostbite or his goons to tie up him and Ali was disguised as the executioner since he did have the upper body for it.
They were told by the other guards to take Snow and Frostbite to the dungeons to be dealt later but they were able to find their way into the band's practice and changing room. When they were in they knocked out and tied up the ghost performers in another room. Soon the four changed, of course having to have their backs toward Snow, and were now disguised as the performers. Ali was in leather shoes and rag like shirt and pants as did Zeeki and Frostbite, only the two both had hats, both pairs of white gloves and Zeeki's clothing was red with black; Frostbite to cover his trade mark like hair and Zeeki was left with the original vocalist's top hat and cane. As for Snow, she was dressed head to toe in rag like clothing as well and had a long brown dress and hood to cover her hair.
The four were ready to go but Zeeki quickly noticed something. The three could make their instruments appear in front of them in a flash, he didn't had one nether lease knew how to play an instrument. He's barely passing his guitar class.
Frostbite saw his expression again and said "Don't worry mate, you just need to focus on blowing 'em pipes. We'll do the rest."
"What exactly am I about to do?"
"Easy stuff," Frostbite said with the same smile he gave Zeeki before telling him his first deal when they first meet "All you do is to sing whatever comes to yea that will piss my sis off. My mates did a little researching and found that any extreme emotion can break any spell. My sis's strongest emotion is anger. Just sing somthin' that'll make her go ape shit and we'll do the rest. Just keep singing until you finish, alright?"
Zeeki nodded, understanding it a bit but didn't get the whole singing part. He knew Frostbite might need fire power so why did he make him not do anything in the beginning?
Right before he could ask someone knocked on the door and a familiar voice said "My lords, the wedding is about to start."
Frostbite nodded towards the three and walked over to the door and motioned them to fallow. The three did so and Zeeki saw who it was. It was the same blue skinned lady he saw before he gotten his powers. Only difference was that she looked much more miserable.
Zeeki didn't make eye contact as they passed her and entered the corridor. They were led by the blue skinned woman to a room near the chapel. Zeeki didn't think the chapel would be part of the castle. When they entered they found themselves on a small wooden stage that faced the side of a large crowd of medieval ghosts. All dressed in rag like clothing, some better than others, and all had green skin. But the ghosts closest to them had more bluish tint to them, unnoticeable by Zeeki and the other ghosts. On their stage was an old lute, a small flute and a snare drum. Zeeki heard Frostbite scoff at the trashy instruments but went along with it by picking up the lute, Snow with the flute and of course Ali with the snare.
When they were all in place a powerful and familiar voice called for attention "All maybe seated!"
At the front of the crowd was a ghost with pale blue skin much like woman who led them but only this time he had gray long hair with a green spiked crown. He had red eyes that had large and deep bags under them. He was dressed in a long purple and black robe that exposed his long and boney hand but what really caught Zeeki's attention was the large gold necklace around his neck. I held a green gem that had a black thin gash in the middle, as if it was to look like a reptile's eye. If anything the representation of the necklace matched the prince ghost's attitude; annoyed and sour.
Zeeki moved his attention the bride in front of the groom. It was a pale blue ghost that looked a bit like Frostbite. Only she had long fiery blue hair that somewhat matched Frostbite's now whiten blue hair. She had black eyeliner that ringed under her eyes, as if it was a rocker design. She was dressed in a black wedding dress that went with a black and green tiara that also held a green emerald in the center. But really caught his eyes were her well… eyes. They were dazed and had no emotion. She did however kept smiling, as if it was the happiest moment in her life but Zeeki didn't feel any happiness radiating from her. Just complete emptiness and a bit of anger.
He could have kept eyeing her and the groom the whole day if it weren't for Frostbite starting up the music. Zeeki quickly turned to see the crappy and old instruments replaced with their own. He soon met Frostbite's gaze; he looked at the ground and make at him, telling him to look at the ground for the beginning.
He nodded, using the can in front of him as a support as he lowered his head along with his hat. He listened to the rhythm the three were giving him. It sounded almost like something you would normally play at a wedding only it had a stronger beat. Zeeki waited for silence from everyone as he started to sing.
"Oh, well imagine, as I'm pacing the pews in a church corridor, and I can't help to hear, no, I can't help but to hear an exchanging of words: "What beautiful weeding! What a beautiful!" says a bridesmaid to a waiter, "And, yes, but what a shame, what a shame the poor groom's is a whore.""
The crowd gasped as stared at Zeeki who raised his head with a grin, seeing the little anger peaking in both the groom, who he figured was Prince Aragon, and his not to be bride Ember. Frostbite gave him a grin of his own in the absence of music but returned with a few stronger cords and went all out.
"I'd chime in with a "Haven't you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door?!" No, it's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality. I'd chime in with a "Haven't you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door?!" No, it's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of…"
Zeeki then flew down the stage, flying near Aragon and Ember trying to get on nerves as planned. As he flew around them he could feel Ember's anger, mostly because of her fiery hair starting raise from her shoulder's.
"Oh, well in fact; well I'll look at it this way, I mean technically our marriage is saved. Well this calls for a toast so, poor the champagne. Oh! Well in fact; well I'll look at it this way, I mean technically our marriage is saved. Well this calls for a toast so, poor the champagne, poor the champagne."
The music soon settled down with just the beat playing and to alarm Zeeki he saw Ali get up from his drum set. He was confused until he saw the drum sticks playing by themselves and seeing Ali look over the more blue skinned ghosts. He lifted his closed fist to reveal a fist full of snow. Zeeki was still confused but was soon brought back when he saw Frostbite signaling him to get back over to them. As he did so Ali blew the snowflakes out of his fist into the group of ghosts, making them dazed but soon made them all get incased in a dark blue aura. When it disappeared there weren't any ghosts there, only faceless ice golems that stood over seven feet tall.
"Guards!" Shouted Aragon in anger.
Soon dozens of ghosts in knight armor started to fill the chapel. Including the Archer Executioner ghost they disguised as. Somehow they were able to get their armor back; even the executioner had a new axe. Frostbite then shot Zeeki a glare that told him to keep going, and so he did.
"I'd chime in with a "Haven't you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door?!" No, it's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality. I'd chime in with a "Haven't you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door?!" No, it's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of pose! And! Rationality… again!"
As Zeeki was singing the ice golems were fighting off the guards, sending them all a run for their money. As for the peasant ghosts, they all ran out after the guards crashed in. Benches and other decorations were being destroyed by both sides and the only pones doing a thing about this was Zeeki, Frostbite and his goons, and Aragon who was trying to calm down Ember.
"Honey, what is going on?" you could tell in her voice that she trying to hold in her anger, the spell still in effect.
"Nothing sweet heart," Aragon said softly before shouting at the guards "Do something!"
"I'd chime in with a "Haven't you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door?!" No, it's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality. I'd chime in with a "Haven't you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door?!" No, it's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of pose! And-"
"Enough!" Shouted Aragon in anger as his red eyes turned blood shot and his pupils turned reptile like.
He step away from Ember, who was now with Aragon's sister Dorathea, and growled like an animal. He started to grow in size, his fingers turning into claws, a tail sprouting from behind and horning growing from where his grown was. This kept going until he was an enormous black and purple dragon with blood shot eyes.
Zeeki stood in awe, realizing who he was. It was the same dragon from his school, the one who gave him his powers after the blast.
"You!" was all Zeeki could say as Aragon rose his serpent like head above him.
"Why if it isn't the young halfa? Thought I'd roasted you already."
"Halfa?" Zeeki asked confused. Never did hear that insult from any of the ghosts before.
"Yes boy. Halfa, as in half ghost and half human," Aragon said as he started to circle around the small stage "The name use to belong to two humans who had the ability you had. Both… Disappeared and were practically replaced with that nut Inkohlakalo and apparently you. It's time I exterminate you… permanently."
As he said that Aragon threw his head back and then blasted the four with a column of blue flames. Zeeki reacted fast and sent a wall of his own blue flames around the four, keeping them safe and heard two people screaming in horror.
When it ended Zeeki took down the wall of flames and saw Aragon in shook at both Zeeki's fire and the screams behind him. He turned around to see an angry Ember, her hair flaming above her.
"Yeah!" Shouted Frostbite at his sister's return.
"Sup bro?" she asked sarcastically as she incased herself in her blue flames, burning her black dress and replaced it with a small black shit that exposed her thin stomach and right shoulder. She now had a long sleeve glove on her right but was sleeveless/gloveless on her left. She wore black rocker pants along with almost knee high skull boots and a purple electric guitar in her left hand that had a blue flame designee. The real difference was her eyes that were no longer empty but were filled with rage and revenge.
"Hey, lizard head!" She shouted to grab Aragon's undivided attention "It's about time someone clips your wings."
With that she played a loud cord on her guitar, causing Aragon to stumble back but was hit by another cord by Frostbite. The two kept this going until Aragon flew out of the chapel, to get higher ground.
"Get back here you woss!" shouted Ember angrily as she flew after him.
"Ali, Snow, get the foot soldiers," Frostbite shouted as he started to fly after them "Hot-Head, get Dorathea to help!"
"Wait," Zeeki started to argue but was too late, he was gone and so were Snow and Ali. He looked over to the depressed Princess, knowing he had to try.
"Why aren't you helping them?" He asked as he flew over to her, next to the large ruble and glass.
"Why bother? I'm not strong enough to defeat my brother. Besides why should I? I didn't stop him from blasting you from before."
Zeeki winced from the memory, not liking it but answered "Because they need you. If he's your brother then you should have the same power as him. Besides, you were just fallowing his orders. Plus if it wasn't for him I wouldn't be hear helping Frostbite or even fighting your brother."
"But… I fought him before and lost. There's no way it'll work this time."
"Oh yes it will." Zeeki said confidently, giving her his hand.
She stared at it for a moment before half smiling at it and picked up the tiara on the ground. She placed it on her head and her eyes too became blood shot and red. She soon turned into the same blue ghost dragon Zeeki fought before. She then flew towards the hole left behind by her brother, leaving Zeeki to catch up to her.
Outside was chaotic. Ember and Frostbite were flying around Aragon, blasting and hitting him with everything they had. On the ground were the ice golems fighting off the guards with the help of several other peasants, Ali and Snow.
Zeeki flew above with Dorathea who then air tackled her brother into the dead forest and shouted "Ten years since you've done this and I'm already feed up!"
There was another loud crash from the forest, obviously from Dorathea. The three ghosts flew to her, just in case if she needed help.
"Ten years of fallowing your every order when you knew Danny Phantom could just easily appear! Ten years of putting up with you prissiness and trying to help you find another bride! Ten-"
"Shut up!" yelled her brother as he now pinned her to the ground, holding her mouth closed with his fist full of claw "You're weak and pathetic! What makes you think you could take me down; you did this before and failed! The halfa scum is no longer here and never will be back! Even if he did I could easily take him down! Besides, the new pathetic halfa is weaker than the last one!"
"Hey, Aragon!" Zeeki shouted above him.
The dragon prince roared at him his attention now on Zeeki, Frostbite and Ember. The three grinned as Zeeki yelled "Is this weak!?"
Right then Frostbite blasted a ray of ice with his Cryokinesis, as did Ember with a column of fire with her Pyrokinesis, and finally Zeeki firing a powerful ghost ray. The three's attacks combines into a spiraling column of ice, fire and pure ghost energy.
Aragon acted quickly and was about to blast it back with his own fire but was stopped by his sister, who held his arms back and neck, exposing his dragon eye necklace. The attack quickly made contact with the necklace, causing Aragon to yell in pain and causing a blinding light incasing everything in the kingdom.
When the light faded Aragon was nowhere in sight. The only thing left was a tired Dorathea that was back in her original form and shards of emerald. The three floated down to her, seeing her smile.
"Thank you. My brother won't be doing any harm to this kingdom or to you three any time soon."
"Glad to hear it," Zeeki said happily before Ember coughed for his attention.
"Yo, ghost boy. I thanks and all for the help and not killing my bro. So that also means you're taking Phantom's place then?"
"Apparently," he said half-heartedly and then realized something. Apparently almost every ghost knew Danny Phantom, so what better than to ask them now. "And while we're talking, what exactly happen to this Phantom guy? I mean I heard from a lot of you guys that he basically been throwing you all back in hear?" Who is he exactly and how did he disappear?"
The three shifted uneasily, as if trying not to tell a juicy secret. The one to speak was Dorathea "I'm sorry but we can't tell you how he disappeared. It was prophesized by Clockwork that we may not say anything about Denial's disappearance but to leave that to someone else."
"Sorry 'bout that mate," Frostbite said apologetically to him, which was a surprise "and 'bout that deal, I won't be leaving this here hell hole for a while."
"What about my friends?"
"Just burn it yourself. It may be indestructible but it's mostly ice."
Zeeki gave him nod and a small smile, somewhat glad he was able to help. He turned away from the three, about ready to fly off and head back home until Frostbite called for his attention.
When he turned he gave Zeeki a handshake and said "Thanks again mate,"
"No worries," Zeeki said, feeling his hand go a bit numb.
"Next time it won't be all buddy-buddy, got it?" he said with a grin.
"Not if I melt your ass first." Zeeki returned with a grin of his own.
Ember then gaged and said with a grin "Enough with the bromance already."
Zeeki chuckled before flying off, leaving behind half of the castle destroyed and on fire but knew they could be able to fix it. The only thing that remand in Zeeki's mind was the thought of Clockwork and Danny. If he knew what happened to him then he had to find him and get some answer about him, what's his real purpose with these powers are and why he's been hearing voice from the start.