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Chapter Eleven: Ice
Dan flew over to City Hall. He noticed the large amount of people gathering there, and had figured it was almost time for the grand snow fight. He hid behind a nearby building and morphed into his human form, choosing his adult appearance over his teenage one.
He casually walked over to the snow covered lawn and found the group of teenagers he was looking for, and got down on his knees next to Danny, who was building the walls of the snow fort in front of him.
"Danny-boy!" Dan playfully slapped Danny on his back.
If Danny had been drinking anything, he would have spewed it out.
"Dan!" Danny had recognized the ghost's smooth voice "What are you doing here? I'm sure you aren't just here to play in the snow."
"And you would be right. I'm here for two reasons." Dan began poking holes in the snow fort.
"Don't do that." Danny waved Dan's hand away from the walls of the fort. "You came here to get Vlad, right?"
"Yes. That is one reason."
"Isn't it just a clone? How much satisfaction could you get out of that?" Danny had been rounding up a clump of snow in his hand.
"No, it is not a clone. You see, Vlad's spectral energy is heat based, so a clone made by his energy would not be able to stand the freezing temperature of the snow. It could stand around in it, but as soon as it gets hit by the frozen water it will vanish." Dan explained.
"So, that is actually him out there?" Danny was now ten times happier to be here.
Dan didn't answer Danny; instead he directed Danny's attention to his hands. He started forming a ball of ice, making sure it had sharp and jagged edges. He then patted the ball down with snow on top to disguise its appearance.
"Won't that cause some physical damage?" Danny asked as he watched Dan make more of lethal snow balls.
"Exactly. It will harm other humans, but I'm only aiming them at Vlad, so you can calm down. You're ghost halves make you less susceptible to injury, so it will only hurt Vlad, but it won't leave any bruising or visible damage." Dan had been planning this for quite a while now.
"Why would you attack him here? Can't you do more damage as a ghost?"
Before Dan could respond, a snowball came flying out of nowhere and hit Danny on the back of the head causing him to fall forward into the snow near Dan's deadly arsenal.
The sound of laughter coming closer was heard as Dani ran up to her fallen brother. "Oops, I guess my hand must have slipped!" She let out another round of laughs.
Dani looked to the man sitting next to Danny. "Whoa! You look just like him." She pointed to Danny, who was still face down in the snow.
Danny turned himself over so he was lying on his back. "Dani, that's Dan."
Dan let out a laugh as he pulled Dani down next to him and wrapped an arm around her waist.
"How old are you in that form?" Dani asked him.
"Twenty four. So why isn't anyone fighting?" Dan asked the young halfas.
"Vlad hasn't given his speech yet. He should be coming out any minute now that my dad is here, he is usually the one who shoves him out the door. Vlad also insists that he throw the first snow ball, so we all have to wait until then. Vlad says it makes him look like a down-to-earth person, don't ask me, I don't know how." Danny picked himself off the ground.
As if on cue, Vlad stumbled out the front door as Jack walked out behind him, giving the annoyed man a thumbs up. Vlad collected himself before approaching the podium set up in front of him.
Parents went out to get their kids from the middle of the lawn; while everyone else quieted down so Vlad could give his speech.
"Dear citizens!" Vlad began his speech and continued with many false promises and lies about caring for the children of Amity Park.
Ten minutes into the speech, Dan couldn't stand to listen to any more. He motioned for the halfas to watch. He picked up one of his lethal snow balls, and with all his strength, threw it in Vlad's direction. It slammed into the side of the man's head with such force, that it exploded into a thousand tiny pieces, and sent Vlad to the ground.
There was a moment of absolute silence.
The crowd suddenly broke out into cheers as the snow balls started flying from either side.
As mean as it might have been, Danny couldn't help but laugh. Vlad would be so pissed to have his limelight stolen.
Danny started throwing snow at the jocks who had ventured out from behind their fort in hopes of capturing the other side.
Dani followed suit, and started aiming for people who had tried to leave their fort.
Dan picked up another clump of snow coated ice and waited for another opportunity to hit Vlad.
It came when Vlad picked himself up off the stairs and looked around.
Vlad searched the area, trying to figure out where the blast had come from. His question was answered when another chunk of ice exploded over his chest, knocking him down once more.
He looked over in the direction from which it came, only to have Jack come into his view and dump a huge armful of snow on his head.
"Looking good, V-man! It seems you have another loyal fan out there." Jack said as he was bombarded by snow balls from the jocks. How could they resist? He was such an obvious target.
Jack assumed they were just playing, so he happily joined in, sending enormous amounts of snow at them.
Too bad for them, great strength came with great size.
The jocks immediately made a run back for the safety of their forts.
Danny laughed at the irony of it all.
Today had to be Vlad's worst day as a politician. He knew of only one person who could manage to conquer chunks of solid ice out of soft snow. He sent a glare in Danny's direction, but saw that the boy was occupied with some other teens.
Now that Vlad thought about it, Daniel didn't have enough strength to throw a snowball with that much force from such a distance.
It was then that Vlad noticed the man sitting next to Daniel. He looked an awful lot like the boy, and was staring straight at him.
The man made eye contact with him as he lifted up his right hand and threw a snowball in Vlad's direction.
Vlad stuck his hand outwards and caught the snowball before it could explode on any part of his person. He used his energy to melt the snow of the edges, and found the jagged chunk of ice inside.
Yes, whoever this person was, the ice attacks were coming from him.
Vlad would have to confront him later. No one ruins his image, and most certainly not his speeches.
No one.
The fight ended with the halfa's side as the victor thanks to Dan. He was able to hold down the fort single handedly while everyone made a mad dash for the opposing fort, successfully taking over it.
The parents applauded and Vlad gave a quick good-bye while escaping from snowballs thrown at him from hundreds of teenagers. He ducked and made a run to the right, off of the stairs.
The audience laughed at their mayor's antics.
Vlad smoothed out his jacket and dusted the snow off of it. He spotted the halfa teenagers with the man he was targeting.
Vlad approached the group. "Little Badger!" Vlad placed a hand on Danny's shoulder. "Who is your friend here?"
Danny pushed Vlad's hand off of his shoulder. "Go away, you fruit loop."
Vlad was about to retort when the strange man came forward. The man looked Vlad straight in the eye, making sure to show Vlad his red pupils.
"Sorry about your speech. There was so much crap in there, I couldn't bear to listen. Besides, I did everyone a favor, as you once phrased it yourself, 'It's time someone put you out of their misery.'"
Vlad recognized the voice right away as Dan's. This did not make any sense to him. How could Dan have more than one human form? He was clearly not a halfa, but when Dan was in his human form Vlad could not pick up any traces of ghostly energy from him. No matter. He still had to beat the daylights out of Dan for ruining his speech.
Vlad was about to go ghost when a voice yelled out his name.
"Mr. Masters!" The reporter came out nowhere. "Tiffany Snow here, how about a word?"
Other reporters came, trying to be the first to interview Vlad.
Dan took this opportunity to get out of there. He grabbed Danny and Dani's wrists and pulled them out of the group of camerapersons. He walked over to Sam, Tucker, and Valerie who had been chatting away on another section of the lawn.
The teens froze mid-conversation when they saw Dan as a human pull Danny and Dani to them.
When Dan stopped in front of them, Sam snapped into action. "Why did you kill all those people?"
"What are you talking about?" Dan really had no idea.
San pulled out the printed newspaper articles from her coat pocket and handed them to Dan.
Dan read over the headlines and skimmed through the summary, getting the gist of the stories. "I didn't do this. This one, yes." Dan pointed to the headline which read 'Rural Village Found Dead'. "But none of the others."
Danny grabbed the papers from Dan and looked through them once more. "So, if you didn't do this, who did?"
Dan had a pretty good idea, judging by the gruesome descriptions. "Think you guys, when was the last time you saw a force of ghost skeletons kill people."
Everyone let out a gasp, except Dani, at the same time.
"Pariah Dark!" Valerie remembered.
"No, no, no. He can't be back! I sealed him away in the sarcophagus of forever sleep! We sent the key back into the Ghost Zone! How?" Danny couldn't face Pariah Dark once more. He didn't have the Fenton Exoskeleton.
"Last time, Vlad let him out. You think he did it again?" Sam questioned.
"No, I don't think Vlad is that stupid. He couldn't control Pariah then, chances are he can't control him now." Tucker took the papers and read them over himself.
"Could it really be Pariah though? Look, this took place in India." Valerie pointed to the paper. "Wouldn't Pariah come here first to get rid of Danny and Vlad?"
"Regardless, Vlad had to have something to do with this. We're going to have to ask him some questions." Dan's anger spiked.
Stupid Vlad just had to go and ruin everything.
Technus had finally found a naturally forming portal that led to Amity Park. He couldn't just fly in through the Fenton Portal, or the halfas might have sensed him.
He flew out into the skies of the city and landed on a phone wire. He was about to turn himself into data, when an energy blast barely missed his head. He turned around to encounter the very halfas he was trying to avoid.
"Well, I was going to surprise attack you two, but this will do." Technus made the phone wires come to life and sent them after the two.
Tucker had already hooked up is PDA to the nearest power box, trying to short circuit them. Unfortunately for him, it was a little harder to do with everyone using so much electricity on their heaters.
The wires suddenly ripped apart, causing a few houses to back out, but mostly causing electricity to spew out from the openings.
The two half-ghosts split ways as the wires also split in order to follow them.
Danny smiled to himself. That was the problem with Technus; he never had a real strategy when it came to fighting. Then again, Danny himself never had any real strategy when he himself was fighting, just lots of dumb luck.
Valerie came up from behind Technus, and activated her suit. She could attack him while he was distracted with the others.
Sam was standing by with a thermos. She couldn't enter the battle field until it was time to capture the ghost, and without any sort of weapons she would only get in the way.
The halfas flew in circles around each other until the wires were tied up in knots.
Technus was going to have the wires send out enormous amounts of electricity at the two, when they suddenly dropped dead.
"Ha ha! Another win for nerds and geeks worldwide!" Tucker cheered as he shut down the power mainframe.
A lot of shouting could be heard from nearby houses as the entire city blacked out.
Tucker looked around. "Uh…oops?"
Valerie shot forward and hit Technus square in the back. She then made a quick U-turn and fired more shots at the ghost.
"Hey! I upgraded your suit, and this is how you thank me?" Technus yelled out.
"Here, let me give you a proper thank you then!" Valerie pulled out one of the new guns she had obtained from the Fenton Works. She fired many more blasts in his direction as he maneuvered out of the way.
Dan had been standing off to the side, next to Sam, in his human form the entire time.
Technus had shown up about fifteen minutes after the snow fight had ended, and the teens had stuck around for that time.
It's not that Dan didn't care; it was more like he wanted to see how well the teens fought. He hadn't had a chance to actually see their powers, or Dani's current ones for that matter. He knew they had the basic powers, but he hadn't seen any elemental or special energy based attacks from either of them.
Technus had to rely on his natural abilities as a ghost now that everything was powered out.
Danny fired a few ice beams at him while Dani used normal spectral beams.
They fired simultaneously, both of their attacks hitting him, and sent him into the ground.
Sam stepped forward and sucked Technus into the thermos, ending the fight.
Dan processed the information. Danny had developed his elemental powers, but it didn't look like Dani had even tapped into hers yet.
"Dani!" Dan yelled to the floating halfa "Do you have any elemental powers?"
Dani floated down to Dan. "No, none that I know of."
Dan thought to himself for a moment. "I'm going to go question Vlad about these." He held up the printed news articles "I'll see you guys later."
Dan returned to his ghost form and flew off into city hall.
"Should we head on home? I think your parents might be here for awhile Danny." Sam called out to him. She had seen them talking with Vlad outside, and Vlad usually spent a lot of time with them if Maddie was there.
"Let's head to the Nast Burger. I'm kind of hungry myself." Danny landed and turned back into a human.
Dani landed next to him and did the same.
"I'm cool with that." Tucker unhooked his PDA from the power box.
The group packed away their gear and headed to their favorite burger joint.
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This chapter is dedicated to Deviant artist Windmaster1 for drawing the picture of Dan as a human adult.
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