I don't own Danny Phantom or any of the character. They are doing a life sentence with their original owners with the chance of parole. Enjoy part 11 of Death is only the beginning.
Vlad's Castle the next morning
"Damn it, that boy sending me to a frozen wasteland with that annoying ghost as company!" Vlad said annoyed.
Vlad was then followed by a fat ghost wearing lavender and yellow pajamas. He had blond hair, blue skin that looked like he had froze to death, and was buck toothed.
"Come on vampire ghost, I just want to be your friend." Klemper said in his normally cheerful tone while smiling his best.
"I would sooner marry the Lunch lady than be your friend! Now leave me alone before I end you!" Vlad said with venom in his voice.
Klemper upset due to the fact he was rejected took a deep breath and blow his ice breath at Vlad freezing him in the process before flying away through Vlad's ghost portal. Vlad unable to broke free growled in annoyance at his situation.
'This is all Daniel's fault, but I can't do anything about it not without having to feel the wrath of Pandora! There has to be some way to neutralize her so I can bend Daniel to my will!" Vlad said to himself.
"No matter, if the direct approach doesn't work, then I can use my pawns to do my dirty work." Vlad though as he tried to break free again only to fail. "As soon as I get out of this block of ice!" Vlad said still struggling to break free.
Ghost zone skull island 4 hours later
Skulker was doing his usual hunting on his island to past the time. Skulker was a large metallic ghost with green flaming hair. He wore a black shirt, grey gloves with weapons installed in them, matching black pants and grey boots. He was about to move in for the kill on his prey when his cell phone went off scaring off his prey.
"Damn it! Whoever is calling me now is going to get it when I see them next!" Skulker said. (In this Fanfic Skulker has is first voice not his second)
Skulker hit the button on his arm and spoke.
"I don't know who you are, but you just cost me my prey! When I meet up with you..."
"You will do no such thing unless you want me to destroy you!" Vlad interrupted.
'If it wasn't for him supplying me with fancy upgrades or him being able to rip me apart I swear I wouldn't put up with his crap.' Skulker thought to himself extremely annoyed.
"Plasmius I didn't know it was you. So what hunt do you have in stored for me today?" Skulker asked having his anger replaced with fear.
"Nothing much, I... just want you to... bring me the... ghost boy. I don't care if... he is within an... inch of his afterlife... when you bring... him here." Vlad answered trying to hide the shivering in his voice.
"What happened to you? It sounds like you were in a freezer or something?"
"That stupid... Klemper froze me when... I refused to be... his friend. I had to... wait 4 hours... to thaw out." Vlad explained causing Skulker to laugh inside his head.
'Oh god this is rich he was frozen solid by Klemper. I am going to have to tell this to Ember she will get a real kick out of this.' Skulker thought before voicing his answer.
"Sorry but no can do. I may be a hunter, but even what prey not to go after. Especially when the prey is friends with Pandora the most feared ghost in the ghost zone." Skulker answered.
'The very thought of hearing those words sent nearly sent Vlad into a frenzy. It was bad enough that he was getting resistance from his pawn. But add to the fact that he was more scared of Pandora than him? It didn't sit well with Vlad in the least.
'Pandora is more feared than myself? Well I guess I am going to have to put her up there on the top of my to off list along with Jack. Like Jack she is a thorn in my side that is stopping me from getting what I want, and she has taken something that is rightfully mine.' Vlad thought to himself find the reasons to Justify his desire to off the two.
"I am prepared to reward you with some serious upgrades for your success as well as give you some extra upgrades for just taking the mission." Vlad said trying to sweeten the pot.
"I don't care how many upgrades you are offering me, doing anything to wrong Pandora is not wise." Skulker said with knowing the consequences of whose who dared to cross her.
'This isn't getting me anywhere. When you are such a thorn that even my pawns are afraid to do my bidding you defiantly have to go. But even if this doesn't work you are still going Pandora.' Vlad thought to himself before using his next tactic.
"I thought you were a hunter Skulker, the best in the ghost zone. I thought that you would take on any prey for the right price or just for the sport of it." Vlad replied causing Skulker to raise and eyebrow. "I guess I was wrong to think that you were the best hunter in the ghost zone. Seeing as I am not the most feared anymore maybe I will take the title as the ghost zone's greatest hunter for myself instead." Vlad said hitting a nerve in Skulker.
This tactic worked hook line and sinker for several reasons. While Skulker in fact did fear Pandora due to the stories and what he saw her do first hand, this was overwritten by another emotion called pride. Skulker while he was one of the more deadly ghosts in the ghost zone due took massive pride in being the best at something just like others. For Ember it was being the best rocker star ghost, for the box ghost it was being the best collector of human junk and for him it was having the title of being the greatest hunter in the ghost zone. When it came to his employer he knew that he didn't just bluff when he made threats he actually kept them and seeing the pelts on his cottage in the human world he was not going to let him muscle in on his turf consequences be damned.
"I am coming right now to get my upgrades for your mission. No one is taking my title away from me not even you!" Skulker said as he hung up his phone and proceeded in flying towards Vlad's portal entrance.
'Heh even if I am not the most feared I am still the best manipulator both in the human world and the ghost zone. Soon I will have what I want and life with be going exactly how it is supposed to be.' Vlad thought to himself smiling a sinister smile.
Pandora's Realm
"Danny you have element power within you. If you didn't you wouldn't have your ghost sense." Pandora said in an normal tone.
"How can you tell? I know you have the elements of Fire, and Lighting, but how does my ghost sense say I have a element power within me?" Danny asked still confused.
"With age comes experience Danny, and I have seen others just like you in the past. Your ghost sense is just your breath lowered to below freezing due to your cyrokinetic power. Also during one of our training sessions I noticed another trait within you that suggests you might have hydrokinetic abilities as well." Pandora replied causing Danny to actually smile at the thought of this.
'Water and Ice powers? Man this is so cool.' Danny thought to himself enjoying the fact that he had two different elemental powers like Pandora.
"Do you have power over the elements of ice, and water as well Pandora?" Danny asked his mentor.
"No Danny it would be impossible for me to gain control over those elements. You see Danny element power within ghosts that have it most of the time reflects their personality. Since most of the time I am full of rage and fury it is natural for me to wield fire and lighting. Water however, is cool and relaxing. Most beings that had have this power went with the flow of their lives/afterlives and didn't sweat the small stuff." Pandora explained causing a light bulb to go off in his head.
'That sounds about right for me. When I was alive even if things did bother me I rarely voiced how it bothered me.' Danny thought to himself.
"Ice since it is another form of water goes by that similar principle. But normally those who have one unless they have atmokinetic powers or completely mastery over all forms of water don't have the other.(AN: No Danny will not have Atmokinetic powers in this story) But since most of the time when I was alive I was filled with rage and fury those two elements became mine." Pandora explained to Danny causing him to raise an eyebrow.
"I understand what you are saying Pandora, but you aren't always full of rage and fury. You are calm like water when you are around me. I mean besides from when we are training. If everyone got to see the Pandora I see that is buried underneath all that rage and fury you I am willing to bet you would have plenty of visitors and friends instead of just one." Danny pointed out earning a smile from his mentor.
'Actually there is another reason why I have so much rage and fury but that is for another time. Maybe one day I will tell him the full story on the jade amulet I told him to bring back to me sometime ago.' Pandora thought to herself in a calm tone.
"Let's not stray too far from the original subject matter. While I would love to help you master these abilities as I explained I have no experience with them. You are going to have to find a teacher or teachers who specialize in these powers."
'Well that is a bummer, seeing as I can't master my elemental abilities as of yet. But that doesn't mean I can try to get some control over them before I do get some teachers for them.' Danny thought to himself smiling at the fact that he had elemental power period.
Vlad's Castle home
"Vlad, I am here for those upgrades you said you had for me. While I won't need them to beat him, I will need them in case his 'girlfriend' shows up." Skulker said adding the last part jokingly.
Ignoring Skulkers joke Vlad pointed him in the direction of his upgrades.
"They are over there Skulker. They will make you up to five time faster, and stronger than you normally are. Also this armor component can convert lighting and fire based attacks into energy for your suit. That should help you if you have to deal with Pandora. Lastly this upgrade will neutralize your targets for a short period. Now I expect to see results understand?" Vlad said in a very stern tone.
"I still think you are nuts for asking me to do this, and myself even more nuts for accepting the task so you don't go for my title but whatever." Skulker said just as he went through the portal on his way to Danny's Realm.
'That right my big metallic pawn, go do my dirty work for me. Little does he know that those updates will record every move that happens and will send the data back to me. So even if you fail I won't be empty handed.' Vlad thought to himself.
Danny's realm thirty minutes later
Even though his realm was very noisy at the moment, Danny was used to the noise and somehow able to find himself at peace. When Danny opened his eyes he didn't see Pandora, but a black room he didn't recognize.
"Woah where am I? Last I remembered I was at my realm so why am I even here?" Danny asked only to see several locked doors within the room.
"I guess what Pandora told me was right. But why do I see several doors that are completely black?" Danny asked getting no answer.
Curious to what each of these doors meant he began to walk towards one and upon getting to it place his hand on it. Upon putting his hand on the first door he immediately retracted it only for it to be covered with frost.
'So whatever is behind this door is extremely cold if it made my hand free like that. Maybe I should try another door.' Danny thought as we walked over to the next door and like the first one placed his hand on it.
Upon doing so the frost on his hand turned fell off and turned into cold water before disappearing. Having a clue of what might be behind the second door Danny walked towards the third. However, before he could open the door a swirling vortex appeared and pulled him in. Danny continued to fall through the vortex until he feel into a white abyss.
Danny's realm reality
When he opened his eyes this time for real, he was face to face with Skulker.
"Greetings child, It is time for you to come with me and say good-bye to Pandora!" Skulker said only for Danny to go intangible on him breaking free of his grip. "Why do they always want to do this the hard way? Oh who am I kidding the hunt wouldn't be any fun if it wasn't done this way." Skulker said as he used his new upgrades to move 3 times faster than he normally would be.
"Why don't get yourself a new hobby besides hunting? You are more obsessed with it than..." Danny never got the chance to finish his thought as Skulker fist connected with his jaw silencing the young ghost.
"Woah that speed is new as well as the some of that stuff you have." Danny replied earning a smile from Skulker.
"You like? I just got them today from my employer just for taking the job of hunting you."Skulker said enjoying the look on his prey's face. "They make me so much faster than I was before child, and unlike before you don't stand a chance against me!" Skulker said only for Danny to get annoyed.
Danny attempted to make a portal but he couldn't do it in time and as a result of this Danny got clothes lined by Skulker.
'That is going to leave a mark. He is coming back again move Danny move.' Danny told himself as he barely avoided Skulker's second clothes line.
"I take it you also watch a lot of wrestling." Danny said rubbing his sore neck. "That close line was dead on." Danny said earning another smile from Skulker.
"When I am not hunting or preparing for a hunt I watch human wrestling seeing as it has people hitting people. But enough small talk I am not getting paid for that." Skulker explained before coming back at a faster speed to nail Danny once again.
'Use you head Danny, While Skulker has improved speed he still has a weakness. But how will I... wait that is it!' Danny thought as he made 3 clones of himself.
Seeing Danny do this Skulker turned on his ectoplasmic scanner and upon seeing the 4 Danny's pointed to one and smiled.
"You may be able to clone yourself, but I can tell the real from the fakes!" Skulker said as he charged towards the real Danny.
"That is what we were hoping for!" The clones said as one of them sent a beam of energy of ectoplamsic energy at Skulker only for them to bounce off.
"You are joking right? That didn't even put a scratch in my armor!" Skulker laughed as he turned his attention from the original to beat up Danny's clones until they went back into their master.
Seeing Danny down for the count Skulker took off a full speed closing in on Danny. However, just before he was about to close line Danny once again he disappeared from Danny realm causing the young Halfa to smile.
"Heh Heh Heh got you Skulker but still I am glad that worked." Danny thought as he closed the invisible portal he made. "I am so going to have update my skills if I am going to keep up with my enemies." Danny said to himself as Pandora walked into the room.
"I see you got rid of your uninvited guest without my help. Very good Danny, but he will be back." Pandora said passively.
"I know but for now I am going to explore around the ghost zone. Hopefully I will be able to find a teacher for my new elements. If I get lost I will make a path here." Danny said as Pandora went through the doorway that linked their realms together before leaving his.
Fenton works
Maddie seeing the results of her pupils couldn't help but smile. Seeing as School was out due to the Box ghost's attack they all had nothing to do for the next 2 months. So to make sure that this didn't happen again Maddie took in Danny's friends, her daughter, and Dash as her pupils.
"Good Job Sam, Tucker, Jazz, and Dash. At the rate you are going you will make fine ghost hunters." Maddie said praising her pupils.
"Wow Dash, I never though you could be good at anything other than sports no offense." Tucker said.
"None taken. But you seen what happened especially with that Box ghost. I mean if he is the weakest named ghost according to Fenton, I could only imagine what the others are like. 'Though I hope we don't have to fight that Ember one.'" Dash said whispering the last part.
"I will see you all here tomorrow at the same time. Now I need to make dinner for my family." Maddie replied before walking up the stairs leaving the foursome on their own.
"I need to leave as well. While I have no gripes with any of you, I still have a reputation to uphold. So when we get back in school or are outside our training you know the rules." Dash replied before leaving the group.
"I am going to work on my memoirs as well. I will see the two of you later." Jazz replied before going upstairs.
Well I guess that leaves the..." Tucker never got the chance to finish his thought as he cellphone started beeping. Upon looking at it he saw he had gotten a text message and frowned. "Sorry Sam but I have to leave. My parents have been very edgy since the Box ghost's last attack. See you tomorrow." Tucker replied before going through the portal.
'I thought they would never leave.' Sam thought to herself as she looked at the one way portal Danny made. 'I know this is stupid, but I really want to see what is on the other side of this portal. Who knows, I might run into Danny and we can explore it together just the two of us. I mean how bad can the ghost zone be?.' Sam thought to herself as she put on her custom-made black and purple Hazmat suit and jumped into the Fenton portal.
Stage out.
So end Chapter 11 of Death is only the beginning. I Made a lot of changes in this one from the original. From error checking (Sorry if I missed some) to adding and removing dialog from the story. Any thoughts comments, concerns? PM me or leave them in your review. R and R.
