Maddie's Intuition
By: Linkmaste
"What do you want Vlad?" Danny growled turning into Danny Phantom. Finally the device that set him into permanent human form wore off. Vlad just stood there in the shadows in his ghost form smirking.
"Oh contraire Daniel, I was wanting to ask you something. How does it feel to have your mother as a half ghost? I feel very excited as she can now understand me and fall in love with moi instead of that idiot Jack Fenton."
Danny just smirked and leaned against the wall. "Oh thank God. I thought you were one of those weird zombie guys. You really scared me there for a minute."
"And what makes you think that I am not one of them?" Vlad smirked stepping out of the shadows. A broken blood red wing was there on the right side of his back. Danny made a face of disgust.
"Please don't tell me you just volunteer to take that virus Vlad. Because that would be one of the most disgusting and horrible things you have done. Don't you see? You're a full ghost now and I don't think my mom will ever see you the same way again."
At that time Vlad eyes glowed a violent red and shouted.
"She will love me no matter what!"
Danny snorted and turned the other way walking towards the door but Vlad was suddenly there.
"Daniel have you ever heard of a ghost scandal?" Danny shook his head lost of what was going to happen from this. "Its like a sword fight. Expect your powers of invisibly, intangibility, and basically every other power expect ectoblasts. You use that power to conjure a sword or a knife I honestly done care."
"And why would I do this?"
Vlad smirked and showed him the missing piece for the door at the entrance.
"Oh and a message from Ramon. He says if you do get past me which wont happen you will have to pass the sewers which by the way are quite a adventure to get through. Kind regards." The ghost smirked as he lifted up a hand. Danny sighed and knew this was a bad idea but put his hand up. Vlad murmured a few words and a swirl of neon pink and green swirled around into the ornament.
"Our powers are bound into the ornament. When one of us is knocked out then the powers will return. Lets begin." Vlad summoned a grand sword its pink shimmered in the light that was streaking through a lone window.
Danny closed his eyes shut and focused on a weapon. It suddenly came into his hand and he opened it. It was a staff. The middle was black while the tips were white. But it had an unearthly green glow to it. Danny's eyes shifted to Vlad's who made the first move thrusting down upon the 15-year-old boy.
Rolling to the side he felt a sharp sting on his cheek. A cut that was all, Danny had been lucky. Cautiously he started to study Vlad's attack patterns. It looks like he was doing the same. Danny sung the staff around his head and stuck Vlad's sword. The clashing and banging was exciting to Danny. Bending backward Vlad's sword was where Danny's throat was there. He was seating at an inhuman rate. Of course he wasn't human but it felt so unnatural to sweat from this.
Danny saw an opening he jabbed Vlad in the groin and hit Vlad on top of his head. Normally Vlad would go down no problem but his full ghost made him harder. All he did was growl and charge. I charged and we clashed weapons in a war. The moment was intense for the both of them. Danny eyes narrowed when he started to talk to Vlad.
"So why this Vlad? Why kill over a hundred people for just one woman?"
"You foolish boy this was more than that! This was about the Ghost Zone too! Did you know about Ember? How she was going to become Queen? Yes the elders of the Ghost Zone were thinking of Ember. Who couldn't? No offence but she was one of the best leaders anyone ever saw."
"So take her out and you will present yourself to the elders to become King of the Ghost Zone?" Vlad broke through Danny's staff and made a clean swipe on Danny's chest. It spurted with green blood since Danny was still in his ghost form. Green eyes glowing intense he parried Vlad's attack and sent Vlad's weapon out of hand. Vlad turned but Danny caught him as he plunged his staff down. Vlad though took hold of the staff and held it tight inches away from his chest. Another intense moment took the breath from both of them. The white haired boy was the first to catch his tongue.
"I will say it once and I will say it a thousand times. You. Are. One. Seriously. Crazed. Up. Fruitloop."
Vlad kicked Danny away and got up and picked up his sword and was about to plunge it into Danny but Danny was not there. With a shock look on his face he turned around to see Danny high in mid air. Time slowed down. Danny's staff pushed the sword away leaving Vlad exposed. Danny clenched his teeth and eyes and gave a huge headbutt to Vlad.
Time returned to normal and the two tumbled down. Danny had tears sparking into his eyes but they left when he felt his power come back to him. Vlad was there unconscious with the award in his hand. Quickly he picked it up ran towards the door but stopped. An evil smirk grew on this child's face. He picked up a pot and put it over his head. Hopeful that will buy him some time.
"Danny!" cried his mother who embraced him. She looked over the man lying on the floor. "Who's that Danny?"
"No one mom. Just no one." Maddie gave him a funny look but sighed and left the room.
"Hey guys!" Ember called as she came out of another door to catch up with Maddie and Danny. They both had a look on their face saying, why didn't you tell us? "Did I miss something guys?"
"Ember you never said you were going to become Queen of the Ghost Zone. Why did you hide it from us?" Maddie narrowed her eyes and she dragged her teenage son into the murky shallow water.
"I- how did you- I couldn't Maddie. Plus I didn't think I was actually going to get chosen. No wonder they wanted me. Well the elders would be hearing about this. Especially Artemis. She will be pissed beyond reason." Ember gave a small chuckle but stopped at the cricket sound.
"What was that?" Danny asked as he went ghost. Maddie went ghost also and focused on the sounds. Flapping her wings she went forward but was suddenly unable to move.
"Guys get out of here it's a TRAP!" Maddie yelled as a huge bear like monster came out of nowhere and captured everyone. Danny broke free but was bound by the long slick of the monster's black tongue. Ember gave a cry of disgust but held down the urge to throw up.
"Go GHOST STINGER!" Danny screamed feeling his throat getting raw of all of the yelling he was doing lately. The powers in him build up to his arms then hands and were sent up to the horrid creature. It screamed in pain and scrammed around trying to recover. The other wolves were confused from its mate and let their guard down. Maddie knew this was her only chance and threw ectoblasts at it. Ember did the same.
The next minutes were filled with screeches and blood. All green but occasionally red since Danny became human for a minute.
"I'm sick of this shit get behind me now!" Danny took a huge breath and let out a ghostly wail. The bears were being thrown violently to the wall with their necks breaking and everything. Only one survived which turned intangible and fled.
Danny turned back into his human self and slumped to the floor. His vision started to get blurry but fought back. Finally he stayed awake and just relaxed.
"Lets rest here for awhile." Maddie said but Ember spoke back with thought.
"That bear went away to get backup. We got to get out of here fast." Silently Danny agreed and started to get up but Maddie forced him back down and returned to her human form. Carefully she picked him up and they walked forward. The halls were silent and empty with a few echoes of the water dropping onto the cold floor.
No one said a word until Maddie came up with a topic idea.
"Hey Danny want to tell us a few stories of having your ghost powers?"
"Sure…"
And so Danny told Ember and Maddie about how he got his powers and talked about his future self but left two very important things out. Vlad and Dan Phantom. He was not really sure if Vlad had the truce and Danny couldn't speak about him yet. It was just too painful thinking of how it was tied with the death of his mother. Well technically she was dying right now. If she doesn't get the virus out soon she will start to loose her life for good and her mind.
"And so the box ghost said BEWARE while we were-" Danny stopped when he shivered and his ghost sense went off. So did Maddie's
They were in front of a door but a wall was beside so they hid there until they felt themselves freezing. Ember was the one watching. Her eyes went huge and wide as she started to turn back to her halfa friends.
"It's a wandering spirit. They are rare to find but are here for very important reasons. They can do both good and bad and nothing can stop them. The best solution for this is to not let them see you cause we are S.O.L if we are caught."
"What's S.O.L?" Maddie asked giving Ember an odd look.
"Shit out of Luck." Smiled Ember and crept towards the door. Danny and Maddie followed. Maddie had the idea of just turning invisible but couldn't tell Ember that right now since the spirit was a couple of meters away of them. It looked like a butler from those haunted stories but she was glad she was not seeing the front of him. Danny looked a little paler and for once feeling a little helpless.
Finally Maddie shut the wooden door quietly and pinned herself against a cold, stone wall. Another spirit this time a little black girl was walking down.
Danny's ice blue eyes widened as he saw that she had no eyes and half of her skin was worn and bloody. He couldn't look away but found himself breathing again as Maddie carried him up a flight of stairs. He was starting to notice that they were going higher yet lower. Finally they opened a door and leapt in the air.
Ahead of them was the same room where they started the mission of finding the three ornaments to get to the next room. They filled the empty spots and the tablet started to crumble. After the hard work of climbing over they found themselves in a grand ball room area. About 5 pillars were all around the room with vines covering them with a balcony above them. Glass windows were at the top and the sun was shining through them. Salazar was in the middle clapping his hands.
"Well done everyone! Well done. I must say encore!" A shrill evil laughter escaped his pale blue lips.
"You sick freak you nearly killed us!" Danny cried struggling but couldn't since Maddie held him tight telling him not to move.
"Oh is that sweet. A mother and son moment touché!" Suddenly Ramon started to change. His height started to grow until he was six feet! His hands and feet started to turn scaly and snake like. His mouth turned into a snout and horns erupted from his head. The eyes still amber but more vicious and killer like. Salazar turned into a snake, horn like monster. All of his clothes were ripped into shreds from the transformation.
"Oh great. After this there is going to be one less monster to worry about," Ember said grinning.
Maddie put Danny down near the entrance and told him to stay put unless emergency. Maddie felt the white rings of light from around her and her hair changed from brown to light blue and her eyes turned green. The dress was still the same red with black ribbons. Flapping her now bony wings, she fled towards the monster named Ramon Salazar.