Finally got those stitches removed, am feeling less pain.
Cursed gallstones. Praise the doctors that created the cholecystectomy.
Still there is something I am missing…aside from the gallbladder and the stitches…
Am working on many stories…but that is not it…
Couldn't post last week because couldn't finish chapter…
What to do? What to do?
Rest? Makes sense, am must tired and partially incapable of coherence or minimal grammar…
But there is something- Crap I should have posted the chapter earlier.
Daniel was home, the house he lived in with the Soris was simple; two floors, a few burn marks they hadn't painted over, all of them new, and some clashing windows since they would have to replace them frequently. It has a special charm because of its appearance and how it made it stand out when compared to the other houses near it.
"So, where are your uncle and aunt?" Beth asked curious. She looked happy and excited to be there.
"They are out of town, some convention." Daniel told her happy. He liked the couple even if he saw the same flaws the Fentons had. He was working on it though. "Zeke is studying something from what he told me and Carla is hanging out with a friend." He told her, he was glad Valerie and Carla were friends, Zeke and Karen were researching the supernatural with that women from what they had told him and were spending a lot of time there.
"So you said things were in the basement." Beth asked curious. "I guess it is where it makes the most sense to have it." She said smiling.
"Yes, most researchers have labs in the basement; it is harder for people to get in there." He told her. "And it doesn't show on blueprints, they told me they expanded the basement several times over the years, it is bigger than the house." He explained.
"I bet there are a lot of things there, powerful things." She said.
"Some, they used a few spells to help expand the basement and all that, but the most dangerous things are usually encased in concrete and hidden, some things are too dangerous and unstable." He told her smiling.
She turned around as she hid her smile, it was savage and feral. She was so near it.
He walked up to the door to unlock it, quickly the large door opened and they went down.
"I think I know some of those things, ancient scrolls for spells like gold creation." She muttered surprised.
"They are useless; you need human lives, usually from the caster, to make it work." Daniel explained as he laughed. "I am pretty sure whoever created that knew about it." He said as he pointed towards another scroll.
"That is a necromantic spell." Beth said surprised.
"It turns bodies into zombies, including the caster." Daniel told her as he recalled his encounter. "It is funny how many of those scrolls backfire in the most amazing way." He told her.
"That old fool did trick us." Beth muttered once Daniel was far away from her. "So you ever faced anything supernatural." She asked smiling.
"Zombies here and there, there was this guy that turned into a vampire but didn't feed for months before he attacked me." He told her as he remembered. "I was involved even before I came here and I just help them once in a while." He told her.
"Have you heard of the Neo Salem?" She asked him curious.
"Fanatics, crazy, locos." He told her smiling. "They seem to be laying low for now." He told her not worried.
"Unfortunately that is not the case." She said disappointed. "But they will be down soon enough." She said as she punched him.
Daniel went down; the punch was enough to render him unconscious since his human form was far more frail and prone to that kind of thing. She pulled out her phone and made the call.
"The kid is down, tragic. Yes I left him alive I want to savor him later, but almost all of the old man's scrolls are here and he seems to be capable of reading them, and there are several other things here too, it is better than we ever hoped." She said smiling, her fangs now far more noticeable than before.
"This place is huge." Rachel said as she entered the basement.
"I know, it is bigger than the house at this point, but it is empty it had hundreds of artifacts." Zeke told her. He had come home with Karen and they noticed the door was open, they went down and it was empty and Daniel was missing. "Whoever took everything took Daniel too." He said worried.
"If someone managed to take him they are dangerous, it probably isn't the government since there are no bullet holes in here." Zeke said as he looked around. "We need to find him." He said as he looked around.
"Well whoever took it is dangerous, I don't want to have them coming after us next." Rachel said as she nodded.
"I will have to look for he-" He wasn't able to finish what he was saying as his sister interrupted him.
"Where is everything?" She asked as she entered the basement.
"Someone took everything and Daniel, we have to find him." He told her worried.
"…I know someone that can help, was it Neo Salem?" Carla asked worried.
"We don't know." He told her.
At this point Carla was staring Rachel confused.
"I am…helping her with some research." Zeke told her.
"Alright then, I will call Valerie. We both owe a lot to Daniel." She told her brother as she walked away.
It took around thirty minutes until another person appeared, she had a dark blue armor and she simply waltzed into the basement spooking most of the people there, Karen most of all since she recognized the weapons she had.
"Okay who took Daniel…who are those people?" The girl asked as she looked around. "And the ghost." She said noticing Karen who was frozen in place.
"My brother, a woman he is helping with paranormal research and a ghost that helps them too." Carla explained casually. "I should have told you there were other people here, but let's focus on Daniel." Carla groaned.
"Do you have any cameras here?" Valerie asked.
"No, they are too expensive." Carla said frowning. "Do you guys know any way to find him? Maybe a spell?" She asked her brother.
"I know one; there is a summoning spell that might be able to locate him." He told her as he got up. "I think I have it in one of my journals, I will get it soon." He told her as he walked upstairs.
"So…how is everything going?" Valerie asked Rachel and the ghost as she put her weapons away. The ghost girl was stiff, frozen in fear and the werewolf woman was confused.
"They are well." Rachel said.
"Good." Valerie said as she looked around.
They didn't talk until Zeke returned.
"There is no way this is legal." Danny said as he sat in the gray room, there were nothing only walls. Usually in movies there is the glass that allows them to see you but here there was nothing.
"You were in possession of dangerous technology, so was your family." A synthetic voice answered. "Our organization keeps technology that is too dangerous to the world." The voice explained.
"And that is the reason you kidnapped us?" Danny asked angry.
"Yes." The voice answered.
"Why? I was just trying to get to space, I probably couldn't get to NASA so I decided to get there on my own." Danny said as he tried to get up, the two metal rings on his wrists pulled him to the table.
"I see." The voice said slightly intrigued. "You claim you had no intention of using your technology as a way to get profit." The voice asked.
"I could get money from a few of the component, maybe, but I am still years away from it." Danny said annoyed.
"You were able to get into orbit with a makeshift ship in less than ten minutes, that doesn't sound like years away from it." The voice accused.
"I had to use my parent's technology, ghost technology." Danny explained. "I don't like using it, I have to find a power source that works, I have to find a way to make a shield that isn't dependent on ghosts and I have years of work and study left until I finish it." Daniel admitted looking down.
The wall in front of her shimmered and soon a women dressed in a suit appeared. She had dark hair and was wearing dark sunglasses. Spooky.
"Very well, come." She told him as she handed him a badge with a picture of him. "That is a level zero access card, you are a guest in our facility and have restricted access." She explained.
They walked through the wall that apparently had a door, the wall was made of thick metal and it looked like it could hold anything. Danny and the women walked down the halls and he saw the base was huge and seemed to have many labs.
"Where are my parents?" He asked.
"They needed a larger dose of the sedative we used; they will be out for more time." The women explained. "When they are awake I want you to help to calm them down, your father is stronger than half of our man and your mother is more dangerous than all of them." The women explained calm.
"As long as you don't hurt us, it is alright." He told her shrugging.
"Good, we have encountered dangerous people over the years; that room isn't reinforced like that for no reason." She told him. "It is a big world out there Daniel Fenton, there are many things lurking in the dark." She said ominously.
"I spend two days fighting a ghost invasion, I am quite aware of what lives in the dark." He told her making her smile.
"Indeed you did, we have footage of that event." She told him. "The G.I.W. is sorely incompetent when dealing with ghosts, it was one of the reasons we left your family free to pursue their research." She explained.
"What about Phantom?" He asked curious. "Is that the reason you didn't try to take him down." The women smirked.
"We have limited information on him ever since the…split." She told him. "But we knew you were once him, we came across that information very recently I am afraid." She told him looking down a little.
"…split?" He asked.
"The secret branches of the American Government were always rivals to one another, the G.I.W. and the other Paranormal investigation agencies have separated from us, they were about to be decommissioned but managed to take many of their resources and go into hiding." She told him.
"So there is a secret war going on." Daniel said surprised.
"Yes, our organizations are capable of surviving for years even without direct help from the government, the supernatural research ones are far less self sufficient, and they wasted a lot of money on their research and archived very little." She told him.
"But why am I here?" Danny asked.
"A few weeks ago we found this in the city called Melas." She said showing a laser pistol; it looked eerily familiar to Danny. "It is a modified ghost weapon, now a laser weapon. You parent's design." She told him.
"…they made that; there is no one that can make something like that." Danny said as he stared. "You think they sold this to this group?" Danny asked worried.
"It is the most likely scenario, but we didn't notice any unusual money transaction so far." She told him with a small smile.
"Thankfully I don't think they would sell their weapons like that, they don't trust the people that would buy them." He said frowning. "It is more likely the group convinced them to give it to them. They went to Melas a few months ago to hunt…Daniel." He told her.
"The ghost of Melas, we have some information about that he is half of Phantom isn't he?" She asked.
"Phantom is half of him." Danny corrected. "They failed in killing him and they left the city unprotected." He told her making her nod.
"How much do you know about him? We have little information." She asked.
"He came to our house a week ago, he was pissed, he broke the automated weapons, the reinforced door and got to the basement, he looked for the device that made them know I was a half ghost, he discovered the device was tampered with by someone." He told her. "I was trying to get help to my parents, maybe this time it would work." He muttered.
"Do you know who did that?" She asked.
"No, he doesn't either. I don't remember anything from my time as a ghost, my memories are gone but he has all of our memories." He told her. "He is a good person but…he has our pain and that almost drove him over the edge, mom and dad chasing him to another town didn't help." The women nodded as she understood what he had said.
"Thank you for your help, we will need time to make our decision." She told him.
"Who are you people?" Danny asked.
"I am Director Anderson; I am in charge of the Space Exploration Division." She told him smiling. "I am looking forward to our next meeting." She told him as she pointed towards his room.
Daniel was still being held unconscious in a small room, there was a chemical that was making sure he was asleep; near him the vampires were plotting their next move.
"We can make our move soon." Beth said as she looked around. "The relics, talismans, magical gems there were all sorts of things in there. We will be unstoppable." She said smiling.
"We will be. The Neo Salem will fall, the city will fall and soon everything else." The other vampire said. "And as we promised you will get a place in the council, ever since the purge our numbers were greatly reduced, having only two other than myself." He told her.
"I am glad I can be of use." She said smiling. "But I have an idea, why don't we attack Neo Salem first; with them out of the way we would have little difficulty with the city's police and the armed citizens." She proposed.
"I don't believe that is a good decision, they will be having an advantage on their base." Another vampire said with a deep frown.
"Not if we draw them out, we use the werewolves with a few handlers to bait them and while they fight we overwhelm their base." She explained.
The four vampires were silent for a moment, the rest of the council considering what she was saying. After a few minutes the oldest looking of them spoke.
"It is a viable plan, with the Soris out of the town and their artifacts we might be able to defeat the Neo Salem and their Hunters once and for all." He said pleased. "It is good to know that there is new blood among the council, those old man have such simple minds." He said laughing.
"We were turned on our prime, you are a fossil." The leader said frowning.
"I might be, but I have vision, and I have allies." He said smiling.
The two other members were impaled by stakes before they could react.
"Their plan was so wasteful, it is almost pitiful." Beth said smiling.
"I think they were senile, the oldest was fifteen hundred years old, and we who are less than five hundred are on our prime not them." The old man said laughing as well. "I am to believe you have plans for the boy?" He asked.
"He might be a good enough helper, knows a lot about the supernatural." She said smile. "We will wake him up later; there are a few things we want to know." She said smiling.
In his room Daniel's hand twitched.
"Clockwork! What is the meaning of this?" A floating eyeball wearing a cape said as it burst into the tower. The Observer's eye had several red veins on it indicating its anger.
"Could you be more specific? I am not omniscient." Clockwork said smiling as he aged he turned into an old man quickly as the eye struggled to speak coherently.
"You allowed it to exist and it is about to go mad." The Observer screamed.
"He might, he might not. I have a plan that will fix everything." Clockwork said smiling.
"You always talks about your plans but must I tell you what your failures did?" The Observer asked. "The timeline in which you and most of the council died is still connected to your universe; a piece of it is here. He escaped the paradox, he remains when he shouldn't and the entire universe is paying for it, I have seen what he did first hand I won't allow it to repeat itself." The Observer yelled.
"I am aware of the instability caused by it." Clockwork said as he pointed his staff towards the thermos that was surrounded by a green energy shield. "The several dimensions that exist within this universe are interacting more and more, there are many problems all around us and I am the only one that is fixing them." Clockwork said smiling.
"The problems of Earth are negligible when compared to the instability of the entire universe." The observer said. "Humans are not the only race that live in this universe and the others are beings endangered as well, billions of souls are in danger." The Observer said as several images appeared around him.
Strange buildings were shown; they were being torn apart by strange storms and abnormal creatures while the inhabitants tried their best to protect themselves. In the end, the eye of the storm was shown.
"I know." Clockwork said as he turned around. "Earth is the source of the instability and I found a way to fix it, without its annihilation." He said as he glared at the Observer.
"We have already put our own plan in motion, you were taking too long and we voted in our solution." The Observer said as he turned around. "Having two Observer's councils is useful in voting." He said smug.
Clockwork froze and nodded.
"True, and since my counterpart appears to be gone I have no way to change the decision but I will not allow you to destroy the planet." Clockwork said with a cold tone. "The rules dictate that you have to inform me before your plan is executed, and until I am informed you cannot proceed." He said as his staff started glowing.
The Observer froze as he noticed what the ghost was saying; he tried to run but was trapped in a blue sphere, inside the bubble time was frozen. Clockwork made one of the gears in the wall shift and moved the sphere behind it. By the time the gear turned back the sphere was hiding the frozen Observer.
"I bet you didn't saw that coming." Clockwork said smiling. "I didn't either, until you report my knowledge of the plan they cannot act. There is still time." He said as he turned towards the images in front of him.