The Siege
By Kellie Fay
Disclaimer: yes Danny Phantom belongs to Butch Hartman. *sigh*
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Chapter 21 Something Danny forgot to tell his mom.
Maddie blinked, and looked at the ghost boy incredulous. "What did you say?" She asked perplexed.
Danny Phantom giggled, and met her eyes squarely. That seemed odd. Usually Danny Phantom seemed almost afraid of her, and he would never meet her eyes. Maddie couldn't recall him giggling either.
"I said hi mommy," The ghost boy answered without a trace of fear. "How did you get into the house? I thought we put the magic fence up."
Now Maddie was positive that the ghost boy was drugged. He had no idea what he was saying. "Someone helped me get in," she said keeping her tone even. She didn't know if she could scare him sober, but she didn't want to. She suspected that Phantom was acting the same way a person did on truth serum, and she could get a lot of information from him right now. "I'm looking for my son Danny. Is he downstairs with the other children?
Danny Phantom laughed again. "You're so silly mommy," he said. "I'm right here."
Maddie couldn't help but be amused. Phantom must be hallucinating or something to think that I'm his mother. She wasn't sure if she should play along or correct him. "I'm looking for my human son Danny," she answered gently. "You are a ghost you know."
"Oh is that all," Phantom said not concerned at all about that little detail. Suddenly a ring of white light formed around the ghost boy's middle. It spilt into two and the pair of rings slid over the boy's body leaving in it's wake, her boy, her son, her Danny.
For several seconds Maddie forgot how to breathe.
Danny, no longer Danny Phantom, looked up at his mother, and smiled. "Better now?" He asked.
"Danny?" Maddie finally managed to sputter out.
"That's me!" Danny said giggling.
"Danny, you're the ghost boy?" Maddie asked, still processing what her eyes told her.
"Uh huh," Danny answered absently, nibbling on the flower petals again.
"Did Miss Daily do this to you?" She asked desperately trying to understand this.
Danny laughed again. "You're funny mommy," he said calmly. "Been like this for over a year now. Sarah's been here for just two months. I did this."
Maddie gave up trying to understand this. "How did you get like this?" She asked.
"I fixed the ghost porthole!" Danny said proudly. "Went inside, turned it on. Zap zap, instant ghost!"
Instant ghost does that mean? Maddie reached out and touched Danny's chest. His heart beat steadily under her fingertips. Danny was obviously alive, but Maddie knew what she saw. "So you fixed the Fenton Porthole, and it killed you so now you're a ghost?"
Danny looked at her and yawned. "I'm only half ghost. I'm still alive, or at least we think I am."
"Who's we?" Maddie asked.
Danny yawned again. "Oh Sam, Tucker, Jazz oh and Sarah."
"Sarah? You mean Miss Daily?"
"Uh huh," Danny answered. He seemed to be losing his ability to focus on her.
"Is she the one who drugged you?" Maddie asked, almost afraid to hear the answer.
"Mmmm drug?" Danny asked puzzled. Then he seemed to understand. "Oh the flowers! Nope! Not Sarah. She knows better. Never give a ghost ghost nip unless you want him to be useless for a few hours."
"Ghost nip?" Danny was giving Maddie more information than she could process. She opened her mouth to ask about the ghost nip, but just then she heard voices coming up the stairs.
"Oh no!" Maddie mumbled. She had to get Danny and herself out of there! Maddie tried to lift Danny into her arms. "Danny sweetie, we have to go."
To her surprise Danny suddenly clutched at the bedcovers, and his body weight seemed to double. "No," sounding only mildly distressed. "Can't leave Sarah. I have to protect her."
Maddie struggled to lift her son, but to her surprise he was stronger than she thought. "Danny let go we have to go now!" She insisted, but Danny turned himself and the bed transparent, and her hands slid through him. It felt like trying to hold onto an icy mist.
"Can't leave Sarah," Danny muttered again. "I won't let her down."
Maddie heard the voices growing louder. She had to decide. "All right sweetie, you can stay, but I have to go. Don't tell anyone I was here."
"Okay," Danny said becoming tangible again. He rolled over onto his side, snuggled into the flowers, and closed his eyes. "Time for my nap anyway," he mumbled into the flowers. He took another breath, and then Danny fell into a deep sound sleep.
"Danny?" Maddie asked.
A snore was her only answer.
Maddie decided she couldn't wait any longer. She went and hid in a closet waiting for the voices to come into the room. Maybe she could snatch Danny away when they left.
She did remember to take one of the flowers Danny had his face buried in.
Inside the closet Maddie heard the door open and a familiar voice
"I can't believe those two!" The familiar voice shouted. Maddie cracked the door and saw Danny's friend Sam storming into the room followed by Sarah Daily.
"You told them to stay away from the greenhouse. I told them to stay away from the greenhouse. Even Tucker told them to stay away from the greenhouse. So what do those two idiots do? Go
right into the greenhouse and find the one plant that can render Danny useless in less than a half hour."
Sarah Daily shook her head with a sad smile on her face. "You and Tucker understand how dangerous magical objects are. All Star and Paulina saw were pretty flowers."
Sam sighed and sat down on the bed. She began to pull the flowers away from Danny one by one. "Great, he was eating the flowers again. Who knows how long he's going to be out this time. You were right we should have done more tests with the petals."
"We didn't need to. I can read Danny and find out when he'll wake," Sarah said gently. Maddie watched as the sorcerous placed her fingertips on Danny's head. To Maddie's surprise wherever she touched Danny small green spots glowed on his skin.
"I don't think he ate too many petals," She said after a few moments. "There isn't that much Bikona in his system. He'll probably be out for one or two hours tops. It's probably a good thing that he did eat the Bikona flowers. It usually takes him longer to completely recover from the pollen when he's awake." She waved her hand and said something Maddie couldn't understand. Suddenly little yellow wisps all over the room appeared and vanished. "There I've cleansed the room of any stray Bikona pollen or plant fragments so when he wakes up he'll be almost all the way back to normal."
Sam nodded in agreement. "At least he's getting some rest, but did he get the book?"
Sarah smiled and picked up the book. "It's right here. At least we got that part right." Sarah turned toward the door. "I'm going to research the spell to find out what we can do with it and how much we'll need to manipulate it."
"Okay Miss Daily," Sam said. "I'll sit with Danny until he wakes up."
Maddie sighed, and resigned herself to being stuck in the closet until her son woke up.
Her son was Danny Phantom. How could she have missed it? She and Jack have hunted the ghost boy for over a year and she never knew it was her own son. Maddie decided that she needed those few hours to think. Perhaps by the time Danny woke up she'd be ready to face her half ghost son.
Coming Soon Chapter 22
"The ghost took over Maddie?" Jack said.
Jazz and Vlad looked at each other. Both of them knew what Jack could do if properly motivated.
"If that ghost knew magic she probably bound Maddie with the oath to fulfil her agreement," Vlad said trying to distract Jack.
"The ghost took over Maddie?" Jack repeated.
"Dad," Jazz tried to calm her father. "We need to think about this reasonably."
"THE GHOST TOOK OVER MADDIE?" Jack now shouted. Before anyone else could say anything Jack pulled out his Fenton Bazooka and began firing on the Hedge. "HANG ON MADDIE I'M COMING TO GET YOU!"