Hi everyone. Me again. I've had this idea in my head for a while now and I couldn't wait to type it up on my computer. This story takes place a few days after Bride to Be and please think of this story like it's a deleted scene, like on a DVD. Selene was wondering why the Ghost Writer helped her and Danny a few days ago when she almost became Blaine's bride. So she went into the Ghost Zone to talk to him. When she finds him at his home. She discovered some secrets from the Ghost Writer's past. From when he was alive.
I own three cats, one computer and now two stories on Guess what I don't own. If it's Danny Phantom, you're right. Anyway, here's the story. Oneshot. Enjoy!
Sleepless Night
It was a beautiful night in Amity Park, Indiana. The stars were out and the moon bathed the town in a beautiful white glow. All was quiet.
"AAAHHH!"
Well almost.
Danny Phantom flew across the street and landed in a pile of trash bag near a dumpster near an alley. He groaned and sat up to see his attacker hovering above him, laughing. The ghost had green skin, white hair done in a mullet style. He was dressed in black pants, a black shirt and gloves with a white cape attached to his shoulders and a white collar. His eyes were hidden behind black sunglasses and he held an electric blue staff in his right hand. He looked down at Danny ginning evilly.
"Ah ha! Now I, Technus, will rule the world with all technology at my command!"
"Oh please!" a singing in harmony female voice said, completely bored.
Technus and Danny looked up to see Selena Song hovering above them with a bored look on her face.
"Why don't you save that for someone who cares?" she asked. "Speeches like that bore me."
"I, Technus don't take orders from you or anyone else!"
"Why? Because I'm a teenager?" Selena asked as she raised her hands into the air.
Her hands glowed a bright blue and she fired blue ectoblasts at Technus. The beams hit him in the stomach and knocked him into a nearby wall. He groaned as he slid down the wall and landed on the ground. Technus looked up to see Danny and Selena standing above him, grinning.
"See you later Technus." Danny said as he pulled out a Fenton Thermos and sucked up Technus.
"I'll back children!" he shouted. "I will be..."
He was cut off after Danny placed the cap back onto the thermos. He turned to Selena.
"Wow, Selene. Not bad for you're first ghost fight." Selene blushed.
"Thanks Daniel." she said.
Danny and Selene stared at each other for a few minutes. It was a few days since they became girlfriend and boyfriend. But every time the two teens looked at each other, it still felt like the day they first realized their feelings for each other. Then Danny cleared his throat.
"Well, uh, we should get going." Selene checked her watch.
"Yeah you're right." she said. "Let's go."
Danny tucked the Fenton Thermos onto his belt and he and Selene flew back to Fentonworks.
When Danny and Selene arrived at Fentonworks. Danny flew into his bedroom and Selene flew into hers. Selene stood in the middle of her room and closed her eyes. She started to glow a bright blue and transformed back to her human self. Waist length medium brown hair with a lock near her left ear dyed green and a lock near her right ear a navy blue. Her skin was paler as the moon itself. Her eyes a bluish-green framed with black eyeliner and hidden behind a pair of small black glasses. She wore a tight black dress with a flowy miniskirt and white tights and black high heels. Wrapped around her neck was a black choker with a white opal on it.
After Selene transformed back to her human self. She looked at her alarm clock on her nightstand. It was 10:39pm.
"We've been out that long?" Selene wondered as she grabbed her white nightgown with black sleeves from the back of her closet door, put it on, went to the bathroom to wash off her makeup and brush her teeth and went to bed.
That night she tossed and turned for a few hours unable to go to sleep. It has been a few days since she almost became Blaine's bride. Since then she wasn't able to sleep well. She couldn't stop wondering where her parents are and why the Ghost Writer helped her and Danny back when Blaine tried to make her his bride. He didn't say why like Ember, a ghost singer who was hurt by Blaine in the past. Danny told her why Vlad helped them. But no one knew why the Ghost Writer helped. He didn't say why and never mention anything about it.
"Why did he help us?" Selene thought as she stared out the window. "He must have a reason why he helped us. Did Blaine hurt him like he did Vlad and Ember?"
Selene got out of bed and transformed into Selena Song. She turned intangible and flew through the floor. When Selene arrived in the lab in the basement. She found the portal to the Ghost Zone was opened. Glowing green and swirling inside the wall in front of her. Selene smiled with relief. It was good the portal was open because if it was closed. Selene might have to get Danny to open it. Since only him or the rest of the Fenton family can open it.
Selene flew towards the portal and went through it. Entering the eerie green realm with floating doors, cliffs and buildings. Selene kept her distance as she entered the Ghost Zone. She may have been in the Ghost Zone before. But it was still strange to her. She flew through the Ghost Zone for a few minutes. Trying to figure out where the Ghost Writer's mansion would be. She remembered hearing Danny telling her where most ghosts live in the Ghost Zone. Like Skulker's home is on an island near the castle where she fought him.
"I wonder why I didn't notice that before." Selene thought when Danny told her what ghosts she should look out for and which ones are helpful.
She remembered Danny told her the Ghost Writer lived in a white mansion and that was it. She flew aimlessly through the Ghost Zone until she found a white mansion floating the air. The mansion reminded her of the New York public library she saw when her brother took her to New York for Spring Break two years ago. At first she was nervous, but remembered that it could be the Ghost Writer's home.
"Could this be it?" She wondered as she got closer.
As she landed on the front porch. The door opened and the Ghost Writer came out. He was surprised to see her.
"Selena." He said surprised.
"What are you doing here?" Selene stared at Ghost Writer for a few minutes before she said.
"I couldn't sleep so I came here." The Ghost Writer blinked and looked at her confused.
Then remembered about what happened five years ago. When Selene's parents were killed and Selene was turned in a vampire halfa. (Part-human, part-ghost, part-vampire.)
"Can't stop thinking about your parents, huh?" he asked.
Selene shook her head sadly. "I'm afraid that's not it." Selene answered. "It's about you."
The Ghost Writer stared at her confused.
"About me?" he asked.
Selene nodded. "Yes." Selene said. "I can't stop thinking why you helped us back when Blaine tried make me his bride."
The Ghost Writer's lips tightened into a thin line. Then his expressions softened. He didn't want to talk about it. But Selene and her brother have been through a lot and he wanted to help her as much as he can. For some reason ever since he met her parents a few years ago. He wanted to help Selene and Raven and now he can.
"Come in, child." he said. As he placed his hand Selene's back and led her inside. "I'll tell you what I know."
The Ghost Writer ushered Selene inside, closing the door behind them. Selene was amazed on how the room looks like a library from the 19th century. Shelves with books reached two stories high and the walls were white color and candles in the chandeliers which hung from the ceiling. In the middle of the room was a large keyboard like device that looked like a mixture between a musical keyboard and a computer.
"You must like the 19th century, eh?" Selene said, trying to break the ice.
The Ghost Writer turned to her.
"I do." he answered. "I was born in the early 18th century and grew up in the early 19th century."
"What year was that?" Selene asked.
The Ghost Writer thought for a minute.
"I don't remember that." he said. "I didn't remember anything much about my life after I died. But after I met you five years ago I sensed something about you I couldn't figure out. But when I met Blaine, I started to remember things I wanted to forget. Like how I died and what happened before I died." The Ghost Writer went to the window and gazed out. Watching the ghosts fly back and enter the swirly whirlpool near by.
"Danny's going to be busy." Selene thought as she saw the ghosts fly through the portal. "I better make this quick." Selene turned to the Ghost Writer.
"So why did you help us a few days ago?" she asked.
The Ghost Writer's lips tighten into a thin line. He didn't want to talk about it or remember what happened before he died.
"I help you and Daniel because I too was hurt by Blaine. Just like you, Ember and that vampire ghost."
"Vlad?"
"If that's his name." The Ghost Writer said as he turned around facing Selene.
"It all started when I was 24 and alive. My mother died giving birth to me and my father remarried 4 years later and had another child. My half-brother Randy."
Selene noticed a picture on the desk beside the Ghost Writer's keyboard. It was a photograph of a man who looks like the Ghost Writer only his hair was white instead of black.
"Is that him?" Selene asked, still looking at the picture.
The Ghost Writer looked at the picture and nodded.
"Yes it is." he answered. "My human name was Matthew Green. But I go by the Ghost Writer because I didn't want fame. I just wanted to write and most of my work was famous back in the Realm of the Living."
Selene then remembered something from her freshmen year at Ottawa High. Her English teacher was reading a poem from a thick book which was written by a Ghost Writer. Selene didn't remember what poem it was because she was half-asleep at the time.
"I think my English teacher read us some of your work at my high school last year." she said.
The Ghost Writer stared at her for a few minutes.
"My work is still famous today?" he asked.
"To adults, I'd say so." Selene said. "But to my peers, it's boredom but I try to pay attention as much as I can. I didn't have a social life back home."
The Ghost Writer was insulted.
Selene noticed and said. "Not everyone understands or are interested in stuff that was written in the 19th century. Some try to understand but it's not interesting to us like video games or movies."
The Ghost Writer frowned. "My work was never popular with your age group. Even back when I was alive. My work was always popular with the adult group. I wrote that book a month before my demise..."
24 year old Matthew Green was visiting his half-brother, Randy Green. Who used to be close growing up and grew apart after Matthew turned 20. Randy taught at a local school house in the village outside of 19th century Salem, Oregon. Matthew wrote poems and worked as a publisher during his spare time. Randy was caring for his parents who were sick with strange fever and Matthew came over to help. It's been four years since the two men last saw each other and Matthew was nervous. He didn't like change much. Especially after his birth mother died. Matthew walked down the dirt path up to Randy's house. He arrived at the door and knocked.
He heard footsteps coming from the inside and saw a dim light moving towards the doors through the window. The door opened and a man with black hair, blue eyes dressed in black clothes stood in the door way. In his hand was a lit candle and in the other was a small vial. He looked tired and worried. He smiled when he saw Matthew.
"Matt." he said. "Is that you?"
Matthew smiled. He was glad Randy remembered him.
"Yes, Randy." he said.
"It's me." He noticed the vial in Randy's hand.
"Medicine." Randy explained. Noticing Matthew's look. "For Mom and Dad."
"How are they doing?" Matthew asked.
Randy shook his head sadly.
"Not good." he said as he let Matthew in and closed the door. "The fever is getting worse and the doctor doesn't know what it is. This is something I never seen before."
Matthew heard coughing coming from the other room. His birth father and stepmother.
"So there's no hope?" Matthew asked.
Randy shook his head.
"I'm afraid not." he answered. "The doctor said they don't have long to live. The fever. It's sucking the life out of them like...like."
"A vampire?" A cold voice said, laughing evilly.
The two men looked around searching for the source of the voice. Then their eyes widen in horror.
"Mom, Dad!" they cried.
Randy ran down the hall to his parents room. Matthew followed. When Randy reached the room. He opened the door and gasped. Dropping the vial of medicine which made a loud crash and splash on the floor.
"What's wrong?" Matthew asked as he arrived.
Matthew looked over Randy's shoulder and gasped. Laying on the bed were Matthew's birth father and stepmother. Dead. Their skin pale from sickness and their eyes were open and lifeless. Laying on the sheets were a few drops of blood. From two bite marks on their necks. The two men stared at their parents lifeless bodies in shock.
"Mom? Dad?" Randy asked his voice getting hoarse.
Matthew went to the bed, reached for his stepmother's neck and pressed his index and middle fingers under her jaw to check her pulse. But there wasn't one. He went to his birth father and pressed his fingers under his jaw and waited for a pulse. There wasn't one.
"Matt." Randy choked as he watched Matthew checked to see if his parents are alive. "Are they...?"
"They are." Matthew said as he straightened up. "They're dead."
"As are you and your brother, Foolish mortal." The voice said.
Out of the shadows, standing behind Matthew was a man with messy black hair. Dressed in a black robe with a gray sash tied around his waist. He grinned as he eyed the two men with hunger and evil in his eyes. Randy and Matthew cringed in fear.
"Well that tasted good." a woman with long red hair dressed in a black gown with tanned skin walked out of the shadows said and stood beside the man in black.
She stared at Randy and Matthew. Fangs shown and eyeing the two men with hunger in her eyes.
"I wonder what blood from a healthy human tastes like." The man smiled at the woman.
"We shall see, my follower." the man said. He turned to Randy and Matthew. "We shall see."
Randy rubbed the back of his neck nervously.
"Don't worry, Randy." Matthew whispered as he slowly walked backwards towards the door and stood beside his half-brother. "When I say the word, run."
The two men watched the couple slowly walk towards them. Hunger in their eyes.
"Now!" Matthew shouted as he turned and ran down the hall.
Randy followed. Dropping the candle which set fire to the table near the door. Matthew and Randy ran out of the house as the fire from inside spread from the hall the rest of the building. The two men ran towards the forest near the burning building and kept running until they were far away from the house. They stopped when they reached a clearing far from Randy's house.
"I think we lost them." Randy panted as he leaned against a tree and caught his breath.
"I think so too." Matthew breathed as he sat on a log.
"What were those things?" Randy asked. "Vampires?"
"Get real, Randy." Matthew said, annoyed. "Those are just stories."
"Oh we're as real as you." the voice said.
Randy and Matthew looked around searching for the source of the voice. A strong supernatural force threw Matthew forwards into the air. Randy disappeared into the shadows as dark figures came towards him. Matthew landed in a nearby ditch. Randy's screams priced through the air.
"RANDY!" Matthew screamed as his half-brother's scream faded away.
Matthew tried to climb out of the ditch then something landed on top of him. He fell back into the ditch. Pinned to the ground by what ever it was that attacked Randy. Matthew pushed it off and sat up. When he saw what it was that was pinning him to the ground he gasped. It may be dark out, but Matthew can tell it was the body of his half-brother. His eyes lifeless, his skin pale and his clothes were tattered and dirty.
"Randy?" Matthew whispered as his voice became hoarse.
As he placed his fingers onto Randy's neck. He withdrew his hands in shock. On his fingers was blood. Matthew looked at Randy's neck and saw to bite marks. Still bleeding like it was fresh. Then Matthew felt something grab him from behind and bit his neck. He scream echoed through the night before it faded. Leaving the lifeless bodies of a poet and a teacher laying in the ditch in the forest of Salem Oregon.
"Then I woke up beside my body and Randy's the next day."
The Ghost Writer finished. Fighting his emotions. Selene was sitting in an overstuffed chair listening to the Ghost Writer's story. She was shocked at what she heard. She knew vampires can live for centuries but she didn't know how much Blaine. The vampire leader who tried to make Selene his queen, caused pain and misery to many people including her and the ghosts and half-ghost that helped her and Danny fight Blaine.
"But how did you know Blaine was the one who killed you and Randy?" Selene asked.
The Ghost Writer took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes before he put them back on.
"I didn't." he answered. "But I knew it was his followers who killed me and my family. I met Randy and my parents a few years ago after I met you and remembered a little about what happened before my death. They told me what they remembered. They remembered seeing a man with black hair, dressed in black with a gray sash tied around his waist. Since then I wanted revenge."
The Ghost Writer said that with pure hatred in his voice.
"And that's why you helped us?" Selene asked.
The Ghost Writer nodded. "But after I saw you with Daniel in the lab before we left for Blaine's lair. I thought to myself if I was doing it for revenge. As we arrived at Blaine's lair, I realized I was helping you and Daniel for another reason. "
Selene stared at the Ghost Writer confused."What was it then?"
The Ghost Writer sighed before saying. "It was so no one would suffer the way you and your brother did."
Selene blinked in confusion.
"You did that for me and Raven?" Selene asked. "I don't know what to say. Thanks."
"Don't mention it." The Ghost Writer said.
Selene looked at her watch.
"Oh I better get back. It's 6:00am and the others are probably up now."
"I think so too." The Ghost Writer said as he stood and led Selene to the front door.
"Thanks for everything." Selene said before she stepped out onto the porch.
"Anytime." The Ghost Writer said, placing a hand on Selene's shoulder. As Selene was about to take flight the Ghost Writer said.
"And Selene if you need any help, I'll be here."
Selene smiled. "Thanks again. Bye." She said as she took flight and flew towards the portal. When she entered the lab in the basement of the Fentonworks, she flew through the ceiling and went into her bedroom, transforming back to Selene Strong as she did. Selene looked at her alarm clock. 6:02am.
"I'm early." she said.
She walked to her closet grabbed a clean black dress. Grabbed her make up bag, jewellery bag, white tights and black high heels and went into the bathroom. When she came out dressed and refreshed. She when into her room to get her homework and her bag. She was glad she knew why the Ghost Writer helped her and Danny and now she was able to focus on other things like homework and sleep. She placed her homework in her bag and went downstairs for breakfast.
Well that's the end of the Bonus story. Stay tooned for the next story. The Talisman. For now I need a break from typing. See you soon!