God Save The Queen Chapter 35: The Fruitloop's Back!
Dani was suddenly snatched in the air by whatever had been lurking in the shadows. Dani expected her attacker to be this Ira creature and prepared for a fight. Instead of an aggressive, volatile spirit however, she found herself face to face with the one and only Vlad Plasmius. Dani opened her mouth to scream only for Plasmius to place his hand over her mouth. Dani quickly broke free of his grasp and prepared for a fight, but Plasmius simply tried calming her down.
"Plasmius, what are you doing here?" Dani asked, causing Vlad to try and shush her.
"Quiet down, child!" Vlad hissed. "Believe me when I say, you don't want to meet what's responsible for the current state of this relic."
"I knew it would only be a matter of time before you came back," Dani whispered. "What are you even doing here? Did you follow us?"
"As hard as it may be to believe, the fact that we ran into each other is sheer coincidence," Plasmius replied, keeping his voice down. "What I have been following is the creature who's been wreaking havoc in the Ghost Zone as of late. I assume that you and the "King's" royal stooge are here for the same reason,"
"What makes you say that?" Dani asked, still suspicious of Vlad's intentions and wondering why she wasn't punching him in the face for all the trouble he'd caused.
"Why else would you two be in this region of the Ghost Zone?" Plasmius asked in response. "This place was forgotten by time and left to rot to the point where even I didn't know it existed. If you weren't searching for the beast, then there'd be no reason for you to be here,"
"Fair enough," Dani admitted. "Now let's say I believe you when you say you weren't following us. Why were you lurking in the shadows like a serial killer stalking his next victim and why did you topple a vase onto my bodyguard's head?"
"I expected that revealing myself to you so suddenly would only lead to a confrontation, especially with Daniel's bodyguard accompanying you," Vlad explained. "So I simply incapacitated him so I could explain what was going on. And since you're here, I figured I could ask for your help as well as Daniel's and Samantha's"
"You need our help specifically?" Dani responded, having heard everything now. "Now I know you're planning something,"
"The four of us are the only ones who can stop this thing," Vlad replied. "Not to mention we're responsible for setting it free in the first place,"
"From the sound of things, it sounds like you've already encountered Ira," Dani noted.
"Obviously," Plasmius said condescendingly. "If I hadn't, I wouldn't be even be here, and I wouldn't know I needed assistance in taking down this beast." Vlad's body language convinced Danielle that he was sincere in his plea for help and that only worried her even more. If something was so powerful that even Plasmius asked for help, it must've been a threat.
"Alright, alright; we'll help you," Dani said. "But you'll have to explain everything right now,"
"Very well," Vlad said before explaining everything. "I'll start from the very beginning, immediately after my last fight with Daniel, which saw me defeated once again through sheer luck and an assist from you and Samantha." Dani quickly retorted by saying "You don't have to explain all of this to me since I was actually there, now get on with it." "Fine," Vlad huffed before continuing.
Following what was a climactic battle between arch rivals, Plasmius was fortunate to have been able to teleport right before Daniel could deliver what would surely be a fatal blow. The brutal, barbaric, bloody brawl left both sides with serious injuries, but it was Vlad who came out in the worst condition. Following the duel, Vlad had a broken jaw, a fractured skull, several broken ribs, a punctured lung as a result of said broken ribs, a dislocated left shoulder, a broken patella, moderate internal bleeding, and a broken back, leaving him near death. Vlad was fortunate that aforementioned broken back didn't leave him paralyzed and unable to walk. That life saving last second teleportation took the very last ounce of energy Plasmius had left and as a result, made him to struggle to retain consciousness. Vlad found himself in his hidden underground laboratory that he had built just in case of emergency. Struggling to stay on his feet, Vlad weakly limped over to a chamber to beginning healing from his wounds. The chamber would serve to keep Vlad in stable condition while his healing factor repaired his damaged body. Vlad lied in that chamber for what felt like days before finally reemerging, feeling rejuvenated and stronger than before. It would still take at least a couple more days for Vlad to be completely 100%, but this was a good start. Vlad took a moment to stretch his limbs and test out his powers just to make sure he was in stable condition. The former ruler of earth then went about thinking about what he should do next. Of course he was plotting his revenge but realized it would be foolish to try again right now, but that didn't mean he couldn't try and get a head start for the next time he faced the Phantom trio. Knowing that Daniel would probably alert the Guys in White of his still functioning Ghost Portal, Vlad spent the next two days disassembling and reassembling said ghost portal at his new hideout. Once that task was complete, Vlad decided to explore the Ghost Zone to see if he could find anything that could assist him in defeating Danny Phantom in the future. Not like he had anything else to do. Strangely, his search brought him back to the same set of islands they had previously done battle on. Plasmius had no idea why he had been drawn to this location but something told him he would soon get his answer. Landing on the island where he had come the closest to slaying Daniel, Plasmius sat down on a rock and started thinking about everything that had gone wrong with his plan. First Skulker betrayed him, then even after he had managed to capture Daniel, the boy still thwarted his attempts to steal the Ring of Rage by alerting his wife and daughter of the trap Plasmius had laid for them. Even worse, even when he had both the crown and the ring, Vlad somehow still couldn't defeat Daniel in combat. The more he reflected on his failures, the angrier Plasmius became to the point where he felt close to suffering an aneurysm. Plasmius was interrupted from his thoughts when he heard a low guttural growl behind him. Turning his head, Plasmius spotted the tomb that he had destroyed during the fight and something was crawling from its remains. "Perfect," he thought to himself; he needed something to take out his anger on. Plasmius assumed that the creature was simply a lower tier ghost that he could take out with zero effort. The only problem was that it was taking forever for it to get free of its prison.
"Well don't keep me waiting!" Plasmius yelled at the creature. "Are you going to come out of here and fight me or are you going to stay sheltered away like a moody teenager."
With a mighty push, the creature shoved the remnants of the tomb off of him and emerged from the hole in the ground, giving Vlad his first glance at the specter. The ghost had the appearance of an elderly man, but with long flowing black hair. The ghost was skeletally thin and veiny with what its ribcage being clearly visible, yet at the same time, appeared to have some muscle mass that gave off the impression of a pint sized powerhouse. In terms of height, the ghost was maybe an inch or so shorter than Plasmius. Its skin color was a pale, chalky gray and the ghost radiated a dark red aura. The ghost's eyes were filled with rage and had pitch black sclera that highlighted a type of mental instability and were complemented with blood red irises and scarlet colored pupils. The ghost bore razor sharp teeth and two sharp fangs that glistened when light bounced off of them. As for its attire, the ghost wore what looked like slightly torn and tattered baggy white pants with a dark grey cloth wrapped around his waist and upper legs beneath it. On its feet were tan strapped sandals and shackles around its ankles. Shackles and long chains also were also around the ghost's wrists as well, making it all too clear that the thing had been locked away for a very long time. The ghost looked up at Plasmius and hissed like a feral cat, causing Plasmius to burst into laughter.
"Are you serious?" Plasmius asked. "I come out here for peace and quiet only to get interrupted by a savage beast? I'll make you pay for disrupting me!"
The ghost didn't even seem to hear Plasmius' words as it charged at him without a second thought. Plasmius simply stepped to the side and launched his knee into the creature's stomach. The blow barely seemed to register to be creature, who aside from giving a quick growl, swung at Plasmius with his fist, only for the latter to duck and deliver an uppercut to the creature's chin, followed by a leg sweep. Plasmius then grabbed the creature by its leg and slammed him repeatedly into the ground like a mallet. Plasmius tossed the ghost into the air and nailed it with an ectoblast. Much to Vlad's surprise, the ghost continued getting back up after each attack, shaking them off as if they were nothing. Thinking that the ghost would go down eventually, Plasmius continued attacking it, hitting it with a brutal flying head butt followed by continuous shots to the torso. The creature simply tanked each punch and in fact smiled as Plasmius showed signs of growing frustration. Plasmius grunted and duplicated himself, creating four copies of himself that all simultaneously attacked the creature to no avail. The creature hammered each Plasmius with strikes to the face and unleashed a volley of blasts, clearly not caring whether they hit their target or not. It was at this point that Plasmius realized what he was going up against and how dangerous the situation was. He wasn't simply going against the average run of the mill ghost, but rather just like he said, a truly savage beast. One that had no concern for its own wellbeing and just seemed intent on causing as much damage as it could. Despite this fact, Plasmius remained calm and convinced himself that with enough effort, he could eventually find a chink in the ghost's armor. Keeping his distance, Plasmius tried keeping the ghost at bay with ecto blasts whenever it tried to get close. When the ghost failed to go down to the blasts, Plasmius decided to play dirty and blasted the creature in its right eye. While the attack certainly slowed the creature down, the dirty move failed to do anything significant to the ghost besides piss it off even more as it let out a monstrous screech. The ghost charged Plasmius with murderous intent, taking anything Plasmius threw at it head on. The ghost just barely missed Plasmius when the latter move out of he way of the raving lunatic of a ghost. Plasmius clobbered the ghost in the back of the head with a double fisted blow to the back of its head. Plasmius breathed a sigh of relief when the creature actually went down to one knee from the attack.
"I told you that you'd regret making an enemy out of me!" Vlad snarled, having regained confidence that he could win this battle and send this ghost packing.
The ghost didn't utter a word and growled at Plasmius, snarling like a dog at the billionaire fruit loop. It lunged for Plasmius' neck, looking to throttle him, but Plasmius was quick and, putting all of his strength into his fist, hit the ghost with a punch to the stomach that sent him flying off. Plasmius wasn't surprised when the ghost came back for more and in fact caught the ghost by his arm to deliver his ghost stinger. The electric assault rattled ghost and for the first time in the fight, actually brought him down. Satisfied, Plasmius stood over his foe to gloat.
"What can I say? You brought this upon yourself," Plasmius laughed at his seemingly fallen opponent. He pondered whether he should try to brainwash the ghost into doing his bidding, but decided against it as most of his attempts at attaining an apprentice or henchman blew up in his face. Besides, Plasmius wanted to get his revenge by himself and on his own terms. "Hmm, although, I may later have some use for you"
Hissing once again, the creature suddenly sprang back to life, catching Plasmius off guard and leaping on top of him. Once the ghost had Plasmius pinned down, he pummeled Plasmius with vicious punches. The creature only let out a raspy, maniacal laugh as he beat down on Vlad who tried fighting back with a series of left handed punch to the face. The ghost only responded by biting Plasmius' hand and punching him in the throat. Plasmius was not going to lose to this barely unintelligent thing and threw up a shield in front of his face to protect himself. Plasmius then managed to slide underneath the legs of the monster and hit it with a spinning kick to the back of its head. The ghost turned around and sank its teeth into Plasmius' neck, drawing blood and causing Plasmius to hiss in pain. Thinking quickly, Plasmius placed his hand directly on the creature's face before unleashing his biggest ghost stinger on the ghost. The ghost let out a wild scream and released it's grip on Plasmius' neck, flying away into the distance. Plasmius slowly rose to his feet and looked around for the fleeing creature, not willing to call the battle just yet and certainly not willing to accept the fact that he had nearly been defeated by a ghost with the apparent intelligence of a pile of rocks. Plasmius was left shaken from the experience, sporting two puncture marks on the side of his neck that oozed ectoplasm and blood. Aside from that small wound, Plasmius was more or less uninjured. Dusting himself off, Plasmius decided to return to his safe house to fire up a training simulation. Plasmius knew he'd probably end up running into that ghost again with his luck and he intended to be ready for round two.
"I have a hard time believing that you admitted defeat rather than chase after an unknown ghost who ambushed you and got the better of you in combat," Dani said as Plasmius finished the first half of his recap.
"I didn't admit defeat," Plasmius replied. "I simply made the smart decision not to pick another fight with the creature that attacked me until I found out more about it. Fortunately, the creature's bite left a DNA sample that I could analyze in my laboratory to gain more information on the mysterious phantom."
Once Plasmius had returned to his hideout, he headed into his laboratory to set up a virtual sparring session. Plasmius' machine allowed him to have theoretical battles with any opponent as well as tell Plasmius their strengths and weaknesses, provided he had a sample of their genetic make up. Fortunately for fruit loop, the saliva left behind on his bite wound would provide more than a sufficient amount of DNA for the machine to analyze. Plasmius dabbed up the ghost's saliva with a cotton swab before imputing the data into his machine. Plasmius had to wait a couple of minutes before the machine returned anything conclusive about the ghost, but the small wait allowed Vlad to patch up his small wounds. Finally, after about 30 minutes, the machine returned information on the mysterious ghost. The machine returned very few facts that could be considered useful aside from a few potential weaknesses it may have possessed, leaving Vlad a little disappointed. The only useful piece of information he had gained from the analysis and his earlier encounter was that the savage ghost was seemingly slightly vulnerable to the effects of electricity. Taking that tidbit into account, Plasmius could possibly defeat the monster in any future encounter by simply spamming his Ghost Stinger ability.
Vlad finished recounting his encounter with Ira, allowing Dani to fill him in on what was going on and who Ira was.
"That mysterious ghost you encountered is named Ira," Dani told him. "And going off of what Jonathan told me, he's a much bigger threat than you initially thought."
"Well obviously he's a threat," Plasmius retorted. "But I wouldn't call him anything to be too worried about seeing as I managed to run him off."
"The reason you were able to chase Ira away might have something to do with the fact that he's probably not at full strength due to being in hibernation for the past 15,000 years before you destroyed his prison," Dani pointed out.
"Might I remind you that I had more than a little help destroying that tomb in the first place," Vlad reminded her. "It doesn't matter who's to blame for freeing Ira or whatever he's called. What matters is defeating it before it causes major trouble,"
"I have a hard time believing you're too concerned about Ira causing any trouble," Dani said. "So what's your true motive?"
"It's simple," Plasmius replied. "I still desire to take my revenge on you, Daniel, and Samantha, and take your place as the ruler of the Ghost Zone and the Earth as well." Plasmius confessed. "But this ghost Ira, or whatever it's called, is a ghost the likes of which, I've never encountered before. While I've come across my fair share of mindless, almost animalistic ghosts, those could be defeated with little effort. Ira, on the other hand a mindless animal who's only interested in causing destruction and has the strength to back it up and actually come to be a true threat. A savage that exhibits as much brutality as it does might not only get in the way of my plans on conquest, but also derive me of the pleasure of killing the three of you myself. I can't rule over the Ghost Zone if there's nothing left to rule over."
"Glad to know you still haven't lost your egomania and self destructive tendency to hold grudges" Dani said sarcastically, rolling her eyes before questioning "And how do I know you won't betray the three of us as soon as Ira is taken care of?" Dani asked, still not willing to accept Vlad just yet. "After all, you just admitted to still wanting power."
"I don't blame you for not being willing to trust me," Vlad said. "But we're going to need to work together if we want to take Ira down. I promise I won't betray the three of you even after Ira is dealt with. Besides, even if I was going to betray you, I'd expect the three of you to be prepared for it."
"Alright," Dani begrudgingly decided to accept Vlad's help but warned him. "But if you even think about stabbing us in the back, we'll make sure to finish you once and for all."
Vlad rolled his eyes and said "Now that we've finished explaining everything, let's split up and see if we can find Ira and hopefully put an end to him now!"
With that said, the two halfas quickly went their separate ways, with Dani carrying an unconscious Jonathan with her. She'd have to explain everything to him when he woke up as well as explain the situation to Danny and Sam. Dani looked down at her watch and saw that they still had another two hours left before getting out of school. She hoped she could contain this situation before they even got a chance to find out about it.
In the Next Chapter:
Danielle didn't plan to be out for too long. She planned on only search for Ira for about thirty minutes, maybe an hour at most, before returning to the castle and waiting for Danny and Sam to get out of school so she could get their help in dealing with the situation. After all, it was only another hour and a half before they got out. Unfortunately for the ghost princess, fate had other plans. Only fifteen minutes after she started her search, Dani found herself on a desert esque island that she hadn't ever seen before. At this point, Dani had gotten used to discovering new areas of the Ghost Zone, but she couldn't help but feel she had stumbled upon this dusty desert island for a reason. Could the beastly Ira possibly be hiding out here? There was only one way to find out so Dani landed down on the island and began looking around. The desert island looked like a movie setting, with green cacti and large sand dunes stretching across the land. The island was also somewhat reminiscent of old western movie settings with a couple of cow skulls lying about, scorpions skittering across the sand, and rattlesnakes slithering around in the sand. Other than the aforementioned ghost animals, there was no other sign of life around. Still, Dani wasn't prepared to give up so easily and continued trekking across the desert. After about five minutes, Dani heard what sounded like snarling in the distance and followed in the direction of the noise to find its source. Dani half expected the noise to be coming from another desert animal such as perhaps a wildcat. Instead however, Dani ended up stumbling upon the wild ghost itself, Ira. Ira looked just as Plasmius had described him, having pale chalky grey skin, a skeletal yet muscular build, and wild, flowing, unkempt black hair that ran past his shoulders. Dani stood motionless for a couple of seconds, having second thoughts about coming out on this search alone and wondering if it would be a good idea to approach Ira. Currently, Ira was sitting cross legged near a cactus and appeared to be eating something. Dani found that strange since if she recalled correctly, ghosts had no need to eat. If Dani had the Fenton thermos on her, she could've simply captured the beast without even being seen by it. Cursing her lack of foresight, Dani moved in to make an attempt at capturing Ira. She tried sneaking up on him, accidentally stepped on an unseen, dry twig, blowing her cover.
Oh Danielle, you have no idea what you're getting yourself into. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone, I hope you're all enjoying your holiday season. There's nothing like Christmas season. Spending time with family.
Eddie: Opening presents.
Peter: And the food! Oh god, don't forget the delicious food! Like the turkey, the macaroni and cheese, and all the chocolate! Oh god, the chocolate! Have I mentioned I like chocolate?
Me: And to top it all of, TeamFourStar releases a new episode (or movie) of DragonBall Z Abdidged (and Hellsing Ultimate Abridged if we're lucky).
I'm starting to go off on a tangent. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and look forward to what's coming ahead. 2016 was one of the craziest and unpredictable years I've ever lived through and I'm looking forward to see what insanity 2017 will offer. Not to mention I turn old enough to gamble in 2017. Getting off on another tangent so let me get back to the point. This is the final chapter of 2016 and we're going to kick off 2017 with a bang as the next chapter of God Save the Queen will be uploaded on January 1st, provided nothing comes up. Peace out and have a nice day!