Sorry it took so long to update. I was busy with (ugh) school. Too much homework! Well, my birthday's this Friday (4/1/05) and I was really happy so I decided to finish HW early (that wasn't too hard to do considering most of my teachers were absent) so that I could update. And the whole "My birthday's on April Fool's Day" is no joke. Whoever tries to prank me is going down :)
And once again, I would love to thank all of my reviewers. . .
Liaranne: Thank you very much. As always, I love your reviews. Vlad is pretty evil huh:) Unfortunately, he has brains and Danny . . . well . . . Danny's kind of clueless (in a fun kind of way)
Cakreut12: Thank you. I love it when you guys say my stories are awesome. It makes me really happy. LoL. Yes, the evil mutated vampire has captured Sam and Tucker. Now you get to see what happens. . .
Purrbaby101: Yes. It was him . . . the evil one. And this is my third review in a row with the word "awesome" :) I'm going to be very happy this week. LoL. Here's Chapt 5 . . . (well, after the reviews anyway)
Wishing For Rain: My grammar-correcting reviewer! Hi. :) Rain is awesome. Anyway, this is the fourth review with the word "awesome". I'm so happy. LoL. Thanks for the comment on the new ghost. I just added it as a way to keep the chapt interesting. I think it fit in pretty well. Also, I am happy to say that you do not need to wait any longer for the next chapt 'cause here it is.
HIMROCKMYHEARTAGRAM: LoL I'm very glad that this is one of the rare stories that is actually good. I'm also very thankful that you like it so much and are adding it your faves. Fortunately for you, you didn't have to wait long for me to update 'cause you sent your review a few hours ago :) (Yes, I know, a lot of smileys. I can't help it) Also, I despise the name Inviso-Bill. What genius came up with it anyway?Why do thepeople in the show call him pasty-faced. Is he?Well, anyway, back to the review. Thanks again :)
Bluish Black Dolphin: You're another reviewer that didn't have to wait long for me to update because your review came shortly after HIMROCKMYHEARTAGRAM's. Anyway, I updated. Enjoy!
Fantastic Bouncy Girl: Sadly, yes, Sam and Tuck. How else will Vlad get to Danny? LoL, thanks for the review!
Crazy Billie Joe Loving Freak: LoL, thank you. And yes, I try to make my cliffhangers suspenseful or (in my reviewers' words) . . . evil. The story is complete, but I editted it and made the chapters longer. The internet on that computer doesn't work though so I can't put it up, but when I do, I'll write it in my profile. Thanks for reviewing!
V1rg1n1a: Vlad is a butt, we all know that. But he'll get what's coming to him soon enough.
THANKS A TON TO MY REVIEWERS!
For those of you who do not know what pasty-faced means, here's the definition . . . "Having a pale or unhealthy appearance." Eh, they probably said that because ghosts are pale. Eh, who cares. In a few days I'm gonna ("Going to"for Wishing For Rain) be Danny's age. I'm a very happy person. Now I'm going to close my mouth and let you read ...
Amity's Hero
Chapt 5: Trust Is Lost
"Leave Danny alone!" Sam snapped. Vlad laughed cruelly and turned to the portal.
"And since everyone has escaped, I don't think they should be going back," he said, raising his arm. A red light appeared. Just as he was about to blast the portal, Danny leapt forward and collided with him. The two of them fell.
"Danny!" Tucker shouted eagerly. Danny flew over to them and untied the ropes. Sam and Tucker stood up and took out their GRC's.
"Distract him," Sam said. "Tucker and I'll get rid of them."
Danny nodded and flew back to Plasmius. He raised his fist and punched, but Vlad grabbed his wrist and threw him into one of the shelves.
Sam ran behind the desk and aimed at him, but he blasted her without looking. She fell and Tucker ducked.
"Well, we can assume he's a lot stronger than we assumed," he whimpered.
"You can be such a coward," Sam muttered as he helped her up.
"Guys, hurry!" Danny shouted. Vlad yawned and duplicated himself into four. They surrounded Danny and blasted. Danny created a shield and turned to Sam and Tucker. They had managed to catch the last ghost brother.
"He's too strong," Tucker called back. Vlad laughed.
"Wait!" Sam shouted. Tucker jumped in surprise.
"What?"
"We can set up thermoses around the room and activate them at once," she suggested. "Plasmius can see the light and get distracted."
"But they can't get into contact with each other," Tucker said. "It'll cause an explosion or something. Danny's dad told me," he added.
"Well it's worth a shot."
Just then, Danny flew into the wall behind them. He got up rubbing his head.
"What'd I miss?"
"Sam wants to blow up the lab by activating the Fenton thermoses at once. She doesn't even know if it'll work," Tucker said. Sam glared at him.
"Gee that's nice. Let's blow ourselves through the roof and see how that turns out," Danny said sarcastically. Sam opened her mouth to speak, but all four Vlads blasted Danny into the wall again.
"Think of something!" Danny called to them.
"Yeah Tucker. Think of something," Sam snapped at Tucker. "It's obvious none of my plans will work."
"Yeesh, all right, I'm sorry," Tucker defended. Sam's glare disappeared and she smiled.
"Plasmius," she called. Vlad turned to her carelessly. Taking his distraction as an advantage, Danny flew up and got ready to punch. However, without even turning to face his opponent, Vlad stuck out his arm and grabbed Danny by the throat.
"What?" he replied in a bored tone as the teenager gagged beneath his grasp.
"Do you think it's wise to fight in an anti-ghost laboratory?" Sam asked, glancing at Danny as he tried to pull Vlad's hand off his throat.
Vlad released him and looked around.
"The girl uses her brain. Maybe you two should try it," he added to Danny and Tucker. They glared at him as all four Vlads became one. "We will meet again, Daniel. But be warned. Our next get-together won't be a pleasant one."
"As if this one was?" Danny said, putting his hand to his throat. Vlad smiled and flew through the ceiling. Sam ran over to Danny.
"Danny, are you okay?"
"Yeah, thanks Sam."
"What do you think he meant by 'our next get-together'?" Tucker asked. Danny shrugged.
"I dunno—"
"Don't know," Sam corrected.
"—but I won't be looking forward to it. Well, I know one thing. Vlad's the one who trashed the portal so he's definitely up to something."
"He kept talking about an army of ghosts before you came," Tucker told him. "He was telling us how this ghost attack was sure to get the town to think you were behind it all."
"He also said that when you try to act like the hero, those who know you as the villain will destroy you. He's right, you know. You've got to clear your name," Sam said.
"And speaking of names," Tucker added. "What are you going to do about 'Inviso-Bill'?"
"I don't know," Danny replied. "That's another thing I've got to add to my list of things to do."
Sam shook her head and sighed.
"Get rid of the ghosts, stop Plamius, prove to the town that you're on their side, keep your secret safe, let everyone know that your name is Danny Phantom without having them find connections between Danny Phantom and Danny Fenton—"
"By the way, how are you going to do that?" Tucker interrupted.
Danny shrugged.
"I dunno . . . DON'T know," Danny corrected quickly when he saw the look on Sam's face. "Maybe if I can duplicate into two forms, I can be Danny Phantom and Danny Fenton at the same time. No one will suspect a thing. Besides, Daniel's a common name."
"Wow, you're actually right," Sam teased. "And the scary part is . . . that might work."
Danny transformed into his human form and grabbed his bag. As soon as he saw it, he gasped and checked his watch.
"Oh no! Lancer's gonna kill me!"
"Going to!" Sam said angrily, but by the time she was finished, Danny was already running up the stairs.
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The three of them walked into Lancer's room quietly. It was easy to see that they had been running. All of them were out of breath and they were moving very slowly.
"What happened to you?" Mr. Lancer asked, looking over his book at Danny. His hair was messier than usual and it was easy to tell he had been in a fight.
"Nothing," Danny lied, taking his seat. "I tripped."
Sam sighed and rolled her eyes. Tucker, however, looked pleased that Danny used an excuse that wasn't too far from the truth since it happened on a daily basis.
"Tucker and I were late because we took the wrong staircase," the Goth said apologetically.
"The wrong staircase? How could you take the wrong staircase?" he questioned, but when they opened their mouths to speak, he just held up his hand and muttered, "Nevermind."
Ten minutes passed and Danny was resting his head on the desk. The book Lancer was reading to them was enough to put the entire class to sleep. He yawned and looked up. Just as he did, Danny noticed the green board behind his English teacher glow an odd off-white color as two ghosts phased through it. His ghost sense escaped his mouth immediately.
It didn't take long for the entire class to notice the ghouls behind their teacher. Shouts filled the room as everyone began to run in different directions. In a few seconds, everyone was shoving their way to the exit. Danny looked around to make sure that no one was watching him so that he could go ghost, but a missile was fired. He turned around and saw Valerie with one of her ghost hunting guns. One of the ghosts was hit and fell through the board, but about ten more flew into the room. One of them grabbed Valerie's gun and the other grabbed her.
"Valerie!" Danny yelled. He paused and muttered, "I'm actually worried about her?"
"Danny!" Sam called. Danny turned around. No one was watching him.
"Oh, right. I'm going ghost!"
There was a flash of light and where Danny Fenton was standing was now a ghost with messy white hair and glowing green eyes. He flew up to Valerie but another ghost grabbed his arm and threw him into the wall.
The same ghost that grabbed Valerie's gun shot a missile at her. She screamed and flipped over (flipping the ghost too) and the missile missed her by inches. The ghost holding her released its grip and flew over to one of its partners. The other ghost that fired at Valerie threw the weapon at Danny and, thinking quickly, he caught it to avoid being hit. Valerie turned around and saw him. Her eyes narrowed and he knew what just happened.
"Wait! No! You've got it all wrong—" Danny began, dropping the weapon, but Valerie closed her bag to hide her equipment and ran into the throng of students trying to escape.
"You're never going to get out like this! EVERYONE SEPARATE!" Lancer shouted.
The students did as they were told and grouped into four. Everyone ran out. Danny looked around, but the ghosts disappeared. He hid behind a desk and became human again. He joined Sam and Tucker and the three of them ran into the hall.
"What happened?" Tucker asked, getting his GRC ready.
Danny didn't even get to open his mouth to speak due to an explosive sound behind them. Everyone turned around. Before them floated the one and only Walker. He was followed by about twelve of his guards. Danny gasped and ran to the nearest locker. Instead of phasing through it, he crashed into it. Stumbling back, he fell to the floor groaning.
"That was smart," Sam said, helping her friend up.
"I can't control my powers well when in human form," Danny replied, rubbing his forehead.
Sam and Tucker nodded and covered him. Sam stood in front of him and Tucker ran in back. There was another flash of light and two blue rings formed behind Sam. In a few seconds, 'Inviso-Bill' flew into the air. All of the students began to run in the opposite direction of Walker, but his guards surrounded them and they all moved into the center of the hall.
"Relax, we won't hurt you . . . yet," Walker said with a nasty grin. "We can't start any of our destruction on this town without our accomplice, Inviso-Bill."
Danny's eyes narrowed threateningly, but Walker didn't care. He spotted the ghost and smirked.
"And there he is . . ."
Everyone looked up in alarm and saw Danny. He was glaring at Walker.
"I am not your accomplice!" he shouted angrily. Two of Walker's guards flew up and grabbed his arms. He tried to break free of their grasp but they flew through the wall.
The three ghosts flew into another classroom. They released Danny and he fell. When he stood up, the ghosts attacked again. Before Danny knew what was happening, he felt pain rising in his face and was only able to see fists. He tried turning intangible, but he couldn't concentrate. He was able to hear people's shouts in the distance.
When Danny finally flew out of the ghosts' reach, he realized the classroom wasn't empty. In fact, there was a teacher and students. One girl caught his attention — Jazz.
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"Where is he?" Sam asked, trying to get around the crowd of students. The rest of Walker's guards began to attack and everyone was running again. Sam was pushed into the locker about ten times in the past minute and Tucker was desperate enough to run into one of them to hide. Someone ran into Sam and she dropped her bag.
"Watch it!" she shouted as she dropped to her knees to search for it.
"Sam!" Tucker shouted.
"What?" Sam snapped, getting kicked by a girl who was running by and didn't notice her. "Sorry, Tucker. I didn't mean to—"
A cold feeling swept through her and she turned around. One of Walker's guards was behind her. Before the ghost could do anything, Tucker jumped out of the locker and ran in front of his friend. He was holding the GRC up threateningly.
"Get back!" he warned. The ghost laughed and flew towards him. He pressed the button and the GRC began to glow. A powerful beam escaped from it and Tucker's hands moved upward through the air because of the force. The beam engulfed the ghost and it was sucked into the gun-like weapon.
Sam stood up and smiled.
"Wow, Tucker. That was brave. Thanks."
Tucker spun the GRC around his index finger and beamed triumphantly.
"Don't mention it. Besides, Danny would've killed me if anything happened to you and I was able to prevent it," he added, losing his triumphant look.
"What?"
"Nothing," he said quickly. "Come on. Let's go to the cafeteria. Danny's probably there."
"Or you could just be using that as an excuse to get food," Sam said knowingly. Tucker paused and then shrugged.
"I didn't eat breakfast. Come on."
He ran off and Sam shook her head with a grin before following him.
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"Da— I mean Inviso-Bill!" Jazz shouted as her brother was thrown into the wall by one of the ghosts. It took out a glowing green staff and pointed it at him. Thinking quickly, Jazz grabbed her textbook and threw it at the ghost. It was caught off guard and dropped the rod. Danny took the chance to grab the weapon, but the other ghost grabbed his leg and threw him back.
He became intangible and flew through the wall. Becoming tangible again, Danny felt himself hit the ground as he landed on his back on the cafeteria floor. He got up and looked around. About twenty students were in the cafeteria and five of them were holding the door shut. He was able to see Sam and Tucker by the food. Tucker, of course, was stuffing his face with the meat. Sam was wearing a horrified expression at the sight of him. Dash, Paulina, Star, and Kwan were by the window. Kwan and Star were leaning against the wall under it. He saw a girl in a red suit standing by the corner, trying to avoid being seen. It was definitely Valerie. Forgetting he was still in ghost form, Danny walked further into the room to meet up with Sam and Tucker.
Dash screamed and hid behind Kwan. Seeing Inviso-Bill, Star jumped behind Kwan as well. Paulina stared at Danny with a dazed look on her face. Star grabbed her hand and dragged her behind the football player.
Panicked screams echoed in the room and Danny stopped. He realized why people were yelling and took a few steps back. As soon as he was about to run behind the soda machine to transform, Walker's guards flew through the wall and attacked. Tucker shoved the chicken leg into his mouth and took out his GRC. Sam turned to Danny and gasped. He took a step forward and saw a flash from where Sam was looking. In a split second, Valerie's missile connected with his shoulder and knocked him off his feet. He fell back and clutched his wound.
Valerie was no longer hiding in the corner. She was walking up to him with her weapons ready.
"I can't believe I actually thought you were nice! I knew it! Never trust a ghost!"
"I didn't do anything to you!" Danny replied defensively. "It was—"
"Save it! I'm done believing your lies!" she snapped. Just as Danny was about to dodge her attack, the lights flickered and died out. The entire cafeteria was pitch black. He was able to see a small green light directly in front of him. It usually happened in the dark. Danny tried looking around, but the light was very faint and didn't help much. Just as he turned to where Sam and Tucker were standing, a missile caught him off guard and sent him flying a couple more feet. He turned around so that he was lying on his back and looked up.
"You know, one disadvantage on your part is the glowing eyes!" Valerie's voice called in the distance and a flash signaled the use of her weapon. Danny got up and dodged the next assault. He flew to the other end of the cafeteria, ignoring people's shouts when he flew through them by accident. However, no matter where he went, Valerie was already there. He sensed her fist drawing closer and he ducked. She missed and he closed his eyes. He was going to have to fight with only reflexes.
Fortunately for Danny, he was able to sense and hear Valerie. Therefore, he was able to dodge her attacks and keep his distance. The lights flickered once more and then the power returned. Valerie closed her eyes quickly so that the light wouldn't catch her off guard. Danny opened his eyes and moaned. He was used to seeing the darkness. In a few seconds' time, he was hit in face by Valerie.
Sam looked around and saw him. She tapped Tucker on the shoulder and he looked up. Danny was in the air, avoiding Valerie's missiles.
"Give it up, ghost!"
Danny clenched his teeth and dived. Valerie followed his movement. He pulled out of the dive and flew around her several times. She lowered her weapon and tried to see where he was.
Suddenly, he flew into her and she fell off of her flyer. She got up and kicked him. He fell back and she kicked again. Before he landed, Valerie grabbed his arm and spun halfway before releasing him and letting him fly into the wall. Danny landed next to Kwan, Paulina, Dash, and Star. They all gasped and took a few steps back. Before Danny could get up, Valerie grabbed his arm again and tried pushing him into the wall. He flipped around and ended up grabbing her free hand. The two wrestled with each other for a few seconds before Valerie kicked Danny in the chest and he fell into Star.
"Sorry," Danny said quickly, helping her up. She crawled away from him as quickly as possible and joined her friends. Valerie ran toward him again and he raised his arm to punch.
"Knock him out, Red!" Dash called, obviously not knowing who was in the red suit. "Make him regret ever messing with—"
Instead, Danny turned around, swinging his around and punched Dash in the face. The quarterback fell into the wall and looked up angrily.
"Oops," Danny said, not sounding apologetic. Paulina gasped and turned to Dash.
"Actually, you kind of deserved that," she muttered. She turned around and walked away before Dash could reply.
Valerie aimed her energy gun at Danny once more and fired. As soon as she pressed the trigger, one of Walker's ghosts flew into her and knocked her off balance. The blast hit one of the ceiling lights and it fell. Paulina looked up.
"Paulina!" Danny shouted.
SAVE DANNY PHANTOM FROM CANCELLATION . . . SIGN PETITION
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I know many of you want Paulina to get squished. Maybe some of you don't (pauses and hears cricket noises). Sadly, that's the end of Chapter 5. I hope I have enough time to get chapter 6 by my birthday. As you all know, Valerie no longer trusts Danny because she thinks he's the one who tried to hurt her in Lancer's class. Now you know why I called this chapter 'Trust Is Lost'
I'm happy :) My birthday's on a Friday, I got accepted into the school I wanted to be in (even though my sister says it's a nightmare), I finally got chapter 5 up, and my reviewers are making me very blissful. Also, for those of you who celebrate it, Happy One Day After Easter! Well, that all depends on when you're reading this.
