Danny blinked at Skulker. "Why are you asking me?" he asked in a surprised voice.
"Well, you seem to have some intuition as to what this thing can do. Now, what are we going to do with the Trinsed Jewel?"
Danny crossed his legs in mid air and tried to think. What could they do? Hide it? Vlad would find it for sure. Lock it up somewhere maybe? "Can you lock it up?" Danny asked.
"We tried that already, it was stolen, remember?" Skulker growled.
"Oh… right," Danny said. He sighed. "I have no idea, Skulker. Do you know what to do with it?" he asked.
Skulker once again rubbed his chin. Danny now figured it was a sign of him thinking. "Well, for now we keep it from Plasmius. I'll see if I can come up with something," Skulker said. "I'm making no promises though, Daniel."
Danny nodded, "Fair enough," he said.
"Okay, let's go back to our hideout to see how things are going," Skulker said.
"Does this mean I have to get close to the Jewel?" Danny asked nervously.
"That's the general idea, yes," Skulker growled.
Danny hovered in the air very apprehensively. Skulker sighed, "Daniel, it's placed inside a container, its energy shouldn't affect you."
"Shouldn't?" Danny squeaked.
Ember punched Danny in the shoulder lightly. "What, scared?" she taunted.
Danny unconsciously grabbed his shoulder and looked away. "No…" he said slowly.
Ember smirked. "Then you have nothing to worry about," she said and flew off.
Danny looked at her retreating form and sighed. Maybe he was being a tad paranoid. He took off after Ember and his ghost sense told him that Kitty and Skulker weren't far behind him.
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They came to the makeshift hide out in the trees. Danny landed and was relieved to note that he couldn't feel any power. Skulker landed next to Danny and looked around. He nodded, apparently pleased. "Good to know things actually stayed in line for once," he said to himself.
Danny blinked and looked at Skulker but the massive ghost didn't note his inquisitive glance. Instead he held up his arms and got everyone's attention. "Okay, we're going to try and find a place to hide the jewel now that we got it from Plasmius. I want everyone on the look out for anything suspicious. We're not going to loose it after coming this far," he said.
He was greeted by nods and murmurs of approval. "Well, the best place I think to hide something is the Infinity Door," Skulker said.
"Infinity Door?" Danny asked.
Skulker nodded, "Yes, a portal in the ghost zone that is said to go on forever. Is we put the Jewel in there Plasmius would never dare to look for it."
Danny nodded, the plan did have merit. "Sounds good," he heard himself say.
Skulker gave him a twisted grin, "Glad you approve," he said and flew off.
Danny put his hands on his hips and said, "Just what is that supposed to mean?" He didn't receive and answer and he didn't expect to.
Danny helped around for a little bit making sure that everything was going well. He wanted this to be over just as much as anyone else. He didn't mind the part where all his worst enemies were being nice to him, to a degree anyway. But he didn't like the idea of Vlad getting more powerful than anyone else.
"Okay, I'm going to head into the Ghost Zone with the Jewel," Skulker said. "I want everyone to lie low until then."
Before Skulker could take off he was hit in the back with a red beam of energy. He crashed face first into the ground and Vlad came out from the shadows. "Well, well, well, what do we have here?" he sneered.
"Plasmius," Danny said. Vlad's gaze went down and rested on Danny. His grin grew into a horrible, cold smile.
"Ah, so nice to see you Daniel," he said. He flew down and grabbed the silver container that Danny presumed the jewel was in.
"How did you find us?" Skulker yelled.
"All this spectral energy massed into one place? Ha! All I needed to do was use a ghost finder and it led me straight here. You should have been more careful," he said.
Spectra morphed into her more powerful counterpart and flew at Vlad screaming like a banshee. Vlad simple used his red variation of an Ectoplasmic Energy Blast and shoved her out of the way. He looked at her, his red eyes filled with faux pity. "I had hoped for you my dear. Ah well."
Danny flew up behind him and hit him as hard as he could in the small of his back. Vlad flew forward a few feet and spun around his red eyes flashing angrily. "Give it back, Vlad," Danny said in what he hoped was a threatening voice.
Vlad smirked. He brought up another blast and threw it at Danny. Danny brought up an ectoplasmic shield and blocked it, even though it came dangerously close to breaking. Vlad waved and flew into the forest with Danny in hot pursuit.
"Daniel, no!" Skulker yelled. But the warning fell on dead ears. Danny could only hear the wind pulsating against his body as he tried to catch up with Vlad. Surprisingly even though the older man was much stronger then Danny, Danny was pleased to note that they were almost even in speed. Danny reached over and knocked the metal cylinder out of Vlad's hands. It fell down into the forest below and Danny made a dive for it.
Vlad knocked Danny out of the air with one of his blasts and Danny fell into a tree. Vlad flew down the rest of the way and caught the cylinder. Danny groaned and pushed himself up as Vlad came to his level and smirked at him. "Do you really want to see the Jewel that badly, Daniel?" he asked.
Danny's green eyes widened. "No, it's okay. Really," he said quickly. In the distance he could hear the rustling of the trees.
Vlad smirked. He opened the container and pulled out the Jewel. It shown a bright white and Danny could feel the power radiating off of it. He winced and flew away from the unwanted power rush that he felt.
"Why so scared, Daniel," Vlad asked in a voice that was almost a whisper. "Afraid of power?"
Danny glared at Vlad. "No, I just don't want to gain my power that way."
Vlad smirked and turned the jewel over in his fingers, "My boy, do you want to know why you have more potential then I do?"
"Not really," Danny said not taking his eyes off the Jewel.
Vlad smirked and Danny knew he would tell him anyway. "I took the liberty awhile ago to find out what exactly happened to you when you got your ghost powers."
"So, I should care, why?" Danny asked, trying to hide the quiver from his voice.
Vlad grinned, "Oh, aren't you clever. Well, you see, when I received my powers, not only was I 22 and full grown at the time, but I also only received a face full of the energy if you will."
"What's that got to do with me?" Danny asked.
"Well, when I looked at your 'accident' and I'm not telling you how I did so, we all have out little secrets," he said when Danny opened his mouth. "You actually walked into the portal and your entire body was infused with ghost energy, on top of that your body isn't even full grown. You have yet to; grow into your powers, if you will. So you see, right now the fact that you are small and young is to your disadvantage but it won't be for long."
"Why are you telling me this?" Danny asked.
"Because, I am giving you one more chance to join me. If you don't, I will be forced to dispose of you, in my interest."
Danny backed away from Vlad. His green eyes fixed the older man with an icy stare, "Never," he said firmly.
Vlad shrugged, "As you wish," he said and threw an energy blast at Danny. The Jewel glowed an angry red and Vlad's body pulsated with the light. He grinned maniacally and flew at Danny. Danny barely managed to dodge and turned around to fly in a different direction in hopes of loosing him.
"Daniel!" he heard his name called and recognized the voice as Skulker's.
"What?" he yelled back.
"Duck!" Skulker yelled.
Danny let himself fall a good 10 feet before catching himself. Vlad came up above him and a giant ectoplasmic blast rammed its self straight into Vlad's chest. Vlad cried out and dropped the Jewel in his pain.
Danny looked above him to see Vlad get blasted. Then he saw a small white… thing fall from him. Danny blinked at it and not knowing what it was, he reached up and caught it as it fell.
"Danny, no!" Kitty yelled.
Danny glanced at it, it was the jewel. "Oh crap," he said.
The small jewel glowed a bright white and Danny could feel its essence try and take over his body. He tried to gain control but found he had to chance against it. He finally gave in and let the power wash over him.
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Danny opened his eyes and found himself inside a huge white… dome almost. It just seemed to go on forever and ever. He found he was standing on solid ground. He tried to fly but it didn't work. However he had the feeling that he didn't need to fly.
"Hello," a voice said behind him.
Danny spun around to see a girl who was about 12 years old wave meekly at him. She was wearing strange clothes that looked like animal skins and grass and she was wearing white jewelry. Her black hair hung loose and she had black eyes that were sad. "Hello," Danny replied for lack of anything else to say. "Who are you?"
"My name is Ain'ah; I am the guardian spirit of the Trinsed Jewel."
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Now we start the last bit of "To be a Halfa" only 2 or 3 more chapters left. So if you have anything to say to me, say it now.