Mina: Here's the next chapter. And before I forget, someone put this story on their story alert list but never reviewed. They must think that it's good because they did put it on their story alert list but I'd like to hear what was good about it or even what I could do better. Thanks! Anyway, I do not own Danny Phantom.
Cana woke up early the next morning. She silently got dressed and then headed toward Vlad's lab. When she approached the door she turned intangible and phased through it. Once inside she turned invisible. She floated over to where the cure was and replaced the vial there with one that was filled with water. She then exited the room and floated back to her room. She put the vial in a safe place and then headed for the lab again.
She approached the lab and went intangible to get inside and once inside she turned invisible. This time she headed over to the vial filled with water and knocked it to the floor. She then proceeded to knock a bunch of other vials over, creating a huge mess. Then she went over to some boxes at one end of the room and picked one of them up without turning it invisible. She floated over to the ghost portal, which was open, and threw the box in. The ghost portal then closed.
Cana exited the lab the same way she had gotten in and then headed to the security camera room. There was a single screen in the security room. This screen showed the lab, as it now was, messed up and with one box missing. This was the only room in Vlad's entire mansion that had a security camera in it. She rewound the tape until she found the part from the other day where they entered the lab. She deleted that from the tape and then skipped ahead to when she switched the vials. This she also deleted from the tape. What she was left with made it look like the box ghost came into the lab, knocked over a few things, and then took a box back into the ghost zone.
"Perfect," Cana said to herself.
Cana then got up and headed back to her room. She waited for a few hours until she heard the others up and then she exited her room with the vial. Luckily only Sam and Tucker were out in the hallway and Valerie was no where in sight.
"I got the vial with the cure in it!" Cana told them excitedly.
"That's awesome!" Sam exclaimed.
"We should give it to him right now!" Tucker said enthusiastically.
"Bad idea Tucker," Cana told him.
"Why?" Sam and Tucker both asked.
"We don't know if this really is the cure. We have to be sure first. I'll find a way to find out if this really is the cure, then we can give it to him," Cana told them and they both nodded.
Cana walked back into her room and hid the vial once more. When she came out they went to check on Danny. Danny was still asleep. Sam and Tucker decided to stay and wait for him to wake up. Valerie had just walked into the room and said she would stay as well. Cana decided that now was the perfect time to see if what she had gone to all that trouble to remove from Vlad's lab was really the cure that Danny needed.
Cana walked down the hall and towards Vlad's lab once more. She knocked on the door.
"Who is it?" she heard Vlad ask from inside.
"Cana," she replied.
"Come in," Vlad told her.
She opened up the door and walked in. The lab was as messy as she had left it. Vlad was standing by the vial in which the "cure" had been. As Cana walked in she pretended to be shocked.
"Who did this?" Cana asked Vlad making it sound like she was truly shocked.
"I don't know," Vlad responded.
"What was in that vial that was so important to you?" Cana asked while pointing to the vial on the floor.
"The cure for Daniel," Vlad told her.
"You made a cure for him? Why would you do that?" Cana asked surprised.
"Yes I made a cure for him. If he decided that he wanted to join me instead of suffer and possibly die I would have given it to him."
"But what if he decided to lie?" Cana asked Vlad.
"That's why I made the cure one that would take a little while to fully cure him. It would make him better a little at a time…"
"And that way if he was lying you could inject the illness into him again while he was still too weak to resist!" Cana finished for Vlad.
"That's exactly right!" Vlad exclaimed. "You think just like me."
"Why don't you check the security tapes? I bet they would have caught something on tape that would show what happened in here," Cana suggested.
"That's a great idea."
The two of them walked to the security room. Vlad inserted the correct tape and the images played across the screen. The ghost portal opened and all of a sudden the vial with the "cure" in it fell to the floor, followed by several other vials. Then, a box was lifted into the air which then went into the Ghost Zone and the ghost portal closed.
"The Box Ghost!" Vlad cursed out loud.
"He did all of that…just for a box," Cana stated rather depressingly.
"Curses!" Vlad shouted. "I swear I will hunt him down and make him pay!"
"You do that. I'm going to go and see what Danny's friends are up to," Cana said and then left the room.
Cana ran down the hall and burst into Danny's room. Only Sam and Tucker were there now, Valerie had apparently decided to go and take a swim, and Danny was awake.
"It is the cure!" Cana shouted excitedly.
"What cure?" Danny asked confused.
"I took the cure to your illness from Vlad's lab and I found out that it really is the cure. It takes a while to cure you fully because it cures you little by little but it will work," Cana told them.
"What are you waiting for? Go get the cure!" Sam shouted.
Cana ran into her room, grabbed the cure, and ran back to Danny's room.
"Here it is," she said and handed it to Danny.
"Here goes nothing," Danny said and then he chugged down the cure.
"Once you start feeling better you need to still act weak and tired," Cana told him.
Danny nodded and handed Cana the vial.
"Have you seen my parents?" Danny suddenly asked after a few moments of silence.
"Not since we got here," Tucker told him.
"I just was wondering if they were ever going to…well, check up on me, see how I was feeling. That's what parents are supposed to do," Danny said kind of sadly. "I guess my parents just don't care."
"Don't say that Danny!" Sam told him.
"Yeah! It's not like your parents actually love ghost hunting more than you," Tucker said.
"Not helping!" Sam shouted at Tucker.
"Sorry."
In the middle of this conversation Cana walked out of the room. She wandered around the mansion until, on the other side of the mansion, she found the room that Danny's parents were staying in. She walked in with out knocking.
"How could you not visit your own son!" she yelled at them, getting very upset. "He's sick and you haven't done a thing about it! Me and Jazz took care of him while you stayed in your stupid lab and invented stupid ghost hunting inventions! Now he thinks that you care more about ghost hunting then him! He may like to keep his distance from you but he still loves you and wants you to care about him and show that you love him too!" Cana finished yelling with tears in her eyes. Something about this whole situation had affected her deeply.
"There's a perfectly reasonable explanation why we haven't visited him yet…just let me think of it!" Jack Fenton said.
"Jack!" Maddie shouted. In a softer voice she said, "Cana, we tried to visit him but we got lost and no one would tell us where to find Danny. And when you and Jazz were at school we did check on Danny, he was just never awake and when he was he never called for us or asked for anything. We'll go visit him right now if you'll show us the way."
Cana turned and led them out of their room. She led them through the mansion and all the way to the other side. She then pointed to the room that Danny was in. Maddie and Jack entered the room and found only Danny in there, lying awake in bed.
"We're sorry Danny! We couldn't find your room! Vlad had us all the way on the other side of the mansion," Maddie said to her son.
"That doesn't explain why you didn't take care of me at our house," Danny mumbled.
"We did check on you! You were always asleep and you never called for us when you were awake," Maddie explained. "I'm sorry we made you think that we care more about ghost hunting than we do about you."
"Well actually…" Jack started but Maddie cut him off.
"Jack! Go out in the hall! I want to spend some time with Danny…alone!"
Jack walked out into the hall mumbling something under his breath.
"Was Dad about to say that he cares more about ghost hunting than me?" Danny asked sadly.
"No! What would make you think that?" Maddie said.
"Well, maybe because of the way he started his sentence and the way you cut him off before he could finish it," Danny told his mother.
"Oh Danny…" Maddie started to say and then hugged her son.
Outside of the room Jack was standing in the hallway. Cana, who had been listening in on the conversation, rounded on Jack.
"How could you! You're terrible! That's your son and now he's convinced that you care more about ghost hunting than him!" Cana yelled with tears welling up in her eyes.
"I didn't mean to say that," Jack tried to tell her.
"Oh you meant it all right!" Cana screeched. Luckily Danny and Maddie couldn't hear any of this.
"Then what do I do? I don't want him to hate me!" Jack said worriedly.
Cana took a deep breath before she answered. "Go out and buy him a gift. Better yet, buy him the newest game system there is."
"But that's really expensive!" Jack whined.
Cana gave an exasperated sigh. "Here! Take this money and buy it," she said while handing Jack the exact amount of money that he would need to buy the game system.
Jack went out and bought the game system while, unknown to him, Cana bought some games to go with it. He returned to the mansion in a helicopter a little while later to find Cana still standing outside Danny's room but this time she was with Sam, Tucker, Valerie, and Jazz.
"Ok. Now that Mr. Fenton is here we are all going to go in and give Danny these gifts," Cana said. "Mr. Fenton, when you go in, explain that this is why Mrs. Fenton sent you out of the room. Okay?"
"Fine by me!" Jack responded.
The group entered Danny's room and placed the presents on his bed. Cana winked at Maddie to let her know that everything was going to be fine.
Maddie took the hint and then said, "Go on Danny! Open them! I sent Jack out to get these for you."
Danny opened the biggest box which revealed the newest game system out.
"Oh my gosh! An Ultra Deluxe Game Box!" Danny said surprised.
"That's from your father and I," Maddie told him.
"Open the other one. It's from the rest of us," Cana said.
Danny did as he was told and opened it to reveal a whole box of games to go along with the UDGB.
"Thanks everyone!" he said excitedly.
Together they hooked up the UDGB to the TV that was in Danny's room. Danny played a few games and then a little while later Vlad walked in with some extra controllers for the UDGB so everyone else could join in. Vlad wasn't exactly part of Cana's plan to give Danny the UDGB but at least he didn't ruin the moment. He probably just wants to be nice to Danny so that he will get Danny to say that he will join him. Cana thought. Nothing could ruin the moment that they were all sharing. Actually, something definitely could.
Mina: I hope everyone liked this chapter. And I've decided that thanking each reviewer personally is sometimes hard and unfair because I don't always know what to say. Instead I would like to thank Nari-chan SND, Missmeliss4251, angel, purpleflyingmonkeys, and Robert Teague for reading and reviewing this story. I would also like to thank anyone else who has been reading this but not reviewing. The next chapter is going to answer a lot of questions and it is pretty long. I will try to have it up soon. Please leave lots of reviews!