Sorry I haven't updated in awhile. This chapter was hard to write. Thank you all for being paitent and here is the chapter. ENJOY!
Chapter 10 - A New Set Of Rules
Maddie jumped out of the way of the way of one of the attacks but Danny took them out easily, in a matter of seconds. Danny quickly pulled his mother away from the scene and through the hole that had been blown in the wall. Maddie was slightly alarmed by her sons temperance to this place now. It still gave her chills and forced her to think of more pleasant things, though it was a bit difficult in a place that was filled with decay, anger, sadness, anger and many more feelings swirling around. "Danny...how are you?"
"I'm fine," Danny replied looking at his mom. His green eyes took a bright green glow for a moment but Maddie shook her head and stopped him.
"You're not fine, are you?" Danny looked away and kept walking. "Daniel Fenton stop this moment!" Maddie had taken her mother tone and forced his feet to stop moving, "Turn and face me."
"Mom!" Danny ran toward her, surprising the woman a great deal. He pushed her down to the ground and gasped in pain. Maddie looked up and saw a man dressed in silk with a few chunks of his body missing.
"Boy! I was wondering when I would see you again." Danny smirked at the ghost and used his ectoplasmic blast to break the sword in half. "I have others where that came from." Danny pulled the sword out of his stomache, the damage turning into a bruise. "I see your healing rate as quickened nicely. You should be a decent opponent and who is this lovely lady?" He turned his ghostly eyes toward Maddie. "She looks just like many of the other women I had fun breaking."
Maddie fired her gun at him but it had no effect. "You honestly think that will work on me? Please, it may work on the other lower life forms here but not me. Now, be a good girl and come with me." Danny stepped in front of her.
"Not a chance," Danny replied and fired nurmerous times at Morace. The ghost hit the wall and disappeared. Maddie pulled Danny out of the way as Morace grabbed his arm. Danny felt his arms being pulled oposite ways and fired a blast at Morace who was forced to let go. He growled, anger building up and threw Danny roughly against the wall. The white haired ghost child slid to the floor hissing in pain.
Morace watched as Danny stood with a new glint in his eye. The green glowed brightly for a moment and Danny sent Morace flying back. Danny blinked, confused at what just happened and fired a few more blasts knocking the ghost through a wall. Debris and dust blocked the view but Danny walked through it, not even looking phased from the last attack and continued to fire. Morace growled again and Maddie had to roll away as his ghostly form was flung into the wall, causing debris to spread every where.
Danny's eyes penetrated the darkness, sending chills up his mothers back. The glowing green eyes watched Morace as he slowly stood up. Morace backed away with a look on his face that made him want to run from the area. Maddie watched her son get closer and closer but she feared him for some reason. Suddenly he dropped to the floor, hands on his head.
Get out! GET OUT OF ME!
Why my precious ghost boy? Isn't it nice for you to have this much raw power in your body? Don't you want me to be part of you?
NO! GET OUT!
Maddie watched as Danny shook his head. She dropped down next to him but he pushed her away.
"Get...agh...away from me...agh! She'll...she'll come for...AH!" Danny let a scream out so shrill that the shriekers would have been jelous of him. He curled up into a ball and fired his own ectoplasmic blast at himself. His body went limp quickly and reverted back to his human form. A young girl stood over Danny, a frown crossing her pale lips. Maddie looked up at her, curiousity and confusion written on her face. The girl was floating but looked like she had a physical body. Her long hair moved freely against her body and her eyes were narrow slits, her pupils wide with shock.
"He kicked me out." She didn't seem to notice Maddie sitting by Danny. "How very rude of him." She turned to look at Maddie, "Did you think I forgot about you? Well...I didn't. You are the reason this boy fights so hard right now. I'll kill you, that I promise" With that said she disappeared leaving Maddie and her unconscious son alone in the broken hallway.
Maddie shook of the chill she recieved from the small child and turned to her son. She shook him lightly trying to wake him up. All he did was groan for a few minutes. Danny opened his eyes a few minutes later and sat up, with some difficulty, to see his mom watching him. "Danny, are you going to be okay?"
"Ugh...I will when my head stops spinning around." Maddie laughed and helped her son onto her shoulders. "You didn't see all that...did you?"
"Yes, but things are going to be fine." Danny fell onto his knees, panting. Danny winced in pain and looked up at his mom. "Come on, get on my back." Danny nodded and let his mom give him a ride. He put his head against her back and promptly fell asleep. She sighed and continued walking through the halls, hoping to find her husband. Maybe then they could find the others and actually stand a chance. Danny groaned but didn't wake up. "My poor baby," Maddie sighed again and looked around a new set of halls. "Since when did this place become so large?" She felt it was safe for now and found an undesturbed dorm room. She set her son down on the bed and carefully looked at the various injuries he had.
They were all forming into rather large bruises now leaving him worn out. Danny groaned and this time woke up. He looked around for a moment before attempting to sit up. Maddie shook her head and pushed him down. "Lay still for a moment and get some rest." He closed his eyes again and drifted off to sleep. Maddie was getting tired as well and the sun didn't seem to want to rise. The sky was forming into purple swirls around them. "This isn't good. We have to get out of here." She armed her gun when something entered the room.
"Good lady, please do not harm me." She raised an ebrow and saw a man dressed in an army outfit, "I'm sorry to have shocked you."
"Who are you?"
"My name, dear lady, is Jacob. Well, Captain Jacob T. Albert to be exact." He smiled and with it, the scar twisted in a wierd sort of way. "He's just recuperating now my dear. He'll be okay, I fear you will never make it out of here though." Maddie wondered just what was going on, "The game master is too well known for this sort of thing."
"We'll make it out of here, with all of us in one piece." Maddie replied. Her determination grew quickly and forced her to aim the gun at Jacob. He frowned a bit.
"I'm sorry, I warned you though. Please, be careful." The man faded out of the room, "Be assured, nothing can touch you in this room. You'll be safe for now." Maddie heard the last of his words and sank down on the bed next to her son and fell asleep. Twelve hours later she woke to see Danny still asleep. His bruises were less noticable and almost gone.
"At least I know he'll be okay for a while." She sat up and walked over to the window. The crawlers were taking on bomb heads and winning. She looked back at Danny who was starting to wake up. He yawned and glared out the window, remembering where he was. "How do you feel sweetie?"
"Better," he replied and stretched out, "We better get going. I want to get out of this place quickly." Maddie nodded and helped Danny up. He seemed to be fine. "Going ghost." The white rings circled his body and her son had turned into the ghost that she and Jack had been hunting for a long time, "Come on." He pulled her out of the room. His personality had changed a bit when he was a ghost. He was more cocky but he knew what he was doing and he was more confident in himself.
"Lets check down this hall. It seems to be worth a look," Maddie pulled her son down an undestroyed corridor and into a room that led to lower levels of the school.
"Do we really want to go down there?" Phantom asked raising an ebrow.
"Of course! Thrill of the hunt!"
"Unless you're the one being hunted," Phantom muttered and followed his mother down the hall, "But I suppose Jack-Man is that cool!- I mean dad would go down here. Maybe Jazz, Sam and Tucker are with him?"
"That's what I'm hoping for. This is probably the best time your fathers had hunting ghosts in a long time."
"There not ghosts mom, they're spirits and manifestations." Maddie laughed.
"Of course." Maddie looked down the hall, "Seems okay for now. Be prepared though." Danny rolled his eyes and looked around. No ghost sense was going off but he felt a power chill run up his spine and turned intangable as a firehead's blade went through his stomache.
"Great...heart burn..." he turned around, "As much as you want to tear my heart in two, it doesn't belong to you." Danny fired multipul times at the creature and sent it to the ground where it twitched for a few moments then lay still. Maddie laughed at his little battle talk and continued on ahead. Danny sighed and continued on his way. The hallway had only had a couple of fireheads, nothing too bad. He sighed and dodged yet another firehead as they left the hall. He had grown accustomed to them being around but nearly got his saw off as a bombhead jumped out for a surprise attack. "That's new..." he smiled with satisfaction and fired again.
Even it if it was a deadly senario, it was starting to feel like a game. Maddie still felt that it was a sick and twisted plan and thought nothing of it as being a game. Danny didn't share her thoughts, and in a sick and twisted way, was starting to enjoy the game of cat and mouse for a short time. Now that he was in better spirits from a good long sleep. Danny felt his body tremble with pleasure as two spiders were perched up ahead. He tried to shake the feeling away, fearing he might become something he never wanted to become. He pushed aside the feeling of pleasure and felt the pressence of that little girl. She was watching him, wanting to know he was enjoying her game.
After a quick motion of several shots the spiders fell and lay there unmoving. Maddie was busy taking out a few crawlers and was having no difficulty.
"It seems my game has gotten a little too easy."
Danny glared and cleared his throat. "Where are they? Where are my dad, sister and friends?"
"That would make the game easier and that wouldn't be any fun." The girl laughed, "So for now I want to introduce someone new to you." Three creatures came out from the shadows. Their heads were upside down and shook every now and then. Their eyes hung slightly of their sockets and their arms were connected at the necks. There legs were at their torso but they had an extra set near the end of their bodies. A large cat like tail with a sharp knife on it swung quickly. They let out a horrible call and ran toward the pair. One open it's mouth to reveal rather sharp metal teeth. It's body was coated in a wax like substance and the blood ran down their bodies. Danny barely had time to dodge and was grazed on his arm. Green ectoplasm and red blood fell to the floor and it was already making a large puddle. He didn't like this game anymore.
"What are these...things?" Phantom asked, a little more then annoyed. The girl giggled and pointed to them.
"These are some of my favorites. Razars." Danny quickly pulled Maddie out of the way and toward him as another lunged at him. He was hit with another bolt of electricity by the girl. "Can't have you gaining back any powers, can I?" Danny tried to throw up his shield but it would work.
"Damn!" Danny fired ectoplasmic energy at the razars and jumped out of the way as one tried to kick his stomache. It managed to nail him in the back forcing him to impailed by the other ones tail. "This is not good." He shot the tail of and it wailed. He was thrown back into a wall with such force it made his head hurt. He pulled the tail, the damaged healing quickly enough and hit the other ones tail. Maddie worked on break the teeth. The teeth broke one by one forcing the razars to scream and run away. "This is not good. Not good at all..."