Hi back with Chapter 4! Thanks to all my reviewers!
DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN DANNY PHANTOM!
Chapter 4
Flashback:
"A Ghost Portal?" Sam asked.
"Yeah, but Mom and Dad say it doesn't work anyway," Danny replied.
"It's a portal to a 'Ghost Zone', aren't you curious?" Sam said, "You gotta check it out!"
"You know what? I think I will!" Danny declared. The teen grabbed a nearby jumpsuit and put it on.
Cautiously, Danny entered the Ghost Portal, making sure that he didn't step on any wires. He leaned on the side of the portal for a break, unknowingly pushing a green button with his left hand. Suddenly the invention hummed to life.
There was a flash of brilliant green light as millions of tiny particles of ectoplasmic energy infused themselves in Danny's DNA. The pain was immense; Danny felt as if he were twisted and crushed in so many different ways at once. There was a brighter flash of green light, then darkness…
End Flashback
Danny awoke with a start, unknowing that two days had passed since his battle with Plasmius. His body was particularly sore from whatever had happened, especially around his head. Franticly, the teen looked around, everything was unfamiliar. The walls were lined with green and gold banners, a small dresser was in the corner, and a bedside table was at his side. A decorated lamp stood over a photo of a person he could not identify. The man in the photo had long silvery hair tied back in a ponytail and was elegantly dressed in a black suit. Who is this? Danny thought, but the more he tried to recall, the more difficult it was for him to figure out anything. It just seemed so confusing…
Jack Fenton sat by his wife, trying to comfort her as she cried into his shoulder,
Sam, Tucker, and Jazz sat in a corner, discussing something inaudible.
"Oh Danny?" she sobbed, "Why did you leave?"
"There, there," Jack said, "I promise, we'll obliterate whichever ghost that dared to lay a filthy hand on our son and take him away from us!"
Halfa.
The unknown term had suddenly sprouted in his mind as Danny tried to remember something at the very least, but his thoughts were disrupted as his hand accidentally phased through the bed.
"Half a boy, half a ghost, the halfa!" a voice chattered excitedly in his head.Where had he heard that before? He would have to worry about that later. At least he knew he was half ghost, but a zillion other thoughts zoomed across his mind.
"Awww, Danny you're smiling, that matters the most, we're all here together not fighting some…GHOST!"
"And even though you don't think I'll understand, you can talk to me about anything…"
"Friends? The best..."
"I saw you up on that high wire, you were fighting him the whole time, fight him now Danny you're not just a ghost, FIGHT HIM!"
Why were all these voices so familiar? Danny tried to picture the speakers' faces, but his mind was blank.
Alone, and confused, Danny slowly drew the covers over him. Tears of disappointment and loneliness filled his eyes, but as much as he tried Danny couldn't keep them from streaming down his cheek.
"What happened?" he cried.
No one answered.
"Where am I?"
There was no response.
"Who am I?"
Silence.
"Come on guys he's been gone for nearly three days!" Sam cried.
"Well we can't just tell his parents that he's half ghost, he wouldn't trust us anymore if just go and blab to everyone that he is Danny Phantom," Jazz argued quietly.
"Do you guys need help with your Health reports?" Tucker said randomly.
"Tucker!" the two girls scolded.
"Ok, but I just found an excellent website on amnesia," he replied, still tapping on his PDA.
"What's amnesia?" Sam asked despite the current circumstances.
"It's a form of memory loss defined as a disturbance in memory info," Jazz answered quickly, she wanted to get back to the subject of her little brother.
"Isn't that what happened when you wished you never met Danny?" Tucker asked.
"Ugh can we get back to Danny?" Jazz asked, but then noticed that the two younger teens had begun bickering about random events, and were pinning the blame on each other.
"We interrupt your current program to bring you breaking news!" news reporter Tiffany Snow said on TV. Everyone turned their attention to the television which hadn't been turned off since Danny's disappearance.
"This is your reporter Tiffany Snow, and we have breaking news! A giant ghost dragon has attacked downtown Amity Park! Here's live footage straight from the scene!"
The footage revealed a gigantic blue ghost dragon smashing cars and trashing buildings. Its giant tail sent buses flying and half of Downtown Amity Park was on fire.
"In other news, fourteen year old Danny Fenton is missing. He was last seen at Casper High School. Also, the ghost kid, Danny Phantom, has disappeared as well. Police still having no evidence for the two disappearances. This is Tiffany Snow, Action News,"
The television was turned off. Jack was the first to react though.
"I'LL GET YOU GHOST KID!" the large man shouted.
"Jack, sweetie, calm down," Maddie sniffled, "Now isn't the time for ghosts dear."
"No Maddie that's not it, THE GHOST KID HAS KIDNAPPED DANNY!" Jack yelled loudly.
"What!" Sam finally found her voice.
"Don't you see? He disappeared when Danny did, which can only mean one thing, THE GHOST KID'S GOT DANNY!" Jack shouted again.
"But the Ghost Kid has been protecting Amity Park, what could he want with Danny?" Jazz reasoned, trying to protect her brother, wherever he was. It was no use. Within seconds Jack and Maddie were speeding away in the Fenton RV in search of the Ghost Kid.
"Now what do we do?" Tucker asked. With that, Sam slowly got up and headed downstairs to the Fentons' laboratory. Curiously, Tucker and Jazz followed her, and found her standing by the Spectre Speeder.
"Anyone up for a little rescue mission?"
"Ahh, son, you're awake I see," said a voice.
Danny sat up and looked at the speaker. He looked almost exactly like the person in the photo under the lamp. His silvery hair was tied into a ponytail and he was wearing an elegant suit with highly polished shoes.
"Who are you? What happened? Where am I? Who am I?" Danny asked rapidly.
The stranger sat down and introduced himself, "I am Vlad Masters,"
"Okay, Vlad, can I call you that?" Danny said. The man nodded.
"What happened? I feel kinda sore," Danny groaned, rubbing the back of his neck.
"Oh dear, I do believe we have some memory loss from the accident two days ago," Vlad crooned, patting Danny on the back.
"Enlighten me," Danny muttered laying back down.
"Well, we had a training accident when we were exercising your ghost powers, you see, ever since an accident in the laboratory, you've been half ghost, like me," Vlad explained, or lied rather.
"You're half ghost too?" Danny asked, eyes wide.
"Of course dear boy," Vlad said standing up. Danny watched as two dark rings formed around the rich man's torso, separating into two, one ring moving up, the other down. In just moments, Vlad Masters was Vlad Plasmius. Vlad reverted back to human and sat down on the edge of Danny's bed again.
"Anyway," he said, briskly dusting himself, "This is what happened…"
"Face it Tucker, we're lost again," Sam sighed, rolling her eyes.
"If I could just recalibrate the scanner to a larger radius, we may be able to pick up Vlad's portal!"
"You put way to much faith in technology!" said Sam, spotting a ghost girl floating next to the Spectre Speeder, "Let's just-"
"We are NOT asking for directions," Tucker said.
"Fine, let's just go home," Sam sighed, "Hopefully Mr. and Mrs. Fenton found something."
Reluctantly, Tucker followed the scanner to find a way back to the Fenton Portal.
"… Apparently, the pipe was able to hit you in the back of the head and you blacked out. The impact must've caused amnesia. You've been asleep for two days." Vlad lied.
"So who am I?" Danny asked.
"Well your ghost half is named Daniel Phantom," Vlad explained.
"So what's my human name?" Danny asked. He could've sworn he saw a faint trace of a smirk on Vlad's face when he made his inquiry.
"Daniel Masters," was Vlad's reply.
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