I ran inside my house and straight into Vlad. He smiled at me and I noticed something different about him. His smile didn't have the slightest trace of evil in it. It was a happy smile and that was more scary then anything.
Vlad was also not wearing his normal suit. He was wearing clothing that most adults tend to wear. His eyes were a warmer blue than I had ever seen them and his hair was black. Vlad's smile broadened when Sam and Tucker came in.
"Danny! I was wondering where you had been. Would you two like to join us for lunch? Maddie is making sandwiches." He showed us into the kitchen and I saw my mom not wearing her jumpsuit. The only time I had seen her like that before was when we went camping.
She was in a t-shirt and jeans and her hair was longer then it had been. She looked like an older version of Jazz. "Um mom?" I asked, "Can I go upstairs? I'm not feeling well."
"Sweetie is something bothering you? I'm here to talk if you want." There were tons of things I was having a problem with, but I couldn't exactly say that Vlad was my archenemy.
Speaking of Vlad he had been giving me a funny look. "I don't know why Danny but you remind me of a kid I met back in college who stopped me from being blasted by the proto portal."
Before Vlad could recognize me I ran up the stairs to my room. Tucker followed but Sam did not. My room was exactly the same as it had been and that made me feel a little better. I came across the inevitable in my mind. Vlad was now my father. This was getting way too much like Star Wars.
Once again I tried going ghost but couldn't. I didn't know why, I was not affected by the change memory wise, but I was now powerless. Something else popped into my mind and I sort of wished that I could block out thought. If I didn't have ghost powers then that meant that there was no ghost portal and if there was no ghost portal my parents weren't ghost hunters and I couldn't go into the Ghost Zone.
Sam would be stuck with the belt unless I could talk to Clockwork who probably doesn't know I exist because I never had to stop my evil self because I never had ghost powers. All of it made my head hurt. The only way to fix it was to go back in time and stop myself from stopping Vlad from getting blasted.
Jazz opened my door and came in. "Danny will you be my target? I need to test this new ghost weapon." Her hair was short and she looked like a younger version of my mom. She was in a blue jumpsuit and was holding what looked like a slingshot in her hands.
Now I was really confused. Jazz had always hated ghost hunting and now she loved it. "I'd better not Jazz, I told mom I was sick and I can't exactly leave." I faked a cough and Tucker just looked confused. My sister looked sad and left my room slowly.
Tucker shook his head. "Man I really hope that we can fix this-" his cell phone started ringing and he flipped it open. "Mom? What? No I'm at Danny's house. Of course I know what his parents do. What? No don't they hunt ghosts? WHAT? Okay I'll be home as soon as I can. Bye."
He closed his phone and looked at me with a weird expression. "Your parents don't hunt ghost's anymore Danny." I sort of knew that. "Vlad is the Mayor of Amity Park."
I looked at him as if he was joking and said, "You're kidding me right?" he shook his head no. Tucker said goodbye and that he should leave before anything else happened. I was so shocked by what had happened that I forgot that I wanted to time travel and stop myself.
Sam had already left and Vlad and my mom were talking about something. "Danny never has given me that look before." Vlad said. "It was like I was his worst enemy or something." He looked depressed. "I thought we had been really close."
My mom patted his shoulder and said, "I know it's hard but kids do grow up. Don't worry though; I know just the thing to get him in the Masters family spirit." She held up what looked like an invitation. "We've been invited to the twentieth college reunion!"
Vlad smiled and seemed to regain his happy composure. "That will be just the thing Maddie! We can take Jazz too and try to convince her not to hunt ghosts!" To my horror and disgust Vlad and my mom kissed like a married couple does and I ran upstairs to keep myself from throwing up.
After several minutes of trying to get that image out of my mind, Jazz burst in looking furious. "How come when you mess up I always end up getting punished too? If you were a ghost I would kill you again!"
She stomped away and I sat there rubbing my head. I had already been through the college reunion and I really did not want to do it twice. The first time was bad enough but now Vlad was my dad. The only thing that cheered me up was that my old dad would be there too. He did attend the same college so it's his reunion also.
My mom walked in and sat next to me. "Danny I know you aren't feeling well but that's no reason to run out on your father like that." I didn't answer. Vlad was not my dad. "You know he loves you and thinks you're the best son he could ever have. That's why we decided to take you with us to our twentieth college reunion." I pretended to look surprised.
"You will go to school tomorrow and after that we'll leave for the reunion." I blinked and remembered that today was Sunday. "Don't forget to pack your suitcase." Mom left and I found that I was extremely tired. I didn't want to sleep in the same house as my arch enemy but I really didn't have a choice.
The next morning I woke up and forgot that I had altered the time stream. In fact I probably wouldn't have remembered if Vlad hadn't walked into my room and told me to get up. Out of shock I jumped up and tried to go ghost, remembered I couldn't, and started to get dressed for school.
Jazz drove me to school and dropped me off. "Aren't you coming to school Jazz?" I asked. She gave me a funny look and shook her head no.
"Danny I go ghost hunting during school, remember? See you after school!" she sped off away from school and left me standing in the parking lot with a shocked look on my face. Sam wasn't in school today but I saw Tucker and I told him about everything that had been happening.
"Wow Danny the whole time traveling thing was a really bad idea." Tucker looked at me and said, "At least you still look the same." I hadn't really thought much about what having Vlad for a father would do to my appearance. Luckily I got most of my looks from my mother's side.
Dash walked up to me and I prepared myself to be beat up. Instead Dash shoved Tucker over and walked next to me. "Why are you bothering with this loser pal?" he said rather loudly. He punched Tucker again and walked away.
"Oh Danny!" a voice with a Latino accent called. Paulina walked up to me and glared at Tucker. "Are you doing a Home Economics project or something? Help a loser for a day?" Tucker scowled at her. "Danny, are you doing anything on Saturday? If you aren't we could go to the movies or something…"
I didn't say anything. Paulina, my crush for years, was asking me on a date. My thoughts turned to Sam and I couldn't help feeling guilty. Tucker and I continued walking and Paulina looked sort of like I did after she snubbed me.
At first it was fun being popular. Everyone greeted me and I finally got a spot at the coveted popular table. Then it got irritating. People kept insulting Tucker and were trying to flatter me and ask me for things. After hiding in my locker to avoid Paulina, (imagine that) I said goodbye to Tucker and left. We couldn't time travel until we found Sam and I was expected back at my house.
Jazz picked me up in her car and threatened to beat me up if I told mom or dad she skipped school. When we got home Vlad (I refuse to call him dad) greeted us and told us to put our suitcases in the back of the van. I walked over expecting a version of the Fenton Family Assault Vehicle and was shocked to see a normal silver minivan.
We left almost as soon as my mom got home from her job, which as far as I could tell was a normal job, and soon we were on our way to the reunion. Mom and Vlad were talking about it up in the two front seats.
"Jack was really very kind to hold the reunion at his house." my mom said. Jazz perked up and suddenly looked interested.
"Wait, do you mean Jack Fenton the billionaire?" I knew where this conversation had led before. The next part would determine a very bad change in my life. Vlad started talking about the accident in three, two one…
"Your mother and I haven't seen Jack since the accident. We were working on a portal to break open a hole in another dimension. Three kid's entered the lab right before we started the experiment and one who looked a lot like Danny dived and pushed me out of the proto portal explosion."
My mom frowned. "I told Jack that the calculations weren't correct but he still went through with the test."
Vlad took over the conversation again. "Unfortunately the proto portal hit Jack and gave him a horrible case of ecto-acne…"
My jaw dropped in shock. Once my dad had hunted ghosts. Now he was one.
Danny is Vlad's son and Jack is a Halfa. Congratulations to Missmeliss who guessed it all. Maybe I really am predictable. Send reviews!