Chapter 4: Lia's Secret
Sam, Tucker and Danny all looked at her like she was crazy.
"You do?" They asked her in unison.
"Yeah, I do. You peolpe have a problem with that?" Lia said in her defence.
"Uh, no," Danny said for all of them, "It's just weird, that's all."
"Like you're not, halfa?" Lia said calmly.
"What did you just call me?" Danny asked, a little shocked.
"I called you a halfa, what you are," Lia repeated.
"But how did you know?" Danny asked.
"Well, a couple of reasons. A: he's where ever you are, b: you're always running off for no good reason c: Danny Phantom and Danny Fenton are uncannily similar, and d: you just told me," Lia answered calmly. Danny did a face slap.
"Don't worry, though. I won't tell anyone," she said earnestly.
"And how do we know we can trust you?" Sam asked.
"How can you afford not to?" Lia replied briskly.
"No, I guess we can't," Sam said reluctantly, then added, "But if you do or say anything to hurt Danny, you will pay!"
"I understand."
Later in the Time Stream...
"Well, it looks like we're here," Tucker said grimly, pulling into Vlad's secret lab, even though it wasn't really a secret.
"Cool,"Lia said, getting out and streaching.
"It's not cool, he kidnapped our families," Danny said.
"Why do you have to be such a jerk. I'm going to go look for Vlad and give him a piece of my mind," Lia said determinly.
"And what are we supposed to do?" Sam inquired.
"Easy, look for our families," Lia said, walking away.
"Hey, I have a score to settle with Vlad, too, you know," Danny said angrily.
"Not like the one I have, Danny." Lia dissapeared around the corner with Shimmer at her heels.
"Well, isn't she dependable," Sam said.
"She has to have reasons for what she's doing. C'mon, we should get going," Danny said, walking out of the room, with Sam and Tucker in his wake.
Even Later in the Time Stream...
Lia and Danny had been searching for quite a while, but to no avail. Lia had just turned a corner when she bumped into Danny.
"Whoa, Danny. Hi," she said in surprize. Sam looked ticked.
"Nice to see you too, Sam and Tucker. Did you have any luck?" The trio shook their heads.
"You?" Danny asked. Lia shook her head.
"Hey, I have an idea," Lia said looking to Danny.
"What?"
"If Shimmer knows what some one in our families smells like, she can find them," Lia said excitedly.
"Can't she just smell you?" Sam asked.
"No, I'm... adopted. We need Danny, since Jack and Maddie are his biological parents. Is that okay, Danny?" Lia asked.
"If it will get me to my parents, it's fine with me," Danny said.
"Okay. Shim, sniff and search!" Lia commanded.
Shimmer walked up to Danny and sniffed his leg. She then turned and walked off. Lia followed and beckoned Danny, Sam and Tucker to follow.
Yet Even Later in the Time Stream...
The small party followed the beagle to a study of some sort, when who should they meet other than Vlad Masters.
"You!" Danny and Lia said in unison.
"Ah, yes. Me," Vlad said calmly, smirking at the teenagers, "And why are you here?" he asked in mock confusion.
"You know damn well why we're here, Vlad. So just let our families go, and I won't be forced to make a scene," Lia threatened. Vlad laughed.
"Hahahahaha! Do you honestly think that I am scared of you? Even if you are a hybrid like Daniel and myself, you know nothing of your powers," Vlad said cockily.
"What?" Danny, Sam and Tucker said, whipping around to face Lia. She looked like she had been slapped in the face.
She looked down after holding their gazes for a while, "Yeah, it's true. That's how I knew Danny was a halfa, but I wanted to know if I could absolutely trust you guys with my secret. I was going to tell you soon, but it looks like the cat's out of the bag."
"Wait, so you're...?" Danny asked.
"Yeah, I'm Wisp, and Shimmer is Shimmera," Lia replied, defeatly.
"Aww, how cute," Vlad said mockingly.
"Shut up, jerk," Lia said, two blue rings forming around her waist and traveling up her form. Her brown hair turned to silver-blue, her hazle eyes to blue-violet, and her tee-shirt and skirt turned to a tube-top and low cut jeans, with tennis shoes turning into slender boots. Danny followed suit and changed into his alter-ego, Danny Phantom. Vlad laughed again.
"Do you two really think you can stop me? You have failed every other time you've tried," he taunted them, and Shimmer groweled.
"I don't understand why you two don't join me. Just think about all the things I can teach you," Vlad said, then added, "But if you don't want to join me, I'll just have you rot in my dungeons," he turned to Sam, Tucker and Shimmer. "All of you." And with that, he pulled out a device he called the Plasmius Maximus, and, after a small scuffle, managed to zap both Wisp and Danny, causing them to turn back to normal. He then transformed into his alter-ego (and what a big ego it is) and knocked out all the teens and the dog.
End of Chapter 4: Lia's Secret
Author's Note: Yes, the weapon is the Keyblade from Kingdom Hearts. Go Coalar Lee Drake for figuring that out! Woo!
Author's quiz: Yes, Lia's a halfa, like Danny and Vlad, but she's not human. At all. She's half ghost, half what? I'll tell in the next chapter. Hint: She got the necklace from her real mom.
