Chapter 9: It has begun
The ghost swarmed out of the ghost zone like bees in old cartoons and I didn't know how to defend the world. Sam was still dealing with trying to find a way to make more of the chemical to put in the machine. It wasn't going good because the things she needed were rare and hardly found.
"How is it going Samantha?" I asked to my gothic counterpart.
"Not too well Danny, we are running out faster than I though possible.
"Great, what do we do?" I didn't know what to do, if we run out there's a big chance that there's nothing we can do.
"I have to go back to your house and use some of your parents' things to make more."
"I thought you said the cost to make that stuff was too much, how much is it?" She laughed.
"Danny when I say it costed a lot, I didn't mean a prime I mean a sacrifice. They made it so that you could only make so much, it was a problem. I'm the sacrifice, Danny." My eyes when big.
"Are you crazy, you're a sacrifice? We need you to save us. You're their queen."
"It's not all of me, just a heavy price to pay Danny, calm down." Calm down, was she crazy, not all of her, that makes me feel better.
"Sam, you need your ghost half, and you need to be alive to save both realms, you can't."
"Then who will Danny?" Sam said
"I will." I said.
"What you can't?" Sam said.
"Why not" I asked.
"Because you just can't; I don't care what you think, Danny. I am." Sam said making her final remarks.
"I am going to, both realms need you, they don't need me." I said trying to make sure Sam lives through this all.
"Yes they do, they need both of us." Sam assured me.
"Then we will give them both of us. We'll each give half of the sacrifice so it doesn't take all that our of one person, got it." She sighed and nodded admitting her defeat to me. "What does it need?"
"A pint of blood, a lock of hair, clips of two finger nails, and ecto gel; all except the ecto gel must me taken from a Goth." I nodded. "You ready?"
"As ready as I'm going to be, Sam." Sam cut off a lock of her hair, which actually did some good because it made her hair even all the way around. She dropped it on the stone tablet. I trimmed my finger nails because Sam's were painted so they couldn't be used, don't ask me how she did this last time. She took some ecto gel from my dad's device and we both gave a half a pint of blood and Sam turned more whitish then normal and fainted reverting back to her human form. This was bad. I looked at her arm where she had taken blood from then at her other, both were swollen and cut very widely to give blood.
I picked up her body and flew her down to the safety cell where she could be safe from the ghosts. I then came back and finished the concoction. I did hope this was last because if Sam could barely take that much more blood after one this would be as much as I could without reverting back too. This would have to be enough.
My parents finally showed up with Jazz too in a uniform to help protect earth. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. "Hey Goth boy, where's the Goth girl?" I looked away sadly.
"She's no longer with us, she's too weak. She had to sacrifice so much that she's paralyzed and almost dead. It's not a pretty sight but she'll be okay, I hope. Just keep fighting. Here's the last batch of the chemical she made before she well, is you know." They nodded and loaded it into the ghost peeler. They were shooting down left and right and the other machine was paralyzing and was still at 100 of that chemical, the one that reversed their powers didn't. Wait, if Goth blood did that because it turns them half ghost what would human blood do?
I floated into the hospital and picked up a pint of human blood and stuck it in the concution along with hair from a barber's shop, and nail clippings from a little girl's collection. They were all gross but I hoped that if Goth things were that effective what would human things be able to do. I made so much with the items that I found that I could make a huge ghost shield with the same characteristics. We only had two problems, if I became human, I'd stay like that, for the rest of the fight, or I'd be shocked to death. I decided to stay on the outside of the barrier and move the portal outside so they wouldn't enter in the portal. So any ghost who touched the shield would be powerless. The shield worked but it wouldn't go very big only to the size of our town.
"Goth boy, how do we super charge it to spread it so much." My parents said yelling at me from the outside of the shield.
"I hope my powers are regenerative. I'm going to give all my powers to the shield." I walked over to the control box and flew in the shield, paralyzing my powers then gave everything I had to the shield then reverting to Daniel Fenton in front of my parents and falling dead on the ground. They shield worked, and advanced to cover all of the Americas but the rest of the world was still in trouble, so little power to go on.
"Danny, is that you?" My mother said as I lay almost unconscious but could hear them talking. "You are a Goth, aren't you?" I faintly nodded and my dad picked me up and carried me to the underground vault and saw Sam.
"Sam, are you okay?" I crawled over to her and gave the last of my remaining strength to her, she was healed. We were both now unconscious but we could hear voices.
"How could she get in here, her hand isn't mine, or a fenton's and Danny was fighting so how could she get in here." I really did put her in here but they'd soon figure it out.
"Daniel Fenton, Danny Phantom they were close Jack. So Sam Manson, Samantha Phantom; she is a ghost too." I nodded so faintly I don't think they saw me confirm their suspicions. I heard a sound and my parents jumped to attention. My ghost sense went off and I knew a ghost was in here.
"Hello Fenton Family, and My Lord Samantha; I am here to give up my powers to you to save earth and stop this eternal war. I have seen the sacrifices these two have made for each other and for the world who despises them and I have chosen to give up my powers and super charge your machine. She floated to the machine control and transferred all of her powers to the control and it covered the whole world and protected it.
I slowly supported by Jazz followed to see the girl who saved the earth. It was none other than Alice Kincaid or Katerialia. "My last and final works for earth and Goths are done, I'm dying and now my life is dying, in 2 days I will die."
"What were the works you did for Goths?" She laughed tiny laughs.
"They are done but you and Sam are the works I've worked on since your parents were born. I set up the last two generations for this day. I'm the one who made Vlad Masters have ecto acne. I made sure that Madison and Jack fell in love with each other because they were to be the world's greatest ghost protectors. They would have a son who because of a mistake in the WGGP's early years he would become another living Goth in this age. I made you, Daniel find our queen and you feel in love with her yourself. I can't tamper with love just where people are, stop those who go against the prophecy and bring together lovers early, that's it. I am the Eternal Matchmaker, but eternal means never dying but I gave up eternity as many ghosts do, to save a life of another, and I die soon."
"Will you explain to us Danny, who is she?" I nodded as Jazz helped me carefully sit in the chair.
"Alice was the first goth child centuries ago, when Goths were being hunted when she used her powers she ran into safety in the ghost world. Then when it was her job to help us all save the world, and bring me and Sam together. Her job as the Eternal Matchmaker to bring us together. Sam and I are the last remaining Goths so she knew that for all the ghosts to live there would have to be a new generation of Goths so I was the use of the male Goth genetic type and Sam the female so that there would be a new generation to rule the Goths. Ghosts were only menaces with out a true gothic heir and then Sam arose and ruled them to quail the fighting and after today no Ghosts shall enter the human realm again."
"So from now on Danny, all humans are safe from ghosts." I nodded then looked at Sam on the hospital bed. "Danny, is Sam a Goth too?" I nodded. "Is she going to be alright?"
"I wish I knew Jazz, I wish I knew. I gave her the last of my ghost powers and I hope that's enough to heal her but for every gallon of the chemical we used, she lost a pint of blood. I don't know if she can make it."
"I know Daniel Danny Fenton, she does live. Yes, but you don't get your power back sadly. You may not enter the ghost realm under Sam's laws. They can't be changed for all fairness to the ghosts."
"What about Sam?"
"She's fine Danny, she has the phenotype, 66 and you have the phenotype 99 figure out what your children's phenotypes will be." She said and smiled as I created a Punnett Square and looked at the answer.
"All four of them would have the phenotype, 96. So what does that mean?" She laughed.
"66 is the phenotype for all ghost that Sam carries because of her orb genetic structure, and 99 is the phenotype for complete human, so where does that bring your children?"
"They're Goths; wait, Sam said that someone said that because my DNA was aquired and added on top, not through normal DNA my DNA of half ghost wouldn't show up even if I had it." She nodded.
"But you no longer have you powers correct?" I nodded. "You have solved the problem, haven't you?" I shook my head. "Sam remembers the code to make you a Goth again so you can come with her, but she can't go back. Her human self is dying, nothing anyone can do about it."
"You absolutely sure about that." I asked concerned about Sam. "Could I give her the part of my human self, would that work?"
"I really don't know Danny, um. Ha, It could, I think." She said running out of breath. "Take part of human self replenish it, I don't know what happen to her gothic orbs so be careful." Alice died right there and the last thing she worried about was me being careful.
I walked back to the bed where Sam was lying and Alice was right, Sam was dying. I sure hope my body is okay with this. "Danny, stop, you can't." I turned around and looked at Jazz.
"If you do this you may be saving Sam's human half but you're killing ever ghost in existence because if they two pairs of chromosomes are alike like they would be if you made Sam's human half yours. The kids would die because of Genetic Paraphernalia, I'm sorry Danny you can't."
"I didn't understand that, at all."
"Danny, it's okay. To make it simple, mine can't match yours it has to be very close to the one I was born with, for me, to live." Sam was silenced.
"Is she okay?" I asked Jazz who understood this stuff.
"The only thing you could do is try to recreate Sam's DNA from her parents, and hope it matches hers again."
"If I took her hair, because it's not living could I recreate her DNA from that, Jazz?"
"It does make sense, but you'd need to replace all the blood she lost too. Wait, all you would need is her blood type but she couldn't live through a blood transfusion or even a blood test."
"We wouldn't need too. I couldn't. I can't without my powers." I fell on the floor and then I felt some patting me on the back.
"Being a normal person stinks when your friend's a ghost huh?" I heard Sam whisper. "Type A, 6 pints, and here." I looked at an orb.
"Sam, don't you need this, its part of your genetic makeup isn't it?" She laughed and shook her head.
"It's like having a hand, you can live without it. Get the blood, and use the orb to fuse it back into me, I promise I'll come back." Sam's body returned to the comatose state.
"Got it Danny, here." Jazz handed me 6 pints of blood. I felt bad for all the blood those people gave that we used in the machine, and all the blood Sam gave that we used; the sun was still not appeared though it was still very dark.
"Okay, how do I do this?" The orb fused into me and I could feel my ghost self returning. "Welcome back. Here we go." I laid the pints of blood in their bags ontop of Sam but the bags wouldn't open inside her.
"Danny, pore the blood onto Sam; I know it's gross but you have to then put your hands in the blood and make it translucent." I did as she said and as gross as it was Sam's heart rate was increasing at a steady rate and I finished all the blood and Sam was okay.
"One more gift to give back to Sam." I made myself translucent and fused the orb back into Sam's genetic code and then her signal went back to normal, yah. Sam was finally complete and then I had to wonder how sad and incomplete I was. That night everyone had left Sam and I in the hospital. The Solar Eclipse was over and all the ghosts went back to the Ghost Zone. No one in my family had asked any questions about me being a ghost, because Alice had explained it all within the prophecy.
"Daniel Fenton?" I laughed, only my mom called me that. Sam didn't even call me that even when she was at the most upset ever.
"There's a Danny Fenton here, but no one by the name of Daniel Fenton." Her hands looked weak but they grabbed my shirt collar and pulled me down to her level.
"Go get him, now!"
"Sam, it's me, what's up?"
"Oh, hey Danny, what's up?"
"I believe I have more rights to ask you that seeing as you're the one in the hospital."
"In 2 days, promise Danny. You should go home and explain to your parents about you being a ghost, I know they saw you."
"They did but Alice explained to them, you know she's…
"Gone. Yah, I do. Every time something happens in the ghost zone, I know. She's finally at rest. One less Goth huh?"
"Nah, two less Goths; you and her. So how do you feel?"
"I'm fine; let me re remind you that, you're the one in the hospital. So how off balance is the world without Danny Phantom as its guardian?"
"It's doing fine Danny, under the laws I made, the world is back in balance. Goths make the world unbalanced, 3 Goths was UN balanced why 1 is not. I am a ruler and on the top so it doesn't off set, so how are you?"
"I'm fine, did you have so brain damage too while you were in the hospital?"
"No, I mean, how are you feeling about not having powers."
"Oh, I guess pretty useless and down trotted in the shadow of someone as wonderful as you." I complimented Sam who laughed.
"Two days Danny, then I'll return you back to your gothic state." I let out a big gasp.
"So whatever happened to your grandfather and that other kid?"
"I don't think I'll ever know, or care Danny. As long as they're not bothering us I don't care about them. You I do."
"And why would that be."
"Because I said so Danny."
"So Sam, what's our next adventure?"
"I have to rule the Ghost Zone, while going to school. You know, you could stay here and be normal kid like everyone else. I put your parents in charge of being the defenders of ghosts in their town. They are supposed to turn in all Ghost orbs to me."
"But, if I was normal, then I'd never see you again, Sam." She nodded.
"Danny, haven't we all just wonderfully played the roles we were assigned to perfectly. Danny, protector until Queen arrived: Sam, Danny's best friend and Queen. Our roles are not meant to over lap Danny."
"You forgot part of our roles. Sam has to be the mother to the new generation of gothic kids, and for that you need to have a husband who can enter the ghost realm, huh?"
"I guess, you have someone in mine?" Sam asked.
"Well the job of Danny Phantom says: Protect human world, protect queen, stop ghost and also it says become father to new generation of gothic kids. I guess I'm not done, huh?"
"I guess not, Danny Fenton, and Danny Phantom has jobs to do, right? So good-night Dannys and see you at school tomorrow."
"You think we'll have school?"
"We saved the whole world Danny, that includes are school and its teachers. So we have school tomorrow." I sighed.
Sam's Viewpoint
I awoke up after a good-nights sleep and saw a very happy Danny Fenton sleeping across the room to me, where Alice died. The nurse said he could stay because he was a close friend, and his parents gave him permission. It turns out that the school is pretty wrecked so we don't have school but Danny and I are going to be living in normal human type and not going ghost for a while, under law. I decided to take Danny down to his powers and give him his powers back. He thanked me highly for that one. I had an article I needed to add to the old Goth's book that I carried around and making it a prized poccesion of mine.
"For the dead and the Living We Must Bear Witness"
That is the saying of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. It means for the remembrance of the dead and for the living to not forget we must witness and understand the Holocaust. The Holocaust focused on in the museum is one horrible that most try to forget but for the dead we must not forget their sacrifice of our soldiers and not forget how racism drives us to kill. The Second Holocaust is also based on Racism. The First Holocaust is all about the German Nazis' against the Jewish people. That caused so many lives to be lost the second was the humans and ghost to hate the Goths because they had crossed between the two races. How sad can someone be to hate someone because of something like that? Goths didn't use their powers so most didn't know they were Goths, and the ones who did use their powers to save ghosts and humans.
How could you be so stupid as to fight with the people who you are so against? The Humans and Ghosts teamed up because they thought that cross breeding between them was wrong, all contact with them was wrong, and loving them was wrong. Why wasn't fighting with the other race of beings wrong. I don't know but to me war makes no sense, and the Holocaust doesn't make sense either. Loving leads to fighting which makes no sense but there will always be fights because of love and love because of fights. There will be people who fight for love, and fight against love, does that make love wrong. I don't think so because without love our races of both ghosts and humans would die out so there must be wars to make love, but why is there love, because we need it so there must be war.
---Samantha: Manson, Fenton, Phantom---
The next few weeks would be hard because the news was spread about Danny Fenton, Phantom and Samantha Manson, Phantom. We could deny our paths as much as a person dying slowly can deny it ever lived. The person knew that they were once alive, they deny that they were dying, not living. We couldn't deny we were Goths because they saw it and this article by Danny and I was published.
Two of a Kind
Daniel Fenton and I, Samantha Manson are Goths. A Goth is actually a human-ghost hybrid. Daniel Fenton was not a Goth by genetic heredity, but by an accident at his parents' lab. I was born a Goth that is why people are characterized by the term Goth because in their blood that is who they are, they have no choice. Only a few people have actually taken they're powers to be able to use, so deny them, others don't know they have them. It's a burden to me and Danny now because so many of the Goths have actually lost their powers to access their power, so we will someday, being the last two of our kind, become the guardians and rulers of the ghost zone. Our children will all be Goths too because of our phenotype, genetic makeup. It is our duty to be the parents of the new generation of Goths, slowly the Goth population will replenish itself. So the prophecy says:
The Eternal Matchmaker shall rise and stir problems between the king and queen who know not of their titles. Then she will show their hearts are same with feelings for each other. She twists one's fate to match the other and he shall fix the other. The girl shall carry what they need because she's born like that. When the last Goth's final duty is done they shall know their duties, and titles. Although they are now hand in hand, they're duties go on forever.
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I know it stinks for a poem, and prophecy. The whole story actually is pretty bad, huh? I know I'll work on my poetry, but I write stories not poetry. It would take a few hours to write poetry for me.