A Danny Phantom Fanfic
By Leanne "Liz-chan" Gover
Chapter 3
Unusual Discoveries
Sam lay in her hospital bed as she began to look over her scars. They had been mostly bandaged up but a few of them weren't as bad so they where only washed. Those ones seemed to stare at her as she lay unable to move. "How are you feeling?" Tucker asked. He was hunched over his laptop in the corner of the hospital room.
"Like I've been ripped apart by my best friend." She said venom dripping off her words.
"Liam Mcmillian…" Tucker said. He obviously wasn't listening to Sam. He continued to type on his laptop as she gave him a sharp look.
"What?" She said coldly. She tried to sit herself up, and managed to but not without some major pain jutting through her arm.
"Liam…did you notice he wasn't around all day today? I think it's a little more than just a coincidence." Tucker said coldly. Tucker couldn't believe that Danny would ever do something like that. There had to be something else behind it.
"Yeah, I did…but Liam wouldn't do anything like this right?" Sam said slightly confused.
"I don't know, not after reading this." Tucker said solemnly. He turned his laptop around so that Sam could see what he had found. It looked like an old newspaper clipping, she looked at the address…. She smiled for a second at that before she started to look at the article.
What caught her attention right away was a picture of Liam. Though for a change, this picture of him didn't make him look soaking wet as he often did. Also, his skin was a peach colour instead of its usual blue tint. "Liam Mcmillian, age 17, attending Leslie high school (a small high school north of Fraserburgh) was found dead today. The kids at the school apparently chased him to a cliff and Liam promptly jumped to his death to escape them. Liam was known apparently for causing massive chaos." Sam paused. Liam, cause chaos? Liam seemed to be too calm to be the kind of person that would do that. "According to the Students he seemed to be very nice and calm until half way through the year. They then discovered that young Liam had been the one spreading rumor's, framing others for crimes he had committed. And he even committed murder." Sam stopped. "Murder! Why would Liam…"
"Continue reading." Tucker said with a sad look in his eyes.
Sam sighed and continued reading. "The victim, a young girl had been found with cuts all the way down her arms and legs. The most predominate cut however was a cross shaped one on her torso." This really made Sam stop. Her eyes went wide as she looked down at her stomach that had a cross shaped stain of blood on the bandages that rapped around her.
"Sam…I think Liam tricked us." He said taking back his laptop.
The two of them stared at each other for a second. Sam had a look of horror on her face as she stared at Tucker. "When Danny placed his hand over my mouth…it felt cold and wet…why didn't I think of that?"
"I bet Liam can shape shift. That would explain why he looked like Danny." Sam felt sick as Tucker spoke. How could she have yelled at Danny like that?
"My…god." She said. She looked like she was about to cry, which is saying something, Sam isn't exactly the type to cry. "We have to find Danny! I have to apologize!" She tired to get up, but a sharp pain in her chest caused her to flop back down on the bed.
Before she got the change to try and get up again a worried looking mother walked into the room. "Ms.Fenten!" Tucker cried as he was sort of shocked that she would have traveled here without her husband. "What are you doing here?" Tucker said. It took them a few seconds to realize that her turquoise jumpsuit had bloodstains all over it. Though, her outfit wasn't ripped so they could assume it was somebody else's blood.
She looked terribly frightened. Her goggles where off so you could see her eyes and her bright red hair for a change. She looked like she was about to cry as she looked over at Sam and Tucker. "A ghost attacked us, and he looked like Danny. I heard you where in here too. I assumed you where attacked by the same ghost."
"A ghost…that looked like Danny? How…do you know it wasn't Danny?" Sam said with a sad voice. She was shocked that her mom could say that while Sam had suspected Danny.
Maddie looked even sadder for a moment. "I KNOW my son wouldn't have done that kind of thing. Besides, he didn't hurt me, he only knocked me out. Before he did that though, the ghost had said 'Don't worry, I won't hurt you…or your son.'" Maddie for a second had to stop to try and stop herself from crying. "That, had to be a ghost."
Tucker and Sam glanced at each other. That settled it, they knew it COULDN'T have been Danny. "Did he say anything else? Anything that might be of some importance?"
Maddie sighed. "Not really. He didn't say a whole lot of anything." She looked deep in thought. She didn't seem to want to relive that moment in her head anymore than she had too. "However…when he first walked in…he had been singing a song. Something about walking in the Rain I think."
"He sung? Right before he tried to kill you all? What a psycho." This resulted in Tucker being smacked rather promptly on the head by the injured Sam.
"I just hope we can find Danny." Sam said softly.
Danny continued to walk though the streets. He was soaked to the bone and he had no idea where the rain started and his tears ended. Only one thought ran through his head, and that was that he couldn't go back to being with humans. He had made to many enemies in the ghost Zone, so he couldn't run away to there. What that ghost…other part of him…whatever it was, had been right. There was only one place he could go, right? He was a ghost hybrid, the only place he really would be excepted was with other ghost hybrids. There was only one other ghost hybrid or 'halfa' and that was Vlad Plasmus. For some reason the offer Vlad had made had always stayed in the back of Danny's head. Danny had always had trouble controlling his powers, maybe, just maybe, Vlad wasn't as evil as Danny thought he was.
Liam had flown ahead of Danny out of sight. Liam was invisible, not only so no humans would see him but so that the rain didn't make his ghost body any wetter. Even though his favorite line to sing has been 'I was born to walk in the Rain" he really had hated the water. It was the substance that killed him after all and because of that he was cursed to be eternally wet.
Giving a light smile as he phased thorough the wall into Vlad's Hotel room. "Mr.Masters!" Liam called out looking around the large hotel room It seemed to big to him. He didn't understand how anybody could use so much space.
Around the corner came Vlad with a book in his hand. He slowly placed the book down on a table and looked over at Liam with a smile on his face. "I thought I told you to call me Vald." Liam figured Vlad he was taking the day off or something because he looked rather sloppy. His white hair wasn't tied back in it's pony tail but instead it laid loose down his back. His jacket wasn't on instead he just wore a white collared shirt with a few buttons undone. He did have a tie but it was undone and lay limp across his chest. "Now what is it that you wished to tell me Liam?"
"It's done, Danny is on his way here." Liam said giving Vlad his fake smile. However, even though he had a smile on his face Liam was still very much terrified of Vlad. Even with Vlad looking the way he did now. Liam made sure however to hide his fear, that was one of the attributes of being a good liar after all.
"Good boy, I never doubted you for a second." Vlad said with a calm cold voice. Liam could tell the Vlad was lying but he let it go. He knew that Vlad had always been a little skeptical of Liam because of his tendency to lie all the time. Liam also didn't want to get hurt so saying nothing would have been his best bet.
"Of course. Now you should get ready…I think he'll be here shortly." Liam then turned to leave when he felt Vlads hand grab his cold wet arm. Liam turned to face the powerful halfa in the eyes.
"Liam, if you even need anything don't hesitate to call." Vlad said with a dark smile. Though Liam could sense that Vlad couldn't wait to see him leave.
"Aye…that I will, Vlad." He phases through Vlad's had then and headed towards the wall. He wanted to get out of there almost as much as Vlad wanted him out of there. Liam didn't like being in a situation he couldn't manipulate to his own benefit. With Vlad, he knew he would be caught if he tried anything fishy.
Liam pashed trough the wall then and flew down towards the ground. He noticed Danny running down the street towards the hotel. He just smiled and began to fly towards the direction of the hospital.
Danny walked into the enormous hotel lobby for almost a brief second forgot how terrible he felt. The place was covered with beautiful painting and crystal chandlers. Danny sighed as reality smacked him back in the face as he began to receive some dirty looks from some of the people hanging around the lobby. They all looked to be business people, or rather rich looking people on holidays. Danny felt so out of place, he was the only one soaked from the rain.
The only people in the lobby that weren't really giving him looks was a rather large group of kids that where standing around with large suit cases and musical interment cases. They all seemed to be part of the same group because they all wore dark blue T-shirts that read "James Fowler Band Geeks: Amity Park Tour". Amongst the group was a tall boy with a red hat playing hacky sack with a smaller group. Danny could hear somebody say "Oh my god, this is your 20th Sketchbook!" and other person say "For the LAST TIME Scott, Coke is not the flavor, it's the BRAND. The flavor is cola you idiot!". Danny just sighed as the people there reminded him of how he would probably never see his friends ago. So with that he walked by the group without saying a word.
He considered just leaving for a minute, but his feet wouldn't move. They where firmly rooted in the ground, tears still falling form his eyes. He stayed that way for a minute or two until he felt a cold hand place itself on his shoulder. "Hello Daniel."
Danny slowly turned his head to face Vlad. Vlad had now tied his hair back with a dark blue hair tie and he had done up the buttons on his shirt so he looked more presentable than he had when he was talking to Liam. He still did not have his black jacket he often wore. Danny gave Vlad an emotionless stare as he looked at him. He always figured Vlad looked too young to be the same age as his father but his silver hair gave him away. Though, he knew it was because of the accident that his hair looked that way. Danny didn't say anything at first because he for some reason couldn't form any words. "Is everything alright Daniel? Are you crying?"
Danny turned to fully face Vlad now. He didn't look at him in the eyes though. He hated the fact that he was going to Vlad like this. "My…my friends, my family, they all…got hurt because of me." Danny said slowly.
"Daniel, what happened?" Vlad said looking at the boy.
"I…I'm not sure." Everything had happed so fast, heck, he didn't even know what Vlad was doing here in Amity. The other halfa lived in Wisconsin after all. Danny had found that slightly suspicious but Vlad wasn't going on and on with the whole 'evil gloating' thing. Besides…there was nobody else who would take him in after this mess.
"Does this mean you've finally decided to accept my offer?"
Danny sighed and rubbed his eyes with the palm of his hand. "I'm not coming because you asked, I'm coming so my friends don't get hurt anymore, got it?" Danny said harshly.
Vlad gave a light chuckle. "Of course Daniel." Vlad then let go of Danny's shoulders and began to walk past Danny. "Come on, Let's get you changed. Unless you intend to catch your death of cold." Danny said nothing but began to follow Vlad out of the lobby and up the stairs.
To be continued…
Authors note: Just to tell you, if you where wondering, all those people from the "James Fowler Band Geeks" thing, are real people. They're in my band class. I'm even in there...sort of, the whole comment about the sketch book is referring to me. The Coke thing is an actual argument going on between two people in the band…it's actually quite humorous.