AN: Let's see what I can write with WB banging on my door.
WB: I am not banging on your door.
PBgm: Yes you are.
WB: ...
Me: On with the story.
As the former halfa flew through the dimension of the dead he felt a pull, so powerful that it override his will and took over his flight direction. The pull lead Dan to a floating island, almost as big as Skulker's. It had a building as big as Pariah's castle but it wasn't a castle. It was a manor.
Once he went inside, Dan felt the pull disappear but a calming melody from older times took it's place. It had a hidden meaning which was exposed to the oldest in age Phantom like normal speech.
And then he realized something very important. This manor is his and Danny's lair.
Dan felt the lair pulling him to the third level and leading him through a labyrinth of halls. When the ghost reached his final destination, Dan saw... doors...
The flaming haired ghost asked the lair why it lead him there and its answer was opening doors. Behind them were many different training rooms.
Dan's eyes widened and he thought Jackpot.
Dan wasn't the only one who had a pull from a lair.
Our half ghost hero felt it too. He had just returned from studying with his friends at the Nasty Burger when he had a sudden urge to go in the Ghost Zone.
Danny went in the lab only to see his parents busy to the neck but it wasn't that they were working with ectoplasm what shocked him but that Vlad of all people was helping Jack and Maddie to upgrade the portal.
Now you must be wondering why the evil halfa was helping the people he hates the most (Not that they know.). So, does Danny.
"Mom? Dad? What is going on?" The halfa asked.
The adults look at the black-haired teen...
Two and half hours ago
The Fentons, two great, oblivious, parents-scientists with two children, had just finished the first part of the upgrade they were planning for months now on the portal.
When the two scientist were about to go into the Ghost Zone to continue upgrading the portal, a Ghost Shield on and tuned so it held the ghosts in, the doorbell rang.
When Jack, who until yesterday would shoot everyone who rang the bell, calmly opened the door and saw the only other halfa in existence.
Jack didn't know how to react given what his son had said but he let the businessman in his home.
"What leads you here?" The inventor asked, being ready to draw his ecto-blaster the second the other made a threatening move when Maddie entered the living room, curious about the identity of the guest.
"Daniel told you?" The halfa asked, guessing the reason why they are more hostle than normal.
The silence the halfa was given was more than enough to answer his question. Vlad sighed, "One fact still remains. The reason why I am here."
Jack and Maddie remembered the talk they had with Danny and they decided to at the very least to see why he came.
"I need to make sure that your portal is firmly closed. My portal is, thankfully, programmed so it lets in only ghosts who are in my 'ally list' but given how many ghosts I have recorded that your son fights in 24 hours if your portal is not looked... let's just say that I am surprised that he has yet to faint from fatigue." When Vlad finished his monologue his eyes were red but not because of anger or because he wants to attack someone but because his ghost half was protective of the other halfa.
"Well we were about to start the second part of the upgrade of the Fenton Portal." Maddie said when she realized why Vlad's eyes were glowing.
After the present in the room halfa heard that he, rose an eyebrow.
Now.
"Well we talked." Said Maddie.
"But that doesn't mean that I believe or like him." Added Jack.
"Dully noted, dad. But that doesn't explain why the portal looks different, why the Frootloop is here and why the shield is up." Danny pointed when he noticed the blueprints on the working desk.
"I am helping your parents to upgrade the portal. As for why I came in the first place is connected to the Ghost Zone. It has that feeling which makes want to leave the dimension as soon as possible. It makes the ghost nervous and prone to panic. Even now there are many ghosts trying to enter the world of the living through my portal and I have let some of them in under the conditions to not leave the mansion and to not make a mess. Then I remembered that your parents... tend to leave the portal opened all the time and the rest is history." Explained Vlad.
Danny hummed as if he was thinking about something and then he said, "Would you like me to help you? If what Vlad said is true then you will need as much as help you can get."
"Are you sure, Daniel?" The look he got as a reply made the billionaire nervous, "Right. Standard question." That gained him strange looks which he choose to ignore.
After that the two scientists, their son and a businessman went in the home of the dead once the two halfas transformed in their other form.
In there the older of the two halfas got an uneasy look while the other looked thoughtful.
"... It feels as if the GZ itself is preparing for something, as if something big and bad will happen..." Danny commented. He felt as if the Ghost Zone was warning him that some evil... no corrupted force was trying to escape its prison and unlike Dan, it doesn't have good intentions in mind. Danny recognized this feeling only that last time he felt it, it was as if the force was already out.
"Aww, crap." Danny almost whispered. He knew what has caused him to feel like that.
"Daniel? I know that it's not good but do you-" Vlad stopped talking when he saw the look the teen was giving him. It was a look of desperation and something else which he couldn't recognize.
"Is it possible for Pariah Dark to escape the Sarcophagus of Forever Sleep, without outside help?"
The humans, the halfa and every floating by ghost looked at the young hero. Walker and Skulker were somehow two of them.
"It... is possible when you think about it. If that is the reason why the whole Ghost Zone has been in panic and chaos then we need to determine how much time we have before he starts a third reign of terror." Answered Skulker.
And with that he and Walker went to try to calculate when Pariah Dark will tear his prison to pieces. When they left though, another ghost made his presence known. He was a postman.
The postman gave to Danny a letter and left before anyone can do something about it.
"What does it say Danny-boy?" Asked Jack when he saw what his boy was given.
The letter had a stamp with a four pointed star. This was the sign of the Ancient Six. And letter was:
Dear Danny Phantom,
It came to our attention that Pariah Dark is fighting for his freedom and that he still wants to concur both worlds. We hope that you take the six months you have to prepare to fight the tyrant with your mate by your side.
I and the rest of the Ancients have faith in you and your abilities young hero.
May time give you strength.
... Well... that was short... Shorter than what Danny would expect.
"Isn't that...?" Vlad asked, having seen the stamp on the envelope.
Danny nodded, knowing what Vlad meant, "The sign of the Ancient Six: The Ice Master, The Time Keeper, The Chaos Controller, The Dream Guardian, The Great General and The Grand Strategic. These are their titles. And given them... I believe that I am familiar with four of the Ancients." Danny murmured the last part in thought then the pull was back.
"And done." Said Jack, "So, what is that letter of yours about Danny."
"Well first I was right about Pariah Dark. He is going to tear apart the Sarcophagus of Forever Sleep in six months. And I am going to be the one to beat him again and I won't be alone. If we still had the Fenton Exoskeleton I would have been able to face him alone but with it being destroyed about one month after I met the ghost, whom I will form a party against Pariah, that will be impossible with my current energy level. And let's not count the fact that once he escapes his current prison he will summon the Crown of Fire to his side like the Time Master can summon ghostly warriors from different eras to his side." Danny ranted.
Dan didn't know what to think. It was as if fate has decided to test him and Danny.
The 'evil' ghost had used his (theirs) mate and telepathic link to see why he was in the Ghost Zone and he had observed all Danny saw and heard (he wasn't disrespectful enough to invade his thoughts as well) and he was stunned. Clockwork had let him alone because of being the key to beating the Ghost King once and for all. But he wasn't angry for that was kind of expected.
Then Dan decided to plan when what to go through when training.
The pull become unbearable in a matter of seconds. It was almost painful.
"I need to go." Danny said in a dazed voice before he flew of at such speed that he looked like a black-white-green flash.
The adults could only stare at his fastly disappearing form. Then Vlad tried to follow him but he found that he couldn't even hope to achieve such speed.
When he came back he found out that he was locked in the Ghost Zone... Butter Biscuits...
AN: Poor Vlad.
DanMuse:... I don't like this chapter... I loved it.
Alucard: What am I doing here.
ValMuse: The same thing as us. Being here and giving inspiration.
