Chapter Two: A Visit From an Old Fiend
It was the next day and Danny was having some trouble. Parts of his body kept disappearing and he could not make it stop. Also while he was playing with his blocks he started to float a little. Fortunately all these things went unnoticed by his parents. Danny may not have been the brightest kid in the world, but he at least knew what was happening to him. Somehow he had turned into a ghost, and he was dead now.
Now this thought made him sad, he did not want to be dead yet. What would his parents say, he loved them very much, but if they found out they would not take it well. His parents hated all ghosts and if they found out he was a ghost they would hate him too. He could not even think of them hating him, it was a thought that was too painful to comprehend.
So Danny sat trying to keep from exposing his secret and losing his parent's love. He just wished there was a way to keep his body parts from disappearing. Little did he know that someone was coming to help him, but at a terrible cost.
"Sir, we will be at the Fenton's house in a few minutes." said the ghostly driver of Vlad's limo.
"Excellent, it has been to long since I saw my "friend" Jack, and my darling Maddie." said Vlad.
The limo pulled up in front of the Fenton's house and Vlad stepped out of it. He looked at the weirdly designed house with a look of disgust.
"I bet this is Jack's doing, only he could make something so weird out of something normal. My darling Maddie, when you are my wife you will live in much better accommodations then this, and I bet your children will like being somewhat normal as well." thought Vlad.
Vlad walked up to the front door and rang the door bell. But instead of a normal bell noise you would expect a scanner came out and scanned Vlad.
"Ghost detected, beginning containment procedures." said a computer voice.
Suddenly Vlad was captured in a net and a series of alarms went off. As this was going on Jack threw open the door and pointed a large ghost blaster at the net.
"Ok ghost I've got you…V-man, is that you?" said Jack, realizing who was in the net.
"Yes it is, now get me out of this thing!" said Vlad, very annoyed. (AN: I know this is supposed to be a sad story, but I couldn't resist making Vlad look foolish :) )
"Sorry about that, this thing must be malfunctioning." said Jack as he got Vlad out of the net.
"Thank goodness Jack is still an idiot." thought Vlad.
"V-man! What are you doing here?" said Jack, giving Vlad a bear hug.
"Well I was in town on some business and I thought, why not visit my old college buddy." said Vlad, trying not to throw up for calling Jack a "buddy"
"That's wonderful! Come on in, you have to meet the rest of my family." said Jack as he led Vlad into the house, he introduced him to the rest of his family.
"V-man, you remember Maddie right?" said Jack.
"Of course I do. Hello Maddie, your looking as lovely as ever." said Vlad, kissing her hand in a gentlemanly way.
"Uh yes, it's good to see you too." said Maddie.
"And these are my pride and joy, Danny and Jazz." said Jack.
"I see they take after their mother." said Vlad. "At least for their sake I hope so." thought Vlad.
"Yes, which is really a shame, what am I going to do with these jumpsuits?" said Jack, holding up a suit that was many sizes to large for Jazz or Danny.
"Burning them might be a good idea." thought Vlad, he then turned to talk to the children.
"Hello little Jasmine, it is nice to meet you, I bet your as smart as your mother." said Jazz.
"Smarter." said Jazz confidently.
"Of course you are, and Daniel, it is nice to meet you." said Vlad.
"It's nice to meet you Mr. Masters." said Danny.
"I bet you're a little trouble maker, just like your father in college." said Vlad.
"You bet, in fact he was messing around with the portal yesterday, almost scared us half to death." said Jack.
"I bet it must have been scary, who knows what could have happened" said Vlad to Danny.
"Uh, nothing happened, all I did was get a little shocked, that's all." said Danny, getting nervous talking about the event.
"Well the good thing is that nothing really bad happened." said Maddie.
"Sweet oh so naïve Maddie, if you only knew what your husbands foolishness has done, to both me and your son." thought Vlad.
"Well it has been nice seeing you again, but I must be going to my hotel." said Vlad, with a hint in his voice that he did not want to stay in a hotel.
"Now take the bait you big, dumb fish." thought Vlad.
"Nonsense! No friend of mine is staying in some lousy hotel, you can stay here with us." said Jack.
"Bingo." thought Vlad.
"Well if you insist, then I guess I have no choice but to accept." said Vlad.
"Great! You can stay in the guest room." said Jack as he led Vlad upstairs.
"Perfect, everthing is going according to plan, Hahaha!" thought Vlad, but the laugh was out loud.
"What's so funny V-man?" said Jack.
"Oh nothing, just a joke I was remembering." said Vlad.
As Jack led Vlad to the guest room Vlad saw Danny's arm go intangible just as he was holding a glass. The glass fell from his hand and smashed onto the floor. Maddie noticed this and began to walk over, while Danny hide his arm.
"Danny, what happened?" said Maddie.
"I don't know, it just slipped." said Danny.
"Well be careful sweetie, that's the fifth thing you've dropped today." said Maddie.
"Yeah clumsy little bro, you might hurt yourself again." said Jazz.
"Now Jazz be nice, Danny go play while I clean this up." Said Maddie.
"Yes Mommy." said Danny, noticing his arm became sold once again.
Danny left to play while Maddie cleaned up the mess. Vlad had noticed all this and a evil smile crossed his face.
"This will be easier then I thought." thought Vlad as he lost sight of Danny.
It was a little while later and Maddie had taken Danny to play in the park. Danny loved playing in the park, especially the sand box. It was even better because his new bestest friends were there as well, Sam and Tucker.
"Hello Danny, wanna help us build a mountain." said Sam.
"Sure." said Danny.
So they began to build the sand mountain. After a while Sam noticed that Danny seemed sad for some reason. Sam decided to talk to him, her mom always said talking made things better.
"Danny, are you ok?" said Sam.
"Yes, why do you ask?" said Danny.
"Because you look sad about something, did something happen.?" said Sam.
"No, nothing happened." said Danny.
"Are you sure?" said Sam.
"Yes." said Danny.
Maybe he just wants a cookie, or some juice, do you want some juice." said Tucker, holding up a juice box.
"No, I'm ok." said Danny.
"If your sure Danny, but you know if you need to tell me something you can, that's what friends are for." said Sam.
Danny looked like he was about to tell them what was wrong, but then he stayed quiet.
"Danny! Its time to go!" said Maddie from over near the swings.
"Bye Sam, bye Tucker." said Danny as he walked away.
"Bye Danny." said Tucker and Sam.
Danny felt terrible about not telling them what was really wrong, friends weren't supposed to keep secrets from each other. Danny decided that he would tell them, when he thought the time was right, but he would not get the chance.
A week passed and Danny had still not told his friends what was wrong, nor had the problems stopped. Danny was constantly dropping things and having body parts disappear. It just got more and more frustrating, and Vlad noticed this. By the end of the week Danny was ready to crack, and that moment would come soon enough.
It was night and everyone was fast asleep, everyone except Danny. Danny sat awake thinking about what had happened to him. How it had made him lie to not only his friends, but family as well. It had made him scared out of his mind that someone would find out and he would be hated. Finally he got up and walked down to the lab, and stood in front of the portal. Then he began to kick and punch it, while shouting at it.
"You stupid round thingie! You ruined everything! You made me lie to my mommy and daddy, to my friends, and made me a freak, I hate you!" said Danny.
Danny kept pounding on the portal, then his hand hit the open button. The portal doors opened to reveal the swirling green mass that was the entrance to the Ghost Zone. Then out of the portal flew two creatures, the ectopuses. (From the first episode, Mystery Meat.)
"W-what are you?" said Danny in fear.
The creatures did not answer, they just began to move towards Danny in a threatening way. Danny backed up towards a wall and then froze in terror, the ectopuses coming closer and closer. Danny covered his head and prepared for the worst, just as they were about to grab him a voice rang out.
"You vile creatures, leave that poor boy alone." said the voice.
Danny looked up and gasped at what he saw.
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Clockwork: I wonder who that could be, of course I already know. Now on to my favorite part of the day, making Vlad pay for the evil he causes. Clockwork pulls the hurt Vlad lever. We can see Vlad and Spectra sharing a "moment" (No! not that kind, their just kissing.). Suddenly a baseball pitching machine appears and begins to hurl tangerines at Vlad, why tangerines you ask? Because their funnier then oranges.
Vlad: Ahh! What the hell? Why am I being pelted with tangerines! Vlad is forced back and trips, causing him to fall out a window. He lands in a garbage truck and it speeds off to the dump. When it gets there it dumps him into a pile of rotten meat.
Tucker: What kind of evil person would waste meat like that! Tucker begins to cry.
Sam: What kind of evil person would kill those poor animals then dump their corpses in the dump! Sam gets angry.
Danny: Wow, Vlad looks really stupid. Danny laughes
Uh…anyway back to Vlad being humiliated. Vlad lands in the meat and is totally disgusted.
Vlad: Yuck! This couldn't possible get worse! Oh but it can, for the special ninja unit of the Fluffy Army of Doom appeared at this moment, they attacked with flying paws of fury.
Vlad: Ahhh! Get them off me! Get them off me!
Sam: That makes up for making me angry.
Tucker: Wow, I never knew Vlad had such a girlly scream.
Danny: Yeah, I just lost any respect I had for him, which wasn't a lot to begin with.
Clockwork: Don't you three have to get home?
Danny: Oh right, we said we would meet Alicia, Alex and Valerie at the movies, see you later.
Clockwork: Well now that they are gone, it is time for the chapter summery.
Well it seems Danny is at his breaking point, one push could send him over the edge. But who is this mysterious being that has come to his rescue? I'll give you three guesses, but you'll only need one. What will happen to poor Danny next? The only way to find out is to read the next chapter of Daniel Masters.
Clockwork: So until next time Danny Phantom fans, read and review.