Chapter Four: The Process Begins
Vlad took Danny out of the town of Amity Park and high into the sky. Danny looked around and was excited to be flying, everything looked really tiny. Danny could see the moon floating up above them, Danny was fascinated by space and he wanted to be an astronaut one day.
"Wow! This is so cool!" said Danny.
"Yes it is, I can teach you to fly like this too." said Vlad.
"Cool!" said Danny as they flew through the sky.
Soon Vlad and Danny arrived at Vlad's house in Wisconsin. Danny stood and stared at the huge house.
"Is this where you live?" said Danny.
"Yes it is." said Vlad.
"Cool, are you some sort of millionaire or something?" said Danny.
"Yes I am, now lets get you to your new room." said Vlad.
Vlad landed and he and Danny walked into the house. The inside was huge, it was easily the biggest house Danny had ever been in. the walls were covered with a green and gold color theme and there were huge cases filled with items.
"What's with all the stuff, is this where you keep your toys?" said Danny.
"You could say that, these are very special to me. They are all items that I acquired that are about or from the Green Bay Packers. These are my pride and joy." said Vlad.
Danny sat their and then he asked a question.
"Who are the Packers?" said Danny.
"You don't know who the Green Bay Packers are? They are the greatest football team to ever exist." said Vlad.
"Oh…what's football?" said Danny.
"We have a lot to teach you." said Vlad.
"We?" said Danny.
"Yes, me and my team of ghostly helpers." said Vlad.
"They aren't mean, are they?" said Danny.
"Of course not, in fact there's one right now." said Vlad, pointing to Skulker who happened to be down the hall.
"Vlad, I've brought that plutonium that you wanted." said Vlad.
"Later Skulker, I want you to meet my new apprentice, Daniel." said Vlad.
"It's Danny." said Danny.
"Yes of course, Danny." said Vlad.
"Uh, hello." said Skulker, confused.
"Wow, your all made of metal, are you a robot?" said Danny.
"Uh…not really, this is just a armor that I wear." said Skulker.
"Cool!" said Danny.
"Skulker, you and I need to talk." said Vlad.
Vlad walked out of ear shot of Danny and began to talk to Skulker.
"Listen Skulker, I have a proposition for you. I want you to help me train Daniel to be a great fighter. With the ghost powers he has I can finally achieve my plans t get rid of Jack and get Maddie to myself." said Vlad.
"What a minute, he has ghost powers?" said Skulker.
"Yes, and I need help to train him to be the perfect half ghost son, so what do you say?" said Vlad.
"I don't know…" said Skulker.
"It pays well." said Vlad.
"Ok, I'll take the job." said Skulker.
"What'cha talking about?" said Danny as he suddenly appeared behind Vlad.
"Ahhh! You startled me." said Vlad.
"Sorry Mr. Masters." said Danny.
"That's all right, and call me uncle Vlad." said Vlad.
"Yes Uncle Vlad." said Danny.
"Now then, lets get you to your new room." said Vlad.
Vlad led Danny down several hall ways until they stopped in front of a door. Vlad opened the door and Danny saw the biggest bedroom he had ever seen. It was at least ten feet tall and 20 feet wide. In it were all sorts of old looking furniture and a hug bed was against one of the walls.
"Is this my room?" said Danny in awe.
"Just for the moment, I have to set up your permanent room, but for now you can stay in this guest room. Now lets get you to bed, young super heroes need their sleep." said Vlad.
Danny quickly jumped into bed and pulled the covers over himself.
"Good night uncle Vlad." said Danny, who fell right asleep.
"Good night…son." said Vlad as he left.
Vlad then left the castle and flew back to Amity Park. He had left a human looking duplicate in his bed so that he would have an alibi for what would happen come the mourning. Vlad rejoined the duplicate and laid down in bed, with a smug smirk on his face.
The next mourning Vlad awoke to the sound of a frantic Maddie yelling at the top of her lungs.
"Danny! Where are you Danny!" said Maddie, crying.
Vlad got up and opened his door to see Maddie crying and Jack over turning everything in the house.
"He's not here, or in the lab." said Jack as he looked inside a grandfather clock.
"Well keep looking!" yelled Maddie.
"Maddie, Jack? What ever is the matter?" said Vlad.
"Oh Vlad, we can't find Danny!" said Maddie, as she cried her eyes out.
"That horrible." said Vlad, as he embraced Maddie to "comfort" her (AN: Yeah right, more like just so he could touch her, the pervert.)
"You don't think some one kidnapped him do you?" said Maddie, with a growing fear in her voice.
"I don't know, we can only hope that is not the case." said Vlad.
"Maybe I should go call the police." said Maddie as she ran down the stairs to the phone.
Soon the police were at the house and questioning the Fenton's and Vlad.
"Mr. and Mrs. Fenton, when was the last time you saw your son?" said the officer.
"We say him last night when I put him to bed, then when we woke up this mourning he was gone." said Maddie mechanically, as if she was lost in a daze.
"Anything else you can tell us?" said the officer.
"No, we didn't hear or see anything else." said Jack.
"What about you little girl?" said the officer.
"No sir, I didn't hear anything." said Jazz.
"What about you Mr. Masters?" said the officer.
"Unfortunately I did not hear anything, I happen to be a very sound sleeper." said Vlad.
Then the detective investigating the case came downstairs from searching Danny's room.
"This is the most baffling thing I have ever encountered. There's no sign that anyone broke into the room or that the kid was taken by force, it's as if he just vanished." said the detective.
"It must be ghosts! I knew those no good bastards would try something like this!" said Jack.
"Jack watch your language, there is a child present." said Vlad.
"Sorry, but I know a ghost did this, I just know it." said Jack.
"You just may be right, they would have to be a ghost to pull something like this off." said the detective.
"Now sir I don't think we should jump to that conclusion, not before we finish investigating the crime scene." said the officer.
"Or maybe it was Mr. Masters. I can't tell you how often it's been someone in the house who did it." said the Detective.
"It couldn't be, I've know him for years and he would never do something like that." said Jack, rushing to defend his friend.
"Hmm, if you say so." said the Detective, eyeing Vlad suspiciously
"Officer, when will you start looking for our boy?" said Maddie.
"Well we have to wait 24 hours after he is reported missing to search for him." said the officer.
"What! That's too long! Who knows what could happen to him in that time!" yelled Maddie.
"I'm sorry madam but that's the law." said the officer.
"Then we'll search for him ourselves, come on Jack!" said Maddie.
"Right behind you, want to help V-man?" said Jack as he picked up Jazz.
"I would love to help, but unfortunately I have important business else where. I do hope you find young Daniel." said Vlad.
"We do too, see you V-man and stay safe." Said Jack, then he was out the door after Maddie.
Vlad left town almost immediately, an evil smile on his face. Back in town the news of Danny's disappearance spread quickly. Sam and Tucker were playing ball in the park when they heard about it. Some people walking by them were talking about it.
"Did you hear about that Fenton kid being kidnapped." said one of them.
"Yeah, it's really a terrible, to think something like this would happen." said the other one.
"Fenton? Kidnapped" thought Sam, she turned to ask the two people what they were talking about.
"Uh excuse me, but did you just say that a kid named Fenton was kidnapped?" said Sam, hoping it was not who she thought it was.
"yes we did little girl, one of the Fenton children was taken last night, I think it was the little boy." Said the woman, who then walked off.
Sam and Tucker stood there in shock at what they had just heard. Sam then fell to her knees, not believing what she had heard.
"Danny…he's gone." Said Sam as she began to cry.
Her best friend was gone and no one knew where he was. He was one of the only friends she had and it ripped at her heart think that something had happened to him. Sam felt really close to Danny, some what more then Tucker, in fact she felt she might spend the rest of her life with him. But now he was gone and she began to cry a lot, more then she had ever. Tucker walked over and tried to calm her down.
"Its ok Sam, they'll find him soon." said Tucker.
The two kids sat thinking about what they had just heard, their game forgotten. They tried to convince themselves that everything would be alright, but things would never be alright again. Many people joined the Fentons in searching the town, but there was no sign of Danny anywhere. Little did they realize that the object of their search was sleeping peacefully in a castle in Wisconsin, completely unaware of the pain his disappearance had caused.
Vlad was just returning to his castle and he went up to check on Danny. He got there just as Danny was waking up.
"Hello little badger, did you sleep well?" said Vlad.
"Yes Uncle Vlad." said Danny.
"Good, because today is the first day of your training." said Vlad.
"Awesome, what do we do first?" said Danny.
First we have to go to my lab, there we can begin to teach you about your powers." said Vlad.
Danny got up and got dressed, then he and Vlad went down to Vlad's lab.
"Wow, this is much bigger then my parents lab." said Danny.
"Yes it is." said Vlad, admiring the lab that he had built.
"Lets see that oaf Jack build something like this." thought Vlad.
Vlad then turned to face Danny.
"Ok Daniel…" said Vlad.
"Its Danny." said Danny.
"Yes, Danny, it is time to start your training. I want you to concentrate on your ghost powers and bring them out." said Vlad, as he turned into his ghost mode.
"Ok." Said Danny, then he started to concentrate.
It was very hard but after a little while the two white rings appeared at his waist and turned him into his ghost half.
"Hmm, I think we will need to get you're ghost mode a new costume, no villain will fear a small child in shorts and a t-shirt." said Vlad.
"So I get a cool super hero outfit like yours? Cool!" said Danny.
"Yes, yes, it will be great, now let's begin. The first thing you should learn is how to fly. Now I want you to concentrate on floating and controlling it." said Vlad.
Danny nodded his head and began to focus on floating. His eyes were closed tightly as he tried to will himself off the ground. Finally he started to lift off the ground and float in the air.
"Now open your eyes Danny." said Vlad.
Danny looked down to see that he was several feet above the ground. He was so excited that he was floating that he lost concentration and began to fall. Vlad quickly ran over and caught Danny before he hit the ground.
"Danny be careful! You can't get distracted when flying or you'll fall." said Vlad.
"Sorry Uncle Vlad." said Danny.
"That's ok, your just beginning, now try it again, but this time without falling." said Vlad.
So Danny practiced floating in the air without falling for a while.
"Ok, that's enough floating for today, now we will see how strong you are." said Vlad.
Vlad led Danny over to a big machine with weights on it, going up to at least 1,000 pounds.
"Ok Daniel, now I want you to hold up these weights, I will keep adding more weight until you say you can't lift anymore." said Vlad.
"Ok." said Danny as he got into position.
"I'll start with hundred pounds, are you ready?" said Vlad.
"I'm ready." said Danny.
Vlad let the weight increase to hundred pounds.
"Are you ok?" said Vlad.
"Yeah, this is too easy." said Danny.
"We'll see about that." said Vlad, who then increased the weight to two hundred pounds.
Danny was struggling a little to lift this weight, but he was still standing.
"Do you think you can handle more?" said Vlad.
"S-sure thing." said Danny.
"Good, but to be safe I will increase the weight slowly." said Vlad.
Vlad began to increase the weight slowly, first 210, then 215 and so on until it reached 225 pounds.
"I can't lift it anymore!" said Danny, starting to buckle under the weight.
Vlad quickly took the weight off the machine and went over to Danny.
"That's good Danny, you seem to be very strong." said Vlad.
And so it went like that through the rest of the day, with Vlad testing to see what Danny could and could not do. Soon it was late and Danny was getting tired, he let out a big yawn.
"Well it seems that you're all worn out, I think it is time for you to go to bed. You did very well today." said Vlad.
"Thank you uncle Vlad." said Danny.
Vlad led Danny up the stairs and past the room he had been in before, to a new room.
"While we were practicing your powers I had my servants finish your room, I hope you like it." said Vlad as he opened the door.
Danny looked in a saw that it looked almost exactly like his old room, only bigger and better.
"Thank you uncle Vlad!" said Danny as he gave Vlad a hug.
"Your welcome, now get to bed, you have a big day ahead tomorrow." said Vlad.
Danny got changed and went to bed, falling asleep almost immediately.
Vlad left the room to attend to other business. You see he still remembered that they were investigating Daniel's disappearance and that the detective investigating it had been eyeing him funny. And any of the evidence they had taken might reveal he did it. Vlad decided to fly to Amity Park and make sure no one would ever find out he had done it.
Meanwhile in Amity Park the detective from earlier, whose name was John McConnell, was in the police stations crime lab. He was looking at the strange evidence that had been taken from the room of Danny Fenton. There was one thing out of all them that caught his attention, a weird glowing hair. He was using the new DNA analyzer that the department had gotten to look at it, as well as scanning it with an invention the Fenton's had given him.
"Now let's see what is up with this thing." said John.
John activated the machine and it began to analyze the hair. When it finished it showed that something was weird about the DNA. It seemed to be normal, but pieces of green goo seemed to cover it.
"What in the world…?" said John.
He then scanned it with the invention the Fenton's had given him, they said it could detect ghost energy. It started to beep when it was passed over the hair.
"So Mr. Fenton was right, it was a ghost." said John.
As he was putting the scanner down it started to beep. John noticed this and moved it back and forth, and it keep beeping over the same spot. The spot it was beeping over was a piece of hair that the detective had taken from the house, from Vlad Masters.
"What the hell…" said John.
John thought for a moment and then decided to test a little theory he had. He put the piece of Vlad's hair into the DNA analyzer and what he saw shocked him. The DNA in the hair looked almost exactly like the one from the glowing hair.
"My God, Vlad Masters did this, and he is a ghost." said John.
"Brilliant deduction Detective, to bad no one else will ever hear it." said a voice from behind him.
John turned around just in time to take an ectobalst to the arm. The blast ripped a huge hole in it and it began to bleed a lot. The force of the impact sent him flying and he hit a rack, which fell over and trapped him. He looked up and saw who attacked him, it was Vlad.
"Who-who are you?" said John frightened.
"I'll give you a hint, you just saw me recently." said Vlad.
It was then that realization dawned on him.
"You! Your Vlad Masters!" said John.
"Bravo Mr. McConnell, I'm impressed you figured it out so quickly, you must be a good detective to have figured it out, but unfortunately you've learned too much." said Vlad.
"What are you going to do?" said John, fear making his voice crack.
"I'm going to make sure no one finds out what you learned." said Vlad.
With that Vlad sent an ectoblast at some beakers full of chemicals, they instantly caught on fire and slipped. He sent several more ectoblasts into the crime lab, setting on fire the chemicals, papers, and other assorted flammable items. Soon the whole place was covered in flames, and Vlad turned to John.
"So long Mr. McConnell, and have a nice after life Mwhahaha!" said Vlad as he flew off.
John tried to free himself from where he was trapped, but it was no use. All he could do was lay there as the flames came closer and closer.
"In local news the crime lab of the Amity Park police department burned down just hours ago. Killed in the blaze was Detective John McConnell, a 15 year veteran of the force. The lab was completely destroyed and everything in it, including the detective, was charred beyond recognition. There is no word on the cause of this mysterious fire." said the newswomen.
Vlad was watching the local Amity Park station and he turned off the TV. As he sat there an evil smile crossed his face. He had just gotten rid of one of the road blocks to making Daniel his son, and in time he would have all that he had ever hoped for.
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Clockwork: And so with that one death the road to the dark future of Danny opens. Now to cheer up everyone we will force Vlad to do something humiliating. Today Vlad will be forced to wear a pink tutu and sing I'm a Little Tea Pot. (Which I don't own if anyone else owns it.)
Vlad: Do I have to do this?
Clockwork: Would prefer the hurt Vlad lever?
Vlad: No…sigh….I'm a little tea pot short and stout. Here is my handle here is my spout. When I get all steamed up hear me shout. Tip me over and pour me out.
Clockwork: Very good.
Vlad: Can I go now?
Clockwork: Yes, we have all the footage we need.
Vlad: What do you mean?
Tucker: He means that we recorded your little performance, and it's going onto the internet.
Vlad: What!
Danny: Yeah, we decided it would be selfish of us to keep such a funny thing to ourselves, so we put it on the internet.
Sam: And it already has 1,000 hits and growing, welcome to your global humiliation.
Vlad: You little brats! I'll destroy you for this!
Valerie: I don't think so Vlad, because while you were distracted Alicia and Alex activated the trap.
Vlad: What Traaaap! Vlad is then sent to the Place of Ultimate Evil, which is like a nightmarish children's show come to life. The cuteness level is so high here that it actually hurts your eyes. This land is inhabited by a race of freakish creatures. They are like a horrible combination of Barney, the Teletubbies, and the Care Bears (None of which I own, thank god).
One of the sickeningly cute creatures: Look! A new special friend! Let's teach him the meaning of friendship and sharing. The disturbingly cute creatures begin to advance on Vlad.
Vlad: No! No! NOOOOO! Vlad is then engulfed by the evil creatures.
Sam: I think this may be the worst thing we have ever done to him.
Clockwork: It may be indeed, but now it is time for the chapter summery.
Well it seems that Vlad's evil plan is working, and the only one to figure out he is behind it is now dead. One can only wonder what will happen next to Danny. What evil plans does Vlad have in store? And what evil will he fill Danny's young mind with? 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.