Chapter Seven: Seeing an Old Friend…Sort of
6 years later…
The next six years were rough ones for Danny and Sam. Danny quickly discovered the evil of the world when he was doing work for Vlad. He did things that no normal kid his age should do.
At age 12 Danny committed his first major robbery, stealing some lab equipment for Vlad.
At age 13 Danny killed his first person, a guard that tried to stop him from stealing some microchips.
At age 14 Danny destroyed his first ghost, after that no ghost would dare stand up to him. It was a little known ghost who had the power over boxes, and he had annoyed Danny one too many times.
The next two years were spent preparing to take over the world and to get rid of Jack. the evil had take root in his heart, and it would be nearly impossible to shake it lose, unless a special person came into contact with him.
As for Sam her childhood was not anymore happy then Danny's was.
At age 12 Sam committed her first crime, stealing some candy from a store.
At age 13 Sam spent three months in juvenile hall for beating on a girl, named Paullina. Where she got a dragon tattoo on her right arm.
At age 14 Sam tried to commit suicide, and her parents put her in a mental institution for four months. They hoped it would cure her of the "phase" she was going through. When she got out she no longer wanted to kill herself, but she was still as dark as ever.
The next two years of her life were spent being a rebellious teenager, and driving her parents mad. She was the poster child of anti-social and goth behavior, her only friend was a African American boy with a red beret and a love of technology named Tucker. Sam thought her life would be this way forever, but at age 16 her life was about to be turned upside down.
Sam was just returning from school when it happened. Sam looked like your typical goth, wearing only dark clothing. She still had the combat boots, her skirt was now black with red plaid strips on it, she wore a shirt that said "Chaos, Panic, Disorder! My work is done here." on her arms were elbow length fingerless black gloves, and the tattoo of a fierce dragon. Her face looked the same as the normal time line, except for more piercings in the ear and one on her eyebrow. She would have gotten more but her parents threatened to tranquilize her and remove them themselves if she did.
As I was saying before, Sam was returning home. She opened the door and was greeted by the symbol of happiness and bright colors, her parents.
"Hello sweetie, how was school today?" said Mrs. Manson.
"Fine I guess, why do you ask?" said Sam, suspicious
"Oh we just wanted to talk to you." said Mrs. Manson.
"Right…this isn't another attempt to get me to wear pink is it?" said Sam.
"No of course not princess, we just have something really exciting to tell you." said Mr. Manson.
"Well since your blocking the stairs I guess I have no choice but to listen." said Sam.
"That's great sweetie, well your mother and I have noticed your "phase" doesn't seem to be ending on its own so we have decided to take action." said Mr. Manson.
"So you're going to put me in the nut house again?" said Sam.
"No, nothing drastic like that, we decided that you need a more structured and refined environment then the school you are going to now. So we have decided to send you to the exclusive Highmore Academy in Wisconsin." said Mr. Manson.
"What! You're sending me to some goddamned preppy school! " said Sam, angry.
"Calm down Samantha, it will be a great experience for you. You'll learn to be a proper lady and to fit in with proper society, you may even find a nice boy to fall in love with." said Mrs. Manson.
"What is wrong with you! Have you not noticed by now that I don't want to be a fucking proper lady! I don't want to go to some fucking school and have them turn me into a air head like the rest of those fucking air heads!" said Sam (AN: Wow, Sam has a very dirty mouth.)
"Now see here young lady, you have no choice in the matter. You are going to Highmore tomorrow and that is final." said Mr. Manson.
"Argh!" yelled Sam as she ran up the stairs and too her room.
Sam ran into her room and flopped down on her bed. She then turned on her stereo really loud and played the song Coming Undone by Korn. She laid there thinking about what her parents had done to her this time.
"God, why can't they understand that I don't want to be like them? I don't want to be a clueless drone who only wants to find a rich husband. I want to be me, I want to live my life the way I want to. Maybe I can get myself kicked out in the first week?" thought Sam.
Sam decided to call Tucker and tell him the bad news, as her only friend he had the right to know. She picked up the phone and dialed his number, after several rings he answered.
"Hey Sam, by the loud music in the background I take it something bad happened." said Tucker.
"Your would be right, my parents just dropped a bomb shell on me." said Sam.
"What, they try to get you into a pink dress again?" said Tucker.
"Worse, they said their sending me to some Academy in Wisconsin to turn me into a "proper lady"." said Sam.
"Jeez, that is bad, think there is anyway you can get out of it?" said Tucker.
"No, my dad said there is no way out, I'm stuck." said Sam.
"So when do you leave?' said Tucker.
"Tomorrow." said Sam.
"So I guess this is goodbye." said Tucker, sounding sad.
"Don't worry Tucker, I'll be out of there in a week, they can force me to go but they can't make me stay." said Sam.
"If you say so." said Tucker, not convinced.
"Tucker, have you ever known me to not do what I say I'm going to do?" said Sam.
"I guess not." said Tucker.
"I'll be out of there in a week, I promise. You'll see me off tomorrow won't you?" said Sam.
"Of course, what are friends for?" said Tucker.
"Thanks Tuck, see you later." said Sam.
"Bye Sam." said Tucker, then he hung up.
Sam put the phone down and went back to listening to her music. As she was laying there a person came into the room and turned down the music. Sam knew there was only one person who would dare enter her room or touch her stereo.
"Hey grandma." said Sam.
"Hello Sammykins, taking the news badly I see?" said Grandma Manson.
"You're the only person who can call me that. Its not fair grandma, why can't they just let me be myself?" said Sam.
"I know what you mean, those squares don't know when to quit, they tried to stop me from going bungee jumping. Well Sam the only advice I can give you is to stay strong and don't let them brainwash you." said Grandma.
"I know, I know, but I don't like this." said Sam.
"No one said you had too, just try not to destroy the school in your attempt to get kicked out, ok?" said Grandma.
"You know me too well grandma." said Sam.
"I didn't spend 15 years as a spy for nothing. Sam I just want you too know that even if they don't understand you, I always will." said Grandma.
"Thanks grandma." said Sam as she gave her a hug.
"Now I have some extreme bingo to get too, see ya later Sammykins. Yahoo!" said Grandma, who then left.
Sam was once again alone in her room.
"Maybe she's right, all I have to do is stay strong. But just incase I better bring some tools to escape with." thought Sam.
It was the next day and Sam was standing in front of the limo that would take her to Highmore Academy.
"Why can't I just take a plane, or a bus?" said Sam, annoyed at her parents.
"Nonsense Samantha, we want you to go there in style, and maybe you'll impress some people and make new friends?" said Mrs. Manson.
"They won't want to be friends long after I start kicking their butts." thought Sam.
"And you won't be needing these where you're going." said Mr. Manson, as he held up the bag of tools Sam was bringing.
"I can't believe they found those, now I'll have to steal a spoon to dig out." thought Sam.
Tucker arrived at this moment, he looked the same as always, with the red beret, yellow shirt, and green pants.
"Hey Sam, this the transport to the big house?" said Tucker.
"Yeah, looks like I can't even go there without being embarrassed." said Sam.
"Sam, I just want to say that I'll miss you. It won't be the same here without the popular kids fearing your wrath." said Tucker.
"Don't worry, you still have those karate tapes I left you?" said Sam.
"Sure do." said Tucker.
"Then you'll be fine, if you're a quick learner." said Sam.
"Yeah, lets hope so. But seriously I will miss you." said Tucker.
"I'll miss you too." said Sam as she gave Tucker a hug.
"Samantha, its time to go." said Mrs. Manson.
"Bye Tuck, see you later." said Sam as she headed to the limo.
"Bye Sam." said Tucker sadly.
"Bye Sam dear, don't let them suck out your brain." said Grandma.
"I won't grandma, I'll miss you." said Sam as she gave a goodbye hug to her grandma.
Sam walked to the limo, not even giving her parents a second glance. She stepped in a closed the door, which immediately locked as per her parent's orders. They sounded like the slamming of prison doors to Sam. The limo drove off to deliver Sam to her own personal hell.
Several hours later the car stopped and the driver woke up Sam, who had fallen asleep.
"Miss Manson, we have arrived at our destination." said the Driver.
Sam woke up and looked out the window, seeing that indeed they were there. She stepped out of the limo and looked at the school. It was your typical old style school building, with a sign in front saying it had been founded in 1885. Walking around it were allsorts of rich, spoiled kids wearing bright, colorful green and gold uniforms. Every brick of the building seemed to ooze conformity.
"Ugh! I hate this place already, I wonder how much of it I can wreck before they kick me out?" thought Sam.
As Sam was getting her things together across the large lawn a man and a boy were sitting in a limo talking.
"I hate this place, it's just a place for the rich spoiled bastards of rich spoiled bastards to gather" said Daniel.
"Now Daniel I know you hate attending this school but we must keep up appearances. You are the son of the most wealth man in America, and so you must go to the best school in the country." said Vlad.
"I know father." said Daniel.
"But this year I ask you not to get in trouble with your ghost powers, it took forever to clean up the mess you caused last time." said Vlad.
"I'll try, but you do have to admit it is funny what I did to that guy, it took them hours to get him out of that wall." said Danny.
"Well, it was funny at that, but try not to draw attention to yourself. Now off with you, you don't want to be late signing in." said Vlad.
"Yes Father." Said Daniel as he exited the limo.
Daniel looked at the school and a mischievous smirk crossed his face.
"I wonder how much I can wreak this year without being caught?" thought Daniel as he walked towards the building.
Meanwhile Sam was sitting in front of the dean's office, as soon as she had told them who she was they had sent her here.
"Wow, only a half hour here and I'm already in trouble." thought Sam.
"Miss Manson, the dean will see you now." said the secretary.
Sam walked into the office and sat down in front of the desk. Sitting at the desk was an old women with grey hair, the name said she was Mrs. Harrison.
"Hello Miss Manson, I am Mrs. Harrison, the dean of this fine school." said Mrs. Harrison.
"Well woop de fucking doo for you." said Sam, not liking this woman already.
"There's that attitude problem your parents warned me about. Well we'll cure you of that, by any means necessary. Now Miss Manson we will not tolerate any of your normal tomboy behavior, you are here to learn how to be a proper young lady." said Mrs. Harrison.
"Better people then you have tried lady." said Sam.
"We'll see Miss Manson, we'll see. You are free to go, and I hope I don't have to have another talk with you." said Mrs. Harrison.
"I wouldn't bet on it." whispered Sam as she left.
Sam made her way over to the dorms, which were coed. The top two floors were boys dorms, and the bottom two were girls. Sam found her room and entered, loud music came blaring out at her as the door opened. She looked into the room and saw the noise was coming from her roommate's side. Her side was covered in punk rock posters and she looked like one. She had black hair pulled into a pony tail in the back, with red streaks in it, and her eyes were green. It was then that the girl noticed Sam and turned down the music.
"Hello, you must be the new kid they told me was coming." said the girl.
"Yeah, I am, my name is Sam Manson, call me Samantha and your death will be long and painful." said Sam.
"Well my name is Ali Szivos, I was about to say the same thing if you called me Alicia." (An: Sorry, I couldn't resist putting her in this story, she is my OC after all.)
"Well Ali I think we will get along just fine. I was afraid they were going to stick me with some sort of pink princess." said Sam.
"Same here, now lets get something to eat, I'm hungry." said Ali.
"You read my mind." said Sam.
As they left the room Sam ran into a boy walking down the hall, because the boys had to walk through the girls dorm to get to the exit. Sam was knocked down onto her butt and she looked at who had run into her. The boy that stood in front of her looked like he was the clone of Dash, only with brown hair.
"Watch were your going peasant." said the boy.
"Watch where your going, you ran into me!" said Sam.
"I did no such thing." said the boy.
"Well I guess your brain must be broken." said Sam.
"Why you…" said the boy.
"Lay off Reggie, she's new here." said Ali.
"Its Reginald! And I will not let some girl make me look stupid." said Reginald.
"Oh trust me, you don't need me to do that, your doing a good enough job by yourself." said Sam.
"Arrr! I'll show you for making fun of me." said Reginald.
He grabbed Sam by the collar and lifted her into the air, then he pulled his fist back. Just as he was about to hit her a voice called out.
"Put the girl down Reggie." said the voice.
"Who dares to call me that." said Reginald
He turned around and saw Daniel standing right behind him. Daniel was much different then Danny. He wore mostly black, with the little bit of white being on his converse shoes. He wore black pants with a chain loop on one side, and a black tee shirt that read "I'll try to be nicer, if you'll stop being an idiot" . On his left arm was the tattoo of a wolf. His face looked the same, the same blue eyes, but these eyes had a dark look in them. his hair was longer and pulled into a small pony tail at the back.
"D-Daniel, I didn't know it was you." said Reginald.
"I'm surprised you recognized me, considering how small your brain is. Now I'll ask you again, put the girl down." said Daniel.
Reginald dropped Sam quickly and backed off.
"Good, now if I ever see you harming her again you'll have to answer to me. Now get out of here, and I better not see you for the rest of the day." said Daniel.
"Y-yes Daniel." said Reginald as he ran to find a place to hide.
"Are you ok?" said Danny, reaching to help Sam up.
For a moment their eyes locked, as if they saw something in each others faces. But the moment passed quickly.
"Yeah, and you didn't have to do that, I can take care of myself." said Sam, ignoring his hand and getting up on her own.
"I'm sure you could have, but you haven't built up the proper fear of you in them yet, so I thought I would help you get started." said Daniel.
"I don't need your help to make people fear me." said Sam defiantly.
"Of course, now if you excuse me I have to get to the cafeteria." said Daniel as he walked by Sam and Ali.
"Who was that guy?" said Sam.
"That my friend is Daniel Masters, the only son of Vlad Masters." said Ali.
"You mean he is the son of the Vlad Masters, the richest man in the whole country." said Sam.
"The one and the same, he's been coming here for two years." said Ali.
"He doesn't seem like the normal spoiled rich bastard." said Sam.
"That's because he is not, he is the main rebel on campus. He has gotten in trouble for almost every infraction in the rule book. Legend has it when he came here some boys tried to mess with him, when he was done beating on them no one in the school dared to stand up to him again." said Ali.
"If he causes so much trouble how come they still let him stay here?" said Sam.
"Because his father donates a ton of money to the school, that's why all the uniforms are gold and green. It's in honor of Mr. Masters's favorite team, the Green Bay Packers." said Ali.
"He seems like a real bad boy." said Sam.
"He is, he rarely helps anyone, but when he does it's usually for something important, and mostly he helps girls. Hey, maybe he likes you and wants to go out with you." said Ali slyly.
"Naw, why would he want to go out with a girl like me?" said Sam.
"Although he is interesting, and for some reason he seems…familiar." thought Sam to herself as they walked to the cafeteria.
Meanwhile Daniel was walking there himself and thinking about the strange girl he saw.
"Hmm, that new girl seems to be a feisty one, and she seems to be more strong willed then the rest of them. Also for some reason I have the felling I've seen her before. Hmm, I think I should keep an eye on this one, she seems very…interesting." thought Daniel as he entered the cafeteria.
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Clockwork: Well it seems out two lovebirds have finally meet, I know what will happen next. But I'm not telling, that would ruin the surprise. And now to keep the readers from flying into a rage we will pull the hurt Vlad lever. Clockwork pulls the hurt Vlad lever. We switch to a scene of Vlad and Spectra kissing. After we finish barfing up our dinners we see that Vlad is suddenly attacked by a pack of angry leprechauns.
The Leader of the Leprechauns: Where be our pot of gold you dirty human!
Vlad: I don't have your pot of gold!
The Leader of the Leprechauns: Liar! Lets beat it out of him boys! The leprechauns begin to beat on Vlad with their walking sticks. After a while of this another leprechaun comes up to talk to them.
The Leprechaun: Sir, I found the pot of gold, it was in the couch cushions again.
The Leader of the Leprechauns: It was, well I guess we didn't need to beat him up after all. Sorry for the trouble madam. The Leprechauns then leave, Spectra then checks on Vlad.
Spectra: Are you alright dear?
Vlad: Yes, I could be worse. Then the Fluffy Army of Doom appears and surrounds Vlad.
Vlad: And now it is worse. The Army then Attacks Vlad and forces him to run screaming from the room.
Spectra: God, what does a woman need to do to get a romantic evening around here?
Clockwork: Well it seems Vlad has been justly punished, but I wonder who it was that told the Leprechauns Vlad had their gold? Scene changes to Danny and the others holding a phone and laughing.
Clockwork: Well that answers that question, and now for the chapter summery.
Well it seems that Sam has been forced into her worst nightmare by her parents. But with her new roommate and the mysterious boy named Daniel it may turn out not to be so bad. But what will happen next is anybodies guess. Read the next chapter of Daniel Masters to find out what happens.
Clockwork: So until next time Danny Phantom fans, read and review.