Chapter 3: Who is Vladimir Masters?

"I don't know a man named Vladimir Masters?!" Danny told when he called the HR department to ask them about the calls for him, Randy and Myers told him about.

"Of course we did not tell him any of your personal data. That's prohibited." the woman from his company told him. "He actually sound really desperate. He really kind of 'begged' me to at least tell you and ask you to call him back."

"He left his number?" Danny asked surprised.

"Yeah!" the woman told and dictated the number. Danny mentioned that the prefix was from Wisconsin.

"Thank you!" Danny said.

"Amity Park? Really..." the woman asked with a curious voice.

"Bye!" Danny said with a harsher voice and smashed the horn back on the reciever before she asks more questions. He did not deny that he was from Amity Park. But he just doesn't want to talk about it... but he is not the only one.

After he hang off, he looked on the wall again. The two pictures were still missing. As well as some stuff from the shelv right next to the TV. And the TV itself worked normally and without flickering. It was morning. Sam was at work but Danny had to promise her to call her every two hours. Just to keep sure that he did not fade away again. Thier friend Ellen showed up, too. Propably because Sam asked her yesterday evening when they visited them...

Danny walked threw the house. It was so silent with the kids gone. So he had some time to think about this name: Vladimir Masters! What was that for a name? Vladimir? He knew it was a Russian Name? Or Slavic? He never met a man with that name? And he never heared someone mentioning it! He decided to call Jazz... maybe she knows something...

"MacGuire!" a man said when he picked up the call.

"Hi, Horatio! It's me, Danny..." Danny said, greeting his brother-in law and Jazz' husband.

"Danny, hi! How are you? Sam called us to tell what happened! Are you better now?"

"Yes, I am! Thank you? Did you... tell the kids?"

"No! No, we didn't dare..." Horatio told. "The kids are in the garden. Do you want to talk to them?"

"Yeah, but first I want to talk to Jazz. I have to ask her something!"

"Hmm, she is in the bathroom but... oh, wait, she is comming down the stairs now. Hang on... Jazz, your brother..." Danny heared him saying before he could hear that he handed the horn to another person.

"Hi, Danny!" Jazz said happily. "How are you?"

"Better!" Danny replied. "Jazz, I hope you can help me with something! Do you know a man named Vladimir Masters?"

"Who?"

"Vladimir Masters!? At work they tell me that he tries to contact me."

"Honestly... That name rings a bell... But I don't know why?" Jazz said.

"That's a guy in Wisconsin! At work they told me that he desperately tries to contact me. But he seems to be not sure if I am the Daniel Fenton he is looking for."

"Did you say Wisconsin?" Jazz asked. "Mom and Dad told me that they met in Wisconsin when they studied there..."

"Mom and Dad?" Danny asked shocked and looked on the wall over the TV again. "You mean... this guy, could be a friend of them?"

Suddenly Danny remembered the 'incident' again. And now a guy who might was a friend of them suddenly tries to contact him? Is this a coincidence? Danny could feel the sweat running down his face. His heart start to beat faster. Nervously he walked up and down with the phone.

"Jazz... Do you think I should call this guy?"

"Danny, is everything allright? You suddenly sound so nervous!" his sister asked worried. She could hear that something is wrong. "What's going on?"

Danny thought about telling her everything. But he didn't want to bother her with his 'visions'...

"I don't want to tell you this over the phone. But... I can tell you... I saw... ghosts..."

Jazz was silent for a moment. "Ghosts?"

"I know... It sounds crazy... I promise you to tell you, but later. When you come over..."

"Is really everything allright?" Jazz asked again. "Danny, I hear it in your voice... something's bothering you!"

"I think... I'm just getting crazy... And now I would like to talk to the kids..." Danny said, changing the topic...

After talking to the kids for a few minutes, Danny hang off. He had to call Sam, as promised. She told him that she leaves earlier today, because she does not feel so good. After that he thought about calling this Mister Masters, again. Danny remembered how his parents always praised thier college time... Gosh, he was not so sure about this guy... he knew his parents...

Without really thinking about it, Danny already dialed Master's number...

"Hello!" the voice of an elder man sound up threw the phone.

"Hello! I want to talk to Vladmir Masters, please!" Danny said without telling his name.

"Speaking!"

"Mr. Masters...? My name is Daniel Fenton! Did you try to contact me?"

There was silence for a few seconds. The man he called seemed surprised. "Daniel?! Are you... Daniel Fenton from Amity Park, Illinois? Son of Jack and Madeline Fenton?"

"Yes!"

"Oh my god..." the voice of the man became shaky. "Really? You are Jack and Madeline's son?"

"Yes, I am? What's the matter?"

"Gosh... you can't imagine how long I am looking for you. After your parents... well I am just... so relieved that I finally found you. I was not sure. I found three other Daniel Fentons in the United States and one in the United Kingdom. But they were only interested in money. But you are really the Daniel I am looking for... You don't remember me right?"

"Shall I know you?" Danny tried to remember. But he really never ever met this man. According to his voice he was an elder person. He could be in his parent's age.

"Well, gosh... how many years have passed? You were three... no four! Yeah, you were just four when we met. I met you when you and your parents came to Green Bay. Your sister was there for her therapy and your parents and you visited her. That was just a coincidence that we met. Did she recovered from her Asthma?"

Danny was surprised. But the man was true! When Jazz was in pre-school she suffered from very bad Asthma! When she was in elementary-school it became better and today she was almost totally fine. And Danny knew that she spend several weeks in a sanatorium when she was seven. It was Summer... They drove very long... Actually, Danny could swear it was really Green Bay when they visited her. And he remembered a man... But not very much... he was too young to remember it now... So he really seemed to be a friend of his parents.

"Yeah, she is fine today! So, what is the reason you want to talk to me?"

"Well... It is actually a very complicated story! Difficult to explain! Oh, I can't believe it that I finally found you. How are you? Are you married? Do you have kids?"

"Oh, yeah... I am... fine..." Danny answered surprised. Telling the man that he was married and that he lives in Illinois again.. "Sorry, but you didn't answer my question. You seem very happy... no you seem to be relieved that you found me. Is there a reason you tried to find me?"

"It's actually because your parents..."

Danny became nervous again and looked on the wall again. "What about my parents? My parents died 22 years ago."

"Yes, I know what happened! I am so sorry for you. I can imagine that it was a very hard time for you. And your sister, too." Vladimir told while his voice became sad. "Listen... I really don't want to scare you but... It is really really important! Did you mention any weird 'happening' in the last time?"

"Happening?" Danny became scared again. Suddenly he thought that it becomes cold in the house again. "What kind of happening do you mean?"

"It's difficult! I honestly don't understand as well. It's about your father's work." Masters told. Danny moaned. He never understood his fathers work and he honestly did not want to talk about it. "Daniel, it's something you should see with your own eyes. I know you don't know me. I am a foreigner you don't remember. But trust me! You are kindly invited to come over."

"Come over?"

"Yes, to my house! You are kindly invited."

"Ehm... Mister Master, I..."

"Vlad! Come on, Daniel you are kind of family!" Masters said, trying to sound comforting. "I don't know what your parents did to you, or what they told you... but it is about you and what I found. And you have the right to know it. It's... actually... do you have any health-issues? Heart problems? Or... blood-pressure?"

Now Danny had to sit down. One more thing this guy shouldn't know. "I'm... I have... low blood-pressure. Right! But... how..."

"I don't know how to explain it. And I don't dare to try it over the phone, because I don't want to tell you something neighter you nor me is able to understand. Please come over... Not only because of this stuff. I really... want to see the man my friends gave birth to."

Danny thought briefly about it. "I... need to talk to my wife before... may I call you back, today evening?"

"I ask for it!" Masters respond. "Please, come over... I even pay for the fuel... you and your whole family are kindly welcome. Do you have kids?"

"Ehm... yeah, four! Two boys and two girls!"

"Nice!" Masters said. "So... I am looking forward to hear from you!"

"One more question... Why... did you contact me now? And not... who knows... 20 years ago or else..."

"I had no clue, that you survived, too! But after I found your father's old notes I became worried. I don't know why but suddenly I hoped to find you. And I am glad that I found you. Really glad..."

Danny could swear that the voice of the man suddenly became 'creepy'. But maybe it was just because he mentioned his parents."O... kay... so I will call you back later. Good bye, Mister Mas... ehm... Vlad..."

"Good bye, Daniel!" Masters said and both hang off. Danny did not know why, but he was still a bit scared from that call... than he looked on the wall again.

What would Sam tell him to do? Jazz would become suspiscious. Especially when he tells her that he knows so much about her, too! Danny looked on the clock again. Jazz would not be home now. She and the kids would be out today. And he called Sam just a few minutes before. He decided to ask her when she returns from work. Than he realized that he spoke almost an half and hour with 'Vlad'.

"Vlad?" Danny murmured looking on the phone again. "Who is Vlad Masters?"

Danny was just able to finish when suddenly the TV start to flicker again...

"What the...? Oh, no. Not again!" Danny said and stand up to slap with his hand on the top of the TV. But instead of getting it to work normally again, the flickering became stronger... and suddenly an icy dust of wind blew threw the room.

Danny froze as he saw these green light's again... the gust smelled like metal. Like burnt cables. Is the TV going to implode. He recently saw a movie where it happened. But Danny was like paralized when he saw the tiny green flashes crawling over the wall like insects. That was the moment, Danny realized... it is happening again...

"No, no, no, no..." Danny wailed and ran out. He was able to move again and left the room. But before he was able to reach the kitchen, someone or something grabbled him by his shirt.

"Danny,... WAIT!" a young male voice screamed...

Danny felt a hand, that was grabbling his shirt from behind. He screamed. The other person screamed, too. Overwhelmed, Danny fell down on the ground. And turned around. Right behind him, was nobody... but over him...

Danny saw something black and long. Shaped like a cone... or a tip... what ever it was he could look threw it. The hand that just grabbled him was in a white glove. He saw a body... or at least the upper body of a person. Small! A child... no a teenager! Maybe as old as his son? But that was never a human... it was a torso... without legs but with a long cone. Snow white hair and glowing green eyes... And it knew his name...

Danny looked up on the 'something'. A ghost... that had to be a ghost! But his face... Danny thought he is looking on a mirror when he saw it's face...

The 'ghost' or whatever meanwhile was pretty shocked, too. About the older one's reaction and his expression. It's floating... it's floating right over him?! Suddenly the 'ghost-tail' seperated into two 'normal' legs dressed in a black jumpsuit. White gloves and boots and a white belt. And it glowed. It was surrounded by a white aura... and it's floating...

There was an awkward silence. Danny was sitting on the ground. Looking up on it. And on it's face. That looked so much like him. Not even his son's looked so much like him. The tension was terrible. But both mentioned that each other was extremely shocked about this and the reaction of each other. So nobody dared to say something... Slowly and carefully Danny got up from the hard floorboard to face 'it'. Is this a dream? Did his blood-pressure dropped again so he got unconscious again and now he is having another nightmare? It's floating...

"Hi!" the white haired 'Danny' said awkwardly.

"H... H... ahh... a... llll..." Danny was barely able to say something while the other 'Danny' seemed to calm down a little bit and looked around.

"What? You know that this is our thing?"

"Huh?"

"You know..." the white-haired 'Danny' said while he lovered to the ground and did his 'thing'. Meaning letting two white rings appear around his waist. It went fast... very fast... but Danny was able to see how the two white rings moved. One up and one down. And when they moved they changed the clouthes. From this black jumpsuit to normal clouthes. A white shirt with red. A jeans and normal trainers. And than he saw the face... his face... just young. Black hair, blue eyes... he wasn't shining anymore. With big eyes Danny looked on the teenager version of himself. That was not real! This was a nightmare... yeah, he had a circulatory collapse again... he forgot his midday pill!

"What? You look like..." the younger 'Danny' asked confused. "...wait... you don't have..."

"W... Wa... What?" Danny wailed shocked. "How... You... I... mean... where...?"

The younger Danny suddenly got a much more shocked expression on his face and looked around briefly. He looked like he realized something very terrible...

"Which year is now?" younger 'Danny' asked shocked.

"What?"

"The year...!"

"2... 2004!" adult Danny respond.

"What? 2004?!... NO! This is not... and you are not..."

"DANNY!" a familiar female voice called out from far away.

Danny was shocked. Both were. The older one was terrfied again. His mother? Was that really his mother? The same moment the front door, behind Danny opened with a loud squeaking...

"Danny, I am back!" Sam said. Looking down the whole time and minding her own things. "I..."

"SAM!" Danny screamed shocked, grabbled his wife by her arm and pulled her inside to show her his younger himself. "LOOK!"

"Ouwch! Danny, my arm..." Sam protested, pulling herself out of her husband's grip. "What's wrong with you?"

"LOOK! HE IS... gone...?"

The younger 'Danny' was gone. Just vanished! Sam looked around and than on her husband. She was worried when she came in. For many reasons! Than she was mad because of his rude behaviour. But now she was scared. Because she feared that Danny had a seizure...

"Danny, are you allright?"

Danny was not sure about it. Honestly he start to doubt about his mental condition: "Sam, please pinch me!"

"What?"

"I told you to pinch me!" Danny said, this time more demanding. Sam could only shake her head and passed him to get into the living-room. "Sam, wait..."

"Danny, why is it so cold in here?" Sam asked mad, before she heared a female voice startling... "What was that?"

"You hear it, too?" Danny did not know: Should he be relieved, or worried. Because if Sam was able to hear it, too they were not alone in the house.

"You mean a gasping woman? Yes, I heared it, too!" Sam said and looked around. Suddenly she saw the green lights prancing over the wall. "Danny, what is that?"

Danny entered the living-room again. It was still so cold in here. Tiny green flashes pranced over the wall but there was also this green liquid again. Sam and now Danny, too... saw it dropping from the wall. Bright green and slimly. This was not a burst water-pipe. It was also not mold... but whatever it was... it suddenly vanished. Completely!

"Danny, what was that?" Sam asked scared. She forgot everything else. She was just scared about this spooky something.

"Sam... Sam... stay away from the wall!" Danny hissed. Sam went a step back and looked on her husband.

"Danny... I was about to ask you if you took your medicine? But now I really want to know what is going on here!"

"I don't know!" Danny wailed. "It... It happened before! Before... I... I thought it was a nightmare..."

"What?"

"Shortly before I faded away!" Danny told. "And now... I... I was on the phone. I was talking to that guy who tried to contact me! I hang off and than... Than there was this icy gust... and this thing... and than there was a boy... he looked like me!"

"Danny, what do you want to tell me?" Sam asked. Her voice became more and more worried.

"I neighter become crazy, nor our house is haunted?"

Suddenly there was another weird noise. It sound like a gagged person... like a person whose mouth is holded close. And than there was a hiss. Everything came from the wall!

"Sam... please tell me I am dreaming." Danny begged rubbing his neck. Than he realized that his shirt was torn.

"Your shirt!" Sam realized and turned away from the wall. "Danny, how did that happen?"

"It... It grabbled me..." Danny just told and turned around, too... with his back now facing the wall.

Sam mentioned it. His shirt looked like someone grabbled his collar. It was damaged. She asked Danny to undress and helped him to lift it... revealing his back... and the only thing he took with him from Amity Park and nothing else... But it was a reason for the 'female voice' to freak out...

A loud terrfying scream suddenly echoed threw the house. Right when Sam lift up Danny's shirt to reveal his back... A loud scream of a shocked woman...

"MY SON...!" where the only words, Danny and Sam were able to understand when the screaming started. Both turned to the wall where they saw a bright green flash, tearing up the wall and something that looked like a woman, trying to jump into thier living room.

Another icy windgust blew threw the house. So strong that both Danny's and Sam's hairs where blown away. The only thing they could do was screaming while the 'woman' tried to climb threw the portal into thier living-room...

"...DANNY..." it screamed. This voice... his mother... Danny saw his mother, surrounded by a bright green light. Someone holding her and preventing her from entering thier house that shaked. The whole house was shaking and trembling while Danny's 'mother' was pushed back into that lab or what ever the other room was. She looked like a monster in that green light. Sad and full of sorrow. Papers and other stuff was flying threw the air and sucked into that green light, too.

Danny and Sam did not hesitate and ran out of the living-room and out of the shaking house. Screaming loudly and paniced...

Some kids, who were playing outside, and some neighbours mentioned the noise. Everyone was shocked and of course curious why the Fenton's flee out of thier house...

Without looking back, first Sam and than Danny stormed out threw the open door and ran over the grass to the street. Danny stumbled. Sam lost a shoe... but they continued fleeing from the house.

The neighbours from the house on the other side of the street, were working in thier garden when they saw the Fentons and rushed to help them. Some of the playing kids rushed to them to help, too. Or at least to look what happened...

"Mrs. Fenton... Mr. Fenton... are you allright...?" Danny heared a shocked voice calling out. He did not recognize. Everything was happening so fast.

Danny was not able to respond. He fell on his knees and breathed hardly. His low blood-pressure was forgotten. His financial-problems were forgotten. He just fell on his knees to freak out and cry. Sam was still standing. But she hold her chest, as she felt her heart beating so fast that it hurt. Both gasping and sweating.

They had no clue what happened? They had no clue how it happend? But they knew one thing: That was definetely Madeline Fenton! Danny's late mother... Or at least something that might been her ghost...

Danny turned to the house again to look on it. Suddenly he remembered the movie 'Poltergeist'. For some reason he expected the house to implode into the green vortex every second. But nothing happened. It was quiet! Birds were singing in the trees and the sun was shining. The only bad thing he heared was the shocked sobbing of the neighbours and the kids... as they got a perfect look on Danny's exposed back... and the old awful burn scars covering his back...

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