It had taken a full month and a half in order for everything to go back to the way it was. Casper High needed full repairs on the gymnasium due to an explosion that burned most of the stage with humanoid like shapes in both the ceiling and floor. Everything had changed for the worse, everyone now knew of the existence of ghosts because of Spectra's attempt at stealing the essence of everyone at school. My parents had received a large sum of money from people named the Guys in White to conduct research and develop weapons in order to combat the ghost "menace". I can't really blame them, they both were killed by one, and are taking the necessary actions to stay safe.
My life however has taken a weird turn, mostly my ghost half. Apparently an afternoon news reporter spotted the fight between me and Spectra's, and sent it to Amity Park's News Broadcast, both showing how I appeared to be defending the city from the evil succubus. I was dubbed Inviso-bill, a name that haunts me to this day. Hopefully I'll get that changed soon, and clear up any confusion with my name, because I'm DANNY PHANTOM; not some dumbass.
The weirder part of the story is when the entire school decided to have Spirit week be dedicated to their savior. Everyone decided to wear black or silver/white, some even decided to put on green contact lenses and dye their hair. One of my biggest supporters ironically, was Dash Baxter. He wore a skin tight black jumpsuit like me and dyed his hair snow white. I've never been so scarred in my life. Luckily the bullying was to a minimum as long as he and I never clashed, sadly though the Goth girl keeps pestering me with that geeky boyfriend of hers.
However above all else, I took a look at the footage before I became my regular ghost self, and saw the red eyes and silver flame hair on my head. Even though I looked badass, I only remembered rage before I turned into that...whatever that is...It provided me with so much power, I don't even know how to activate this third form. All I know is that it helped me defeat Spectra, because that red ectoblast she sent me could've decimated my regular ghost form.
This of course means more training...Dammit.
Other than that, home life is getting slowly better. Even though my parents were tasked to make new ghost hunting equipment, they made time to go to the movies with me and began to slowly warm up to me. I only chalked up their different behavior to Spectra's doing.
I'm glad to see they're making an effort to try to mend their mistakes with me, and I hope I can reveal my darkest secret of being a ghost to them. Speaking of which, I finally to take this Hero business as seriously as possible. Whenever a ghost caused trouble to the human populace, I was there to help out. However, everyone was still hesitant due to me being ghost as well; but I can always hope for the best in the future.
Oh! I also heard this new song called Remember by Em-
RINGGGGGGG RINGGGGG RINGGGGG
I was broken from my thoughts as the landline rung out through the house. As I was about to get up from the living room couch, a giant orange blur appeared from the depths of the basement and sped through the hallway to pick up the phone.
'How the hell does he move that fast?!' I thought with a stupefied expression as I gazed at my dad. After the whole ordeal, his shoulder seemed to be healing fine after getting it checked out by a hospital. I honestly do not know how he survived with all that blood loss, I'm just thankful to have my dad with me still living. But before I could think of anything else, his voice broke my thoughts.
"Vladdie! How are you doing man!" Now that was a surprise, Vladdie? He couldn't mean Vlad right? The one who's helped me out through tough times? The one who helped boost my confidence when I needed it?
"Wanna come over you say? Sure, Maddie and I would love to see you!" My dad said with his normal exuberant self. He soon said goodbye a put the phone down before taking his mark as he prepared to launch himself back down to the lab.
"Hey Dad?" I was a second too late, as I saw the orange blur pass by me in a gust of wind. However it seems luck shined down upon me, because a second after he reappeared as if he was always there.
"What's going on son?" Dad asked with a cheerful smile on his face.
"Who were you just talking to?" I asked with slight hope in my tone.
"OH! That was your Godfather Vlad Masters! Or as I call him Vladdie." Dad explained as he looked down at me with a pride as he pointed a thumb at his chest.
"Oh alright, is he visiting tomorrow?" I asked acting as if I didn't listen in on the conversation.
"Yep! Which reminds me, this is going to be your first time meeting him, so don't be nervous. Anyways gotta fix some do-hickey see you soon son!" Dad soon sped down the basement stairs as I sat contemplating what he said.
'So this is the moment huh? I don't even know what I should do when he gets here…' I look up to the clock to reveal 3:00pm.
In less than a day, he's going to be coming, 'I guess I should thank him for helping me out through the hard times and the letters.' I thought as I walked back upstairs to head into my room. Opening my door I sat down in my chair at my desk as I opened a drawer where it contained all the opened letter that said "To Daniel fenton, From Vlad Masters"
I took a look at all the letters, skimming over all the birthday ones, and pinched the one I wanted to see. The letter was addressed seven years ago, the letter that helped me focus on getting out of the cage to save everyone. I began to read the letter with a smile, this man truly helped me through dire times. Closing them all back up and putting them into the drawer again, I stood up and plopped onto my bed where I began thinking of ways to improve ghost powers until the next day.
I was still asleep when a knock on the door reverberated on through the house. My parents quickly ran from the basement to the door, and began greeting the person at the door. My mom leaving the room decided to wake me up, so she walked up the stairs and knocked at my door.
Knock
Knock
Knock
My mom slowly opened the door to see my sleeping form. She walked the short distance and began to push my shoulder in order for me to awaken.
"Danny...Danny, come on, Uncle Vlad is here." My mom said as I slowly regained my consciousness. Rubbing my eyes I looked at my mom with a sleepy face before nodding and proceeded to head into the bathroom.
Splash
"Nghhhhh…." I groaned groggily as I wiped my face with a towel heading out the bathroom, where I went into my closet. I looked for my classic hoodie, only to see it missing! "NO! Where is it!" I almost screeched as I began shifting all my hanged clothes in order to find my hoodie. I looked at my laundry basket only to see it empty…
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"WHYYYY!"
WHYYYYYYY
Vlad looked curiously upstairs seeing Maddie come downstairs without his godson. "Maddie, where's Daniel?"
"Probably finding out that I washed his hoodie." Maddie said as she took a seat next to Jack.
"Oh…" Vlad said while looking at his best friends, Jack and Maddie. He hasn't seen them in more than seven years, and they oddly look the same. Jack decided to break him from his thought at this moment.
"So Vladdie! What have ya been up to!" Jack said with a loud booming voice as he looked at Vlad.
"Just been here and there…" Vlad said as he began to hear the stairs creak with footsteps. He turned his head to see me coming down the stairs with a regular white shirt with red trims and a red dot in the middle. The weird thing though was the purple mist that escaped his mouth which he quickly covered up by simulating a yawn. 'A ghost! Here?!' Vlad thought as he felt his eyes focus on me.
"Dumb moms and the laundry…" I mumbled as I walked towards the couch. Before I reached there, I noticed that my mom and dad were talking to a tall man with a grey goatee and ponytail that had a red headband holding it back. He worse a black tailored tuxedo that included a white dress shirt underneath and finished with red bowtie. However, as soon as I walked even closer I noticed that the man began to yawn and was releasing some kind of wispy purple mist…
'Hey...that kinda looks like my gho-' I then began to fake coughing as a blue condensed wisp left my mouth. 'NO WAY!' As soon as the wisp dissipated I looked at the man who was looking at me with wide eyes. Before I could explain my weird behavior, the man stood up and began to walk towards me; which caused me to get into a fighting stance.
The man put his hands up in defense and took a step back, "Woah hold up there young badger!"
"Danny! That's your Godfather Vlad!" I heard my mom say as I cautiously put my hands down in surrender, which caused Vlad to put his hands down. He then began to make his way towards me where he stood a foot or two away. I noticed he was only about half a head taller than me.. Faster than I could react though, he pulled me into a tight hug.
'What the-'
"Danny! It's so nice to see you in person again, I haven't seen you since you were a young baby." Vlad said with a happy tone, but if you were to listen carefully, you'd hear the slight regret in his voice.
"Oh…" I didn't really know what to say, but soon my fears were squashed with his next sentence.
"Don't worry Daniel, I know this is our first time meeting officially. It only makes sense for you to be hesitant with my presence." Vlad said releasing me from the embrace as he took a seat back on the couch. "Come on, Daniel let's chat."
I decided to take a seat at the other side of the couch he was on as my parents soon stood up.
"We'll give you guys time to catch up." My mom said as my dad raced downstairs with her to continue to work.
'Unbelievable' I thought as I turned my head from where my parents to where my Godfather Vlad was sitting. "Uhhh...thanks for the letters…" I said awkwardly, nice going Danny you're doing great.
"Of course! Hopefully you received every birthday note with money, can't have your parents hog all the money." He said with a chuckle, which also caused me to chuckle. He then began asking me about school and how I was doing since the divorce and remarriage. I told him back that it's been going alright since then, especially after the incident in Casper High.
"Yeah, I've been hearing about that a lot, care to share the details?" Vlad said with a raised eyebrow. I nodded with confirmation and began telling the events of what had happened and how the "Hero Danny Phantom" saved us all.
"Man what a story, surely you must've been scared?" Vlad continued his questioning as he gazed into my eyes. 'Oh shit what am I supposed to say…'
"E-er Yeah... luckily I was not caught in the crossfire." I said with a slight stutter. Hoping that Vlad didn't notice, but as fate would have it, he did.
"Here Daniel, come sit closer to me." Vlad said as he patted the cushion right next to him, not knowing what else to do, I complied. An awkward silence decided to build as we sat there not saying anything. Both of us staring at the fire place right in front of us.
"So.." Vlad said with a tone I couldn't place. "How long has it been?"
I turned my head to him in confusion "Wha-" He turned to me with a calculative gaze.
"You know what I'm talking about Daniel" I sat there frozen like a stone. 'How did he know, I sensed a ghost, but it led to-'
My eyes widened in realization "YOU'RE A GH-" My mouth was soon shut by Vlad's palm who had a look of panic as he looked towards the entrance of the lab. Seeing no one was coming back up, he looked at me.
"You're going to talk a little quieter now Danny, or we both are going to be dissected. Molecule by molecule." He said emphasizing the molecule bit. I nodded in confirmation as he removed his palm from my mouth.
He still stared at me with a questioning gaze as I finally relented at what he wanted to hear. "Few months…" I mumbled as he narrowed his eyes at the development.
'His power is growing exponentially fast, in only a couple months time he's managed to pass Spectra in full power…' Vlad then was broken out of his thoughts as I asked him a one worded question.
"You?"
"Twenty-two years" I looked at him with wide eyes, dear lord, he's been a half ghost for twenty-two years?! Is that how I'm going to look!?
Vlad looked down in amusement before getting serious again. "Now Daniel, let's talk business"
We began to talk about all the ghosts he's seen in all his travel, and how he builds ghost technology so he could explore the ghost portal vice versa. Leaving out the specific parts of attempting to become the ghost king.
"Wow that's amazing" I said as I recalled how many major ghosts I've battled through out my short span of my half life. "Can you teach me?" I asked with slight eagerness in my voice, he simply looked down at me with kind eyes. He rubbed my hair in an affectionate way.
"Of course!"
BOOOOOM VLAD IS HERE, I wonder what he'll be like in future chapters. Anywaysssss Hope y'all enjoyed this chapter, leave any comment or suggestions you may have. Phantom of the Future out!
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