"Finally." Sam sighed to herself as she began to recognize some of the landmarks that told her she was close to the Fenton's ghost portal. Sam was about to make a turn when something of in the distance caught her attention. "Is that, Danny?" Sam growled seeing a familiar figure off in the distance. "Danny!" She yelled hoping to get his attention as she took off towards him. "Right… only growls come out." Sam scolded herself. As she got closer she saw that he was flying erratically towards Frostbites kingdom. Behind him two plant like ghost followed. "What's going on?" Sam thought as she decided to say behind to see what was happening.
Danny had now completely lost consciousness as he fell into realm of the Far Frozen. He crashed into an ice pillar and fell on to the snow ground, inside of an icy cavern.
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"It looks like the energy is originating from over here." Frostbite said to himself as he flew on his transport disk towards where Danny had crashed landed. "Great one." Frostbite gasped jumping off of his disk pulling Danny from the snow.
"What…" Danny muttered as he managed to open an eye.
"What happened?" Frostbite asked seeing Danny barely maintaining his conscious.
"That would be ours, hand him over." One of the ghost plants yelled as the two landed in font of Frostbite, blocking his only exit.
"Undergrowths offspring." Frostbite recognized the plants. "If you want him you'll have to go though me." He said standing up to the ghost plants.
"Really, are you going to defeat all of us?" The one plant laughed. Suddenly the two plants began to glow as the split into four plants, then eight plants, and then sixteen plants. Frostbite knew that it would be safer for them if they ran and got back to the safety of the castle walls. He looked towards his transport disk behind him. He then jumped and took off towards the disk. "Not so fast." One plant ghost yelled firing an ecto-blast at the disk, destroying it. "Now like I said, hand him over." Frostbite held Danny close as he was forced into a corner. If he fought he would risk Danny getting hit and he couldn't get away, he was out of options. "Just give him up and we'll leave in peace."
"No." Frostbite still defended.
"Fine, the suffer the same fate." The plant yelled as he began to produce mind vines from his arms. Just as the one ghost plant moved forward to implant the vine a fireball flew at him, burning him into ecto-ash. "What was that." Another plant yelled.
Frostbite looked up towards the origin of the blast. "The 'accurse'." He said confused. He then felt Danny stir in his arms.
"Sam…" Danny moaned failing to wake.
"We'll be ok Great one." Frostbite smiled.
Sam jumped and soared towards the group of plants and released a fireball at the army. Most managed to jump away and right away they began to split, making more of the ghost plants. Sam flew towards Frostbite as more ghosts began to close in on them. "Thanks." Frostbite said as he jumped onto Sam's back. Sam then took off as quickly as she could, with the plants following closely behind them. "If we can get into the walls of the castle we'll be protected. The walls are constantly regenerating and cannot be destroyed. Sam let out a small growl letting him know that she understood. As they got closer towards the walls Frostbite was going to single for his men to open the gates. But as he looked back at the closing army of plants he hesitated. "We won't be able to close the gates fast enough." He explained. Sam nodded in response then descended getting as low as she could to the ground heading strait towards the walls. "What are you doing?" He yelled in panic.
Sam smiled back at him, trying to let him know that she knew what she was doing. Just as they were about to collide with the ice wall, she let out a fire blast that melted a hold in the wall. "It's a regenerating wall." Frostbite yelled as they flew behind the wall of fire that Sam still was releasing. Just as they came up to the wall, Sam stopped the fire and changed back to human and the group slid through the walls of the castle just as the hole immediately closed up. The three crashed into a snow pile, but they were now safe behind the walls of the castle. "That was too dangerous." Frostbite said as he pulled himself and Danny from the snow.
"Yeah, but it worked." Sam said pulling herself up.
"You!" Frostbite yelled in shock. "Your the 'accursed'?"
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"Where am I?" Danny's voice echoed through his head.
"Your safe. Your in the realm of the Far Frozen." Frostbite's voice answered.
"What happened?" Danny asked as he opened his eyes, not remembering what happened, or how he ended up with Frostbite. He looked around and immediately noticed that his was incased in a glass tube fill with what looked like water. "What's going on?"
"You fell into the Far Frozen, you were attacked by Undergrowth and his 'children' were looking for you when I found you. When we got you back we found that your temperature had dropped immensely." Frostbite began to explain.
"Yeah, I haven't been able to warm up the past few day." Danny explained. "What's happening?"
"Just another ghost power. I sensed it last time we meet. Your developing ice powers just like us." Frostbite explained showing Danny an example of the power by making a ice sculpture of him with one hand and made a blade with his other hand and slices the statue in half. "It's a very powerful skill, but does take time to master, but with this skill you just my have the advantage over Undergrowth."
"Show me." Danny begged in awe by the power Frostbite had displayed.
"Alight." Frostbite said happy by Danny eagerness to learn.
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Once out on a practice field, Danny had attracted an audience to watch his training. After a few instructions Danny was starting to control his cold feeling enough to allow him not to be cold all the time. "Your doing great for your first time." Frostbite praised as he watched Danny hit a few targets with his icicles.
"Yeah I think a I'm finally in control of the cold sensations too." Danny agreed. Suddenly alarms began sounding from every direction. "What's going on?" Danny asked worriedly.
"That alarm means that the gate of the castle have been breached." Frostbite explained. "We have to go." He said stopping the training. He led Danny towards the outer walls of the fortress. As they came up to the gate of the city they saw a war going on. "Undergrowths minions. They must have breached the gate." Frostbite explained. His men were fighting bravely but the plant just kept regenerating. "We need to shut the gate." He yelled running towards the control panel.
"What do they want?" Danny yelled seeing plants gaining the advantage over Frostbites men.
"We've come for you." One of the plant ghosts yelled as he split, forming a group that surrounded Danny.
"Great one!" Frostbite yelled seeing Danny surrounded by the opposing ghosts. As he began to run towards Danny to help, more plant ghost surrounded him as well.
"Just give you self up." The original plant demanded as the group closed in on him.
"Get away!" Danny yelled firing an ecto-blast at the ghost. But the plant laughed as he instantly regenerated.
"Undergrowth will be pleased." The plant laughed as he formed mind vines in his hand and began to reach for Danny.
"No Danny!" Frostbite shouted as he tried in a futile attempted to get to him.
Suddenly a roar echoed over the battle. The ghost plant looked towards the source of the noise just in time to see a ball of fire consume it. As the other plants looked at the ecto-ash left behind Sam let out another growl as she flew in, slamming her tail into most of the group, knocking them a good distance away. The few that remained were now coming at Sam, but before they could even start an attack, Sam threw a fireball at them, turning them into ash. "Sam!" Danny yelled in surprise. He had no memory of when she had rescued him earlier.
Sam turned her head and caught eyes with Danny. "Reinforcements are on the way!" one of Frostbites men yelled from where Sam had flown in from. Danny turned his sights towards the yelling seeing a whole army of men rushed in to help.
Danny looked back to where Sam stood, but saw nothing but snow. "Sam?" Danny called not wanting to lose her again. A growl from the skies caused him to look up, finding her. She had about three of the ghost plants attacking her, but she easily knocked them all away. She then flew and slammed into a group of ghost and continued to bet the ghosts. As the rest of Frostbites men moved in, the plant ghosts began to retreat, but Danny had lost sight of Sam in the commotion.
"You and your men arrived just in time Jasper." Frostbite thanked head of the group.
"I'm sorry we were late, we were still running the test on the 'accursed' when the alarms rang." Jasper responded.
"Well better late than never, thanks for the help." Frostbite smiled then looked back at Danny. "We should clean up and get back to training." Frostbite told him. But Danny didn't seem to hear him; his attention was on trying to find Sam once again. "Let's go Great one." He said getting Danny's attention.
"I'll be right there." Danny said walking away from the group.
"What's going on with him?" Jasper asked Frostbite.
"I think it's he's looking for a friend." Frostbite responded as they walked out of the field, leaving Danny alone.
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"Sam." Danny called taking flight to help find her. "She's alive. Why is she hiding from me? Maybe it's not Sam, maybe someone else just picked it up." His thoughts clouded his mind as he continued searching for her. "Sam!" he called again as he flew over a canyon of ice. A low growl from the icy valley caught his ears making him stop. "She must be down there." He thought entering the icy maze.
"You idiot." Sam though to her self as she grabbed her snout holding it shut as she watched Danny enter the canyon she was hiding in. She was small, but her dark hid was not making it easy for her to hide in the snow. She found a small crevice to hide it, and transformed back to her human self to hide better. But again her dark clothes made it hard for her to stay concealed. "He's going to be mad." Sam thought as she pulled herself into a ball to make her a small as possible. She shivered slightly, since she was no longer in her dragon form and all she had on were a t-shirt and jeans, she had no protection from the cold.
"Sam!" Danny yelled getting closer to her. Sam closed her eyes hoping that Danny would just pass over her. She scared to face him. She was unsure how he would react once he found her, but she was sure he would be angry with her. He would yell at her, and turn his back on her, and she just couldn't handle the rejection, the heartbreak. "Sam." His voice sounded close, almost a whisper.
Sam opened her eyes slowly seeing him standing before her. She immediately noticed tears forming in the corner of his eyes. "Danny." She said quietly unsure what to do.
"Sammy." Danny cried let his tears fall. He knelt down and pulled her out of the crevice and held her tightly overcome with joy. "Sam, it's really you." He finally let her go just enough to look at her face. Sam didn't know what to say, this was not the reaction she expected. "I though I lost you." He said again pulling her into his lap as he hugged her as he continued to cry tears of relief.
Sam hesitantly wrapped her arms around his waist, finally giving into his warm embrace. "I'm sorry Danny…" Sam tired to finish.
"Shh…" Danny soothed letting her go slightly so he could look at her. "Clockwork explained everything." He explained resting one of his hands on her face, and the other on her shoulder. "I'm sorry you didn't feel you could tell me." Danny apologies.
"It's ok." Sam said surprised by Danny's forwardness.
"I'm just so happy you're alright." Danny sighed again letting his forehead touch hers as the last of his tears fell. Sam raised her head looking into his eyes, blushing now realizing how close where.
"I hope I'm not interrupting something." Jasper's voice fell from above them. Both looked up at him seeing him standing on a transport disk. "Frostbite asked for you both to come back." Jasper explained as the two humans rose to there feet. "You need to finish your training." He said pointing to Danny. "And we need to finish your test." He said pointing to Sam.
"Alright." Sam sighed as she watched Danny started to rise into the air. He extended a hand down to her, but she just smiled shacking her head. She then started to transform into her dragon half.
For the first time Danny got to see her transformation. "That is so cool." Jasper spoke watching the dragon form replace her human one.
Sam growled softly as she took to the air joining Danny in the air. "So what are these test?" Danny asked as they started back to the castle.
"Well it's not really test." Jasper responded. "It's more like an analysis. Were just tracking her speed, strength, agility, you know stuff like that."
"Well I know your fast, but how fast are you?" Danny smiled looking towards Sam. Sam grinned and rumbled lightly as she started to pull a head of the group. Danny laughed and pulled up next to Sam, matching her speed. Sam then growled and took off in a burst of speed, pulling quickly a head of Danny. "Wow." Danny gasped as he began to race after her.
"Yeah, good luck, she gets about 120mph cruising speed, and over 175mph gusts of speed." Jasper yelled watching the two race off.
Danny didn't stand a chance; she was already waiting by Frostbite still in dragon form inside the castle as he caught up to her. "Ahh hear he comes." Frostbite said as Danny landed before him.
"Sorry, I couldn't keep up." Danny smiled towards Sam. "Jasper might be a few minutes, I lost sight of him minutes ago."
"Not a problem, but we must get back to your training. We've just gotten an image of your human world and it looks like Undergrowth has begun to spread outside of Amity Park." Frostbite began to explain.
"If I can get this ice power under control I might have a chance of beating him." Danny responded.
"Yes and don't forget you'll have your secret weapon." Frostbite added.
"What secret weapon?" Danny questioned looking at Frostbite strangely.
"Her." Frostbite smiled pointing to the dragon that sat next to him.
"You mean Sam?" Danny said in amazement.
"Of course." Frostbite said not understanding why it was such a shock.
"No way." Danny said shacking his head in a no gesture.
"What?" Frostbite gasped surprised by his reaction.
"Absolute not." Danny said again. By this time Jasper had joined the group and watched as the arguing started.
Frostbite and Sam looked at each other in disbelieve. Sam then looked back to Danny who still had a stubborn look on his face. "What do you mean no?" she growled rising to her feet.
"I mean 'no'!" Danny said more forcefully direction his voice towards her.
"But I can help you." Sam snarled getting angry at his stubbornness.
"It's not worth you getting hurt." Danny replied getting angry at her persistence.
"I'm strong, I'll be fine." Sam growled.
"This is not nonnegotiable." Danny said more defiantly.
Jasper and Frostbite looked at each other in amazement as the two argued. "Wait, wait." Jasper finally stood between them. "You can understand her?" He said in shock.
"Of course I can." Danny said looking at Jasper like he was crazy.
Sam's eyes opened wide with amazement. "Really?" Sam growled looking questionably at Danny.
"Yeah really. Why?" Danny asked not understanding what the big deal was.
"Danny, all we can hear is growls and snarls." Jasper began to explain.
"Legend says that only one person can understand her, and that's the 'cursed rider'." Frostbite finished.
"But Tucker said that was a myth." Danny thought out loud.
"Yes but some myth's start as truth." Frostbite explained.
"Yeah, and if that's not a big enough hint that you two need to work together I don't know what is." Jasper cut it. "She's very fast, and strong too. She gets 120mph normal speed, over 175mph if she's in a rush and that with a passenger. She can stop in an instant, and u-turn at 155mps like it's nothing. And she's strong too. She can carry over 250 pounds on her back with out slowing down, and lift over 550 pounds easily. She can breath fire and shoot energy balls from her hands…" Jasper stopped getting cut off.
"Just stop." Danny cut him off. "I don't care what she can do, the answer is still no." Danny said harshly.
Sam looked at him hurt that he didn't trust her enough to except her help. She let out an annoyed growl and walked away from the group.
"I really think she could help you." Jasper said watching her walk away.
"The training you're going to do now is a rigorous training course, it's the only thing that will help prepare you for Undergrowth." Frostbite began to explain.
"That's fine, then I'll complete it, alone." Danny said boldly.
"Alright, we let's get started." Frostbite sighed at his stubbornness and began to lead him towards another arena.
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"Watch it!" Frostbite yelled as he watched Danny again get knocked from the air.
Danny looked up seeing an ice pillar falling from the sky but he was not fast enough to avoid it. It struck him, sending him falling towards the icy ground. "Set it up again." Danny said standing up, brushing the ice from his body. That had been at least the fifteenth time he had been struck down; he had yet to even make it halfway though the obstacle course. Frostbite moaned dejectedly and pushed a button on his control panel, resting the course again.
Sam and Jasper had come to watch, but stayed off to the side, so Danny would not notice them. "This is getting old. Why won't he work together with you?" Jasper asked.
Sam watched Danny again start the course; she winced as he again, was struck down by another falling pillar. "I don't know." Sam said not quite understanding. "I don't know if he just doesn't trust me, or he's afraid to asked for help." Sam said watching Danny start the course again.
"Well he stubbornness is going to be his downfall." Jasper said getting up. "I'm going to get something to eat, you want to come." He offered.
Sam cringed again as she watched Danny about to make the same mistake again. "Hang on." Sam said getting tired of Danny fail. She rose from her seat and transformed into her dragon form and took flight towards the course.
"Keep your eyes focused on what's coming!" Frostbite yelled seeing Danny make the same mistake again. It was a part of the course where he had to avoid falling pillars and ecto-blast coming from around him. He would get about half way threw when he would focus more on disabling the ecto-blasters by firing at them but he would not be able to avoid the falling ice. "He's doing it again." He sighed seeing Danny firing at the ecto guns, but not realizing that an ice ball was falling right for him. "Watch out!" Frostbite warned yet again.
Danny looked up seeing the ice falling. "Not again." He closed his eyes, a waiting the impact. But suddenly he felt himself being pulled away. He opened his eyes seeing Sam pulling him out of the way of falling pillars. "Sam, get out of here. I can do this myself." Danny shouted.
"Well you went getting very far on your own, how about you just try working together and see how far you get." Sam growled, rolling her body so that he could sit on her back below her wings.
"Sam, I'm not doing this." Danny growled holding on to Sam.
"Well then get ready to be hit with those ecto-blasts." Sam said knowingly seeing the blast coming right for them.
Danny instinctively saw the blast and fired his own shoots at the guns, disabling them. As Sam carried them higher more shots were fired from above them and more ice began to fall towards them. "Watch out, more ice is falling." Danny yelled.
"You worry about those guns, I'll worry about the ice." Sam growled as she picked up speed and gracefully dogged the ice.
Danny fired shots up at the guns, disabling them before they could get any more shots out. "Ok Sam, that's enough, land, now." Danny said sternly not wanting to finish the course.
Sam let out a low growl, and then flew them back down to the ground by Frostbite. "You two were doing so well, why did you stop?" he asked not understanding what happened.
"I already made it clear that I don't want your help." Danny spoke to Sam.
"Look, Danny, I don't care if you want my help or not. You couldn't even get halfway though that course by your self, but if we work together we can. Why don't you want my help?" Sam yelled transforming back to her human form. "Don't you trust me?"
"Of course I trust you." Danny said surprised at Sam's response.
"Then why can't I help?" Sam yelled looked at him wanting an answer.
Danny looked away feeling defeated. He then looked up to Sam, worry etched in his face. "It's not you I don't trust." Danny started. "It's me."
"What?" Sam said instantly dropping her anger.
"I don't trust myself." Danny started unable to look at her. "I don't trust that I'll be strong enough. I don't trust that I'll be fast enough, I don't trust that I'll be able to protect you."
"But if we work together, we'll be strong enough." Sam said walking up towards him. "We'll be fast enough." She smiled seeing him look back up at her. "And we'll be able to protect each other. Heck, together we won't need any protection."
"Alright." Danny sighed defeated. "Just promise me, if something goes wrong, and it gets dangerous I want you fly away, as fast and as far as you can." Danny pleaded.
"Ok Danny." Sam said agreeing.
"Alright then, are you ready to train together?" Frostbite asked happy to see that Danny was finally willing to work with Sam.
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