Wow, I got 26 reviews for just one chapter, I gotta start writing DP fic more often, heh still my priority fics are the Invader Zim ones.
Ok first of all thanks to all who reviewed and once again a special gracias to WingsofMorphius this time for drawing me the first out of three pics for the story.
So if ya wanna see the first drawing then go to her account on Deviant Art.
Chapter Two:
The mysterious person watched as her friend was just being taken away by a ghost, her blood started to boil with anger, "If I had my ghost hunting equipment with me I could have done something… anything about this!"
The person got out of the dark alley and it was revealed to be none other than Valerie Gray
The sound of sirens reached her ears "They're too late… just as I was" She said sadly but her head made a violent movement towards the sky "But that doesn't mean I can't do something about this".
The sirens became louder "I'll rescue you Danny I swear… but I'll need help".
"You know" the voice started to talk after a bit of an awkward silence "Revenge doesn't solve anything, if anything it just makes things worse".
"Why do you keep bringing that up?!" Ember whined.
"Just pointing out the obvious" The voice responded coolly "And because I'm your conscience and nagging you is my job".
Her blue fire hair seemed to rage with her anger.
"Well stop it!" She thought in desperation "I already told you that I'm NOT after revenge… at least not now".
"My god Ember lying to others is one thing but lying to your conscience" the female voice said dramatically then spoke in a normal tone "You and I know that you WANTED a vendetta on the ghost boy" Ember cringed "Well just look at him, you succeeded, you must be very proud of yourself!" the voice said harshly, still trying to make Ember feel guilt.
"Will you just SHUT ... UP!" Ember cried "I just wanted to hurt him so bad… to make him pay for ruining my previous plans to rule the world!"
"Hello! Are you listening to me?! You just did that!"
"BUT THAT'S NOT THE WAY I WANTED IT TO DO IT!!!!"
"Don't tell me, tell that to him."
Ember looks down on the unconscious Danny "I SO hope he stays like that for a while".
Danny began to sweat.
"You know Ember, you and him DO have something in common" the voice in her head said sympathetically.
"And that would be?"
"You both have been scarred for life" the conscience's tone turned into a malicious one.
"The past doesn't bother me anymore and you should know that by now" the pale ghost assured, trying to keep her voice calm but it was starting to crack.
"Oh really?"
She didn't respond, now you would think that a conscience would just leave something that happened so long ago be left alone but unfortunately for the rock star, her "voice of guilt" was not that way and decided to remind her of something that Ember tried to forget ever since she died.
"So, even if you don't want to be reminded of your father, does that rule apply to your sister?"
Ember halted immediately and her grip on Danny became stronger "I thought so" her conscience said.
"Hey sis how yo... OH MY GOD!"
A pair of crystal blue eyes widened in fear.
"Oh great" a young redheaded girl thought sarcastically "Caught in the act"; she started to hyperventilate as the older girl approached the corner of the kitchen in which she was currently sitting.
"Go away Jan"
"What have you done?" the older girl asked as lowered to her knees and reached out to her little sister.
The young redhead didn't want to tell her anything at least not yet and avoided the stare she was receiving from the older girl "I don't know what you are…"
SMACK! She promptly slapped Ember across the face... hard, too.
"OW! Hey! What the…"
The young girl touched her cheek obviously not expecting THAT to happen.
"Don't TRY to avoid the subject I'm talking about THIS!" the teenager bellowed in anger grabbing her sister's arm, staring at her wrist, which was mutilated and slashed. She bit her lower lip already and closed her eyes. The gashes were deep; most of them were old, "why is your arm full of scars!" she screeched. "WHAT THE HELL WHERE YOU THINKING?!"
The pale girl pulled back her arm and looked away "Nothing that concerns you"
"What are you saying!?" disbelief evident in Jan's voice "Of course it concerns me Ember. I'M YOUR FREAKING SISTER!"… "I can't believe you… you... you're a…"
"Cutter?" Ember managed to chock out, tears threatening to go down her cheeks but she blinked them away.
"Come here and tell me why were you doing this?"
"No, you'll end up trying to do something about it"
"And that's bad because?"
"Because"
"You know that's not a good reason". Jan said sardonically.
"It is for me" Ember said stubbornly, looking away as the older girl raised an eyebrow, she sighed and closed her eyes, usually her sister acted like this when one person was involved.
"What did he do this time?" Jan said in realization.
Ember knew who her sister was talking about but didn't dare to tell her anything about the subject.
"Nothing".
Jan opens her eyes "You're a terrible liar". She said in exasperation.
"And you're a meddling sister"
"That's only trying to help you" Jan shot back.
"I don't need your help… eventually things will work out and everything will be fine" Ember said, trying to be optimistic but her tone of voice betrayed her.
"I would like to believe that Ember… I really do".
They faced each other their eyes releasing tears.
"You know Jan I would really like to be alone right now"
"And you actually expect me to leave you here where you could easily grab another knife and continue to hurt yourself!" Jan snapped "Over my dead body!"
"OK FINE!" She exploded "I'll go elsewhere!"
She ran out of the kitchen leaving behind a very scared sibling "Ember… sometimes I worry about you" She thought sadly.
(One year later):
June 9:
"No more pain… no more emotions… what am I? I don't know but I'm not human anymore".
"But is this such a bad thing? ... Only time will tell."
Ember McLain.
"GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" Ember demanded.
"But things didn't work out did it Ember?" The conscience said "If anything things went worse, you were too proud to receive help from Jan. You were a bad sister and you know it".
The female ghost's blue ponytail became bigger as her anger consumed her "What are you? Spectra?" She retorted.
A mischievous snickering was her answer "No, you and I both know your not sick in the head like she is, but my point remains, forgetting the past won't solve a thing"
"Says you".
"Ugh... Believe what you want but hear me well, sooner or later you WILL realize that I'm right"
"The hell you are".
"We'll see Ember, we'll see but for now we'll be in touch… sis" her conscience said, Ember sighed in exasperation "I hate it when she calls me that" She thought as continued her way to Fenton Works, noticing that her 'prisoner' was sweating even more and for no reason at all he instantly started to shake uncontrollably in her gloved arms.
"Damn it dipstick, calm down! She cried in annoyance "It's hard enough I'm trying to ignore my bitchy conscience and flying us to the Ghost Zone, I do NOT need you making it harder by making me lose my balance!"
But of course, he didn't hear a word the rock star said, he was in a deep sleep, the world in his mind was what one could call peaceful at first because he was with the people he loved, but obviously not every dream can stay that way.
"Welcome to your nightmare Daniel"A voice echoed in the halfa's mind.
Sam angrily slapped him in the cheek "You think you can just ask us to forgive you after what you did!?"
"We trusted you with out lives and in the end you betrayed us!" Tucker screamed punching his best friend on the stomach.
"Please, just stop and listen to me!" Danny cried.
"NO!" both Sam and Tucker said in union abruptly "You didn't listen to us before so you are going to listen to us now!"
Danny stared at them, stupefied that he just heard them both say the same thing at once.
"We did good job as your friends Danny, we covered for you, and we took the blame for the destruction you made and what did you do in return?! Tucker said angrily.
"I-I"
"YOU TOOK US FOR GRANTED THAT'S WHAT!!" Sam finished.
"This time you crossed the line" a third voice was heard.
Danny turned around expecting to see Jazz but instead he saw his parents, the look they gave him made him want to curl up in a hole and wait for death.
"Excuse us kids you don't mind if we butt in?" Jack asked to Sam and Tucker, they just gave a look that said go ahead.
"Why Danny?" Maddie asked sternly with tears in her eyes.
"I didn't have the time to study and I couldn't bare the idea of working at the Nasty Burger, I was so worried about my future that I didn't think about the consequences".
"That's because you weren't thinking at all!" Jazz growled as she appeared out of nowhere and ran towards her brother and began to choke him.
"Jasmine stop!" Jack ordered, either with false or true concern, Danny couldn't tell.
"BECAUSE OF YOU WE DIED!" Jazz screamed going against her father's wishes "I could have had a great future but because you cheated… that's never going to happen! The last part came as a whisper.
Jazz's word struck him like daggers; he couldn't dare to look at his sister or anyone else.
"Now REALLY wish I never met you!" Sam hollowed madly.
Those words made his heart stop.
"You ruined our lives!" Tucker continued.
"You not a hero, you're a murderer!" they all said in union, pointing at him.
"I am not a murderer!" Danny sobbed trying to keep his tone even, but his voice cracked at "murderer", his eyes were watering but he tried not to cry.
"Well you sure proved them wrong" A strange yet familiar voice remarked, Danny flashed his eyes around the room. No one else seemed to hear the painful remark but him. Then his eyes widened once it set on a floating body. It wore a black and white jumpsuit with a "D" and a "P" white emblem that he recognize anywhere, he then look into the glowing green eyes that belong to him or to be more specific the ghost him.
"You..!"
Danny Phantom was present in this unpleasant 'reunion' seeing everything, apparently invisible to everyone else "nice to see you too Danny" his ghost self winked as a twisted smile crept onto his face and then he had a serious face "ghost powers or not you had the choice to actually come clean and you didn't take it, I told you so, I told you this would come to haunt you but you didn't listen to me, you didn't listen to them! And now you have to live with your mistake!"
"But they didn't do anything!" Danny screeched to his other half "They shouldn't have died!"
"But they did die!!!!! … isn't that the fact here?!" Phantom asked with spite.
Jazz screamed, waking her brother out of his trance with his other half, she was still choking him until he managed to break free from her grip.
"Why are you doing this to me?!" He finally snapped "Why won't you listen to me?!"
"First because we want you to never have a moment of peace" A cold yet calm voice said "this is your punishment Daniel, we'll make sure you never forget what you done to us, not now not ever!"
Phantom couldn't help but feel a shiver rippled through his cold ectoplasmic body, and from the looks of it Danny felt it too.
Danny snapped "Look, I know what I did was wrong but I didn't want this to happen! It was an accident! AN ACCIDENT!" Danny's throat was getting dried up from all the screaming, his blue eyes looking around for the owner of the voice and finally Mr. Lancer appeared floating right behind his deceased family "Great even in the afterlife he still has a reason to pick up on me" he thought bitterly.
"And second" Mr. Lancer continued "Because you just lost our trust"
The shiver was stronger and colder that time.
Without a warning Jack grabbed his son angrily and started to crush his weak body with his enormous hands, Danny screamed in pain and everyone just stood there not bothering to do anything to stop the large man in the orange jumpsuit.
"Please stop! I di-d-dn't me-an-t fo-o for this t-to ha-happen I'- I'm so-so-rr –"
"'S-s-s-sp-sp-SPIT IT OUT, DANNY!" Maddie ordered. Sam knew what her former friend was trying to say and immediately exploded.
"Don't you DARE say you're sorry, we heard that excuse before"
"And it's already too late for an apology" Tucker finished for his Goth friend.
"You can ask for them to forgive you a million times Danny but they won't do it" Phantom choked on those words, it pained him to say that, he didn't know why, it just did.
Immediately they all jumped ready to cause the one they consider a traitor more harm, physically and emotionally.
"Phantom I know you can hear me, why… won't… you… help… me?!" Danny thought in fear and frustration.
"Because I told you so" The ghost answered sadly.
The halfa stared horrified as his friends and family approached and shut his eyes not ready to accept the pain that was sure to come within seconds "I wish I could forget I started this."
But like Ember's conscience said, forgetting the past won't solve anything and both of them were going find that out the hard way.
Meanwhile somewhere in the deepest reaches of the Ghost Zone. A place where spirits go after they have left the human realm, something was happening,
"You did WHAT?!" Walker demanded with authority, a transmitter in his gloved hand. "How could you let a 10 year old get away?!"
"The boy had help… mostly from his parrot" Bullet replied angrily wiping a gooey green ectoplasm substance from his face, and watching in disgust as the other four minor officers were also covered in the same green sticky ectoplasm.
"Remind me again, why are we locking away a ten year old brat?" Bullet asked Walker using the transmitter he had in his arm.
"Distracting an officer from crushing another ghost" Walker's voice answered dangerously.
"Well he's a ten year old child, he couldn't have gone too far" Bullet said coldly, ignoring the cowering police ghost behind him who where still trying to free themselves from the gooey ectoplasm.
"For you sake, he better be in my prison by the end of the day" The Warden's voice snarled "I don't care if you find it pointless to look for him, NO ONE breaks my rules and gets away with it".
"Except the ghost boy" Bullet thought dryly, as he turned of his device and turned around to face the other "cops".
"Well you heard Walker! Start looking!" He ordered "Unless you want to take the child's place".
Those words were enough to get the four cops out of the green puddle and disperse into different directions, while the caped ghost stayed behind for a few minutes eyeing the area, green, green and more green, nothing out of the ordinary, he levitated a few inches from the ground and decided to leave unaware that he just did a terrible mistake.
"Are they gone?" A voice squeaked.
"Sqawck… it appears so" another replied.
"They're not very smart are they?" Youngblood asked his parrot as they got out of their hiding place which oddly enough was below the asteroid the police ghost were a minute ago.
"Nope" The dead animal said "And neither are you!"
"What's that suppose to mean?!" Youngblood asked in outrage. "I got us free from them didn't I?"
"But you're also the reason they're looking for us in the first place" the Parrot argued "You just had to provoke Walker didn't you?"
"He wouldn't answer my question!" Youngblood said stubbornly.
"HE'S THE WARDEN!" The Parrot bellowed in annoyance "He can ignore you if he wants to!"
The green haired 10 year old just blows a raspberry.
The small animal gives a long sigh of exasperation "Well thanks to your brilliant little stunt back there I guess we'll have to put off revenge on Ember McLain".
"I love to differ but I think I just got my chance" Youngblood said as he pointed in a direction with his hook.
In the distance Ember was flying now with her guitar strapped to her back and she was holding something or someone although neither Youngblood nor his parrot could see what or who was in her arms.
"How convenient" The Parrot said.
"It's payback time! I mean um, that sea lioness will walk the plank for what she did to my ship… arrgh".
"Would you give it a rest already" Parrot demanded "the whole pirate lingo is getting old!"
Youngblood being used to his parrot's temper just ignored him and started to follow the rock diva, said animal skeleton just followed grudgingly, unaware of the surprise they were going to get.
After what seemed like hours Ember finally made it to her home, she opened a floating door that had blue and purple flames on it, her "prisoner" finally stopped shaking but he was still sweaty, and the smell of blood just made things worse.
"I just HAD to have a rare moment of humanity didn't I?" Ember growled to her conscience, since she was in her home she no longer needed to fly so she set her feet on the ground and walked towards the couch, she could put Danny there, get those clothes clean and bandage him so he'll be in better shape and then she can fight him semi-fairly.
"The sooner he heals the sooner I'll be kicking his butt outta here".
The pale ghost just dropped Danny into the yellowish-green couch, she looked at him coldly but her face then softened.
"Feeling sorry for the guy won't fix anything he'll still hate you when he wakes up" She reminded herself "But what If I don't want him to hate me?"
"Woah… what? I did NOT just think that!?"
"I didn't… I didn't…. I didn't".
While she was holding her head in frustration, the boy and his parrot entered her home like they owned the place but of course they did it quietly in order to have the element of surprise which was broken thanks to Youngblood yelping when he saw the ghost hybrid unconscious on the couch.
"I can't believe this!" The parrot said as he slapped his head in annoyance and then gaped when he saw why Youngblood blew their cover.
"What the…?!"
"What are YOU doing here?
Youngblood and his Parrot jerked their heads in the direction of the angry female's voice, and immediately wished they hadn't, her eyes turned red and her blue roaring ponytail burned with intensity, her hands turned into first and she was preparing to attack the intruders until a groan reached her ears, all three ghosts turned their heads and saw Danny as the source of the sound, he was in pain, he needed help really badly.
Ember dismissed any attack she had planned, at least for now.
"You still haven't answered my question".
The intruders jerked their heads yet again and neither of them could get theirs word out, they tried but the only sounds that came out of their mouths where incomprehensible words, eventually Ember lost her patience "Just forget it, now would you go away I have a dying dipstick who is in serious need of medical atention!"
Those were the magic words.
"WHAT IN THE NAME OF DAVY JONES IS WRONG WITH YOU?" Youngblood screeched.
"Shush you'll wake him up!" Ember whispered pointing at Danny.
"SO?!"
"Well I DON'T want him to be awake otherwise he wont let me heal his wounds"
"WHY?!"
"Why what?" Ember smirked, making the young boy confused was kind of fun "And would you please stop yelling!" She said in a hush harsh voice.
"WHY ARE YOU HELPING HIM?!" The 10 year old Captain screamed, ignoring Ember's order.
"That's none of your business"
"It is now!" The Parrot corrected.
"Now listen to me I been having one bad day and you two aren't making it better so either you leave now or I'll throw you out!"
"Like you could" Youngblood said back to his normal self but from the sound of his voice it made it quite obvious that he was still in shock.
The rock diva was about to use her hair to hurt the pale boy when a new voice broke the tension between the three ghosts.
"What is going on?"
All villains in the room froze "I told you to be quiet" Ember mouthed angrily.
"Aw man" was the only thing that the green haired boy managed to choke out.
With a good amount of effort, Danny forced opened his eyes, and noticed that he was not in the best of condition, he hissed as he tried to sit up.
"Why does my body hurt?"
Ember raised an eyebrow in confusion "Ok something's wrong here".
Danny grabbed his throat, it was dry, and he needed water.
"Um, do you have any water?" he asked, not entirely sure if any of the ghosts heard him.
Youngblood and his parrot looked at each other in confusion "Why isn't he attacking us?" they wondered.
"Something is definitely wrong".
Ember studied Fenton, his eyes narrowed, an unspoken question present. Danny looked slightly confused at where he was, and probably how he got there, but was not immediately alarmed by the fact that he was all alone in the world and with a few of his enemies present.
"Umm…" Danny's voice trailed off, and he looked at Youngblood, his parrot and finally Ember herself, he almost seemed like he expected permission to speak.
"Yes?" Ember prompted softly.
The raven haired boy, looking slightly embarrassed.
"Who are you?"
Yes, I know I was gone for WAY too long but my only excuse is that I have college and it takes a lot of my time, I just finished my animation project (thank you sweet merciful god) and you wouldn't believe the trouble me and my co-worker had to go thought for only ONE minute of a clay-mation cartoon.
But the less said the better, anyway I want feedback on this chapter and if I keep the characters IC, it took me a MONTH to write this chapter, of course the fact that I'm writing three fics at a time could also be blamed on my lack of updates, I seriously need a new system.
For those who guessed who was the mystery person was I'll have to say good for you and I want to give special thanks to Sapphire Wolf Master who keep nagging me to update, please continue to do so.
As for those who wonder how Youngblood escaped from Walker's police ghosts I gotta say that you best use your imagination, as a writer I gotta sometimes give my readers their own interpretation of things.
Invader Johnny Signing Off.