Hello everybody, nothing much to say except sorry for the long, LONG wait but real life got in the way and let tell you it sucks big time.
Well I hope you all enjoy this chapter, I'm sure most of you wanted to see some DxE moments that Youngblood didn't ruin huh? Well your in luck because in this chapter Youngblood will NOT appear due to popular demand.
But for the love of god STOP ASKING ME TO GER RID OF HIM!!! I know some of you hate the 10 year old but he IS a crucial character in the story so until I eventually get sick of him he will be doing his cruel pranks on the two love birds and believe you me that will cost him big time.
By the way thanks to Phantom Soldier for being my beta for this chapter.
And just a heads up, the beginning of the Chapter might be a little gross, if you are squeamish then I suggest you skip when a certain ghost hunter prepares for the hunt.
Chapter five
"Plasmius, what exactly brings you to my humble home?" Skulker said as he led his guest through the floating jungle that was his home.
"Because I require your services, that's why" Vlad Plasmius answered.
"What could you possibly need from me?"
"I need you to help me find someone" The half-ghost said "The Ghost Zone is a huge place and I am for certain that there are places even I haven't seen" He continued "Places that either I can't enter because of some mishaps I caused or are heavily guarded."
The ghost hunter snorted "And who, pray tell do you want me to find Plasmius?"
"Danny Phantom".
Here the ghost's green eyes narrowed "The whelp?" He said "You're telling me that you came all the way to my little cozy island just to ask me to search for the halfa who by the way I WANT to hunt down and kill?".
Vlad glared at his right hand man, usually when Vlad needed help with something he would rely on Skulker to do his dirty work only this time he was not going to hurt Danny, he would make sure of that.
"Yes Skulker him, I'm sure you know what has transpired in Amity Park?"
"Not many news from the human world get into the Ghost Zone Plasmius" The mechanical ghost said "So please enlighten me".
Here Vlad immediately looked down on the floor as if it had something interesting "I'm not entirely sure about all the details but from what little information I got from Ms. Grey someone, a ghost killed off Daniel's family and friends in an explosion"
"And this is bad because…?"
The green halfa's eyes narrowed in annoyance "Because Skulker not only the woman I love was killed in the accident but also the son I always wanted is somewhere in the Ghost Zone probably lost like a rat in a maze!".
"Honestly, sometimes his pompous behavior frustrates me." Skulker thought annoyingly. "You do realize that the whelp could easily escape from whoever captured him right? And he'll be going around the Ghost Zone until he finds a portal to your world?" The hunter pointed out smugly.
"I really doubt that Skulker" Vlad muttered grimly "You know as well as I do that once something manages to hurt Daniel emotionally he could easily become a sitting duck".
"Yes I know that but he always manages to get back on track, what makes you think this will be any different?"
The vampire looking halfa glared at the hunter "Its something you wouldn't comprehend".
"And I don't really want to"
"Just find Daniel and bring him to me at once". He said sharply.
The hunter raised a mechanical eyebrow at Vlad's tone of voice "Why do you care about the whelp so much?" He asked "I mean if he wouldn't accept being your son before what makes you think he will now?"
"Because…. Because I know Maddie wouldn't have wanted her only son to be left alone in the world" Vlad said softly and with that the millionaire flew away from the floating island, leaving a confused ghost behind.
"I'll never understand humans".
Skulker went back to his home, after all if he was going to catch the ghost child he needed to be ready.
One thing was for sure, a hunter never gives up on his prey and this child is not the exception, however this time he WASN'T going to kill him, this time he was going to send him to his home.
Then another thought entered his mind "But how is Vlad going to know if I find him or not?" Skulker smiled cruelly at that "After all an opportunity like this may not come again".
The ghost entered his home and was greeted with the "welcoming" sound of many ghostly animals cawing, screeching, roaring in their cages, either for attention, food or hatred towards their capture.
Some cages were too small for the animals to even fit in, apparently some even died, how? Most likely from lack of food or Skulker might have slowly been poisoning them so he could later put their pelts on the walls of his lair, compassionate is not on this ghost's vocabulary.
One particular bat like purple ghost with four red-brownish looking wings was breathing slowly as if expecting his coming death and it was right, his cell swung open harshly and a metallic hand grabbed him by the neck roughly, the ghostly bat screeched as loud as it could and tried to get free from Skulker's grip by swinging his wings as rapidly as it could, the bat even tried to bite his arm and succeeded but the hunter merely smirked and put the animal in a table.
Immediately he yanked the bat from his arm and noticed his teeth broke.
"Aww poor little thing" He said mockingly "Here, let me end your pain".
All of the sudden Skulker grabbed the bat's head with his left hand and his right arm releases a glowing green blade out of it, in a fast swing he cuts the poor bat's head off, Skulker chuckle darkly as he saw the head roll off the table, blue ectoplasmic blood came out of the now (dead?) animal, this was actually a very rare species of bats Skulker spend over a month trying to capture since the blue blood could be used to paralyzed something or someone for days and if you managed to mixed it up with rare yellow ectoplasm then it would make one hell of a deathly poison.
The bad news was that the yellow ectoplasm usually came from a unique species of reptiles that since long become extinct in the ghost zone, the good news (from Skulker's POV) was that he held the last two of their kind in two separate cells, all he needed was to extract their ectoplasm, make the poison and he could easily kill Danny Phantom.
"Prepare to be found whelp because I WILL rest your pelt at the foot of my bed".
The mechanical ghost went into the back of his lair, opening a door to a small room and saw two rusty old small cages; he opened one of the cages and saw a eerie glowing iguana looking ghost hissing at him, it had blood red eyes and a forked tongue with sickly white spots on it.
What made this animal extremely creepy was the fact that while most normal reptiles have skin, this one had not, in fact you could see his organs, his veins, his blood, everything, no wonder they were on verge of extinction they were just too gross so they were probably hunted down in the past on purpose.
Skulker managed to grab him by the tail, (And here the hunter just gave the reptile a dirty look) said animal was wiggling trying to get free from the strong grip of the ghost, just as they entered to the previous room, Skulker eyed the table happily, set his prey on top of it and once again repeated the procedure.
In less than a second the animal was dead.
Blue and yellow ectoplasm decorated the table and Skulker's shirt, the one thing he enjoyed most about the hunt was the reward that came out of it, in this case by capturing and killing these two ghostly animals he would soon have Phantom as the trophy he wanted.
Assuming Vlad doesn't find out.
"If he does then all hell brakes loose".
There were so many places Danny could have been taken to, the logical thing to do was to think who could have kidnapped him after the explosion, it was possible that whoever took the young ghost hybrid was also responsible for the destruction of the restaurant and from what Vlad had told him it was a female ghost who took the whelp so that should make things a little easier.
Nevertheless Skulker also knew that many girls had a score to settle with him and if he DID managed to find out who has the halfa there was a good chance that things would not end up in his favor.
After all most women in the Ghost Zone have a tendency to do anything to get what they want, in this case who knows what Phantom's kidnapper would want from him, revenge came to mind but then what? Once she got it what would she do to Phantom? Let him go? That seems unlikely, leave him in a dark little hole and wait till he rots and dies?
"That's no fun" The hunter thought cynically.
"Ok think Skulker think, who could have taken him?" He said out loud "Damn, I'm supposed to be a hunter not a detective".
His green eyes narrowed as he thought of all the ghostly girls Danny managed to piss off in his time.
He started to make a mental list.
Desiree, the wish granting ghost.
That psychotic Penelope Spectra.
The ghost dragon… what's her name? Dora?, um seem unlikely but at the moment I got nothing else to prove otherwise.
The ghost hunter (Valerie), well that one doesn't count since she's not a ghost and has no idea Phantom is also human.
Then there was the Lunch Lady, yeah right she's too ancient to have caused any real damaged, even less of a chance of her capturing him so she's out too.
Then there was Kitty, apparently she has a very strong grudge on him, so she could be a nice start.
Then there was Ember McLain, the sexy teen rocker.
"Well it seems I got a few suspects, might as well get started, the sooner the better"
He started to mix both blue and yellow ectoplasm in a single container and watched as it slowly turned into a very dark glowing green liquid, then he started putting the new ectoplasm in many darts as possible and putting them in his guns and battle suit, the poisonous darts were actually going to be a last resort.
After he made sure everything was ready, battle suit, weapons, darts, portable booby traps, etc he took off, his first stop, Johnny 13's girlfriend… Kitty.
Meanwhile:
To say Danny was terrified could be an understanding since for the very first time since he woke up he was seeing with his own two eyes the creepy realm known as the ghost zone.
The fact that he was in human mode didn't help to ease his paranoia either, he heard a slight wailing and turned towards it, seeing nothing, he was waiting for Ember to begin with his training, according to her he had to get used to the Ghost Zone but the fact that his dream last night told him not everything is at it appeared here made him think that he wouldn't WANT to get used to this place.
After all he saw a 10 year old beat his "girlfriend" by just using his left hand and what Ember had told him were standard ghost powers, he also saw her fight for the very first time or at least he THOUGHT was the first time.
At the moment that was the least of his worries, suddenly a blue mist came out of his mouth and he began to shiver "I'm not sure having these powers is such a great thing".
He heard the sound of a guitar and all of the sudden he was hit in the back by a giant pink first, this made Danny yelp in surprise and he was thrown a few feet away from the small piece of land he was on and just when he thought he was going to fall deep into the infinite realms of the ghost zone he felt a hand grabbed him by the arm, it took all of his courage to turn his head around and see who attacked him, to his surprised he saw his ghost "girlfriend".
"Ember? What the hell?!" He managed to yell "Why did you do that?!"
She grinned "Lesson number one baby pop, never let your guard down, there are some real sick bastards living here and they wouldn't give it a second thought to hurt you for any reason".
Danny groaned exasperated "Look, Ember I'm not sure weather or not you were this psychotic to me before I lost my memory" Her grin turned into a sinister smile "And from the way you're looking at me I bet you were but could you please just… I dunno… not scare me to death!" He said the last part as if he was begging her "Come on! Have compassion on the guy with no memory here!".
"Aww, is Phantom scared? Does he want a wittle kissy?" She pouted.
Here Danny couldn't help but blush, when she said that way it made it sound like he was helpless which in a way he was but he hoped that feeling was not permanent; he then grinned evilly and gave his "girlfriend" a look that said "You are in for a surprise".
And she was, "What are you planning dip…."
The rest of the sentence was lost when Danny got free from Ember's grip and turned towards her and found his lips brushing those of the shocked rock diva.
"Ohhhhhhhhhhh isn't this a cute little sight." Her conscience said sardonically.
The whole thing happened so fast that neither teenager had any idea just how this came up, granted Danny THOUGHT Ember was his girlfriend and he should give her something for helping him in his hour of need, as for Ember she actually debated weather or not to beat his sorry ass for this but instead she actually began to return the kiss, somewhere in her mind told her to stop it because this was not suppose to happen… not yet at least, she would be lying if she hadn't thought about getting a kiss from he halfa since she agreed to pass as Phantom's girlfriend but she never thought it would happen this soon
Every instinct in her body told her that this was wrong. The timing, the situation, the how, the whole concept of the kiss was completely wrong. Yet in spite of her mind screaming at her to break away, she instead closed her eyes and began to fully embrace it even further. Danny even debated putting his arm on Ember's shoulder to draw her closer but he was afraid the contact might shock them both to their senses and the last thing he wanted to do right now was to screw up this sweet accidental moment.
Unfortunately someone saw them kissing, the ghost flew away, its eyes narrowed in anger "This is not good".
What made this even more amusing was the fact that Danny was the one who broke the kiss since he was freaking out when he saw Ember's ponytail roar up like wild fire, after they parted they saw each other, both their faces were as red as a tomato, obviously from embarrassment or the fact they were expecting something from the other, a scream, an apology, anything.
"What's up with my hair? It's never been that powerful before".
As Ember looked away from him she couldn't help but realize that if she kept this act as his girlfriend, then she was bound to get a few other surprises from Danny, somehow that didn't scare her, what scared her was the fact that she wanted those surprises.
In an attempt to get everything back on track Danny cleared his throat "Um, sorry about that I was just um… caught up on the moment?"
Ember sharply turned to face him and immediately gave him a (fake) glare "As much as I would have liked to beat you up for that I'm going to let you off with a warning but don't you DARE to do that again unless I want to otherwise you'll be in a world of pain".
Danny could help but think "Man that is hot!"
"So um, shall we get started?"
The pale ghost nodded and grabbed him by the shirt and flew to a floating piece of land that appeared to be a forest.
"Ok first things first… transform" She ordered.
"Ex- Excuse me?"
"You heard me, transform".
"Uh might being a little specific?"
Ember hit her hand on her forehead in annoyance "How you managed to protect your town I'll never know".
"Huh?"
Realizing she left something slip stuttered and said "I… I… I said it's a wonder you managed to survive in here for so long if you can even control you powers".
"Ok that hurt."
She gave a sign of relief, "Well you know I'm right!!" She retorted "I mean the only way you can survive in the ghost zone is if you can defend yourself in a battle!"
"Just HOW did I end up in here in the first place?" Danny asked looking around at the green sky.
"Oh crap".
"Oh crap indeed little sister, I take it you didn't planned on this did you?"
"NO I DIDN'T!" She thought scared "WHAT AM I GONNA DO!? WHAT AM I SUPPOSE TO TELL HIM!?"
"The truth?"
"ARE YOU INSANE?!" She screeched to her conscience "What am I suppose to tell him? Your really here because I took you in after you family and friends died because of a fight with me and I pulled you over the edge, you ended up destroying everything and everyone in the restaurant and now I'm using you to take over the world?"
"Yup, that pretty much sums it up." Her conscience said off handily.
"Uh...Ember...Ember?" he squeaked, tapping her shoulder lightly but rapidly, trying to get her attention.
Ember shook her head "Huh? Sorry I just spaced out".
"Um, ok, so can you please tell me how I ended up here?"
"If you respect him you would tell him the truth," Her conscience told her.
"But he'll run!" She shot back "He's too weak and would end up getting killed if he doesn't know where he's going!"
"So? It's not like you really care for his well being, after all he's nothing more than your puppet, isn't he?"
"I don't have to explain myself to you!"
"Then explain yourself to him".
Ok, she wasn't expecting THAT reply from her own mind.
Ember started to twiddle her thumbs, and Danny thought that made her look cute.
"Well you see uh dipstick, you actually started up as a superhero."
"I did?" He asked incredulously "Here in the ghost zone?"
"No, in the human world."
"So far so good little sis."
"You see you ended up getting ghost powers and technically speaking getting half killed by something your family made… I'm not going further into details because I don't wanna freak you out but when they found out, they went nuts.
"Wait, you… you know my family?"
"If you mean knowing who they were but not talking to them then yes".
"Oh." Danny looked to the ground disappointed.
"Anyway when they found out they started to hunt you down ever AFTER all the good things you done for them, they viewed you as a threat and nearly killed you a few times."
"So… what happened?"
She signed, not sure how to continue. "They disowned you eventually".
The pained look on Phantom's face nearly made her heart stop.
"WHAT THE HELL?!!! EMBER! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!!!" Her conscience yelled incredulously.
"Making sure Phantom does not go back to the human world that's what I'm doing" She shot back angrily.
"Just because I was a ghost?" Danny chocked horrified "Because of that reason I'm here?!"
Ember nodded while simultaneously wishing she could go back in time and prevent herself from doing that, apparently remorse was becoming the only emotion she could feel but being a stubborn teen, something she inherited from her father threw those feelings to the back of her mind and continued with her lie.
"I'm afraid so" She said looking away "Apparently they have this belief that all ghosts are evil and technically you're a ghost so you can see why they would do that."
"But I'm not evil".
"They didn't know that" She said soothingly.
"So uh where do you come in, in all of this?" Danny asked timidly "Were we uh dating before any of this?"
"Damn it dipstick why d you have to make this so fucking hard for me?"
"Well we had an interesting relationship before any of this happened" She managed to say.
Some part of Ember's brain scoffed.
"You're Pathetic."
Danny tilted his head, wanting a further explanation.
"You see I usually respected you for tons of stuff you managed to achieve but there were certain…issues…we don't agree on, and usually, we ended up fighting over them."
Danny blinked, and Ember mentally frowned. This was too freaking hard. But she just couldn't tell him they were enemies and were supposed to hate each other…
"Actually you could but then all hell would break loose"
"Are you EVER going to shut up?".
"Nope."
Ember puts her gloved hand on his shoulder, he looked at it and then at his "girlfriend's" weak smile on her face.
"After your folks found out your secret you came here and well I'm pretty sure you were not under the best conditions since you pretty much had every bone of your body broken and were dying from blood... erm .. ectoplasm loss."
"I guess that explains how I almost ended up going to the emergency room with all the cuts and everything" Danny thought accepting Ember's tale as the truth.
Danny smiled back at her and said "And neither are you."
"Huh? I'm sorry could you repeat that?" She was taken aback by his comment.
"When I said I'm wasn't evil I'm saying you're not either".
Ember's green eyes widened like dinner plates.
"Aw come on Ember, so far the only people I know here in this creepy place are you and Youngblood and despite knowing you two want to kill each other, you manage to restrain yourself from hurting him… for now anyways, you took me in when I was hurt, you took care of my wounds, you're providing me with shelter and are offering to help me with my powers, you do know that you are not under any obligation to be doing this right?"
"Yeah, so what's your point?"
"That if you are willing to do so much then you certainly AREN'T an evil ghost."
"I beg to differ" Ember's mind scoffed.
Ember was speechless, this guy, THIS guy who she had a rivalry, who she was using for her own selfish reasons, told her the nicest thing anyone ever said to her, just like that, as if they were never enemies as if they were REALLY boyfriend and girlfriend.
"Somehow this is not what I expected from him" She thought surly.
"And what WERE you expecting from him?"
"So shall we get started?" Danny asked hopefully.
"Oh yeah sure, so… uh like I said before transform".
Danny still had no idea what to do and tried to concentrate, thinking to use any of his powers, he thought that if he triggered something then at least it would be a start.
"You realize, this is a BIG setback, for you and Youngblood's sick little ploy, I mean surely if he doesn't think he's evil then how are you gonna use him to rule the Earth?" Her mind asked, not really caring.
"I'll think of something… I'll make sure he hates humans… I'll make sure he hates adults I'll make sure he hates something I dunno but I WILL have what I want!"
"And what exactly do you want?" Her inner voice asked harshly "Seriously Ember what your doing is not going to benefit you in any way, you'll end up regretting this."
"What makes you think that?"
"I'm in your head all the time little sis, I know what goes through in here and even if you don't realize it your brain is split in two, on one side you got what your feeling right now, your doubts, insecure ness and most of all fear, just a few of the emotions you try to ignore, while on the other side you got hatred, arrogance and of course your evil tendencies, those that you have embraced all the time, you want to be remembered and if memory served you have sunk real low to try and achieve that goal".
"Just HOW do you come up with this stuff?"
"It's a gift".
"Well STOP IT!" Ember bellowed mentally "I don't need you or anybody else telling me what to do, I will NOT be a slave of my own emotions or to YOU so stop trying to reason with me because it will NOT get you anything!"
"YOU'RE IMPOSSIBLE YOU KNOW THAT!!!"
"I know".
"Uh Ember, something's happening" Danny's voice broke her from her thoughts.
A bluish-white ring appeared on the wait of his body and two rings ran across his body, one up and the other down, immediately Danny Phantom was seen again, the ghost boy was shaking like a leaf obviously scared beyond belief, apparently he had tried to figure out what Ember meant by transforming, he never realized that he had a second form but in a way it made sense, if he had a human form then certainly he should have a ghost form that came with his ghost powers.
He opened his now green eyes and saw his body, his jeans and shirt were gone and now he was wearing a black spandex suit, he had this overwhelming feeling to see his reflection in this form but figured that could be arranged later.
"Congratulations baby pop." Ember said proudly while she strapped her guitar on her back.
The ghost boy couldn't help but smile at his accomplishment, while he knew this technically wasn't something major he actually felt this exited rush that knowing this was his power, and from what he had heard from Ember, Youngblood and his parrot there were tons of other abilities he hoped would be able to use.
"Now then since you most likely have no idea what other powers you have, I think we should start slowly, since you are under no condition to use powers that require a lot of energy then we should start with the basic ghost powers".
"Just out of curiosity what powers require a lot of energy?"
"Well there's duplication, teleporting, in my case pyrokinesis, in your case right now I think even trying to use spectral manipulation could strain you so like I said we'll begin with the standard ghost powers".
Danny simply nodded.
"Ectoplasmic energy blasts, or ghost rays are easy to summon and control. Aim, precision, and motive are key techniques needed in this."
She held out one of her gloved hand, and a bright ball of pink energy came from nowhere on her palm, circling and floating, Danny was so intrigued by this, he saw the ectoplasmic energy like he was a kid in a camp fire.
All of the sudden she threw the ghost ray to an owl who was watching everything, the bird acted on instinct and flew away, it's a good he did otherwise the nocturnal creature would have gotten hurt or killed, but actually only the branch he was sitting on got destroyed.
"As a ghost gets experience the ghost rays become more powerful, some ghosts who have this power have used them for more than just a battle" Ember explained "Some can even be dangerous if you're not careful".
"Dangerous like enough to kill someone dangerous?" Danny asked.
"It depends, most ghosts, like me, you, Pariah Dark, Walker, hell even Youngblood, we… we all have the power to kill, the sad part is a few only seem to realize this fact, others remain ignorant to this so if you are going to use your ghost rays then you have to be careful. If you want just to shock someone, be sure that the power only shocks someone."
"And how do we tell the difference?"
"Well that depends, most ghost rays come in different colors, mine are pink, green, and purple. Pink is usually a low level, green is stronger but not enough to cause any real damage, purple is deathly, blue and yellow are medium and red, well lets just say you don't want to use the red ones unless you think there's no choice."
"Wow".
she clasped her hand together "Ok, now I want you to try and throw one ectoplasmic energy blast on one of those three." Ember instructed.
His green eyes glowed momentarily, and he stared down at his hand. A bright, yellow ball floated above his palm, glowing eerily.
"Good, you seem to have trouble choosing a specific power but we'll work on that, now throw it!"
Danny felt that his hand was under a lot of pain, apparently this power was something you needed to get rid of as fast as possible so he did, he made a karate sound and threw the yellow ectoplasmic ray in the direction he wanted and in an instant he didn't destroy one tree but in fact several, apparently he didn't know his own strength.
Once the smoke cleared they saw that the only thing that was left were some burned stumps, they both stared dumbfounded.
"Hot danmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm" Her mind shrieked.
"Uhhh… oops?"
"Remind me not to let you use your powers on the house"
"What are you my mother?" He asked playfully.
"No I'm your girlfriend and as long as you live under my roof then you live by my rules!"
"Oh yeah that didn't sound motherly at all". Danny said sarcastically.
"Oh you are SO gonna fry for that!".
"I'm sure of that but right now I want to get this ghost thing right, so, what next?"
"How are you on flying?".
"I can fly?".
"This is gonna be a long way" Ember thought in dismay.
"And what scares you is that you know you'll enjoy every step of the way little sis."
"I'm not scared... just confused".
"Confused is just another word for being ignorant".
"Didn't I tell you to shut up?!".
"I'll be quiet but I'll be watcging."
"Yes Danny you can fly" Ember said and smilled when he saw the teen hero act like it was the greatest thing in the world.
"YAHOO!!"
Meanwhile on Casper High:
"Students as you know on Saturday there was a big explosion that took place on the Nasty Burger, this took the lives of four of our students, Sam Manson, Tucker Foley, the Fenton kids Jasmine and Daniel as well as the older Fentons and of course Mr. Lancer please I want you to take a minute of silence for them". Principal Ishiyama said over the intercom.
On one of the classrooms Valerie was overwhelmed with grief and hatred, mostly grief, she spent the whole weekend searching for a ghost, any ghost who could be a lead to her missing friend, she was angry because no one seemed to believe Danny was alive but she knew he was and so did Mr. Masters and she swore she would find him, Mr. Masters told her not to go into the ghost zone since it was a highly dangerous place, apparently he didn't know she was there once before but she didn't feel like arguing with her mentor, he apparently knew what he was doing and had no doubt he would help her Danny.
Valerie was not going to give up hope, just because everybody thought Danny was dead didn't mean she should too but it scared her, it scared her to know that he might not be alive in the Ghost Zone, that he would have gotten killed by whoever took him away from her, from his home.
"NO!" Valerie thought in frustration "Don't think like that Val! Think positive, Danny is still alive somewhere and you ARE going to find him, he's the only true friend you had and you are not going to abandon him like those freaks who abandon you."
"Uh, Valerie are you feeling ok?" Star asked.
The brought the ghost hunter back to reality.
"Uh yeah Star just thinking."
"About?"
"Nothing Important Star".
"You know I think I know you too well because there's no way you are telling me the truth".
For the first time ever Valerie managed to crack a smile.
"It's not that I don't want to tell Star it's just that I can't"
"Why not?" The blonde pressed the subject.
"Because it just too complicated".
"Well if you need to talk about it I'm here to listen".
The red huntress couldn't help but smirk, even after losing her popularity Star still remained her friend, it made her wonder had it been Star who had been kicked out from the popular teens instead of her would she still been her friend?
"The answer would have been a no, she knew that back then Valerie would have been the selfish snob and instead of keeping her company she would have turned her back on her, this actually darkened Valerie's look.
The one thing she thanked Danny Phantom for was to help her realize that there are some things in life you just can't control, she couldn't control that her dad lost her job, she couldn't control her losing her friends and she couldn't control feeling like a helpless girl when the Nasty Burger blew up.
"But one thing is for certain I WILL control the evil ghost's demise" Valerie thought cruelly.
Back to the Ghost Zone:
Vlad Plasmius entered the ghost king's castle, he had another stop to make before going home, he had no doubts that Skulker would get the job done he was too good at it, "with the proper motivation anyways" Vlad thought disgusted.
He phased through the wall and saw just who he wanted to see.
"Fright Knight".
"Hello my new lord".
The ghost man smirked, he liked this feeling of being in control of others but right now he had a task at hand.
"Forget the formalities for now" He said "Right now I need all of my workers you included to find Danny Phantom.".
"To kill him?" The Fright Knight asked hopefully, getting his soul shredder ready, he made a few moves with this attempting to stab an imaginary foe.
"Not exactly… I want you to find him and bring him to me".
"That's it?!" The spirit of Halloween questioned angrily "Couldn't you do this by yourself I mean he isn't hard to find!".
"It is when he is stranded here in the Ghost Zone" Vlad retorted.
This caught the Fright Knight's attention "Stranded?".
"You see the boy has been kidnapped by who? I don't know. Why? Most likely for revenge and why should you care? Because I want my son to be by my side".
"Since when is he your son?"
Vlad turned around and said "Since we both lost something important".
Again Vlad left yet another confused ghost behind.
"The Fright Knight looked at his sword, studying like he first got it, his eyes glared at the spot his new boss was and then smirked (under his armored head that is).
"Well finding the ghost brat should prove to be a very interesting challenge".
By now many ghosts, humans and half-ghosts were doing their own search and once they got what they wanted who knows what will happen but one thins's for sure this will not end well.
"Amazing how things can snowball huh?".
Ok I want to ask you, do you think I'm moving it too fast with Ember and Danny's relationship? Was it believable I this chapter? Should I add more characters in the story?
Do ya think I should have less time with Ember and her conscience and more time exploring her life with Danny and Youngblood? And her feelings towards Danny?
Well that's it for now, since it's summer and I'll be away for like a month or two traveling around it would be nice that when I get back I read tons of review heh.
Oh by the way on July 2nd it will be my birthday so come on review my fic as a gift to me!.
Invader Johnny Signing Off.