AN: Another late one. Sorry guys, writers block has been pinned to me for a while. I just realized how heavily fueled this story is by Evanescence and Muse. Enjoy. -w-
Chapter 9: Farther Away
Elric Mansion.
While sliding her good hand along the ancient books, Sam heard the sweet piano bliss start to consume her; filling her eyes with controlled vacancy, lowering her skin to a frighteningly low shade of pale and dropping her eyes to half mast. Stepping out of the library to join Edward and the other female zombies he collected with his spell: Ember, Desirre, and Spectra.
Placing the heavy pebbles on the right keys and a stone on the last pedal to hold the notes, Edward stood up before the fighters he collected.
"Welcome ladies."
Fenton Works
Quickly after reading the note left by Edward, a green flame dimly lit the room as the flimsy piece of paper burned in Danny's hand. Transforming right after it was ashes, he flew to the basement and collected the Peeler for anyone to use and securely attached it to his belt. He jumped into the Specter Speeder and flew off to Edward.
Soon after he left, Tucker, Maddie, and Jazz stepped into the living room of Fenton Works calling for him.
"He's probably out looking for Sam." Maddie suggested. "We should go find and join him."
"You guys go start walking, I just want to check something out." Jazz said parting from them and walking into the kitchen. Once the front door closed she descended down into the lab. Finding that the Speeder was gone she also called for her little brother. Failing to get a response she knew he flew off to go get Sam. "Please be careful Danny." she called into the swirling green world she never entered, only saw.
Ghost Zone
"Darn it Edward. First you take my friend and now my family? How low can you get?" he said while scanning his eyes for the beginning of the switching colors.
"Considering that I'm dead Danny, lower then dirt." Ed called back while hovering on a piece of rock.
"Where are my family and friends Edward?" Danny called while phasing out of the roof of the Speeder.
"Safe at my home. Being taken care of by Alphonse. I'd bring them here but only two of us could make the trip." he lied carefully while examining his nails.
"Two?"
"Why yes. This girl behind me and myself." he stepped over and Ember walked up holding his arm. She too was a few shades lighter like Sam. But her eyes weren't as vacant and looked like she had some control.
"Ember?"
"Hey dipstick."
"Oh you two already met? Good then introductions aren't a need. Ember you have fun with him. Don't hurt him to badly, I want to play too." Edward requested.
"Okay." letting go of his arm she pulled out her guitar, started to laugh, and strum it aiming at Danny.
Amity Park
"Where could he be?" asked Maddie. Standing behind her, Jazz and Tucker looked at each other worried; they knew the answer, but Maddie couldn't know. "Tucker, can you call his cell phone, mine's dead."
"Yeah." he agreed. It didn't ring, but went straight to voice mail. "It's off."
"Oh okay. Thank you anyway."
Ghost Zone
Dodging each strum of her guitar, Danny flew towards Ember and her instrument.
"Ember, you're stronger then this." he tried to call through the spell. She growled and swung the guitar at him. He dodged and recollected his voice. "Don't let him control you. I know it's pretty odd for an enemy to be talking, uh, kindly to you like this, but you need to brake this." once again, she couldn't seem to hear through the fog over her ears. She again strummed the guitar. It hit and sent Danny flying into another floating rock. "Okay, I tried." he spoke. Getting up, he raced to her and slammed into her feet dragging her through the air, towards the closest island. When reaching it, he went intangible leaving her visible, slamming her into it, causing her to drop the guitar.
Knocking her out, Danny flew extremely fast towards Edward. He didn't seem to be intimidated by Danny racing towards him, nor did it seem he feared it. It looked like he was welcoming the attack with open arms. With a sinister smile, took a few steps back, and when Danny rammed into him, he grabbed him by his shoulders, stopping him dead in his tracts.
"You're not the only strong one here Daniel." he whispered. Taking one more step back, he began to spin with Danny's shoulders still in his hands. After a few times around, he let go and sent him flying. Danny, like Ember, hit an island and fell.
Amity Park
Maddie's head shot up from her hands and her eyes widened and her mouth dropped.
"Are you okay Mom?" asked Jazz.
"Something happened to Danny. I can feel it."
Ghost Zone
Danny regained conscious on the island and found a note on his chest.
Time is running out Danny.
Edward
Getting up, he found the Speeder and took back his spot. After waiting a few minutes, he started it back up and sped ahead to the Elric Mansion. A few miles down the road, he saw Edward again. Attempting to pass him, some huge dark shadow blocked his path. It grew large and fast, almost looking like it was going to consume the ship.
"Good luck making it through that Ghost boy." spoke the voice of the magical heram girl Desirre. The black shadow stopped Danny, and started to fall back in swirls as her hair. Her face was last to peer through. It was calm, and seductive. Her purple lips in a pout like smile, her eyes half mast, and her body language warm. She slowly began to drift her way over to Danny, her hair still slowly drifting behind her, as if it was underwater. "Danny," she cooed through the windshield; voice echoing. "forget that silly girl. Come with me." The side door opened, and a sweet aroma came into the Speeder. It circled around Danny's face also making his eyes like hers, half closed.
"Of course," he said coming out of the ship and pulling her into his arms. "but first…a dance." and he swirled her away at arms length, letting go of her at the end. He donned a smile while he warmed up an ecto ray behind his back. She came towards him calmly, and not expecting an attack. She closed her eyes and he blasted her, sending her flying backwards.
"How dare you!" she screamed.
"No, how dare you! I'm a minor!"
"And I'm dead!"
"Ah, I see I've made it just in time." Edward said.
"Edward." Danny growled looking at him through furrowed brows. Ed just smiled back. Desirre circled her glowing hand creating a huge fist and throwing it at Danny, capturing him in the grasp, just like she did many years ago. She picked him up and threw him Eastward. After letting go, she picked him up again, and spun him around and let go. Over and over she did this. Finally, he fought back. He grabbed the huge fist and heated it up with his ecto ray, then phased out, and shot one down the arm to hit her all within thirty seconds. She fell back after it hit her sternum. He rushed down after she got up holding her head. He stopped to hover by her.
"What are you going to do? Suck me into that stupid thermos."
"No I'm not. I didn't to Ember and I won't to you. You're under Edwards' spell. I'm not going to fight you any longer if you break it." he tried to agree.
"Desirre you're excused, I want a turn." Edward said stepping in. She obeyed and disappeared. Danny didn't waist any time. He rammed Ed's body into the nearest rock trying to knock him out. It didn't work. Ed again grabbed Danny and flung him on top of the island, slamming him down into it. He, like Desirre, vanished.
"Darn it!" Danny spat getting up. He again resumed his place back at the wheel of the Speeder and continued. "Can't wait to get the taste of dirt out of my mouth."
Elric Mansion
"Al!" Edward called as he came into the mansion with rocks and stones in hand. Al stumbled down the steps.
"Yes brother?"
"Do you see the keys where the pebbles are on the piano?"
"Yes."
"Knock them off and press down on them again. Put your foot on the last pedal to you right. Don't let go until I put them down." he ordered. Alphonse followed his brothers' orders. Ed put heavier rocks down on the keys and a very large one on the pedal. "There we go. That should keep going for a while."
"What's wrong Ed?" Al inquired at the sudden rush.
"Daniel is coming. I needed to keep the spell going. He's about eighty minutes away."
"That's plenty of time brother. Why the urgency?"
"Because he's going eighty-five miles per hour. And I only have two more distraction to get him weaker." he explained.
"Edward you're not going to involve Sam are you?! She can't fight!" Al defended quickly.
"I might. She's a tough cookie Al. And think about this, would Daniel fight his own friend?" his voice was hoarse.
Ghost Zone
Danny skimmed his across the dash board of the Speeder to the small digital clock towards the end. The dim, dark green light informed him it was eight forty-two p.m. His mind, as you peeked into his deep eyes, was far away. The concentration and anxiety of saving his family throbbed; it asphyxiated him. Not to mention getting thrown unto and into rocks within the past hour. No, he didn't care about that, his patience wore thin, his last nerve ninety percent done with. He could snap at any time. He was so ticked off by Edward (as you could probably tell).
The serene quite of the ghost zone was somewhat calming. That is until something huge bashed into the Speeder making it spin.
"What now?" he complained flying through the roof. He saw the gigantic figure that caused his ship to spin.
The monster was huge. It's face oval and thick. Heavy too. The gray tuff of hair that rest on top of it's head bounced from the pressure. The torso was covered by rags, along with the lower part of the body. The large stomach plumped out, his burly arms bare with animal fur as bracelets. On his chubby face was a huge, green eye staring at him with a heavily furrowed brow pointing south. The Cyclops growled a little bit until it roared.
"Breath mints man." Danny commented lightly. On top of the hair came Spectra.
"Like Bertrand's new form Ghost punk?" she screamed. He saw her eyes holding the same amount of control Ember and Desirre had, but they were still under Edward's grasp.
"Jeez not you too! Aren't you stronger that them?" Danny questioned. She was incredulously looking at him; pursed lips pouted to the right of her face, one eyebrow cocked up, arms crossed over her chest, and hip projected to the right too.
"Of course. But why get dirty when I can have a dummy do it for me? Bertrand, sick em!" she commanded with a gleeful smile. And with that, he obeyed and slammed his huge, hairy fist into the Speeder. Leaving it looking like a beat in trash can.
"Oh come on!" Danny whined. "What will my parents think!?" Spectra giggled at his shock. Danny looked at her bewildered and shot the ecto ray at her, but missed. She flew at of the way before it hit. Bertrand roared again and started to swing his arms to grab a hold of Danny.
Danny flew around avoiding him with intricate movements so it would confuse the monster. Eluding the reach. A few times he managed to hit Bertrand with the rays. But Bertrand grew tired of the silly games, he managed to catch the tiny black and white moving fly and flicked him away. Danny stopped and flew very fast towards the nose, and with the rage of furry and anger that was building up all week, pulled back his glowing fist, and snapped it in when he rammed. Sending them both falling backwards. He flew up and hovered.
"Dang that felt good!" he breathed while rubbing his wrist. Growling a little as she flew up, Spectra flew towards his chest, also ramming it. He took a second to look at her face. Her lip was up ad twitching, leaving her teeth bared. Eyes wide and eye brows knitted together. Truly looking crazy. He grabbed the hair on her nape and flung her upwards. "I never want to get a woman that ticked off again." he resumed flying alone, open to the dangers even more, towards Elric Mansion. "No sign of Edward. He must be getting tired."
"Oh please Danny, I have energy to spare." Edward spoke from above.
"Spoke to soon. What more do you want Edward? You already smashed me against an island and pinned me to one too." he threw back.
"Aren't you growing tired Daniel? It's been what, five six hours maybe since you've last eaten anything. Your body is running on empty right? Unlike you, I don't need food to fuel my corpse."
Danny growled and threw a few ecto rings at Edward, followed by the ghost ray. The first few seemed to hit, but there was no Ed to collect the hit damaged, just rocks.
"You're growing weaker Danny." Edward whispered as he reappeared at Dan's ear. "I can sense it." Danny spun around to punch him but Ed vanished again. "Up here genius." Ed said from above. He wasn't hovering the normal way, his head was looking down at him in a horizontal way. Like he was standing on something to the side. His long braid dangled. Danny again flew up to punch him, but missed. "Behind you." Ed teased. Once again, Danny missed. "Below." "Side." "Other side." Every time, Danny missed. He was feeling a bit weary. "Tick tock, tick tock, time does go by. It's nine fifteen dear boy. Are you really going to let a ghost beat you?" this time, Danny balled up his fist and wanted to slam Ed, but when he did, Ed was gone. Leaving nothing but a lingering chuckle. He screamed to the sky, releasing unwanted anger.
Amity Park
This time, Maddie, Jazz and Tucker seemed to jump.
"Did you hear that?" Jazz asked Tucker.
"Yeah. It sounded like Danny." he murmured. Maddie was still frighten and slowly swell up.
"Jazz, do you know where your brother is?" she asked turning to the two behind her. Jazz shook 'no'. "Don't lie to me Jasmine. Where is your brother?" she asked again. Jazz felt the anxiety cut into her, almost touching bone.
"Uh…" she stammered out. Maddie continued to stare her down.
"Jasmine Marie Fenton. Tell your mother the truth. You know where he is. Please tell me." you could cut the tension with a knife at this point.
AN: AH!! I actually took a leap making Desirre more sexy and adding the seduction. Hopefully it turned out nicely. Two days and 6 pages! Nice! Please keep in mind that I started writing this BEFORE Season three started airing. I thought this would be the last chapter but I made it like, 10 pages long. So the other few pages are the beginning of chapter 10.