Ok I am back with another chapter. I am so bad! How long has it been? A few months? Years? Ok disclaimer time……I do not own DP *cries*. Anyway to the fic!
Chapter 8- Jack's Tale
" Well well well, it looks like I have a group of intruders." Danny turned around to face the speaker. There standing in front of him was his father.
"Uhh, well." Jazz stammered as she came up to stand next to Danny. Jack sneered.
"What are you three doing down here in my lab, and second, how did you get down here?" Jack said as his eyes flashed red. Danny looked around the lab, suddenly noticing that Danni was gone. 'Where could she be?' he thought.
"Are you going to tell me or not?" Jack demanded, his patience running thin.
"Why should we tell you?" Jazz questioned, crossing her arms.
"Because it's my house!" Jack bellowed. Danny looked around. Danni had to be somewhere. Just then out of the corner of his eye he spotted Danni coming up behind Jack.
"Ok, I'll tell you." Danny said distracting Jack. Jazz looked quizzically at Danny. Jack quirked an eyebrow.
"Oh and what is it that you need to tell?" Danny shifted through his thoughts trying to come up with a feasible lie.
"Well we were just curious about what was inside this mansion. We didn't mean to come down here, it was an accident."
"An accident. You shouldn't have been down here snooping around to being with." Danni came up behind him and swiftly jumped on his back.
"Quick, Danny go! Go find the portal!" Danni said as she struggled to stay on Jack's back.
"The portal!" Danni dropped to the floor as Jack turned intangible.
"Danny quick go!" Jazz stated. "I'll take him." Danny glanced at Jazz and Danni who dusted herself off as she got off the floor. 'There's no way I can leave them, he'll tear them to shreds.' Danny thought. Danny stood still as Jack approached them.
"What do you three know about the ghost portal?" Jack inquired, his eyes glowing redder by the second.
"Danny go." jazz whispered.
"I can't, I can't leave you two behind, he'll destroy you both." Danny whispered back.
"I asked you a question! Now answer! How do you know about the ghost portal!" Jack bellowed, the force of his yell sending Jazz and Danny back slightly.
"W-we're Maddie and Vlad Masters children!" Jazz spit out.
"Maddie. Vlad. You mean you three are Maddie and Vlad's children?"
"Yes, we are." Jazz said sighing in relief in seeing the look of astonishment on Jack's face.
"Well by knowing that." Vlad said as two red rings formed around him, "It gives me even more of a reason to destroy you all." Danny gaped at his father as he transformed into his ghost form. His hair was completely white and had a stripe of black down the middle. His suit was similar to Vlad's ghost form and he had glowing red eyes. Danny shuddered. If he thought that Vlad look menacing in his ghost form, then his dad definitely won for the most menacing. Danni swiftly stood by Jazz.
"Any last words before I destroy you all." Jack inquired. Danny stiffened. He had to get Jazz and Danni out of this place as soon as possible.
"Yea, how about you tell us why you want to destroy us?" Danni asked. Jazz smacked her forehead and Danny glanced at Jack. Jack looked down at the ground in thought.
"When we were in college, Maddie and I used to date. We were made for each other. I'd like to think I was going to spend the rest of my life with her." He paused looking at the three kids in front of him. "But that is not how things happened. Vlad and I were best friends. We had been friends since elementary school. When I started dating Maddie, I don't know if he just felt pushed aside or what, but we weren't as close of friends. I suppose you three already know about the ghost portal accident?" The three nodded.
"Of course." Jack said, reminiscing. "The day it happened, I knew my whole life was going to change, whether it was good, or bad. When it happened and I was in the path of the ghost portal, there was only one thing that I wished for. I wished for Maddie's happiness, because that was the only thing I wanted for her." Jazz gasped. Danny looked at his dad. In his world, he knew that his dad's love for his mom was unwavering. Knowing that his love was unwavering in this timeline as well made him happy.
"But I guess she is happy, since she had you three." Jack added looking at the three of them. "Well does that sum it up for you."
"No, why would you destroy our mom's happiness by getting rid of us?" Jazz asked.
"Because that was suppose to be my life! I wasn't meant to be living here alone in this cold mansion with only my butler and a cat as a companion. I was suppose to be living happily with Maddie with a life that was worth living!" Jack yelled, his eyes glowing red. "Vlad was not meant to have my life with Maddie!" Danny looked at his father and suddenly understood how Vlad felt about not being with Maddie. Best friends loving the same woman meant that someone was going to have to be left behind.
"I understand now, how it felt to be left behind while your best friend lived your dream life. Money doesn't mean a thing to you. You would much rather live a simple life with those you care about. Even so, that doesn't mean you have to take out your unhappiness on us." Danny said.
"And what do you know about unhappiness? You are just a child!" Jack responded.
"See there's where you're wrong. You think you're the only person in this world dealing with something that you can't control. You think that you are the only half ghost half human don't you." Jack gaped at Danny.
"How do you know this?" Jack asked in disbelief.
"Because," Danny said as two familiar rings appeared turning him into his alter ego, "I'm just like you." Danny finished. Jack gasped.
"How could. How did. How are you. How did you get this way?"
"You see, I'm not from this timeline. In my timeline, I know this may be hard to believe but you are my dad, and you are married to my mom and you guys are both ghost hunters. The reason why I am this way is because I got into a little accident with a ghost portal." Danny looked at Jack as he saw an array of emotions flit across his face.
"How can this be! You are lying to me! I don't care if you are a ghost like me or not, no one lies to me and gets away with it."
"I am not lying to you, why would I lie about something like that?"
"Your father put you up to this didn't he!"
"Vlad is not or will he ever be my father." Danny said.
"You three came here to make me look like a fool. You're parents probably told you about me and you wanted to see for yourselves!" Danny sighed. How was he going to get through to him? "Enough of this talk! It's time that you receive your punishments for trespassing my premises!" Jack bellowed his yell sending shockwaves through the three.
"You two get behind me, this is too dangerous for you to be involved in." Danny said moving closer to Jack.
"Danny, we came here to help you." Jazz whispered.
"I know, and you guys have done a good job, but this, this is something that I must do."
"No Danny, we can't leave you!" Danni said. Jazz looked at Danny.
"Danny is right." Danni smiled in triumph, "This is Danny's battle, not ours. We helped him as much as we can but it's up to him now." Danni stared at Jazz then nodded. " Let's go" Jazz said as she dragged Danni.
"Good luck Danny! Kick his…."
" We'll be waiting upstairs." Jazz said as she dragged Danni up the stairs.
"Oh come on Jazz, I want to see Danny fight!" Danni complained as the bookcase closed off the entrance to the lab.
" It's safer for us if we stay up here. Besides we need to find Tucker and Sam." The door to the library burst open. Standing there was Sam and Tucker.
"What took you guys so long, you said you would give us a signal if anything happened!" Tucker said.
"Where's Danny, did he make it to his own timeline?" Sam asked.
"No, actually he is currently in a battle with Jack Fenton." Jazz said.
"Then why are we standing here? We should be down there to support him!" Sam said.
"That's what I told Jazz, but she wanted to come up here." Danni said.
"Well what are we doing just standing here we better go and help Danny out!" Sam said.
"But you guys!" Jazz protested as Danni reopened the door to the lab.
"Why won't you guys just listen?" Jazz inquired as she followed them down the stairs.
"I don't quite understand how you became half ghost half human like me, but all I know is I must get rid of you!" Jack said charging towards Danny. Danny easily dodged the attack turning intangible. 'There's one advantage to fighting my dad, he uses brute force," Danny thought. Danny dodged another head on attack, sending a small blast towards Jack.
"How did you become like me? Was it Vlad and his little experiments?"
"No." Danny said dodging another attack. "It was an accident. I told you. Where I come from your life is the complete opposite." Jack threw a plasma blast at Danny who dodged it once again.
"I don't believe you. Vlad put you up to this to play with my mind."
"No he didn't even though it sounds like something he would do, he didn't put me up to this. I came here because I know that you have a ghost portal and I need the ghost portal to take me back to my own timeline." Jack stared blankly at Danny. Jazz , Sam, Danni, and Tucker stared at the two halfas as they stopped fighting.
"You, you're telling the truth aren't you?" Danny smiled. Finally he believed him.
"Yes it's true," Danny said changing back into his human form, "All of it is true. I'm your..."
"GET AWAY FROM MY SON GHOST!" Danny grimaced as he turned to see his mother and Vlad both holding ghost weaponry. 'This situation has gotten a whole lot more complicated.' Danny thought.
Ta Da! Aren't you proud? I know you are. Yes another cliff hanger and No I don't know when the next chapter will be done. But I will tell you some good news. This fic is almost complete (about time). Only a few more chapters to go! Well you know the deal, read and review. I really want to know what you think!