Happy Holidays everyone! Guess who's finally back... ME! Yes, I know, long time no see right? I'm sorry, but I had a whole bunch of projects in December and THEN I had a cold (and I still do) so it was hard for me to write, I even had to introduce Benji to profile updating, he's been bugging me to come back on.
Anyways, I'm really happpy with this story up to this point. It has 1 c2, 4 favourites, 7 alerts, 7 reviews and 897 views. A huge thank you to those who reviewed throughout the couple of Chapters: Linda (My first reviewer YAY), Stars of Twilight, The Blood Countess Erzsebet, vanalivi and December's Morose.
Anyways, here's the next chapter.
Sabrina met with Danny at lunch by her locker. She was getting worried about him telling Sam and Tucker, and then they react in a way that sends everything back into a downward spiral. However, so far he kept his word, and that was a good thing.
Danny saw her approaching and quickly he motioned for her to meet him outside. She nodded and walked straight out the front doors.
Sabrina had now enjoyed her couple days in Amity Park, contrary to what she thought before. She found a nice oak tree and sat under it, not caring about how the autumn sun was beating down on her dark hair. This is nice Sabrina found herself thinking. No more being a loner, having someone who understands my secret… I just hope that it doesn't come back to the way it was before.
"Hey," Danny's voice came through her thoughts. Sabrina looked up and found her partner looming over her.
"Hey," she answered back, motioning him to sit. "Why did you want to meet outside anyways?"
"Less chance of being overheard, and for Sam and Tuck to find us," Danny answered sadly, taking a seat on the grass across from Sabrina. "Can you please tell them soon, I hate keeping secrets from them."
Sabrina sighed, "Alright but give me time ok?" Danny nodded. "Ok down to business. So far we know that the prophecy is coming through, and we're the ones that have to stop whoever the three destroyers are. Problem is: how?"
Danny put his hand to his chin in thought. He then remembered what happened at the park the day before. "Don't forget, we gotta figure out how our powers intertwined like it did yesterday," Danny said to Sabrina, who nodded.
"We can add that to list we're going to ask Clockwork about," Sabrina said. "We also need to know what Taika's planning, 'cause if she's one of the destroyers, chances are she's not done yet."
"Maybe we should plan how we're going to get to Clockwork's place undetected," Danny mused out loud.
"That's a good idea," Sabrina agreed. The two halfas sat together, planning what they were going to do.
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Unknown to them, a dark haired girl was sitting in a tree not too far away from them, binoculars at her eyes. Sure Sam knew spying was wrong, she told off Danny multiple times for it, but she wanted to find out what was going on and she didn't think Sabrina or Danny will spill anything.
"Gee Sam, you're really going all out to spy on those two, aren't you?" Tucker told her slyly, from the safety of the ground.
"Must I remind you of all the vile and evil things I can do to you from up here," Sam told him, not tearing her gaze from the binoculars. Tucker thought about this, and took one step back from the tree.
"So, what you find out?" he asked cautiously.
Sam sighed, "Nothing useful. They have some sort of secret that they know, but I don't know what it is!" Sam slammed her fist into the tree, and then stroked it as if she injured a small child.
"You think she found out about Danny?" Tucker asked.
Sam slid graciously out of the tree and landed in front of Tucker. "I dunno. But Danny would've told us, wouldn't he?"
"Yeah that's true," Tucker said pondering. "Maybe they're going out," Tucker joked, but instead got a glare from Sam that told him that if he said that again, he would be in really bad pain. "Ok I get it, no more jokes about that."
Sam, however, was already walking towards Sabrina and Danny, smiling so sweetly that it gave Tucker the creeps. He quickly ran to catch up to her.
"Hi guys," Sam said happily, which got Sabrina and Danny's attention pretty quickly. Danny turned and saw a happy Sam, and he knew that there was something weird going on.
"What's going on Sam?" he asked sceptically.
"What, can't a girl be happy once in a while?" Sam snapped at him.
"Well yeah, but considering you're a Goth this is creepy," Danny answered back, moving back away from Sam slightly.
Sabrina, however, looked at Sam's face and knew right away that Sam wanted information. She gulped.
"So Danny, where did you go when those ghosts disappeared yesterday?" Sam asked her normal voice, the happy façade disappearing as quickly as it appeared.
So that's what she's after Sabrina thought. She nervously turned to Danny, who was looking at her worried.
"Well… um… I… uh..." Danny said, turning to look at Sabrina's fearful expression and Sam's clearly angry glare. He was saved by his ghost sense going off. Saved by a ghost Danny thought happily as he got up quickly. "I gotta go," he said. Sabrina mouthed "ghost trouble?" and Danny nodded.
Sam saw the interaction and was clearly confused. She was just as surprised and confused at Sabrina's next sentence.
"Want any help?" she asked. Sam and Tucker just gaped at her. A scream got all their attention and Danny saw the familiar mechanical battle suit of Skulker.
"Nah, I can handle it," He answered. He then turned to his friends, who were clearly hurt and angry for being kept out of the loop. "Sabrina, please explain to them before I come back," he said before running behind some bushes and following a bright light, Danny Phantom flew towards the commotion.
The two remaining friends turned to ask Sabrina what that was all about, but had found she had disappeared.
"Ok, this is getting weirder by the second" Tucker stated, looking at the spot Sabrina had just been before. Sam shook her head at Tucker's obvious comment and walked towards the school, seeing Danny had lured Skulker away from the school.
Once again wheels started to turn in her head. Since plan A didn't work, I guess it's on to plan B Sam thought to herself as she went to class.
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Sabrina put her back against the wall and breathed in and out. That was close she thought as she tried to get her breathing under control. She then remembered her promise to Danny. Sighing, she spoke in a whisper, "I need more time Danny." She then calmly walked to her next class.
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Danny had not come back to school after the fiasco with Skulker, and Sabrina had a feeling that whoever the ghost was, he wasn't the only one out of the ghost zone that afternoon.
The afternoon had passed really quickly, and before Sabrina knew it, the day was over. In the hustle of the students trying to get out of the building for the weekend, Sabrina made her way outside to look for Danny, but her plans were quickly demolished when a hand grabbed her from the door way and pinned her to a wall. Gasping in surprise at the sudden movement, Sabrina's eyes narrowed and tried to identify the person who had gabbed her, until the person in question spoke.
"What's your hold on Danny?" the voice spoke in an angry whisper. Sabrina's eyes grew wide in relief as recognized the voice.
"Sam?" she asked, not hiding the shock in her voice. Sam's face was painted in a glare, with someone else hiding in the shadows, a light from an electronic device shining against its face. "Tucker? What's wrong?"
"You know what's wrong," Sam said again in an angry whisper. "Why is Danny so secretive? And do you know his secret?"
"Ease up a little Sam, you're probably scaring her," Tucker said in a worried tone, hoping that Sam wasn't going to attack their new friend.
Sabrina sighed. "Look, I have a lot to explain but in short yes, I do know Danny's secret," Sabrina said. "And no I won't tell anyone," she added at the sight of their faces.
Sam released her death grip on Sabrina's arm and turned her attention to Tucker. Then turned her face back to Sabrina, her shock fading away to anger once again.
"Then why hasn't he told us anything? I swear, if you're blackmailing him I'll-" Sam said angrily, but Sabrina cut him off.
"Relax, I'm not blackmailing him," Sabrina answered to them in a final tone. "The reason is because… because I told him something that I didn't want to be shared with the rest of the world, and I was scared and," she started to ramble. Sympathy washed over Tucker's face, while Sam still had a bit of a sceptical look on her face.
"How do we know you're not lying?" Sam asked her. Sabrina sighed; if she didn't hurry, Danny and her wouldn't have the time they needed to talk to Clockwork.
"Look, I've got to meet Danny, you can come if you like and I'll explain everything there, with Danny it might be easier," Sabrina told them as she turned to go. She walked out the front doors for the second time that day, this time followed by a curious Sam and Tucker.
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Danny was waiting in ghost form by the oak tree they were sitting at lunch. He finally saw Sabrina coming to towards him. "What took you so long, we need to get going," he said impatiently, before seeing his friends behind her. "Did you tell them?" he asked as she approached. Sabrina shook her head. "Why?"
"I was scared ok?" Sabrina told him in a quiet voice. Tucker and Sam were just looking back and forth between the two, trying to grasp what they were talking about.
"Would someone PLEASE tell us what's going on?" Sam shouted after a couple minutes.
Danny sighed. "Sam, it's complicated, and it's really not my secret to tell," he told his friend while turning to Sabrina. "But I will tell them if you don't tell them soon," he said to Sabrina, his voice having a bit of compassion and seriousness to it.
Sabrina sighed. "Fine," she said. She removed her pendant dejectedly and waved her hand at it. The five point star appeared at her feet and a bright light engulfed her as it did many times. Sam and Tucker moved back quickly and shielded their eyes, while Danny watched in curiosity; it's not all the time he saw someone else transform that wasn't evil. When disappeared, it left Sabrina standing there, waiting for her judgement to be passed from the two mortals that she hoped to be her friends. Sam and Tucker, however, were stricken with shock.
"Aren't you that person who helped Danny out yesterday?" Tucker asked, wanting to get a confirmation.
"Witch," Sabrina corrected before nodding. "And yeah that's me." Sabrina brought her gaze towards the ground, waiting for the explosion she expected. But surprising, it never came.
"Why didn't you just tell us, I mean if we understood Danny's secret why couldn't we accept yours?" asked Tucker. Sam however said nothing.
"I dunno… I guess I was just… scared," Sabrina said, ashamed. Tucker opened his mouth to say something else, when the town clock started to chime the top of the hour. Danny sighed.
"Guys, I know you want answers, but if we don't leave now we might not make it out of the Ghost Zone before dark," Danny said, then groaned and slapped himself; he had never told his friends about going into it.
"WHAT!?!" Sam and Tucker yelled.
"Are you nuts, Danny?" Sam asked him, breaking her silence.
"Ok, I think Danny's right," Sabrina said, causing everyone to turn towards her. "I promise I'll explain everything I can to you guys later, but right now we have a job to do." With that, the two super powered teens leave, leaving behind a confused techno-geek and a furious goth.
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"Sam's going to kill me for that," Danny said to Sabrina as they flew invisibly to Danny's house.
Sabrina sighed. "Danny I'm sorry, it was just so hard," she told him apologetically.
Danny sighed. "I understand," he said. The familiar neon sign came into view. "But first let's figure out what's going on shall we?" Sabrina nodded and together the two flew into the house, Danny made both of them intangible and they descended into the basement.
Sabrina was in awe to say the least when she saw the swirling green of the ghost portal. Danny smiled as they flew closer.
"Wow…" was all she could say.
"It is pretty cool, when you're not zapped with ectoplasmic energy or ghosts are coming out of it," Danny said sarcastically. Sabrina looked at him but then shook her head.
"I'm telling you Maddie there's a ghost down here!" came the voice of Jack Fenton, which made both teens jump in surprise.
"Oh no, my parents!" Danny exclaimed, quickly turning invisible, Sabrina mimicked him. They watched as two jumpsuit clad people came down the stairs, one with an excited expression while the other with a bored one.
"Jack I told you, the Fenton Finder still needs work," Maddie told her husband exasperatedly.
Unnoticed by them, Danny and Sabrina flew into the swirling green mass of the Ghost Zone, hoping they wouldn't be attacked by any ghosts.
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Deep inside the Ghost Zone, there was a large castle full of gears and clocks, each ticking away the seconds that had gone by. Clockwork floated in front of his viewing glass, surveying the time stream before smiling.
"Looks like I have visitors," he said outloud, his voice echoing against the empty castle. He flew over towards the door and waited until he knew when his guests would arrive.
Not giving them the chance to knock, Clockwork opened the door, leaving a surprised ghost boy and a startled witch. "I've been expecting you two," he said, while the two teens smiled. He motioned them to come inside and they followed the time master through his layer.
"I hate it when you do that," Danny told Clockwork, referring to the trick with the door.
"Which is why I do it," came Clockwork's response. Sabrina laughed. They arrived at a little alcove with three lounge chairs and a ton of books. Danny and Sabrina looking in amazement as some of the books floated to different destinations.
"What is this place?" Danny asked, expecting to be answered by Clockwork.
"It's the library of destiny," Sabrina said quietly. Danny turned to her.
"How do you know that," he asked suspiciously, arching an eyebrow.
Sabrina put her hands up in defence. "Hey, I just read about, haven't actually seen it until now." She turned to Clockwork. "But it is the library of destiny isn't it?"
"Indeed it is," Clockwork answered in his calm voice. "Come, I expect you have a lot of questions," he said, motioning them to sit.
They took seats opposite one of the chairs, which Clockwork made himself comfortable in. "So," he said after a few moments of silence, "Let's keep this natural and pretend I don't know what you're about to ask. What do you want to know?"
"Let's start with the prophecy, I'm still not familiar with it yet," Danny said. Sabrina nodded her agreement. "Who are the 3 destroyers?"
"Two," Clockwork replied. The two teens looked at each other in confusion.
"I thought it was three?" Sabrina questioned outloud.
"No there are three beings that take part in the prophecy, but two destroyers who cause chaos," Clockwork told them.
"Ok, I'm confused," Danny said.
"Me too," Sabrina agreed, nodding her head with the same bewildered expression on her face.
"As you should be," Clockwork replied to him in his all knowing way. "You're both two 15 year-olds who were thrown into a prophecy unwillingly before you were even born. There are three beings who are bent on destroying each of their own worlds, but only two destroyers who carry out the plan."
"So you're saying that one being doesn't take part in the prophecy?" Sabrina questioned.
"I never said that," Clockwork said, leaving the teens more confused than ever. "Perhaps if I give some hints it might shed some light on your situation. What do you two know so far?"
"Well, we know that a human, a ghost, and a witch are teaming together to destroy the human world, the Ghost Zone and the Witches Realm and apparently the witch is Taika," Sabrina said.
"And we're the only ones who apparently can stop it," Danny said glumly.
Clockwork smiled a bit; they were so close yet so far. "Alright, both of you, think of the enemy you hate facing the most," he said. "And someone who you faced more than once," Clockwork added, seeing the brief moment of pain flash upon Danny's face. Seeing both teens having an angered expression on their face, he then said "Now say them outloud."
"Taika," Sabrina replied venomously. Danny however remained silent, his face lit up in realization. Sabrina turned to him. "Danny, you ok?"
"Plasmius…" he whispered in shock. Then he mentally smacked himself. "Of course! How did I not see that before!"
"See what?" Sabrina asked curiously.
"There are three beings, but only two destroyers," Danny said. Sabrina looked at him confused.
"Yeah, so how would that be possible?" she asked.
Danny sighed in frustration. "If I'm half-ghost, that would mean I'm half-human, half-ghost right?" he asked her, trying to get her to catch on.
"Yeah…" Sabrina said, not seeing where this was going.
"So, if you measure up our team," Danny continued, "You would have a human, a ghost and a witch, right?"
"Yeah," Sabrina said, his point coming across clearer to her.
"So the only way for the destroyers to have two of them but a being from each world would be-" Danny said, then Sabrina's eyes lit up in relization.
"They would have to have a halfa on their side!" they exclaimed excitedly.
Clockwork's smile grew. "Precisely," he said simply.
"But wait," Sabrina said, her smile turning into a frown in thought, "I thought you were the only half-ghost there is?"
"No there's two," Danny replied glumly.
"TWO!?" Sabrina yelled in surprise.
"Well, three if you count my clone. But let's not go into that," he said unenthusiastically. Clockwork chuckled slightly at the boy's remark.
"Ok, so at least we got that figured out," Sabrina said, running her hand over her face tiredly. "Now to another question; why did our powers intertwine like it did yesterday?"
Clockwork sighed. He floated up towards one of the desks and looked at one of the glowing green quills writing by itself in a book. "Strange thing, destiny," he started, not answering Sabrina's question.
"It sets a path for you and most people follow it without question. But, for the select few whom decide to tempt it, they end up either liking or disliking the outcome. It is similar to the future; you can change it as much as you like, but once it happens there's no going back."
He turned to the two baffled teens.
"Your destinies had always said you two would meet, but once they did there was no telling what the future held. You two are similar in many ways; you were both thrown into life changing events unwilling, you both have big hearts, help those in need of assistance, and might I add you're both stubborn and naïve."
"Hey!" Danny and Sabrina said, offended.
Clockwork sighed again. "Also, your powers are similar, not because of Serenity modifying witches' powers, but by the way you use them. That is the main reason why they intertwined."
Danny and Sabrina just looked dumbfounded at the master of time.
"So… our powers intervened with each others because it was destined to?" Danny asked softly.
"I cannot answer that Danny, but will not say 'no' to it," Clockwork said, gesturing to their hands.
Both Sabrina and Danny looked down at their hands and gasped. Unnoticed, green energy and blue energy were coming from their hands and mixing together. They both felt power run through them, though it was not power they were used to feeling. They both knew what it was.
"I can feel your power," Sabrina said quietly to Danny, shocked.
"And I can feel yours," Danny said, equally shocked.
"Unfortunately, those are all the answers I am able to give," Clockwork said, bringing them out of their thoughts. They stood and followed Clockwork through his lair once again, but this time they heard faint evil laughter and struggling throughout the room with all the clocks. Sabrina stopped where she was, not noticing Danny had already stopped behind her.
"What was that?" she asked Clockwork. He didn't answer.
Danny however, stopped cold as soon as he heard the laugh; it was the same laugh that still haunted his dreams up to this day. His gaze turned to a round table, on it a lone Fenton Thermos stood, casted in an eerie green light reflected from one of the clocks' faces. He could see the many dents and hear him laughing; he shuddered.
"Danny? You ok?" Sabrina asked him when she turned to look back. He was glaring at the thermos, Sabrina looking between the two to figure out what was wrong. Danny shook his head and turned his gaze towards the ground, eyes filled with pain.
"Yeah," he replied distantly, and Sabrina knew it was a lie. Before she could question him though, Clockwork broke through the conversation.
"Danny," he said, gaining the ghost boy's attention, "I would advise you to focus on the task at hand, since what you're thinking about right now will not be as serious a problem than the one that you will face in the upcoming weeks," Danny nodded. They continued to follow through the vast lair and finally bade goodbye to the time ghost, leaving him alone in his lair once more.
Clockwork returned to the library of destiny and looked over the book that had just stopped being written in. He smiled as he read over the contents it held before it closed and flew to the shelf it had come from. "What an interesting destiny those two have," he said knowingly before he returned to watch the timeline.
Hoped you alll liked it, this chapter was the longest one I ever wrote. Please review for me. Oh, just to let you guys know, I might not update for a while because my exams are coming up so my time will be limited. Also, for those of you who read my first fanfic, "Escape from Fear Island" I'm gonna write a sequel to it, after I finish this one and edit EfFI. If you want more info, check out my forums or even my profile.
catch ya later, please review for me.
MATW