Well hello there! It's been what... a couple months since my last update for ANYTHING on I am truly sorry for the wait. My computer deleted and locked most of my documents so I had to start all over again. NOt a pleasant thing to do. Now, yesterday marked the 1 year aniversary of WfG online here on and I tried to get it up, but my computer was not responding so I decided to try again now. There will be mistakes in this one because I never had a chance to send it to my beta since I want to get this over and done with. I'll go back and fix it later on when my beta has a chance to send it back, but for right now, this is what you get.
"Blast!" Vlad exclaimed, banging his fist onto the keyboard in frustration.
"No luck?" Taika asked, clearly amused. "We can always-"
"No," Vlad said, cutting off the rest of her sentence. He was not going to be helped by that witch.
"Fine, suit yourself," Taika said, standing up from her chair. "I'm leaving for a while, things to do, plans to plot and so forth. I mean, we've been at this for 2 days and you still haven't found anything about the boy. It's not like you will soon." With that said, Taika walked out of Vlad's lab smugly, leaving the fuming billionaire behind.
As soon as he was sure Taika had disappeared, Vlad smiled evilly and chuckled. "Fool," he muttered, "Did she actually think it took me that long to track down the boy?" Then, he added to his computer, "Open file JG-150814."
"Opening file, former friend," a mechanical voice responded, sounding almost exactly like Maddie Fenton.
Vlad sighed. "I should really fix that. Now, back to the task at hand. State area of location, and personal data."
"Name: Joshua Gibson. Age: 15 as of July 31st. Current location: Rainsville Massachusetts, enrolled at West Rainsview High. School record: GPA: 3.0. 52 detentions in the past year and 2 months, seemingly depressed. Does not socialize with any other student or member of faculty. Currently on the school martial arts squad; won 3 competitions with top prizes. Refuses to respect authority."
Vlad nodded accordingly to the information relayed to him. "He seems troubled, showing symptoms of depression and rebellion… however this might also be because of that little witch running away. Show current visual of subject."
A picture of a teenaged boy appeared on the screen. He had sandy brown hair that seemed to fall all over the place and his hazel eyes seemed to bore into the camera lens. His mouth, set in a scowl, gave the sense that he was not one to be provoked.
"Well, isn't he the icing on the cake?" Vlad mused to himself. "Now… since the boy seems like no trouble to handle, I think it's best to see if my pawns are doing what they're supposed to do. Computer, open current videos from camera AP-5, AP7 and WM-8."
Three video screens appeared simultaneously onto thin air, one opening at the Manson Mansion, the second at a random house and the third in the lobby of his own home.
"Focus only on camera WM-08," Vlad commanded his computer. The two other screens vanished, leaving the image of Taika standing in the middle of the lobby, performing a spell of some sort.
"I see my partner seems to lack faith in my abilities," Vlad mused bitterly. "Very well, we shall see who shall win the right of gaining power to the Ghost Zone and the earth. And then there's the Witches Realm," Vlad smiled evilly as the last thought filled his head.
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Taika walked into the lobby and smiled. "Perfect," she muttered as she waved her hands accordingly, aware that her partner was watching her through a camera lens. "All the pieces of my puzzle falling into place. Sure I needed to team up with the dolt downstairs… but in three short days, I will have all the power I need."
Taika moved her hands in a circular motion and got a clear view of her key pieces of the puzzle. Taika's grin grew enormously.
"So… she's teaching him magic… isn't this quaint," the older witch said to herself. With that being said, Taika created a portal and transported herself to the Witches Realm.
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"Great job Danny!" Sabrina exclaimed as she watched Danny perform a spell that changed a table into a chicken.
"Uh… not that turning a table into a chicken isn't funny, but how is that going to help us?" Danny asked Sabrina, a look of confusion and amusement on his face.
"It's a defensive spell. Besides… you never know when it might come in handy," Sabrina said, watching the chicken walk around her room. She waved her hands and the chicken disappeared, leaving her table where it was before. "You've really come a long way since we started last week Danny. I mean, I didn't learn half those spells until a few months after I got my powers."
"Hey you've done great too," Danny said quickly, "I mean, the way you handled controlling the Ghostly Wail without even getting weakened? I still can't do more than 3 in a row without changing back."
"I think both of you can say you've improved a lot since then," Sam said, stretching from her position on the beanbag chair. "You've both mastered each other's powers so fast I don't think there's anything left to cover."
"Yeah, because according to my records of Danny's powers, you've learned basically everything he learned in the first 9 months of getting his powers," Tucker added, searching his PDA yet again for anything they might've missed.
"Well…." Sabrina started, her voice implying she had an idea. Danny, Tucker and Sam all turned their attention to her. "We could have a little battle against each other…"
"Are you crazy! I don't wanna fight you, you're my friend," Danny exclaimed.
"I know, it's strictly training wise," Sabrina hurried on. "I mean you know how Vlad attacks, and I know how Taika attacks, maybe if we use that knowledge against each other in friendly competition, we'll have a better chance of defeating them. This way we also see how much our powers have improved as well."
"So we're getting inside a villain's head?" Danny asked. Sabrina nodded. "I dunno…"
"Come on, its not like we'll become evil really, we just need to think like them in order to figure out a way to beat them," Sabrina said, trying to convince him.
Danny looked down in thought at that comment then looked up and smiled. "Fine, under one condition."
"What's that," Sabrina asked, confused. Danny sent a blast at Sabrina, which she nearly dodged.
"I get the first shot," Danny said playfully, shooting up into the air. Sabrina followed suit and sent a powerful blue ecto-blast at Danny, which he returned in equal strength.
The two halfas exchanged a few blows to each other before Danny completely disappeared. Startled, Sabrina stopped in mid air, giving the ghost boy the opportunity to send a dragon type spell at her. Sensing the incoming spell, Sabrina created a magical barrier that absorbed the attack, before retaliating with a range of different ecto-blasts. Danny dodged them easily, and sent a wave of green fire towards his temporary opponent. Sabrina tried to create another barrier, but the attack came too quickly, and caused the witch to fall to the ground.
"Oh, its on now," Sabrina said competively as she got up off the ground. She shot into the air and did a few complicated hand movements, before sending a stream of ectoplasm towards Danny. Danny created a ghost shield to block out the assault, but did not expect what happened next. Sabrina moved her hands upwards abruptly and instantly caused blue ecto-energy and cold fire to circle around her. She then threw out her hands in front of her and caused an intertwining blast similar to what she and Danny used against Vlad and Taika in their first battle to attack him. The blast broke through his shield and sent the ghost boy falling to the floor.
"Two can play at this game!" Danny said mischievously.
"Bring it on ghost boy!" Sabrina said, recreating the attack she just sent out. Danny mimicked her movements and in an instant the two blasts collided in mid air, neither side showing a clear winner.
"Whoa, both of them improved so much, I don't even know who's going to happen next!" Tucker exclaimed, watching the battle with anticipation.
"Yeah, and to think, in 3 days a witches or witchum's power increases too, which means each of them will be even more powerful," Sam pointed out as the two now tried hand to hand combat to each other.
"You know, we don't even know what they're planning yet, all we have is a way to defeat them if they attack," Tucker said thoughtfully.
"Tucker, this is Vlad we're talking about-"
"Exactly. He always seems to have something else in mind. His mind is so twisted you don't know what'll happen next. Remember the time he wanted to steal the Fenton Portal, or when he tried to clone Danny?"
"You know, you might be right," Sam said with an after thought. "I mean for the past week and a half, all we've done is sit around reading Sabrina's collection of Witch books while she and Danny figured out how to use their powers together. And considering we haven't seen Vlad and his witchy partner in a while, I'm guessing they're planning something big."
"Right. Now we're about where we were when we started. For all we know, we might be playing right into their trap," Tucker told Sam solemnly. The two looked at each other, and continued to watch the two halfas spar against one another, this time a lingering feeling of dread inside them.
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The bell of West Rainsview High rang its shrill cry, signaling the students of the freedom. The halls were crowded in almost a moment, students ran in every direction, avoiding detention, bullies or another type of obstacle. Unfortunately, a freshman boy was not lucky enough to escape.
He was short, scrawny and had glasses. His short blond hair was messy in an attempt to be accepted in the world of high school while his hands showed signs of blisters as if he did nothing but type.
"Come on, give it back please! I have all my homework in there!" The boy begged as he tried to grab his bag away from an older upperclassman.
"No way twerp, not until you agree to my terms," the older boy scowled.
"But I'm only a freshman! How am I supposed to know what the senior class is learning!?!" the freshman wailed.
"Find out! I need a C in History to go snowboarding with my friends at the Rockies this Winter break! Now I know you're a whiz at the computer stuff, so you shouldn't have any problem hacking into the school's mainframe to figure out what the upcoming assignments are and push the due dates back!"
"Leave him alone bully," a low voice said from a shadowy portion from the hall.
Both boys turned towards the sound of the voice. "Who's there?" the upperclassman called out.
Another boy, around the age of fifteen, stepped out of the shadows. His hazel brown eyes bore into the older boy's in a hateful manner. His sandy brown hair fell all over the place and his demeanor seemed ready to fight.
"I know you," The older boy spoke up jeeringly, "you're Josh Gibson, that sophomore who got detention almost everyday since last semester! Speaking of which, didn't you get a DT for fighting or sassing back a teacher or something?"
"Actually it was supposed to be for incomplete homework, but I guess telling the teacher 'I didn't do it' is now considered cheeking to them," Josh said in the same low voice, with a hint of sarcasm dripping from his words. "However my patience isn't known to wait, so I suggest you give the kid his stuff and get out of here, before I lose my cool."
"Are you kidding me?!?" the older boy laughed, "I'm a foot taller than you! I can take you with my eyes closed!"
Josh's eyes narrowed as he ran and gave a swift kick to the Senior's shins, bringing him to his knees. He then gave a quick chop to the boy's muscle , making him release the bag. Josh then punched the boy in the stomach. Winded the boy left, but not before glaring daggers at his attacker.
Picking up the bag, Josh walked over to the freshman, who now waiting in the corner with wide eyes, and gave it to him. "Are you alright?" he asked as he gave the boy back his bag.
"Y-yes sir, Mr. Gibson, sir," the boy squeaked.
"You know, I'm not a teacher right?" Josh asked sarcastically.
"Yes sir, Joshua Gibson, thank you sir," the boy squeaked as he tried to move away.
Right away Josh's eyes darkened in memory and grabbed the boy and pushed him against the boy. "Never, never call me Joshua, got it?" he said intimidating
"Yes sir," the boy's voice squeaked 3 levels higher. Josh let him go and the boy took off top speed, desperate to escape his "captor's" hand.
"Mr. Gibson," a deep teacher's voice said from behind him.
"What now, I get double detention for defending a kid, or did I beat him up without me knowing?" Josh said distastefully, crossing his arms over his chest as he turned to face the teacher.
"Josh, you know I'm not you're enemy, stop your silly antics and smarten up," the teacher said. "You're not the tough guy you claim to be, smug yes but not a bully, all you need to do is-"
"Talk about my problem?" Josh cut across, knowing the teacher's speech inside and out as he heard it almost everyday. "Thanks Mr. Toterra, but no thanks. I don't want to talk about why teachers think I'm a bad influence to other students and the fact that people only pick fights with me to prove a point or are really stupid to go through with a dare to fight me, now may I go to detention in peace?"
"Actually, you're excused from detention because Ms. Parkinson ate the cafeteria liver-worst by accident and went home sick, and since the fact that you and 2 other people were in detention, and that no one wanted to cover it, you're excused."
"Thanks Mr. Toterra, now may I leave?" Josh asked. The teacher sighed and Josh took that as his excuse to leave.
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The town of Rainsview was covered in great masses of colourful leaves and different Halloween decorations. As Josh walked down Main street to his house 3 hours later, he looked at all the pictures of witches with bitter resentment and sadness. I wonder what Sabrina's up to nowadays he wondered as he saw a witch robe from what was supposed to be Harry Plopper or Potter or whatever his name was in a store shop.
Sure he tried (and failed) getting in touch with Sabrina, but she seemed to have changed her e-mail and everytime he found a phone number that could possibly be hers, it disappeared (he suspected that she might've had something to do with that; there isn't a lot of families with the last name of Salem nowadays in America)
Sighing, Josh continued the trek to his house, letting his mind wander to the memories that he didn't want to forget. He and Sabrina had grown up together, basically they were like brother and sister, except without the fight for who gets the bathroom first in the morning. They always looked out for each other, but when she got her powers, everything changed. It was like they were different people that met only a few days before. Sure he was jealous, and got tired of being a cushion when she lost her grip of flying, and being turned into random objects by accident, but she was his best friend and wouldn't abandon her. Besides, he did get to help her by teaching her how to use martial arts while enhancing them with her powers (and he still didn't understand how he did that).
Then it went wrong. Some other witch came into town, blasting everything and everyone in sight. Then when found Sabrina, started demanding that she should hand over her power to the pop tart. Then a fight broke out, Sabrina's secret revealed and basically the rest was history.
He tried, he really did. But with 5 huge people blocking him and pulling him backwards for trying to protect her, it was pretty hard to break through. They managed to tie her to some wooden stake and lit the fire before she snapped and preformed the memory wipe spell. Then that was it, she disappeared without a trace… ok so she did get in touch with him to explain a little bit of what's happening, and left him some of her witch books to familiarize himself with her powers.
Josh kicked a rock angrily down the street. "I should have done something!" he cried out angrily at himself. "I've taken down people larger than that before, I could've done it again. We could've done something else, something that didn't make her leave, but I just sit back and let it happen!" He just wanted to run away from that memory, it was his fault that she had to leave, his fault that they didn't have enough time to escape, his fault for not helping her more. " I let her down," he whispered, stopping in front of an abandoned alley. "She needed my help, and I let her down." His eyes darkened with anger and looked up determinedly. "But the time for sulking is over, its time to act."
"Why yes, it is time to act Mr. Gibson," a smug male voice spoke from the alley.
Startled, Josh quickly went into a fighting stance and called out "Who are you?"
The man chuckled. "If you want to see that little friend of yours again, Joshua, you might want to listen to what I have to say."
Josh's eyes clouded with anger once more. "Ok, threatening my friend is one thing but nobody calls me Joshua except my parents."
"I see," The voice said slickly. "Well, you look like you are not one to be fooled, so why don't you come with me, quietly."
"Why don't you come out of the shadows and face me properly, or is the big kidnapper afraid of a little sunlight?" Josh said sarcastically, his old personality kicking up again as he walked into the alley.
"Charming boy, aren't you," the voice said. "However, if you insist." The man, stepped out from his hiding spot, but it was not a man at all. His skin was blue, his black hair curled up like horns, wore a suit with a white cape and had fangs. Most peculiar of all was that he was levitating and glowing.
Josh looked the man over, and asked "What the heck are you?" But in his head, it was like he already knew.
"Really now, if you know about witches, why would you doubt that there are other creatures there too," the floating figure told him.
"You're a ghost," Josh said instinctively, studying the ghost's movement carefully. "But what do you want from me?"
"Why are all you children always so curious?" the ghost said. "Well, let's do this the easy way then shall we?" The ghost spit itself into two and one duplicate flew into Josh. The boy glowed green and looked like he was putting up a struggle, but after a few minutes went entirely still. "Good," the ghost said, and as he spoke, so did Josh in the same exact voice.
As the sun set over Rainsview, a chilling laugh echoed, before speaking in a completely evil voice, "2 days left."
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Danny, Sam, Tucker and Sabrina walked the now familiar route back to there houses as the day ended.
"So… are we training again?" Danny asked, wondering what will happen with only a day and a half until the lunar eclipse.
"I think we better concentrate on what Vlad and Taika is up to, to be honest," Sam said, Tucker nodding.
"Besides, you two have basically have the hang of each other's powers now," Tucker stated.
Sabrina looked at them, then at Danny. "Sam's right," she said to him, "We need to think of a plan to use now."
Tucker and Sam groaned; this wasn't what they had in mind.
The foursome walked on, talking about possible plans, when a peculiar wind started to pick up. Sabrina stopped in her tracks right away, as did everyone else.
"Did anyone else think that the wind seemed a bit off to you?" Tucker asked, shivering slightly. The other three nodded.
Sabrina looked around and then saw what she was fearing. In a tree there was a cat, an eagle and a crow, looking at her with stern eyes, however these animals were not ordinary animals. The cat's ears were long and white, and its paws were covered with green gloves. The eagle's wings were a deep shade of blue instead of brown and the crow's eyes were a dark purple. With a blink of an eye, the animals vanished, but not before leaving an energy trail for her to follow.
Sabrina looked in the direction the energy tail was leading her, but before she could make up an excuse, Danny spoke up.
"Do you feel an energy trail of some sort leading over there?" he asked.
"Yeah," she said softly, not moving her eyes from where the trail was leading her.
"Well then, why don't we go and check it out," Danny said, and making sure no one was around, transformed into his ghost form.
"NO!" Sabrina screamed, causing Tucker, Sam and Danny to look at her. "I mean, no, I need to go," Sabrina transformed into her witches robes and took off into the air. She turned back to her friends and said, "I need you guys to not follow me, please don't especially you Danny. I need to do this alone."
Sabrina took off towards the energy trail, leaving the stunned trio behind.
"Danny…." Sam started.
"On it," he said, taking off into the air. He counted to 5 before taking off in the direction Sabrina headed in.
He slowed as the energy trail got stronger and turned invisible, hoping that Sabrina wouldn't sense him. He got close and saw her land in an alleyway, so he picked up the speed and hovered on the spot, watching as 3 animals came in front of Sabrina and transformed into 3 figures; three women, each with robes and distinct energy coming from them.
They're witches thought Danny, as he watched them survey Sabrina with distaste. It was then that Danny realized that he knew one of them; the crow was Andorra, and she did not look happy.
"Sabrina Salem," the middle witch spoke in a booming voice. "You have been summoned here to be giving another warning-"
"Not that she should get one Eclipse, as I've told you many times," the witch on the left side.
"Hush Willow, let Eclipse be the one with the final say," Andorra told the witch now known as Willow.
"As I began, you have been given a warning for your interaction between ghosts. You know our laws, and as stated before, we can take your powers away once again," Eclipse told Sabrina.
"I've never been in contact with any ghosts before," Sabrina said indignantly.
"Then how come we're seen you conversing with a ghost by the name of Danny Phantom?" Willow sneered.
Sabrina paled, along with Danny. "I-I, ok yes I did talk to him once, but I never spoke to him unless I absolutely had to, like to tell him we'd be in trouble if we were caught together without attacking each other," she tried to explain.
"I see," Eclipse said, looking Sabrina over. "Well then, you won't have any objections to us having you under surveillance by one of our trusted operatives for a day now would you?"
"No, not at all," Sabrina said in a small voice.
"I object to that Eclipse," Andorra spoke, and Danny saw Sabrina let out a sigh of relief. "Keep the place of most magical presence of hers under surveillance, unless you want an operative to fall asleep listening to history again. This way we know if she is abusing her magical abilities to talk to ghosts. I mean a ghost pinpointing spell would probably bring the boy to her, since I doubt any ghost would go there willingly."
"Alright," Eclipse said, "We will keep one place of yours under surveillance, since we already have the town wired."
"Yes Eclipse," Sabrina said.
"And I assume that since you know the laws, that if you see that ghost again, you will attack without hesitation, will you not?" Willow said, looking Sabrina over.
Danny looked at Sabrina with wide eyes, as she was silent for a time. He saw her eyes dart to Andorra, who had some concern for the girl's answer. He saw her sigh and looked up at the witches.
"Yes," she answered in a scared voice.
"Good, now you are free to go," Willow said harshly, as she transformed into an eagle and flew away. Eclipse looked at Sabrina once more, and then transformed into the cat before also disappearing. Sabrina looked at Andorra, who sighed at the girl's predicament.
"It will be difficult, but you'll get through it," she told Sabrina. "Just beware the restrictions, and leave Danny in the dark for a bit." With that, Andorra transformed into a crow and flew away. Sabrina let out a sigh, before teleporting home, leaving Danny alone in the alley to contemplate what he just overheard.
THat's CHapter 12. It is rushed a bit, and leaves lots of confusing parts, so if you need some clarification, just say so in a review or message me. In a nutshell, you can see the plot forming with Josh coming back from CH9 (well not really, he's introduced through Sabrina's dream but meh) the ghost in there was Vlad if you didn't guess, the voice was Taika, the three witches at the end were Elder witches, meaning they're some of the powerful witches, they have a council and so on. I'll try to explain in another chapter, but if you can't wait I'll answer any questions you have left.
I'll fix it up when I get it back from my patient beta. So please review I guess...