BID 2
Hi, I see you are all still reading. I thought I'd give out another chapter, you may just find out why it's titled the way it is. Anyway, enjoy.
Danny sighed as Sam and Tucker met him in the park. He looked up at them.
"Hey dude, what's up?" Tucker asked cheerfully oblivious to Danny's mood. Sam rolled her eyes at Tucker and then took in Danny's demeanor.
"Uh… Danny? Is everything ok?" She asked. Danny shook his head.
"I don't think it is." He sighed, he pulled out a knife, Tucker jumped back.
"What are you doing?" Tucker asked, Danny lifted up his shirt and cut a long sliver across his stomach. Tucker winced at the thought while Danny bit his lip and returned the knife to his pocket.
"Danny…" Sam asked hesitant.
"No I have to show you guys." Danny said his shirt still up, blood started beading along the length of the cut and dripping down, after a few seconds a couple drops of green ectoplasm showed up running down the side of Danny's stomach along with the blood.
"Wait… that's not supposed to happen." Sam said distressed, the cut healed, Danny took out a paper towel and wiped off the blood and ectoplasm, Danny then lit it on fire using a small ectoblast.
"So…" Tucker sat down in the grass Sam and Danny joining him, "That makes no sense, you bleed ectoplasm in ghost form, and blood in human, why are you bleeding ectoplasm in human form?" Tucker asked confused, Danny looked at his hands.
"Unless…" Sam thought, "Unless the ectoplasm is taking over his system." Sam looked over at Danny who was really interested in his hands.
"Oh my god Danny." Sam grabbed Danny's hands, they were already pretty cool compared to a humans but now they were colder, the cool ectoplasm in his system must have been cooling his temperature even further.
"I… I think I'm… becoming a ghost." Danny said. Tucker shook his head.
"No way man, maybe we can fix this, or maybe it's just a spike in the flow and it'll level out eventually." Tucker said. Danny nodded.
"Well we can hope." Danny responded. Then with a sigh he pulled out a piece of paper, "Till then…"
"Dude, that better not be what I think it is." Tucker said as Danny unfolded the paper.
"It is." Danny sighed.
1: Make snow angels in the middle of the summer.
"Dude… that the first thing you thought of?" Tucker asked, Danny shook his head.
"In no particular order." Danny commented.
"Danny?" Sam asked, Danny looked up at Sam blue eyes meeting purple, "You sure you want to do all of this?" She asked, Danny nodded.
"Whether i… become a ghost or not… just to be safe." Danny said like he thought he had a change. Sam and Tucker nodded.
"How long to you figure we have?" Tucker asked, Danny shrugged.
"I'll find out, my parents are good with this sort of thing." Danny sighed. Sam nodded.
"You gonna tell them?" She asked. Danny sighed again.
"I think I have to." He said looking at the list and folding it up.
"We should go now." Danny whispered getting up. The three friends walked out of the park and to Fenton works.
(This be a line break peoples!)
Dash watched as the geek trio went up to the freak building. Dash sighed, this was completely against his nature, he shouldn't care about that little nerd, in fact he didn't, he just wanted explained what had happened the night before. He needed to figure it out, or it would haunt him for the rest of his life. First he had to find out what the green stuff was, and then he had to find out why Fen-toenail was bleeding it. Dash growled angrily to himself for going so low as to spy on the Fentons. Frustrated and not wanting to get caught he walked down the road. Why did he have to swallow his pride to do this, why couldn't he just go in there and demand answers or beat them from Fenton like he usually would? Why did this situation actually require a plan, a plan that Dash had no idea what it was?
Dash wanted to talk to someone about it, about what he saw, but the look from Fenton's eyes when he swore it would be the last thing he did made him think puny Fenton would make good on his promise. Dash wasn't scared of Fenton, or at least that's what he kept telling himself. In truth he was just scared that Fenton actually had a back bone, the nature of his threats just served to reinforce that fear.
Dash walked into his house and sighed thinking about the green blood like substance, it glowed, in fact it looked kina ghostly. Dash shivered, what had Fenton gotten into that had messed him up so badly. It looked like he got into stuff like that a lot. The twisted scars, the trench along Fenton's backbone that made Dash think he should know where it came from. Something about Danny's scars seemed important, and Dash hated to think the dweeb was important. Why did Dash even care? Dash paced eventually going to his room and throwing his foot ball around.
Fenton… Fenton… Why couldn't he get Fenton out of his mind. The loser was barely worth his time, Dash gritted his teeth. This sucked, why did he have to be so curious, couldn't he have just moved on with his life? Dash punched his wall out of anger gripping his hand and cussing. Danny Fenton…. Danny Fenton, why wasn't Dash able to focus on someone else like Danny Phantom, now there was a real hero. But Danny Fenton's scarred body and odd blood kept shoving itself to the fore front of Dash's mind.
Dash sighed not sure what to do, maybe he could corner the loser about it in class the next day or… or maybe he could invite him to the A-list so he could keep a closer eye on him. Dash couldn't think of anything that would work. Even popularity seemed to disgust the boy anymore, not like when he was excited just to be talked to or looked at by Paulina. Danny Fenton had closed off everyone else, he didn't try to be accepted anymore, what was with that, didn't everyone want to be popular?
Danny Fenton plagued Dash's thoughts, the image of Fenton at his door holding a wound, the way Fenton's eyes seemed to flash dangerously when he made Dash swear never to speak of it, threatening him. Dash couldn't shake those images away. The only escape for him would be to figure it out, find out the meaning of it all. Dash silently swore to himself he would do whatever it took.
(Random question of the day: Who is the voice actor for Tamaki Suo?)
Danny nervously rubbed his arm as he found his parents in the lab. Sam and Tucker behind him.
"Mom… Dad… can I… show you something?" Danny asked scared. He knew his parents would accept him, but… but still, it terrified him to think about what he was about to do. Danny waited as his mom looked up.
"Of course sweetie." She smiled, "What is it?" she asked. Danny rubbed his neck.
"You see… I kinda… ok… I…" Danny walked up to his mom, "I'm not sure how to say this… I mean it always seemed easier to have you find out on your own, never to tell you guys." Jack was now looking at his son curious.
"What's all this about Danny boy?" Jack asked. Danny seemed to crawl further into his shell.
"I… I think I'm dying." Danny said. Maddie and Jack exchanged looks, Danny held up his hands, "I know how it sounds, but I think it's the truth, and that the reason I wanted to tell you guys something before it happens. I need to know how long I have before I become a ghost… a full ghost." Danny said scrambling for the words.
"Honey… what are you talking about?" Maddie asked. Danny clenched his hands and squeezed his eyes shut.
"Can you promise me one thing…" Danny asked a tear leaking out of his eye.
"Danny, you're starting to scare me, what is it?" Maddie asked resting her hand on Danny's shoulder and kneeling down.
"Just remember that not all ghosts are evil, can you promise me that whatever happens in the next few minutes you'll still love me?" Danny asked hesitantly. Maddie hugged her baby boy.
"Of course, we'll always love you, what's with all this talk about ghosts?" Maddie asked, Danny opened his eyes.
"Mom… I… I'm…" Danny stopped the words stuck in his throat, he way starting to hyperventilate having a panic attack.
"Danny boy just spit it out." Jack encouraged.
"I'm… a…"
"Come on Danny it's ok." Maddie soothed.
"Just do it Danny." Tucker whispered.
"I-I-I…" Danny sputtered.
"Come on Danny." Jack said.
"Hurry Danny." Sam said.
"Come on sweetie, you can tell me anything." Maddie added.
"It's ok dude." Tucker assured.
"Tell us." Maddie said.
"Come on Danny boy." Jack said, Danny closed his eyes.
"IMMAGHOST!" He managed. Then he wrapped his arms around his mother like a child and started crying. Maddie hesitntaly held him back.
"Danny… are… are you ok?" she asked not sure if she heard that right.
"I'm sorry…" Danny cried, "I wanted to tell you, but you and dad… you always go on about ripping ghosts apart, and dissecting them, I was scared." Danny gripped his mom tight, Sam and Tucker exchanged a look, nodded to each other and slowly snuck upstairs.
"Danny boy? What are you talking about?" Jack asked his son. Danny held to his mother.
"I… I went into the ghost portal… I turned it on by accident, the switch, I leaned on it… I… it turned on while I was inside." Danny stumbled through the words. Maddie slowly got Danny to let go of her and she looked at him.
"You mean… you… you died in there?" Maddie asked horrified. Danny shook his head.
"Yes and no." Danny said embarrassed about his earlier actions. Maddie gripped her baby boy.
"Then why did you say you were a ghost?" Maddie asked. Danny took a deep breath.
"Because it made me half ghost… just half." Danny said. He looked at his hands, "I… I was scared, you both hate ghosts." Danny said, "I didn't know what to do. I… well I didn't think you'd understand, even after I knew you'd accept me it just seemed easier to lie about it, so you wouldn't blame yourselves or…" Maddie shushed him.
"So… what do you mean about how much time you have left?" Maddie asked looking at her baby. Danny went back to examining his hands.
"I… I think my ghost half is taking over; the ectoplasm is regenerating faster than my human blood and taking over my human half." Danny said, "It's just a guess, but I think I'm… I'm becoming a full ghost." Danny sighed. Jack looked at his son.
"We just find out our son is half ghost, and now he's dying?" Jack asked, he grabbed Maddie's hand, "We have to save him." He said, "He's my son." Maddie nodded.
"I know… Danny… what do you mean, how do you know." Maddie asked. Danny took another breathe.
"When I'm in human form I bleed regular blood, but in ghost form I bleed ectoplasm…" Danny sighed, "And I've been bleeding ectoplasm in human form." Danny finished.
"Wait, ghost form?" Jack stopped. Danny nodded.
"That's the other thing… my ghost half is…" Danny stepped back, "Goin' ghost." He called. Twin rings of light formed around Danny's waist one moving upward the other down, blue eyes turned green, black hair was replaced by white. Danny's street clothes disappeared and in its place was a familiar black and white jumpsuit. Maddie and Jack gapped at the ghost that stood where their son once did.
"Mom… dad?" Danny asked hesitantly, the ghostly echo to his voice and the glowing aura throwing his parents off.
"D-Danny?" Maddie asked stepping toward her son. Danny nodded.
"I wouldn't have told you… you just… I was scared." Danny said. Jack gapped.
"My son is Danny Phantom?" he asked.
"Well… Phantom… Fenton… it's kinda obvious." Danny said rubbing the back of his neck. The rings formed again and Danny Fenton stood where Danny Phantom had been. Maddie looked at her son.
"Mom…" Danny looked at his parents, "Dad… I want to know how much time I have left." Danny said, "Before I'm just… just a ghost." Danny looked down at his feet.
"Oh Danny." His parents enveloped him in a hug.
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Also please let me know if anything with the emotional bit seems a bit weird, I am a robot when it comes to emotions so I really mostly go off TV and such. I'm not good with feeling emotions or empathy or… well you get the point. So please, tell me if it seems too absurd. I'm great at pretending to feel emotion, I'm just not so sure about others. Also I've been told I'm good at those kinds of things, and apparently I've made people cry. I have to get really into a character for a while to get emotional so please tell me what weird.