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Thank you all for reviewing! *smiles happily but then frowns* Hook did manage to butt his head into this chapter. Luckily I found out about it and edited MOST of it out. He was mad at me at first but is now at least talking to me because I relented and put some of it back in. So, sorry about his interference it was either that or he would've started a fight with Vlad which always gets very messy. Anyways, Enjoy!
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Chapter Four
It was noon and Vlad still hadn't woken up, he was breathing and all but he was acting as if he were dead.
"Leave him alone, sweetie. He's probably exhausted from whatever he's got." Danny's mother told him, leaning over the unconscious man and switching the cloth on Vlad's head for a new one.
Danny reluctantly stepped back from 'Uncle Vlad' and glared at the unconscious man. They hadn't stayed up THAT late from their conversation last night and even if they had, surely he would've been awake by now.
Danny looked around to make sure his mother had left the vicinity and headed over to the closed drapes across from Vlad. He walked towards the fabric and pulled the separate pieces away from each other. A painful cry from the couch confirmed his suspicion "Rise and shine V-man!" he whispered happily to the grumbling man on the sofa.
"Daniel shut those curtains right now" the ornery man hissed. The sunlight felt like it was drilling holes through his skull!
"You're not a very happy camper are you?" Daniel teased but noticed that the man was breathing heavily in pain; he frowned but then shrugged it off.
"No I'm not. I'm sick, I have to put up with your idiot father and now I'm being woke up in the middle of the night by a cruel teenager."
"It's noon you fruit loop!"
"Exactly my point" Vlad thought
"Danny, we're going to be in the other room to call Jazz and tell her that we'll be here for a couple more days. And then we're going to go to town for a while. Keep an eye on Vlad won't you?" His mom called, Danny looked up and shouted that he would then glanced back down at the hybrid on the couch.
Vlad was clutching his head in pain not only from Danny's shouting but also from the sunlight now shooting in the room. Apparently sunlight gave him a headache, no wonder vampires didn't go out during the day.
"Maybe I should get a coffin and sleep in it then nobody would bother me." he thought humorlessly. How was he going to convince Daniel to leave him alone? He looked up at his oppressor and growled "Close the drapes now you little rat!
"How are you going to make me? You can't even turn into Plasmius right now."
"Really?" the aggravated man stood up and morphed, instantly wishing he hadn't but not showing any of his inner feelings to the boy. He grinned through his pain "Surprised? Now go close the curtains!"
Danny almost refused but he couldn't help but see an opportunity to throw a jab in "Fine I will but only because I don't fight men that are sick both in mind and body."
Vlad glowered but let it go; he couldn't summon any energy right now to fight the boy with anyways. He changed back to Masters and went right back to the hated couch that he was going to sell right as soon as this fiasco was over. In a matter of minutes the man was back asleep.
The young hybrid sighed; this was going to be one of the most boring summer vacations in history. He would have almost preferred it if Vlad had had something up his sleeve, he picked up a random book off of a nearby shelf "Peter Pan" he read aloud. "Hmmm. Well I've never actually read it so maybe I should try it. Hey fruit loop I'm borrowing your book!" there was no response so Daniel just shrugged and sat in a chair where he could keep an eye on the man and started to read.
It was around seven when the older hybrid began to stir, Danny saw this "About time cheese-head! Did you know you are in this book?"
Masters turned so he was sitting on the couch and looked over at the boy "Really? Which book would you be referring to?"
"Peter Pan. The villain in here also has eyes that turn red when he's mad. Never knew you wanted a mother though. No wonder you're such a fruit loop."
"Really, and if I'm Hook, would that make you Peter Pan, an uneducated boy who flits around avoiding real work and doesn't even know how to write his own name."
Danny growled at Vlad's comeback and the man just smirked "Nice to see that you know how to read. I had almost forgotten you could."
Danny's eyes turned green but Vlad just laughed "Really Daniel, you picked this verbal fight and now you almost seem to want it to end. Have I beaten you this quickly?"
That's when the teen's parents walked in the room "V-man! You're awake! How are you feeling?"
"Just fine. Listen why don't you two go on home to Amity? You can leave the boy here with me if you want. I'm sure you have some important things to do back at your house."
Danny looked at his parents pleadingly "Say no. say no. say no!"
His father misinterpreted his imploring look and said "Why sure! It looks like Danny wants to stay here anyways. Come on Mads! Let's go." He grabbed his wife's arm and they bounded out the door to the Fenton Family Assault Vehicle and soon they were headed back home.
Vlad turned to face the enraged teen who spouted "Why'd you do that? I thought that you wanted me out of your hair?"
"I did but I changed my mind. You can be useful to have around. Vlad calmly replied. "Especially for dinner."
The teen was a bit confused by the man's change of mind but concluded that a fruit loop was bound to be weird now and then now he was stuck here with Vlad and he had no real way home so he figured he had to deal with it. "Well, I'm starved what's for dinner?"
"You." Vlad thought then wondered what the boy would do if he said it aloud. The teen was still waiting for an answer "There is food in the kitchen. I'm sure you have enough imagination to whip something up for yourself."
"Why don't you have servants?"
"I do but I sent him on a vacation."
"Lucky duck, he doesn't have to be stuck with you." The boy grumbled but headed for the kitchen. Vlad watched him go and then pulled out his laptop and started to work on things for his company. He was still typing when he noticed Danny looking over his shoulder
"That's rude Daniel. Didn't your father teach you anything, no wait he couldn't because he's Jack Fenton."
The teen's eyes flashed the other color but he ignored the jab "I'm bored Plasmius."
"Bored? How could you be bored? I have everything here that you could want and more. Besides in a few hours you'll be going to bed anyways." Vlad said turning back to his computer. Danny slammed the top of the laptop down on the man's fingers "Yaargh!"
"What's the big deal of making me come here and then ignoring me Vlad? You have to have something up your sleeve and I'm not going to believe that you want me here just for companionship!"
"Oh believe me Daniel when I tell you that you are already serving your purpose here. As for what you do while you are here I could care less. There are stables, a swimming pool, library, and even a simulation room to practice your powers in, but you will leave me alone to do my work."
"Fine!" the teen yelled and stalked away.
"Finally" Vlad thought and turned back to his computer.
Danny fumed in his guest room, he wasn't about to let Plasmius get away with this. Then a thought entered in his mind "What does he do during the night that makes him so tired during the day?" He smiled, it was time to play "spy" with Uncle Vlad.
Vlad glanced down at his watch, he was pretty sure the boy would be asleep by now. He grabbed the equipment from the earlier nights use, morphed and headed for Danny's room.
Danny had been invisible for a little over an hour now watching Vlad do nothing. He stifled a yawn and looked back at the man about ready to give up and go to bed until he noticed Vlad put his laptop away and grab the items that the older hybrid had made him fetch yesterday. Vlad turned into Plasmius and headed towards him. Danny suppressed a yelp of surprise when he realized that the man was heading for his room. He turned tail and flew towards his room, quickly morphed and hopped into the bed and threw the covers over himself.
After phasing through Danny's room Vlad laid the things on the ground and looked over at the boy. The boy was lying on his side with his face towards Plasmius.
Danny held his breath peering through slit eyes, hoping that the older hybrid would believe that he was asleep.
When he was satisfied that the boy wasn't going to stir anytime soon, Vlad took the needle and attached it to the tube.
Danny's eyes would've widened in fear if he hadn't reminded himself that he needed to keep up the pretense of sleep.
The older crossbreed rearranged Danny's arm and plunged the needle into a vein.
Danny let out a quiet hiss of pain but otherwise remained quiet; he vaguely wondered why Vlad needed his blood. Was it for a test? To make better weapons against him? He hoped not, his enemy was already powerful enough; the only way to find out was to wait. The younger hybrid slowly moved his eyes down the tube to find a cup filling with his blood; he swallowed when he heard Vlad whispering.
"I'm truly sorry about this little badger but it's either this or I die."
Die? Was Vlad researching for a way to cure himself of the poison? Why didn't he use his own blood then?
Plasmius removed the needle from the boy's arm and put his thumb on the hole until it stopped bleeding. He reached down and picked up the cup and looked at his dinner. "Guten Essen." He chuckled to himself and began to drink.
Danny sat bolt upright and fell off of the bed causing Vlad to choke on his drink spilling blood over the cup's edges and on his gloved hands. Danny just stared as visions of Vlad flashed through his head: Vlad sleeping through the day, his agonized groan when the sunlight was brought in, his surprise at his fangs and now the sight of the hybrid drinking blood. Vlad was a vampire! Danny started shaking in fear.
"Daniel, you were supposed to be asleep for this."
"I'm glad I wasn't you..you..you..you leech!"
"Daniel if there was any other way, believe me I would take it but the only other option I have is this or extinction."
Danny stared from the man to the glass of blood back to Vlad again. "Will I be like this too?"
Plasmius sighed and reluctantly put down his unfinished dinner "No, little badger, you will not. This is the result of the poison I told you about."
"You're kidding."
"How I wish I was." The man said sadly and proceeded to tell Danny everything, from the necklace to his failed attempt at drinking normal human blood, everything that is except for what the necklace did. He didn't think Daniel would appreciate it. "If you don't mind I'd like to finish my dinner." Plasmius went back to the blood and proceeded to imbibe it.
Danny made a face as Plasmius licked the red stain off of his lips, the man's fangs gleaming with the boy's blood. "So, how are you going to get rid of this… uh vampirism?"
"I wasn't." Vlad said licking the blood off of his gloved hands.
"What! Vlad you can't just keep feeding off of me. I have to go back home sometime. Plus, doesn't this gross you out?"
"Only a little, frankly it tastes quite good."
Danny stuck his tongue out "I'm saying this again you are one seriously crazed up frui- agh!" he screamed as Plasmius sent two bolts his way. The energy missed but Danny realized that Vlad was weaker than he had let on because the man was now in Masters form sitting on the chair holding his head.
"This vampire stuff has really messed you up hasn't it?" Masters shot him a what-do-you-think look and Danny continued "Well maybe if you returned that necklace thingy your…curse will go away."
"That thought has already occurred to me; unfortunately I'm in no state to fight anything if I had to. So really I'm forced to stay here until my full powers return. They have only since started to come back in view of the fact that I've been drinking your blood."
"What makes you think you're going to the ghost zone by your lonesome?"
The vampire/ghost stared at Danny in shock then laughed quietly "Well, if I had known that this was the only way to make you join me I would've done this sooner."
"I'm NOT joining you! I'm just making sure that I don't have to be your dinner longer than I need to."
"All right then Daniel, but I still have to regain my powers before I even attempt to go in there." Here the man paused and smiled at an opportunity to rattle the teen's cage "Do you think you could spare any more blood. I'm terribly thirsty."
"What! No! You've already had some!"
Vlad chuckled and walked out of the teen's room.
Eventually over the next few weeks Vlad regained his powers. Danny watched in fascination as Plasmius practiced in the simulation room. The man was more powerful than he had thought
"All right Daniel out. The show is over" said a Plasmius clone that appeared in the control room where Danny had been watching.
"But he's still practicing, and it's pretty awesome to watch."
"Maybe, but we're not about to reveal all of our powers to one we consider an enemy. Now OUT!" the duplication grabbed the boy by his shirt front and walked him out of the simulation room and set him down but the copy looked like he had no intention of leaving the boy's side.
"I'm out. You can leave me alone now."
"Hardly, you would try to sneak back to watch."
Danny grumbled, that had been his plan then he smiled and went invisible but this attempt was thwarted by the clone grabbing the front of his shirt, as though he could see it. "Nice try boy."
Meanwhile the real Vlad Plasmius chuckled at the boy's stubbornness. He received the memories from his clone and told the duplication through his mind what to do. He gathered that the boy had gone invisible and sent the message for his clone to listen for the boy's heartbeat and aim for it.
He nodded when the replica of himself transmitted the fact that he had caught the boy successfully. And while doing this entire thing he was fighting the guns that kept launching attacks towards him. He voice commanded the guns to stop and floated down towards the ground.
He asked his clone if he was still in control of Danny and when the reply was affirmative he practiced his new power. His fangs now on command could drip acid that could eat through almost anything. It had probably come about with his vampirism but he didn't care, a power was a power. He almost regretted the possibility of losing it. He called for the simulation room to bring up a sheet of strong metal. He walked over to it and sprayed the red venom at it, in a matter of seconds the piece had disappeared into a thick, grey, bubbling mass. Oh yes he would definitely miss this attack.
The two hybrids sped across the Ghost Zone side by side; Vlad reflected that this was how things should be. He looked at the younger one with sadness, the only reason Danny was now at his side was because he no longer wanted to be on the menu, not that Vlad blamed him.
When they approached the cave Vlad motioned Danny to his side "I'm going to send in a duplicate first to see if there is any real trouble." The other half-ghost nodded in agreement and watched as Vlad sent out his duplicate.
To the creatures watching inside the cave it appeared that Vlad Plasmius had come at last. The cloaked figure flew into the cavern and floated there waiting, when nothing happened he put the necklace back where he had gotten it from. A cold voice chuckled "It's going to take more than that to change you back."
Vlad glanced around but he still couldn't see the owner of the voice "Clearly there are more of you vermin than I thought."
"Just remember when you say 'vermin' to include yourself Vlad Plasmius."
"Hmmm. Tell me then how exactly do I get rid of this vampirism?"
"What's in it for me?"
"Ah, so that's how you want to play the game." Plasmius whipped to his right and let out a beam of energy from his hand getting a satisfying yell when the blast hit its intended target. He walked over and picked the vampire up by its shirt. Now that he could see it clearly it looked just like any other human unless you counted the fact that it had long fangs and his eyes were pitch black. "Your reward will be your life." The hybrid hissed his red eyes glinting.
The vampire threw back its head and laughed, immediately several other vampires surrounded Vlad and pinned his arms behind his back. His voice became cool once more "I ask again hybrid, what do I gain from telling you?"
The crossbreed didn't look at all concerned about his predicament instead he glanced at the thing confronting him and then at the beings holding his arms "It seems there is a mix of both human vampires and ghost vampires. Am I correct in assuming each type has to drink from said like type? Don't answer that I know it is true."
"Don't change the subject. What would we gain in telling you?"
"There are quite a bunch of you; one wonders why you even want to be stuck in this situation, being forced to feed off your own kind."
That's when he chuckled "Is it because you don't know?"
He looked around at the faces surrounding him "No, that's not it is it? It seems that whatever each of you has to do has you…frightened. The question that remains is 'Why?' or perhaps 'What?'."
The lead vampire frowned at Vlad "Observant. But what do we get out of telling you?"
"Perhaps your freedom from this curse?" the man suggested lifting an eyebrow. The vampire's face broke into a smile and Vlad knew that he had suggested the right thing.
"Vlad this is SO boring." They had been waiting for half an hour doing nothing.
"Maybe from your view, but to me this is all quite fascinating." Vlad replied, then looked down at his watch and it confirmed as to why he was feeling a bit groggy, it was time to end the conversation between his duplicate and the vampires. He smiled when he received the message that they offered him a place to sleep. He had his clone decline and head back towards him. The two Plasmius joined together in a flash of pink energy. "Time to go Daniel."
"What?! But we haven't learned anything yet!"
"You might not have but I have. Let's go, we'll talk more later."
Danny looked at the clock, it said six and he decided that Uncle Vlad could stand a wakeup call. He found a bucket that was around the house and filled it with cold water. He morphed and flew the bucket to Vlad's room and looked down at the sleeping billionaire, he smiled wickedly and dumped the water. The man woke up with a gasp and started spluttering and coughing "I'm going to kill that boy even if it's the last thing I do!" The older hybrid climbed down from his soggy bed and glared at the other but grabbed clothes and headed into his bathroom and slammed the door behind him, bending the fragile wood.
Danny chuckled "That had been so worth it. I wonder what he would've done if I said wakey wakey?"*****
When Vlad came out he noticed Danny hovering over his bed smiling at the man, but the older crossbreed just smiled back. This made Danny a bit apprehensive, that hadn't been a nice smile but he soon realized why. "Daniel I'm going to need some of your blood."
The way Vlad said that made Danny shiver but he just nodded and flew over to the man. "I need you to be in human form. I don't really want to drink ectoplasm." Danny changed and held out his arm, making a face as the man scrubbed it with alcohol and pricked it with a needle.
Vlad smirked at a sudden thought of how to get back at the boy; he stuck the end of the tube in his mouth as if it were a straw, completely ignoring the cup.
This freaked Danny out "Vlad cut it out!" but this only made the older hybrid smile and he continued to suck. Finally he started to get full, he could've drunk more but he didn't want to cause his little badger to faint. He pulled the needle out of Danny's arm and sucked the remaining blood from the tube. Danny rubbed his arm "So what did the vampires tell you?"
"Apparently there is an ancient artifact called the Vampirblut. No one knows what it looks like but they do know that it can change any vampire back."
"So where do we find this…vandirbut?
"It's Vampirblut Daniel." Danny shot him a whatever-look and the man continued "That is what we are going back tonight to find out."
*****I used to say this to my older sister to wake her up. To this day if you say it she immediately becomes cranky. And yes I have pulled Danny's stunt on Vlad on my poor sister :)
Vlad: And tell them what your sister did to retaliate
Peterandhook: Not yet, they have to wait a while.
Until next time!