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I'm SO sorry about how late I am with this chapter the thing is I watched something else to get off Dr. Who and now the thing I watched is my craze…Oh well.
I had to do a lot of homework for this silly chapter…hope you appreciate it.
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THE DANNY PHANTOM I OWN NOT(sorry felt like yoda for a minute)-no I don't own him either
Chapter Seven
Red, pupil-less eyes stared in amazement at the room the owner had just entered and in a minute green eyes also popped open.
Grandiose pillars lined the chamber; lotuses were carved at the top of the columns while writing adorned the length of the supports. Upon the walls of the chamber were Egyptian hieroglyphs all depicting a lion-headed woman. The scenes ranged from her healing people to the goddess decapitating people in battle.
Danny looked at one picture of her bearing down on the enemy with rapt attention, noticing with amusement that it was right next to a healing scene "Great she's bipolar…whoever she is."
Vlad was a little graver about the situation than Danny was but that was because the image he was studying gave him a sense of recognition. The illustration was of the lion-headed goddess biting down on the neck of a helpless victim, blood spilling down the sides of the skin. Vlad slid his eyes to the right and jumped a little when the Egyptian lettering rearranged itself to where he could understand it.
"Danny can you read the writing?"
"Do I LOOK like an archeologist Plasmius?"
"So it is just doing it for me. Blast!" He had been half-heartedly hoping that Danny could read it too. He returned his gaze and read the inscription
–The Scarlet Lady awaits you Vlad Plasmius-
"Butter brinkles!" The man took a hurriedly step back from the wall and glanced around the room to see if it was the same. He breathed a sigh of relief when he realized that he couldn't read the other transcriptions but the relieved feeling didn't last long. His eyes made their way back to the message but his thoughts were scattered by a certain white-haired ghost.
"Vlad who is this bipolar Egyptian thingy?"
Vlad almost laughed at loud at the boy "Bipolar?! My boy she isn't bipolar, she is just like any other god or goddess. She heals those who are just and kills off those who aren't."
"So technically you would be dead now, right?"
Plasmius scowled at the teen and spoke through gritted teeth "No Daniel I would not be because in her book I would have done nothing unjust."
"Riiight like trying to kill another man isn't unjust."
"This is the goddess of war Daniel, as long as I am doing it for a good cause, it isn't un-honorable."
Daniel grumped something about Plasmius having no REAL cause to kill his dad but instead of staying on this topic he changed the subject "So who is she?"
"This is Sekhmet, the goddess of war and healing also known for up keeping law and order."
"Soooo… Why is she in a vampire-themed maze?"
The older hybrid sighed and looked back at the message "Because she was known for her blood lust in battle Daniel." He turned away from the message and grabbed Daniel from where the teen was examining some picture "Let's go little badger I've had enough of this room."
The next room they entered wasn't much better though, the designs in the place were of Mayan origin. The images depicted a strange half human half bat creature sucking blood and yet… Vlad stepped closer to one of the images for a closer look and his suspicions were confirmed. Next to the bat was a woman who also had her teeth bared. In fact, looking around the room, he noticed it was less of the male and more of the female.
Danny also was inspecting the artwork but for a totally different reason, he was trying to mimic the faces on the walls.
Vlad almost jumped when the letters once again rearranged themselves to where he could read them
– Do not keep Camozotz's Mistress waiting-
He growled to himself and looked over to see what Danny was doing. He rolled his eyes when he noticed the boy sticking his tongue out in an attempt to copy the stone's expression. Crossing over to the teen and grabbing him by the back of his jumpsuit he quickly pulled him towards the exit of the room.
Danny back-pedaled as fast as he could so he wouldn't tip over silently vowing to himself that he'd make Vlad pay somehow.
The older hybrid was beginning to get annoyed with the theme of the various rooms. Apparently, whoever had built this place constructed it with the pure intent of honoring all of the vampire goddesses, but it didn't mean that it made the reminder to his state any less infuriating. And what about the text translating itself to a condition where he was able to understand it? He never noticed the little black swirls that appeared in his eyes.
Plasmius almost let out a yell of frustration when the chamber ahead of both crossbreeds showed him that it was about identical to the first two. The only thing that separated it from the first two rooms was that it was Greek in architecture. The man bared his teeth in barely contained rage as he noticed once again the vampiric matter.
Danny walked over to one of the walls and looked up at the figure that was portrayed. It was a beautiful woman whose hair flowed back from her head in a fiery gold tangle. The woman's teeth were shown as pointed daggers and… "Wait does this person have a donkey leg?" The teen scrunched his eyes up and moved his head towards the image until he concluded that 'yes she did'.
With gritted teeth the vampire/ghost stalked over to one of the pillars that adorned the room, determined NOT to look at any more messages. He leaned against the supporting stone and closed his eyes in an even further attempt to ignore the strange epistles. He didn't rest for long on the stone column because he felt a searing pain travel through the shoulder. He turned around sharply to see just what had burned him and glared hatefully at the column as words appeared on it
–Empusa is amused-
The older hybrid sighed tiredly, pinching his nose as a headache started to assail him. His anger towards the messages had fizzled out to be replaced by pure weariness of this whole venture. He hadn't drunk any blood from his younger counterpart since he had almost lost control. The man knew that this would lead to him becoming weaker and that if they were to defeat the Vampirblut's guardian he would need to be at full strength. But he was stopped by the ever present image of his dream. He slid down the column and put his head in his left hand. He looked over at the young crossbreed, which was currently engrossed in the image of the Greek goddess, and felt a pang of…fear the black swirlies in his eyes fading out.
The teen was suddenly aware of Vlad's intense stare and turned around to face him. He narrowed his green eyes when he noticed Plasmius sitting on the ground with his head in his hand. "What the heck?" After wondering why, it suddenly hit him. He crossed over to the man and morphed into Fenton.
Vlad raised an eyebrow at the boy "What is it Daniel?"
In answer Danny held his arm out towards Plasmius "Blood, fruitloop."
The vampire/ghost turned his head from the teen "Maybe later, Daniel."
The boy frowned at Vlad, bringing his arm back to his side, until a thought entered his brain. He would have to be careful though because he would be playing with fire. He turned his arm over and ripped off the scab that had formed ignoring Vlad's protest.
Vlad had watched Danny curiously until he noticed the boy reach for the healing layer and had leapt to his feet "Daniel NO!" But it was too late the smell of fresh blood reached his nose and he inhaled it greedily and stared at the lovely red liquid pouring over the boy's skin. He licked his lips but tried to hang on.
"Stubborn Cheese- head." Danny thought grumpily as the vampire before him still continued to fight with himself. He supposed that this was a good thing because it meant that Vlad was still coherent enough not to go 'hungry-monster'* on him. He narrowed his eyes at Plasmius, who was now shaking with the effort to control himself. Danny stuck one of his fingers in the red and looked at it then flicked it at Vlad's face where it landed just below the man's nose.
Vlad felt the liquid hit him and quickly licked it off, savoring the taste of it on his tongue. He turned his gaze to the proffered arm and slowly stepped forward; doing everything he could to keep from leaping towards the boy's blood. Finally he put his lips around the wound and started to drink, mentally counting how many mouthfuls he partook. He stopped when he drank down four gulps, he wanted more but he forced the feeling down.
Danny morphed back into Phantom and locked gazes with Vlad who was now giving the teen a stern glare.
"What would you have done, dear boy, if I hadn't been able to control myself?"
Danny stared down at his boots while thinking "I honestly don't know Vlad. But something made me trust you." but he couldn't say that…not to his arch-enemy. Instead he met the man's red eyes and said in what he hoped was a convincing voice "Shot you into the wall."
Vlad could sense that it was a lie but decided not to pursue the matter; he turned towards the archway that led out of the room and gestured towards it with an arm "Shall we?"
Danny nodded and they both set out to see what the next room held for the both of them.
It was pitch black and not even with the combined light of their energies were they able to see anything. Plasmius wasn't too happy at the prospect of proceeding because the possibility that there might be anything in front of them: traps, monsters, pits and who knew what else. They could have flown to avoid pits but that could lead to impaling themselves on possible stalactites** and they could be exhausting much needed energy. So it was that they found themselves proceeding cautiously.
Danny let out a yell of pain when he stubbed his toe on something, effectively freezing Vlad in place.
"What is it?" the man hissed.
"Nothing" the teen gurgled out, trying not to cuss "I just stubbed my toe."
"Oh you poor thing." Vlad said dryly rolling his eyes.
If there had been any REAL light Vlad would have seen Danny scowl in his general direction but as it was the older hybrid was spared the teen's glare. Danny was rewarded when he heard a hiss of pain to his right "What's the matter fruit-loop, deed you stub yo poow wittle toe?"
Vlad fisted his hands and gritted his teeth "Do NOT shoot the boy. Do NOT shoot the boy. You need the little rat."The man ran his good foot back and forth along the ledge and then up until he felt his foot slide over the top of it. "Come Daniel, it's just a flight of stairs"
Danny glowered again but followed the older crossbreed anyways.
Both hybrids almost fell flat on their faces when they both stepped up expecting another step when in truth there wasn't any. "Now what cheese-head?"
Truthfully the vampire/ghost had no idea, but he wasn't about to let his young counterpart know that "Follow me."
Danny lit up his hand with hopes that it would now be enough light to see by but it was once again almost smothered by the blackness. He switched it off with a sigh but was surprised when Vlad illuminated his own hand "What's the point Vlad? If I couldn't see then surely you can't either."
The man couldn't help but sound smug with his next sentence "YOU might not be able to Daniel but I can."
Danny was surprised "How?"
"Use your brain Daniel. Why do you think I'm able to?"
Danny thought about it for a minute and then felt completely stupid, the obvious answer was because Vlad was now a vampire and not only did he have the special ability of his ghost powers but now he had vampire abilities too. "Oh. Ok then what do you see?"
"It appears that we are in a throne room, but I can't tell exactly what type of throne room it is."
"What do you mean by that? All a throne room needs a big chair in the center of the room."
The older crossbreed rolled his eyes towards heaven and pinched his nose in an effort to be patient with the boy "Each civilization has its own unique type of throne room and we have just been through three different rooms each of which portrayed three distinctive cultures." He looked around the chamber "And this looks as if someone smashed all of those societies together."
"Smashed?"
"Perhaps not the right word for it. This throne room is rather remarkable."
Danny sighed, he kinda wanted to see the surrounding room but not enough to become a leech. "How could these people build something so cool but forget to leave torches?"
Vlad felt a corner of his mouth lift in a smile at the boy's words but the teen did have a point. The man looked around the chamber until he spotted what he was searching for. He moved towards the torch and then changed the energy around his hand into dancing flames, effectively causing the torch to sputter to life.
Danny scowled at Vlad "Why didn't you do that earlier?"
Vlad just smirked, not bothering to answer the young hybrid's question.
"Ummm Vlad we have a bit of a problem."
"Hmmmm." Vlad said as he moved around lighting the other torches with his red fire.
"There are no other exits out. We've reached a dead end."
Plasmius now done with his temporary task turned towards the throne and then plopped down in it.
Danny raised an eyebrow at Vlad, or at least tried to; he had never really mastered that little trick. He knew by the man's face that he had slaughtered it this time too, scowling at the older hybrid he proceeded "Maybe there's something we have to blow up or a hidden switch."
"Where on earth is he getting these ideas from?" The man thought successfully pulling the stunt that the boy had just failed at, earning him angry daggers from Danny "And may I know where you achieved such great inspirations from?"
"Well you know in Zelda*** how there's always a brick wall that can be blown up or a hidden switch somewhere…." The boy trailed off realizing how stupid his explanation was.
"Ah the mind of a teenager, forever on their games." Vlad rolled his eyes and was about to say something when all of the lights flickered out.
The white haired ghost's eyes widened and he moved his eyes towards where he last saw Plasmius "What did you do that for?"
"I did nothing" the man growled.
A new voice cut in "That would be me."
*I know I stole this phrase from pearl's review
**I always forget which one is which so I probably got that wrong.
***Here, I am poking fun at myself because this is actually the source where I first got the idea to do a dungeony thing.
Once again I apologize for how LATE this is, hope you enjoyed it.