Chapter 11: Remembering April 3rd
Danny slept in a dark alley way that night. He didn't want to go to Fenton Works, he didn't know when the Fenton's would be home. He did want to help his friend though, he was in trouble.
But what could he do? He was just a kid. He didn't know how do help. But he knew he had to. If he didn't, who would?
He thought about this long and hard, but he didn't know. Then he came to this thought, what would've happened if April 3rd had never happened.
April 3rd, the worst day of Danny's life. He hated that day since he was fourteen.
April 3rd, fourteen years in the past!
Danny, Tucker, and Sam were walking to school. They were laughing about something that had happened the other day. "And my fly was down the entire time," Tucker said.
His friends laughed. Sam stopped as soon as she saw something on the ground. "What's that?" Danny asked. "I don't know, it's some kind of book," Sam said looking at it.
The title said Dark Spirits and looked like it had gone through second World War.
That book was Danny's least favorite book in the world. He hated everything about it, especially, page 3.
Sam picked the book up and opened it up. "Whoa, look at this," she said. Her friends looked at the third page. "What a minute," Danny said. He grabbed the book out of her hands and read it. It said:
The Ghostly Amulet:
This amulet has special properties that allow any ghost to gain indescribable power. When used properly, the one wearing it can do what ever he wants.
Underneath the description, was an amulet. A solid gold chain holding a ruby red gem with a small emerald gem in the center of the gem. "I've seen this before, Frostbite's told me about it," Danny said studying the amulet carefully.
"What should we do with it?" Tucker asked. But before Danny could say anything, his ghost sense went off.
The three kids turned around to see a tall dark being above them. He wore a long blood red robe and a dark purple cloak over it. His face was dark blue and a green scar ran from his left eyebrow to the right corner of his lip and his short white hair with a black streak running from the tip of his forehead down his hair blew in the air.
The pupils of his blood red eyes were snake like slits. A small fang showed from the left corner of his mouth.
"Citizens of Amity Park, I have come to retrieve what is rightfully myn," he cried in a raspy almost golem like voice.
Danny felt a drop of sweat run down his cheek. He thought he would never think of that face again. Apparently, he was wrong.
Danny ran behind a mailbox and transformed into his ghost form, Danny Phantom. Still holding the book, Danny flew to the rescue.
Cheers from below him boosted his confidence and he confronted the ghost face to face.
"Return to me the dark spirits!" the ghost ordered. "I don't have any dark spirits," Danny said shooting a blast at the ghost's head.
The ghost's head spilt like some kind of gooey liquid and avoided the blast. As his head formed back, he hissed: "Fool! Do you think you can stop the mighty Sadister?!"
"Sadister? And thought Amorpho was a stupid name," Danny said. He shot another blast but Sadister avoided it with the same effect as before.
Danny curled up into a ball and started shivering, sweating harder.
Sadister stretched his arm out and an orb of red and black light flamed from his hand. The light shot out at Danny and pushed him back into a building, breaking through two walls in the process.
"Man, this guy's tough," Danny said. Sadister flew up to Tucker and Sam and said: "Where is the dark spirits?" "I think the correct way to say it is where ARE the dark spirits," Sam said.
Sadister's hand glowed the same red and black it had before and Sam said: "But you can say it however you want." "LEAVE THEM ALONE!" Danny yelled shooting another blast at Sadister. The ghost simply grabbed the blast and blasted Danny back into the building.
Danny could feel tears rolling down his cheek. He felt the wind brush against his hair. But he barely took notice of it, he was to busy thumbing through his horrible memories.
Danny got up and opened the book to page three. "If I want to stop him, I'll have to use this," he said ripping the page out. He tore the amulet off and threw the page and book aside.
He slipped the amulet around his neck and flew up to Sadister. "Leave my friends alone!" he demanded.
"That amulet, it's myn, give it to me! NOW!" Sadister spat. Danny got ready to shot, his hand glowing bright green. He shot his attack and Sadister reeled back into a building breaking through to the next building behind it.
"Wow, this thing really works," Danny said to himself. Sadister got back up and said: "You look familiar, you're Danny Phantom aren't you?" "So what?" Danny asked.
Sadister hissed angrily and shot his own attack. The blasted hit the green gem of the medallion. The medallion started glowing a bright red and spread from the gem to Danny's head.
Danny's eyes started changing from red to back until finally, they went back to their original color. Danny's facial expression changed though. He looked, evil.
Danny wiped his eyes curled up tighter. The wind blew harder and he shivered even more.
Danny rose into the air and blasted a nearby car. Sadister took no notice of this and tried attacking Danny again but Danny just avoided the blast in the same way Sadister had, only the blast had been at his stomach.
Danny blasted back and Sadister fell into a group of bystanders who were watching in fear. "Danny! Stop!" Sam called.
Danny didn't hear her. He tried blasting Sadister again, but Sadister jumped out of the way, allowing the blast to hit the bystanders.
"Danny! Seriously! Stop it! You're hurting people!" Tucker called. Danny still wasn't listening. Sadister tried blasting Danny again but hit the amulet again.
Danny gripped his sides as his body started glowing a bright red. He had almost completely lost himself to the power and blasted the next person who came his way. "DANNY! STOP!" his friends called to him.
Danny took no notice of them and started destroying everything in his path. Millions of people fled as these terrifying events happened.
A teenage girl, about eighteen was about to be shot by Danny, but Danny was stopped when Sadister rapped his arm around Danny's neck and snatched the amulet off of him.
Danny started glowing bright green and looked around. "Wha-what happened?" he asked. "You did this, you fool! You have no control!" Sadister said.
Tears poured out of Danny's eyes as he remembered seeing the look on his friend's faces.
Danny saw the amulet in his hands starting to glow red. Before anything else could happen, Danny snatched the amulet out of Sadister's hand.
"If I did this, I'm not gonna wait and see what you'd do with this!" Danny said putting the amulet around neck and tucking it under the collar of his shirt.
Sadister growled and lunged for Danny but Danny quickly stuck his hand in Sadister's face and froze it. He pulled out the Fenton thermos but before he could capture Sadister, his face had thawed.
The wicked ghost phased his hand through Danny's chest trying to grab the amulet, but instead, caused Danny to change back into his original form and fall to the ground.
Tucker and Sam ran to Danny. "Danny? Danny wake up!" Tucker said poking Danny's arm. Danny slowly opened his eyes but Tucker and Sam never saw them completely open, for Sadister had swiped him up by the neck, shocking him with a blood red lightning.
Danny's human form slowly dissolved into ghost as he fell back down to the ground. Before Sadister had the chance to destroy Danny's ghost, Sam kicked him in the face. Tucker grabbed the Fenton thermos and sucked Sadister into it.
"Danny?" Sam whispered. Tucker ran over to his friends. Danny slowly got up and looked around. He saw thousands of people lying lifelessly on the ground. It was his fault, he did this.
"This is you're fault, ghost kid!" someone shouted. "What is the meaning of this?" Vlad asked as he ran out of his mansion. "It's the ghost boy, Mr. Mayor, he killed dozens of people," a bystander said.
Danny flew up into the air as millions below him shouted in anger: "GET OUT!" or "GO AWAY!" or "LEAVE US ALONE!" or the worst in his opinion: "I THOUGHT YOU WERE A HERO! GUESS I WAS WRONG!"
"Fine! I'll leave! And I'll never come back! NEVER!" Danny cried, chocking on the last word. With that, he flew off, never to be seen again.
There was a crack of thunder and rain poured down on Danny's head. He awoke instantly and looked around. He wiped his face and got up. "It was just a dream, right?" he asked himself.
Just then, someone in the window above him cried: "IT'S THE GHOST BOY! SOMEBODY CALL THE POLICE! IT'S THE GHOST BOY!" "Ghost boy?" someone from next door asked.
As soon as he opened the window and saw Danny, he cried: "AH THE GHOST KID! EVERYONE! RUN!" Danny gasped and flew away.
He didn't know where to go. Where could he go? He was public enemy number one again. But then he remembered Tucker's daughter. He flew off to Tucker's house and saw a dim light in the top window.