Chapter 13: When Danny Fled
At Axion Lab, Valerie was searching through a cabinet in her desk. "Gah! Where is it?" she hissed. "Where's what, Miss Gray?" Valerie heard. She wheeled around and saw Vlad.
"Oh, mayor Masters," Valerie said calming down a little bit. "Oh please, you don't have to address me so formally, you may simply call me Vlad," Vlad said slyly.
"Alright, Vlad, I'm just looking for something," Valerie said going back to her desk. "What is it you're looking for?" Vlad asked a bit suspiciously.
"Just the ghost shield password so no stupid ghosts come in," Valerie said accidentally crumpling a paper in her hand at the word 'ghost'.
"I understand perfectly, well you get back to your work then, see you at the memorial," Vlad said leaving. "Bye," Valerie said.
She shuffled some papers around and pulled out something. A picture. It was a picture of her and Danny Fenton when they were fourteen.
She missed Danny, she liked him, a lot. She had almost been asked to be his girlfriend, but she had turned him down. Not because she didn't want to, but because she thought he would get hurt if any ghosts attacked.
It didn't matter though, he was gone and it was all the ghost boy's fault. Everything was the ghost boy's fault.
She stuck the picture back in the cabinet and slammed it shut. She looked around her desk and found the paper with the password on it. She grabbed it and ran to the front.
She typed in: Ghost Gauntlet and a ghost shield appeared around Axion Lab. "That should do it," she said. She stuffed the paper into her pocket and walked to her car, which was outside the ghost shield. Gladly, the rain had stopped.
Before she had the chance to start it, she heard a beeping noise. She looked at her green bracelet with the Axion symbol on it. It was flashing a small red light, it meant ghosts. Valerie pressed a button on the bracelet and her red robotic ghost hunting outfit appeared on her in a split second.
She scanned the skies but didn't see anything, until she saw a black and white dot. Her jet board appeared under her feet and she flew up to the dot.
The dot turned out to be someone she hoped she would never see again. The ghost boy, with blue Capri pants dangling off his left leg, was floating in front of her.
He pulled the Capri pants off, threw them aside and said: "Uh, is this a bad time?" "The worst time," Valerie spat holding out her hand. A pink beam of energy shot from her palm and blew Danny back.
"Wait, Valerie, STOP! Someone might hear us," he begged. "Let them hear, you're the reason this is going on," Valerie said pointing down at a grave nearby Axion Lab underneath the ghost shield.
"But, I didn't mean to," Danny said looking like he was ready to cry. "That's what you say about everything, huh?" Valerie snapped.
"I mean it Valerie! I didn't mean for that to happen! It just did!" Danny said. And WHY did it happen?" Valerie asked.
"I-I can't tell you," Danny said. "Of course you can't!" Valerie shouted. "It's just, you wouldn't understand!" Danny said.
"WHY WOULDN'T I UNDERSTAND GHOST BOY? WHY?" Valerie shouted. "Because-because if-if I-I mean if-because…you just wouldn't, OKAY?!" Danny said.
"Why?! Because you're an evil, heartless JERK?!" Valerie snapped. Danny felt a tear roll down his cheek and said: "I'm NOT evil, and I'm NOT heartless!" "But you admit you're a jerk?" Valerie asked.
"I was to you, I mean, we kept fighting all the time, I got you into a lot of trouble, I accidentally got coffee all over your shirt…" Danny trailed off.
"Wait a minute, I don't remember you getting coffee on my shirt, that's what Danny Fenton did when we first met," Valerie said. "Uh, right!" Danny said.
Valerie looked at him funny for a while then said: "What's with you? You attack people and killed all these people, and you act like you can't believe you did that."
Danny looked down for a second and said: "Well, yeah! I mean, wouldn't you feel horrible if you hurt people?" "Yeah, good thing you're not a person," Valerie said shooting Danny with her palm blast again.
Danny was blown back so hard, he hit the dirt and almost made a perfect outline of his body in the mud. His head was pounding and he saw something familiar.
Danny was sitting Indian style in the snow, his hands holding up his head as he looked out into space.
"What's wrong?" Danny heard. He didn't have to turn around to know it was his yeti-like friend, frostbite. Frostbite was completely covered in white fur, except for a part of his face which was gray, he had horns made of ice and his left arm was entirely made of ice, his bones visible through it. He wore some sort of blue tribal outfit and had yellow eyes with purple pupils.
"Nothing," Danny said looking down. "You've been so moody since you asked me to live here, what's wrong?" Frostbite asked. Danny knew he wouldn't leave until he got an answer. He sighed and said: "I've just been trying to deal with something."
Frostbite glared at him. He was hiding something. "What happened? It's been fourteen years since you came here and you haven't even bothered thinking about going back."
"I'm never back," Danny said looking away from Frostbite. Frostbite sighed and said: "Alright, but if you ever DO want to go back, you can go."
Danny sniffled and said nothing. Frostbite started walking back to his village when he heard something. He turned around and saw two ghosts who guarded the Observant High Council fly up to them.
"We're doing a search of this area," one of them said. "Why exactly?" Frostbite asked. "We have reason to believe that the Ghostly Amulet is around here somewhere," the other one said.
Danny's head popped up. He turned around and looked at the ghosts. "I don't know what you're talking about, I haven't seen that thing in centuries," Frostbite said.
"Don't lie to us, the tracker says that it's in this area," the first ghost said. "Then it's wrong," Frostbite said.
"It's never wrong, where is it?" the second ghost asked sharply. Danny gasped. The ghosts turned around and Danny slapped both hands over his mouth.
"Search him," the first ghost said. The second ghost pinned Danny's hands behind his back and the first ghost ran a tracker over Danny's body. When it reached his chest, it started beeping rapidly, Danny gasped.
"Hand it over kid," the ghost said reaching for Danny's collar. Danny kicked the ghost away from him.
He jumped up and kicked the ghost holding him with both feet. The ghosts yelped in pain and Danny ran for it.
"Where are you going? Danny!" Frostbite called. Danny was too scared to stop and say anything, he just ran past Frostbite.
"Where are you going?! DANNY!" Frostbite called running after him. Just then, out of nowhere, more guards appeared and surrounded the two ghosts.
Danny blasted a few of the guards out of the way and grabbed Frostbite's un-icy arm. Danny ran as fast as his legs could take him without looking back, Frostbite close behind him.
They finally reached a vacant cave and ran into it, Danny blocked the entrance with a 4 inch thick wall. He fell on his back, breathing hard.
"What…was that…all about?" Frostbite asked, also breathing hard. "Nothing," Danny said pushing himself up with his elbows. He rubbed the part of his chest that caused the tracker to beep.
The spot was hard, like there was a stone there. It wasn't a stone at all though, it was the Ghostly Amulet, Danny still had it. He had been keeping it so no one would steal it and hurt anyone with it since he had left Amity Park.
"You're hiding something, what's wrong?" Frostbite asked. "Nothing," Danny said not looking back at Frostbite.
"What's wrong?" Frostbite asked again. "NOTHING!" Danny snapped wheeling around. He had said it so loud, his voice echo through the whole cave.
Danny turned back around and didn't say anything. Frostbite, who wasn't shocked by this surprisingly, glared at Danny, he was hiding something.
All of a sudden, the guards could be seen through the ice, pounding hard at the wall. "Oh man," Danny said moving back.
He turned invisible and ran to the other end of the cave and found an exit. "Frostbite, I'll be right back, stay here," Danny said. "But where are you…" Frostbite started.
"Just stay here, I'll be back, I promise!" Danny said sharply. Frostbite sighed and said: "Be careful."
Danny said nothing and left the cave. Frostbite sighed and started making the ice wall thicker with his own ice power.
Danny's eyes popped open instantly as the memory left. He slowly got up, rubbing his head which was still pounding.
He looked up and saw Valerie flying towards him. He quickly got up and flew away as quick as possible.
"I can't let him get loose into town, I'll have to catch him before he hurts anyone," Valerie said to herself and flew off after him.