Hello readers! Sorry guys about the late update. I wrote this chapter about a day after l last updated. I didn't immediately update because it was crappy and a bit overdramatic. So l hope you forgive me. And l just want to say, MERRY BELATED CHRISTMAS!
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Chapter 7: Define pain.
The ghost zone was a sight to behold. None of the children had ever seen such an amazing sight. Most of them had forgotten the main reason why they were there. Maddie was driving while Jack stared at a void of nothingness. His face was bright red and tear stricken.
No matter what they said, he wouldn't calm down. He thought that he was the main cause of this whole disaster.
Yes, he was the one that opened the portal and killed Danny, but be was too heavy on himself. Danny was just trying to rescue Sam and Eve, he even had a good shot at saving them , but he just had to butt in and cause more chaos. Now if Sam and Eve died in the ghost zone he would be responsible for three deaths. What kind of a father was he, he was supposed to protect not destruct. Not even all the fudge in the world could fill up the whole in his heart. He just believed he was the bad guy, but he wasn't the only one that was heartbroken.
Tucker's was extremely stressed out. Danny was dead and Sam was trapped in the ghost zone, probably on the verge to death and Eve 'his not so secret crush' too. What really crushed him the most was that Danny was dead. His long time best friend gone.
Probably now in the ghost zone, because he died at a young age and a horrible death. At least Sam and Eve had a chance of survival, if ghost zone air was breathable, which he highly doubted.
He just wanted to cry.
Not even his Pda could get him our of his funk. Why, why, had it only been his friends taken away and not Dash (Not that he wanted him to die.)
The peaceful expression on Danny's face was glued in his head, it almost looked like he was smiling. It just hurt him. Although Danny could be a jack at times, no one deserved to die like that and worst of all he was accidentally killed by his own dad. Fate is cruel and karma is a bitch. Valerie was sitting next to him. She was devastated to see such a horrible sight. By horrible she meant the death of an innocent kid.
She remembered when Maddie went to Danny and tried to feel his pulse from his wrist but couldn't find it.
She was so shocked she desperately checked the other wrist, both temples of his head, his neck and back to the wrists again, but nothing. She couldn't check the heart because his chest was bloodied and if he was alive, she would he hurting him. She broke down in tears, although her hands were bloody she still cried into them.
Valerie just watched the sight in shock, sadness, anger, pure grief and pain. Although she thought crying was a sign of weakness, she let a few years drip from her eyes, she quickly wiped them off with the sleeve of her shirt.
Paulina was actually feeling grief for the boy. It was only now she noticed that she had a small crush on him.
Yeah, so he was not popular, he was still extremely cute, strong, muscular (not the bulky kind) and did she mention cute. Yeah, she did feel bad for Sam and Eve, but they had a possibility that they were still alive so that didn't matter, at the moment. On the other hand Danny was undoubtedly dead. She still didn't know how someone could die and still look peaceful andcute. She thought that dead people would have their tounge sticking out and look like they had been watching a horror movie, but Danny was different.
Dash just felt sorry for the poor guy. Sure, he hated him, but no one deserved to die at that age. The view of the ghost zone was epuc, but he still couldn't get the image of a dead Danny out of his head. He now felt guilty for pounding Danny for all these years, worst part was that he could fight but he never bothered fighting back.
Mr Lancer was just devastated. Danny wasn't supposed to die. All he was trying to do was save Eve and Sam. He felt guilty for not trying to save them. It was his duty as a teacher to do that. If he had maybe Danny wouldn't have died so soon, but the deed was done, there was nothing he could do now. He was a genius. He was potentially smarter than Jazz, but he didn't have the right motivation.
He could get straight A's if he wanted, but he was just not trying hard enough (or so he thought). He just had to die before he could even confront him about him speaking Esperanto and what he meant when he was sleeping.
If only...
"Okay students," Maddie said, snapping the children out of their gloomy thoughts. "I know we are all devastated by the fact that one of your peers and my son has died, but we have to focus on the task at hand, finding Eve and Sam. So l will kindly ask for you to keep a look out for the missing girls. Is that understood," everyone sounded their agreement.
She returned to her seat. After about five minutes of looking for the girl, a loud excruciating high pitched sound bore their ears. Everyone covered their ears, preparing for the worst to come. When the sound stopped, what happened next shocked them. They were all shaking, like mad.
Hello my children, a voice from out of the blue said.
Everyone started looking around the bus trying to look for the source of whom had said it. The voice seemed like it came from their heads. Fools! You cannot see me for l am not here! He said. Everyone was frightened some people tried hiding under their hands. Relax, I'm just here to play a little fun friendly game with you. No one liked the sound of that, from a ghost it could be anything and by fun he could mean fun for him. It's called stranded in the ghost zone, wanna play?. Although he wasn't there it was like he was there roaming about looking at their face expressions for an answer. l will take that as a yes. He said. Maddie finally owned up, "Go away ghost, you cannot harm us. This speeder is a flying ghost repellent. You can't penetrate the ghost shield or even come a 45 meter radius from this speeder without getting blasted!" She shouted into an empty void.
Oh, really. Very well, I'll take the challenge! He said in a devilish manner before the high pitched sound returned, only this time it was much louder. It cracked the windows until they burst. It caused the technology in the speeder to spark until that exploded too.
He flight pattern of the bus changed, it started descending, more like diving into the ground until it crashed into ruins.
The last thing they heard was maniacal laughter, until they passed out and gave into the darkness. They just lay in the ruins, possibly dead.
He twisted, trying to find a good position. Pain, a lot of pain suddenly shot through his chest, like someone had stabbed him with a dagger. He opened his eyes to se a Jazz staring at him. Totally not expecting this, he got up and hit his forehead against Jazz's. His head hurt.
"Relax little brother," she said, trying to calm him down.
"How am l supposed to relax, if you are getting into my face while l am sleeping! Not to mention, oww!" He yelled at her, Jazz easily brushed it off, "So how are you feeling." Danny tried to reposition himself again, "like l have been hit by a truck," be answered. Memories of what had happened in the lab became vivid. "Where are the ghostketeers?" He asked getting up.
"Slow down, baby bro. They went into the ghost zone to look for Sam and Eve," she explained like that was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Oh, no! No no no no, they can't go there, it's extremely dangerous!"
"What if a ghost finds them or something, Jazz l have to go!" He pleaded. "But you are hurt, I'm not even sure how you are alive cause the last five hours, you had no heart beat. We thought you were dead," she finished off sadly. Danny looked down, "Jazz...I'll be fine, okay?" He said softly. She moved her head up so that she was looking at Danny, "Is it true?" She suddenly asked, her eyes searching for something on Danny's face.
"Is what true?" Danny said in fear of her finding out his secret.
"That you are a ghost, l mean dad's inventions are always tracking you down, example 'the boo-merang'. The blast from the gun, hurt you and it is only supposed to harm ghosts and your blood had specks of green in it. Danny, what are you hiding," she asked, while placing her hands on Danny's.
Danny looked up to her in shock, Jazz was more smart than he took her for.
"Jazz, l am not a ghost," she sighed in relief, "l am part ghost."
She froze, Danny was part ghost, that can't be right, it's impossible. "But-but," she stuttered, "It's not possible, believe me Jazz, l don't know if physics applys to me anymore," he said honestly. Jazz was shocked, her little brother was part ghost and she didn't know it. What kind of a sister was she to not figure it out.
He couldn't believe he told her this, but he hadn't told her he was Danny Phantom, best to keep it like that. " l know the ghost zone better than them, please let me go and l will bring them back here. Sam and Eve too. When l come back, l promise l will answer every question about this you have...just let me go," he pleaded. Jazz didn't know what to do. She couldn't just let his brother go to a dangerous place in such a state, but if she didn't her parents would obviously get into trouble and risk the lives of several innocent children. She reluctantly nodded her head.
"Thanks sis, you won't regret this," he said as he jumped out of bed, wincing in the process.
When he left the top, jazz muttered, "l hope l don't Danny."
-line break- can l ask, how do you break a line or this means something else...
Danny looked at the portal in front of him. He sighed, "Here goes nothing." He braced himself for transformation. "Goin ghost!" He said his catchphrase. The transformation rings formed and fizzled out and pain shot through his chest.
This had happened for the second time in a row.
"Guess l will go in human form," he said in a dejected tone. He walked over to the closet next to the portal and took out a Fenton jet pack. He strapped it on and flew into the ghost zone. Sure, he could just fly in there, but just in case something wrong happened, he would need it. In his waist bag he had a couple of weapons (more like several)
After flying for three hours to be exact, he spotted Skulker flying by. "Hey, Skulker, over here!" He yelled after him. When Skulker noticed him, he fired Danny followed after him, taking the Fenton fisher out of his bag.
He cast it out and it caught Skulker. He sighed and asked, "What do you want, haven't you made my life miserable enough." Danny was confused, "Says the person who tried to hunt me then kill me and put my pelt at the foot of your bed," he said sarcastically. "You are the one who trapped me in the Ghost zone for eternity," Skulker retorted.
"Huh?"
"You don't know what power you hold, do you," he said intimidatingly. "What?" He hates it when people leave him in the dark. He noticed that he was getting nowhere with him, "Skulker, whatever l promise l will stop it and you'll go back to the human realm when you want, but that's not why l came to you. Did you a spectre bus, by any chance?" Danny asked.
"You mean the one that's going to crash on that island over there, then yes," he said with a hint of humor in his voice. Danny turned around to witness, the speeder crush onto a floating rock.
Danny's eyes were as big as saucers.
He revved up his jet pack, which picked that moment to run out of juice. He groaned and removed the jet pack, he decided to fly with his own ghost powers. He braced himself. He took a deep breath in and started to levitate. It felt like he was straining his core. Pain shot through his chest and he fell on his knees. His sight became blurry. His world suddenly became black, he couldn't give into unconsiousness while his peers were in danger. He slowly got up and stood tall. He jumped into the air, everything seemed to slowly down, until he shot through the air full blast.
In no time he was at the island. He slowly landed and looked at the ruins. More pain crept into his chest, but he pushed the feeling aside. he ran to he remains of the speeder and took out a surprisingly still intact first aid kit.
He walked over to the nearest person, Tyson Enders, he looked okay just had a few bruises and scrapes. Danny wiped them up and put bandages at where neccisary. Next was Valerie, she a huge knob on her forehead, other than that she was okay. Tucker looked like he had a broken arm, so Danny fixed that up too. It didn't take him an hour to get every body fixed up. The cases were easy, scrape, bruises, fractured bones and burns.
His mom was different, she really got hurt. It seemed like she was standing when the speeder crashed. She suffered a concussion, a broken like, sprained ankle and broken arm and a large cut on her arm.
Her heart beat was extremely slowly, it scared him. If nothing was done soon about it, she would die. Danny knew one power that could help her but it would take a lot of power, the energy transfer. Danny made up his mind that her health was more important than his. Danny concentrated his energy to his hand, it glowed yellow. He placed his hand on her forehead and directed his energy flow into his mom. His chest started to hurt in the process. Once he was one he couldn't keep his eyes open. Before he knew it, he collapsed onto his mom.
Everyone woke up one by one. first to wake up was Cindy, then Melissa, then Candice, then Alex, then Max and surprisingly from this whole group none of them found it wierd that Danny who was supposedly dead was sleeping on Maddie, but they did wonder who bandaged them up.
After a while Valerie woke up, the first thing she notice was that she was bandage and all fixed up and the second thing was that she was in tuckers arms and the third thing was what the hell was Danny doing here, they had left him with Jazz...dead. "Ahhhhh! Ghost Danny!" she screamed and got up. her scream woke up everyone. Tucker followed the suit when he saw Danny and after that everyone followed the suit. Jack at one point yelled that Danny had came to haunt him. Maddie eventually woke up and noticed the boy on her stomach. She moved a bit and the boy moaned. She held him gently to her chest like she was preparing to breast feed him.
Tears flowed freely from her eyes when she felt his heartbeat. He shifted a bit in her grasp. She patted his cheek softly, to try and get him to wake up.
He groaned, "Five more minutes, mom," he complained childishly. If this wasn't a serious situation, they would have laughed at how cute the fifteen year old looked. She softly shook him by his hand. He slowly opened his eyes and the illumination of the zone blinded him. He squinted his eyes and opened then. The first person he saw was his mother. A flood of relief rushed through him when he saw his mother well. "Mom! You're okay!" He shouted as he hugged her. "Of course l am, sweetie, but l can't say the same for you, what are you doing out here?" She inquisited.
Oh, what was he doing there, he really hadn't thought this through.
"I-l-l well...argh!" He sighed and decided to just tell her the truth, "l came here to rescue you guys, including both Sam and Eve," he told the truth.
"But you-you were not...aliv-okay when we left," she barely covered up her mistake. "Mom, l look dead to you," he said trying to make light of the situation, but failed badly. Maddie broke down in tears and Danny tried to comfort her, "It's okay mom, I'm fine," he whispered into her ear.
Danny stood up and brought his hand out to Maddie, "Whadya say mom, we get out of here." She looked up and hesitantly took his hand. Danny pulled her up, flinching at the sudden pain in his chest. She hugged Danny again because she was glad to see him and because she just wanted to make sure he was real. While they were in their world they forgot that they had an audience. He turned around and looked at the students, blushing because all eyes were on him.
Lancer who was still shocked to see Danny...alive...still had the task at hand still in mind, seeing the complete state of silence he decided to break it...wow, that's ironic. "So what do we do now?" He asked out loud, looking at miss Fenton for an answer.
She bowed her head. She didn't have a clue of were they were and how to get out of the Ghost zone, since the Spector speeder was totaled. "I-I-I, I don't kn-know," she stammered, her fingers trembling. The teenagers we now scared, everyone turned their head to Jack, who shrugged his shoulders. Danny saw that this was now a hopeless situation, he did come to help them after all. "I know what to do," he technically muttered to himself, but everyone heard. "You do," Maddie said in disbelief. "Mom, don't kill me..." more, he finished off in his head, "But l have been in here a couple of times," he confessed.
Maddie tapped at his son, "And l know how to navigate us out of here and get help to find Sam and Eve," he continued. She was speechless.
"You have a lot of explaining to do when we get home, but now, l guess you are our only hope of getting out of here," she agreed. Danny smiled at her and turned to the class. How would he lead a group of teenagers out of the Ghost zone. He picked a long piece of scrape metal and held it firmly in his hand. He got down to one knee and stated to draw on the ground, of what looked like a map.
After he was done he got up and looked at the class.
"So here's the plan, we should camp out here tonight, since in the human realm it's probably about midnight already."
He started pacing around in front of them, tapping his index finger on his chin. "If l am not mistaken this area is the main habitat of benevolent ghosts and some malevolent ghosts who are extremely weak like the box ghost. Therefore it should be safe to camp out here, but we must not let our guards down anything can happen, thus being the ghost zone. So we must assign at least two to four people to take lookout shifts," he suddenly stopped pacing and looked at the students.
"I, will take first and if needed the last shift too. Mom, will take the second one," he paused and looked at the ghostketeers, as if he was calculating something. His eyes suddenly locked with Valerie's, "Valerie, you will take the third shif-" interrupted.
"Wait there, Fentina, in case you haven't noticed she is a girl, and you are leaving out all the big guys out," Dash complained.
Danny turned his head at inhuman speed, "Dash this is not a matter about gender, it's about capability of handling weapons, alertness, responsibility and other important things. I chose her for a reason, so l will kindly ask you to just deal with it!" Dash felt belittled in Danny's glare and looked away.
"So, before l was interrupted l was saying that Valerie will take the third shift and... Johnny the last," he stopped in midstep and looked at his mother. "Change of plans, considering if something bad happens to the lookouts, l think it will be best to pair you up. Mom, you will be with dad. Valerie, uh..." He browsed through the students. He wanted to make sure, whomever he paired her up with will be compatible with her and also good at using a weapon. His brow shot up and he smirked and walked up the tucker, "Try not to flirt with her, please," he said in his ear, but everyone heard.
Although Tucker didn't look it he was pretty good with a weapon.
"Johnny you will pair up with Qwan," he instructed. "Hey! What about me," Dash shouted. "Dash, l have seen you use a gun and you almost shot me," he pointed out. It was true, Dash had almost shot him once in target practice, luckily it only singed his shirt. "And to everyone, you will need your shut eye for the long journey ahead of us tomorrow. I will tell you what to do in the morning, any questions?"
Lancer raised his hand and Danny picked him...Hahaha, the irony. "Everyone has a partner, what about you?" He asked. "I can handle myself, sir," he said honestly. Maddie just stood there during her son.
His bravado exterior didn't belong there, although it seemed to fit perfectly for some reason. She wanted to differ with his tactics but he said he was there a couple of times so he probably knew what he was doing. She slowly laid down next to her husband, who seem to be in deep thought. What happened to her son?
'thumb, thumb, thumb' each beat her heart made introduced her to pain, pain and more pain. She slowly opened her eyes and surprisingly that was painful too. Apparently she was laying on pebbles and stones, that explains the back pains.
She was on an island, obviously but this island was unlike the others, there was a tower on it. It was gray, in colour. It was at least three storeys big. Vines were growing along its walls. As her eyes roamed around the island she was met with a weary gaze from Eve. She looked different, almost unearthly was the only way she could put it. She looked like she was in a state of depression.
"Sam, we are best friends right," she asked slowly as she slowly walked towards her. Sam looked dumbfounded, why would she ask that, "Um, yes, why did you ask?," she asked out of curiosity. Eve shifted her weight to her other leg. "I'm just wondering, that's all," was her best answer. Sam, being a very stubborn person, didn't buy it. "What's wrong," she asked with pure apprehension. "Sam, no everything is as it seems to be," she sofly said, before her eyes turned red and she grabbed her hand. "What the he'll! Let me go! Evy l am not playing around!" She yelled. Evy looked at her and frowned, "So am l," she replied coldly. Eve dragged her along the ground, leading her to the tower.
"I don't understand," her voice wavered, but she kept her cool demeanor.
"You will never understand!" She spat. Sam but Eve's hand and after she gained her composure she stood tall. "I am not going anywhere with you, up and until l know where l am going. "Fine!" Eve yelled as she tried to grab Sam. She move out of the way and Eve stumbled on her feet.
"So you want it the hard way," she was answered when Sam put on a battle stance. Sam threw the first punch, but Eve ducked. She crouched and tripped Sam. She fell onto her butt.
She immediately got up and punched eve on her stomach. She was caught off guard and Sam used this to her advantage and slapped her. She blinked twice and launched a kick at her and Sam ducked, also tripping her at the same time. She put her combat boot on her chest and stated ant the girl beneath her. "What are you plotting!" She hissed. Eve gave her a wicked grin, grabbed Sam by her leg and flipped her.
Sam laid flat on her stomach. Eve returned the favour, by putting her foot on her back, "Plot is such a strong word," she said maniacally.
Sam struggled to move, but Eve was no match for her.
"All I'm gonna do, is help my master dethrone Phantom and backstab him so l can get the throne," she admitted. Sam closed her eyes in disbelief. "So you were just using me, us, so that you can trap us in the ghost zone to lure Phantom into the ghost zone! Do you know Danny almost died trying to save you. You betrayed me, Danny and Tucker, just so you could lure Phantom here! I thought we were friends," she shouted. "Do you know how hard it was to sit with losers when l could go to the popular crew and get noticed, its to late to go back now after all I've been through. Time to finish this!" She said as she made an ectoplasmic ray in her hand and held it close to Sam's face.
The heat was too much to handle. She turned her head to Eve to see her shape shift into her. Eve just freaking shapeshifted into her, Sam! That was the last thing she saw until the pain because unbearable and she gave into the darkness.
So this is my longest chappie yet! Thanks for reading, review. Sorry if it was crappy!
BYE!
