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Chapter 9: A book found, is a book lost.
Valerie was trying to concentrate, but Tucker's singing made it a bit too hard. This was now going on for more than an hour since they started patrol. She really wanted to smack him by his head. You know what, that shouldn't be to hard.
"Ember, you will remember, so warm and tender, my name!" He stopped dancing for a while, trying to listen to the lyrics. "Man! I hate it when l sing this song and Ember gets all the words wrong," he complained. He resumed 'dancing' and 'singing', I'm not even sure to call it dancing or singing more like wobbling your body and screaming. Valerie walked up to him and slapped the back of his head, "Ow!" He howled in pain. "If you are going to sing, take lessons, to kind of think about it, l don't think your voice can be autotuned!" She yelled in his ear.
"Sorry Val, you know you could have just told me you were jealous, l wouldn't mind," Valerie looked at him like he had grown a second head.
"Jealous of the voice of a dying donkey, you wish!," she retorted. The next few moments were of silence. Valerie took the opportunity to think. So they were stuck in the ghos-
"Hey Valerie, Danny is catching some Z's and he said l shouldn't flirt with you...so does that count if he is sleeping," he inquired while wiggling his brows. "Yes it does, now back off," she demanded in a dangerously low voice. "Come on Val, why won't you give me a chance, you might find me attractive...like the other girls," he whispered the last part. Valerie rolled her eyes as she spoke, "I'm not looking for a relationship at the moment."
"When you are now available, invite me in the carousel of love, would ya?" He asked, mastering his best flirt tone, which wasn't at all impressive. "Nathan booked before you, sorry, will come back to you after forever," she mimicked a receptionist. Tucker sat on a rock, sighing. TF for Too Fine, more like TF for Total Failure. He was bummed out. Valerie 3456: Tucker 1, worst of all the 1 was an assumption.
Valerie felt a tad bit sorry for the poor geek, "Hey, Tuck-Ahh!" She yelled as tucker pushed her. Not expecting the sudden action she fell on her butt. She was about to stand up and beat the living daylights out of him when she saw the threat. A huge brownish yellow plasma ball was heading their way. Tucked, seeing that there was no use to run, threw his Pda at the beam and it exploded in mid-air. As the bits and pieces fell from the sky, he shielded Valerie from the heated metal. Valerie was in a state of shock. There was no way Tucker Foley just saved her life.
He even gave up his freaking Pda!
"Y-you saved me?" She asked in total shock. Tucker stood up straight and dusted off his pants, "Yeah, l guess l, DUCK!" He yelled, as he spotted an incoming ecto blast.
It disintegrated a rock behind them, "Wake Danny!" Tucker commanded, when he spotted the attacker. It was another one of those Griffins that kidnapped Sam and Eve. Tucker pulled the Jack-o-nine tails out of this pocket. He gripped it tightly and launched it towards the ghost. It zapped the ghost, but it wasn't giving up just yet. Tucker was now loosing firm, he has on the ground. He felt like he was being hoisted into the air, until a pair of hands found their way around his waist. "You're not going anywhere," he heard Valerie say in his ear. They bother pulled and tugged. None of them knew if they could continue. Tucker lost grip. Danny shot into action and grabbed it. He tugged and leveled his ground. He started to rotate, the creature now whirling in the air. He did about ten good rounds, when the beast wings gave out. He let go of the weapon, sending the griffin spiraling into the ghost zone.
Danny smirked in victory, when suddenly his knees gave out. He collapsed onto the ground. Hot pain coursed through his chest. He brought a hand up to his chest and the sight wasn't pleasant, his hand was covered in bright red blood.
He screamed in agony and Maddie came to his rescue. He watched everyone with emotionless eyes as the frantically looked for the medical aid kit. When they found it, Maddie quickly took of his shirt. Even though she had once seen the sight, she still couldn't bare it. His well built torso was covered in scars and you would have to have extremely good eyes to notice the he was actually skinny. She knew that this wasn't because of being born that way or sickness, it was because he wasn't eating.
Danny looked at her. The look he gave her scared her, it was the same look she got when they were in the lab, when he got hit by the blaster. Emotionless...
His eyes were grey, so dark, colourless...
She couldn't bare it. She couldn't even tell if Danny was unconscious or not. Tears dripped from be eyes as she worked. A tear fell on his wounded chest and be visibly flinched. She worked more quicker and her movements fluid. When she was done she put a rock underneath his head. He laid there, not moving an inch. She felt his pulse and luckily it was there, but it was inhumanly slow. She stifled a sob, she had to be strong.
The thrusting of his chest was barely visible. He wasn't even blinking at all. Danny felt like someone was sitting on his chest, better yet, it was like his dad was sitting there.
He couldn't give into the darkness. What if they got into trouble and they couldn't protect themselves. He saw a light at the end of the tunnel. He reached for it, using every ounce of energy left in him to keep conscious. He shut his eyes when the pain he was avoiding returned. He he opened them again and his eyes tried to adjust to the light of the ghost zone. He blinked several times. When his vision became clear, he saw everyone looking at him. Not used to attention, he blushed.
"He-he, how are you," he said nervously. "Just peachy," his mom answered with a smile and hugged him. He flinched at this act, but glady accepted the hug.
He slowly tried to stand up discovering that every movement was painful. Despite his mother's disapproval, he stood up.
He turned to look at the students. "As you can see this area is not that safe anymore. We should now get moving before, it finds us again. Since we cannot fly we are going to journey on the natural paths of the ghost zone. Our first landmark is the Ghostwriters library, which should be a bit hard, since l kinda got him (Clears throat) arrested. So we should stay out of sight, which should be easy because he never stops reading or writing. And don't touch anything!" Danny ended firmly, scaring most of the teen.
"Okay, now his lair is in this direction, so follow me, oh and any questions?" he asked. Most of the children shock their heads, scared, because of his sudden tough demeanor. "You got him arrested!" Dash yelled in disbelief. Danny grinned, "Lets just say, be a good boy on Christmas," he turned around and gestured for everyone to follow him.
Tucker decided to own up and talk to Danny he hadn't talked to him the whole time he was in the ghost zone. He walked up to Danny and tapped his shoulders. Danny flinched and turned around to look at him. He smiled and continued walking. "Hey Danny, what's up?" Tucker started casually. Danny just shrugged his shoulders in reply. "So you have been on the ghost zone before," he stated, hoping to start a conversation. Danny nodded his head. He was thinking about the current situation they were in. What is the Ghostwriter found them? What would he do? He was obviously still mad at him, what if he tried to attack them or worse, make them talk in rhymes.
He couldn't risk his secret because of the Ghostwriter, that's the last person he thought would let it out. He sighed, what was he going to do.
"Danny, yoo-hoo! Earth to Dan-Dan," Tucker said as he waved his hand in front of his face. When he heard Tucker say Dan, he started frantically looking around everywhere. He calmed down when tucker put a hand over his shoulder. "Don't ever scare me like that again," he said out of somewhat, shock. Tucker blinked twice in confusion, was his friend going mad, maybe Sam's disappearance had a huge impact on him.
"Um, sorry. So aren't you going to tell me," he asked, referring to what he had last said.
"Sorry, l spaced off, tall you what?"
Tucker groaned, "Why had you came into the ghost zone in the first place," he asked again. Danny stopped on mid-track and thought. At the moment people were now listening in. "Well, it happened when l thought mom and dad were getting devorsed. I was cleaning the lab, so that when mom returned, she wouldn't get mad at dad. When l was at it, l accidentally knocked dad's anniversary gift into the ghost zone and l went to get it," he explained, purposely leaving out the part were he was arrested by Walker.
"So how did you get this ghostwriter arrested," Valerie entered the conversation.
Danny was now getting frustrated, couldn't they stop asking questions. "Um, l pretty sure mom and dad can justify that l really hate Christmas, well used to. Last Christmas l went into the ghost zone to, uh, get away from Christmas. Then l ran into the Ghostwriter and accidentally destroyed his Christmas poem and staff, he got angry and, blah blah blah, then he attacked me, then he got arrested for attacking me since apparently on Christmas there is a truce yadi-yadi-yada and l learnt my lesson," he explained, ticking off the reasons with his fingers.
"And you have any questions please hesitate to ask," he said to the rest of the class, but this all went to deaf ears.
"Arrested, a truce, that must mean that they have laws. I don't understand ghosts are like animals, that kind of setup is way too complex for them," Maddie pondered out loud.
"Mom, that's were you are wrong, ghost are not like animals, there are like humans, some are good and some are bad. There are good ghosts like Frostbite, Clockwork, Pandora, Dora, Cujo and many others l didn't mention." Danny knew he shouldn't be revealing this much, but he felt insulted.
When Maddie was about to retort, Valerie cut her, "All ghosts are evil and isn't Cujo Phantoms dog, the dog that ruined my life!" She said, venom dripping from each word she uttered. Danny rolled his eyes at the remark, "I have no idea what you are talking about," he played dumb, as he acted like he didn't know that much about Cujo. Valerie scrawled but kept quiet. Danny just smiled, but not for long. His smile disolved and his vision became foggy, his knees buckled and gave up on him. He fell to his knees and placed a hand to his head before he fainted.
Everyone panicked, their only chance of survival had collapsed.
Maddie dashed to him and checked his vitals, he was, thankfully alive. She picked him up and gave him a piggy back ride. They decided to continue on the Danny had told them to use.
For a good hour they continued walking. The ghostwriter's abode was now coming into view. Everyone was now complaining about their empty stomachs. Unfortunately none of them had thought about bringing food on their little expedition.
Danny was slowly waking up, to hear their new topic, is Danny Phantom good or not. This topic was derived from Paulina when she kept on whining that were was Phantom. Valerie snapped and started shouting at Paulina that she was wishing bad luck over them because Phantom was only a controversial ghost. They started debating and people eventually joined in. Tucker, Star, Neseline, Tanya, Grace, Alex, Dash, Qwan, Jamal, Tim, Melissa and Candice were on Paulina's side. Max, Jim (Tim's twin), Bradley, Mickey, Nathan, Cindy, Joe, Bianca and no surprise there, Mr and Mrs Fenton were on Valerie's team.
The down side was that on Valerie's side no one besides Max and the Fenton's, who were there whole heartedly. Cindy, Mickey and Bradley were just there cause they wanted to gain favour of Danny's parents. Nathan, obviously because Valerie was on that team. Bianca just hates Paulina and couldn't stand being with Paulina. Jim and Tim were not really fan's of each other so it was almost the same situation ad Bianca's. Mickey just because science and ghost repelled each other. Max honestly was never a fan of Phantom because he was good and he was bad, he simply wants to be a vilian when he grows up.
Unfortunately for Danny's ears the argument went on and on and on, until he snapped.
"Enough!" He screamed, with a hint of his ghostly wail in it, sadly for Maddie who still had him on his back. "Can't you go five minutes without arguing!" He continued. He huffed and then jumped of his mother back, wincing at the result. "Danny get back on," his mom commanded but he paid no adhere to her.
Everyone kept quiet at his outbreak. When he calmed down he looked st their shocked face, suddenly feeling guilty. "Okay, sorry, it just that I'm under a lot of pressure and l kinda snapped, I'm sorry guys," he apologized honestly. Maddie smiletd at his confession, "We understand, l mean taking charge like that and leading a bunch of teenagers, obviously you're under pressure sweetie." She raffled his hair hair and gasped, then her face expression turned into one of anger and determination. There was s ghost in front of them.
"Why hello, Daniel," he hissed at the boy. Danny slowly turned around to face him, "Ghostwriter," he said in a dangerously low voice.
"Came to ruin my afterlife again," he spat. Danny rolled his eyes and crossed his hands, "No actually, l and my classmates want to pass through your library. So do you mind?" He technically stated instead of asking.
A thousand thoughts went through his hard in one second. He could get his revenge on him now or follow His orders, so that if he overvthrows Danny he can be master of all books and literature in the entire universe or he could simply let them go and have favour in Danny eyes if His plan fails. For some reason he did doubt that he could beat Danny and C seemed to be the best option, thought A was most satisfactory.
"Okay, you may pass, but do not touch anything," he emphasized each word.
He went out of the way for them and let them continue. Everyone but Danny and Dash was awestruck by the library. It was nothing like back at earth. "OM, jay," Melissa mattered.
"Follow the red carpet out, understand!" He ordered, mainly eyeing Danny. "Sure bookworm," he said under his breath. They continue to walk and left the writer behind. He only stayed behind because he couldn't stand Danny. The library seemed to go on forever.
They had now been walking for twenty minutes. He was now getting annoyed, this was the ghost zone imagine what kind of knowledge and secrets this library. His curiosity was now getting the better if him. There was another naggy thought at the back of his head. His biggest question could now be answered if he got his hands in one of the books laying around.
This was the same with Mickey, who was now sweating because of trying to restrain himself from touching any book.
As they were walking they didn't notice that someone was missing.
Dash was now gettIng annoyed at Mickey. He kept on chanting, "Don't touch anything, don't touch anything, don't touch anything," on and on again. "Shut up!" He yelled as he grabbed him by his collar pulled him up. Danny turned around to see what the commotion was about. His calm exterior dropped to one of anger. "Dash let him go," he said venom dripping from each word. Dash smirk when be saw how annoyed he was. "Or what Fen-ton," he covered up his slip-up. "Just let him go, now!" His eyes turned green for a moment. Unfortunately Dash noticed and accidentally dropped the need.
Before Dash could ask what was wrong with his eyes, Danny continued, his expression turned from anger to confused. "Hey, where's Lancer?" He asked scratching his head.
Everyone looked around, the atmosphere now reeked with panic. Where did the old man go.
When he hiccuped he knew something was wrong. Sometimes had gone wrong somewhere in his library. A book had been damaged. You see, his sense only went off when a book was damaged, like when a page was torn or had a dog ear or folded.
His eyes flared brighter than before as he grew frustrated of trying to find th fault.
This time when he flew over his books he didnt stop and admire how much work he had put in his library. He hiccupped again. He knew he shouldn't have let Phantom and his humans in.
Lancer was looking at a book. A translator to be more specific. An 'Esperanto to English.' He flipped through the pages looking for the translation he was looking for. He strained his head trying to remember what he had said. He found one translation and folded the page, to bookmark it.
He found two more translations and marked them.
"Aha! Cesu mensogi al mi, means stop lying to me!" He said, feeling pleased with himself for his discovery. This was all the Ghostwriter needed to find him. The writer reared in on him. His attacking skills were rusty sinse he didn't have to hunt anything. "Ekstravanco- oh! What had he said, l can't remember," he said in exhaustion.
"How dare you make dog ears on my prized possessions!" He hissed.
Lancer shrieked and stepped back. "I-l-l l didn't m-mean to, l-l-l s-see book and-read," he stammered looking his ability to make coherent sentences. "No excuse, well a wrong cannot go unpunished," he raised up his hands and summoned his keyboard. "No escape, until the lesson is-" he was interrupted by a certain halfa.
"Eyo, Bookworm! I have a new story plot for you! Try Humor/Tragedy. Humor? Me punching you into oblivion. Tragedy? Me me having a sore knuckle around after this!" He said as he shot his keyboard using his wrist ray. It broke into tiny bits. "That's the second one, do you know how hard it is to make those!" He cried.
"No," Danny deadpanned.
He shot the Writer dead in the chest. He crushed into a book shelf. His eyes glowed red in anger. He levitated above the ground and books came flying from all directions, to form an armour around him. "I did not want to resort to this, but you left me no choice," he said in fake sadness.
Danny smirked, "You care," he said in pretend shock, "Either way l suppose this shouldn't take long since you get your fighting lesson from the lunch lady." The writer was angered by this and flung three four books at Danny. First he easily dogded it, second was the same, third, just barely and the fourth one, collided into his stomach. He crushed into a bookshelf and it fell on him. "Sorry Daniel, but the plot has changed," he mocked and he neared the boy. The students who had now caught up with him had came in time to witness him get crushed by a shelf. Dash, Qwan, Bradley and Tucker dashed to where Danny was and tried to remove the shelf off him.
Valerie took out her ecto gun and tried to blast him but the shots bounced of his book armour. Jack and Maddie joined in on trying to shoot it down but to no avail.
The writer swung his arm and it collided into the hunters. They were sent off skidding on the carpet. The writer grabbed Lancer and flung him into the wall. A sickeningly sound erupted from his body when he got impact with the wall. Everyone shuddered.
The four who were trying to lift the shelf off Danny, were failing miserably. Danny came out of the funk he was in and tried to put the shelf off him. When he heard Lancer crash into the wall, he was shot with adrenalin. He couldn't feel pain anymore and he pushed the shelf a little too hard. It flew into the air and hit into the ghost writers stomach, sending him into the wall. The writer slowly got up and fell to his knees, still dazed by the impact. "Everyone push that shelf!" Danny commanded. All the students ran to the shelf Danny had instructed them to push.
They worked together to push it and after thirty seconds, they sent the shelf toppling over.
It fell onto anther shelf and that one toppled over too. It was like dominoes except with shelves. The last shelf fell over the writer. His book armour collapsed and he ended up being crushed under his own 'armour' too. Most of the students looked at the writer, while the ones with more awareness ran to Lancer to aid him. Danny, Tucker, Valerie and the Fenton's checked up on him. In conclusion he had a broken rib, arm and dislocated hip. He also had a concussion.
Qwan and Max were ordered to carry Lancer, much to Max's disappointment.
They quickly left the library, just in case the writer woke up and decided to unleash his wrath. After Danny's adrenalin wore off, he felt extremely weak and sore, but he wouldn't complain and refused for his mother to check him up.
After about running for half an hour, everyone collapsed onto the ground. As Danny sat down in the opening, his ghost sense went off he wasn't sure if he should be worried or not. I mean they were in the ghost zone after all, but Danny could never be so sure. He stood up and looked around the area, trying to locate the ghost. Valerie and Tucker looked at each other wondering what he was up to and decided to follow him.
Danny walked to a bunch of vines and looked left and right to make sure the gost wasn't there.
He opened an entrance through the vines and gasped at what he saw. Snow! How was it posible, the only place in the ghost zone with snow was the land of the far frozen.
Also there was definitely no snow near the Ghost writers Library. He walked in to the snow trying to figure what was happening. Valerie and Tucker both froze. "D-d-danny," Valerie stammered were are we. Danny turned to looked at them, brushing aside the fact that they were following him, "Yes Val," he said softly.
"Where are were?" Tucker asked for her.
Danny shrugged his shoulders and turned back to the view. "I don't know," he answered honestly. They heard a screech and they immediately covered their ears. They saw a figure flying ahead. It screeched again and they heard a high pitched human scream. The trio looked at each other and dashed in the direction of the scream.
The flying figures become clear they were the Griffins. Danny groaned in dismay. "Come on!" He muttered under his breath.
The teens took out heir weapons and prepared for battle.
The Griffins flew over them and they ducked. They seemed to be running away from something or someone. They heard another screamed and they followed it.
The source of the scream was nothing they expected.
Now unconscious in the snow was non other than,
"SAM!"
Right so this chappie was rushed. Argh so anyway, l know some of you are angry at me *dodges rotten flowers* okay a lot of you and l know you are going to hate me more after this. Right, like l said l am going to boarding school and they don't allow technology.
So l can't update until the next holiday in April.
AN: I AM NOT ABANDONING THIS STORY. I AM SIMPLY PUTTING IT ON HIATUS UNTIL THE FIRST HOLIDAY IN APRIL.
PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT I LOVE YOU ALL VERY MUCH AND THIS ISN'T AN EXCUSE TO NOT WRITE. I WILL MISS ALL YOUR FOLLOWS, FAVOURITES AND YOUR REVIEWS. I HOPE THAT MY FELLOW READERS, YOU DO NOT ABANDON THIS STORY. JUST WAIT FOR EASTER AND I WILL UPDATE.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR MOST VALUED SUPPORT.
P.S
NESY TRONIC
