Yay! Chapter 2!! I finally wrote it!
Oh, and, Hordak's Pupil, Shame on you! You should really play the game! Oh, well. I hope this gives an accurate account of the game... maybe none of the adrenaline rush, but still... Oh, and by the by, for those who are reading The death of a secret, I'm at a deadlock with it. But it shall be written! Trust me!
Disclaimer: I don't own any Darksides, Shadows, Keyblades (yet), or anything relating to Kingdom Hearts or Danny Phantom.
Chapter 2: The End of a World
Danny stared at his ice cream, lost in thought.
"Danny, are you alright?" Sam's voice tore through his thoughts, making him look up at her violet eyes. He had to blink to look away from them.
"Yeah, why?"
"Your ice cream is melting, and you usually eat it by now." It was dripping, but Danny still had that flying thing, the black things from his dream, the man in the cave, and what their connection could be on his mind. "C'mon, you can tell me." Sam said this part softly, despite the fact that Tucker had gotten up to throw away his ice cream stick and stretch his legs.
It's nothing; I just have a lot on my mind." Danny shrugged and licked his ice cream, catching most of the melting parts. He finished his ice cream and went to throw away the stick, the locket feeling as heavy as his heart. He really wanted to tell her, but he didn't know how. Sam shrugged and looked up at the sky.
"Looks like it's gonna rain again." She muttered softly, though Danny could still hear her. He looked too. There was something weird about those clouds...
"They don't look like rain clouds to me." Tucker looked up at Danny's words. Lightning was streaming between the clouds as they traveled.
"Well, whatever they are, rain would still be bad for my babies!" Tucker rubbed his PDA against his cheek while Sam and Danny groaned. How'd they stuck with the weird kid? Danny shook his head.
"We'd better head home anyways," Danny said. "I'll probably be grounded for an eternity if I can't think of a good excuse for disappearing like that. Oh, did you see Jazz?"
"Yeah, they blame you though, well your ghost half at least." Tucker shrugged.
"She's okay, right?"
"Yep, just a bump on the head. That's all it was." Sam explained. "I wanna go check out that old cave of ours, what about you two?"
"Maybe tomorrow, I'm kinda tired, I mean we did just get let out of school yesterday." Tucker yawned.
"Oh fine. See you tomorrow, then." Sam gave a final wave and walked away towards her house. Tucker turned to Danny, having seen the disappointment in his crystal blue eyes as Sam left.
"Dude, just tell her already!"
"B-but-"
"C'mon, we all know, so just tell her how you feel."
"I don't know how, though." Danny admitted softly, his gaze downcast.
"Whatever, I'm goin' home. See ya." Danny sighed.
"I've come to see the door to this world."
"Hey, Tuck, do you think there are other worlds out there, you know, besides here and the Ghost Zone?" Danny said as an after thought.
I dunno, it's possible, I guess. Why?
"Just something someone said. No real reason."
"Well, don't let it get to you, OK?" Tucker turned and walked down the street. Danny sighed again as he, too, walked down the street towards his house, hoping beyond all hope that he wasn't in too much trouble.
Before he had walked up the stairs, the front door to his house swung open and his sister wrapped her arms around him in a bone-crushing hug. Danny couldn't breathe as Jazz forced the air from his lungs.
"Jazz... I-I can't... breathe!" Danny choked out.
"Oh, sorry." Jazz let go of him as she started back into the tall building. "We've got to tell Mom and Dad-" And as luck would have it, the GAV pulled into the street as she said it. Maddie jumped out of the RV before it had stopped and proceeded to crush Danny for the second time that day.
"Daniel James Fenton, if you EVER disappear like that again, you'll be grounded for an eternity!" His mother threatened as she let go of him. Jack ran up the stairs after Maddie had gone inside and pat Danny on the shoulder before he hurried in. Danny looked up at the sky; the clouds were still there. That's when he noticed, the clouds were going against the wind.
"Jazz," he caught his sister before she could cross the threshold into the house. "Don't you notice anything weird about those clouds?" Jazz didn't even try to look up.
"They're just clouds, Danny. Nothing more, I mean, it's theoretically impossible for them to be. You're just over paranoid."
Danny stared at his sister in disbelief. She hadn't even looked, or at least given him a chance to explain. Was he the only one who noticed anything strange? Those clouds had to fit in with the other strange occurrences, they couldn't be ghost related, he'd given Vortex back to Observants a long time ago, or a least it felt like a long time to him. Jazz went inside and Danny followed suit.
Maddie and Jack were in the lab when Danny went down to check for anything that might explain what was going on to him.
"Dear," Maddie called to Danny from the table. "Be careful, the Fenton Portal might explode!" She had to yell to be heard over the noise of the tools they were using, which were honestly making Danny's oversensitive ears ache. Sparks flew from the portal as he cautiously made his way over to his parents.
"What happened?" Danny asked once the tools had stopped to cool down and his ears had stopped aching. Maddie took her hood and goggles off and sighed.
"We don't know. The portal cut off and every attempt to get up and running hasn't worked. It's like it doesn't exist anymore." Well, whaddaya know.
"When did it cut off?"
"Two days ago. Vladdy's been helping us while you were at school." Jack explained as they watched more sparks emit from the portal. That explains the lack of ghosts the last few days but, what caused it? Maybe Clockwork could tell him, but, nine out of ten, he was in the Ghost Zone when the portal shut down. Maybe everything'll be alright tomorrow, he thought. Wait a second-
"Vlad's helping?" That was probably the most startling thing he had heard. If Vlad's helping, then that means his portal turned off, too.
"Yep, just like when those ghosts attacked the city." Jack sounded kinda proud to have the bad guy helping them.
"Which time?" Danny sounded rather bitter.
"When we found out that Phantom-punk's name. Nobody's seen him lately, either. Hmph. I always knew that humanoid proto-plasm was no good." As Jack continued to rant and rave about how evil ghosts (Danny Phantom, mostly) were, Danny went up the stairs. He met Jazz as he was going across the living room when he remembered.
"Hey, Jazz? What had attacked you earlier?" Jazz looked startled and was about to tell him that it must've been a ghost when she realized what he was trying to find out.
"Geez, are you still on that cloud thing?" Jazz shook her head and went into the kitchen before Danny could reply. He sighed as he went upstairs to his room to try to relax.
He laid down in his bed and stared at the ceiling thinking about what had happened. Everything had to connected, but why wouldn't anyone believe him? Without even thinking about it, he looked out the window. The clouds were gathering by the beach. And the cave.
"Oh, no, the cave!" He jumped up as he remembered the hole he most likely put in the roof and ran down the stairs and out the door, his T-shirt flapping against his skin in the wind and his sneakers clapping on the pavement as he ran toward the cave.
Sam's bike and Tucker's scooter were propped up against some large rocks that were a few yards from the cave. Black things like the ones from the dream rose out of the ground. Instead of going in like he had planned, because one, a large pink door blocked his way, two, the black things were obviously after him, and three, something was telling him to head for the beach. Something was definitely wrong, he could feel it, and he'd never gone against these feelings. That's what made him a hero.
Danny ran through the giant ant-like things and stepped onto the sand, slowing his pace as the black things seemed to shrink away from it. He saw Ticker staring out to sea. He also saw the moon was replaced by a giant swirling ball of darkness.
"Tucker!" Danny called as he ran to his friend. "Where's Sam? I thought she was with you!"
"The door has opened." Tucker said as he turned around, almost trance-like.
"What?"
"The door has opened, Danny! Now we can see the outside world!"
"What are you talking about? We've gotta find Sam!"
"Sam's coming with us! Once we step through, we might not be able to come back. We may never see our parents again. There's no turning back. But this may be our only chance. We can't let fear stop us! I'm not afraid of the darkness!" Tucker sounded like he knew what he was talking about, and that he really wasn't afraid. Somewhere, deep in Danny's heart, he knew that someone else was going through this, too. Word for word. And that Tucker was going crazy.
Tucker held out his hand in an offering that said 'we'll go together'.
"Tucker..." Just then, a 'puddle' of darkness appeared underneath Tucker, who looked very calm. The darkness rose and slithered up Tucker's body. Danny ran foreword only to find another puddle beneath him. Danny reached for Tucker's hand, but fell short an inch. The darkness kept him from protecting his friend.
As the darkness crept up his body, a strange feeling that he'd had since the dark things first showed up strengthened. And, to top it all off even though he'd never admit it, he was afraid. Afraid of the darkness that was engulfing them. Afraid of what will happen next. Afraid that it already had Sam.
Everything went black as the darkness encased them. Suddenly, a bright light appeared through the darkness. The light grew in intensity chasing the darkness away.
Then Danny felt dizzy. When his head had stopped spinning and hurting, he realized he was still on the beach. Tucker was nowhere in sight.
Danny felt weight in his right hand. He looked and saw a giant key in his hand.
'What's this?' He thought, looking the strange weapon over.
'Keyblade, Blade-key, Keysword, something like that.' His ghost half responded in his head.
'What makes you say that?'
'It's a sword that looks like a key. Betcha twenty bucks it's the first one.'
'You're on.' Even though he couldn't really bet with his ghost half, he still did. He looked up, determined to find Sam, who hopefully hadn't gone AWOL like Tucker.
"Keyblade..." There was the voice from the dream! It kept repeating that over and over again.
'Toldja.' His ghost half 'sounded' pleased. After silently telling it to 'shut up', he listened harder, only to find the voice gone, and his new fiends back.
He fought his way back to the pink door, the Keyblade made the evil ant things disappear in one hit. In Danny's opinion, ants that tried to kill you weren't very nice ants. The door opened as he approached and he stepped inside, glad he didn't have to crawl to get in. He ran through the tunnel and stopped when he saw Sam.
"Sam!" He called. Sam turned around as she had been facing the weird door. She looked...sad. Or maybe tired. Right now, Danny couldn't tell which.
"Danny..." Sam said his name softly; Danny's heart clenched. She tried to reach him by stretching her arm, but the door behind her swung open and a strong wind of darkness blew from it, eventually blowing Sam into Danny's arms. Or at least it should have, but she just disappeared when she hit his chest.
The wind blew harder and threw Danny back through the tunnel and out the pink door.
He had expected to land on grass or rocks, but he didn't. It was sand, he had landed on his hands and knees, almost getting a facefull of it. He looked around and gasped. He couldn't see anything but flying debris as far as the eye could see. He as on the only stable piece of earth left. He stood up and turned around, awed. Suddenly, the earth under him shook as the 'god' from his dream stepped onto it. Holding the Keyblade in front of him with both hands, Danny charged as the black thing punched the ground and ran up its arm and slashed it across the chest. It howled in pain at the Keyblade's prowess. Danny then chose this moment, since he was still in the air, to finish it off with an upside-down turning right-side-up spinning attack that cut both its arms off and slashed its side deep beyond repair. It gave a devilish scream as its arms evaporated into dark tendrils, fading into the air, shaking the stubs it now had in place of the severed limbs. Now on the ground, Danny ran to the monster's legs and leapt up to finish splitting its middle. The Keyblade easily cut through the fading darkness that made up the creature's body.
The ground shook as the Darkside collapsed, breaking away from whatever was holding it in place. All Danny could do was hold on while it spiraled out of control toward the growing darkness that had once been the moon. He lost his grip and was thrown in.
"Look, stars're goin' out!" A strange dog cried out as two stars brightened, then vanished, leaving nothing in their places.
"Come on, let's hurry." The dog's friend, the duck, said. The dog nodded in agreement as the two walk off with an almost normal dog (almost normal because it walks on four paws, doesn't wear clothes or talk). As the three walked up the steps to where an Accessory Shop was, the little yellow dog separated himself from the group to go down an alleyway as the duck complained about having to find the 'key' and the other dog saying to find some guy named 'Leon'.The other dog noticed the yellow dog.
"Hey, uh Donald? I think that-"
"Oh, what do you know, ya big palooka." Donald grumbled.
"What do I know?" The dog pondered his own intelligence, tapping his gloved finger against his chin, before giving up. "Come on, Pluto!" He called to him before walking the other way.
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