AN: Thanks to DPfangirl who gave me a boat load of ideas that ended up being the brain child of this!
Danny: That sounds kinda creepy…
AN: ok, than call it the idea that bore chapter 2
Danny: that still sounds weird.
AN: Where's the duct tape when you need it?
Chapter 2
Danny walked through the town's oldest cemetery, trying to ignore the spirits he could see but no one fully alive could. Not all knew he was a halfa, gaining him the ability to walk through without question even if he did look like he was having a hiccup fit.
He headed over to the square that had been long ago bushed off for those under the age of ten and walked in, not prepared for what he saw. His parents had always believed that children under the age of ten would go straight onto whatever lied after, and it seemed for the most part, they were right. But the sight of two ghosts in the children's section surprised him.
Closest to him was a girl with tightly braided hair. She was curled up around a stuffed animal and almost looked like she had fallen asleep crying. She bore scars on her arms and legs and probably more under her ripped overalls. Danny scanned her plaque and read she had been born four years after him and lived only eight years. She was laying over her name, leaving him with only the beginning of her first name to start with an S. The inscription read, "Our little angel was ripped away too young."
Danny found himself fighting back tears, but shook his head to clear it. He was here to look for David, not to morn over those too small to die. He turned towards the other spirit he noticed and realized whomever they were, they were trying to stay invisible but not succeeding all that well as their body flickered back and forth within the light spectrum.
"It's ok, I won't hurt you." Danny tried, walking over to the spirit. He looked down at the plaque for a name only to freeze.
David Andrew Fenton
We will always miss you.
"David?" Danny found himself barely able to speak. His brother was really a ghost.
The boy gave up trying to keep invisible and stared up at the teen with surprise. "Daniel?"
Danny was caught up in how his brother looked. Besides the fact the boy had died only a few days after he was born he looked to be fourteen. He was dressed in a white robe-like cloth, covering his pail skin. His messy white hair fell about his head as if it hadn't been cut in some time. His green eyes stared into Danny's blue ones as they took in each other.
"How come you're still here, if you're a ghost and not just a spirit?" Danny asked, dropping down to his knees so the two could look each other in the eyes.
"Stuck." David admitted, holding up his left hand to show a green glow surrounded his wrist and attached him to his grave. "I tried to convince Mom last time she was here that I needed help but…" David trailed off as he looked back at the grass beneath him. "Every time she came here she always said something about thinking she was crazy, hearing me."
"She believes you've moved on, well, she did." Danny said, playing with the grass in front of him. "Now she believes you're Inviso-Bill."
"Who's that?" David asked, looking up at the name.
Danny snickered, surprising himself at telling his brother his deepest secret. "Me. I'm part ghost, but Mom and Dad don't know." He told David his story, starting at explaining about their parents building a ghost portal and how he'd gone in on a dare. Danny found himself feeling relieved to tell someone after the past few months. Maybe Jazz was right and he needed to talk about his problems more. After explaining about how he'd even found out about David, Danny stopped talking, letting the ghost absorb the new information.
David pushed his long bangs out of his eyes and started to pull at the grass. "I can't believe Mom and Dad kept me a secret."
"Ya, I wish they'd told us sooner." Danny admitted, leaning back on his hands. "I'm still trying to figure out how come you've aged though. Any ideas?"
"I thought ghosts where supposed to age." David answered, looking up with confusion on his face.
"That's something Mom and Dad don't know yet." Danny shrugged. He stood up and moved over to take a look at David's shackle. He knelt down to get a better look at it.
"Hey, what are you doing?" David asked, sounding scared.
"I know a bit about anti-ghost tech." Danny explained, squishing the ectoplasm that made up the bond. "This may sound like a stupid question, but have you tried shooting it off?"
"With what, my spit?" David asked, gaining a laugh from Danny.
"No, with your ecto-blast." Danny smiled as he dropped David's hand and stood back up.
David stared at him as if he had said the grass was blue.
"What, you're a ghost. You should have them." Danny stated. He shook his head before pointing a finger upwards as it started to glow green "Here, let me." He knelt back down and took his brother's hand in his to slowly start applying a small beam of energy onto the bond. "How'd you end up strapped here anyway?"
"Don't know, really. All I remember is falling asleep in the hospital as a baby and the next thing I know, everything's getting moved around and Sophia came here." David explained. "Really I'm glad she's here, or I'd been board out of my mind."
Danny smiled as he saw he was almost through the shackle right before a loud snap sound filled the silent graveyard. "There you go, free."
David took his hand back and looked at the bare wrist in amazement. He looked back at Danny, his eyes showing his surprise. "Free?"
"Ya, come on." Danny smiled as he stood up, holding out his hand to help his brother up.
David took it, not sure, as Danny pulled him up to his feet. David looked down at his bare feet as he got his balance before taking his hand back. He looked back at Danny so blue eyes could meet green and smiled. "So where are we going?"
"I figured a fly through the town." Danny suggested as he called forth the cold that transformed him to his alter ego. He floated up a foot off the ground and looked back at his brother expectantly.
"A fly?" David asked, raising his eyebrows.
"Come on, it's pure bliss." Danny smiled, quickly flying through a back flip to try and explain the fun of weightlessness.
"Your feet!" David exclaimed, pointing at the space below Danny.
Danny looked down and realized he'd subconsciously morphed his feet into a tail, ready for flight. He popped his tail apart, getting his feet back, and smiled at his brother. "You're not a spirit like the rest here, David." He tried to explain. "You're a ghost made of ectoplasm. You can fly, can shoot ecto-blasts. You've already shown you know you can go invisible."
"Can you teach me?" David pleaded.
Danny smiled, for once in his life knowing what it felt like to be older than a sibling, even if they were twins. He grabbed hold of David's hand again and lifted the teen up into the air. "Hold on." He warned as he took them above the tree line.
Danny glanced down at David and smiled, seeing a face that reminded him of how he felt the first time he'd flown. After a couple of minutes he felt David let go and, with only a moment of panic, was flying on his own beside Danny.
"This is so fun!" David exclaimed, pumping his fists forward in excitement.
"Told you, you could fly!" Danny called over the whip of wind.
"Yahoo!" David flew forward a few meters and barrel rolled, having the time of his afterlife.
A shot rang out, giving the two ghosts only a fraction of a second to realize something had happened when David started dropping.
"David!" Danny exclaimed, flying down to try to catch the boy only to feel an explosion hit him in the abdomen, freezing his insides and knocking him unconscious.
Danny: That's evil!
AN: what?
Danny: Who shot us!? Oh great, this is back in the first few months, I'm going to change back! Why'd you do that to me!?
AN: Danny! First off, it's not you. It's another you in my head.
Danny: there's two of us in here?
AN: Danny!
*boy turned back to author*
AN: You know what I mean. I have you in here and then I have my stories in here. There's a difference. Second off, I always make sure my story can be smudged inside the timeline without any problem. (well, mostly, cause I've got two stories in the works that take place instead of Phantom Planet or in-between D-Stabilized and PP. ANYWAY!) Read and Review, and thank you DPfangirl!
