Hello all my readers and I'm so sorry for not getting an update out last week. A lot of stuff has happened and I just didn't have time. But don't worry I wont forget about this story, but updates will be a little slower for a while until things get straightened out. I hope you like this chapter and if there is anything wrong please tell me so I can fix it. I feel really bad making you wait so long.
Chapter 9
Danny's POV
I lay my head against the wall, or is it the floor, I can't tell anymore. It hurts, that's the one thing I know or remember. What have I done to deserve this?
I so desperately wanted Dick here next to me. I thought back to when he connected to me through my mind. I tried to hold the connection when I felt him slipping away. I had been practicing my telepathy ever since Clockwork had told me about me and my brother having a special bond.
I couldn't let Vlad get to me, I was better than him. I sat there breathing heavy with my eyes shut; I would get back to my team, my family. I would be with Sam, who had been looking for me all this time.
Soon I heard the harsh sound of keys turning in a lock and the large metal door creak open. Black shadow flowed in through the door like water and green hair soon followed. The room grew dark and impossible to see her face. That evil witch had guts coming in here alone.
"What do you want?" I growled at Lady Vanish.
"I want you, as my own, reformed to be the perfect full ghost I need to be by my side forever. You would be like my own" Lady Vanish said with a venomous voice of velvet.
"Now you just sound like Vlad." I managed to choke out.
Her slender form came closer to me. I could feel the darkness beginning to close in. Her radioactive green hair was almost blinding in the pitch black surrounding her.
As she came closer her sharp, pointed nails started to glow a bright green. Everything inside me was screaming to get as far away as I could. The ghost proof cuffs prevented me from doing a lot but in one last fight or flight instinct I drew a small breath and released a small ghostly wail. Thanks to Clockwork for teaching me to control it better ever since i fist learned it.
I got a small glimpse of the green sound waves coming from my mouth before I shut my eyes in pain. I could feel the chains start to cut into my wrists but soon I felt them break from the pressure and fall off; only Vlad would use old cuffs.
I stopped my mini wail as soon as I heard Vanish hit the metal door pushing in open and knocking her out. I opened my eyes; breathing heavy I slowly stood up and walked to the door. I was shaking; I'm not sure if it was from fear, shock, or because I was so weak.
Everything from then on was a blur. I found my stiff and tired legs running out the door and down the hall. I had to find a way out. While running I tripped on my own two feet and flew forward. Expecting to hit the wall I was surprised when I fell right through it.
A smile grew on my face when I realized where I was being held. It just made it easier to get out. I stood up and ran through wall after wall, I didn't know where I was but I knew I was in the Ghost Zone.
I thought about just making a portal out of there but two reasons replaced the smile on my face to a frown. I was too weak to create a portal and Sam was possibly still here.
Looking down at my bloody hands and torn clothes I closed my eyes and tried to contact Dick. I put all my soul into it and eventually found his mind.
He was looking for me, in the sewers. I didn't know if the connection was strong enough to hold words so I sent pictures instead. First I thought of the Ghost Zone, bright green and purple with floating purple doors and an island now and then.
He was shocked at first so I slowed down. After I sent a picture of my face his emotions went crazy. I almost lost the connection but held on for fear of never seeing him again. Last of all I sent a picture of the Fenton thermos hoping he would understand. I could feel he was a little confused but before I could go on I had heard footsteps. I opened my eyes snapping the connection.
Thinking of a way to escape I turned to jump through another wall only to find I couldn't. Looking down I still saw my regular clothes, I even pulled some hair down only to find it still black. My heart rate sped up as I started to freak out; the footsteps were drawing closer. Transforming wouldn't do any good, who knows what kind of ghost proof whatever was around here.
The footsteps finally connected to the angry figure of Vlad Plasmius. That evil vampire was smiling the whole way.
"Daniel, my little badger, thinks he's so smart. I still have Sam and I still want you." He said smirking.
"Let Sam go, this is between you and me." I sent back trying to sound strong.
"Little brat, thinking he can get away, let's reform him now." Lady Vanish said coming up behind Vlad and bringing with her a parade of dark shadows.
"Easy Vanish." Vlad said putting a hand out to stopping her.
"When he knocked me out I lost control of my powers and therefore the walls went back to normal. Who knows how many walls he ran through!" I heard Vanish whine at Vlad quietly.
"I will never go with you!" I screamed at both of them while letting the white rings wash over me turning me into Phantom.
"Oh really boy, I think by the end of this you'll be begging for me to spare your life." Vlad said lighting his hand in pink ecto-energy.
He shot it at me and at the last-minute I put up a shield but instead of the pink ball hitting it and simply disappearing it bounced off and hit the wall.
Pieces went flying everywhere and dust clouded my vision. Once I opened my eyes again there was a huge hole in the wall.
Once Vlad and Vanish saw the hole they got ready for an attack; before I knew it a new rain of blasts were headed my way. With a new burst of energy I jumped through the hole to get away and took cover behind some old boxes.
I took a minute to get an idea of my surroundings. The room, like most of them, was too dark to see if you were human, but if you were a half ghost you could see pretty much everything. The hard grey, concert floors were dirty and slightly wet, the walls were similar to the floors but a darker grey and there looked to be small cages and boxes lining the walls.
It wasn't long before Vlad came through the hole and looked around the room.
"Vanish, maybe we should forget about Danny for the time being and go do some experiments on Sam? Or better yet that good-for-nothing, but sweet Danielle." Vlad said.
Once I heard he had Dani I wanted to scream, yell, and beat him up. No one takes Dani and gets away with it. Vlad would pay for every hair he hurt.
I watched as 2 shadows brought out a struggling figure. As Vlad moved to the side I was able to see who it was and almost raced out there. It was Sam.
"My dear Sam, I'm afraid to tell you Danny has escaped and is somewhere in this room. So we are going to spend time with you." Vlad said.
I couldn't take anymore; I wasn't going to sit around while another innocent friend was going to get hurt because of me. I flew out from behind my current hiding place and ran into Vlad. He pushed me off and punched my side.
"Vanish, looks like he's come out. Go ahead and finish him off." Vlad said with an evil smile before he turned and walked back over to Sam.
I was going to run to Sam's help but the darkness started closing in around me, holding me tightly.
"You cannot escape me. Just like that other worthless halfa." Lady Vanish said.
I reached inside of me to my core and let out a cold burst freezing the shadows and making them retreat back to Vanish.
"What did you do to her?" I said while lighting an ecto-ball in my hand.
"Same thing I was planning on doing with you." She replied back, a black and green ecto-ball forming in her hand.
Both of us sent blast after blast, back and forth with me throwing an ice blast now and then.
"Only problem was she wasn't a human to begin with. She was an unstable, man-made clone. My reforming power didn't fully work on her." She said in a sad but guilty voice before she looked right at me and with her nails glowing green like before, flew at me.
I wasn't fast enough and the last thing I remembered was a sharp pain in my neck.
No one's POV
As soon as the images stopped appearing in Robin's head he contacted the rest of his team.
"Danny just contacted me, he sent some pictures and I know where Danny is! Meet at the tower." The boy wonder said, worry lacing his voice.
The entire team was back at the tower in no time, in Raven's case, leaving a bit of a mess and in Beast Boys case, getting a bite to eat.
"What did you see?" Raven asked.
"The reason we couldn't find Danny in the sewers is because he's in the Ghost Zone." Robin said showing the most emotion the team has seen since Danny went missing.
Remembering the other picture his brother had sent him, he got up to grab some ghost weapons that were laying on the table.
"Let's go get Danny back!" Starfire said lightening the mood.
The team gathered around Raven who thankfully knew how to get into the Ghost Zone.
The first thing they saw was a cloud of Darkness and for a minute they thought Raven took them to the wrong place.
"Danny! Vlad you evil fruit-loop! What have you done!" Sam yelled and kicked him in the leg. Once Sam saw the Titans she ran over.
"About time you got here, give me that." Sam said grabbing one of the ghost weapons they brought.
"Where's Danny?" Beast Boy asked getting worried.
Sam only pointed at the black mass starting to fade. You could see two figures floating in the middle. Sam, with a trained eye, took aim and shot a blast at the taller figure behind the other one. Hopping she picked correctly.
"Your mine now little halfa, your friends mean nothing to you, you have no family shoot, I was the one who killed them in the first place!" Lady Vanish laughed out when Sam's blast hit her and knocked her back, also disrupting the reforming process.
Lady Vanish fell to the ground but Danny stayed floating in the air. The shadow ghost's words and power were still playing on Danny and when he opened his eyes even Raven felt like hiding in fear. Instead of being met with the cheerful bright green eyes of Danny, they were met with the bloodthirsty red eyes of Dan.
To be continued…