Well! Chapter 6! I'd like to lie and say this has been coming along well, but...let's face it. It's been like 12 weeks of the story existing and I only have 6 Chapters x_X But at least it's still slowly growing, right? Right?! RIGHT!?! XD
Danny: Stop badgering the poor people, man.
I AM NOT A MAN. I AM ONLY 15. SO HA IN YOUR FACE DANNY.
Danny: ...Why do I put up with you?
...Anyways. Actually (ADD Moment Coming) my birthday is on April 4th, so I've only got 2/3 months 'til I'm 16, and, according to NJ, I'll be at another step of adulthood. 'Cuz we're weird and have like 4 parts. At 13, 16, 18, and 21. Yeah. We're weirdos here. But yeah. OH, MY BIRTHDAY'S ALSO EASTER!!! IT'S AWESOMESAUCE! I also love how OpenOffice, for some reason, now has 'AWESOMESAUCE' in its automatic word fill-in feature. XD But let's not get too off-topic. For the zillionth time.
Fake kind of number. ^
Right. Anyways, disregard that wall of text up there. I just want to say thank you for sticking with me through this, guys! It really means a lot to me. ^_^ 333 Now, with (little) further adieu, I bring to you (HA! RHYMES!) Chapter 6 of Thesis....Mix. XD I NEEDED A RHYME.
Legal Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom, Danny Fenton, The World, The Universe, or Plastic. All of them, except of course Plastic, belong to Butch Hartman. (--Who's name looks weird to me for some reason right now.)
A week and a half went by without word from Phantom, causing Danny's mental state to grow more and more fragile each passing day. His sister attempted to cheer him up somehow, but nothing seemed to be working.
"I don't know what's wrong..." Jazz started, her parents gazing at the sulking figure on the couch, "He went from depressed to fine to depressed again."
"Honey..." their mother attempted to talk to him, "what's wrong...?"
"I-It's nothing, mom..." Danny smiled, his eyes red.
"Is...this about your brother?"
Danny didn't know how to answer. It wasn't that he was upset his brother was 'gone'...he was upset that his brother was gone: with no
explanation, either.
"I...I'm fine, mom," Danny smiled, "I just need a day or two...would that be okay?"
"Of course, honey," she smiled at him and pulled him into a hug, kissing his head.
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"Why hasn't he come to see me...?" Danny sighed, closing his door and leaning his back against it, "I know I saw him...I'm not crazy..." he lowered his head slightly, his eyes invisibly turning darker, "I'm not....right?"
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"Had enough punishment, Phantom?" Walker smiled malevolently, pacing back and forth in front of the guillotine-like restraints holding the young phantasmal boy. He grinned as he looked at the cut and bruised boy, ordering his guards away, "This is what you get for breaking the law."
Phantom weakly groaned in pain, unable to say or do anything.
'D-Danny...' he thought, his pain consuming him and knocking him out.
"Are we tired already?" Walker mocked the unconscious boy, "Fine. We'll continue punishment later."
Two guards appeared in the room as he finished his statement.
"Yes?"
"Well, sir, we seem to have found out where the portal-creating ghost has been hiding."
" Yes? And who is it?"
"They're called 'Wulf', and he apparently has the power to create portals between our two dimensions."
"Intriguing..." Walker looked over at the guillotine-esque prison and the boy, "So that's how you did it..."
"What would you like us to do, sir?"
Walker shot the officer an evil glare.
"I want you to go apprehend him. Now go before I arrest you for even asking a question like that."
"Y-Yes, sir," the ghost-officer responded, phasing out as to not upset the Warden any further.
"Wulf, eh? I'll show him why I uphold the law in this otherwise lawless realm."
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"Are you alright, Danny?" Sam's worry was clearly audible despite the slight static the two phones produced.
"I dunno..." Danny sighed: he wasn't sure what he was thinking any more. After all, seeing his deceased brother in perfect health 10 years after his death? Telling that story was a sure way to get put in the happy-house, "It's just..."
"Danny..." Sam trailed off, "If you have something you need to tell me, you can, okay?"
"I know, Sam, but..." Danny thought for a second, "alright, but hold on one sec. Let me get away from my family."
"Okay."
Danny got off the couch (He'd been going up and downstairs all day, pacing between rooms, thinking about Dan) and slightly grunted as his bones cracked. He walked upstairs slowly, looking to make sure nobody was watching.
"Alright, Sam," Danny said, opening his door, "Now, it's about..." Danny trailed off, looking at the floor in the middle of his room, "Dan!?"
"Dan? What? Your brother? I thought he---" Danny closed his cellphone, ending the conversation.
In the middle of his room lied the white-haired spectral boy bruised, cut, and bleeding. He cautiously stepped over to the boy and knelt down to check for a pulse.
'Wait...do ghosts have a pulse...?' he thought to himself as he reached towards his brother's neck.
A few moments passed and Danny thought he felt a pulse going.
"Okay..." he sighed in relief, "Now...what do I do next?"
He looked at the pathetic sight of his brother, his clothes ragged and torn, his face pained and bruised.
"What...happened to you, Phantom...?"
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"Why, Phantom...?" Danny's face was turbulent with emotion, "Why did you let them hurt me and my family...?"
"I-I'm sorry, Danny!" Phantom fell to his knees in shame, "I-I didn't know they would hurt you...I thought they would just go after me!"
Danny slowly began to fade away, Walker soon replacing him in the spot he was just standing.
"I told you not to break the law, Phantom. Now you have to pay the price..." he laughed maniacally as fire slowly surrounded Phantom, closing in more and more with each second.
"I didn't want them to hurt you, Danny...I'm sorry..." the fire engulfed him, his image slowly being burned away to nothing.
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"I didn't want them to hurt you, Danny...I'm sorry..." Phantom whispered in his sleep.
"Phantom? Who to hurt me?" he looked at his brother, the boy's eyes fluttering with pain every few moments.
A few seconds passed and suddenly Phantom's eyes were opened, the green iridescence shining eerily into Danny's blue eyes.
"Dan...ny---!!" Phantom winced as he tried to sit up a little.
"Phantom!" Danny knelt down slightly to lay the boy back down, "Don't try to move...you've got a lot of cuts and bruises..."
"Ungh..." Phantom groaned as he laid back down, "it's not as bad as it looks..." he said quietly.
Danny looked at him seriously, "If it were as bad as it looks you'd be dead...ergh...re...dead..." his eyes began to tear up, "What happened to you...?"
"N-Nothing..." Phantom closed his eyes, unable to bear the pain he was causing Danny.
'How'd I even get here?' he thought to himself.
"Phantom, please...I want you to tell me...I need to know..."
He tried to keep his eyes shut to stop from looking at Danny, but he opened them briefly and saw Danny crying next to him.
"...I..." Phantom began, Danny looking up as tears rolled from his eyes, "...Danny..."
"Phantom...please..." he begged.
"...Humans and ghosts aren't supposed to make contact. When we make contact, little pieces of the future are slowly changed. Usually they're minor occurrences, but sometimes...worse things happen."
"Like...?" Danny slowly stopped crying.
"Well...it's not always bad...but the Watchers, the ones who watch the World and the Ghost Zone, don't like to take risks. So...when Walker, the Ghost Zone's warden came into the picture, he started 'acting' in their name to reduce ghosts going into the World."
"So..."
"Yeah...me and Walker have had run-ins..."
"Is he the one who..." Danny shuddered to think about what the man had done.
"Yeah...I knew it was coming, but...I...I really wanted to see you, Danny..."
"Phantom....I'm sorry...this is all my fault..."
"Danny, please don't blame yourself...it was my choice to come here..."
"But...wait...how did you get here? You said there were only certain ways..."
"Well...there are. But...one of the other ghosts can open inter-dimensional rifts that you can travel through."
"So he's been helping you get here?"
"Yeah...and...I think he might have been the one to bring me here, but...I'm sure Walker has him now...." he winced as the cuts and bruises throbbed more and more.
"...Is Walker the one you were talking about?"
"What..?"
"In your dream...you said 'I didn't want them to hurt you, Danny...'."
"You...heard...that?" Phantom began to blush, "Uhm..y-yeah...." he wanted to cover his face, but his whole body throbbed with each attempt.
Danny noticed the pink streaks appearing, and began to blush too, "Uhm...so..." the two sat awkwardly for a few moments, "uh...you should get some rest."
"But I ca---!!" his protest brought sharp pins to the cuts.
"I'll make up some excuse to my parents, about...I don't know. But I'll tell them they can't come in my room."
"D-Danny..."
"I don't care what happens to the future...I care about what happens to you."
Phantom smiled a tiny bit, despite the immense pain, and fell softly into sleep as the pink streak turned into a bright red blush.
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"Where did you take him?" Walker hit Wulf across the face with blunt force.
"Tell me NOW!" he hit him again, this time with more strength behind the punch.
"Playing tough guy, eh?" Walker smiled, "You," he pointed to a ghost-officer, "find out what he knows. I have business to attend to."
"Y-Yes, sir." The officer responded obediently.
Walker walked out of the room and headed up the stairs, leading to the room of another prisoner.
"Skulker."
"Walker," the man responded with equal hatred.
"I hear you have information on the ghost-boy, Phantom."
"That depends on if it will get me anything."
Walker stared at the hunter a moment, "If you are indeed the Ghost Zone's number one hunter, and can help me locate the Phantom boy, then I shall shorten your sentence a hundred years."
Skulker thought hard on whether or not to take the offer.
"Very well. We have a deal, Walker."
A/N: AND TA-DAH! Chapter 6!~ Ohayou-hayou~ A few things first, though. First, SORRY ABOUT PHANTOM I LOVE HIM AND I'MA GET WALKER BACK FOR HIM, OKAY GUYS? 3 Second, Wulf....had to be a person in this, for it to make sense. I mean, ghosts are one thing, but ghosts wolves are another...so yeah. Third, I honestly had NO idea what to write for Danny to do. I mean, HOW DO YOU CHECK THAT A GHOST IS STILL ALIVE...OR UNALIVE...OR UNDEAD....OR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO SAY?! XD I don't know, but seriously, if any of you guys do, PLEASE tell me. And I actually was going to make this chapter much longer, to include the majestic ______(---It's a secret.) scene, but that'll have to wait til next chapter or so. But I actually like the idea of this chapter ending with Walker recruiting Skulker. It's all ominous and 'Ohhhhhhh snapppp, what's gonna happen!?' Y'know? Pero si. I like the direction the Walker vs. Phantom conflict is going. Just cuz. XD Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy this chapter, and luckily it's a little more exciting and a little longer than the last chapter. So yeah. Ok, I'll talk to you all later! ^^ Thanks again for sticking with me, and please rate and review! :D Thank you! ~Shin-Shui~
Edit: Well, I just had a little more to say here, so yeah. XD This is actually the posting edit, but w/e. As we're coming to the Closing of Thesis Statement...(I know! It's sad :[ But we've got at LEAST 3 more chapters, so don't worry just yet!) I'm noticing all of the reviews I've gotten. And, unless I misread some of them or missed one or two, they're, like, all positive! So...basically, my question to you guys, is would you be interested in a TS: 2? It'd be much different than this, but like, a continuance. I dunno. It was just a passing thought in my mind as I read some new reviews, so I'm putting it out there for you guys. It's up to you entirely. I also have a story called "So Have You Wished It, So Shall It Be" in the works, which is, duh, involving Desiree. But no. No Desiree slash or pairings. It's just...involved with. XD Idk. But it should be good. I also have an idea for a psychological prison/death/w.e story that I might wanna do, but I'm not sure about it yet. Maybe you guys should help me. Actually, you should! I'm going to put a Poll in my profile and put some options in thar. All you (the fan/reader/random story-finder) must do, is click on the poll and help me decide what to do! I'd really appreciate it you guys. You've all been great, and I just really want to make stories that you like. So...yeah! Just tell me what's up, and I'll try to make it happen! Thanks again, everyone! 3 ~Shin-Shui~