Author notes:
1)English is my second language. Forgive me for any mistake.
2)I don't own Danny Phantom.
3)I only own the plot for this AU and the eventual OCs
4)Thanks Truephan and Christopher Scott for your reviews.
5)Sorry about the huge delay. Happy New year for everyone.
Danny was doing his best to not be spotted. He had to resort to use invisibility several times while human, but everytime he summoned his ghost powers he felt ill. In spite of this, he still had to force himself to become invisible at times so he wouldn't be seen.
Hours were spent in several attempts of going inside of the castle. The biggest problem was that the walls of the castle were all covered in ectorranium and he couldn't phase through it. He had no ladder to climb to an open window and he didn't feel confident in flying while remaining invisible in such a weakened state. He placed his right hand over his mouth to hold back his anxiety to throw up. It didn't feel as bad as if he were in his ghost side, so it was almost bearable for him. It was dawn by the time Danny started to hear that weird annoying voice again, telling him to go back to the Dead Forest.
The hybrid told it to shut up, but the voice didn't stop for one second. It was hard to focus with that, but he tried his hardest to ignore it.
Then he finally saw his chance. The doors of the back of the castle suddenly opened and a couple of maids went out of it. Danny, still invisible, saw that chance and stormed into the castle, passing between the two maids who felt something bumping against them. They looked very puzzled at that and wondered what it was.
Inside of the castle, he noticed that the smell of the Bloody Blossoms were much weaker and that was a huge relief for him. He didn't know that his grandmother, Teresa had grown sick of the smell inside of the castle, so she asked her husband to remove at least the flowers inside of it. King Raymond was also very displeased with the smell, so he ended up agreeing with that. He really doubted any ghost would come so far inside of the castle anyway.
Because of that, it became easier for Danny to walk there while invisible, but the castle walls were all green because of the ectorranium coating. Its glow made Danny shiver. His ghostly instincts were telling him that the place was bad news for him, but he wasn't going to back out.
The boy spent a good amount of time trying to find his grandfather. He knew that asking for directions was out of question. So, basically, he walked randomly. The boy passed by a door with two guards near it, but he halted when he heard someone saying on the other side of it: "Greetings, Your Majesty. I would like to inform you that King Mason has arrived."
"Very well. Bring them here." replied a male voice.
The hybrid immediately thought he had found his grandfather. When he tried to phase through the door he bumped against it, making the two guards look at it puzzled. They couldn't see the teen and they couldn't say what had just slammed against the door. They just assumed it had been a strong wind or someone, but they didn't feel a thing. Luckily for the boy, they decided to ignore it.
The doors were coated with ectorranium as well, so he couldn't just phase through it. The boy was glad that the two guards didn't mind his little attempt to get in the room. He then decided to wait until the doors were open, after all his grandfather was going to be visited. But the boy was sure he had heard the name 'Mason' before, but he couldn't remember exactly where.
Finally, the door opened for King Raymond's servant to leave, but since the boy was distracted thinking about where he heard that 'Manson' name before, he didn't get the time to sneak into the room. So, he decided to wait until his next opportunity.
In the King Pariah's castle, the king used all his strength to walk to someone to help him. He wanted to kill the responsible for the attempt against his life. He doubted that it was the action of one ghost only.
He walked through the halls and roared for someone to appear and help him. His voice echoed through the castle and many of his servants appeared. They were shocked to see their king in such a wounded state and when they asked him about what had happened, King Pariah ordered them to shut up and take him to his personal doctor and also to summon his counselors and general.
Some of the servants quickly went to obey the king's orders while others stayed and helped him to walk to his personal chambers. When they got there, they saw Penelope Spectra lying on the bed humming happily.
However, she suddenly stopped when she saw her husband alive. 'Had Bertrand fail? I can't believe that stupid blob failed with a simple task!' But then she snapped out of it and started with her façade: "My dear, what happened?" she said as she jumped off her bed, aiding the three servants to lay her husband on his bed.
Seeing her husband in such a fragile state and noticing how he wasn't wearing the Crown of Fire anymore. She then thought she could kill her husband right there. She was going to remove the ring when they were alone and do it quickly.
"Don't just stand there, go bring help!" she said to the servants there who were about to do as they were told until they heard their king say.
"No, I've already sent others to do it. The three of you stay! I don't why that idiot of Bertrand decided to betray me, but I know he's not smart enough to just do this kind of thing on his own. Whoever plotted against me might try come after me again. You'll stay here and protect me until my general and some guards arrive!" The king snarled, still pissed off that he let his guard down so easily. But he was even angrier because fellow ghosts decided to betray him in a time when they all should be against the human race.
Spectra wasn't happy either. She thought she could kill her husband if they were all alone, after all, she could feed off his energy and no doctor would be able to detect her doings and her husband was aware of who tried to kill him, after all Bertrand did some jobs in the past for the king.
Spectra's main problem was that with the three servants' being here, there was no way she could accomplish that. Her plans were in even bigger danger because she was certain that her husband was going to be paranoid. She then decided to lay low, glad that at least her tracks were covered.
Samantha Mason and her family had arrived in the Amikeco Parko at night. The princess was bored out of her mind. Her parents chit chatted while she only watched the landscape though the window of the royal carriage.
She accompanied her parents through the castle to, what she thought, was going to be a very boring meeting. When she got to the door to the throne room, she didn't notice Danny was there, but the boy noticed her.
Then he remembered where he had heard the 'Mason' name before. It was her surname. He didn't know she was a princess. But then he snapped out of it when the doors were open.
He rushed into the room phasing though Sam and her parents. He found himself at the throne room and he the stared at the couple sitting on fancy red thrones. They were both wearing crowns and Danny's suspicions became clear when the Manson Royal family addressed respectfully to them: "Good evening, King William, Queen Teresa!"
The King and Queen of Amikeco Parko greeted them back. The old man then started telling his business with King Mason: "You see, King Thurston, I summoned you here because we decided to finally declare war against the ghosts! I called you here so you could see for yourself everything I accomplished when you refused to help me with my plans. It won't take long until I have the head of the ghost, who corrupted my youngest daughter, served on a silver plate."
The hybrid cringed at those words. Everything that Sam had told him about his grandfather was true, sadly. Seemingly, his only chance to have a 'civilized' talk with him now was only if he manages to lock himself in a weaponless room with his grandfather
The hybrid was right next to Sam, who wasn't happy either with what the oldest man in the room had just said. 'If ghosts were so vile, so why those two ghosts weren't that scary or even didn't even try hurt me? They even seemed to think they were innocent from everything we accuse them…' She then gave a heavy sigh and looked away, to her right side, where Danny was. But she couldn't see him.
Danny noticed that and looked back at Sam for a while and thought: 'She's quite beautiful, but for some reason that pink dress doesn't seem to suit her very well…' but then he slapped his own cheeks, which, fortunately, didn't draw anyone's attention. 'Focus, Danny!' The boy wanted to stay there and wait until the visitors left so he could have a chance of speaking with his grandfather alone.
However, everyone's attention turned to a soldier, who was holding a spear, burst through the door with a distressed look on his face. "Your Highness, we're under attack!" Said a soldier desperately. That soldier, like the others who were fighting the invading army were using iron-made equipment. Jack's research showed that ectorranium was easily destroyed by iron made weapons therefore, it wasn't useful against other human's weaponry. Because of that King Raymond didn't throw away his army's old weapons and kept them around for emergencies.
"WHAT?" shouted King Raymond getting up of his throne. "Don't tell me ghosts decided to retaliate!"
The soldier swallowed dry before he answered: "No, My King. They're human! They carry the flag of King William's kingdom, Malnova Pordo."
"What? That brat betrayed me!" King Raymond roared clenching his fists.
The Mason Royal Family was also aghast by those news. They never expected for King William do such a thing to his own father-in-law and also with them as well. After all, King Thurston agreed to marry his daughter with King William's son!
Even Danny was surprised by that. The hybrid didn't know who this King William was, but he was sure that it was going to jeopardize the boy's plan to talk to his grandfather.
The soldier was still there trembling. He didn't want to be the one to deliver that final message to his king because he was afraid that the old man's wrath would fall upon the messenger, but he decided to tell it quickly because he feared beheading if he hid the following news: "T-There's more, Your Highness. The invading army has already…broken through our defenses."
With that everyone in the room paled.
Alphonse waited nervously at the spot where the Cave of Beginning was. His impatience was overflowing him. He couldn't wait until he could check if everything was alright.
He sighed in deeper frustration when he remembered that he had locked the door and therefore he couldn't open it unless Daniel helped him. He had rushed there without even considering that. But how could he drag the boy, whom he didn't know that was currently in a human kingdom, without his father realizing it?
There was another thing that bothered him greatly. It was quite late at night already and yet there was no sign of fireflies. He remembered how they have disappeared when he had taken the key, but the gear-like medallion was still in its place. He checked it when he arrived there. So many visits to that place made him memorized the spot where it was buried.
He was sure he didn't do anything wrong to cause such happening, but the same couldn't be said of his father. Poison the river was obviously the reason of that odd happening. The forest haven't been so dark before. Only the scarce moonlight provided illumination.
'Why can't that stupid cave rise already? I'll drag a human there myself and when he or she opens that door I'll run inside of it kill the human before he or she does something stupid and see what happened to that tree!' he though clenching the key on his hand. He placed it back inside of the box and buried it back in hope that the cave would somehow rise.
Then he started to feel a very weird burning sensation in his body like when he had touched those unfamiliar fireflies inside of the tree's chamber. 'Crap! This is bad! Really bad!'
End of chapter 18
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