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Disclaimer: Butch Hartman would projectile vomit out of every orifice if he would read this misshapen horror of a story.
Warning: I don't even need to write warnings if you've been reading this story long enough. Just prepare for some insane sh*t, just in case.
Note: Based on no episode. The time between Control Freaks and Memory Blank.
Another note: The weird incest thing between Vlad and Danny, yeah, I explain this with science. They did a study a few years ago where they got ten women and ten men. The women were to be blindfolded and to smell a t-shirt assigned to the men (who had worn them for a few days... don't worry, they could take showers). When the women smelled two shirts, they chose the one that had the 'appealing' smell. This enabled them to choose a possible 'mate' from the ten men.
Strangely, the man that the women chose as their potential 'mate' had similar DNA structure to their fathers. They also tested the DNA of the women's partners, significant others, or spouses and discovered that this was majorly true (not always, but most of the time). I decided to use that as a support for Danny's family in this story...
... Also, I really like Pompous Pep...
ANOTHER Note: I have recently gotten obsessed with the manga GodChild. As has happened in the past, since Danny reflects a huge chunk of my personality, he also shares this obsession. GodChild has also connected with my story in a weird way… It's quite strange. PREPARE FOR UNINTENDED SPOILERS!1!11!1!1!1!1!1!1!11!111!1
THIRD NOTE: On July 22nd, I had a huge chunk of this done. However, I was stupid and accidentally exited out of the window before saving. I really am an idiot sometimes. It doesn't help that I don't have Internet because my mom got so late on payments and so we've been without Dish and Yahoo! Since… The middle of June? Only place I can get this updated is at the library… Fook.
Songs used: Strawberry Gashes by Jack Off Jill and Labios Compartidos (Shared Lips) by Mana
Written from June 28 to July 23rd (My Birthday was July 19th.)
Chapter 14: Godchild
Danny sat in his room. One more week of fall break left... One more week of dealing with worried faces and scared expressions...
He read the manga in his hands, GodChild. As Cain told Riff the reason for Siobhan's death, Danny felt the room grow cold.
"Are you going to keep flying around, Phantom?" The ghost made himself visible to his master.
"I am sorry, Danny, but I wanted to go see the birds in the park... They're leaving soon."
Danny returned to the manga in his hands.
"We'll go in a bit." Phantom beamed with joy.
"Thank you." Danny smiled.
"Of course, my Phantom." Danny beckoned the other to come closer with his finger. Phantom gathered his master in his arms, touching his back in the process. Though they had faded over time, he knew there were scars there... Danny noticed the gesture and repeated a line from his manga... that Earl Cain had said to his servant Riff.
"The only person who can touch these scars is you."
Turn her over
A candle is lit, I see through her
Blow it out and save all her ashes for me
Phantom took pleasure in standing in the sunlight, letting it pass his translucent body and warm him. Danny gazed at the nest on the branch he sat next to. His Phantom had been right, seeing the emptiness of the small twig, mud, and leaf structure.
"Danny!" The merrymaking ceased as Phantom quickly went back inside of Danny and the boy got down from the tree.
He saw Sara, the raven-haired girl smiling happily.
"Guess what?"
"I don't know, Sara. What?"
"There's a cosplay party at the Black Cat today starting at 4:00." The purple-eyed girl beamed. "I wanted you and I to go as Godchild characters." She paused to let him think.
"Sara," Danny said. "Will you be my Suzette?" The boy, being a pro at translation, had read the original Japanese version of his manga, leaving him with Japanese pronunciations of names.
Sara curtsied, her back erect and proper. "Of course, Lord Cain."
Curse me sold her
The poison that runs its course through her
Pale white skin with strawberry gashes all over all over
Mr. and Mrs. Fenton were cleaning the house and Danny's room. The mirror was in shards, the floor was stained pink in some places, no matter the amount of bleach used.
"I'm home and I'm going out again," Danny cried as he came through the door, completely ignoring Sam and Tucker who had been waiting for him to come home so they could hang out.
"Danny, where've you been?" Sam inquired, having a mother hen look to herself.
"At the park," the boy answered, not even looking at his friends, only the clock.
11:00 A.M.
"Where are my parents?" Danny said, beginning to rummage through the refrigerator. He pulled out a box of strange squiggles. He opened the box and began to eat one. Feeling Sam and Tucker stare at him, with his mouth full, he offered them what he was eating.
"Octopus?"
"So a friend invited you to a costume party?" Jazz had come home in time to calm down everybody after Danny had obliviously offended everyone. Mr. and Mrs. Fenton had gone out again.
"Yep," Danny said, coming out from behind a changing screen that he had gotten from under his bed. He was wearing black pants with matching suspenders, a white dress shirt, and faux leather shoes. The gold/green contacts in his eyes were shimmering in excitement. "Do I look fancy?"
"Are you supposed to be some kind of baron or earl or something?" Tucker asked nonchalantly.
"An earl, actually." Danny stood in front of his mirror. "Jazz, do you have eyeliner?"
"No 'guy-liner', just Clinique Quick." Jazz dug through her purse and pulled out the make-up. She tossed it at Danny, who caught it deftly and began to stare at his reflection in the mirror to get the eyeliner on properly. "What kind of earl needs eyeliner?"
Danny answered after smudging the black pencil lines ever so slightly. "Count Cain Hargreaves, the Earl of Poisons."
"The GodChild character?" Everyone looked at Sam, wondering why she hadn't spoken up sooner.
"You know about GodChild?" Danny grabbed the jacket for his costume and smoothed out any wrinkles. He then went to his sister to give her a pair of shoes, proper Victorian Era style shoes.
"Yeah," Sam replied. Turning her nose up while continuing, she said, "But the whole idea of a guy using poisons to make people kill others and themselves didn't appeal to me."
Tucker laughed. "How does that not appeal to a goth?"
"Well, Tuck," Danny said, the room in the mood suddenly solemn. "Not all goths are evil and demonic. I should know, I used to hang out with them on a daily basis."
Jazz scoffed. "You are not goth, Danny."
Danny glared at her. He suddenly smirked. When he spoke, it was with an English accent, evil and sweet was his voice. "Of course, sweet sister, whose knowledge knows no bounds. Shouldst the world be in a state of ruin, may thine eyes be cut from thine face, put in a jar on my desk, and your corsage eaten bare by the dogs. I will draw the Tower card from the Tarot and give it to you for it is truly your fate."
Danny paused, his currently golden eyes seeming demonic.
Watch me fault her
You're living like a disaster
She said 'Kill me faster
'With strawberry gashes all over'
Sam, Tucker, and Jazz all stared at him, never hearing him talk so passionately, sincerely, and threateningly before. It frightened them.
Suddenly, Danny began to laugh. "Your faces!" He fell onto his bed where Jazz sat adjacent to him. "You thought I meant it!"
"Danny, what does the Tower mean in the Tarot deck?" Jazz looked at her brother questioningly. His eyes bore into hers, yet she did not notice it.
His eyes stared at her mechanically, as his voice sounded as well. "The Tower itself in the card is struck by lightning. In both its proper and upside-down positions, it means destruction, change, deceit... betrayal." He sat up, his eyes closed arrogantly. "If I ever did your Tarot and your future card was the Tower, I would be ready to go to church."
"Why?"
Danny turned to her and smiled. "To beg for God's forgiveness, Mary Weather."
He stood, walked over to his mirror/dresser, and pulled out a Tarot deck. He pulled out three cards and gave one each to Jazz, Tucker, and Sam respectively.
"Jazz got Card 18: The Moon, Tucker got Card 14: Temperance, and Sam got 0: The Fool."
Sam looked at her card. The rose symbolizes love. Could Danny...
"Damn." Danny had pulled a card for himself. He showed his card to the other three.
Sam stared at the card, confused by it. "What is it?"
"The Devil." Danny looked at the face of the card again. "Fuck."
Sam, Jazz, and Tucker walked behind Danny, who was also followed by his parents. All were dressed up.
Sam was Emmeline, a girl whom Cain was betrothed to until an incident occurred. Tucker was a man named Dominic Crehador, a psychic who could speak with the dead. Maddie went as Aunt Katina, Cain's mother's sister who cared deeply for Cain. Jack went as Uncle Neil, Cain's guardian.
"Danny," Maddie said, "why didn't you want us to dress up as Cain's real parents again?"
Danny stopped and turned with a sad smile on his face. "Cain was born out of an incestuous relationship... like I was."
Everyone stared at him. Danny... was born from incest, from two family members sleeping together?
Called her over
And asked her if she was improving
She said 'Feels fine. It's wonderful, wonderful here.'
"My birth parents were cousins, married to each other out of tradition." Danny looked up at the sky, the sun getting low in the sky. "Cain was born in a similar way, though his mother seduced her brother to kill the entire family out of spite. Cain learned of his birth after being told that a golden eye color was the result of such unholy unions and being told so by his mother and aunt herself.
"Cain's father, on the other hand, loved his son, so much that he poisoned him on a daily basis with arsenic in sugar cubes. Cain caught on to his deadly sugar cube idea after a while and poisoned his father instead."
Everyone stared at Danny, everyone feeling different towards this weird confession/explanation for their characterizing.
"Well." Danny said, smoothing out his clothes and appearance. "Do I look like I'm ready to pick up girls?" Everyone stopped thinking and laughed.
"Of course, my lord and cousin. Who could resist your charms?" Everyone turned to see a young girl in an English pompadour dress and a black bow in her red hair. The strange thing was is that she had Sam's face.
"Hey, Suzette… or are you Mikaila?" Sara jumped into Danny's arms, knocking the two over in a series of laughs.
"I guess I am Mikaila." The two smiled.
Everyone else stared at the girl, wondering who on earth she was until two others came up. Both wore Victorian era-style outfits, had white hair, and one wore glasses.
The one with glasses smirked. "Well," he said, grabbing Sara's arm, "if it isn't our spoiled Little Miss Muffit." He picked her up off of Danny, who he then knelt next to. "I hope this spoiled princess hasn't hurt you, precious one."
The other boy bent down and picked up Danny bridal-style, making the one with glasses glare at him. "Keep your copy and yourself away from my Lord Cain." Danny pouted.
"You two take this too seriously." He glared at the boy who picked him up. "Riff, put me down before I hit you."
"Yes, Lord Cain."
"Aww, Danny, that's so cute," Sara cooed. "Your beloved manservant doing what you tell him to do instantly… Now tell him to get n-"
Danny rudely stuffed a handkerchief in Sara's mouth. "Don't finish that word."
"What was she going to say?" Jazz was intrigued. She had never seen her brother so flustered.
Sara hurriedly got the cloth out of her mouth. "I was going to tell Danny to make Riff get himself and Danny naked."
"You're a pervert. You know that?" Danny screamed at the girl, his and 'Riff's cheeks pink. Said 'manservant' came and placed his hands on the 'lord's shoulders.
"Calm down, milord." Danny pouted. 'Riff' looked down. "Oh, dear, milord. Your shoelace is untied."
Danny looked down as 'Riff' knelt down to tie the shoelaces. Danny stood on his left foot and helped himself stay balanced by placing a hand on his 'manservant's shoulder. The simplicity and closeness of their relationship made Danny's family and friends feel so awkward.
Hex me told her
'I dreamt of a devil that knew' her
Pale white skin with strawberry gashes all over all over
When the entourage of GodChild characters got to the Black Cat, some of the girls in the building jumped on Danny, exchanging greetings and Japanese babble. Other boys greeted Danny, talking in Japanese as well and some dialect of the language.
"Man, how is Danny getting all of these girls?" Tucker said, his face in an annoyed grimace.
"It's his aura." The server at the counter where they all sat mentioned. He was dressed the GodChild character, the Owl. He gave Tucker a glass of chocolate milk.
"Aura?" Sam asked. She drank some of her wheatgrass juice.
"His aura projects loneliness, and truly pure and kind souls immediately flock to him if he doesn't hide it, which he can do rather well." The Owl, whose nametag said Tori, served Mr. and Mrs. Fenton a 'surprise drink', a screwdriver each.
"You mean, like magic?" Jazz scoffed. "Tori, that doesn't exist." Tori looked at the sixteen-year-old. He placed down her cranberry-grape-slushie and looked at her.
"How can your brother stand to be near you?" he said, sincerely intrigued. "Normally, magic users get so anxious and less capable when surrounded by your degree of Anti-Magic Toxic."
"Cool how I can stand her, huh?" Jazz jumped at Danny's voice, his artificially golden-green eyes twinkling in the light. "The Origin of Magic comes from the belief of it and Defiance of Normalcy. In other words, I'm one of the best candidates. Since I constantly defy my sister, my magic pretty much overpowers her toxins." Danny sat down on Jazz's other side, spinning on the turning stool that one would find at a bar. "Owl, can I have vino rosso?"
"Your version of red wine, coming up, Cain." Tori got out a container of cranberry juice and began to pour it in a wine glass, along with a few ice cubes.
"Red wine, as well, if you would," 'Riff' ordered, sitting beside Danny.
"Aniki, are you enjoying the party?" Danny asked his 'manservant', gracefully drinking his 'wine'.
"Yes, I am," 'Aniki' said, patting Danny on the head. "You are quite the actor, Otooto."
Watch me fault her
You're living like a disaster
She said 'Kill me faster
'With strawberry gashes all over'
"Ani-wha?" Sam asked, remembering the word from somewhere…
Danny turned to her and smiled. "That's Japanese. Aniki for 'older brother' and Otooto for 'younger brother'. In Japan, you can call another boy that if they are close to you or during casual times. Since Aniki and I are close, I can call him that." Danny turned to his aniki. "Right?"
Again, Aniki smiled at his 'otooto'. "Of course, Watashi no go-shujin-sama." (That's means my lord and master. Tee hee.)
"Wow. I can't believe we're cosplaying from the same manga." An annoyed voice of a teenage girl made the GodChild possy turn to her. She was dressed in a long flowing dress, had her black hair loose and flowing and wore an imitation-emerald ring on her finger.
"Hey, Paulina!" Danny said, hopping off of his seat and hugging her. Paulina smiled.
"I never thought that you'd be with your family, in all places where you could show them how weird you are." Danny turned to his family and friends, as if seeing them for the first time.
He turned back to Paulina. "Should I be flirting with you?"
The girl turned from secure to arrogant. She spoke with an English accent. "Perhaps. I am Suzette, dear cousin Cain." Paulina curtsied as Danny stood up. "May I be so bold as to ask you to dance?"
Danny bowed, 'Cain' now his personality. "Of course, darling cousin Suzette."
A waltz began on the speakers, many couples, including Danny and Paulina, walking onto the dance floor and showing their love of the dance.
Sam looked on, watching him hold the small of Paulina's back, his hand clasping hers, her arm around his shoulders… She hated it.
I lay quiet
Waiting for her voice to say
'Some things you lose and some things you just give away'
Paulina left after the waltz, only after Danny laid a kiss on her hand and wished her sweet dreams.
Oblivious to his family and friends, who were immersing themselves in his underground haven and its inhabitants, Danny walked over to Aniki, hugging him and placing his right hand on the taller boy's lower back.
"I told you next time," Danny said, sounding disappointed.
"I-I thought that you would be dancing with another girl before you would consider dancing wi-" He was stopped by the finger against his lips. Danny's artificial golden-green eyes flashed with such fire that Aniki thought that he would burst into flames.
"You said that you would give your soul to serve me…" Danny said, letting his breath ghost over Aniki's ear, loving the shiver that coursed through the fifteen-year-old. "You're denying me my wish, Riff?"
"Never, my lord."
Scold me, failed her
If only I'd held on tighter to her
Pale white skin that twisted and withered away from me, away from me
Jazz was watching as Danny pulled his Aniki over to the 'bar' countertop and handed Tori a CD.
"Hey," she asked a girl that she was talking to. "What exactly is the relationship between Lord Cain and his manservant?" Her tone attracted her parents, Sam, and Tucker, who were talking about ghosts, the meaning of 'goth', and flirting, respectively.
The girl that Jazz was talking to, cosplaying as Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon, turned red and giggled. "They are closer than they should be. Just look at Danny and his manservant.
Everyone turned, the cosplaying girls giggles and 'aww'-ing at the sight of the two boys dancing to a Spanish love song amidst the couples that were gathered or were gathering on the dance floor. Sam recognized it as Labios Compartidos by the 'Suffering Spooks'. Mr. Fenton should've had that copyrighted.
Amor mío… (My love…)
Si estoy debajo del vaivén de tus piernas (If I'm below the come and go of your legs)
Si estoy hundido del vaivén de caderas (If I'm sinking in the come and go of your hips)
Este es el cielo, mi cielo (This is heaven, my heaven)
Amor fugado (Runaway love)
Me tomas, me dejas, me exprimes, y me tiras a un lado
(You take me, you leave me, you squeeze me and throw me aside)
Te vas a otro cielo y regresas como los colibríes
(You go to another heaven and come back like the hummingbirds)
Me tienes como un perro a tus pies (You have me like a dog at your feet)
Danny had his head against the crook of Aniki's neck, his arms pulling the other teen close. Aniki had his arms wrapped around the shorter boy, their bodies pressed against each other's. Their eyes were closed, just leaving Danny, Aniki, and the music.
Their own little world…
Otra ves mi boca insensate (Once again my foolish mouth)
Vuelve a caer en tu piel (Falls on your skin again)
Vuelve a mi tu boca y provoca (Come back to me, your mouth and incite)
Vuelvo a caer en tus pechos, en tu par de pies
(I fall again, from your breasts to your pair of feet)
Sam and Tucker left soon after, having received calls from their parents to return home.
They didn't see Danny put on a dress that Aniki had helped him dress up in and flirt playfully with some of the boys around him. Only the Fentons saw that.
They didn't see Danny sing on stage in a beautiful soprano and in the lovely dress that he had put on for fun. Only the Fentons saw that.
They didn't see Aniki help Danny change his clothes and seem so sensual in doing so. Only Maddie saw that.
"I want you to stay away from my son," Maddie said, Aniki standing straight as she spoke.
"May I have your reasons, Mrs. Fenton?"
Maddie's face grew darker with anger. "You are too close to my son. He likes his friend Sam and your relationship is obviously confusing him."
Aniki blinked. "Relationship? I'm afraid I don't understand. I am merely his servant and nothing more."
Maddie pressed beneath her eyebrows, a headache coming on. "He takes it as something different. He might be perceiving it as some kind of romantic relationship."
She saw the boy's eyes open wide, as if realizing the clarity of what she was saying. "I was not aware of this, Mrs. Fenton. I only do what he tells me to; if he told me to help him, I would. If he told me to kill someone, I would. If he told me to save him, I would."
"If he told you to have sex with him…," Maddie asked, trailing off.
"I would, Mrs. Fenton."
Silence.
"Just stay away from my son."
"… You have two years."
Aniki walked past the woman to see Danny, Jack, and Jazz standing there.
Watch me lose her
It's almost like losing myself
Give her my soul
And let them take somebody else; Get away from me
He kissed his master's hand after holding it tenderly and left with only four words.
"Farewell, Earl of Poisons."
Danny stayed in his room for the next three days. His Aniki was gone. All he did was surf the Internet on his laptop. On the third day, he talked to the Colonel.
Witch_of_Poison: How is da investigation comin along?
IL_85_FBI_wanaB_wanaB: Comin along like a fly getting out of fly papr
Witch_of_Poison: Dammit L No evidens?
IL_85_FBI_wanaB_wanaB: None. His recrd is clean, considrin he is a biz-man
Witch_of_Poison: Fuck dat.
IL_85_FBI_wanaB: Calm down. I aint letting him walk
Witch_of_Poison: … I miss my Aniki
IL_85_FBI_wanaB: Your mom think you gay?
Witch_of_Poison: Homophobic.
IL_85_FBI_wanaB: Ah.
Witch_of_Poison: Phantom just came back.
IL_85_FBI_wanaB: K. Take care, little doll.
Witch_of_Poison: Plan to. ^3^ *chu*
IL_85_FBI_wanaB: O.O
Witch_of_Poison: I was a bit of a whore in mid skool.
IL_85_FBI_wanaB: Ur not.
Witch_of_Poison: Thanx. Bye.
IL_85_FBI_wanaB: Bye.
Witch_of_Poison has signed out.
IL_85_FBI_wanaB has signed out.
Danny closed his computer and grabbed the razor blade that sat on the bed covers.
"Danny?" Phantom asked, his eyes growing wide and his stomach doing sickening flips as Danny dragged the blade across the pale white skin of his stomach, ever so lightly… His blood as red as strawberries.
Watch me fault her
You're living like a disaster
She said 'Kill me faster
'With strawberry gashes all over, all over me'
Yuki: Yeah… Wow…
Anika: Just wow.
Yuki: On my b-day, I got three South Park dolls, a dress, a shirt, and a striped hoodie. Danny's dress up there is purple with black lace and something like a veil made of lace as well. Very pretty.
Anika: Read and review.