The Future

Danny's POV

Once I got home, I laid on my bed and wondered if Sam was ok. Seeing her hurt face pained me. Still hopefully she'll understand once I tell her what happened today. Out of all the time Vlad shows up now! Still if he's back I have a really bad feeling. It's been a year and now that he's back he must have planned something in that time. If he plans in any way to hurt my friends and family I'll never forgive him. Suddenly I remembered what he said to me about Clockwork. He said he saw my future and that he would be the one to cause tragedy. I quickly changed to ghost form and phased to the lab.

I opened the ghost portal and entered the ghost zone. I had to go and talk to Clockworks and ask him what Vlad meant. Once I got to Clockworks territory I saw his place looked destroyed. I saw Clockwork though building his place back together. He saw me come toward him and turned back to fixing things.

"I know why you're here, but there is nothing I can do to help you. This is your battle Danny, not mine." He spoke.

"I'm not asking for your help Clockwork I'm only here to ask you to show me what Vlad saw about my future that he's supposed to cause." I replied.

He stopped fixing whatever he was fixing and turned to me slowly. He stared into my eyes and glanced the other way. He knew something that I didn't know and now I had to know.

"Clockwork please I need to know what he saw." I begged.

"So this is the path you are taking for your future in the end . . ." He spoke.

"What?"

"I'll show you the future you are to have."

He led me to the giant clock. He used his powers and began to show my future. I began to see all of Amity Park in chaos. I could see people screaming in terror from something. Then I began to see my family fighting some ghost. Then out of all the disaster I could see myself fighting off the tons of ghosts surrounding my family. Then I could see Vlad who was laughing at us.

"Give up Daniel not even you can stop me!" Vlad grinned

"Where is she Vlad!?" I demanded.

"If I told you where she was, then that wouldn't be very fun would it."

"I swear Vlad if you do anything to hurt Sam, I'll kill you!"

"It won't matter what you do to me, because by then she'll be good as dead and if I'm not mistaken she only has a matter of time. Times running out Daniel and you still don't know where she is, but since I'm a nice guy I'll let you have one last video call with her."

He threw something at me that showed a video of Sam. I saw my face go into a shocked expression.

"Sam! Where are you!?" I shouted.

"I'm not sure Danny, but all I know is I'm tied to a chair with barrels of explosion near me and a bomb that will go off any second!" She replied.

"Don't worry Sam I'll find you, I promise you'll be safe!"

I started to look closely at her surroundings of the video and thought that she might be in some sort of factory. I glanced at her now and thought how terrified she must be.

"There's no time Danny this bomb will go off any second and I don't want to see you get hurt or die because of this!" Sam cried.

"I'm coming Sam just hold on!" I said and I saw myself remembered an old factory and headed there. She has to be there.

"Danny . . . I just want you to know . . . that no matter what . . ."

Suddenly I saw the building and flew right to it. I looked back to Sam who gave a small smile with tears coming out of her eyes.

"Wait for me Sam!" I shouted.

"I love . . ."

Suddenly a huge explosion came from the factory. I rush of the explosion made me hit the ground. My vision became blurry and I couldn't hear for a while. I watched at the factory burned and pieces of it lite on fire falling to the ground. I was too late . . . I saw myself fall to my knees and had my hands on my eyes. I saw myself scream to the top of my lungs in pain.

"SAM!" I cried.

"Now you know my pain for losing the one you love. You lose Daniel . . ." Vlad said.

The image disappeared and I fell to the ground trying to process what had just happened. I looked to Clockworks who an emotionless expression on his face. I glanced away still in shock of what I saw. This is what Vlad meant when I'd lose the one I love . . . Sam . . . I looked to Clockwork confused.

"That is the future to come, but the future is always changing. Not everything is certain." He spoke.

"Still that's the current future right!? Meaning Sam will end up dying because of this future . . . because of me . . ." I exclaimed.

"Like I said not everything is certain and the future is always changing. It is up to you to change the future. This time I cannot help you. You must take this path alone for if I were to intervene, your future will certainly have no happy ending."

"If I can change the future, does that mean Sam will live?" I asked.

Clockwork didn't answer at first, he just stared at me. If Sam doesn't live, I think I'd lose myself. I can't live in a world without her by my side. I was about to leave with the hope that Sam still could be saved, but then Clockwork said this.

"Where there is death there will always be death . . ." He spoke.