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Chapter 3
Danny's POV
"Danny, what happened in there?" Sam asked me as I floated back through the ghost portal into the lab. I landed and transformed back into my human half.
"Yeah, what happened in there? We lost connection with you during that fight with skulker." Tucker added. I put my hand to my ear and realized the Fenton phones must've fallen off during the fight.
"Sorry guys, they fell off during the fight with skulker and I didn't notice." I shrugged slightly.
"It's alright. At least your ok, no injuries, right?" Tucker said relieved and that I was unharmed by the tin can with weapons.
At the mention of injuries, I suddenly had a flashback of when I was with that ghost girl.
"Sure, no problem. Are you alright?" She looked down at her leg and flinched. I followed her gaze and looked down at her left leg to see, just vaguely, a long cut and ectoplasm dripping down her shoe. My eyes widened as she turned her leg away.
I was going to say so something, or get her help, but she pushed me out of the way of those missiles. I'm glad I grabbed her arm though. Otherwise she could have gotten even more injured.
"Danny, danny, Danny!" My mini flashback ended when I noticed Sam trying to get my attention. She was waving her hands in my face and calling my name repeatedly. I shook my head and snapped out of it.
"Whoops, sorry, guess I must've zoned out." I said.
"You sure your ok Danny?" Sam asked again.
I nodded and yawned "yeah, I'm just tired. It's late, I'll see you guys at school tomorrow?" Sam looked at me skeptically, probably wondering if I was hiding something. Tucker yawned loudly and nodded.
"Yeah, I have to get home now, or I'm grounded. See ya!" He said running out the door and running home. Sam walked over to the door. Halfway out she turned around and looked back at me.
"Yeah, I'm going home too. Promise you'll tell us what happened tomorrow Danny?" Sam asked. I nodded.
"Promise" Sam smiled and nodded. Then she left.
I walked up to my bedroom, walked inside and plopped down on the bed. I sighed tiredly. Within a few minutes, I fell asleep.
Rose's POV
I could feel my eyes closing, my mind kept dozing off. It's been over 5 hours that I've been aimlessly floating around. The cut on my leg, was stinging slightly. It was healing, but not as fast as it should. "Stupid cage" I muttered to myself.
My stomached rumbled as I flew. I groaned 'this is taking longer than I thought..' I huffed and kept flying. 'I should be getting close..'
I closed my eyes and yawned, when suddenly a small floating gear hit my forehead. I opened my eyes quickly. I rubbed my eyes and blinked, making sure I wasn't dreaming or hallucinating.
I picked up the small gear and looked at it a moment.
"I-I'm here- I'm here!" I said to myself, I smiled. Feeling a bit more energetic than before I quickly flew further down, following the trail of floating gears, when I see it. A giant green tower, with floating gears all around it. It had a clock gear design to it I look down at my watch and see that time has stopped. 'Clockwork's tower... I'm finally here.'
I floated closer and closer to the big tower, feeling smaller and smaller as I went. Then I stopped and stared at the giant front door. I raised my hand up ready to knock, but paused.
'Do it.. Just knock' It was like something in the back of my mind was stopping me. My subconscious was buffering. Trying to decide if I should just fly away, or man up and knock the door. I took another minute of this mindless buffering and then I knocked.
It was a large tower, with a large door, so I heard the echo go through the building. Maybe with some help of my superhuman hearing..
I waited a moment before I heard some rustling. Suddenly the door swung open. Startled, I took a small step back and looked inside. No one was there, 'I think..' It was dark inside. There was only a little bit of light being emitted from the glowing screens that currently held no foresee of the past, present or future.
I floated inside a bit, carefully looking around. "Hello? Is anybody here?" I kept looking around, trying to find Clockwork. Or whoever else was here. I turned around and looked back at the door. It was still wide open, but I had a feeling it was going to slam shut, like in the horror movies.
'Hey, look is that a creepy face in the darkness staring at you from behind?' I felt my eyes widen as I turned around quickly, just to see more darkness. 'Ugh, the horror movies are getting to my head..' I thought when suddenly I felt a gust of wind hit me, as I was engulfed in more darkness.
I quickly turned around again to see the door had closed. 'Just great.' I deadpanned. I tried focusing my eyes so I could see a bit better in the darkness, when I felt a ringing go off in the back of my head telling me to duck.
I ducked quickly just as a scythe swished above my head. I gasped as it did and turned around to see a tall ghost, light blue skin, full red eyes, purple cloak and lighter purple shirt with a grandfather clock in his chest, where his core should be. He had grey gloves and had many watches on his clothes. What caught my eye the most was his scar. It was a long scar on the left side of his face. It came down from the left side of the forehead, intercepted the eye and landing a bit vertically down the cheek.
'Wow.. It looks, exactly like my scar. So that's where I got it from..' I thought as he stared at me with a grim expression. 'Now I see where I get that too..'
My thought was interrupted when his form sifted into that of an old mans. He looked the same as he did before, but he was slouched over, making him look a bit shorter, he had a wrinkled complexion, skinny and bony body figure and long white beard. He lifted the scythe up slightly, ready to swing at me at any moment.
"Who are you?" He asked grimly. I stayed still where I was and gulped slightly.
"y-you don't know who I am..?" I asked him with a quiet voice. Fearing the answer he might/most likely say.
He stayed silent for a moment and lowered the scythe. "No."
'I don't know if I should be sad or happy about this..' I thought.
"I will tell you who I am, only if you put the scythe away." He thought for a moment, then nodded. The scythe in his hand disappeared. I sighed a bit relieved. His appearance then changed again, but into a small baby, or young child.
"Ok, my name is Rose Ghoul." I gulped slightly. "And I have reason to believe, that you are my father.." I barely whispered the last part. There was a huge knot in my stomach, and it wasn't going away anytime soon.
His eyes widened "What did you say?" He asked in confusion. "How can you be my daughter?"
"Well, I was born with this scar, I discovered my ghost half when i was five, then when I was seven I found out about my time powers." I stated. Clockwork looked speechless. But he quickly regained himself.
"How do I know your not lying?" He asked.
'I had a feeling he would ask me that' I thought. I raised my hands and pointed them at the screens, they filled in with what was currently happening in Amity Park.
"Time out" I said as I focused on the screen. A second later everyone that could be seen on screen just froze as time was momentarily paused. Clockwork let out a slight gasp. I suddenly felt my head pounding. I held my head and grunted slightly in pain.
"T-time i-in" I weakly let out and fell to my knees. I let out a relieved sigh. Clockwork looked at me with a worried look and helped me up.
"S-sorry, I can't use those powers for too long until my head starts hurting like crazy." I explained as I got up.
"It's alright. But how did you know about me?" He asked. I looked around a moment and saw a chair nearby and sat down.
"Well, I once met twin halfa's and became friends with them. You might know them, Mandy and Max?" Clockwork nodded. "Well, after we accidentally transformed into our ghost halves in front of each other. I said I was born with it, and they told me their story of how they got their powers and what happened in the ghost zone. They explained what they knew about you, and I connected the dots from there." I said.
"Well, everything is connecting, except two things. Why I can't see you in the timelines and your existence." He stated in a monotone voice.
"Well, from what I know about you with the help of Mandy, I exist outside of time, which I inherited from you. But, I can still grow up as long as I'm half human, which I inherited from my mother. Which I'm guessing is human." I stated in a similar monotone. I don't put very much emotion into my words.
"That leads back to your existence" his eyes narrowed. I rubbed my arm nervously. 'Here goes nothing'
"Since they found me as a baby, I had this necklace around my neck. I took it off once, just to have my forms shifting, like yours now." I said as he changed into an old man again.
"Luckily I was alone when it happened, but I haven't taken it off since. But-" I said as moved my hands to the back of my neck and unclipped the purple watch necklace. Because I was still touching it, nothing happened.
I lifted it up for him to see, it showed the front side, which looked like a watch and it turned slightly to the back that had engraved writing "Kelly Time" in cursive.
He eyed it. He lifted it slightly to get a better look when he gasped, dropping his time staff. His eyes widened, as if he was seeing a vision or something. I couldn't tell.
After a minute or so, he let out a heavy sigh and moved away from me. He let go of the necklace.
Hesitantly I put my necklace back on and looked at him worriedly as he looked around shakily.
"Are you alright..?" I asked him. He turned around and faced me.
"i remember.." He whispered. I raised an eyebrow at his words.
"What?"
"I remember." He said louder. "I remember you, and your mother." He had a small smile on his face. My heart skipped a beat at the thought of my mother. Whoever she may be.
"Who is she?" I asked with excitement in my voice. I can't help it, I've never known who she was and to be able to have a mother and a father after all these years of being alone, felt amazing.
I looked at him with hope, waiting for his answer. When he suddenly held an emotionless, yet sad look on his face.
"Her name is Catherine." He replied.
"Where is she?" I couldn't help but grin. His expression stayed the same, but his eyebrows creased in slight anger.
"She is dead." My heart dropped.
"W-w-what..?" I asked with a small voice, tears brimming in my eyes. All these years of being alone, I never shed a tear, there was no reason too. But having the answers I've wanted all my life, being the opposite of what I thought, was like a giant wrecking ball, smashing through my heart.
"W-w-why?" I asked. Trying to hold back a sob. I wiped away the tears from my eyes, trying to regain myself. Before he said anything else he floated over and swept me up in a giant hug.
"I will have to tell you that later on." I nodded slightly and tightly hugged him back I buried my face in his chest.
When we let go he looked at me and sighed.
"I need you to stay here." I was going to ask why, but he kept talking. "Just for a couple years. I need to keep you under my supervision for a while, and help you train and control your powers." I nodded.
"I have a spare room upstairs, and while your here I need you to wear a cloak if someone is over."
"Ok." I yawned tiredly and looked down at my leg. It was healed, but left a long scar.
I transformed to human half and sighed and walked up the stairs. When I was at the top he called me again.
"Kelly?" He asked. I turned around.
"Yeah?"
"I'll tell you who they are later, but you can never let the Observants see you." He looked at me dead serious. "Come down here tomorrow at 9 exactly." He said sternly.
"Ok" I nodded. I walked down the hallways.
I kept walking until I found an empty room, designed with pink, black and white.
'Cool' I thought. I looked around a bit more and saw a long pink cloak near the door.
'My room is pretty big..' There were about 4 doors in my room, including the front door. I turned around and saw roses painted on the wall, and door number one next to it. I looked inside to see a bathroom, complete with a shower, sink, toilet, mirror and cabinet. I closed the door.
I went to door number two and looked inside. It was a pretty big closet. It held a full length mirror, shelfs and drawers, extra cloaks, and some extra of my ghost outfit and my human clothes. 'Well he works fast.'
I stepped out and walked to door number three. I looked inside, and gasped.
My eyes widened as I looked around the giant room. 'This must be the tower part' It was a two story library, all walls filled with shelfs and stuffed with books. Towards the back was a small window and a desk, it looked like a mini office.
"He seriously works fast.." I whispered. This was just amazing. I floated up and looked at all the books.
I yawned and floated back to the ground. I rubbed my eyes tiredly and walked over to my bed.
I went under the covers and soon fell asleep.
Meh. Sucky ending :/ Anyways, did you expect the whole Clockwork part? Probably, probably not. By the way, Mandy and Max are my friends OC. Check out her story doppelgänger, it's really good, and she was kind enough to mention my OC in the story as well. And Like i said. SUCKY ENDING IM SO SORRY D: Please Review, Thank you!