Chapter 5-To Find the Truth

Vlad dropped the remote with his mouth a gaped in horror. On the screen of the tv was a live broadcast from Amity Park, but it wasn't from within the city, but from up in the air. Amity Park was covered in a crystal clear stone.

"What you are seeing is not a movie set from "The Day After Tomorrow". We are high in the sky above what was the city of Amity Park, now a giant glacier. Though it is unclear HOW the city became incased last week, but several scientists brought in by the government are concluding that it is in fact, a Paranormal Phenomenon and not a weather disaster that was previously reported a few days ago. NOW!" the camera was being moved along with the copter. There were several spikes sticking up in the sky, but they were going to biggest that had a small twisting point like a drill. The reporter on board started to talk again, "If you look at the center of the city, you can see this is where scientists believe to be the epicenter of this phenomenon. Now if you look down below…'The camera zoomed down into the ice and you see something green with arms out, 'You can see this strange plant like creature that looks like an overgrown plant chicken. Though the GIW aka Guys In White tried to keep this a secret, the President of the United States not only ordered a State of Emergency for this city, but had override the GIW's Ghost Wrap and all information pertaining to this event and possibly other events that happened in this town. The creature you see below is actually a ghost and this isn't your white noise, knock stuff over kind of ghost. This was a ghost that controlled plants. There were previous reports of the town's sudden abundance of white lily like flowers despite the fact that it is the beginning of January. Some of the reports point to a ghost hero that lives in this town. Invisobill aka Danny Phantom was at a 50/50 popularity to the citizens of Amity Park according to internet reports and survivors who were currently outside of the borders of the town when this phenomenon occurred. These people fled during the possible fight, but did not see who or what caused this doomed town as there was a large flash of light along with cold.' The camera turned to a person sitting across the camera man, 'With us now is Glacial Expert, Dr. Agnus Spear. Dr. Spear, is normal.'

Dr. Spear, with bright green eyes, fluffy brown hair that was graying everywhere. 'The type of ice we are looking at is actually normal in our Antarctic regions like Elephant Island in Antarctica. It is what we call, Permanent Ice. This is ice that so cold it is virtually unable to melt unless exposed to high temperatures. Unfortunately the temperatures inside are so cold that the average human body cannot survive even with the proper equipment.'

'So you're saying that everyone inside that ice is dead?'
Vlad fell back into the couch, 'Yes. The only thing that may or may not survive is the mysterious plant ghost in the center and if people said are true so will the Danny Phantom. It may or may not be likely because there is no known temperature that Ectoplasm, the "blood" of a ghost, freezes or boils at. The reports that were unsealed by the President do not state about the temperatures, but there were experiments to find out.'

'About how long will it take for the ice to thaw?'
'It will take a lot of effort and time to thaw this sort of ice. We have no clear time frame on how long we can recover the bodies.'
'Dr. Agnus Spear thank you for your time.' The scientist nodded. The camera turned back to the reporter, 'We are now going to turn to our field reporter Katy Lightning who is currently a few feet from the ice, Katy?'

There was a split screen to a blonde woman with green eyes wearing a red winter coat, "Thank you Tom. I am standing literally a few feet from what was edge of Amity Park's border. As you can see here, crews have been working day in and day out trying to find a way inside the ice, but so far no luck. If you can see here,' the camera zoomed into parts where it's cracked on the inside, 'There are parts where it's separated, cracked inside. Most likely the bodies of town's people are spit in half. The toll inside is currently unknown, right now they're counting the survivors who ran or were out of town at the time of this tragedy. The Pres-'

Vlad shut off the tv after picking up the remote but dropped it again. 'Ice….the whole town…is frozen? How did Daniel survive..unless…the spiral…'

The sudden image of the highest peak with a spiral top came to his mind. 'If they said whoever is in that ice is dead…oh god….'

Vlad got up and quickly went up stairs. He rushed into Danny's room and sighed. Danny was asleep, but his eyes snapped open when he rushed in. "Dad? Wha..what's wrong?"
Sighing once more, "Nothing…nothing Daniel. Listen…"Vlad walked over and sat on the edge of the bed, "I have to make a..business trip."
"A business trip? What's that and where?"
"A business…I'll explain later. I'm going to go to Michigan for a conference."
"What's a-"
"Later Daniel. I..hate to leave you like this but."
Suddenly Danny smiled, "It's alright dad. If it's important then go. I'll be alright." He sat up and crawled to sit next to him. "Daniel are you-"
"The pain went away. I can tell the pain killers had worn off. The only thing that's hurting is my arm and my foot. I'm sure I'll be alright. Don't we have maids?"
"Ye—yes."
"Plus the strange knight man and the man with the cheese on top of his head have been hovering my room for a while every time you leave. I'm not alone."

Vlad stared for a moment and sighed in defeat, "Well, alright. I should be gone for a day, two days if talks get heavy."

"When do you leave?"
"I have to leave tonight, actually I have to leave here in soon to catch my plane."
"Where's Michigan?"
"It's just over Lake Michigan that separates Wisconsin, where we live, and Michigan where I have to go."
"There's a lake named after a state?"
'He really got knocked on the head.'
He chucked, "Yes there is. I'll talk about it when I get back or you can ask the maids. Right now, someone has to go back to bed."

"Alright alright." Danny got up and limped back to the other end of the bed. Getting in, Vlad went over and tucked him in. "Where in Michigan are you going to?"
"Amit-er..Grand Rapids."
"Cool name for a town."
"Yes it is. Now. Go to sleep. Stay in bed and use the buzzer if you need anything from the maids."
"Alright."
"Good little badger." He started to walk away when, "Dad?"
"Hm?"
"Have fun."
Vlad smiled as he nodded and walked out of the room.

Amity Park-3 Hours Later: 1:45 am

Plasmius, invisible, arrived at the now illuminated glacier. He noticed people walking around, but not as big as a crowd earlier. Keeping himself invisible, he put on a thermal coat he had been testing to go into the polar regions of the Ghost Zone and entered the town. He carefully flew around, but trembled. Not at the cold, but at the horror stuck faces of the people inside. Reaching the center, he looked in awe at the height of the plant ghost that was frozen with his arms trying to block something. Looking around there were some silhouettes surrounding the ghost. Getting closer, he stopped, his mouth open in surprise.

One was a girl around Danny's age with black hair, black shirt and a black and green plad skirt. Next to her was a boy, same age, wearing a red barrette, yellow shirt and green pants. In his hands was a black device.

'Daniel's friends…'

Looking around more, he saw a rather large silhouette. When he flew closer, the spot lights on the outside revealed it to be Jack in his usual bright orange jumpsuit, his back to the blast and embracing something. Vlad flew around and saw who was holding. One was a young girl with long red hair, blue coat and matching pants. The other an older woman with short red hair wearing a teal blue jumpsuit with black gloves.

'Mad…Maddie?' He flew in closer and saw her eyes were shut and was bracing herself against her husband for the blast. He held out his hand about ready to touch her when his coat beeped. "Warning. Coat reaching critical limit. Warning. Temperatures dangerously low for a continuous stay. Please vacate area imminently."

Vlad saw that the numbers were going haywire on the display screen on his arm. He sighed while floating upwards. As he went up, he saw strange, flower like dogs were froze in pain, blood in their teeth. When he went past the large plant ghost, he found the start of swirl. It was big enough for a person to be in but at the tip of the peak, there was no evidence of a way out physically.

After phasing out, the older halfa flew away from the city as the GIW's equipment started to react to his presence. When he was far away he stopped and looked back.

'If everyone in there is frozen to death…did…did Daniel cause this? I mean…he's at my mansion. He had hypothermia. Bite marks which could've been those dogs…Maddie's…dead…oh god…she's dead…Jack's dead too but I don't care about that...wait, I do care. He didn't die by my hands…he died…by Daniel's. Even though that was one of my plans in the past if I got him to join me and ironic….but…this is just…wrong…very…very wrong. Something…isn't right.'

He pulled from a protective inner pocket a cell phone and dialed a number. "Yes my lord?"
"Fright Knight. I need you to…get the lab prepped for a test."
"A test sir? What kind of test?"
"A test to check the internal temperature in Daniel."
"The ghost child's? Why may I ask?"
"I think…I'll explain when I get there. Just get the lab ready and keep a sharp eye on him."
"As you wish." The line went dead. Putting the phone back, Vlad began the long journey back to Wisconsin, not noticing a pair of red eyes watching him from the woods below. Once he flew away, a dog creature appeared next to the silhouette.

"Inform Cerber of the news. Aquarius is sleeping again and has been located."

The dog suddenly disappeared.

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SG: Alright, I know I said a while back I wasn't going to include the Urban Jungle elements. Well that was a few years ago and I changed my mind. I hope you all enjoy and hopefully I'll have the next chapter out soon!

The Disclaimer is the same with the added "The Day After Tomorrow". Reason why I said it because I saw the movie in class once…yeah

Read/Review with no flames please!