Hey everyone, it was my Aunt's Birthday yesterday, so I took the day off. :P Happy last day of June! Ok so here is Chapter 5: Time Freeze! Enjoy!
Danny yawned as he woke up in 'his' room at the Far Frozen, it was nice to wake up with out freaking out, he was healed but just as Kitty had said Frostbite told his to try to not get in any fights or it might cause his core to go into a sort of hyper-drive to heal him and it might just kill him in the middle of it.
Flashback:
Danny winced slightly as one of his doctors put a healing cream on his back wound. "Ouch."
"I'm sorry, Great One, but you should truly be more careful in battle." The female yeti says, almost like a scolding mother.
That thought made his core ache slightly, but he pushed it aside as he grumbles. "It's not my fault Ember is such a hot head."
She chuckles. "Indeed I have heard her to have a very short temper. What in the Ghost Zone did you say to her to make her want to do this much damage, if you don't mind me asking?"
Danny blushed and chuckled a bit nervously. "I might have told her, her music was annoying…"
The yeti woman froze for a moment before she started to laugh full-heartedly, it sounded like icicles dancing in the breeze, which seemed to have a calming spell to it. "Yes, I believe Frostbite was right when he told me you were one to get your self into deep trouble, but to tell a powerful music-playing ghost that her music was 'annoying' is most surely over what I believed to be 'deep trouble.'"
She continued to laugh as Danny got slightly redder and mumbles sarcastically. "Ha-ha."
"Oh I am sorry, Great One, am I embarrassing you?" She was trying to mean it, but there was still a trace of amusement in there.
"I get it, it was a dumb move,' Danny chuckles. 'But I was in a hurry to get here, and I really was not in the mood to get in a fight with her, or even the Box Ghost at the time. Plus witty banter as always made its way into my fights, no matter what."
"Did you use 'witty banter' when you fought Parish Dark, Great One?" She asked, curiosity taking over her face and voice.
Danny raised a hand to the back of his neck and rubbed it slightly, but before he could come up with something to say she cut him off.
"I'm sorry, that was rude of me, and you do not need to answer if you don't want too." She says.
"No it's not that, it's,' Danny sighed. 'It wasn't so much witty banter as it was a life lesson. When I was using my par-Maddie and Jack's ecto-suit it was draining me, and I think the only good thing that came out of that fight was the lesson told to me straight from Parish him self."
"And what was that, Great One?" She asks softly.
Danny looked at her and looking into his eyes she saw someone in there far older then the boy she was looking at, she saw a man. A man who had see, heard, and felt more things then many would in there life time, and it made her want to hold the hurt child in her arms and never let him go, back into the harsh world where those of cruel heart would just beat him down, just to hand him off to his next beating and so on.
"Great power is a burden when used poorly.' Danny say, he looked her in the eyes. 'Before Parish had escaped I had been using them poorly, using them to prank and humiliate someone I hated, I hadn't known it but I was becoming like Plasmius, like-….someone else I hope to never become."
The yeti woman noted that he had skipped over the other name, and by the way the boy had said it, the person seems to scare him greatly, but she didn't say anything of it.
"After waking up and finding I was back at my home I was surprised to find out Plasmius had been the one to take be back, though he said the ecto-suit had just 'disappeared.' Later he used it against me and my sister, but that is a story for another time. Anyway after I went back to school I said I was sorry to the one I had messed with, it got me a wedge, but I think it was worth it." Danny finished his small story with a sigh and small smile.
"Not that I'm not happy to see you smile after all that has happened to you, Great One, but what is with your smile?" She asks.
"Thanks." Is all Danny says.
"For what?" She asks confused.
"For letting me talk with you and you listen, most would have just called me a baby for whining or whatever." He says, smile getting a bit bigger.
Not able to hold it any longer the she yeti pulled the child close and hugged him tightly. "You are very welcome….Danny, and if you should ever need to talk again just come to me."
Danny didn't say anything, but he did snuggle closer to her cooled but warm fur.
End Flashback:
Frostbite had told him later about his core and the damage and everything, but he had never gotten the she yeti's name, which surprised him.
"I'll worry about it the next time I come, for now I have to get ready to go to Clockwork's." Danny says, sitting up and moving away from his bed to take a cool shower and then get food.
30 minutes later Danny, in Phantom form, was moving around looking for Frostbite.
He hadn't felt that hungry so he had just ate some of the left over food from the 'day' before; to be honest you could never tell time in the GZ, well not in less you were Clockwork, but not many were.
Danny finally found him near the arena that he had taught him his 'Ghost Ice.'
"Hey Frostbite!" Danny yelled as he sped up to a jog to get to the yeti faster.
"Hello Great One, how are you this morning?" Frostbite turns to Danny and smiles.
"Good.' Danny says smiling back, and then he sighs. 'Frostbite I will have to be leaving soon to meet another friend of mine, and I just wanted to let you know."
"Of course, Great One!" Frostbite says. "If you don't mind me asking, who is this 'friend' you're visiting?"
Danny rubes the back of his neck. "You see this friend is kind of secretive, he doesn't like to be talked about very much. Though I will tell you he is a great friend and has saved my life more then twice, so you don't have to worry about him."
Frostbite nodded. "If you trust him, Great One, then that is all I need to know."
Danny moved away to look around, then after half an hour he played with his ice for a bit, which pleased Frostbite that he had gotten control of, and finally it was time for him to go.
"Bye Frostbite, I'll try to come back as soon as I can." Danny says as Frostbite ended the bear-, yeti-, whatever- hug he had been giving him.
"We will wait to see you then, Great One." Frostbite says. "Remember what we talked about."
Danny smiled softly. "I will."
Danny waved and flew off into the Ghost Zone, making his way to Clockwork's with a lighter mood then he had been in a while, he couldn't believe it had only been a day since his family turned on him and died by their own mistake.
Danny still felt the ache, but it wasn't as bad now after his talk with Frostbite, and he had always thought that by now he would have been down the road to become Dan.
He shivered. "I will never become him."
He flew on and began to slowly start to hum to him self, it was a nameless tone, but he hummed it anyway.
"That is an interesting tone, Whelp." A threatening voice says from the left side of him, in his blind spot.
Danny tensed and sharply turned around, coming face to face with 'The Ghost Zone's Greatest Hunter.' "Skulker?"
"Who else, Whelp?" Skulker grins.
"Why are you this far in the GZ?" Danny questions, backing up slight to get some space.
"I would ask the same from you." Skulker raises an eyebrow.
"I don't have to tell you." Danny growls.
"I could make you." Skulker says evilly.
"What do you want, if you were here for my pelt you would have been shooting me.' Danny grids out through his teeth. "Why are you here?"
"Plasmius is looking for you." Skulker says bluntly. "He has had me look all over that little town of yours and half the Ghost Zone looking for you, where have you been?"
"Some where I'm not telling you about." Danny says smartly.
"I would be careful, Whelp, I may not be allowed to kill you but I can still give you back to him with a few bruises." Skulker warns darkly.
"I'd like to see you try." Danny frowns back.
He really should keep his mouth shut, he didn't have a Fenton thermos to trap Skulker in, and he didn't have his fri-ex friends to help him if he was caught, but he couldn't let Skulker think he was more threatening then he use to now he was alone.
Danny was snapped from his musing as a missile came inches from hitting him.
"I would listen, Whelp, or I would have to drag you back bound and gagged." Skulker says.
"You would have to do that, because I'm sure not going to the Fruitloop willingly." Danny mutters.
"I just might do that if you don't be quiet." Skulker grumbles, moving his face to Tucker's old PDA and started typing.
"What are you doing?" Danny asks warily.
"Calling Plasmius, now you stay there, or do I have to put you in a net?" Skulker says without looking up, which was good because he didn't see the flash of deep fear cross the boy's face.
"I'M NOT GOING TO THAT FRUITLOOP!" Danny shouts and before Skulker could react to his outburst he shot his away with a blast of ecto-energy.
Danny began to fly away, trying as he flew at top speed, to see if he could find Clockwork's lair, for it always seemed Clockwork could only be found if he wanted to be.
"Please let me in, please let me in, please let me in." Danny pleaded as he looked around for the Time Master's home.
Danny shouted in surprise as he was hit with a blast, Skulker floated behind him looking annoyed and angry.
"Just come along Whelp, and I won't have to hurt you as badly as I want to." Skulker growls.
"Never!" Danny growls back, firing another blast.
Skulker dodged and shot a missile, hit Danny in the shoulder and making him fly back a bit. Danny grimaces and shot some more ecto-blasts, after all he still had a healing core and he was a bit tired from the speed he had used in vain to get away from the hunter.
Danny and Skulker went back and forth for what seemed like hours, but was really a few minutes when Skulker suddenly flew forward and bring out a knife, slashed a decent sized gash across the young halfa's chest.
"Agh!" Danny gasped as he put a hand over it, to stop it before it could bleed out.
He floated back a bit and looked at Skulker in shock and a bit of pain, Skulker just stared at him, his eyes judging what to do.
After all a few small cuts or bruises was one thing, but for what he had just done Plasmius was sure to be ticked at him, but at least he would still have the Ghost Child so that might lessen his fire-y temper.
Now knowing what he was going to do, Skulker moved closer as the boy tried to move back but getting a bit dizzy from the blood flowing between his fingers and disappearing into the endless maze of the Ghost Zone.
"Stop resisting, Whelp, if you don't you'll die of blood loss before we even reach the Human World." Skulker says, sounding like he was scolding a little kid for scratching a bite.
As Skulker tried to move forward again Danny moved his ectoplasm cover hand away from his chest and held both at his sides and fisted tightly as he floated back.
Skulker sighed in aggravation and ran a hand down his face. "You're going to die Whelp if you don't let me fix you and get you to Plasmius, don't you get it Ghost Child? You. Are. Going. To Die. In less. You. Come with. Me."
Danny snarls as he wipes the ectoplasm off his hand. "And didn't you hear me? I'm. Not. Going. To. That. Fruitloop!"
Skulker shouted in rage as he shot forward to grab Danny, right as he was hit with another dizzy spell, gasping Danny throw his hands up with his palms facing Skulker and everything froze.
Now if Danny's mind hadn't been so hazy, he would have wondered why he didn't feel the weight of one of Clockwork's medallions.
But since it was hazy, all he felt was relief.
Danny's half lidded eyes, and took in the being floating behind Skulker with a smile. "Hey Clockwork."
And with that he passed out once again.
R&R! Ta.
VGF