Hey guys! Sorry about the long wait. :D But here it is! I present to you... Chapter 15! Woohoo! ALLONS-Y! (There's a Doctor Who reference in here… a conversation between Danny and Clockwork… Go find it! :D)
"I'm… what? No… Dad… I promised you guys I wouldn't turn into Him… but now I'm going to start look like him?! I can't! I… just can't..." Danny finished weakly.
Clockwork smiled sadly. "You will never become him. Trust me on that, I should know." He winked at his son. "If you would like to not look like Him, then I can change you back."
Danny grinned happily, ran over to his father, and hugged him tightly. "Thank you! Thank you thank you thank you!"
"It's not a problem, really," Clockwork released from the hug. "Sam, why don't you go into the room behind you?" He pointed to a door behind the goth.
Sam's eyes widened. "How do you know my-"
"I am the ghost of time. I know and see all, but I only intervene when something in the timeline goes wrong," he monotonously replied, obviously reciting a practiced line.
Sam nodded and walked silently to the door. She quickly rustled in, and closed it quietly.
"Danny, now close your eyes. This might hurt a little." Clockwork sighed.
Danny complied and shut his eyes tightly, until a small pain from his core rose. It became bigger and bigger, until it became too much and he blacked out.
HEY, I JUST MET YOU, AND THIS IS CRAZY, BUT I'M A LINEBREAK, SO IGNORE ME, MAYBE?
The halfa groaned as his eyes fluttered open. He put a gloved hand to his right side of his chest, right above his heart.
Wait, a gloved hand?
For some reason, he felt a weird sense of Deja-Vu when that happened. He lifted his head up and looked around. He was in his room, much to his confusion. Clockwork must have put him there to rest after his core was acting up.
That made Danny sit staight up. Was his core okay? He rubbed the right side of his chest, and winced. There was a little soreness, but everything else was alright. He licked his teeth and smiled, the fangs were gone.
The teen got up and turned human, still weary of his core. He walked out of his room and to his dad's working room. "Hey, Dad." He smiled.
"Hello Danny, how was your rest?" the ghost of time asked, looking at a timeline.
Danny streched and put his hands behind his head. "I feel great, to be honest. How's Cujo?"
"He's asleep as well." Danny opened his mouth to speak, but Clockwork cut him off. "You were asleep for a couple of hours, and Sam left through a portal I created."
Danny nodded. "So, I won't look like Him anymore?"
Clockwork shook his head. "No, you will not. Your hair won't turn to flames, no fangs, no blue skin, no pointy elf ears, no red eyes, and no stupid eye liner."
"Anything else I need to know?"
"Yes, there is one more thing," Clockwork grumbled in slight annoyance. He turned to look at his son, who had a large, sleepy smile plastered on his face. "Your class will do something stupid."
"How stupid?"
"Very stupid."
Danny huffed. "Don't partonize me because I'm clever and I don't think I'll be happy if you don't tell me. So tell me."
Clockwork licked his lips as he started to explain. "Your English class, not homeroom, will be teleported away somewhere. Somewhere familier."
"...The Ghost Zone?" the halfa deadpanned in response.
"I told you it was stupid. I can only tell you this." He looked his son in the eye. "When you all get stranded, go to Frostbite's, and then come here. Only come here when Frostbite announces it is safe to leave."
Danny nodded. He had learned to trust whatever his Dad told him. He was the ghost of freaking time for Pete's sake! Of course you couldn't go against who sees and knows all!
"How will we be sent away to the Ghost Zone?" asked Danny.
Clockwork sighed. "Surprise 'field trip', not so much of a surprise to you. You will be taken to the Fenton household," Danny raised an eyebrow at the ghost hunter's names, "not to go into the portal, but to have a lesson on self defense. Everyone except a few people will go into the Specter Speeder, a tube-like car that levitates, before a child named Dash," cue Danny growling in rage, "'accidentally' presses a button. I'm sure you get the rest."
"That idiot," the halfa snarled, "better have something coming for him. Because if he gets sent away with us, I'll only try to help him." He smirked evilly.
The time ghost chuckled and smiled. "You are tired. Go to bed, and in the morning, bring Cujo to school with you." Clockwork instructed. "His cast has finished the healing, so he's as good as new."
Danny smiled and teleported to his room. His core was still aching but it would be as good as new by tomorrow. He put some pajamas on then quickly fell alseep, happy that his dog and his core was alright.
GOT MY FIRST REAL LINEBREAK, OH YEAH BY THE FIVE-AND-DIME
The halfa woke up in the morning, did his race, and ran into Cujo's room. Cujo was eating a bone, and smiled when Danny walked in. "Hi, Master Danny! Clockwork explained that your going to take me to your school today, because he made it so I'm able to go? Sometimes I don't get the old stopwatch..."
Danny shook his head in amusement, before bending down and using his strength to easily remove the cast. "Feel better?"
The dog nodded, got up, and licked Danny's face, making him laugh. "Of course I am! Ghosts heal fast, you know!" Cujo walked over to a small table, and grabbed Danny's green backpack. He handed it to the teen, before smiling. "Let's go!"
Danny summoned his scythe and created a portal, and the duo stepped through. They ended up at the side of the school.
Cujo turned invisible and intangible, thank goodness that the halfa could see him when he was invisible. They walked in, Danny more obvious than Cujo. What time is it? the dog asked mentally.
7:15, the teen responded instantly. Hey, being the son of the ghost of time has to give you some perks when it comes to the date and time of the year! Class starts in a few minutes.
Danny grabbed his stuff from his locker, only his English books and notebooks, and walked to his first class with Cujo. He had missed homeroom, but apperently in this school, it wasn't necessary.
He calmly walked to his desk with Cujo sitting at the side, now just invisible. Everyone was waiting for Lancer to start, and when he did, he just talked about homework.
And how there wasn't going to be any.
"Now class, as I've just said, there will be no homework. The reason being is because we are taking a one-day fieldtrip." Several hands raised. "Before I answer any of your questions, we are going to the Fenton household to learn about self defense. Not about beings that don't exist."
Danny, Cujo, Sam, and surprisingly Valerie, glared at the teacher. "Now wait a minute." Danny spoke up, making sure his eyes weren't blazing green. "How can you be so biased? There has been lots of proof that ghosts exist, not counting those stupid 'ghost hunter' shows on television." Clockwork had shown them those to avoid the morons. "Ghosts exist. No doubt about it. Everybody has a soul in them, and ghosts are no different."
"Yeah, Mr. Lancer," Valerie chimed in. "I've been studying ghosts in books and on the internet pretty much all my life. They are all evil, have no emotions, and feel no pain. That doesn't mean they don't exist!"
Danny held back on correcting the girl while Mr. Lancer looked at the two in shock. "Well alright then, perhaps we could learn a thing or two about the paranormal."
The halfa smirked at the teacher as everybody left the room to head towards the bus.
"Praeteriens videam vos bus, Lancer." See you on the bus, Lancer. With that, he left the room with a smirking, invisible dog hot on his tail.
"I'm never going to understand that child..." muttered Mr. Lancer as he watched Danny leave after speaking Latin.
SING US A SONG, YOU'RE THE LINEBREAK MAN, SING US A SONG TONIGHT!
The bus rolled to a stop infront of a large building with a huge, green, neon sign with the word 'Fenton' on it. The class left the bus, Danny and Sam being second to last. Tucker wasn't in their English class, so he didn't come.
Cujo suddenly appeared next to Danny's side, much to his surprise. "Cujo, why are you visible?" he asked quietly, only audible for ghosts to heard.
"I'm tired..." the dog replied.
Mr. Lancer got off the bus, and frowned when he saw Cujo. "Why is there a dog next to you, Mr. Work?"
Danny looked at Cujo with fake surprise. It's a good thing that he was in his 'human dog' form. "Uh, this is my dog. I think he followed me from where I live."
Serveral people turned to see Cujo (-cough cough- EVERYBODY DID -cough cough-) just sitting near Danny. "Is anybody here allergic?" asked Lancer.
Nobody spoke up. "Cujo here is hypoallergenic. No one would react to him anyway." He bent down to pet his dog on the head. It wasn't a total lie, humans just can't be allergic to ghosts in the same way ghosts can't be allergic to humans.
The teacher eyed the dog in hesitance. "Does he need a leash?"
"Nope. Too well trained for them," he smirked. He glanced at Dash, who looked at Cujo wide-eyed.
Mr. Lancer sighed and walked up to the door to knock on it. "Mr. and Mrs. Fenton? It's the class. By the way, he have a dog!"
The door burst open, with a large man in an orange HAZMAT suit aiming a large bazooka at the teens. Everyone cowered in fear except for Danny and Cujo. "WHERE'S THE GHOST?!"
A woman then came out, blocking the teenagers with her arms in front of the man. "Jack, we've talked about this. No ghost would knock on the door, not to mention it was Mr. Lancer's voice." She turned to see the class. "Hey, kids! ...Dog as well." she looked over everyone, but stopped at Danny. She fidgeted for unknown reasons, but weakly smiled. "Come on in!"
Danny raised an eyebrow. She looked at me that way because of maternal instincts. I'll lead her away from the fact that I'm her 'son'. He sent to Cujo, who nodded in response, trying to act inconspicuous.
Sam noticed and gave a sly smile. "Geez, can you talk to your dog with your mind or something?" she starting chuckling.
Danny and Cujo gave her a blank stare, and she imediately stopped. She groaned. "Crap, you totally can."
The halfa chuckled a bit while Cujo gave a toothy grin. The teens were the last ones in, Danny closing the door behind him. He looked around, trying to see if he could remember anything. No such luck.
The class continued it's way to the lab, a large iron door with some green tints to it, and everyone walked in.
Or, almost everyone. Danny, being the lucky guy he was, got stuck outside the door when Dash and his cronies shoved in front of Sam and locked the door before he could enter. At least Cujo got in.
"Is anybody near you, Sam?" the blue-eyed teen asked.
"No, they all went down the stairs. Cujo is still here, though. I'm trying to open it, but it's locked."
Danny smirked and teleported behind Sam, who was still struggling to open the door. He tapped her shoulder causing her to jump and spin around.
She let out a breath of annoyance. "Tell me when you're going to do that, ghost boy!" she punched his shoulder. Hard.
It didn't hurt him at all. Instead, he gave her a grin and ran down the stairs, where he heard Maddie starting the lesson.
The trio reached the bottom of the stairs, where he saw the class had devided into two different groups. One was with Jack who were learning how to block punches, while Maddie was showing the second group a large bus-like thing. The Specter Speeder!
"Ms. Manson, Mr. Work! Over here, please!" Mr. Lancer called to them. They sprinted over to the second group, with Cujo following behind.
"This, students, is called the Specter Speeder. We are going to use to travel faster than a normal RV or vehicle, but it is still in development. We will take a look on the inside, but do not press any buttons. You have been warned." Maddie spoke up and motioned everyone through a door. Everyone complied, but only the people in her group and not Jack's.
The inside was larger than in seemed on the outside (A/N Okay, two Doctor Who references I guess…), but it was still cramped up. Danny and Cujo could have gone intangible, but decided not to, because that would reveal them, and that wouldn't be good.
Danny groaned silently when he saw Dash sneak over to a control panel. He saw the jock motion his friends over, Paulina and Kwan, who looked unhappy to be there. Dash then pointed to a large, green button, who then smirked. Danny saw the A-Listers nod in unison, and the blond discretely pushed it.
The halfa instantly heard the engines starting, and he also heard the door to the Specter Speeder's door closing. Yay for enhanced hearing! The Speeder then shook, making everybody in it chatter in slight fear.
Danny closed his eyes tight as the Speeder took off, flying into the portal.
Into the Ghost Zone.
Phew! That was a long chapter. I expected it to be longer, though. I sure did want it to be longer, because I feel bad for not updating in a long time. Hey! I'm going to be replying to your review now, so anything you want to know, just ask! (Unless it's major spoilers…)
PsychicEevee0103: Thanks! Longest story that I'm writing, and my favorite one to write. Yay!
The 6th Spectral King: Hahahahahahaha! I could totally see that! :D
Danny Phantom Overlord: I'm too lazy to type it, maybe in a future chapter? I don't know. :P
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Until next time, fellow Fanfiction readers and writers! PS: IF ANY OF YOU NAME ANY OF THE SONGS FOR THE LINEBREAKS, YOU ARE LITERALLY THE BEST PEOPLE ON THE PLANET. DON'T DENY IT AT ALL!
