Look who's back in action!
I'm feeling a lot better, and I just finished Dragon Age II, so I decided to write a chapter! I thank all of you who enjoy this story as much as I do writing it. Without further ado-
Chapter 5
A New Development
Danny was glad for video chat.
Sprawled across the guest bed, his phone in his hand, Danny could see his friends miles away.
"So, you aren't worried about this kid?" Sam asked, her end of the call turning towards the wall as she got changed.
"I guess I'm a bit worried…" Danny replied, "I mean, ever since he tried to exorcise me, I get nosebleeds- but it's not blood. Not human blood, anyways."
"What?" Sam turned the camera back to her face, making her way out of the house, "Ectoplasm just shoots out of your nose?"
Danny nodded grimly, "It's not pretty… Sometimes it comes out of my mouth… I just have to run to the bathroom and pray no one sees me…"
"Your parents haven't asked you about it?"
Danny frowned, "They have, but we haven't been able to figure out what it is."
"You can still Go Ghost, right?"
Danny laughed, "Yeah, of course! I'm glad, too…"
"Danny…" Sam sighed, "Just stay safe, alright? Gravity Falls has a dark history, from what I can tell."
"I noticed."
"There's Tuck." The camera jiggled awkwardly as Sam waved to their mutual best friend, Tucker stepping into the shot.
"Hey, Danny!" He grinned, waving, "Are you having fun?"
"Well, no one's tried to kill me in, like, a week."
"That's a record!" The group laughed.
"Danny!" Wendy stepped into the room, "Dipper, Mabel, Soos and I were gonna go to Greasy's- you wanna come?"
"Is Jazz coming?" Danny was worried that Dipper remembered… If he did, it would be good to have someone on his side that knew his secret.
Wendy grinned, "I managed to pry her away from her books, for now, lil dude."
Danny looked towards the camera, "Unless you guys wanna keep talking?"
"Go on." Tucker said, and the two grinned at him.
"Alright." Danny grinned back, "Bye."
"Bye!"
"Love you, Danny."
"I love you, too, Sam."
"What about me?"
"You, too, Tucker."
And the call ended.
Throwing his legs off the bed, Danny shoved his phone into his pocket.
"So who were you talkin' to?" Wendy grinned at him on the way down the stairs.
"Sam and Tucker." Danny responded bluntly.
"Is Sam your gi-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-irlfriend?
"Yeah, yeah she is."
Wendy squealed, grabbing his arm, "You didn't tell me that!"
"Yeah, guess I didn't." Danny shrugged.
…
Dipper was flipping through a textbook, desperate to find out something about what Danny really was.
He hadn't told Mabel- he usually told his twin everything, but this seemed too important to tell her, for once-, or Grunkle Stan, and had simply told Ford that he'd successfully exorcised Danny, and hadn't saw Phantom approach.
But it didn't make sense... What was he, exactly?
It was clear Wendy had known him since they were children, so he hadn't been born in the Ghost Zone… But he was also clearly still alive…
He closed the book, breathing once more.
"You still alive, there, Dipping Sauce?" Mabel asked, grinning her no-longer-braces-filled smile.
"Yeah, I am…"
"I get it." Mabel nodded curtly, "I would be obsessed if Danny Phantom carried me home, too…" Her eyes became dreamy, "And he would lean over my body, and place a single kiss on my forehead… And when I awoke, he would still be there… A passionate kis-"
"Alright, Mabes, save it for your fanfiction."
Mabel crossed her arms, "That's not even what happens in my fanfiction."
"Sup, guys?" Wendy slid in the booth across from them, simply nodding to Lazy Susan to bring her a coffee.
"Dipper's fanboying." Mabel laughed.
And then- he slid in beside Wendy.
Danny tapped his hands nervously on the table, until Jazz planted her own right over them, glaring at him.
Sweet Lord…
"I'm sorry about what happened." Dipper blurted.
Danny shrugged, "It's fine. That spirit's out of me now, right?"
"Yep. Totally. One hundred percent. Absolutely certainly."
Danny cocked an eyebrow, "Is there something you're not telling me?"
"No!" Dipper waved his hands in front of himself frantically, "Of course not! Everything's fi-"
"Hold that thought." Danny shoved his way past his sister, "What?" He demanded of her, "I gotta go."
Jazz huffed, "Be back."
"I will."
Dipper watched Danny head towards the bathroom, and did something incredibly stupid:
He got up and followed him.
.
Danny stepped into a stall, and immediately went invisible. Transforming easily, he took off into the air.
Flying over Gravity Falls, Danny could still see remnants of Weirdmageddon- the city still being rebuilt in some areas, a strange triangular rock, and more- and it made him sad. A small town, attacked by creatures from another world, wanting only chaos.
Sounds familiar, huh?
A thwack sounded on the side of his head, and Danny Phantom went flying. Momentarily unconscious, the sound of screaming filled the air.
And then he was face down in the concrete, ectoplasm running down his fa-
But that was impossible.
A ghost couldn't be hurt in the human world, right? Just because he was a halfa didn't mean anything, right?
… Dipper.
That damned exorcism must have done something. Was that why he was bleeding all over the place?
A hand grabbed his hair, and Phantom shrieked in pain.
"Who are you!?" A hand bent his arm behind his back. He would go intangible as soon as he had information.
"Hello, Little Badger."
Danny's blood went cold- literally. In his anger, fear, bitterness- emotions, so many emotions- ice blasted from his hands, and around him, Plasmius shrieking as he tried to break free.
Danny whirled around to face Vlad, who was grinning his toothy grin.
"Nice to see you, again, Daniel."
"How was space?" Danny spat, "As cold and empty as your heart?"
"Well, now!" Vlad laughed, "Someone's been learning from his elders!"
"Why would I want to learn anything from you." Danny snarled, "You risked the world for your own gain!"
Vlad sneered, "And I lost because of you! Because of Jack and Maddie Fenton, and because of their love for you!"
Vlad spat it like an insult.
Danny knew Vlad only wanted love.
Danny knew Vlad was lonely.
Danny knew Vlad was bitter.
Danny knew Vlad was angry.
But it didn't stop him from grabbing him by the leg, and throwing him straight into the concrete below.
…
NOTE: I am not vilanizing Vladie-boo. He will have character development.