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Saturday. December 24th, 2004. Master Bedroom. 2:43 a.m.
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It was snowing.
Dani Fenton blearily opened her eyes to find herself in a huge, dark, and unfamiliar bedroom with sheets of egyptian cotton wrapped all around her. She could see two balcony doors wide open and a cold breeze flew inside, blowing millions of tiny snowflakes in her face. It would have felt so good to Dani if she didn't feel like King Kong was tap dancing inside her head.
"Oh I feel like I've been hit by a truck." Dani groaned as she sat up and clutched the sides of her head. "What happened to me?"
Suddenly her ghost sense went off and everything came rushing back to her in a flood of images.
"Daddy!" She cried in fear as she went ghost and flew into the hallway. She found her father sleepwalking there in his pajamas surrounded by the idiot ghost vultures she captured just a few days past. Not wasting any time, Dani quickly phased him out of the hallway and into a room a couple of floors down.
"Ah sweet relief." Her father mumbled when he saw the bathroom Dani took them to.
Dani gently kissed her father on the head and went out to deal with the vultures.
She found them in the exact same position she left them.
"It's you!" They each cried.
"How did you guys get out of the Thermos?" She questioned as she flew closer to them. "Who sent you free?"
"We're not telling you anything!" The hump beaked one said.
"Yeah you locked us up!" The smooth beaked one cried after.
"I love you." The one she stole the sunglasses from said, a goofy look on his face.
The other two smacked him across the head.
"If you tell me," She whispered seductively to them, watching as dazed expressions appeared on their faces. "I'll give you each a kiss."
"Plasmius." They all said together, not missing a beat. "Vlad Plasmius."
Dani's face was edged in shock and confusion. Vlad Plasmius? Surely they meant Vlad Masters?
"Plasmius? Who's Vlad Plasmius?"
"That would be me."
The vultures screamed in fright at the dark voice and phased out of the hallway. Dani, however, quickly turned around and spotted the intruder.
And then she burst out laughing.
"Oh you've got to be kidding me?" She chuckled as she saw his ridiculous appearance. "Count Dracula? Really? Dude Halloween was two months ago!"
He raised a black eyebrow as if amused with her words.
"Well I was aiming for the vultures," She told him, her hands leaking ecto energy. "But you'll do."
Dani really wasn't interested in why he tried to kill her father, it was hardly the first time a ghost tried to kill one of her parents. They were ghost hunters after all, assassination attempts came with the territory. He couldn't have been that strong if he sent the weakest and most senile ghosts Dani's ever encountered to do the job. Plus he was probably the jackass who blasted her when her back was turned and she wanted the chance to return the favor.
It was extremely curious to her though that he specifically wanted her father and not her mother-
A blast tore her out of her musings, sending her crashing to the ground.
'Woah he's fast.' Dani thought as she briefly saw stars from the impact. 'Better stop fooling around.'
She quickly flew towards him and-
He grabbed her neck and slammed her back down to the ground.
"My vultures were suppose to bring the big idiot to me but you'll do!" He taunted back, crossing his arms together. "Dani Phantom, right?"
"You-you know me?"
He knew who she was and still he was attacking her? Did this ghost have a death wish?
Well after-death wish.
"Of course I know you! You're the ghost girl that uses her powers for good. How quaint." He mocked, leaning ever closer to her. "Aren't you going to try to shove me into your ridiculous Thermos?"
'Goddamn it! The Thermos!' She berated herself. 'I don't have the Thermos!'
"I…" Dani started, desperately trying to think of a way out of reaching the Thermos without putting her family in danger. "I don't want to fight you-"
"No." He sadistically grinned as he shot a very powerful blast towards her. "No you don't."
It was much too fast for her to go intangible or duck. The blast hit her head on and send her careening towards the floor with such force she cracked it. Her entire body ached and her energy was nearly depleted. Her breath came out in short pants from the pain and her vision was blurring.
From one blast.
And the ghost looked like he was merely toying with her, staring arrogantly back up at her. And it was then Dani made the horrifying realization that this ghost was powerful, much too powerful for her, that she was outmatched. The knowledge send tremors of panic and fear down Dani's spine, she had never met a ghost she couldn't defeat before. Granted she did have help from her two best friends though in the very rare occasion a ghost seemed too much to handle. But usually she just distracted them with her good looks and sucked them into the Thermos.
Hey it seemed trashy but she barely had control over her own powers and the system worked.
Well worked until now, at least.
This ghost Plasmius wasn't phased by her beauty in the slightest and was much more powerful than she could of ever imagined. He was a hundred times more powerful than The Lunch Lady, Technus, and Skulker put together! And she was alone and in a different territory, she didn't have her friends to help her out like usual. Dani needed to find the Fenton Thermos but she didn't want to risk him getting too close to her father, mother, or brother.
Damn if he was so powerful, why the hell would he send those idiots to try to kill her father!? Why wouldn't he just go do it himself!?
She suddenly had a thought cross her mind that this was most likely Susan's way of punishing her. Making her see how powerless she was against against stronger foes who could care less about her beauty. It wouldn't be the first time Susan did a thing like this. That evil bitch probably planned the whole thing out weeks ago with him.
"Get away!" She shouted defensively as she sent her own blasts toward Plasmius when he got too close to her.
He effortlessly blocked it.
"Ah, an ectoplasmic energy blast." He yawned, his blood red eyes mocking her as Dani desperately tried to get past his shield. It was futile. "So year one. Tell me child, can you do this yet?"
Suddenly there was another Plasmius.
And another.
And another.
They all surrounded her.
"No I can't." Dani gasped in fear as she stared in horror at the duplicates. "How-how are you doing all this?"
"Years of practice." They all replied, their hands leaking dark glowing energy. "Which you unfortunately have no time for."
Dani's last conscious moments were being thrown around like a rag doll and unbelievable agony surging throughout her body from the attacks. She saw the white rings appear mid air unconsciously and she slammed painfully to the ground in her human form.
Everything hurt.
'I just got my ass kicked by Dracula.' Was Dani's last thought before blessed darkness finally overcame her.
Author's Note: Sorry this chapter is so late people, school work had me too busy! I rewrote this chapter a couple of times until I finally decided to keep it like Phantom vs Plasmius scene in the show because it was such an awesome scene! Hope you enjoyed it! Oh and I deleted the last chapter (Revelations) because I'm rewriting it to make it more detailed. Reviews please! Pretty please?