Mayor Vlad's Revealing Speech

Chapter 3

Questions Answered

Danny sat cross legged on the edge of the stage and was somewhat nervous with everyone just staring now, afraid to be singled out by the newly discovered hero. Surprisingly, it was the shy nerd Mikey who rose his hand up, albite shakily, to the halfa. "What are you and how did you get your powers," Mikey asked when Danny pointed to him?

"Well the first part of the question is easy. I'm called a halfa, half human-half ghost," Danny paused, "I can only half explain how I came to receive these powers because I don't remember much of the during or after. So Sam or Tuck will have to come up and explain," Both of the aforementioned people walked up to the stage and sat next to their friend. "I'll start off and then whoever wants to finish can then pick up the story,"Danny said only to Sam and tucker. He then spoke up to the rest of the auditorium, "Well is all started off at the beginning of ninth grade, my parents had just finished their Ghost Portal and wanted to show it to Jazz and I. When they did it didn't work so they went off to figure it out, Jazz went to read a psychology book, and I went to find Sam and Tucker. We walked back to my house because Sam wanted to see the Portal. We went down to the lab and I put on a jumpsuit that was mainly white with black gloves, boots, and collar so that I could go in and check out the Portal. While I was inside I tripped and hit the on button, since the Portal was still plugged in it caused the Portal to start working. All I remember was a flash of light and intense pain from there on out." Danny finished.

Sam and Tucker shared a look and then Sam started to speak, "He actually left out that I sorta dared him to enter the portal in the first place, but after the Portal turned on Danny screamed as if he was dying, which was half true. Soon after Danny fell out in his ghost form passed out, when he hit the ground these two bright blueish-white rings traveled from his waist to both his head and feet changing him back to his human form. We carried him back up to his room and placed him on the bed. Mr. and Mrs. Fenton came back before Danny woke up and we all went down to the lab. Their shout of joy startled Danny awake and we all went down to find Danny's parents rejoicing in front of the now glowing portal. Danny gasped and a blue wisp come out of his mouth. He slapped his hand over his mouth and... I'm going to far aren't I," Sam finally stopped and looked over to see Danny and Tucker both nod their heads. The goth faintly blushed and looked down.

Danny turned back to Mikey and replied, "Did that answer your question?" The nerd nodded and then Dash raised his hand. Danny saw and called, "Yes Dash?"

"Well we have seen your powers, but is that all of them," the brawny jock asked? Danny pondered for a second before replying.

"My most used powers are flight, ectoblasts, invisibility, intangibility, shielding took a lot of effort to get down, my ice powers scared one of the ghost tribes in the Zone when they helped me control them, and duplication is still out of my reach I get to the point of two heads and then I get smushed back together," he paused again, " There is only one other power that I developed that I refuse to use. One because it drains me to the point where I pass out and revert to human form and because it would level Amity Park to the ground with one good use. It's called a Ghostly Wail and I shouldn't have gotten this power until I was in my 20's." Danny sounded morose. Sam and Tuck put a hand on his shoulders and he seemed to come out of this trance that he went into when he started talking about the Wail.

Because she needed to know everything about Danny Phantom, Paulina asked the inevitable question. "How do you know you were supposed to get the Ghosty Wail power in your 20's?" Danny looked up and took a deep breath to steel his emotions.

"When we took the CAT's I had accidentally phased through Mr. Lancer's briefcase and got the answers and here was where the split happened. I had two options, to look at the answers or return them without looking. In one reality I cheated, that one shortcut to a good grade would have caused my good path to completely erase itself and only leave the path for me to become a full ghost and Dictator to the entire World and Ghost Zone except for a small group under a ghost proof shield located in Amity Park," again he paused and waited to let it sink in. "The Master of Time, Clockwork, was given the task by higher ups, called Observants, to kill me so that the bad time stream would never have the possibility of happening. When Clockwork brought Tucker, Sam, and I into his lair we accidentally fell into this alternate time stream smack dab in the middle of an all out war in Amity. I saw my future self take out all the tanks and other weapons made to try to bring him down. Sam and Tuck got back just fine but he phased a time medallion into me while he went back to mess with my future and ensure his own," seeing the confused looks on people's faces, he decided to explain. "The time medallion keeps the wearer outside of the time stream as long as the person is in contact with the item in some way or another. My future self got caught cheating on the CAT's, which caused Mr. Lancer to call a meeting with my parents at the Nasty Burger. While all of this was happening, I was trying to get out of the future Ghost Zone and back to my own time. Before I could get out I met all the ghosts who terrorize our town now and found that my future self utterly destroyed them. They all wanted revenge and started to all beat up on me, I kept screaming 'Get away from me' until I could actually see the sound waves. It was the first time I used my Ghostly Wail. I finally figured out how to get back to my time and beat my future self after he told me I should get the Wail until I was ten years older. After I locked him up in the thermos, I realized Sam, Tuck, Jazz, my parents, and Mr. Lancer were still attached to the exploding Nasty Sauce. I was too late to save from the sauce. Clockwork saved them because the whole reason he still exists is that if I lose the ones I care about most, I will most definitely become him." Danny covered his face with his hands and Tucker and Sam hugged Danny to help calm him down.

This stunned everyone as no one could imagine that the wimpy Danny Fenton could rule the world and that one little mistake could destroy your whole future. Once Danny had calmed down enough, he lifted his head from his hands and gave a watery smile to both of his friends. He further composed himself by wiping his eyes and

Kwan hesitantly raised his hand. "Kwan," Danny said to acknowledge his question.

The second most feared jock in the school had a slight quiver in his voice as he asked, "Who were your worst enemies to fight?"

Danny reasoned before answering, "Well from least to greatest it would be the Box Ghost, Ectopuses, Vultures, Lunch Lady, Spectra," Danny got cut off.

"You mean the psychiatrist that was here during spirit week," Mr. Lancer exclaimed/questioned?

"Yea she is a ghost who feeds off of people's, mainly teens, depression. She tried to kill Jazz with the Spirit Sparklers, but I grabbed her out of the way just in time," Danny explained. Mr. Lancer had no other exclamation to make. Danny continued with his list.

"I would say that Skulker would be next once I get used to his upgrade and because Skulker still has one of Tuck's old PDAs built into his system," Danny stopped with a look over at his geeky friend.

"I still miss Sharon, but it's great that if you need me to send him away with just a short hack into his system back into Sharon's hard drive," Tuck started off sad, but ended with a smile. Danny and Sam were smiling at their friend until someone cleared a throat to remind Danny he wasn't alone or finished.

"Technus is easier too because he just loves to talk about himself and his plan that I have more than enough time to get him in the thermos. Ember is always a surprise visit, but she doesn't cause many problems any more," this time Paulina interrupted.

"Ember McLain the pop star was a ghost too," Paulina spoke up for the first time. Her silence had surprised her peers. Danny glanced up to where she was sitting and calmly answered her question.

"Yes Ember's guitar maximized most of her powers when when was playing her song. Sam was wearing Fenton Phones, designed to block out ghost noises, and so she was safe from any mind controlling music. The reason Sam kissed Dash was to snap me out of a trance I was in from Ember hitting me with a love chord. With all of you chanting her name her power grew, if you saw her flaming ponytail increase as it was broadcasted to the world. Then I'm sure we all remember when Tucker came up in all of his Ember gear and started to screech out the lyrics to her one and only song." Danny sent a sly look at Tucker yet again.

"I resent that. You know my voice is awesome and you just don't want to admit it," Tucker countered.

"Yeah that's why they started booing and throwing trash on the stage," Sam snickered. Tucker pouted and bumped into Danny for him to continue.

"Youngblood and Bones were the ghosts along with Ember who kidnapped our parents and forced them to exercise on the ghost ship. Prince Eragon was a ghost who wanted something that no other ghost had, a human bride. That's why there was a beauty contest here in Casper High and Sam was crowned the winner. Sam caused a ruckus in the ghostly Kingdom of Eragon when she found that the Prince wanted to marry her. His sister Dorathea and I dethroned him and to this day he remains in the dungeon. I almost forgot, the Legend of Sidney Pointdexter is true. Sidney overshadowed me and sent me to his world where I got bullied by everyone in the school. Sidney took over my life because he believed I was the bully when he saw me getting revenge on Dash after he did something or another to me. I stopped after the future incident." Danny stopped and shook his head vigorously. "Well then it would be Johnny 13 and his Shadow, Johnny was Jazz's boyfriend for a little so that he could free his girlfriend Kitty from the Ghost Zone. Walker a ghost warden who overshadowed the mayor a little bit ago and made everyone think I had kidnapped him. After Walker would be Lydia and Freakshow, Freakshow is actually a human but he had a staff that could control ghosts. That's when I stole all of that stuff and when I locked Mr. Lancer in the janitor's closet. Nocturn the ghost of sleep and dreams would be next, The Fright Knight, Vortex, and finally Pariah Dark the ghost king who took over Amity. I stopped the Red Huntress from using my parents Fenton suit because it drains your life force. Stopping the King almost killed me, it would have most definitely killed her before she could lock him back up again." Danny was looking straight at Valerie to try to convey the message of 'I know who you are but I'm not going to rat you out."

Valerie understood, and rose her hand for friend to call on her. Since Danny was already looking at her she just started to talk.

"Where would you put your future self on that list Danny," the cocoa skinned girl asked wondering if she would have to attempt to take him down in the future.

Danny sighed, "I would put my future self, Dan, on a list of no one is to ever approach him. He has all the powers that I have now and more. His are all refined to the point where using a Ghostly Wail would not tire him out enough to use it many, many more times. The only reason I beat him in the first place is because he wasn't expecting me to have the Ghostly Wail, I was lucky enough to hit him twice before changing back and trapping him in a thermos. So to answer your question, Dan is the absolute highest person on the list," the young halfa finished. This information absolutely terrified all the students and staff. "You won't have to worried about that monster, I promise to all of you that I won't turn into him." Danny conveyed this unflinching desire just through his eyes and voice which caused most everyone in the audience to believe him. The teenagers in the audience were already at that realization, but the teachers were on both sides of the arguments for their teenaged hero. All of a sudden, Danny gasped as a blue wisp flew out of his mouth. Then there was an echoing evil laugh and a vampiric ghost appeared above their heads.

"So Daniel are you ready to join me yet," the ghost asked the halfa?

Yay another chapter complete and posted! Will be working on the next one, but don't know when it will be posted. I have three exams next week and two meetings this thursday, along with the normal homework, but it will be out soon. The next chapter should be the last so enjoy it!

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