A/N: I have made my own decision on if I should combine my chapters, and some encouragement from Phantomspirit12 and you guys! I will be giving hints on Danny throughout the story for the leading ends. I have just started school, so there will be slower updates, but i'll try my best. There will be a lot of switching point of views, it's necessary. Anyways, I don't own Danny Phantom or Pokemon. Enjoy!
Also, note that the deeper you get in the story the better it gets. For me it did at least, I don't know about you.
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Chapter Four
(Sam's point of view:)
I sighed as I sat down on my bed holding the strange object that Tucker gave me. It was a golden stopwatch with the letters CW on the cover of it. To a regular person it might have looked insignificant, but it held more power than that if Vlad was trying to get it, let alone the entire evil half of the Ghost Zone.
I remembered the day Danny showed it to me. He told me that Clockwork himself gave it to him. Clockwork is the master, or the guardian of time. He knows everything, Danny told me. Yeah, right. How was I supposed to believe that when we are in the middle of a flipping war, huh?!
I looked back at the stopwatch. I don't know how important this really is. Only Danny really knows, but he's not here now.
He told me only he and Clockwork know how to activate it, but it was really dangerous if it fell into the enemy's hands.
"Josh said Danny gave it to him right before he got captured." I jumped at the unexpected voice, but I reconized Tucker immediately. He looked at me with troubled eyes. "Almost as if Danny knew he'd be captured."
"Do you know what this does? Danny didn't tell me." I asked, showing him the stopwatch. He shook his head sadly, and came to sit next to me on the bed. "No, Danny didn't tell me either."
"Hey, Sam?" I loioked at him and nod. "Are you sure we can trust these people? I mean, i'm not sure I can handle betrayal right now, especially after Elisia." I shook my head.
"I'm pretty sure they're from a different dimension. Seriously, they didn't know about the ghosts, they definately don't work for Vlad, and what of their so called, 'Pokemon'?" He sighed in something akin to defeat and looked at the papers in his hands. "Were they lying?" I had an ability that whenever someone spoke to me, I could tell if the person was lying or not. "No."
He looked at me again, a more relaxed look on his face. He finally got on a topic I didn't really want to talk about. "So, What are we gonna do about Danny?" Great. Here we go.
"I don't know. I've tried everything in my mind, and come up with nothing." I looked down at the covers, we need to get Danny back, it's tearing my heart apart. I mean, we're friends, just friends. Of course it will tear my heart apart. But I've always come up with a plan. Why not now?
"Well..." I look back up at him. He had a clever smile painted on his face. I liked that face, I liked it a lot. It meant he had a plan, a good one. "What is it?" I ask. He looked at me still smiling. He opened his mouth to reply.
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I liked his plan. I smiled, we're going to find him now. No more doubt in my mind. Only obstical is time. I looked at Danny's stopwatch, wondering what its for. I mean, it's obvious what a stopwatch is for, but with Clockwork thrown in, it could be anything.
Curious, I look at it. Danny told me about it a month ago. I shivered, not from cold, but from my thoughts of what could happen if something as powerful as this got into Vlad's hands. While I pondered over this, Ryan came in the room. Ryan is this tall 15 year old. He wears a worn red shirt and sweatpants. He has blond shaggy hair and bright green eyes. "Hey, Joshua said he wanted to see ya for a sec." He smiled, then left, probably going to rest somewhere.
I walked down in the basement, Josh is always there. Sure enough, he was there now. "How's the plan going?" Joshua is a 17 year old who loves chemistry. He always knows what to do for situations like that. He's also very smart too. A techno geek, a science lover, a genius, in other words i'm glad he's on our team, not with Vlad. It seems more and more people are submitting to Vlad, which is not good.
"It's going well so far. We have found him, thank Clockwork, but his energy levels are slowly decreasing, and he hasn't moved. Either he's asleep, or Vlad has done something very bad. Or both, for that matter. I'm hoping it's not the latter." He said glancing at me, then back at the computer.
"Me too," I said. "Vlad is an awful man. Doing anything to get what he wants. He's tried over and over again to get Danny to be his evil apprentice, but-"
"Everyone knows Danny can't be evil, and he absolutely hates Vlad." Josh finished, smiling at me. "I needed to tell you that Tucker said he found a certain someone who's not under Vlad control anymore. He said he's near the school, or what's left of it."
I waved goodbye to him. "Okay, I'll see what he wants. See ya later." He smiled and waved back. "See ya!"
I walked out of Danny's old house and made my way to the old high school; Casper High. Funnily enough, ghosts used to attack it everyday.
I saw Tucker there, looking around with a smile on his face. Figures he would be happy- Danny's been found. I run over and shout, "Hey Tucker!" He looked up and smiled even wider, "Hey!"
He was blocking my view of someone. "So, who is the person that's not under control anymore?" I ask, and he slowly steps away to reveal the familiar face of- "Valerie?!"
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(Danny's point of view)
I open my eyes. Now I remember what happened- I got captured by Vlad. Great. Sarcastic clap here please. But as I look around, I notice; this place looks like my room. Back home. Before all this war stuff happened. Am I going crazy? That could not have been a dream, could it? I need to figure this out, quick.
I hear someone quietly open the door. "Good! You're awake! You passed out on the way home." I recognized my sister's voice.
"Jazz? What happened? What time is it?" I ask, confused. This must be a dream. I felt pain when the war was here. Now everything seems too... calm.
I reached into my pockets and tried to grab my stopwatch, only it wasn't there. What the heck?!
"It's 10:00 A.M., and I just told you what happened! You passed out on the way home." I smiled to hide my nervousness. She didn't act like Jazz. Whoever this is, and wherever I am, I need to get to the bottom of this. And soon.
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(Sam's point of view)
There was something, or someone following us. I could feel it. I started to veer off the trail. "Hey Sam, where you going?" Tucker asked. I blinked twice. "Oh, you know, back to HQ (Head Quarters)." I blinked twice again and they got the message. Someone is following us.
I started to stray some more onto a different path, and they followed me. We finally got to one of the abandoned buildings and walked inside. I got a ghost shield up as soon as I could so the ghost wouldn't get in. I copied it's signature.
(Unknown point of view)
Drat! Now I can't get in the base! Well at least I know where it is. I'm sure master will be pleased. I don't want to end up like the others who failed. I shiver, and before anyone could catch me, I silently flew off to master as fast as I could.
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"Why are you late?" Master asked me in a strangely calmed voice, even though I knew that was a cover up.
"Sir, master, I have found location of the Resistance's Base." I whimper fearfully.
"You better be right. You know the consequences of this being wrong." He narrows his eyes at me, and I gulp nervously clutching my throat.
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(Sam's point of view)
After the signature was fully gone, Valerie, Tucker, and I decided to go to the real HQ. Valerie had asked where Danny was, and we had to tell her what happened. But we'll get Danny back soon. The rescue is planned for 3 days from now, but we have to do it that night. Which will be hard. The last time anyone of us did a mission at night to Vlad's mansion, we failed thanks to an army of ghosts guarding it.
How will we get Danny back now? I thought, I have no idea. Tucker said not to worry about it. He said that Danny would say the same thing, then worry about it himself, until he got a headache. I laughed then, it was true. He probably would do that. We will get him back. Of that I'm sure now. After all, Tucker and I would do anything for Danny. Like I'm sure they would do anything for me, and Danny and I would do anything for Tucker. He is our best friend, a brother in all but blood.
I sat down on the couch and looked at the picture set up next to it on the table. It was of me, Danny, and Tucker. We were only 13 back then, now we're sixteen. If only I could remember the last time we really had fun without involving ghosts. Sometimes I wish we were that young again. When we were ten. No worries, no stress. Just fun. But not anymore. We have a world to keep safe, we don't have time for real fun anymore.
I think back to Ash, Serena, Clemont, and Bonnie. I needed to Serena to take care of Bonnie because she's too young for this. Turns out Serena didn't want to fight anyways so that's good.
Ash and Clemont were training well. Ash has more skill in strategy, but Clemont has more in inventing and weapons. Both are good. Strategists tend to get plans in motion and they know battle strategies well as well. Clemont on the other hand could help out Mr. and Mrs. Fenton in making weapons and firing them. He's not a fast runner though.
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"Alright everyone, listen up!" I heard Tucker anounce. "Tonight, Sam and I will be going to sneak into Vlad's mansion to get Danny, and whoever we run into in the cells, we need more people to help. Any volunteers?"
A few hands went up, and Tucker nodded. "Okay, Valerie, Taylor, Kailin, and... Wait, are you sure Clemont? Vlad's mansion is pretty hard to get to, never mind get in."
Wait, Clemont wants to go? I'm not sure about that. Clemont nodded. "I really would like to see this 'Danny', you talk about him a lot and it's got me curious." I nodded, "You can go, but be very careful. Vlad is an awful but manipulative man."
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(Danny's point of view)
Things were perfect. I know for sure this is a dream now, no ghosts, and no Vlad. It's all I could love, but I don't. Everyone is acting exactly like I want them to, only I don't. I want their old selves back. They keep asking me what's wrong, and I keep saying I'm fine. Then they go on their happy way.
What's keeping me here? I don't know. I keep expecting to wake up, be at Vlad's, or at home, where the war is still going. I don't think I like this place, not with everyone acting wrong.
Sam's not the same. She wears purple, but no black. She said it was her new style, and that I should live with it. She's lying, I know it. She's cheery too, almost as much as her parents. It's not right.
Tucker's acting weird too. He's not like the techno geek I knew before. Bye bye gadgets, glasses and my smart best friend. I don't know my friends anymore.
Jazz has changed too. She doesn't act like herself at all. It's hard to explain why though. It just doesn't feel the same.
I think my parents have changed the most. They aren't making inventions. It scares me, they always make stuff, even if they're small. I haven't asked about it though, I don't want to. I don't want them to know I'm suspicious. They'll try harder to convince me that it's real. But I won't believe it. I won't take that chance. I will not live this lie. To think this is a dream, and in the real world a war is going on, that hurts me. I don't like thinking like that, I really don't. But I have to if I'm going to have any hope on getting out of here.
I shifted in my sheets. It was nighttime, the only time I can think over this without interruption. It would be bad if they caught me. Even worse if they knew what I was thinking.
What time is it in the real world? All the more reason to get out of here. But what's making me sleep? How do I get out of here if I don't know? I already have a theory. But I'll have to wait around 2 more days and get some sleep before I test it. I'll need energy for this, and if I'm wrong... Let's just say it's a GIANT risk.
Might as well get some rest now, I'll need it. Might have to do some research on this too. I thought and my vision finally faded to black as sleep overtook me once again. Only one thought crept up on me as I slept. Does Nocturne have anything to do with this...?
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A/N: Hi guys! So anyone want to know where I've been, huh? No? (*pouts*) Well alrighty then... So to anyone who doesn't know, Nocturne is the ghost of dreams. And... I hope you like this story guys, it's hard to continue on this, but I'll hold strong! And to reviewers, what do you think is going to happen to Danny, huh? I want to see your thoughts. Eternal luck! ~Wolfeather