Ok, I'm back, sorry about the evil cliffie, so sorry. I really, really, am. I do have the next chapter planned out, thanks so much for your support and reviews. Now, we all know you want me to talk and talk…
I was born many years ago in a long cabin in the woods, don't know exactly where but I know I wanted a pony… never got the pony, in fact we had to eat horse meat during the war… I had a problem with that…
Danny screamed as he opened his eyes. His entire body was in fire in pain all over his body, his back screamed in agony. Danny immediately shut off all pain signals and lay on his bed gasping feeling the hole in his back. Danny gulped big breathes of air as he fought of the pain trying to push its way to the front of his mind.
"Danny." Jazz looked concerned at her younger brother. Danny looked up at her with wild eyes. Jazz jerked away as she saw his eyes glowing a pure white. Jazz recoiled in shock and quit admittedly in fear. Danny's eyes cooled back to their icy blue as he recognized Jazz.
"I… I…" Danny sat up and looked at his sister, "They… I was…" Danny curled into a ball, "Shit…" Danny shook his head, "I… I… died." Danny looked at his sister, "I died, I died… how am I alive… I died…" Danny jumped as the door opened. Maddie and Jack opened the door after hearing the screams they hurried up to find their son that had been missing over a month tucked safe inside his bed. Jazz had bandaged up what she could most of the deeper wounds were on Danny's torso anyway, most of them easily covered up with clothes.
"Danny?" Called Maddie in shock and surprise. Danny recoiled remembering the countless experiments. Maddie froze wondering what could provoke such a reaction. The image of Phantom with her son's baby blue eyes flashed before her eyes. The Phantom in her mind pleading with her, telling her over and over that he was Danny. But he wasn't, he'd obviously lied because Danny was here right now, and obviously not a ghost.
"DANNY BOY! So glad you're finally back!" Jack cried, tears of joy leaking from his eyes. Danny tried to keep his face calm keep the fear off of it, but Danny had never been good at hiding his emotions. Maddie reached toward Danny, Danny flinched but let her touch him. All he could see though was an image of his mother with a scapel coming toward him. His mother's cold eyes as she looked down on him. Danny's heart in his mother's hands as she poked and prodded at it, but not the warmth and love she showed now. Just the cold look of disgust and hate as he pleaded to be let go, pleaded that she believe him. Begged and cried and groveled to her. Danny could only remember that, not even the warmth of all the years before.
Maddie noticed his fear, fear of her… fear of Jack… but why. Maddie took her hand of his arm but Danny didn't relax, he looked ready to bolt for it at any minute. Jazz was containing her fury only because she was more worried about Danny. Jack still oblivious beamed at his son.
"You can't imagine how worried we were, now that you're back we can kill Phantom, he was withholding your location, but you got back ok! Now that we have you back we can get rid of that putrid manifestation of post human consciousness! Not that anyone would miss him of course!" Jack blabbed. Danny winced.
"Just you wait son, your old man is going to teach you how to kill a ghost! HA! It feels great son! I'm sure you'll have a blast, ha, ha! Not just any ghost either! Danny Phantom. You should have heard the lies he was spouting. Trying to get our sympathy, he kept saying he was you… how ridiculous is that." Jack started laughing. Danny was blinking tears out of his eyes. Maddie closed her eyes against a sudden nightmare vision.
In her mind Maddie was dissecting Danny Phantom, but his blue eyes looked up at her pleading eyes filled with so much emotion, betrayal, anger, sadness, but never hate. Then Phantom morphed into Danny Fenton. Maddie opened her eyes.
Danny looked up at her his eyes filled with tears begging for something, as if asking her to realize something, those eyes were in such pain. Maddie bit her lip. Jack went on about killing Phantom. Maddie tried to sort out her thoughts, Danny's eyes…
Betrayal, anger, sadness, but never hate.
Betrayal… Danny looked at her with betrayal…
Anger… Danny had a spark of anger working its way into his gaze.
Sadness… but most of all Danny held a deep sadness in his eyes, like he'd been hurt far worse than any wound.
But never hate… Danny's eyes… those eyes… those were the same eyes Maddie saw in the ghost boy. Maddie looked away in shame.
"Or you could dissect him with us one more time, the DNA sample we found in the ectoplasm still hasn't come back… we should check on it Mads!"
In a flash Danny had bolted out of the room, Jazz staring forlornly after him. Danny ran as hard as he could legs pumping as he tried to get moving. Maddie paused for a fraction of a second then took off after him.
"COME ON JACK!" Maddie yelled taking after the raven haired boy.
Danny ran down the street glad his sister had put him in fresh clothes. He struggled with his shoes hopping down the sidewalk.
"DANNY!"
Danny froze they were right behind him. He struggled with the other shoe, they were less than five feet from him. His heart rose to his throat, they were right there right behind him… where to go? Where to go?
Running. Keep running. That's all you can do!
Danny ran down the street his parents right behind him.
Keep running. Running. Breathe Fenton, move it… move! FASTER! You can do it MOVE!
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Danny lifted Storm easily by her arm as if his weightlessness transferred to her as he looked down. Storm looked at the white haired teen as he floated down to the restrooms. He winced at the sight. Rubble had completely blocked off the entrance. The building groaned.
"Oh crud." Danny exclaimed as the building started to sway again groaning against bending the structure the wrong way. Danny's eyes widened as there was crashing and screaming. Danny held his hands out eyes narrowing in concentration as a green energy expanded filling the mall. Danny groaned as the building tipped and evened out the ecto shield doing its best to reinforce the structure. The bottom level they were at grew dark. Danny cussed dropping his hands and landing on the now semi level floor in exhaustion. He looked up at the restrooms looking up at Storm.
"Do you trust me?" Danny asked.
"Not really… but I suppose I have to." Storm was suspicious of this boy now that he'd revealed his own powers, very strong powers.
"Well that'll have to do." Danny said grabbing Storm by the wrist and pulling through the rubble, Storm gasped at the tingling feeling that passed through her body as they walked through the solid barrier into the chaotic bathroom. Danny released Storm as if she had the plague not wanting to touch her more than necessary sure she was freaking out on him again.
"John?" Danny asked hesitantly, there was a soft whimper from inside a stall across for the urinals. Danny sighed and softly treaded to the stall pushing it open revealing the shuddering form of a four year old boy. His dark skin powdered with dust. Danny squatted down to the boy's level.
"Will you come with me… your mom is looking for you." Danny said. John shook his head not looking at Danny but at Danny's glowing boots.
"I'm.. hic.. n-not su- uposse… hic… ed to g-g-go with… hic… s-strangers." The boy rubbed his eyes as he tried to get the words out through his tears. Danny softly touched the boy on his shoulder and the boy looked up into Danny's face. John's eyes went wide.
"I… I know you!" The boy became excited. Danny smiled.
"Then I'm not exactly a stranger now am I?" Danny said. The boy nodded.
"I guess I could go with you… you are a superhero." John smiled. Danny reached out and John took his hand.
"Now this is going to a little weird, but we're going to go through the wall." Danny said pulling the boy up and putting him on his hip like he'd seen mothers do with their children. He held his hand out to Storm who took it hesitantly. Danny then phased them both through the walls. John looked both excited and scared.
Danny began walking to where he had left the mother when there was a muffled cry to his left. Danny dropped Storm's hand and going toward the scuffling noises. The people that were still alive were fighting to get out. The building's floor had gone underground quite easily thanks to Danny's shield supporting it. People rushed up the stairs and around, other crying for loved ones. Danny made it to where a beam had collapsed on a mutant girl. She was pretty old in her teens with fiery red hair and deep green eyes. Danny held his hand out.
"Take my hand." Danny insisted. The girl glared at the hand.
"I don't need your help." She glared. Danny sighed.
"Come on." Danny said with a little more force. The girl shook her head again. Danny's eyes flashed a pure white for a second.
"Ok, don't take it because you need my help; take my hand because you choose to accept my help. There are a lot of other people you can help save if you hurry." Danny said forcibly. The girl hesitated a minute before taking the outstretched hand. Danny pulled her through the beam a small o forming on her lips as she passed through the object. The girl then grabbed Storm's hand as they headed to the stairs. Danny was relieved to see many people escaping, some even helping others. Danny looked around for the mother finding her ahead being drug by others up the stiars as she screamed for her child. Danny let go of the red head's hand and flew to the mother landing softly in front of her fear and relief on her face as Danny held out her child. The boy grabbed his mother and the two hugged. The boy grinned ear to ear as he smiled at his mom.
"I was saved by Danny Phantom." The boy whispered. Danny blushed and rubbed the back of his neck heading back to where he left the red head and Storm. Danny looked at his boots for a while then up at them.
"You should probably go help the ones on the upper levels… I got down here covered, I can move faster on my own. Storm nodded. Danny sighed.
"Thanks… you know for not freaking out on me." Danny said. Storm sighed.
"What kind of mutant would I be if I couldn't stand a little weirdness now and again." She smiled genuinely at the boy in front of her Danny ended up smiling back then he jumped of the ground and started flying down the halls. Each went their separate ways.
Danny landed in a dark part of the mall holding his hand out for light to illuminate the darkness, there was rubble. Danny took a deep breath.
"CAN ANYONE HEAR ME?" He called; there were a few muffled groans. Danny sighed, "KEEP MAKING NOISE SO I CAN FIND YOU." Danny called back, a couple people started knocking on things, others yelled or sang, Danny's heart broke, he couldn't save all of them, but he could try. Someone was playing music, others screaming. Danny found them pulling them out of the rubble, their faces priceless when they saw who their savior was. Some people recognized him and were grateful, others ran full speed away when they realized who he was. Some thought he was a mutant and got mixed reactions, other that knew he was a ghost mostly ran. Danny tried to keep the people together in groups, organize them to get them to stick together and help each other. But trying to direct panicking scared people was quite the challenge.
After a few minutes of digging through rubble Danny heard crying. He followed the noise to a dusty pink faced baby. Danny saw with horror the mother beside the child, She had used her body as a shield to protect her baby. She was dead. Danny looked up in horror at the spirit beside her body.
"Save her… please." The mother begged. Danny took the child into his arms, the woman smiled.
"You know… this would have made a great story to tell her one day." The woman said sadly, Danny nodded a tear escaping. The woman frowned. "I didn't think ghost could cry." Then she frowned deeper, "Danny Phantom is it?" She asked. Danny nodded rocking the baby, she sighed, "When I was alive I thought you were evil… all ghosts are evil right?" she shook her head, "Now that I'm dead… I realize I'm not evil… I still care… and you do too… otherwise why would you cry?" The woman asked, she sighed looking up at something only she seemed to see.
"Thank you…" She moved toward the object, "But we don't belong here… our kind." She sighed. Danny shook his head.
"I'm human too." Danny said, "I'm also human." He sighed the woman nodded.
"Please make sure she is safe."
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Bobby coughed dust out of his lungs, he under something, it was dark.
"AAAH!" Bobby jumped back upon seeing this and began checking over his body to make sure he was ok. He felt around looking for an opening, or a way out only to find nothing. With a start he realized he might die there. He didn't know how much oxygen he had left or how long he'd been there. The last thing he remembered was an explosion, and Danny running… trying to get people out… then nothing. Bobby groaned trying to find a way, any way, out. Nothing. Bobby closed his eyes trying not to panic and trying to conserve his energy.
"HELP!" he called out, nothing, "HELP!" he tried again. He felt a cold breeze on his fore head. He sighed.
"Please…" he asked, "please help." His voice was weaker.
Don't scream for help till I tell you, you'll just waste your air.
Bobby nodded to the mysterious voice and tried to calm down. He prayed to anyone who might be listening that he would make it out alive.
(My timcampy :P was watching D. Gray Man… well reading)
Maddie found him, he was on the roof, she opened the door just in time to see him glance over his shoulder then jump.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Maddie screamed running to the edge of the building. Danny was gone… vanished.
"I'LL GET YOU GHOST PUNK!" Jack screamed. Maddie looked over, a battered bruised, mutilated Phantom was flying away his eyes dead, tears streaming down his face. Maddie held binoculars up to her face and zoomed in on the ghost boy.
"Danny?" Maddie tried. The ghost boy didn't look back, didn't make any motions toward the couple, he just cried. The tears falling to the ground. Two small splatters of liquid dropped in front of Maddie. Maddie put down the binoculars and looked down at them… that was all she had left of her baby boy.
Jack angry was taken off guard as Maddie broke down in sobs crying heavily.
"I hurt him… it's all my fault… I drove him away… I killed him… and brought him back over and over for science. I didn't… he… I didn't know… he begged for death at my hands… my baby… my Danny."
And so draws the conclustion of this short chapter. Sorry it's so short, I has writers block. Sorry again.
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