26Bonds That Transcend Time 8
Chapter 8
Sorry if I get American schools down wrong. I'm from Australia and the schooling system is considerably different here so I'll just be going along with the limited information I have. And if you want to help me out you can tell me exactly how an American school works or of the basic geography concerning Wisconsin and Illinois. I need to update on my general knowledge concerning America.
Ps. Australians don't ride kangaroos to school nor do we have 'shrimps on the barbe'. Who barbeques shrimps anyway? If anything we barbecue beef or lamb more often. It's just a myth. Who created it I don't know but I'm going to pummel that guy to kingdom come.
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"So you're telling me that you're a ghost… who died before he could meet his long lost brother?"
Danny simply nodded. Lying was his forte after all.
"Wow… just wow," Sidney mumbled.
Danny held back a giggle as he remembered his first encounter with Vlad. He had the same dumbstruck expression on his face as well.
"So who exactly is this long lost brother?" Sidney asked.
Danny sighed for real this time as a weary expression crossed his face. "His name is Jack Fenton. He's currently a senior here," the halfa explained.
"So why don't you just tell him what happened? I'm sure he'll understand considering you aren't an evil ghost," Sidney reasoned.
"That's where the problem lays… he hates ghosts," Danny groaned as he spun in the air.
Sidney looked at the hovering ghost in contemplation. He wondered if he could return the favour to Phantom for helping him out. It was the least he could do.
"How about I try and slowly break it to him," Sidney offered.
Danny perked up at the idea as a grin spread on his face. "-And break his hate for ghosts! Sidney you are a genius, I could kiss you right now!" Danny exclaimed doing just that.
Sidney groaned in disgust as he tried to wipe the ghost saliva of his face. Danny however was whooping in excitement. Even if he didn't have the opportunity to get his family back, he still had a way to make friends with them. He would wait a couple of decades to see Jazz again if he had to.
"We need to find him right now!" Danny exclaimed as he grabbed Sidney and flew with him. Sidney however was not having a fun time. Never before had he flown, turned intangible, or invisible in his life yet here he was doing all three things at once.
The two made their way through the halls at a quick pace. Sidney noticed that for a new ghost Danny sure knew his way around the school… almost like he had once been a student here.
"The paranormal club," Danny read out with a grin as he dropped Sidney in front of it.
"What exactly do you want me to do?" he asked the ghost boy.
"Join the club, duh! If you become my da- I mean long lost brother's friend, then you can tell him all about how ghosts are nice, peaceful creatures who are completely misunderstood," Danny ranted with a bit too much excitement.
"Wow, wow, wait a minute Phantom, you need to calm down. It's almost like you're on a sugar high," Sidney pointed out with a frown.
Danny stopped in his tracks and realised why he was so hyper all of a sudden. "Oh right! I'm like this because I have a strong will at the moment," he thought out loud.
"Will?"
"Yeah, will… you know the thing that drives ghosts to stay on the human plane, to continue existing?" Danny explained like it was the most obvious thing before he stopped in his tracks and rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "Oh, I forget you are human… Ok we've put this off for far too long! You're going in there right now!"
Sidney just sighed and decided he would listen to the ghost boy for now. He didn't want to admit that being talked to politely for once felt nice. It was also a plus that Phantom didn't once judge his appearance. Sidney was really beginning to like this ghost. He knocked on the door and opened it.
"Oh are you coming to join!" a tall buff teenager asked as he grabbed Sidney's hand and shook it excessively.
"Erm… yes?" Sidney mumbled trying to figure out if this was Phantom's long lost brother.
"My name's Jack Fenton, but you can just call me Jack-o! Do you want to hear about ghosts?" Jack asked happily.
Sidney wondered for a moment if this hyper-active behaviour was a genetic trait within the family. He shook his thoughts away and remembered the favour he owed Phantom.
"I've grown interested in the paranormal," Sidney nodded.
"Well it's a good thing you've come here then eh? Ghosts are tricky creatures. Not so fun to hang around either. Before you know it they'd be taking over your body and sucking your body fluids out," Jack said a bit too excitedly for something so grim.
"I'm sure there are some nice ghosts out there too," Sidney tried weakly as he felt the invisible ghost nudge him.
"Nonsense! Now what do you know about the chemical make-up of ectoplasm?"
With that being said Danny watched the two interact with each other for the next few minutes. He wanted so badly to just turn visible and hug his father. He wanted to ask him where his mother was and if he knew her yet. He wanted to know if they could possibly live together again no matter their ages. He sourly missed everything that he had and the relationships that would take another decade or so to flourish when it already had in his future's past.
As every minute went by the idea became more and more far-fetched. It seemed Jack had made up his mind on the fact that ghosts are evil. Danny wondered for a second if he should come clean and just as quickly threw away the ridiculous notion. Jack hadn't met Danny yet and if he happened to show himself the older teen would just shrug him of as a liar or an evil ghost. He only had one chance for a good impression and he couldn't screw it up.
"Ok club meetings should be over in a few minutes," Jack smiled as he hit the younger teen's back so hard he had to try not to fall.
"I had fun," Sidney lied through gritted teeth. He didn't have fun; he had lived a nightmare for all he knew. Jack had a way of rambling very smart sounding information and making it sound plain stupid. He didn't know if that constituted as a talent or not. So when Sidney closed the door a sigh of relief was bound to accompany the action.
"Your brother is a night mare," Sidney whispered harshly.
Danny waved it off. "I'm sure once you get to know him you'll grow attached. The problem is, is that we haven't been able to even crack a bit of his prejudice against ghosts," Danny groaned.
Sidney sighed, "Maybe another day. He seems really adamant on his beliefs so we should just give it some time."
"Yeah," Danny mumbled before his eyes caught the sight of a green poster. "What's this?"
"Oh, that's just the upcoming Halloween party," Sidney informed as he packed his bag for the next period.
A grin spread itself on Danny's face as he looked at his new friend. Sidney gulped not liking the look on Danny's face.
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The plan was simple. Danny would go as himself to the party. Sneaking in would be no problem considering he was a ghost. The halfa would then have a long and civil chat with his to-be father and befriend him. Then when they are about to leave Danny reveals his identity and… WHAM… Jack would have his 'long lost brother' back.
"This is such a great idea," Danny said cheerily as he followed Sidney back to his home.
"I don't know…"
"Come on don't be such a downer. I'm sure the power of a nice friendly conversation will bring down any barrier"
"Let's look at a more immediate question then shall we? Where exactly do ghosts stay… or haunt, at night?"
Danny looked at Sidney and smiled. He appreciated the concern. Hardly many people saw him as a normal human being, not that he was, but he liked to think he had some needs.
"I'm going to haunt Amity for now. I won't be bothering you at night as well," Danny chuckled.
Sidney let a small smile grace his face. "Thanks… I mean it. What you did for me meant a lot. I've never had anyone stand up for me before."
Danny looked at the younger teenager with a bit of worry. "Well you've been worth every single bit of effort!"
Sidney didn't know how to explain the warm feeling in the pit of his stomach. He had a lot of insecurities but all of them seemed to melt away by the few words spoken by this charismatic ghost. Danny had taken him from a pit of despair he never thought he'd be pulled out from. He couldn't help but cry… this time it was a happy sort of crying.
Danny watched the younger teen and his heart sank. He may have gone through bullying himself but he had two amazing friends who went out of their way to make his world brighter. Sidney had no one up to this point. Every single word directed at him was laced with scorn and mockery. Danny couldn't imagine the amount of degradation the boy had gone through until now.
Danny hugged him. He wasn't much for hugs but he knew Sidney needed it. The younger teen only hugged back tighter. Sidney could feel the cool touch that chilled his body, not enough to cause discomfort, but just enough to make him feel fresher.
"I'll be haunting Amity Park for a while so you'll be seeing me a lot more. Anybody tries to bully you again and I'll be at their throats before you know it," Danny reassured as he waved his goodbye and left.
Sidney waved back with a small smile. Whether anyone knew it or not Phantom was his hero…
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Danny tried his best to get the anger out of all the injustice he just saw. He knew he felt frustrated because he saw what happened to Sidney but he hardly thought he'd be so angry. Injustice just so happened to make Danny turn into a mini Dan-Phantom…
"God those losers picked on him way too much! I'm going to punch them to their afterlives and then I'm going to punch their afterlives into oblivion!" Danny growled not knowing where to take his frustrations out. He never had this problem back in the future. All he had to do was wait five minutes for a ghost, and beat the un-living daylights out of Skulker or the Box-ghost.
"This is so god-damn annoying- hey is that fire?" Danny mumbled as his anger faded when he saw the burning building. His enhanced senses picked up on the thumping of a fading heart inside. Instantly rushing down, Danny pushed through the smoke and quickly held the un-identified body. He sped away from the vicinity as far as he could before he dropped the coughing body down on the soft grass.
"Wha- *cough* What's going *cough* on?" the now female girl wheezed as he let out the smoke she just inhaled.
Danny turned to the fire and ignored the girl for a second. He quickly used his ice powers on the building and watched as the ice slowly melted down by the heat. After a few minutes all that was left was a charred building and a pools of water here and there.
"Who are you?" the girl asked Phantom before he could turn around… when he did, he was in for a surprise.
"Ember?" he whispered in shock.
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"Ember?"
The currently frightened girl looked at the creature in front of her with a bit of gratitude and fear. She didn't know what to say or what to do.
"Who's Ember?" she asked confused although the name did resemble hers quite well.
"Uh… no one… never mind I need to go," the creature stuttered.
Amber watched as it went to fly away and she quickly grabbed its arm in reflex. She didn't know why but she felt like she should know this ghost. She felt like she could trust him and somehow she had a small irritating feeling that he was a goody-two-shoes. Despite all these mixed emotions she didn't want him to leave… in fact she was compelled to have him by her side.
Sobs racked through her body as reality hit her hard. She remembered why she was here in the first place. She was about to have her first date… he had dumped her and somehow the building managed to catch on fire. She could have died today. Her dreams would have been shattered if not even more than it already is.
Danny however was having a hard time figuring out what to do with the sobbing wreck in his arms. He knew this had to be Ember McLain, the hypnotising rock star ghost, but at the same time she wasn't. Memories of his first fight with him opened his eyes to her back story.
He had happened to cross by her on the day she had died. He ran into Vlad the moment he reached the past. He had met Harriet Chin out of nowhere. He had somehow managed to stop people from bullying Point Dexter.
All of these sudden encounters were starting to look like something more than coincidence…
"H-he left me," Amber sobbed.
Danny rubbed her back soothingly and tried to calm her down. He'd never had to deal with a broken-hearted girl in his life and he didn't think he would ever have… until now.
"Who left you?" Danny asked.
"Trevor," she cried like that answered everything.
"Well then Trever has missed out on something amazing. Leaving you in the middle of a date is just cheap. If anything you should be feeling sorry for him," Danny said trying to comfort Ember.
Amber didn't care if this stranger somehow knew she was meant to have a date. All she cared about was that there was someone here for her right now. It didn't help that she had no one else to run to in her life currently. After a few solid minutes of letting it out she pulled away, wiped her tears, and gave a sad smile to the snowy haired stranger.
"Thanks, I needed that," she sniffed.
"No problem. My name is Danny Phantom, what's yours?"
"Amber… Amber McLain"
Danny grinned. Whatever fate was pulling these strings he sure was going to make his un-life interesting.
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I'm sorry to leave it when things get interesting but it's a fun way to end. All the other authors do it to me so I've ended taking it up as well… *Laughs evilly* And I'm also sorry for the short chapters. I don't know if people like it that way. Shorter chapter with faster up-dates or longer chapters with slower updates. Just message me if you prefer on to the other. As always majority wins.
It has come to my attention that you prefer to have a Danny x Ember/Amber ship. It'd be kind of ironic though if Danny fell for Sam's mother… also kind of weird. Anyway I decided to add Ember into the mix for you guys cause I love you 3 XD… Anyway.
This story's coming together pretty well. The enemies won't be a major problem until later on in the story so for now enjoy the character interactions and relationship build-ups. So thanks for reading and please review my work so I know where to go and what to change.
Ciao
