Danny Phantom Fan Fiction ❯ Any Other Way ❯ Chapter 2

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Danny zoomed in fast, his colorless hair glowing with his body in a brilliant blue-white. He stopped just short of the group, his eyes flashing green in warning. The group turned, smirks in place, but upon seeing the enraged half-ling they began to run. With screams of fright and pain they were vanquished, their forms gone for eternity as Danny released attack after attack on the ghosts of Ghost Zone. There were onlookers who had been pulled from their hiding places by the defining screams of their ghost partners, but they would not make a move to help them this time. They knew that what they had done was wrong. They would not listen when told that the Phantom would not like what they had conspired for weeks to do the the female. Instead they blew them off and continued their plotting and planning saying the half-ling could do nothing. He was nothing. Now they were dying, literally. Danny turned them to ice, vaporized them as his claps echoed in the abyss. Sam didn't stir, her form so still that most would think her dead, but Danny paid no heed at this moment. All he cared about was avenging her, killing her attackers. This would never happen again. Soon the only ghoul left to exterminate was Vlad. The once powerful ghost cowered at the energy coming from his enemy.

"Daniel, son," the male stuttered, his eyes pleading with the young adult.

"Shut up, Vlad," the green eyed ghost boy said, his voice cutting like ice, dry ice that froze Vlad on the spot and cracked his confidence that the boy would do nothing to him. Now he knew. Danny was pissed. He had done something that had touched a part of Danny that no one had ever seen and unleashed, and made the boy the most dangerous ghost and human to be around.

"She i-" Vlad was cut off as Danny's right fist made contact with his abdominal sending the older ghost several feet away. Danny flew after him, his speed thousands of times faster than the other ghost. When Vlad finally landed Danny stood over him, his ghost power freezing the ground below him and Vlad as well. As the older ghost tried to stand up Danny blasted him with a thick sheen of ice, freezing the ghost to the ground. As Vlad watched, unable to move in the ice Danny leaned forward, such anger in his eyes that Vlad had never thought he would see within the kindest of humans. He always thought the half-ling to weak, nothing like his power, but now he could see that this boy had been hiding his power, his potential. He should have gotten rid of him, but his pride had over won his intellect and he had chosen to harm the one closest to the half-ling.

"You," Danny hissed, his breath coming out in cold wisps, "will die now, your presence gone from my world and that of the Ghost Zone. All of you will never be able to come back in any form. You will never hunt my family again and Sam," at this his eyes grew harsh and yet soft at the same time. "She will heal from this. I will make sure that she grows to realize that you could never taint her if it takes my very last breath." At those last words Danny put his hand on the ice, his hands glowing a faint, yet bright green as he concentrated all his power on the ice incased male. "May your afterlife never cease being Hell," he whispered as he shot a ball of energy from his hands, the ball engulfing the ice form causing it to begin to smoke, Vlad watching as it began to eat through the ice, yet never melting it. As the energy hit him he began to feel a burning on his ghostly form. With a silent scream he began to disappear. Before he had gone Danny had left his side and was back to where Sam still lay. As Danny grew closer he realized that she was different. She was see through. She was a ghost! "Sam," he called as he rushed to her side, his power dimming as he grabbed the form of friend, her limp body cool to the touch. Was she dead? Was he too late? Just then light engulfed his form and the sound of a horn filled the air. He took off the top of his black uniform and pulled it over her naked form. No one, but him needed to see that. He turned to see the Specter Speeder behind him, the forms of Jazz and Tucker behind the glass. "I need help," he called out to them. As he stood up, Sam's limp from held tight to him he felt her stir, but she didn't open her eyes. He headed for the Specter Speeder as Jazz opened the door and let him while Tucker took the giant sub/spaceship off park and began backing out of the Ghost Zone as Jazz closed the door locking them in the large contraption. Danny still held Sam in his arms, his eyes looking over her new form when he noticed the metallic necklace around her neck. As he reached to tug it off the necklace tightened. "What the hell?" he growled as he releases the mechanical jewelry. Soon Tucker had them back in the Fenton's lab, the Speeder parked, and the group heading for Danny's room. Thank God that their parents were gone on another Ghost Convention.

"What happened?" Jazz and Tucker inquired at the same time.

"Why do you have blood on you?" Jazz asked as she moved to the left of Danny, her teal eyes taking in the other form of her younger brother. He looked over at her and then at himself.

"Killed ghosts," he said with a shrug as if it wasn't a big deal. She looked at Tucker who shrugged. He had never seen Danny kill anyone, but it had to be for a good reason and as he looked down at Sam he could definitely say that it was for a very good reason.

"Seems like that device is what is turning her to ghost form," Tucker noted. "He knew that if Sam was in the Ghost Zone that he could not hold onto in her human form and would need her in his form to lay a hand on her." At this point Sam opened her now neon violet eyes to the people around her.

"Sam," Danny breathed, relief now coursing through his body. At least she was awake.

"D-Danny?" she whispered in confusion before gasping in shock and pushing him away, her eyes wide in fear as she looked around her before looking down at her semi-naked form. "What the hell-l?" she gasped out as she pulled his black top down further though it came down to her mid thighs. "How did I get here? I thought I died!" Danny looked at his sister and his friend before looking back at the frightened Goth. Sam was never afraid.

"You aren't dead, Sam, we saved you," Danny stated as he moved closer to her, Jazz nodded as she and Tucker stayed still. "What happened?" She stared at him and then he saw it. Her neon eyes held so much pain, betrayal and something else. It was something he had seen in her eyes often, but just couldn't name and then all of it was gone, that unknown emotion anyway.

"You are wrong, Danny," she whispered, her voice broken and harsh with anger. "I am dead and you killed me!" With that last word she was up and running out of the room and down the stairs leaving three very confused group behind.

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Sam ran down the streets, people gawking at the ghost girl in horror. She closed her eyes and forced herself onward, her mind clouded and unsure. What had happened? She remembered walking home and then she remembered waking up in the Ghost Zone. She remembered talking, well, not really talking, but yelling at several ghosts, Vlad in particular. There had been a lot of male ghosts around her and then she remembered why she blamed it on Danny. He had been talking to a possessed Paulina while she was about to be raped!

"Danny, you bastard," she muttered. She knew that he had liked Paulina, before that it had been Valerie. Never her! He never would like her and now that was certain! She was tainted goods, wasn't she? She remembered blacking out after seeing Danny and at the same time having her clothes ripped off. He had left her there to rot. He was so involved with the ice queen that he had failed to notice that she was in dire straits. "Never again," she promised herself as she ran into her house and past her shocked parents into her room.

"Samantha?" her mother called through her door while her father knocked. This was going to be a long day. "Dear? Are you okay?"

"No," she whispered. Her parents entered the room and she didn't have to look at them to know that they were shocked and a little afraid. "I know what you are thinking and no, it's not his fault," she said as she turned to her parents. "But I don't want him or Tucker in this house." Her mother came and sat next to her only daughter.

"What happened?" she inquired. Sam shook her head, her long black locks shifting around her.

"I am a ghost, but I am not dead," she stated. Pointing to the necklace she continued, "This has made me a ghost. This is the work of a ghost that is after Danny's mom. Thought they could use me for bait, but they can't hold onto a human in the Ghost Zone so they made me a ghost and now this won't come off so I can be myself, not that I will anymore." Her parents looked at each other over their daughter's head.

"We can help," her father stated. With that her father was gone, his cell on his ear as he commanded the person on the other end to get all the items needed to help his daughter. Sam looked up at her mother. This was the first time that they had actually sat in a room without them arguing.

"You know we love you no matter how different you are. You will always be our daughter." Sam smiled, her smile sad, yet filled with hope for her future. With a hug of love her mother and father left their daughter to her own devices as they scrambled to fix what had been done to their daughter.

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The next week Danny went to school alone, Sam having been gone for seven days. She refused to answer her phone, though she never changed numbers, and she never called them. Tucker was sure that she would return to them eventually, but until then they had to wait for her to come back. Danny's world had changed because she was his world, but he still couldn't figure out what she had meant about him killing her.