Wrong Turns Ch 7

Danny had walked home after he had recovered from the blast; he thought about the words that his father had said. He knew that his father would sometimes state the true facts instead of hiding the truth, and he was glad that his father accidentally spilled the beans and Maddie had tried to cover up what he said with an attack. It was a common thing that they would both do a lot, and not just to him but to many other ghosts that they have failed to catch.

They were trying to figure out Danny's transformation power and what it does. Danny knew that only he and Vlad were able to do that because they were ghost hybrids that Jack had created as an accident and still does not know what he has created to this day. Danny knew well and clearly that doing that in front of his parents would be an instant busted act of his secret identity. He would want Vlad to do that, but Vlad knew his secret identity and he would expose it if his own identity was exposed.

"How do I stop them from watching over me?"

He could only think of one possible solution, and that was to tell his parents who he really was. But he grew doubtful of that solution as he thought of the aftermath of that situation. Danny didn't know what to do. He decided to call Sam for an answer as soon as he got home and was in his room alone.

As he walked into the house, he saw Jazz reading a book on the living room couch, and surprisingly it was about ghosts. Danny had known Jazz to not take interest in ghosts but it seemed like the interest had taken hold of her as well. But this didn't bother Danny right now, it was just something he saw as he walked up the stairs towards his room.

Little did Danny know was that Jazz knew about his secret, and she was trying to find a good time to tell him but she wasn't finding the right time. But until that day would come, she would help him secretly. Jazz accepted this part of him because he was doing the right thing, she just didn't know how Danny would take it once he knew that she knew all along.

Danny closed the door of his room from the inside and then sat on the bed comfortably before getting his cell phone out to call one of his best friends. He dialled Sam's number and waited for her to answer, it took a few rings but eventually Sam answered.

"Danny, are you okay? Usually when you call me something's up." Sam stated while clearly remembering the other times Danny had rang her.

"Yeah, something is up. I need your help trying to figure out a way for my parents to stop watching over me."

Sam was a little unsure because Danny hadn't given her enough information. She wasn't sure whether she was talking about his ghost half or his human half.

"Can you clarify which half your parents are watching over? Sorry, but your parents watch you a lot in both ghost and human form." Sam asked.

"They've been watching over me as Danny Phantom, if that's the answer you're looking for." Danny answered.

Sam nodded, knowing very well that Danny wouldn't catch on to that nod through the phone, she replied with a simple okay and began to think about what Danny could do about his situation. Sam was glad that she came to him for help, but why not his sister? But then Sam assumed it was to keep his ghost half a secret.

"Well, obviously you don't want to tell them. So why don't you just don't do as much ghost fighting around them?" Sam suggested while looking out the window to see clouds covering some of the sun and casting shadows over the ground.

Danny covered half of his face with his hand, he closed his eyes in thought. But then moaned as he realised that he already was doing that.

"But I do that already, what else am I supposed to do? Wait for the right moment?" He asked Sam in a more angry tone.

Sam thought about this, it was a good idea. The problem was that they both didn't know when that would happen. And that was the main problem.

"You could do that, but when would be a good time? Your parents are so clueless anyway." Sam pointed out stating the obvious about Danny's parents.

Danny was then stuck, he felt mentally stuck because he didn't know what to do. He began to think about the times in which he doubted his powers. And that was several months ago. There were millions of thoughts buzzing through his mind all at once, he wanted to think about each and every one of them but he knew how long that would take. So he said goodbye to Sam as to indicate that he was going to hang up the phone and then hung up to lay down on the bed more comfortably than he did before.

Before he could think straight, his body relaxed completely and he fell asleep. At first, all that Danny could see was black, but then he could see the ghost zone. The green swirls that seemed to go on forever, and the purple doors floating in the air was what a majority of the ghost zone was about. Danny was flying around when he noticed that something was off. The ghost zone didn't feel right.

"Hello?" He called out waiting for a reply.

There was no response; Danny didn't know whether he should be glad or worried about getting no reply in the ghost zone.

It seemed that the ghost zone was empty. There wasn't a ghost in sight, and Danny's ghost sense hadn't gone off. This was strange to Danny, usually there would be several ghosts trying to capture him right about now.

"What's going on?"

Then, he thought that this was a trap, after all most dreams he had were nightmares. And somehow he knew that he was dreaming, but it all felt so real to him that he was tricked into thinking that everything happening around him was real.

He shrugged and then went back home, it took him a minute or so before he approached the Fenton portal. He looked up and gasped as he saw the state of the portal. It was horrible. The portal was opened and damaged so badly that it kept on disappearing and reappearing, Danny was now extremely worried about what was going on.

"Okay, now I need to really know what's going on here."

He went through the portal right at the time in which the portal didn't disappear, and when he saw the lab, he gasped again in horror of how it looked.

There was nothing, nothing but mess that was. Everything had been destroyed; Danny flew over to what was left and saw that almost all of his parents' inventions were destroyed. This made him think about the whereabouts of his family. He quickly flew upstairs and called out for his parents and his sister, but no response. He even flew to all of the rooms, even in the op centre which sat on the flat roof of the house.

There was no one, and then he ghost sense started going off like crazy. He felt like he was losing a lot of cold breath from his mouth. He looked outside and saw how dark it was. There were darkened skies and the streets were lifeless. There was no one around, except for ghosts that is.

There were ghosts everywhere, and Danny didn't know where his family was. He couldn't hear the common word his parents would say, but what was worse was that he couldn't see anyone fighting the ghosts, not even his friends. This made him immediately think of Sam, so he dashed to her house and saw that her house was severely damaged. He felt very upset and angered by this, the next ghost he saw he would instantly destroy. And the ghost that he saw next he actually wouldn't destroy because of one reason.

"Sam!"

"Danny! Help!" Sam cried.

Danny screamed as he saw a fearsome ghost throw Sam into the ground. It was too much for Danny; he screamed again and then woke up almost crying in fear. He looked around and saw that he was in his bed and human. He sighed in relief then got up from his bed and then looked at the time.

"It's nearly 8? I haven't even eaten yet! And I'll be late for the portal!" He cried before he ran out the room towards the kitchen.

He almost tripped as he ran down the stairs, Jazz saw him come down in a panic and felt concerned. Jazz instantly took this as a ghost attack, but then saw the tired look on his face. So she got up from the lounge and went upstairs to talk to her friend over the phone there.

Danny went into the kitchen to see the table cleared already and dishes in the sink, he could hear some commotion downstairs, but his stomach growled for food. So he checked the refrigerator and sure enough there was a plate of dinner sitting on the bottom shelf. He heated it up in the microwave and later ate it.

Afterwards he went downstairs to see his parents studying the portal very carefully. Danny assumed that they were still working on that power that they saw Danny do in his ghost form. He was starting to get annoyed by this, and it had only been a day since his parents knew about it, probably even less.

"Mum, Dad, can you give it a rest?" Danny asked sounding annoyed as he entered the underground lab.

Jack chuckled in disbelief. "Oh Danny, you know your mother and I can't stop doing what we're doing."

"That's right Danny, what if we asked you to stop doing what you loved to do?" Maddie asked thinking that her son had a side hobby that he loved.

"Uh, actually I'd be pretty surprised." He stated sounding a little surprised because he was thinking about a situation in which his parents would tell him to stop fighting ghosts.

Before Danny could say anything else, a wisp of cool air escaped his mouth. He almost jumped in fear of his dream coming true but thankfully, he only had one wisp escape before the ghost appeared. The ghost that appeared was a difficult ghost to battle. And Danny was actually surprised to see his arch enemy here once again.

Jack and Maddie gasped before they quickly prepared their weapons and started to fire at Vlad's ghostly half.

"Oh man, what are you doing here?!" He whispered to Vlad and had assumed that he didn't hear as he ran upstairs quickly and transformed into his ghostly alter ego.

Afterwards, he flew back downstairs and started firing ecto blasts at Vlad.

"What are you doing here this time Plasmius?" He asked in an angered tone before throwing another ecto blast at him.

"Oh please, I'm just here for a little fight." Vlad replied in a polite but yet devious way.

Before Danny could realise what he was doing, he was being shot at by his two parents almost simultaneously. He used his ecto shield to prevent getting hurt, but at the same time Vlad was busy looking around the lab for something. Danny had to react quickly, he needed to stop Vlad from doing what he was plotting but at the same time he wanted to make sure that he wouldn't hurt his parents or get hurt himself.

It was hard to do all of this at once, so he had to allow for his parents to give him some damage but not too much as to make sure that he wouldn't transform back to his human half.