Danny and Vlad were lead outside and around a small volcano, sculpted into a large pot, it seemed to be calm, but active. Ghosts and humans alike gathered here, children played with each other happily and people did their hobbies such as knitting or wire work but there seemed to be no real separation of gender. There were men who had breasts and women who didn't (but some seemed to pack a little more between their legs). Womanly people would knit or crochet, but there were others who seemed to be blacksmiths or butchers. Men would do the same jobs, not always better, or even worse. Vlad sighed, it seemed that this was a perfect community... minus the imprisonment.

"This place is beautiful..." he said vaguely. "I almost want to stay..."

Danny squeezed his hand and pouted, "I wanna go home Vlad, please don't say that..."

"I know, little badger, I am sorry." the group quietened and the children sat upon their parents laps, who in turn fussed about their child's dirty feet.

"HELLO MY FRIENDS." the elder yelled, his voice loud for all to hear. "TONIGHT, WE CELEBRATE THE COMING OF THE GODS!" cheering arose from the crowd. "TONIGHT, IS ALSO THE CONTINUATION OF ENERGY." he waved his hand to a large ghost next to him next to him, "OUR OLDEST BROTHERS SHALL PARTICIPATE IN TONIGHT'S ENTERTAINMENT. MAKE MERRY MY FRIENDS FOR TONIGHT WE FEAST FOR OUR BROTHERS." a roar of cheering resounded through the area. "NOW TO PREFORM, MYSELF AND OUR FELLOW HERE, WILL PREFORM THE AGE OLD RITUAL TO RENEW THE ENERGY IN OUR FINE CITY."

Danny and Vlad waited anxiously and watched the ghost overshadow the old man. They did a very tribal style of dance around the fire, before the old man and the ghost jumped into the volcano, and quickly burned into the lava as Danny screamed in horror.

Vlad stared in shock, the suddenness of the act catching him off guard. He held Danny tighter, closer to him. A ghost's body can't disappear, not unless it's overshadowing a human... So poor Daniel just watched two men die in a fire, for their sake.

Then there was a loud knock, as if someone hit the bubble that protected the city. Everyone's cheering went silent, the crowd stunned in fear. Another knock, Children were drawn closer. There were more knocks, one about every 10 minutes, then 20, then soon they seemed to disappear. Vlad took Danny off to the side and kissed his forehead. "Daniel, we're going to get out of here, I promise you."

An old man tapped Vlad's shoulder."My Lords, I am the new leader of Atlantis, and I have been told to show you to the ancient treasures of Atlantis. If you will please come with me." He waved them to the largest building in the city, not too far from the festivities. They reluctantly followed.

"Here is where we keep the treasures found by our people before the separation of our people from the land." he opened the door and there was a lobby where a woman ghost sat, reading a large book. The man waved, and the ghost waved them in, opening the large ornate doors. Inside this room was the most gold and gems that either halfas had ever seem. There seemed to be more money in this treasure room than Vlad had ever earned, they were lead past that to a glass elevator. Setting in the elevator was a small boy who quickly asked the old man what floor he wanted, thought the halfas were too amazed by the brilliance of the treasure to listen. The group was soon ascending into the ceiling.

"This is Bartolomew, he attends the elevator here. His parents went missing while fishing, so we gave the boy a house and a job. he's a hardworking boy and we're all very proud of him." he patted the boy's shoulder and the boy grumbled.

"Father, I am Bart, please do not call me by my full name."

Danny and Vlad were the first out of the elevator when it opened. They all (sans Bart) stepped into the large room that was filled to the brim with books. And on display, there was a book, sealed behind glass and obviously well guarded.

"This, is our most precious treasure." the old man said as they approached the book. Upon closer inspection, Vlad notice that the 'book' held no pages. "These are the covers of the Rulebook of Halfas. The attempted chains on our Holy ones. Our Master wrought them from the Space wench's hands himself, destroying it completely, other than the covers, and one page. The page is lost, the covers here, but while we retrieved you, my lord Daniel, one of our friends stole the single page from walker's prison!" Danny stared at the words on the page, they seemed to move and squirm across the page. The man brought the two together and they all stared as the single page reattached to the cover. Blank pages sprouted from the inner spine of the cover and perfectly aligned themselves with the first.

"wow."

"Now, this damned rulebook can be properly disposed of..." Louder knocks resounded through the city, until there was a shatter of the dome. Laughter resounded through the city, and as it grew closer to the building that they were in, Danny snatched the book from the man before dragging Vlad to the elevator and smashing the button to close the door, leaving behind their guide to fall through the crumbling floor.

"Bart, take us to the floor level." The boy pressed the button with wide eyes before cowering in the corner.

"Daniel! What is going on?"

"That... That sounded like Dan... I panicked and grabbed the book..."

"Well do you have a plan?!"

"No, I panicked ok?! And if that really is Dan, then we need to run, and not stop." Danny curled up in the corner opposite of the boy.

"Who is this 'Dan'? Did he hurt you?"

"Yes but-" the elevator door opened and the three ran out into the lobby, careful to avoid falling rubble.

Outside seemed to be a massacre. bodies were strewn about, dead, or just laying down in fear of the events.

"Danny!" the trio turned to see Clockwork, riding in a chariot of purple ectoplasm. he held his scythe in an angered stance, motioning for them to get on the chariot with him. Bart quickly crawled on with them, clinging to Danny's legs. "Clockwork, whats going on?!"

"Your friends told us about the kidnapping! Not to mention Dan returning to the tower-"

"You let him out?"

"Who the fuck is Dan?!" the other two ectoplastmic beings shared a look of shock at Vlad's use of words.

"Uh, me, but older. And more evil? And again I ask, YOU LET HIM OUT?"

"He had something like a shock collar on. But anyway he told us that he made a deal with the late leader of this civilization to steal the page. The only reason he's helping us is because he was cheated out of his reward. And he's been stabilizing as well, he's not as crazed as he was before."

"Makes me feel so much safer."

"it should, but this little spree might earn him some time-out in the thermos." Clockwork rode off after nodding to Dan.

Naru:Review time!

The Weird One: haha sweet, honestly I love this ship, this has to be one of my first ships before i even knew what it was. It's nice to share how I view it.

Taco234: you seem excited. Sorry that it wasn't much :/

MeMeLaLa: because trickster karkat. :T

Winter's Twilight: I realize the mistake I made with the ghost proof flora. (honestly I just prefer to use it as a secondary name for them. Everyone knows what I was referring to so why not?) I'm glad you noticed though. And it looks like I won't be doing the little scripting here. I just picture Sam on that level of odd stress where they don't show it, and the call was kind of her breaking point, but yeah it was kinda funny. Jazz is pretty understanding, I kinda project myself onto her, just in the trying to understand what the hell is going on around me aspect. Vlad is so protective at this point, that people will be beaten to a pulp before raising a hand to them, and besides, Danny's normally in control of a situation, so Vlad doesn't always need to know. They're both extremely strong, and Danny's technically speaking, king of the Ghost Zone. I literally had to create a new enemy to justify creating a challenge for them. Danny's hair is fine though, it's a short cut but plenty of girls wear guy's hairstyles, heck I usually have something like that (but recently I've been growing my hair out for locks of love so it's like a lion's mane). Tucker and Sam are kinda used to the stuff Danny's had to go through, and he has been in woman's clothes before, it's more shocking to see Sam in pink. Danielle is busy traveling and might come for a few visits. I'm sure she'll flip out over every little thing. Dash just seems like a no-homo asshole, so i interpreted him that way. and no, no crushes on Danny. Most people at his school seem to be scared of radiation poisoning or some science thing gone wrong, and wouldn't want to really touch him for that reason.

Guest: this is supposed to be an AU of beginning to end, how they got together NOT A CRACK SHIP I hate when people do that. That's the reason I don't always read other's AUs. Stories are exact relays of chance encounters in a universe other than our own, anything can happen. But when you take someone's work, you change the character, or the story. thats my rule. I prefer to change the story. Some people can change both and make it extrodinary, but they usually end up publishing stuff like harry potter or eragon. and let's face it, literature is just fanfiction of old stories nowadays. Thanks for your praise, it made my day and I just wanted to put that there. :/)

redsnivy: all of the homo, more homo here though - /works/3745348/chapters/8308483