Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom.
Summery: After a year from when Danny and Sam beat undergrowth the couple have become a great ghost fighting pair, but that has also made them both a greatly wanted target for their enemies. After Sam strangely disappears can Danny save her in time, or will he lose her all over again.
Authors note: A sequel to The Phantom's Dragon so you going to want to read that first so you're not confused. DxS of course. Also, Sam's parents still do not really fit how the show had described them, but it just makes the story flow better.
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The Phantom's Dragon: The Phantom vs. the Dragon
By,
Ninee (Roaramon)
A large bellow shook the streets of Amity Park and flew though the autumn night air. The producer of the screech was a large eel shaped ghost that had a bus full of citizens trapped inside its slimy coils above the city. "Back off or I'll squeeze the life from this bus!" the eel yelled angrily.
"Hey settle down." Danny Phantom hovered in front of the eel. "I won't hurt you." He said opening his hand so that the ghost could see that he meet no harm. Danny watched warily seeing the slimy ghost serpent loosen his hold on the bus. "But she will." Danny smiled looked passed the eel. Just as the serpent turned he was stuck with a ball of fire. The blast caused him to drop the bus from his loose grip. Danny flew quickly and caught bus before it could crash into the ground. As soon as the tires hit the ground the bus sped off. "Now to take care of slimy." Danny said as he watched the bus disappear down the road. He took off towards the eel and saw another fireball hitting its mark on the serpent. "Perfect timing Sammy." He said flying towards the small dragon.
"I can't let you have all the fun." Sam growled flying up next to Danny.
"Two against one isn't far." The eel growled as he regained himself seeing the ghost boy hovering next to the dark colored dragon. "How about I change those odds." He growled as he split into four.
"Oh now that's far." Danny commented.
The four eel ghosts snickered to themselves. "How's this for fair." The ghost's roared as they each fired a ball of ecto slime from their mouths. They hit their mark and both Sam and Danny were covered with the goo.
"Yuck, that's just gross." Danny moaned shaking his arms seeing the slime sticking to him.
"Just use the Thermos." Sam growled shaking her head trying to rid herself of the goo.
Danny managed to reach to his belt and grabbed the slime covered Fenton Thermos. "Back to the ghost zone with you." Danny said activating the Thermos. The eel was forced to pull back together as he was sucked into the ghost containment devise.
"Hold it right there ghost kid!" Jack Fenton's voice boomed over them.
"The cavalry has arrived." Sam snickered as she looked down seeing Danny's parents jumping out of the Fenton RV a few yards below them.
"You and your over grown lizard are going down!" Jack yelled pulling a weapon from the back of the RV.
"That's our cue." Danny sighed as they started to flee towards the park and away from his equipped parents. Once in the cover of the park's trees they landed and quickly transformed back to their human selves. "It's every where." He moaned looking over his slimed covered self. "Dam it." Danny cursed throwing a hand full of slime at the ground.
Sam looked at him startled at his reaction. "Danny what's the big deal? It's just a little ecto slime it will come off. Just go intangible and it will fall off, just like water." Sam said not quite understanding why he was upset.
Danny sighed and quickly turned himself intangible allowing the slug to fall off of him. "It's not the mess." He started taking Sam's hand and making her intangible allowing the slime to fall away from her.
"Then what's the matter?" Sam asked looking at him questionable.
"It's just…" Danny started taking a set on a near by bench. "It's just that's another date ruined. Every time we try to have a nice quite night out we always end up fighting a ghost." Danny watched as Sam took a seat next to him on the bench. "I just want one night with no ghost interruptions. One night with out getting hurt, beat, burned, or slimed." Danny sighed as he finished his rant letting his head fall into his hands.
"Danny it's not that big of a deal," Sam started but was cut off.
"Yes it is Sammy." Danny started looking at her. "I just want to spend one night with you with out the fighting." Danny yelled, but stopped realizing that it was not Sam's fault. "I love you." Danny sighed locking his eyes with hers.
"I love you too Danny, and look we're were together now." Sam said scooting closer to him.
Danny sighed softly and lifted his arm so that he could hold her as she slid close to him. "Yeah I guess your right." He said softly enjoying her warm body beside him.
Sam smiled sensing him settling down. "So we didn't make it to the movies, we still get to be with each other." Sam said reaching up placing a kiss in the nook of his neck.
Danny blushed slightly at her tenderness and pulled her closer as she rested her head on his chest. "Yeah, and we do have a great view." He said gently looking up at the clear night sky. "Since when are you so positive." He snickered softly looking down at her.
Sam snaked her arms around and hugged him softly. "I don't know, since you made me so happy." She said simply.
Danny sighed blissfully hugging her back. "I love you Sammy." He said as he placed a kiss on her forehead.
"I love you Danny." Sam responded sitting up, catching his lips and pulling him into a more passionate kiss. Danny responded by pulling her against him with one arm, and the other cradled the back of her head, deepening their kiss. Suddenly a small beeping sound began to originate from Sam's side. "Darn it." Sam moaned regrettably pulling herself away from Danny's warm embrace. She looked down at her watch, seeing the alarm going off.
"It's that time already isn't it?" Danny asked sorrowfully as Sam sat up turning off her alarm.
"Yeah, it's almost Midnight. Sorry." Sam said softly standing up.
"I don't get it." Danny said standing up, taking her hand as they began to walk out of the park towards Sam's home. "We're in collage now, how come you still have a curfew?" Danny asked, but he already new the answer.
"You know my parents Danny, they don't trust you or me, and as they say 'as long and your living her you'll follow our rules'." Sam started mocking her parents.
"Why don't you just move out?" Danny asked, again knowing that answer too.
"You know I can't afford to. Their rich, not me, they agreed to pay for collage and that's it." Sam said starting to get annoyed at his questions as they came up to her house.
Danny stopped at the bottom of the steps, pulling Sam back to face him and cupped her face with his hands forcing her to look at him. "So, move in with me." Danny said begging with his eyes.
"That wouldn't be far to your parents or Tucker." Sam said softly. "I really don't think your parents would like to pay for someone else to live at the apartment that there already splitting with Tucker's parents. Not to mention it's only a two bedroom apartment." Sam finished.
"So we can always get another bed, and, you know Tucker wouldn't mind. Besides my parents love you, and you being there wouldn't cost them more money." Danny smiled as Sam rolled her eyes at him.
"We've had this argument before, just give it up." Sam said turning away from him and began to walk up the stairs to the door. "Night Danny" she said reaching for the door handle.
"Hey." Danny said jumping up the stairs next to her. "I didn't get my goodnight kiss." He whimpered stepping in front of her.
Sam smiled at his silliness as he pouted his lip making himself look pitiful. "You're like a lost puppy." Sam smiled at his expression.
"Yeah but you love it." Danny smiled pulling her close placing a soft kiss on her lips. "Night Sammy." Danny whispered as he pulled away slowly.
"Night Danny." Sam sighed reaching up and stealing another quick kiss. "Love you." She said softly as they stepped apart.
"Love you." Danny said stepping down a few stairs so she could open the door. "See you tomorrow." Danny said waving as he watched her step inside.
"Yeah, goodnight." Sam smiled as she watched him duck down a nearby alleyway. After a familiar flash of light she watched his ghost silhouette soar towards his apartment.
Sam sighed happily as she shut and locked the door. "You two were out late." Her fathers voice shuck up on her from the hallway making Sam's stomach jump.
"I'm on time." Sam responded defiantly not showing that he caught her off guard.
"And your still seeing 'him'." Her father questioned almost harshly.
"Of course." Sam said getting annoyed at her father. "Why is there something wrong?" Sam asked starting to feel her anger rising.
"He's not meant for you." Mr. Manson said simply.
"And why not?" Sam asked starting to argue with her father.
Mr. Mason looked at his daughter like she was crazy. "Why not, look at him. He's the son of a family of idiotic, unsophisticated ghost hunters. He's not up to our standers." He started to yell at her.
"Well your standers are not the same as mine. All you look at how much money his family has, where his family has come from. You haven't even tried to get to know him. I've known him since the second grade and never once did you try to talk to him or get to know him or his family, you have no right to judge him or his family." Sam started to yell back defending Danny.
"Well you are right about one thing, our standers are not them same, clearly you'll lower your self for anyone." Mr. Manson yelled harshly.
Sam's breath was caught at her father's statement. "I don't have to listen to this." Sam said with a ragged breath turning away from her father and started to walk towards the stairs for her room.
Mr. Manson took a deep breath to settle himself as he watched her walk away. "You have a date tomorrow at six." He said knowing that would stop her.
"What do you mean?" Sam asked stopping half way up the stairs.
"Your mother and I have decided it's time you started dating people in your social class. A Mr. Andreas will be here tomorrow to meet you. We do a lot of business with his father." He responded coolly.
"Sorry you'll have to cancel, I already have a date with Danny." Sam said calmly turning away from her father and continued up the stairs.
"Just remember you live in my house and you will obey my rules." He called up to her, but only a slammed door responded.
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Sam threw herself at her bed and pulled her pillow to her face as she yelled into it. She was getting very tired of her parents always talking badly about Danny and his family. And now they were starting to talk badly about her. "Why can't they just accept me for who I am?" Sam asked herself pulling the pillow away from her face. Now that her anger was leaving she was beginning to feel drowsy. Not bothering to change she pulled the covers over herself and looked towards her nightstand. She opened the drawer pulling out a picture frame. She smiled at the image that she kept hidden from her parents. It was a photo of her, Danny, and Tucker at the park after they had battled Undergrowth. They were sitting on a park bench; Danny had his arm wrapped around Sam while Tucker was leaning behind the bench snickering at the new couple. Sam then opened the back of the frame, exposing another picture hidden behind it. It was one of her in her dragon form and Danny in ghost form and Tucker. She stood looking forward all fours with her shoulders arched back and her lips pulled back into a snarl. Danny was perched on top of Sam's shoulder, building up ecto-blast in both hands. Tucker stood beside them holding the Jack o' Nine Tails whip and a Thermos. Jazz had captured the picture right before they jumped into a ghost battle. A lot had changed since she had exposed her secret. Danny loved having her help when battling ghost and it also gave him some one strong to spar with making him stronger. He was now noticeable taller than she was and he had developed strong, but yet not bulky muscular frame.
She had also grown stronger as well. She had not only learned to perfect her fire throwing but also mastered her energy blasts and sonic fire blasts. She had also gained the ability to run a blade of energy along her axe like tail making it a more destructive weapon. Her physical appearance had changed somewhat as well. She no longer wore a skirt and replaced them with black jeans. She still had the same customarily boots and t-shirt, but she now had her hair half pulled back in a lose ponytail keeping her hair out of her face. Sam sighed softly and closed back the frame back up and looked back at their human forms. As she looked at the picture she began to relax and soon drifted off to sleep.
A few hours later Sam awoke to a loud roar shaking though the house. "What now." Sam moaned jumping up from her bed. She ran over to her window and saw the same eel ghost slithering though the streets with Danny following closely behind. "Now how did he get out?" Sam though to herself as she ran out her bed room door and made her way up to the roof. Once outside she wasted no time in transforming into her cursed dragon half and took off after the slimy serpent.
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"What was that?" Mrs. Manson yelled jumping up out of bed hearing the ghostly roar.
"It came from outside." Her husband yelled looking out the window but saw nothing. "Come on." He yelled taking his wife's hand and opened the bedroom door. As they stepped out into the hallway they saw Sam's bedroom door slightly open. "That's weird, she always keeps that door shut." He said walking towards the bedroom.
As they opened the door they immediately noticed the empty room. "Where is she?" Mrs. Manson asked getting concerned.
Suddenly the house shook again with another loud roar. They ran over to the window seeing Danny Phantom in battle with a ghost eel. "Dam ghosts. Come on, we'll check the surveillance cameras and find out what's going on." Mr. Manson said as they left the room and headed down stairs to their new, privet video room. Once in side he turned on all the cameras but didn't see Sam in any of the rooms. "Where is that girl?" He groaned.
"Look." Mrs. Manson said in alarm pointing to a camera on the roof seeing Sam's shadowy figures moving. "What is she doing out there?" she asked with frustration in her voice. Suddenly Sam's body began to glow. "What's going on?" she almost yelled as they watched their daughter's human body be replaced with a dragon one. "What happened to her?"
Mr. Manson starred in awe at the screen not sure whether to believe his eyes or not. "She's the ghosts boy's dragon." He uttered not sure if he could believe himself.
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"Get back here." Danny yelled grabbing the ghost eel's tail but was unable to hold on to it. The eel growled happily and turned and fired ecto-goo at him. Danny immediately stopped and made himself intangible as the goo flew though him. The eel took advantage of his distraction and took off trying to get as far away from Danny as he could. Danny looked back seeing the tail of the ghost turning down another street. Just as he was about to catch up Sam flew in from below the snake, firing a ball of fire up at the underbelly of the serpent, stopping it in it's tracks.
"Your up late. Want some help?" Sam growled blocking the other side of the street so the eel would be block.
"Perfect timing as usual Sammy." Danny smiled. "It would be great if you had a Thermos too." He asked as the eel began to regain himself.
"Nope, what happened to yours?" Sam asked.
"I dropped it and our slimy friend escaped." Danny explained.
"Oh." Sam responded understanding.
Suddenly the serpent roared and fired a ball of ecto-goo towards Sam. Sam snarled in surprise and blocked the shot with her energies tail. "Hey, you want to throw slime, throw it at me." Danny yelled firing an ecto blast at the eel. The serpent roared in pain then suddenly a light consumed it and it was pulled away and disappeared.
"You guys are luck I keep and extra Thermos on hand for just such an occasion." Tucker's voice rose from the streets.
"Yeah, yeah, thanks Tuck." Danny thanked as they landed next to the third member of their team.
"Man it's late, what were you doing out this late anyway?" Tucker asked putting his Thermos away.
"Oh, we caught this guy earlier and I didn't have time to stop by my parents to dump it into the ghost zone, so I took it home. But I accidentally dropped it and it broke open and he escaped." Danny explained.
"You fought it earlier? Let me guess, another 'ghost battle date' I take it." Tucker asked.
Sam growled softly and nodded her head not bothering to talk knowing that Tucker couldn't understand her. "Just another movie missed. But we can talk about this later." Danny yawned. "It's late and we should be getting home." Sam nodded in agreement and started to lift off the ground. "Come on Tucker I'll give you a ride." Danny said as he extended his hand down to him.
"Alright, just not too fast, you know I hate flying." Tucker said taking his hand.
"I can always fly him home." Sam chuckled at Tucker.
Danny laughed in agreement at Sam's statement. "Yeah Sam can always take you home if you like." Danny laughed.
Tucker's face fell at her offer. "Hell no. I'll never do that again, she flies out of control. I don't know how you can stay with her." Tucker said as Danny pulled him up into the skies with him.
"Alright. Sorry Sam. Maybe next time." Danny laughed. "Good night." He said as they began to go there separate ways.
"Yeah night Sam." Tucker said waving to her.
Sam just let a soft growl out and waved goodbye and headed back to her rooftop. Once back in the shadows of her building she let out a small yawn, which came out as a quite growl and transformed back into her human self. "What a night." Sam yawned quietly to herself as she made her way back in to the house. She quietly made her way back to her room and immediately slipped back under her covers and quickly fell back into a peaceful sleeps.
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Light flickered through an open window and was starting to dance across Sam's face. Her eyes started to squint as the light force her to wake. "I thought I shut that darn window." Sam moaned quietly rolling over pulling the covers with her and burring her head under them.
"Get up." Sam's father's stern voice filled Sam's head bringing her back to the waking world.
"What?" Sam yawned pulling her head out for the covers. She looked at the clock and saw it was almost 8am. She had no reason to be up early, so why was her father telling her to get up.
"I said get up." He said again, his voice was getting stricter. Sam felt him grab the covers of the bed and pull them off her. "And get out."
"What? Why? What's going on?" Sam asked sitting up seeing her father and mother standing over her bed with an annoyed look on their faces.
"You tell us." Sam's mother said holding the remote for Sam's TV pushing the play button.
Sam's stomach dropped seeing that it was a surveillance shot of the top of the building. "No way." Sam whispered to herself as she watched. She could see an image of herself walking out on to the rooftop and then watched as she transformed into her dragon self and flew off. Sam's mother started to fast forward the tape then stopped a few minutes later showing Sam coming back and changing back into her human self. Sam stared at the screen not sure what to say. She didn't even know they had surveillance cameras.
"This is unacceptable." Her mother started breaking Sam from her trance.
"No daughter of ours is going to be associated with these ghost fights." Her father cut in.
"It's not something I can help." Sam started to explain.
"There's nothing you can do now Sam, so just shut your mouth." Her father said cruelly as he tossed a backpack at her. "You have five minutes to pack as much as you can and get out before I call the police."
"What? You're kicking me out because of that." Sam yelled pointing to the TV screen.
"No, we're disowning you for that." Her mother cut it. "We tried to work with your Goth stage, and we've tried to get you go get a descent boyfriend, but this we can not deal with." She said standing by her husband.
"The locks are being changed now." Her father started. "So don't bother trying to come back. Your almost 20 we have all legal rights to remove you from the family, and that's what we're doing. Five minutes, then I expect to never see you again." He finished walking out of the room, slamming the door behind him.
Sam looked dumfounded at the closed door. "How could they?" Sam whimpered softly not believing what just happened. She looked down at the backpack that her father gave her and stood up tossing some items into the sack. She reached under her bed and brought out her memory box and photo album that Danny saved from when they trashed her room over a year ago. She opened her memory box and dug to the bottom of it. She had been saving money for a while so she could have some money to spend that wasn't her parents. Confirming that her stash was safely in the box she packed those as well. She took one last look around her room, making sure she didn't forget anything. She grabbed the picture from her nightstand and made her way out of her room. She quietly made her way down the stairs and started for the front door. She saw a locksmith working on the locks as she walked past him and made her way outside.
"Where you going 'bubeleh'?" Her grandmother's voice called from behind her. Sam turned seeing her tending her small window flower garden from her wheel chair.
"I'm leaving grandma." Sam said simply. Her grandmother was starting to feel her age and her memory was not as great as it use to be.
"When will you be back?" She asked turning her chair so she could face her granddaughter.
"I don't know." Sam said quietly. She didn't want to upset her so she decided not to tell her what had happened.
"Well bring Danny back with you. I still want him to try my apple cake." Her grandmother said smiling happily. She was the only one in Sam's family that gave Danny a chance, and she like him, though she never got to spend to much time with him because of her parents.
"Alright grandma." Sam forced a smile. "When I come back, ok." Sam finished hugging her grandmother. Sam held back her tears as she pulled away from her. "See you later grandma." Sam said turning away from her so she would not see her tears.
"Ok, be careful 'bubeleh'." Sam's grandmother called as Sam started to walk away.
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"So what did you want to do tonight?" Danny asked Sam as they sat on the sofa in his apartment. Sam had already made up her mind that she would not tell Danny or Tucker about what happened. She knew that they would be angry about what happened, and there was no reason to concern them. After leaving her parents house she walked though the park then ended up at Tucker and Danny's apartment. Sam was trying to hide her emotions about what had happened that morning, but she finding it hard to keep her mind focused.
"Sammy… you in there?" Danny called waving his hand over her face, pulling her from her thoughts.
"What." Sam shook her head as Danny brought her attention back to him. " Yeah sure." She said simply.
"Yeah sure what?" Danny asked giving her a strange look.
"What?" Sam asked not understanding what they were talking about.
"I asked what you wanted to do tonight." Danny explained still looking at her strangely. "Are you ok? You seem distracted." Danny asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine, just tired." Sam faked yawned.
"Ok. I guess it was a late night." Danny said getting of the subject.
"I think I'm going to head home, I'm really tired." Sam said getting up.
"It's only 8pm." Danny said looking at her strangely again. She was always a night person; she never wanted to be home early.
"I know, but I'm really tired." She said grabbing her backpack from the floor and started for the door.
"Ok, I'll walk you home." Danny said getting up.
"No." Sam said quickly. Danny looked at her startled by her reaction. "I'm mean, no thanks. I don't want to trouble you." Sam tried to cover.
"It's no trouble." Danny said standing next to her. "What's going on Sam? Are you ok?" Danny asked not understanding what was going on.
Sam sighed softly then reached up and gave Danny a quick kiss. "I'm just tired." Sam said not knowing what to say.
"Ok, so let me walk you home." Danny said opening the door.
"Alright." Sam gave up. They said nothing as they walked the blocks to Sam's parents house. "Well goodnight." Sam said stopping in front of the house.
"Ok, goodnight." Danny said simply. "Are you sure your ok? I've never seen you so quite." Danny asked again sensing that she was hiding something.
"I'm fine Danny, trust me, I'm just tired that's all. I'll see you tomorrow right?" Sam said not moving towards the doors.
"Ok. Yeah I'll see you in the morning." Danny said turning away from Sam sadly. "I love you." Danny quickly added not bothering to turn around.
"I love you too Danny." Sam said softly as she watched him walk away. Sam's heart fell as she watched him walk away. She new he thought she was upset, but she didn't want to tell he what really happened. Sam looked up at her old house and sighed as she looked away and entered the alleyway along side of it. She quietly changed into her dragon side and took off towards the outskirts of Amity Park.
"Well this will have to do." Sam growled to herself. She had found a small forest that looked over Amity Park. "No one is going to mess with a dragon anyway." Sam growled curling herself up still in her dragon form to protect her from the cool fall air. As she looked over the city her troubled thoughts began to plague her again. How could her parents kick her out? Where would she stay? What would she tell Danny? Would he freak out? What would she do for money once collage started? She had some saving's, at least her parents already paid for collage. Sam sighed softly hiding her face in her arms as she drifted into an unsettled sleep.
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