I enjoy getting death threats for writing good things. They encourage me to write even more. You'll understand what I mean after reading this. It's supposed to be a one-shot, but it might get continued...
As a note to anyone reading any of my other stories...I promise they'll be updated. Don't think I forgot about them. Trust me, everytime I get hit with an idea to put into the story I do it. (I especially want to apologize to the readers of "When You Return." The thing is, once I get it where it needs to be, you guys will have the best prize...I hope.)
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The Girl in the Pale Blue Dress
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"Sam, you've got to go! Halloween must be a Goth's favorite time of the year!" an exasperated Danny begged.
"It is, but that doesn't mean I have to go to a stupid party Paulina decided to throw so that the ghost boy will show up so she can dance with him in a pretty princess outfit. I'd much rather spend my time pretending to suck blood out of innocent little kids at my grandmother's haunted house this Monday rather than do that."
"You're going to be a vampire?" Tucker asked.
"No; an umbrella," Sam replied dryly.
"I still think you'll be missing out on a great time. It's not like it'll be torture. Everyone's going to be dressed up so you don't have to wear some long evening gown. Unless of course you want to be a princess, which I highly doubt," Danny continued, desperately trying to persuade his friend into going to the party.
"Speaking of costumes," Sam commented, changing the subject, "I've told you guys what I'm going to wear. Are you two going to dress up or are you as convinced as every other person around here that you're too old?"
"We're going to the party Sam, of course we're getting a costume!" Tucker exclaimed.
"So what are you going to be?" Sam asked again.
"Probably a ghost, no comments please," Tucker demanded upon seeing Danny's mouth open. "You know lots of people are going to dress up as some ghost this year, and it's not going to be a bed sheet over the head sort of deal either. I've heard people talking about dressing up like an actual ghost we see around here often."
"Any particular one yourself?" Danny asked.
"I don't know, I was thinking, Plasmius," Tucker joked.
"Ha ha. Like you'd actually be able to put together a costume that looks like Plasmius," Sam offered.
"Crush a guys spirit why don't ya?" Tucker mumbled. Louder he said, "Naw, I'll probably get together Technus or Wulf; he was my favorite."
"Uh uh," Sam commented. "Danny?"
"I was thinking about dressing up as the ghost boy." Two eyebrows shot up. "Oh, please don't tell me you didn't see it coming. Sooner or later I'm going to have to start having some fun."
"You've had fun, Danny. Don't you think that if you go as Danny Phantom Paulina or some other obsessed girl might think you look too real to be fake?" Tucker asked.
"Yeah, but I can either tell them that I'm Danny dressed as Phantom or I can just go along with what they say."
"Whatever," Sam mentioned.
They reached the door to the school and Danny saw Jazz parked and waiting on him.
"See you guys later. I'm doomed to some brother/sister alone time," Danny waved as he made his way to Jazz's car and hoped in.
"So, you positive you don't want to come?" Tucker asked again, watching Danny and Jazz drive off.
"Positive."
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"I believe you look absolutely positively horrific!" a girl screeched Monday night at Paulina's Halloween party. She was dressed as a faerie herself, while the boy she was talking to had on the best imitation of Wulf as possible.
"Thanks," Tucker thanked. "I'd say the same, but you're not wearing a scary costume."
The girl giggled and walked off. Tucker smiled to himself as he thought how great it was that no one knew it was him under the mask.
He spotted something, or rather someone, walk closely by him. Recognizing him as Danny Phantom, Tucker tapped his shoulder.
"What?" Danny asked, turning around swiftly.
"Relax, it's just me, Tucker."
"Man, you scared me half to death; don't say a word."
Tucker smiled then said, "Paulina spotted you yet?"
"Nope, she's hung up on the other twenty-two Danny Phantoms," Danny answered, pointing toward the front of the room where Paulina was angrily yelling at some guy dressed as Danny Phantom.
"What do you think she's saying?" Tucker asked.
"Probably something like, 'I can't believe you have the nerve to actually walk in here dressed up as the ghost boy! The only ghost boy I want to see here is the real one. I demand you to change your outfit!'" Danny replied.
"Ooh, I like your costume," a girl's voice from behind Danny stated. He turned around to see a girl dressed in a long sleeve pale blue dress with a hem that hung down to her ankles. She wore a blue mask to cover her eyes and her hair was blue, an obvious dye job, and pulled back into a bun. She wore blue slippers that had a few sequins on them.
"Uh, thanks, you too," Danny replied.
"Danny Phantom, right? I haven't lived around here for very long, but I've heard stories about him, and might I say that you have the best costume of him out here!" she complimented.
"Well, I try," Danny replied. With nothing more to say he asked, "So do I know you?"
"Depends...you're outfit is so realistic I don't know who you are."
Danny was about to tell her his name but a voice stopped him. "Remember everybody, we're going to all show who we are at midnight. So if you're one of the one's wearing masks, don't reveal anything."
It was Paulina who'd announced that. Danny smirked, "I'll guess we'll have to wait till midnight."
"Guess so. Who's your friend?" the girl asked.
"We're not supposed to tell anyone who we are," Tucker reminded the girl.
"Right," she whispered. A song started playing and Danny was hit with a sudden thought. I don't know this girl and she doesn't know me. Now would be the perfect time for a little dancing, and I almost know that I'll never get another chance to dance with a pretty girl.
"You think you might want to do a little dancing?" he asked.
"Um...sure, why not," she agreed.
"Fine, yall just go dance...and leave me here...alone...all by myself..." Tucker ventured. The girl from earlier walked up behind Tucker and tapped him on the shoulder, pulling him out onto the dance floor.
"This is nice," the girl commented.
"And it's even more thrilling to know we have no clue who we're dancing with," Danny laughed.
They continued on in silence as the songs switched from song to song. They never stopped dancing and didn't really even notice it until...
"Are you the real ghost boy?"
Danny turned away from the dance he was sharing with the mysterious girl to face Paulina. He was actually surprised that she hadn't found him earlier.
"No, of course not. I'll tell you that I am in a position where I can get the resources necessary to make this costume as real as possible, but as for my name...your rule states..."
"Hmph. You look a little too real to be an imitation," Paulina accused. "Besides, it's only two minutes till midnight. I'd better get on stage."
With that she left to get on stage so everyone could count down to midnight so they could rip off their masks.
"It's that close to midnight already?" Danny asked staring at the clock.
"Look, I really don't want to stay around for the unmasking. I'd like to know I spent a wonderful evening with a very nice person, but I don't think knowing who that person is will be as fun. Besides, we'll probably meet up somewhere. You'll be able to pick me out cause I'll be the one without a clue. Just moved here remember?"
Danny smiled. "I'd better go too then." He started to leave, but was pulled back.
"Wait, something else to remember me by." The mysterious girl pulled Danny into a short but sweet kiss right there in the middle of the dance floor. Nobody noticed them though as they were busy counting...
15...14...13...
The kiss broke off and the girl in blue ran toward the exit.
12...11...10...
"Danny, are you not going to get to see who that was? Aren't yall going to ya know figure out who you both just kissed?" Tucker asked.
"You saw?" Danny asked.
"Only because I was trying to find you."
9...8...7...
"I don't know, but I'm going to go before I'm forced to take off the mask I don't have on off."
6...5...4...
"Alright, bye dude. I'm going to go see who I spent the whole night with. That mask was hard to penetrate."
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Danny crouched to the ground and slipped through it intangibly, silently thanking that his ghost sense hadn't gone off all night.
"Zero! Happy Halloween!"
A thunderous exclamation erupted from the place as masks flew off and secrets of the night were revealed.
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"You missed an awesome party, Sam," Tucker told his friend as they were walking down the hallway toward home room.
"Whatever. My grandmother's haunted house was totally awesome. I think that at least five kids left scared so bad that they weren't even going to trust to let their parent's drive them home. I know I dug my teeth into at least two kids, maybe three. It was the best Halloween I've ever had."
"Guys," Danny yelled. They turned around to see an out of breath Danny running to catch up with them. "Sorry about being late, there was a ghost."
"Okay, so did you enjoy the party, Danny? Paulina ever put two and two together?" Sam asked.
"No way, no how. She didn't even get around to finding me until about midnight which is when I left," Danny replied. "How was the haunted house?"
"Totally awesome. There's no way I'll ever skip out on something like that. No matter what's going on," Sam reassured.
"Is this the first time she's done something like this? Your grandmother I mean," Tucker asked.
"Yep, but it certainly won't be the last."
The three friends made it to their home room class, but not before Danny's ghost sense went off again.
"Shoot! I guess they were laying me some slack last night as they planned to fail me in school today. I'll be back as soon a possible," Danny yelled and ran into the nearest boy's bathroom.
He appeared right above the school a second later to face...
"Will you be my friend?"
"Aw man," Danny muttered as he dodged a couple of ice crystals thrown by Klemper. Klemper then lurched himself on Danny who was forced to put up his hands to shield himself.
"Won't anybody be my friend?" Klemper exclaimed again.
"NO!" Danny threw Klemper off him and shot up in the air to avoid another hug from the second most annoying ghost he knew.
Flying a good ways and realizing Klemper hadn't followed Danny sighed and landed on the top of a building. He looked around and realized he was on Sam's roof.
"Looks like I flew farther than I thought."
All of a sudden, he felt himself be hit and pushed through the roof and realized that Klemper hadn't stayed behind, but had followed from higher above.
They landed on Sam's bed and rolled to the floor. Danny threw Klemper off him just long enough to get out the thermos and suck him inside.
Danny was all intent on leaving and making most of first period without arousing Sam's parent's worry, but something made him stop.
But Sam was a vampire at her grandmother's haunted house. She couldn't have been two places at one. And whatever her name was last night didn't look anything like Sam. At all. Besides, Sam doesn't wear that kind of stuff...
But apparently she did.
There, hanging up on the back of her door was a pale blue long sleeved, long hemmed dress with a blue mask hanging above it and blue slippers below it.
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Yeah, that's it. (No, seriously it is.) I've been planning on doing a short fic like this for some time. The suspense of it leaves the readers with their own way to figure things out. Unless of course I'm begged for more. Then there's no way I'll refuse to write more...anywho...tell me what you think.