A/N: Here's chapter 2 of the story! Thank you those who reviewed and added their stories to favourites so far.
Darkkami: Yep, in this Danny's known Anna for quite a long time. Anna however doesn't recognize him, reasons why he knows her will be explained as time goes on. I don't want to give too many spoilers yet. ;)
Rubius: Thanks! Here's another update for yah!
WARNING: Danny will be a bit OOT in this chapter at a few points and only if you squint real hard.
Alright time for the basic notes and on with the story!
Blah = Thoughts
"Blah" = Spirit Talk
"Blah" = anything relating to the use of Furyoku
"Blah" = English Vocal
"Blah" = Japanese Vocal
Disclaimer: I do not own Shaman King or Danny Phantom; I do however own the plot of this story.
Narrative POV
Chapter 2
...Not-so-normal
"HoroHoro!" Anna Kyōyama called, sitting in front of the TV. It was late afternoon on a Friday and she was awaiting the arrival of a few guests.
"You are going to be picking up supper right? And those supplies?" She asked in a sinister tone of voice as if daring him to object. Anna was around 15 years old and way too mature in mind for her age. She had blonde hair and amber eyes. Her attire was as usual; a black sleeveless dress and a large red bandana on her head. Around her neck were 180 rosary beads. Anna was a special Shaman called an Itako, which was a Shaman that could summon a spirit from anywhere even if they've moved on.
"Uhh, of course Anna!" Horokeu 'HoroHoro' Usui called back with his voice in a slight bit of panic. To be honest he was, as Anna called it, slacking off with his spirit partner Kororo. HoroHoro, which is what he named himself, was an icy blue-haired boy with a headband holding his hair up in spikes and dark brown almost black eyes. He was roughly around 15, the same age as Anna and like Anna he was also a Shaman only HoroHoro was of the Ainu tribe. HoroHoro was wearing a white and blue skating outfit. After the Shaman Tournament he decided to stay at the Asakura inn. His excuse was that it was a 'free service inn' if you didn't count the constant labours Anna decided to cast upon him...
"Right on it!" He replied and rushed out the door with his spirit partner right behind him.
"Good." Anna said to a relatively empty house with a smile, "The guests should be here soon."
Danny, Jazz and Vlad had just gotten out of the airport and were in Vlad's limo heading towards the Asakura Inn. Jazz was busy reading a book titled "How to Speak Japanese" meanwhile Danny and Vlad where uploading a not-so-conversation.
"Why do you have a limo here... YOUR LIMO?" Danny asked, completely confused about the situation. I thought we left it back in Amity... He thought.
"I had left our previous limo back in Amity. It isn't surprising that I would have service here, I am a business man after all." The older hybrid remarked completely enjoying Danny's confusion.
"Oh brother..." Danny said, Does he have Reishi or something? Nah... He shook his head before changing the conversation. "Shouldn't we be going to a hotel or something? We still have all our stuff in the trunk and-"
"Daniel... The Asakura residence is an Inn." Vlad said smugly, although it wasn't an inn anymore Anna still treated it like one.
"WHAT? AN INN?" The younger Halfa yelled. His tone was more irritated then shocked but that went completely unnoticed.
Vlad rubbed his temples so he could keep himself calm from the yelling. "Yes, Daniel, an inn. It use to be an inn before Anna lived there but it became run down due to a tragic accident. Anna still treats it like an inn." He said, after the tragic accident no one wanted to stay there anyways which is why it became run down. "So we will be staying there. I had called her days ago to let her know we were coming. She is fine with it."
"Great... Just great..." Danny muttered sarcastically and looked out the window.
"Is there a problem Daniel?" Vlad asked in a harsh tone of voice but a bit of concern was still present.
"No." Was Danny's short answer, Of course there's a problem. I'm staying with you for the summer! He thought, he would have voiced it but right now Danny didn't feel like fighting. After he had found out who they were staying with he had a hard time sleeping on the plane, so he was tired. Not to mention the jetlag.
"Wait... tragic accident, is it haunted?" Danny asked in mild curiously. Although he knew it was haunted, not asking would lead to 20 questions which he didn't feel like playing right now.
"Yes it is. So expect that little 'ghost sense' of yours to be going off on the occasion." The older hybrid replied, waiting to see a reaction from the boy.
Danny's eye twitched and he let out a cough, deciding to think on that later. In a normal situation, he would panic about it. But honestly, he was too tired to care right now.
Vlad raised an eyebrow at the odd reaction coming from the boy, Since when was Daniel so lax about ghosts? He thought and decided to question the boy about his strange behaviour later.
For the rest of the ride, Danny had fallen asleep which left nothing much for the older Halfa to do. He would uphold a conversation with Jazz but it would most likely lead to the Nanobot incident and then an argument... which might wake up Danny. If you had known the younger hybrid's temper, you wouldn't want to wake him up either.
They had arrived at the Asakura Inn with Anna waiting patiently outside for them. HoroHoro was still out at the store, mainly stalling the time as long as he could before he couldn't stall anymore without facing Anna's wrath.
Vlad had gone inside now after having a conversation with Anna for a bit and grabbing the luggage. Anna decided to walk over to the limo to see what the two were doing. Now standing next to Jazz she noticed what looked like a sleeping boy. It was hard to tell what he looked like from this angle.
Jazz leaned into the limo, gently shaking Danny to awake him.
"Danny we're here. Wake up little brother." She said gently trying to coax him awake. Danny only grumbled and tried to brush her hand away.
"Vlad's already inside with the luggage." She explained to him, still trying to awake the sleeping lad.
"Nmm? Leave me alone Jazz..." Danny said tiredly, one eye drifting open before he turned over and landed on the seat beside him.
Just then another feminine voice coming from Anna's direction, which didn't sound to impress, spoke up.
"Is that boy still sleeping? He's wasting our time, if he won't wake up and can't walk just drag him inside." She had spoken in Japanese which made Jazz turn around and look at her confused.
"Oh, that's right. You can't understand Japanese can you? You both are going to have a hard time here." Anna asked/said with a ting of annoyance, making Jazz even more confused.
Suddenly they heard a bang coming from the limo. Both looked inside to see Danny rubbing his head sorely.
That voice! Danny announced in his head, It's her isn't it, I'd recognize that voice anywhere! He winced when his suspicions confirmed. Outside the limo he saw a familiar young girl around his age group. After the pain in his head calmed down he climbed out of the limo, Jazz moving aside so her brother could get out.
As soon as Danny had finished getting out of the limo and slipped into full view, there was a gasp. Danny and Jazz turned to look in the direction of Anna, the young hybrid's eyes widening as his blue eyes looked into shocked amber ones.
Oh no... Was the first thing that came to Danny's mind If she recognizes me she's going to kill me.
Anna on the other hand was completely stunned. It can't be... She thought, taking a step back. That's impossible... Before she could finish the thought she saw the other two looking at her. One of them was of concern while the other looked like they would have a panic attack.
No... That kid looks too panic-stricken. It can't be him. She confirmed and started to walk into the house, motioning for the other two to follow her.
Danny shook his head to break himself out of his stupor before heading to follow the girl. "We should probably follow her." He stated to his sister. Jazz nodded and followed after him.
Anna turned her head slightly to look back at the young male, but this kid looks so much like him...She thought and then opened the door.
Once they were inside Anna walked towards Vlad and sat down. She motioned to the other two to sit somewhere around the coffee table as well.
Danny and Jazz looked at eachother and shrugged, deciding to cooperate and sat on the other side of the table. Seeing this Anna nodded and whispered into Vlad's ear.
"It's pretty obvious they can't understand me. Can you translate the rules for me?" She asked her uncle while holding a piece of paper in her hands. Vlad looked at her and nodded.
"Of course my dear. Although I think it would be best for an introduction above anything else." Vlad whispered back.
"Alright" Anna replied and turned her head back to face the two confused-looking individuals sitting across form them.
Seeing as Anna was ready, Vlad started talking. "First of all, over here is Daniel Fenton, age 15." He said, pointing towards the black-haired boy who in turn blinked and subconsciously pointed a finger at himself. Shortly after his eyes narrowed and he seemed to mouth the words: 'it's Danny'.
"Ah, you've told me about the Fentons." Anna said nodding in confirmation. His name doesn't even sound remotely similar... So why do I feel like I know him?
Danny inwardly groaned, Great she's been informed, he thought to himself sarcastically.
"Indeed and this girl over here is Jasmine Fenton. Daniel's older sister and 17 years in age." He explained and pointed towards Jazz. Anna again nodded to show she was listening.
"Alright, now that those introductions are over it's time to explain about the house." She then spoke; clapping her hands together once for emphasis.
I do not like that look in her eyes... Danny thought and looked at Jazz worriedly. Jazz gave the younger hybrid a reassuring smile, although she didn't know what he was exactly worried about.
"Daniel, Jasmine." Vlad spoke up, making the two look at him. He nodded, "There are a few things that Anna wishes to explain to you about the house. Since you can't understand Japanese, I will be explaining them." Anna cast him an evil glance in mid-sentence "Although since I can't translate everything for you chances are you will be taught how." He said and then Anna smiled, giving him a piece of paper with everything written on it.
Translated by Vlad, the paper said:
"Rules of the House
1. Morning, breakfast. Be down at 8:00 am sharp or go without it. HoroHoro or Vlad will be making it. No sleeping in, no exceptions." Vlad didn't like the sound of that, and apparently neither did Danny. Danny let out a groan and both of them turned their heads towards Anna who was looking seemingly innocent. Vlad and Danny then looked away, Vlad continuing on with the rules.
"2. Lunch starts at 12:00pm, same rule applies as above.
3. Same thing for supper, which starts at 5:00pm.
4. If Anna asks you to do any chores, you do them. Vacation or not.
Anything else isn't related to you other than to be careful of wandering spirits. Don't bother them and they won't try to possess you; although they will be keeping an eye on you for Anna." Vlad finished off the letter with a sigh, unfortunately the 'other thing'did seem to relate to him.
Both Danny and Jazz blinked. "uhh, aren't we on vacation? Chores are a no-no." Danny said with a slight chuckle. Anna looked confused but Vlad whispered what he said into her ear, which in turn made her glare at Danny.
Danny then shied away and chuckled meekly. That's when Jazz decided to ask her own question.
"Spirits? You mean as in ghosts? How? Why?" Jazz seemed sort of panicked; which was understandable. This reaction caused everyone in the room to shake their heads. Although Anna didn't know what Jazz had said exactly, she had a pretty good idea by the tone in the girl's voice.
"Didn't you hear the conversation in the limo? Yeah, tragic accident." He said to her, looking around for said spirits. Jazz blinked at her brother in confusion as to why he wasn't panicking. She then brushed it off, when it came to her brother prying wasn't the best option and she knew that; although Vlad thought otherwise.
I'm going to have to have a talk with him... Vlad mentally noted Danny's odd behaviour once again.
It was now late evening and nearly supper time. Anna was talking to HoroHoro outside the door to the Inn.
"You're late!" Anna said towards a rather meek-looking HoroHoro who had just got back after 3 hours of being out of the Inn. "Calm Down Anna, I've got the stuff. Now let me inside; its night-time and its cold out here. That's coming from someone who's use to the cold weather!" HoroHoro said, arms holding himself with a bag of groceries and a few Shaman-related supplies (common items to be used as mediums) hanging from his arms.
"Perfect for you than." Anna implied, still not letting him in.
At that moment Danny decided to peak in on what the two were doing. He was stuffing his mouth with a nut-filled chocolate bar he 'borrowed' from the storage.
"Why don't you just let him inside?" He said, in English. This made the two of them turn towards him confused. HoroHoro had a good gist of what Danny was saying, since someone had to speak English during the Shaman Tournament. Anna, however, did not.
"What'd he say?" Anna asked HoroHoro who smiled.
"Just saying that you should let me in." He replied.
"No really, what'd he say?"
"He said to let me in!"
Danny shook his head at this; he really didn't want to interfere but... This was going to end with HoroHoro sleeping outside with no supper, he knew it and being the whole 'I have a hero's complex' type of person he couldn't let that happen.
He walked up beside Anna and opened his mouth to speak, but before he could say anything he heard another gasp this time coming from HoroHoro's mouth.
"I'd say I'm going delusional, this can't be that Daniel person you where talking about. He looks too much like-" He was cut off by the sound of Anna's voice.
"Yeah, I thought the same thing." Anna spoke, "But he's not, he's too much of a scaredy cat in personality. I hardly doubt he-"
"I said, let him in." Danny spoke into Anna's ear. The sentence had ended in Japanese, which made the two turn to him in utter shock. One at the fact he could speak it and the other at the accent in that voice. It sounded too familiar.
Anna shook her head to get out of her stupor, "You can speak Japanese?" She asked him completely surprised.
Danny smiled meekly and asked, "Yes?" before chuckling. "Just let him in the house, supper's ready and it's getting cold." He continued, but as he turned away to head back inside a hand touched his shoulder and turned him around. It was HoroHoro.
"Who are you?" He asked the hybrid sternly.
"Just a guest, Danny Fenton." he said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"I don't believe you. You-" HoroHoro went to continue but was stopped by Anna.
"Let it go." she said and walked inside, motioning for him to follow.
So with that they walked into the house, although the two of them were staring at Danny occasionally during supper. Danny on the other hand was trying to avoid all eye contact as possible, with the occasional glares at Vlad when he chuckled at his antics.
Shortly after that; Vlad, HoroHoro and Anna had all mysteriously went missing much to the shock of Danny and Jazz.
"Where do you think they went?" Jazz asked Danny.
"I don't know, they're obviously not in the house. I think there's something that they don't want us to get involved in." Danny said knowingly, eyeing doors as they walked by.
"Well, worrying about it isn't going to help. How about we split up and search one more time before heading off to bed?" Jazz asked again, the other times they had found nothing. It's as if they vanished from the face of the earth.
"Alright, we'll go for another round. If you see anything, talk to me through this." Danny said, handing her a pair of Fenton Phones he had stuffed away in his pocket. He then put a pair on as well.
"Okay, see you later little brother." Jazz said and walked off. Danny muttered something and nodded, heading in the opposite direction.
Both of them tried opening doors to everywhere, even knocking on the bathroom door. No one was there; it was really as if they vanished.
There's one place that I haven't checked... Danny thought and peered into a room that lead to the outside. The shoes where gone and there was a small statue there that looked like a tiny tomb stone.
Danny sighed seeing that they must have missed them leave, he was about to turn around when he heard a strange moaning noise. Then to end it, his ghost sense went off.
Now tense Danny whipped around and willed himself to start morphing into his ghost half. Half way through he stopped and listened more carefully, he then realized that the moaning was actually the ghost mumbling to himself. He kept staring at the tomb stone with a gentle gaze; he felt that this spirit must have lost something important to it.
"I should leave it alone..." He whispered and turned around to leave, but was stopped by the voice again.
"Yoh-dono?" The spirit asked the air sadly as it materialized, revealing a large Japanese samurai. He was wearing a samurai-like outfit and had white/silver hair. His eyes looked heavy and cold although you could see them being a dark almond.
Oh no... He thought believing that the spirit had heard him. The spirit turned around, realizing he was right as the spirit glared at him and started to pull out a sword.
"Who are you?" He asked sternly.
"Uhhhh..." Danny said intelligently looking around the room. "Danny? I-I'm a guest."
The spirit growled again, remembering what Anna had said about a person named Daniel and about her uncle coming to visit. He then sat down and examined the frightened lad. He didn't mean to scare him... The spirit was just restless since they still hadn't found his master's soul. In fact he was starting to believe that his master had moved on without him.
The spirit sheaved the sword again and sat down, inviting the black-haired teen to sit down. Danny blinked and walked over cautiously, careful as not to startle the spirit again.
"So... what's your name?" Danny asked meekly, still shocked and slightly frightened.
"Amidamaru..." The spirit, known as Amidamaru, said. Amidamaru was still tense, but that started to fade as he saw Danny relax more. The boy reminded him of someone he knew; he just couldn't quite put a finger on it.
"You have the same aura... as someone I know. How can you see spirits?" The apparition asked, it was very unusual for a person to see spirits. And those who could have abilities to become shamans, the spirit knew that. Though this kid hadn't gone off with Anna, it troubled him.
Maybe he's like Manta? The spirit thought.
"I don't know, I just can, both me and Jazz." Danny replied.
"Jazz?" Amidamaru asked, he wasn't informed of this other person. They must have come at the last minute.
"Yeah, my sister. Her name's Jazz. I'm sorry I startled you, really." Danny said with a smile, the spirit wasn't that bad. Then again, this was Amidamaru. That name made him feel more relaxed around the entity.
"Ah, no problem! As my master use to say, if you can see spirits you can't be a bad person." The spirit said, a bit more cheerful now. This person had an ability to make him happy even without his master or Manta around; Amidamaru thought that it must be the aura this boy had around him.
"Mast-?"Before Danny could finish his question he heard his sister speak in the Fenton Phones.
"Danny! Where are you? I looked everywhere and I can't find them, though I did run into something interesting that I'd like to show you..." Jazz said hurriedly, apparently it was very important.
Danny sighed, "Sorry I have to go now. It was nice talking with you, Amidamaru." He said, bowing in respect before walking away.
Amidamaru sighed as well out of exhaustion; he got up and started to disappear. Just before he completely vanished he whispered once again the name of his master. "Yoh-dono..."
Danny walked over to the room Jazz was staying in, she seemed to be really excited over the phone... it was as if she found the answer to life itself.
The young hybrid laughed at the thought before opening the sliding door to her room.
In there he saw Jazz holding what looked like a stone object. It was red and shaped like a rock sword. She turned around at the sound of Danny's footsteps and Jazz sighed in relief.
"Where were you?" She asked again.
"You never gave a specific time Jazz, and I was talking to a ghost... His name was Amidamaru. He sounded quite nice; I think he might become a great ally." Danny asked with a smile, remembering his conversation with the spirit.
"Amidamaru? Do you know the story of that samurai! He could have killed you, fully!" Jazz said in concern for her brother making Danny chuckle meekly.
"Well you see, he didn't seem all that bad. I doubt he is a bad guy, besides he seemed very loyal." Danny shrugged and sat down next to his sister, eyeing the strange rock in her hands. "So, what'd you find here?" He asked in curiosity and added in his head, it looks like the Antiquity...
"I don't know, looks like a stone sword." Jazz said, they both eyed it intensely for a few moments.
"I'll call Tucker up tomorrow and we'll see if he can find any information on it." Danny confirmed and picked up the stone object. Just as he touched it he felt an odd surge of familiar electricity flow through his veins.
That's odd... He thought.
"Wait! Danny, what if they find out its gone? Then what?" Jazz called out to him, stopping him in his tracks. He thought about it for a few moments, mulling over the situation. The young hybrid then shrugged and walked towards the door, opening it once he got there.
"It should be fine Jazz; we'll return it once we've shown it to Sam and Tucker. No big deal, right?" Danny suggested to her, trying to calm her.
"But, isn't that stealing?" Danny winced, he hadn't thought about that.
"Not Stealing!" He said rather loudly and then calmed down with a light chuckle. "We're just borrowing it for a little while without permission, that's all." He said.
Danny that's still stealing... Jazz thought but instead said, "If you say so." with a shake of her head before saying goodnight to her brother as he walked out the door. Then she closed it, deciding to go and get ready for bed herself.
Danny was back in his room, laying on his bed under the blankets and holding the stone sword above his head staring at it intensely. "Why do I feel a connection to you?" He asked with narrowed eyes before putting it down under the pillow of his bed.
"Well, looks like we'll find out tomorrow..." Danny said with a quick nod and fell asleep.
Meanwhile, over at monument hill there were 3 figures. One of them, the only female of the group, was having a conversation with Amidamaru.
"I see... Well, we will look more into it tomorrow." The female figure said to the samurai. Amidamaru nodded and then vanished again as the three figures headed away from the hill.
I found that pretty intense for a chapter 2. xD I hope I'm not going to fast here, I'll be trying to stretch out the chapters without having the main plot come just yet. Little side things are good right?
Anyways, was everyone in character? And we'll get to see Sam and Tucker in the next chapter! I'm actually really excited for this. But... we should have a few little notes.
1) The anime says she's a spirit medium thinger, although in the Manga she's and Itako. I'm going by the Manga for that one because it's shorter and more correct.
2) No, Vlad doesn't have Reishi. Definition - Reishi means "Reading the Heart', so basically you're reading a person's mind/heart.
3) I can picture Anna making someone stay outside at night-time, think about it as being 'put in the doghouse' type of ordeal.
4) I can also see HoroHoro getting suspicious of a person if he believes them to be hiding something, Danny's always keeping secrets so the "Who are you" I can see HoroHoro (and Ren) doing.
5) Wiki says the red stone sword is called Futsu-no-Mitama no Tsurugi, or Anitiquity in the English version. So it'll be called a "stone sword" or "antiquity" during most of the story due to it being shorter and I don't have to copy-past. How Danny knows what it is will be explained in later chapters.
Anyways, that's all! I hope you enjoyed it, now don't forget to R&R (read and review)!
