Chapter 1: Someone Knows a Secret
-- Over Amity Park Present Day --
Danny Phantom flew high in the night sky. He knew the ghost was around here some were but some how it was managing to hide from him. He hated it when they didn't just come charging out to fight him so he could send them packing quickly before they drew too much attention. It almost made him miss Ember, at least she never ran...
"Hey dipstick!" an all too familiar female voice said behind him.
Danny groaned. Cursing irony under his breath he spun around just in time to catch a guitar in the stomach.
"Gah!" He coughed backing up holding his stomach.
He smiled sarcastically and said, "You know I was just thinking about you too."
Ember grinned at him evilly her fiery blue hair dancing, "Hope it wasn't anything naughty dipstick or I might just have to kill you!"
She lunged at him swinging her weapon of choice down at him like an axe. He dodged it and tried to land a punch in her stomach catching nothing but air. He ducked instinctively just as Ember's guitar screamed through the air right were his head had been. He tried to land another punch, but just caught more air as she did a back flip and landed gracefully a few yards away.
'Crap!' He thought, 'She got stronger!'
"You 'might' have to kill me?" he said grinning, "I thought you tried kill me the last thirty times. You never really learn do you?"
Ember's eyes blazed red at his comment and she unleashed a massive ecto-blast. Danny put up a shield that deflected it and the fired two of his own blasts back. Ember, still in a rage, batted both of the blasts away with her guitar, but failed to notice Danny phase out and appear behind her. She spun around swinging her guitar at head level but Danny ducked under it and slammed a fist into her stomach with all his strength.
"Damnit!" Ember cursed as she buckled over from the force of the punch. "You'll pay for this dipstick!"
"I still have to pay for the last couple dozen first." Danny said with another cocky grin. With that he landed another solid punch right on the side of her head knocking her out cold.
He sighed, bent down, picked her up and headed back to the his house to put her back in Ghost Zone. He had stopped using the Fenton Thermos on her a long time ago and instead just carried her back through the portal. He jumped into the air, flying was faster then walking after all. Danny looked down at the ghost girl in his arms and sighed, she really doesn't learn. Danny couldn't help but notice how beautiful she was and the fact that he was carrying her in his arms didn't help any.
-- Close to the Fenton Works--
He sighed again, then heard a groan and almost dropped Ember out of sheer surprise. He stopped moving forward and held as still as he could, the last thing he needed was her waking up in his arms. Her eyes fluttered half open.
'Shit!' He thought.
"Eh? Fenton? Whats going on?" She asked still half knocked out.
His jaw dropped, 'SHIT! How the hell does she know who I am?!'
"Eeerr... Your dreaming!" He stuttered the first thing that came to mind, "Y - yea! Your dreaming. Go back to sleep."
"Oh." She said sleepily, "OK."
She wrapped her arms around his neck and leaned her head on his shoulder. He sighed in relief, that was close. Then he remembered that she had known his real last name.
'This isn't good.' He thought looking at Ember, 'This really, really isn't good.'
He tried to shrug her arms off his neck but she just tighten her grip and snuggled her head against him. He immediately turned a bright shade of red at the small display of affection.
'Got to get her to the Portal and then once she is in Ghost Zone I might be able to get some answers out of her safely.'
-- Ghost Zone --
Danny looked around and shivered, it wasn't hard to tell why ghosts kept trying to escape from here. He set Ember down on the ground and shook her trying to wake her up, it didn't take much.
She sat bolt upright and looked around at her surroundings snarling when she realized she was back in Ghost Zone.
"Damnit I'll kill him next time that little..." Then she spotted Danny sitting a few feet away staring at her."WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!"
Her fists began glowing and she reached for her guitar. She was obviously ready for another round.
"Isn't getting beat once a day enough?" He couldn't help but ask.
Embers eyes and hair turned blood red. A massive fire blast erupted from her hair which Danny barely dodged in time. He phased out closing distance with her while invisible.
"WHERE DID YOU GO YOU LITTLE..." Danny phased in right in Embers face and tackled her to the ground. He pinned her hands to the ground and used his weight to keep her from getting away.
"Listen Ember I just want you to answer some questions." he panted.
"Oh yea, and why would I do that." She snarled struggling to get out from under him, "Get off of me before I..."
"Before you what? In case you can't tell I have you at a slight disadvantage here."
She struggled for another minute then gave up panting. Then to Danny's utter amazement she started to blush! He didn't even think she could blush! She looked up at him then looked away again.
"Fine! Just get off of me!"
"Why so you can try to blast me again?"
She looked at him blushing even more, "I won't try anything! Just get up!"
"Why should I trust you?" he asked, "And why are you blushing?"
She smirked at him strangely, "I don't know dipstick maybe cuzz of this?" He felt something squeeze his waist and looked down and finally noticed how they were positioned.
What he had felt had been Embers legs seeing as he was positioned between them snugly and pressed almost flat against her. If anyone had passed by they probably would of thought that they were... His face immediately turned crimson at the thought, but he made himself stay were he was.
"You promise you won't try anything." He asked trying to sound calm even though he could feel his face burning up.
"If you stay like that," she said with that same strange grin, "I might just try something."
He jumped up off of her. She snickered at him. She didn't move for a second giving Danny a rather good view of her. This only made him blush even more. Then seeming to regain her composer she stood up, crossing her arms under her breasts, which Danny couldn't help but stare at for a second.
"My face is up here." She said smugly, "Now what do you want."
Danny shook himself trying to pull out of his current train of thought. "Do you know who I am?"
Ember rolled her eyes, "Yea dipstick I know who you are, just like almost every other ghost stuck in this little hell hole. Your the bastard that some how got out of here without anyone noticing and now when anyone else tries to leave you throw us back in!" She said snarling with rage at the end.
"That's not what I meant Ember." He said narrowing his eyes at her, "I mean do you know who I really am?"
She looked away from him for a moment then turned back. "Yea, Danny Fenton I know who you really are."
He stared at her. "Then why, I mean who, how did you..."
"Oh come on! Besides the spandex and a few colors you don't look any different it wasn't hard to figure out."
"How many other people know?" He asked a little shell shocked.
"As amazed as I am just me I think." she said more then a little disgusted then she eyed him nervously, "So what are you going to do? Destroy me so I don't tell?" She acted like that's exactly what he was going to do.
'Shit damnit fuck and any other curse word that I can't think of!' He was trying to think of some way around that, any way at all! He couldn't destroy her! He just couldn't bring himself to do that. Then an idea popped into his head. It wasn't going to be easy to explain to his parents or his friends but he didn't really have a choice.
"I'll make you a deal..." He began slowly...
-- Draconum's Tomb --
The shadows move with a will of their own as a certain crystal begins to glow. A small crack appears and ever so slowly begins to spread. The shadows tremble in anticipation. Very soon now, very soon...
