Phantom Prime
by Moocow
Chapter 4: Dawning
"Dude? Dude? You okay, Dude?"
Danny slowly opened his eyes and slowly got to his feet. He got to his feet and analyzed his rescuer. He had blond hair, blue eyes, and had on casual clothing. He didn't look like too much of a threat.
"Where am I?" Danny said, realizing that this wasn't the alley he fell asleep in. He was instead in a messy apartment, clothes everywhere, with paper plates at the table with remains of breakfast still on them, Danny guessed from the looks of it was pizza. Taking another look around, he noticed a cracked open pantry filled with every sugary food known to man. From Apple Pie to Zebra Cakes, it was stuffed to the brim with the stuff. He even had a box of Count Coco's, even though it was nowhere near Halloween.
Danny came to this conclusion, " I'm either in heaven, a five year olds fantasy land, or a collage dorm."
The guy laughed, "None of them, dude. You are in the apartment of Mr. Conner "Spaz" Marjin, 100 free bird of the man. Take a seat," he said, as he pulled up a chair.
Danny thought to himself, "I was close with the collage thing." What he said was, "So what exactly happened to me, how come I wake up and find my self in your apartment, Mr Marjin?"
Mr. Marjin shook his head, "Dude, just call me Spaz. I'm not to good with the Mr. Adult thing." Danny was about to bring up that he introduced himself as Mr. Conner "Spaz" Marjin, but he was cut off. "As for what happened, I saw you in a most non-excellent position on the street, so I pulled you into my domain. Anyway, I just got promoted to Cashier at Nero's Gnarly Pizza, so I had extra cash to help out anyway." All this time, Danny was wondering if he was somehow dropped into "Bob and Fred's Most Gnarly Quest."
Danny got up from his chair, and stared to head for the door. As kind as Spaz was, Danny didn't feel comfortable around a guy who abducted kids off the street. "Well, Mr Spaz. I'd love to stay but honestly, I've got things to do and..." Spaz held up his hand and spoke, "I understand, kid. I just wanted to ask you if you could turn your watch off, its blinking was keeping me up last night."
Danny looked down at his hand, he didn't have a watch on. But he noticed a semi-large but chrome and futuristic looking watch, with a green screen of the face of the watch blinking "Ready for use," brightly. He looked at this thing that apparently crawled onto his wrist and realized that that blinking was annoying, and he wanted it to stop. Instantly, it just stopped. Danny didn't do anything. It just stopped blinking, and showed the current time and date. He would have most likely wondered about the watch more, but was interrupted when a figure in a white suit and a black hat phased though the floor of the apartment. The ghost looked worried, but as soon as he saw Danny, an evil smirk crawled onto his face.
"Long time, no see, Daniel." The ghost said, turning from his translucent, intangible form,to a solid one. "I'd love to stay and chat but, for various crimes against the real world and the ghost zone alike, I'll have to put you in the slammer for at least 1,000,000 years. We'll have plenty of time to talk then.
"Walker."