I'm so sorry for anyone who was following me and got an email saying there was an update. I mean, it was, but not with new content. I decided to create an index, so that everyone reading this can know what chapter has what one-shot. Just wanted to make navigating this a little easier, ya know? But anyway, allonsy!
Three Little Children
"What?!" cried out the three Phantoms.
"I thought that the Phantoms were equipped with superior hearing. Though, with the way they constantly carry on with their nettlesome chatter, I'm not surprised that their listening skills aren't what they used to be." muttered an Observant.
Danielle floated over to the Observants, her green eyes glaring at them crossly. "We heard you, you one eyed dicks, there's a concept called disbelief where you say something in response to what you've heard because you can't believe what you've just heard. Have you heard of that or are you too dusty?" she said hotly.
"Elle, don't swear in front of the children!" screeched Danny, dashing across the floor, pressing his hands on what he assumed to be Nocturne's ears. Nocturne gave Danny a pointed look before stating, "I'm quite used to this, you should worry about Clockwork. I think he's the youngest out of the three of us."
The mini Master of Dreams removed Danny's hands from his ears. Danny looked over Nocturne's shoulder and saw Clockwork being protectively held by a mini Pandora whose four arms covered both his and her ears. Danny looked back at Nocturne, shrugged his shoulders, before placing his hands back over Nocturne's ears.
One of the Observants rose their eyebrow. "Are you done with your dramatic antics? If so, then we, the Observants, request that you watch over the child versions of Clockwork, Nocturne and Pandora until they have recovered."
"Now that you've covered whatever you wanted us to do, can you get out?" interrupted Dan, pointing a clawed finger at the door.
"We can tell when we're unwanted." droned the two Observants in unison and left.
"Thank the Ancients, I'd never thought they leave." muttered Clockwork.
Nocturne broke free of Danny's hold and ran into Clockwork. "It can just be the two of us!" He said, burrowing his head in Clockwork's neck. "...and them, I guess." he added sourly, seeing the other four ghosts.
Pandora looked up at the three ghosts in front of her, her red eyes being drawn into the tall, moody ghost with white fiery hair. She hovered over to him and floated upwards until she was eye level.
"What do you want kid?" he grumbled.
She stared, wanting to reach out and touch his hair. "Hi. I'm Pandora, what's your name?"
"Dan. Got it memorized?"
She sighed happily, her hands now reaching out for his hair. "I like your hair. It's nice see that someone else's hair is on fire."
A small blush formed on Dan's face. "Thanks, kid."
'I'm going to marry him.' she thought.
"Let me get this straight, you have to watch a child version of the Time Master, Dream Master and Guardian of Hope?" asked Jazz in disbelief.
"Yes," groaned Danny. "How do you entertain children? Where's a manual on how to take care of kids?"
Jazz looked at the three children playing on the sofa. "Well, they need clothes right?"
Dan scoffed, staring at his sister. "Who's paying for it? It sure as hell aint us."
Sam slid around the counter, flashing her gold plated credit card in her hand. "You know good and well it's gonna be me."
"Get back here!" shouted Tucker. "I have to put your shirt on!"
"Never!" shouted Nocturne gleefully as he ran around Children's Place half naked, his shorts slightly askewed and his shirt was nonexistent. He waved at the moms sifting through the clothing racks, the moms waved back at the little ghost, commenting on how cute he was.
Nocturne stopped momentarily, looked between two clothing racks before diving into one of them. He sat down on the cool floor, smiling mischievously.
Tucker would never find him here.
"I want Dan to come with me!" whined Pandora, preparing to stomp her foot.
"No, Pandora. I can't go with you in the girls fitting room. Danielle has to go with you." explained Dan for the fourth time.
"Dan, please, just think of something! I can't take her whining anymore." begged Dani.
"Umm...I don't know, how about I stand outside while you and Elle go in the fitting room and try on your clothes?"
Pandora thought on it for a few moments before eagerly nodding her head. Daniell quickly ushered the little girl into the fitting room, slamming it behind her. Dan leaned against the door, patiently waiting for the girls to come out.
"You like these?" asked Danny, holding up a pair of jeans in front of Clockwork.
Clockwork nodded. Danny sighed, folding it up and setting it aside. "Hey, what's wrong buddy?"
The mini Time Master shook his head. Holding his arms out, Danny picked him up and walked away from the boys section. "You know you can tell me anything right?"
Clockwork didn't respond.
The four teens, Dan, Danielle and the three children regrouped in the food court, each one carrying at least two bags in each hand. They ate Chinese food and were entreated to a impromptu fork fight staged by Pandora and Nocturne. Clockwork simply picked around in his food, eating less than half of his Lo Mein noodles. The entourage left the mall afterwards, the three children being piggy-backed by a Phantom.
"Where to next?" asked Sam.
Tucker looked her doubtfully, raising the bags in his hands to his waist. "Shouldn't we drop these bags off before we frolick off to who knows where?
"Brilliant plan." remarked Jazz. "Where are we dropping them off at?"
As it turned out, there was no need to do a drop and run since the moment the entourage entered Sam's house, the three children fell asleep. Dan moved the children to an empty room upstairs. Five minutes later he lightly hopped down the stairs, clutching the knob on the handle and swung himself around it into the kitchen.
"Wake up the children in a hour or two, Tucker. I don't want them up all night." said Dan.
"Sure, whatever." came Tucker's dismissive reply.
Several hours later, 8pm
"Tucker, you didn't wake up the kids!" growled out Dan.
Tucker lunged across the sofa, arms stretched out to grab Clockwork, who screeched and rolled away, his eyes lit with glee. "I'm sorry! I forgot! Besides, you know not to ask me to do anything while I'm on my PDA. Everyone knows that." rebuked Tucker.
Clockwork snuck a glance between Dan and Tucker, seeing who was paying attention to him. Sneaking another glance at the stairs, he calculated that from his position and the distance between him and the stairs, he can make it.
All he needed was the right moment….NOW!
The miniature Time Master dashed towards the stairs, a shout of "Clockwork!" and a loud swear was all he could hear as he ran. However, his joy was short lived as he ran face first into a tall lump. Clockwork looked up seeing Jazz's blue eyes kindly looking down at him.
"What kind of trouble have you been getting into, my dear?" asked Jazz.
Clockwork shook his head. "None."
"I don't believe that." said Jazz. "The three of you remind me of my little brother, Sam, and Tucker. So you've done something."
A soft giggle and a small head shake. "Nuh-uh."
Her hands reached under Clockwork's arm, picking him up. "Uh-uh."
"Nuh-"
"Jazz! There you are-and you have Clockwork!" Dan rambled, seeing the redhead holding him. "Ask Sam to get the air mattress. I would ask Tuck, but he would probably forget to do that."
Thirty minutes pass, and the three children are sprawled out across the rising, firming air mattress.
"I don't like this." moaned Nocturne.
"I didn't like spending half an hour chasing you around the store, but I did it anyway." Tucker shot back.
The bed became firmed a little more, Sam turned the motor off, patted the bed a few times and removed the motor. "I know you three didn't like that, but I have a feeling you'll like what I'm about to do." She said, taking several steps back, and then broke into a full run, jumping on the bed.
The children bounced off the bed into the air upon impact. They fell back on the bed with a smile stretched across their faces.
"We flew!" said Clockwork, sitting up.
"For only a few seconds." came Pandora's response.
Nocturne fell back on the bed. "Who cares?!
We flew!"
"So I guess that means that you like it." broke in Sam's smug voice. "Again?"
Nocturne, Clockwork, and Pandora shared a glance between each other. "AGAIN!"
Morning came, the rays of the sun peeking through a window, hitting Pandora in the face. She stirred slightly before waking, the giantess stretched out her four arms and rose an eyebrow at the unfamiliar surrounding.
"Where am I?" She asked drowsily.
"Sam's house, apparently you got into an accident or something, which turned the three of you into kids. The Observants demanded we watch you." answered Danny. "Clockwork and Nocturne are on opposite sides of you, if you were wondering where they were."
"Oh." She said simply. "I suppose I should thank you for taking care of us, I know we can be pretty difficult."
Danny snorted. "Pretty difficult? Don't get me started."
It's not much I know, but I wanted to get this done so I could continue working on other things. *stares at fics I've started in Google Docs* This is for PrplZorua, she didn't request this but umm...I had to show her how much I ship this ship. Thanks dude, I'm officially in rarepair hell.
So for the way I wrote everyone, I based it off of Prpzorua's Drabble and hopefully, I kinda got everyone's characterization right.
As for Pandora saying 'It's nice to see that someone else's hair is on fire.', its a headcanon I thought up. Since there's only four ghost with fiery hair, it must be pretty rare, and unfortunately, as a child she got bullied for having pink fire hair. So when Pandora saw Dan, it boosted her confidence and the pride she held for her hair.
More information about the index: It's in chapter 1, everything has been shifted upwards by one. It's designed so that anyone can go there and just be able to go to the chapter select and just go to what oneshot they want. It's especially useful for people on mobile. Hopefully. That's the plan.
But anyways, ya'll know the drill. If you liked it, please leave a review. Want something written, drop a request. Got a question? Ask and I shall answer!
