I-'m ba-ck! Very fluffly little chapter. No, not romace fluff.
"No!" Danny defended, a little too quickly.
"You…you are half-ghost." She stuttered, barely believing this piece of information.
Danny Phantom began to speed up, going ahead of the group. Valerie and Dani easily caught up to him.
"So what if I am?" He said at long last, a tense and scared tone in his ethereal voice. "Gonna go and tell the world that Danny Phantom's a half-ghost freak so that they can lock me up in a zoo or dissect me in some science lab?"
Valerie was hurt by that. Of course, he had pretty good reasons to be hostile about something like that. "No. It was just something I needed to know."
They all flew in silence for the next few moments. Valerie was contemplating what had just happened. Danny Phantom was only half-ghost? She had been shooting at a human-or half human-all this time? Wait…so who was his human half? She cast a glance at him. His face was stern and determined. Not the time to ask. She silently scrutinized him, though. Had she seen that face before? She kept thinking for another moment until she was snapped out of her trance.
"Are you going to keep staring at me?" Danny snapped, noticing how she was observing him.
Valerie instantly turned away, really embarrassed. She had almost forgotten that she was staring at him.
"You know, you can stare as long as you like, but I seriously doubt you'll be able to recognize me. No one else has." Danny informed her.
Okay, now this was just annoying. She couldn't place him! She tried thinking of how Danielle looked in human form and then applied it to him, but she just couldn't. It didn't seem to fit him. She was just too used to the white hair and green eyes.
"Danny, can we land? I'm getting kinda tired." Dani questioned, her exhaustion showing.
Danny nodded and he led them down into the deserted section of the park below. He made sure that they were behind a few trees, though, just in case. Valerie followed them as well. Dani thankfully sat on the grass.
"Can I change back?" She asked.
The ghost boy looked at Valerie for a moment, trying to calculate the possibility of her figuring out that he was actually Danny Fenton by looking at Dani in her human form. Finally coming to the conclusion that she probably wouldn't and that Dani really needed to rest (who knew reporters could take so much out of you?), he looked back at the younger girl and nodded. Dani happily let the rings of light slide over her body, changing her back to her black-haired, blue-eyed human self, and fell flat across the grass with a sigh of relief.
"Ah! Solid ground!" She exclaimed, making Danny smile.
Valerie decided to change out of her ghost hunting gear as well. It would be less conspicuous that way. Danny Phantom, however, stuck out like a sore thumb with his pure white hair, glowing green eyes, and hazmat suit, not to mention the ghostly glow on his body.
Dani, apparently, noticed this too, because she started giggling. "Danny, you stick out so much it's funny."
The ghostly teen glanced down at himself, noticing that she was right. Oh, well. At least no one was around.
"You know, you should really just show her your human half. Then you could lay down and feel the nice grass against your skin, too." The younger girl tempted, a devilish smirk present on her lips.
"Right, because that's totally worth blowing my secret." Danny responded sarcastically.
Valerie caught Dani's eye. She was somehow telling her to give him a little nudge.
"And you'd look inconspicuous." Valerie prodded, her amusement in the matter poorly hidden.
"No." The ghost boy replied stubbornly, crossing his arms.
"Okay, then we're just going to lay here, on the nice, soft grass, waiting for you to get attacked by reporters." Dani taunted, signaling Valerie to come and lay on the grass with her.
The older girl laughed slightly as she flopped down next to Dani. Bugging Danny Phantom, now this was her kind of game.
Danny rolled his eyes. "You two are horrible."
"It's your fault for being so much fun to annoy." The younger half-ghost countered.
Danny suddenly smirked as an idea hit him. "You know what? I can do all of that without blowing my secret identity." Now, if he could get this right…
"What?" Dani and Valerie asked, slightly shocked.
Danny focused, concentrating so that he'd use just the right amount of energy. Slowly, the transformation progressed, but not to the usual effects. Instead of red and white sneakers, they were black and silver. His jeans were normal, but his shirt had altered itself as well. It was a black and white T-shirt with his symbol on it. (Think Micro-Management. And, yes, I do love that look. That's why it tends to pop up in a lot of my stories.) His hair wasn't purely white anymore, there was a large black streak running through it (Now think Phantom Planet, only reversed.
After the transformation was complete, Danny flopped down on the grass next to Dani, on the opposite side of Valerie. He lazily placed his arms behind his head.
"See? Laying on the grass, less noticeable, and secret identity still unknown." He confirmed, a pleasant smile placed on his slightly less-glowing face.
"Hey! That's cheating!" Dani claimed in mock anger, but a playful smirk was spread across her lips.
"No. It's creative thinking." The boy corrected her.
Valerie let out a soft chuckle. She never would have thought that one day, she'd be laying on the grass, next to Danny Phantom, her former worst enemy. And giggling. She looked over at the two again. She hated to admit it, but Phantom's smile was kinda cute. (If she says Phantom, she means Danny It was also…familiar. In some strange way, she recognized it. Maybe she had met Phantom in his human identity. She'd ask him now, but it would most likely ruin the nice little moment. Another thing that caught her eye; the black streak in his hair. So his hair was black in human form. She looked at his altered clothes. He could have probably pulled a decent Goth. She'd remember to pay closer attention to the Goth guys at school. But for now, she was going to relax.
"Wanna play a game?" Dani asked mischievously.
"What kind of game?" Valerie questioned, suspicious of what the little girl was thinking of.
"No ghost-powers or ghost-hunting suit tag. Danny's it!" She rushed out before leaping up and running away, laughing like mad.
Valerie turned to stare at the little girl run away. She was so innocent and child-like. It was pretty adorable. A quick tap on her shoulder woke her from her musings. She turned around in confusion.
"You're it!" Danny Phantom screamed before running away quickly.
"We'll see about that!" She shouted, chasing after the teen with a predatory grin. It was no longer a deadly hunt, it was a fun one.
Yeah, I know, cute, but lame. I'm trying to figure how to end this or what to do next.
