Hi guys! Yeah, I know, it's been FOREVER, but I had school stuff, and then I was lazy, then I got sick, but here is the next chapter!
Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom...
"Danielle, I'm going out today, feel free to fly around town, as long as no one sees you" he said. Dani perked up and immediately transformed, changing into her Phantom attire, and flew out the window, the curtains flapping as she did so. Danny looked slightly wide-eyed at the whooping Dani who rapidly dissapeared from view. Man, she really liked flights.
He shook his head, it was times like this that made him wonder how he hid her for almost two months now. Scratch that, he wondered how he had no charges for property damage so far.
"Aw, great! It's raining!" he said, running back inside and pulling an umbrella out. Then, as a second thought, he grabbed a dark blue coat. It was freezing outside, and the elusive Danny Phantom was not about to catch a cold walking around with nothing on but a teeshirt.
He walked to the bus stop, and waited. There were several people there already, probably businessmen, grumpy at the weather. Several wet or dripping belongings were clear against the grey buildings, checking their expensive and professional-looking watches for the bus to arrive. Cars raced by, splashing various sidewalks with muddy water. The dim glow of streetlights punctuated the grey scene.
The bus arrived. Everyone got on. Danny picked the back seat, and started to play games on his flip phone. He leaned back into the worn leather seat. The bus started up, and everything outside raced by. Danny leaned against the bus window, and watched the world race by.
His stop arrived, and he got off and headed towards the stationary store he knew had the stuff he needed for his english report. On the way there, he saw someone, someone in a soaked black and purple tank top and jet black hair dripping with water.
Sam wasn't having a good day. She accidently hurt herself today, and got a small cut on her knee. Then she lost her wallet in the rain, and on top of that, it was wet. Very wet.
She sniffled, she might get a cold.
Then a shadow appeared over her. She looked up, and there was Danny, holding an umbrella over her. He smiled awkwardly, "Hey Sam, bad day?" he said. Sam sniffled again, "Yeah" she said nasally, one word answer. Danny sat beside her, "Nice weather?" he said, half-heartedly and ironically. Sam grinned a little back, "Yep, wonderful weather. The clouds are shining, the carhorns are chirping, what more could I ask for?" she said sarcastically.
Danny rubbed the back of his head awkwardly, "Uh…yeah" he said lamely. Sam sighed, "It's okay Danny, I'm just cold...and grumpy" she added the last part with a sour expression. Danny rubbed the back of his neck, then took off his jacket and draped it over her, much to Sam's surprise. "So why aren't you home yet?" he asked casually. Sam smiled and looked at him with a gummy expression, "I lost my wallet" she said.
She seemed upset
"Where's your wallet?"
Sam gestured vaguely to where she had come from previous to the rain, "Somewhere on my way here" she said halfheartedly. She didn't expect to find it again, it had a good few hundred in there, and whoever picks it up must've long spent it by now.
"Do you want to walk home with me?" he asked, "I mean, your place is a while away, so…" he trailed off. Sam nodded, "I appreciate it Danny, remind me to treat you sometime" she said.
Danny and Sam walked back, under an umbrella-back to FentonWorks. When they neared it, Danny pretended to drop something. "Oops, wait here Sam" he said, darting behind his house, handing Sam the umbrella. When he was out of sight, Danny quickly flew up as Fenton to his room. Dani had already returned, and was reading some of his comics.
"Dani, Sam's here. Hide somewhere, quick!" he said before diving back downstairs through the window. Dani gaped at him for a second before scrambling to find somewhere to hide, dropping the comics on his bed.
"I'm back, lets go" he said. Sam looked at him weirdly. Danny unlocked the door and stepped inside.
Danny turned on the lights, and poured her a cup of warm water, since he didn't trust anything else not to try and bite her back as soon as she took a sip, his parents wern't exactly aware that ectoplasm and food didn't mix.
"Here" he said, placing it on the table. Sam took a sip, feeling the warmth start to work its way into her system, warming up the previously-frozen legs and arms. "Thanks Danny" she said.
Danny sighed as he realized that she might be here for a while. "So...anything happen lately? I know we haven't been hanging out much lately, so..." he attempted at making conversation.
Sam looked at him, "There is something, but I shouldn't bring this up by myself. It's for Jazz and Tucker" she said.
"Is that why you've been acting weird around me?" he said. Sam flinched slightly; Danny was a lot more bright than she let on. C- grades indeed.
"Do you want me to call Jazz and Tucker?" he asked. Sam shook her head, "NO!" she said, with more vigor than she meant.
Danny looked at her with a slightly startled expression, "Okay…didn't know you were partial to phone calls" he said. Sam groaned, "Not the phone calls, the Jazz and Tucker. I just...ugh!" Sam punched the table, "I know that something's up!" she blurted out angril "And I know that there's something you're not telling us. I just wanted to know what?!"
Danny flinched at her words.
Sam sat down, "Danny, I want to know" she said quietly.
Danny could see that she was torn about this. He didn't realize that she had felt this way, and it seemed that Sam didn't know either. She looked surprised at her own outburst. Danny looked sad, "Sam, I can tell you this much, what I do is going to put you in danger. It's risky for anyone to know. Please do a favour for me and don't push this" Danny suddenly looked very sad, as if he knew that he couldn't tell her, but wanted to so much. It was so...un Danny-like, and more than a little worrying.
But Sam didn't look taken back. She didn't feel regret or shock. She felt anger.
"Danny, why would you keep this from me if you know that it's so important?!" she asked, "Is it because you don't trust me? It's because it's DANGEROUS?! Why couldn't you ask for us to help you?!" she asked, her tone rising with each accusation until her voice was an octive higher.
Danny a step back, "Sam…" he said, in an attempt to placate her. Sam sighed, and let it out, "Sorry about that Danny" she mumbled, "I guess I'm just...fustrated. Really, really fustrated"
Danny unexpectedly pulled her in for a hug, Sam pulled back before relaxing into his hug. The rain countinued on outside, drops of water pittered on the window. It was the only noise present in the house for a long time.
Spookygirl is online
Spookygirl: Tucker? Jazz?
Technogeek: I'm here
Jasmine_Fenton: Here
Spookygirl: I was just at Danny's. I know what's wrong, well…some of what's wrong
Technogeek: What?
Jasmine_Fenton: WHAT?!
Spookygirl: Look, Danny's doing something risky right now. He won't let anyone know what it is.
Jasmine_Fenton: Something DANGEROUS?!
Technogeek: Like what?
Spookygirl: I don't know…
Jasmine_Fenton: WHAT DO WE DOO?! DANNY CAN'T DO ANYTHING MORE THAN TRIP UP THE STAIRS! WE CAN'T LET HIM GET IN HARM'S WAY!
Spookygirl: Jazz..?
Jasmine_Fenton: Sorry…
Technogeek: So, what should we do?
Spookygirl: We keep doing what we're doing right now, but give him some space
Jasmine_Fenton: Right, but still…
Technogeek: Uh oh, I think my mom's calling me
Technogeek is offline
Spookygirl: Jazz, help me with this
Jasmine_Fenton: You're right Sam, we can't do anything radical for now. Keep observing him, and see if anything else happens.
Spookygirl: Thanks Jazz
Spookygirl is offline
Jasmine_Fentonis offline
Danny decided to take Dani out into the GZ to train her powers.
Of course, he didn't account for the fact that her control over it would be…lets just say that Danny could do a lot better at flirting with Paulina then Dani could with her ecto-powers.
Danny looked aprehensivly at Dani, who was trying to form an ecto-ray. She was trying, but her results were mainly tiny green sparks. She groaned, "Danny! I can't do thi-"
Tscheoo!
Dani yelped she jumped an impressive height. Danny raised one eyebrow and turned intangible casually. Dani grinned hugely at Danny, who mock-yawned.
"Well, its something"
Dani stared at him with a "really?" expression. "It's something? It's something? Danny, I just made an ecto-blast and you're calling this something? It's a huge achievement for me!" she said, jumping up and down indignantly. Danny hid a smirk, as a matter of fact, Dani's ecto-ray wasn't exactly something you would call weak, but it wouldn't protect her, which was what they were aiming for.
Dani pouted and tried to form another ecto-ray. Green sparks fizzled around her, dancing around her hands. They compressed into a ball, growing bigger...
...then unexpectedly, they turned a icy blue.
Suddenly, the entirety of the small island they were on was turned into an cold patch.
Danny and Dani looked with eyes as big as basketballs at the icy, picturesque scene before them.
Then the tension broke as Dani smirked winningly, "What was that about something?" she said sweetly. Danny playfully shoved her, but then frowned. This was kind of worrying, but she did seem to be getting better.
Dani sat down contentedly, "Well, now that that's that, how about you show me something? You have to practice too" she reminded. Danny groaned and formed an ecto-ray, which took on a ectoplasmic green. He looked around, and saw a piece of rock. He smacked it into the rock.
Danny kept practicing. What he really wanted to do was try and do an ecto-field. They were always the hardest because they had to be bouncy and reflective, properties that were harder with ectoplasm.
"Yes!"
Danny had a big grin on his face as he realized that he had finally made an ecto-field. Dani watched curiously. "Ecto-ray" he said. Dani rolled her eyes and chucked a small ecto-ray in his direction. It bounced off of the shield.
Danny let the shield down and whooped. "Yeah! That's a new power!" he said, looking remarkably like a child at his first amusement park. Dani rolled her eyes. Progress for the both of them.
Danny and Dani went back to FentonWorks. Danny heard his phone ringing from upstairs, raced upstairs to get it. Dani was going too, but then spotted something on the counter of the lab equipment.
She walked over, and peeked over the counter where she was too short to look over. A glass tube of something…
Dani was a kid, and kids were curious by nature. She poked it, and the green liquid splashed around. She looked around for some papers on what it was. "8-R ectop." she mumbled, ruffling around a paper bin until she found it.
She read over it quickly, and…
"Eek!"
Dani flinched backwards as she spilt something into the green test tube. The other tube splooshed into the green one, and it quickly mixed.
Then the glass tube became purple.
Dani looked around nervously. She spotted a cork. She snatched up the cork and plugged it into the vial, and the papers upstairs.
Danny sighed as he put down his phone. It was Sam again, calling to see if he was okay, trying to convince him to spill whatever he was hiding. He heard Dani coming upstairs.
"Hey Dani"
"H-Hey cuzz" she said, drawing out the z. Danny looked at her suspisciouly, "Dani…what's that behind your back?"
Dani started to whistle, "Oh, nothing. I just have some…stuff?" Danny looked skeptical. "Dani…" he said. Dani sighed and brought out her glass test tube. It was a impressive purple with an ectoplasmic tinge.
Danny's mouth fell onto the ground.
"Dani! That's mom's experiment! Do you even know what it does?!" he yelled/shrieked. Dani winced, "Cuz…it's just a glass tube of unknown liquid…that I don't know about…which I mixed together by accident"
Danny sighed and held a hand, "Give it to me" he said. Dani, looking at her blue tennis shoes, gave him the glass tube and the papers. She looked like a child caught doing something they shouldn't have.
Danny examined the vial, turning it over and watching it flow. "I have no idea what this is" he said. He looked over the paper.
"You don't happen to have mixed the green ectoplasm with another vial did you?" he said. Dani looked up, "I did, why?" Danny shook his head, "You mixed an ectoplasmic liquid with a new invention of mom's" he said, "it's unstable right now, but if you…" Danny phased through the ground and into the lab, then back again, "…add this" he poured a pink liquid into it, "It should stabilize it"
Danny gave the test tube to Dani, "Don't lose that," he said as he quickly changed into Phantom form and flew around the lab, picking up an empty test tube and filling it with the same green stuff that Dani saw.
"There" he said, "Now you won't notice"
Dani, awkwardly holding the glass test tube of the strangely blue color. "What does it do?" she asked. Danny shrugged, "It will enable a ghost to hide their ectosignature" he said, "at least, that's what it's supposed to do. I'm honestly not that sure actually"
They both changed back into Fenton and walked upstairs.
The next day, Danny went out, leaving Dani at home to play with the tube of blue liquid. She watched with interest as it flowed from one end to another. It was reflective, dark blue, with small bubbles on the surface. She set it down on Danny's table, and pondered about whether to go for a fly.
"It's so boring"
Every time Danny had to go to school, she was always left to bite the dust. She could go flying, of course. She had that privilege now. But she was too tired.
She absentmindedly twirled something in her hands with a sigh. Bored, bored, bored, bored and bored. She looked outside, then flopped onto his bed, then phased into the lab, then out the door, then onto the roof, then…
Back to Danny's room.
Dani sighed, then thought. What's Casper High like?
She smirked
Danny was sitting in class, attempting to actually get some notes down so that he could review them after. Sam and Tucker would normally be staring at Danny, jotting down everything he did. But today was a slow day, so they didn't bother.
Someone yawned.
Someone sighed
It was so slow! Danny almost fell asleep twice listening to someone idly tap their pen. He almost wanted to just ask for a washroom break just so he could go flying.
Dani flew invisibly around the school. It was such a big place, much bigger then FentonWorks. She flew to the cafeteria, peeked in various classrooms, and then onto the roof.
Casper High was huge
Dani laughed playfully as she did cartwheels in the halls.
She left for FentonWorks just as the bell rang.
"Hey Danny, fun day?" she asked as Danny came back. Danny nodded, "Yeah, fun…" he sighed, "Lots of note-taking. No ghosts or anything" Dani smirked knowingly, "I should think so" she mumbled.
Chapter 7!
You know, I didn't think that Danielle would ever actually go to Casper High. I mean, we all know that in the show she's out-going and hates being in small spaces, but still…
Whatever, it'll be fun to see where else she goes.
By the way, the glass test tube of mystery liquid was so weird. Like, I didn't even know what to do with it. I just kind of thought about it and went "Oh, a good idea!" and just went with that. It took me more time that I would admit to think of a use for it, and then it was still very mundane.
Anyways, as always, please R and R, and I'll see you next time!
-Taelyn
