Chapter 10
Mai and Sam
Mai was slightly intimidated by Danny Phantom's friend as the two girls walked through Amity Park. She was darker, angrier, more focused than her, and a lot more comfortable with her gun. Mai had never even held a gun before now, the girl, Sam, had to show her how to hold it, how to aim, and how to shoot. In the end Sam said that Mai should stay beside her at all times so that she wouldn't get accidentally shot in the back. Now the two of them were walking side by side, Sam having decided that the bandanna was useless, looking for any sign of Teramoto. "Soooo…how'd you get wrapped up in this ghost hunting thing?" Mai eventually asked Sam. "I'll tell you if you tell me," Sam replied, Mai was grateful that she could speak Japanese. "That's fair," Mai said and Sam told her.
"Alright, I was there when Danny got his powers. I was the one that told him to go into the Ghost Portal and see what was inside. I never thought that he'd turn it on, or turn into a superhero. I'd known Danny since we were seven; I couldn't just let him handle this stuff by himself. And of course because we hang out so much ghosts would come after him and I got caught in the middle so much I finally just figured enough was enough and decided to learn how to use his parent's technology so I could fight ghosts without being some damsel in distress," Sam said. "Wow, that's so much…better than what happened to me," Mai said, and sighed in embarrassment.
"Alright, so it's your turn now," Sam told Mai as they walked along, people looking at the two Japanese speaking girls. "Okay…so I first met Naru at my school, my friends thought he was hot, but I thought he was just a stuck up pretty boy. He had come to investigate this old building near my school where supposedly ghosts had been spotted. I did a little snooping there myself, broke one of his cameras, knocked over a bunch of bookshelves, and got Lin sent to the Hospital when he saved me from the falling bookshelves. Naru told me that I had to repay for that by working as an intern for him. I met Monk, Ayako, John, and Masako during that same case as they all tried to exorcise the spirit. Masako said there were no ghosts there though, and in the end she was right. It turned out to have been a girl at my school who had psychic abilities she couldn't control, causing a poltergeist. After that I've been working with everyone," Mai told her.
Sam nodded at this, "Danny said that you had powers too, that you used them to cut him up a lot." Sam stopped and looked at Mai. "I'm sorry, but he attacked us first. I was afraid for my life! We haven't faced many ghosts as hostile as he was that day. Monk and Ayako taught me some warding magic to protect myself after I almost died a few times fighting ghosts. We're not like you, Japan doesn't have five guns for every person; our only defenses against ghosts are chants, mantras, wards, and psychic abilities. It turned out that I had psychic abilities so I was taught the Nine Cuts by Ayako along with the Seal of the Unbreakable One by Monk. Ayako and I used the Nine Cuts on him to defend ourselves. Is he alright?" Mai asked, concerned.
Sam walked on a little and got ahead of Mai before answering, "No. Danny acts like he's fine, but the wounds you guys gave him have really messed him up. He's not healing as fast as he usually does. He thinks I don't notice, but I do. Tucker does too, but we didn't know how to tell him. And he can't take a break now after he unleashed that Teramoto Kenta psycho. He has to stop him now. He saw on the News what he did, and he feels he has to make up for the people that ghost killed." "Should we call it off for tonight, wait until he's completely healed?" Mai asked, she had no idea what being a half-ghost meant, but she didn't want to see anyone become a whole ghost if she could prevent it. "It won't stop him. Unless he passes out he never gives up," Sam told her. All of a sudden Mai felt a small headache then watched as an explosion blasted out of the building beside her. Mai watched helplessly as debris crashed down on the ground, crushing Sam.
Mai then blinked and realized she had been screaming and Sam was shaking her. Mai looked at her then looked at the building. "We need to go now!" Mai said and grabbed Sam's hand and started running away. Thirty seconds later the two girls heard an explosion and turned to see an explosion rock the building, and debris to come crashing down. "Did you see that happen!?" Sam asked Mai. Mai sadly nodded then looked up and saw a ghost charge out of the building. "What is that!?" Mai yelled. Sam looked up and saw the ghost too, "Oh no! It's the Fright Knight!" Sam turned to Mai and told her, "Call Danny's Parents now! We aren't equipped to deal with him ourselves!" Mai started yelling into her ear mic when Sam yelled, "English!" at her in English.
Mai was blushing as she started again in English, and saw the Fright Knight coming towards her and Sam. "Misterr and Misses Fenton! I'm fighting the Frright Knight now! I need yourr help now, I'm at…Llee and Stevens Strreet," Mai said as fast as she could. "We're on our way, just hang on!" she heard Mr. Fenton yell. Sam pulled Mai back just in time to stop a large purple gem from hitting her. "Thou young wench from a foreign land, for you my new master has a new demand. Leave this home and return to your native sands, or your blood will be spread across a thousand lands," the Fright Knight said. "No way is that happening, you walking tin can!" Sam yelled and shot him in the head. "GAH! Only one was I told to spare, for you I have not a care!" the Fright Knight yelled and blasted ghost rays at her from his eyes.
Sam and Mai ran and dodged down the street, shooting at him the whole way. More of Sam's shots hit him than Mai's, but none of them were slowing him down much. Mai then got an idea and told Sam, "Shoot his horrse!" Mai then stopped and shot at the Fright Knight's flying steed and hit it in its left eye. The horse whinnied and roared at the same time and the Fright Knight fell off it and onto the ground. "For my Knightmare's wound thou shall pay! You will not live to see the day!" the Fright Knight yelled as he raised his arms over his head and a giant purple gem formed. Just then the Fenton Family Assault Vehicle came screaming from around the corner and a giant laser came out of its roof and blasted the Fright Knight right in his chest.
Jack and Maddie ran out of the Vehicle and Jack swung around the Jack O' Nine Tails and sent it wrapping around the Fright Knight, holding him still and allowing Maddie to blast him with her own ecto-bazooka. A green portal opened and sucked the Fright Knight back into the Ghost Zone. "Wow!" Sam yelled at the same time Mai yelled, "Totemo kuru!" "Are you al- Sam!? What are you doing here?" Mr. Fenton said. Sam got a deer in the headlights look and then quickly said, "Well I heard that there was a killer ghost running around and I thought that I couldn't just let him run around my town without doing something about it but then I heard a loud boom and I saw that Fright Knight guy chasing her!" Sam pointed at Mai who had the sense to just smile and nod. "She saved my llife!" Mai told them.
"Alright, this is getting dangerous now, so you girls are going to ride with us, come on," Maddie said and Mai and Sam got into the Fenton Family Assault Vehicle with the Fentons.
Author's Note: I wrote the two L's and R's when Mai speaks English in story because I figured since she isn't fluent in English she has to over exaggerate the sounds to not get them mixed up. As a guy that once took French I know that when you have unfamiliar sounds in a tongue that you're not native to, you tend to over emphasize them.