Of Saturn

By: Wilona Riva

Disclaimer: I only own the plot and any OCs.

Phantom Watch

Silver Millennium, Titan Castle, 2nd Month of Harvest

Prince Ganymede was quick with languages, and soon adopted a High-Saturnian flowery dialect of Lunarian as his maternal tongue. The Terran accent was still present, but smoothed over with time. Queen Serenity sighed with relief with Lord Artemis brought her the report on Prince Ganymede's progress.

Hotaru turned towards him, when the Lunar Queen expressed her joy. "Aren't you happy now?"

At ten-years old, Ganymede already had quite the vocabulary, and told her quite what he thought of the whole matter.

Hotaru patted his cheek. "Behave, Crow Prince."

Present Day, Amity Park, Casper High

As the Fentons couldn't quite hide what was happening to their son, they let it out at a meeting with his teachers and concerned parents that one of their experiments had backfired and coated Danny head-to-toe. Having swallowed some of it by mistake, the ectoplasm bonded with Danny's DNA and given him some odd side-effects, including the sudden shift in hair colors, style and length.

After an intense question-and-answer session, the school board decided to call in the Guys in White, who ran lots of tests-some painful-on him, but found nothing negatively affecting the boy.

"Not even a faint whisper of ghost powers," Agent O assured Principal Ishiyama. "It's safe to let the boy resume classes."

"To be on the safe side," Agent K added, "we'll be monitoring the boy from a safe distance. If he does show any ghost-like symptoms, call us at once. You can never be to sure about these things."

"Thank you, gentleman," she said, escorting them to the door of her office. "I will call his parents right now, and he'll be back in school tomorrow."

Present Day, Amity Park, Fenton Works

It had now been several weeks since the incident in the cafeteria, and Danny was able to exert more control of his constant fluctuating hair color to some degree with help from the Shinto Priestess, Rei Hino.

"My hair used to do the same thing," she told Maddie, "though your story was a bit more plausible based on your family's eccentricity."

Maddie smiled. This girl was good-a bit too good at times.

"Thank you, Rei," she said.

Sam and Danny fought on and off for at least two weeks, and quite verbally at times. Tucker tried to play peacemaker, but often times, came downstairs to give his ears and nerves a rest. Sam didn't come around that much anymore, but eventually she accepted things as they were, and made a temorary truce with Danny and Hotaru.

And of course, Naru and Umino had to tell their story about the glowing green jungle cat in the park to the local news, who featured it on a new segment entitled Phantom Watch.

Danny stormed into the house, and dropped his backpack by the door. "We're going to have to do something with Paulina," he fumed.

Rei smirked. "The girl does have a shrine in her locker. Maybe we should let her in on your secretly being a prince in a former life."

"NO!" Danny shouted, "I've got enough problems with her chasing me all over the place as Phantom."

Jazz laughed. "You should milk it for all it's worth," she advised. "One day you'll can turn this into one of those high adventure stories for your own kids."

"Sure," he said sarcastically. Taking a bite out of a cookie, he paused. "Who made these?"

"Mako-chan," Rei said. "She had to do some major wheedling from the Baxters to let her use their kitchen. After one memorable meal, they agreed. Now one night a week, she's got free range of their pantry to experiment."

"So, what's on your agenda, sweetie?" Maddie asked Danny, who was on his second cookie. "No more or you'll spoil your dinner."

Mumbling okay, he grabbed the half gallon of faintly tinted glowing green milk from the fridge and drank it straight out of the jug. Since he was the only one who drank out of it, Maddie didn't care.

"I promised Danielle and Valerie we'd play miniature golf on Saturday after the meeting. The Five are making me run through another ceremonial rehearsal. They've decided to overrule me. Tucker, Sam and I are going to go see the latest sequel to Gothic Mall Massacre on Sunday. And I promised Hotaru I'd go over to the Outers for dinner tomorrow night."

The phone rang then. Maddie got up to answer it, then said, "I'll let him know."

"Good news?" Danny asked.

"Yes, the Guys in White have cleared you to go back to school tomorrow. It's Friday, so you won't have any school work to deal with. That trick Plasmius taught you worked well enough to fool the Guys in White, but don't get overconfident."

"I won't," Danny promised.

"What do you mean overrule you?" Mamoru asked coming upstairs and catching only that part of the conversation. "Who rules the Ghost Zone-you or your advisory council?"

"Neither and both," Danny answered. "Ghost Zone politics is-complicated. The only way I know anything going on is through the shades. Plasmius keeps the place so brightly lit, that thank the Ancients, I was able to find one shade to infiltrate the meetings or I wouldn't know anything."

"Scorpius," stated Rei, naming the little pixie who was the only shade who couldn't abide shadows.

"Uh-huh," Danny agreed. "So whose up for a game of Doom?"

"I'm in," Mamoru said. "Get ready to get your butt kicked."

"Dream on," Danny told him in Saturnian-laced Lunarian, then quickly covered up his mouth. His hair turned cherry pink.

"Embarrassment strikes again," Jazz sang out from her place at the table.

"Shut up, Jazz," Danny growled at her.

Rei and Mamoru laughed.

"How are Sam and Tucker?" Maddie asked. "They haven't come over for a while now."

"Fine, I guess," Danny said. "They're both still pretty sore with me right now."

Present Day, Ghost Zone, Clockwork's Tower

Clockwork watched as the screaming thermos just popped itself out of existence. "Happy now?" he asked the Observants.

"Yes," came the collective answer. "You could have done that sooner."

"It wasn't time," came back the reply.

"Though, Ganymede will be meeting Solannon soon," he added watching a white-haired girl open the door for her older sister, a tall young woman with persian blue eyes.

Present Day, Amity Park, Fenton Work

Danny sat down and dropped his head down in exhaustion on the table. "What next?" he mumbled.

"Hey, Mads," Jack shouted from the front door. "There's a new family moving in next door."

"Don't say it," Danny said, glaring at his family.

Maddie chuckled, leaving the kids to sort out the various other day-to-day nonsense of her son's life.

30th Century, Crystal Tokyo, West Tower

"Has anyone seen Yuki?" a 7 years old girl, who looked like a younger version of Senshi Mars, asked, walking into the room. She was the only one of her sisters born with a star seed, and to have the trademark hair of a Martian royal along with all problems involving hair color changing issues as well.

"No, why?" her older sister asked.

"The key to the Time Gate that Mom gave me is missing," the younger girl replied. "If I don't find it, Mom will kill me."

"Or make you spend the weekend with Arthur," her next-to-older sister teased. "Seriously, Chiasa, you've got to quit with the dramaworks."

"And get yourself better organized," the oldest girl in the room added, breaking the silence.

"Gin! Hoshi!" Chiasa wailed.

"Let me guess," another girl's voice commented dryly, as she pushed up her tortoiseshell frames. "You left the Time Key on your nightstand. It's vanished again."

"Not only that," added the youngest girl in the room, "she's lost Yuki again."

"Shut up, Momo," Chiasa growled. "I just need to think where the key and Yuki could be."

"Easy," Shinju, the dry-toned sister, answered. "Yuki has the key. He's always getting into our stuff."

"But what could he want with a Time Key?" Chiasa asked. "He's only two years old."

"Elementary," Gin answered. "Who has he been asking to see all week?"

"Daddy!" everyone said in unison.

"Well," Momo said. "Let's find him before Mom finds us. Or Oba-san for that matter."

"Yuki or Daddy?"

"Shinju!"