"What game are you playing, Phantom?" Valerie hissed.
She was hovering on her board only a foot from his face.
"What? I'm not playing any game, I'm stu—haha, yeah, game. This is fun."
That he was immobilized, stuck phased halfway through a wall, was the last thing Danny wanted to reveal to a ghost hunter that was deadset on killing or capturing him.
"Seriously, why are you just hovering there like that?" Valerie asked. Her face was twisted in suspicion, as if she thought it were some peculiar heinous trap he was setting for her.
Danny tried to activate his intangibility, but the feeling of going intangible just fizzled out before it could complete. On the interior part of the building, Danny could feel his ghost tail wiggling furiously.
"Are you kidding me? This move is really great for building your ghost abs." Danny said.
Fuck. It didn't look like he was getting out of here any time soon.
His back end was safe inside the abandoned warehouse. But from torso up, he was sticking out where anyone could see him that walked by the dirty alley. And he had an angry ghost hunter right in front of his face.
"Whatever you're playing at, I'm not falling for it." Valerie said. She aimed her blaster at his head. At this range, he could feel the heat and energy rolling off the charged anti-ghost weapon. Danny froze, his eyes squinted shut as he winced away in anticipation of the shot.
But it never came. Slowly, he opened his eyes, only to be met with the sight of the Red Huntress slowly retreating on her board. She glared at him as she receded from view, her weapon still out and ready.
"Phew." he breathed a sigh of relief. For some reason, Valerie was leaving him alone. A sense of fairplay? Her suspicious nature working agains her, making her convinced this was some ruse on his part? It didn't matter, he would take what he could get.
"Now I just have to get out of here before someone else comes along." he groaned. There were so many worse enemies of his that could stumble upon him. Skulker, Vlad, his parents...His parents.
"Shit." he whimpered. "I'm gonna be late for curfew again!"