Phantom planet never happened. Danny was still a thing of mystery to most if not all of the world. But things have changed in the past few years, a lot of things.


Danny floats slowly through the green glow of the portal, checking to see if Amber happens to be waiting on the other side. Sam and Tucker had been less than pleased with him going into the portal especially when they found out he was going with the rock queen herself, they still don't trust most of his 'new' Ghost friends since most of them have attacked him at least once but they just don't understand.

Sure enough she's floating just inside the ghost zone picking out a small soft tune, no doubt worried about the Warden.

Floating the rest of the way through he gives a wave, "Hey Em."

She moves her head a little faster than usual, signalling he had startled her, before putting the guitar on her back. "Sup kid, you ready to rock?"

"Yeah, did you happen to get ahold of Skulker?"

Her happy look fades slightly with his question, but he doesn't have to ask what's wrong before he gets an answer, "Yup. Wasn't happy to hear from me but he was willing to answer my questions, even if they were veuge."

Danny nods before asking, "What did he tell you?"

Ember waves a hand in a 'Follow me' fashion as she starts floating away, "He said that there was an increase in activity by his Island, including the Warden, and while he was glad his hunting was more rewarding than normal he had also noticed the abyss getting closer as well, he told me that at first he had just assumed his Island was moving in that direction but when he went to check, it wasn't moving."

The ghost teen stops his companions rant with a question, "How would he know if it was moving or not?"

She looks at him with a perplexed look before turning forward again, "The ghost zone has a pull, it's like an internal homing beacon constantly telling you where you are. The more time you spend in it, the easier it is to feel, that's how I always know where your door is."

He nods his understanding when she looks to see if he understood.

She continues, "It's possible for a new ghost, such as yourself, to feel the pull if you focus on it hard enough, weaker ghosts often will never get a full grasp on how to navigate or even feel that pull while some of the more powerful ghosts have always been able to feel it. It took me years to understand what I was feeling and why it was important."

Danny speaks up again with another question, "What does it feel like?"

He can almost feel her trying to convey the answer to his question through body alone as she tries to gather her thoughts.

"It's like… you know when the lights are all off in a room but you know exactly where everything is?"

He flies a little faster to look at her face, "Yeah?"

She purses her lips, "Well… it's kinda like that but not. Ugh, that was a bad example uhhh….. how about… when your lost in a new place but you just know, like deep down in your soul that the way you are walking is the wrong way? But when you turn around to go back your even more confused because that's not right either?"

He's felt that plenty of times, sometimes when he flies too high and can't see the ground it's like that. "So it feels like you're lost? Then how do you know how to get around?"

She shakes her head, "You don't but you do. For example I'm taking you to Skulkers Island or where it should be, but a lot of ghosts don't like their homes being well known so they will often move it so that way it's harder to find. There's a legend about this frozen land full of white furry beasts that have a map of the ghost zone, and it always knows where everything is, no matter how often you move something. Like a living current time map."

The halfa smirks at that, it's not a legend and he's been allowed to use that map before.

She continues unaware of his inner musings, "Anyway, the feeling can be muddy and hard to read or feel most of the time but it's helpful."

Getting back to the topic at hand he can only put a pin in her words and hope it helps him feel whatever pull the ghost zone seems to have. It would be great if he didn't have to rely on a map or ask for directions all the time.

The don't get a chance to say much more let alone breath when Warden stops them in their tracks, "HEY! Going past a roadblock is considered trespassing, disturbing the peace, and resisting the law!"

They both freeze as the man in white floats in front of them, confused and a little afraid of what's about to happen.

Danny speaks fast, "W-wait we didn't know, we were just going to Skulker's Island to talk to him! And we didn't even see a roadblock!"

The man scowls at them, "You're breaking the law whether you know it or not." He pulls out his ticket book and fishes for a pen in his pocket.

Ember seems to panic more and Danny has to think of a way out of this before something bad happens, "Hold on Warden, will you at least show us where the roadblock is and tell us why we can't see Skulker? Please?" He adds that last one in hastily.

The man narrows his eyes before pointing to a guard who seems to come out of nowhere, "That man saw you pass the guard. This area is restricted territory and the roadblock is behind him."

Sure enough, when they look there is a large wall of guards and flashing lights down below them, it was enough out of the way to be easily missed with their height. The Warden starts putting his pen to the paper.

"So you're just going to write us up even though you made this roadblock yesterday?" It was a long shot but they might be able to get out of this.

Warden looks him deep in the eyes as he hisses his next words, "Are you talking back to an enforcer of the law."

It's not a question and if Danny messes up, there's no way out of this, "No sir. I was just wondering if you would at least allow us the chance to move Embers home since she was in the human world with me when the barrier was put up?"

He's banking on the limited knowledge he has and hopes it's enough. Ghosts have territories or places they reside that they keep a close eye on. If anything goes in or out without their say the Warden allows them the ability to deal with it as they please as long as it's in their own space. That was why when Skulker kidnapped him and Vallery he didn't do anything. Keeping a ghost from their home or territory was taboo, Box ghost told him that and he could only hope that the man had been correct and wasn't lying.

Warden seems to ooze disdain and hate as he turns his attention to the blue haired girl, "Is that right?"

She nods slowly gripping the neck of her guitar a little harder than was probably healthy as the man fixes his eyes on her.

"And what, pray tell, is it doing near Skulkers Island?"

Danny wants to speak for her but knows that if he does that it would get them both arrested for life. She shakes her head just a little before opening her mouth, "Skulker and I have been trying to get along. He like listening to my music…." she hesitates here for just a moment before continuing, "and I needed a safer place to park my house."

The silence after that is long and thick, it's almost suffocating, like trying to breath at the top of a mountain without preparation. The thin air somehow making you feel like your breathing in something too heavy for your lungs.

He leans forward, his glare getting more intense as he scrutinizes both of them. Danny can feel the itch to attack the guy just under his skin, and out of the corner of his eye he can see Ember's grip bending the metal of her guitar ever so slightly as they both try and keep their ghostly instincts at bay.

Finally the man stands up straight and speaks, "Symbiotic Mutualism. Common around ghosts of similar power. I was unaware you and Skulker were trying for companinization."

The pressing atmosphere eases just a little as the man speaks, they might just be able to get out of this.

"You have 1 hour to move your abode and it must be past this exact spot." He flicks out a pocket watch while his ticket pad and pen disappear into his pocket. "Your time started 12 seconds ago."

Danny takes the words for what they are and grabs Embers wrist quickly before shooting past the white clad man, "THANK YOU SIR! YOU'RE TOO KIND!"

He doesn't wait for a response as the quickly get a safe distance away before stopping.

"Holy crap, Baby-pop! How did you do that?! I thought we would be behind bars any second!"

Heaving a heavy breath of relief, it takes him a moment to decide how to answer her question, "Honestly, I had no idea what I was doing. I was just hoping that my bull-shittery would be enough to work on the Warden like it works on my teachers."

She smiles wide and wicked at him, seeming to finally lose all of that stress from earlier, "Well, you got us about an hour to get in and out before he will press charges against us we should put it to good use."

He nods before addressing their new problem, "What so we do about the deal?"

She twirls around before looking smug, "I do actually have my house near Skulker's Island."

He feels his jaw drop momentarily before speaking, "Wait, I thought you were a wandering ghost?"

She gives him a firm nod and a pat on the shoulder, "That's right."

Danny can feel his muscles tightening from the earlier stress and decides it can be taken care of later, "I thought wandering ghosts didn't have territories or homes?"

She scoffs at him as she drags him away, "Well, you're not entirely wrong but you're definitely not right either. See wandering ghosts can have homes, they just have something that's easy to move. Have you seen Johnny's crib?"

He can barely remember it since it was only in passing but somewhere a while back he had passed a trailer while Kitty was sitting on the roof. That must have been it then. "Yeah, but I thought he was a stationary ghost?"

Ember shakes her head, "Nope! He's a wandering ghost like me. Kitty is a tenacious ghost which is why she has attachment issues."

That makes a surprising amount of sense, but now it brings up another question, "I thought there were only 3 types of ghosts?"

She gives him a questioning look and he elaborates, "Wandering ghosts, stationary ghosts, and haunting ghosts."

Danny watches as her face turns to an amused smile, "You know so little for how experienced you are. Ok, ghost lesson 101 Baby-pop; 1: There are thousands of not millions of different descriptions for ghosts just like there are powers. 2: there are some that are more common than others. Some of the more used ones are stationary, wandering, haunting, protecting, and elemental ghosts. These are called common ghosts and trust me when I tell you that's not all of them. I can see the confusion on your face but let me finish. There are multiple levels of ghost types, they go from common to uncommon then rare, legendary, mythical and the last one is unclassified. Unclassified it the category for titles that don't have a place on the scale yet. Now before you ask, Halfa has been classified as mythical."

Danny feels his blood pool in his cheeks but it's not the usual warm of his human half, instead it's cold. Sam told him once that he started blushing blue after his ice core became active.

"There is another way to classify ghosts besides their status though and that's power. Obviously. That one goes Fragile, Weak, Deficient, Average, Strong, Dominant, Expert and Mastery. That's all of the ranks in power though nothing too complicated."

Danny gets a sudden thought, "Is that why Skulker went from calling me fragile to weak?"

The blue haired teens responding laugh would almost be worth hearing if it wasn't at his expense, "Haha! Yeah probably! Hahahahaha oh my gosh I can't! Hahaha!"

When she finally gets to a giggling fit he asks another question, "Then is whelp an important thing too? Or was that just an insult?"

Still giggling she responds, "Hee hee both. I'm sure you know whelp means puppy?"

He nods, after the 3rd time of being called it way in the beginning he had googled it just to make sure he actually knew what he was being called.

"Well it terms of ghost age we call each other something different. Generally it coincides with the area you 'grow up in'," She makes quotes with her fingers, "and personal lingo. I call you baby-pop as a personal flare from baby, the most used term. Some areas use pup, or calf, or weeone, and uh… infant. It's not defined but he defiantly uses it as an insult." She grins that wicked smile back at him once more as something comes into view.

It's round almost like a snail's shell on its side, a light blue door on the flat of it. The house itself is a purple color, not overly dark but definitely not a pastel. It looks to be 2 levels with a round disk serving as a surround deck. The roof is black and as they get closer he notices a few little things too, like names next to the windows written in various colors of spray paint, speakers sitting on the deck and strange graffiti on most the rest of it.

He look in awe as she lands on the deck, "This is yours?"

She smiles fondly at the house, "Yup. Now stop looking so gobsmacked and come in for a second. I need to grab something before we haul this thing out of here."

Landing softly he takes a hesitant step behind her before remembering that she had invited him in. It was ridiculous that he felt like a trespasser when he had her permission to be here, but honestly he's never been inside of a ghost's home, forget about the Yeti's since they offered him his own room, this was the first time he was welcomed.

"Plop down on the bean bag or something while I go upstairs." She flicks her hand to the black plush looking very furry thing in the front room before heading up the steps.

Taking her advice he sits on the bean bag and is almost engulfed by the thing, it's surprisingly soft and after shifting around slightly he finds that getting up might be a problem later. He decides not to look around the rest of the room after finding a ton of speakers and graffiti looking art everywhere, no need to snoop when he has better thing to think about.

Skulker probably moved his Island last night if what Ember said was true, and with the Warden on their heels it would take too long to try and look for him behind the line they supposedly set. Speaking of which, was that because of the zone problem he was told about? If so this might warrant a trip to Clockwork if he has to go extreme.

Ember drops through the floor to land in front of him while holding some straps in her arms, "Ok kid. I'm gunna need to ask you for some help with this so we can move faster."

Danny nods his head while trying to push himself up, "Ok just-UGH! Tell me what to do." He slips a little closer to the floor further making his life harder.

The blue haired rocker laughs before holding out a hand, "You do remember you can fly right? Or even phase through the bag?"

He takes her hand in embarrassment blushing blue as he is pulled up, "Y-yeah! Totally remembered that. Just uh, wanted to try it the normal way?" It's said as a question.

She must decide to save the teasing for later as she takes a harness and puts it on his shoulders, "Here, it just clips around your front like a hiking backpack. Easy right?"

He lets her move his arms around before clicking the buckle in place himself as she puts an identical one on, he can see that the back has a metal ring poking out and assumes it's for the cables on the floor.

"So, what are we doing?" He finally asks.

She leads him out the door with the cables in her arms before handing one to him, "We are moving my house remember? Hook this into the ring on my back would ya?"

He takes it and does as he's asked while speaking, "And this requires hiking gear?"

He turns around at her command listening as she talks behind him, "Not hiking gear, that stuff would be overkill. No, this is just going to make it easier on us. I found pushing makes it so I can't see what's in front of me and pulling with me hands is too much strain. There, now follow me with those cords and we can get going."

Picking up the cooled up cord from the floor, they float to the midway point of the house, "Do you want to take point or go down below?" She asks in an almost bored tone.

Danny shrugs, "Either is fine."

She nods and clips his cord to the ring on the house before flying underneath the surrounding platform and doing the same with her own.

He waits just off of the ground for her to give him some sort of instructions to follow as she places her guitar on an empty rack on the house.

Moving slowly both of them fly in the direction of the roadblock till the cords are taught, "Alright Baby-pop! This is where things can get tricky. Since there isn't gravity here we can tip the house over itself and I would rather avoid that so you'll have to keep up with me!"

He gives her a moc offended look, "Don't you mean that the other way around? I could race circles around you!"

She punches him in the shoulder before pushing forward, "Oh, stuff it! We both know I'm faster!"

He joins her shortly after, rubbing his arm, "Are not! I catch you all the time!"

"That's because I let you!" She gives him a wink while they pull.

It's not overly strenuous, it's kind of like pulling a stroller with a heavy child in it, not really much of a workout for ghosts with powers to destroy cities. They stay in silence for the trip back, it's much slower than when they raced in and Danny could hardly remember getting this far away in such a short amount of time. He just hopes that the peace will last a little while longer.