Heeeeere we go! Filler number one! :D Hope you enjoy! This one's been stewing ever since I began the story! Of course, It's going to just be inserted into the plot xD


~POV to Danny, next day~

Danny was still amazed at his friends' abilities from the night before. Despite the fact that the three of them were idiots, they made a stellar team.

"Hey, Randy. How do I become a tank?" Jake asked Randy. "Cuz, I have to step up my game big time."

"Ah-" Danny rolled his eyes as Randy slipped into his know-it-all voice. "That, my friend, is a secret that only the Nomicon knows!" He closed his eyes and pointed to the sky as he said the words. "I was once a scrawny boy like you, no muscle, no stamina. But then, I became the deity of Norrisville-"

"Ninja." Danny corrected under his breath.

"-and a god has to be there for his people. So I just did some working out." He nodded and opened his eyes, "But still it's kinda cool that we get today off." His condescending voice was replaced with his regular tone.

"Well... The school did kinda burst into flames." Jake commented and grinned. "But it's a great excuse to hang out together!"

"Yeah, yeah fair point. Though I feel bad for not inviting Tuck, Sam, and them." Danny kicked the dirt of the playground. The trio were sitting in various places on the playground. Danny was on the bottom of the slide.

"Eh, we need some bonding time now that we're a team." Jake brushed it off. He sat on top of the monkey bars.

"Well..." Randy pulled out his cell and absent-mindedly kicked the railing. He was on the second floor of the jungle gym. "I'll tell Howard to hang out with them all. I'm sure he'll think of something fun."

"Hmm..." Danny still looked skeptical.

"It'll be fine Danny, your friends are smart. They'll find ways to spend their day off." Jake reassured Danny once more.

Danny sighed in defeat, "Okay, fine. But what are we going to do?"

"Good question..." Randy pondered for a second. "Oh! You know, there's this new fortune teller in town."

A pause of silence filled the air.

"...And?" Danny broke the silence.

"We should go!" Randy replied and vaulted over the railing, landing neatly, and turned to Danny. "We should get our fortunes told!"

"Fortunes?" Jake's head twisted in thought, then he scooched around the bar, carefully lowered himself with his hands, and jumped the foot to the ground. "Yeah, sure! I don't believe in these things but it's fun sometimes to go see one!"

Danny briefly thought of reasons not to. "Just so long as the teller isn't Desiree."

"Desiree?"

"Yeah, she's an evil ghost that grants people's wishes and gets stronger as she does so."

"Doesn't sound too evil."

"Until you realize that she can grant the wish of destruction upon the world."

Jake nodded, understanding the gravity of the idea now.

"So... Avoid ghosts, right? No problem!" Randy joined the conversation with a nod.

"I guess." Danny smiled and stood, "Where's this fortune teller?"

"Follow me!" Randy bounced a couple of times then turned and dashed in the direction the fortune teller was in.

~Skip to the teller's place!~

Danny complained once more to Randy about the speed at which they were going, but as per usual, the ninja ignored such a comment. The trio skidded to a stop in front of the trailer-like building.

"Stereotypical creepy fortune teller here we come." Randy forged the way for the other two, opening the door after catching his breath.

"Welcome! I am Madam Kim" A surprisingly young lady sat veiled behind a desk. Her voice was smooth and low. "Please, sit." She gestured to the floor where three pillows sat.

"Hello! We'd like to have three fortunes told please." Randy replied, easily sitting down.

Danny and Jake stepped forward, both giving a hello and bow before taking her up on her offer to sit. Danny decided to let Randy take the lead on this one. Besides, it looked like the ninja was in his element.

"Three fortunes?" The orange-haired lady asked. "Let me divinate your fortunes together."

Danny looked towards the other two as she began to chant and use her 'divine' powers. For some strange reason Danny felt uneasy about the actions she took but was unsure why.

A minute passed, then Madam Kim stopped her chant and looked into her crystal ball, a gasp escaping her lips. "A great battle you will fight soon." She twitched. "Three will lose their powers. A ninja, dragon, and ghost-"

Danny took a second to glance to Jake, who was also looking at Danny.

Her tone changed. "Unless they pay $5 per person to the fortune teller they visit today."

Danny took a second to process what she said.

"What?" Jake asked, clearly confused.

"That is all I saw in this crystal ball." She confirmed, her voice reduced to that of an almost valley-girl tone. "A great battle and the loss of powers if you don't pay me $5. That's the sitch."

"Pff, anyone could tell us that a great battle is coming soon. I hear it almost all the time." Jake protested.

"Yeah, I'm not going to pay. This was a waste of time." Randy stood.

"I-I don't know you guys." Danny rubbed the back of his head. "I don't want to risk it. Our powers are serious business." He rummaged around his pockets and came up with the bill. "Besides, how would she know about the ninja, ghost, and dragon thing?"

"The Ninja is a public figure. Danny Phantom is known around the world." Randy rolled his eyes and went out the door, Jake soon after.

Danny shook his head and paid the fortune teller. He wasn't willing to risk it and his instinct was right most of the time. Besides, five dollars wouldn't be too much of a hit to his bank account. Madam Kim nodded when he paid, ushering him out. He complied and rejoined his two friends, who had already forgotten about the encounter.

"Alright, well that was a bust." Jake commented, "But what should we do next?"

"That's the only idea I had." Randy frowned. "Unless you guys want to play Grave Puncher 3."

"What's that?"

"Well-" Randy groaned as a pulsating light interrupted his explanation. "Ugh, guys, gimmie a sec. The Nomicon is calling for me."

"What?" Danny asked this question. Before he got his answer, Randy had already opened the book, letting out a weird sound and going limp.

Danny's eyebrows furrowed and he turned to Jake, who shrugged. It was the first time either of them had seen him do something like that.

"Gah!" Randy shouted, slamming the book shut.

"Ah!" Danny and Jake both jumped at the sudden action.

"Quick! Danny, Jake, transform." Randy pulled his ninja mask out of nowhere.

"What?" Danny asked and looked around, making sure no one was around.

"The NinjaNomicon said a bunch of cryptic words. For some reason I think it was referring to our powers." He placed the mask on his face.

Danny averted his eyes so he wouldn't be blinded by the flashy outfit change. He waited. Nothing happened. Danny turned back to Randy. Randy was still himself, with the mask on his face. Danny looked over at Jake who was staring at his hands in horror.

"I can't change!" Both the ninja and dragon said at the same time.

"Eh?" Danny began to panic. He looked between Jake and Randy, then at himself. "Going ghost?" He asked nervously, then willed himself to change. A moment later his rings passed by his face and he looked at his hands. White gloves.

"Why can you turn ghost but I can't go dragon?"

"I-I don't know." Danny walked forward, then something clicked in his mind. He turned around to face the fortune teller's caravan. Just as he was about to walk in and beg his friends to pay the five dollars the building suddenly transformed. Mechanical whirrs came from the building and Danny watched in shock as the trailer turned into an airship and took off, leaving the trio in the kicked-up dirt.

Jake, Randy, and Danny stood there and blinked.

"Oops." Randy's voice sounded defeated.

"Aw man." Jake frowned.

Danny gave a smirk, "I told you so. you should've payed the teller." He then thought for a moment and grabbed the two boys by their shirts. "Let's go find ourselves a Desiree."

"But you said-"

"This isn't time to think about the consequences. You guys need your powers back." Danny held back a giggle.

"It's not that funny." Jake complained.

"To you maybe it isn't. But it's hilarious to me." He joked, then turned back to his serious tone. "But no, we need to get you two back to normal."

~Time and place skip to Desiree~

"...So you have wished it so it shall be." The wish-granting ghost let out a sigh of defeat as Randy asked for their powers back. She rose up and granted the wish. The effects were definitely less flashy than normal.

Danny nodded when Jake and Randy gave him a questioning look.

"Dragon up...?" Jake asked more than stated.

Red suddenly filled Danny's view as Jake's fire came and went. He was a dragon again.

"Oh dude, seriously?" Randy looked like a kid in the candy store as he put the mask on, its flashy transformation revealing itself. "Oh dude, bruce!" He held up a high five, which Jake took.

Danny rolled his eyes, "so what did we learn today?"

"Don't go to fortune tellers." Randy replied instantly.

"Yeah, and remember to bring money with you wherever you go!" Jake grinned.

Danny shook his head. While both of those answers were not technically incorrect, they were wrong.