-- Author's Note -- Thank you for all your wonderful reviews! I don't really have much to tell you right now. An old friend will stop by again in this chapter. You'll have to tell me if he's scarier this way, lol. All right, let's just get on to what you've all been waiting for!
Chapter 7 Yo Ho, a Pirate's Life for Me
"Sam!" Danny screamed again before shouting, "I'm going ghost!"
"Danny stop!" Tucker yelled running over, having just seen what had happened.
"I have to save her Tucker. This is all my fault!"
"We'll save her Danny, but we don't even know where to start looking. Let's go back to my house and see what we can find on that site. It might know where his ship takes birth." (A/N: this means where the ship stays when it's not out sailing)
Danny nodded, and then kneeled down to pick up his notebook and Sam's things. He still felt like it was his fault. After all, he was the freak who got himself changed into some kind of ghost hybrid and put his friends into danger. Now he had gotten Sam changed too and her kidnapped by some creepy ghost.
Tucker led Danny back to his house where they searched the net for almost an hour looking for information. Most of what they found was complete junk: pictures, fanfics, dating services. It seemed like people would put anything into their site description to get hits.
While Tucker sat at his computer, Danny sat on the bed with his face buried in his hands. I almost told her. It might not have been very romantic, or anything like that, but at least she would have known. Now she probably thinks that I hate her or something like that. I doubt she'll ever want to be my girlfriend now.
After about a hundred pages, Tucker finally found something. "Hey Danny, look. There's a news report here on the newspaper's website. Something strange seems to be going on down at the pier. You don't think it could be Rurik and his ship?" (A/N: I don't actually know if Danny's hometown has a pier, or if it's on the ocean, but for all matters of the story, it does. Don't argue with me. =P)
"It's all we have for right now, Tuck. We have to do something. I can't sit around anymore!"
"Agreed, but first, let's go back to your house and get the thermos. And your parents might have something else that might be useful."
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Meanwhile, Sam was just coming too abroad Rurik's ship. "Wha-what happened? Danny?"
Rurik gave a mad laugh and walked over to the holding cell that Sam was laying on the floor of. His peg leg clunked with every step and Sam knew that what had happened was not a dream.
"Good evening, lass. A pleasure to see that yer awake."
"Where am I? Where's Danny?"
"Ah, yes. Danny Phantom, that stupid little Halfa hybrid. He's not here. Appears that he doesn't really care about his friends. But now, ye lass, are aboard the most feared ship that sails the seven seas, the Black Emerald."
"The Black Emerald? That's kind of a stupid name, don't you think?"
"Shut up, lass, or ye'll be sleeping with me crew. Besides, the Black Pearl was already taken. Now. What be yer name?"
Sam got to her feet, unsure of what to tell him. She couldn't tell him her real name; if she ever got away he might come after her again. What would Danny do, she wondered. That's when it hit her.
She reached a hand to the ceiling and looked into Rurik's black eyes. "I," Sam started before the flash of light surrounded her as she transformed into her ghost half, "am Sam Spectre."
The short pirate gave a small laugh. "I see that we have another Halfa on our hands. How nice of that stupid Enialis to give us such a wonderful gift. Don't think that this will save you from yer fate though, lass. It only makes things easier on us. After all, now we don't have to kill ye."
I have to get out of here, Sam thought. I'm not ready to face something like this. Maybe I can faze myself through the bars and off of this ship. It was worth a try being as it was the only idea that Sam could come up with. Taking a deep breath she willed herself to be able to move through objects. This is simple, she told herself. I've done this a hundred times with Danny. We're downstairs in his basement, and if I run through these bars then I can slam right into him again.
Releasing her breath Sam ran straight at the bars. I'm going to make it. I can do this, she thought. Until she slammed right into the bars. "Why didn't it work?!"
This only made Rurik laugh harder. "Lass, don't be hurting yer pretty little head. This is a ghost ship, remember? None of your little Halfa tricks will be able to get ye out of here. And don't think that ye'll be able to escape as a human. We're well prepared for that too. Just sit down, and I'll send one of me crewmen down with yer change of clothes."
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Danny and Tucker burst into Danny's house and ran downstairs to the lab. Jazz was sitting at the kitchen table, writing something in one of her notebooks for a new thesis she had thought up that morning. Once the boys had dashed past she looked up and towards the basement where the two of them had gone.
"Danny. What are you doing?" she asked sounding slightly like a parent would.
"Nothing Jazz!" Danny called up the stairs at her. Tucker pulled the thermos out from the storage cabinet and threw it in his backpack.
The two of them looked through the contents of the cabinet, but nothing they found looked helpful, or safe, so they forgot about getting anything else.
When they reached the top stair Jazz was looking at them with a questioning gaze. "What are you doing?" she repeated. "And where's Sam?"
"Sam's waiting for us. We had to grab something that I forgot that I had lent to Dad."
"All right, so where are you going now?"
"The pier," Tucker offered. Danny nodded, thinking how that wasn't a lie.
Jazz gave the two of them a small smile. "Are you all playing some ghost hunting game?"
"Yes, yes we are Jazz. You caught us. Just don't tell Mom and Dad that we're using their stuff, okay?"
"Sure, just don't hurt yourself. You know some of that stuff they make isn't safe."
"We know!" Danny shouted as they took off out the door.
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Sam kicked some of the dust around that was on the floor. Gross, she thought.
"I am the Box Ghost, yarr!" the Box Ghost said entering the room where Sam's cell was.
"What are you doing here?" Sam asked looking at his pirate garb.
"I'm part of Rurik's crew. So now I'm a pirate! Yarr!" he said in his fake pirate-y voice. Sam almost broke down laughing. "I brought you your new clothes." He handed her a stack of clothing that she took. "You are to change into those."
"Isn't it yer? Not 'you are'?"
"Dang, I always forget that part! Yarr!"
Sam looked down at the clothes then back at the Box Ghost who was just standing there. "Do you mind?" she shouted at him.
"Sorry, sorry," he said before exiting the room.
Sheesh, Sam thought, I'm not changing in front of some stupid ghost. There's no way a ghost is going to see me naked. I wouldn't even let Danny see me naked. Then something hit her. Maybe he had seen her changing! He could have gone invisible and fazed into her room and watched her. Sam got slightly angry at the thought. She didn't know if anything like that had happened, but if it had it meant that he did like her, even if it was just looking at her.
That was something, right? But also because she had almost done the same thing to him. Of course he was only half naked, she told herself. And it wasn't like she hadn't seen him the same way the next day when she went to pick him up for school. So all things considered, she could only be a little made at him.
A knock came from the door and the Box Ghost asked if she was finished changing. She told him yes. Of course she also thought that she looked really stupid in pirate garb. It was way to baggy. Oh well, hopefully she'll get out of her soon.
The Box Ghost entered and then opened the cell door. "Captain Rurik ordered that you be released from your cell, however," he said clicking something around her neck. "You have to wear this."
"What is it?"
"Some sort of collar. It will kill you if you try to escape."
Or maybe Danny will save me, Sam thought.
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Danny and Tucker stood at the pier bent over trying to catch their breath. Sure enough, off in the distance they could see the pirate ship. Don't worry, Sam, Danny thought. I'm coming.
Chapter 7 Yo Ho, a Pirate's Life for Me
"Sam!" Danny screamed again before shouting, "I'm going ghost!"
"Danny stop!" Tucker yelled running over, having just seen what had happened.
"I have to save her Tucker. This is all my fault!"
"We'll save her Danny, but we don't even know where to start looking. Let's go back to my house and see what we can find on that site. It might know where his ship takes birth." (A/N: this means where the ship stays when it's not out sailing)
Danny nodded, and then kneeled down to pick up his notebook and Sam's things. He still felt like it was his fault. After all, he was the freak who got himself changed into some kind of ghost hybrid and put his friends into danger. Now he had gotten Sam changed too and her kidnapped by some creepy ghost.
Tucker led Danny back to his house where they searched the net for almost an hour looking for information. Most of what they found was complete junk: pictures, fanfics, dating services. It seemed like people would put anything into their site description to get hits.
While Tucker sat at his computer, Danny sat on the bed with his face buried in his hands. I almost told her. It might not have been very romantic, or anything like that, but at least she would have known. Now she probably thinks that I hate her or something like that. I doubt she'll ever want to be my girlfriend now.
After about a hundred pages, Tucker finally found something. "Hey Danny, look. There's a news report here on the newspaper's website. Something strange seems to be going on down at the pier. You don't think it could be Rurik and his ship?" (A/N: I don't actually know if Danny's hometown has a pier, or if it's on the ocean, but for all matters of the story, it does. Don't argue with me. =P)
"It's all we have for right now, Tuck. We have to do something. I can't sit around anymore!"
"Agreed, but first, let's go back to your house and get the thermos. And your parents might have something else that might be useful."
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Meanwhile, Sam was just coming too abroad Rurik's ship. "Wha-what happened? Danny?"
Rurik gave a mad laugh and walked over to the holding cell that Sam was laying on the floor of. His peg leg clunked with every step and Sam knew that what had happened was not a dream.
"Good evening, lass. A pleasure to see that yer awake."
"Where am I? Where's Danny?"
"Ah, yes. Danny Phantom, that stupid little Halfa hybrid. He's not here. Appears that he doesn't really care about his friends. But now, ye lass, are aboard the most feared ship that sails the seven seas, the Black Emerald."
"The Black Emerald? That's kind of a stupid name, don't you think?"
"Shut up, lass, or ye'll be sleeping with me crew. Besides, the Black Pearl was already taken. Now. What be yer name?"
Sam got to her feet, unsure of what to tell him. She couldn't tell him her real name; if she ever got away he might come after her again. What would Danny do, she wondered. That's when it hit her.
She reached a hand to the ceiling and looked into Rurik's black eyes. "I," Sam started before the flash of light surrounded her as she transformed into her ghost half, "am Sam Spectre."
The short pirate gave a small laugh. "I see that we have another Halfa on our hands. How nice of that stupid Enialis to give us such a wonderful gift. Don't think that this will save you from yer fate though, lass. It only makes things easier on us. After all, now we don't have to kill ye."
I have to get out of here, Sam thought. I'm not ready to face something like this. Maybe I can faze myself through the bars and off of this ship. It was worth a try being as it was the only idea that Sam could come up with. Taking a deep breath she willed herself to be able to move through objects. This is simple, she told herself. I've done this a hundred times with Danny. We're downstairs in his basement, and if I run through these bars then I can slam right into him again.
Releasing her breath Sam ran straight at the bars. I'm going to make it. I can do this, she thought. Until she slammed right into the bars. "Why didn't it work?!"
This only made Rurik laugh harder. "Lass, don't be hurting yer pretty little head. This is a ghost ship, remember? None of your little Halfa tricks will be able to get ye out of here. And don't think that ye'll be able to escape as a human. We're well prepared for that too. Just sit down, and I'll send one of me crewmen down with yer change of clothes."
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Danny and Tucker burst into Danny's house and ran downstairs to the lab. Jazz was sitting at the kitchen table, writing something in one of her notebooks for a new thesis she had thought up that morning. Once the boys had dashed past she looked up and towards the basement where the two of them had gone.
"Danny. What are you doing?" she asked sounding slightly like a parent would.
"Nothing Jazz!" Danny called up the stairs at her. Tucker pulled the thermos out from the storage cabinet and threw it in his backpack.
The two of them looked through the contents of the cabinet, but nothing they found looked helpful, or safe, so they forgot about getting anything else.
When they reached the top stair Jazz was looking at them with a questioning gaze. "What are you doing?" she repeated. "And where's Sam?"
"Sam's waiting for us. We had to grab something that I forgot that I had lent to Dad."
"All right, so where are you going now?"
"The pier," Tucker offered. Danny nodded, thinking how that wasn't a lie.
Jazz gave the two of them a small smile. "Are you all playing some ghost hunting game?"
"Yes, yes we are Jazz. You caught us. Just don't tell Mom and Dad that we're using their stuff, okay?"
"Sure, just don't hurt yourself. You know some of that stuff they make isn't safe."
"We know!" Danny shouted as they took off out the door.
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Sam kicked some of the dust around that was on the floor. Gross, she thought.
"I am the Box Ghost, yarr!" the Box Ghost said entering the room where Sam's cell was.
"What are you doing here?" Sam asked looking at his pirate garb.
"I'm part of Rurik's crew. So now I'm a pirate! Yarr!" he said in his fake pirate-y voice. Sam almost broke down laughing. "I brought you your new clothes." He handed her a stack of clothing that she took. "You are to change into those."
"Isn't it yer? Not 'you are'?"
"Dang, I always forget that part! Yarr!"
Sam looked down at the clothes then back at the Box Ghost who was just standing there. "Do you mind?" she shouted at him.
"Sorry, sorry," he said before exiting the room.
Sheesh, Sam thought, I'm not changing in front of some stupid ghost. There's no way a ghost is going to see me naked. I wouldn't even let Danny see me naked. Then something hit her. Maybe he had seen her changing! He could have gone invisible and fazed into her room and watched her. Sam got slightly angry at the thought. She didn't know if anything like that had happened, but if it had it meant that he did like her, even if it was just looking at her.
That was something, right? But also because she had almost done the same thing to him. Of course he was only half naked, she told herself. And it wasn't like she hadn't seen him the same way the next day when she went to pick him up for school. So all things considered, she could only be a little made at him.
A knock came from the door and the Box Ghost asked if she was finished changing. She told him yes. Of course she also thought that she looked really stupid in pirate garb. It was way to baggy. Oh well, hopefully she'll get out of her soon.
The Box Ghost entered and then opened the cell door. "Captain Rurik ordered that you be released from your cell, however," he said clicking something around her neck. "You have to wear this."
"What is it?"
"Some sort of collar. It will kill you if you try to escape."
Or maybe Danny will save me, Sam thought.
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Danny and Tucker stood at the pier bent over trying to catch their breath. Sure enough, off in the distance they could see the pirate ship. Don't worry, Sam, Danny thought. I'm coming.