Danny hovered in the air above the four girls' heads. He was grateful that they weren't trying to kill him….at least at the moment. But they wanted him to come with them to another dimension! Had he been any normal 21-year-old, he would've already gone home and put himself in bed, assuming he was drunk. But of course, Danny Fenton was no normal anybody. He was the Halfa, the ghost boy. He was the hybrid named Danny Phantom, and he got this kinda stuff all the time. But the real question was, what would happen to him if he went there? Would they kill him then? Would he be trapped and unable to return? Or would it happen just as they said and he go meet their friends and then leave? Danny had no way of knowing, and this frustrated him. He sat, or floated, in silence for a long time; ten minutes at least. Finally, he decided.
Rising a little higher into the air, he said. "Sure. I'll come with you to your…dimension. But you have to let me bring my girlfriend."
The girls burst out laughing. Between gasps, Kari managed to choke out, "And why in Hell do you want to bring your girlfriend?"
Danny narrowed his eyes in a don't-question-me sort of way, hoping he could scare them. The truth was, if their other friends really were kind little elves, and the girls were planning something against him, the elves would probably stop them, because even if Danny was killed, they had no right to harm an innocent bystander.
The girls, seeing his expression, shut up immediately. Kari's red/blonde-haired friend was the first to recover. "Fine. Bring your little girlfriend. It's not our problem."
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Samantha Manson, known as Sam unless you felt like being served in sushi, wasn't entirely new to being woken up in the middle of the night by her boyfriend. Nonetheless, when he rubbed her back to wake her up, she jolted upright and cried, swatting the air furiously, "Damn you, Janet, get your good-for-nothing ass OUT of my room, and get your fucking hands AWAY from my back!" Danny, who was also used to this reaction, went intangible not a second too soon, so that Sam's flailing arms phased through him. The cold feeling that tingled her arm caused Sam to snap her eyes open.
"Oh! Danny," she said, brushing her ebony hair out of her face. "What're you doing in here?" Normally, the first question in this scenario would have been, 'how the hell did you get in here?', but, of course, Sam knew all about Danny's ghost powers and didn't need to bother asking how he got in.
Danny hovered over her bed, tangible once again, and ran his white-gloved hand through his equally white hair the way he always did when he was nervous. "Well…I…um…"
Sam's expression became stern. "Now Danny. What have I told you about possessing those stupid drunkards? They don't deserve that. Their hangovers will be enough punishment. If you walked another one of them into the mall and left them in the fountain, I'm afraid I'll be forced to lock you in the Fenton Thermos again." She folded her arms across her chest. Danny was constantly torturing the boys who walked out of Bat Cave every night drunk as all hell. She knew they probably deserved it; they shouldn't have that much beer in the first place; but he was still abusing his powers.
Danny blushed. "Actually…it's not that this time." Sam's look hardened. "I swear!" he cried.
"Okay, then. What new joke have you decided to pull?" Sam didn't look too happy about this scenario either.
"Well…you see…" Danny said the rest all in one fast sentence, using only one breath, "I was at Bat Cave and these girls came in and one of them kinda hypnotized me and she talked to me and her name is Kari and her friend killed the lead signer in Stained Knife, that group that performs on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Kari lured me outside using mind control, and then she tried to attack me, and then I gained control again and I turned into Danny Phantom and flew off, but Kari and her friends are some kind of demons or something so they followed me even though I was invisible, and they trapped me in a force shield in the forest, and they asked me what I was, and I told them I was a ghost, and they wanted to take me back to their dimension, Satou, I think it's called, and I thought about it and agreed, but I said they had to let me take you, because their other friends in Satou are kind elves and if you, the innocent bystander, are there, the elf people won't let them attack us, so you have to come with me because they're waiting outside your window and Roku's not very patient, and Kari's having to hold Shadow back on a lightning collar because she won't stop straining to go chase the squirrels, 'cause you know how many squirrels there are around here, so we kinda gotta go now."
Sam, having known Danny for his whole life, had amazingly managed to understand that. She was nevertheless shocked. Moving slowly, she got out of her bed and made her way over to the window, feeling Danny's eyes on her back the entire time.
