Disclaimer: Danny Phantom and all of Butch Hartman's characters obviously belong to Butch Hartman. Any 'made up' or 'fan' aracters I take full responsibility and credit for.
Fiction Rating: PG13 Language/Sexual Content/Some Drug Reference/Violence
From the Author: Wow...My 3rd chappy was very short, so hopefully this one will make up for it somewhat. xD I decided to continue this chappy title since...well, you'll see. I COULD combine the two, but that's work and I like having that little cliffhanger. :3 As well as the one at the end of this chapter! ;D I'm adjusted to not getting many reviews, I'm just happy I have a good two or three fans who actually like what I'm writing. Oh well, hopefully in a little while I'll get better at writing these and get more readers and reviewers. As for the people who do review, thanks!
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Silent Evanesence - Glad ya like it. And in chappy one, I had to make Danny sound hawt, although I didn't give him much justice. xD I'll be more detailed in his description off and on to keep the hawtness flowing. Yeah, I sorta got carried away with the first chapter...and since a lot of people here on prefer the simpler paragraphs and easier to read vocab, I'll probably re-write it sometime later. Glad you like my story so far. I hope that this chapter will convince you to keep reading:)
Divine-Red-Crayon - :D Paulina's more for hostage purposes as of the end of chapter 3, but of course, if the cerberus really wanted to it could easily kill her off. (Which, I'd like to do but then again she gets to play a rather important,dramatic role inthe story, you'll see soon enough! ) Dash is a cool character, but to make the situation semi-comical, I have to have him, being the QB of the football team, squeal like a little girl. I do write a lot before I actually type everything out, but most of it just pours out of my head after a few days of pre-planning. . I'd really like to thank you for reviewing every chapter so far...I love you. (Don't take me seriously. xD!) Play Audition? What play, might I ask? And hope ya got the role you wanted. :)
:O! Nobody else reviewed chappy 3...well, oh well, hopefully chappy 4 will be a little bit different. x3
Chapter IV
Temptation Sucks (Part 2)
Having to pass her own house to get to Danny's, Sam was in a rather quick jog, hands into tight, irritated fists. She could get ticked easily, although she was more worried then anything. In Danny's certain state, he wasn't prepared to take on a very powerful ghost. Of course, he had his rest, but to Sam those few hours didn't make up for the daily loss of sleep taking place in the past few months. She remembered the past, where Danny would fight ghosts, Sam would help with the thermos, and Tucker would do anything possible with his techno-geek gadgets to help the situation. But lately, the halfa was all on his own, and the bruises over parts of his body made that quite evident. Jogging a bit quicker now, ignoring her heavy breathing and racing heart by that time, she quickly noticed an incoming blur. Tucker.
"Hai!" he waved enthusiastically, although keeping a rather smug expression on his face as he brought his walking figure to a stop. Whiping freshly put sweat from his forehead, he watched as Sam neared, yet stopped a few feet away. Just then she realized how hot out it really was, but ignored that as she opened her mouth to speak...although Tucker beat her to it. "There was a ghost in school today! A three-headed doggie thingie that had big teeth and-" as Tucker continued, his words went in one of Sam's ears, and majestically floated out of the other. She intervened. "We have to go get the Fenton Thermos, before Danny gets hurt!" Dropping the conversation, the two friends began jogging to Danny's house, much to Tucker's lazy dismay.
Back at the mall, the two outer heads of the cerberus were growling with a menacing glare. The center still hung onto Paulina harmlessly by her pantleg, although by then some drool found it's way running down her leg. "Iew!" Paulina squealed of disgust, "Stop drooling on me you stupid ghost-dog!" Danny's eyes slinked down into a glare. How could he take care of the cerberus without furtherly endangering Paulina? Finally, the beast took a step foward, all heads haunched low, with the exception of the center, whom held Paulina high so her head didn't smack up against the cold mall floor. Danny took a single pace back. This was quite the unwanted predicament, and Danny didn't have a clue on what to do to make things less-complicated.
The dog's orders were stern, and simple to understand, even for a merciless beast. 'Keep the halfa preoccupied, and hold a civilian hostage'. The cerberus decided totake another step foward, and Danny decided to make a move. Leaping up into a rather quick, majestic float, he bore a fist and dove towards the head on the right. As it ducked, the head in the center shoved Paulina's body in the way, and Danny was quick enough to stop...So the cerberus would use Paulina as a human shield? A clever, clever dog. But little did he know, this ghost was not a simple creature whom strayed from the ghost realm...it was the pawn in a much bigger, bigger plot. And as he drifted a few feet away, pondering his next move, doing his best to block out the frightened squeals of Paulina...the second ever halfa was carrying out her own plans. (No, I didn't make a mistake. There was another halfa after Plasmius, before Danny. It will all become clear soon enough, young cricket. xD)
Sam and Tucker stopped on the porch of the Fenton house. Panting heavily and leaning up against the door, they'd have to catch their breath before even thinking of an excuse as to why Danny wasn't at school today. The two were definately very close to Danny, and Danny was to them, or else...they wouldn't be going out of their way to help or even back him up to his parents. But right now he needed that thermos more then anything. Tucker's back slid down as his rump placed itself on the ground. He whiped more sweat from his forehead and groaned. "He owes us, big time," he mumbled.
Her cool gaze graced Sam's presence, invisible form hoisting itself off of the ground and closer to the Fenton home for further observation. So this was Sam, one of 'The Phantom's' closest counterparts. And there, next to her, although sitting down, Tucker, the techno-geek. Raising an invisible brow of slight ponder, she decided to make this quick. Still invisible, she leapt into Sam's body. Posessing her was easier then the villian would have imagined, since with Sam's emotions and thoughts out of harmonial balance she was in no mental state to put up such a fight. Sam blinked, and for a split second her eyes were of a crimson red, yet quickly faded back into their deep violet. The real Sam was now asleep within the inhabited body, and the mistress in black was in controll.
"Well, we better get that thermos before something bad happens to Danny," she said, looking down to Tucker. Using Sam's memories to recall upon her intentions of leavin in the first place, it would be a piece of cake fooling Tucker. Danny, she wasn't so sure, since it wasn't easy for the ghost to fake a personality, and she seemed closer to Danny then Tucker. But, she'd worry about that later. Tucker finally nodded, pulling himself up with a sigh. Knocking on the door, 'Sam' waited impatiently for about only a split second before Jack, Danny's father, swung the door open.
Just as Jack opened his mouth to speak, Sam briskly and easily got the first words in. "Danny's at my house studying, Tuck's on his way home, and I'm here to get a few of my books I left here from last time." Jack just looked at her, keen eyed, yet the excuse was easily accepted as reality, and the two friends were granted admittion into the 'Fenton's Fortress'. Tucker just nudged her with his elbow after Jack left the room. "Smooth thinking. I guess that they don't even know he wasn't in school today yet." "No, now let's get that Thermos," she said quickly. Tucker retrieved it, and 'Sam' merely tagged along. The two began to run back to the mall, although 'Sam' seemed like she had just miraculously increased in running ability. Tucker decided to keep his notice of it to himself, although he was having trouble keeping up.
At the mall, every attempt Danny made to safetly attack the cerberus or get Paulina from it's grasp, it either used her as a shield or silently threaten to hurt her. Sam was the first one to emerge through the mall doors, and left Tucker in the dust with no problem whatsoever. With the expression of no emotion on her face, 'Sam' seemed and looked just like the regular 'Sam'. Deciding to not toss Fenton the thermos just yet, she eyed the cerberus twenty or so meters away. The dog, feeling it's master's gaze creep over it, quickly took action. As Danny thought of a possible way to cause some damage, the beast dropped Paulina and lunged, the center head snatching the floating Danny's leg, and brought him down to the ground with a thwack.
Paulina, although landing on her head and shoulders, seemed okay. Pulling herself up, she watched as the dog pinned Danny with a single paw, although Danny sunk through the floor, and came up behind it. She gawked at his heroic actions, although by that time Danny was concerned more about just taking the beast down since Paulina was already out of it's grasp. Swinging a tightly closed fist at the back of the center head, Danny was finally giving it his all in battle, as before since it used Paulina as a shield it was impossible to actually fight the cerberus. Just a low 'thud' was heard as his fist made contact, and the head merely lowered an inch, and growled lowly of annoyance. Apparently, the cerberus was a lot more powerful and tolerant to pain then Danny had figured.
Floating a few feet away in hopes of backing a few feet out before the creature had time to counter an attack, he figured it would be best now to evacuate the remaining people and few watchers...so just in case things got worse, nobody would be around to get hurt. And that reminded him, where was Sam? Looking around, he finally caught glimpse of her, as well as a Tucker catching up to her still form. Something seemed eerily different about her, but he would wait to put his finger on it later. Right now he had to worry about the cerberus, who's figure was now shifted into facing the Phantom, all three heads growling and drooling menacingly.
'Sam' quirked a brow as Danny's eyes made contact with her own. 'So Sam and Tucker really are his friends,' she thought coldly to herself, her tone of thought holding obvious jealousy and envy, yet more disgust then anything. 'Plasmius wasn't lying after all...he's a halfa, and still accepted...' Although her past was a rather disturbing and hurtful one, she shoved the thoughts from mind. Maybe she should wait to annhiliate the Fentom halfa, her curiousity taking hold as her chilling gaze again ran over the ghost-hound. The dog's heads quickly lowered, and the beast became invisible, and quickly vanished through the floor. And luckily, by that time, Paulina was the only other person in the mall besides Danny, Sam, and Tucker.
"My hero!" Paulina squealed as she quickly ran over to him. Danny seemed dumbfounded, why would the ghost retreat when he clearly had the upper hand? But according to Danny's ghost sence, it was gone...for now... Not having time to react before Paulina's arms graced his neck, a slight blush crossed his cheeks. "Uh...Hi...?" he said, blinking, still dumbfounded, yet allowed Paulina to helplessly cling to him. Wow, this felt good from his perspective. Sam would be infuriated if she were 'herself'...but for now she just had a blank expression, and watched with slight interest. Tucker watched with slight envy.
"You saved me, Phantom!" she exclaimed, and as if in slow motion, her soft lips reached for Danny's own.
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Cliffhanger... o.o;