Mina: Here's the next chapter. I know that some of the stuff that I make happen in this story may seem kind of random or odd to put in but they all serve their purpose in the end. I do not own Danny Phantom.
Danny, Sam, Tucker, and Cana headed to the arcade. It was the weekend. Cana had survived the first week of school. She had been the one that suggested going to the arcade. Danny and Tucker seemed doubtful that she would really want to go there. After all, they thought that girls didn't like playing video games and that they wouldn't understand how to play them. Of course Sam had proved them wrong and they were about to find out that Cana would too.
They opened the doors to the arcade and were immediately hit by the sounds inside. Dash and his group of friends stood around him as he played a hunting game. Paulina was playing DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) against a bunch of girls and even some guys, but was beating all of them. Valerie was there as well testing her shooting skills on another game. Surprisingly, a lot of girls actually were hanging out at the arcade.
Cana walked over to one of the games and inserted a quarter. The game she had chosen to play was Pac-man. Immediately the yellow thing known as Pac-man appeared looking like a pizza with one slice missing. She whizzed through level after level of mazes and kept running up her score with out losing one single life. Danny, Sam, and Tucker watched her in amazement. Before long she had beaten the high score and the game, still without losing any lives.
"And that's how it's done," Cana said.
"And yet another girl whose good at video games. That just proves you wrong," Sam said to Danny and Tucker.
"Yeah…" they both answered.
Cheering from the other side of the room attracted their attention. Apparently Paulina had beaten yet another person in DDR. She was still the reigning champ of DDR in the Amity Park Arcade.
"Any of you guys good at dancing?" Cana asked.
All three of them shook their heads.
Cana sighed. "I guess I'm just going to have to do this then."
"Do what?" Sam asked curious.
"Challenge Paulina of course!" Cana exclaimed. "I can't just let her remain the unchallenged champion of DDR, can I?"
Neither Danny, Sam, nor Tucker were able to answer that because Cana had stalked off toward Paulina and the DDR platforms. They decided to follow and see what would happen.
"Hey Paulina! I challenge you to a game of DDR!" Cana called out over the noise.
"That's fine. But, I'll have you know I've never lost," Paulina answered.
"Neither have I," Cana replied.
A crowd started to gather around them as they stepped onto the DDR platforms. Cana allowed Paulina to pick the first song they would dance to. Paulina ended up choosing a song called Colors. As the song began they followed the steps that appeared for the song. They were playing on Light Mode the easiest mode since Paulina had chosen that as well. Paulina and Cana matched each other step for step with one perfect after another so that when the song was done they each had the same score.
"You're good," Paulina commented.
"You're not so bad yourself," Cana replied.
Cana once again allowed Paulina to choose the song and the level which they danced at. Paulina chose Light Mode again and then she selected the song called Moonlight Shadow. Once more they both matched each other step for step with perfect after perfect. As the song finished it was revealed that they had once again tied. By now the crowd around them was huge and consisted of pretty much everyone who had been in the arcade.
"Still not too bad Paulina," Cana said.
"Neither are you. You can choose the level and song this time," Paulina offered.
"Thanks. I just have one question."
"Yes?"
"Have you ever danced on a level higher than Light Mode?"
"Ummm…"
At this moment Cana selected Expert Mode and chose the song You Dropped A Bomb. Paulina just stared at the selection for a bit but then tried to toughen up. As the song started and the steps appeared across the screen it became apparent that Paulina was not good at Expert Mode at all. Cana, however, was doing excellently with one perfect after the other until she ended the song with all perfects. Paulina had not faired well at all and it was apparent that she had lost even before the scores appeared.
"Wow! She's awesome!" Danny exclaimed.
"Yes she is," Sam said with a big smile on her face because Cana had beaten Paulina and humiliated her once more.
"I…I lost," Paulina said in shock. She knew that she hadn't done well at all but still after never losing she finally had.
"Very impressive," a familiar voice said from the back of the crowd.
Danny turned around in shock to find Vlad Masters standing at the edge of the crowd. He glared angrily at Vlad who was now walking forward. Cana stared warily at Vlad as he approached the DDR platforms. Vlad was wearing his customary suit and his white hair was tied back in a pony tail like usual.
"You have a very impressive friend there Daniel. What's her name?" Vlad asked as Cana sighed in relief.
"Cana," Danny said through gritted teeth.
"Well Cana, I have a challenge for you. How about we dance?" Vlad asked which really surprised Cana and everyone else.
"Fine," Cana replied while looking at Vlad strangely.
"You can choose the song and level," Vlad told her as he fiddled with something that was attached to his suit.
Cana once again picked Expert Mode and then chose the song called Castles in the Sky. As they began to dance they matched each other move for move. However, unlike matching move for move with Paulina, when Cana matched move for move with Vlad, that didn't only mean they stepped on things at the same time, it meant that they both moved their arms in the same way and their feet in the same way. This was definitely not normal and Danny realized this. He turned around to look at the rest of the crowd behind him and was surprised to see his parents standing there.
"Um…Mom? Dad? What are you doing here?" he asked them.
"We came looking for Cana. We were just going to teach her about ghost hunting!" Jack said excited.
"Oh. Whatever. I need to ask you something. Could Vlad every dance? I mean like he is now?"
"Actually…no, he never could dance in any way," Maddie explained.
"Interesting…" Danny said as he thought to himself. "You guys just go back to the house and I will send Cana over there once she is done."
"Fine by us."
Both of them left and Danny turned his attention back to the dance. Most of the audience had decided to go back to what they were doing leaving only him, Sam, Tucker, and Valerie. Cana and Vlad continued dancing but part way through the song something started happening to Cana. As she went to step down on the arrows her foot kept turning intangible causing the move not to register. At first Danny though that he was seeing things but it kept happening.
"Are any of you seeing what I'm seeing?" he asked curiously.
"Yeah! Her foot is turning intangible!" Valerie exclaimed. "She's a ghost!"
"No. I don't think she's a ghost. I live with ghost hunters, remember? If she was a ghost they would have detected it," Danny said which seemed to calm Valerie down. Then Danny remembered seeing Vlad fiddle with something before the dance started and could only assume that this was causing Vlad to imitate Cana and then somehow he had figured out how to turn Cana's foot intangible so her moves wouldn't register and he would win. Still, that seemed kind of strange but Vlad would have his reasons.
Vlad was talking to Cana throughout the dance but no one except them could hear what the other was saying.
"So how's that little mission going, hmmm?" Vlad asked.
"Don't be so impatient! It's only been a week!" Cana replied.
"Just checking up on you."
"Well, that's not necessary."
At that moment the dance ended revealing Vlad as the winner.
"Well, I'll see you all around," Vlad said and then he left.
Cana stared angrily after him. Danny and the others walked up to Cana.
"Um…Cana? Did you by any chance notice that your foot was turning intangible while you were dancing?" Danny asked.
"Intangible? Maybe that's why things weren't registering. But how? You don't think that Vlad could do something like that do you?" Cana asked. The group had updated her on all of Danny's enemies and adventures so that she was up to date.
"That's what I think. Still, I don't know why he would want to win a game of DDR but that's Vlad for you," Danny replied.
Danny then told Cana that his parents wanted her and she left the arcade. As she walked back to the Fenton's house she turned over questions in her mind about Vlad. Why did he come here? How did he get so good at dancing? Why did he want to beat me in DDR? I don't need any checking up on. Besides, how did he even know that I'm here? Those vulture ghosts must have told him! Arg! I wish he didn't know I was here! Still, I think it would be rude if I left. Darn Vlad!
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