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Never Listening

Disclaimer I don't own Danny phantom, nor will I ever unless I find out I am somehow related to Butch Hartman and I inherit it from him. Which will never happen. Never. Ever.

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"What are you?" Danny shouted at the giant beast.

The cobra opened its mouth but no sound came out. Instead, Danny could hear it talking in his mind. "Phantom, I am a Were-Cobra! I would expect you would know that instead of the usual were-wolf, in the ghost zone, there are many other were-creatures!" It closed its mouth.

"What other types are there?" Asked Danny, as an attempt to distract the giant creature as he slowly backed away.

It opened its mouth again, and Danny heard the voice. " Oh, you know, Were-cats, lizards, insects, birds, and—HEY! You were trying to distract me!"

The Cobra wrapped its tail around Danny.

He tried, but he couldn't phase out of it or turn into mist (that's what I'm calling it!) and get out of her grasp. "What do you want with me?" Danny yelled at the beast.

" Just to tell you this:

Uh, hmm…" it appeared to be in deep thought.

"What?" Questioned Danny

" Give me a sec! Jeez! I had to memorize this by heart!"

The creature might have been a giant Were-Cobra girl, but she had the voice and attitude of a teenager.

"Okay, okay I got it:

Ahem

At midnight's hour,

A Ball awaits,

The old friend's curse

Will take place.

Sadness comes, but anger makes way.

So stop the wish before it gets..Uh, sayed.

That is all."

The cobra released Danny, and he dropped to the ground. "Wait….What is that supposed to mean?" Danny said, puzzled by the odd poem.

"Well…. I can't really tell you, but here's a hint: When an offer comes up, say yes. It will help you on your quest. Hey! That rhymed!" The cobra looked pleased. And with that, it disappeared.

"Wait I don't understand!" Danny made a move near where the cobra was, but it was gone. He went behind a tree, and a blue flash appeared as he went back to normal.

BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRINGGGGGG!

OH NO! SCHOOLS OVER? Danny thought, freaking out. He ran out from behind the tree and—

"DANNY!" Kaylie shouted. "I'm so glad to see you!"

She ran up and hugged Danny. "Did you just see that?"

"Uh, w-what?" Said Danny backing away from Kaylynn, a little embarrassed at Kaylie hugging him. She acted like she had known him forever.

"Those two! A white haired, green-eyed boy! I bet his name was invis-o-bill or something like that! Anyways, he was fighting with this girl, and she turned into a Cobra, and—OH MY GOSH! School!"

She shouted.

"MY NAMES NOT IN- I mean, yeah! It was really weird! D-did you happen to see a blue flash?" Danny said a little worried that maybe Kaylie had figured out his secret.

"Yeah!" she replied. "Right from behind this tree and..then…you came out …from…behind it." Her eyes widened.

" HEY! Don't look at me like that! I am not a gh—" Danny was cut off.

"You got zapped by that ghost!" She said.

"Uh, yeah…hey! There's Sam and Tucker!" Said Danny; glad she had not realized he was half-ghost.

"Danny! And ..Kaylynn! Where were you guys?" Sam ran up to Danny.

Sam gave a "ghost-battle-right?" look at Danny.

"Yeah, dude, you guys were away all day! Don't worry, though, we covered for ya." Tucker said.

"Thanks, Tucker! But we were here because we saw a real ghost battle! Right Danny?" Kaylie looked eagerly at Danny.

"Uh, y-yeah!" Danny said. He was going to say something to Sam and Tucker, but Kaylynn kept on talking.

"W-was it a white haired ghost?" Sam said.

"Cause if it is, I'm sure it was nothing and you should forget you ever saw it!" Tucker added nervously.

" Yeah! And NO way! It was cool! He fought a Cobra-girl-thing! Then it said a rhyme.. something about a ball…but yeah! It was so AWEsoME!" she squealed.

The three, Sam, Tucker, and Danny just stood there, speechless, unable to say anything.

"Sorry if I'm freaking out, it was just so cool." She apologized.

" It's okay! I mean, it IS pretty cool, ghost battles and flying and stuff." Danny said, without noticing he had said flying.

"Wait, what did you just say FLYING?" she said incredulously.

"N-NO! I, uh, I said …" Danny looked at Sam and Tucker for help.

"Flopping!" Tucker said.

"Flopping?"

" In the water! Swimming! He likes to swim!" Sam added.

" Uhh….okay…" Kaylynn looked very confused.

"Anyways….You guys have been really nice to me. I just wanted to thank you." Kaylynn said.

"Aw, it was nothing!" Sam said.

"No! Really, it wasn't nothing, most people would ignore and make fun of my accent, but you guys have been awesome! So… I was wondering… well, you don't have to but if you want to …Come for a kinda sleepover thing? It is Friday," she said. " In separate rooms of course." She said quickly.

The three went over the offer in their heads.

Sam:

Well, we don't know her that well, but she seems really nice. I'm sure it will be fine, and plus, it may be my chance to make a friend that's a girl. I'll say…yes!

Tucker:

Sleep over at a girl's house? Sure! Besides, I'm sure she's okay.

Danny:

We hardly know her. But what that Cobra said… I'll have to say yes. Besides, she is nice, but what was with that whole clock thing? Freezing time? Maybe I was dreaming.

" I also just got that new DOOM:II game for the game cube, and its no fun playing alone. Plus, my dads not home.. " She said to herself.

"Yes!" the three of them said in unison.

" You're not allergic to cats, snakes, horses, deer or birds, right?"

"Uh..Yeah." They said.

"Good! My house is the new one on the corner of Spectre and Green street, kay? How does… 8 sound?

"Fine!" They replied. They all said bye to each other, and went their separate ways.

Danny walked up to Sam and Tucker.

"Weird sounding ghost, Danny! How'd it go?" Tucker questioned Danny.

"Well…" he explained, " It was like this girl, who was part snake. She was trying to tell me something, but I didn't have enough time so we fought, and then she transformed into this giant cobra, grabbed me, and said I had to figure out a poem, and now I have no clue what it means." Danny said all in one breath.

"So, what was it? Maybe we can help!" Sam offered.

Danny began, " it was… at midnights hour,

A Ball awaits,

The old friend's curse

Will take place.

Sadness comes, but anger makes way.

So stop the wish, before it gets sayed."

He had no idea how he remembered that, it was like it was burned into his head or something

"Sayed isn't a word." Sam pointed out.

"I know, but what does it mean?" Danny left out the point that the cobra told him to accept an offer.

" A ball, right? That means like…a..dance.." Sam said. "Wait! The spring dance! Whatever is going to happen, is going to happen then!" Sam said.

"yes…YES! The dance, but what then?" Danny replied.

"I don't know… let's think about it later. We have a sleep over to prepare for, remember?" Sam stated.

"Yeah."

"Bye!" the three friends said to each other.

At Kaylynn's house..

Ooh! I have to get ready! Thought Kaylynn .

Okay lets see…

Junk food? Check

Game room opened? Check

Truth or dare? She smiled evilly to herself check!

And…Weird room full of clocks closed so no one realizes who I am closed? Check.

At Danny's house:

Hmm-Weird poem… weird girl..

Danny thought to himself.

" Hey Danny, what are you packing for?" Jazz asked. She wondered what he was up to.

"Mmmhmm." Danny replied, not paying attention.

"DANNY!"

"Wha..Huh…? Yeah! I'm going to the new girl's house for a sleepover-thing." Danny's parents were off on a ghost-hunting thing, so only he and Jazz were home. "I-in separate rooms, of course!" Danny added quickly after seeing the stern look on Jazz's face.

"Okay, but just be careful!" Jazz said, being her usual cautious self.

"Jazz! I'll be-" Danny was cut off as his ghost sense went off.

"FINE! Boy, is it cold in here, now I need to pack so go!" he hurriedly pushed jazz out of his room.

As soon as Jazz was out of his room, he shouted " I'm Going Ghost!" and two rings of light turned him into Danny Phantom. He went intangible, and flew out the window to look for the ghost.

Sam and Tucker were walking with their stuff to Kaylynn's house. Eventually, they got there.

"Whoa! Sam, it's almost as big as your house!" Tucker gaped at Kaylie's house. Actually, it looked more castle-like.

"Hope it doesn't have any dungeons in it!" Sam sounded like she joked, but was kind of being serious. It did look a little creepy. She rang the doorbell.

DONGGG!

They both jumped, the doorbell was really loud.

They saw the doorbell opening. "Hey, guys! I'm glad you could make it! Come in!" Kaylynn smiled and offered a helping hand with their things. Surprisingly, she could carry it all.

"Just follow me!" She led the way through a twisting hallway.

Sam and Tucker looked at all the doors they passed on the way there. There was a door where soft talking could be heard from, a door with a lot of ticking noised, a door that glowed, and many more.

"We're here!" Kaylynn said happily.

They wound up in a fairly large room, with a widescreen TV, various video game consoles and a BIG bowl of M&M's and other candies. A Bright orange cat looked at them, then leaped away.

"COOL!" Tucker yelled and ran up and started playing random video games.

"Neat, Kaylynn!" Sam said and started to mess around with the TV remote.

" Hey, do you know where Danny is?" Kaylynn asked Sam?

"I'm sure he's fine…" Sam said, knowing perfectly well that he was off fighting ghosts.

By Danny…

"Hey, ghost! Lets make this quick, I have a party to go to!" Danny shouted at the strange looking ghost.

"YOU!" The beast snarled. It looked like a black smog, with red eyes and sharp teeth. " I got RID of you!" It growled.

" What do you mean you got rid of me? I'm right here, aren't I? Guess you failed at that!" Danny said and charged at it, but went right through it.

" Hah! Child, you cannot touch me! Hmmm.." He resumed a more human-like form, but still remained his fog like complexion. A little necklace appeared around his neck, with an hourglass on the end of it. He held it in his hand. "Ah, the fool. What a mistake he made!" The smog said to itself.

" Hey! When you're done talking to yourself, crazy, turn around."

The smog turned around, but was not fast enough to dodge the ghost beam Danny shot at him.

"Rrrrrg, foolish child, no-one hurts me!" The smog rushed at Danny, enveloping him in a dark cloud of shadows.

"Hey!" Danny flew around, but everything around him was dark. He heard a deep chuckle. Suddenly, it felt as if he were being ripped apart, by the inside out.

"AAAHHH!" He doubled over in pain.

Aaghh! What the heck is happening! It feels like—AGH!

Danny thought to himself. Wait—

In between the pangs of pan he looked at his hands and body. Nothing seemed to be happening. It must be just… an illusion!

"Its just an Illusion!" Danny shouted, and a bubble of ectoplasmic-energy surrounded him and exploded the smog.

"Arrg! You broke my illusion!" The smog resumed its regular form. " Hmm. I have a better idea for you, child. He looked around and saw a familiar castle-like house.

"Hey!" The smog had grabbed him by the collar and threw him into the castle. " By the looks of where I just threw you, it should be enough to keep you out of commission for a while." The smog grinned to itself and dissipated into the air.

Meanwhile, Danny was flying through the air towards a brick wall. He went intangible just in time and got through the wall just in time. As he hit the floor, he turned back to normal.

Back at the party…

"Hey are you SURE Danny's okay?" Kaylynn questioned Sam suspiciously.

Beeping could be overheard as Tucker was madly playing Video Games.

"H-he's FINE! Perfectly fine!" Sam said a little too quickly

Back to wherever Danny is… Ow! Hey, where am I?

Danny thought. He was in a room full of clocks. Constant ticking, tocking, and even cuckoo clocks could be heard every once in a while. There had to be at least 50 clocks, on the wall (all different types, ticking at different speeds.) and two giant grandfather clocks.

Tick! Tick tick tock tick tock tock

Click click click click click

Cuckoo! Cuckoo! DONG! DONG! DONG! A grandfather clock went off.

Danny started to get a little dizzy.

The…ticking of the clock…making me weaker…

Danny started to fall over.

TICK TICK TOCK TOCK TICK TOCK TICK TOCK CLICK CLICK
CLICK ! BEEP BEEP !

DING DONG DONG DONG!

CUCKOO! CUCKOO!

The noise seemed to be getting louder, as if it realized Danny was there and was trying to bring him down.

He started to collapse. The clock noise was affecting him. He went invisible, his eyes glowed green, and he went back to normal. Something was seriously wrong here.

"Hellpp…" he said weakly before passing out.

Somewhere, somehow, a strange stopwatch's "S" glowed.

"Oh no."