Along with the feedback, I'd like to give biggest thanks to Anne Camp. Truthfully, I never would've thought of what you typed, now it the chapter's opener. Well, you know, besides the disclaimer and stuff.

Disclaimer: I don't own either "Danny Phantom" or "Pirates of the Carabbean". Most of the characters you see are either property of Nickelodeon or Disney. Some others are my own.

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The Spirit of the Ship

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Chapter 9: Wierd Sirens

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It's been a several hours since the Hairy Turtle set sail. Up in its crow's nest, Danny lied there with his feet hanging over the end, half asleep. "Ugh," he moaned. "So bored." Danny had never gone so long without television and his computer. The only entertainment he got now was sword training with Jack and Gustavo and watching them argue. The disturbing hush of the open seas gave no equalities of a pleasure cruise.

Below the nest, Jack was pacing around the mast it was mounted on, pondering to himself what most of the vase could mean. He knew Don was on the case, but he couldn't help but wonder to himself. He was suddenly startled by Adriana, who to him, appeared suddenly.

"How long has Danny been up there?" Adriana asked to Jack.

"Oh," Jack pondered, "an hour, maybe. I lost count. He must be a landlover."

"I think I know what land he loves," Adriana said, sorrowly. She didn't know much about homesickness, since she never really had a home. She did live in an old watermill, but not a family to go to.

"Ah, yes," Jack said, twisting a point in his beard. "He's not really from this time. Poor boy."

"Can you hoist me up there?" Adriana asked. Jack started to respond, but it generated into chuckle of discovery.

"I think I get it," Jack grinned. "You like him don't you?"

Hesitating, Adriana responded, "No! I'm just worried."

"They always say that," Jack said to himself. He turned his attention back to Adriana, "Alright, I'll hoist you up there. Get me that rope."

"Aye-aye!" Adriana said to the captain, saluting him.

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Danny continued laying down on the crow's nest doing the only mildly amusing thing he could: looking at clouds thinking of what they resemble. One he found resmbled a duck, which was shortly blocked off by Adriana's head. Danny screamed and scurried to the edge of the nest. Adriana couldn't help but giggle at Danny's startledness. "Geez," Danny panted, holding his chest. "Are you trying to give me a heart attack or something?"

"I just wanted to check on you," Adriana said to Danny. "You've been up here for a really long time."

"It's just..." Danny paused, thinking of how to put it in a way Adriana could understand. "You ever had a place you could call home? A place you were really close to with people who love you?"

Adriana looked down and shook her head. "I never really found any home to live," she told him. "I don't have a home or a family. The closest item I have to me is my diary." She pulled her diary with a feather pen in where she last written, of a pouch on a special waistband she had on. It also heldviles of ink used to write in it. "It's the only person I can talk to. But it's not much fun when the only person you talk to doesn't respond back."

"It's not just that," Danny said as Adriana put her diary back. "I'm incredibly bored. Back in my time, there were lots of things to do. Now that we're in the open ocean, there's... not much. There are things like movies and..." Danny paused, just thinking that since he was in the late 1600s, Adriana wouldn't have an idea what Danny was talking about. "Movies are like adventures from far away places that you can see in a different place. Then there are video games, which are like a story that you have full control of. The music of home is probably the best out there." Danny was going to continue until he was cut off by what he was just talking about. "Speaking of which, what is that?"

"It sounds like... singing," Adriana answered. She looked down to see Jack slowly walking to the wheel. Danny looked down to see the door to the sitting rooms to see Don and Gustavo slowly walking to the side of the ship.

"This this strike you as creepy?" Danny asked. He noticed the singing getting louder, and the boat starting to rock. It started light, but the intensity grew as did the singing. The teens then saw where the source of the singing came from. It came from beautiful women who were sitting on rocks.

"He's traversing dangerous waters just to meet women?" Adriana said in an angry tone.

"I don't blame him!" a googly eyed Danny responded, getting a peeved look from Adriana. Danny's attention changed from the singing lovely's to an up-coming set of rapids. "That's bad," he said to himself before catching Don jump off the ship off the corner of his eye. "That's worse!"

Danny dived off the nest, switching to his ghost form in mid-air. He hit the water like an arrow and swam up to catch Don and keep his head above water. He flew back up to the ship with Don in hand only to see Gustavo jump off soon after. "Oh, come on!" Danny complained. He dropped Don where he floated, darted down through the deck, and into the ocean. He grabbed him and flew back to the surface. After throwing Gustavo back on deck and planting his feet on the ground, he felt the effects of the rapids violently rocking the ship.

He looked above to see Adriana feeling the rapids, too. The ship shook hard enough to throw her off the nest and towards the wild waters below. Danny reacted fast and grabbed Adriana's wrist before she disappeared over the side of the ship. After he pulled her on board, he told her, "Get Don and Gustavo inside. I'm gonna consult Jack." Danny ran to the captain witout question, leaving Adriana to drag the dead wieght to the storage room.

Trying to keep his balance, Danny walked up to Jack to talk him out of sailing his current route. He knew Jack couldn't turn back, but he was gonna try to get some sense into him. "Jack," Danny shouted from halfway up the steps to the wheel, "are you crazy? These rapids are dangerous! And this song is getting really repetitive!" Danny then realized something he should've figured out a long time ago. "Their singing's hypnotizing them." He quickly flew up to Jack and tried plugging his ears, when he heard Adriana.

"Danny," Adriana screamed, "look!" Danny looked foward to find the Hairy Turtle heading for a waterfall.

"What's a waterfall doing in the ocean?" Danny asked himself. He didn't know how to counter the waterfall, but he did get an idea on how to survive it. "Adriana, are the guys inside yet?"

"They're close!" Adriana answered.

"Hurry and get them in there and hold on to something!" Danny yeled back. "I got an idea!" Shortly after Adriana got Don and Gustavo in the storage room. Danny flew to the back of the outside of the ship. He grabbed it and told himself, "I hope I can do this."

The Hairy Turtle plummeted over the fall. Danny tried not only to push the ship, but make it intangable. He didn't whether there were poity rocks on the bottom, but with five lives on the line, including his own, he was assuming there was. He put all the energy he could put into getting the ship intangable. At the last possible moment, he suceeded. The ship phased through the jagged rocks Danny suspected were down there while the whole ship went under. He used all the strength he had to push the ship back up to the surface. Exhausted, he floated back onto the deck, and suddenly, everything went black.

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"Dear diary,

A few hours after we finished supplying, we ran into our first obsticle. I told Don everything, and he told me that what we ran into were the Sirens, evil women who sing to sailors and lead them to their doom. Danny and I were the only ones who weren't affected by their song. During the crazed journey, Danny saved us from a waterfall. I don't know why a waterfall was in the ocean like that. Maybe the earth is flat after all. But after Danny saved us, he's been unconscious ever since. I really hope that he's alright.

-Adriana"

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Sorry for the long wait. It's funny how I have the entire story in my head, but have so much trouble putting it in text. I'm sure Obi-Quiet has this problem, too. By the way, I don't wanna hear questions like "Why wasn't Danny affected?" or "What are rapids doing in open ocean?" and stuff. Those questions will be answered next chapter.