Another fairly short one, but I kinda like this chapter. It's cute. Before I start, despite of recent complaints, I'm still refusing to translate any of the Spanish or Italian phrases. Think of it like "Ooh, what's he thinking". The only translations you're getting is in Adriana's diary, and nothing more. She'll be the only one that you'll know what she's thinking.

Disclaimer: I don't own either "Danny Phantom" or "Pirates of the Caribbean". 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 12: Unique Is Still Good

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"Dear diary,

The ship was attacked by dead pirates last night. We were all able to fight them off and survive. Hopefully, we don't have to run into them again. As for today, everything's alright on the Hairy Turtle. There was only one arguement, which involved Jack and Don. I'm also surprised it wasn't Gustavo, but Don's been fighting with Jack that he's the better navigator. Don does know the vase batter than anyone, so we'll see soon. Danny's been acting very strange lately. He's become less open to all of us since yesterday. He almost seriously injured Jack while he was training. I just hope that it's something any of us can do about it.

-Adriana

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Night had come to the open seas once more with a near full moon as its only light. On the deck of the Hairy Turtle, Danny Phantom arose from below with a sword in hand. After planting his feet on the deck, he looked around to see if anyone was occupying the upper deck. No sign of Jack, no sign of an undead. He took this oppurtunity to do a few freestyle moves with his blade.

He started with a few jabs followed by stabbing the air behind him under his arm. He quickly brought it back up for a vertical slash. He rolled back and got back on his feet. He then charged his blade with ectoplasmic energy and slashed horizontally, sending an energy wave into the horizon. He then did a few forward handsprings, using his levitation to keep him balance, with two things left out of mind. One: he was unaware of his surroundings and springing towards the doorway to the inside of the ship. Two: Adriana was coming through it.

"Danny," she said walking out, "are you up..." Before she could finish her sentence, Danny finished his springing and thrusted his blade, which went directly into Adriana's head.

Adriana was the one most shocked, seeing that she was still alive. Danny had noticed her for a split second and made his arm and sword intangible before the sword could really penetrate anything. Adriana very frightenedly moved her head away from the intangible blade. "I'm sorry," Danny said quickly. "I am so sorry. I'm... Ugh, I'm such an idiot. Idiot!" Danny continued cursing at himself over to the side of the ship, where Adriana followed.

"Danny," Adriana said, "what's wrong? You haven't really been yourself lately."

"Oh, it's nothing," Danny said. "I've just been thrown into a different time period, been shot at, been thrown over a waterfall, given mass confusion over my living status, almost got killed by people who were already killed, and, just recently, almost killed you. All in one week! I'm just dandy!"

"That doesn't sound like anything good," Adriana replied.

"IT'S CALLED SARCASM!" Danny snapped back, which caused Adriana to jump back. She seemed almost disheartened. Danny made the quick move to apologize. "Look, I'm sorry. I'm just... Ugh, I don't know."

"Can you try to tell me what's wrong?" Adriana asked.

Without looking at her, Danny answered, "I just feel my powers caused everything. Ever since the day I got them, there's been nothing but trouble. It's like I'm the reason that there are ghosts in my town. And now that I'm here, there's even more trouble. If I weren't here, you'd be safer, Don'd be safer, Jack and Gustavo... well, they'd be in jail, but it's safer in there, anyway. Sometimes I just wish I never had these powers."

"Don't feel bad about yourself, Danny," Adriana said, in an effort to comfort him. "If it weren't for your powers, none of us would be here. We never would have met or gotten to where we are right now. And you've always managed to solve those troubles, right? You're the most helpful person on this ship. I think your powers make you unique, and I think unique is... good."

"Do you really think so?" Danny asked in a lightened up mood.

Adriana answered by putting her hand over Danny's and saying, "I know so." She then leaned toward him, to which Danny doing the same. The mood was then broken by Gustavo barging on deck.

"Everyone up here," Gustavo ordered, "go to your cabins! Night has approached and the final..." Gustavo paused suddenly, seeing the scene happened a few yards in next to him. After a long, awkward silence, he said, "Were you going to..."

Danny and Adriana erupted with excuses expanding from "It's not what it looks like," to "She was choking and...," to "Él deseó besarme." Gustavo laughed, knowing mostly what was going on. "You saw nothing," Danny said.

"Alright, alright," Gustavo said. "You two go to sleep. I'm steering the ship." Danny and Adriana went to do so walking through the cabin door. As they went through, Gustavo went, in sing-song, "Danny y Adriana se están sentando en un árbol."

"¡No comience!" Adriana struck back, without looking back.

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If these seem to take alittle long to put up, I have a reason. I'm always looking at what I can do after the next chapter rather than just doing the next chapter itself.. I feel the process should be smoother by now, so for now, leave me your reviews.