Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom. I am just a dedicated fan.
DarkDragonQueen: I started watching Danny Phantom until about four months ago and I didn't really watch it. It was my sister and one day it was the only thing on and I completely fell in love with the show. I've been reading the fanfiction for a while and this story kind of came to my mind. I didn't want to write it until I saw a few stories that calmed my nerve. It's an Alternate universe and Sam has never met Danny or Tucker and she's never been to Amity Park until now.
Also no flames, but I do accept constructive criticism. Please bear with me because although I know the basics of grammar, I never did look at the detail. Don't worry my grammar isn't horrible where you can't read it, but it isn't exactly perfect where I could go and become an English teacher.
With that said here is chapter ten of this story.
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An Offer You Can't Refuse... Or Not?
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"I've never been so bored in my entire life." Aly exclaimed as she banged her head against the wall in Sam's room. Their suspension was steadily dragging by and two weeks had passed by. There was nothing to do at all and so they sat in the house doing nothing except being bored.
"That's it." Sam said standing up and transforming into the Black Phoenix in the process. "I'm bored and I'm tired of being stuck in the house all damn day."
"But what about Celo-" Aly started but was cut off by Black Phoenix's voice
"I don't care at the moment. I need to get out. I haven't been out in a while and I just feel like doing something." the teen replied and jumped out the window and began to walk down the street.
Aly ran to the window. "It's broad daylight you idiot." she yelled at her
"It'll be dark in about thirty minutes. No big," the teen yelled and jumped onto the roof of a house taking off into the evening
Aly growled and turned to Silver Moon. "I'm going after her. Cover for me." she said and went out the window behind Black Phoenix.
By now though, Back Phoenix was far away from the house just enjoying being alone with nothing to worry about for a few moments. Sometimes she needed the peace and quiet. She found herself not knowing where she was going, but her feet were just guiding her. She was walking through a forest now and as she got to a clearing and saw a cliff she was reminded of her death. The only thing different was that it wasn't behind a cemetery. Actually it was a beautiful to look over the cliff. She walked over to it cautiously for falling off the edge of a cliff because some gang was chasing her was the reason she died in the first place.
She sat on cliff with her legs dangling off the edge. The sight was beautiful. It was nothing but green grass with a few flowers every now and then, but against the sunset in the sky it was one of the most beautiful things she had ever seen.
"It's so beautiful and relaxing, " she said, "Just what I needed."
Of course she would never admit that out loud if anyone had been there... or let's put it this way. She would never say that if she was aware that anyone were around because there was.
"So," Said a voice she knew all too well. "the Black Phoenix does have a soft side,"
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Danny sighed in his room. It was a Thursday afternoon and it was about six thirty at the moment. Danny sighed again. Tucker had homework, there were no ghost to fight and he was so desperate he almost asked his parents if he could help with their inventions... almost. He was desperate but not that desperate to do something that dumb and set off one of their machines revealing his secret. That was close to committing suicide.
Danny got up and walked downstairs. His parents were out and his sister was gone. He never in a million years thought he would be saying this, but he really, really, really, wanted to go back to school. At least he had something to do He was so bored in fact he might have gone insane. Now if he had had school today and had a ton of homework he would have had to fight at least three ghost before the night was over.
He opened the door and walked down the sidewalk for a moment and then deciding he was bored with just walking he made sure no one was around and went ghost. He took off into the air flying into the clear sky. He sighed and looked down at the city below him. He didn't care what it was- a ghost, maybe even a robbery. He needed something to do. In the end he decided to just go to the special he liked to go to on the edge of Amity Park. It was a clearing at the end of a forest where a cliff was where there was nothing but green grass on the ground for as far as he could see.
When he arrived he noticed someone was already there and on looking closer, he could see it was Black Phoenix.
"It's so beautiful and relaxing, " she said, "Just what I needed."
This surprised Danny when he heard that come out of her mouth. He was positive she hated anything that had flowers and reminded someone of a fairytale.
"So," he said teasingly. "The Black Phoenix does have a soft side."
Black Phoenix turned to look at Danny who was wearing a grin a on his face.
"What are you doing here Ghost boy?" she asked turning back around
"Is there a law that says I'm not allowed to just fly around and enjoy the fresh air for once?" he asked ignoring the Ghost Boy comment.
"No," Black Phoenix replied. "But there are three ghost hunters out for your hide Mr. Public Ghost Enemy #1"
Danny laughed. "They haven't caught me yet now have they? Besides, no one comes here but me and you now." he added
Black Phoenix smirked as the Danny sat next to her.
"You like it here?" he asked and nodded
"It's beautiful isn't it?"
"Yeah, but I wish it weren't on this cliff so I could really enjoy myself." Black Phoenix sighed
Danny looked at her confused. "Why? There's no need for you to be afraid because if you fall you'll just land on your feet."
"I would probably be too afraid and forget all about my powers." Black Phoenix admitted
"Okay, now I'm lost. Why would you be so afraid that you forget about your powers?" Danny asked tilting his head to the side as he looked at her
Black Phoenix sighed and decided to tell her at least why she was afraid of cliffs.
"I died because I fell off a cliff." she admitted to him
Danny looked away and cast his eyes downward. "Sorry," he said. "I didn't mean to bring up bad memories."
"Don't worry about it. I know how you died... or at least part of the story anyway. " she replied
"Part of it?"
"I still say you're not telling me something and like I said before, I won't pry you, but heed my words. I'll find out soon enough." Black Phoenix replied
"Looks like we're both hiding something then." Danny smirked
"Huh,"
"I'm hiding something about my death and other than the fact that I don't know how you came back to life, I also don't know who you are behind that mask." Danny explained
"Hey," Phoenix laughed. "We've only actually sat and spoke to each other- what, one time before now and you expect me to remove my mask and show my identity."
"No," Danny replied nudging her in the arm playfully and she nudged him back.
Black Phoenix sighed when she noticed it had gotten dark. She would never admit this, but she enjoyed talking to Phantom (as she liked to call him as not to get the two Danny's she knew confused). It was like she knew him from somewhere and he was her best friend.
"I guess I better go." she told him. "I need to go on patrol now."
"What is it that you do?" Danny asked curious to know
"You protect people from ghost and I protect people from dying at the hands of others. It's that simple." Black Phoenix replied standing up
"So that's why I always see you in the bad side of Amity," he realized
"Yeah, that where most murders take place." Black Phoenix agreed turning around to walk away and into the forest. She stopped and bit her lip turning back around to Phantom. "You can come with me if you want." she suggested. "That is, if you want to and don't have any ghost to fight."
Danny looked at the teen who was, he noticed, was a bit more relaxed around him. Instead of acting cold and overly sarcastic and blunt, she had toned it down some and was acting like she considered him a friend. Her toned down personality reminded him of someone he knew, but the problem was he couldn't put a name or a face to it.
He hovered off the ground and towards her.
"Yeah sure," he replied and decided he would keep this little meeting with Black Phoenix to himself. If Jazz found out about this she would lecture him until his ears bleed.
"You can fly above me." she replied and got ready to run through the forest
Danny frowned. "You can't fly?"
Black Phoenix gave him a dry look. "Did you go partially blind when you died, because even the most unobservant person in the world would realize that just by watching me on television." she replied sarcastically
"I just never really paid attention to it I guess," Danny replied rubbing the back of his neck and Black Phoenix frowned being reminded of her live human friend Danny.
"It's easy to assume I do fly though," she replied with a sigh. "The name kind of makes anyone think that, but I didn't have any real super power if that's what you want to call it until I fought that dumb girl Valerie who thinks she can hunt you down and capture you."
"You know who she is?" Danny asked surprised
"I have my sources," she replied simply
"Anyway," he said. "If you want I'll fly you."
"You don't have to, I can walk. I always do." Black Phoenix replied turning back around
Danny rolled his eyes. This girl had so much pride you could choke in it. So instead of trying to convince her he flew up behind her and grabbed her around her waist as he took to the air.
She gasped and then hit him on the arm. "I told you I could walk."
"You've got so much pride I don't see how you manage to fit it all in your personality." Danny remarked and Black Phoenix hit him again
"You might want to stop that." he said with a smug smile. "I just might drop you."
"You wouldn't dare." she said narrowing her eyes although he couldn't see it.
"Don't worry I wouldn't let you fall to your death... again." he added hesitantly
"If you did, I'd come back as the most powerful ghost you've ever faced." she replied seriously
Danny noticed this and decided to leave her alone on the topic before she really did make him accidentally drop her. He landed near and alleyway on an empty street and put her down.
"So what exactly do you do?" he asked and then noticed that the girl in front of him had tilted her head and was looking behind him
"Hello," he said waving a hand in her face after calling her name a few times.
"Huh?" Black Phoenix blinked
"You alright?" Danny asked
"My crystal's nagging me again." Black Phoenix replied
"What does that crystal do anyway?" Danny asked as he floated beside the girl who had begun to walk the sidewalk
Black Phoenix shrugged. "I'm not too sure. I don't know if it keeps me alive or gives me my powers. All I know is I need it to transform. It always warns me when something is about to happen too. It's been nagging me lately and it's getting worse. I think I know why, but I'm not so sure." she sighed and looked up at the sky which had gotten darker and the first few stars were starting to peek out.
"Yeah, I know the feel-" Danny stopped as his ghost sense went off. Black Phoenix raised an eyebrow at the blue mist.
"Ghost?" she asked already knowing the answer
"Ghost," Danny sighed and looked around.
"Where is it?" Black Phoenix asked Phantom and narrowed her violet eyes
Danny didn't say anything for a moment and then answered the teen. "I'm not sure, but I have a really bad feeling about-" Danny was cut off by Black Phoenix's gasp and she quickly grabbed his arm soon after jumping to the edge of a building.
"What are you doing?" he asked alarmed
"Oh, I'm sorry. I just thought you might not want to be torn into shreds by that," Black Phoenix said sarcastically pointing to the spot they were previously standing in.
Danny looked down and his eyes widened. It was a woman, but she looked to be half bird. She had deathly pale skin and long wild red hair. Her hands finger had long sharp claws at the tip and her feet were claws like that of a bird and out of her back sprouted a beautiful pair of black and purple wings. She had on a black somewhat bikini- like outfit with a black spiked choker. Next to her were two ghost that looked just like her.
"What the hell are they?" he exclaimed
Black Phoenix looked at them and then she raised and eyebrow.
"I think their Harpies." she replied. "Beautiful half bird, half woman creatures who have even seduced the greatest of warriors into the nest to feed on."
"What are they doing?" Danny asked noticing they were just staring at them.
The two birds then looked at each other and nodded.
"Cawww," they screeched and flew onto the top of the building.
Danny and Black Phoenix jumped from the edge as the Harpies outstretched their claws ready tear them to pieces.
"Ahn, Ahn, Ahn," said a voice, "Don't hurt them my pretties..."
The Harpies stopped and stepped back a bit. Black Phoenix and Danny's danger senses went off as they prepared for a fight if be needed.
"Awww," said the live Harpy, "I haven't had a decent male in a while. At least let us have the halfa?"
"Halfa?" Black Phoenix asked looking at Danny who wore a nervous expression knowing she was going to ask
"I have no clue what their talking about." he tried to lie rubbing the back of his neck, but he knew Black Phoenix wouldn't buy it.
Black Phoenix looked at him with a questioning look, but decided to ask Phantom about it later.
"Now, now my pretties, " said a voice and a woman finally came with it behind the Harpies and walking past them. "After we finish our business here I'll find a nice meal for you, don't worry. Besides, the halfa seems to be a friend of our little reborn heroine."
"I'm not a heroine," Black Phoenix remarked
"What do you call saving people from deaths they probably deserve, hm? You should be using your powers to get back at the people who killed you in the and cursed you with this life in the first place." she said with her long fiery red (as in literally fire) burning behind her. Her long red dress had a split that went all the way up to her thigh, red high heel shoes and red eyes. A red fan was held over her mouth and red nail polish
"No one deserves a death at the hands of another." Black Phoenix replied firmly. "Who are you anyway?"
The woman laughed. "You've already heard of me I'm sure. I'm Celosia, master of fire and all the burns."
"The Angels of Death warned me about you," Black Phoenix remembered
"Tut, tut," Celosia said. "It's people like them who always give me a bad name."
"Whoa," Danny said. "She really reminds me of Plasmius."
"Plasmius," Celosia muttered and then snapped her finger. "Oh, you mean Vlad Plasmius the other ghost like you. I haven't spoken to him in years."
"Who's Plasmius?" Black Phoenix asked at the same time Danny asked "You know Plasmius?"
"You don't know him?" Celosia said and then laughed. "It figures, you're new to this anyway."
Black Phoenix let out a groan in annoyance. "What do you want?"
"You know what I want." Celosia replied. "You have so much potential my dear. Potential that shouldn't be wasted saving the miserable lives of others who don't really appreciate you."
"And you ruin the lies of people who don't deserve it and then make them live in pain and suffering. Of the two, I think I rather do the former." Black Phoenix replied about to turn away and leave, but Phantom grabbed her arm.
"I wouldn't do that right now if I were you." Danny said pointing to the three Harpies and one slightly angry Celosia
"You could never say no to me my dear,"
"Don't call me that," Black Phoenix interrupted dryly
Celosia ignored her. "I'm much more experienced than you are. By twenty- five years to be exact."
"And to think I thought she was no older than twenty..." Black Phoenix commented knowing Phantom wouldn't be able to resist making a remark
"Now that she mentions it though, I think I do see a wrinkle or two..." Danny remarked with a smirk
Celosia glared at the two teens and then said. "Eternal youth and flawless beauty is one of the gifts that come with our curse. Any-who, can you imagine what I could teach you. The awesome things we could do together. Heck, by this time next year we could take over the world and then the ghost zone in another."
"Tempting offer, but my answer is still the same." Black Phoenix said trying to break free of Phantom's grip, but his grip only tightened
Danny didn't like the look in the Harpies' eyes and he now noticed Celosia's flame hair was growing bigger.
"What do you mean no?" she growled. "I've never offered this to anyone. Some others like us I know would give everything they owned just so they could train under me and become my apprentice. It's an offer you can't refuse?"
"Or not," Black Phoenix replied smartly
Celosia's eyes burned with rage at Black Phoenix and Danny kept a good grip on her arm prepared to take off if it be needed.
"HOW COULD YOU DARE SAY NO?" Celosia shouted
"Like this," Black Phoenix replied. "Hell no. Simple as that."
"Hell is right," Celosia roared. "Because I'm going to make your live a living HELL."
She rose off the ground a bit and flew at Black Phoenix who was still in Danny's tight grip. He grabbed her and barely got out of the way in time.
"I've seen two year olds that can control their temper better than that. Man is she spoiled rotten." Danny said dryly
"Harpies," Celosia yelled, "Get them!"
"Looks like we'll have halfa for dinner after all." said one of the ghost Harpy as they flew up to where Danny was with Black Phoenix
"I'll handle the living one," Black Phoenix said dryly and Phantom sighed
"I'll handle the ghost two," Danny said loosening his grip on the girl, "Ready?"
Black Phoenix nodded and dropped the girl onto the live Harpy who had been right under them. They both fell to the roof of the building and Black Phoenix rolled off of the Harpy and while it stretched it's wings back out she kicked it in the back. The Harpy fell down and Black Phoenix grabbed her wing pulling it to her.
The Harpy's claw made contact with her stomach and she winced in pain before she quickly used her newly acquired power. Her fist gained a black aura and then she punched the Harpy under her jaw sending her flying off the edge.
"Cawww," it screeched
Celosia sighed. "So hard to find strong help these days. Oh well, I'll have to fight the girl myself."
She shot at Black Phoenix like a rocket and tackled her to the ground. Black Phoenix narrowed her eyes and kneed Celosia in the stomach to get her off. She rolled over and out of the way just in time to dodge a ball of flame that came at her.
"Flaming hair, fire balls... Her name certainly fits her, Celosia means burning in Greek. So that means I really need to watch out." she jumped as Celosia threw another flame at her. and in the process kicked the ghost Harpy that was about to claw Phantom to the ground.
Without any hesitation, Danny grabbed the thermos and captured the ghost Harpy along with the other ghost Harpy.
Celosia in frustration grabbed Black Phoenix by her hair.
"I have no time to be playing tag with you and you ghost boyfriend." she said. "Let's just see who it is under that mask,"
Celosia snatched off the mask and Black Phoenix growled at the fact that her mask was removed. Lucky for her Celosia was holding her so that she had her back to Danny.
Celosia threw the mask to the ground and violet eyes narrowed in a glare that would have even the most fearless of mean wet their pants. She gasped and the let go of Black Phoenix who's hair parted and instinctively became a shield to cover her face.
"My mask," she muttered and felt around the ground with one hand while Celosia looked down and smiled clapping her hands together.
"Oh how convenient this is." she exclaimed. "I think it's time I paid an old friend a visit. Until then..." Celosia disappeared in a sudden burst of flame along with the Harpy Black Phoenix had knocked out
Black Phoenix looked down on her knees with a hand over her face (although her hair covered her entire face, it was an instinct) felling around for her precious mask.
"That darn Celosia. Where's my mask?"
Danny floated up to the teen and looked around the roof spotting the mask on the edge. He picked it up and lifted Phoenix's hand from the ground she was feeling around and put the mask in it.
"Here," he said and her fist clenched the mask.
Black Phoenix stood up and turned her back to him putting her mask back on before turning around and giving a small grateful smile, but Danny wasn't really sure he had seen it for it was gone as quick as it had come.
"Thanks Phantom," she said flatly
'Well, at least she said thank you. I'll work on getting her to say it without making sound like it was sarcastic later.'
"No problem Phoenix," Phantom replied shrugging his shoulders
She nodded. "I really need to get going now. My mother is going to kill me," she muttered starting to jump to roof to roof before Phantom could ask if she needed a lift
Danny sighed. He had been so close to finding out who she was, but he couldn't do that. He didn't want anyone to knoe his secret and he was sure the same was for her. So he took off into the night sky heading home having already broken his curfew.
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There it is and here's your sneak peek:
SPLASH
"Oh shit," Sam laughed getting off of Danny and sitting in the pond. "Now look what you did. I'm soaked."
"Me," Danny laughed. "You tackled me."
"Well, you took my notebook," Sam shot back
"Only because you wouldn't tell me what it was," Danny countered
"I had the right too. It was mine," Sam laughed standing up and wringing out the end of her top.
"Point made," Danny sighed in defeat and then frowned. "Hey, what's up with your hair?"
"What's wrong with it?" Sam asked looking at her hair and frowning
"It's not soaked or anything. It isn't even sticking to you face. The water's just sliding off of it like it's sliding off a metal surface or something."
Well until my next update, R&R.