Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom. I am just a dedicated fan.
DarkDragonQueen: I started watching Danny Phantom until about three 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.
Okay GreenEyes301, I agree in this Sam does have a lot of pride. I purposely portray her that way. She's the villian type who likes to do things on her own (though she's not really a villian as you can see. I know the thing about Silver Moon, look at what happens in the real world. Some one makes something and then someone else might come around and make it better. It's just a matter of which one you want. Silver Moon is one who takes pride in what she does and likes to gloat about it. She isn't interested in selling or anything, just in making things to help Sam and when she does that she gets excited. In a later chapter she actually tells Tucker she won't build him a new PDA.I don't take your review as a flame, I liked it, because I felt the same way which is why I make little comments about it in the story like when Danny told her that she had a lot of pride. I know I'm rambling now.
By the way, I won't be updating for about a week and a half. I'm going to my grandmother's house and there's no internet. Only upside is I'll have time to type up more chapters. Oh well.
Attention all readers. If you didn't read the first part read this. Nick is canceling Danny Phantom! Are they out of their minds! That's one of the best cartoons they've got and there's so much more that hasn't been revealed. I mean I don't think I've ever been so shocked. GO to this website now, even before you read my next chapter. With no spaces:
www. petitionspot. com
If you go there you'll find more than one petition demanding that nick keeps Danny Phantom. Sign all you can find and wait and hope that nick doesn't cancel the show. I don't think I can survive off of just the fanfics alone. With all our combined effort we can SAVE DANNY PHANTOM!
With that said here is chapter twelve of this story.
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Conversation With A Ghost
By
DarkDragonQueen
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A scream echoed throughout the Manson Mansion coming from the room in the downstairs basement which went by the name of the Phoenix Nest. There stood Aly and Silver Moon, who's eyes were wide with shock at the way Sam had reacted to a little present Silver Moon had given her. There was no way that scream had come out of Sam's mouth. She had to have been just as excited as Aly when she got a kitten on her fifth birthday.
Sam squealed in delight as she inspected the object of her excitement.
"Are you sure she's goth?" Silver Moon asked Aly who merely shrugged
"Oh my God," Sam squealed again. Lucky for her no one else was in the house at the moment. "Thank you so much Silver Moon. I can't believe you finished it after all these months. Where did you get the rest of the money to by the other parts?"
"I have more money than you think." Silver Moon grinned. "Let's just say compared to what I have, what it took to build this thing is chump change."
Sam sat on her new shiny black motorcycle.
"That would probably sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars on the market." Aly remarked in awe at the motorcycle.
"Tsh, the market. Heck, the military would pay millions just for one of them. It's not just a motorcycle. It's an assault vehicle that I call The Phoenix Assault Motorcycle. I'm working on building another one that's ghost proof now and would take two atomic bombs to destroy, but it's going to take a lot longer. It might be a birthday present for ya'," Silver Moon smirked
"I can't wait to try it out tonight." Sam said clapping her hands as her excitement winded down.
"Hold it," Silver Moon said and took out a black notebook with laminated papers in it.
"What's this?" Sam asked looked down at it
"The instruction notebook. Read it before you ride that thing." Silver Moon demanded
"But Silver Moon," Sam protested
Silver Moon held up three keys on a key chain. "See these? Their the keys to the bike and if you want them you have to prove to me that you read the book by telling me what each key does."
"Silver Moon, that's not fair. I can figure it out as I go,"
"Ahn, Ahn, Ahn..."
"Fine then," Sam grumbled grabbing the notebook, "I better start reading it'll take at least a week to read."
Silver Moon shrugged as Sam walked out the room. Sam growled as she walked up the stairs leading into the hallway. She went to the front door throwing it open and walking outside.
She began to read the notebook and sighed. She hoped this wasn't in some foreign inventors language that couldn't be understood by the average intelligent human mind. Sam sighed when she saw it was and was so deep into trying to understand it, she bumped into someone dropping the notebook and falling backwards on her butt.
"Oh sorry," said the person and Sam looked up into ice blue eyes.
"Danny?"
"Oh hey Sam." Danny said extending a hand to help the fallen girl up. "You alright,"
Sam nodded and reached to get the notebook but Danny got it before she did.
"What's this?" he asked
"Nothing," she said quickly snatching the notebook and putting it behind her back. "Just some notes."
Danny raised an eyebrow at her. "If it's just some notes why are you trying to hide it from me?"
Sam slowly brought her hand out from behind her with a sheepish grin. "Uh, I wasn't trying to hide it.. I just uh... didn't think you'd be that interested in it."
"Uh- hun," Danny said and crossed his arms. "What are you hiding?"
"Nothing," Sam lied
"Whatever, I won't pry, but I'll find out eventually." Danny grinned and a feeling of deja' vu came over her. Hadn't she said that to Phantom?
"So what are you doing out here in the early afternoon when nothing is happening on a weekday?" Sam asked changing the subject
"Being very bored," Danny sighed hard and Sam laughed
"You and me both. Remind me to never do something that could result in extended suspension ever again." she remarked dryly knowing with her luck she would never not be able to avoid that.
"If I can prevent myself from doing that. Knowing my luck, I won't." Danny replied and Sam stared at him. Had he just read her mind or what?
"So what is that you're reading?" Danny asked shaking Sam from her stare.
"Nothing you'd be interested in." she replied smiling as she thought about how hard she had to concentrate to get through the first paragraph.
"Come on let me see it?" Danny asked trying to grab the book from her
"No," Sam said nudging running backwards laughing and forgetting why she wasn't letting him see it in the first place.
"Oh well, guess we do it the hard way." Danny said and grabbed the notebook with unnatural speed. Then he took off in the direction of the park.
Sam gasped as she watched him turn the corner. "Danny!"
Sam took off after him. "Danny give that back." she demanded
"Not until I see what's in it. Maybe it's a secret Diary..." Danny teased
"It is not," Sam said as she tried to catch up with him as he entered the park.
Danny stopped behind a tree near the pond and after making sure no one was around he went invisible.
Sam ran into the park and towards the pond looking behind the tree she was sure she had seen Danny run behind.
"Now where did he go?" she asked herself walking around the tree. He had to be here somewhere. She heard a laugh and smiled.
"Guess I'll check somewhere else," she muttered to herself but loud enough for Danny to hear where ever he was. She began to walk away from the tree.
Danny while still invisible looked back and made sure Sam was walking away before becoming visible again. He looked at the front of the notebook and then smiled as he opened it.
"Let's see what's in here," he said about to read the first line, but before he could read the first word a triumphant cry was heard and he dropped the notebook in surprise. Danny was then tackled to the ground by Sam making them roll down the small incline...
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."
Sam froze at the word metal. Her hair had the characteristics of steel. It must have stiffened when she fell in the pond, but it only did that when there was some type of danger or she came in contact with a potentially dangerous person- even if the person didn't have bad intentions at all. The question was though, what was it reacting to?
"Oh, it's nothing. I guess my hair didn't come into contact with the water." Sam replied
Danny shrugged and then got out of the water with Sam close behind.
"I can tell winter's around the corner," She stated shivering slightly as she picked up the black notebook. "That pond is freezing."
Danny and Sam went the exit of the park stood on the sidewalk getting weird looks from a few bystanders since they were soaked.
"My mom is going to kill me when I come in the house soaking wet." Danny stated. "Oh well,"
"If you want you can come by my house and dry off." Sam suggested, "No one but Ally and Silv- Lunar are home."
"Who's Lunar?"
Sam rolled her eyes. "She's hired as my personal servant, but I like to think of her as my godmother since technically if anything happened to my parents she becomes me and Aly's legal guardian."
"Well maybe-" Danny stopped and for a moment Sam thought she saw a blue mist escape from his mouth, but she brushed it off thinking she was seeing things. "I might have to skip on your offer. I just remembered I've got to go meet Tucker in about ten minutes. Later,"
Danny disappeared around the corner and Sam frowned.
"It's only two o'clock. How could he meet up with Tucker when he's in school? Unless he got suspended too and I didn't hear about it." Sam shrugged continuing the walk to her house when a red and black blur went past her and then made a U- turn and stopped directly in front of Sam.
It was a ghost, she immediately decided, with brown hair a bit past his shoulders and bangs in the front. He had a white tank top with leather pants and a leather jacket.
"Hey," He said. "Well aren't you a cutie?"
Sam's eyes narrowed. "Excuse me?"
"Want a ride? It'll be fun." he asked
Sam rolled her eyes. This ghost was hitting on her. "No thanks," she replied flatly
"Aw come on?" He asked.
"I said no you-" Sam was cut off by a familiar echoing voice
"I don't know about you, but I believe I heard the young lady say no. Now if I heard wrong, don't hesitate to correct me," Sam turned around and sure enough Danny Phantom was floating about five feet above the ground.
"No one asked for your input," said the ghost, "Now what do you say?" he asked looking back at Sam.
"No way in hell," Sam replied dryly and turned to walk away but the ghost grabbed her
"The name's Rocket and you are?" he asked
"Not going with you," Sam replied a fist came his way by not only her but Danny as well.
"Nice punch," Danny complimented as the girl rubbed her knuckles
"Thanks,"
"Damn it," Rocket said rubbing his busted lip and black cheek. "Fine then. You might not be so willing now, but trust me you'll like it." Rocket grabbed Sam's hand and pulled her on the motorcycle before she could react to it and took off in the other direction.
Sam gasped at the sudden motion and instinctively grab Rocket around his waist so she wouldn't fall. They were already past her house so she couldn't imagine how fast they were going.
"Hey come back here with her." Danny demanded as he flew after the ghost who had Sam on the back of his motorcycle.
Sam watched everything go by in a blur. This guy had to be going at least one hundred fifteen miles an hour and climbing... Sam looked forward and her eyes widened. There was a red light and Rocket showed no sign of stopping. A truck was going across the intersection.
"You idiot, stop. You're going to get us killed." Sam replied
Rocket grinned. "I'm already dead." he replied and Sam screamed as they approached the truck and at the last minute went intangible going right through the truck.
Sam let out a sigh of relief and she began to pound Rocket's back with one hand while have the other one tightly around him so she wouldn't fall off.
"Let me down from here right now or else," she demanded
Rocket laughed. "Was that a threat?" he asked
"No," Sam replied and her eyes narrowed. "It was a warning."
Sam, who's hair was over her shoulder grew and wrapped around the front tire and stopped it in it's tracks. Her hair fell limp and retreated back to its normal length. She jumped off the bike and heard Rocket growl.
"How did you do that?" he asked her
"Do what?" she asked innocently.
Rocket narrowed his eyes. "Don't play dumb. You know what I mean."
"Hey Rocket," Danny called. "Leave her alone."
"Dumb halfa," Rocket huffed and then looked up and the light on the front of his motorcycle glowed green and shot out an ecto- blast at Danny who was unprepared and didn't move all the way out of the way in time getting hit in the arm. Green ectoplasm leaked out and he grabbed his shoulder which was stinging and burning slightly.
Danny charged up an ecto- blast but Rocket took off on his motorcycle before he could do anything and nearly ran him and Sam over. He had gone too far for Danny to catch up with him (meaning there was no telling how fast he was going if Danny wouldn't be able to catch up with him).
"Someone needs a beatin'," Sam narrowed her eyes at the trail of smoke Rocket had left behind.
"You okay," Danny asked looking at his friend.
"Yeah," Sam replied eyeing the gash on his arm, "But shouldn't I be asking you that?"
Danny noted that she was referring to the gash on his left arm. "Oh, this... It'll heal in a few days nothing to worry about."
"But still," she pressed, "It could get infected."
"But I'm a ghost." Danny said trying to escape
"But if you can bleed- even if it is green- you must be capable of getting some type of infection. Come on. We can go to my house and I'll help you with that." Sam declared
Danny decided not to argue and followed the girl in the opposite direction they had been coming from and took a five minute walk to her house. Danny stopped in front of the house.
"This is you house?" he asked with wide eyes
"I know. I'm filthy rich and the heiress to everything my parents own." Sam replied dryly waking the path to her home pulling him by the hand.
She opened the door and let Danny in closing the door softly. "We have to be extremely quiet until we get to my room. My god- sister Aly knows how every door in this house squeaks and how they shut. She even knows which stairs make noises."
They tiptoed up the stairs and then...
SQUEAK!
"Oh shit," Sam swore and sure enough Aly's voice could be heard coming from the stairs of the basement.
"Samantha is that you?"
Sam groaned at more than just the fact that Aly was coming. "Yes Alicia, I'm just going upstairs to my room to finish my reading. Don't worry about coming up. I really need to concentrate." Sam said back up slowly up the stair and pushing Danny slightly and urging him to keep going up the stairs
"Alright, and don't call me Alicia." Aly called
"Don't call me Samantha," Sam countered and pushed the ghost she had forced to come, all the way to her room.
Sam closed the door behind her and went into her bathroom leaving Danny standing (more like hovering a few inches above the ground.) grabbing some rubbing alcohol and some cotton balls along with a wet rag.
"Okay let me see your arm." she said and Danny hesitantly floated over to the girl who was sitting on her bed and sat next to her letting her grab his arm and wipe the dried ectoplasm off of his arm.
"Uh... So," Danny said trying to start a conversation. "You're goth?"
Sam looked up from his arm. "Yeah, much to my parents dismay..."
"Oh yeah,"
Sam sighed. "You have no idea. I can't go through a day with them home and not have to look at all the pink clothes my mother buys and tries to get me to wear." Sam made a face and stuck her tongue out in disgust and Danny laughed
"So why weren't you freaking out back there when that ghost grabbed you?" Danny asked curious. "Normally a girl would've been running away and screaming her head off the moment she got a chance to get away... except Paulina maybe." he added with a groan
Sam laughed. "I definitely feel sorry for you then, but to answer your question I'm not like other girls. I'm not as defenseless as you think."
"What?" Danny raised an eyebrow. "Are you a black belt or something?"
"No, but I know how to defend myself and I'm not the nicest person either. I can be a bit... sadistic at times..." Sam grinned thinking about the time she put one of the murderers she had faced in a cage with a black panther in a zoo. What he did to tick her off and make her go that far... she didn't even want to remember. Last thing she heard about that guy was that he was walking around without a right hand and a disfigured face...
"You sound like Phoenix..." Danny muttered
"What?" Sam asked
"Oh, I just said you sound a bit like Black Phoenix." Danny replied waiting for the question he knew was coming...
"Oh," Sam smiled looking back down
"You know who she is?" Danny asked and Sam realized her slip.
"I... uh... was assuming you were talking about Goth Girl." Sam covered, "That is her real name, right?"
"Yeah," Danny narrowed his eyes. "How would you know?"
"Goth Girl sounds just as dumb as Inviso- Bill and that wasn't you real name. So I assumed Goth Girl wasn't her real name, besides you had to know her real name." Sam smirked at what she was about to say next. "She is your girlfriend, right?"
Sam bit her lip to keep in the laugh that was threatening to come out at the blush that appeared on the ghost's cheeks.
"No, we just met. She's just an acquaintance... for now." Danny added
"For now?" Sam raised an eyebrow. "So are you saying you're interested in a relationship with this mysterious Black Phoenix." Sam said and let go of his arm as she put up the material on her bed.
"What kind of relationship?" Danny asked rubbing his neck nervously
"You know exactly what I mean." Sam said punching his arm playfully
"Maybe..." Danny admitted. "If I could stop her from being so... I don't know. She's a bit blunt and sarcastic. Very sadistic,"
Sam pried further wondering just what Phantom thought of her alter ego. "What makes you say she's sadistic?"
"Well she hasn't done anything yet... but she has this look that says she enjoys toying with people. Don't get me wrong it's not villian type toying, but... argh."
"So what you're trying to say is she acts like a villian, but you don't see her as one?"
"The girl keeps people from dying at the hands of others. In my book she's a hero or heroine... whatever you want to call it." Danny responded dryly
"So you think she's a hero then?" Sam asked just to make sure
"Why do you wonder so much about what I think of the Black Phoenix?" Danny asked floating in the air preparing to leave
"Nice to have a hero's verdict," she smirked and raised her eyebrows a bit
"Me?"
"Yeah, you're a hero aren't you?"
"I guess," Danny replied hesitantly and Sam raised an eyborw at this statement. "I have to get going. Maybe we'll run into each other again.." 'Most likely at the mall tomorrow with her cousin...'
"Most likely," Sam replied with a knowing smile
'Tomorrow night most likely...' she thought dryly
"Well, Bye... What do you prefer?"
"Phantom," Danny stated atomatically
"Alright, Bye Phantom,"
"See you around," Danny grinned. "Samantha," he teased disappearing and flying through the roof
Sam glared at the spot the ghost had been standing in and laughed. "He's lucky he's a ghost or I probably would have hunted him down and killed him by now,"
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I know, crappy title, but I couldn't think of anything else.Here's a sneak peek of the next chapter. You'll really enjoy it:
"Okay Rocket, that's enough havoc for one night." Danny said taking out the thermos and Rocket eyed it then burst into laughter
"That's the thing the ghost in the ghost zone hate. I thought it would be something a bit more intimidating than a thermos. What do you do throw your hot soup on then?" Rocket continued laughing
Danny glared. "Let's see if you still feel that way when I use it on you,"
Rocket glared back an then looked back at the busy street and started up his motorcycle.
"That's if you can catch me first." Rocket backed up and went around them into the street causing people to suddenly stop or try and move out the way which inturn caused people to crahs into each other, but it was nothing too serious.
"Ready for a little joy ride?" Black Phoenix smiled
"Do I have a choice if we want to catch Rocket?" Danny asked dryly
"I'll take that as a yes," She replied and took off after Rocket on the path he had cleared
I hope you enjoyed it. R&R