Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom. I am just a dedicated fan.
DarkDragonQueen:This story kind of came to my mind a few months before I started it. I didn't really 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 guys this story is drawing to a close... well I'm putting the story in parts. Goodness S2teennovelist I can believe you just about hit it right on the nail. That's what some of the next stories are going to be about which is why I'm setting up everything in my introduction. This is actually the forth to last chapter which mean if my math is correct that this will be done in fifteen more days and then comes the sequel in thirty days since it's almost done. Yeah for all you observant people. Guilty as charged. This whole story has been typed for around three weeks and I'm currently finishing up the sequel. Don't be mad. I just have to give my stories time to be reviewed. If I get six reviews in two days though I promise you I'll put up the next chapter which will fortunately bring this to a temporary close and then the next story will be up along with a new story I'm posting.
Now about Ember and Aly. Why not use the Fenton Ghost Catcher. Think of it this way, it's not possession, but their actually sharing a body. If they were to try and split with the FGC it would be rather painful, especially when their DNA is almost the same and besides I need Ember for something I know, but I haven't figured out what... Oh yeah now I remember it's for...
With that said here is chapter twenty- one of this story.
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Toying Around
By
DarkDragonQueen
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"Okay Aly, I know you want to get in shape and all, but you just don't get me when I say I get enough exercise chasing murderers at night. I'm dead tired. I want to go home and go to bed." Sam sighed exasperated as she ran along side Aly.
"If we had to go to school you would be up." Aly countered.
"Aly!" Sam exclaimed. "It's Saturday morning and you wake me up at the crack of dawn to run with you in the park! It's fifteen minutes until six in the morning! I just went to bed two and a half hours ago!"
"You'll thank me when you're in tip top shape when we get back to school." Aly declared.
"I'm in tip top shape." Sam pushed. "Have you seen my arms and stomach? Paulina would kill to have my muscles."
Aly glance at Sam's arms which were showing since she had on a fitted tank top tank top, then her flat stomach, and her toned legs which also showed since she wore a pair of shorts. She decided not to answer and kept running. Sam sighed. The girl was too stubborn for her own good. Sam then stopped and turned around. Her eyes widened.
"Aly duck." Sam cried pulling her god- sister down to the ground.
Two blurs flew over them.
"What the heck was that?" Aly asked looking to where the tings that had nearly ran then over had flown ahead.
"I'll bet anything it was Danny chasing a ghost." Sam sighed. "He never catches a break, now does he?"
Sam and Aly ran in the direction of Danny and the ghost he was chasing to find them in the playground area of the park. A little girl, no more than four, with fiery cotton candy pink hair and a white sun dress was standing on the swing of the park. She was giggling and laughing.
Sam looked at Danny and her eyebrows raised. He didn't look to good. He was a bit paler (paler than normal in his ghost form anyway), his face was flushed and he looked exhausted. She for one knew that he didn't get that tired from chasing one ghost.
"Oh, ghost boy's already worn out." the girl giggled. "Too bad. I still want to play."
"Will you please just sit still so I can capture you, Toya?" Danny asked slightly slumped over as he floated holding the Fenton thermos loosely in his hands.
The little ghost girl, Toya giggled. "Nope, I still want to play." With that she disappeared in a cloud of pink smoke.
Danny floated to the ground and leaned against the jungle gym.
"I don't even feel like looking for her." he said weakly. "Amity park will be fine with one ghost flying around and terrorizing it for one day." A ring appeared around his waist, split in two and changed him back into Danny Fenton.
Sam and Aly looked at each other. Something was definitely not right with Danny. He would never just let a ghost terrorize the town, no matter how harmless they were and even if he didn't bother to chase after them he wouldn't have said that. They rushed over to him.
"Danny?" Sam said pulling him off the jungle gym and onto his feet. "You alright?"
"I'm fine." Danny waved it off standing up, or at least trying. He nearly collapsed if it hadn't been for the fact that Sam had caught him, but then she almost dropped him. He was heavier than he looked.
"Your current condition proves otherwise." Aly stated dryly and putting her hand to his forehead. "He's warm. I mean as in what's normal for us, and that's saying something when he's most times cold to the touch."
"He's out." Sam stated lifting him a bit more. "Darn he's heavy. What does he eat?"
"It's not what he eats." Aly said walking in front of Sam. "It how much of a workout he gets fighting ghost." she pointed to his chest and Sam then noticed he had no shirt on. Heat rose to her cheeks. "Wow, he's got more muscle than I assumed. He's got a four pack, and look at his arms."
"Aly," Sam scolded as her cheeks darkened. "He was probably sleep when Toya woke him up, like I should be now." Sam yawned.
She got control over her blush and changed into The Black Phoenix.
"You head to Danny's house by foot and I'll jump from house to house." Phoenix instructed.
"Why can't you just walk?" Aly asked
"I'm strong in my regular form, but stronger in Phoenix form. I can't just walk down the street with him on my back like this. Some people have the same idea as you." Phoenix said still a bit annoyed that Aly had awaken her.
Aly nodded and took off in a jog out the park and down the street. Sam walked out of the park jumped on the nearest house and started jumping from house to house. As soon as she arrived at Danny's house she saw Aly throwing rocks at Jazz's window.
"Jazz." Aly called. "Jazz," she called again and this time a very sleepy Jazz came to the window. She blinked.
"Aly?" Jazz blinked and then looked at Black Phoenix. "Phoenix? What are you two-?" Then she noticed Danny on Black Phoenix's back. "Danny!"
Jazz ran away from the window and then the front door opened moments later as Jazz stood there and ushered them in the house. Aly and Phoenix quickly walked in with Black Phoenix not making a sound even with her high heal boots on.
"What happened?" Jazz asked. "Was it a ghost?"
"Well he was chasing a ghost when we found him." Aly replied
"But, it disappeared, he changed back and then collapsed in the middle of the park. He has a fever." Phoenix explained simply as she followed Jazz up the stairs.
"What were you two doing in the park?" Jazz asked opening Danny's room door.
Black Phoenix glared at Aly. "Aly's trying to get into shape and she dragged me to the park to come disregarding the fact that I'm already in tip- top shape and just went to bed around three and a half hours ago."
Jazz sighed as Black Phoenix put Danny on his bed and Aly pouted.
"Well I can't help it." Aly whined. "I am your older sister after all and I just had your best interest at heart."
Black Phoenix glared as she powered down.
"Only by four months Aly." Sam replied crossing her arms as Jazz left the room to get a thermometer and a wet cloth.
Danny groaned catching Sam and Aly's attention.
"Danny?" Aly asked
"What happened?" he managed to mutter
"You fainted and Sam brought you here." Aly replied
"Oh," Danny replied trying to sit up but was stopped by Sam putting a hand to his chest and pushing him back down.
"Take it easy Danny." She said softly. "You've got a fever."
Danny groaned and tried to sit up again. "I've gotta go catch Toya. She's still out." Danny tried to get out of bed.
"Danny no," Sam said grabbing Danny's arm and trying to pull him back down but Danny resisted
"I've gotta capture Toya first." Danny protested
"Honestly Danny, you're sick. Lay down. Don't you know how to relax?" Sam asked frustrated at the raven headed boy's stubbornness
"Not when there's a ghost on the run, wrecking havoc on the town." Danny said going ghost and about to fly through the roof but Sam caught his ankle trying to pull him back down.
"Danny!" Sam exclaimed now very irritated that Danny wouldn't listen as she transformed. "I'm sure even the greatest of heroes like that dude from Gotham City- what's his name... Batman- has to take a break sometimes. You're sick and you'll get worse if you go and hunt that ghost." Black Phoenix managed to pull the ghost back down and putting his arm on his back. She pushed him onto the bed face first and then sat on top of him with her knees on either side of his back. It proved hard to stay that way though as she was smaller than Danny and he kept trying to throw her off of him.
Finally he gave up and turned back into his human self burying his face in his pillow.
"Can you please get off of me?" his muffled voice asked
"Not until Jazz comes back." Black Phoenix said watching him carefully under her mask with her arms crossed. "And just for caution," she said reaching over and grabbing the thermos off his nightstand. "If you try to escape, I'm not afraid to lock you in the thermos for a few hours." she smirked at the idea of locking Danny into the thermos.
Danny groaned. "You truly are sadistic Phoenix. I know you've got that smirk on your face."
From the side of the bed Aly watched with amusement as she recorded it on the Phoenix Recorder. It was one of Silver Moons latest inventions. It was a camera that looked like a Gameboy Advance SP. She couldn't wait to show this to Tucker. He would never let them live it down.
Jazz walked into the room closing the door behind her and then stopped when she saw Black Phoenix on top of Danny.
"Um... Did I interrupt something?" she asked blinking
Black Phoenix got off of Danny with the thermos still in her hands pointing at Danny.
"You can put that down Sam," he said as she powered down. "I'm not going anywhere."
Jazz tilted her head in confusion.
"He tried to go ghost hunting." Aly explained and Jazz scowled at Danny,
"Now Danny, you're sick. According to Aly and Sam you're burning up and that's saying something when you're usually cold to the touch. Now here. "Jazz put the thermometer in his mouth.
A few moments later the thermometer beeped and Jazz plucked it from his mouth.
"Danny what's your normal temperature." Jazz asked
"Around sixty, maybe sixty- five degrees." Danny shrugged.
"Well obviously since you're still half alive you temperature can shoot up without it doing anymore than giving you a fever. It's around eighty degrees. For you, that's sick." Jazz declared. "You confined to the bed until it goes back to normal... for you anyway." she added dryly
"What about Toya? She's still out causing trouble." Danny protested as he was forced to lie down by Jazz who was pulling up the covers on him.
"I'll catch her." Sam offered holding up the thermos. "She'll be all contained by the end of the day."
Danny still looked a bit reluctant, but settled down.
Aly, Sam and Jazz went to the door about to leave him be, but then Jazz stopped and looked at Sam with a smirk.
"Do like my brother's four pack Sam?" she asked and then took off down the stairs to make breakfast.
"Yeah, after high school, it just might become yours." Aly added and followed Jazz's example.
Sam's eyes widened and her and Danny cheeks burned when they realized what she had said.
"JAZZ! ALY!" Sam whispered harshly not wanting to wake up Danny's parents. "I'm going to find a way to reset this thermos so that it captures pesky older sisters." she fumed as Aly laughed
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Sam sighed as she walked around town with the Fenton Ghost Finder in hand. As she had promised Danny she set out to find Toya as soon as soon as she had breakfast with Jazz and Aly. It was proving harder than she had anticipated. She had been just about everywhere with no sign of the little ghost girl.
"She's a kid who's dead. How hard could it be to find her?" Sam asked herself not noticing a person in front of her. She crashed right into her.
"Ow," said a familiar voice as she fell while Sam managed to keep her balance.
"Sorry," Sam said helping the girl up and then frowning when she saw who it was.
'Perfect...'
"Just watch it next time." she scowled
"Valerie Grey, right?" Sam asked deciding not to be so cold to the girl or she might blow her cover.
"Who wants to know?" Valerie said looking up at Sam and then blinking. "You're that girl from school. Sam Manson, right."
"Yeah," Sam said hesitantly
"You and your god- sister beat up Dash and his gang with Danny Fenton right?" Sam nodded. "I always wanted to see him beat up, but the fact that it was two girls and a scrawny boy who didn't look like he could hurt a fly made it much better." Valerie finished with a chuckle
"Yeah,"Sam agreed while thinking 'Two girls, one of which was brought back from the death and has very unique powers and a half ghost boy who fights ghost everyday. If you had known that it wouldn't have been that much of a shock.'
"Well I've gotta go. I'm... looking for someone or you could say something." Valerie a bit hesitantly. "Nice meeting you." Valerie said walking away.
Sam turned back to the Fenton Finder which she was surprised the girl hadn't noticed in her hand.
"Then again, maybe she was too busy trying to track a ghost to notice." Sam muttered to herself and then her eyes widened. Valerie was looking for Toya and judging from how she hunted, she could assume that the girl wouldn't care if she destroyed half of the town trying to catch the little ghost girl.
"I've gotta find Toya now, but where could a little ghost girl who wants to play go in a big town." Sam sighed. "Okay, think like a child. If I were four years old, could fly or teleport to where ever I wanted and wanted to play with games and toys, where would I go?" And then it dawned on her.
" Oh Duh," Sam could have slapped herself.
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Sam stood in front of the one place that was like heaven to anyone ten and under... Toy Galaxy. It was the biggest toy company in the nation with all the latest games, toys and everything a child could ever want. As predicted, while she stood in the entrance area, the Fenton Finder was going of like crazy.
"Well, she's definitely here." Sam declared went into the toy store. "Now where would she go... Wait a minute. Why did I have to ask that? I shouldn't even have to think about that."
Sam walked to the place the ghost girl would most likely be. The doll section. She went to the area where various dolls such as the Bratz, Barbie, Fashion Fever, and other dolls were. Sure enough, she saw the ghost girl floating in the isle looking at the Bratz dolls.
"Ooo, that ones pretty. I want that one." Toya said reaching out to grab the doll.
"You have to pay for that you know." Sam said dryly startling the girl.
"Why?" Toya pouted. "I just want a doll to play with. I've never had one before."
Sam sighed. "But you can't steal it and you can't fly around our world wrecking havoc. You're going to have to go back to the ghost zone."
Toya gasped. "No not there. I just want to play." she whined and then she grinned as spotted the thermos in Sam's hand. "Well then if you won't let me play I'll just have to wear you out first. Catch me if you can." Toya took off into through the isles.
Sam groaned about to transform, but before she could do that a red blur shot past her and stop before hitting one of the shelves.
"You should get out of here." Valerie said to her clad in her red hunting suit and then took off down the isle chasing Toya.
At this point people had noticed the commotion and were running out the store as teddy bears and dolls came to life and turned to Sam.
"Oh crap," she muttered jumping up to dodge the teddy bears and dolls that tried to bury her underneath them. She landed on top of a shelf and sighed. The store was clear of all people except for Toya and Valerie who was chasing her.
She transformed into Black Phoenix and jumped the shelf to find Toya and Valerie in the bike section. Toya was floating about five feet off the ground with her hand out in front of her shooting fluffy cotton candy like ecto- blast at Valerie along with her toy army going at her.
Black Phoenix landed next to Valerie and kicked a giant teddy bear out the way. Her boot got tangled in stuffing and as she tried to take it out she fell backwards. She jumped back up and growled. This was more annoying than hard. Valerie was using her ecto- gun to shoot teddy bears and dolls out her way so she could get to Toya, but it wasn't working as well as she would have liked.
"Where's your boyfriend today Goth Girl?" Valerie asked
"He's being forced to take a little break and I'm filling in." Black Phoenix replied pulling out the Phoenix version of the ecto- gun that shot out some kind of black energy. She aimed it at the giant Teddy bear which had yet to be destroyed. She pulled the trigger and an black ball of energy came out and hit the bear squarely in the chest. The bear erupted in black flames and burned to ashes.
Toya pouted again. "You destroyed my teddy bear. All I want to do is play. What's wrong with that?"
Four bikes rolled their way and Black Phoenix jumped out of the not really too concerned about Valerie who quickly moved out of the way on her hover board.
"Dumb ghost kid," Valerie growled and then shot at Toya who created a cotton candy pink transparent shield making it bounce back at Valerie who fell into a stack of ball and then had more piled on top of her.
Black Phoenix saw this and assumed the ghost hunter wouldn't be getting up anytime soon. This kid was getting on her last nerve. Just when she thought Toya couldn't do anything worse all the electronics and games came together to form a giant robot that reached the roof of the store. The teen swore as the robot grabbed at her and she jumped on top of it's head.
Game controllers then came out the robot and wrapped around Black Phoenix's legs and and threw her into a shelf the had a bunch of different play ovens and easy bakes that fell on top of her. She groaned and a bunch of dolls, bears, and soldiers began to grab and climb on her. This was getting serious now. If they kept piling up on her she could suffocate and tried to kick the toys off of her, but to no avail. Frustrated, Black Phoenix let out a cry. It was like when she screamed, but it didn't have the screech, though it still sound like a bird. It was like a cry for help.
Black shadows appeared out of nowhere and took the shape of a phoenix. Dozens of these shadow phoenixes appeared and began to swoop down flying through all the toys. Not breaking them, but disabling whatever control Toya had over them.
Black Phoenix was finally able to kick the toys off of her and stand up.
Toya looked down and snapped her fingers as the shadows disappeared, but her toys would not come back to life.
"Look what you did." the girl's eyes began to tear up. "All I wanted to do was play and then you come and try to stop me from getting one doll." the girl dropped to the floor and burst into tears.
Black Phoenix raised an eyebrow. So the girl hadn't been trying to cause trouble at all. She just wanted to play. She sighed and rolled her eyes. Danny would kill her for this, but she couldn't just send this girl to the ghost zone. She walked up to the girl and put her hand out.
"What are you doing?" Toya asked looking up, her cotton candy pink eyes red from crying.
"Come on," Black Phoenix offered dryly. "You can come with me and we'll se if Danny's sister has something for you to play with."
"Danny? Isn't he that ghost boy? He won't want me there." Toya pouted
Phoenix sighed. "I'll handle Danny. You just come with me."
Toya took Black Phoenix's hand and stood up with a smile. "I'll take us there." she said cheerfully and the two disappeared in a cloud of cotton candy pink smoke.
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"SAM!" Danny's startled voice came suprisingly strong. He still had a fever, but it wasn't as high as before.
Sam cringed, Aly and Jazz were delighted when she brought the little ghost girl to play and maybe stay for a while since they agreed they shouldn't send a little ghost girl who just wanted to play to the ghost zone. Sam didn't actually think it was a good place for the girl to be. She was so young and had died only about six months ago. It appeared the girl would still age thought since she was a bit taller than a three year old.
Sam walked up the stairs and into Danny's room. Obviously when Sam told Toya to take Danny that chicken noodle soup she phased through the door instead of just opening it. It appeared that she had also told Danny that Sam had let her stay by the annoyed look on Danny's face.
"Hey Danny," she chuckled nervously. "You feeling better?"
Danny glared and then turned to look at Toya. "Mind telling me why she's not in the ghost zone right now?" he asked dryly
Sam sighed. "Go out for a moment Toya." she said dryly nodding her head to the door and the girl left the tray with the soup on the nightstand and went out the room.
Sam sat on Danny's bed and crossed her arms. "I couldn't just suck her into the thermos and send her back. All she wanted to do was play and when you were chasing her she just wanted to play with you. No harm there."
"Keep going." Danny urged dryly
"Okay, so she's powerful for a little ghost girl, but she's really sweet. She might throw a temper tantrum and bring toys to life when you won't let her play, but other than that she's harmless..." Sam trailed off.
"What else?"
"And I was hoping she could stay here in our world, because its obious her death was tragic and that she had a bad life if she's obsessed with playing with toys, which could only mean she never got to play with toys when she was alive. I couldn't just send her packing. I mean in the ghost zone there's Skulker, the Lunch Lady, Principal Palprin and she hates kids. That's like hell for her." Sam kept on
Danny rolled his eyes. "Yeah and then what do I do when Skulker comes and asks me if he can hunt unique humans?" he asked sarcastically. "She's a ghost. What are people going to say when you walk into the store with a ghost at your side."
"They won't know I'm a ghost." Toya said deciding to use the door this time and walk into the room.
"Were you listening this whole time?" Sam asked
The girl shrugged. "Look what I can do." she said and her form turned pink cotton candy and then when it left instead of a ghost girl with firey cotton candy pink hair and skin so pale it was almost blue was a girl with golden brown hair that stopped a mid- back and skin to match it stood there blinking at them.
"I can disguise myself, but only as people who are the same age as me. I can't look older or younger." the girl went to jump on Danny's bed.
"Toya, stop that." Sam said grabbing the girl and putting her down on the floor.
"So can I stay Danny?" Toya asked jumping up and down on Danny's side and tugging on his arm.
"If she causes any major trouble she's going straight to the ghost zone." Danny crossed his arm looking away from the girl annoyed.
"Yay!" Toya exclaimed running out the room. "Wait until I tell Aly and Jazz. And I can't wait hypnotize Sam's parent into thinking I'm a little orphan girl they took in."
Sam smiled ready to make some witty remark.
"Don't even say anything, if I weren't sick she'd be long gone." he muttered
Sam grinned as she walked out the room hearing Toya's excited rant to Aly and Jazz. She would definately make life more interesting than it was to say the least.
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I had to add her. I needed to add Toya. She plays an important role in the sequal... I think. Anyway, I hope you liked it. R&R.
"Come on Danny." Toya said still attached to his waist. "I want to go play at the park. Can you take me?"
"I can't. I'm confined to the house for the day and suddenly I'm very thankful for it." Danny said and the cotton candy pink eyed girl let go of him.
"I'll take care of that." Toya yelled running out the room and could be heard jumping down the stairs.
"Danny, I need to ask you something." Sam said and sighed. Toya would be gone for a minute since it was likely she would ask Mrs. Fenton for something while she went downstairs. Sam swore the girl had some kind of power that charmed adults to doing what she wanted them to do. Even Ember had taken a slight liking to the girl and that was definitely saying something.
"What?" Danny asked sighed and sitting in the chair at his computer as Sam sat o the bed and Ember kind of floated a few inches aboe the ground after Toya had closed the door.
"I'm sensing danger... Grave danger. It's not here yet, but it's near here. It's close and it's bothering the heck out of me. I can barely sleep at night because of this feeling of dread." Sam said a bit frustrated.
"You too?" Ember and Danny asked a bit surprised.
That's that. This story is drawing to a close, but it is still only the beginning. I'm setting things in place for the sequal if you read close enough. I'll tell you this. R&R.