Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom or Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School. I do not own the original story this is based on.
Phantasma went back to the Phobiagoria the following morning. She was so incredibly nervous; she didn't even say good morning to her mother. After the ghost fight last night, Phanty opted to stay with her mother instead of her father again.
"Another good thing about having divorced parents, I can keep secrets from one of them," Phanty commented as she checked every store and shop. Her friends came along to help.
"Aroooo!" howled Winnie, "Phanty over here. This one should have something to do the trick."
Phantasma flew over to a potion store, the second one today. The vendor, as did the previous one, said that he uses the finest ingredients and would guarantee any desired effects. But none of the components could disguise her enough to fool anti-ghost equipment. Dinner with the Fentons would be tomorrow and to buy what she needed online would either be too expensive or couldn't be shipped to her fast enough.
"Ohh," Phanty pouted, "Where can I find a good disguise?"
Phantasma was such a wreck that she would have pulled her hair out. But she needed to look presentable for tomorrow.
"Why did I say, yes?" Phanty asked herself. Sibella came over and patted her friend on the back. She led Phanty to a table where the others were.
"I'm sure you had your reasons," Sibella attempted to justify the banshee's predicament. Phanty grabbed Sibella by the collar.
"What reason would I have to accept dinner from ghost hunters?" Phanty whispered to her friend. She had a point.
Phantasma managed to sit down as her Tanis handed her a smoothie she and the others got. The banshee chugged down the drink as she looked on her phone for the next store on the list.
The ghouls didn't notice the small, ghostly bats that hid nearby.
"Phanty, calm down," Tanis said in concern. She took the drink away from Phantasma with a bandage lasso. Though the ghostly gal still had the straw in her mouth.
"There are still tons of stores left. We'll find something some," Elsa said as she looked to the map she had on hand. "We have till tomorrow to find something. And if not here, Aren't there other places we can find? Other gorias?"
"Arooo! But we would have to travel a lot, and none of us have enough money to buy anything after a couple trips like that," Winnie pointed out. The werewolf looked to the banshee and saw her head phased through the table. "Phanty you ok?! Snap out of it!"
Phantasma was so depressed that her body had passed through the table and now on the floor.
"It's no use," Phanty wailed quietly, "I'll never find something in time for dinner with my haunting hunk, Danny Phantom."
At her words, the bats grinned to each other with predatory smirks. With bared fangs, they turned invisible and flew away.
Sibella and Winnie led Phantasma to another store as Tanis hopped a ride onto the banshee, the mummy had this uncanny ability to cheer people up. Elsa tagged along at the rear, in case Phanty went intangible. The ghostly girl gave a small grin to her friends. Things were not great at the moment, but these ghouls always stood by one another. Phanty was glad she had great friends.
They were about to enter the next shop until they saw a group of monsters huddling together at a stand. It looked new, as no one had seen the vendor at this goria before. But many creatures of the night could be seen leaving with a smile on their face.
"Arooo! Hey, that looks like fun," Winnie raved and grabbed her friends. "Let's check it out."
As they walked over, Elsa stopped a group of monsters. She wanted to know more.
"Pardon me. What kind of stand is this?" She asked politely.
"No clue. The place just showed up a while ago and had all this neat stuff. Some of it you could to use to walk with normies," a monster with a beak said as he and his friends left shortly afterward.
"What's a normy?" asked Tanis.
"Something they call humans," Sibella answered. "Don't know why they call them bat."
"Aren't we normal?" Elsa couldn't help but ask as they walked.
As they got to the front of the crowd, they took notice of the stand. It didn't stand out much in comparison to others. It had a beautiful gypsy cloth on a curved table with a tent in the back. The vendor was a hooded woman with a long, red cloak that had a skull below the hood. The ghouls couldn't see her face, but her eyes were visible.
Phanty was too depressed, so Sibella spoke for her.
"Excuse me, but my friend needs something bat can hide her ghostly presence from anything that can detect her."
The vendor's eyes became slits as she went back into her tent. Phantasma was sure the lady would not have anything. After a moment, the hooded woman came back. She held out her arm and handed out a choker with an amulet attached. Winnie took it and gave it to Phanty, who glanced at the object with suspicion.
The vendor did nothing but stare at Phanty, while her friends gestured her to try it on. Reluctantly, Phantasma put on the choker on, but nothing happened. Phanty looked to the vendor, a little upset, but the hooded woman pointed back, then touched the skull on her cloak.
"You…want me to touch the amulet?" Phanty asked.
The vendor nodded, and no sooner than after the banshee touched the amulet, a glow came, and Phanty had transformed into a human, or at least looked like one. Her hair was still white with a blue streak, and her eyes were still a ghostly blue, but her skin was now had a healthier color and seemed more reliable.
"Bat outta hell!" Sibella exclaimed. "You look. You look—"
"Wow! You look alive now." Tanis finished the statement.
Phantasma turned on the camera in her phone and snapped a picture, and couldn't believe the photo. The banshee looked human. The banshee gave a gleeful cackle upon the revelation of her disguise but stopped as she realized something.
"Will this keep me from being detected?" Phanty had to ask.
The vendor just gave a confused look and shrugged. She had no idea, and to find out had to be dangerous. No one could say for sure. In the end, Phanty decided she could take what she got. The banshee touched the amulet again and got out her purse.
"How much?" Phanty asked. But the vendor shook her hand and put the purse down.
"Nothing?! OK, what's you're game?" Winnie asked at the table. None of the girls believed the woman would give something away. However, the lady went back and brought out more and gestured that no one was buying them.
"So, bats what you want? Someone to advertise?" The lady nodded in response to Sibella.
They saw no harm, especially since Phanty needed the amulet. And she got it for free.
"Well, I am quite the ghoul," Phanty gestured to herself. "I don't mind providing some advertisement. Too bad for the others, I'm taken."
Phantasma cackled that last part as she and her friends left.
"Who was that lady?" Tanis asked.
"Arooo! Don't know, but these stands come and go all the time," Winnie replied. "You can't remember all of them.
"Indeed, Winnie," Sibella spoke before she grabbed Phanty. "And now bat Phanty has her disguise; we can focus on what she needs for dinner."
The ghouls laughed in joy as they now went to whatever fashionable for Phanty's dinner. It could not be a night the banshee should forget.
Danny was hanging out at the Nasty Burger with Sam and Tucker. After a long night, the trio was glad about the lack of ghost attacks. Danny's phone went off and checked it to see that Phanty had found a disguise.
Got my disguise. See ya later, haunting hunk.
Danny smiled and texted back.
OK, spooky beauty.
Danny put his phone down to see Sam glaring at him. Tucker rolled his eyes with a grin as he went back to his
"Sam," Danny said. "I know you still don't trust Phanty, but can you stop already?"
I had been only a few days after the incident with Ember, and Sam is still sour about Phanty. She felt terrible for her, yes, but that didn't mean the goth had gotten over the fact that she missed her chance with Danny. Though she still denied that part. And learning of Ember's…feelings for the ghost boy, Sam became on high alert.
If Ember liked him, then who's next? Sam thought to herself, but then she realized something. Wait? How many of those girls did Danny date?
Sam became wide-eyed as she realized about the dating service. How many girls did Danny date? And how many liked him? Sam's dread grew more and wished her parents never had the idea of taking her to Paris.
Before Sam could ponder any further, she realized Danny asked her a question.
"Danny, how many ghosts have gotten near you for something?" Sam mentally cursed herself, as that was a terrible question.
Who's thinking is this? She wondered.
Danny and Tucker blinked in confusion. They also realized how terrible the question is.
"Sam, are you OK?" Danny asked.
Before Sam could answer, Danny's ghost sense went off, and people were screaming up a storm in the kitchen. Before long, a giant meat monster came out of the kitchen. Danny, Sam, and Tucker knew it was the Lunch Lady.
"Who's hungry?" She said in a booming voice.
Danny went under the table and transformed.
"So much for a nice day off," Danny commented as he went into battle.
After the Nasty Burger, Danny and his friends decided to try something different and went to Sam's -place. Her parents were away, so the trio went to the basement. They pretty much had the place all to themselves. Save for Grandma Ida, who was bowling in the next room.
"So, what do you guys want to see?" Sam asked. "Seven Samurai? Citizen Kane? Jaws?"
"How about something horrific?" Danny asked to the surprise of his friends.
While no horror movie could scare them after fighting ghosts, the way, he said 'horrific' that puzzled them. He never used that word before.
"Guys? You ok?" Danny asked. "We don't have to watch a horror movie we can—"
"It's fine," Sam said, "I- we never heard you say 'horrific' before."
"Weill thought I should try it," Danny said.
Tucker and Sam were suspicious, but they decided to leave it be for now. Tucker popped in a movie, and the teens relaxed for a while.
Danny, Tucker, and Sam decided to go with a horror flick about a haunted house on a hill. An old ghost flick. As they sat through the movie, Danny would twitch every so often. Tucker noticed but didn't seem bothered. Sam, however, was a bit concerned about her friend's behavior.
"Danny?" Sam paused the movie. "Are-are you scared?"
Danny and Tucker looked to Sam before they busted out laughing.
"S-S-Sam," Danny managed to say between laughs. "W-w-why are you asking that? Ah-ha-ha-ha! I fight g-g-g-ghosts! Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha!"
Tucker rolled onto the floor as he held his belly. Despite the fact Sam knew Danny wasn't frightened in the least, she noticed that he had been nervous the whole movie. And she wasn't about to let it go.
"Then, why is it every time a ghost is mentioned in the movie, you jerk or shudder?" Danny stopped laughing as Sam went on. "And don't try to deny it. We've been friends for a while."
"Sam," Tucker said as he got up from the floor. "I think if Danny had any problems, then he would—"
"Phanty is coming over tomorrow for dinner," Danny stated as quickly and coherently as possible.
Sam and Tucker took in the information and processed everything they heard. After a minute or two of awkward silence, everyone sat down, and Danny explained what happened after they left last night.
"So you're telling us that your girlfriend, who is a ghost, is coming over to your house, where your folks are shoot first dissect later ghost hunters, for dinner?" Tucker wanted to make sure everything was clear.
Danny nodded his head.
"Dude, please tell me she has something that—"
"She found something that should keep the equipment in the house from detecting her," Danny interrupted. "She texted it while we were at the Nasty Burger."
"OK," Tucker said. "So, then it will not have anything go off, right? No alarm? Or radars? Nothing to make your folks suspicious?"
Danny looked to the corner of the room. He couldn't say with absolute certainty. And that's what was scaring him. The ghost boy looked to his goth friend, to see her sitting perfectly still with an emotionless face.
"Sam?" Danny asked. "You haven't said anything."
Sam came back from her thoughts. She had no idea how to react to anything Danny uttered. So, she kept silent.
"Wanna hang out at your place, while I hack the equipment?" Tucker spoke as he gestured with his PDA.
"Thanks, Tuck," Danny replied with a grin.
The three friends went upstairs to prepare for the worst. As they walked over to Danny's, Sam couldn't help but wonder how this event will spin out of control. And part of her
felt bad for thinking that.
And the next chapter is the dinner date. How will Phanty fare against the gadgetry of the ghost hunters? And how will they embarrass Danny at dinner? I wonder what's on the menu?
Special Thanks for Flower Princess11 for help with the chapter.
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