Danny moaned softly, trying to open his eyes. He was laying on a hard surface, a faint charge of electricity flowing through him. He shivered, feeling the familiar wisp of smoke trail from between his lips, signaling his ghost sense. Finally, he wrenched his eyes open, though was quickly blasted by a waterfall of color. He winced, narrowing his eyes and trying to regain his bearings.
Bright yellow walls surrounded him, pitch-black floors below. The sky seemed a strange color of gray. Danny nearly jumped into the air with fright as something touched his side. He whipped around, landing on his butt. Three white tentacles flailed up in front of his face, causing him to jerk to the side. Phantom charged up an ecto-blast, alarmed to find that nothing happened. Still laying down, he looked over to where his hands were supposed to be.
Nothing.
He looked down, trying to see his feet.
Nothing
Becoming rather alarmed, danny twisted forward, finally spotting something white and black. Three white tentacles were coming out of his body, with a white stripe a little bit above them. He tried moving his arms. One of the tentacles twitched to the side, imitating what he was trying to do. Phantom remembered his previous fright, and looked around, eyes widening in shock Beside him, a brilliant pink blob hovered, reminding him painfully of Bertrand. It had huge eyes, the pupils focused solely on him. The edges seemed translucent, light just barely able to pass through it. The creature blinked, looking past danny. He turned around, locking gazes with another blob, this one a pale green/blue. It muttered something, white eyes narrowed. The pink one behind him replied in a squeaky voice, prodding danny in the back with something. He whipped around, only to yell out in alarm as he found himself a half inch from the thing.
His ghost sense went off again.
Phantom looked at the two of them quizzically, wondering what was going on. If they were ghosts… they looked rather weird. Even Bertrand had human features. These just had eyes. And a mouth.
The pink one opened its tiny maw, uttering something that sounded like a bird chirping mixed with a very P.Oed cat. He winced, saying under his breath a small complaint to the noise.
Suddenly, it felt like a billion needles were jabbing all over his body, little pinpricks that weren't really painful, but very annoying. Danny shook his head, trying to rid himself of the strange sensation.
"I assume you can understand me now, darkie."
Phantom gaped at her. He knew she was female now… somehow, he just did. That pinprick thingy must have given him that knowledge.
"My name is phantom." It was the only thing he came up with, given the circumstance, and didn't really count as 'witty banter'.
"I take that as a yes"
She smiled slyly, glancing behind her.
"Well, my time is fast approaching. The game has started."
She turned back to Phantom, a trace of worry crossing her eyes.
"Don't get eaten while blue… otherwise, attack the orb."
Suddenly, she slid backward, being pushed by something until she was outside of the strange energy door. Phantom gazed at it for a second, before trying to get to his feet. He tried the normal 'use hands to push self upward' but that utterly failed. He tried rolling, but that didn't work either.
Finally, the pale blue ghost blob thing he saw earlier sighed in exasperation, wrapping one tentacle around danny and setting him upright. He floated like he normally did in ghost mode, and assumed the flying principles were the same.
He ended up toppling over, his face smashing into the ground.
The blue one laughed openly at him, setting him upright once more. The ghost didn't have cool skin, like most other ghosts he met, and didn't seem aggressive.
"Relax. Dude. Just look where you want to go. And don't look back"
The blue one was soon sucked through the doors as well.
Phantom looked around the empty room, still wondering what was going on.
There!
He spotted a slightly reflective surface and, remembering what the blue ghost said, focused on it.
Sure enough, he soon began gliding along the floor, approaching the mirror like section. When he saw his reflection, it was all he could do to not faint in shock.
HE WAS A BLOB!
Just like the other blobs, only black. The top of his head seemed to be spiked in the fashion of his hair, colored white. His tentacles were white, apparently signaling the presence of arms and/or legs. The white stripe probably was in place of the belt he had on while in his regular form. His pupils were a brilliant glowing green.
Wonderful.
Just when he thought things couldn't get worse, he felt a strange tugging in the pit of his stomach. He looked down, confused. Danny almost toppled over when he was dragged toward the blue energy. It looked like a wall of shimmering blue and white, sparks dancing across it.
Danny closed his eyes in fright, expecting pain. Instead, he felt small tremors under his feet…er… tentacles. Around him, yellow orbs floated mystically, emitting a faint glow. He tried to touch one, but merely phased through it. Raising one eyebrow, he inched toward the end of the hall, only to stop dead. The warning the pink one gave him flashed across his mind, and he whipped around, trying to get back through the blue wall. His color had flushed a dark navy blue.
From around the corner, a huge orb turned, approaching with startling swiftness, huge maw opening and closing, snapping up the yellow orbs hungrily.
It surged toward Danny, dark mouth opening once last time, the ghost boy's eyes closing in fear.
'Im doomed…'
