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Kinda short...sorry about that...it's like three pages on my word doc T.T
Disclaimer: -skips this because she is too lazy-
Dani fingered the pendant on the chain absently. Mom said this was a gift from someone. When I asked, she said "I don't know." Could it have been from Danny? I only got it two days ago. Maybe…maybe there's a message in the letter that could help?
She trembled as she looked up into her mom's purple eyes. She didn't care that her dad had left; she knew it was coming for a long time. It didn't worry or upset her. She was rather happy, to be truthful.
"…mom?" Dani asked. Sam looked down at her. For the first time in a long time, Sam looked relatively happy. Dani almost backtracked, not wanting to upset her, but felt this was more pressing.
"Who gave me this necklace?"
"I don't know," Sam answered truthfully. "It was in the mail one day. The return address was just numbers…"
Dani blinked. "Was there a letter in it?" Sam nodded. "Give me the letter, mom!"
Sam nodded and got up to get the letter. She knew better than to question her daughter when her eyes were dancing with flames. She handed the envelope to her.
"4-1-14-14-25 16-8-1-14-20-15-13," Dani muttered. She quickly flipped the envelope over to an empty side and wrote a quick key—the alphabet, with numbers going both ways on the top and bottom.
"Danny Phantom," she said disbelievingly. Sam's head snapped over to her daughter.
"What?" she squeaked.
"It's a puzzle," Dani told her mom. "the combination '4-1-14-14-25 16-8-1-14-20-15-13' says 'Danny Phantom' if you write the numbers in their letters from one to twenty six."
Sam gawped at her daughter. "You're definitely smarter than we were at your age," she grumbled under her breath. Dani got to work on the next one.
"7-19-22 20-19-12-8-7 1-12-13-22." She quickly figured it out both ways. She stared at her answer. "The Ghost Zone?" Sam nearly fell over as Dani said the answer.
"Oh my God," Sam trembled. "The pendant was from Danny. Quick, figure out what the message says! It was number-ish also."
Dani ignored her mom's word use and opened the letter.
"nO het difiray fo eth kewe ahtt I dsne htsi ot ouy, saelep og utodie ta 12AM. l'luYo vhae a pusrrsie" the letter declared. Dani quickly put the paper down and worked out the anagrams. She sighed when she saw the answer.
"On the Friday of the week that I sent this to you, please go outside at 12AM. You'll have a surprise." Sam stared at Dani.
"That's…that's tonight." They both looked at the clock, which gave the disappointing time of "three pm". They both stared at each other blankly.
"Wait…how did you know about Danny, Dani?" Sam asked suspiciously. Dani blushed.
"I read your diary last night. I got worried about you, and I only read the one from when you were ten to fifteen…you were really depressed because Danny died," Dani said sadly. "Sorry I read it."
"I don't mind," Sam told her truthfully. "I guess you don't believe about the ghost thing?"
"Uhm…I read the articles but I'm not sure if your 'ghost epidemic' was real or not…"
"I hope you know, if Danny comes…he'll be a ghost…"
Dani stared at the table. "I figured that much. Hey…mom?"
"Yeah?"
"Can you tell me what happened that night?"
Sam smile and played with her daughter's pony tail. "Sure, honey," she said. She smiled sadly as she recalled the memory that she relived so many times.
"Well, there is a ghost named Vlad, who is half ghost like Danny was. He called me one night, and told me that if I didn't bring Danny and myself to the mall he'd kill both of us…," Sam began. Dani propped her head up on her hands, her sweater slipping off her wrists as she listened intently.
She cried at the right times, and as Sam told about Danny's death, Dani's hand immediately flew to the pendant on her neck as the tears spilled on her sweater.