WoM- I can't start any stories this week for some reason! 'makes face.' Probably has something to do with the new story that's whining for attention in the back of my head that I have absolutely no time for… 'grumbles.' You know, the days really outta be longer or something, there's way too much to do in them and nowhere near enough time!
Also, I've been anguishing over the fact that nobody seems to know where Nephritides' name comes from 'crying' I feel like such a lame, history-obsessee now… 'pouts' Really, what are they teaching you kids in school nowadays?
"Doctor to patient: I have good news and bad news. The good news is that you are not a hypochondriac."
-Unknown
"Well?" Ember snapped, glowering at Walker, "Any more bright ideas, Sheriff Stupid?" Walker glared back at the pop star.
"Watch it, Missy," He growled. "The punk might've gotten away, but if you cross me enough then I'll make sure the Haunters are the least of your worried," Ember scowled, defiance flashing through her eyes at the threat.
"Cool it!" Johnny snapped. "Shouldn't we be thinking of a plan or something?"
"I still say we should just tell Danny what's going on," Kitty piped up. "If we explain everything to him under peaceful terms, I'm sure he'll understand and help us the best he can."
"Yeah, right," Spectra snorted. "And why would he do that, considering all the times we've tried to kill him?"
"Because he doesn't strike me as the type to refuse someone who needs help," Kitty said defensively. "No matter how much he hates them."
"That's too uncertain for my tastes." Walker said. "I still say we lock him up and throw away the key!"
"That's your response to everything," Ember said, sounding annoyed, "Can't you come up with a new idea every once in a while?"
"Hey, I'm the one who made the kid Public Enemy Number One, ain't I?"
"Whoop-dee-doo," Ember said sarcastically, "That lasted for like a month before people started loving the kid."
"And it just made if harder for us to move around among the humans," Spectra complained loudly.
"Look, shouldn't we get back to the problem here?" Ember asked irritably "We'll worry about the rest of this stuff after we deal with dipstick and the Haunters."
"Why won't anyone listen to me?" Kitty asked irritably, "I was around the guy more then any of the rest of you, I should know these sort of things!"
"You also don't know anything about holding your own in a fight," Walker sneered, "Here's some advice, little girl, leave the plans to the people who know what they're talking about," Kitty shot the warden an evil look.
"Johnny," She said, turning to her boyfriend, "Did you-?"
"Just listen to him, Kitty," Johnny sighed, "We don't need anymore problems." Kitty scowled.
"Fine!" She snapped, flying off in a huff.
"Now then," Spectra said, "Should we get back to business?"
'Danny Fenton is Danny Phantom…'
It was pretty obvious, now that she really thought about it. The appearances, the voices, even the names to some extent… everything matched and led to only one conclusion, shocking as it was.
'Danny Fenton is Danny Phantom…'
Still, Paulina knew there was no way that most of the people in town knew about it. Even his parent's couldn't have known, considering all the times they shot him down with ecto-guns.
The two losers he's always hung out with probably knew. They always covered for him whenever he was gone, and Paulina knew she'd seen them flying with Danny once or twice.
'Danny FENTON is Danny PHANTOM…'
His sister probably knew too, she was always defending the ghost boy and hovering over Danny over protectively. Paulina had always found the behavior obsessive and weird, but now it made perfect sence.
'She didn't want anyone else to know,' Paulina realized, 'And she was scared because he was always fighting. She didn't want him getting hurt too badly because of the ghosts…'
Paulina sighed. The question now, though, was what would she do about it. She could go straight to the media and reveal him… leave an anonymous tip off since she was a minor and catch the boy by surprise enough to let his natural awkward and shy nature do the rest of the work for her…
'No way,' Paulina thought firmly. 'I said I'd be Phantom's girlfriend and I will be. If I tell anybody, there will be other girls all over him and that will only make things harder.' Not that she really had to worry about competition, she was Paulina after all, but still, why make things harder then they had to be?
She could tell him that she knew. Blackmailing a guy into dating her way beneath her, but if he felt she was a threat to his secret, he'd probably try to stick closer to her. After they'd been dating for a while, maybe Paulina could even convince him to come forward and admit he was the town hero.
'Unless his parents have some crazy invention to wipe out someone's memories or something,' Paulina realized, making a face. She wouldn't put it past the Fentons, after all. And she didn't want anything, ghost human or otherwise, screwing around with her head. She'd had more then enough of that since this whole ghost business started.
Being 'overshadowed' or whatever four or five times (At least, that was the amount of times she'd had that weird spacey feeling and a lapse of memories) was more then enough in her book.
'Then what can I do…?' Paulina sighed as she finished off her diet soda, putting the cup down and drawing her knees closer to her body. 'I mean, how do you approach something like this with a guy? How are you supposed to gain their trust in this sort of situation, especially with Valerie and that Rae Venn girl hovering around…'
"So we strike when he returns?" Paulina jerk slightly in surprise at the semi-familiar voice, frowning in irritation at the interruption. She turned to snap at the person who was on the other side of her tree only to freeze then hastily hide herself from sight again.
'That's not normal…' She thought, peeking around the tree again.
Standing there was a strange girl she'd never met, talking to what looked like a glowing green blob to the popular teen. The girl herself looked normal enough. Blonde hair pulled up in pigtails, a black miniskirt and tube top with a black leather jacket with silver zippers and chains.
Black boots laced up to her thighs and a black choker tied around her throat, giving her a very threatening look. The thing that most weirded Paulina out, though, was the black whip attached to the girl's hip.
'Dominatrix much?' She thought sarcastically.
"Yes," A male voice answered back, "Make sure the trap is set for him. This Danny Phantom is a powerful ghost and we can't take the chance of losing him,"
"I still don't see why we don't act now," The girl complained. "It's not like those pathetic hunters he associates with are any threat to us."
"Maybe not, but I don't want to confirm our return until we have the boy in our possession. Besides, I want to look in more on the ghost hunter who was fighting at the fair."
"The scary chick in red and black?" The girl clarified. Paulina found it ironic that she would call anyone scary.
"I have to admit, I'm impressed with her abilities…"
"You mean you're crushing on her," The girl smirked, "Man Trent, I never thought I'd see the day…"
"Remember your place," The voice growled back, "And make sure you bring her in as well. Alive and unharmed. We might be able to convince her to join us."
"What about that Teen Titan, Raven?" The girl pressed. Paulina eyebrow kicked up.
'Raven from the Teen Titans? The anti-social one in desperate need of a tan? What does she have to do with…?' Paulina froze, biting her lip to keep in a groan. 'Rae Venn. Raven. How does somebody MISS that?' Paulina mentally sighed then stiffen, 'Wait. Then that means… at the fair…' The popular girl's eyes narrowed. 'Why that little-!'
"Do as you see fit with her," Trent responded, "Just make sure she won't get in our way."
"Roger," The girl responded. "Kayla over and out!" Paulina watched with narrow eyes as the green glowy-thingy dissipated and the girl walked away, apparently in a good mood as she swing her hips and hummed happily to herself.
That's when the idea his Paulina.
'Maybe there's a way I can deal with my little problem after all…' She thought, smirking.
BLACKBIRD
Chapter 11; Child of the Hunt
"-Then she shot him with an ecto-gun and made his hair fall out!" the girl finished, exasperation clear in her tone. Around her, everyone laughed and shook their heads. "He was hospitalized for a week and still avoids me at school."
"You think that's bad?" Jazz rolled her eyes, "You should see some of the stuff MY dates have to go through. Especially since they have to deal with Mom, Dad AND Danny!" Between the three, though, Jazz knew for a fact that the guys would take her parents ten times over if it meant never having to deal with her little brother in 'overprotective mode' again. And Jazz made sure he knew she knew it in the dark look she cast his way.
"What, you're still mad about that?" Danny asked mildly. Jazz scowled.
"I don't care if Harold was trying to feel me up, Danny, that's no excuse to set a 600 pound gorilla on him!"
"Don't exaggerate, Jazz," Danny said, rolling his eyes, "Delilah's only 400 pounds. Her mate, Jeremy is 600."
"Danny!"
"Nice." Nathan laughed. "Brave and creative. That's an interesting combination in a kid your age."
"Unfortunately," Valerie said dryly, grinning teasingly at Danny. "Of course, he's also something of a magnet for trouble back home." Danny blushed.
"Oh?" Nathan laughed, "You don't look like a bad boy to me… What'd you do?"
"Nothing," Danny muttered, his blush darkening. Jazz and Valerie, on the other hand jumped all over the subject.
"Starting a food fight, skipping detention for starting a food fight…" Jazz started.
"…Losing his pants three times in one week, sneaking into a zoo after hours…" Valerie continued.
"…Disrupting a class assembly, damaging school property…"
"…Trashing the school counselor's office, pulling a fire alarm when there was no fire…"
"…Skipping out on a mandatory cram session, breaking curfew during the mass grounding act…"
"…fighting on school grounds, battering that stupid family baby project… though that one was technically my fault…"
"…Being dad's son, skipping school…"
"…Locking Mr. Lancer in a janitor's closet, throwing a party when his family was out…"
"…Sanity issues, finding the answer to the-!"
"THEY GET IT ALREADY!" Danny yelled, glaring at the two who grinned back.
"Come on, Fenton," Valerie laughed, "We're only messing with you!"
"Yeah, Danny," Jazz agreed, grinning, "You keep like interesting!"
"As if having a pair of ghost hunters for parents doesn't do that already?" Katie asked, sounding amused. Valerie frowned slightly when she saw the look Katie was not giving Danny, "on the other hand, I think it's cool how you did all that. Everybody loves a rebel…"
Valerie glared pointedly at the girl, moving closer to Danny (Much to Raven's growing amusement.)
"Okay, Kids!" Jack Fenton shouted as he came into the room, "It's lights out time!" The kids groaned but obediently left, knowing they had to prepare for the coming day of ghost-based speeches and activities.
As Raven fell into step beside Danny as they followed Jack Fenton to their tent, though, she couldn't help on last question that she knew would haunt her if she never asked.
"Sanity issues?" She repeated, raising an eyebrow.
"…Shut up."
"Demon's Eye, huh…?" Danny sighed, frowning at the object that now glittered in the moonlight when he held it up.
It certainly didn't look like anything special. Just a weird red marble. Still, Danny got a weird feeling from holding it, like there was more to the necklace then met the eye…
"Hey, aren't you that Fenton kid?"
Jumping, Danny wheeled around to come face to face with an adult he'd never met before. Wide-eyed, the pale boy froze.
"…uhh…" He said, uncertain of what to say or do.
"It's light out, kid, how'd you get out of your tent?" The guy asked.
"I uh, had to use the bathroom!" Danny said lamely, hoping the man would by it. He seemed to with the way his shoulders relaxed.
"Well, make sure to get back when you're done, kid, these forests are haunted and we don't need you getting overshadowed." The man said seriously.
Danny almost laughed.
"I'll try, sir," Danny said politely. The man left Danny to do his business, and the young half ghost shook his head.
"So you guys finished him off without any problems?" Danny blinked at the semi-familiar voice, turning this way and that to see where it was coming from.
"Yeah," A male voice answered back, "He fried my circuitry, though, and messed up BB pretty bad."
"Well, hopefully I won't be too much longer…" The first voice sighed.
"How you holding up, anyways?" The second voice asked as Danny started in the direction the voices were coming from, "I mean, you're not all alone over there, are you?"
"I've made some interesting friends," voice one said in bemusement, "And right now I'm at a Ghost Hunting Camp Out, but I'm really eager to get back home…"
"Well, we'd be more then happy to have you back," voice two said. "Especially since now the bad guys know we're on hero short."
Just then Danny's ghost sense went off and he trust to stop only to lose his balance and go crashing down the hill.
"Ow," Danny groaned.
"Danny?" The boy blinked, looking up to see a very surprised Rae.
"What are you doing out ere?" They both asked at the same time.
"I was going to the bathroom," Danny said at once.
"I was just getting some air." Rae said almost as quickly.
"Oh," Danny looked around, "Were you, uh… talking to anyone?"
"Of course now," Rae said, "What made you think that?"
"I thought I heard to voices just now…" Danny explained frowning at Rae's flinch.
"Well, I didn't hear anything," She said, "Let's go. We need to get back to camp…" Danny yelped in surprise when Rae grabbed his arm and dragged him away, his eyes narrowing when he hear a giggle…
"Think you can go on ahead without me?" He asked, "There's something I need to take care of,"
"Suit yourself," Raven shrugged. As soon as she left, Danny turned into a ghost and turned around to glare at the trees surrounding him.
"I know you're out there," He called out, "And I don't wanna fight you, but I will if you hurt anyone here. Now show yourself!"
There was a short silence before an excited squeal, and seconds later a female ghost with bright baby blue eyes and vivid red hair popped up right in front of Danny.
"You're the half ghost!" She said in a hyperactive, almost fan girl-ish way, "Wow! I never thought I'd meet someone so famous! I'm Gem!"
'…Huh?'
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Next update; February 11th
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ATTENTION!
As I'm sure most of you are already aware, Nick is threatening to cancel Danny Phantom after just three seasons.
Naturally, I'm one of the people fighting to keep Danny Phantom running, so I beg you to send in letters with my own to the following address;
Cyma Zharghami or Marjorie Cohn
Nickelodeon
1515 Broadway
New York, New York
10036
USA
Attention: Programming.
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And don't forget to spread the word! With your help, we can save Danny!