I've been trying to motivate myself to write again for a few years now, so here is my first foray back into writing. I'm hoping to do at least most of the prompts for this month, even if it ends up extending into next month.
Sam and Tucker's muffled chuckles came through the speakers on Danny's computer which he continued to ignore. He shook out his hair again and saw a few more spots of glitter fall out, but knew that he still had more in his hair, not to mention every other part of his body and his clothes.
This was not how he had planned on spending his Saturday. His parents were out with Jazz looking at colleges so he had the house to himself which meant it was perfect to play the newest Doomed expansion with Sam and Tucker. Once it arrived that was. Tucker had got his copy yesterday, which was when Danny was supposed to receive his copy, but something had delayed it. So he sat in the living room all morning waiting for the package to arrive.
When the doorbell finally rang, Danny was there in an instant and flung open the door. He grabbed the package and brought it up to his room where he unceremoniously ripped it open. Only to receive a face-full of glitter instead of his game.
Danny spluttered and tried to spit out the glitter that had gotten into his mount, not even noticing his ghost sense coming out with the glitter nor did he notice the box ghost phase into his room.
"Beware, for I, the Box Ghost, have discovered the power of glitter bombing. Tremble before your glittery doom,"
For once, the beating the Box Ghost received was from well-deserved aggression.
Unfortunately, beating Boxy (while cathartic) did not solve Danny's issue of being covered in glitter. He had tried using the lint roller Jazz kept in the bathroom, and it had gotten some glitter off (and a surprising amount of Cujo's fur), but his clothing still sparkled. He had tried showering to get it off and running his clothes through the wash, but despite his best efforts, there was still glitter everywhere.
Which left him here, trying to brush off as much of the glitter as he could with Sam and Tucker watching in amusement.
"Danny, you do realize there's an easier way for you to take care of this?"
Danny perked up at Sam's comment, "There is? Why didn't you tell me that sooner?"
Sam and Tucker seemed to share an unimpressed look over their video call, before Tucker, completely deadpanned (as opposed to his earlier barely contained laughter) said, "Dude, you have ghost powers,"
It took Danny a moment to process what Tucker was saying, and then he facepalmed. It was so obvious, god, he was dumb. He turned intangible and watched as glitter fell in a wave to the floor.
He let go of the intangibility and checked to make sure that there wasn't any glitter left. Much to his dismay (and Sam and Tucker's amusement) there was still glitter on him and his clothes. Danny knew getting rid of glitter was a pain in the ass but this was getting ridiculous.
"What the- fucking- This doesn't make any sense!?" He cried out, repeatedly turning intangible only for negligible amounts of glitter to fall.
It was at this point that what little respect for Danny's dignity his friends had snapped and they both just burst out laughing.
"Yeah. Haha, laugh it up," Danny grumbled, "Don't you two have something more fun to do, like, I don't know, play Doomed,"
"Well, we can't really start the new expansion without you, dude" Tucker said
"Yeah," Sam agreed, "Besides, this is way more entertaining,"
Now it was Danny's turn to look at his friends unimpressed before he reached over and shut off his webcam.
"Aww, come on dude, we were just joking," Tucker whined
Danny rolled his eyes. "Let's just play already"
"Yeah Tucker, let him keep what little dignity he has left,"
Danny decided it best to not grace that with a response and grabbed his game from the box without glancing over and shoved the game into his computer.
He, Sam, and Tucker played late into the night, and Danny's earlier troubles were soon forgotten as the three of them became engrossed in the game. It wasn't until the next morning that Danny would even look at the game box and discover that it too was covered in glitter and consequently, so was his keyboard and mouse.
It was two weeks before Danny let the Box Ghost out of the thermos.
