My mouse is dead and I don't have inspiration to do Nightfang so… this cliffy isn't as long a wait. You're lucky. XD
If someone could tell me if the image is showing for Nightfang, PLEASE DO! I changed it to a cat and it won't show on my laptop. -_-
DISCLAIMER: Yah… Didn't get Danny Phantom or ROTG for my B-day. Therefore I Don't own them! I do own the Shadow animals though. :D
Phantom Spirit
Chapter 6: I Know You…
For the past year, Sam's life has gone downhill.
First off, Danny went missing. Everything was fine and dandy after the Disastroid until he had to go off ghost hunting and never came back. They've looked everywhere. Ghost Zone, Vlad's, even the Guys in White! The Boo-marang brought them to the forest next to Amity, but there was no sign of human life-er, half human life. No one knows where he went.
A few days later, the ghosts started to act weird. Well, for some, weirder. They come and go without a scratch on the buildings, streets, park, or person they were scaring. Not even Skulker has bothered to fight back with any ghost hunters. If one shows up, the ghost leaves. A lot of the times, the "victim" says they scare and then cheer up. It's bizarre.
To top that off, people are getting scared by black animals, or "Shadow Animals," as others call them. It's mostly Tucker. At first, he was too scared to come out at night, but that got way too annoying for Sam. She didn't want to have to walk him home or ghost hunt alone. Or worse: with the Fentons.
She helped him get over this fear by taking him out at night a lot and pointing out that they aren't hurting him.
Then came when she actually saw these animals. Well, two: an owl and a coyote. The coyote was stalking Tucker and, as she got closer, gave Tucker his PDA. Sam got there as it turned to mist and drifted to the top of the building with the owl.
That was when she saw the cloaked dude. He was kinda creepy looking; black cloak, hood up, the shadows enough to his face, but not the raven bangs that hung out and glowing green eyes. They stared at each other until the coyote caught his attention and he walked off.
So, yah. Her life is very confusing. Currently, her and Tucker were walking to her house. He was too much of a scaredy-cat to go out on Halloween, so they decided to watch a scary movie at her place.
"So, what movie yah wanna watch?" Tucker asked as they turned a corner.
"I don't care," Sam replied. "Just not a zombie movie. We see that a lot."
Tucker sighed and mumbled, "You just don't want to 'cause Zombie Party was the last thing we watched with Danny."
"What was that?"
"Nothing!"
The Goth glared at her friend. She hated it when people talked about Danny like he wasn't going to come back. She knew he would. He had to…
As they came to her house, a shout interrupted her thoughts. "What the heck?!"
Tucker took a step back, staring at the sky. Confused, Sam looked where he was staring and about fell over. About every ghost from the Zone were all flying towards the woods, making the sky look almost green. A few black spots dotted the ghost cloud. The teen narrowed her eyes to get a better look.
It was a ghost and Shadow Animal swarm!
Pulling out a wrist-ray from her spider bag and putting it on, she turned to her friend. "Tucker! Let's go ch-"
"No way!" he interrupted. "I don't think they're doing any harm, so let's just continue on!" He grabbed her arm and pulled her into her house.
"Tucker!" She pulled her arm out of his grasp when the teckno geek pulled her inside and shut the door. "This could explain what happened to Danny!"
"Or it could get us killed!" he argued. "If we had back up, I'd come with you. But no one is around unless Maddie, Jack, Jazz, and/or Valerie suddenly pop up."
Ignoring him, Sam rushed out the door. "Dang it!" The sky was clear of anything supernatural, as if nothing had been there before.
"Come on, Sam!" Tucker called from the inside. "Let's just watch a movie and enjoy the night."
Sighing, Sam followed him in.
X.X.X.X.X
"Bye, Tuck," Sam said as she left his house. When he closed the door, she rolled her eyes. 'He is such a wimp! Won't even walk home by himself.' As she walked down the street, Sam pulled out her phone. "Crap," she mumbled. "11:38, better get home." Stretching, the Goth started to walk to her house.
On the way, she couldn't stop thinking about the ghosts that day. What were they all doing? Did the Shadow Animals work with them? Did that cloaked dude have anything to do with this?
She was so into her thoughts she didn't notice she was heading the wrong way. When she reached the park, she stopped and looked around. "Crap!" Face palming, she turned and went the right way.
Some yipping behind her caused her to stop. Turning, she saw a little shadow wolf pup run into the park with a fawn and coyote following. As she started to walk towards them, a white-haired boy in a blue sweatshirt flew in after them.
Pulling out her wrist-ray and holding like a gun, Sam slowly walked up and peaked around the fence. A small rabbit lay in the middle of four shadow animals, the Box Ghost, the boy in a blue sweat-shirt, and the cloaked figure. The small brown animal was obviously close to dying.
Deciding to stay low for a bit, she watched as the dark man placed a hand on the rabbit. She hid back behind the fence to shade from the bright light.
"Uh… Was that supposed to happen?" the Box Ghost asked. Sam peaked back around the corner. The rabbit sat lifeless on the floor.
Before she could step out, a small black tornado formed next to the rabbit, causing the wolf pup to yelp and jump back. The black twister exploded and formed a black rabbit.
"Welcome to the world, Dusk," the cloaked man said in a very familiar voice.
Sam watched in wonder as the rabbit hopped around with the pup chasing. Soon, the other Shadow Animals and the Box Ghost joined in. She laughed a bit when the pup slipped on a bit of ice in front of the mysterious teen, which she had no idea where it came from.
Shaking her head, Sam thought, 'Come on! You need answers, Manson!'
She stepped into the park and started her wrist-ray.
X.X.X.X.X
Danny looked around Jack in the direction the humming came from. Also confused, Jack turned around and the animals stopped playing around, causing the Box Ghost to run into Pepper.
A black haired girl in black, purple and green stood in the park entrance with a gun pointed at Danny. The girl narrowed her eyes. "Who are you?" she asked sternly.
Danny looked around. Finding no one she could mean, the Halloween spirit cocked his head. "Y-You mean me?"
Rolling her eyes, the girl replied, "No duh."
Looking over at Jack, he smiled. 'First Halloween and I already have a believer!'
He flew towards the girl, stopping a foot away from her gun. The air had pushed his hood back a bit, to where you could see his mouth and nose, but he didn't notice. He had a believer! A freaky one holding a gun, yes. But a believer no less!
"You can see me?!" he more stated than asked. Before the girl could answer, he looked closer at her. "Oh! Now I know where I recognize you from!"
The girl lowered her gun a bit and looked at him with suspicion and confusion. "What do you mean…?"
"Aren't you that Tucker guy's girlfriend?"
"What?!" she exclaimed. "Ew! No!" She put the gun back up again. "Who are you?!"
Danny frowned. "How do you see me, but not know who I am?"
"I asked first!"
"Fine fine." The cloaked teen rolled his green eyes. "I'm the Halloween spirit, D-"
"Okay," she interrupted. "What about him?" The girl nodded the gun in Jack's direction, who was leaning on his staff smiling at the argument.
Jack about feel down in surprise. "You can see me?!"
The girl looked more confused and now annoyed. "Again with the seeing thing?!"
"Well I'm sorry!" Jack countered. "I only have a few believers! And they're all kids!"
As the two of them argued, Danny thought things over. How could she see them? He went over the facts in his head. 'It's Halloween, day of scaring and ghosts. She obviously is a ghost hunter, considering she has an ectogun. She can already see the Shadow Animals and Boxy.' He stopped for a second. 'Wait… didn't Jack say he died before becoming a spirit once…'
"That's it!" Danny exclaimed, making the other two stop talking. "Jack! She must see you because you died and it's Halloween!"
Jack raised an eyebrow. "So what about you?"
"That I don't know."
"So now I know your name," the girl teased.
"Yes! Whatever! I'm Jack Frost, spirit of winter!"
She rolled her eyes. "So you're a ghost?"
Jack face palmed. "No! I'm a spirit! I make it snow, I start snowball fights, I freeze things!" He looked back at the girl and smirked. "Like this."
He made a snowball in his hand and threw it in the girl's face. "You are SO dead!"
Danny stepped in between her and the laughing winter spirit. "Cut it out guys!"
"Shut up, Hoodie!" the raven-haired girl shouted. "What's up with the cloak anyway? Afraid to show your face?!"
Danny turned towards her. "No! I was…" He paused, trying find the right word. "Born... Yah! Born with this!"
"So what?! You never take the hood off?"
"I do in front of friends!
"Why don't you do it now?"
"No! I don't have to!"
"You chicken?"
"No! I-"
Finally having enough of this, Jack yanked Danny's hood off. "Hey!" the Halloween spirit protested. "Why'd you do that?!"
"I'm sick of all this fighting!" Jack yelled back.
"I don't ca-!"
A whine interrupted their fight. "What!?" they both yelled looking down.
Star backed up, whimpering. Danny then noticed Pepper, Boxy, and Dusk had run off during their "conversation" with the girl and the others where farther away, like they had backed up. He looked back down at the cowering puppy and sighed.
The Phantom of Halloween bent down and picked up Star. "Sorry, Star. Guess I got a little angry there, huh?" The others paced forward, Midnight in the air and Shadow on the floor.
Star yipped and licked his face as Midnight pranced around his head. Shadow barked and sat next to Jack's feet. He nodded his head towards the Winter Spirit.
"Right." Danny set Star down and looked at his friend. "Sorry Jack, got carried away there."
"Nah it's my fault. "Jack smiled at the younger teen. "I was just worked up and- What's wrong with her?" He looked towards the girl as she dropped the ectogun.
Danny looked towards the girl with him. "Um… You okay?"
Tears started to gather in her eyes as she spoke. "D-Danny?"
Said teen furrowed his eyebrows. "How do you know my real name, but not know the Halloween spirit?" He ran a hand through his hair and added, "I am so confused!"
She ran forwards and hugged him tightly. "I thought you were dead!"
Danny stiffened, having never been hugged in the year he'd been alive. "Um… There… there?" Danny said as he awkwardly patted her back. He looked towards Jack with a "Help me" look. Jack just shrugged.
The girl let go and looked at him with a smile. Her smile faded at his confused look. "Y-You don't remember me?" He shook his head slowly. "Danny, it's me, Sam. Your girlfriend?"
Star yipped and flew up to Danny's head, landing in his hair. "I'm sorry, uh, Sam? You must have the wrong person." He absent mindedly scratched Star under his chin. "I don't remember you, much less remember a girlfriend. I'm just Danny Phantom, the Phantom of Halloween." He laughed slightly. "I guess you can see me 'cause you believe this other Danny is still out there."
Jack sighed. He really needed to talk to him. This Sam girl was probably his girlfriend when he was alive.
The Halloween spirit smiled slightly and pulled his hood back up, causing Star to yelp in surprise as he was put in under too. "Um… Hope you find him?" He floated a bit in the air, the other two Shadow Animals following his actions. "Yah… Bye."
With this he turned and flew off. Jack ran a hand through his hair and looked at the now crying girl. "I'll go talk to him. Um… sorry. Bye."
When he caught up to Danny, they both stopped. "Well that was interesting," Danny said with a slight laugh. "So what was it you were going to tell me, Jack?"
"Right, uh-" Jack paused for a second. 'How would he feel if he knew this? He would want to watch his memories, and end up watching his death. I may not have had a gruesome death, but he might of! And what about the girl and his family? He'd have to live knowing they will grow up without him, live without him. Heck! They'll die while he's still a teenager!'
"You know what? It doesn't matter. Let's just… go get Nightbound out of Bunny's Warren before Bunny kills him."
Danny laughed. "You heard?"
Jack smiled, happy to get his mind off the bad stuff. "Yah, saw Bunny on the way over here. He was pretty mad."
"Alright. Guess I don't want to see a kangaroo kill his own kind."
Star turned in circles his hood, trying to get comfy, before laying down. The two spirits chuckled and started to head towards the Warren.
"Sir."
The two turned around and saw Skulker floating not too far from them. "Yes Skulker?" Danny asked.
"Someone wants to see you."
I'm sure you all hate this, but yes. ANOTHER CLIFFY! Cuz I'm just that evil. :)
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Well, I better leave. It's late and I'm tired of typing. XD Don't have much to say other than you're not the only one crying right now! (Not you, dear reader. I mean Sam. You guys are tough enough! XD)
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