I don't own Danny Phantom or any of the characters. They are doing a life sentence to their original creators without the chance of parole. Enjoy part 4 of Tsuki no shita de yakusoku.
Dora's realm 30 minutes later
Danny held Desiree's hand as they walked through the realm that was formerly locked in the dark ages due to a certain queen's brother. While the kingdom still held the original dark ages charm, the oppression level within the area had diminished drastically. Danny himself couldn't help but smile when he saw the locals who were originally oppressed enjoying themselves in a matter that was impossible prior.
'Wow this place has changed since I was last here. It seems Dora unlike her brother is a very benevolent ruler.' Danny thought to himself. 'I can only image what the inside looks like. I wonder if she kept things as they were, or did she completely change the layout of her kingdom?' Danny thought only to get his question answered upon reaching the castle.
In front of Dora's castle stood two statues that if Tucker had seen would have thrown a fit about being overlooked again. The first was a statue of Danny in his ghost form and the other was Sam in the outfit she wore during her kidnapping by Prince Aragon's goons.
"Here are the statues of your queen's saviors. Danny Phantom for being my kingdom's knight in anything but shining armor, and Sam Manson the woman who gave me the courage to stand up to my brother and take my rightful place as queen." Desiree read. "Wow if it weren't for the fact that I know she is engaged to Sidney I would be worried about her trying to steal you from me." Desiree explained as she an Danny walked up to the front gate only for two guards to use their weapons to block the entrance.
"Invitations please, otherwise I can't let you in. Even if you are with one of the two saviors of the kingdom." One of Dora's loyal guards replied in a strictly business tone.
Hearing the request Desiree reached into her harem pants and pulled out the two invitations. Upon seeing them the two guards cleared the passage.
"Thank you, and welcome too queen Dora's castle. Just follow the signs that are inside and you should be able to find your way towards the dance area." The guards replied as Danny and Desiree walked into the castle.
"Wow this place is enormous. If I had a realm this large I know I would get lost in it." Danny replied.
'If he thinks this place is enormous just what until he sees my realm. It would be like comparing the moon to the sun itself. But then again when you come back to my realm after our first date you will see for yourself.' Desiree thought to herself as the two of them walked down the predetermined path for them.
"I have to ask you Danny what was your life like before the accident that gave you your powers?" Desiree asked.
"Normal which was something I had wanted back in my life for the past 2 years. Ever since I got my powers I had put those I cared for in content danger, massive amounts of ghosts constantly attack, and to top it all off I became the major target for three of the people who held a place in my heart. Originally I was going to tell my parents as soon as I gained my ghost powers, but Sam had convinced me at the time not to because they wouldn't understand." Danny explained as the couple continued following the arrows.
"Do you still want your life to go back to being normal?" Desiree asked.
"To be honest with you if it meant everyone I cared for was safe from ghosts, and the danger I bring due to being a halfa was gone then I would do it in a heartbeat. It is part of the reason why I wish I never…"
"Danny I get what you are saying, but please don't finish that sentence. Remember I am as your best friend said the 'screw you over genie'. I have no control over what wishes I grant intentional or unintentional. Besides you having ghost powers isn't the worse thing in the world. Remember despite having them you have done a world of good and believe it or not even saved everyone once." Desiree explained causing the young halfa to raise an eyebrow. "Did you forget when Plasmius in the hope of gaining ultimate power opened the coffin of forever sleep in the hopes of getting the crown of fire?"
Upon being reminded of this event Danny couldn't help but shiver in disgust of what his arch-enemy's lust for power almost caused.
"Ugh don't remind me. It was because of his lust for power and stupidity that the ghost king was released…"
"And it was because of you and your ghost powers that he is back in the coffin of forever sleep and not ruling over all of man and ghost alike." Desiree finished before stopping them both. "But while that might be the greatest good you did for both realms that isn't the greatest good you did for me. If you never gained your powers and grew into the person you are now I would still be the same lonely and extremely frustrated ghost instead of the one I am now."
As much as he hated to admit it Desiree had a point. When Sam wished she never met him in the past he lost his ghost powers and all memories of his adventures because of it.
'Yeah and the very site of Desiree when she wasn't even trying to scare me had me running for the hills. Had I saw her like that on top of the hill while doing moon watching I seriously doubt I would have stayed let alone try to help her. But at the same time I also owe just about all of my romantic encounters due to said accident if I think about it. I will really have to thank Sam once again for not only convincing me to go through the portal but to keep my powers as well.' Danny thought to himself as he and Desiree finally walked towards the end of passageway.
Upon stepping outside Danny looked around and was instantly taken back to the first time he went to a school dance minus the being inside. Like that day there were decorations all over the place, and the castle from the dark ages looked more modern than it had ever been. The only difference was there was a banner with 'congratulations King Sidney and Queen Dora'. Seeing that there was actually light instead of the dark clouds where they were at Danny looked into the sky and like on Amity's highest point he saw the luminous sphere that he had hoped to visit one day in the future in it's full glory.
'Wow it is just as beautiful in Dora's realm as it would be the human realm.' Danny thought to himself before two familiar voices caught his attention.
"Wow when I heard Desiree had found herself a date you were the last person I would have expected." Dora replied looking the young halfa over.
"Ok while I am happy for both of you this could very well be a massive problem. We have several of your enemies on the guest list. The Box Ghost and the Lunch Lady, Ember and Skulker, and lastly Johnny and Kitty. If they saw the two of you together then…"
Before Sidney could finish his sentence a cloud of purple smoke surrounded Desiree. The queen, future king, and young halfa coughed for a few moments due to the excess smoke filling their lungs. When the smoke finally cleared instead of seeing a green skinned woman with red eyes wearing blue instead they saw a brown skinned woman with blue eyes, wearing a pink outfit. However, the most notable change was that instead of a ghost tail there was a pair of slender and sexy legs in matching pink harem shoes attached.
"So what do you think of my human form Danny?"
"Did I already tell you that look pardon the pun drop dead gorgeous?" Danny answered trying to do everything in his power not sound like an idiot.
"Yes you did when you saw me on top of the hill, and it is still just as cheesy now as it was then." Desiree replied with mild amusement.
"Don't make it any less true. So I am guessing up until now no one has seen your human form?" Danny asked getting a head shake from Desiree.
No sooner did Danny say this did three of the six spirits that Sidney mentioned showed up. Sidney, Dora, Desiree, and Danny watched as a less than happy Kitty, Ember, and Lunch Lady come to the dance floor in the castle. However what the three came dress in completely threw the group off.
Ember instead of wearing her normal ghost rocker outfit was a black dress that had several tears within it, had her fiery blue hair dyed black, and even wore matching black gloves and had 4 tentacle looking appendages moving like feet when she walked.
Kitty instead of wearing her normal biker girl outfit was in a short white dress that did very little to cover up her flawless cyan legs and sandals that showed off her perfectly pedicured feet. On the back of her dress she had a pair of angel wings, and in left hand she held what appeared to be a bow and arrow.
The Lunch lady was the only one who didn't dress up at all but instead wore her normal attire just like Danny was. However, her reason was she didn't care much about her looks, and due to being knocked up with the box ghost's baby her mood swings were even worse than ever.
"I swear when I get my hands on Johnny I will kill him for walking out on me! We were invited to Dora's masquerade ball, and that idiot fails to show!" Kitty hissed with her right hand gathering blue ectoplasmic energy.
"I am in total agreement with you girlfriend! It was bad enough those idiots ditched up sometime ago, but now they are doing it again?!" Ember added.
The Lunch lady however, instead of joining the rant looked across the room and noticed Danny talking who was accompanied by what appeared to be a brown skinned woman talking to the hosts of the party. Without her Boxy with her and her potent dislike of the young halfa a dark smile appeared on her face.
"Ladies while the lack of our boyfriends is bad, I think 10 rounds of lets make Danny Phantom become all ghost would really calm my nerves." The Lunch Lady said in a malevolent tone drawing Ember and Kitty's attention toward Danny.
"We do owe that goth bitch, know it all bitch, and his bitch of a mother payback for what they did to us last time and what better way to get to them through Danny?" Ember added liking the idea more.
Kitty on the other hand wasn't so keen on the idea. She never crossed that line with Danny and had no interest in being his enemy. The same could be said of Johnny seeing as the two of them were indebted to him for helping the out of a rough patch. However, at the same time she to wanted to blow off some steam.
'I will tell him sorry after this is done, but for now…' Kitty thought to herself as the second triple threat flew towards Danny all with the intent of causing bodily harm to him.
"Dora, Sidney while we thank you for inviting us, seeing as our boyfriends decided to ditch us I hope you don't mind if we use our mutual enemy as a punching bag to blow off some steam." Ember replied in a dark tone.
"Nothing personal Danny but…"
"Less talk, more violence! My ectoplasmlust is going through the roof!" The Lunch Lady replied only for Desiree, Dora, and Sidney to narrow their eyes.
However, Danny remembering what happened to him earlier pulled out a Fenton Thermos, hit the reverse switch and activated the portable ghost catcher. Instantly the Box ghost, Skulker, and Johnny came out of the thermos.
"They each came to me wanting to blow off steam like the three of you were going to do me. The Box Ghost due to the stresses he was feeling with his moody love, Skulker because you called him a lousy hunter, and Johnny because…"
"I said I was more important than his bike." Kitty finished before setting her sights on Johnny.
"Kitten please, I can explain. I only went off because I didn't want to do something stupid due to being upset. We all did so there would be any hostile feelings when we can here." Johnny explained getting a nod from Skulker and the Box ghost.
However even with this Kitty, Ember, and the Lunch Lady glared at their boyfriends, and looked as if they were going to kill them.
'They attacked me, Skulker and the Box ghost are my foes, but their reasoning for doing it I can somewhat understand.' Danny thought to himself.
"Ladies while I know I have no right to tell you how to run your relationships, can you please save the violence until after King Sidney's and Queen Dora's dance? There is a full moon above us, and while I know their actions did upset you they only wanted to blow off stream so they wouldn't be upset with you while at this dance." Danny explained throwing Ember, and the Lunch lady for a loop.
Kitty however unlike the other two was familiar with this side of Danny due to her past encounters with him and once again her thoughts began to wonder for a moment before turning her attention back to her boyfriend.
"You know Johnny I should kick your ass from here to the other side of our realm for ditching me! You are truly an idiot… but you are my idiot so I will let it slide this time." Kitty said letting go of her anger and picking up Johnny from the floor.
"I have to agree with my girlfriend on this one. You better glad I can't stay upset with you. Plus baby pop is right the moon is full and it is one of my favorite things besides my music and you." Ember added grabbing her cyberarmor wearing boyfriend.
"YOU ABANDON ME AGAIN FOR ANY REASON AND I PROMISE YOU THIS CHILD IN MY WOMB WILL BECOME A BASTARD! Apple pie anyone?" The Lunch lady asked with her mood shifting from upset to sweet as she embraced her boyfriend.
It was at this moment that Kitty watched Desiree in human form walk over to the young halfa and explain how proud she was of him for defusing said time bomb without wreaking the party before kissing him on the cheek. Due to never seeing Desiree in her human form her curious nature and hopeless romantic nature Kitty couldn't help but be drawn to it.
"Kitten you can go into romance detective mode after the dance. But for now lets just let the little dude and his girl enjoy their date." Johnny replied before walking off to another spot on the dance floor as did Ember, the Lunch Lady and their dates.
As the three formerly upset ladies walked away with their boyfriends, the ghostly DJ that Sidney and Dora hired began to play one of many songs the queen and future king requested. As the slow dance music filled the young halfa's ears the earlier mess was easily forgotten and a warm smile appeared on his face.
Desiree even if she wanted to couldn't remember a moment in her previous life where she was this happy. Growing up in a time where women were not only sub-servant to men the only time she ever got the chance to dance was when she was entertaining the sultan of Arabia.
'But even then I was dancing as a means to an end in the hope I would get the power I wanted so I wouldn't have to do… Why are you living in your past? That is said and done, and I am in a time where things will be different.' Desiree thought to herself as she placed her hands on his shoulders as she slow danced with her boyfriend.
Manson Family residence this exact moment
Sam once again heard yet another crash as her 3 little cousins Diana, John, and Wally ran all over the mansion causing havoc where ever they went. Feeling extreme frustration Sam let out a scream that her cousin mistook for a battle cry.
"Looks like we got her really mad now." Diana said with a smile on her face.
Diana like her older cousin Sam has raven colored hair and purple eyes however, unlike her cousin her hair went down past her neck. She wore a pair of black pants, and a green tank top that showed off her surprisingly well toned 10 year old stomach. Unfortunately for her Sam managed to grab her and proceeded to put her over her knee.
"I wish I could say I didn't want to do this to you, but oh man I am so going to enjoy spanking your rotten butt." Sam replied in a scary tone.
"Let go of me you meanie! Now I can see why that boy didn't want to come over! They should change your name to Vicky, because like her you are so Icky!" Diana spat.
"You heard her, let her go now!" Wally said before spurring his foot into action.
"Oh that is it! When I get my hands on you Wally you will be 6 feet deep!" Sam hissed as she dropped Diana and began chasing after Wally ignoring the pain in her shin.
Wally like his sister had hair that went down past his neck, however his hair was auburn and had strawberry blond colored eyes. He wore a pair of red short shorts that showed off his athletic legs and a matching colored shirt that held a lightning bolt on it.
"That is if you can catch me, but then again I seriously doubt you can catch me with how you are moving now slowpoke!" Wally replied as he made a sharp turn just causing Sam to crash into a wall.
'God it is times like this that I wish I still had those plant powers. I would just mind vine them and make them obedient for the rest of the night then make say what I want!' Sam thought to herself only for John threw a mostly black tomato at Sam.
Seeing that his aim was accurate the rotten fruit exploded on the side of her head leaving the majority of the rotten pulp all in her hair just as John laughed his rotten little butt off.
John was the tallest of the 3 standing at Sam height. He had brown hair that was a long as siblings, and blue eyes that match that of Danny. Like his brother he had a very athletic body, but unlike his siblings his skin was as dark as Tuckers. He wore a pair of blue pants, and matching blue shirt.
If this were a cartoon at this point Sam would have literally had steam coming out of her ears due to the rage she was feeling. To add injury to insult Wally, Diana, and John ran in front of Sam and bent over slightly.
"Here is your targets Sam come on right here!" Diana, Wally, and John said in unison as they each smacked their butts in the same way their favorite cyan haired villain did to a purple haired princess (AN: Care to guess who these characters are? or the characters they are imitating? I will give a shout out to the person who gets it right in the next chapter.)
Sam was many things, a goth, a super hero sidekick, and most of all extremely pro-life, however her 3 younger cousins were really making her have second thoughts about being extremely pro-life. However, it wasn't just them but it was also her parents for forcing her to cancel her plans so they could enjoy their double date with her aunt and uncle as well as Danny. But at the same time with Danny she couldn't be all that mad. The last time he had to watch her cousins with her he got a full taste of what they were capable of and if she were in his shoes she couldn't blame him for not wanting to come. Sadly for her this slight calming thought was broken when another rotten tomato that splattered against the other side of her head.
"That will teach you not to daydream about your boyfriend while we are around!" John replied laughing.
"Ugh he is not my boyfriend! We are just friends! I wanted to have a friend over to help me with you little monsters!" Sam hissed as she chased down John ignoring the rotten fruit stuck in her hair.
"Then why didn't you attempt to call that other boy over? Tucker was it, while begging that Danny boy?" Wally asked.
"We maybe 11, 10, and 12 Sam, but we aren't stupid." John added smiling only for Diana to shake her head.
"Well there is only one way to find out." Diana replied before pulling out a very familiar black and purple book with dark bat stickers and a White DP logo.
Sam eyes widened with horror when she saw the book Diana had in her hands Sam was about to charge her to get he book back when John grabbed her and pulled her into a head lock.
"Let me go John, and don't you dare…"
"Dear Diary, I can't believe Danny is looking at that shallow witch Paulina again. I swear to god he is so clueless! Everyone knows how I feel about him, yet he is the only one who doesn't see it. I know for a fact that if he learned how I felt he would drop her like a bad habit and come to the one who likes him for both his half's and not just his ghost half!" Diana red causing a now struggling Sam to go even more ballistic.
Fortunately for Sam Diana, Wally, and John were to preoccupied with laughing at her jealousy to question what the entry meant when said ghost half.
"Oh here is another juicy one. Dear Diary, today a miracle has finally happened. When Paulina asked him to go to her 17th birthday party Danny instead of saying yes like 2 years ago not only turned her down, but asked me to go see trinity of doom 9. I have never been so happy in all my life! Not only did he flat out reject that stupid slut, but he choose to spend time with me! Not only that, but when I almost fell he caught me and I got to be in his strong arms. If I had died I wouldn't have needed to come back because everything was finally going right!" Diana continued to read as Wally and John laughed at this.
'Uncle Rock, aunt Roll, if you ever try to convince my parents to have me babysit for you again… lets just say that you will be down three kids, and I will be serving 3 life sentences.' Sam thought venomously as she felt extreme hate for her three cousins while her normally purple eyes began to glow bright green.
Desiree's realm 12 AM
Danny and a now impaired Desiree stepped into the later's realm and upon seeing how big it was Danny knew she wasn't joking. Even though he couldn't tell her realm in comparison to Dora's or even Pandora's was 4 times as big. It was so massive that if you put the entire town of Amity in there it wouldn't even take away 1/30 of the max space.
"Thank you for escorting me back to my realm. I don't want to think about what could have happened if I came back alone in the state I am in." Desiree replied with a mixture of happiness and surprisingly sadness in her tone.
This didn't go unnoticed to the young halfa who for the life of him couldn't figure out why the later was there. He could totally understand the happiness seeing as he was feeling on top of the world as well. Thanks to his girlfriend he not only got to dance the night away with a beautiful woman, but he was able to do it under the beauty of a full moon. While he didn't want to evening to end even he knew that all good things had to come to one.
"What kind of boyfriend would I be if I let you come home on your own impaired? Heck even if I had to leave I would have asked Dora and Sidney to keep you in their realm until you sobered up." Danny explained as Desiree despite being impaired guided him through her realm.
As Danny passed by he couldn't help but notice several pictures. The first was of a younger version of her with an older gentleman wearing a turban a white Arabian outfit and sandals. Like in her human form his eyes were blue and on his face was a long red colored beard. Another one was of her when she looked to be 18 years old, and from what Danny saw she looked almost identical to how she was now. The last one was a picture of what appeared to be a slightly older version of her at her peak, with a younger version of the man who was in the first picture with two little twin girls. The only difference between them was that one had raven colored hair and the other had red hair.
"There weren't camera's back when I was alive Danny, so all the pictures you see are from my own memory. The older woman who looks like me in that picture is my mother. The man you see in the first and last picture is my father, and that redheaded girl you see in said picture is my older twin sister Erika." Desiree explained as both she and Danny walked into her bedroom.
"Well Desiree now that you are in the safety of your realm I need to be going. My clone is about to expire, and if I don't get home soon it will cause problems." Danny said before he went in to kiss Desiree on the cheek.
However, before he could hit his target Desiree shifted her body just enough so that instead of kissing her cheek he kissed her lips. Before Danny could register what was going on, Desiree like on top of the hill wrapped her arms around him and proceeded to kiss Danny like it would be the very last chance she got. Eventually Danny began to kiss back, and despite being a little unnerved by the taste of strong alcohol on her breath this didn't stop him from enjoy her upgraded display of affection. Eventually it was when Danny felt Desiree's hands start to travel to more imitimate places that he broke the kiss and pulled away. While he couldn't deny that he did enjoy what she did due to being denied such pleasure in the past, he completely shut out the idea of doing anything her due to her being in an impaired state.
"Please stay with me for the night Danny." Desiree said in a pleading tone before Danny could leave her bedroom.
"You know I can't do that at least not yet Desiree. My clone will expire, I don't have the energy to make another one, but most importantly you are under the influence." Danny explained being the voice of reason only for Desiree to go harder.
"Please stay with me I don't want to sleep alone like I was forced to do in the past. Pretty please with me on top?" Desiree pleaded once again with the mostly sultry voice she could muster in said state.
'God where did she learn to do that? No Danny you need to remain strong for both your sake's you must...' Danny started only to feel his resistance crumble faster than a person falling in dry quicksand.
"Well my parents did say they would be out for the evening, and wouldn't be back until the next morning. Plus my sister is away at college so I am guessing it shouldn't be an issue. Where is your couch Desiree?" Danny asked only for Desiree to pull him into her bed.
Already getting the idea Danny went to the other side of her queen sized bed, and rested his head on her unused pillow. However, despite being in a totally unfamiliar place sleep came quickly to the young halfa.
'I just hope I don't regret the lie about my parents being out for the evening comes back to bite me in the butt.' Were Danny's last thoughts before heading to dreamland.
Gray residence 3 hours earlier.
"Valerie I thought I told you to get out of that suit, and give it to me!" Damien said to his only daughter after she came back into the house.
Hearing her loving but extremely overprotective father speak to her like this yet again another sigh from Valerie.
"Even if I wanted to I can't Dad. I don't know what that ghost did when he gave me this suit 2 years ago, but from what I can tell the suit is literally a part of me now." Valerie replied before willing her armor to vanish, reappear, and vanish again in the same way Danny did his ghost form. "Besides I have my reasons for ghost hunting and until I know for a fact the ghosts can't harm another innocent I will can't stop." Valerie replied in a dark tone.
"What about that Fenton kid Valerie? I remember you talking to me about how much you liked him and how you were willing to give up ghost hunting for him. What happened did he hurt you…"
"Dad Danny would never hurt me. In fact on that day he was actually going to ask me out. However, my enemies know my identity, and if I were to date him they wouldn't rest until they gotten to me through him." Valerie explained. "So in order to protect him I had to do the one thing I didn't want to do which was give up being with him. You don't know how much that hurt me, but at the same time I can only guess how much it hurt him." Valerie explained pouring her heart out to her father.
Hearing his daughter's saddening story Damien couldn't help but clench his fists in anger. While he was glad that his daughter was making mature decisions compared to a few years back, it still angered him that she couldn't be happy with someone who he believed was good for her due to ghosts.
'Though at the same time, while I will never admit it to her I am thankful to that Phantom kid and dog. Despite him causing trouble for the town, and wreaking our lives, he did break my daughter out of her selfish self absorbed phase and help her grow into the young woman I see before me now.' Damien thought to himself before turning to his daughter.
"No matter what I say or do you aren't going to stop ghost hunting are you?" Damien asked getting a head shake from his daughter. "Seeing as I don't have the money to move us away from Amity as of yet, until I do just be careful out there. I don't want to wake up and have to write an obituary for my one and only daughter due to learning of you dying."
Valerie was about to respond to this when the two heard the doorbell ring. Not wanting to blow her identity Valerie made her suit absorb into her skin just before Damien opened the door to let to reveal Star on the other end of the door.
"Hello Mr. Gray, is Valerie here?" Star asked in a calm manner.
"She is in her bedroom. You should be able to find her in there. Not if you excuse me I need to get going or I will be late for my job." Damien explained before walking out the door.
Already knowing her way around her friend's home Star walked towards her best friend's room, and but not before she pulled out the photo she took an hour prior. Knowing that Valerie didn't like it when people just bust into her room Star like her friend requested knocked on the door loud enough for her to hear.
"Valerie it is me Star, I have something I need to talk to you about." Star explained causing Valerie to open her door and give her only real friend a hug.
"Woah is that how you are going to go to win the boy of your dreams? Cause if so then you should knock him…"
"Sorry Valerie but by the time I found him I was too late. From what I saw he already has a girlfriend." Star replied in a slight down tone throwing Valerie for a loop.
"Tell me Star who exactly were you trying to make yours? I know it wasn't the muscle for brains John or Dash, and Kwan was your ex. Let me guess you were trying to get with Tucker again?" Valerie asked causing Star's face to scrunch up at the thought.
Even if he did grow a few inches in height, gain a bit of muscle mass, and stopped asking every girl out not to long ago, he was still the same techno geek loser in her eyes that she went out with when she was unpopular two years ago. But Danny in her eyes was a completely different story.
At first she had seen him as the freak of two ghost hunting parents who was so awkward and nerdy that he made himself a target for bullying by the A-lists jocks as well as had no redeeming qualities about him. However, it was when Valerie like Danny became a social outcast due to losing everything as well as giving Danny a chance that started the change. Despite her calling him a freak even around Valerie she had kept an eye on her best friend's dates and as the two got closer Star secretly was rooting for both of them to get together.
'My best friend deserves someone who makes her happy, and to be honest back them the freak had to be the best thing that could have ever happened to her. Why she wouldn't seal the deal and claim him for her own I will never know.' Star thought to herself.
It was after this that at least for Danny anyways she put aside his freak status and took notice to the teen he truly was and as time went on she was impressed with what she saw. Unlike most of the A-lists students she hung out with Danny actually stuck by his friends in just about all the situations they were in, and while she wouldn't admit to anyone in the past she did find him to be quite cute in a awkward sort of manner. However, even with these thoughts in mind there were two other things besides him being Valerie's ex that stopping her.
The first was losing her popularity. She saw what happened with Valerie first hand when it happened to her, and while she was there for her best friend, and knew that she would be their for her if it did happen she was still afraid of the ridicule and humiliation she would get from the crowd she once hung out with. She saw first hand how cruel they could be to those who were unpopular.
The worst case she saw was when her current crush was forced to eat Dash's old underwear which from what she saw had chunks of old facial matter, green mucus and what appeared to be several white globs that she didn't even want to think about knowing what they were.
However the first reason paled in comparison to her second reason for avoiding him. This came in the form of an extremely overprotective and equally jealous combat wearing boot girl who had an obvious crush on him but refused to tell him.
When Paulina for whatever reason choose to date him causing her to become unpopular 2 years ago, She witnessed the anger Sam displayed first hand when literally saw her punch a hole through a steel locker and pulling her hand out without so much as flinching, but that wasn't the worst of it. About a year ago when Dash was having a bad day and felt like stuffing him into a locker for whatever reason, before he could finish Sam had not problem kicking Dash in the shin so hard that she broke his leg and he had to sit out all of last year's season just to heal.
The very thought of her being on the receiving end of those attacks terrified not only her but the majority of the female student body which unknown to Danny was the reason why most of the females who were interested would reject him or just stay away.
It wasn't until less than a month ago that she decided now was the time to put on her big girl thong, and not let fear stop her from pursuing him that she decided to actually confess her feelings. However, even with that she didn't want to do it in front of everyone especially his best friends. So she put her observation and listing skills into overdrive, hoping to get a clue or hint on when and where he would be alone. Eventually he heard him mentioning how he always went to Amity's highest point to look at the full moon and the time he usually went so it wasn't hard to put her plan into motion. Get a very stylish to moderately sexy outfit that would wow her crush and then confess how she felt to him sealing the deal since at the time she knew he was single.
'Sadly for me Desiree just had to beat me to the punch. If I had known I would have gone for him sooner. But on another note it is time to take the cat out of the bag…' Star thought before speaking.
"Valerie please don't hate me for this, but tonight I tried to get with Danny." Star explained earning an astonished look from Valerie. "I know we have a rule don't date our best friend's ex's, but I saw how nicely he treated you and how cute he was despite everything and…"
"Is that what you were worried about Star? How I would react to you trying to get with Danny?" Valerie asked getting a nod from Star. "Don't get me wrong I can totally understand why you would be worried seeing as believe it or not Danny is the first boy I truly liked as a person…"
"Not to mention when it came to people hurting him you were almost as bad as the goth freak is." Star added cutting of Valerie.
"But due to something very important I had to reject him, and if there were any two people I would want to see happy it would be the two of you. But I am guessing you waited too long and Manson got to him first?" Valerie said with a bit of disdain.
"Actually it wasn't Manson who got to him first. That girl wouldn't use the direct approach even if the world was to get hit by an asteroid." Star explained earning a chuckle from Valerie.
Then who was it then? Who beat you to the punch?" Valerie asked.
"I don't know her, but the person who beat me to the punch was a woman named Desiree." Star said in a dejected tone as she handed Valerie the picture of Desiree and Danny sharing a kiss.
Upon getting a good luck at the picture Valerie had to do use every ounce of restraint to keep herself from transforming into the red hunter in front of her friend.
'If it had been Paulina, or even that Blond haired overly busty bimbo who had a crush on Danny, I wouldn't be nearly as angry but it figures those rotten ghosts would do something like this. They ruin my life, make it so I can't enjoy dating a good guy just by haunting my town, and now they wreak my best friend's shot at happiness with what I am guessing is seduction powers. While Phantom's cousin is the exception to the evil rule those ghosts have been nothing but trouble.' Valerie thought clenching her fists so tightly that her knuckles began to turn white.
This didn't go unnoticed by Star who hadn't see anger like this since Valerie was kicked out of the A-lists.
"Valerie, I can tell you are pissed but please don't kill him because of this. He didn't know I saw them and…"
"Don't worry about me hurting him Star because unless he did something really unforgivable I would never harm him. No what I am pissed off about is ghosts in general. It is bad enough that most of them have done nothing but be a pain in my ass, but now they are messing with my best friend's love life, and taking advantage of a good guy?" Valerie hissed before she punching a hole through a 6 inch concrete wall without so much a breaking her skin.
'Note to self never piss my best friend off to the point where she will want to hit me.' Star thought to herself before turning to Valerie.
"Normally this would be where I would tell you that there are other fish in the sea, but if I am right there is a chance I can help you get this one. Out of all people both of you deserve happiness, and I will be damned if a putrid stinking evil ghost is the cause of wreaking it." Valerie replied in a heated tone.
"Valerie I know that look in your eyes, and I know you are going to do planning something dangerous. Please don't…"
"Star there are 3 people I care about more than anything. My father, you and Danny. You heard about what I did 2 years ago to protect Danny when we were going on dates. Do you really think I would sit around and do nothing when a ghost is not only taking advantage of a good guy, but causing my best friend pain? I promise you one way or another I will make this right." Valerie explained with a look that had murder on it.
Stage out
Sorry for not updating this story sooner, but I had a lot of issues coming up with ideas for it. Oh and let me let those who reviewed this story earlier know something. When I was talking about the stylish outfit and the thoughts of pursuing who Star thought was a freak, I was originally referring to Desiree, not Star. However seeing as many people thought that I decided to add it to the story line so for those who thought that, this last part is for all of you. Any thoughts comments concerns? Send them to me Viva review or PM.