Hey! I'm back! I actually finished this chapter on Monday, but lets be real, I am not posting on a Monday. It's called 'I Hate Mondays' for a reason.
I just want to thank everyone who has reviewed and everything! I honestly did not think anyone would read this and it makes me so happy! :D
There is a Spongebob reference in this chapter, if you catch it and review saying you found it (with saying where it is) I will give you a shoutout in the next chapter!
Enough of this, ON TO THE STORY!
Disclaimer: I am a 15 year old girl with a shity ass laptop on a fanfiction website, I don't own Danny Phantom.
Chapter 5
Rain clouds covered the town in a gray-ish ambient shadow. Raindrops creating a rhythm against the ground and windows, a song only for those who could hear it. The air was cool and windy, biting at the skin yet relieving it from the hot sweatiness of the past few days.
It had started sometime last night, around twelve, and had not let up since. To most in the town they found it annoying, knowing that they had to go to work only to get drenched to the bone on the way. A few thought it was a bit of an escape, the last few day had proven that summer was coming soon and had been unbearably hot, the sun burning their skin and asphalt scalding underneath their feet.
And then there was Sam. The goth was looking longingly out of Danny's window, enjoying the sound of the rain and tracing the design the raindrops left on the glass with her eyes. She loved the rain, she loved the way lighting would light up the sky during thunderstorms, the way light showers made trees and flowers glisten and sparkle, and the monochrome shadow that set the earth in a sort of gothic paradise such as now. She hardly noticed the small smile on her face or the gentle song under her breath.
"Parum guttis aquae pluviae saltare pro me,
carmen dulcis melodia.
Votis et historias lonf cum nuntiatum,
et somnium eius fugit ab auro.
Quam ut nostra delectatio in sententia pietatis amantes caput
Noli esse in omnibus,
Et facta est pluvia cantat pro me.
Manesque pasts nos unhold anf scitis quia post biduum vitam vixit et vitae scimus.
Maxime quia in fine vivat experiri regni in terra mortuum.
In guttis aquae pluviae sing lullabies in caput tuum."
She heard a light chuckle from behind her and turned to face the person. Amethyst eyes meet baby blue ones.
Danny walked over, his steps hardly making a sound on the wooden floor of his bedroom. He walked besides his girlfriend and wrapped his arms around her petite frame, in turn Sam let her arms go to rest on his shoulders and her head rested on his chest.
"You really need to stop seeking up on me like that. Next time I might just tie you to the ceiling with a vine." Sam joked in his arms.
Danny laughed. "Well it's not just every day you hear your girlfriend singing a Latin lullaby." Danny countered, his chin now resting on Sam's head.
Sam laughed this time. "You should know it would be very fitting for the moment, mostly since it's about the rain."
They fell into a comfortable silence. The two began to release themselves from the hug and looked at each other then closing the distance again for their lips to meet. The kiss was short yet sweet and when it ended they fully broke their hug and smiled.
"Come on, the class will be here soon so we better wake Tuck and Val up." Danny said.
Sam sighed and nodded. The two halfas walked over to the other side of the room where two sleeping bags rested on a large blow up mattress. It had become routine for them to do this, they constantly stayed over at one another's houses and all of them had the same system. Well, except for Sam who had three large comfy couches in her room so they just slept on those.
They normally didn't sleep at Danny's house in the human world, much preferring Sam's mansion, but today was Monday. Monday as in being the day of the field trip.
Fuck. Mondays.
The four had gotten permission to stay at Fentonworks for the night and stay there till the class arrived since it would of made no sense to go to school only to come back fifteen minutes later. They somewhat took this as a good thing, choosing to make a last minute check on their equipment and supplies. Sam and Danny quickly woke up Tucker and Valerie and once they heard Tucker's stomach growl louder than what should be humanly possible they agreed that breakfast was an order.
The site in front of the class was definitely...interesting. The class had arrived a few minutes earlier from the surprising lack of traffic and when the Fentons opened the door with somewhat confused looks, the class thought they had seen it all.
Oh how they were so wrong.
Once entering the establishment they heard voices from the kitchen yet the words were intelligible which they assumed was from the distance and the fact that there was a wall separating them. Yet Dash, the ever so smart one, was curious and decided to see what the hell was going on.
And now not even five minutes later the rest of the class was staring at what had to be the most interesting and confusing thing they had seen in their lives.
The 'freak four' were walking around the small kitchen making who knows what while somehow not running into each other despite the space or the occasional hot frying pan.
Not to mention they were speaking on what has now been confirmed to be another language.
It wasn't anything that they couldn't understand or something like French or Spanish, no it was still English but it sounded German as well. The class was able to pick up on somewhat familiar words from which they realized the four were talking about the field trip, yet specific details were lost to them. However, half of the class was wondering how the hell they were able to move and not hit each other in the tiny space. They were passing knifes and other utensils to each other and Danny would sometimes have a pan fresh of the stove or Tucker balancing food from the fridge to the counter or plates all which typing on his PDA in his right hand. Sam once had thrown a fork into the air to which Valerie had simply moved her hand a bit to the left and caught it without even seeing it coming.
And now they wore the same astonished/confused look Jack and Maddie had.
However, Mr. Lancer was a bit more confused than anything. He had also noticed that they were speaking in a form of weird English and remembered something. He had mentioned something like this in his class once about a year ago, right before they had read the epic poem Beowulf. He had said it was written in the time that the Anglo-Saxons occupied Britain, to which the language they spoke was Anglo-Saxon aka Old English, and had tried to get the class interested by teaching a bit about the language it originated from yet, unfortunately, the class was uninterested and most promptly fell asleep after the first slide.
Yet Mr. Lancer didn't understand. How could they possibly know this language? Old English had died out at around 500 AD. There was no way they would of been able to speak it, especially so fluently, not once had they stuttered and they appeared to understand what was being said. The teacher wanted to contemplate this more but was then broken out of his musing by a flying fork.
"Great Gatsby!" As soon as the words left the overweight teacher's mouth the commotion stopped. The fork, which had been caught by Valerie, was now aimed at him and the rest in fighting stances, Danny looking a bit more protective and dangerous with the knife in his hand. Or was it the look in his eyes and the confident unyielding posture? But as soon as it happened the four realized it was only their class and relaxed, set aside what they had been ready to use as weapons and blushed profusely.
Danny cleared his throat. "Hey, uh sorry um...we-we didn't hear you come in..." Danny said awkwardly as he rubbed the back of his neck.
The class stared at him for a second then remembered this was Fenton. Geeky, wimpy, clumsy Fenton who was failing gym and barely been able to get his grades up to a B last year but everything they had just witnessed made them begin to question that. And the brief look in Danny's eyes just then had been nerve-wracking, even Dash was a tiny bit scared, not that he would say that though.
Before anyone was able to say something, Danny's eyes went wide and he turned back to his friends. "Guys, we need to start getting ready. It's almost time to go." Not a moment later the four were bolting out of the room, dodging their classmates, and then running up the stairs most likely to go to Danny's room. The sound of the door slamming confirmed that.
Mr. Lancer turned to Danny's parents. "Do they do that often?" he asked, slightly startled.
"Well, yeah. They do this a lot actually," Maddie answered.
Before Mr. Lancer could reply, Dash pushed his way to the front. "What were they speaking anyways? It sounded like freak English."
Maddie shrugged, not noticing the jock's pushy tone. "We don't know. We've asked them but they just dodge the question somehow. We don't even know that they did at first until later."
And for once, all the class could think about is the enigma that was Danny and his friends.
"How much longer are we going to have to wait here?" Mr. Lancer sighed. That was the fifth time the question had been asked and it was beginning to try his patience. It had been ten minutes since Danny and co. had disappeared into his room to get ready and now all they could hear was rock music blaring from the floor above and the four shouting to one another over it.
Everyone had listened at first but after three minutes they grew bored and were now sitting in the Fenton's living room waiting for them to reappear so they could start the trip.
Maddie looked at the clock on the stove from her place by the doorway and saw that they only had about fifteen minutes before they were behind schedule. Jack would be up with the group but instead had decided to go down to the lab to make a last minute check.
The voices died down a little bit making it so the only thing the class could hear was a Humpty Dumpty song playing. Dash was kind of upset by this, Humpty Dumpty was one of his favorite bands, how dare Fentonail like the same thing as him! Dash Baxter! Star quarterback of Casper High! He was thinking about shoving Fenton in a locker next week as payback. Or maybe he could humiliate him on the trip...yeah, that could work.
Then suddenly….
"TUCKER!"
The class jumped as Sam's voice destroyed any bit of quiet that there was left.
"Damn it Tucker! Delete that right now!" Sam yelled. The class could hear Tucker laughing in the background and wondered what was so bad about the picture.
"Tucker, I would delete that picture if I were you!" This time it was Danny's voice that rang out.
"NEVER! You were so gawking at Sam! And I have proof!" Tucker laughed.
"I swear you are going to be the death of me!" Danny said.
"Don't you mean full-death of you?" The class could practically hear Tucker smug look when he said that. Yet Maddie and Mr. Lancer weren't focused focused on that, but instead on the 'full-death' part. That was a weird way of saying it, and what did it mean anyways?
The house all of a sudden got colder causing the class to begin to shiver. Maddie looked over at the thermostat and saw that the temperature had not changed from sixty-two degrees.
"Ah!" Tucker yelled. "Danny! Stop it!"
"Take about giving someone the cold shoulder." Valerie said.
"More like the cold arm," Danny said.
"It's going to be more than cold if he doesn't delete that damn picture!" Sam yelled. The class heard Tucker scream again then footsteps followed by a large crash.
"AH HA! GOT IT!" Danny shouted, most likely meaning he had deleted the picture.
"Great, you got it, NOW GIVE ME BACK SHARON!" Tucker yelled.
It got somewhat quiet again after that but now the occupants downstairs were now listening intently, waiting for something to happen. What could they say? They were bored. Yet after another minute of listening Danny suddenly cried out. "Oh shit! We need to go!" The music stopped abruptly and running sounded from above them along with the sound of a door opening and closing. About a second later the footsteps were on the stairs and the four made an appearance once more.
They didn't know what to expect, but when the four reached the bottom of the stairs the class couldn't help but notice the way they dressed. It was similar to how they dressed at school. They all had on the same black sweatshirt with a DP logo right over where their heart would be, a large black backpack, and a pair of black combat boots. Valerie had the same bulky, red bracelet on her right arm and Tucker still had beige cargo pants that had pieces of technology sticking out of the pockets (however, the kinds of technology he had was a mystery) yet he appeared to have some bulky arm brace thing on his right arm that was hidden under the sweatshirt sleeve. Sam had her hair in a high ponytail with a few strands framing her face, her usual dark make up, and a beautiful silver ring on her left middle finger. Danny looked like Danny; same messy hair, baggy clothes, slightly slouched posture yet not as much as usual, and same baby blue eyes that always seemed to be hiding something.
As soon as her son and his friends showed up in the living room, Maddie clasped her hands together, eager to finally start. "Alright! Welcome to Fentonworks! As you know we are going to be going into the Ghost Zone today!" The class smiled, just as eager, and didn't notice Team Phantom at the back of the group hunch down so no one could see them. Maddie lead the group to the kitchen, down the stairs there, and to the lab. The door was partially opened which Jack probably did so the class could go straight in. Maddie began to go over rules to which almost no one listened too, the A-listers were too busy looking around and most of the girls were fangirling over how they might see Danny Phantom. A few nerds listened but even they were wanting to look around the lab and see what was down there. Team Phantom already knew all of the rules and stuff, but pretended to listen anyways. After Maddie finished, Jack bounded over like a puppy would and began to talk about the Specter Speeder 2.0 in vivid detail (even though it was really just a regular Speeder only longer and the seats could be extended back into bed). Not once did either one of them mention what was on the other side of the portal.
And they were then going on. The A-listers shoved their way on first taking the middle of the bus and went right back to talking, the nerds took the front, sitting close to the grown ups as if it would make it so the jocks couldn't touch them. Danny, Sam, Tucker, and Valerie took residence in the very back of the bus so no one could listen in on their conversation. Jack and Maddie sat down in the seats at the control column and got situated, taking a deep breath before turning on the intercom and announcing that they were preparing to go. The class leaned forward in anticipation while Team Phantom gripped their arm rests (but thankfully not hard enough to break them). Maddie took a shaky breath before pressing a button on the control panel and the portal opened in front of the Speeder. The class looked in awe of the swirling ectoplasm before them, excited to be one of the first to see the Ghost Zone (not counting the Pariah Dark incident). Maddie nodded to Jack, who was in the driver's seat, and he started towards the portal.
Then the lab was empty and the class gone.
Hope you enjoyed it! I put my sweat and tears into this chapter. Just kidding, but I did but off my homework to do this so be grateful. It's my longest chapter so far too.
Just so you know, the rough translation of the lullaby Sam was singing is
"It is too little, bathed by the waters of rain, to dance for me,
the sweet melody of a song.
Longing prayers and stories being told,
troubled, and his sleep went from gold.
How to find our own with the reply of the head of piety lovers
Do not be at all,
And the rain sings for me.
Unhold or abysmal mail us know that after two days the life he lived and the life we know.
And especially because of the kingdom at the end of the test live in the land of the dead.
In a drop of the water of rain, sing lullabies on your own head."
I call it 'The Rain's Lullaby.' All copyrights go to me because I made it up.
I'm just going to go ahead and give the answer for the scar question in the last chapter because a lot of people got it right. It is in fact a vivisection scar (the Y shaped scar that they do in autopsies) but I will not say who gave it to him, this will be revealed later on. I didn't put that in there just to cause Danny pain, there is a reason for it. Other than that the same questions as last time! Don't forget the other questions!
I'll see you next time and make sure to review! PEACE!
~Kitty ='u'=