Spooky

Rating: T [only for language though]

Pairings: DannyxSpooky, Just kidding. None. [But seriously, DannyxSpooky bros forever/You'll see]

Ages: Danny, Sam and Tucker are about 15-16? Spooky is one and a half. Lol.

Summary: "Daniel." Lancer cut his student off. Danny looked up at Lancer, seemingly as dumbfounded as he. "Why is there a crow on your shoulder?" "What a majestic bastard." Tucker spoke and wiped an imaginary tear from his eye.

Extra Notes: I honestly don't know where I got this from. Almost a crack-fic? IDK. Probably just Humor/Friendship.


Danny rushed through the air as quickly as he could towards Casper High. Technus had made him late by deciding to attack one of the many electronics stores in Amity. Guess that meant another detention for him.

Yay.

As Danny stewed in his own self-pity, his ears picked up a strange but distressed noise. Danny stopped mid-flight, turned his head and listened. After a moment he figured out where the noise was coming from and floating over to a tree. The ghost boy pushed back some of the green leaves that were in the way-

KWAH!

Danny yelped and shot backwards, flailing his arms from being unbalanced mid-flight. Once he was stable again he peered through the branches again and saw a crow wigging and flapping with only one wing as it dangled from a branch. The bird was caught in some kind of fishing line and when it grew tired, it would pause from flapping and just sway in pure exhaustion.

A soft look came to Danny's eyes. "Heh, sucks doesn't it? Boy do I know how that feels…" Danny reached out and held the bird gently. "Man, now we're saving birds, Danny? Maybe Sam and Tucker were right about that hero complex thing." A pause. "And maybe Jazz was right about that dual personally issue… I'm talking to myself in third person." In a quick movement, the bird was released from the twine via intangibility. Danny held the semi-stunned creature and floated to the ground. He placed it at the foot of the tree and stood back.

It didn't move. It only sat still, taking in quick little breaths to match it's heart rate. Danny frowned. Finally he shook his head, knowing he'd done enough and flew towards school.

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"And that's why you can't truly square a negative number." Lancer expressed and then sighed when he noticed Danny had nodded off. Again.

He started to walk towards Danny's desk to wake the boy up and the other students sans Sam and Tucker were eagerly awaiting whatever random and embarrassing thing the loser was going to blurt out.

Everyone was interrupted when the rustling of feathers filled their ears. They snapped their heads towards the noise and saw a crow slip through the crack Lancer had left open in the window and tumble to the floor. The bird squawked, shook its feathers and then flew over and landed on Danny's shoulder.

They watched, stupefied as the crow then started to tap repeatedly on Danny's head. Once. Twice. Three times. Four. Danny's eyes snapped opened and he jerked up, causing the crow to flare it's wings to keep from falling off his shoulder. The boy and bird locked eyes.

"What the actual-"

"Daniel." Lancer cut his student off. Danny looked up at Lancer, seemingly as dumbfounded as he. "Why is there a crow on your shoulder?"

Danny blinked and then looked back at the bird, who merely folded its wings and tilted it's head at him. "I.. uh… I have no idea sir."

Lancer sighed and walked over to the side of the room, where a broom was. Danny could've sworn he saw the bird narrow it's eyes. An imperceivable, 'So we meet again' look sparkled in beady black orbs.

The Teacher lunged and the bird took to the air. It dipped and swerved and dived; every time the over-weight man tried to get the bird directed out of the window, the crow would dive-bomb him and then sit on the top of the cabinets, which were almost as high as the room itself. Eventually the man gave up, put his broom away and tried to get on with class, muttering about calling animal control or some-such.

The crow waited for ten minutes or so and as soon as the class ended and the bell rang, it dove and landed right on Danny's shoulder.

"Dude," Tucker muttered. "That is like Edgar Allen Poe creepy right there."

"It's just a bird Tucker," Sam expressed.

Danny eyed the creature as it hitched a ride on his shoulder. "I don't get why it's following me though. All I did was untangle it from some fishing line this morning."

"You saved it?" Sam asked.

"So now it's like Lassie, but a bird?"

"Tucker."

"What? I thought it was funny."

Danny didn't really listen much to what his two friends were saying and instead was too busy looking at his 'friend'. "What do you want?"

The bird turned it's head and then squawked. A millisecond after, Danny bumped into someone. The bird flew up to avoid falling with Danny to the ground.

"Hey watch were you're going, Fenturd."

"Oh crap."

"Guess what time it is?" Dash sneered.

Danny gulped. "It's… time to restore my faith in humanity by leaving me alone?"

Dash blinked, not seeming to understand Danny's underling message. He shook his head. "No, you dweeb. It's time for a wailing." Danny tried to scrabble away, but Dash nabbed the back of the boy's shirt.

The crow dove. It grabbed at Dash's jacket, flashed it's wings in his face, pulled on his hair, making a racket the whole time. "What the hell!? Call your creepy bird off, Fentoad!"

Danny blinked, shrugged and then put his fingers near his mouth, letting out a sharp whistle. The crow banked and landed right on Danny's black hair, almost blending into his locks. Students started to whisper and murmured to themselves.

"Damn! Danny can you get me one of those?" Tucker expressed, only for Sam to elbow him.

"You're such a freak, Fenton!" Dash ground out. He squeaked though when the bird hissed at him.

Everyone then parted, letting the nervous Dash through, and walked towards their next classes. Danny picked himself up and patted his clothes. The crow inched down and latched onto his shoulder once more. "You're helping me?"

"Croo~" The bird tilted its head and bumped into Danny's cheek.

Tucker sucked in a breath. "Mustn't… abandon… manly… pride."

The corner of Sam's mouth was trembling as though she was fighting against a smile. Danny was just staring at the bird wide-eyed. "You've got to be kidding." Then he threw his arms up. "That's amazing! My parents always said I couldn't have a dog or cat! They never said anything about a bird that stalks me!"

"Sqwak!" The crow cried out and looked left and right while doing so.

"Is the bird cheering?"

"What a majestic bastard." Tucker spoke and wiped an imaginary tear from his eye.

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"And Invisobil even said my name!" Paulina squealed, causing the rest of her squad to squeal in unison. Danny, Tucker and Sam were nearby, at their usual table alone. Sam was gritting her teeth, Tucker was stuffing his face and Danny was eating and then feeding the crow some of his food. Danny paused though when he heard Paulina and instinctually shouted.

"It's Danny Phantom! Not Invisobil! It's not that… hard…" Danny slowed as all the girls from the cheer squad glared at him. Paulina threw up her nose.

"Like you know anything about an amazing, handsome, heroic and non-loserish person like Invisobil! So just shut-up and be quiet, dork."

Sam was steaming and Tucker started to try and sneak his PDA up so that he could film any possible cat fight. The bird beat everyone to it. He hopped all the way across the table, flapped a bit to land on the cheerleader's table then hopped all the way over to Paulina.

"Uh, ew… get away, bird."

The crow cocked its head and then took flight, only to leave a surprise on the Latina's head.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEE!" Paulina shrieked. Danny, Sam, and Tucker's mouths were wide open, the red light on Tucker's PDA also still blinking when the bird landed back on Danny's shoulder. The cheerleader whipped around to scream at the loser trio, but all that was left was their empty trays

zz

"Oh My God!" Sam wheezed, tears streaming down her face as her diaphragm went into over-drive. In other words, she was laughing her ass off. Tucker and Danny weren't better off and hand to lean against the lockers for support.

"It shit on her head!" Tucker yelled and then smothered his own face into his beret so he could let out a scream of muffled laughter.

Danny tried to calm down, while the crow simply twisted its head this way and that. Once Danny was in some kind of control of himself, he petted the bird's breast feathers with his index finger. "Man am I glad I got you out of that string."

"Croo~"

zz

"No… Stop." Danny flew away some more, only for the bird to wiggle out of Sam's arms and take off after the ghost boy. Danny sighed as the bird flapped it's wings a bit clumsily, not easily being able to hover in place like Danny could. He plucked the bird out of the air again and flew back down to Sam and Tucker.

It was after school and Danny was wanting to make a lap around the city before the three would hang out until time for dinner and then patrol. The crow, which they'd taken to calling Spooky, wouldn't leave him alone though. If people saw Fenton AND Phantom with a stalker bird, then that would be a problem. "He just keeps following me."

"Spooky's awesome, but he's still a little creepy," Tucker murmured.

"I still think it's a dumb name…" Sam muttered. A sharp peck on her hand made her yelp. "Okay! Okay, geez! It's Spooky!"

Danny wagged his finger at Spooky. "Bad. don't peck us."

"Sqwak!"

"Remind me not to let it near any of my PDAs though…" Tucker spoke.

"What, not want to do my brand of physical exercise again?" Sam asked with a sly look.

"No."

Danny smiled and then paused when he thought he heard something. Sirens. "Guys. I gotta go. I hear firetruck sirens."

Sam and Tucker gave each other a worried glance before Danny put Spooky in Sam's arms again. The bird screeched, more angry than before for some reason. Danny nodded before taking off at blinding speeds.

"Ouch! Spooky, quit it! I thought we were all friends here! Dumb, bird! No no no, sweet bird!" Sam yelped as the crow pecked her multiple times. With a lot of fighting, it managed to get free and flew off after Danny. "Dang it! Tucker, we've got to follow them and do secret identity damage control!"

"Can this day get any weirder?" Tucker muttered at the two friends ran off.

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"There…" Danny murmured and then froze in midair when he saw the raging inferno coming from the large apartment complex. "No…"

"Sqwak!"

Danny almost ectoblasted the bird when it suddenly cawed next to his ear. "The hell! Spooky!"

"Sqwak!"

"You're supposed to be with Sam and Tucker!"

"Sqwak!"

Danny grit his teeth. "Stupid bird! Go back to Sam and Tucker!" He flew towards the complex and firetrucks only to hear the rustling of flapping wings behind him. He whipped around a shot a small beam, purposefully missing the bird. "I said GO AWAY!" He then turned and shot towards the buildings, startling firefighters as he swooped intangibly inside the first floor of the first building.

Spooky flapped his wings a bit longer before landing on a nearby building, searching the sky as though expecting something.

zz

Danny felt his body tremble, wanting to be let free of the ectoplasm his ghost form provided. He was soon going to transform against his will. After nearly ten minutes of shuttling people in and out, he was exhausting his power. He was about to leave, thinking all the people were out, when he heard a faint cry for help. A few firemen happened to be near him and gave him a nod.

"Leave the rest to us, Phantom. You look beat."

Danny merely nodded back wordlessly, focusing on staying conscious and looking around for any danger that would prevent the rescue.

The building lost its fight against fire damage and gravity seconds after the men had come back with a young boy cradled against one's chest and a young woman and an elderly woman with them. The ground shook and the buildings' walls began to lean towards the three, like dominoes. Danny shouted and braced himself against the wall, not able to stave off much of the heat away with ice, because he was too tired. The heat warmed his core, making his body ache worse. "Go!"

The firefighters and civilians ran towards the door, exiting into the afternoon sun. Danny then turned intangible and flew out of the building. As it collapsed, he was forced to put up a massive shield, to keep people outside from getting burns from the gush of super-heated air that came with the collapsing building's demise.

He heard a scream, a warning perhaps and then a shot from a weapon of some kind. There was a strange noise between a screech and a squeak, then whatever happened had stopped. Danny dropped the shield and turned only to see Skulker there, cocking some type of gun on his wrist. Danny's eyes looked to the ground.

Spooky. His… Her… little body was on the ground. Pretty black feathers were littered around it on the cement and a burn on its chest was smoking a bit. Lifeless eyes glittered back at him.

"You killed it."

"Dumb bird, got in the way! This time though I'll get you, whelp. Now that you're weakened from helping these pitiful humans I can take you out! My brilliant strategy will grant me victory and your head!"

Danny hardly heard the hunter though, too entranced by the dead little creature. "Spooky."

"Yes- uh… what? Who?" Skulker paused, confused by Danny's mumblings.

Later, Sam and Tucker would tell him he went nuts and destroyed Skulker's suit in a blind rage, sucked the wiggling green blob of a hunter into the thermos and then took off with Spooky in his arms, never hearing his two human friends' voices. All Danny could remember was his vision going green and then waking up under the tree he'd found Spooky in that same morning.

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Danny laid in his bed, completely depressed. Days had passed since Spooky's death and even though it was stupid since it had only been a bird… Danny couldn't get out of his funk. Even it being Saturday hadn't helped. Sam and Tucker weren't quite as depressed as him, but they hadn't really felt like doing anything together than afternoon, so Danny knew they were sad too.

Jazz of course had first told them they were silly, before trying to actually preform grief counseling with them. It hand't lasted long. It was just a bird, that they'd known for less than a day, there were others that had lost much more than that, obviously. They shouldn't be sad.

But of course, Danny couldn't help feel a bit of guilt. He'd yelled at Spooky before the little thing had given its life to save his. His obsession was even tied to a bird it seemed… how much of a bleeding heart could you be?

Danny groaned and flopped over onto his belly.

Minutes went by and then… he felt a peck on his head.

No way…

Danny flipped over, in time to see a green feathered, red-eyed crow flutter away and land on his computer. Danny's face broke into the largest of grins.

"Just don't poop on that, okay?"

Spooky looked him in the eyes right as he disobeyed the ghost boy's wish.

"Okay I guess that makes us even then."


So I don't really know what this was... Lol. Tell me what you think of Spooky, the crow. (For some reason an owl seemed too foreign to me)