"Ready to go?" Danny asked, fastening the strap for his fenton thermos on his back.
"There's no way to convince you to just take a break night?"
"Nope." Danny smiled at her. "It'll be fine. Other people's safety is more important than mine."
The goth didn't return the smile.
Something just didn't sit right with her and his hero complex wasn't helping anything.
"Whatever you say." She walked down to the street and turned left. "Just stay close. We're gonna meet Tucker at his house. He's having some trouble getting out."
Danny followed her lead. "He on house arrest or something?"
"His parents found out that we took their car out when they got home from work today. He covered for us."
"How'd they find out?"
"There were strange burn marks on their back seats and the car's AC's a little busted. He also got chewed out for the dent in his room wall from the ecto blast you shot."
"Oh."
They were quiet, listening to the crickets in the surrounding lawns. Then Danny suddenly stopped. "Wait. Why'd I shoot a ghost ray in his room?"
Sam looked at him weird. "I don't really know. He said you were having a nightmare and when you woke up, you shot the wall."
"I had a nightmare?"
"..." Sam have him a weirder look. "Yes?"
Danny's eyebrows creased together. "I don't remember having one."
"You being serious? Because Tucker said you were talking and moving all over the place in your sleep."
"Maybe I did..?" He started walking again, passing her like she wasn't even there. "Everything's slightly foggy."
…
"Look, Mom, I said I was sorry." Tucker pleaded for the thirtieth time.
"Sorry doesn't cover this. Do you know how much money this is going to take out of our wallet? The wall plus the seats? We were gone for three days Tucker. Three days! How did you even do this?"
"Uh.." He averted his eyes. "I tried to iron the fabric on the seats?"
His mom placed her hands on her hips, giving out a sarcastic 'uh-huh'.
"And.. uh.." He looked out the window. "There was a storm! While you were gone.. and uh.. A big bolt of lightning came crashing through the window and into the wall! Yeah! That's why it's like that."
She stared at him for a moment before sighing deeply. "Tucker, I know your a smart kid. You wouldn't 'iron my seats' and you know lightning doesn't just randomly come into a house, curve, and hit the center of a wall. So please, tell me what you did. I promise I won't be angry. Just tell me the truth."
The room was silent but Tucker's guilt was loud. He couldn't tell her the truth for obvious reasons.
"I told you. I ironed the seats and lightning hit the wall."
Tucker's mom stared at him for a long time then looked down in disappointment. "Fine. Don't tell me."
She walked closer to him and held out her hand. "PDA. Now."
"Aw, come on Mom! Don't bring Karen into this…" Tuck pouted.
"Karen's definitely coming into this."
Tucker sighed, then hesitantly grabbed Karen from under his pillow and handed it to her.
"Thank you. You're also paying for new seats for the car." She glanced at his wall. "And a new wall."
Tucker groaned at that. His plate was busy as it was and he knew his mom was implying that he had to get a job.
"Now go to bed, it's a school night." She paused. "And don't forget I love you."
She walked over and kissed him on the forehead.
Tucker pushed her away. "Mom. Seriously? I'm almost 16."
"It doesn't matter how old you are, your still my baby boy." She walked towards the door and turned around smiling. "But I'm still mad at you."
"Yeah. Yeah." Tucker rolled his eyes. "Night' mom."
"Goodnight sweety."
She left, closing the door behind her.
….
Danny floated up to Tucker's window in his ghost form.
He almost phased into the room, but he saw Mrs. Foley last second. He ducked down below the window railing, looking like a spider in the small crevice.
"What are you doing up there?" Sam whispered harshly from the sidewalk.
"His mom's in the room. I'm gotta wait." Phantom whispered back then glanced back up. He hooked his hands on the railing and slowly peeked through the small window, just in time to see Mrs. Foley kiss Tucker on the forehead and watch him slightly push her away. He snickered at that.
After a bit of talking, his mother finally left the room and Danny wasted no time phasing through the wall.
"That was a adorable!" Danny said enthusiastically. Tucker jumped nearly two feet in the air, spinning around.
"Jeez dude! Ever learn of privacy?!"
The ghost boy chuckled. "Come on, you ready to go."
"Yeah, one second." He gave a half hearted glare, then walked to the other side of his room to grab his shoes. After putting them on, he grabbed his bag full of weapons then stood next to Danny. "Ok, ready. Let's go."
The ghost boy didn't move.
Instead he was looking at the charred semi-hole in the wall.
"Uh. Look, secrets safe. Told my mom that it was struck by lightning so we're in the clear."
"It's not that." Danny said and turned to him. "I'm really sorry, about the wall and the seats."
"Hey, it's fine dude. You had no control over whatever happened to you and the wall was my fault because I kind of slapped you awake and-" He stopped mid-speech. "Oh my god! How in the hell did I forget this!"
All of a sudden the geek grabbed Danny's face with both his hands. Examining his eyes.
"Whoa- What are you doing?"
"After I slapped you awake, your eyes were gold. It was so cool and so weird." He squinted his eyes. "I have no idea what caused it."
Phantom shook his hands off of his face. "You being serious?"
"Yeah."
"How'd you forget something like that?"
"Well soorrrry. I guess next time I'll just fascinate myself with your looks instead of saving your sorry ass."
"You really should." Danny replied nonchalantly. "I look incredible."
Tucker hit him a little. "In your dreams."
They laughed, even if it wasn't really the funniest thing. "We should probably go."
Danny wiped a small tear. "Yeah we should."
He put his hand on Tucker's shoulder, pushing some of his energy through the boy. It was a feeling Tucker knew he'd never be able to get used to. The very slim river of power being pushed through his veins and turning him intangible.
It wasn't necessarily a bad feeling, it just made him feel closer to the cold abyss that was waiting for him in the ground.
They phased through the wall and landed down by Sam on the sidewalk. Tucker held back a relieved sigh when Danny let go of his shoulder.
"Bout time you two." Sam said with some agitation. "Now let's get this over with."
…
The patrol was pretty calm, despite the occasional ecto ghost or wandering spirit. The box ghost made an appearance, but he just kept talking, distracting himself from the actual fight. If it could even be called that.
It was around 11:30 when Sam told them they were done for the night and needed to head back.
So that's what they were doing now, heading back to Tucker's house.
Danny decided to float high above the buildings keeping his distance from the two in his ghost form. They didn't need anyone seeing Danny Phantom casually walking the street with two of Casper High's students.
Plus it was where Danny prefered to be sometimes. High above near the clouds. Not above them, but slightly under them where he could see most of Amity Park. He kept track of Sam and Tucker, but allowed his eyes to drift towards the Park in the center of the town. The trees were sort of dim in the night, but some of the street lamps lit up the luscious green leaves on some of them. Just by looking at them, he could smell the fresh oxygen.
It was honestly the best place to be in the whole town (Considering it was the only place that didn't smell like gunk or gas half the time). The place was added to the community after the whole Undergrowth fiasco.
Danny closed his eyes and sighed as he enjoyed the moment.
Then his ghost sense when off.
He halted mid-air and searched below, trying to see any sign of a ghost. It didn't even take a minute before he saw a bright, blue light coming from one of the alleyways next to where Sam and Tucker were walking.
It was Skulker.
And he looked like he was about to ambush his friends.
Danny wasted no time, diving down as fast as he could and landing right in front of the mechanical ghost. The next thing he knew, he'd shot the hunter ray right in Skulker's priceless face.
"Gahh!" He flew back into the brick wall, dented it, then floated up rubbing his head. "You insufferable welp! Ember!"
Just then the ghost rocker came out of nowhere from behind Danny and delivered a ray of her own. It knocked him forward, forcing him to skid across the alley.
"Danny!" Sam yelled, shooting Ember with her Fenton wrist gun.
"Oh My God!" Tucker screamed randomly. It was girly, causing everyone to stop and look at him strangely. The African American looked at them innocently. "What?"
Danny shook himself out of it and rammed himself into Skulker who countered with a fist to Danny's back. Ember played a cord and tried to get the dip on Tucker and Sam. But the duo dodged without breaking a sweat.
They all exchanged blow for blow, both parties evenly matched. Until Skulker spoke in a sinister voice. "Let's get you alone now, shall we?"
His mechanical arms wrapped around Danny's torso and flew him high into the sky with Ember hot on their tail.
Phantom thrashed against his hold.
"Ready to rock Dipstick?" Ember stuck down on her guitar, delivering what had the potential to be a critical blow. But Danny elbowed Skulker in the stomach and pulled forward, causing the ghost's body to flip over his own. The musical blow hit Skulker right in the back. "Agh!"
They were both pushed back by the brute force of the attack but Danny recovered quickly. He maneuvered around the steaming hunter and shot an Ice ray at Ember, engading his focus more on the battle. The ray was easily dodged, but the next one wasn't. Ember glanced down at her now frozen guitar, narrowing her eyes. "You're gonna pay for that!"
She took the instrument and swung for his head, missing by a few millimeters.
"Sorry," Phantom snarkily replied, sending a kick into Ember's side. "But I'm all out of cash!"
The diva swirled down slightly and when Danny was about to suck her into the thermos, Skulker came from behind, hitting him with a new weapon. It electrocuted him and he let out a strangled yell.
When it stopped, the ghost boy went limp and would've fallen down to the Earth, if it wasn't for Skulker grabbing his wrist. The hunter smirked and laughed heavily. "This is where it ends Phantom."
There was no reply.
"Phantom?"
Ember slowly floated up to them. "Hey twerp."
Still no reply.
"Hey. You're taking the fun out of this." Skulker frowned, bringing him closer to his was his first mistake. Danny suddenly opened his eyes, giving a bright smile despite the circumstances.
"Boo." He twisted up and around to get out of Skulkers hold, landing in a Spider-Man pose on Skulker's large shoulder. "It's so nice to know how much you care about me Skulkie!"
Skulker growled fiercely. "I could give less of an Ecto-puss about you!"
The hunter's giant mechanical hand came up in an attempt to hit the ghost boy, but he jumped off of his shoulder last second to avoid it.
"Then why do you stalk me 24/7?"
"Because I want to put your head on my wall!" Skuller all but screamed in anger. He delivered another fist only to miss his target.
"Tisk, Tisk, Tisk." Danny moved his finger in a mock. "Didn't your mother tell you not to discombobulate innocent people's heads as a child?"
"No. My mother was the one who discombobulated mine!"
"Huh. That-" Danny stopped. "That explains a lot."
While he was distracted Ember rammed into him from the side. Phantom grunted and found himself getting hit in the chest with a guitar a second later.
*Oomf*
"Hey Ember," Danny scrunched up his face holding his chest. "How's your day going."
"Shut up Dipstick." Ember glared, hair ablaze. "Just hold still so I can hit you."
"Sorry, but I think I have enough bruises from tonight." He smiled and avoided another swing.
…
"How the hell do we get up there?!" Sam asked, agitation laced her voice.
"I have no clue."
They were both witnessing the fight from below, following as it moved across the sky. They seemed to be unconsciously getting closer to the Amity Park, Park.
"All we can really do is watch and follow." Tuck said with his head craned upward.
"This is bullshit." She crossed her arms, glaring at the ground. "He's not even trying to bring the fight back down. Probably because he thinks we're gonna get hurt."
"Shit!" Tuck suddenly said. Sam looked up just in time to see Danny falling down towards the park. Fast.
Neither said a word as they started sprinting to the entrance of the park.
…...
Hey dudes and dudettes! I bring to you Chapter 6! The longest Chapter so far. I wanted to be done with it yesterday, but that didn't happen, so here ya go. What's gonna happen to Danny? How'd Skulker and Ember get the drop on him? When are the Teen Titans going to become more apart of the story? Well, all will be answered in the next 68 chapters! Yep! People, this is going to be a 74 chaptered fic! So stick with me here!
Pandami : I don't know why their so young, I think it's because I'm pretty young and I always thought Dash acted like a kid most of the time XD and Thank You! I can't wait for you to read what I have in store!
Greer123 : Thanks! I thought addin the whole 'Fright Knight' thing would be a cool small touch. And I hope you're doing well too!
Paisthea : Here's a longer chapter for ya! And thank you so much! Your review was one of the best to read!
SonicMax : Nope. Not demon powers :P Though that would be pretty rad XD
KorevainsoLightshire : More longer chapters to come! And it's gonna be a long fic so there's plenty of time to involve the Teen Titans a lot more. I also like some cannon pairings, but Sam x Danny isn't really the big one in this one, so no worries dude!
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