Chapter 5: Cat Fights and Bitter Truth
Back again! Hope that you all had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I feel that I am getting a decent rhythm to my chapter posts. Expect more to come. I do not own Danny Phantom or Gimme Three Steps by Lynyrd Skynyrd. R&R and Enjoy!
***Above the Crowd, 2 AM***
Ember was feeling amazing. Leaning back into Danny's comforting arms was amazing. His breath on the nape of her neck made her shiver in anticipation. Then he brought his lips to hers for a brief kiss. It was simple yet perfect. As they separated, he smiled at her. Then, many things happened. The sound of glass shattering was the first thing that occurred. A shower of glass shards and beer flew past her face. Finally, she felt Danny slump onto her before he slowly started to slip off. Turning around quickly, she wrapped her arms around his waist. She was shocked to see that he was out of his ghost form and back into human form. From his slowed breathing pattern, the fact that he was not responsive to her shaking him, and adding in the other events that had quickly occurred, Ember concluded that someone had tossed a beer bottle from the crowd that had hit Danny in the back of the head and had knocked him out. Gently, Ember flew them away from the crowd and touched down on the floor. Laying him down, she rested his head in her lap. Inspecting his hair, she was relieved to see that he was not bleeding and that there was no glass in his hair.
"Come on, Danny. Wake up." She said.
Yet he didn't wake up. His eyes remained closed and his breathing slow. She was contemplating moving him to their private area for him to come around naturally when she heard the last voice she wanted to hear during the date.
"Get your hands off Danny, Ember." Sam spat, hatred evident in her eyes.
Looking up, Ember looked in the face of Sam Manson. Her nostrils were flaring from the deep breaths she was taking. Her eyes glared daggers at the ghostly rocker. In her right hand, she held a compact ecto pistol while her left was repeatedly clenching and unclenching.
"Why are you here? What do you want?" Ember responded.
"I came here to see what Danny was up to and who this mystery girl was. Looks like my worries were right. You have him brainwashed!" Sam said, her voice getting louder with every sentence.
"One, stalker much? Two, do you see me with my guitar or trying to hypnotize him? I'm actually trying to help him because some jack ass threw a bottle at him and knocked him out."
"I was aiming for you. Still, it should knock him out of whatever games you are playing with him."
As much as Ember wanted to yell and scream and shout at the delusional girl, she knew that she had to take the high ground and be the more mature one...at least until Sam attacked her. Anything after that she could claim as self defense.
"You track us down, trying to ruin our date, and injure Danny, the one you supposedly care about. Normally, I would be pissed as Hell and would like nothing more than to beat the shit out of you." Ember said, doing her best to control her rage.
Sam tightened her grip on her weapon, ready to shoot the bitch that stole her best friend.
"But." Ember said, looking up to Sam with silent pleas in her eyes. "If you just go away, right now, I will forget all about it. I will tell Danny it was some drunk that hit him. I won't ruin his friendship with you. I'll even take you home if you really want. Just leave us alone for the rest of the night and let him tell you and your geek friend when he feels ready."
If the internal conflicts had simply been battles, the true war was now being fought. On the one side was Sam's rational side. It demanded that Sam take the offer. Sure, she had made several mistakes in judgement, had unintentionally hurt Danny, and had ruined his date. Yet Ember was willing to give them an out. Take the deal and keep Danny in our good graces. On the other side, was Sam's irrational rage and desire. This side wanted revenge. Ember had taken Danny away from her. Had hypnotized him. Had done unknown and unspeakable things to him. She didn't deserve mercy. She didn't deserve the Thermos. She deserved Walker's Prison. Maybe even permanent obliteration from existence. Don't listen to the rational side, it was taking the coward's way out. If she got rid of Ember now, there could still be a chance that Danny would change his mind about her. Maybe even make her his girlfriend.
It was this irrational thinking that gained the advantage in Sam's head. Slowly, she raised the ecto pistol and aimed it at Ember.
"Not going to happen, roadie slut." She said.
Ember was slightly disappointed by her answer but expected it nonetheless. Igniting her hands with ghostly energy, she pointed one at Sam and said, "Bring it on, goth bitch."
That was all the signal that Sam needed. She began firing rapidly at Ember. Ember dove to the left to try and move the fire away from Danny. Standing back up, she winced. Looking down, there was a scorch mark on her right pants leg and a nasty burn underneath.
"Ha!" Sam said, smirking maliciously at Ember's pain. "Without your guitar, you are nothing but hooker with a big ego."
Ember growled at Sam's insults. "Fine. You want a cat fight? Well, the claws are coming out!" She hissed back before running at Sam while firing off bursts of ectoplasmic energy. Sam was surprised at the sudden retaliation and tried to dodge the incoming fire but got hit in her stomach and on her right shoulder. The goth girl grunted in pain, feeling a mild burn on both spots. Looking down, she saw that her shirt was ruined. Her right sleeve was almost gone and there was a scorched hole on the front, exposing her stomach.
"That was my favorite shirt!" Sam yelled as she ran towards Ember, ready to claw her eyes out.
"How can you tell? You wear the same outfit everyday!" Ember replied, dousing her hands and throwing a right hook at the goth.
Meanwhile, the majority of the concert goers were paying no mind the cat fight occurring. The few that had were cheering and wolf whistling. It didn't help the two girls fighting or the onlookers that Skynyrd kept playing on.
I was cutting the rug
Down at a place called The Jug
With a girl named Linda Lu
When in walked a man
With a gun in his hand
And he was looking for you know who.
Ember landed the first blow, a right hook to Sam's jaw. A wad of spit escaped her mouth as she stumbled backwards. She returned with a kick to Ember's ribs.
"I swear, if you laid one hand on Danny, you will regret it for the rest of your afterlife." Sam growled, kicking out and missing her target completely.
Ember chuckled, dodging the attack and giving the goth girl a cheeky grin.
"Oh, I've laid more than just a hand on Babypop." She said.
With a feral scream, Sam clawed at Ember, leaving four nail sized marks on the ghostly teenager's tank top.
"I told Danny that I like him first! I confessed my feelings to him first! What right do you have to take him from me?" Sam yelled, landing her left fist into Ember's right eye.
Ember cried out in pain, clutching her eye and stumbling back a little before replying.
"Because he didn't feel the same about you. He didn't like you as a girlfriend."
"That's not fair!" Sam yelled, tears streaming down her eyes, refusing to accept the truth.
What Sam received was a cunt punt in reply. Now, despite what mainstream Hollywood will tell you, getting a kick to the genitals is extremely painful, no matter your sex. Sam was living proof of the little known fact. She had a sharp intake of breath while her hands went to her crotch by reaction.
I said, "Wait a minute, mister,
I didn't even kiss her.
Don't want no trouble with you.
And I know you don't owe me
But I wish you'd let me
Ask one favor from you."
"Life isn't fair! You won't get everything you wanted. Now just go home and let Danny and I enjoy the remainder of our date uninterrupted." Ember said, glaring at the hunched over form of Sam.
Sam responded by grabbing hold of Ember's lively ponytail of hair and flinging her to the side. On the upside, it created some distance between her and the ghostly rocker. On the downside, her hands were now burnt from the contact with her hair.
***Meanwhile, With Kitty***
As she stumbled out of the curtained off area, Kitty made sure to adjust her top so as to cover her breasts again and to straighten out her skirt that was currently hiked up around her waist.
In her head, Kitty was quickly going over a checklist to make sure that she was somewhat presentable to be mingling around in public.
Shoes, Check.
Stockings, Check.
Shirt covering tits, check.
Skirt covering her intimate areas, check.
Jacket, check.
Panties...Johnny probably had them but she still had her skirt on.
Satisfied with herself, Kitty began walking towards the bar where she assumed Danny and Ember still were. As for Johnny, he was laying on the floor, coming down from his recent climax. Kitty giggled at how eager he was. It was a quickie through and through but it had been enjoyable for the both of them nonetheless.
Concentrating on the present, she made her way towards the bar, taking in the sights as she searched of the newly formed couple. Kitty thought is as adorable, the two being together, as she passed the stage. Sure, they had fought each other in the past but their most recent actions had shown that they were attracted to each other. What with the playful flirtation, the blushing, and the fantasizing she knew each of them had done over the other, it was only a matter of time until they got together. As she passed a cat fight involving the goth girl and Ember, Kitty scanned the bar, trying to find...
"Won't you give me three steps,
Gimme three steps mister,
Gimme three steps towards the door?
Gimme three steps
Gimme three steps mister,
And you'll never see me no more."
"Wait. What?" Kitty exclaimed, turning her attention back to the ongoing cat fight. Upon closer inspection, she confirmed that what she first saw was true. One of her best friends, Ember McLain, was in a cat fight with one of Danny's best friends, Sam Manson. At the moment, they seemed evenly matched. Looking around, she saw that most of the crowd was keeping their attention on Lynyrd Skynyrd while a small portion was cheering on the battle between the girls. She also saw that laying on the ground, a few feet from the ongoing fight, was the unconscious body of Danny Fenton. How he had come to be in that state, Kitty did not know
Now the $64,000 question was posed to Kitty. Should she aid Ember in beating down the goth and possibly give serious injury to Sam while leaving Danny unattended? Or, should she stand back and let the two continue to duke it out, help Danny recover, and leave Ember open to losing the fight?
Decisions, decisions.
"Hold on, Ember! Kitty's coming!" The green haired ghost yelled before jumping in to aid her friend. Her final reasoning was to end the fight quickly so the two could put their efforts in helping Danny recover. Currently, Sam was trying to claw out Ember's eyes with Ember barely holding her back. Quick as a flash, Kitty flew over and slammed her fist into Sam's mouth. The goth cried out in pain as she skid on the floor away from Ember. Seeing that she had some time, the green haired ghost helped her friend to her feet.
"Thanks for the save, girlfriend." Ember panted.
"No problem. I was coming to look for you two when I saw you needed help." Kitty replied.
Ember gave her a knowing look. "As Johnny would so eloquently put it, you just finished porking, didn't you?"
Kitty just smiled and nodded.
Shaking her head in amusement, she and her green haired friend turned back to Sam who was just now recovering and getting to her feet.
"Kitty. So you are helping Ember brainwash Danny? And what do you have dripping down your leg?" She said, shaking her head a little to get her thoughts straightened out.
"To your first question, no. I did not help Ember brainwash Danny because there was no brainwashing done in the first place. Two, lets just say Johnny and I had a quick one before I came to Ember's aid."
Well he turned and screamed at Linda Lu
And that's the break I was looking for.
And you could hear me screaming a mile away
As I was headed out towards the door.
Several looks crossed Sam's face at this. Confusion, then frustrations, then confusion again, before finally ending in disgust.
"Gross! I did not need that mental image!" The goth said, trying and failing to not think of the biker ghost and his bitch having sex. "As for the not brainwashing part, you have to be lying! There is no reason Danny would want to date a self-absorbed, one-hit wonder, rock and roll cunt like..."
But the rest of Sam's insult was cut off by the shattering of glass. As she crumpled to the ground, the form of Johnny 13 stood behind her, the remains of a broken bottle clutched in his hands.
"Hey Kitten." Johnny said casually. "Thought you and Ember could use a hand before the goth could knock you out from her boredom."
"Eh. We could have taken her but we appreciate the assistance all the same." Ember said.
"All in a day's work." The biker replied, wiping a small bead of sweat off his brow with something red in his right hand.
Shaking her head in amusement, Kitty walked over, swiped the cloth out his hand, and revealed it to be her missing panties.
"My hero." She said, giving him a peck on the lips before quickly putting her panties back on.
Johnny grinned at his luck. Turning to Ember, he gave her a cocky look before saying, "What about me, Ember? Do I get a hero kiss from you as well?"
His answer was Kitty hitting him upside the head.
"Don't push it." She said, giving him a half hearted glare.
"Fine, fine." He said before the three of them turned towards Danny.
"How are we going to wake Babypop up?" Ember asked, getting onto the ground and cradling his head in her lap.
"I got an idea." Johnny said as he quickly trotted towards the bar. He talked with the bartender for a moment before coming back with a bottle of something in his hands.
"This always wakes me up. Should work on Phantom." He said confidently. He stooped down next to Danny and Ember and started to lightly pat the unconscious boy's cheeks.
"Come on, Phantom. Wake up." He said. Danny simply groaned as his head lolled back and forth in his lover's lap.
"Good enough." Johnny said as he unscrewed the top of the bottle. It was then that Kitty and Ember saw what it was.
"Now I need you to take a couple swigs of this, Phantom. Trust me when I say you will be on your feet in no time." Johnny chuckled as he put the bottle of Fireball in Danny's mouth and watched as he took five large swigs of the cinnamon whiskey.
Pulling the bottle back, Johnny quickly screwed the cap on before counting down.
"Three, two, one, now." The biker said.
Right on cue, Danny shot up, his eyes bulging and clutching at his throat.
"WATER!" Danny yelped, running towards the bar.
Evidently, the bartender expected this and handed Danny a large bottle of water, which he rapidly consumed.
"Thanks. I needed that." Danny said, going to rest his arm on the bar top but missing completely. He fell down to the floor and crumpled in a heap.
"Works every time." Johnny said proudly.
"We wanted him awake. We didn't want to knock him back out again." Ember said in an exasperated tone of voice before rushing to help Danny to his feet. Johnny simply shrugged before he and Kitty walked towards their friends.
"Wha happen?" Danny asked in a slurred voice, heavily leaning on Ember.
"Your goth friend, Sam, tried hitting Ember with a beer bottle but hit you instead." Kitty said, giving the boy a sympathetic look.
"Ow." He replied, his hand going to feel the bruise on the back of his head.
"Then she started yelling and screaming at me for supposedly brainwashing you and stealing you from her." Ember continued.
"But I *hic* told her I didn't want to *hic* date her." He replied.
"I know." She cooed in his ear. "Unfortunately, she wouldn't take that answer and decided to attack me instead of go back home."
"It took a while but we finally managed to subdue her." Kitty finished, pointing to the now knocked out Sam on the floor.
"I guess we should explain things to her when she *hic* wakes." Danny said.
The group nodded and made their way to the curtained off area they had been using. Ember was helping Danny along in the front. Johnny and Kitty were walking hand in hand in the middle. Johnny's Bad Luck Shadow was bringing up the rear, carrying the unconscious body of Sam.
***3 Hours Later***
Slowly, Sam awoke from her unexpected slumber. The first thing she noticed was that she was lying on some thick carpet, probably shag. Immediately following that thought was that the left side of her face was laying in a damp spot. Unlike a spilled drink that would be cold and thin, this was warm and thick and gave off an odd smell that she couldn't quite place. Finally, she felt a dull, throbbing pain on the back of her head.
"Looks like Sleeping Beauty is coming around." A male voice said.
Sam simply groaned before cracking her eyes open. She was able to confirm that she was laying on shag carpet by how high it rose in her line of sight. Through the strands of fabric, she saw three sets of legs and the lower half of another person sitting on the carpet a few feet away from her.
"What happened? Where am I? What is this stuff?" Sam questioned groggily as she sat up and lifted a hand to her cheek, dabbed at the moisture, and brought it closer to her nose to determine what it was.
"Well..." Kitty began, "You were giving some long, elaborate insult to Ember before Johnny knocked you out just like you did Danny."
Sam winced as her other hand lightly brushed the lump forming on the back of her head.
"Currently, you are in our private area that Danny, Ember, Johnny, and I have been using to get away from the crowd for periods at a time." She continued.
"And my third question?" Sam asked, still unable to determine what this strange substance was that coated the left side of her face. She hesitantly licked some of it that was near the corner of her mouth and received a strange salty taste.
"That..." The green haired ghost began before turning to Johnny, an amused look on her face.
"Did you have Shadow put her in the cum puddle?" Kitty asked, doing her best not to laugh.
"Oh yeah." The biker chuckled in reply. "Oops."
It took a moment to comprehend that last statement. She looked down at the puddle, then at her fingertips, then at Johnny and Kitty before she finally spoke up.
"Ew, ew, ew! Get it off! Get if off!" She cried desperately wiping off her face and some strands of hair that had fallen into the puddle while trying to spit out the salty taste she had tried.
"If it makes you feel any better, Kitty and I weren't the only ones in this room that contributed to the puddle." Johnny laughed, his hands on his knees and tears streaming from his eyes.
Again, Sam paused, thinking over the words just spoken. Slowly, she turned her head towards Ember. The ghostly rocker was giving the biker a reproachful look before shaking her head. Then Sam turned towards Danny. He gave her a look that told her everything she needed to know before he looked down at the ground.
"You." Sam growled, turning back to Ember. "You fucked my best friend!"
"I prefer to say that Danny and I made love but I guess everyone prefers to call it something different.
Sam screamed and tried to launch herself at the ghost that took Danny's virginity.
"Shadow." Johnny called, snapping his fingers.
The inky black ghost appeared behind the goth and grabbed her behind the arms before pushing her face first into the cum puddle.
Johnny went back into his hysterical laughter. Kitty did her best to scold him but couldn't help the occasional giggle or two to slip past her lips.
"Damn it, Johnny." Ember said, giving him an annoyed look. "She is already pissed off at me for going out on this date with Danny and discovering what we did. Did you really need to piss her off even more by doing that?"
"You can't say that wasn't funny." He defended himself as he began to calm down.
Ember simply groaned before pinching the bridge of her nose.
Danny decided to rectify this mess by shakily getting to his feet and making his way over to Sam. Getting to his knees, he motioned for Shadow to pick Sam's face out of the puddle. The ghost obliged. What Danny saw was a pitiful sight. From her forehead to her chin, she was covered in ejaculate along with a few stray strands of her hair. Her mouth was tightly shut so as to prevent herself from ingesting any of it. She was breathing through her nose and had managed to prevent anything from entering her nasal cavity. Blinking rapidly, she looked back at Danny. He sighed before placing a hand on her shoulder and letting her go intangible. This allowed the spunk to fall off her and back into the puddle.
"Thanks." She mumbled.
"No worries." He replied. "You ready to talk about this?"
She nodded in reply.
"I'm going to let you speak first. I promise not to interrupt you until you finish. Then I will tell you my side. I expect you to give me the same courtesy and not interrupt me. Is that ok with you?"
Again, Sam nodded.
"Good. Tell me how you found us, why you decided to track me down, and why you decided to attack Ember." He said.
"Tucker came over for the movie night I had set up for us. Originally, I laced the seven layer dip with laxatives so you would tell me who you were interested in."
Danny simply nodded his head, keeping a neutral face.
"Since you weren't there, I had to get my information from Tucker instead. Once they took effect, he rushed off to the bathroom where I had the door locked from the outside. I told him he could have the key if he just told me who you were with and where you were. He refused to talk at first, citing that he had promised to keep your secret. Eventually, though, he cracked and told me that you were on a date at a concert. As to how I found this place, I used Tucker's new ghost tracking app on his cell phone to get your location."
Danny chuckled a little, pleased to hear that Tucker had tried his best before finally caving in.
"Took me a couple of hours by bike but I managed to find this warehouse and bribed my way inside. I tried looking around for you and eventually spotted you floating above the crowd and kissing Ember. I...I got so mad that I grabbed somebody's beer and tried to hit her. Unfortunately, my aim was off and I accidentally hit you. Sorry."
Danny just nodded his head and waited for her to continue.
"So, why did I do all this and fight Ember? I was...angry that you didn't like me as a girlfriend. Not so much at you. You were at least honest with me and didn't beat around the bush. It was your honesty that hurt. I didn't want to, still don't want to accept that. When I heard from Tuck that you were on a date, I became jealous and suspicious. I remember how you disapproved when the whole Elliot incident occurred. I thought the same might happen to you. At times, during the ride her and before finally finding you and Ember, I kept thinking in the back of my head that I should turn back. Wait for you to tell Tucker and I when you felt comfortable. My pride and jealousy wouldn't let me accept that. When I saw the two of you together, it tore me up. I wanted to be the one you held, the one you kissed. I hated to see my crush with someone else. So I tried to take my anger out on Ember but accidentally hurt you instead. Even when I finally confronted Ember, she tried to convince me to go home, that she would even teleport me back home and not tell you that I hit you if I just left you two alone for the rest of my night."
Now tears were slowly falling from Sam's eyes and she looked down towards the ground. It was Danny who cupped her chin and brought her eyes back to his face, indicating for her to continue her story.
"I...I thought over her offer. Thought about taking it. But I was seeing green by then. I had it in my head that she had you hypnotized and was manipulating you. My jealousy was putting these pieces together and clouding my reasoning. A part of me still wants...still hopes that I was right and justified for what I did."
Before anyone could react, Sam leaned forward and kissed Danny full on the lips. She gave every ounce of passion she could, nipping at his lips, begging for him to kiss back.
Yet Danny didn't kiss back. He didn't stop her attempts but he didn't return the kiss. Off to the side, Kitty looked frustrated at what Sam was trying to pull. What right did she have at trying to steal her best friend's boyfriend? She was about to intervene when she felt someone put a hand on her shoulder. She first looked over to Johnny but saw that he was absorbed in his phone and wasn't paying attention to what was going on. Then she turned to Ember. Ember looked briefly at Danny and Sam with a sad look in her eyes before turning her attention back to Kitty.
"She needs to do this, if only to confirm the truth she has been so reluctant to accept." She sighed.
Kitty nodded before stepping back to her original spot between Johnny and Ember.
As Sam separated from Danny, she desperately looked into his eyes, hoping that the lies she had told herself about Ember's hypnotism were true. Yet the look that Danny gave her only confirmed the bitter truth she had been trying to ignore.
"That's it, I guess." Sam croaked, more tears trailing down her cheeks. "Its all real and genuine."
Danny nodded his head in confirmation.
"I guess it is your turn now. I'll be sure to stay quiet and not interrupt."
Danny sighed before beginning his story. He began with their first flirtations at the Christmas party in the Ghost Zone. Then about Ember's concert he had watched. She listened to him explain his attraction to her, both physical and mental. Then there was what occurred in school yesterday with fighting Skulker and Ember's invitation. Finally, he talked about what he and Ember had done at the concert by meeting the dead rock stars, the crowd surfing, talking at the bar, Ember taking his virginity, and finally enjoying each other's company before he was knocked out. During this, Sam kept her silence, nodding her head in understanding while shedding a few more tears.
"Now that you know everything, where do we go from here?" Danny asked.
Sam sighed. "I'm...I'm not happy with how this turned out and I'm still a little unsure on how to go on from here. But you are my best friend. I...I do want you to be happy. It may take a little while for me to get used to the fact that I won't be sharing in your happiness but I'm willing to give it a try."
Danny's face cracked into a grin. "That is all I ask." He said before leaning in and embracing her. "We still are and always will be best friends."
The remained like that for a moment before they separated. Sam stood up and helped Danny get shakily to his feet. She helped to support him before handing him off to Ember.
"Sorry about shooting you in the leg, clawing your shirt, and giving you a black eye." Sam apologized to Ember.
"Apology accepted. I'm sorry about ruining your shirt and cunt punting you." Ember replied.
Nodding, Sam turned towards Kitty. "Sorry for accusing you of helping Ember brainwash Danny."
"No problem. I'm sorry about giving you the busted lips." Kitty said.
Again nodding, Sam finally turned her attention to Johnny, who had just put his phone away.
"Johnny."
"Goth." The biker replied.
Quicker than anyone could blink, Sam kicked out with her right foot, connecting with Johnny's genitals. He gave a shriek of pain before falling to the ground, cupping his crotch, and curling into a ball.
"That was for putting me in the cum puddle." She said menacingly before taking a deep breath and adding, "I forgive you for that and for hitting me over the head with a bottle.
Johnny's only reply was a high pitched moan.
Turning back to Ember, Sam asked, "Is that offer to take me home still on the table?"
Ember nodded before gently setting Danny on the ground and taking her hand. There was a whirlwind of blue flames before Sam found herself outside he mansion.
"My bike is resting on the side of the warehouse if you could get it." She added.
Ember teleported away before returning a few seconds later with Sam's bike. Taking the bike by the handles, Sam started walking towards the main gates before looking back to Ember.
"This is going to take some getting used to. You and Danny being together." She said.
Ember chuckled before replying. "Don't worry. We'll work this out one way or another."
With that, Ember teleported back to the concert and Danny, leaving Sam to continue walking back to her mansion. First, she would see if Tucker was still there and needed assistance. Then she would pay Jeeves for his overtime and send him home. After that, she would crash on her bed to sleep this crazy night off.