Chapter 9: Cutthroats and Kidnapping Part 1

Hello, dear readers. Back with another chapter. I've got another intermission chapter for you that bridges the gap between my first two stories. Not quite sure how many more of these I will do but I hope you enjoy them all the same. I do not own Danny Phantom. R&R and Enjoy!

***In Ember's Realm***

"TWEEEERRRRP!" The flaming haired ghost yelled.

Faster than anyone could react, Ember disappeared in a whirlwind of flames before reappearing in front of the ghost with a Perter Pan complex. Grabbing him by the scruff of his neck, she slammed him against the wall before moving her face an inch away from his. The little pirate was shaking in fear while also trying to break free of Ember's grasp while the rocker girl tried boring a hole through the boy's head with her glare.

"Why…are you…IN MY REALM?!" She asked, starting out softly before ending on a yell.

"ANSWER ME!" Ember continued when Youngblood remained silent.

"Wha…what…" The boy stuttered. "What is on your face?"

Both Danny and Ember groaned. It was bad enough that they had been interrupted during their oral love making but now they had to explain what they were doing to the oblivious adolescent ghost.

Thinking it best to join the group while also thinking of his modesty, Danny grabbed a pillow and covered his crotch before making his way over to the pirate, his female clone, and his lover.

"Hey." The boy said to his clone, an embarrassed yet amused smile on his face.

"Hello yourself." Danielle replied, her face mirroring her original's while keeping her eyes on his upper half.

"Wait! You two know each other?" Youngblood interrupted.

The other three ghosts gave him a look that said 'Really?' before Danny answered. "Danielle is a clone of me, albeit younger and female. You really didn't notice the similarities? Especially the names?"

The boy shook his head no.

Ember turned her head to look at the younger girl.

"What do you see in him, lollipop?"

"He can be really funny and sweet once you get to know him." Dani shrugged.

"Hey!" The adolescent pirate called out again. "You didn't answer my question!"

The rocker turned to face to boy again, annoyance evident on her face before it turned into a mischievous grin. With her free hand, she slowly gathered Danny's cum on her fingers before licking it off.

"Eww! That's disgusting!" Youngblood squealed. "That came out of his junk! Why would you eat that?"

"One, because I like it." Ember replied smugly. "And two, because it freaks you out."

"Anyways…" Danny said, turning back to his clone. "Where have you been?"

"Traveling, mostly. Seeing the world before hopping back into the zone through a natural portal."

"Cool. So how did the two of you…"

"Dani, help! Ember's trying to wipe whatever that stuff is on my face!"

"No, I'm not." Ember said cheekily, a cum coated finger centimeters from the boy's face. "Just ignore us, babypop, and catch up with lollipop."

"I first met Youngblood a month back. Skulker was beating him up so I stepped in and kicked his metal but." The female clone said with pride in her voice. "We started talking and things went from there. What about you? How did you and Ember end up together?"

Danny chuckled, running a hand through his hair at the memories.

"That is a long story…"

Another shriek interrupted the two from the young pirate followed by the fiery haired rocker cackling.

"She licked me, Dani! She licked me with her filthy mouth!"

"Maybe that will teach you not to barge into people's realms unannounced." Ember said.

"Now might not be the best time to tell it, though." Danny finished.

"Yeah, I noticed." Danielle chuckled. "Also, you still have some of Ember's…ummm…"

The girl looked away, her cheeks turning pink while motioning around her mouth with a finger.

The boy immediately realized that Dani was referring to Ember's love juices still on his face. He nervously chuckled before licking the corners of his mouth, enjoying the taste of his lover.

"First Ember and now you? That came out of her butt, Phantom!"

The two lovers sighed.

"What do you want, Youngblood?" Danny asked.

"Talk quick, twerp before I get even more disgusting!" Ember added, a cruel smirk on her face. To prove her point, she grabbed the pillow her lover was using to cover himself, tossed it back on the bed, before taking his now flaccid penis in her hand and began pumping it back to life.

"Stopstopstop!" The pirate boy begged.

"Ember! Not in front of Danielle!" Danny added, his cheeks now crimson.

"Come on, Babypop." The rocker said in a teasing tone of voice. I already messed with your older sister's head. Why can't I do it in front of lollipop?"

"One, she's younger than Jazz. Two, Dani is like…" The black-haired boy said before he paused for a moment.

"What are we, Dani? I don't think we ever established that."

This caused the young clone to think for a moment as well.

"I don't know…I don't want to be continuously referred to as your clone." She said.

"You're mentally and physically too old to be my daughter." Danny added.

"And I can't really be your sister since we haven't lived with each other since I was 'born' and I've been away for so long." The young girl finished.

The two halfas thought about their conundrum for a moment before simultaneously saying "Cousins?"

They chuckled at their moment of stereo speak before repeating themselves in a more confident tone.

"Cousins."

"Fine" The fiery haired girl sighed in an overly dramatic way before releasing Danny's penis. "Now talk, Youngblood!"

The adolescent ghost cringed at the look Ember was giving him before clearing his throat and speaking.

"We wanted to know if you would like to play pirate again and prank the town."

"YOU INTERRUPTED SEX JUST TO ASK IF I COULD PLAY WITH YOU?!" Ember yelled at the boy, murder in her eyes.

Seeing this, Danny moved behind her, wrapped his arms around her waist, and began peppering her neck with butterfly kisses.

"He didn't know what we were doing or that I would be here." He cooed in her ear, trying to calm his lover down.

The rocker girl's face slowly went from irritated to calm, her scowl slowly turning into a content smile as Danny continued his ministrations. She released a sigh once she had completely calmed down while gently caressing her boyfriend's cheek.

"DAAW!" Danielle gushed. "That's so cute!"

"What's cute about them kissing each other while naked?" Youngblood asked.

The two lovers rolled their eyes before turning their attention back to the intruders.

"No. Now go away!" The rocker said, shooing them away with a wave of her hand.

"Come ooooooooooon!" The adolescent pirate whined. "You can bring you Phantom with you."

"Still no." Ember replied.

"Come oooooooooooooooooon!" The boy continued. "We can rob a music store or something."

"Did you completely forget about my hero boyfriend standing behind me?" The girl countered?

"Ummmmm…."

"Can you leave now?" Ember sighed.

"But…I have rum." Youngblood said.

"Why do you have rum and where did you get it?" Danny asked.

"Pirates drink rum and I stole it."

Ember closed her eyes and pinched the bridge of her nose. After a few seconds of silence, she finally responded.

"No. We aren't going to play pirate with you and Danielle. Now could you please leave so that the two of can…"

Before Ember could finish, however, an alarm went off, emanating from Danny's pants pocket.

"Please tell me that isn't…"

"My curfew alarm? It is." Danny finished.

The rocker girl groaned.

"I'll get dressed." He sighed, pecking her on the cheek before walking over to his clothes and started dressing himself.

"See what you did, twerp? Because of you, we didn't get to have more fun time and now I have to drop him back home!"

"Sorry." The boy grumbled, having the sense of mind to look down in shame.

A moment later, Ember felt Danny's hand on her shoulder.

"Ready." Danny sighed, now fully dressed with his backpack slung over a shoulder.

The rocker returned his sigh before turning to look at him.

"Sorry our time was cut short."

"It happens." He chuckled in reply.

He leaned in for a kiss, to which Ember returned. It was only a peck but it was lovely all the same.

There was a whirlwind of flames as the two teleported out of the room. A second later, Ember returned. There was a look of disappointment on her face, quickly replaced by one of annoyance when her eyes returned to Youngblood.

"And you are still here...why?" She asked.

"Umm…" The boy eloquently replied.

"We're sorry." Danielle spoke up.

"I'm not mad at you, lollipop." Ember sighed. "I'm still mad at you, though." She added, pointing to Youngblood.

"Maybe we could make it up to you?" Dani suggested.

"How?" The rocker asked, raising an eyebrow.

A mischievous smile bloomed on Danielle's face.

"I might have an idea."

***The Next Day, Casper High***

"Danielle and Youngblood together? Never thought something like that would happen." Tucker said as he and his friends walked to Mr. Lancers class for their Literature class. "Maybe she'll finally help him grow up."

"I don't know. That might be asking too much from a clone of Danny." Sam said, giving Danny a playful smirk before she and Tuck started laughing.

"Oh really?" Danny countered. "And you think a little mini you would do any better?"

"HA!" Their black and nerdy friend exclaimed.

The goth girl huffed. "And what, pray tell, do you find so funny?"

"Just thinking about an adorable, little you demanding people give up on meat and to be more like you."

"I do not demand people be more like me!" Sam countered. "Right, Danny?"

She turned and was a little annoyed to see her friend conveniently checking his phone and not responding to her question.

"It's not like a little you would be any better. A child version of you would just start hitting on all the girls." She remarked before an amused smirk played at her lips. "Although a mini you might actually be successful in getting their attention because you'd be a cute ten-year-old."

This time Danny burst out laughing with Sam joining in. Tucker sulked at the little jab but didn't have time to reply as they reached the classroom.

A few minutes later, Mr. Lancer entered the room just as the bell rang and began calling off roll.

"Now class, today we will be discussing the classic…"

But before the balding teacher could finish, a band of ghoulish pirates appeared out of thin air in the classroom.

"Treasure Island!" Mr. Lancer exclaimed before ducking behind his desk in fright.

The majority of the class cowered in their seats while the specters leered at them. Out of the corner of his eye, Danny saw Valerie attempt to get out of her seat, presumably to change into her Red Huntress outfit and deal with the ghosts before one of the ghosts pressed his cutlass to her neck, forcing her to sit back down.

"Yo ho ho! Avast ye scurvy dogs!"

Phasing through the floor came Danielle, dressed in her pirate garb and wielding two flintlock pistols.

"Hey!" The annoyed voice of Youngblood spoke up before he became visible next to her. "I thought we agreed I was gonna do the big reveal?"

"Come on! You always do the fancy intro! I wanted to do it this time." Dani complained.

Interrupting them was Danny's laughter at the two's bickering.

"Have a mutiny going on, Captain Kidd?"

The pirate lad glared at the boy while Danielle turned away and covered her mouth to hide her amusement.

"You won't be laughing for long." The little pirate said, trying to look intimidating and brandishing his hook hand in front of Danny's face. "You're getting shanghaied!"

"Oooooh. I'm so scared." The teenaged halfa replied in a sarcastic tone before flicking the hook, showing everyone that it was rubber and not real metal.

Sam and Tucker started to chuckle at Danny's jokes while the remainder of the class was unsure on whether they should join in or not.

The wannabe Peter Pan growled before pointing a flintlock of his own at Danny's face.

"What are you gonna do? Shoot water at me?" He asked, smirking a little and raising and eyebrow.

Youngblood's gun hand wavered before he screamed in anger and put the pistol away.

"You two!" The pirate boy said, pointing to a pair of skeletal crew members. "Get him!"

As Danny was pulled from his seat and up to the front of the class, he appeared more annoyed and inconvenienced rather than frightened.

"Now unless the rest of you want to join him, you'll shut up and not follow us." Youngblood said to the class.

One by one, the ghosts began to disappear.

"Stop. Don't. Come back." Sam and Tucker said unenthusiastically as Danny and Youngblood were the last ones to disappear.

There was a moment of silence once the ghosts left before it was broken by Dash.

"I don't know if we should laugh at Fenton for being captured by ghosts or laugh with him for the comebacks he had for them."

The other A-Listers seemed to agree with his confusion while the rest of the class began to whisper and murmur about the recent kidnapping. Mr. Lancer left the room, stating he was going to inform the staff of what had taken place, leaving the students to do as they pleased in his absence.

While this was going on, Valerie walked over and glared at Sam and Tucker.

"How can you two be so indifferent and uncaring about Danny's kidnapping? Don't either of you care?"

"It's not that we don't care," Tucker said as he played with his PDA.

"We just think that whatever Youngblood has planned is probably nothing to get worried or excited about." Sam finished, pulling out her notebook and drawing some doodles.

"Have you forgotten what that little kid did the last time he came to town? He nearly enslaved all our parents with the help of Ember McLain!" The black girl continued.

"True but neither were a match for us and Danny Phantom." The goth girl countered.

"You two put too much faith in that no-good Ghost Boy! He is evil like the rest of the ghosts that attack our town!" Valerie huffed before pulling out her phone and shooting off a quick text.

"If neither of you are going to do anything to help Danny, then I will! Ghost Boy be damned!" She said before walking back to her seat.

"I get the feeling she's gonna try to get out and go after Danny and Youngblood." Tucker remarked.

The goth girl shrugged. "I wouldn't worry too much. As far as we know this is only Youngblood playing…"

Just then, the two of them received text messages from an unknown person. Tuck cautiously opened the message before showing it to Sam.

Hey, dipsticks! Ember here. Just wanted to let you know that Babypop is fine. The twerp planned this out, so we could have a romantic day together to make up for his cockblocking of us last night.

Attached was a selfie of Danny and Ember kissing one another.

"Well shit." Tucker remarked before noticing the annoyed look on his friend's face.

"They couldn't have waited for the weekend to do this?" She grumbled.

"I don't think Danny expected this to happen." The techno geek said in defense of their friend.

"I know…I know." The goth girl replied, massaging her temples. "Still…it's annoying."

"What do you want me to say, Sam?" Tucker chuckled. "She loves him and wanted to surprise him. Don't most couples do that?"

"I guess…" She admitted reluctantly.

Tucker snickered at her answer before pulling up a page on his PDA.

"That's twice you've admitted I'm right." He said, making a mark on the page.

"Oh sure. Two times out of a thousand arguments is really impressive, Tucker. I still won the other 998 times." She fired back, a smirk of her own on her face.

"You didn't win those. We just agreed to disagree." The geek countered.

*Meanwhile, With Danny*

As soon as he reappeared, Danny was pulled out of the pirate crew's arms and into Ember's.

"Surprise, Babypop!" The rocker said before planting a kiss on his lips.

Not one to deny his girlfriend, Danny obligingly made out with her for a few seconds before separating.

"What's going on?" He chuckled.

"Ask Lollipop." His girlfriend said in amused tone of voice.

The younger girl shrugged her shoulders. "I just thought we kinda owed you for ruining your…alone time last night."

Youngblood grumbled indignantly but shrank under the glare he received from Ember.

"So, I had the idea that we 'kidnap' you for a few hours so you two can have a nice little date while we distract the town."

Danny blinked in surprise at the plan. Sure, there were a few flaws with it, but the idea was sound.

"Before I forget, the Goth and the Geek need to know what's really going on." The rocker said before pulling out her phone. She brought up the camera and kissed her lover before sending off a text to Tucker and Sam.

"There. Now how would you like to spend out date, Babypop?"

"Ummm…" The boy eloquently said. If he was honest with himself, he had no idea what to do for a date that he now had time for.

"Lunch?" He finally suggested.

"Oh sure." Youngblood sarcastically remarked. "Table for the undead Rockstar dressed as a pirate and the kidnapped boy is now open."

Ember growled at his teasing but realized he had a point. "Then what bright idea do you have, twerp?"

"Easy." The wannabe Peter Pan said with a smile. "We kidnap a chef and bring him on board to cook for us."

Danny and Ember facepalmed while Danielle was the one to gently put his idea down.

"If we do that, then we face the same problem of bringing more unwanted attention to ourselves."

"Oh." He replied, his shoulders slumping while Dani patted his shoulder comfortingly.

"Maybe we can compromise?" She said after a few moments of contemplation. "What if you and Danny go to a restaurant while invisible and 'take' whatever food you want for your date."

The two teens were surprised by how well thought out this idea was. Minimal exposure to the public while also keeping their options open.

"That could work." The couple finally said.

"I hear Red Lobster is starting Lobster Fest." Danny suggested with a smile.

"As long as we get a ton of cheesy biscuits." Ember replied.

"Hold it!" Youngblood interrupted. "Ember, you promised!"

The rocker groaned in annoyance before turning to her lover.

"The twerp wants us to be dressed as pirates while on his ship. That was the only way he would willingly let us do this."

The black-haired boy rolled his eyes but nodded his head. Smirking, Youngblood snapped his fingers. Danny's ghost rings formed around him but instead of transforming into his normal costume, he was now wearing…

"Are you kidding me, Youngblood?" Danny said as he looked over his new look.

"What?" The adolescent ghost responded in an indignant tone.

"This is just Edward Kenway's get up with my colors."

"So?"

Danny simply extended one of the hidden blades his new outfit came with before saying.

"And who will take you seriously if…scratch that. Nobody takes you seriously anyways!"

He and Ember laughed at this little jab while the younger ghosts seemed unamused. The pirate snapped his fingers again and Danny's rings appeared around him again, this time giving him a different look.

As soon as the transformation ended, Danny's smile disappeared, his eyes closed, and an annoyed frown came to his face. Meanwhile, Ember, Youngblood, and Danielle were now laughing that Danny was now dressed like Elizabeth Swan, hair and all.

"Is it bad?" The black-haired boy asked.

"Yup." His girlfriend chuckled.

The boy took a deep breath before releasing it.

"Fine…I'll play your game."

The pirate smiled in his victory before snapping his fingers one final time. Rings appeared around Danny and traveled up his body before revealing his latest look. He was now wearing an altered version of Captain Barbossa's outfit, the primary coloring being black with ecto green accents. The other change was that only Danny's skeleton and his eyeballs were visible.

Once Youngblood popped a mirror into existence before the halfa, Danny was initially shocked.

The pirate boy rolled his eyes.

"Just concentrate on revealing your skin and it will become visible."

Danny did so, and his face and skin returned.

"Huh…Learn something new every day." The boy mused as he practiced a bit switching between bone and flesh form before finally sticking with revealing his skin.

"Ready to go now?" Ember asked, looping her arm through his.

He kissed her cheek and nodded in response.

"Would you two leave already? All this mushy stuff between you two makes me sick!" Youngblood exclaimed.

The lovers rolled their eyes and flipped him the bird before flying off the ship and going invisible. The pirate boy huffed indignantly while Dani giggled.

"Promise me we will never act that lovey dovey with each other." Youngblood said.

Danielle simply kissed his cheek and giggled, causing the pirate boy to groan.

***Meanwhile…*

A cell phone buzzed on an armchair. As the owner picked it up and read the message, he grinned smugly.

"Looks like things just got interesting." Vlad Masters chuckled before sending off a reply to Valerie.

Author's Note: Well…It certainly has been a while since I last updated this story. A lot of things have happened that hindered the progress of this update. Transitioning of jobs, getting a second job, stress at home, and another case of writer's block. Still, I'm relieved to have managed to put out this update and I hope you all enjoy it, both for the plot this gives and the future conflict it promises.