A/N- Thank you for all the support you have shown this story! I'm so grateful and shocked that people are enjoying it. I don't own Danny Phantom.
Sam was starting to get nervous, so very nervous to the point that she allowed it to show as she paced along side the water on the broken platform. Tucker was also nervous but not to the same level as Sam, mostly because he was trying to distract himself on his PDA looking up how long a person can hold their breath, how deep the lake their town was built upon, and other similar things.
When nearly two minutes passed Sam was sitting next to Tucker a good four to five feet away from the platforms drop off into the water. They were both silenced by their fear and anxiety, hoping to see their friend rise above the waters surface at any moment.
Once the two minute mark had come and time kept ticking on without Danny making his way out of the water Sam began taking her heavy combat boots off and removing the objects in her pockets. Tucker wanted to speak up and say something, maybe stop her, but he was worried for Danny too, and they both knew that Sam was the stronger swimmer and much more capable of rescuing their friend.
Sam took a deep breath trying to calm her already frayed nerves, trying to mentally prepare herself for what she was about to do. She took another look over at Tucker trying to gauge his reaction to the whole situation. For the first time in what seemed like forever he had completely dismissed any and all electronics, not giving them even a single thought. He looked up at her giving her what he hoped to be and encouraging nod, as words seemed almost inappropriate and unfitting in the situation to both of them.
Taking one last deep breath to set her resolve in stone, Sam got up to one knee, preparing to push herself up to stand. Before she go the chance to do that, the water near the platform began to aggressively ripple.
A hand with three black claws, one on the pinky, one on the ring, and one on the middle finger and dark green webbing emerged from the water. It was soon followed by an arm with a fin of the same dark green extending from the outer (pinky) side of the forearm from a couple inches below the wrist to a bit past the elbow.
The unusual arm shot itself to the wooden platform, quickly extending its three clawed fingers and slamming them down into the wood getting a good grasp on it. Another arm, identical to the first but being the left one instead of right, repeated the action but fell short of the other hands grasp, just barely getting past the edge of the platform. Unfortunately the water damage and pressure of the claws cause a chunk of wood to completely rip off leaving the left arm to flop back into the water.
Due to the increase in the ripples and bubbles in the water, one could only guess that the creature the arms belonged to was getting quiet aggravated with its failure to grasp the platform. the left arm rose from the lake once again this time bringing a head and shoulders with it. The arm raced to the wood with incredible speed, slamming its claws into the wood with all its might and finally getting a firm grasp.
The expression on the creatures face along with the shine in its already bright green eyes, and rise of its dark green ear frills/ fins sowed that it was quite satisfied and proud of its small accomplishment. The creature also had wet white hair, three gills on each side of its neck, and razor sharp canines to go along with its previously mentioned bright green eyes with pupils similar to a snakes' and ear fins.
Sam and Tucker were in shock and denial. Neither could believe what they were seeing and neither wanted to believe what they were seeing. This creature, it so closely resembled Danny's appearance in his parents lab that fateful day. The two of the watched with wide eyes, not daring to move or speak.
Now that the creature had a strong grip it began to use the muscles in its arm to pull its torso out of the water. With difficulty, it began to lean its body on the dock and use its arms and claws to crawl forward. once the creature's butt was on the platform it was able to roll to its back, sit up, then roll its body to be parallel with the 'shore' leaving it face up laying on its back and heavily panting.
At this point the creatures long gunmetal black tail with dark green fins down the back, along the sides, with two fins in the center top front, one on the bottom center front of the tail, and its large fin at the end of the tail revealed it to be a merman. More specifically Danny as a merman.
Between pants of air Danny looked over to Sam and Tucker and was shocked to see a glimmer of recognition in their eyes. Still slightly panting, Danny began to voice his confusion.
"S-sam? . . . Tuck? Talk to me please. I know you know it's me. And, I know this must be what has made you so freaked out lately, so please speak to me." Danny's voice was rough and cracked, often being interrupted with Danny's panting.
When Sam and Tucker still were hesitant to speak or even move Danny tried once more to snap his friends out of their shocked state. "I know you guys must be freaked out right now but, you've known about this for a week now! I just found out and it's my body, how do you think I feel? Don't you think it's time I'm given some sort of explanation?"
That managed to do the trick and Sam and Tucker snapped out of their dazed state. "Your right, Danny, and we're both sorry." Sam started to say stopping due to Tuckers interruption of "Very sorry!".
Giving Tucker a glare, Sam continued talking. "We should have talked to you sooner on this subject, especially because of how directly it concerns you, we were just confused and scared. That being said, Tuck and I promise to give you all the details but, we should probably do something about you being a merman out in the open that could be spotted by anyone at any moment."
Realizing the danger and truth in Sam's words the three of them tried to come up with a solution to Danny's fish problem. After several minutes of debate and pointless internet research, they decided to move Danny into a nearby dark alley.
As Sam and Tucker positioned themselves to lift Danny a bright light went over his body and he was a human once more.
"Dude, sweet! How'd ya do that?" Tucker asked Danny in his usual enthusiastic manner.
"I have no idea." Danny replied.
Sense they managed to solve their first problem, at least temporarily, the three of them decided to go to a small burger joint, The Nasty Burger, to talk in relative privacy.
A/N- I hope you enjoyed that chapter, please like, review, follow this story, or follow me, it is really appreciated and it makes me super happy. For anyone who read my note last chapter about that idea of a Dash x Danny fic, I'm pretty sure I'm going through with it.