HeadSTRONGBlackMagic: Hmmm...I see your point and I'm glad you pointed that out. I guess what I was going for was to keep yall guessing on what was going to happen...not who he was going to fight, though that would have been better. Anyway, I fixed the end of this chapter up (though anybody should be able to tell who it is
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Chapter Three: My Surprise Uncovered
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Danny?
He made his way to the center of the field as I continued to stare. Sure, I thought I'd see him again, but not as the mayor on a battling field.
"Hi, you ready to loose?" he asked politely.
I smirked. After everything I'd been through with him, I knew his weaknesses. And even though I wouldn't be using an ecto-gun, I was going to take down Phantom today. True, I couldn't kill him in front of an audience, but...
"In your dreams," I replied shaking his hand before heading back behind the white line drawn on the ground. I positioned myself in a stance and saw Danny do the same.
The countdown began once more. "5..4..3..2..1...GO!" the crowd yelled. Not wasting one precious second, Danny swiped his leg around trying to hit mine. I quickly jumped up to avoid the leg and while in the air flipped around and tried to kick Danny in the gut.
Barely missing, I found the ground and landed perfectly, but any resting I tried was cut short by Danny's hand making contact with my shoulder, forcing me down. I hit the ground hard and looked into the face looming above me. For a split second I saw the face I'd seen in my dream but the moment disappeared as he stormed my way.
I did a back flip and ended up in a squatted position, awaiting Danny's arrival. When he came within reaching distance I jumped up, did a round-house kick and nailed him in the head. Smiling, I landed and watched him stagger back. Taking that moment as an advantage, I ran forward and served a kick at his feet making him fall to the ground.
I watched as he fell, reaching for invisible support. He hit the ground with a thud and stayed down. "Winner!" a startled ref. announced. "Mrs..."
"Sanderson. Nicole Sanderson," I announced for myself. I stuck a hand out to help Danny up. "So, do I get something for my great accomplishment or were you only joking around that no one has every beat you because I took you down pretty easy." He scowled.
"Sure, you can have something, anything you'd like, to an extent that is," he replied, smiling smoothly. I thought hard about what I wanted. Money, new clothes, a friend, my dad, your head served on a silver plater...
"A room. Hotel room," I told him remembering how stupid I was to just up and leave town without even thinking about getting somewhere to stay. "I'm visiting and forgot to book a hotel. Can I get a free one?" I asked.
"Sure," he answered. "But I'm not sure how you could forget to get a hotel reservation if you had decided to come here. There's at least four five star hotels within city limits." He motioned toward the busy downtown area. "But sure. I'll give you a lift to one of the nicest places in town."
I put on my best fake smile and followed him out of the stunned crowd to a blazing silver limo. I was surprised to see it wasn't a hover craft like everything else. Once inside my face must have given it away that I was surprised because Danny mentioned,
"I make myself royalty around here. And I'm keeping this baby even after I'm no longer mayor. One of the only things that doesn't fly now-a-days." I simply nodded. I then remembered something I'd seen on the outside of the limo.
"What's with the DP logo on the doors?"
"It stands for Danny Phantom. He's the town hero, and, I know this is gonna sound crazy, but he's a ghost," Danny told me. I put on a fake astonished look which didn't work as he then said, "You're not surprised." It wasn't a question. It was a statement.
"I lived here ten years ago, and back then he was Public Ghost Enemy Number One," I quoted remembering what he was called. I still called him that. Surprisingly enough, he laughed.
"Gotta catch up. He's been the number one hero around these parts for nine years," he explained. "It's gonna be hard to tell this story to someone who still thinks him evil, but I'll try."
"What story?" I questioned.
He only smiled and began to tell some sort of story. "I was walking home from school one Thursday afternoon coming home from a rough day as a sophomore..."
(Danny's POV)
"Tuck, you're crazy to believe that!" I exclaimed, laughing. Tucker simply huffed and replied,
"Okay, but when pigs attack, you'll be sorry." It was then I heard a startling cry for help from above. I looked up to see the mayor being hung off the side of my house by the ghost now known as Plasmius. Frozen with fear I just stood there, not knowing what to do.
Not a moment later, Phantom appeared flying up the side of the building. By then, a crowd had gathered thinking Phantom was going to help Plasmius. Imagine everyone's surprise when Phantom hit the other ghost in the gut.
That caused him to release the mayor which Phantom instantly began to rescue. Flying at top speed, he caught up with the mayor right before he splattered to the ground. He then, set down the mayor properly and flew back up to the roof to finish off Plasmius.
(Val's POV)
"Nobody saw what happened after
that. All anybody knew was that at the end of the day, Plasmius ended
up in a Fenton Thermos, and Phantom ended up the town hero after
rescuing the mayor," Danny finished off. I stared in disbelief.
There was nothing I could say to that. "And if you still don't
believe me, you can read Phantom's book he was asked to write called
Evil to Hero in One Day. Speaking of..." he paused to
check his watch.
"Where is this hotel?" I asked. He pointed out the side of his window. I stared at the house in front of me. "A house? You're letting me stay at a house?"
"It's my old house; now a boarding house. Ten times nicer than any hotel," he supplied. I got out and walked to the front door mumbling a thanks to which he replied, "No prob. If you need anything, let me know, and I'd be more than happy to lend a hand. By the way, my name's Danny if you don't want to call me Mr. Mayor like everyone else seems to want to." Then he left without another word.
Yeah, I know you're name, and it isn't Danny Fenton, it's Phantom.
Then again, maybe I was wrong about Phantom. Maybe he wasn't just acting. Maybe he really was nice at the heart and I'd just been wrong. But maybe still he was only toying with my emotions. As mayor, that guy could begin to bring down the city from the inside out without anyone knowing until it was way too late.
I knew what he was doing. He had and still was doing all these nice things to help out and then he'd attack head strong. Sighing, I opened the door. I didn't want to stay in the house of my old enemy, but seeing as I had no other choice...
I looked around inside. It was different from what I remember it being. True, I'd only been in a couple of times, but something still looked different. The living room was in the best of shape with pictures of people I guess lived here. There was a nice little coffee table and huge television situated in the middle of the room. There was two couches and a recliner as well.
Strolling into the kitchen area I noticed that it was about the same as it had been the last time except there was a bigger table; I guess for the people staying here. I was curious on whether the Fenton's lab was still downstairs so I made my way down there all the while wondering where everyone was.
As I saw what was downstairs I finally figured out where they were. In place of where the lab once was, was a game room complete with games like air hockey, foosball, pool, bonkerball, board games, video games, and basketball hoops. I guess the types of games played haven't really changed that much over ten years.
I saw about ten people in the room. There were way too many games for only ten people but I figured that Danny was making them feel welcome-before he takes over the world-I thought.
They all seemed to notice me at the same time. Everyone came over to greet me. "Hi, I'm Zelda," "Cherrie," "Rob Nelson," "Bridget and Charles," "I'm Star and this is my husband, Kwan," "Lance and Reggie," "Trey." The greetings stopped. Everyone had told me their names and was now waiting on me to speak.
"Oh, Nicole Sanderson," I replied, not taking my eyes off the couple who'd introduced themselves as Star and Kwan. "I'm only visiting," I added.
"We're the only permanent people in this place, but many people come and go," the guy named Trey told me. I only nodded and after that they went back to their activities. All but Star.
"Well, why are you here?" she asked me.
"I-I'm just passing by on a trip," I lied. I didn't think she'd believe me if I told her I was here to look for Phantom, and I wasn't about to dare tell her she knew me as Valerie. "A business trip. Where do you work?" I added.
"Oh, well, in high school I thought for sure I'd end up like my ex-best friend, Paulina and take the beauty route. But once I got accepted into the Amity University I fell in love with books and Paulina disowned me." I tried not to laugh at the thought of Star going for the books. "So, I spent all my time studying and eventually became a teacher!"
"What does your husband do?" I asked trying not to sound too nosy.
"He's an electrician. Left popularity just like I did. We've been happily married for two years," Star told me sighing before running over to Kwan who was motioning for her to join him.
I decided now would be the best time to try and slip away so I headed back upstairs to see where everybody's rooms were. Once I got to the main room I looked around to see if any rooms had been added on and sure enough there was a whole corridor added on to the back of the house with at least ten rooms in all.
I then ventured upstairs to find four bedrooms. I drew the conclusion that they were Danny's, Jazz's, their parent's, and a guest room's old rooms. I wondered where I was going to be staying because no one greeted me at the door or anything and it wasn't like I was planning on staying long.
Just long enough to see if dad was still here, and, since I'd already found the former "in" crowd, find Sam and Tucker to see what they were up to.
"Hi, you must be Nicole Sanderson," a voice from behind me started. "Danny told me I'd find you here. I'm his wife and care taker of the house." I turned around to face yet another face from my past. I placed her instantly.
No one could ever forget those eyes with that look. True, she was ten years older and her hair was longer, but you couldn't ever forget her once you met her.
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Ooh! Another person from her past has shown up, though you can all probably figure out who...
Here's the spoiler...
"I beat him at some kind of karate something," I supplied. She began laughing for a reason I didn't understand.
Wiping a tear from her eye, she regained enough composure to tell me, "No one's every been able to defeat Danny at something like that, or at least since he started taking karate classes. There's only one person in the world that I know of that could ever come close to beating him and she moved away ten years ago. And now he goes and gets his butt kicked by you?" she resumed laughing.
She'd lost my attention at 'only one person in the world.' She was talking about me! Or at least that's what I figured. "Who is this other person that could defeat him?" I asked, curiously.
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