Chapter 2
(Post D-stabilized, before PP.)
"Alright, alright." The strange man said, obviously exasperated. "I can explain what's going on, but first we have to return to where I'm staying, and after that you have to explain what you are, OK?" Danny nodded, eager for some answers. "By the way," he said as he turned to walk away, "the name's Dominic, what's yours?"
Danny thought for a second, deciding what name he should give him, not wanting him to find out his secret identity, but not wanting to get caught in a lie either. After a few moments he had decided.
"Phantom."
"Come again?" Dominic asked.
"My name is Phantom," Danny replied.
"Whatever, let's just get going," Dominic said, obviously not wanting to pursue the point any longer. Without waiting for Danny to respond, he started running in midair, heading back towards town. Danny quickly flew up and matched pace with him, neither speaking as they traveled. When they neared town again, Danny noticed they were heading to the area of town where Valerie lived. He wondered where their final destination was, and got his answer when Dominic headed toward an abandoned looking warehouse, landing in front of the door.
"Oh come on!" Dominic exclaimed, obviously annoyed, as he fumbled around in his kimono's pockets. "Don't tell me I left the keys inside again!"
"Why don't you just go back in the way you left?" Danny asked, confused.
"Because I keep forgetting this door locks automatically, and I was in a hurry and forgot to prop it open!" Dominic shouted with his hand clutching his head in exasperation. "Now I can't get back in without breaking a window, and I just made sure there weren't any drafts! Do you have any ideas Phantom?" he asked as he turned around, and then did a double take as he saw Danny, grinning like the cat that ate the canary, holding a key ring.
"Are these the keys you were talking about?" Danny asked, his grin growing even wider.
"What, How, When…?" Dominic spluttered, trying to figure out what Danny had done.
"You dropped them over here, I just picked them up," Danny replied, still grinning. What Danny had really done, however, was turn his arm intangible, stick it through the wall, grab the keys, turn them intangible, pull them through the wall, and turned them tangible again. "Here," Danny said as he tossed the keys to Dominic, "Can you hold onto them while opening the door?"
"Ha, ha, very funny," Dominic grumbled as he opened the door. "Just get in, before something else happens," he said as he held the door open, closing it after Danny had floated in.
As Dominic led him through a maze of boxes, Danny wondered how the Box Ghost hadn't come there yet, there were so many of them! Dominic then headed up the stairs to an old warehouse manager's office, and as he opened the door Danny saw the weirdest thing that entire day, a human reading a book that looked EXACTLY like Dominic! Even weirder, Dominic just walked up and walked into the human, who then coughed up a pill, which he put in an empty jar on a shelf!
"So, he said as he turned to face Danny, "What did you want to talk about Phantom?"
"EVERYTHING!" Danny said loudly, still shook up from a few moments ago. "Who and what you are, how you just walked into that guy, what that thing was, everything," he said firmly.
"Alright, I'll start with the basics," Dominic replied.
To be continued. (I know I'm evil, get with the program.)