BID 4
This chapter is dedicated to PSC because of a dare.
And to book phan44 because they were the 48 review and 8 is an amazing number.
Danny laid in his bed sleeping soundly. A shadow moved under his door hovering before it. The teen boy rolling over in his sleep as the door creaked open and a figure entered the room. Danny continued to snore sleeping peacefully and having a great dream while the shadow stretched across his bed. The figure raised a hand out over the boy sleeping peacefully bringing the outstretched hand to the boy's head pausing just above as Danny snorted in his sleep. The hand then grabbed Danny's shoulder causing the young boy to yelp out in surprise falling backwards off his bed and taking a fighting stance. The figure in the dark laughed and the light clicked on.
"Rise and shine sleeping beauty." Tucker called from the door way Sam holding her stomach and laughing as Danny fought with his sheets trying to get back on his bed.
"Any reason why you're waking me up at… two… I repeat two in the morning?" Danny asked angrily as he crawled back into bed and covered up.
"What gives dude you asked us to?" Tucker said coming into the room. Danny pulled the blankets over his head and ignored them. Sam rolled her eyes and grabbed the blanket it turning intangible as she tried to grab it.
"Very mature Danny." Sam said. Danny gave a light snore. Tucker smiled, then clicked through his PDA.
"I TECHNUS GHOST MAST ER OF ALL THING ELECTRONIC AND BEEPING-" A nasal voice came out of the device. Danny bolted up faster than you could say potatoes and looked wildly around going ghost in that same instant.
"Good morning." Sam said happily. Danny groaned then glared at Tucker whose PDA was now giving off the noises of a ghost fight.
"Why?" Danny begged flopping back down onto his bed.
"Because I knew that it would come in handy one day, you never know when you'll need an egotistical rant to break the monotony." Tucker smiled, "I was actually planning to hook it up to some wireless speaker which I would have you put in the vents and then play it during Lancer's class… but this works too… oh man I wish I would have gotten that on camera!" Tucker face palmed. Danny closed his eyes and was snoring again.
"Lets drag the ghost boy out of bed." Sam said pointing toward Danny. Tucker nodded and they grabbed onto Danny's feet dragging him down and out of the hall as a snot bubble came out of his nose while he slept. Maddie nearly had a heart attack seeing a sleeping Danny Phantom being dragged down her hallways as she got up to investigate the noises she had heard.
"Heya Mrs. Fenton." Tucker said dropping one booted foot to wave at Maddie. Danny let off a soft snore, his arms above his head and his white hair looking like it had been spiked up from Sam and Tucker dragging him across the floor in the hallway. The white hair swept of his forehead and into the strands above his head on the floor.
"Hi Tucker, hi Sam, why are you dragging my son across the floor now?" Maddie asked. Sam and Tucker exchanged a look.
"School project?" the asked more than responded at the same time. Maddie nodded putting a finger to her lips and crossing her other arm across her stomache.
"So, why exactly is he a ghost right now?" Maddie asked. Tucker grinned then pulled out his PDA and pressed play.
"I TECHNUS GHOST MASTER OF ALL-"
Danny shot up once more then saw Tucker grabbed the PDA and put it inside the wall then turned and curled up in the hallway. Maddie let herself smile then squatted down to the ghost boy.
"Danny… Danny… wake up Danny… wake up or the tickle monster is going to get you!" Maddie warned as if talking to a child. Danny groaned then rolled over and fell through the floor. Maddie stared at the spot her son just was while Sam and Tucker laughed as the thump that came from down stairs followed by sharp yelp. Sam and Tucker ran down stairs Maddie slowly following as Jazz groaned from her room. Danny landed half in the counter and half out and blinked as he observed his upper torso sticking out of the cabinets.
"Oh." He said staring and blinking, Sam and Tucker came in and started laughing. Getting out of the counter and rubbing his eyes turning human just as his mom walked in Danny went to the fridge and pulled out a Pepsi. He guzzled it then began coughing as the carbonated water filled his nose. Blinking and looking around he smiled sleepily at Sam, Tucker, and his mom as they stood in the door.
"Sorry." He said, "I'm sure you had fun getting me up." Danny smiled.
"Seriously Danny, you sleep like the dead!" Sam smiled, Tucker and Danny laughed but Maddie just stood there not sure how to take that. After all she'd just found out a day ago her son was dying.
"There's a reason for that." Danny said before taking another swig of Pepsi. Sam and Tucker chuckled, Maddie covered her mouth causing Danny to look up.
"What?" Danny asked her. Maddie uncovered her mouth.
"How can you three joke about something like this, we just found out yesterday Danny only has a month to live." Maddie said, "how can you act like this isn't a big deal?" Maddie asked. Danny and his friend exchanged looks, Danny looked down at the ground.
"Look Mrs. F, we all know that this is a big deal." Sam said.
"But honestly, we try not to think about it." Tucker shrugged.
"I don't want to be pitied, babied, or have anybody regret the time we've spent together." Danny said, "I just want things to go on as normal. I don't want anybody to think of me as dying, just living to the fullest for a month." Danny said, "Mom, if we dwell on this, the fact that I might be gone next month, the sad things, the bad things, then… well then we will sulk in the house and cry every night and I won't live before I die. The last month of my life will be spent in idleness." Danny explained, "So I'm not dying, I'm living." Danny smiled.
"Plus when things get scary for Danny he just jokes about it." Sam said. Danny pulled off an incredibly bashful grin. Maddie looked at all of them, she didn't know what she would do when she found out about Danny, at the rate the ectoplasm was regenerating it would be only a month before it took over his entire system. But to see her son and his friends walking around like they didn't have a care in the world was something strange. Maddie guess that they would mope about and regret that Danny was dying but… they did the exact opposite. Maddie blinked then smiled at Danny.
"That's a great way of thinking about it." Maddie smiled. Danny laughed.
"Come on you guys." Danny motioned for Sam and Tucker and grabbed their hands going ghost and flying up through the ceiling. Maddie watched the trio leave then her smile fell and tears streamed down her face.
(I'm fal~ling, down into my sha~dow)
Danny smiled over at Sam and Tucker then smiled before jumping out of the plane Sam and Tucker following.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Tucker screamed, Sam was laughing and Danny was relaxing falling through the air on his back. The dive instructor was yelling at him and gesturing for Danny to flip over, the instructor angling his body toward the toward the teen. Danny flipped over and the four of them pulled the chords to the parachutes and floated down over the town lazily.
"It's so beautiful up here. Not quite like flying, but I looks so peaceful." Sam said.
"Are you sure it's ok to dive like this?" Tucker asked clinging to his pack feet curled in like a ball.
"No, I don't know." Danny said. Then paused, "But here we are." He smiled. They drifted down. The instructor arranging them so they could land at their designated landing spot. Danny could see crowds gathering wondering what was going on and Danny snapped is fingers pulling out sunglasses. Sam and Danny put on pairs of sunglasses as Danny did his Fonz impression. Tucker pulled out his sunglasses and tried to hold them onto his face as their target grew closer. Danny mimed running against the wind causing his chute to shake.
The trio smiled getting red as their instructor taught them to land. A couple minutes later they were running across the football field and waiting for the guy to come around and help them out of the harnesses and get them settled to go into school.
"Fenton?" Dash called out of the crowd as people gather watching the spectacle. Danny still had on his glasses and he Sam and Tucker were pulling off their best Ferris Buller. Lancer walked up to Danny hands on his hips.
"Mr. Fenton, Ms. Manson, Mr. Foley… my office now." Lancer said. Danny followed Sam and Tucker behind them. People were laughing and wondering how he pulled it off.
(Grasping onto every breath, as I await the deadly night)
Maddie somehow managed to convince Lancer not to expel the trio, the Manson's money might have had something to do with that as well but the trio was forced to serve detention. The trio sat in Lancer's class for detention along with a few miscellaneous kids. Danny stared at the desk drawing in his notebook and smiling to himself as he doodled. A girl in front of him turned to ask him something.
"Ms. Laux, I'd appreciate it if you could leave Mr. Fenton alone, and not talk in detention." Lancer glared. The girl nodded but stuck out her tongue at Lancer while he wasn't looking then proceeded to lay on the desk and fall asleep.
"Danny." Mikey whispered, Danny looked back at him.
"What are you doing, this is the second time you've gotten into trouble." Mikey said, "If I didn't know any better I'd think you were doing a list." Mikey said. Danny looked down at his doodle which was a picture of a giant shoe the tip of which caught on fire with random monsters partying on the toe.
"You are aren't you!" Said the girl from before turning around. Lancer looked up.
"Jennifer!"
"What's next?" another kid asked.
"Butch!" Lancer said.
"Are you making it a contest!" Asked another kid excited.
"Carl! That's a dumb idea!" Another kid said.
"Carl, Paul enough all of you." Lancer said. Carl chuckled sadistically while Jennifer gave a wicked looking smile and then turned around.
"Daniel." Lancer said, Danny looked up.
"What are you doing anyway?" he asked genuinely. Danny paused then leaned back in his chair.
"I'm trying to live to my fullest while I'm still alive. Is something wrong with that?" Danny asked. Lancer paused put off by Danny's answer.
"Well, please do so off school grounds." Lancer said.
"I can't." Danny said, "Well not with most of it." Danny amended.
"And why not?" Asked Lancer eyes narrowing.
"Because I'll be in school during most of the time that I have to do this." Danny said.
"Well put it off till summer break then." Lancer answered. A look of hurt and despair came over Danny's face.
"I can't." Danny said hanging his head. Lancer paused.
"Oh." Jennifer said realizing something. She gave Danny a strange look, "it's a… bucket list." Jennifer whispered. Danny stared at the doodle. Jennifer stared at him.
"I'm right aren't I?" she asked softly. Danny focused on the doodle. Jennifer sighed curiosity eating away at her. No matter how curious she was she wasn't going to be rude so she fell silent once more. The rest of detention continued without an issue.
As they left Jennifer caught up with Danny.
"Hey, I'm sorry about that… I'm sure you didn't want people to know if they even understood what was going on. But I'm really sorry about bringing that up and…"
"Don't worry about it." Danny said.
"I…" Jennifer tried to find the words.
"Look I don't want to be pitied." Danny said, "Plush there's a chance that things might work out different so I might be doing this for nothing." Danny smiled. Jennifer chuckled a little.
"Well if nothing else it breaks the monotony of this school. This is why we need more random things to happen. YEAH TOAST!" Jennifer yelled. Danny made a face, "see you around, can't wait to see what you do next." Jennifer waved and ran off. Danny shrugged his shoulders then went to his locker and pulled out his backpack putting it on.
"She was kind of weird." Sam said, "I think she moved here last year, he dressed in all purple the first day, kinda weirded people out." Sam smiled with a laugh, "I like her style."
"But Sam, you're goth." Tucker said. Sam slapped him upside the head.
"I'm mean that she's not afraid to be who she is… Carl on the other hand just freaks me out, its like he's going to grow up to be a serial killer or something." Sam said Danny laughed.
"He's best friend with Paul though, I don't know how that guy stands him." Danny said walking down the hall.
"Butch is pretty cool too, he just moved here, kind of a quiet kid, but he's really good with computers and photoshop. He's a big book worm to though so not quite a techie like me." Tucker smiled.
"Raven didn't say anything through the entire thing though." Sam said, "she's a cutter." Sam said, "Your sister's pet project in fact." Sam said. Danny face palmed.
"Jazz… what are we going to do with her?" Danny asked.
"Tie her up with another therapist and have them psychoanalyze each other?" Tucker suggested. Danny laughed.
"Sounds great, but I'm not paying."
"No see it'll cancel each other out, jazz bills them, they bill Jazz and the payments cancel out!" Tucker said.
"You've been reading troll science again haven't you." Sam said. Tucker blushed a little.
"No!" he protested.
"I think he answered a little too quickly." Sam said. Danny laughed.
"I agree." Danny said. Tucker pushed the door open and the trio exited the school.
"Well maybe just a little bit, I just need a giant magnet now!" Tucker said. Sam and Danny both rolled their eyes.
"Yup, he's been reading it." They both said.
SUBMIT BUCKET LIST IDEAS IN YOUR REVEIWS!
Well not so much with the bucket list right now. Just a few random made up characters.