Time's Reflection
By: Wilona Riva
Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom.
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? ~Frank Scully
Plasmius
DING DONG!
"Danny, would you get the door, please?" Maddie called out from the kitchen,
"Yeah," came the answer from the cold spot on the couch. Danny shimmered into visibility; he'd been watching tv for the last half hour, waiting for everyone to arrive. Walking over the door, he opened it, slammed it shut, then flickered back into invisibility.
"Who was that?" Maddie asked, popping her head out the kitchen door.
"No one," Danny's voice replied, from the direction of the couch.
"No one, indeed, Daniel," came the rich cultural voice of Plasmius near his ear, causing the boy to flicker visible long enough for Maddie to catch sight of what her son was wearing.
"Daniel James Fenton, what happened to your jumpsuit?" she demanded. "Is this why you've been invisible all day?"
Danny's form flickered into view, standing shoulder to shoulder with a blue-skinned vampiric looking ghost. "Was that really necessary, Plasmius?" he said, glaring up at him.
"Yes," Plasmius said, with a smirk on his face. "Honestly, dear child, you are the foster son of the the Clan Chief of the Far Frozen. You have to dress the part."
Danny glared at him in response. The outfit in question was a pair of dark emerald trousers, with a long-sleeved dark-emerald tunic with a leather jerkin and a fur-trimmed wool cloak completing the ensemble. The boy wore a pair of fur-trimmed knee-length cross-gartered boots. "I look like a cross between something from the medieval period and the viking era," he grumbled.
"You look adorable," she laughed, causing him to blush. "So you are the mysterious tutor of Danny's, I take?"
"Yes," the ghost said, making a sweeping bow to the huntress. "He has made remarkable progress with his gifts. His latent cryokinetics are soon to come to the forefront, if I am not mistaken."
Danny shivered slightly. Frostbite had already cornered Danny on his last visit to his mother and had touched his core declaring within the year, the boy would be transitioning to the Far Frozen for the same rigorous training as his mother had undergone.
"Jack and Jazz went to the movies, so I'm afraid you won't be able to meet them," Maddie told him sorrowfully, "but Danny's friends should be arriving soon. You're the chaperone, I assume."
"I am," he confirmed. "I have my own method of protection, Daniel, so the bracelet won't be necessary." He chuckled. "I'm a fire elemental," he explained to Maddie, "arctic weather doesn't agree with my core."
"I see," she said. "I'm sorry about Danny's rudeness earlier."
"That's quite alright," Plasmius told her. "It's a mute point between Daniel and I."
Maddie noted Danny standing behind Vlad. His eyes were glowing a soft sapphire-white. "Don't you dare," she warned him.
Plasmius turned and saw Daniel's eyes. He gulped. "Daniel..."
"Shelve it," the boy interrupted, "they're here." He'd spotted Valerie, Dash and Paulina, Kwan and Star, and Sam and Tucker coming up the walkway. All of them were wearing winter weather clothing. Paulina looked exceptionally hot in hers-hot pink striped white sweater, pink arm warmers, white leggings and tan fur-trimmed boots and a white earmuffs.
"Whoa, dude!" Tucker exclaimed, laughing at Danny's getup. "What are you wearing?"
"Can it," Danny grumbled, motioning them all inside. "Ember's blasted idea. Plasmius just arrived moments ago."
"How are we going to get there?" Kwan asked, showing his bracelet when Danny asked if they all had theirs. All revealed them.
"They act as a kind of teleportation device, not just for protection against the cold," Danny said, shifting into his ghost form. With the addition of the echo in his voice and the slight change in skin tone and the soft glow about him, Sam didn't notice any difference. His hair had changed to full white in the full week since his last trip into Ghost Zone; his emerald eyes danced with the inner fire that all ghosts had.
"Where are the others?" she asked him.
"Apricot, Ember, Wulf and Youngblood will meet us there," Phantom replied, the Ring of Rage visible on one hand, as he slid on the cross-gartered fur-trimmed arm warmers that he pulled from a purse at his waist.
"Link hands," Plasmius ordered, handing a slender looking necklace to Maddie, an inviting smile on his lips. "Come with us, Maddie-dear. You can catch up on old times with Sarah. King Pariah himself may even make an appearance, I've been told."
"Well..."
"Mom, put the dang bracelet on and let's go!" Danny yelled at her, as he linked hands with Paulina and Sam, the former flirting openly with him.
"Well, when you put it so eloquently that way, Prince Phantom," his mother teased, taking the bracelet from Plasmius and clicking it shut on her arm, "how can a girl resist?"