Author's Note: This chapter's out there. I mean way out there… Perfect. I do not own Danny, Ember, Johnny, Kitty, Tucker, or Sam. Keep those reviews coming everyone. Even if they're bad. Tell me what you think, and please tell me if it made you laugh. That's what this whole story is about. Now here is chapter three. Hope ya'll enjoy!
One Wild Night in Vegas: Chapter Three
Tucker drove through the downtown Las Vegas Traffic. It was completely stifling yet the cars moved surprisingly fast. Danny stared at the small white card with the words Stinton's Gym in big bold letters.
"So what do you think you have that for?" Kitty asked him.
"I'm not sure. I mean out of all the things we found in our pockets this seems so out of place." Danny replied turning it over. On the back it had writing from a black pen. The messy scrawl read simply, He's good. Let him in. For the life of him Danny couldn't figure out what it meant.
Ember had been struggling with something up in the front. Danny looked up from the card and saw she was wearing a silver ring with small engravings and an opal in the center. "Hey! That's my class ring!" Danny exclaimed leaning forward and grabbing her hand. "Why do you have it?"
"I don't know dipstick but I can't freakin' get it off!... Hey wait. That's my ring you're wearing!" Ember said.
Danny looked down at the ring that had given him so much trouble earlier. Now that she said it, the band did look like something Ember would wear.
"Give it back now." The girl demanded.
"I can't. It won't come off either." He retorted.
"Um this is just a suggestion but have either of you tried ghosting through it?" Johnny said.
They both just stared at him for a bit before simultaneously smacking their foreheads.
"That's ok folks. The genius will be here all week." He said smugly as Tucker laughed from up front.
Danny tried first but the ring only turned with him. He looked up at Ember questioningly. She shrugged and said. "I was wearing it when I died. Maybe it reacts to ghost powers like that."
He sighed and said. "If that's the case you won't have any more luck with mine. I was wearing it when I was first transformed." Sure enough, Ember tried only for the ring to go with her.
"Genius huh?" Ember said looking back at Johnny.
"Hey don't blame me just because you weren't smart enough to come up with that on your own." He said never losing his smug expression.
"We're here." Tucker said as they pulled up in the parking lot of the Luxor Hotel. Their small group got up and out of the Hummer. As they approached the front lobby employees seemed to scatter at their approach.
"What? Are we contagious or something?" Tucker asked as they looked around.
"Uh excuse me?" Danny said to a bellhop who had his back turned.
"Yes? Can I help youuaaAARGH!" Upon turning and seeing them the young man immediately bolted into a service entrance.
"Oookay…" Ember said. "That's not a good sign."
"What are you doing here?" A voice inquired from behind them. The group turned to see a middle aged man in a suit, with his arms crossed and an angry expression etched across his face.
"Uh well we…" Danny began only to be interrupted by Ember. "What the hell is wrong here! I mean we're being treated like we have the plague!"
The man snorted. "Well I'm not surprised. The way you carried on last night. I'm grateful I even have a staff left! Twelve of them quit last night!"
"Well what does that have to do with us?" Johnny demanded.
He looked at each of them carefully before finally barking out a low mirthless laugh and saying. "Oh my god. You don't remember anything, do you?"
The five shook their heads. "Well. Allow me to refresh your memories. You two tried to have sex everywhere on everything." He said pointing at Johnny and Kitty, the latter of which blushed fiercely. "You hit on everything that didn't have penis." He said as he moved to Tucker. "You tried to play the most god awful music I've ever heard to anyone who would listen. And to a few who wouldn't." Pointed at Ember who growled. "However, I can handle all of that. No problem… If it wasn't for you." He said with a glare at Danny.
"M-me? What did I do." Danny asked. The other four looked over at him with bewildered stares.
"First you start picking fights with the guests, then when I sent my two PROFESSIONAL bouncers to take care of you, you end up laying them out. You drank like a fiend, danced like a fool, and to top it all off you managed to freak out even more people with those little magic tricks of yours. And mind you, these people just got out of Mr. Angel's show." He said menacingly.
"Magic tricks?" Danny said with a hint of confusion.
"Yeah! Magic tricks! If I wasn't so pissed off at you I'd offer you a job. That thing you did where you stuck the whole upper half of your body through your girlfriend over there." He shuddered. "That fuckin' freaked me out."
"Oh yeah… Magic… Right." Danny said nervously, not even registering that the manager had pointed at Ember when he said girlfriend. He just couldn't believe he had used his ghost powers like that.
"Say… Where's the other one?" The guy said looking around.
"Other what?" Kitty asked.
"Well there were six of you last night. She seemed to be having fun but overall she wasn't anywhere near as bad as you five." He said.
"So I guess Sam was still with us here." Tucker said.
"Look I'm sorry for all the trouble we caused but we kind of lost our friend last night and we're trying to find her. Do you remember what time we came in?" Danny asked.
"Around nine if I'm not mistaken. And you all left together at ten fifty three." He added.
"That last time's pretty precise." Tucker said.
"Longest hour and fifty three minutes of my life." The man said. "Now I'm sorry but I'm going to have to ask you to leave." He added trying to get around them to usher them to the door.
"Wait. We don't know where to look from here." Danny protested.
"Sorry. Not my problem." He said giving them gentle but urgent shoves.
"Danny! Is that you man!" The group stopped where they were and turned to see a man walking over to them. His hair long and a deep shade of black. He wore a plethora of gothic paraphernalia and was smiling at the group.
"Criss Angel?" Danny said completely surprised the magician knew him.
"How are you doing man?" He asked shaking Danny's hand.
"Uh pretty good. You?" Danny responded a little uncertain.
"Oh man I'm doing great. You and your friends sure do know how to party. How's it goin Tuck? Johnny? Ember? Kitty?" He said looking at each of them. Tucker, Johnny, and Ember all looked fairly confused. Kitty on the other hand seemed to have lost the ability to speak from the sheer glee of Criss Angel knowing her.
"Uh is somethin' wrong guys?" He asked.
"Look uh… Criss. We… can't remember a damn thing from last night." Danny said feeling a little ashamed as he said it.
"… Really? Nothing?" He asked as each of them shook their heads. "Damn. That's too bad. We had a hell of a time."
"Yes well that hell of a time is over Mr. Angel. And they were just leaving." The manager responded trying to get them out the door once again.
"Woah hang on. Someone's missing. Where's Sam?" Criss asked looking over the group.
"We don't know. We're trying to find her… Hey do you know where we went after here?" Danny asked.
"Yeah. You wanted to fight so bad that I sent you to Stinton's Gym. They have bare knuckle prize fights there every Friday night." He explained.
"So now we know where to look next." Tucker said.
"Yeah. Hey listen Criss thank you." Danny said as they left.
"No problem Danny. Hey! Someday you're going to have to come back and show me how you did that color change thing with your hair!" The magician called out, waving to them.
Danny waved back and nodded nervously. "Uh sure thing! Thanks again!"
The manager finally pushed them outside. "Thank you for coming to the Luxor Hotel. Please feel free to never ever come back again." He said before closing the glass doors behind him.
"What now?" Johnny asked as they gathered in a small circle.
"Well I guess the next place is this gym. I mean at this point, it's the best lead we have." Danny said.
The group nodded and Tucker said. "No arguments here."
Danny nodded back at them. "Alright everyone. Let's get OOOF!" A large fist came from out of nowhere and smashed into Danny's jaw. He spun around twice before falling to the sidewalk, unconscious.
"Woah! What the hell man?" Tucker said rushing over to his friend.
Ember had knelt next to him. "Dipstick? You alright?"
"Honest mom. The crumbs aren't mine." Danny mumbled incoherently.
"Yeah he's fine." Ember stated.
Once they made sure Danny was ok the four conscious ones looked up and gasped at what they saw. A middle aged man stood in front of them. He had a dark red beard, steely eyes, and a muscular frame. The tendons in his neck popped as he turned his head one way, and then the other.
"Ch…Ch… Chuck N… Norris?" Tucker stammered.
"Alright punks. I'm only going to ask this once. Where's my Hummer?" The former action star asked staring at them calmly yet dangerously.
Ember leaned over and whispered. "What are we gonna do?"
"Uh…uh… run." Tucker said grabbing Danny's other shoulder.
"What!" Ember asked both shocked and scared as Chuck advanced on them.
"Fucking run!" Tucker yelled as the group got the message.
They took off through the parking lot with Chuck right behind them. "Get your asses back here!" He yelled out angrily.
Tucker and Ember each had one of Danny's arms as they sprinted towards the hummer. Tucker took out the key and remotely opened the back.
Johnny, who was at the back of the group, looked behind himself to see the peeved star catching up to them. "Shadow! Stall!" He ordered as they neared the vehicle. A black form flew out across the asphalt from under Johnny's feet and stopped just in front of Chuck. To anyone watching it would have looked like he had simply tripped although, in later conversations, he would swear he felt something grab hold of his ankle as he ran.
They threw Danny in the back and quickly shut it, as they rushed to get inside. Just as Chuck caught up to the car Tucker pressed the lock button. After attempting to yank the door open he yelled in anger and actually punched through the double paned shatter proof glass.
"Oh shit!" Tucker said as an arm attempted to grab onto him.
"Floor it Tucker!" Ember yelled as she tried to push the arm back out.
Tucker threw it in reverse and peeled out of the parking lot. Chuck ran after them a little ways before stopping to yell some things that in all probability were not that kind. They finally got out on the road once again. "What the fuck is going on!" Kitty screamed in a panic.
"Oh my god. We just stole Chuck Norris's Hummer." Tucker said still shaking from their experience.
"Wait! Why the fuck didn't you just give him the keys!" Johnny asked.
"I panicked alright!" Tucker yelled back.
Ember shook her head and looked towards the back. "You doin ok back there dipstick?"
Danny sat up slowly and looked around before stating in an annoyed voice. "Look I can't make a pecan pie without baking soda so quit asking." He then slumped back down in a still dazed state.
"Right." Ember said turning back towards the front.