I do not own Danny Phantom. I got Stan Lee's autograph at Comic Con, and I got a FNAF poster along with a mudkip plushy. Yay for video games and anime!
"Thanks for the party guys, but I've gotta go, or my guardian would kill me," Danny blinked. "Well, half kill me."
Sydney Poindexter smiled. "Alright Danny, Happy early Death Day!"
The halfa smiled in thanks and called Cujo. The dog came happily running back to his master. Danny waved a goodbye then teleported outside of the large skull mountain, and started to fly home with Cujo hot on his tail (literally, he had a spectral tail).
When they arrived home, the duo flew to Clockwork's main working room. Danny smiled when he saw his guardian watching Princess Dora's time stream. "Hi Clockwork! Anything for me to do now?"
The time master shook his head and sent the stream away. He looked over to the teen with a smile on his face. "No, but I do have your Death Day gift."
Cujo grinned. "Wow, Danny! So many early gifts!"
Danny smiled at his guardian. "What is it?"
Clockwork took a deep breath that he didn't need. "I'm going to allow you into the Human Realm tomorrow."
The halfa's eyes widened. "Wow! Seriously? I haven't been to the human world in nine years! What makes it okay now?"
"You have grown up. You are responsible enough to go there without supervision. But you know I'm always paying attention to you," he winked. "The scythe you got can store ecto-energy from your core, and you can use it to create portals to the Human Realm."
Danny grinned and summoned his scythe. "Can I try it?"
"Sure, but do not go in," the now old man warned.
The teen nodded and put his left hand on the handle along with his right and concentrated on putting his energy in the weapon. It started to glow green, causing Danny to ask, "Alright, what do I do now?"
Clockwork replied, "Just slash the air, and it will make a rift. It will close when you re-slash it."
Danny complied, slashing the air with his new scythe. A green tear opened, but he quickly shut it. "Master Danny, that's awesome!" Cujo barked happily.
"That reminds me, Cujo needs a disguise," the time ghost gave a different collar to Cujo, taking the other off. It looked exactly like the last one. His fur went from green to silvery-white, his eyes from red to brown. He hadn't looked like that in 9 years.
"I remember that disguise! You had it for a few days when I was five!" Danny exclaimed.
Clockwork nodded. "You won't believe this, but you stayed at that party all day. It's ten right now, so go get some rest."
LINEBREAK. THE NEXT MORNING!
After Danny's morning routine, he ran up to his guardian's work room. "Can I go? Can I go? Can I go? Can I-"
"Stop, Danny." Clockwork chuckled. "Yes, you may go, but there are rules. One, stay in your human form most of the time. The town you will go to does not believe in ghosts, but they do have ghost hunters. The hunters even have a ghost portal, but shut it down years ago. Two, your name in human form is Daniel Work. You know your ghost form's name. Three, don't spend this all in one place."
Clockwork then gave Danny a green wallet with a lot of human dollars in it, about $150. He put it in his pocket.
"Thank you so much!" he ran over and gave the old ghost a large hug, transforming as he did so. The white haired teen summoned his scythe and made a portal. He hopped in with Cujo following behind.
They landed in an alley, and the halfa quickly shut the rip and turned human. He grinned at his dog who smiled back. Alright, let's go.
Okay, Master Danny. So, what do we do first? The dog thought back.
Danny was about to 'reply,' but instead he bumped into a large teen about his age. "Ow, sorry about that."
"Hey, watch where you're going loser!" the blond jock growled. He raised a fist as if to punch Danny.
The halfa raised an eyebrow and caught the fist half a centimeter from his face. "Don't do that. It could hurt somebody."
He then let go and started walking down the street, leaving a baffled jock in the dust. He smirked to his dog. I guess some humans are jerks. Eh, some ghosts are, but seriously, trying to punch some stranger in the face because I accidentally bumped into him? Wow.
Danny looked around. He saw a food joint that said 'Nasty Burger' for some reason. "Come on Cujo, let's go get some food."
The duo walked over to the restaurant. Danny's eyes narrowed when he saw a 'NO PETS' sign. Dang, I guess you'll have to stay outside, or just turn invisible and intangible at the same time…
The dog nodded. Alright.
Danny looked around and saw that no one was watching, so he told his dog via telepathy he could become hidden to the human eye. They walked in, but first Danny headed to the bathroom. He walking in and looked in the mirror. His eyes narrowed.
He didn't have his DP symbol on his vest, and he looked at Cujo and saw that he didn't have it on his collar either. Huh, why isn't my logo on my vest or your collar? Weird.
His eyes widened. He was half ghost, and his name was Danny Phantom as one. If people saw Danny Work have Danny Phantom's logo, that might raise some suspicion. He told Cujo, and left the bathroom area.
The halfa walked over to the line, and looked at the menu. Almost everything had over two-hundred calories. He looked over the menu once more and saw there was a vegetarian menu. Grinning, he decided on what to order. Want anything, Cujo?
Danny saw his dog invisibly shake his head. I had food before we left, but thank you Master Danny!
It was his turn to order. "I'll take an egg salad with ranch dressing, please."
The cashier nodded. "Anything else?"
The teen nodded. "Yes, a water please."
"You're total is $8.99," she replied with a smile. Danny took out a ten from his wallet and gave it to the girl. "Thank you, your food will be brought over to the left."
He put his hands in his jean's pockets and walked over to the side, waiting for his food. He hummed some songs that he had heard Ember sing the night before. Wasn't it called Glory Days or something like that, Cujo? Isn't the person what wrote it a human?
Yeah, I think Ember called the artist Bruce Springsteen.
Danny's food was handed to him. "Thank you," he said with a smile, and headed out the door. Cujo, looking around, turned visible and tangible, since no one was looking.
The halfa sat at a bench that no one was using. He took out his salad and ate, while Cujo sat at the side and looked around in wonder.
When Danny finished his salad, he threw away the garbage and walked over to pet Cujo. "What do you want to do now, bud?"
"Excuse me?" a female voice asked behind him.
"Yeah?" the halfa turned around to see a girl with short black hair and a small ponytail on top. She wore gothic makeup with a black tank-top with a purple oval in the middle, along with a black skirt with green horizontal and vertical stripes. The female teen also had long purple socks with black combat boots, and on both of her wrists were black bracelets. Finally, she had a black choker on.
Next to the girl was an African-American boy with glasses, a red beret, an ugly yellow sweatshirt, green pants, and brown boots. He looked scared out of his wits.
"Is that your dog? Or is it a family dog?" she asked with excitement in her voice.
Danny raised an eyebrow at her and stood to his full height. "This is my dog, Cujo. Say hi, Cujo."
The dog barked. "Hello!"
Ugly Sweatshirt dived behind Goth Chick. "Ahh! Why'd you talk me into seeing this thing, Sam?!"
The halfa glared at Ugly Sweatshirt. "For your information, he is not a thing. He is a fully grown Saint Bernard dog that I found on the streets. Cujo listens to whatever I say. We can pretty much understand each other."
The newly dubbed 'Sam' raised an eyebrow. "Everything you say? Isn't that kinda, I don't know, impossible?"
"Alright, what do you want him to do?" smirked Danny. "By the way, I'm Danny. Who's the guy with the ugly sweatshirt?"
Sam laughed while Ugly Sweatshirt blushed. "I'm Sam and this is Tucker. Hm… Can your dog go to that tree, run around it three times, and come back and sit down?"
Danny told Cujo what he had to do. Don't nod, he added mentally. The girl seems to catch onto things quickly.
The dog happily trotted over to the tree Sam pointed to, ran around it three times, came back, and sat. The goth's eyes widened. "That's so cool! Do you need a leash for Cujo?"
The halfa shook his head. "Nope. He's very well trained, I'd say the best in the Gh- I mean Earth, yep, Earth." He smiled sheepishly.
Sam raised an eyebrow. "Alright, do you have a phone number? I'd like to see you again."
"No, I don't have one, my guardian-"
Tucker cut him off. "WHAT?! You don't have a phone?! What kind of parents do you have?! Don't worry Sarah, he won't insult you ever again!" he took out a weird gadget and started rubbing it lovingly.
Danny coughed awkwardly. "Uh, I live with my guardian. I don't have parents, I was pretty much abandoned. So, uh, yeah. Although my guardian is the best dad I could ever ask for," he finished with a smile.
Sam smacked Tucker on the back of his head. "Good job, doofus! He probably doesn't even trust us enough to tell him about his past."
He waved one of his hands as if to dismiss it. "It's alright. Well I gotta go, see you guys later."
The duo waved as Danny walked off with Cujo towards the forest. Suddenly he groaned. "I really want to go flying, but Clockwork said not to unless it was an emergency."
As they wandered deeper into the woods, he grew more bored. "Hey, Clocky said I never could use my scythe..."
He summoned his weapon, and let it go, falling on the ground. Cujo walked over to a large shady area to take a nap.
Danny started to use his telekinesis on his scythe, sitting down as it started to float. He twirled it around, and then brought it to his hands. He stood up and started to move it around his hands and arms, as if he had done it a million times before.
Suddenly he had a thought. If he could transfer ecto-energy into it, could he put his cryokinesis into it as well? Only one way to find out! He summoned his ice core and put the energy into his weapon. He then focused on blasting the ground with his scythe, his weapon complying and doing as he says. The ground became covered in ice and snow, but mostly ice.
Danny grinned as his scythe disappeared. He put his hand on the frigid ground. The ice started to meld into a different shape. Since it was ghost ice, it would not melt unless the halfa absorbed the energy back into his core.
Soon he had a perfect ice statue of a grandfather clock, making him smile and chuckle. His smile was soon cut off when he heard a barely audible whisper from the human ears…
"Um, Tuck, did you hear that laugh?"