A/N: So, the following taco that will be mentioned is one of my mom's best dishes.
I don't own Danny Phantom. Or the soon-to-be mentioned cheese. :3
"Okay." Sam sighed and rested her hand on her chin. "Devon has been acting nervous lately and I don't know why. He's not telling me something but...what could it be?"
Tucker took a huge bit of his burgers, then replied with his mouth full. "Boys keep a lot of secrets Sam. Maybe, he just needs some space?"
Danny shrugged. "Or maybe he's having trouble relating with you. Girls are complicated.."
Sam rolled her eyes in annoyance. "I can't believe I'm stuck with you idiots. I really need to talk to Valerie. But she's out of town."
"Are you kidding? Last thing we need is you to bonding. My life is complicated enough without my worst enemy trying to blast me into oblivion." Danny sighed.
"Hey guys." Paulina smiled as she approached the table.
And it was then Danny noticed the entire cafeteria had grown unusually quiet. "P-Paulina?"
"Star?" Tucker questioned.
"Mind if we sit next to you?" Star didn't wait for an answer and, instead, slid into the seat. Star turned to Sam and immediately began launched into her latest story about a pair of shoes she'd seen at the mall. Sam merely scowled annoyingly.
"So, what's this I hear about Valerie?" Paulina asked Danny with a tight smile.
Danny frowned in confusion. Why did she look so tense all of a sudden "Well-"
"Are you two still dating?" Paulina asked.
"What? No, not anymore. See," Danny lowered his voice to a whisper. "Valerie's the Red Huntress."
"Que? Hijole! Madre de Puta! No puede ser!" Paulina practically yelled. Several people around them eyed her shockingly.
Danny waited until they all looked away before he continued to explain. "She's one of the best ghost hunters...well, that I know of. But she's shoot first, ask questions never."
Paulina blinked. "Wow, Danny. Your life is really complicated."
Danny sighed wearily. "Yeah, I know. I could really use a break sometime."
Danny glanced up at Paulina, surprised to see her blushing. She smiled nervously. "Uhm, well, if you want we can, you know, go out together."
Danny raised his eyebrows. "You mean like hang out with Tucker, Sam and-"
"I mean us. Just the two of us. Together. Juntos." She bit her lip anxiously.
"He'd love to." Sam butted in with a smirk.
"Really?" Paulina's eyes instantly lit up with excitement.
"Y-yeah. Sure." Danny blushed slightly.
"Cool! How about the park? It's a nice day for a picnic." She smiled gleefully.
Danny nodded dreamily. "Sure."
~~~
Paulina handed Danny another taco. "These are really good." Danny exclaimed.
Paulina blushed. "Thanks. It's chicken, lettuce, my mom's secret salsa and Parmesian cheese."
A small smile formed on Paulina's lips. "You know, this was technically where we had our first date."
Danny's eyes widened as he began choking and coughing. He took a long sip of water before calming down.
"Did I say something wrong?" Paulina felt worry flood over her.
"No, but this is also where you were first attacked." Danny pointed out with a frown.
"Well, do you want to go somewhere else?" Paulina offered.
"Sure. How about the movies?"
Paulina squealed. "Oooh! They're showing the new movie..."
She frowned sensing the familiar warm, tingling feeling spread from her core to the rest of her body.
Danny sat up instantly, his muscles tense. "What is it?" Paulina asked curiously.
"My ghost sense went off." He transformed. The two rings appeared at his middle before seperating. He was now wearing a black and white hazmat suit, white gloves and boots; his hair transformed into a snowy, white color and his icy blue eyes turned into a glowing green color. He floated up into the air as his alter-ego, Danny Phantom.
"Stay here. I won't be long. And don't transform unless it's an absolute emergency. Okay?"
Paulina nodded understandingly and watched as Danny flew off. She watched as he scanned the area and she couldn't help but notice that he always stayed in sight. She felt secure knowing he was nearby in case of an emergency.
Her phone rang making her jump nearly a foot into the air. She growled an inhuman growl and picked up her phone. The screen read Star. She sighed and opened her flip phone.
"Hello? Star?"
"Hey girlfriend!" Star giggled happily.
Paulina furrowed her brows wondering whether or not she had heard a familiar noise in the background. "What's that noise in the background?"
"Oh! Well, Tucker's here. And before you, like, say anything he's just good at technology and he's fixing my computer."
"Right and someday I'll grow ten thousand feet-" Paulina screeched feeling someone grip the collar of her new shirt, her phone slip out of her grip, and someone fling her backwards. She landed with a painful "oof" on the ground.
She stared up wide-eyed at a buff ghost. His raven-black hair was pulled up into a ridiculous hair style, he wore a white outfit with a cape and the worst part was the fact that his creepy, fanged smile seemed eerily familiar.
"What a shame. You're the one I was supposed to catch? Pity. And I had such high hopes for you." The ghost picked her up by the collar again.
She glared and flailed her arms. "Let me go pendejo! Phantom will come for me! Puta! Pendejo! Tonto! Madre de-"
"My dear, your precious Phantom is busy fighting off a ghost to protect you. Or at least that's what he thinks. Now hold sti-" He was cut off by a blow to his face. "Why you little-"
She swung and hit him again with nore force. He blinked then sneered. "Oh. You will regret that little Mexican flower." He dropped her down on the floor.
Paulina's eyes widened as his shadow fell over her.
~~~
Danny furrowed his brows. For some reason it seemed like this ghost was holding back. Like it didn't want to fight him directly.
He shot an ecto-blast and the ghost dodged it. It just continued to run. Or float or whatever. The green blob shot away constantly throwing back his own ecto-blasts. Danny growled in annoyance.
Paulina was probably waiting for him by now. Or she was feeling abandoned. Paulina...Paulina...
His eyes widened in horror as a sudden realization settled over him. He left her alone! What if another ghost managed to capture her during the time he'd taken his eyes off her?
He turned and fled back instantly, the green blob completely forgotten. He could hear Paulina's voice in the distance yelling out spanish cuss words. He heard someone else talking and then a yelp.
He pushed himself to his maximum speed: 120 mph. "Paulina!" Danny yelled. He caught a glimpse of a familiar cape and Paulina's long wavy hair before the ghost went momentarily intangible and took off.
Danny growled and shot up higher into the air. For some reason he was able to fly faster. He was pretty sure he was way past 120 mph. (Somewhere in the distance a cop's gadget measures 160 mph.) Danny glared as the ghost glanced back. He caught sight of a pair of familiar red eyes. "Let her go Plasmius!" Danny bellowed.
Paulina was thrown over Plasmius' shoulder, her hands and mouth bound by pink ectoplasm.
Paulina's eyed began to flutter and Danny took the opprtunity to call her. "PAULINA!" He finally managed to catch up to Plasmius and he knew he was pushing himself to the limit but he didn't care.
His eyes turned into an icy blue color as he hurled a powerful icy blast that hit Plasmius's legs. Danny swung and kicked Vlad hard in the stomach before giving Vlad a punch across the face. The blow sent Paulina and Vlad spiralling to the ground. Danny managed to kick up his speed, sweat covering his forehead.
He pulled Paulina away from Vlad right before the loud crash. Vlad managed to sit up, but not without reverting back to his human form. Paulina was wide awake now as Danny pushed himself past his limits to get further away from Vlad. He knew this road, it was the road where Youngblood had first shown up.
"Danny!" Paulina noticed a cut on his face. Probably the one he'd gotten while fighting off his distraction.
Danny was losing air quickly as gravity began pulling him down. He managed to hover slightly off the ground before they both fell. Paulina landed safely on her butt. Danny landed painfully on his stomach.
Paulina rubbed her head, wincing. "Damn that pendejo."
Danny pulled his head up from the grass and gave her a weary smile. "Y-yeah."
She crawled over to him and gazed into his exhausted, glowing green eyes which seemed to grow dimmer.
"Danny. Are you okay?" She asked helping him up.
"Yeah, just really tired." Danny admitted
Paulina nodded. "Alright. Let's go to your house. Just let me call my dad first."
~~~
Paulina shot Danny a worried glance as he slumped into his bed and instantly drifted off to sleep.
She fished her pink flip phone out of her pocket, sighed and marked Sam's number.
"Hello?" Sam snapped in an angry tone that Paulina knew all too well.
"Sam? It's me." Paulina wearily rubbed her eyes.
"Paulina?" Sam asked cautiously.
"Yeah. Uhm, sorry. I just wanted to tell you that another ghost is after me."
Paulina bit her lip when she heard Sam sigh. "Paulina, now's not the time. My boyfriend's about to tell me something 'important' but I'll call you back, okay?"
Paulina nodded. "Thanks Sam."
She pressed the little red button and slid into the chair beside Danny's bed. The only sound was his slow, steady breathing.
She flipped open her cell phone again and began marking Tucker's number. This time, an unexpected voice answered.
"Like, hello?" Star's voice seemed more cheerful then usual.
"Star?" Paulina asked incredulously.
"Paulina? Why'd you hang up on me earlier. That was, like, rude."
Paulina ignored her best friend's question. "Why do you have Tucker's phone?"
"Oh." Star giggled. "He invited me to eat. The geek said he'd pay for my foo-"
"Pass me to him." Paulina ordered.
"Hello?" Tucker's voice filled Paulina with unexpected relief. She answered in a low voice so Danny wouldn't wake up. "Thank god you answered. Are you on your way home?"
"Yeah. I'm gonna drop Star off first-"
"When you get to your house can you look up a ghost for me?"
"What? Why?"
"This ghost kidnapped me. I think his name was Palsimius, Plasmus-"
"Plasmius?"
"Yeah, that one. "
"Okay." Tucker seemed to be pondering this. "Sure. Are you and Danny okay?"
"Yeah. Danny's sleeping right now. But I'll call you back, okay? Believe it or not, I've got a curfew."
"'Kay. I'll call you if I find anything important."
The call soon ended leaving Paulina to think to herself. She felt horrible. She could've defended herself with her powers but they were too unstable. There was no telling what would've happened. She needed to talk to Dora asap. She sighed and pulled out spare blankets then walked into one of the Fentons' spare bedrooms. Tomorrow morning she'd go.
A/N:
Me: Yay! This chapter is FINALLY over. Anyways, I'm gonna go ahead and go to sleep. Big Day tomorrow! XD I'll try to update as soon as I can, okay? But first...I'll be needing reviews. Apparently, my mom's tortillas were enough to convince you to review but mines weren't? There's nothing wrong with 'em. See? ~shows burnt tortillas~ They look delicious! What could possibly go wrong? Do you think they're gonna come to life and-OH MY GOSH THEY'RE ALIVE!
~tortillas chase after nycorrall~
Nycorrall's evil tortillas: Muahahahaha! Now we can rule the world!
Me: (smacks tortilla with fly swatter) HA! Sucker. And don't worry. If you don't review, you'll get some more of ma tortillas and more of my mother's. 'But I don't see what's so great about my mom's tortillas...
CC: (nycorrall's lil sis): They're good and they don't come to life like yours just did. People, please review, I don't want her making anymore tortillas.
Me: Hey shut up! Who invited you here anyways?