Danny Phantom Post Planet
Chapter 3
Danny and Sam left the Nasty Burger and headed towards Danny's house. He had wanted to drop off his smelly gym clothes before going to the mall that afternoon for their date. Once they got to the mall, Danny asked Sam what she wanted to do. She just said that she wanted to check out the bookstore for some mythology books. They got there and Sam was immediately distracted. Danny didn't mind though, she was happy.
Danny left her for a few minutes to go to the bathroom and when he came back she was completely engrossed in a large and thick book. Danny just smiled. He walked up behind her, wrapped his hands around her waist and pulled her to his chest. In the six months since they started dating, Danny had gotten taller than her by at least 6 inches. She liked it about him though; she thought it made him look more handsome.
"Whatcha reading?" He asked, leaning his chin on her shoulder to look at the same page she was reading.
"'Guide to Norse Mythology.'" She answered turning the page to a section about Loki, the mischief god.
"He looks nothing like Tom Hiddleston." Danny noted. "I'm surprised you don't have a book like this already."
"This is actually the only major mythology book I don't have. I've wanted to learn as much as I could since the Pandora incident."
Danny nodded. Sam had always been better at the information side of the Ghost Fighting than he was. She had an almost encyclopedic knowledge of mythology and folklore that proved invaluable when he was fighting ghosts.
"How much is it?"
Sam closed the book and broke out of Danny's grip on her waist and turned around to look him in the face. "I can afford my own book, thank you."
Danny held up his hands as if surrendering. "I never said you couldn't. I just thought I would make the offer."
Before Sam could answer, they heard a loud scream followed shortly by a horde of stampeding feet. Danny ran out to the front of the store. It wasn't easy but he managed to flag down one of the mall patrons screaming for his life. "What's going on?"
"Ember McClain's gone berserk at the music store!" He shouted. "Wait a minute, aren't you Danny Phantom? Why aren't you stopping her?"
Danny rolled his eyes. "What do you think I'm about to do?" He turned back to the bookstore to see Sam standing behind the doorway. "It's Ember, I'll be back as soon as I can."
"Well be careful." She said, leaning forward to kiss him. He kissed her back. "Always am."
"Going Ghost!" A familiar ring of white energy encircled his body at his waist and then separated into two. One circle rose to the top half of his body, the other fell to the bottom half. Within a few seconds he had transformed out of his jeans and shirt and into his black jumpsuit, white gloves and boots. His hair changed from jet black to snowy white and his eyes changed from blue to green. He was now Danny Phantom.
Danny crouched and jumped into the air, flying towards the sound of the commotion. Ember had been pretty easy to find, just follow the loud guitar noise. He found her outside the music store. It was immediately clear why Ember was throwing her tantrum. There was a notice in the music store selling her old CD's for two bucks a disc. And judging by the window display, there were a ton of them left over.
Ember herself was inside the store, striking her guitar and sending energy wave after energy towards every stand that didn't have her music sitting on it. Danny turned intangible and flew right in towards her. He grabbed her under her shoulders and turned her intangible too. He flew the both of them out of the back of the store and to the outside parking lot. He tossed her a dozen feet or so away and turned visible again.
"Geez McLame. Damaging a music store for them not selling your music? You have officially been reduced to has been tabloid status."
Ember growled in response. "Can't you ever just leave me alone ghost boy?" She fired an energy wave at him from her guitar that he dodged.
"Yeah, normally I would but you've caused destruction of property so…" He shrugged his shoulders and powered up an ecto blast. "I'm gonna have to stop you now."
He fired a blast directly at her guitar. She somehow managed to dodge it and fire another energy wave, which grazed his right foot. Now he was a little ticked. He wanted this over to be quickly so he could get back to Sam. The frustration must have shown on his face because now Ember started taunting him.
"What's the matter Phantom? I wasn't interrupting anything was I?"
"Actually, you were." It wasn't Danny who spoke though. Sam had found them outside and was pointing a Fenton gun directly at Ember's back. Before Ember could do anything Sam fired a blast directly at her lower back and she lurched forward dropping her guitar. Danny grabbed it.
"Now how many times have we told you? If you can't use your toys responsibly, we're going to have to take them away. Haven't we told her this Sam?"
"Too many times to count Danny." She said. "I guess she really doesn't get the point."
"Guess not." Danny tossed the guitar behind him, out of Ember's reach and charged forward, throwing a punch that caught Ember right in the gut. Before she could recover, Danny threw a roundhouse kick that caught her leg and she fell flat on her back. Danny placed a foot on her chest to keep her from getting up. Sam walked up next to him, holding a Fenton Thermos.
Ember just groaned. "Ugh. There's nothing worse than being punished by boring parents."
Danny and Sam turned bright red. Sam finally opened the thermos to trap Ember inside but she put a lot of effort into focusing on anything but Danny. She put the thermos in her purse while Danny transformed back to Fenton. "Thanks for the assist."
"No Problem, it's why I'm here."
Danny smiled. "Sorry that it interrupted our date. Do you want to go back and grab your book?"
"Sure."
They backtracked back into the mall and went to the bookstore to grab her book. Afterwards they were going to check out the music store but that plan was shot down thanks to Ember. Danny wanted to check out the sports equipment store for a new workout shirt. It wasn't Sam's favorite store in the world but Danny liked asking her opinion on his clothes.
"Just stick with the red." She had told him after Danny had showed her 3 different shirts, Red, Blue and Black. "Really? I'd thought you'd go for the black for sure."
"Black looks good on me. You look better in red."
"Thanks Sam." He paid for the shirt and they went to the food court. Danny checked his watch. "It's 4:30, want to grab a bite?"
Sam shook her head. "Too early. You want to see what's playing at the movies?"
"I have a better idea." He said, interweaving his fingers with hers.
Sam raised her eyebrow. "What's that?"
"You want to rent a movie and have a movie night at my place? We can just order Pizza or something. Plus we need to put Ember back in the ghost zone."
"Sure, any reason why you want to stay in?"
Danny shrugged his shoulders. "Not really, I just like our in home dates better. Plus less chance of a ghost attack."
"Sure. Can I pick the movie?"
He kissed her forehead. "I'll take that as a yes."
About half an hour later Danny and Sam were walking through the front door of the Fenton household. Jazz was in the living room typing away at her computer. "Hey guys." She said when they had walked inside and Danny closed the door.
"Hey Jazz." They said.
"Where are Mom and Dad?" Danny asked.
"Down in the lab. Still working on something Dad started this morning."
"Ok, Sam, I'm gonna empty the thermos and we can eat Dinner."
"I'll do it." She said pulling the thermos out of her purse. "I need to use the bathroom anyway." She kissed him on the cheek and walked towards the basement. Danny put two pizzas that they picked up earlier on the coffee table next to a couple of Jazz's textbooks.
"Hey Jazz. Can I ask a favor?"
"Sure."
"Can I have the living room tonight? Sam and I are having a home date."
Jazz eyed the pizza boxes. "Depends, What kind of pizza did you get?"
"Vegetarian for Sam and Pepperoni for me."
"Two slices of the Pepperoni and the room's yours."
"Deal."
Danny walked to the kitchen to grab plates and sodas. Jazz followed him and grabbed one of each out of his hands. Danny plated some pizza for him and Sam while Jazz grabbed her pizza and left for her room before waving good night to Danny. Sam came up from the stairs a few minutes later and put the now empty thermos back in her purse. She took off her shoes and sat down between the coffee table and sofa. Danny took off his shoes as well and sat down next to Sam.
"What movie do you want to watch first?"
"How about Dead Teacher III?"
Danny put the movie on and turned off the lights. They ate a few slices of Pizza and halfway through the movie, Sam had moved closer to Danny and he lifted his arm so they could cuddle. They reached the end credits but were so comfortable that they didn't want to get up. Sam suggested they change the movie and Danny reluctantly got up and switched the discs for the new movie.
Danny must have been more tired than he thought though because he was asleep within the first hour of the film. Sam quickly woke him up though with kissing him on the cheek. That always seemed to work on him.
"Sorry about that." He said, scratching the back of his head.
Sam laughed and snuggled closer to him. "It's ok. Just don't let it happen again."
"No problem."
A few minutes later, they were interrupted again but this time it was Danny's phone with a text message. Danny sighed and grabbed the phone. The message was from Valerie. "You need to call me now."
Danny raised his eyebrow. "Who's it from?" Sam asked.
"Valerie. She wants to me to call her. Hopefully things are ok." He dialed the phone and Valerie answered within seconds.
"Hi Val, Everything ok?
"No, you need to get to Main Street now!"
"Why what's up?"
"Danny, it's Vlad."