A.N
Here's Ch. 4 the last of the old author's part of the story enjoy…
Tucker looked up at the clock then over at Danny.
'Dude…. you're Phantom Date is in ten minutes.' Tucker said as Danny pretended to be asleep, but as Tucker spoke those words Danny flipped over violently staring at Tucker.
'How'd you know about that?' Danny asked angrily staring at Tucker.
'Dude it's obvious, you want Sam, living, dead, pick one. And unless you tell her don't be pissed if she falls for the wrong you.' Tucker said Danny sighed. Eric fluttered to the window and cawed in agreement. With Danny causing Danny to stick his tongue out at the bird who shuffled a bit than cocked his head.
'At least she knows Phantom is a ghost right?' Danny asked. Tucker shrugged.
'If you want it that way… aren't you looking for a cure?' Tucker asked. Danny looked at his hands.
'This…..thing….this disorder, whatever this is….' Danny gestured to himself as he turned into his Phantom alter ego, 'It's…. it sucks…. and even if that sucks… and even if that sucks…. I was able to protect her. Even if it was just the ectopusses … I could protect her. And if… if I can protect people….maybe this isn't so bad. 'Danny said with a sigh his white hair seeming to glow more than usual in the moonlight. Eric hopped into the room and sat on Danny's knee which was still under the covers.
'Haven't I been telling you that for a year!?' Tucker yelled. Danny leveled a green eyed glare at him. Tucker held his hands up, 'Fine, fine, I get it.' Tucker said. Danny smiled at his lap then floated out of the bed displacing Eric who cawed discontentedly.
'Ok, I'll be back later.' Danny smiled flying through the wall Eric following him hopping up onto the windowsill and taking flight.
'Yeah…. I'll stay here I guess.' Tucker said waving a hand in the direction of the window.
(Hey, that line break last chapter scared you right?)
Sam sighed as she walked out onto the balcony leaning against the railing. A black crow flew down and landed lightly cocking its head to the side as it stared at her curiously.
'Hey, good night for flying?' Sam asked glancing at the crow then looking back out into the night.
'The best.' a voice replied. Sam jumped back peddling into the Goth table set on the balcony.
'Sorry.' Danny held his hands up green eyes sparking with life. Sam sighed holding her heart.
'You're taking years off my life ghost boy.' Sam teased then walked up to him with a smiled, 'I thought maybe this time we could stay in.' Sam said gesturing to the open door.
Danny smiled with a shrug.
'Sure.' Danny followed Sam in and saw the food on the table giving it a questioning look, 'Funnel cake and brownies?' Danny asked Sam shrugged.
'Sorry when I think Danny I think funnel cake I think brownies I think ice cream…. and reefer, but let's leave that last one out of it.'
Sam teased. Danny chuckled and sat down staring at the food. It looked amazing.
'I made it all myself, the ice cream is store bought though.' Sam smiled setting a plate in front of Danny who removed his gloves tucking it into his belt. Danny smiled politely as Sam sat down with her food. Danny picked up a fork and took a bite of the brownie smiling while Sam watched.
'Amazing.' Danny smiled. Sam sighed in relief before taking a bite out of her own brownie. Her face quickly went pale and she dove for the cup of soy milk on the table. Sam quickly sucked it down as she made faces and then tried the funnel cake before trying to decide if it tasted good or not. Danny meanwhile was quietly eating the food and watching Sam.
'I thought you said it was amazing.' Sam said, 'this tastes like shit.'She glared at her plate before turning to Danny.
'Confession.' Danny said finishing off the funnel cake and licking his fingers. Sam raised her eyebrows and stared at him. Danny popped the rest of the brownie into his mouth and chewed slowly.
'Well?' Sam asked. Danny sighed swallowing.
'I can't taste it.' Danny said. Sam's forehead wrinkled as she stared at Danny.
'Oh…ok… so you were just being nice?' Sam asked. Danny nodded. 'You can't taste anything? Sweet, sour, tart, hot, anything?' Sam pressed. Danny sighed returning his gloves to his hands, he took Sam's hand into his own and held it to his cheek nuzzling it.
'You're not warm, you're not cold…. you're barely a whisper of a sensation across my skin.' Danny let her hand fall from his face and led her back out to the night air a warm breeze in the cool night.
'I can't feel the wind on my face, nor the sun on my back, I can't feel droplets of rain nor the warmth of the living.' Danny sighed, 'I can't taste food, good, bad, and it doesn't react to my taste buds. I can taste ghost food…. it's different. And sometimes I think I can taste human food…. but I'm never sure if that's my memory or if I can actually taste it.' Danny let go of Sam's hand.
'Your touch… I can't feel it as anything more than a whisper, an echo.' Sam put her hand on his shoulder, 'I have gotten sensitive to those whispers. I know when I'm touched now,
But….. It's not the same.' Danny turned ghostly green eyes glowing.
'I just want you to know…. before we get any further involved…. that….. I'm not alive.' Danny said, 'I just want you to understand that I am a ghost.' Danny said sadly. Sam hesitated her hand not quite sure on his shoulder.
Sam I –'Danny was turned suddenly and Sam pressed her lips against his wrapping her arms around his neck her lips slowly parting. Danny paused in shock for a few seconds before he intertwined his arms around Sam's waist pulling her warm body closer. Sam shivered breaking the kiss and Danny quickly let go.
'Did you feel that?' Sam asked. Danny paused then smiled eyes only for Sam.
'Yes.' He promised.
From the shadows a pair of red eyes chuckled.
'Oh Daniel you tell such beautiful lies.' Then they vanished.
(Lets see if we can make it longer, the old author only had 2 pages at this point I only have five pages right now, let's go, let's go, let's go!)
Danny woke up with a goofy smile on his face Sam's warm breath huffing against his chest, her body soft against his. Danny looked down at Sam and brushed the hair away from her face his fingers lingering on her warm skin his bare hand as pale as her own skin…. bare hand? Danny tried to even his breathing. He'd fallen asleep with Sam watching the stars from the couch the night…. before…but he had fallen asleep with her as Phantom! The ghost, not a human. His breath hitched and Sam started to stir. Danny quickly let the white rings of energy pass over him as his heart beat stilled and breath stopped.
'Mmmhmm?' Sam stirred on his chest beautiful purple eyes cracking open a slit, 'Mmmn….' Sam said with a smile. 'I know I'm only sixteen, but this was nice.' Sam smiled.
Danny laughed a bit the ghostly echo on his voice evident, Sam shivered.
'Your cold.' She remarked. Danny quickly jumped grabbing a blanket and putting it between her and his own body.
'I'm sorry, I could have given you hypothermia falling asleep against me like that.' Danny protested while Sam just laughed.
'For some reason I felt a lot warmer when I was sleeping.' Sam smiled up at Danny, then kind of laughed.
'Geeze, what would my friends think if they knew I slept with a ghost?' Sam asked. Danny rolled his eyes.
'As long as you make sure they know that it is only sleeping happening here, no funny business.' Danny said. Sam laughed.
'Of course.' Sam replied then she stretched wrapping the blankets around her and laying against Danny. Danny smiled Sam looked up at him.
'Question.' She asked. Danny shrugged.
'Answer.' He replied.
'Can ghost's dream?' she asked. Danny thought about it.
'Yes…. and contrary to popular belief we can feel too.' Danny said. Sam's brow furrowed.
'You just told me you can't.' Sam accused. Danny nodded.
'I can't feel the pleasant things in life it seems. If I get hurt I can feel pain. But maybe it's because it's either other ghosts attacking me or ghost weapons…. I guess stabbing me with a kitchen knife wouldn't do much…. though I really don't want to find out. I can feel other ghosts punching me or kicking me but I guess I can't feel humans.' Danny said, 'But I can still feel emotions, I know the other ghosts do too, though sometimes they're twisted and angry emotions, they still feel them.' Danny sighed looking at the ceiling.
'What do ghosts dream about?' Sam asked.
'Being alive.' Danny responded, Sam jumped, and 'At least that's what I dream most times, just being alive and going to school. It's… it's not… it's not all the same for every ghost. Some ghosts hate the living because they want to be alive so they might dream about enslaving humans or ruling the world showing the living that being alive isn't all it's cracked up to be.' Danny sighed deeply with an unneeded breath. 'I'd rather be alive then dead though….. The only upside to being dead is the powers, I'm able to protect people. I'm able to protect you.' Danny said. Sam looked over at Danny.
'That….was kind of cheesy.' Sam said. Danny busted out laughing.
'Yeah I guess it was.' Danny agreed. Sam smiled.
'At least you agree, it makes me feel better now for running out on your speech.' Sam smiled then stood up, 'I have to use the Bathroom.' Sam said then walked down the hall abandoning the blanket. Danny paused.
'Speaking of Bathroom's.' Danny whispered to himself before vanishing in a puff of smoke.
Sam hurried back out to the couch to find it empty the blanket where she'd left minus the ghost underneath. Sam sighed curling up in the blanket where Danny had been. There wasn't even a scent or the warmth to tell her it had been real. Sam closed her eyes and drifted to sleep dreaming of a Danny that turned into a ghost, Phantom to be exact, and a Phantom that turned into a human and a human that was Danny.
(Just keep reading, just keep reading.)
Danny rubbed his eyes as the steady motion of the bus nearly put him to sleep.
'You okay Danny?' Roxy asked glancing in her mirror.
'I guess I didn't sleep well.' Danny responded shifting positions. Roxy stared at him for a moment before pausing at the bus stop opening the door as an older lady got on. Danny stood up helping the lady up the stairs and into the bus.
'You sure you're ok?' Roxy asked as Danny rubbed his arms as if cold, but he was wearing a jacket and it was summer.
'Fine, just tired.' Danny said again. Roxy made a face closing the doors and pulling away from the stop.
'I heard some interesting news on the TV the other day.' Roxy said.
'Yeah?' Danny asked looking over at Roxy.
'Yeah, some kid was taken to the hospital stabbed in the side, then vanished without a trace.' Roxy said. Danny froze for a moment then looked over at Roxy as she stopped at a light.
'Danny…. are you ok?' Roxy asked again. Danny nodded leaning back against the window as the stop requested light lit up. Roxy pulled to a stop and Danny helped the old woman out earning a 'thank you sweetie.' before the doors closed and the bus began moving again.
'Yeah, A- ok, perfect, amazing, top of my game, whatever.' Danny sat down folding his arms angrily. Roxy sighed.
'Well if you're su-'Roxy never got to finish because at that moment she slammed on the breaks avoiding three green ghost vultures hovering in the middle of the road.
'What the?' Roxy stared as the ghost vultures dove in through the windshield surrounding Danny and pecking at his clothes.
'That….is enough!' Danny grabbed two of the birds slamming them into each other causing them to see stars and hold their heads while Danny grabbed the legs of the other bird and used it as a bat to hit the other two against the wall before throwing the bird in his hand into his fellows.
'Hey vat gives!?' one of the birds called angrily Roxy's eyes widening while Danny got into a fighting stance.
'You attacked me! Remember? Or are you so old you can't even remember what Vlad sent you for?' Danny glared eyes glowing green, though he was thankfully facing away from the stunned bus driver.
'Oh, yes, ve, remember.' One of them said, then Danny realized that there was only two of them, the second one was floating behind him ready to strike. And strike it did zapping Danny with a device that caused him to scream two white rings appearing at his waist. Danny's fists clenched as he fought back the transformation. He won but was panting heavily.
'Huh….usually it's the other way around.' He remarked happy to stay in his human form. He turned his angry gaze onto the vulture behind him grabbing the device and using it to hit the bird upside the head causing it to go flying towards the bus window. The ancient ghost phasing through before collision. Danny turned kicking the other ghost with a spin crescent before pulling out a familiar thermos and sucking in the remaining ghost. The other two came at him and Danny sucked them in one after the other. Roxy stared at Danny for a minute then started screaming.
'Roxy…' Danny started toward her his hand held up the thermos as he put it back in his pocket.
'Wha- it… ghost's? What? And you… how'd you do that?' Roxy asked staring at Danny.
'First, pull over, Vlad will probably be over soon, and I really don't want to get stabbed again.' Danny said headed toward the African American woman, grabbing her arm and leading her off the bus.
'My name…. is Danny Fenton….. My parents own Fenton Works….. They're ghost hunters and…' a pink tingled ecto blast came out of nowhere. Danny went flying into the side of an old building as they were headed out of the ghetto abandoned part of town.
'Shit.' Danny cursed as he heard his ribs break and the wall collapsed on top of him.
'Ahhhh, Daniel, strange I would run into you here.' Vlad smiled Vampire teeth glinting as he floated above the scene, Roxy started screaming again ready to bolt, but Vlad sent ecto-goo to bind her. A white gloved hand grabbed Roxy and pulled her to the ground the skinny teenage body blocking her from the goo that flew over their heads and hit him in the back. Roxy's mouth dropped open her brown eyes staring into the glowing green eyes.
'And I'm a ghost.' Danny finished his hand that wasn't holding himself up over Roxy's body was holding his ribs.
'Who….. Who are you?' Roxy asked. Danny sighed.
'So much for dropping hints, I'm Phantom, Danny Phantom.' Danny's eyes suddenly went wide as a hand clamed around his neck.
'Crap.' Danny chocked out again as he was dragged backwards by Vlad. Roxy backed up quickly as the Vampiric ghost held the younger one who was struggling futility.
Seems like your little trip to the hospital wasn't enough.' Vlad smirked. Danny rolled his eyes glaring at the evil ghost in front of him.
'Actually it was very nice thank you, the beds there are better than what I'm used to sleeping in actually so thank you.' Danny smirked. Roxy just sat a few yards away mouth open. She remembered the ghost from on her bus talking to air, she'd told Danny about it….Danny! She turned to the collapsed wall and a few tears ran down her cheeks but she fought then back as crawled over to the wall.
'Aren't you sleeping at your friend Tucker's these days?' The other ghost asked. Roxy froze as the ghost teen's fists clenched.
'You stay away from him.' The ghost growled. Roxy scooted closer to the wall hoping Danny wasn't under it but also concerned as to where he was if he wasn't under it.
'Yes and there's also that Manson girl you've been hanging with recently.' Vlad remarked. Danny's fists started glowing with green energy.
'You stay away from them!' Danny shot at Vlad sending him flying back into the bus. Vlad smirked and started toward Danny.
'Sam Manson was it?' Vlad asked. Danny gritted his teeth and landed on the ground in front of Roxy planting his feet and anchoring himself in that position.
'I said, Stay AWAY FROM HER!' Danny yelled as a wave of energy shot out from his mouth and quickly became a wail sending the other ghost back into the bus. Roxy's eye's widened as a black sweat shirt started appearing over the black and white jumpsuit. The wail slowly lost strength and the ghost boy collapsed in a heat a white ring of energy traveling up his body to reveal a human underneath. Roxy couldn't see his face but she was certain that Danny Fenton wasn't under the wall. The boy held his rips and looked toward the bus which fell onto Vlad who was looking dizzier. Black hair catching the light and blue eyes turning to Roxy Danny Fenton groaned and collapsed.
'Danny?' Roxy asked moving closer to him unsure.
'Ther…the….there was….an accident.' Danny said eyes starting to drift shut, 'and…I…..I died.' Danny's eye's closed his cheek hitting the pavement as Roxy stared at the boy and the damage he caused with nothing to say.
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Danny landed unceremoniously on Tucker's bed.
'It was a simple trip home to get my stuff, things didn't have to be complicated. I should have flown but I took the bus, and now killing Vlad has moved to the top of my list.' Danny grumbled.
'So I take it you didn't get your stuff.' Tucker said, Danny held his hand out and dropped the small beat up purple backpack on the floor.
'I got it.' Danny said his face buried in the bed.
'So what is the problem?' Tucker asked, Danny looked up eyes glowing green in his anger.
'Vlad attacked me, which wouldn't be so bad if I was flying!' Danny complained.
'But you weren't.' Tucker said leaning back in his chair.
'Nope, I was riding the bus.' Danny frowned, 'So vulture attack, Vlad attack, I went ghost and kicked butt with a ghostly wail only…' Danny let his body flop his face bouncing into the bed.
'So…. Roxy knows?' Tucker asked. Danny looked up.
'Yes.' Danny sighed, well I think she does, she was in shock when I flew her to the hospital….. I hope she's ok.' Danny said. Tucker nodded.
'Roxy is a cool driver…. so what now?' Tucker asked. Danny let his face fall back into the bed.
'We wait.' came a muffled answer.
'Meh, waiting is boring, Sam called, and we're going to the midnight premiere of The Amazing Spider-Man, you in?' Tucker asked, Danny sat up and smiled.
'If I'm not take me to see a Doctor.' Danny said.
'No thanks. Take yourself.' Tucker stood up, 'Let's go over and talk to Sam before we leave.' Tucker said, Danny shrugged.
'Sounds good to me.'
Alright, new chapter and unfortunately this is all the Your favorite CONTRACTOR wrote before abandoning the story so…. well there you go also all the authors notes through Ch. 1 – 4 is Your favorite Contractor
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