*Hi! Me again... So this is a quick little plotline that has been stuck in my head for a while. Don't expect great things, it's only 861 words long and I typed it at 2am on my iPod last night. I wrote the lyrics a while ago, all I needed was a story to go with it! So here it is! If enough people reveiw (hint hint) I may make it a two shot. But I quite like the way it ends. Meh, tell me what you think ;)*
*Oh, right, Disclaimer. I don't own Danny Phantom. If I did, I would sell it back to Butch Hartman so I didn't ruin it. Then use the money to bribe him into making more series. See? I've thought this through!*
"Hello Amity Park!" called a voice.
Danny Fenton groaned. He had managed a whole week without any ghost attacks, why now?
He and his two best friends were at a football game, watching their school team cheat their way to victory. But the game had ground to a halt after the appearance of a guitar-wielding ghost with flaming hair, who was now scanning the crowd.
Danny was just about to slip beneath the bleachers so he could go ghost, when she called his name.
"Hey, Fenton!"
He looked up. She was grinning maliciously, and he had a horrible feeling he knew what she was planning to do.
"What do you want, Ember?" he snapped. The people around him stared in shock. Puny Danny Fenton, standing up to a ghost?
"Wanna do a duet?" she smirked.
"Pass" he said coldly. "Now leave me alone"
She sighed melodramatically.
"I guess I'll just have to make it a solo then"
And with that, she launched into song, the glowing chords from her guitar lifting him from his seat and dumping him unceremoniously on the pitch. In front of hundreds of people. There was no way he could go ghost now!
"You people don't know nothing
Just one, where you see two
Homeboy is hiding something
Danny's been lying to you"
The watching crowd eyed him with interest, but the jocks simply snorted disbelievingly.
"You're kidding!" laughed Dash. "Fenton's just some geek! And a freak too!"
His cronies chuckled stupidly, but Ember just grinned and continued;
"He don't know what his part is
Poor boy, nowhere to go
If home is where the heart is
He's a freak more than you know"
Danny gritted his teeth, trying, and failing, to slip away. Ember was having none of it, though, shooting ecto-chords at him as soon as he came close to escaping. He snarled. His secret couldn't be revealed like this! By Ember, of all... ghosts. He closed his eyes, concentrating hard on creating a double.. He had managed a few times before, but in ghost form. It was a hundred times harder in human form. Almost impossible. But he had to try.
"I swear, you all are mindless
Try swapping green for blue
What is it with your blindness?
Let me spell it out to you..."
"Shut up!" he snarled at her, drawing all eyes to him. He was sure that his own eyes were glowing green with fury about now, but it didn't deter Ember as she ploughed through the instrumental, eager to reach the last verse. He knew what was coming next. He had to find a way to stop it! He concentrated with all his might. He had to create a double! He heard her start the final verse, and cold dread flooded him, making it impossible to concentrate.
"'Cause now, the song is ending"
"No no no" he muttered to himself.
"This part brings me most joy"
He swore, trying to run, but slammed into a wall of ectoplasm.
"It's time he stopped pretending"
He pounded against the glowing wall.
"Fenton's really the-"
She was cut off as a green blast hit her in the side of the head. Danny whipped around to see Sam, wrist ray still smoking. He shot her a grin, and she smiled back, before addressing Ember.
"Hey! No-hit-wonder!"
The ghost spun around, fuming.
"Oh look. It's the girlfriend." she snapped.
"I'm not his girlfriend" Sam replied, blushing.
"Of course not" Ember said patronisingly. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have a song to finish. Where was I?"
"About to get your ass kicked" said a voice. The crowd cheered as the town hero, Danny Phantom, swooped out from under the bleachers.
"What?" Ember exclaimed. Her emerald eyes flickered to the spot where Danny Fenton had been standing a few seconds ago. He was gone. She cursed under her breath, and then twisted, narrowly avoiding an ecto-blast.
They began to fight furiously, holding the attention of almost the entire crowd. One Latino girl was, for once, not focussing on her beloved hero, and instead muttering to herself.
"Most joy. Hmm, what could rhyme with that? Roast boy? Eww, who would want to roast a boy? That's gross... Host toy? Fenton, a toyboy? For some host? I don't think so. Post boy? A poster boy? For what? No, that doesn't make sense... Coast, boast, toast, ghost... Ooh! Ghost! Ghost what?"
She continued to think for a while, almost giving herself a headache.
"Ghost toy, ghost coy, ghost boy... Ooh! That's it!" she cried, standing up. "Danny Fenton is the Ghost Boy!"
Then she realised what she had said.
"Oh. Wow. That can't be right either..."
Meanwhile, the battle above had frozen at the girl's proclamation. A couple of the jocks had begun to laugh, but Dash and a few others were smart enough to realise that Danny Fenton had vanished, moments before Danny Phantom had made his appearance.
Hovering in the air, Danny's eyes were wide with shock. There was no Reality Gauntlet this time. No Clockwork to fix his mistakes. And worst of all? His secret had been uncovered... by Paulina Sanchez. Now that was just embarrassing.
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