All Ships Month

Introduction: It's Shiptember! And while there are some weeks dedicated to a pairings throughout the month, there's also an All Ships Month theme-a-day going on. My plan is to write a different pairing for each prompt this month. And as always, general warnings for homosexual relationships, violence, foul language, self harm, abuse, suicide, death, angst, and other dark topics.

Overall Disclaimer: Danny Phantom is a product of Nickelodeon. All characters in this story are imaginary.

Summary: Date night is looking grim for the men.
Pairings: Skulker x Ember and Johnny 13 x Kitty
Written: September 2013

Double Date

"I knew this was a bad idea," Johnny grumbled, watching the pair of women as they performed their little victory dance together. Their triumphant smirks only felt like sharp daggers digging even farther into his pride.

"We'd be having better luck if you ditched that lousy shadow of yours." Skulker glowered at him, and it was still a strange sight to see him in a human disguise rather than in that robotic suit that he always wore. But since their girlfriends wanted to go to the real world for their date night, Skulker decided to adopt the human disguise with his green hair still styled in a Mohawk and dressed similarly to the clothes that his robotic suit wore to avoid sending the masses screaming over a ghost attack. Although at this point, having Danny Phantom show up to ruin their dates might not be that bad of an idea. Things couldn't get much worse for the two men.

"The match isn't over yet," Johnny said, anger slipping into his voice as Kitty and Ember slapped hands and bumped hips. "We haven't finished our final frame yet. If we both get strikes, we could still win."

"Yeah," Kitty said with a laugh in her voice as she rolled her eyes, "if you rolled, like, five strikes maybe." She smirked smugly. "But that's not likely to happen." Her eyes drifted over his left side, and Johnny followed her gaze to see Shadow sneaking over to loom behind a couple sitting at another lane as they made a sickening scene of trying to eat each other's faces. Weren't humans supposed to need to breathe?

"Shadow!" Johnny hissed and pointed to his feet. Shadow wilted, pouting like a scolded child. He slid over the floor like liquid until he reached Johnny then pretended to be the ghost's shadow again.

"Skulker, that's not allowed," Ember shouted, placing her hands on her hips as her green eyes narrowed furiously at the hunter.

Skulker pouted, much like Shadow, as he reverted his arm back to normal. While Johnny looked away, Skulker had transformed his robotic arm into a rocket launcher that he would use to fire the bowling ball down the lane at the pins. It seemed like a sure fire way to score a strike, as long as Skulker aimed properly.

"We're not playing this stupid game next time," Skulker grumbled as he stood a few feet from the line with the bowling ball raised up in his hands. Then he drew back his right hand as he strode forward, swinging his arm forward. The ball released smoothly, making a dull thump as it hit the polished wood then continued rolling down the lane. It looked good. It looked really good! The ball was heading for the pins. It was going to hit! Johnny felt the excitement building up in him. But then the ball veered, skimming past the pins toward the gutter. Johnny's excitement came to a crushing halt as a single pin tipped over.

"You're only calling it stupid because you suck at it," Ember said, smirking as she folded her arms, shifting her weight so that one hip jutted out to the side. "What kind of hunter sucks at aiming a ball down a lane at a bunch of pins?"

"It's harder than it looks!" Skulker shouted in frustration.

"Not from where I'm standing." Ember grinned and slapped hands with Kitty, and when they yanked their hands away from each other, they snapped their fingers. Skulker glowered at their smirks.

"Hey," Johnny grabbed hold of Skulker's shoulder and forced him to turn and face him, "stay focused on the game. We can still win this if you pick up the spare and everything else is strikes."

Any hope of winning was crushed when Skulker only managed to knock down four more pins. Johnny didn't do much better when his turn came up, and he only took down seven of the pins in total. Their girlfriends made another show of dancing to celebrate their victory over their boyfriends.

"Oh, don't be so sore," Ember said as she walked over to Skulker and wrapped her arms around his neck. "I still love you even if you suck at bowling." She grinned then gave him a quick kiss on the lips.

"Maybe next time we should do mini golf," Kitty suggested, hugging Johnny with a smile on her face. "You should be happy we didn't make any bets over who won or lost."

"How about next time we do a little scaring?" Johnny questioned, squeezing his arms around Kitty and lifting her feet from the ground as he grinned at her.

"Scaring can be good too." Kitty leaned down and kissed him. Perhaps bowling for date night wasn't that bad of an idea after all.