Six

Danny dragged the poor ghost through the air by her long, flowing hair, which resembled knives. His invisibility did not flicker as he pulled the fully visible ghost woman toward the glowing neon sign.

"I told you what would happen." Danny said.

"But my love, I just wanted to see you, and that human boy was eavesdropping-"

"I told you! I. Do not. Love you!"

"But love-!"

"You're insane! I'm not even king yet, and why would I even want a fruit loop as a queen?!"

"Love, you don't understand!"

Danny ignored her whines and protests. He finally reached his house, and flew up above the house to the FentonWorks sign.

He sat the demented woman down.

Danny ran his hand through his hair. "Look. Eve, I don't wanna do this....so will you please leave me alone?"

"Will you make me your queen?!" Evangeline wailed.

Danny sighed. He charged up a glowing blue ectoblast.

"I didn't want to do this..."

He threw the ball at her, which hit her hard. She skidded backwards, her back plowing into the FentonWorks sign.

Her chest, arms, and legs froze to the sign in a thick layer of ice.

"But love-!" he ignored her complaints once more.

"I didn't want to have to do this." he shook his head.

Danny formed a sword of ice and started stomping his heavy combat boots. He took the blade of the sword and scraped it against the roof he was standing on, a long loud screeching mess that made even him wince.

The sword then dissolved in a puff of white steam.

Loud crashes were heard in the house under them.

He gave one apologetic shrug, then disappeared.

"Ghost!" Jack Fenton burst through the door to the roof, a large glowing gun in his hands.

He spotted Eve, who was struggling to break out of the ice.

"Aha! Ghost!" his face brightened.

"Wait, NOOOOOOO!" Evangeline wailed.

_____DP______

(Ex= E. Ex=D. Ex= Both)

Danny flew back to school as quick as he could, which was insanely fast.

He made it back to school just in time to hear the late bell.

Just when I started to get back on track, Danny thought grimly. He entered the school only to find the halls completely empty. Not even the regular stragglers remained.

"Forget this, this is pointless..." Danny gave up.

Danny chose to simply skip class altogether, it wasn't the first time he had done so. Even though his skips were just mostly fights with Vlad, this one is just for at least one hour of chill time.

Danny looked around, then entered a nearby classroom.

He ran at one of the desks at top speed, jumping on top of it. He slid and jumped from that desk to another. Then another, and another. He then turned intangible and launched himself through the ceiling.

"WHOO, YEAH!"

Danny smiled as he slid and flipped off the roof of the school and landed in the courtyard at the back of the school.

Danny delayed his landing by floating around the courtyard with his arms behind his head. He had floated around for a while until he felt it. A cold pulling at his core, coldness rising up his throat and exiting past his lips.

Danny smiled to himself and pulled his core forward. Only two people would be crazy enough to face him. And he knew exactly who it was.

The glowing white halos of light traveled past his eyes and feet, and Danny Phantom turned invisible and flew around to the front of the school.

There the ghost floated uncertainly, rubbing her arms nervously.

Danny smirked and floated behind her.

"Amber..." he whispered. Ember jumped and her guitar almost slipped off her back.

She whirled around and gripped her guitar.

"Phantom?" she asked. Danny raised his eyebrows and became visible. Ember's eyes widened and she blushed, pulling her guitar closer.

"Uhm...Ah...," she stuttered. Danny smirked.

"Yeah? What do you request of me Amber, you must have a reason..." Danny questioned.

Ember glared. "Don't call me that."

Danny messed with his earpiece. "Sure thing babe."

"Don't call me that either!"

"How about Sparks?"

"No!"

"Babypop?"

"UGH! Shut up and listen, dipstick!" Ember screeched.

"So it is a request then, I asked that before." Danny muttered. Ember glared at him.

Danny raised both hands and gestured for her to continue. Ember sighed.

"Okay. I know we aren't at the best terms but.... I've decided to stop messing with the humans." She stuttered.

Danny was surprised at that. "Really?"

Ember nodded and fiddled with her guitar. "Yeah, I kinda realized that music is perfect, and I shouldn't really ruin it with the mind control thing and whatever..."she muttered.

Danny nodded. "That's good. Your music is great, an your voice is amazing. Its nice that you finally found your true power in music." he smiled.

Ember blushed. "You really think my voice is amazing?" she asked hopefully.

Danny nodded and buried his hands in his pockets. "Absolutely."

He stuck out one hand. "Deal?" he asked, his eyes darkening then turning back to ice blue.

Ember smiled and took his hand.

Blue flames sparked from her hand as soon as it touched his.

"Ouch!" they both screamed, then let go.

Danny flailed his hand around frantically as Ember marveled at the quickly disappearing white frost on her arm.

Danny pulled his hand to his chest and chuckled. "Fire and ice.....bad idea..." he laughed.

Ember curled her fingers into a fist, "Definitely..." she muttered.

"I've never felt heat like that in my life....or death." Danny mused. He then smirked. "I guess I can say, you're too hot for me." he snickered.

"Oh god, he's got puns." Ember joked.

"Is it too late for me to be pun-ished for it?"

"Jeez. Now he's a pervert."

"Ouch, babe. That burnt."

"Wow, that was lame." Ember snorted.

"Okay, okay. Seriously, that fire hurt my hand." Danny showed her his hand.

Ember leaned in, then pushed him away. "Dude, your hands fine!"

"I know, but I was so close to getting them lips..." he smiled, his sharp teeth startling the young ghost.

Ember blushed, and glared at him.

"I would punch you if your face wouldn't freeze my arm off."

"You love me too much to do it."

"What is up with you today?" Ember asked.

"Drunk a lot of cokes when nobody was looking."

"Oh, sugar overload."

"Of course."

"Well, I've got to go, Phantom. See ya." Ember turned to go, but Danny grabbed her guitar and turns her back around.

"Call me Danny. And why don't you stay?"

"I've got to get back to the zone, this world...well, this is not where I belong." she pulled her guitar away.

"You're gonna miss me when I'm gone..."

Ember whirled around. "What?"

"Its a song."

"What would you know about music, Dipstick?"

Danny snatched her guitar and flew away. Ember frowned and flew after him.

"Hey, give that back!"

Danny laughed and played a few chords.

"How come no one heard her when she said....
Maybe I'm better off dead! If I was would it finally be enough?
Shut out all those voices in my head..."

Ember stopped in her tracks.

"Maybe I'm better off dead!
Better off dead...did you hear a word, hear a word I said?
This is not where I belong...
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone."

Danny smirked and shouldered her guitar.

"Sleeping With Sirens. Best band ever, next to Get Scared." he shrugged.

"I didn't know you could play." Ember huffed in amazement.

"Didn't know I could sing either, right?" he sighed, putting his hands in his pockets.

Ember nodded.

"I've always been able to sing like that, my mom used to have me sing for people." he grimaced.

"And the guitar?"

"My sister gave me a guitar for my birthday two years ago." he shrugged.

"You can play like that after two years?!" Ember exclaimed.

"Yeah, music's my talent I guess.." Danny rubbed the back of his neck.

"We have GOT to do a concert! This is amazing! I've finally found someone as good as me, maybe even better! We've got to go NOW!" Ember grabbed his arm and tugged him towards the gym.

"What? No!" Danny turned himself and Ember intangible, just in time to go through the gym wall.

Danny stopped flying and put his dead weight on the enthusiastic girl.

"Wha- Hey!"

Ember let go of Danny, who promptly started floating again.

"What gives, man?" Ember groaned.

"I-I said no..." Danny muttered. Ember scowled at him.

"What, scared?" she glared.

"N-No, it's just... My friends...." Danny started.

"What, it's not like they don't know. Come on!" Ember crossed her arms.

Danny looked at her pointedly.

"They don't."

Ember's gaze softened. "Sorry, it's just....they don't know how great your talent is? They're your best friends! You should tell them everything, right?" Ember shrugged.

"Well, I need some secrets to keep. They already know the rest. They don't need to know all my business." Danny huffed.

"Okay." Ember and Danny touched down on the stage.

"This is all of what's left off my chill time anyway. I have ten minutes." Danny muttered.

"Oh come on. Even the Prince has to have some time to relax."

"Yep. And today was it." Danny replied.

"Just today?" Ember asked incredulously.

"Yep."

"Yikes..."

"Hey Ember?"

"Yeah?" She looked to see Danny standing at the back of the stage.

"I found some mics." he held up two microphones.

Ember smiled widely. "Sweet."

"What you wanna sing, Amber?" Danny asked happily.

"Don't worry Daniel, I have the perfect song for us." Ember smirked.

Danny grimaced. "Okay, I'll stop."

"I win. Ha." she smirked. Danny rolled his eyes.

Ember raised the microphone to her lips.

"As a child, you would wait
and watch from far away.
But you always knew that you'd be the one to work while they all played..."

She smiled at him. He smirked and sang right back.

"In youth, you'd lay
awake at night and scheme
of all the things that you would change.
But it was just a dream..."

He flashed her a smile as she glared at him.

"Round one to Phantom." he smirked.

"Shut up, dipstick."

"Hush. Don't speak. When you spit your venom,
keep the check. I hate it
when you hiss and preach.
Without your new Messiah,
could your theories catch fire?"

"I can't find your silver lining. I don't mean to judge...
But when you read your speech it's tiring.
Enough is enough."

They shared a smile.

"I'm covering my ears like a kid. When you're words mean nothing I go La, La, La. I'm turning up the volume when you speak....cause if my heart starts thumping, I find a way to block it..."

Danny looked at her sideways. "Okay I'll give you that one."

"Frozen inside.
Without your touch, without your love..
Darling only you
Are the life for more than the dead.."

"All this time,
I can't believe I couldn't see.
Stuck in the dark but you were there in front of me."

"I've been sleeping a thousand years, it seems. Got to open my eyes to everything..."

"Without a thought, without a voice, without a soul..."

"Don't let me die here... Bring me to life!"

"Wake me up....Wake me up inside! I can't wake up....Wake me up inside! Save me! Call my name and save me from the dark... Wake me up...Leave my blood to rot...I can't wake up....Before I come undone.... Save me! Save me from the nothing I've become! Bring me to life....."

Danny and Ember laughed as they caught their breath.

"Okay, okay. Now I've got a song for you." Danny said.

Ember rolled her eyes.

"Mmm....
Well Alibaba had them forty thieves, Sheherazet had a thousand tales.
But Ember, your in luck 'cause up your sleeves, you've got a brand of magic never fails."

Danny gave a short bow and formed her a rose of ice.

"You've got some power in your corner now.
Some heavy ammunition in your can.
You got some punch, pizazz, yahoo and how.
All you gotta do is call my name and I'll say:
Hello miss Ember there, what will your pleasure be?"

Danny floated to her side and sat down.

"Let me take your order, jot it down. You ain't never had a friend like me."

He went to put an arm across her shoulders but got burnt, and pulled his arm back.

He smiled sheepishly.

"My, my, my....
Life is your restaurant. And I'm your waiter, see. Come on and whisper what it is you want, You ain't never had a friend like me."

"Really?" Ember asked sarcastically. Danny nodded.

"Yes ma'am, we pride ourselves on service."

Ember jumped as another Danny sat down beside her.

"You're the boss, the queen, the Shah."

Ember found herself surrounded in a group of Dannys, all singing in harmony.

"Say what you wish, its yours. True dish. How 'bout a little more baklava?"

A Danny on her left smiled and formed a bowl of the food in a wisp of white smoke. Ember reached for it, but the Danny disappeared. Each clone swiftly vanished in puffs of green smoke.

Ember sat confused until the ground started shaking.

"Hey, have some of column A.." A tall spire of multiple ice sculptures rose from her right.

"Try all of column B..." Up rose a giant display of guitars of all sizes, shapes, and colors.

"I'm in the mood to help you dude. You ain't never had a friend like me!"

"Can your friends do this?" Danny made it snow, only around Ember.

"Can your friends do that?" Danny pointed beside Ember, where she was surprised to see a Danny, who changed into Fenton.

"Can your friends pull this out their little hat?"

Danny then filled the room with Dannys, gold, jewels, and lots of food. Ember couldn't tell where he got it from.

"Can your friends go poof-" All the Danny duplicates exploded into green and white smoke.

"So don't you sit there slack-jawed, buggy eyed. I'm here to answer all you're midday prayers. You've got me bonafide, certified. You got a Danny for your charged affairs. I got a bottle full of herbs to help you out, so what you wish I really want to know."

Danny sat on a chest overflowing with gold coins and put a small black crown on his head.

"You've got a list that's three miles long, no doubt." Danny shrugged as Ember glared.

"Well all you've got to do is call me so...oh. Whoa..."

Danny smiled.

"I've got you Ember so, your wish or two or three...I'm on the job, I'm never done. You ain't never had a friend, never had a friend..."

Many Dannys appeared, some eating food, others pricing the gold items.

"You ain't never had a friend, never had a friend..."

Danny gave Ember back her guitar.

"You ain't never." He placed the black crown in her hands.

"Had a..." The duplicates disappeared.

"Friend like me..." the crown crumbled into dust.

Danny finally seated himself next to Ember, and smiled cockily at her.

"You ain't never had a friend like me!"

All the food, gold, and priceless jewels melted away in a white cloud. The two ghosts sat in silence.

"You could have left me the baklava."

"So you have wished it, so it shall be." Danny muttered.

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