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February Catch All

Characters: Danny and anyone
Date: Throughout February
Location: Various
Situation: Various
Warnings/Rating: None

A. Meet the Resident Ghost:

On random nights throughout the month, a certain ghost can be found exploring the city from the sky. From the sky, because in Danny's opinion there was no better way to get to know a new city. And at night, because he wasn't so sure what kind of reception this place would give ghosts. In Keeliai he'd gotten used to the idea that no one cared. Who knew what people thought about ghosts here.

Call up to him, and he might come down for a talk.

B. Give Us a Sign

Danny eyes the people from one of the local faiths who's just approached him with disbelief.

"Seriously? You think I bring good fortune? Me? This is a joke, right?"

C Whoops.

This was all too familiar.

Danny knew these whispers, the way people around him didn't meet his eyes and kept their distance. At least they weren't screaming and running away from him, but this wasn't much better.

And the worst part was that it wasn't even because of his ghost side. They didn't even know about it. No, this was because the little chirruping bird thing he could apparently summon now had hiccuped or something and shocked everything in the area. It hadn't even damaged anything!

But now he was stuck dealing with this.

D. Wildcard

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"Whoa---!"

How about less 'calling up to' and more 'passing by'? Rokuta had kept his exploratory runs to the night to be on the safe side, and since he so far hadn't either spotted anyone out and about this late at night, even less up in the air with him, he honestly didn't expect to have to rear aside.

Turning around, he blinked and tossed his head. So much for trying to be careful, though of course there wasn't much to connect him to his human form.

"Heh... didn't expect to see anyone else up here."

So there's what straight up looks like a unicorn hovering in the air a short distance away... what do you do?

Okay? That was unexpected. Danny hastily skids to an abrupt halt, just barely missing the unicorn shaped thing. At least he thought it was a unicorn. It was looking a lot less green than the ones he'd run into before.

He reforms his ghostly tail into legs and walks a few steps back, as if he wasn't walking on thin air hundreds of feet above the ground.

"Uh, sorry about that? I don't usually run into people up here." Though speaking of the unicorns he'd run into before....

Danny blinks and looks sheepish. "Weird question, but you're not going to try and trample me now, right?"

Air is clearly solid ground, for both of them.

"What? Why would I?" Rokuta can't quite grimace like this, but somehow he almost manages anyway, tossing his mane again and stomping a split hoof, though the latter makes no sound, obviously. "Even if you'd put yourself in my way deliberately, I wouldn't have!"

The idea's reprehensible, even more so since it's so specific, it sort of sounds like it comes from experience.

"... Happened before, or something?"

Danny waves a hand dismissively. "I got on the bad side of a ghost unicorn herd once. Long story. Apparently they trample when annoyed."

"What?" The laugh is silent, but Rokuta's still laughing, but since no change in that statement seems to be forthcoming, he cocks his head, shifting a little on his hooves. The light glowing from the spots on his back shift with his movement. "Okay. Ghost unicorns."

Ears flicking, Rokuta looks his impromptu companion over for a few seconds. If he could have, he'd have arched an eyebrow.

"Since I haven't noticed anything that implies this place got an abundance of spirits, or even things like youma... you one of the Dreamfolk, too?"

"That's right. The names Danny Phantom." He shrugs. "I'm a ghost, if the glowing and floating wasn't a big enough clue."

And sometimes it wasn't. He'd been around long enough to know that ghost descriptions didn't always match up between different worlds.

"Maybe for some, but not exactly what I'd call clues, nope," Rokuta said, almost nickering softly. There was not quite any belief like that where he came from, and where he was born... well, they didn't exactly look like this kid.

"So, huh... even dead people can be pulled through?"

That... was interesting, though it probably didn't mean anything. In a way, it made sort of sense if they entered through the Dream plane.

"Just me, as far as I know. I haven't seen any other ghosts around here."

He'd rather not bring up the 'still half-alive' issue just yet. Or ever.

"Good thing or not? Being alone is usually never fun."

In more than one sense of the word, that was. But maybe Danny thought it was fine, who knew. It seemed like a good thing though... ghosts were hardly a sign of a spirit or nature in balance, and that was weirdly unsettling to consider that they could happen.

"I don't really get along with most of the ghosts back home, so I'm going to go with good thing. Less property damage, you know."

Although honestly, he'd been away from home so long he might even welcome a visit from the Box Ghost.

Maybe.

"Oh, yeah. That's just as well then," he said, shaking his head, mane going every which way for a moment, "since sometimes property damage comes with people damage."

And that was much better avoided. The fact that them coming here seemed to have no automatic negative effect like shoku have was a great relief...

"So, what, you just out on a late night stroll, or stuck to the night..?" He cocked his head curiously and 'walked' a few steps closer, as if it were ground instead of air beneath his hooves. It was late enough, he thought, for ghosts to be about, if he remembered the stories whispered by his older siblings in an attempt to scare each other at night correctly. But who knew if that affected ghosts elsewhere... or a ghost pulled here from elsewhere.

"Yeah, no kidding. Keeping people out of it is kind of my job back home."

One he didn't actually get paid for. But, details.

"Nah, I just like flying at night better." He gestures up at the sky. "I like watching the stars from up here. Plus, there's less people around at night to freak out at me."

"And then you run into random freaks anyway, when you least expect it," Rokuta laughs, the sound strangely human compared to the very much animal look of him right now, and he shakes his head again, flicking his tail in agreement, "night flights are really relaxing."

Aside from being something of a necessity right now, just because he wants to be careful, they've always been some of his favourite pastimes.

"Eh, that kind of thing happens. A lot." Danny snickers a little, amused at his own bad luck. "We're not fighting, and no one has said anything about taking over the world. I think I'm safe in counting this as one of the better random meetings I've had up here."

"That the sort of thing you have to deal with normally?"

Should a vaguely horse-and-deer looking face be able to look like it's raising eyebrows it doesn't exactly have? Maybe not, but he manages a reasonable facsimile of it.

"Every day, back home." He sighs. "I know, it gets old fast."

"Oh yeah," Rokuta laughs again, even physically snorting briefly, "sounds like it would."

Shaking his head, he looks around, then cocks it as he looks back at Danny.

"Night's not getting any younger, and it's clear. Want to race?" There's a certain tint of amused self-assurance in his voice that he can't hide; Rokuta knows exactly how fast he is... and so, he's sure of his own victory. Not that he'd be upset about losing, either, but, well.

In response Danny only grins.

"You sure you can keep up?"

The good-natured challenge in his tone was unmistakable, with perhaps a bit of self-mockery. Danny knew his own speed, but it had also been a long time since he had pushed himself.

"I'd ask you that, but we'll see, won't we?" Tossing his head, he closed the distance between them with a few, leisurely steps, "how about we go to the edge of the city, choose a starting point, and round it?"

Seemed like a good distance to him, and going from the land-side edge of Aifaran to around the harbour and back would make it a little more interesting, since the winds closer to the sea would be different.

He rises into the air and grins as his legs reshape into a long tail that fades into translucence at the end.

"Sounds like a plan."

Here's one person who isn't afraid of a little summon. "That's a pretty interesting fella you got there!"

He spares a glance at the freaked-out people nearby, a small frown crossing his face, before it disappears. "That happened to me, too. Let's head somewhere else before they start something." Start what? He doesn't know himself.

"You're a..." What do they call it? "A Dreamperson, right?"

The little puffball of white feather in Danny's arms chirps cheerfully at the acknowledgement. Danny glances down at it and sighs.

"Interesting is the right word. Don't get too close or he'll shock you."

Danny starts walking. "Yeah. Are you new here? I don't remember you from when everyone was moving in."

"So he's that kind of bird, huh?"

He peers a little closer, but takes Danny's advice and doesn't try to poke it.

"I guess I am new. I got here a few days ago. I'm Judai. Nice to meetcha!"

He glances at the bird again as he walks. "What's its name?"

"Kind of shocking, right?" From his grin, he knew exactly how bad that pun was.

"You too. I'm Danny. And I'm calling him Spooky."

[That pun actually flies right over Judai’s head, since he’s heard worse, and frequently, during his school years.] Yeah! Doesn’t look like a fella that can do that.

["Spooky," though. He snickers.] That’s like a pet’s name!

[Danny shrugs.]

I feed him, and he hangs around me whenever he's here. Sounds a lot like a pet to me.

Heh. I guess so.

[He knows a certain winged fuzzball that would disagree, but those creatures are different.]

Sounds like you only just met. Is it an animal like the bibirus, and the other people were running away from their shocking reputation?

Honestly? I have no clue. He might be some kind of summon.

[It cheeps again, and lets out a burst of static electricity that leaves Danny with all his hair standing on end.

He winces. Electricity and ghost energy didn't really mix that well.]

And then theres that.

Maybe you should keep your hair that way! [~~Says the guy who was perpetually surrounded by ridiculous hair back home, not to speak of his own.~~]

[...Summon, though.] You can't tell?

...I think I'm going to pass on that. [He scrubs at his hair with his free hand, trying to get it to lie down again. Mostly, he just makes it worse.]

I've never been able to summon before. [He shrugs.] I mean, what if it just looks like summoning and really it's just something completely different?

[Judai's always found it easy to tell, but then again...he supposes that the idea of summoning has been with him his entire life, even before he was able to do it.]

Do you have that problem a lot, though? What else could it be?

[Danny has to stop and count. This was what, his ninth power? If he counted shields as the same thing as his ectoblasts and his ice powers and ghost sense as the same power.

Actually this new one had been a lot less destructive than some of the others. He'd nearly frozen half the city while he was trying to figure out his ice ability, and don't even get him started on his intangibility.

But the one thing that they all had in common? Sometimes it was tough to tell what a new power was. Let alone figure out how to make it work. It wasn't like ghost powers came with a user's manual.

But it wasn't like he could say any of this.]

Me? Nah. This is the first time I've ever been able to do anything like this. But I guess I don't want to assume. What if hes the one summoning himself and he just shows up near me because I feed him?

[That makes him snicker.]

True enough! And you don't want to stop feeding him to check, right? That would be cruel!

[He watches the little shocker for a bit.] ...But it's annoying whenever the shocks happen, right? There are places you might need to go... Hey, have you tried giving it commands or something?

Yeah, no. That's the kind of thing that gets you eaten in all the movies.

[He winces.] I'm not really a fan of the whole electricity thing. Getting shocked is a pain. Literally.

[Plus there was the whole issue of his powers shorting out if he got too strong of a shock. It hadn't happened yet, and he was really hoping this guy didn't get any stronger.]

Commands? Like what? Roll over? Shake?

Good thing he looks too small to eat ya! [Says the guy who stuck a hand inside a crocodile once. But Karen the crocodile didn't bite him, so it's okay!]

Maybe he just needs to discharge it once in a while. [He wasn't thinking of pet commands when he said it, but now that Danny brings it up, pets do get house-trained and everything.]

[He holds out his hand to Spooky.] Hop over!

Maybe. I think the trick will be teaching him not to shock me while he's doing that.

[The bird stares at him and makes a peeping sound, but makes no attempt to move over.]

[He gets into a staring contest with Spooky for a few seconds, before he laughs and withdraws his hand.]

Maybe I didn't ask him right! He does seem pretty attached to you. Do you know how to train a pet?

I guess? I trained a stray dog once. Sort of.

[Okay, so it was a ghost puppy that was sort of trained already. But it still counted. ]

Danny isn't the only one flying up here.

Then again, this small shinigami reflexively brings his sword out in a quick swipe when he notices him, eyes narrowing in suspicion as he takes in the 'ghost.

"...What are you doing."

Danny takes a quick step back when the sword comes out.

"Flying?"

It sounded more like a question than a statement.

Sheena had had no idea that Danny was even here--until she saw him wandering around. And she didn't see the little bird Summon until she was almost on top of her friend, and the bird chirped.

So, from behind him, he'll hear:

"Danny! It's so good to see you! Who's this little guy with you?"

Danny turns around at the familiar voice and grins. "Sheena! I didn't know you made it back here too."

He glances down at the white feathered puffball. "I'm calling him Spooky. He just kind of shows up now."

"Yeah!" She gives him a hug. Pulling back, she looks at him impishly. "So, you want to tell me 'I told you so'?" she asks with a chuckle. Since after all, he had predicted this.

Following his gaze, she reaches out to the little bird. "Hello, Spooky. 'Just shows up', huh? Are you sure you don't Summon him?"

Yeah, she's seen a few others do this.

"I don't know. How do you know if you're summoning something?"

His smile turns more than a little wry. "Nah, its not really something I'm happy to be right about."

"Hmmm," she hums, thinking. "Well, I literally call on my Summons by name, and when they appear, it's like a outside power going through me.' She tilts her head and looks at him. "I'm guessing it's not the same for you?"

She sighs and her smile lessens. "Especially considering how much time passed?" She studies him for a moment.

"I know some people went back home before coming back here... Did that happen to you?"

"Maybe a little similar then? I've never been able to summon before, so I'm not sure what's normal."

Danny makes a face.

"No, I never made it back. As far as I can tell, I just spent the whole time asleep in the Dreaming."

"Well, I think the methods might be different for people, but the outcomes the same, so if you need help or have any questions, I'll try to help."

She grimaces slightly.

"Neither did I." A pause. "Have you heard anything about Tu Vishan?"

"Thanks. I might take you up on that." Danny had spent far too much of his life struggling to get newly developing powers under control to ignore possible help when it was offered.

He shakes his head.

"Not a thing so far."

"Good." At least she knows she doesn't have to tell him one thing. From what she's seen so far, he's already treating Spooky with respect.

At his response to her question, she frowns.

'Damn. I haven't, either. Turtles are supposed to be long-lived. I hope he's okay."

She grew fond of the turtle, okay?

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