February Catch All

[invisibill]

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
 

Comments

[eyeinfusion]

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?

[invisibill]

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.

[eyeinfusion]

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?

[invisibill]

...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?

[eyeinfusion]

[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?

[invisibill]

[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?

[eyeinfusion]

[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?

[invisibill]

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?

[eyeinfusion]

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!

[invisibill]

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.]

[eyeinfusion]

[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?

[invisibill]

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. ]