A Phantom's Way

Chapter Ten: A Knight's of Shadows

It's Halloween, and Danny wanted to take a break from the mortal world. It was all Valerie's idea really, the GIW and his parents have really been coming down hard on him lately. Danny's had way too many close calls then he cares to admit in this month alone, much less, the last few months.

With each fight, the two sides have been getting more intense and creative with their traps, ambushes, and stakeouts. It is getting to the point that Red Huntress is a hair's breath away from gluing herself to Phantom's side the second he decides to make an appearance, whether it's for fun, patrol, or heroing.

Danny knows better than to test her. He knows full well that Red is being completely literal with her threats if Danny doesn't get his act together and find a way to shut down both his parents and the GIW.

But you honestly can't blame him, it's harder than it looks you know. Not only does he have to keep his parents and the GIW separate and away from each other at all costs, but he also has to find a way at stopping his parents without the Leagues help, shut down the GIW, which he would most likely need the League's help for, but can't do that until he stop's his parents, and he has to do all this without his parents finding out what, or rather who he is, without getting cornered by Sam and Tucker, who have now begun searching for both Danny and Phantom (They just. Can't. Take. A. Hint!), and while just avoiding his parents in general, because Danny is literally unable to have a restful, full, night of sleep, patrol aside, inside that house anymore.

He can't even tell you the amount of sleep overs he's had at both Jazz's and Val's places the last two months. He's even crashed at many of his pals' in the ghost zones. Ember's and Johnny's are for weekends only, God only knows that she will keep him up all night so they jam out together, or cruising out through the zone with Johnny and Shadow with their bike, and just hang out and catch up with either of them. Dora and Frostbite are fun to visit during the week days, but Danny doesn't with crash at their places all that often since they both have their own kingdom, Dora, and tribe, Frostbite, to worry about and look after. The person he usually goes to, whenever he's not at Val's or Jazz's, is Clockwork's tower.

By this point, the Master of Time as a bed a space set aside for the halfa in the room he watches all of time in, the screening room you could call it. The dim lights of the Clockworks screens would act like a night light, the ticking of the tower his lullaby, and Clockwork's watchful eye that would routinely check on Danny was his comfort. With all that, Danny slept most peacefully at Clockwork's tower, which is why it's his usual go to.

Clockwork doesn't mind at all. He's not happy as to the 'why', but Clockwork is happy spending time with the young halfa. Asleep or not, it's nice to have company that comes regularly, practically daily.

Like clockwork (Lol I'm sorry-not-sorry X'D).

This night, however, Danny was over at Dorathea's castle. It's been a while since he's last visited her, and he thought she'd need the break and have the most fun watching scary movies with while gorging on Halloween candy.

Honestly, it's just to make Danny feel better about how scared he gets with horror movies. Johnny and Shadow purposefully scare him even more than necessary, Ember teases him relentlessly, Frostbite would be too confused about everything that's going on that Danny would just miss the movie explaining it all to him, and Clockwork is fun to watch movies with, but after a while, the Master of Time just can't himself, Clockwork would keep telling Danny spoilers. But with Dora, they can just be scared together as they drown their fear in candy and junk food, taking the occasional break, or a 'cool down movie' they called it, with happy, or not as scary, movies to watch like 'Nightmare before Christmas', 'It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown', 'Monster House', 'Corpse Bride', and a really old one Danny always like, 'The Halloween that Almost Wasn't'. A favorite he and Jazz would always watch at Halloween every time they get back from trick or treating.