Little, And Broken, But Still Good. (A Danny Phantom Fanfiction)

Chapter eight

"You're just missing one syllable," Amorpho gasped, exasperated. "Do you really have that much trouble saying my name?"

"Yeah," Danny said. Amorpho was hard to say. He could say it, but "Morpho-Man" was better.

Tucker threw his fist up in the air. "Yeah, Morpho-Man!!" He yelled. "Sounds like a superhero."

If Amorpho had a mouth he would smile. Superhero, huh? That gave him a good feeling.

"Ahahahaha, Morpho-Man!! HA, that's genius, Danny! Oh, boy," Ember cackled from across the table.

Good feeling gone.

Danny, Tucker, Ember, Amorpho, and Wulf were all currently sitting at Danny's table at his house. They had decided, once Wulf joined them, they would just go to Danny's house since Clockwork didn't have a table in his lair as of now. Plus, Ember thought it was hilarious that they were gonna go hang out at a ghost hunter's house.

Once they all arrived via Wolf's portal, they decided to play Uno. Or at least, they were playing Uno, until Tucker won, and Ember was so mad that she lost she threw the cards all over the place. Now they were just raiding Danny's parents' fridge, chatting, laughing, and occasionally throwing cards at each other.

Danny was beyond happy that all of his friends and family came to his house to play around and generally have a good time. They were eating all kinds of food Danny had never been able to reach on his own (hence his skinniness). The older ghosts were fawning over the cute-dorable boys, and everyone was making jokes and having fun...Danny had dreamed of this since he had noticed Jazz's friends over once or twice.

Clockwork had teleported in at some point, but in a frenzy everyone started pelting him with cards until he had to make a speedy escape, crazed laughter following behind him.

After that, Danny had started calling Amorpho "Morpho-Man" because for some reason he had trouble saying Amorpho. Danny was glad that it caught on with Ember and Tucker, 'cause he thought it was pretty funny. Apparently Ember did too, the way she was guffawing like that.

Across from Danny, Tucker glanced at his watch. "Oh dang," he said. "I gotta go."

"You have a watch?" Danny gawked at Tucker's wrist, where a shiny black watch lay. "Cool."

"What--but--you have a pocketwatch! It's always around your neck. Did you forget it was there?" Tucker spluttered, gesturing wildly to Danny's silver pocketwatch gleaming in the light. It was the only elegant thing Danny owned.

"Oh yeah," Danny said, giggling. "I got that for my birthday." He remembered distinctly the happy feeling that had arose in his chest that night, when he noticed the silver watch on his bedstand. It had been a birthday present from his new family. The start of something truly great.

"D'ya want me to walk you home? We don't live that far away from each other," Danny suggested, feeling sad that Tucker had to go home already but wanting to be polite.

Tucker smiled. "Yeah," he said, grabbing Danny's arm and leading him to the door. "We can play some more on the way to my house."

Danny waved to his family as he let go of Tucker's hand and started to walk next to him instead. "Bye Babypop," Ember waved back. "We'll be here when ya get ba--hey!!" She snarled as Wulf threw a card at her and it landed directly in her fiery blue hair, causing the card to burn up instantly. "I'll get you for that, dipstick!!" She yelled and threw her lemonade in Wulf's face, leaving a stunned, dripping Wulf and a certain shapeshifting ghost laughing so hard he fell over.

Danny chuckled, lowering his hand. He truly loved them. Even Amorpho, whom he had just met. He took one last glance inside and slipped out the door with a giggling Tucker in tow.