Royalty

Chapter 2: The Ball

In the doorway stood Danny. He was still wearing the clothes he had when he and Sam were on the fair. Now his attire had a few additions. Danny was wearing a pearly white cape, not as white as his hair, which were still a mess. There was the same 'DP' symbol on his chest. The most intriguing part was the flaming green crown on his head. The same crown Sam had seen in old books. The Crown of Fire. Danny smiled widely and opened his arms wide.

"Good evening, everyone!" He greeted, "I'm glad to see you all present here! All of you, even my enemies," Danny looked towards the certain table. There were robotic ghost, the guy with sunglasses in lab coat and some others. All of them were smirking.

"I sincerely hope," he was still looking at them, "that we can put our...let's call them disagreements, aside, at least for this evening. That was our joint victory and let's keep celebration the same way, agreed?" Some of them nodded, some had bored expressions on their faces, "well, at least I can brag that my enemies laugh into my face and then follow me in battle," people laughed along with himself.

"As for our high guests, welcome. I'm honored by your agreement to come, and I will be happy to know you personally"

"Well, who am I to interrupt your feast?" Phantom clapped his hands with a smirk, "Music, please"

On the scene appeared the musicians and started to play the compositions. The King meanwhile was having a conversation with some of the guests. Sam's mind still tried to understand what's going on around here. Danny was full of surprises, he didn't look like the one who took down almost a god. She started to wonder about his true age. Ghosts don't get old, so Phantom could easily be few times older than her, because to have so much power he needs to be old enough. Ember, who was still sitting nearby, looked at her.

"Why so surprised?" She asked, smirking.

"Why didn't he tell me anything?" Ember shrugged.

"Dipstick is pretty modest. Plus if you now ask him about it, he will probably say: 'You haven't asked'"
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There was a loud sound of crash. One of the tables was turned upside down.

"Did someone got drunk already?" Danny asked loudly.

"No, this idiot tripped me!" The robotic ghost yelled, glaring at the one in sunglasses.

"I did no such thing, you fool!" He responded. Shaking his head, Phantom came to them and stood in between.

"Technus, Skulker, what did I just tell you fifteen minutes ago?" He asked calmly.

"Yeah, yeah, no fighting," they rolled their eyes.

"Exactly, but that doesn't seem like you have listened"

"Laugh while you can, whelp," Skulker said, "once this party of yours is over, I will hunt you down"

"And I, Technus, Master of all..."

"Just don't break anything again," Danny interrupted, shaking his head. He waved his hand and put the table back on its leg. Phantom walked away, taking a glass of wine from a servant on his way. He returned to having conversation with the man in purple cloak and staff in his hand.

"Where did we stop?"

"I was asking you about what you are going to do with your family," Clockwork said. Danny stopped the glass halfway before his face.

"What about them?" He asked.

"You of course noticed that the whole Amity Park now fears you more than ever"