Catch-all for November

[schrodingersghost]

Characters: Danny Fenton and anyone
Date: Throughout November
Location:  Locations throughout Keeliai and Ioa Elanag
Situation: Catch-All for November
Warnings/Rating: Puns


1: Cat Cafe

It had been a few days since Danny had picked up one of the lucky bibiru feet. He thought the idea was a little creepy, but hey, it had been free.  And it wasn't like it would actually bring any kind of luck.

....Danny really should have known better.

But as it was, it comes as a complete surprise to him when he suddenly loses control over his intangibility at the worst possible time. Halfway through a shift in the kitchen of the cat cafe. There is a loud crashing sound as an entire tray of plates falls through Danny's suddenly intangible hands.

2. Street, Central District

Danny's day really wasn't getting any better. He'd taken the first excuse he could to leave the cafe, but the bad luck continues. Five times on the way home, Danny slowly starts sinking through the sidewalk. The first time, it catches him by surprise, and he trips over an empty sidewalk as the tips of his toes phase into the concrete. Once again there is a crash as he falls to the gour 

3. Ioa Elanog

There was nothing Danny liked better than exploring new territories. Several times throughout the month he could be caught flying above the new land as a ghost, sometimes swooping down close to the ground and landing to examine something new.


 

Comments

[purrns]

Adrien leans forward a little to stamp his food on the obviously very solid floor.

"Yeah. No."

Adrien is well aware he's slipping into dangerous territory here, but he's surprised that he doesn't actually care. Sure, he has Marinette here, but that's not quite the same. They have their own weird issues to deal with- it's not as easy, just shooting the breeze about superhero stuff. It still feels a little like he's crossed a line he shouldn't have. They're still getting used to seeing one another as the same person, doing that careful dance around one another, around their feelings for each other.

Danny's different, though. Marinette is a friend, but so is Danny, in a different way. He's from a different world, but their rules are much the same. He became a friend out of choice, and Adrien has honestly been glad to have him. He'd been pondering, after Valdis let slip she knew his identity too, that perhaps he could start telling people- people who mattered the truth. That it didn't matter as much here. And when he thought of that, Danny as one of the first people to come to his mind who deserved to know.

And now this. Of course. He should have seen it sooner, but he didn't. And this...well, it was a comfort. A shared secret without the weight that his and Marinette's holds. He laughs softly, leaning on the wall, folding his arms.

"We run into one another a lot. Supurrrhero business, you know."

[schrodingersghost]

"Chat Noir?"

The exclamation comes out in a rather strangled tone of voice. Danny gives up on pretending that there was any reasonable explanation for his tangibility, and simply floats up out of the ground and lands on the floor.

"Seriously? How did I miss that?"

[purrns]

There's a thrill here. Danny is the first person he's told outside of Marinette. Sure Valdis and Solomon had figured it out, but technically they used powers and cheated. This is something of his own violation, and he's surprised that it actually feels good. Freeing.

A light smirk crosses his lips that usually only belongs on Chat Noir, a far cry from the polite mask Adrien wears constantly.

"Because I wear a mask and actually changed my name?"

[schrodingersghost]

"Hey!" Danny huffs. "It isn't like people ever make the connection. All most people see is the ghost part."

Danny has been successfully distracted from fretting over being hunted down by ghost scientists and experimented on. He still has no idea what to even think about Adrien being a superhero. He was still boggling over completely missing something this big.

[purrns]

"Right. The whole...uh, ghost-hating thing. Still weird, still really not cool."

He hasn't had to deal with too much of that sort of thing. Sure, the citizens of Paris were known to get touchy once in a while, but it always blew over. They never let it fester long.

"Hey, you're out of the floor now at least, yay?"

[schrodingersghost]

Danny winces. "Yeah, that. It kind of makes things complicated."

Danny eyes the floor with irritation.

"And I'd feel a lot better about that if I knew why I suddenly lost control of my intangibility.

[purrns]

Well, this at least, is something he can focus on. His powers don't really go wiggy on him, so he hasn't got the experience to fall back on, but logically, there has to be a reason for Danny's to start messing up.

"Does it ever happen back home? Or is this a suddenly happening right now thing?"

[schrodingersghost]

Danny shrugs. It was kind of weird, actually talking about his powers to someone who wasn't Sam or Tuck. Or his sister.

But it was kind of nice, too.

"Not recently? I mean, when I first got my powers it took my a month to get any kind of control at all. I was falling through things all over the place. But I usually have a god handle on it these days, so its weird."

[purrns]

He screwed up his first chance to use his powers, but it's something he's very glad for. If he hadn't, he would have used those powers on Ivan- and he would have learned first hand what happens when you used Cataclysm on a living thing. Not well, he imagines.

"Hm. I wonder if it's anything to do with the new landfall? I don't think the turtle's been here yet. Maybe there's something with this place that makes powers go freaky? Like some kind of pulse or something."

[schrodingersghost]

Danny looked a little horrified at the suggestion.

"Oh man, I really hope not. My life sucks when my powers get freaky."

And he had a few powers that he really, really did not want to lose control. The last thing this place needed was an ice age.

[purrns]

"I mean, it might be nothing. I've not had any problems."

And Plagg would have said something if the new landfall was doing something like that, right? Even his Kwami wasn't so self centered that he'd keep that kind of information from him.

"But there has to be some kind of explanation."

[schrodingersghost]

Danny shrugs.

"It could be a lot of things. I mean, maybe someone made a dumb wish somewhere where a wishgranter could hear. Maybe this is something that only affects ghosts. Maybe I got electrocuted somewhere and didn't notice."

[purrns]

"A wishgranter?"

Adrien instantly frowns, that's clearly pulled some very distinct alarm bells in his head.

"So...someone who agrees to grant what someone wants? And I'm going to guess it's for a price, too?"

[schrodingersghost]

Danny grimaces. "I was thinking more of one I knew back home who granted every wish she heard for free, but in the worst possible way."

[purrns]

"So she twisted it? Like, say someone wished for a puppy and they'd get a surprise puppy that was also a hellhound? That kind of thing?"

He hasn't come across an Akuma that does that, but honestly, it's only a matter of time.

[schrodingersghost]

"Yeah, pretty much. Someone wished for a monster truck, and a truck turned into a monster that tried to eat him."

[purrns]

"A literal wish then, that's just swell."

His tone suggests he doesn't think it's swell at all.

"How'd you end up beating her?"

He assumes Danny managed it, it's what heroes did, win the day, yadda yadda.

[schrodingersghost]

"I wished for her to go into the thermos." He shrugs. "She was busy granting every wish she heard, so I guess that one slipped by her."

[purrns]

"Huh. That's...actually pretty sneaky."

His smile widens.

"Colour me impressed. I'll have to remember that one for the future."

[schrodingersghost]

"If you ever run into a wishgranter, I've found tricking them is the fastest way to beat them."

[purrns]

Adrien makes a noise of amusement, folding his arms.

"Papillon is all about that. That's how he gets his victims. Promises them whatever and then turns them into his puppets. We've not had much luck in tricking him yet, or...actually meeting him face to face at all."

[schrodingersghost]

"He sounds like a fruitloop." Danny grimaces. "Tricking people like that is the worst. If he ever shows up here, any objection if I try to punch him?"

[purrns]

"He's absolutely the fruitiest of loops."

Adrien would really like to punch the guy himself, but hey, the more the merrier.

"Go for it. Just be careful not to have too many negative emotions around him. That's how he targets people."

[schrodingersghost]

"....Great. He doesn't eat negative emotions or anything, right?"

Because dealing with one of those had been more than enough. Danny had it on good authority that he made for an excellent smorgasboard of teen misery.

[purrns]

"Uh...no. Pretty sure he doesn't. He just uses them as a gateway to convince people to agree to whatever shady stuff he's offering them."

Adrien's never had to deal with it first hand, which was a little strange, if he really thought about it. It wasn't like his life back home was sunshine and rainbows. He had plenty negative emotions, and yet- he was never a target. Weird.

"Revenge. That's usually his go-to. He sure does love offering revenge."