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.


 

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[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."

[schrodingersghost]

Danny makes a face.

"In a way, that's almost as bad. Revenge is one of those things that a lot of people have a touch time saying no to."

[purrns]

"Given the amount of revenge-fuelled Akuma attacks I've had to fend off with LB the past year, I'm going to have to agree with you there."

It's not been fun, especially when a good number of them have bee his classmates. His friends.

"It's mostly worked out in the end, though. Unless Chloé's involved. Then...maybe less so. She's got a way of upsetting people."

[schrodingersghost]

"Who's Chloe?"

[purrns]

"My friend. For a really long time, she was the only friend Père allowed me to have."

And he still genuinely cares for her. Not in the way she feels about him, she can keep dreaming, keep flirting, keep flinging herself at him, but there's no romance there for him. She's just someone who was there when no one else was. She's difficult, and makes it hard to like her- but he still does. Friendship has to count for something.

"She's...kind of abrasive. Doesn't play well with others, you know?"

She's a giant bully, but he can't force himself to see her that way. It's doubtful he ever would.

[schrodingersghost]

"I guess?" Danny only really had two friends back home. And all three of them had been the school outcasts for as long as he could remember. Tucker for his tech geek tendencies, Sam for her outspoken opinions and refusal to follow the popular anything, and himself for having ghost-hunters for parents. But he could kind of understand. Some of Sam's opinions could be rather abrasive at times, and definitely hadn't made friends.

"You have to stick with your friends, right?"