Hes so cold part 1
Got a secret
Can you keep it?
Swear this one you’ll save
Better lock it
In your pocket
Taking this one to the grave
If I show you then I know
You won’t tell what I’ve said
Cause two can keep a secret
If one of them is dead.
It was a blissfully normal day for Danny, ghost
attack here, bullies there, same old, same old. The blazing sun shone down on
the sidewalk as the inhabitants of Amity Park tried to find the nearest shade
or coolest spot. The only exception was Danny and his two best friends, Sam and
Tucker, who seemed to not be affected by the heat at all.
Sam, the resident goth-girl wore a black tank
top with a purple circle printed in the middle of her chest. Her raven black
hair, tied neatly in a half- ponytail at the crown of her
head. Sam’s long legs were covered with purple tights that
disappeared under a black mini skirt with a neon green plaid design, and her
feet with protected by black combat boots with metal reinforcing the tips.
Tucker couldn’t be more different, he was an
African-American boy who wore and interesting blend of the colors red,
olive-green and yellow. On his head hiding his hair was a red beret, his shirt
was a long-sleeved yellow turtle neck, and his pants were dark olive
green cargo pants. His “look” was completed by the palm sized PDA that the
boy was never seen without.
The boy who walked between the two was the most
“plain” of the trio. He wore a simple white short-sleeved shirt with a red
circle in the middle of his chest, he wore plain blue jeans and at a glance
nothing was too special about the boy with black hair and blue eyes.
The trio continued walking down the street as
they continued their conversation.
“Dude, it’s awesome that you got another new power! What is it?”
The African-American boy, Tucker, said.
“No, I didn’t get it yet. But clockwork said to be on
the lookout for new powers with my ice core” said Danny “and its not like they
will be too different from the powers I have now anyway”
“I don’t know Danny, every time you get a new power, you lose
control of the ones you already have. I think we should start training every
day after school so you don’t lose your skill when these new powers come.” Sam,
the only girl said worriedly.
“but it’s the day before school lets out for summer! Cant I have
at least one day off?”
“yeah Sam, I say we go to the nasty burger for some burgers. You
with me Danny?”
“heck yeah, I am!”
“guys!” Sam yelled exasperated “we don’t know when the next ghost
attack could be, should we be ready for when something happens?”
“Oh come on Sam, its only one day! What’s the worst that can
happen? Besides I can beat any ghost that comes through the portal, I’ve only
done it about a million times.”
Sighing Sam knew when she was defeated, it was two against one, and
really, what harm can one day do? With that thought she joined the boys as they
walked to the local hot-spot for students, leaning slightly closer to the cool
air radiating off Danny in pleasant waves. If Danny noticed he didn’t say
anything about it, but then again, Tucker was probably doing the same on the
other side of the cool ghostly boy.
When they finally arrived at the Nasty burger they found that it was completely
pack to the brim, almost everyone they knew were in the air-conditioned
fast-food restaurant. It was almost like school, the jocks all sat in one
booth, the one that was closest to the air vents and then there was the preps
and the band nerds and all sorts of other cliques and the furthest away was the
geeks that took up almost all the space and heated up the restaurant
more than what the A/C could cool down.
The trio just stared at the sight of their classmates who looked like they were
melting into the seats as they sipped their mostly melted cups of Ice cream.
“ITS HOT! This can't be good for my complexion, my
pores will get clogged with all this sweat! I need to be closer to
the vent!” a young Hispanic women said as she was scooting as close as she
could to the part of the wall that held the pleasant air.
“no way Paulina! We have more meat on us so we need the air more!”
a bulky blond responded as he also scooted closer to the outward blowing air.
To the trio who were watching it looked like two sluggish animals fighting over
a prime piece of meat. The rest of the students who couldn’t feel the air were
like blobs of jelly that had no will to move.
“uh, we should order and get out of here before they notice us”
said Danny as he nervously watched tempers rise between the two most popular
kids in his school. Sam and Tucker nodded their heads as they headed for the
counter.
If the students were blobs the image of those behind the counter was a giant
puddle of poor workers that had to work in this heat. One of the servers
managed to get his act together and hobbled over to the three customer in front
of him.
“Welcome to nasty burger, what would you like?” the tall boy with
orange hair and beard stubble asked as professionally as he could with this
heat.
“I would like 3 nasty double nasty burgers! With 2 servings of fries
and a small soda!” Tucker said already salivating at the thought of the juicy
burgers.
Danny and Sam just ordered a shake and waited patiently for
Tuckers order to be ready.
“Dave! The secret nasty sauce is getting too hot, we need to cool
it down!” one of the workers said to the orange haired boy, probably the
manager.
“What?!? If those 42 secret ingredients get too hot then it will
explode!” Dave said as he started to head back to the huge metal vat that held
the secret nasty sauce. “Assistant manager Rachel! The vat is getting to
hot! Re-route the A/C power to the vat so it can cool down”
A younger blond girl, Rachel, ran to the panel
on the wall and flipped a switch, she then watched in tense silence when the
air that was blowing furiously at the Casper High students slowly stopped and
heat immediately took its place.
It was amazing how much hotter it seemed when
the little air flow stopped. There was quiet for 3 seconds before… “AAAAAHHHHH,
now my hair is going to frizz!” Paulina’s scream could be heard for about a
block in any direction before chaos reigned, and tempers flew to their peaks.
“great….” Danny said sarcastically. As if on cue
Dash Baxter turned around looking for the source that took away the blessed
air, his eyes stopping and narrowing at the blue eyes boy.
“FENTON!!!!!” he screamed as he charged at
Danny. Being the quarterback meant that he was fast, he closed the distance
between the two before Danny could even think to run away. Dash wasted no time
lifting Danny in the air and pushing him into the wall behind the boy. He was
about to perform the wailing of a life time, Danny's life time, on
the nerd when he felt something odd.
An ice-cold hand was
gripped around Dash’s wrist, keeping the other boy from being strangled by
his own t-shirt. Dash blinked stupidly before it registered that Danny was
freezing! It felt soooooo nice to have those ice-cold fingers
on his skin. He was about to do….. something….. Dash didn’t really know what
when his shin was suddenly in pain, Fenturd’s girl-friend had
kicked him with her stupidly strong combat boots.
Swearing and buckling Dash dropped Danny to
nurse his now bruised shin, he sent a murderous glance to her before he
remembered the cool feeling of Danny. Dash didn’t know how or why Danny was so
cold but he didn’t care. He stood up and dragged Danny by the wrist, back to
his seat with the popular kids.
“UGH! Why did you bring a freak here?” Paulina asked somehow
making the grunt sound dainty.
Dash was about to share his discovery when he
realized that if he did, there would probably be a fight and he wouldn’t be
able to cool off if Danny ran off before Dash could beat everyone away.
“its too hot to fight, I’m making him be my arm
rest till I feel good enough to wail on him” Dash said.
Poor Danny was struggling in Dash’s grip but it
was no use, the only way to get away would be to use his ghostly strength, but
that would bring up a lot of questions he couldn’t answer without revealing his
other identity.
His anxiety was shared by his friends
who watched as Danny seemed to shrink in himself as Dash just leaned on him
more. This lasted a good 5 minutes before Sam decided enough was enough. She
got up and was about to stomp her way to Danny when she saw a blue wisp of
smoke exit his mouth.
A sinister laugh sounded before a green vortex
pulled all the students through a portal, the last thing Sam, Tucker, and the
rest of the students felt before passing out was extreme cold. Danny on the
other hand felt an electric shock course through him, knocking him out before
he even reached the portal.
The Sinister laugh echoed through the empty
restaurant a new ghost appeared, he had a long fur cloak that covered his body.
But when he moved it shifted to show a well-toned body with scars marring his
flesh. His hair was a fiery red, rare, for a ghost and his blind white eyes
showed flickers of pitch black. His left leg was mostly metal and he left arm
was almost completely useless, hanging limply against his side.
Still the figure radiated power, he laughed
again as he closed to portal behind the ghost boy.
“Lets see you keep your secret when you can’t even keep yourself
safe. The only secrets that are safe are the ones taken to the grave, and even
then, you cant be too careful” the Ghost chuckled again before he disappeared
in a puff of green smoke.
The silent
restaurant stood against the beating sun as the sauces in the metal vat slowly
began to rise again in temperature. Ping! Ping! The needle moved to the yellow
section of its heat meter.
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