Chapter 2: Meeting Strange People
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POV: Danny
A pair of beasts jumped up onto the roof with me and the still unnamed individual. I narrowed my eyes upon the sight of the strange looking creatures. I'm used to strange sights because of all the nut jobs that come out of the Ghost Zone.
Yet these things definitely top the cake when it comes to looking downright gross. The size of them reminds me of Cujo after it transforms. At least Cujo still looked like a dog before and after though. The creatures look like some weird amalgamation of a dog and whatever has bony spikes. Maybe a porcupine is the other thing.
The dogs look over at me and start immediately growling, which reminds me that most animals aren't too fond of ghosts. Thankfully a sharp whistle sounds out in the air before they both stop, but still focus a lot of their attention on me. Still sniffing at the air from my direction.
A set of two people from each of the boney dogs jump off onto the rooftop. Each of them are dressed like people with weird fetishes. One looks like he just came out of some renaissance fair. The other guy looks like he decided to take being a biker to the extreme with the dark leathers and weirdly designed biker helmet.
The other two were females as far as I can tell. One was definitely a girl seeing as the skin tight bodysuit didn't leave anything to the imagination and has blonde hair. The other was a little bit harder to tell seeing as she has the body frame of someone like Dash, yet wears a plaid skirt. Accompanied by a cheap dog mask.
Actually they are all wearing masks. I feel a little left out of the party here, but I never saw the need for a mask. Most people in Amity Park couldn't even figure out the connection between my two halves.
The biker fashion person walks over to the long haired individual. I continue to observe them as I see the blonde one looking over at me with a sort of confused look. I look straight back at her with a raised eyebrow. Yet, she doesn't look away causing a frown to form.
"Typically you get to know someone before you have a staring contest with them," I remark loudly, drawing the rest of their attention to me. The one staring looking like they are about to speak before the renaissance guy steps forward slightly.
"Don't mind her, she's a little slow, if you know what I mean. Makes her stare at anything that catches her fancy for a long time," The renaissance one says, but shortly after receives an elbow to his side from the blonde. Yelping from the hit and then laughing quietly.
I feel a little bad myself from calling her out like that.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know your friend had a special condition," I apologize to them. If I knew earlier I would never have been snarky about it. Calling somebody out on a disability is a low move, even Dash would agree on that.
The one who said the statement laughs harder, before doubling over from the straight elbow to his stomach. I wince at the hard elbow and silently give my sympathies for him. Must be hard to take care of her if she lashes out like this all the time too.
"Wait I don't–" The blonde says before getting cut off by the biker. Her look of annoyance now slowly grew on her face, lips setting into a frown.
"Anyway, we came to give thanks for saving us the trouble of fighting Lung. We didn't really have a solid plan for dealing with him and were just gonna hope for the best," The biker thanked us in a muffled voice.
"Uh, who's Lung, was it that matchstick guy?," I ask in confusion. I think they are referring to him, but I don't know anything at all.
"You must be new to Brockton Bay, but yeah Lung is the guy currently laying knocked out on the streets," He answers as the dog mask girl looks over the ledge constantly next to the dogs. Keeping watch over the downed body.
His answer also gives me the name of this place, Brockton Bay. I try to think if the name rings any bells, but sadly it doesn't. Which leaves me back at square one. My good mood lowered a little bit from the basically useless information.
"He's gonna be knocked out for a good minute too, even with the regeneration factor. The venom coursing in him is slowing it down by a lot. That's not even counting the beating you gave him. By the time he wakes up he's gonna be in for a rude awakening," The blonde girl tells us with a grin, while looking over the ledge. Said grin goes down when looking at me again. A confused look crossed over her features again as her brows knit together.
A feeling of wanting to tell her to stop looking at me surfaces before I remember it just being a disability of hers. Must be hard to live like that all the time.
I also feel a little bit of relief knowing Lung can regenerate, seeing as I went a little bit extra on him at the end. He just wouldn't stay down with me holding back too much. Though the thought of venom in his system does worry me a little bit.
"I believe some introductions are in order now. My name is Grue, that's Tattletale, Bitch, name based on her preference, is over there with the dogs, and lastly is Regent," Grue introduces his teammates while pointing to each one of the people on the rooftop.
Must be codenames or something, what a bunch of weird people. Of course, I don't have any room to talk seeing as I just go by Phantom at this point. I squeeze the invisible container in my hand. He also went by Phantom in the future.
Leaves a bad taste in my mouth knowing we both are similar in names. Unfortunately there isn't anything I can do about it.
Grue looks over to me and the unknown person, probably waiting for a response. We wait but the person still doesn't answer. Guess it's up to me to talk first.
"Since tall, dark, and brooding isn't going to answer first, I will. The name is Phantom, one and only hero of Amity Park," I tell them. Throwing in the name of my hometown since they might have heard of me. Maybe they could even give me directions there.
I'm really just grasping onto any straws at this point. The need to go home is still at the front of my mind.
The only response is the stillness of their bodies as I give my introduction. Maybe they have heard of me after all. Hopefully good things, but the quietness filling the air makes it seem like they might have only heard the bad things. Well, actually it isn't completely quiet seeing as how there is a buzzing from the bugs all around the rooftop.
"Phantom huh, interesting name you picked. But we got to go since it is getting pretty late," Tattletale says in a curt tone. The rest of them get back onto the spiky dogs to start leaving without much of a word. It leaves me a little confused at the sudden awkwardness on the rooftop.
"Well, alright then. See you guys later or something," I respond with a wave as the dogs leap into the streets vanishing into some alleyways. Dang those things are quick to disappear. I float myself down to land next to the only remaining person on the roof. Noticing that they are taller than me by a couple of inches, "Man they were in a rush, you think it was something I said."
The figure looks at me for a moment before slamming a palm to their face. Leaving me to wonder what their problem is.
A/N: Alrighty a little bit to unpack this chapter. Not much since it was short though.
I'll start first with the obvious detail of Tattletales power acting a little strange with Danny. I'll probably give a POV later with her details from this chapter when looking at him. Since it did give her information, but nothing that made sense to her.
Regent obviously was just being regent about things. I feel like if given the chance he would say something like this for the fun of it.
For those that may think it was stupid for Danny to announce his hometown, he mainly did it to see if anybody recognized it. If they did he would then ask where it is and just speed over there. He still doesn't realize he isn't even in his world or reality anymore. So it doesn't really matter anyway.
Next chapter will be Armsmaster, so stay tuned for that.
Thank you for reading and see you in the next chapter.
A pair of beasts jumped up onto the roof with me and the still unnamed individual. I narrowed my eyes upon the sight of the strange looking creatures. I'm used to strange sights because of all the nut jobs that come out of the Ghost Zone.
Yet these things definitely top the cake when it comes to looking downright gross. The size of them reminds me of Cujo after it transforms. At least Cujo still looked like a dog before and after though. The creatures look like some weird amalgamation of a dog and whatever has bony spikes. Maybe a porcupine is the other thing.
The dogs look over at me and start immediately growling, which reminds me that most animals aren't too fond of ghosts. Thankfully a sharp whistle sounds out in the air before they both stop, but still focus a lot of their attention on me. Still sniffing at the air from my direction.
A set of two people from each of the boney dogs jump off onto the rooftop. Each of them are dressed like people with weird fetishes. One looks like he just came out of some renaissance fair. The other guy looks like he decided to take being a biker to the extreme with the dark leathers and weirdly designed biker helmet.
The other two were females as far as I can tell. One was definitely a girl seeing as the skin tight bodysuit didn't leave anything to the imagination and has blonde hair. The other was a little bit harder to tell seeing as she has the body frame of someone like Dash, yet wears a plaid skirt. Accompanied by a cheap dog mask.
Actually they are all wearing masks. I feel a little left out of the party here, but I never saw the need for a mask. Most people in Amity Park couldn't even figure out the connection between my two halves.
The biker fashion person walks over to the long haired individual. I continue to observe them as I see the blonde one looking over at me with a sort of confused look. I look straight back at her with a raised eyebrow. Yet, she doesn't look away causing a frown to form.
"Typically you get to know someone before you have a staring contest with them," I remark loudly, drawing the rest of their attention to me. The one staring looking like they are about to speak before the renaissance guy steps forward slightly.
"Don't mind her, she's a little slow, if you know what I mean. Makes her stare at anything that catches her fancy for a long time," The renaissance one says, but shortly after receives an elbow to his side from the blonde. Yelping from the hit and then laughing quietly.
I feel a little bad myself from calling her out like that.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know your friend had a special condition," I apologize to them. If I knew earlier I would never have been snarky about it. Calling somebody out on a disability is a low move, even Dash would agree on that.
The one who said the statement laughs harder, before doubling over from the straight elbow to his stomach. I wince at the hard elbow and silently give my sympathies for him. Must be hard to take care of her if she lashes out like this all the time too.
"Wait I don't–" The blonde says before getting cut off by the biker. Her look of annoyance now slowly grew on her face, lips setting into a frown.
"Anyway, we came to give thanks for saving us the trouble of fighting Lung. We didn't really have a solid plan for dealing with him and were just gonna hope for the best," The biker thanked us in a muffled voice.
"Uh, who's Lung, was it that matchstick guy?," I ask in confusion. I think they are referring to him, but I don't know anything at all.
"You must be new to Brockton Bay, but yeah Lung is the guy currently laying knocked out on the streets," He answers as the dog mask girl looks over the ledge constantly next to the dogs. Keeping watch over the downed body.
His answer also gives me the name of this place, Brockton Bay. I try to think if the name rings any bells, but sadly it doesn't. Which leaves me back at square one. My good mood lowered a little bit from the basically useless information.
"He's gonna be knocked out for a good minute too, even with the regeneration factor. The venom coursing in him is slowing it down by a lot. That's not even counting the beating you gave him. By the time he wakes up he's gonna be in for a rude awakening," The blonde girl tells us with a grin, while looking over the ledge. Said grin goes down when looking at me again. A confused look crossed over her features again as her brows knit together.
A feeling of wanting to tell her to stop looking at me surfaces before I remember it just being a disability of hers. Must be hard to live like that all the time.
I also feel a little bit of relief knowing Lung can regenerate, seeing as I went a little bit extra on him at the end. He just wouldn't stay down with me holding back too much. Though the thought of venom in his system does worry me a little bit.
"I believe some introductions are in order now. My name is Grue, that's Tattletale, Bitch, name based on her preference, is over there with the dogs, and lastly is Regent," Grue introduces his teammates while pointing to each one of the people on the rooftop.
Must be codenames or something, what a bunch of weird people. Of course, I don't have any room to talk seeing as I just go by Phantom at this point. I squeeze the invisible container in my hand. He also went by Phantom in the future.
Leaves a bad taste in my mouth knowing we both are similar in names. Unfortunately there isn't anything I can do about it.
Grue looks over to me and the unknown person, probably waiting for a response. We wait but the person still doesn't answer. Guess it's up to me to talk first.
"Since tall, dark, and brooding isn't going to answer first, I will. The name is Phantom, one and only hero of Amity Park," I tell them. Throwing in the name of my hometown since they might have heard of me. Maybe they could even give me directions there.
I'm really just grasping onto any straws at this point. The need to go home is still at the front of my mind.
The only response is the stillness of their bodies as I give my introduction. Maybe they have heard of me after all. Hopefully good things, but the quietness filling the air makes it seem like they might have only heard the bad things. Well, actually it isn't completely quiet seeing as how there is a buzzing from the bugs all around the rooftop.
"Phantom huh, interesting name you picked. But we got to go since it is getting pretty late," Tattletale says in a curt tone. The rest of them get back onto the spiky dogs to start leaving without much of a word. It leaves me a little confused at the sudden awkwardness on the rooftop.
"Well, alright then. See you guys later or something," I respond with a wave as the dogs leap into the streets vanishing into some alleyways. Dang those things are quick to disappear. I float myself down to land next to the only remaining person on the roof. Noticing that they are taller than me by a couple of inches, "Man they were in a rush, you think it was something I said."
The figure looks at me for a moment before slamming a palm to their face. Leaving me to wonder what their problem is.
A/N: Alrighty a little bit to unpack this chapter. Not much since it was short though.
I'll start first with the obvious detail of Tattletales power acting a little strange with Danny. I'll probably give a POV later with her details from this chapter when looking at him. Since it did give her information, but nothing that made sense to her.
Regent obviously was just being regent about things. I feel like if given the chance he would say something like this for the fun of it.
For those that may think it was stupid for Danny to announce his hometown, he mainly did it to see if anybody recognized it. If they did he would then ask where it is and just speed over there. He still doesn't realize he isn't even in his world or reality anymore. So it doesn't really matter anyway.
Next chapter will be Armsmaster, so stay tuned for that.
Thank you for reading and see you in the next chapter.
