Disclaimer: Note I do not own any of the characters or anything else from Danny Phantom created by Nickelodeon or Butch Hartman. This fanfic is only meant for entertainment and nothing else.

Author's Notes: Something that should be said (especially by me) is an apology for everyone for this second chapter having taken so long to finish. I find it only necessary to apologize to you people for my lateness and I can't say sorry enough for this happening. I can only hope that I may get some of the same people here that I had seen here before commenting on my fics, again I am deeply sorry everyone.

And also I should add, anyone who has no idea what is going on with this fic here, be sure to check out the first part of this D x E story entitled, "A Kick in the Head"

Author's Responses:

Firefly4000 – Was overjoyed to see you commenting again on my work, thank you! A Happy ending……maybe….maybe not, you'll just have to wait to the end to find out!

1Wahed – More than glad to hear you comments about the first chapter going so well, I hope you will enjoy the second one here just as much.

robyn- Yes master, must hear and obey! Just please don't make any more sinister laughs, anything but that! (lol) I hope to hear from you again robyn!

Iced Perfection – No worries, I'ze just happy to see you liked it as much as the first! Agreed, more power to the D x E pairing (it be the bestest, lol)!

JPElles – Your words are too kind, I am more than happy to keep writing this fic. Thank you so much for the comment!

Kitsune6 – Wow, thank you very, very much! Glad to know you enjoyed that first chapter, hope you'll like the second one here too! Really there's only one Danny and Kitty fic out there? Do you think you could toss me the link to it (you don't have to if you want to, just curious)?

Ice's Shadow – Worked as fast as I could to update, hope you find the conversation between them to your liking.

Hanae Nakasome – Well I'm more than glad to see that you liked my first chapter, I can only hope to hear some more feedback from you with this one.

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The PhantomHokage – Oh believe me, I wanted to get this updated as soon as I could. Sorry again for the inconvenient waiting period, my bad.

softballgirl9411 – Hey thank you, glad you liked it! In fact it took me a while to think of who to choose from, but again thanks!

Urgazhi – Believe me when I say I added alot more Danny and Ember fluff to this fic. Hey not a problem, I'ze always happy to do a fic!

Icepaw – Very thankful for both your responses on A Kick in the Head and as well as here too! I went as fast as I could to get the second chapter up, I really hope you'll enjoy it. (crosses fingers)

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And cheers to all the people that followed with my work to now, thank you all so very, very much!

Should also say thanks for everyone for sending me some of their ideas for my fic, really helped me out a lot with the second chapter I'ze tell ya (and especially with the rest of the story)! Thank you!!!

Note: The markings of, "(" and, ")" represent any characters actions, and italics represent inner though.

Now with all that said and done, I give you……

Sway With Ease

Chapter 2

By Timmy22222001

"Alright!" cheered Tucker as some of amusing rings and chirps emerged out from his PDA, "level 5, here I come!"

Quickly finishing his brief moment of success, Tucker placed his hands back on the controllers and continued with his game when all of a sudden he heard a small muffled sound, "Tuc……wh……yo…..ing?!"

Pausing Nhuck Corris versus the Polish Pickles of Pluto, Tucker's then switched his screen from karate chopping mutant salads to an angry black haired Goth girl that screamed, "Tucker!" once more.

"Sorry, sorry, sorry." pleaded Tucker as he fumbled a few times in his attempts to immediately close down his game.

"Tucker," said Sam with a rather annoyed look on her face, "what do you think you were doing? I haven't been able to say a word for over the last twenty minutes!"

"Sorry about that Sam," replied Tucker in an almost clumsy tone as he scratched his head a few times, "I got bored and I guess I forgot about you being on the other line and what not." (nervous smile)

Sam let out an annoyed groan and continued, "It doesn't matter anymore Tucker. The main thing here is that you're watching Valerie right?"

Tucker instantly froze and after another few uncomfortable moments of silence between him and Sam, he blankly answered, "I am?"

"Tucker," said Sam as she placed both of her hands on her face, "please tell me that Valerie is somewhere nearby."

"Umm…..do you have to hear all of those words?" asked Tucker as viewed the empty beach environment around him.

Sam simply just kept her hands over her face and slowly started to shake head.

Meanwhile Across the Beach,

The aftermath of Kitty's attack left a serious impact on everything. Not only was it on the trees, the ground, and even on some unfortunate eardrums, but perhaps its greatest toll took its affect on the two lovers, Danny and Ember.

Both were busy trying to tend to their own wounds, but in fact the most uncomfortable part of the whole event was that neither of two would say a word to one other. Surly there no anger or hate keeping the two lovers silent from each other, but instead that confusion and discomfort were busy keeping their minds occupied.

Yet it was Danny, who got up and sat himself next to his Ember and spoke, "Listen, Ember…"

Ember let out a deep sigh and commented, "Don't worry Danny, I'm okay. I'm just really shook up over the psychotic Kitty chick, which you still haven't told me anything about her yet."

"Yeah," said Danny in a very depressed tone as his head began to sink, "sorry about that."

Great job Fenton, now...

And then Ember placed her hand onto Danny's, and after giving Danny a gentle smile she said, "Go on Danny, I'm listening."

Bringing his head back up, Danny then bit his lip for a few seconds and said, "Well, you see it all started when…."

A Few Minutes Later,

"…..and there you have it," finished Danny, "But as I had mentioned it before Ember, I'm so sorry that I never told to you about Kitty or any of the other girls I knew. To tell you the truth, when Kitty and Johnny went back to the ghost zone I thought they'd be back together, but I have to say that I never expected any of this to happen." (looks around slowly at the decimated environment around him and Ember)

There was a slight pause until Danny quickly added, "Comments, concerns?"

"Uh yeah," replied Ember with a rather curious look on her face, "explain to me, who the 'other girls' were."

"What?" answered Danny with his own confused look, "but……what about Kitty and everything?"

Ember shrugged and continued, "A crazy biker ghost chick that's after you like a kid to a candy store, but you're still not answering the question."

Crossing her arms and now giving Danny a much more serious look, Danny shifted his eyes a few times to the left and right and answered, "I kind of don't think that we're on the same topic here."

Still continuing her gaze at Danny, Ember simply raised her left eyebrow, and finally Danny said, "Fine. The other girls were Valerie, Sam, and of course Paulina. Well, I can't really say Paulina because she only really liked me when she was being controlled by Kitty, but hopefully you get the picture."

Unfortunately, Ember did not react to Danny at all. Besides staying still and keeping quiet, the most uncomforting feeling was how she was continuing to give Danny the same serious look as before.

Danny could feel a few small beads of sweat moving down parts of his face, and as more and time passed, Danny feared more and more as to what Ember's response would be.

"Look Ember," sighed Danny as he grabbed Ember's hands and looked deeply into her green eyes, "I know you might feel maybe a bit jealous over Kitty, but the thing is I don't have any feelings for her, I never did. I know it's hard for you to understand it, especially the way she flung herself at me, but you have to understand me Ember when I say that you're the only one I have ever wanted. Please, please Ember, I really love you."

Pulling her hands away from Danny's, Ember gave Danny another blank look, dusted herself off, and got up and walked away. Putting one of his hands out almost like trying to catch her, Ember ignored Danny's action and then disappeared into the trees.

"But……..Ember..." spoke the speechless teen.

There was no idea what could be said or what to think. Nothing that happened was fitting into place for Danny, and what was worst was how he could feel his heart starting to break again.

But before he could make another move, he instantly heard a voice scream out to him, "Psyche!" And with that, Ember instantly pounced out from the bushes to the right of Danny, wrapped her arms around his neck, and delivered a hot fiery kiss directly onto his lips.

After a few minutes of Ember's lips locked onto Danny's, they slowly pulled away from each other and Danny commented in a slight humorous tone, "You know, you got a real sick sense of humor."

Ember couldn't help but giggle a little bit as she then replied, "I love you too Danny."

Danny smiled as he gave Ember a little kiss on her cheek and continued, "How about we call it a day, or at least join up Sam, Tucker, and Valerie and head home?"

"I think I can go with that." said Ember with a light color of blush on her face.

"Good to hear," said Danny as he put his arm around Ember, "now which was it is back to the beach again?"

"Wait a second," said Ember as she put her hand over Danny's mouth, "do you hear something?"

Danny paused with Ember and paid close attention to what his ears had to offer. At first he could hear no sounds coming from either direction of the woods, leaving him with only a fool's guilt to what was thought to be another joke by Ember.

Moving her hand off of his mouth, Danny replied to Ember with a funny look on his face, "I don't hear anything Ember, but I….."

And before Danny could add the next word, several small booming noises emerged suddenly out from the depths of the forest.

Slowly getting in front of Ember, Danny could then hear small whistling noises that seemed to be coming from random ends of the sky. And with that a number of small black dots began to appear around the clouds, slowly becoming bigger and bigger with every second.

Trying hard to focus in on whatever these mysterious objects were Danny caught glimpse of some small streaks of smoke that seemed to trail behind the odd projectiles. Oddly enough, curiosity was keeping its grip on Danny, making it nearly impossible for him to realize what obvious event was coming up next. Then finally it clicked in. And before he could do anything else, Danny grabbed Ember and yelled, "Hide!" as he shoved her into the nearby trees.

"Eep!" screamed as she flew a few feet back due to Danny's push.

Having almost fallen onto the ground, Ember looked up at Danny with a rather baffled look on her face as she asked, "What the…"

"Trust me!" immediately replied Danny, "Hide!"

"From what?" demanded Ember.

"Please Ember," pleaded Danny with a sense of worry in his voice, "Just trust me!"

Ember just looked up again at Danny, nodded, and took off into the trees without another word said. Turning around to face the oncoming shots, Danny could make out what the objects were now missiles and not only that, but the ghost hunting variety.

Oh how I'll never have a regular, quiet day. (sighs)

At this point now, the missiles were coming in fast and looked to already have a perfect fix on the phantom boy's location. Danny no rested his hopes in that the approaching rockets were only coming after him and had no intention of attacking Ember. But even then, there was still no real guarantee that all the missiles had chosen their target to be Danny.

Yet before there could be anything done about the missiles that were continuing to close in, without warning a high pitched whistling noise emerged suddenly behind Danny and a large explosion followed that sent the unaware phantom rolling along the grass.

"Ow, ow, ow." said Danny as he rose from the ground with his right arm supporting his injured back.

Danny was shocked to see how the rockets were nearly right on top of him and with that he immediately took flight off into the trees. Making sure to turn intangible every time he was about to collide into a tree, Danny hoped that the woods would act as his shield and take the hits instead of him.

Indeed it did work, but even then Danny was still surprised when he quickly glanced behind his back and could see more of the oncoming missiles still hot on his trail.

Unfortunately still drained from the Kitty encounter and fresh wounds that had not been attended to, Danny could feel his speed starting to diminish and the rockets pace growing.

Come on, there's got to be something I can do. Think...think...

With that an idea popped into his head and so Danny immediately did a 360 degree turn and began a suicidal charge towards the deadly rockets. Sweat now glistening from the top of his forehead and nerves at the edge of breaking, Danny tried hard to keep his focus as he continued to get closer and closer to the deadly barrage.

And then it was Showtime. Having been no more than a few feet away from approaching death, Danny turned immediately himself intangible and ghosted his way through every single rocket. As soon as the last one had passed his feet, Danny immediately went back to his normal ghost form and let loose a number of ghost blasts onto his explosive pursuers.

Having almost no time to change course, the glowing green bursts of ghost energy made perfect contact with the projectiles and set off every last one of them. Unfortunately, the clustered bang was so huge that even though Danny wasn't anywhere in the blast, the shock itself it created sent him flying once more into a random direction.

It wasn't long before Danny's back made a rather painful introduction to the trunk of tree, causing a terrible groan to be heard as he then slowed slinked his way back to the ground. Taking in a few breathes, just before he could lean his sore back away from the tree, a small apple broke its way from a small branch and landed directly onto his head.

Taking the apple from his head and slowly turning his eyes upwards, Danny just glared at the tall wooden tree and as he then threw the apple away.

But then a tiny smile crept on his face, and as it formed into a large grin, Danny let out a small laugh as he then leaned himself back on the tree.

Finally, that's over...and...I... (pauses)

"Where've you run off to now ghost?!" screamed out an all too familiar female ghost hunter.

Danny sat silent for a moment, then looked up at the sky and said, "Why me?"

Quickly rising to his feet, Danny was about to fly off when he noticed something very small overtop his emblem. Having only glanced at it for not even a second, Danny realized it to be that of a red dot from somebody's laser sight.

"Don't even think it." said a very recognizable character as she stopped Danny slightest effort for a getaway.

Slowly emerging from the trees was Valerie, sporting her ghost hunting armor, hover board, and of the obvious large energy weapon that had been aimed at Danny's chest.

Keeping an insane amount of focus on the phantom Valerie asked, "Why is it that every time something weird happens you're always there?"

"I dunno," replied Danny as he put his finger on his chin, "and yet, you're always there too. Hmmmm…"

"Shut up!" screamed Valerie as a large charging noise could then be heard coming from her heavy weapon, "I've waited for this day for a long time, and I can tell you right now that I'm going to really enjoy ridding Amity Park of you ghost freak!"

"Well that's good to know," said Danny as he continued to stay still breathing in air to fill his lungs, "but would you mind telling me, WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?!" (points behind Valerie)

"What? Where?" answered Valerie as she immediately turned her head for only a few seconds.

"Wait a second," said Valerie as she turned her head back towards the tree and saw empty space where the ghost boy once was, "there…….isn't…….."

There was only the slightest pause as Danny could hear Valerie screaming behind him, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"

Not far off there was Danny running like mad through the trees as he swiftly turned his head back for a second and thought to himself. And now she's really going to kill me.

Being nowhere near his full or even at a moderate amount of strength, Danny reminded himself continuously not to use too much of his ghost powers until he was far enough away from Valerie. The last thing he needed now was to completely drain himself of his powers and reveal to Valerie the secret identity of Danny Phantom.

"Can't wait for when that's going to happen," said Danny in a sarcastic tone to himself as he continued his race through the never-ending forest.

And then without warning, red energy blasts began to tear their way through the trees that Danny had just passed setting them on fire or destroying them entirely. Quickly dodging the last shot that almost hit his head, Danny gave a small breath of relief and quickly added, "And it looks like she chose it to be today!"

Having just finishing clearing his way through some rotten stumps, Valerie suddenly burst out from the trees in front of Danny and fired a series of missiles at him in close range. Making a direct hit, Danny flew back as he hit a few branches and then finally collided with the ground again.

Despite letting out a small moan of pain when so much damage had been dealt to his entire body, Danny was somehow able to ignore the pain and pull himself up.

"This is just too good," gloated Valerie as she got off from hover board and reloaded her gun, "I finally have the ghost freak Danny Phantom at my mercy! And I'm going to make sure that you suffer a horrifying and painful death!"

"Looks like somebody needs to take some anger management classes." playfully added Danny as staggered a bit trying to handle the pain and the complete exhaustion all along body.

"Okay that's the last straw ghost!" screamed Valerie as she tossed her weapon away into the bush, "I can bet you this time that I'm not going to miss!"

And just as Valerie finished her violent threat, a small gadget rose out from her right arm which extended into a large blade that immediately began to pulse with a scorching red light.

Danny eyes widened as the words, "Uh-oh," easily crept their way out from his mouth.

"This weapon here," continued Valerie as she help up her energy blade enough for Danny to see, "has a very amusing ability where it can drain a ghost's energy for every time it makes a hit. But as an added bonus, if the ghost has practically has no energy left to offer it, it will destroy a ghost entirely."

Danny instead of cowering just let out an exhausted smile at Valerie and shook his head.

"So I'm guessing it's not too helpful with dicing salads then is it?" responded Danny as another couple drops of sweat made their way down his face.

"Nothing is going to save to you now ghost," answered Valerie as her monstrous weapon started to churn out an eerie squealing noise, "your going to be the ghost that will show all the rest that I'm not one to be trifled with."

Now high in the air with its horrible sound echoing through the forest and the red glow on it beating like a heart, Danny froze in total fear as his body and mind had become useless to react.

The only thing he could put through his head was. Please Ember, please keep safe.

But it was Valerie who was doing nothing after so long. With no scream, laugh or anything else that she might have done before going through with her final attack, Danny was confused to hear an odd noise that resembled a series of musical notes being played all at once. Still with no reaction as to what just happened, Danny watched in astonishment as Valerie sank to the ground unconscious with Ember standing behind her holding her guitar just like a bat.

Immediately dropping her guitar to the ground and running to Danny, Ember closed her arms tightly around Danny's chest and cried with tears in her eyes, "Danny you're okay!"

Danny gladly gave Ember a hug back and after another few moments of peace between them Danny replied to Ember, "Thanks."

A small, but very affectionate smile made its way onto Ember's face as she put her hands onto Danny's and replied, "No problem."

As Ember pulled Danny up from the ground, she turned her head towards Valerie, dried the rest of the tears on her face and commented, "And Tucker is still with crazy here because…."

Letting out a small laugh as transformed back into his human self, Danny continued along with Ember supporting him as they both started to make their way back to the beach.

Some Time Later,

Finally having returned back to Fenton Works, Danny quickly threw his clothes back on while Ember went into the washroom to get into her regulars.

Logging onto his computer, Danny waited till the system started up and then before he could click on the internet icon he heard a loud slamming noise coming from downstairs.

Pausing for a moment, Danny began to run the numbers in his head about who could have just entered the house. His parents weren't home today and Jazz was already downstairs in the kitchen.

But just before he could have his chance to react he heard his sister downstairs say, "Hey Tucker, Danny's upstairs if you need him."

"Phew," said Danny as he let himself relax back into his chair again.

And with that, Tucker appeared in Danny's doorway panting heavily with a PDA in his left hand and his right hand on his knee to support his slouching figure.

"Man Tucker," said Danny as he turned his head towards his wheezy friend, "you look totally beat."

"Yes," added Tucker as he gasped for more air, "running………five blocks…….kind of…….gets you………….tired."

"You do know that you could have taken a bus or something?" added Danny.

Tucker blinked and stood silent there for a few moments and then Danny quickly added, "So how's Valerie doing?"

"Oh fine," said Tucker as his heavy breathing lessened and he moved his hand off from his knee, "I just came back from her place after her dad picked both of us up."

"Right, but did her dad buy our story?" replied Danny.

"Well, from what I can remember," said Tucker as he started to trail off.

One Hour Earlier,

"Valerie!" screamed Valerie's dad as he ran out from his parked car over to a small picnic table where Tucker was holding Valerie up, "what happened?"

"Oh," said Tucker as he looked up at the worried father and then at Valerie again, "Well you see Mr. Gray, there's a perfect explanation to this…"

"Valerie must have spent too long in the sun again didn't she? I should known it too, she has a tendency to do that." replied Valerie's dad as he placed his hand on his head and slowly shook it a bit.

"Yes," said Tucker as he looked up at Valerie's father with a big and still a rather nervous smile, "exactly!"

"Oh dear," said her dad as he moved his hand over on top of his mouth, "how about we get back home?"

"Where you can keep an eye on her for the rest of the day, and she wont' be able to do anything else?" quickly added Tucker in a rather thrilled sort of tone.

"Well I would only hope so." commented Valerie's dad as he rose up his left eyebrow at Tucker's unusual reaction.

"Great!" cheered Tucker as he pulled Valerie up with him and started making his way towards Mr. Grey's vehicle, "let's go!"

Valerie's dad blinked a few times as Tucker and Valerie passed him before saying to himself, "I still have yet to understand Valerie's choices of boyfriends."

Back to Now,

"And I was starting to get concerned." commented Danny as he went back to his computer, "In any case Tucker, I appreciated the help."

"Hey not a problem Danny," said Tucker as he waved his hand, "it was the least I could do."

"I wish you could have done more," said Danny with a smirk as he leaned his head back towards Tucker, "because it might have been nice not have almost gotten killed a second time today due to somebody's girlfriend."

"I had no control over the situation." replied Tucker in a firm tone as he then crossed his arms.

Danny just continued to stare at Tucker for a few minutes until he replied in a sarcastic tone, "How could I have ever lost faith in you?"

"Yes…..well…speaking of girlfriends, where'd yours go?" asked Tucker, lowering his arms.

"Right behind you." added Danny in a sly tone.

"Boo!" immediately went Ember from behind Tucker as it sent him jumping a few feet in the air.

Ember and Danny laughed while Tucker dusted himself off and replied, "Ha, ha very funny."

Danny let out another couple of laughs before he could slow himself down enough to say, "You should have seen your face Tucker, Ember got you good."

Just as he finished his sentence, Danny grunted in serious pain as he went and grabbed the wounds he had on the left side of his chest. After a couple more seconds of clenching his cuts, Danny lifted his head up to Ember and Tucker again, smiled and said, "No worries, just a few small scratches."

"Small?" instantly commented Tucker with a crazed look on his face, "You took two serious beatings and you…"

"One which he got from your girlfriend." interrupted Ember as she turned her head to Tucker and started to cross her arms.

"Yes," answered Tucker with a slight pause in his speech, "but regardless……"

"Tucker, Ember," said Danny as put up on his hands to stop the argument, "like I said before I'm fine, I just have to take it a little easier today."

"Then shouldn't you be laying down in your bed or something?" commented Tucker.

"That's what I said." added Ember as she then turned her head to Danny.

"Right," said Danny as he moved his hand over the mouse and began to click away, "but that's after we talk to Sam."

After a few sets of rings and other amusing sounds, finally a large black box overtook part of the computer screen which then generated a decent quality video of Sam on the other side.

"Ah at last," said Sam as she placed a small set of headphones on her head, "what happened to you Danny? Last thing I can recall is Tucker calling out to you and Ember then all of sudden I lost the feed."

Tucker scratched his head a bit and commented, "Sorry Sam, the batteries must have died out."

"Ah." replied Sam.

"Hang on a minute," added Danny, "how is it that Tuck Foley, lover or all technology and gadgets, was without batteries?"

"Usually I keep them in my second set of swimming trunks." said Tucker.

Ember blinked a few times and then said, "Didn't need to know."

"Yes," commented Danny as he shifted himself back towards Sam again, "and now back to Sam and her questions."

After finishing with a brief shudder Sam continued, "Anyways, after you and…….Ember went off to 'get your parents', what happened?"

Leaning down behind Danny and putting her arms over his chest Ember answered, "Well I think it's only fair to say that Danny and I got ourselves stuck in a little………predicament."

"Oh really," added Sam in a sarcastic tone, "I thought earthquakes and horrible wailing noises was what regularly happened when people went to the beach."

Danny smiled a bit and replied, "Not likely. We got Kitty back from the ghost zone."

"And," quickly added Ember, "it looks like that she's after Danny here."

"And, and," said Tucker, "Ember's jealous."

Ember immediately glared at Tucker for about a minute and then turned her attention back to the computer screen.

"That doesn't make any sense." said Sam as she started to tap her fingers on her laptop.

"I know it doesn't," commented Danny, "but apparently, she and Johnny are through, so now she's desperate to have me back again. She even threatened Ember to stay away from me."

"Like that would work." added Ember as she leaned in a bit more and gave Danny a soft kiss on the cheek.

His cheeks began to blush, but Danny just gave his a quick shake to clear his thoughts as he continued, "So Sam what…do… (looks around at the blank screen)…..Sam?"

Before anyone else in Danny's room could comment on Sam's unforeseen disappearance, a loud thud sound was heard as a black suitcase was unexpectedly dropped in front of the screen. The slamming noise itself caused Danny, Tucker, and Ember to jump, but mainly because the fact that Danny has turned up his speaker volume so loud.

"Sorry," said Sam as she heaved the case from her desk and then began to lean out of screen to open a nearby dresser, "just give me second here."

"What's she doing?" asked Tucker as he made his way over to Danny and Ember.

"Uh yeah Sam," commented Danny as one of his eyebrows rose up a bit, "you asked me to tell you what happened today and now it looks like your running away from home."

"You're close Danny, but I'm just packing some things." replied Sam as she stuffed more miscellaneous items into the carrying case.

Ember, Tucker, and Danny all looked at each other for a second, then back at the computer screen where Danny obviously asked, "For where exactly?"

"Where else," said Sam as she turned her interest back to the screen, "Amity Park."

"What?" said Danny in a rather surprised tone of voice.

"Yeah won't it be great?" added Sam who was already starting to daydream a bit.

"I'm confused." said Tucker.

"Here, here." also commented Ember.

"I'm with Ember and Tucker here Sam," answered Danny as he slightly scratched his chin, "your kind of talking in riddles."

Sam frowned as she then sat back down at desk and then stated, "Listen Danny, I've been trying to hide from my mom and dad so they can't dress me like a Barbie doll and my boyfriend is still off with his grandparents. In short, I'm really finding it in my best interest to return back to Amity Park at least for a couple of days."

"Much clearer now." replied Tucker.

"And besides, it be fun to catch up more and check out this Kitty stalker thing going on now." said Sam with a smirk.

"Hilarious," added Danny, "when can we expect to see you?"

"Soon," said Sam as some clicking noises started to off through Danny's speakers, "booking the flight right now."

"And your parents are going to just let you go to Amity Park to meet Danny with no questions asked?" obviously commented Tucker.

"Well there's always the alternative." said Sam as she pulled out a long rope from underneath her bed and began feeding it through the window.

"Sam, come on." said Danny as he started to cross his arms.

"Fine," replied Sam as she rolled her eyes and pulled the rope back into her room, "I'll see if I can work something out with my parents."

"Well catch you in a few days." smirked Danny as he gave Sam a small wave.

"See you Danny, Tucker………and Ember." answered Sam.

Ember just smiled and stuck her tongue out at Sam while Danny laughed for a moment and said, "Later Sam."

And with that the small window with Sam on it vanished as Danny logged himself off the net and turned off his computer.

"So what now?" asked Tucker.

"I can't really…" started Danny before he could hear Jazz yell out to him from downstairs.

"Hey Danny!" screamed Jazz from the bottom of the stairs, "You, Ember and Tucker have to check this out!"

Tucker and Ember then turned their heads to Danny who in return blankly shrugged and then headed his way towards the door. Reaching the bottom of the stairs with Tucker and Ember not too far behind, Danny then called out to his sister, "Jazz, where are you?"

"Over here Danny," said Jazz as she waved Danny over while grabbing the remote control from the kitchen counter, "I just caught some of this news report in the living room. I thought that it might be interesting for you to see."

"Jazz if this is another one of those reports about some smart kids getting into early university…" started Danny.

Jazz just chuckled a bit as replied to Danny, "Oh don't worry little brother, it's something a lot more fun."

"Errr….k." said Danny as he studied the look off Ember and Tucker and then directed his attention back to his older sister who was busying flipping through the channels.

"Now back to America's Next Top Model!"

"It is so great to meet you Cindy. For such a noble and sophisticated woman like yourself to be here, you have to be feeling very pleased to have come this far." -Interviewer

"I like potatoes!" -Cindy (changes channel)

"Sort this, deliver that, I'll make em all pay." (changes channel)

"It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time! REMIX! It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time! REMIX!" (changes channel)

"Amazing Joe, this book contains more scientific achievements than has ever been known in the fields of mankind."

"(turns page) Hey look, theirs Waldo!" (changes channel)

"And remember kids, having phone sex doesn't actually mean having sex with your phone." (changes channel)

"Oh Martha, your lips are crisp, delicious bacon!" (changes channel)

Jazz paused for a few moments and added, "I'm really starting to get questionable about the channels that mom and dad keeping ordering." (continues changing channels)

"For further reports now, we head to Lance Thunder, our man on the scene, Lance?"

"From what local authorities can clarify, it seems that something other then just swimming and volleyball happened on the Amity Park's beach today. Earlier this morning, people reported of strange earthquakes and horrible screams heard in the sky that oddly enough occurred only on this sandy getaway."

"Uh-oh." said Danny.

"Also from what has yet to be confirmed, apparently ghosts were seen by a selected few, and one has been so generous as to provide us with a picture."

Ember moved towards Danny and both of the two lovers grasped each others hands tightly, waiting for the worst to come.

"Thank you sir (is handed a photo and turns it to TV camera). As you can see in this photograph taken by this local teenager (picture has the words, WEINER, written on it and an arrow pointing to the reporter), you can barely make out these unexplainable forces at work here. (pauses at the laughter of the camera guy and slowly looks at the picture) With...evidence…..like…………….oh it is ON punk! (raises fists up)"

Jazz turned off the TV set and turned to Danny and Ember and with a small grin on her face as she asked the two lovers, "You two wouldn't have had anything to do with the events at beach today now did you?"

"No," said Danny in an odd tone as he began to shake his head, "no irregular ghost activity at all today."

There was of course a few moments of awkward silence that went through the room until Ember had to of course add, "They had it coming, there I said it."

"Ember!" said Danny.

"Ha!" said Jazz as then crossed her arms and formed an even greater grin, "I knew I was right!

A small sigh left Danny's mouth as he then shrugged his shoulder, lowered his head and answered, "Why couldn't we have just gone to park or something."

Tucker's reply to Danny was a simple laugh which then followed with a small wave goodbye, "Well I think I'll be heading out Danny."

"How come?" asked Danny as he began to straighten his posture.

"You want Valerie back up and running hunting for ghosts again?" answered Tucker as leaned his head towards Danny.

Danny lowered his finger and continued, "Good point."

"Just make sure you keep an eye on her this time," added Ember, "we don't want today events to start repeating themselves am I right Tucker?" (left hand begins to glow with purple ectoplasmic energy)

"Of course not," nervously replied Tucker as he grabbed the game cartridge from his PDA and tossed it into the air, "it never crossed my mind! Yes…I will see you guys again when Sam gets back, later!"

As Tucker darted towards the exit, Danny turned his head over to Ember and said, "I tend not to like that extra motivation you sometimes provide to people."

"You know you do." said Ember as she moved in and gave Danny a soft kiss on the cheek.

"So!" interrupted Jazz as she clasped her hand together, "what did we do for fun today?"

Later in Danny's Room,

As Danny let himself collapse onto the smooth bed, Ember sat herself at the opposite end staying very quiet until Danny asked, "Something up Ember?"

"I dunno," said Ember as she let out a deep breath and leaned her guitar against one of the nearby bedposts, "I guess I'm still feeling a little bit worried about everything that happened today. You know, the events with Kitty and then you dealing with Valerie afterwards, it's been kind of bugging me all day."

Danny pulled himself up and began moving his way over to Ember and replied, "I know it's hard to try and forget stuff like that. I can probably vouch for having to deal with situations like that for more than a number of occasions."

"But Danny I can't help but feel responsible for…." paused Ember as Danny placed his hand over her mouth to end her worries.

"Please Ember," replied Danny with a warmhearted smile, "don't ever think you're to blame for all of this. To tell you truth, you're the reason that's kept me going this far for so long. For everything that has come our way Ember, as long as I always have you by my side, I don't think I'll ever need to worry again."

But before Danny could continue, his words were halted by Ember as her head hung itself low and a few tears trickled down her face and onto her lap.

"Oh no," panicked Danny as he tried to make up for his unexpected error, "I'm sorry Ember, I didn't mean..."

Ember immediately embraced Danny with a powerful hug and as the tears continued to run down her face she then lips locked onto Danny's and closed her eyes. To some people a specific kiss like this would only seem to last them a few seconds, but for Danny and Ember, this moment between them seemed to last forever.

A few minutes passed by as both lovers slowly pulled away from each other with a bight shade of red blush on both their faces and a blue ponytail already starting to die itself down.

Ember placed her hand on Danny's cheek and almost seemed to whisper, "Danny, I've never been happier than I can ever remember."

Danny ran his hand through Ember's warm blue glowing hair and answered in a soft tone, "You just took the words right of my mouth Ember. I don't ever want to be without you."

Ember sniffled a bit as she wiped her tears away with her arm and looked up at Danny again who then added, "So, anything else you got on your mind?"

"Yes," said Ember as she moved her head suspiciously closer to Danny, "how about some more making out?"

Another shade of blush made its way onto Danny's face as Ember began to close in on him, wrapping her arms around him once more.

As Ember's purple lips almost graced his, Danny's door immediately swung open as his dad emerged through and yelled, "Danny my boy, you've got to come and check out this new invention your mom and I just finished! It shoots things!"

Both of the two teens jumped from their place, Ember immediately bringing herself back to the end of the bed while Danny accidentally slipped on the covers and hit the floor.

"Dad!" yelled out Danny as quickly rose back up onto his feet.

"I know Danny, this thing is so cool isn't it?" continued Jack as he waved the weapon around in the sheer sense of awe.

Just then Danny's mom, Maddie poked her heard through the door. Ignoring the overjoyed husband and having set her sights on two nervous teens in the room she said, "Danny, what were you and Ember doing up here?"

"Mom, we were just talking." answered Danny as he tried to keep an honest face.

Maddie could only raise an eyebrow in silence before she tuned her head to her husband and asked, "Jack?"

"Oh yeah," replied the thrilled ghost hunter as he continued to toy with his new gadget, "…..sure………say I wonder if I can start testing this baby out on ghosts?"

Ember cowered a bit at Jack's quote and grabbed hold of the covers with both her hands as a familiar sense of fear took its place throughout her mind.

Danny quickly noted Ember's reaction, but of course not wanting to draw attention to someone being afraid of a weapon that's only dangerous to a ghost, Danny felt doubtful of what to do.

"Jack, do you have to play with that thing inside?" said Maddie.

"Yes." responded Jack in the most obvious thought of answers.

"Wait a minute, did you make sure to put on the safety first?" asked Maddie as she moved her way from the doorway and off into Danny's room.

"Of course honey," stated Jack as he stopped his mischievous study of the new invention, "nothing ever gets past Jack Fenton's eye!"

Just finishing his sentence a loud hum started up and with that a green burst of ectoplasmic energy flew out from the barrel of the weapon taking out a stereo and a stack of books that was hung on one of Danny's shelves.

Ember jumped back and fell behind Danny's bed as Jack studied the gun once more and said, "Ah, you have to click the safety switch to on if you want to put stuff in safety. Have to write that one down."

Jazz screeched through the hallway and slid down to the open door and yelled, "What just happened is dad trying to renovate the house again?"

Maddie grabbed the gun away from Jack and replied to Jazz, "No honey, your father just got a little excited with the new ghost hunting equipment and now owes Danny some new things for his room."

"Aww," whined Jack as his arms sank to the floor, "no fair. I never got a chance to fully test it out."

"Well if you want to have the same incident like the time with that anti-ghost nitroglycerine then you'll just have to pay for it." added Maddie as she placed one of her hands on her hips.

"Come on Maddie," pleaded Jack, "how was I supposed to know that you shouldn't place highly unstable chemicals on top of a washer and drier?"

Jazz crept her way over to Danny who was busy pulling Ember back up on the bed when he asked, "Jazz, when did mom and dad get home?"

"They were already home when you got here," replied Jazz as she tried to keep her voice low, "I completely forgot that they were working on ghost hunting junk downstairs and I never remembered to tell you. Sorry about that Danny."

"That's okay," whispered Danny as Ember and Jazz and himself had now formed into a small huddle, "just please be sure to remember it for the next time so Ember and I won't get busted."

"Yeah." added Ember.

"Okay, promise," replied Jazz with a light smile, "just be sure that you two don't go crazy on each other or nothing."

Danny and Ember both blushed as they looked at each other and Ember then replied with a grin, "Don't worry Jazz, I'll keep Danny her under control."

"Hey!" said Danny with another smirk.

"Ahem," announced Maddie as she instantly appeared behind Danny.

Oh shoot.

Ember, Danny and Jazz all froze up for a while until Ember waved nervously to Maddie and answered, "Hi Mrs. Fenton, what's up?"

"Hello Ember, how are you?" replied Maddie.

"Good," said Ember as got rose up from Danny's bed and took another look at the concerned mother.

Still feeling a bit awkward, Ember took a breath of air before asking Maddie, "Did I do something wrong Mrs. Fenton, you look sort of troubled or something."

"Heavens no Ember," immediately added Maddie as she made a small wave with her hand, "you haven't done anything wrong!"

"Oh," replied Ember as she scratched her chin with her finger, "and just so we're on the level Danny and I weren't doing anything serious, we were just.."

"Nonsense" added Maddie as she grabbed Ember by the shoulders and swerved her around over to Jazz, "I know how you and Danny are, and I'm sure it's just nothing."

Danny let out a quick sigh of relief while Jazz placed her hand over her mouth to hide her chuckling.

"Now Jazz," said Maddie as turned her attention to her daughter, "why don't you take Ember downstairs with you and find us all a good movie to watch."

"Uh okay mom, no problem." replied the slightly puzzled teen.

As Ember and Jazz left Danny's room and were making their way to the stairs, Maddie quickly slipper her way through the doorway again and said to the two, "We'll be down in a just a minute hon."

Now it was coming to the part of the conversation that Danny hadn't expected nor hoped for. His parents had in a way cornered him in his own room, and being unable to do anything else, Danny could only just sit at his bed and wait for the atomic bombshell to hit.

Instead though, his mom only turned her head to his dad, and after a slight nudge in the hip, Jack nodded his head and said, "I got ya Maddie!" with a thumbs up as Danny's mom sighed and left the room.

Just closing the door behind her as she left Danny's room, Danny could only raise an eyebrow at his dad as who was already starting to play around with his thumbs and he made his way over to his son's bed.

Of all the times Danny was put into a conversation with his parents it was always his mom that played the lead role as the punisher or enforcer, never once had his dad. So even though Danny was still nervous as to what his father would say to him, he was just as curious as to see how his old man would treat the situation.

"Listen dad…" started Danny before his dad quickly added in.

"Danny, your mom and I have been noticing that you've been spending a lot of time with your little friend Ember." said Jack as he put his hand one of the bedposts.

"Well sure dad," answered Danny, "is there something wrong with that?"

Jack laughed for a moment and continued, "No, no of course not Danny!"

Phew.

"Then what is it?" said Danny with a tone of confusion in his voice.

"It's just that your mom and I were starting to worry if you two were doing anything more……physically." replied Jack as he made a gesture to two with his hands.

Danny blinked and then asked, "You mean like making out?"

"Well that too," said Jack with an odd tone to his voice, "but more along the lines……of togetherness…..like getting to each other more…….physically."

"Uh dad, we're not…" said Danny as rolled his eyes and smiled.

"It's perfectly natural for and a man to do that when they are in love with someone and stuff," interrupted Jack again as he went on, "but you have to remember not to…"

"Dad I don't think you're really listening to me." tried to add Danny, but it unfortunately created no effect to Jack.

While Danny's dad continued to trail off about the birds and the bees, Danny tried hard to keep his ears tuned out from what he already had reviewed in a family studies class until he heard his dad's comments reach, "Now, I got some magazines that I want to show you."

Danny's eyes immediately bugged out as he instantly replied to Jack, "No! No! No! Dad, you really don't need to!"

"There's nothing you need to worry about Danny its perfectly okay to be curious," answered Jack as hopped up from the bed and dashed towards Danny's door, "and you've got to check out this once chick, you'd swear that…"

Meanwhile Elsewhere,

A green blast of energy emerged in a dark room and with that Kitty appeared with her teeth grinding and her fist clenching yelling, "It's not fair!"

As she slammed her heel into the ground, generating a rather large tear on the floor, a mysterious figure approached her and asked, "I take it did not go well."

"No!" answered Kitty as she dried a few tears that were dripping from her eyes, "I wasn't able to break Ember's spell."

"You shouldn't be so hard on yourself Ms. Kitty," replied the figure with a sense of sympathy in its voice, "you only did just make it through the ghost realm to the humans. That alone takes a lot of energy."

"But I should have still been able to do something!" commented Kitty with her arms out.

"Ms. Kitty, be reasonable. You must understand that a plan such as this takes time and perhaps more than only one effort, nothing that brute force will solve I might add." said the figure.

"I don't care," wept the saddened teen ghost, "I want Ember to stay away from my Danny! It's been nothing more than a sick joke for her, and she knew that it would hurt me like this!"

Kitty's knees sank down to the ground while she placed her hands over her face and with that she began to cry once more.

"There, there," said the figure as it delicately patted Kitty's back, "I know your trying hard to get Danny back. And it's only fair that you would want him back after Ms. McLain stole him away from you, but you must keep strong at least for Danny's sake."

"You're right, you're totally right," replied Kitty as she moved her hands away from her face and turned her head to the figure, "I have to keep strong if I ever hope to save Danny. (dries the least tear in her eye) I don't know how to ever repay you for helping me."

"Don't even start Ms. Kitty," pleaded the figure in a such a soft tone as it pulled her up from the floor, "there's nothing more than I enjoy than helping out others who come to face with problems such as love. It's so lucky that I was able to find you."

The figure formed a sinister grin that quickly disappeared when Kitty turned around and said, "I can't say thank you enough for all that you've done for me, but I still have one concern?"

The dark figure felt a sharp sting of fear running down its spine as it immediately froze in place at Kitty's unpredicted comment.

"When can I go after that thieving witch again?" asked Kitty as the dark form in front of her let out a hidden sigh of relief.

"Soon Ms Kitty! Very, very soon!" added the mysterious host in a rather joyous toned voice.

Kitty smiled as she began to crack her knuckles and replied, "Good to hear, so when can I get started?"

"Oh no, no, no, no Ms. Kitty!" answered the figure as it placed one of its hands on top her shoulder, "You need some rest before we can go any further!"

"Bu.." tried to state Kitty before the figure continued on.

"It would be horrible for you to not have enough energy when you go back to battle Ms. McLain again." adding the shady individual.

Kitty paused her actions for the moment and then bit her lip before she responded, "Well..."

The figure spun Kitty around and started walking her towards a large wooden door and said, "It's settled then! You will rest here for the night, and we shall begin plans for tomorrow when you wake up."

Shifting her head to the right shoulder she stated, "Tomorrow for sure."

"My yes of course," answered the shadowy body as it opened the door and moved Kitty to the other side of it, "you'll have Danny back in your arms in no time Ms. Kitty."

Kitty let out a deep sigh as her eyes began to sparkle and a tiny amount of blush appeared on her cheeks, "You….you really think so?"

"I know so Ms. Kitty. Now you go have yourself a good sleep and I will be sure to greet you in the morning." said the dark figure as it gave Kitty a warm, sympathetic smile to assure her.

Kitty's face lit up again with a beautiful smile as then spun herself around in circle and then went off into the dark to go find her room.

As the heavy door was closed shut behind Kitty, the mysterious body let out another sinister grin as it said to itself, "Oh you may get Danny back Ms. Kitty, but in the end I will be the one who gets what they want." (laughs)

End Chapter 2

Author's Notes: How do you think I did? Be sure to comment or note me for any mistakes and ideas you might have. Thank you a great deal for checking out my second chapter to Sway with Ease, hope you'll stop by for chapter 3!