Author's Note: I sort of did this on a whim. We'll see if it goes anywhere. I do not own Danny, Ember, Kitty, Johnny, or Tucker. Just a small warning this chapter contains swearing, alcohol use, and sexual innuendos. In this story Danny is eighteen… So yeah. Hope you all enjoy it.
One Wild Night in Vegas: Chapter One
"Ohhh…" Danny groaned from under the silk covers. Why did his head hurt so much? His eyes opened slowly but closed quickly as the light from the next room hit his retinas. "Ahhh. Damn it." A headache pounded against his temples as he pushed himself into a sitting position.
Both of his feet set down on the cold tile floor. Suddenly his brain made a connection. "Tile floor?... Silk sheets?... This isn't my room." However his stray thoughts were soon drowned out as his stomach attempted to flip up his throat. Covering his mouth he stumbled into what he assumed was the bathroom. Fortunately he was right and ended up falling onto the rim of a porcelain toilet just in time.
After several minutes of forceful vomiting he wiped his mouth and stood up to flush. The taste of old hot dog water swam in his mouth making him gag a bit but this time he was able to keep the contents of his stomach down.
He stumbled over to the mirror. Finally getting a look at himself he recoiled in surprise. "What the?... Oh god…" He was in human form and shirtless. In fact the only thing he was wearing was a pair of dark blue boxers. His right eye was a deep shade of purple. It was obviously a black eye but for the life of him he couldn't remember how he got it. His hair was askew and his face felt gritty from sweat.
He turned the handle of the faucet and cool water spewed out. One of his hands rose up and held his head at the noise. "Oh wow that water's loud." He mumbled. His other hand fumbled for a washcloth and after a few attempts to grab one finally got a white fluffy one in his grasp. He placed it under the water and proceeded to wipe his face off with it. As he lowered the cloth from his face, his eyes widened once again. A bright red spot was on his left bicep. Danny slowly turned and was shocked to see a tattoo in the shape of a bright red heart. Music notes and stars circled it with the initials D & E in the center.
"E?" Danny thought out loud. Who did he know with a name that began with E? He shook his head and looked down. This new view offered another surprise. On his left hand, placed very tightly on his ring finger was a ring made of bronze inlaid with an onyx skull. Danny gripped the ring and attempted to pull it off. He growled as the tiny ring resisted his tug. Tenaciously the ghost boy stretched his foot up to his left hand and used both limbs simultaneously trying to get it off.
Unfortunately his balance tipped as he stood on one foot. His arms flailed wildly as he fell out of the bathroom and straight into the side of the bed, smacking the mattress back. Suddenly he heard a loud yelp and a thump. Danny stood slowly and looked over the mattress at the source of the sound. A low moaning came up as a large bundle of sheets stirred on the floor. A girl just about Danny's age stood slowly facing away from him. She was wearing nothing more than a black bra and panties. A slight blush came over his face as he realized that he not only knew this girl but five minutes ago they had been sharing the same bed.
"Ow… My freaking head." She said clutching her forehead.
"E… Ember?" Danny asked in complete shock.
The rocker girl stiffened and turned towards the new voice. "D… Dipstick?"
They stared at each other for almost a full minute with wide eyes and mouths hanging open. Finally the two teens said the same thing at the same time. "Oh… My… God!"
Ember quickly looked around and grabbed the sheets she had been tangled in before. Covering herself up with a deep blush coming over her face. "What the hell are you doing in my room you pervert!"
"Hey I don't know if you've noticed but this isn't your room! And it's not mine either! Hell I don't even know where we are!" Danny yelled back as he scrambled to pick up a discarded pair of black dress pants to put on.
"And why are you naked!" She said looking at him as though he were something incredibly disgusting.
"Why are you!" Danny retorted. For once in her after-life Ember tried very hard to cover her body up. "Look all I know is I woke up here and accidentally bumped into the bed waking you up!"
"So we shared a bed!" Ember asked frantically. Danny was staring at the floor. "Uhh… Dipstick?"
He kneeled down with a shaky hand and picked up a small, torn, square wrapper. He lifted it up slowly so it was in both of their views. The white lettering on the wrapper said Trojan on the front. The two teens stared at the wrapper, then at each other, then back at the wrapper, and once more at each other. They scanned the room seeing several more of the same plastic squares littered around the floor. Their gaze came back to rest on one another. Danny tried to say something but his mouth was only able to produce a feeble. "Uhh…"
Ember on the other hand was more than capable of expressing herself. "OUT! GET OUT NOW!" She screeched pushing Danny out of the room and slamming the door behind him.
Danny stared at the door and thought. "Did I?... And Ember… But we… Oh my god." He shook his head at the thought. Although he couldn't remember anything happening in between them it seemed like a very likely possibility at this point. He turned and walked out into the living room but tripped over what appeared to be a bundle of blankets on the carpet. As he landed the bundle sat up and groaned.
"Alright who turned on the lights?" Johnny thirteen asked as the blankets slid off his head. Kitty groaned and sat up next to him.
"Johnny? Kitty?" Danny asked looking at them.
"Danny?" Kitty asked as he nodded at her.
Johnny turned to face the teen fully expecting an assault. "Shadow. At-hic-Attack." He commanded through a small hiccup. His bad luck shadow flew out in front of Danny and materialized just long enough to take a swipe at the ghost boy. He missed and the momentum spun it around, causing it to fall to the floor in a faint.
"Wow. That was intimidating." Danny said as he stepped over the shadow and towards the kitchenette for a glass of water.
Johnny stood shakily and asked. "Uhh aren't you gonna… you know attack us?"
"Maybe later." Danny replied sarcastically. "Oh geez I didn't know my head could hurt this much."
Kitty stood next to Johnny wrapping the blanket around herself to keep her apparently nude form covered. "How much did we drink last night?" She asked.
Johnny pointed down a spare hallway where several large, empty alcohol bottles were set up in a bowling pin pattern. "My guess is, way too much."
A red beret wearing figure sat up quickly from the sofa. "It's a trap!" Tucker yelled out loud, waking up from his dream. Stray cans fell from on top of him and hit the floor with a clatter. The three other occupants groaned and held their heads as the sound pounded into their skulls.
"Softly Tucker, softly." Danny said walking towards his best friend, happy to see a familiar face.
"Danny? Where are we?" Tucker asked searching for his glasses.
"I was kind of hoping you would know." Danny admitted.
"So wait. None of you know where we are or how we got here?" Johnny asked as his shadow stirred quietly on the floor next to him.
They both shook their heads. "Well where ever we are, I just hope I'm not the one paying for it." Tucker said looking around. This caused the others to look around curiously as well. They were in a large living room which had several doors leading to different rooms. It was nicely laid out with a large sofa, plasma T.V. which was currently hanging lopsided on the wall, and a bar/kitchen behind them.
Danny looked to the right and saw a row of large curtains. He walked over to them and pulled them apart, gasping at what he saw. "Hey guys. You probably want to take a look at this."
The two ghosts and Tucker walked up behind him. "Woah." They all said in unison. A huge sprawling city laid out before them. The bright sun slowly came up from the east causing the windows of the skyscrapers to shimmer a glinting yellow. Desert surrounded the outskirts of the concrete buildings. Neon lights, which at the moment were turned off, remained attached to the different archways and signs on the street below.
The group remained silent for a while before Danny finally spoke up. "Correct me if I'm wrong but… I think we woke up in Las Vegas."