Danny Phantom Side Stories

To be read after "What You Want 4"

Jacob's mom, Aubry, came home from the Fall Fair on Friday with a strange tale.

"A little girl was screaming at her mom for some cotton candy," she said at dinner. "Her balloon string caught a bottle, knocking it over, and a genie came out! The genie made a whole wave of cotton candy. Everyone ran.

"Then a boy flew up to the genie. I think he was a ghost because he had a tail like one. Anyway, he asked the genie to get rid of all the cotton candy, and she did! Just like that, it disappeared! The genie flew off, and everyone came out of hiding to clap for the ghost boy. The ghost boy was shy, so he flew off, too."

"A genie and a ghost?" Jacob's dad, Owen, asked. "You know those things aren't real, right?"

That was the wrong thing to say. Mom put her hands on her hips and frowned at Dad. "I know what I saw," she said.

"I've seen a ghost," Jacob said. Everyone looked at him, and he blushed. "Remember when we made that care package for Chelsea? The comic I made was about a ghost fighting a meat monster."

"Did the ghost wear a black and white jumpsuit?" Mom asked.

"Yeah," Jacob said, surprised.

"That's the same one!" Mom said, clapping her hands.

"I wonder what he's like," Jo said.

"Who cares?" Jimmy said, getting more mashed potatoes.

"I care!" Mom said. "He was wonderful!"

Jacob missed the football game on Saturday–he wasn't really into sports–but he was at the mall theater when all that craziness went down. He became so enamored with Sayonara Paulina that he sat on the ground and started drawing her. When the spell broke, he blinked at his drawing in confusion.

"Why was I drawing that girls' anime?" he wondered. He crumpled up the paper and threw it in the trash.

Everyone else seemed to be coming out of a daze, too. Jacob remembered that a girl from school had become an anime character. For some reason, everyone instantly fell in love with her, including him. So, that's why he was drawing her!

He shrugged it off and went to buy popcorn.