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When; After their chat here.
Rating; Eh, G?
Characters; Iris Fortner

floweralchemist and Danny Phantom

karmasdoorbell
Summary; They're house hunting!
Log;

Well, despite being in a place where you were supposedly trapped for the rest of your life and subjected to curses every other day, Danny found that the citizens here were pretty damn nice. (Aside from that weird Riddle-chick and that guy that had called him an idiot. Ass.) There was a slight bounce in his step as he walked along with someone he'd met in the strange internet cafe. Hey, she was cute!

And for some reason, being in his ghost form made him less aware that he was supposed to be a nervous wreck around pretty girls.

According to that guide the ah, 'shinigami' girl had given him. The best thing to do would be to find an apartment. Honestly, he had no idea how a fourteen-year-old was going to be given a lease, but little was supposed to make sense in this town. Why argue?

He turned to the girl walking beside him and tried to start up some small talk, "So, Alchemy? Is that like, turning lead to gold?"

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We wasn't trying to be entirely serious when he asked that question so his eyebrows did go up a little when she answered him. Well, maybe he shouldn't seem all that surprised considering he was a half-ghost high-schooler that fought crime on the side to being a student.

Not that she needed to know that anyways.

He felt slightly dumb for walking into the cafe in his ghost form. It seemed he would have to be like that whenever they talked. It wasn't like he could just go poof and switch back. He had a secret identity to protect! It didn't matter if he wasn't in Amity Park anymore, right?

Right?

"Really? So if I found all the pieces of a ...PDA, you could just zap it together?"

"Er..." Iris wasn't exactly sure how to answer that question. "Well, maybe. I don't really know what a PDA is... But a lot of the time, if I see an object I can come up with a recipe for it." She folded her arms as they continued walking. "Alchemy's not very common in my world anymore," she confessed. "I'm from a family of alchemists, so for me it's a family tradition, but... since there's no one researching it anymore, I have to make most of my recipes myself."

...Whoops. He hadn't thought about that. Maybe the alternate dimension she was from was lacking that sort of technology. Well he knew never to bring Tucker there. He would have a heart-attack.

Staying along side her, he crossed his arms and looked thoughtful, "Is that hard?"

He was generally curious. The closest thing he'd ever seen to Alchemy like that was on TV or in a video game. All he got back home was the Ghost wrecking and possessing everything. Oh, they had their kind of magic, but more often than not it was usually being directed at him.

Not always fun.

"Sometimes!" Iris replied. "It can get frustrating when I need to make something, but can't get one ingredient quite right... or know I need an item but don't have it with me." She grinned sheepishly. "I've become a bit of a pack-rat because of that, honestly. Edge isn't too thrilled that I always come back from our missions with a bag full of stuff I found on the ground."

She paused for a moment, glancing over towards Danny. His words had ignited her curiosity. "But... what is a PDA?"

"I bet," He commented to her. He thought about if he could do something like that without losing interest ten minutes later. So Danny's attention span was gnat-like? Weren't most kids his age the same way? Well, Iris didn't seem to be, but he really couldn't tell how old she was. Danny wasn't about to ask either, seeing how that usually led to disaster back home.

"A PDA? Uh, it's kind of like a mini computer..." He trailed off wondering if she knew what a computer was. "t keeps track of things like schedules and dates. My friend kind of lives off his."

"A... computer?" Now Iris was even more confused. "It keeps track of your dates and schedules? So it's like... a notebook that writes itself?"

Danny's world was sounding stranger and stranger by the moment. Still, a notebook you didn't have to write in yourself would be something handy to have around...

Ah, so he was write. They didn't have computers where she was from either. "Yeah, that's about right." He nodded to her and smiled.

Then he stopped. "Um, so these apartments, do you know ...where they are?" Danny sadly hadn't went looking for a map when they decided to go house hunting. Crap, they might've been as good as lost now.

A notebook that would write by itself... Iris's thoughts whirled as the idea for a new recipe began to form. She didn't have the ingredients on hand now, but once she'd procured a new cauldron...

"Uh.." Iris was jostled out of her reverie by Danny's question. She folded her hands, looking sheepish. "Um, no, actually... but I was told that since we're kids, we should be able to get housing for free."

[It's all right, I know how that goes. My AIM name is Griffinkhan. :3]

Oh. Yikes. Well, at least the housing thing was free. He was pretty sure that he wasn't legal to get a job just yet. ~~Hell, he wasn't legal to rent an apartment either, but...~~ What to do. What to do...

Well, he could always fly up some and get a better look at the town. That way he could maybe spot them. Unconsciously, Danny started to rise in the air. He looked back down at Iris and said, "I'm going to take a quick look and see if I can spot something ...apartment-like,"

"Fly?" Well, he was a ghost. Iris supposed she shouldn't be too surprised. Pamela could probably fly too, seeing as she basically floated everywhere she went. "All right. I'll just stay here then so I won't get lost."

It was going to take a while before she'd ever be able to find her way in this city, Iris decided. It was far bigger than anyplace she'd ever been before, and her sense of direction wasn't the greatest to begin with. Maybe she should try drawing a map like they did of the Alterworlds back home?

He kept his eyes on her and rose a little higher. Making it above a few house tops he scanned the area for anything that resembled an apartment building. A few stuck out and he mentally noted them the best he could.

Floating back down to the street he landed a few feet from Iris. "I saw a few buildings we can check out. On the way, I guess we could use it to get familiar with the city, right?"

The more he saw of the City, the easier it would be to find a way out of here. He had Amity to look after, and his parents were going to kill him for breaking curfew.

"All right! Sounds good to me!" Iris started walking in the direction Danny had indicated, glancing around at the tall, colorful buildings as they went. Everything was so much bigger and brighter than back home. Even though it was getting later, the city was still lit up almost as brightly as daytime.

"So... what's your world like?" she asked after a minute or two. She was extremely curious about him. Well... what she really wanted to ask was how he'd managed to wind up dead, but that wouldn't be polite at all, so she settled for small talk.

He had to admit that the City was something else. It was far bigger than Amity and ...a bit shinier he guessed. Amity had its own kind of glow, the ghostly green kind that reminded him of what he had to fight every other day. This place had something else about it.

Now if he could just block out that damned ticking.

"My world?" He was brought back to real-time and answered her question. "Well, it's sort of like this..." He trailed off thinking, "Theres more ghosts back home, though."

"Well, I would have guessed that, seeing as you said you were from a 'ghost zone'," Iris replied, smiling. But then she hesitated. Asking any more questions about his life might end up prying into the issue of his death, and she certainly didn't want to get the first friend she'd made in this strange place angry.

She settled for talking about herself instead. "My world's a lot...smaller, and quieter," she said. "The buildings are much smaller and we don't have all of these lights... I wonder what's running them? They don't seem to use oil."

Danny was back to walking now, along side Iris again. He saw her kind of hesitate on her questions but relaxed some when he saw she had decided to talk a little about herself. It was easier this way, since he had to keep her fooled about his human half. He wasn't in the Ghost Zone, he was in a town. This town didn't need to know he was anything more special than a ghost.

"The lights? Electricity, probably." He said a bit casually. Though he had to think if she knew what he meant. "It's like making lightning into power. They use it in my world, too."

"So you can use electricity to make light?" Iris said, enthused. "That's ingenious... Back home, we use gas and oil in lamps." If there was one good thing about this place, it was that she was certainly getting a lot of new ideas...

Still, despite how interesting the City was, it was also overwhelming. Iris glanced up at the sky visible through the maze of buildings as they crossed one street and moved on to another. "Everything's so much more advanced here. I feel a little bit... backward."

"Backward?" Danny looked at her a bit. He was getting that she was from some prior time period so he was sure ha;f the things in this place would be pretty overwhelming. Well, if she ever suffered any kind of culture shock, at least he would be there right? "I'm sure you'll get the hang of it eventually."

That made him wonder suddenly.

They were getting an apartment ...together?

Meaning, the two of them in the same room!? He knew that this had to be breaking some kind of rules somewhere. Though, weren't those the rules back home? Yeah, he wasn't exactly back home, was he?

"You're probably right," Iris agreed. "And it just means more interesting things to learn about!"

By now, the pair was approaching the outer part of the city ring. A large stone apartment complex loomed over them, bearing the label 'Building 7.'

"Does this look like someplace to stay?" she asked, a little uncertain. Houses here looked so much different from houses back home.

Danny smiled and replied, "Yup! Personally I want to see this Alchemy thing you do, too."

He stopped as they reached the large towering building. He eyes it a little and tried to answer her, sounding a bit curious himself, "I'm pretty sure this is the building I saw earlier. It looks kind of apartmenty to me."

He turned his head to the entrance and pointed, "We could ask."

"I'll be sure to show you as soon as I get a new cauldron," Iris promised.

"That sounds like a good idea," she continued, in response to his suggestion. "And... thanks for agreeing to stay with me, Danny. That ticking is much less annoying when you're with someone else."

"Awesome!" he chimed at her answer.

He started to head towards the door, but stopped when she continued to speak. He turned back to her and laughed a little bit, waving his hand. "It's cool, really!" Seriously, he was nervous as hell at the idea of them staying together considering the whole Identity thing. Also, the fact that she was a girl.

But he couldn't tell her no. What the hell kind of a person would that make him? No he was doing this, he'd figure a way through the glitches later, he thought walking into the lobby.

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