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Valerie eyes the floor and the large design she’s ‘painted’ on it in ectoplasm, nodding curtly to herself and side eyeing the little paper she got from Vlad, “yeah this looks about right”. As soon as Vlad ‘let’s it slip’ that the king of all ghosts could be summoned she knew what she had to do. If she destroyed or captured him then maybe the ghosts would leave amity alone. That or she could simply talk to this ghost and get him to stop his citizens from coming into the living realm; and maybe punt Vlad for being a lying dick. Okay, so now just a drop of her blood, that way the ghost can’t leave the circle without her letting him and to bring him to the living realm.
And then there’s flashing lights, swirling wind, ragging spiralling flames, and floating globs of ectoplasm forming; it’s all a bit dramatic in Valerie’s opinion. “Oh come on!”. Wait a minute… she knows that voice. When the theatrics dies down Valerie Gray is left staring down at Danny fucking Fenton who’s sitting on his ass legs bent and leaning back on his wrists. Danny blinks at her, she blinks at him, and oh fuck her helmets off damnit. She activates her damn helmet and that breaks the silence, Danny chuckling very awkwardly, “I think it’s a little late for that, Val”, then blinking again, glancing down at the faintly glowing circle thing, “but again, the fuck?”.
She can’t help but blurt out, “‘the fuck’ yourself, how the heck did you appear through a goddamn ghost king summoning circle, Danny”.
“That’s what this is!? Why the fuck are you trying to summon a ghost king?! I have so many questions. And I was actually doing homework! So thanks for that”.
“Oh fuck you. You shouldn’t even be here”, Valerie begins pacing a little, “why the heck would this thing summon you, or any human for that matter? Shouldn’t the ghost king be, oh I don’t know, a fucking ghost?”.
Danny stands up, brushing his pants/hands off, “I mean, logically yeah? But considering we all live in Amity fucking Park, did you seriously expect logical anything?”.
“I mean, point but still”.
Danny just shrugs and goes to walk off, “well you deal with your little crisis, I’m gonna-”, and promptly face plants into the circles' barrier, “okay rude”, looking to Valerie, “really?”.
Okay Valerie can’t help but chuckle a little at that, “well I didn’t want the ghost king running off on me or assaulting me”, grabbing a chair and pulling it over, sitting down kinda in front of Danny, “so care to explain this?”. Like seriously? How the actual fuck did she summon him? She knows he’s got a strange kind of ecto-contamination but that really shouldn’t matter here. It explained how him getting summoned might be possible, but not why this one specifically summoned him.
Danny sticks his arms out at her, “you’re the one who summoned me!”.
“It was supposed to be the ghost king! So I could, you know, stop all this ghost bullshit?! Capture him to scare off the ghosts or get to keep his damn ghosts out!”.
Danny blinks at her, humming a little, “like that’s not a terrible idea, but do you really think ghosts would care or listen that much? Like really?”.
“It’s worth a try, you ass”.
“I don’t know about that one”.
“Oh fuck you”, putting her helmeted head in her hands and shaking her head, “for the love of everything, explain”, lifting her head up and pointing at him, “I’m not letting you out until you do”.
Danny sticks his arms out to the side and huffs, before aggressively sitting down on the ground, crossing his arms and glaring, “boo. No”.
“What do you mean no? Come on Danny”.
“You go and summon me out of the blue, you hide the whole Red Huntress thing -what a fucking way to reveal yourself by the way, and now you’re holding me hostage. I don’t owe you shit”.
She crosses her arms, “okay yeah, I lied and hid things but I still think I should get a damn explanation about this shit? Not letting you go”. That just devolves into a staring contest, Valerie just retracting her helmet because there’s not fucking point anyways and she wanted to get said staring across legitimately. She loses the staring match, since Danny was weird and could probably go for the entire day without blinking if he wanted to. She’s not changing her mind though, and Danny’s getting twitchy.
And eventually… Danny throws his hands up in the air dramatically, “ugh! Fine”. And she smirks at him while he grumbles to himself incoherently. Danny goes back to crossing his arms at her, “where’d you even get this damn circle?”.
“Does it matter”. Danny pouts at her so she rolls her eyes, “the mayor”.
Danny blinks at her before chuckling with a smirk, “you mean the guy I’m perpetually in prank wars with? The guy who became an entire towns mayor just to annoy me? That guy?”.
Valerie blinks, riiiiiight. Goddamn Vlad. He totally set her up! Sighing and putting her face in her palm, “that jackass”. Danny just snickers, “I’m so setting his house on fire for this”.
“Instigating him probably isn’t helpful, Danny”.
“Oh where’s the fun in not returning tit for tat?”.
“You’re impossible”. Valerie stands up, “so let me get this straight, Vlad, knowing I wouldn’t be able to resist trying to summon the king of ghosts, tricked me into making a Danny summoning circle just to annoy you?”. She’d say that’s insanely petty, but this is Vlad they’re talking about here.
Danny smirks at her and puts his hands behind his head, “sounds about right”, humming, “sooooo?”.
She eyes him, for some reason she doesn’t really believe him but she also doesn’t really have a reason to accuse him of lying or hiding things. Maybe it’s the way there’s almost a glimmer or mirage of a crown above his head, or the faint glow around him, or the way she can kind of sense power in the air. Yeah she doesn’t believe him at all. But she can’t really explain that now can she? But what she can do is go kick Vlad’s ghostly ass the next time she sees him as revenge. Rolling her eyes at the boy and going about pricking her finger again for the whole blood thing, “fine. I still say this is suspicious as Hell and I absolutely know about your unconscious ass being found outside after that whole shit show with the Pariah ghost”, and glares. If that turned out to be some dethroning thing of some random ghost royal then she’ll smack him one day for it.
Danny just shrugs awkwardly, walking out of the circle, “cool beans. And I’m in general a suspicious person, don’t know what to tell you”, then levels her with a bit of ‘a look‘, “and you do realise that Pariah was the guy you thought you were trying to summon?”.
Valerie blinks, “I knew that guy was some kind of royal, but king of all ghosts?”, then eyeing him suspiciously, “wait, how do you know that?”.
“I hear a lot of ghost gossip. Let’s just say that ghosts really dislikes their king and trapped him in a coma for it”.
Well if that was the case then her whole idea wouldn’t have worked anyways and Vlad’s half ghost ass definitely would have known that. “So my whole idea was a flop, damn. Stupid Vlad”.
Danny laughs, “oh I fully agree with that. Fuck that rich asshole”.
Then Valerie makes a decision, if Vlad was going to mess with her than she was going to mess with him right back, “you know he’s a weird ass half ghost”.
Danny just blinks at her for a bit before rolling his eyes, “wow, way to be a dick and just reveal him like that”, putting a hand on his hip, “rude. But if you think ghosts don’t gossip about that, you’re kidding yourself. So yeah”, shrugging, “I knew”.
Yeah Valerie kind of figured that, “well he’s been a dick to me, so hah”. But Danny points at her, “dickish revenge is, like, filling his water bed with wet cement or swatting his house. Not revealing a thing that could get him experimented on by the government. Gosh”.
“Really Danny? You’re stupid”.
“Says the person who really believed fucking Vlad would just get her to summon the fucking king of all ghosts. Dumb dumb”.
She absolutely slaps the idiot for that.
And later Vlad actually has the gall to act surprised over the fact that she ‘accidentally’ summoned Danny. Fucking prick. He also suddenly smelled like beets and suspiciously didn’t wear a single white undershirt for a week.
End.