A/NHey Everyone! Joon The Ninja here with her first ever fanfic! Woot! Sorry this is soo short, but it has a little over 2,000 words, so I guess that's decent for a first chapter. I'm not the greatest writer and my chapter is mediocre at best, so please no flames! Basically, this story is Danny making new friends and leaving Sam and Tucker behind after they have a fight, so you won't see much of Sam and Tucker (sorry Sam and Tucker fans). Also, Danny and is going to somewhat OOC for this fanfic since he's going to be maturing and getting a different personality while hanging out with his new set of friends.
At any rate, I hope you have fun reading this story as much as I will have fun writing it!
Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom ,the band Maximo, DOOM, or World of Warcraft. (Though I really wished I owned WoW)I only own the OCs and the plot
Danny looked up at the dreary sky and let out a tired sigh. The 15-year-old could not remember a time when he actually looked forward to going to school, but when he woke up today he wished he could of have curled up in a little ball in his bed and desperately try to erase the unpleasant memories of the weekend.
-Flashback-
Saturday, 2:33 p.m.
Danny tightened the cap of the Fenton Thermos after he sucked Sulker into it for the third time that day. It was only the first weekend of the school year and already the boy's ghost hunting workload had doubled. To make things worse, the teachers wasted no time giving the students a somewhat heavy load of homework almost every night, to get the teens 'back into the school feel' as they said. Much to his displeasure, Danny was already scrambling to keep his grades up, fight ghost, hang out with Sam and Tucker, fight ghost, get home before curfew and actually get some sleep, fight ghost, and oh, did I mention fight ghost? Not to mention Danny had to flake out on his friends quite often, which annoyed his friends greatly. "Danny!" a familiar voice yelled, and the human-ghost hybrid turn to his two best and only friends walking towards him with pissed/annoyed looks on their faces. "Where the hell were you!? You were supposed to be at the movie theaters 2 hours ago!" cried and exasperated Tucker. "Sorry Tuck, I had to take care of Sulker again. He keeps finding-" "Oh sure Danny, that's what you said the other two times we invited you to the movies!" yelled Sam, who rolled her eyes at him. "I did! Besides, do you really expect me to ignore him and let him tear up the town while I go and see the movies with you guys?" Danny retorted, sending the Goth an annoyed glare. She opened her mouth to reply, but was cut off by Tucker. "You could of at least let told us you were fighting a ghost, we could have helped!" "Help? You guys practically do nothing when your actually there!" Danny yelled, finally snapping. "I have to fight ghost in between classes everyday and try to keep my grades up and yet you guys still think I have time to hang out with you guys?" the sophomore finished. The two friends were silent with shock at his outburst, but Sam was the first to recover. "Fine then, you jerk!" she yelled, angry tears threatening to fall from her amethyst eyes. "Since you don't have time for us, why should we even be your friends?" With that, she stormed off. Tucker followed suite, but not before sending Danny a quick glare. Danny stormed off as well, and quickly walked into his bedroom and slammed the door shut, and flopped angrily on his bed and glared at the ceiling. 'Idiot' he thought, referring to himself. 'How could I say that to them?'
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'Because it's true' he thought bitterly. Sam and Tucker barely did anything when they would come with him on his ghost hunts, aside from maybe capturing a few petty ghost here and there, and they didn't understand how hard it was for him to keep up with his busy schedule. Bringing himself back to the present, Danny took out his English textbook and headed to English. Mr. Lancer looked a little surprised to seem him there 5 minutes early, but he had every right to be considering it was the first time this school year that he was on time to his first period class. 'It's not my fault I'm attacked by a ghost almost every morning.' Danny thought, annoyed. Sam and Tucker ignored him, as he expected them to. Danny chose a desk in the left corner of the room, and let out a small sigh as Lancer began one of his dull speeches on the usage of irony in the 'Gift of The Magi'.
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The morning classes dragged by rather slowly, but it was finally lunchtime. Sam and Tucker where still ignoring him, of course, and Danny wondered where he was going to eat lunch. 'Maybe I should apologize to them.' The ghostly hero contemplated. 'I was kind of a jerk.' But Danny almost jumped out of his skin when a girl was suddenly standing there, leaning against one of the lockers next to his. She was about 2 inches shorter than him, with mid-length ebony hair and a slightly tan complexion. Her left eye was sky blue, while her right eye was an emerald green. She was wearing a dark green tank top that had a bleeding heart on it with the words "Green Day" across the heart, black capris, black flip-flops, and she was very pretty, Danny noted. "Hi! You're Danny right?" she asked, giving him a smile. "Er, yeah." Danny replied warily. "Sorry if I come off as a little nosy, but it looks like you had a fight with your friends." She stated, inclining her head in the direction of the cafeteria entrance, and he turned to see Sam and Tucker going through the door. "yeah I…got into a fight with them last weekend." He answered while scratching the back of his head; a thing he tended to do when he was uncomfortable. She nodded in understanding. "Since that's the case, do you want to sit with my friends for lunch?" she asked, the little smile still plastered on her face. Danny was surprised by the question; he certainly wasn't expecting it. "I-" "Great! C'mon I'll show you were they are!" she exclaimed, not even giving Danny an option, it seemed, as she grabbed his arm and practically dragged him into the cafeteria.
"W-wait a sec!" he cried, but his cry apparently went unheard as she turned to him and said "My name is Alyssa, by the way. Nice to meet you!" she exclaimed, giving Danny a wide grin. "Uh…you too." he responded 'I guess.' He thought, deciding not to say it out loud. "Oooooooi!" Alyssa yelled to a table near the center of the room and the five people seated there turn their heads towards her, along with several other people that were giving her weird looks. "Guess who I got to sit with us?" she asked, elbowing the young hero in the side. "Whoa! Fenton-meister!" two identical twin boys exclaimed, and Danny inwardly winced at the nickname that was originally given to him by Kwan. "Sweet. Welcome to the table Fenton." Greeted a rather tall teenager (6 feet) with spiky blonde hair and cerulean blue eyes. "Ok! Everyone, this Danny Fenton," Alyssa began, "Danny this is Zak Cullen," she stated, pointing to the 6 foot teen. "These two twins are Jason and Conner Reid," she continued, pointing to the two twins, who waved at him in response. "The Korean girl next to Zak is Ye-ji Choi, and the girl next to Jason is Kelsi Craig." She finished and they waved to him as well. "Well, now that the formalities are settled, lets eat!" Conner announced, and they cheered in response.
While sitting with these strange and rather eccentric people, Danny got to know a little bit about each of them.
Zak Cullen had turned 16 on July 28th. He is half-German and has some Russian, Norwegian and Irish in him as well. He loves playing video games, World of Warcraft in particular. He has a sister named Nicole, who's going to Arizona State University to get her degree as a Dietitian. He plays the guitar extremely well and owns two electric guitars and one acoustic guitar, and plays guitar for Concert Band. "I'd play for Jazz Band too, but I can barely get to school on time, let alone get her early for Jazz Band." "It's only because you can't your lazy-ass out of bed!"Conner stated, earning himself a punch from the blonde, and a round of laughter from Danny and the others. He can also imitate a British accent perfectly, and his favorite band is Maximo. When he's in class he's the perfect child, but when he's with his friends he's very talkative and kind of rowdy. He also plays Doom quite often, so needless to say Danny and Zak hit it right off the bat.
Ye-ji Choi, Zak's girlfriend and best friend of Alyssa, is 15 and a half and 5'8, which Zak joked was 'pretty tall for an Asian', earning himself a playful smack on the head from Ye-ji. Her father is a civil engineer, while her mother stays at home, and she is an only child. She moved from San Francisco to Amity Park a year ago since her father's work brought them here. She plays the flute for concert band and also plays World of Warcraft (a game that everyone plays in this group) and gets together with Zak almost every weekend to play with him. He is also teaching her how to play acoustic guitar, since her parents won't let her have an electric one.
Alyssa Allen, who is also 5'8, plays the drums very well and loves to read and play video games, and go swimming in the summer. She plays drums for the Jazz Band and Clarinet for Concert Band (Jazz Band is at zero period). She is a quarter Japanese and has rather fast reflexes that she developed from having play fights with her younger sister all the time, earning her the nickname 'ninja' in the group. Paulina constantly harasses her, but she ignores her whenever she does, which frustrates Paulina to no end. "I think she tries picking on me because Dash has tired flirting with me a couple of times, as well as Kwan, so she probably thinks I'm trying to take her place or something." She explained, shaking her head at the ridiculousness of it all. "Besides, it's really funny to see her get so frustrated, so I'm not going to stop her anytime soon." She also goes to a dance studio for classes about three days a week.
Jason and Conner Reid are both 5'10, the same height as Danny, and both of them have short brown hair, and are both half Italian, but that's pretty much were the similarities end. Jason is kind of quiet, and doesn't talk much unless it's about something he's really interested in or is asked a question. Conner on the other had doesn't seem to know when to stop talking, and he's rather hyperactive. Jason plays Baritone for Jazz Band and plays tenor sax for Concert Band, and is also good at playing the bass guitar. Conner plays trumpet for both Jazz Band and Concert Band and is on the soccer team, while Jason plays no sports. Conner is also good with computers, and wants to be a computer programmer. Jason doesn't really know what he wants to be. "I'm kind of leaning towards something in science…I have no idea what though."
Kelsi Craig is 5'6, and is Jason's girlfriend. Like Jason, she's also rather quite and mellow, but isn't shy about voicing her opinion. She's also the only one in that group that can tell who is Jason and who is Conner, and the only one that can bring out Jason's talkative side. She's an eight Filipino, but is mostly Norwegian and Irish. She has reddish-brown hair, and is really good at art and a pretty good singer. She's the only one in the group that owns Rockband, so they go to house every now and then to play.
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After lunch, the rest of the day went rather quickly, especially since the ghostly teen had to slip out of his classes a couple of times to take care of some ghost, but thankfully for him it was only Box Ghost and Technus. Danny also found out that Alyssa and her friends were actually in a lot of his classes. Kelsi was in his first period English, Zak, Alyssa and the two twins were in his second period P.E. class, all of them were in his 3rd period physics class, Jason, Ye-ji, and Kelsi where in his 4th period Spanish 2 class, Alyssa and Ye-ji were in his Geometry class, and Zak and Conner where in his 6th period AP World History class (he wasn't planning on taking AP World History due to his ghost hunting, but his parents insisted that he take it). Only Kelsi was in his study hall since everyone else in that group had jazz and/or concert band as their elective.
"How are you taking Art 2 and study hall? Aren't they both electives?" he asked her during 7th period. "Yeah, but I decided not to take P.E. this year so I had an empty slot, and it was either this or choir." "Why not choir? Alyssa says you're a good singer." She smiled a little at that, the kind of smile someone gets when they're remembering a fond memory. "I tried it last year, but I switched to art after the first couple of days. All the girls in there were those wanabe A-classers, and the teacher is really mean." She explained. A blue whisp escaped from Danny mouth, and Kelsi straightened her back and blinked at him a couple of times, which Danny vaguely noted was her way of showing surprise. "Uh…Mr. Lancer? Can I go to the bathroom?" The young hero asked. Mr. Lancer let out a tired sigh before lightly waving his hand toward the door, telling him he could leave. As he left the room he saw Kelsi looking at him with a…. knowing look on her face?
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The young superhero let out an agitated sigh as he walked down the steps of the Casper High entrance. Danny had found the Box Ghost (again) in the storage room, so he thought it would take a couple minutes. Or at least, until Ember decided to show up. So he spent practically all of 7th period dodging cardboard boxes and ecto-waves coming from Ember's guitar, while try to suck them into the thermos, missing several times. When it was finally over, school had already been out for 5 minutes, and his parents had showed up trying to shoot him down, so he had to hide behind a trashcan after he transformed back to wait for them to run by.As walked down the familiar pathway to his sister Jazz's car, he looked towards a table next to the walkway. Sure enough, Sam and Tucker were sitting on the table, discussing something. Sam had her to the ghostly hero, and Tucker met his gaze, said something to Sam, and Sam turned toward him, with a small scowl on her face.
It was at that moment that Danny considered apologizing again. 'Why should we even be your friends?' Danny quickly decided against it when that thought re-entered his mind. Sure, she had every right to say that to him at the time, but the words still stung. They began walking towards him so he turned his back on them and continued walking until a voice called out to him. He turned to she Alyssa and Zak running towards him. "Hey, Danny, I was wondering if you..um.." Alyssa started, suddenly sounding a little hesitant, "If you would eat with us again tomorrow." She finished, looking up at him, waiting for his answer. "Um…" Danny started. He gave a side-glance to Sam and Tucker, to see that they were starting at him a little wide-eyed. They probably didn't think he would find new friends instead of coming back to them asking for forgiveness, he guessed. He turned his attention back to Alyssa, and, with a small smirk on his face, replied "Yeah. Of course I will."
A/N Once again, sorry if this chapter is suckish, I know the argument they had was really weak, but I honestly was having a really hard time thinking of a reason for them to split up in the first place. I'll probably revised that fight after I get some more chapters out. Please review and any suggestions and cronstructive criticism is appreciated! Please no flames . And yes, this fanfic is basically going to consit of mainly OCs (muhahahahaha!).
Until next time,
Joon The Ninja