Disclaimer: Danny Phantom belongs to Butch Hartman.

Hello. :3 This is my first fanfic in forever so it probably won't be very good. Sorry 'bout that. Criticism and flaming are welcome.

It's winter and yet I feel like writing something summer-ish. Wow. O.o

Chapter 1

Maddie prepared herself into a battle stance, readying herself to fight the ghost who had appeared before her. She had been hoping she would be able to spend some family bonding time with Danny after being occupied with ghost-hunting. They had left to go camping, and it was currently the fourth day. Of course, the ghosts wouldn't just cease their attacks just because she wanted a break, would they? Every once in a while, ranging anywhere between two seconds and a few hours they had been bombarded by attacks. Like how the two were being attacked this very moment.

And so, Maddie aimed her Fenton Bazooka at the aforementioned specter. Casting a glance at her son, she whispered, "Danny, get behind me. Even if you're afraid, don't leave my side. This guy might have friends lurking around somewhere, and I don't want you to get hurt."

As she turned back to the ghost, Danny rolled his eyes. Afraid? Heh. If only she knew.

Calculatingly examining the ghost's movements, Danny debated between disobeying his mother's orders and going ghost and letting her take care of it. He decided on the latter.

It was a generic green ghost bear. It growled menacingly, twitching its claws. He'd fought others like this more times than he could count. And if he recalled correctly, many of those battles were on another "trip" he had taken with his mother. But thankfully, it was alone, and the fruit loop mayor was far, far away at the moment. Hopefully. Maddie could take this.

The bear stood still for a moment, and then it charged. Maddie saw it coming and grabbed Danny, pivoting out of the way. She fired a volley of shots, until it started to clamber around confusedly, crashed into a tree, and ran away. Sighing, she put away her bazooka.

Danny ran up to her and faked an awe-inspired grin. "Mom! That was so…so…er...awesome Yeah, awesome!"

"Oh, Danny, that's so sweet," she said, embracing him. "Now, if you see any more ghosts, don't hesitate to tell me. Then I could show you more of our inventions! Maybe I'll even let you use some of them!"

"Yeah, great! Thanks mom!" Or you could end up shooting me with them instead, he muttered to himself darkly.

"What was that?"

"N-n-nothing. We should hurry on. The path goes this way, right?"

"Right." Pointing to a map, she continued, "Let's see…it goes this way, over a little stream there, and then it splits over there…hmm…I guess we'll pick which way to go once we get to that point. Fenton Jerky?"

"No thanks."

They progressed similarly for about another hour, occasionally running into puny little gopher or squirrel ghosts that Maddie squished with her "Fenton Anti-Creep Boots." Until they came upon their little predicament.

"Oh man, you have got to bekidding me!"

And behold, a gigantic pile of rocks and trees lay before the two, blocking their way forwards.

"What happened here? This doesn't look natural. It's like someone intentionally put these rocks here to stop us. Probably more of those ghosts playing a trick on us."

Danny stared at the pile, thinking pensively. She's right. This isn't normal. Someone did this on purpose. Not many people come here this time of year. It's almost like…like someone knew we would be coming here and wanted to stop us. But why? This makes no sense.

"Danny? DANNY!"

He snapped out of his thought. "H-huh? Wh-what? Mom?"

"What are you doing? Come on! It's not like a little gopher ghost will pop out and attack you if you stare hard enough at that pile. Let's go!"

"O-oh. Yeah. So what do we do?"

"Why don't we go around it? It'll probably be dangerous if those rocks get moved and fall on us."

Danny froze. That's it! We're on a trip alone, just me and mom! It's probably another one of Vlad's plots to marry mom and take me as his son. If we try to go around this thing, we'll run into a trap. He must have spied on us and planned all of this the moment mom thought of going camping!

"Danny?"

"I want to try climbing this. Going all the way around will take too long, especially if we end up running into a dead end. It doesn't look that dangerous anyway."

"What? But, Danny! Wait!"

But it was too late Danny had already started ascending.

"See? It's all good. Nothing to worr– Oh no."

A few feet in front of Danny was another ghost bear. Or the same one from before. All bears looked the same to him. But regardless, he was in trouble. His mother stood below him, so going ghost right there was not an option. His mother would kill him if he turned into Danny Phantom. If he tried attacking the bear in his human form, which would be incredibly stupid of him, he'd be ripped to shreds. If Maddie attacked it with one of her weapons, the bear would land on him, and he would fall to his death, or she'd zap him instead of the bear.

Danny wracked his brains, desperately thinking of what he could do. No use. He was trapped.

"Danny!"

Yay. Cliffies.:3

So how is it? Good? Okay? Terrible? Should I be pushed off a cliff for writing this abomination? It'd be nice if you left a review. Feel free to correct me if something seems wrong. Constructive criticism –– improvements –– hopefully less 3.5/6s on my essays. X.x