HalfafanD: Danny has to get braces as Phantom due to being hit in the jaw by Jonny 13. But the pain from them causes Danny to not be able to talk. And with his human form having braces as well, will anyone be able to put two and two together. At least people don't think he's a menace anymore.

Disclaimer: I don not own Danny Phantom!

Dueling Dentist

Danny in Phantom form flew at top speed with his spectral tail in the early morning. Usually he would rather glide than zip all over town on patrol. But there was a ghost he was chasing after. Jonny 13 and his shadow. Danny bet that anyone that was down below would just see a black and white blur zooming around town.

Danny made out Jonny riding his motorcycle down the street. Smirking, Danny descended down to where he was flying right next to him.

"Hey Jonny! This is the thirty third time I caught you speeding. I think that's a personal record." Danny remarked.

Johnny scowled; obviously not pleased. "Scram, little man! Shadow, attack!" Suddenly the lingering blackness following Jonny on his motorcycle sprung up revealing Shadow who zoomed strait for Danny.

Danny flew to the side dodging Shadow's attack; then began to fly faster with his spectral tail toward the auditorium. Shadow followed, hot on his trail; leaving Jonny behind.

Once Danny phased inside he saw a few students auditioning for a coming up play. Shadow soon phased in as well and before it could make its move, a spotlight came on destroying the shadow and is disappeared.

Smiling at his success, Danny phased back out of the school. He had noticed a few police cars arrived seeing the commotion and thinking they could help Phantom in some way.

Actually, the Fentons along with everyone in Amity Park had seen the light in seeing Phantom was good and trying to help; therefor, they no longer hunted Phantom. In fact they've helped him a lot.

Danny smiled down at them then searched around for Jonny.

"You're going to pay for that punk!" Jonny yelled and the sound of a motor ripped through the air. Danny saw that Jonny was approaching his left so he dodged and was about to attack when Jonny disappeared. Danny tried to look for him but with Jonny invisible it was impossible to find out where he was.

Eventually the sound of Jonny's motorcycle motor slowly rise in volume as if it was getting closer. Sooner Danny realized that Jonny was approaching from behind him. Danny turned and saw Jonny turn visible.

Danny didn't have enough time to react as Jonny rammed his bike's tire right in Danny's face; mainly his mouth. Danny let out a muffled cry as he was flung to the ground. Danny covered his mouth as if it would stop the pain, but no avail of easing it at all. Jonny soon sped off having no other need to stick around knowing Danny wasn't in commission to fly after him.

The police, forgetting all about Jonny ran over to see if their hero was okay. One officer or to others known as the chief; Chief Richard Donald, kneeled by Phantom's side knowing him a bit more than other officers.

"Phantom; are you okay?" Richard asked wanting to see how if Phantom was well enough to stand on his own. Phantom looked up at him was apparently trying to smile since he winced every time he tried, hands still covering it. A small streak of red and green trailed down from under his hands and down to his chin.

Richard immediately recognized it as blood and ectoplasm. Course he knew why Danny bled human blood as well since one time Danny got shot in the foot from a burglar and he said that because of his death and the way he died, not all of Danny's blood was converted into ectoplasm. So he could still bleed red blood. That's why all the ghosts called him a halfa; as in half human blood, half ectoplasm. And because of that, he still had all the needs a human needed but can last a bit longer than a human would without those needs. (HFD: Cutting close with that cover huh Danny?)

"Phantom, I need you to remove your hands." Richard stated calmly, knowing that any other kid would shake their head no and downright refused. Danny, however, slowly removed his hands revealing a cut on the top of his lip, but blood and ectoplasm dripped from the ghost boy's mouth. Richard knew what that meant; Danny got hit inside his mouth. It probably hit his teeth. That would certainly explain how much pain Danny must be in, even though he wasn't showing much of how much pain he really was in.

"Did you get your teeth hurt?"

Danny nodded.

"Does it hurt badly enough to where you can't talk?"

Danny held of his hand sideways, twisting it, which meant more or less. At this Richard looked at him confusingly. Danny took a finger and wiped a bit of the blood/ectoplasm off his chin and held it up to him. Now Richard understands. His mouth was bleeding so much his mouth is nearly full of the stuff.

"I'm going to call the Fentons. They should be able to fix you up and stop your mouth from bleeding so much." Richard assured Danny nodded and stood up resuming his grasp on his mouth. Several students witnessed their hero get nailed and had winced and flinched at the possible amount of pain Danny was in. Danny followed Richard to his police car and Richard opened the door to the passenger as Phantom sat inside. He then turned to his crew.

"Let's head back to the station and see if we can get Phantom some ice packs and water to wash out the blood and ectoplasm." Many of the officers nodded in agreement and got in their vehicles and drove off. Richard walked around is car and got into the driver's seat and started the engine. He turned to phantom.

"Let's go?"

Phantom nodded and off they went.

HalfafanD: Sorry to stop this story so short. Just got tired of writing: literally. I mean my hands are practically sore. Please review, no flames.