Not sure if this is going to be a oneshot or not..depends on the response I suppose (wink wink)
Thanks for reading!
Me no own Danny Phantom.
The intercom clicked on. "Would the student body please come to the auditorium. This is a school-wide assembly. Thank you."
Mr. Lancer sighed. "Class dismissed." The students quickly left, though the teacher noted that Daniel Fenton had to be woken by his two friends. Some things never changed. The boy came to school so consistently exhausted that he was beginning to believe that something more than a teenager's typical sleepiness was going on. Oh, well. It could wait until after the assembly.
Danny walked towards the auditorium, Sam and Tucker by his side. He stifled a yawn. "Why're we having an assembly?"
Tucker shrugged. "Who knows, man? Probably some new rules banning technological devices, knowing the cruelty of our school administration." He cradled his PDA in his arms. "Don't worry, I won't let them take you!"
Sam rolled her eyes. "You treat that thing like it's alive, Tucker."
The boy immediately rejoined, "As long as it doesn't run out of batteries, it is! I've told you that before, Sam."
Another eye roll. "Uh huh. I seriously doubt the assembly is about that, Tucker. The principal sounded kind of strange on the intercom, almost like-"
As they entered the auditorium, a blue mist escaped from Danny's mouth. His senses were instantly alert. "Ghost." The trio's searching gazes traveled around the large area, until Danny's eyes fastened onto the short, dumpy figure of the principal. The man's eyes shone a distinctive crimson. "Guys, I think we may have a problem."
They couldn't do anything about it in front of the entire student body, though, and were forced to follow the crowd and have a seat.
The moment the last student had been seated, the doors flew shut with loud bangs and locked themselves. Shadowy figures flanked the principal, the eerie green glow surrounding them clearly marking them as ghosts. The principal took out a large gun. The metallic silver body gleamed dully in the harshly bright lights, and the ecto-plasmic rings around the circular barrel hummed to life. The auditorium quickly fell into a ominous, hushed silence. As the trio watched anxiously, the overshadowed principal cackled loudly before the laughing ghost stepped out of the man's body. The principal slumped to the ground while the ghost, clad in flowing black robes of darkness, continued. Finally, he spoke. "I am Shinegami! You mortals may escape with your lives, or you may not. It is all dependent upon Fate. Shall Danny Phantom meet his fate and be willing destroyed by my hand? Or will he defy Fate itself and watch as his classmates, no, his entire school is killed before him? We shall see."
Danny gulped. "This doesn't sound good," he whispered.
Tucker replied with an equally uneasy, "Tell me about it."
The gaze of the ghost who called himself Shinegami swept out over his captive audience. "Phantom! I know you are here! This gun, you see, instantly kills humans such as these. One hit, dead. For every minute that you do not show yourself, I will kill someone! Starting..." Shinegami held up the limp form of the principal and held the gun to the man's head. "...With this man here. Give yourself up, Phantom!"
The excited murmurs when Shinegami had asserted Phantom's presence quickly stilled to silent shock as their principal was held at gunpoint. Danny gulped and started to stand up. Tucker quickly pulled him back down before anyone could see him. "Don't do anything stupid, man!"
Sam backed him up. "Yeah, Danny. If you just give yourself up he'll kill you and everyone here!
He looked at them helplessly. "But I have to do something!"
Shinegami laughed darkly. "The clock is ticking, Phantom." With a gesture, his minions held the unconscious principal up and the ghost took aim once again with a dramatic flourish. "Five. Four. Three."
As the countdown began, Danny frantically tried to think. If he didn't do something, people would die. If he did do something, his secret would be revealed and his life would become a living hell. His thoughts raced around in circles until the countdown hit one. Then his eyes became determined, and as the ghost's glowing digit began to pull the trigger, Daniel Fenton appeared between the gun and the principal. The gun fired, a glowing, explosive blast that drove Danny's body into the wall as he screamed in agony and slumped to the floor. Tucker and Sammy uttered simultaneous cries of, "Danny!"
Shinegami laughed, not noticing that the teen had simply appeared, instead assuming that a student from the front row had flung themselves into the line of fire. "A hero, huh?" He said with amusement. Not even glancing at what he assumed to be a lifeless corpse, he proclaimed, "That's your first casualty, Phantom! How many more will die before you reveal yourself, huh?" His gleeful cackle echoed throughout, then a dead silence smothered the atmosphere. The students were horrified. A kid – one of them! - had just been killed before their very eyes. Murdered in cold, glowing green blood.
Danny lifted his head, wincing in pain and clutching his chest. His confident words shattered the heavy silence. "None." With that, he whipped the Fenton Thermos out from behind his back, and the blinding blue beam sucked in first Shinegami's minions, then Shinegami himself. The ghost struggled violently. "I will get you, Phantom! This isn't the last time you will hear from me!"
Danny capped the Thermos. Sam and Tucker were relieved, with Tucker grinning and wiping an imaginary drop of sweat from his forehead. The students, however, were left with myriad questions. How had Fenton just appeared in front of the gun? How was he not dead? If the gun was supposed to kill humans in one blow, then was it faulty, or was Fenton...not completely human?
Sam and Tucker exchanged glances. Quickly, Sam stood up and shouted, "Hooray for Danny Fenton! He kept that awful ghost from hurting our hero, Phantom!"
Tucker immediately followed, "Yeah! Go, Danny! Great job making sure Shinegami's plot to find Phantom didn't work!"
The uncertain students slowly started to join in the clapping and cheering. Danny, fighting to keep his eyes open, gave a weak smile and a wave before collapsing.
Mr. Lancer couldn't tell if his most puzzling student was unconscious or simply asleep.
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Please review! My questions to readers:
-Was the dialogue okay? I'm working on making it more fluid (it's my weakness in writing)
-Did I make Shinegami a believable villainous ghost, or was he kind of blah-ish?
-Lastly, did you like it? Even a one word, "Yes," will make me really happy!