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So, here it is! The first chapter of the sequel to "The Haircut"! Hope you enjoy it as much as the first story! Please read and review! GhostWriterGirl out!

Danny pulled the beanie down tightly on his head, hiding the skunk stripe that was slowly disappearing; the bang that had been lopped off during his haircut ages ago had already grown back.

Danny had discovered, thanks to his half-ghost status, that his hair would grow back to the way it was before he got a haircut in the first place faster than usual. It would have been hard to explain why his hair was growing back so fast, but thankfully, Jazz, Sam and Tucker helped make excuses as to why his hair was growing back faster than normal.

And his mom, too.

It had been two months since his mom had found out his secret, and he was glad that she did. She helped Danny with excuses as to why he was late for curfew, helped hide his injuries from ghost fights, and subtly tampered with the ghost weapons so that they wouldn't target Danny anymore. It was such a relief, to have his mom know his secret, and they(Danny, Jazz and Maddie)were talking about how to tell Jack Danny's secret. They had agreed that, until Danny was ready to tell Jack himself, that they would wait before telling him.

However, Danny's skunk stripe was still obvious, and he had been wearing beanies to school more often to hide it; he did not need Dash teasing him about it.

After checking and re-checking that the beanie effectively hid the skunk stripe, Danny walked out of his room and slid down the banister of the stairs, before he swung himself off the banister before he could hit the knob at the end.

"Danny, sweetie, be careful! You could break your neck!" a familiar voice chided.

Danny turned around to see his mom standing there, a semi-stern look on her face.

"Mom, I wasn't going to break my neck," Danny said back lightheartedly, which earned him an exasperated sigh from Maddie.

"I know, sweetie, I just want you to be careful," she told him, a concerned look in her eyes.

"Mom, I'm always careful," Danny said back, grinning. He grabbed his back pack and-since it was only his mom-shouted, "I'm going ghost!" and transformed into his ghost form.

With a final goodbye wave to his mom, Danny turned intangible and phased out of the house, flying towards Casper High.

…

Meanwhile

"I am so late, I am so late, I am so late!"

The same phrase could be heard muttered repeatedly as a girl hurriedly put her burnt orange turtleneck sweater over her head. With a final yank, the girl pulled the sweater over her head, revealing forest green eyes, wavy brown-black hair and an orange hairband keeping her wavy locks back.

Valerie Grey ran out of her room, grabbed an apple and her bag, shouted a quick, "Bye!", to her dad and raced out of the apartment building as if a nest of furious hornets was after her. She didn't slow down until she had reached her usual bus stop, but just her luck, it had already left.

"Dang it!" Valerie cursed, glaring at the ground. She was considering the pros and cons of walking to school vs. riding her hover board to school when a black and white blur flew past her. The wind created by the blur blew Valerie's wavy hair in front of her face, but as soon as her hair was out of the way, she got her first good look at the blur, and her eyes narrowed into a death glare of absolute hatred.

Oh, she recognised the blur all right. It was…

"Phantom!" Valerie angrily hissed, shooting daggers at the ghost that pretended to be a "hero" as it flew in the sky, completely oblivious to her presence.

Hover board it is then.

Running into an alleyway, Valerie activated her suit and flew after Phantom, following his ecto-signature as she readied her biggest, most destructive blaster, preparing to obliterate the ghostly menace and finally get her revenge on the ghost for having her dad get fired from his job and ruining her life once and for all.

Phantom still remained oblivious to her presence.

Valerie readied her targeting systems, propped her blaster on her shoulder, prepared her shot… only to have Phantom make a sharp turn to the left.

"Dang it!" Valerie shouted, turning her hover board to the left, not giving up on her prey.

She flew closer and closer to Phantom, who for once hadn't realised she was only a few inches behind him. She shifted her blaster to a more comfortable position, flipped the safety off the trigger, readied her finger…

A whine and she shot her blast aimed straight for Phantom.

…

Danny had just been enjoying a flight to school when he heard it-the unmistakeable whine of an ecto-blaster.

Danny gulped, knowing exactly who would fire at him…

Valerie.

Danny quickly flew to the right-and just in time, for he watched as a blast meant for him sailed past him, narrowly missing him. Eyes wide, he turned around, and saw Valerie in her Red Huntress suit on her hover board, and holding the biggest blaster he had ever seen.

This was not how his flight to school was supposed to be.

…

Valerie growled underneath her mask.

She had him! She had Phantom in her sights! He would have been destroyed by her perfect shot… if only his darn ghostly hearing hadn't heard the sound of her gun firing the blast and he hadn't swerved out of the way.

Why did ghosts, especially this ghost, have to make her life so difficult!?

Phantom looked at her, a look of complete surprise on his face.

"You shot at me!" he exclaimed, and Valerie had to resist eye-rolling at that.

"Course I shot at you! You're a ghost, and I'm a ghost hunter! What do I think I was going to do? Let you escape?" Valerie asked back sarcastically.

"But I thought we had a truce!"

"News flash: that truce ended ages ago, remember?"

Phantom scowled, remembering that their truce had ended ages ago too.

"I knew that. It's just… I haven't seen you out hunting, well, ghosts for nearly a year! I thought you gave up ghost hunting," Phantom said.

"I was biding my time! And I have been ghost-hunting; you've just never seen me," Valerie retorted back. She readied another blaster and shouted, "Now say goodbye, ghost boy!"

She fired, but Phantom retaliated by throwing up a shield, deflecting the blast, much to Valerie's aggravation. She sent a missile from her hover board, but Phantom simply froze it with his ice powers and shattered it with a punch, destroying it.

Valerie gritted her teeth and flew headlong at Phantom, swinging a punch at him, which hit him dead on. Phantom was flung back into a building, but recovered quickly. He flew up and shot off into the air, flying away from her, hoping to lose her, but Valerie immediately chased after him. A gun popped out of her suit and she fired several blasts at Phantom, but he either dodged out of the way or counter-attacked by firing ghost rays at the blasts from her gun. He flew even faster, and Valerie still chased after him. She readied another missile, and was prepared to fire it… only to see that Phantom had disappeared. Looking at her tracker, Valerie saw that his ecto-signature had disappeared as well.

"ARGGH!" Valerie shouted in anger and frustration. Ducking into a nearby alley, she deactivated her suit and walked out of the alley, where she saw she was close to her school, Casper High.

In an angry mood, Valerie stormed towards Casper High, not noticing another person in the alleyway.

…

Danny had quickly ducked into the alley and had just transformed back to human form when he saw that Valerie was heading into the same alley, obviously to change out of her suit. Quickly turning invisible, Danny pressed up against a wall as Valerie deactivated her suit and stormed out of the alleyway, an angry look on her face.

When he was certain that Valerie was far away, Danny dropped the invisibility and walked out, breathing out a massive sigh of relief.

"That was close," Danny muttered. He readjusted his beanie and walked to Casper High, knowing that was just another of his narrow escapes from the Red Huntress. He just hoped that nothing bad would happen this week.

Boy, was he wrong.

…

It was after first period and Valerie was getting her books out for her next class. She was still furious that Phantom had eluded her again, but that anger melted away when she heard a familiar voice say, "Hey Valerie."

Valerie turned around and saw Danny. He was wearing his usual white T-shirt with a red oval in the centre, blue jeans and red and white sneakers, but he was also wearing a dark blue jacket, since it got really cold in November, and a red beanie over his raven-black locks, with the beanie pulled firmly over the back of his head. His icy blue eyes were warm with friendless, and he had a smile on his face, a smile that made Valerie's heart thump a thousand miles per hour in her chest.

Although her and Danny were just strictly friends, Valerie couldn't help but still have a tiny crush on him. Danny was just so… crush-worthy. He was funny, nice, a tiny bit awkward and clumsy, but that just made him even more adorable. She knew that they would only remain friends, and she was happy with that; after all, she was the one who had said that they couldn't have a relationship, mainly due to her ghost-hunting activities and that she didn't want to have him get hurt in one of her fights against ghosts. But that didn't mean she wasn't allowed to have the tiniest crush on him, right?

Right?

"Val? Val? Val, are you there?"

"Uh, what?" Valerie asked. She saw Danny look at her with a puzzled look on his face and winced. "Sorry. I didn't mean to sound rude."

"It's okay. It's just… you kinda spaced out there," Danny said to her, his puzzlement turning to concern.

Valerie winced again.

"Sorry, Danny. I was just thinking, and I didn't get much sleep last night," Valerie told him; she didn't want to admit she still had a crush on him when she had said that things were over between them.

Danny nodded, as if understanding her, which Valerie felt was weird. He couldn't possibly understand what she went through every single night to protect this town from the menace that is Phantom and every other ghost like him, right?

Right?

"Same here; I didn't get much sleep as well. Trying to finish Lancer's assignment before today," Danny said, which earned him a small smile from Valerie.

"I know; that assignment is absolute torture."

"I know! Is he trying to kill us with these assignments and book reports before college?"

Valerie laughed and Danny gave her a small smile, before his eyes flicked to his watch on his wrist.

"I have to go to Sam and Tuck now; we're walking to class together. See you around, Val," Danny farewelled.

"See you around," Valerie farewelled back, waving goodbye.

As soon as Danny was out of sight, Valerie sighed and leaned on her locker, holding her books to her chest, before she stood up and scowled.

Get a grip, girl! Remember, you called things off with Danny! You're just friends! Why do you still have a crush on him? Valerie berated herself, and a small voice in her mind whispered, Because you still like him.

Valerie shook her head and opened her locker again to get her pencil case, but as soon as she opened her locker, she saw that inside, was a slim rectangular box in black wrapping paper and had a red ribbon tied around it. On top was a note.

Valerie took the note off the box and read, "Here's a little something that will not only double as ghost repellant, but also as a nice perfume. Vlad."

Confused, Valerie unwrapped the box, opened the actual box, and pulled out a slim black glass perfume bottle that had a red cap carved like a rose. The perfume was labelled Blood Rose.

"Why would Vlad send me perfume?" Valerie asked -the-less, she uncapped the perfume and sprayed a test spray and immediately, a sweet, fragrant smell met her nostrils. The perfume smelled like roses, but it had a metallic scent to it too, like how blood smelt. But it still smelled beautiful.

She sprayed some Blood Rose perfume on her neck and some on the inside of her wrists, capped it again, and stored it in her locker and walked to her next class-which she had with Danny, Sam and Tucker-not knowing the events that would happen afterwards.

And that's the first chapter of the sequel to "The Haircut", "The Perfume," done!

Ooo, what's the perfume that Vlad sent Valerie? How will it affect Danny? Those are the big questions, but they'll be answered soon.

No, I do not own Danny Phantom, all rights belong to Butch Hartman. I only own this story.

I hope you enjoyed the chapter! Please read and review! GhostWriterGirl out!