I have started my first ever Secret Trio fanfic! Yay! *fires confetti cannon* ...Too much? Sorry, I'm just a little excited. There aren't very many of these out there, let alone an AU fanfic like this one. You'll find out more about how it's an AU later, but I'm sure you'll figure some of it out from this little prologue. ;)
Disclaimer: If I owned Danny Phantom, American Dragon: Jake Long and/or Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja I'd be rich, famous, and there'd be a three-way crossover between them, now wouldn't there? Has any of that stuff happened? ...I didn't think so.
Make sure to check out the AN at the bottom, I'll be explaining a few things.
Danny Fenton slumped down in his seat with a glazed look in his eyes, trying not to fall asleep. He was so tired! Yesterday he had stayed up until two o'clock in the morning fighting ghosts. It was hard work, and he was exhausted.
He wished his parents would help out more. They both came from families of spirits, and even though the abilities had skipped their generation that didn't stop them from inventing wacky gadgets and gizmos to make up for it. They were fully capable of keeping the malevolent ghosts held back with him, but they were a little TOO caught up in their inventions sometimes.
His sister couldn't help fight much either, since the spirit abilities had skipped her too. She managed to help him on the sidelines though; by listening to his problems when he went to her. She wanted to be a psychologist, and thus was very good at making him feel better. Anyway, everyone had been sure they would skip him as well, but they were dead wrong, and here he was fourteen years later fighting for his hometown. If Amity Park had been a big city instead of just a town then he was sure he would have collapsed from stress and exhaustion ages ago.
Danny heard a low snore from beside him. He glanced to his right at an African-American teen - on his left was a window - that was sound asleep, his head resting on his hand. It was his best friend Tucker Foley, one of the other two reasons he was still in working order. Tucker stayed up with him to help fight ghosts using his parents' inventions.
Behind Tucker was a goth girl that wore nothing but black, purple and green. She was Danny's other best friend, ghost-fighting partner and the last reason he hadn't broken down, Sam Manson, and she was currently reaching forward to knock Tucker's arm out from under him. The techno geek's head hit the desk with a thud and he gave a yelp of surprise and pain as he was woken up.
The rest of the class laughed at him, bringing the trio's attention back from their thoughts. Mr. Lancer, their English teacher, was staring at them in annoyance.
"Have a nice nap, Mr. Foley?" Lancer asked Tucker dryly as Dash Baxter, local jock and bully, laughed at him behind the teacher's back.
Tucker grimaced, "Sorry, Sir."
"I should hope so." Lancer gazed at Tucker for a moment before alternating his attention between the three of them and finally back to the whole class. "Now, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted," Lancer looked back at Tucker, who blushed in embarrassment, "this school has started a foreign exchange student program. Students from several schools in different countries are going to be attending Casper High for a whole year or more so if they wish. Our class will be receiving two of these exchange students today. We were meant to receive three, but the exchange student from Greece got into an accident and won't be able to come to America for a month or two - maybe more. But I hope all of you will treat our current exchange students with respect and kindness, and take into account that they might not speak English very well. Now, come on in you two."
Outside the class was a muffled thud and two groans of pain. The foreign exchange students opened the door and shuffled in, the tallest rubbing his jaw while the shortest rubbed his head.
The tallest was very slim-built, and living up to his title, very tall. About as tall as Dash. He had pale skin, sapphire blue eyes and - strangely enough, though it was probably dyed - tyrian purple hair. It was hard to tell what nationality he was, but he might have been Caucasian. It didn't look like he had much muscle, but Danny knew that looks could be deceiving. He was wearing a red t-shirt with some sort of strange white symbol on it, probably well-known from wherever he came from. He had an unzipped, dark slate grey hoodie with long sleeves and pockets over the top of his shirt. He wore black skinny jeans which showed off his very long, slim legs and purple zip-up runners. He was currently fiddling with the front of his shirt absentmindedly, eyes scanning the room and everyone in it. Danny looked away before the dark blue eyes landed on him and ended up looking at the second exchange student.
The other exchange student, in contrast, was very short. Between half a head to a head shorter than Danny. He definitely looked Asian, with his tan skin, black eyes and flame-styled spiky black hair with green highlights. He was wearing a zipped-up red jacket with yellow patches on the upper arms over a barely noticeable white shirt. He had blue cargo shorts and grey-and-blue sneakers. A little muscle was visible, and he looked like a gamer or rapper. He was still rubbing the top of his head and gazing boredly at the middle-aged teacher. He let his hand fall to his side and crossed his arms.
Danny felt a strange tug around his chest area at the sight of them both. It wasn't like anything he'd ever felt before; bar the similar but still different feeling his ghost sense gave him. What was happening?
Mr. Lancer cleared his throat. "Could you boys please introduce yourselves and tell us where you're from and why you wanted to be a part of this program?"
"Sure," the shorter said casually, "I'm Jake Long. I came here from China, and have been speaking English my whole life 'cause my dad's American. I wanted to see what it was like where he grew up." True to his word, his English was fluent and barely had an accent. He turned to the other exchange student expectantly.
The tyrian-haired boy glanced at Jake before introducing himself. "Hello, my name is Randy Cunningham. I am from Japan," Huh, I was wrong, Danny thought, "and have only been speaking English a short amount of time. My otousan - father - is Spanish so I have been speaking Spanish a very long time. I wanted to improve my English by coming here." Randy was clearly inexperienced with speaking English, and Danny was actually impressed that he'd only tripped up once while introducing himself. It was probably much harder than it seemed. Also, it turned out that he was half-right about the teen being Caucasian. Kudos to Danny!
"Thank you Jake and Randy. Mr. Long, please sit next to Mr. Mikey Driscoll. He will guide you around the school today. Mr. Cunningham, please sit next to Ms. Star Strong. She will guide you around the school." Lancer motioned to the two students as he named them.
The exchange students sat in their respective empty seats. Mikey immediately introduced himself to Jake, looking very excited that he would be helping this cool Chinese-American. Randy smiled at Star politely and she stared at him dreamily, introducing herself absentmindedly.
Look's like she's found her newest dream boy, Danny rolled his eyes and let his mind wander. Oh well. I wonder if I should introduce myself to Randy and Jake? Nah, I doubt that we'd get along very well, and I don't want to ruin their reputations or anything by having them seen with the outcasts, since they seem like nice enough guys. It'll be better if I keep my distance. And it's like a million-to-one that even one of them are somehow connected to the magical world, despite that strange feeling from earlier...
...Right?
So did you like it so far? Yes? Definitely? Absolutely? (These are your only options.)
I'd just like to clear some things up:
1) Yes, in this AU ghosts are magical creatures. Now; 'ghosts' are the apparitions of dead organisms that have manifested as corporeal beings, while 'spirits' are a certain type of ghost - the humans that are born as ghosts (the equivalent of halfas). In this AU spirits and dragons are the same: they can transform between their human and magical forms and are tasked with protecting a certain area depending on power and experience.
2) I know that Randy can obviously speak English properly in canon, but this is an AU, isn't it? He will get better and start using slang, but not before he shows how bad he actually is at it. ;P Who knows, the introduction could have been rehearsed or had just happened to fall under his relative expertise (compared to the rest of his English capabilities). So yeah, he's fluent in Spanish, bet you weren't expecting that! I just thought that he didn't exactly look Japanese, and remembered how he was learning Spanish in the show, so I thought Why not? Also, you'll be finding out how else the AU changed him a little later.
3) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Look! A shruggie!
Make sure to tell me what you thought! I'd love to hear your feedback and any ideas or theories about this if you have any. Criticism is welcome, be honest with your thoughts. Brutally honest if you want, but flames will be used to power up Jake's fire breath. Ciao!
