I Do Not Own Anything Involving the Danny Phantom TV Show.
Danny started his morning like every other, to the sound of his Fenton alarm clock, which mind you, didn't care about the sleep deprivation or bruising. He had been up most of night catching and fighting ghost. Specifically Desiree and Skulker on this night, with an appearance from the Box Ghost, which was no surprise. His shoulder was still sore from when skulker decided to try out the new war hammer in his arsenal. Upon hearing the alarm ring for the second time Danny finally got up. Which caused him to wince from the sharp lingering pain in his shoulder. Making his shoulder intangible Danny checks the bones which seem to have healed but the muscle was still damaged from the feel of it, not to mention the fact that it was several shades of purple and blue spoke volumes on the level of healing that had yet to be finished.
"Looks like it's a long sleeve day." Danny says jokingly.
Since a year and half ago at the start of sophomore year Danny had started to wear only long sleeves and hoodies. All the ghost fighting was taking its toll. At first it was just a mark here a scratch there, but as the ghost kept coming back the fights would get longer, harder, and more violent. Danny now had an impressive collection of battle scars. Some big and some small. It didn't really matter where you looked, you were bound to find at least one. He even had a small scar on his bottom lip on the left. The only good thing to come from this was the fact that all the ghost fighting had done wonders for his physic. Danny was now sporting the body of a lean martial artist with the power of a semi truck to back it. Though only Sam and Tucker knew of this, Danny had done a very good job on hiding his physical changes to avoid suspicion.
After the final checks to his shoulder were done Danny got up and pulled on a pair of jeans and a simple long sleeve white t-shirt with a red hoodie that he decided to leave unzipped. Moving his shoulder hurt but compared to what he's had to deal with in the past this was nothing.
Making his way down stairs and enter the kitchen Danny is greeted by the sight of his mom making pancakes for breakfast.
"Morning Mom, wheres Jazz?" Danny ask sleepily.
"Oh morning sweetie I was wondering when you were going to come down. Your sister already left for school. Unfortunately for you since it's so late you'll have to eat and run. You're going to be late for school if you don't hurry up."
Upon looking at the clock Danny realized that he took too much time checking his shoulder and getting dressed, not getting up until the second ring of his alarm clock seemed to also added to it. He now only had seven minutes to reach school, which was eight minutes away by walking, five if he ran, and about two and a half if he flew. Since his parents couldn't know about the flying Danny decided to skip breakfast and run out the door.
"Bye mom!" Danny yelled as he ran out the door.
"Have a nice day at school, call home if you see any ghost!" Maddie his mom yelled back pretty sure that he only heard about half of that.
After about two blocks of straight running Danny ducked into an alley and went ghost. After freshman year Danny decided to up date his ghost form's look, with a little help from Sam. When in his ghost form Danny sported a black hoodie with no sleeves and a neon green hood. Underneath he now wore a white skin tight long sleeve his hands he now wore black gloves instead of white. For pants he had grey baggy cargo pants that had many pockets with a neon green chain hanging from one. Finally taking a page from Sam's book he now sported a pair of black combat steel toe boots.
Flying as fast as he could Danny made it to school with four minutes to spare. Now all he had to do was find a spot to change back unseen. Though as fate would have it, life was never that fair for our favorite hero. Just as Danny was about to duck behind some dumpsters his ghost sense went off.
"Great, who is it this." was all our hero managed to get out before having to dodge a rocket barrage.
"Skulker, your aim doesn't seem to match your self appointed title." Danny mocks to an already irritated Skulker.
"My aim is perfect! The fact you managed to dodge just means that you're pelt is worthy of being a rug on my floor Ghost Boy!" yelled Skulker as he prepared another attack.
Before he could though Danny started to shoot off some energy blast as he flew in for a more up close and personal attack. Skulker dodge to the left and equipped an energy blade, which he swung at Danny's head. Danny pulled up and did a flip which allow for the blade to pass by with barely an inch of room. Coming out of the flip Danny put his hand on Skulkers now exposed side and shot off a blast. This sent Skulker flying.
"Jeez Skulker you're getting slower." Danny calls in an amused voice and a smirk on his face. Skulkers only response was to yell in frustration and equip a mace onto his other arm. Charging Danny he fires some energy blast at Danny not giving him a chance to stop his charge. Danny drops to the ground below to avoid the blast and pushes off the ground towards Skulker still in his charge. As they get closer Skulker swings the mace trying for a body shot. Danny again barely dodges the attack and fires an ice ray catching Skulker in the face. This causes Skulker to spin towards the ground. As he fell Skulker threw his mace and blade at the same time at Danny. Danny remembering the feel of the war hammer from the night before dodge the mace with a wide berth but ends up having the blade catch the side of this right leg.
"Argh" Danny cries out. Looking down he sees some green liquid coming from his leg. "So stupid, I dodge energy blast like nothing and manage to get hit by a clumsily thrown energy blade." Danny says a little pained and annoyed while quickly checking to see the extent of the damage.
"That's not a the only thing you'll be hit with today" Skulker says from behind a preoccupied Danny. As he slams his fist into Danny's lower back. Another yell of pain escapes Danny's mouth. Sailing towards the ground Danny goes intangible and disappeared into the ground. Skulker narrows his eyes, Phantom was out of sight, which was a bad sign. Turning on his scanners, Skulker slowly floated down trying to be ready for an attack. What he wasn't ready for was the truck that came baring down the road. Quickly flying up he dodge the truck only to get hit with a fist which was followed by green energy blasts. This caused Skulker to smash into the ground hard. Getting up and holding his head Skulker had no time to react as Blue light and a strong pull surrounded him.
"How does it feel Skulker, losing to me again with not even a day passed" Danny taunted. Once Skulker was safely packed away in the Fenton thermos he quickly checked his leg again. Thanks to his faster healing ghost form the bleeding had stopped, it probably wouldn't even leave a scar. With that all wrapped up Danny dove down to the dumpsters he saw earlier and changed back to Danny Fenton. Running into the school he saw a clock that read 8:36, he was six minutes late for first period. For anyone else this wouldn't be a big deal, but for Danny who hasn't be on time once since freshman year this meant another detention, that he'd most like have another detention added on top of, from the fact that he'd most likely end up missing the first due to ghost attacks. As Danny ran down the hallway he mused at how the only good thing that came from always being late meant not having to deal with Dash in the mornings. Getting to the classroom door Danny just waked in and took his seat. Mr. Lancer turned and gave a slight nod to let Danny know he knew he was there. Danny had given up a long time ago with trying to sneak in, he was always caught and yelled at. After a while Mr. Lancer stopped even bothering to yell at him. Now they had an unsaid understanding. Danny would come in late and Mr. Lancer would write out his detention paper and Danny would pick it up at the end of class and most likely not show up for it. As Danny took his seat he glanced over at Sam and Tucker. Tucker gave a small wave and Sam a worried look. Danny flashed a quick smile to let them know he was ok. He was sore all over and would have a slight limp for the rest of the day but they didn't need to know that and it wasn't like it was anything new.
The rest of first period went by amazingly slow, though it probably didn't help that he had almost no idea of what was being taught. Due to all the ghost fighting Danny barely had any time left to study or do homework. He still tried, but when you run out of more than half your classes daily it gets hard keeping up with it all. Luckily or unluckily depending on how you looked at it Danny got to stay in class all the way to the bell and was able to meet up with Sam and Tucker in the hallway.
"Danny what happened this morning, you were supposed to walk to school with us" said a somewhat annoyed and worried Sam.
"I was up most of night thanks to Desiree and Skulker. And this morning Skulker came back for round two." Danny says as deadpan as can be.
"Dude I know you don't like us helping, but come on, you can't keep pulling all nighters alone." Tucker says while stopping at his locker to put his book away.
"I know, I know, but you both know the fights are getting worse and you both know you don't heal like me. You guys can't risk helping me in these fights anymore." Danny said as the three start to make there way to the next class.
"Danny", Sam starts but is cut off by the owner of said name.
"Sam this isn't up for discussion. Though if you guys still want to talk about this, please let it wait until lunch" Danny says as he walks into the classroom. Where it takes his all just to stay awake. Four periods later and one detention for falling asleep in class, Danny is walking to lunch with two very determined friends. Just as the group makes it outside Danny's ghost sense goes off for the second time that day. Danny looks at his friends.
"Go on, we'll talk later." Tucker says a little annoyed at the fact that he can't help with the day time attacks.
"If you do anything stupid the ghost won't be your biggest concern." Sam says threateningly but the underlying worry is not very well hidden.
Danny runs off to the bathroom and makes sure no one is there before going ghost. Turning intangible Danny flies up to the roof looking for the ghost responsible for interrupting his lunch. Arriving on the roof Danny was promptly slammed back into said roof courtesy of a certain fiery rocker.
"How's it rocking babypop" taunts Ember.
"Ugh, was great until you showed up" Danny says without a hint of sarcasm, slowly getting up.
"Aww, don't be that way babypop, how about I play you something to lift your spirits!" Ember yells at the end, strumming her guitar she sent another wave at Danny who tried to dodge but was caught at the edges of it. Getting thrown off the building into a freefall Danny forced himself to pull out of the fall and flew along the street with Ember hot on his trail. Flipping over onto his back Danny starts to fire energy blast back at Ember who started dodging. Turning into an alleyway Danny started to fly up trying to get over Ember, but was stopped by a strong wave blast. Ember followed said blast with a quick burst of speed that put her on top of the now stopped Danny. Swinging her guitar Ember aimed for his head only to be sent flying back from a hard kick to the gut never getting the full swing through. Though enough of the swing was through to send Danny into the side of the alley wall. Danny slid down the wall but recovered faster than Ember and started sending blast her way. Ember instead of heading back toward Danny flew in the opposite direction knowing he would follow. And follow he did, Ember disappeared around the corner. As he got to the corner Ember's guitar came hard out of nowhere right into Danny's face. Danny was on the ground stars in his eyes.
"Well babypop, looks like it's time for your final performance. Here let send you off with one of my biggest hits" Ember mocked while raising her arm ready for the final attack. Bringing her arm down Danny put all that he could into his hands and shot out the blast from both hands. The blast sent both Danny and Ember flying, Danny more so than Ember. Danny flew back and landed on a trash can while Ember went into the road. The blast took more out of Danny than he realize it would, returning back to his human form Danny passed out hoping the blast was just as effective on Ember as it was on him. Danny's luck as it would have it was absent that day.
"Ugh, I have to give it to you babypop, that was a good move but not good enough" Ember said standing up and limping over to Danny's unconscious form. Again raising her guitar over her head she looked down at her soon to be victim. Just as she was about to deliver the final blow she took another look. Phantom was in his human form. Though that's not what caught her eye, it was the deep cut above his left eye. It was from when she got him with her guitar. The problem was that he was Phantom when that happen, and now he was in his human form.
'That...that shouldn't be there' she though. 'When he turns back into a human his injuries are supposed to disappear.' On closer inspection she sees that there are some thin pink lines around his neck. Ember lowers her guitar and kneels down. She reaches for his shirt's base but hesitates. Releasing an unsteady breath Ember lifts up his shirt and gasp. Phantom's body was covered in scars, all shapes and sizes. And from the looks of it they extended past his torso. She even saw some very nasty bruising around his shoulder. Standing up fast Ember backs away putting her hand over her mouth. This didn't make any sense, sure ghost have attacked his human form, hell she'd even done it, but they never did anything to leave injuries like that. And when he was Phantom he was a ghost so the wounds shouldn't have lasted long enough to do this. Though that was the problem wasn't it, Phantom wasn't all ghost. This implication bothered Ember. Not knowing what to think Ember took to the sky and paused for a second, only to start flying away again. Ember knew one thing Phantom could take care of himself and she needed some time to think things over.
Hours later Danny came to, it was dark out. Looking around in the minimal light from the street lamp on the road Danny saw no sign of Ember. And slowly tried to move. To his surprise he only felt sore, no broken bones or unsightly gashes. Danny then got up and looked for Ember, but couldn't find her. Though that was not much of a surprise since he was in one piece. That meant the blast did the job and when she came to must of been to hurt to come and try to finish the job and fled back to the ghost zone to heal. Only possible outcome he could think of since all other scenarios ended with him getting a beat down while still unconscious. Pulling out his phone he say that he had four missed calls from Tucker, seven from Jazz, nine from Sam, and a very scary thirteen from his mother. This was going to be hard to explain not only to his parents but to Sam and Tuck who he had just gotten done telling that they couldn't help fight ghost because it was to dangerous. And to top it all off Danny's ghost scene just went off.
"Can things get any worse?" Danny said almost daringly. Thunder cracks and rain starts to come down. "Great, just great." Danny says as he goes ghost and hopes that it's just the box ghost so he could make things fast and try to get home to explain why he never showed up after school or for dinner without a single call home. And to get something to eat, missing all three meals really takes it out of you.
