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Phantom + Vampire, or; Why Fine Print Matters

Rifling through the small mountain of papers on the kitchen table, Jack pulled out a relatively small stack and shoved them at Danny.

Danny grabbed at the sudden armful of papers, scrabbling to get them all back on the table and into some semblance of order. Once he didn't feel like he was in danger of indirectly causing a paperwork avalanche (1) that he would inevitably have to clear away, Danny relaxed enough to stop and see what had just been foisted on him this time.

It seemed to be a set of handwritten forms and brochures. …Actually, it was two sets, nearly identical except for one thing. The first set was in English – specifically, it was handwritten in a neat script that would have fit right in one of the museum exhibits about the founding of Amity Park. The other set was all in neat black symbols that he could have sworn were Japanese kanji (2a), except that he didn't know anyone in Japan. This raised question. Namely, why the heck would a foreign school would have any interest in him?

Having a healthy sense of paranoia, Danny suspected that it was for the same reason most people showed an interest in him – as A) A disposable pawn, B) A disposable research subject, C) Prey, or D) All of the above. The ridiculously fancy cream paper that screamed "The Only Reason I Don't Own You Is Because You're Not Worth Offering", the intricate hand-painted illustrations of a hellish landscape dotted with crumbling ruins, and the slightly sticky and powdery brown ink (3) only reinforced his initial impression. At the top of the stack was a flyer with one language per side (4a), proudly announcing that one Daniel J. Fenton had been offered the chance to enter into Youkai Academy's one-of-a-kind three week exchange program.

Danny stared at the flyer, feeling the blood drain from his face. "So, um. An exchange program?"

"Yep! The school's ripri- raypa- re- oh, the girl the school sent us, he says it's a great chance for you to 'broaden your horizons and gain valuable experience in dealing with foreign cultures'," Jack replied cheerfully. Turning to his wife, he asked, "That's what the school person said, right?"

"That's school 'representative', sweetie. And yes, that's exactly what she said. Very good!" she chirped. "Have a cookie."

As his father happily stuffed the sprinkle-covered treat into his mouth, Danny shrank back into his seat, looking at the photographs with a sense of dread familiar from years of walking into traps and suffering through standardized tests. He just knew this was going to hurt.

1. These happened fairly regularly around the Fenton household. With Jasmine being busy with her studies, and Jack and Maddie being Jack and Maddie, Danny was inevitably stuck cleaning them up simply to gain access to the refrigerator. Small wonder that he spent so much time at the Foley home.

2a. Danny did know what kanji looked like, mostly thanks to the poorly-hidden posters of scantily-clad anime girls in Tucker's closet (2b). This did not mean he could read, write or even speak a word of Japanese.

2b. The less said about Tucker's closet, the better.

3. As Danny knew a bit too well, old dried blood was more brownish than anything else, and the texture was hard to mistake for anything else. He really hoped it was animal blood.

4a. If he had turned it over enough times, it would have been revealed as having up to nine sides, fourteen of which were not entirely physical in nature. The number of turns required would depend on several factors including but not limited to the position of Mars in the sky and the precise temperature at 7:44 last night, Coordinated Universal Time (4b).

4b. Or 4:44 in the morning Japan Standard Time.

Author's Note: This particular plotbunny was the result of a Terry Pratchett binge combined with a DP fanfic binge right after reading a bunch of R+V manga chapters. Note that I keep the timeline deliberately fuzzy, so you can send the poor half-ghost boy to Youkai High at any point in the timeline on the R+V side. I set it for three weeks, but you can change it or find some plot-relevant reason to extend his stay. And no, the footnotes aren't required. (What is with the formatting restrictions here?)

The other requirements for this challenge are:
A) This is post-Bitter Reunions on the DP side, and starts before Urban Jungle. Let the poor sap figure out why he's freezing himself to death on his own.
B) Any named student from Youkai High gets sent to Casper High in Danny's place - it is an exchange program, after all. Yes, this means you can send a villain to try to blend in and not kill anyone in a fit of pique. (Mwa ha ha...)
C) Tsukune is also at Youkai High. He doesn't have to be a major character or even in the same class, but no "swap character A with character B".
D) Pairings are open, except no DannyxMoka. I don't need to see that train wreck on paper to know it would be bad.