Hiya! This is my first multi-chapter story in the category of Danny Phantom, so I'm kinda excited! This plot came to me when I was just walking outside, trying to rid myself of writer's block. I'd like to thank my twin sister, know in here as wolfwithemeraldeyes for her support. I know she isn't really into DP, but she still manages to help me. Also to VideoGamingFreak1213 for giving me advice and helpful ideas, you two are awesome! :D
Well, here it is and I hope you like it!
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Danny had just been studying for another English test, when his ghost sense got off and a familiar unbearable blue ghost phased through his floor and started yelling at him about the mightiness of his boxes. Danny simply sighed, and let the blinding white rings pass over him, transforming him into his infamous alter-ego. "Let's just get this over with." He had muttered and they started a fight in his room.
"I am the box ghost!" The blue ghost wailed, wiggling his fingers dramatically. "Fear the awesomeness of the squareness of my recyclable cardboard boxes!" He yelled and yelped when Danny's ectoblast hit him square in the chest, sending him flying on Danny's boxes he had put in his room to store his spare clothes he wasn't using anymore.
"Hey, watch the boxes!" Danny said, taking the Fenton thermos from his desk. "It took me hours to put all of my clothes in there!" There weren't that many clothes in the boxes, but he had been disturbed by at least three ghosts while he was cleaning, tripling the usual time it would've taken him.
The box ghost sat up in a daze and his eyes widen when he saw the familiar thermos. He dived behind the boxes, barely missing the blue beam.
"No cylindrical container shall contain the awesomeness of the box ghost!" He said and made a random box float over to him. "Now, you shall fear the mightiness and power of…" He paused to look at the label and his face turned confused and disgusted. "Danny's underwear?"
Danny's face turned red and he shot the other ghost again, making him drop the box.
"Danny, come down, we have something really cool to show you, Son!" Jack boomed excitedly from downstairs.
Danny groaned, when they said that, it usually meant trouble for his ghost self. He yelped as he dodged a box that flew pass him and into the wall behind him. "Sorry, Dad, I'm kinda busy! You know, homework and stuff." He yelled back and tried again to capture the annoying ghost with the thermos. "Stay still!" He grumbled in frustration.
"Well whatever you're doing up there, drop it and come down!" Maddie's voice rose up suddenly and Danny heard the muffled sound of footsteps thundering up the stairs. "What are you doing to make such noise, anyways?"
"Oh no." Danny whispered and shot the blue beam again out of the thermos, this time, actually catching the box ghost.
"I'll be back for my revenge!" The blue ghost yelled and Danny closed the cap. "Yeah, yeah. If I had a dollar for every time they said that to me…" He chuckled and froze when the door opened slightly.
"Danny?" Maddie called and Danny, out of panic, dived behind the boxes with a crash as he transformed back into his usual self.
The door opened completely and Maddie jumped out, pointing an ecto-gun and her finger on the trigger just in case. "What was that?" She then spotted Danny sprawled on the ground with a couple of boxes on top of him.
She sighed and pocketed the gun, walking over to her son and putting her hands on her hips. "What are you doing, young man? I hope that's not actually one of your homework?"
Danny quickly got up and dusted himself off. "Actually, yes!" He said and struggled to find a good explanation. "I was… dancing! Yeah, dancing! You know how much of a klutz I can be!" He said with a nervous laugh and rubbed the back of his neck.
Maddie raised an eyebrow and she turned excited when she remembered why she wanted to see her son in the first place. "Never mind. Come on downstairs, your father and I want to show you something!" She said and took Danny's hand, dragging him out of his room and to the living room.
"Wow, geez, mom!" Danny said and rubbed his wrist after his mom let him go when they were downstairs. "I can walk fine on my own!"
Jack, who was in the basement, came up with a grin and held out his hands for Danny to see what was in them. "Take a look at this baby" He said proudly.
Danny glanced at it and raised an eyebrow, half impressed. "It's a metal box." He said simply. "And why do you want to show me this, can't you show it to Jazz instead?" He asked.
"Oops, wrong invention." Jack muttered and ran back to the basement.
"Because Jazz is out to the library." Maddie answered and at that same moment, the front door flew open.
"I'm home!" Jazz said and walked over to her brother and her mother. "What are you guys doing?"
"Jazzypants!" Jack greeted and came back from the basement. "You're just in time to see your mother and me's newest invention!" He said.
"It's your mother and I, dad." Jazz reminded him and Jack shrugged.
"Whatever." He said and he put the object he had in his hand on the table, keeping some sort of remote in his hand. "Tada!"
"Erm, dad?" Jazz asked. "What the heck is that?"
It was some sort of robot bee the size of a walnut with a needle where the stinger should be. Its body was a canister of glass the shape of a normal bee, it was filled with a strange glowing green liquid.
Danny picked it up, careful of the needle. "What she said. This thing is weird!" He said and inspected it closer.
"It's a ghost's worst nightmare!" Jack said with a grin.
"A half-ghost's worst nightmare, dear." Maddie corrected him and Danny dropped the robot in shock.
"Wh- what?" He said nervously.
Jazz was just as shocked, and a little worried for her brother. "What are you guys talking about?"
"Well, we both wanted to keep it a surprise, but a few weeks ago, we figured out that Danny Phantom is actually only half ghost!" Maddie explained with a grin.
Danny slumped down on the couch and bit his lip, laughing nervously. "Come on, mom, a half ghost? That's not possible. I mean, how can someone be dead and alive at the same time?" He said, still not believing that his parents found out his alter ego was a halfa. This made things ten times more difficult for him.
"I know, we thought so too. But then, we collected a blood sample from the ground after we saw him battling that robot ghost and he got cut on his forearm." Jazz gave a concerned glance at Danny when she heard that. "It was strange, kind of red with green ectoplasm mixed in it." Maddie explained, almost bouncing with excitement. "We took the sample to the lab and concluded that his blood was actually half ectoplasm, half human blood, a perfect balance between the two! Fascinating, isn't it? "
Jazz swallowed nervously. "R-really?" She said and Danny looked at his sister in confusion, why was she acting like that? "Did you figure out who his human half is?" She asked and prayed that they didn't, though, the fact that they're not attacking Danny practically showed that they didn't.
"No," Jack said with a pout and both his children let out a sigh of relief, Jazz hiding hers with a yawn. "It looks like ectoplasm was fused into his DNA, making it too messed up for us to find anything."
"But this," Maddie took the robot bug and Danny shuffled away from it. "Will take away his human half, turning him into a full ghost so we can keep on hunting him and capture him so we could ask him questions about his kind of ghost!"
Danny blanched at her words and Jazz cut in. "You mean you're going to kill his human half!" She asked, horrified that her parents would do something like that to her little brother. She walked slowly over to Danny, intending to protect him at all cost and keeping her eyes on her parents.
Maddie's expression turned shocked. "No, not at all! Simply supress it to the point that he wouldn't be able to change into his human appearance!" She said. "We figured that that was the reason he kept evading our tracking devices, he simply turned human! If he can't do that anymore, we'll easily be able to capture him."
Danny felt a little relieved that his parents wouldn't go to the point of killing his human half for scientific reasons, but he had no idea what would happen if the bug really managed to get him.
"But a robot as big as this would be easy to see," Maddie pointed out. "So we managed to put a chip inside of its system, so it'll be able to turn invisible, making it easy to reach and sting Phantom without being seen. He'll never see it coming!" Danny gulped at that and made a mental note to be more careful and on his guard.
"All we have to do, is press this button and presto! It'll activate the robot and we put a little of the ghost boy's blood in its tracking device so it'll be able to track him in whatever half he's disguised in!" Jack explained and pointed to a big red button on the remote he was holding.
"We got the ghost boy this time!" Maddie said triumphantly and took the remote.
Danny gasped in horror and Jazz cried: "No, wait, you can't!" But Maddie still pressed the button.
Danny yelled in fright and ran to the bathroom; the closest room with a door. He then slammed the door closed and panicked silently, wondering how he was gonna get out of this one.
"Hey, it doesn't work!" Jack said in a disappointed voice and Danny froze, then opened the door slightly. "It doesn't?" He asked in a squeaky voice and noticed in surprise that Jazz was standing protectively in front of the door. "Jazz, what are you doing?" He asked and Jazz cleared her throat, ignoring him and walked over to the couch, her shoulders slumped in relief.
Danny slowly got out of the bathroom and walked over cautiously to his parents, who were looking at the remote with confusion.
"But I was sure that it worked!" Jack grumbled and crossed his arms over his chest.
"It's okay, Jack. We'll fix it. How about some fudge to cheer you up?" Maddie suggested and Jack's face lit up as he rushed to the kitchen.
Maddie turned to Danny. "Why did you run away when we activated the robot? Well, tried anyways." She asked.
"Erm… I don't really like bugs." Danny came up with, rubbing the back of his neck and still breathing in and out to calm himself. He didn't really need to lie for this one, and now because of the robot, he dislikes them even less than before. "I'm gonna have nightmares about this one…" He mumbled quietly to himself, too low for Maddie to hear.
Maddie inspected him for a lie and sighed. Danny had always had a disgust for bugs, so maybe he wasn't lying this time. She walked away to go see Jack and Danny slumped against the wall, blowing out a breath of relief.
Jazz just walked over to him and ruffled his hair. "I'm glad you're okay." She said simply and walked upstairs to her room.
Danny frowned as he watched her go. "What's up with her?" He said and picked up the bug, pinching it carefully by its thin metal wings and holding it away as far as possible from himself. He looked around himself and made sure there wasn't anyone else in the room before rushing upstairs as fast as he could into his room and throwing the bug on his desk.
"What to do with you?" He wondered. Even if it didn't work, his parents could still fix it and take away his human half.
He thought of the most effective solution and settled for simply shooting out a blast of ectoplasm out of his finger, turning it to a pile of ash.
He then picked up a sheet of paper and used it to sweep the ashes into another paper, which he shook off out the open window and they scattered along with the wind.
Satisfied, he threw himself on his bed and blew out a breath. His parents might notice the robot to be gone, but they might just assume that they simply lost it.
"They'll probably build another one." He said to himself and shrugged. "I'll just blast that one too and they'll finish by dropping it." He tried to reassure himself, but knowing his parents, they won't give up until he's strapped to the dissection table.
Danny turned over and groaned when shivers ran through his body and his breath showed for a brief time. He got up reluctantly and made the two halos pass over him and turned him into his other half.
Danny turned intangible and invisible and flew out of the window, hoping that things might return to normal,
But of course, things for Danny Fenton are never normal.
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Well, there was the first chapter! I hope you liked it and please tell me what you thought! :)
Peace out,
Loks