One Shot Suggestion by MiniHayden:
Dash steals a donut from Danny who has been enduring endless sleepless nights. It's the last straw. When you're about to be tipped off the edge of sanity, you do something stupid…
Disclaimer: We do not own Danny Phantom. The oneshot idea belongs to MiniHayden.
The Last Straw
"Just what I needed, another sleepless night, thanks a lot Skulker!" Danny angrily shook the thermos containing the said ghost, seriously hoping that Skulker was suffering inside the cylindrical container. Danny continued to soar through the air, as the wind blew on his face, back to his comforting warm home. The sight of the 'Fenton Works' sign greeted him as he flew through the open window into his room of solitude. His room consisted of four blue walls with multiple astronomy posters scattered across them and rocket models placed in a messy manner. The sun was just beginning to rise through the cloud washed sky, casting a soft glow upon Amity Park. Danny yawned, and glanced at the clock.
5:30am
"Well there's no point in going to sleep now." Danny whispered to himself. He decided to make use of this time by half-heartedly completing the homework stacked upon his desk. Reverting back to his human self and jumping in to his desk chair, he sighed heavily. He wanted to be back in the sky, to feel that thrill of weightlessness, but the massive burden placed upon his shoulders kept him tethered to the Earth, he would never be free. But Danny never once complained as he would always put other people before himself, helping them in whatever way he could. That thought alone would make it all seem okay, that it was all worth it.
It was now time for school, he somehow found himself running late again as usual. He managed to complete most of the homework that was set by the strict (and unforgiving) Lancer. He stumbled down the stairs and through the front door, only catching a glimpse of Jazz and his parents sitting at the dining table.
"Bye Guys!" He shouted before closing the door firmly behind him. Other than the fact he was in dire need of sleep, being late to school brought some normalcy into his chaotic life.
Danny arrived at school per usual, meeting up with his best friends beside his hallway locker. Bullies lurked at every corner ready to pounce on their next prey, shoving them mercilessly into lockers and walking away with a smirk of pleasure while their prey cried in vain.
"Hey…guys…" Danny panted, gasping for breath. He placed a hand on his locker, twisting the knob clockwise. Sam approached him with a look of concern written all over her face, arching one of her ebony eyebrows.
"Hey Danny, are you alright?" Sam asked, her amethyst eyes showing concern
"Dude, you look terrible." Tucker jumped in, hungrily devouring a donut. He was less concerned that Sam, Danny concluded.
"Skulker kept me up all night! Every single ghost is out to get me and all I want is a peaceful night's sleep!" Danny muttered, opening the locker with a couple of mechanical sounds of strain. Next came silence as Danny rummaged through his backpack and placed some of the books inside the locker. Sam and Tucker watched from the side lines before Tucker broke the uncomfortable silence.
"Want one?" Tucker presented his pack of donuts decorated with pink icing and colourful sprinkles scattered across the savoury snack, holding one out for Danny to take.
"Thanks Tuck. I'm starved! I forgot breakfast when I was rushing to school this morning." Danny sighed, shutting his locker. The trio began to their first hour, Language Arts, with Lancer. Danny placed his books on the table and settled down in his seat, Sam and Tucker followed him and walked to their respective seats. Just as Danny was going to take a bite of his makeshift breakfast after getting comfortable in his seat, it was rudely snatched from him and his teeth sunk in to nothingness. He blinked, his sleep deprived mind trying to make sense of what just happened.
"Thanks Fenton!" Dash snickered. Danny looked upwards to see his donut get mercilessly devoured by the blond jock towering above him. His anger slowly welling up inside of him, he could feel his ghost powers surfacing, reacting with his negative emotions.
"What is your problem, Dash?" Danny shouted, slapping his hands violently on his desk and standing up. Dash stopped chewing on the stolen food, turning around to stare at his victim, a look of amusement crossed his face to see his prey standing up for himself.
"Why do you always have to pick on me, have you got nothing better to do with your life? You're a big bully and nothing else! Just picking on everyone below you to make yourself feel that much better to see someone feel bad about themselves! Other than football what have you got?" Danny stopped, he took a deep breath. Words were just casually rolling off his tongue, meeting no resistance. "I'll tell you what you've got… Nothing! Your grades are bad and your friends are total fakes! They only hang around with you so that they look cool and they don't get bullied by you! You have no idea what my life is like, and I don't need you to make it a living hell every single day! So just for this once… will you leave me alone?" Danny clenched his fists, thankfully the rest of his class was to his back, with them only being able to see Dash's awe stricken face. Danny's eyes burned a bright neon colour, angrily growling at the athlete. Dash was taken aback and made a few involuntary steps backwards, dropping the donut in the process. The donut broke into many crumbles on the linoleum floor, but was now totally forgotten. Sam and Tucker gasped and flew to Danny's side, pulling him back into his seat.
"Woah there big boy! Just, calm down." Sam soothed, standing in front of Danny with a hand placed daintily on his shoulder. Dash shook his head ridding the fear from him mind. His anger resurfaced, causing him to clench his hands even tighter, turning them a ghostly shade of white
"What's up with you Fenton? Your eyes… You're some kind of freak!" Dash sneered.
"Just leave him alone! He already has a lot on his plate and he doesn't need you to pick on him every single day!" Tucker answered back.
Dash cracked his knuckled and unleashed a growl from the back of his throat. Instinctively, Tucker shrank back, rubbing the back of his neck and laughed nervously.
"Tucker too much information!" Sam angrily whispered, whipping her head in his direction and sending a dark glare. The rest of the class, who were previously frozen with a mix of fear and excitement, huddled around them, looking for an outbreak of a fight. The football team all gathered behind Dash rolling their sleeves back in pleasure, as the nerds hung at the back shaking with fear.
Suddenly the ear splitting bell rang and after three straight shrill rings Mr Lancer walked through the door. With a book open in one hand and a cup of steaming coffee in the other, he was oblivious to what was happening in his very own classroom.
"To Kill a Mockingbird, what in blazes is going on here?" He exclaimed, slamming both his book and coffee down on his desk before angrily yelling "Get back to your seats!"
Everyone groaned, their entertainment for the day was interrupted and they settled back down to their seats behind the desks, preparing for an uneventful day that lay ahead.
After thirty minutes of the most boring lecture on the planet, most of the students became restless and bored, shifting in their seats and their head rested heavily only to be propped up with a elbow. Throughout that time, Dash couldn't stop thinking about Danny's sudden change in behavior. Not to mention those green eyes… those green eerie eyes. Out of the corner of Dash's eye he noticed a wisp of blue air exiting Danny's mouth along with an audible gasp.
"May I please be excused?" Danny suddenly exclaimed, springing from his seat and desperately wove his hands to capture Lancer's attention. The whole class stopped what they were doing and turned their glares upon the strange teen. Sam and Tucker also turned their gaze to his with a worried glint in their eyes.
"Fine, you might as well take your bags, considering you never come back." Mr Lancer sighed heavily. With that, Danny hurriedly gathered his belongings and dashed towards the bathroom. Dash noticed through the window, that the sky had begun to turn an eerie shade of purple and the sun was lost behind the thick veil of grey clouds.
It's now or never, Baxter, follow him!
Dash slowly also raised his hand.
"Ah yes, Mr. Baxter?" Mr Lancer said with a hint of boredom colouring voice.
"Can I go to the bathroom?"
Mr Lancer sighed once again and waved him towards the door, he turned back to the board scribbling the next set of instructions which the class would fail to follow. Dash, meanwhile, sprinted in the same direction as Danny, only being a couple of seconds behind him. The hallways were empty and deathly silent. Danny swung open the door and dove inside. Dash immediately dropped to the floor and crawled the rest of the way there. He silently opened the door, cautious not to make any sudden sound nor movements. He saw Danny standing in a wide stance in the middle of the boy's bathroom. Never before had he looked so confident. He raised his hands and yelled three words.
"I'm going ghost!"
The familiar white rings engulfed Danny's body. The casual blue jeans and red and white t-shirt were replaced with a black and white jumpsuit with the trademark DP logo. The crystal blue eyes had slowly dissolved to a familiar neon green color and his pitch black hair turned to a snowy white. Danny crouched and a smirk became apparent across his face, energy gathering up around him before he finally took off the ground with incredibly speed, through the bathroom ceiling, leaving Dash on the floor gaping.
"Danny Fenton... is Danny Phantom?"
ForeverHalfa~ lol, I used a ghost pun :D. This was all created by TS because I was a typical lazy arse. (I used a British word :'D) All I did was a tad of editing, thanks to some certain APUSH homework (which I got a 34/50 on the test D':). But from here on out these will only be written by one of us and edited by the other. Christmas and Thanksgiving are rapidly approaching so we should be updating more (Gosh forbid I get a project, and TS really doesn't need one either). PLEASE LEAVE YOUR IDEAS IN YOUR REVIEW! Me and TS will shoot you a PM if you have an account, and if you do not we will announce it the chapter before. FH out~!
Topaz Skye ~ Hope you liked the chapter! This is my first time having a go at writing a oneshot and a fanfic for the Danny Phantom fandom! So I hope I did okay on my half although I am sure that Forever Halfa's half is much more better than mine. If you have any one shot ideas for me and ForeverHalfa to write please PM us or send it as a review! :D Thanks for reading~
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