Ghostly Fun

By: Light-Eco-Sage

Rated: Teen for humor and romance.

Summary: Danny Fenton had learned a long time ago to not use his powers for frivolous purposes. But that won't stop him from having a little fun every once in a while.

Disclaimer: Danny Phantom is owned and created by Butch Hartman.

LES: First ever Danny Phantom story! You can't ignore the comedic gold mine that is in powers like Overshadow, Invisibility, and Copy. Pre-PP story where the world does not know that Danny Fenton is Danny Phantom. Okay... so Mr. Lancer is making them read William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night because that is the Shakespeare story that I am most familiar with. My High School performed the play in my Senior year, and I was in it. Not a big role, but I did have two lines!

Chapter I: Matchmaker


It all started on a fairly normal day. And what is actually meant by that was that it was a mind-numbingly boring day!

Normally, Danny Fenton was able to sit in Mr. Lancer's English class and pay some amount of attention, but nothing could shut the young halfa's mind down faster than Shakespeare.

"So Duke Orsino, unable to confront Olivia with his love, sent his trusted servant to Olivia's palace in order to woo her in his place; completely unaware that his friend was actually Viola disguised as a man and in love with him herself." Mr. Lancer said in his normal monotone while holding his copy of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

Danny was jolted back to alertness when his chin, which had been resting on the palm of his hand, slipped and he almost head-slammed into his desk. Thankfully, he managed to avoid giving himself a concussion. Unfortunately, however, he could not stop the exclamation of shock that forced its way past his lips.

Mr. Lancer sighed, the book being lowered slightly. "Mr. Fenton, just what is so shocking about that statement?" Predictably, the whole class stared around at him.

"Um…" Danny cast his mind around frantically, trying desperately to remember what they had been talking about. "The Duke is too scared to confront a woman that he says he loves?"

Mr. Lancer sighed. "We've all ready discussed this, Mr. Fenton, in the first scene. The Duke is not in love with Olivia as much as he is in love with the idea of being in love. But, yes, as you put it so bluntly, he is too scared."

"He's not the only one, am I right, Fentard?"Dash Baxter spoke up with a laugh, causing the rest of the class to laugh. Danny shrank in his seat even further. People had begun teasing him about being in love with Sam years ago, and the years only seemed to make it worse. Hardly a day went by without them being referred to as love birds, or having some snide comment thrown their way about how 'I always knew those two would end up together' or 'loser love'.

"All right, settle down." Mr. Lancer said with his usual disinterest. "We will return, if you please, to discussing Duke's love life and not Mr. Fenton's."

Normally, when a student wished that they could just disappear, it was just a fanciful wish. However, Danny Fenton actually did have the ability to turn invisible whenever he wanted. The drawback to this was that he couldn't actually use that power.

But… maybe there was something he could do…

Danny glanced around the classroom. He was in the back and everyone seemed to be more-or-less paying attention to Mr. Lancer. So… it was the perfect opportunity to put his powers to the test.

Thanks to the fact that his ghostly abilities grew in power the more he used them, he had recently learned a new trick, the ability to utilize some of his ghostly powers without being in ghost form. He couldn't use all of his abilities, but some of them were possible.

The first part was the hardest part: the Copy technique. It had taken him years to learn how to make a single copy of himself, and he had recently learned how to copy himself in human form by expelling his ghostly self. He closed his eyes, concentrated for a moment, and felt himself being torn in two pieces. Danny could see his own ghostly form, but it was completely invisible to everyone else.

The strangest part about the Copy technique was the feeling of your consciousness in two different places. Being in two places at once for more than a short while was enough to almost drive Danny insane, so he couldn't imagine how Vlad managed to split himself into four pieces.

Now that the Copy was finished, Danny directed himself over to Dash Baxter and easily overshadowed the football player. As always, overpowering the boy's mind was remarkably easy.

Real-Danny grinned to himself as Copy-Danny forced Dash to stand up suddenly with enough force to knock his chair to the ground, drawing the attention of everyone in class.

Mr. Lancer sighed once again at the interruption. "What is it, Mr. Baxter?"

"First, I'd like to say…" Copy-Danny said through Dash. "Even though I'm the most popular guy in the whole school, I can no longer hide from who I truly I am. I'm not a coward in love like the Duke."

"Oh, Dash!" Paulina gasped. "Are you finally going to admit that you love me? I knew it!"

Copy-Danny forced Dash to ignore Paulina, and instead, turned towards Kwan, who was sitting right next to him. "Kwan, I know this is coming out of nowhere, but I love you."

The silence in the classroom was such that one could hear a pin dropping. But that was unnecessary considering that the sounds of several students fainting at once was much louder than a pin dropping.

Real-Danny was having some trouble not laughing. In a split second, Copy-Danny abandoned Dash and instead overshadowed Kwan, who was under his control a second later. "I love you too, man!" Copy-Danny exclaimed, pulling the stunned-speechless Dash into an embrace.

Controlling the copy was becoming a little hard for Danny, so he directed his copy out of Kwan and back into himself, enjoying the look of horror on the two boy's faces as they still embraced.

"Well…" Mr. Lancer said slowly, for the first time sounding genuinely shocked. "I'm glad that you two boys have found one another, but can you please save any more romantic outbursts until the end of class?"

Sam, who sat directly in front of Danny, turned around to glare at him. "That's not very funny, you know."

Danny giggled. "It is to me."


LES: At first, I was going to force Dash to confess his love for Star. Then I thought… boring! Then he was going to confess his love for Paulina, which was better, but still BORING! This, idea, though… it was perfect! XD