It's Elementary – A Danny Phantom Story
Chapter 1: Sherlock Holmes – Fact Or Fiction?
Danny Fenton woke up in his small bed, yawning, stretching his arms.
He smacked his lips, before looking around on the bed for something.
Normally, at night, Danny fought ghosts demons.
But since no ghosts had haunted Amity Park for about a week, he was able to catch up on much-needed sleep, get better grades in school, find the time to read one of his favorite books.
Danny searched under his blanket for his missing thing, until his hand touched something hard.
Danny pulled out a small book. It had a picture of a prominent man with hawk-like features, a deerstalker cap perched upon his black hair, a meerschaum pipe placed in his mouth.
The title of the book read, "The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes."
Danny opened up the book, continued to read from where he left off.
A few moments later, Danny was caught up in the escapades of Sherlock his assistant Dr. Watson, as they tried to solve the mystery of the beautiful Irene Adler...
Later, at breakfast, Danny had just finished reading "A Scandal In Bohemia".
And he was now sinking his teeth into toast cereal.
As he munched on his morning meal, Danny asked with a mouthful of food, "Hey, Jazz, did you know that Toby the dog didn't actually belong to Sherlock Holmes? They sure portrayed that differently in The Great Mouse Detective."
Jazz, Danny's 16-year-old sister, looked up from her psychology book, rolled her eyes in disbelief.
She said in dismay, "Danny, have you been reading that book again?"
Danny defended, "Yeah! So, what? It's not MY fault that Moriarty didn't really get the villain limelight!"
Jazz just said, "Danny, when are you ever gonna learn? Sherlock Holmes wasn't a real person!"
Miffed, Danny smarted off, "Oh, yeah? How would YOU know! Have you ever seen his ghost?"
Just then, Danny's ears caught a familiar voice. "And speaking of ghosts..."
Danny turned around, saw his dad, Jack Fenton, barge into the dining room.
"I wanna show you something, Danny."
A few moments later, Danny Jack were in the Ghost Basement.
Jack led Danny over to a big device. It looked like a computer.
Jack gestured to the PC-like device, said proudly, "It's called the Ghost Tracking System! Just type in the name of someone, you'll find a ghost with that name."
Danny marveled at the invention.
In his mind, he heard himself saying, Hey, maybe I could find Sherlock Holmes' ghost with that!
Just then, Mattie, Danny's mom, came in.
She said irritatedly, "Jack Fenton, you better hurry, or we'll be late for the Paranormal Investigators Convention!"
Jack got his suitcase full of ghost-hunting devices, followed his wife out the door, saying, "I'm comin' Mattie!"
Jazz Danny stood in the threshold, as they saw Mattie get into the taxicab.
The cab roared down the street, as Jack rushed after it.
As he ran after the yellow cab, Jack called out to Danny Jazz, "We'll be back in 5 days! Jazz, take care of your brother! Oh, call me if you see a ghost!"
Jazz Danny stared on, as Jack the cab finally disappeared.
Jazz turned to Danny, asked her brother, "Well? What do you wanna do?"
Danny walked back into the house, said, "I'm gonna get back to reading my book."
Actually, Danny was going into the Ghost Basement.
Danny sat down by the Ghost Tracking System, his fingers pecked the following keys:
S-H-E-R-L-O-C-K H-O-L-M-E-S
Danny sweated with anxiety, before the computer screen lit up with the following words...
1 match found.
Danny clicked on the hyperlink. As soon as the mouse made its clicking noise, Danny looked over to the left.
The door to the Ghost World opened.
The house began to shake.
Danny braced himself, just as he saw a ghost appear.
Could it be...?
Danny froze with anticipation as the ghost began to materialize...