Hi and welcome to this strange thing known as my first fanfic, if anyone has any title suggestions please put them in a review. It's set after the ep when Valerie meets Dani(can't remember the name at the moment).

Disclaimer: Unfortunately I don't own Danny Phantom, it's a shame really...

On with the show!

Dani Phantom flew quickly through the dark alleys of Amity Park. Maybe she'd lost it, whatever it was. The ghost girl shuddered, cradling her bleeding arm to her chest and landed before jogging quickly round the corner. She only had a few more streets to go until she'd be safe with Danny. Safe from that thing. Wiping a stray hair from her face she paused and tilted her head, listening.

A creaking noise had Dani spinning around quickly, hoping it was just paranoia making her think there was something there in the shadows. She continued jogging, speeding up almost subconsciously until she was sprinting, only two more turnings, she reminded herself, nearly there-

Her train of thought was lost however as a luminous metallic claw blocked off all her exits and a shadow fell across the alley. Dani froze for a second then bolted forgetting in her panic that she could fly. Her mind blanked except for one word: Run!

But it was too late, if only she hadn't frozen she could have, maybe, escaped. The sunlight was cut off and the thing came forward, a glow emanating from it and giving the girl a chance to see her opponent clearly for the first time, every horrifying detail.

The chase was over before it even began.

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Valerie Grey was not a morning person, sure she happened to one of the most competent ghost hunters in the area but that didn't mean she couldn't get her beauty sleep. So when her ghost alarm went off at 2AM she, understandably, just wanted to go back to slumber land for another few hours.

Unfortunately Valerie wasn't going to get a say in the matter as at that moment she noticed just what had caused the disturbance. Double checking on her ghost tracker that what she saw was correct she quickly climbed out of bed. It appeared that Dani Phantom had returned to Amity Park and from she could see the half-ghost was in trouble.

-L-I-N-E-B-R-E-A-K-

Dani dodged again, narrowly missing being impaled on a missile that had been heading her way; correction it was still coming towards her, probably locked onto my ecto-signature she realized. It scraped her injured arm as she tried to evade it and she screamed, screamed as loud as possible.

Only it wasn't a scream anymore, it was more like a wail growing in volume and then...

Silence.

The monster had gone, somehow whatever she had done had scared it away. Not that that was much use to her now, Dani had changed back sometime during the fight and she was sure she was going to faint soon. Which she did, blackness closing over her mind like a blanket.

By the time Valerie arrived it looked like the fighting was over, Dani was unconscious on the floor though her wrist computer showed that the ghost she had been combating was gone for now.

The girl paused midair, thinking, there was only really one course of action she could do. She would have to take Dani home with her, there was no way she could leave anyone out here with whatever had attacked around whatever it was it must have been pretty powerful to knock out Dani, its ecto-signature was nearly off the scale, shenoted. And anyway, Valerie might not have known her for long but Dani was already like the little sister she never had. What are we going to do with you? she thought fondly then flew down and carefully picked up Dani, placing her on the hoverboard.

You've got to feel sorry for her, Valerie I mean because what she should have thought was how am I going to explain this one to dad...

So like it, hate it? Review!

And credit goes to FangAndClaws for beta-ing