Hi. I know, it's been a while and I really should have updated this by now. However, school just started and I've been pretty busy so yeah. Thanks for the reviews, I know my pacing is a bit off and I will try to work on that. So here is the next chapter.
Danny had been in school for a month now. He had only faced two more of those ghosts and he had been able to take them out efficiently without anyone seeing him.
As soon as he got into the building, he had heard people talking about changes to the school lunches.
Hopefully it's good.
He knew that even if it wasn't good he wouldn't complain, he just didn't have the confidence.
The day was fairly normal, got English and Math homework, which he was able to finish in class. It wasn't until lunch that everything changed.
He was sitting there trying the lunch which was grass on a piece of bread. It was terrible and there was great uproar in the cafeteria about it. But one voice stood above the rest.
"Fenturd!" Oh no. That voice could only belong to one person. Danny turned, and to his dismay, there stood Dash Baxter.
"Someone changed the damn lunch menu! I hope you're prepared for a beating."
What! "Wh-hy A-are you t-taking this-s out-t on me?" Danny cursed his stutter. It only happened when he was uncomfortable which was when he was around pretty much anyone. It even happened around his parents now.
Suddenly, a chill raced through Danny's body, he knew what that meant. He had to escape Dash quickly. He did the only thing he could think of.
"Food fight!" He shouted as he launched his plate of grass and bread at Dash. Dash in turn looked furious. He was probably going to kill Danny when the entire cafeteria broke out throwing food at anyone that they could see.
Danny scrambled under the table and transformed. He invisibly flew around looking for the ghost when it appeared in the middle of the cafeteria.
"Who changed the menu!" It shouted, silencing everyone in the room. It looked like a lunch lady except she had blue skin. After a full minute someone pointed at a girl in dark clothing. "She did."
"How dare you change my menu!" Screamed the lunch lady. She launched herself at the girl when she was suddenly knocked into a wall by a green blast.
Everyone turned to look at the one that launched it.
Danny did not like all the attention he was getting and he froze up. The lunch lady was able to take advantage of this fact and launched a bunch of meat at him.
You have got to be kidding me! Meat being launched at me. What has this world come to?
Danny did not have enough time to dodge and it hit him, launching him across the room. When the next batch came at him he formed an ecto-shield which bounced the meat off of it.
"People who change the menu deserve to be punished!"
"You can't just hurt innocent people!" Danny snapped back. He was surprised that he didn't stutter. I guess I just feel more confident like this.
Danny launched another ecto-blast at her and dashed off to his locker. Since his first encounter with a ghost, he had decided to build an apparatus to contain ghosts until he could take them back to the portal. It looked like a little thermos with a bunch of wires sticking out of it, but he knew that it would be able to hold them. I just hope it will hold it for long enough.
He turned back only to get smacked back by more meat. He went intangible through it and faced the ghost. He lifted the thermos and pushed the button. A vortex appeared and dragged the ghost in screaming.
Danny invisibly went under the table and changed back. He was hoping to get out before anyone saw him, but luck was not with him. Dash saw him coming out from under the table and started laughing.
"Hey look! Fenturd was hiding under a table!" Everyone started laughing as Danny turned and ran away.
Why does everyone have to make fun of me? Why do they all laugh at me?
These questions plagued Danny's mind as he ran home tears in his eyes.
He sat in the lab crying. Eventually his mother came down and saw him.
"Danny, what are you doin- Danny!" She ran over to him and held him. He leaned on her shoulder and cried even more. "What's wrong Danny?"
Danny turned and looked at her. "Everyone at school makes fun of me. What's wrong with me?"
Before she could respond, he continued "They always beat me up if I don't do what they say."
At that confession, Maddie was astonished. What kind of a school lets this happen to a student! Maddie was going to call the school and let them have it when Danny said, "Please d-don't c-call the school mom."
Just then Maddie had an idea. It would prevent people from beating on Danny, but it would take time.
"How about I teach you martial arts?"
Danny looked at her with his face scrunched up in confusion. "What are you talking about?"
"When I was younger I learned martial arts, I got very far along. I could teach you some of what I remember."
Danny thought about it, but he didn't think that would be the right way to handle things. "Thanks, mom. But I'm just not sure about that."
"That's alright sweetie, I hope things go better for you. If you want, you can always switch schools."
Danny really needed to fly. He often found that cleared his mind.
"I'm heading out for a bit."
While the halfa flew around, he was unaware of someone watching him.
"A half ghost, half human." He stroked his robotic chin, "I must have it." He said as he launched a missile at the halfa.
Danny was flying peacefully, this is really helping me. It's hard to think about my problems when I'm flying a couple hundred feet above them. His thoughts were interrupted by his ghost sense going off and then something striking his side and sending him flying to the floor.
He looked up to see a large ghost with flaming green hair. He appeared to be in a suit that was likely to have many weapons.
"Who are you?"
The ghost laughed loudly, "I am Skulker! The Ghost Zone's greatest hunter, and I want your pelt!"
Danny was disgusted. Man, I never thought I'd wish to be dealing with Dash.
"Sorry Skulker, I'm kind of using my pelt right now."
"Then I shall relieve you of it." He said as he launched more rockets at Danny.
Danny was struggling to avoid the rockets and the last one hit him crashing him into the ground where people turned to see the commotion. Once they had, they all started running.
Skulker descended to the ground in front of Danny. "It will be easier for us both if you do not resist."
"Too bad for you then." Danny said as he launched an ecto-blast at Skulker. He then flew at Skulker and punched him in the face, only to get launched back by a punch in the chest from the ghost. Danny shouted in pain as he hit the ground again. Damn, I'm no match for this guy.
Danny then turned and flew off at his top speed. Skulker was not prepared for this action and was too slow to follow, "I will get you next time ghost child." he growled.
Danny ran into his house and found his mom sitting on their green couch reading a book. She looked up at his sudden entrance and noticed the scratches on his skin.
"Danny! What happened to you?"
Danny just looked up at her with determination showing clearly in his blue eyes. "Mom, please teach me."
Maddie could only find it in herself to nod at her son. She was rewarded with a small smile from Danny.
"Great, so when do we start?" Maddie then looked with an evil glint in her eye, "right now" she said as she suddenly lunged at him.
