A/N: Wow, thanks for all of the positive feedback! I really enjoy it! I forgot to mention that Vlad is still Mayor and didn't reveal his identity in Phantom Planet. I'm gonna get right into this chapter so I hope you enjoy!


The second bell rang and Danny groaned and stood up, ready to talk to his teacher about showing the new kids around.

"Mr. Lancer, can you have someone else show them around?" Danny asked pointing over to Randy, Howard, and Jake were had began a conversation in the back row.

"I'm sorry, Danny, but I believe you know this school pretty well considering you're able to sneak off so easily," Lancer frowned.

"If you know what I was doing, maybe you wouldn't have said that," Danny muttered to himself.

"What was that, Mr. Fenton?"

"Nothing! I'll go start showing them around," Danny replied rather quickly before awkwardly laughing the whole scene off. He put his stuff away into his backpack and zipped it up.

Lancer gave the boy a hall pass and had warned Danny's second period teacher that he wasn't going to be there before hand.

Danny nodded as he picked up the hall pass, "You guys ready to go?" He asked and three nodded. Their new 'tour guide' waved signaling them to follow him and they did as they were instructed.

Lancer smiled at Danny as he walked out of the room and he gave his teacher an awkward little smile before walking out of the room.

Every once in a while Danny heard Randy and Howard laughing to some sort of inside joke but Jake seemed to be keeping to himself. He looked a little nervous.

Danny knew that look. It was that look he got when he had his ghost sense but couldn't find the ghost.

Is Jake looking for some sort of threat? Danny thought. Randy and Howard burst out laughing and Jake jumped a bit.

"Anyways..." Danny continued the tour, "This is Mr. Millhouse's 10th grade science class. That one to the left is Mrs. Jennings' 12th grade English class. People say she's the best teacher. She always has fun assignments and is apparently really funny but I've seen her crack some jokes. They're good but I've heard better," Danny shrugged mostly talking about his own jokes as Phantom. He thought they were funny, anyways.

As they were reaching the end of their tour Danny's ghost sense went off.

"Dang it!" He whispered angrily just as Vlad Masters turned the corner, "Vlad!?"

"Ah, young Daniel, so nice to see you," The older half a patted Danny's head as the boy gave him an angry look. His eyes almost flashed green but he tried to keep everything under control.

"Uh...who's that?" Jake asked.

"You haven't heard of me? Oh, what a shame. I'm Vlad Masters, the richest man alive," Randy and Howard snapped to attention when they heard this and Vlad gave an evil smirk.

"Yeah but why are you here?" Danny really wished he could ecto-blast Vlad right then.

"Haven't you gotten the memo? Well, I guess news doesn't really travel to the lowest class of the high school food chain, does it? Oh well, I'm here becuase your PE teacher, Ms. Tetslaff, wanted me to check your PE records. I'm sure you'll have some amazing scores, little badger," Vlad said and Danny's eyes flashed green and Vlad seemed to smile at this.

Don't get angry. He's just trying to get under your skin...Danny thought but couldn't help it. For all he knew Vlad was—and still is—a wacked up frootloop.

"Cool, I guess I'll see you in PE then," Jake gave a small smile.

"Yes I guess you will," Vlad gave a toothy grin back and proceeded walking through the halls and bumped into Danny's shoulder but the boy pretended it never happened.


At break Jake walked into the cafeteria not knowing who or where to sit. The room was broken up similar to his cafeteria. Jocks, cheerleaders, the 'almost popular but not quite' crowd, Nerds, Band geeks, and the outcasts.

The one main difference was that the jocks and cheerleaders were at the same table and someone—who he remembered as Mikey from Lancer's class—would sometimes walk over to the jocks and hand them papers that he assumed was their homework.

Jake caught sight of Danny and two other kids from Lancer's class sitting outside on a bench table. Jake smiled hoping they would let him into their group.

He got there and the goth girl wasn't a huge fan of letting Jake sit with but and Danny seemed to only agree out of guild. As for the American-American boy, he was fine with it as long as he didn't touch any of his meat.

Jake sat down and the group was really quiet. He assumed that their regular conversations were too private to talk about around him. Danny seemed to be on edge ever since the Vlad thing.

He young dragon wondered why. Vlad seemed like a pretty cool dude so there must be something more than just the way he acts around others. Danny must have something against Vlad that he chooses to keep a secret...

But what?


Randy and Howard were sitting at a bench outside a couple tables away from Danny, Jake and the rest of their group during lunch. It seemed eerily quiet out there considering everyone had chosen to sit inside that day.

The large tree's shadow cast just over their table giving them shade from the blazing hot sun. Amity Park was really hot during the Autumn. Randy took off his jacket as sweat started falling from his forehead.

"Man, Amity Park is hot!" The boy commented and the red-head sitting beside him nodded lazily.

"Or maybe Norrisville is just cold compared to Amity," Howard suggested but Randy shook his head.

"No, I don't think that's it..." Randy trailed off and the two were awkwardly silent for a bit.

"So..." Howard spoke up.

"Yeah..." Randy said and the bell rang.

"Aww, I didn't get to finish...what is this again?" Howard asked pointing to the green slop on his tray.

"I have no idea," Randy said getting up and throwing his leftover food in the trash and putting the tray in a pile with the other dirty trays.

"We have PE now, right?" Howard asked.

"Yeah," Randy replied. The boys were stoked that they were given the same schedule. When they walked into the locker room and got some PE shirts they recognized a lot of people in that class. Only a couple people who were there weren't in Lancer's class. They assumed it was a similar situation with the girls.

They got dressed and walked out to the gym. The boys followed a couple jocks to the bleachers and sat down casually. They leaned back and tried to act cool.

If they didn't get their sophomore level respect last year then they would get junior level respect this year, maybe even unpopular senior if they played their cards right.


Danny was absolutely dreading going to PE and even considered skipping it. Vlad would think that he just had to fight a ghost anyways but pushed that thought aside.

The halfa sat onto the bleachers looking at Randy and Howard with a weirded out face.

What the heck are they doing? He asked himself obviously not getting an answer.

Tucker and Sam sat beside Danny and Vlad walked into the gym. Tucker's eyes widened and Sam looked over to Danny angrily.

"Oh, right, when Jake came over and sat with us, I wasn't able to tell you that Vlad is going to be testing our physical strengths and weaknesses," He then let put a sarcastic, "Yay!"

"This won't end well. Vlad is only doing this to figure out your weaknesses!" Tucker pointed out.

"Yeah, Tuck, I kinda already figured that out already," Danny said in a know-it-all kinda tone.

Sam rolled her eyes with a smile at the boy's childish behavior. Ms. Tetslaff blew hard on her whistle and the students stopped talking and looked up from their conversations.

"I want you all to listen to Masters as he tests you with your physical strengths and weaknesses! I want you to treat him as if he were your teacher!" Tetslaff said.

That won't change my behavior toward him...Danny thought looking angrily at Vlad.

Tetslaff stepped aside signaling the old halfa to speak.

"We're going to be going by alphabetical order starting with your first name. Can I please have up Danny Fenton," Vlad said and looked up at the boy with an evil smirk. Danny slowly got up and walked over to his enemy, his eyes flashing a neon green. Vlad didn't even flinch.

"Let's start with jump-rope. You have 30 seconds to try to jump 100 or more times. Your time starts...now!" Vlad said starting a timer and Danny started jumping getting five jumps a second.

People watched as the rope swung repetitively becoming so fast that it was just a blur by the time they heard a beep come from Vlad's stopwatch.

"I got 184," Danny said tossing the rope on the ground at Vlad's feet, out of breath. People looked at Danny, their jaws dropped down to the floor. All except for Sam and Tucker who were a little upset with Danny for using his superhuman strength and a bit of flight during that test.

"Great job, Daniel. Let's do chin-ups. You need to do 10 in a row. 30 seconds, go!" Vlad said and Danny grabbed onto the bar. He began almost immediately. He got 10 chin-ups with 15 seconds left on the timer.

"Woah, Fenton's got game!" Dash called out from the sidelines and Danny realized what he was doing. He glanced over to his friends who looked a bit angry at him for, once agin, using strength and flight. He shrugged and forced a smile but was given a 'are you kidding me' look from Sam.

A/N: So this ended up longer than I had originally planned...oops :P. Things are starting to happen and the title is starting to kinda make sense. Did it seem rushed? I wanted to get to the point in this chapter so you didn't have to wait forever for some action to happen.

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AUTHOR'S GAME: Who do you think my favorite sister is from ADJL, RC9GN and DP Haley, Jazz, or Heidi? Review what you think and I'll see you all next chapter.

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