Sorry for the long wait guys. I'm glad you're liking the story.

Amity Phantom

Chapter 2

Danny drummed his fingers impatiently on his desk.

There were a lot of things that he needed to do after class, which - of course - made class go by even slower than normal. Mr. Lancer's ranting about some ancient guy's poems only made the waiting more painful.

It took more torturous moments until the bell finally rang. He quickly gathered his things and walked outside, waiting there for Tucker to come out. They couldn't talk during class since they sat at opposite sides of the classroom and they didn't have a class together until after lunch, which meant that this was his only chance to ask him to eat lunch together.

It wasn't long until Tucker got out of the classroom and looked at Danny in surprise, "What's up man?"

"I wanted to talk to you about something, so wanna have lunch together today?"

"Sure," Tucker answered with a grin.

Despite being in some of the same classes, and playing games online games together, they had never sat together to eat lunch. It was probably because neither of them asked but there was no point in dwelling on it now. Yes, part of asking Tucker to eat lunch had an ulterior motive – that being to ultimately having an alibi when he went out – but Danny was looking forward to spending more time with him.

After entering the cafeteria, the two took their trays and were served whatever bland food the cafeteria lady was giving out, and then headed for an empty table at the corner of the room. Pretty much the designated 'social outcast' table and, Danny didn't want to brag or anything, but he had the table pretty much reserved.

"So what's up?" Tucker began as he put his tray down and took a sit. "What did you want to talk about?"

Danny fought the urge to grin at the pretty believable scenario he had thought up earlier. It was so good that he was beginning to think that he had a great talent for making stuff up.

"It's about the thing that happened this morning. You heard about the whole ghost thing right?"

"Duh, of course I did, everyone and their mother heard about it. No offense Danny, but everyone's always thought that your parents were..."

"Crazy?"

"No offense though," Tucker repeated.

"Non taken."

"Anyway, no one thought that your parents were right about ghosts being real. This is crazy huge man," he finished with an excited smile. "Just think, if I could get a picture of one I bet it'll blow up on the internet."

"That's why I was thinking that the two of us should hang out after school. That way we won't be in danger of being attacked by ghosts and I bet we'll get the chance to take pictures of them."

Tucker grinned, already imagining himself being popular, "Sounds great. But if we're gonna look for ghosts then we're going to do it right. Come to my house after school, I'll show you what we'll be working with."

Receiving a blank star in response, Tucker rolled his eyes and continued.

"Cameras man," he explained before quickly adding, "Only the best of course, I even modified some of them myself."

"Sounds great, I have some ghost stuff from my parents lab that I could get my hands on, that way we'll be able to protect ourselves."

"Awesome, you better pick something cool though," he paused and looked ahead with a smile, "I can see it now, 'Tucker and Danny, the Ghost Hunters!'"

"Yeah no, I envisioned it more as 'Danny and Tucker, Ghost Hunters.'"

Tucker narrowed his eyes, "Just 'Ghost Hunters' then."

"Fine by me," Danny answered with a chuckle.

The sun was going down by the time that Danny was heading home.

He had called his parents earlier, telling them that he was going to be home later than normal since Tucker had invited him to his house. Speaking of which, Tucker had been gushing over his cameras for what seemed like hours until they finally ended up playing video games, but not before first agreeing to check out some ghost equipment tomorrow at his house.

In the end, Danny was glad that he got to hang out with Tucker after school.

Gasp.

Danny looked up in alarm after feeling the cold feeling in his chest. There he saw a large glowing green squid flying through the air.

"Okay, not something you see everyday," he muttered to himself before running over to a nearby alleyway, "I'm going ghost!"

The squid floated over the terrified gazes of the people on the street. The ghost growled and pointed one of its tentacles at the people below, preparing to attack.

"Hey you, big, green and stupid!"

The squid turned its head after hearing the voice and was met with a pair of fists that sent it flying back.

"You're not supposed to be here," Danny said to the ghost as it recovered from the punch and floated in front of him.

"We'll see about that!" The squid exclaimed and, from the tip of one of its tentacles, shot a green blast of ecto energy that hit Danny squarely on the chest.

The teen was sent crashing to the ground and sat up slowly, "Okay ow..."

He shot to the sky again and looked around in confusion when not seeing any sign of the ghost, "Great, another one gets away."

Danny floated down to an alley and transformed back to normal.

"First the Box Ghost and now Squiddy. Town's gonna be overrun by ghost if I don't get it together."

Maybe there was something at the lab that he could use against the ghosts. Nothing lethal – if ghost could even die – but something to send them back to the Ghost Zone.

With that in mind he headed back home.

Danny groaned as he rummaged through a steel chest his parents kept at the lab. It was where they would put failed experiments that they couldn't get to work. Call him conceited but it he got the Ghost Portal to work, then maybe he could get another failed experiment to do so as well. He had looked around the lab for something that was actually working but his parents were going through a gun creating rampage, and nothing didn't look lethal.

"Who put this here?" He wondered out loud when he pulled out a thermos from the chest.

"I see the Fenton Thermos caught your eye," said Jack as he entered the lab.

"Fenton Thermos?" Danny repeated with a raised eyebrow, "What's it do?"

"It was supposed to catch ghosts but we could never generate enough power to make it work," Jack explained before grinning, "But it does keep drinks perfectly warm."

Danny chuckled, it was really hard for his dad not to find the bright side in everything.

"Can I have it?" He asked before quickly adding, "For school."

Jack shrugged, "Sure, no problem."

"Thanks Dad," Danny smiled before running up to his room.

He closed the door behind him and transformed into his Ghost Form. With the thermos on hand, he flew out of his room and took to the sky.

He had a good two hours before his parents would try to get him to get out of his room for dinner and he was going to make good use of his time. There was a small forest on the outskirts ot town, not too far to him since he could fly. With not a lot of people going there, and the trees hiding him from view, he thought it was the perfect place to train and stuff. Today he was going to try to get the thermos to work. He could have just done it on his room and saved the trip, but he didn't want it blowing up and his parents asking questions.

In his Ghost Form he was literally glowing with energy so maybe he could get the thermos to work.

Maybe if he did, he could practice on his flying. He had no trouble with flying per se, but he could only go fast in a straight line. What he wanted was to have more maneuverability since it would be useful in case of a fight. That's why the trees made the forest such a great place to practice, he could use them as obstacles while he was flying.

Danny could hardly contain an excite smile as he pushed himself to go even faster.

It was already dark by the time that Danny was flying home.

Today's training had been a complete success. Maybe not the flying so much since he had gotten a few bruises and a bloody nose from crashing into trees and not reacting fast enough to go intangible. But that didn't matter, he go the thermos to work!

It was pretty simple actually, all he did was focus his powers on the metal container and out came a blue beam of light.

Though he didn't know if it could actually catch ghosts. At times like this he wished he could find a gh–

Gasp.

His eyes narrowed as a confident grin spread across his face.

Perfect.

Danny flew up high to scan the area and spotted the green squid from before terrorizing a street.

People were running, parts of buildings had been blown off, and some cars had crashed. There already was an ambulance on the scene tending to the wounded, but they were in danger as the ghost turned its attention to them.

At that moment, Danny shot towards the squid with his two arms outstretched, but it spotted him and went intangible, causing the teen to fly past it. Were it not for how used he got to going intangible during his training earlier, he would have crashed against a building, but Danny managed to turn intangible just in the nick of time to avoid getting hurt.

The ghost growled as the teen flew out of the building, unscathed.

"No need to look so mopey Squiddy."

"Shut up you ghost brat!"

The ghost fired several blasts of ecto energy but this time Danny was expecting them and easily avoided them as there was quite a bit of distance between them.

Once the squid's attacks grew less constant, Danny took it as his cue and flew at the squid. It seized its ecto blasts and tried to hit him with one of its tentacles, but the teen stopped dead on his tracks, twisted his body just right to avoid being hit, and then delivered a kick to the ghost's head.

It crashed against the side of a building, letting out a moan of pain.

Seeing this as his chance, Danny pointed the thermos as the ghost and released the blue beam of energy which enveloped the ghost and, almost like a vacuum, sucked the ghost into the tiny space.

"Whoa, it actually works!" Danny cheered as the thermos released a bit of smoke.

With the thermos he could finally start catching the ghosts, instead of watching them go. Now all he needed to do was find the Box Ghost, but that had to wait since he had to go home.

All the people on the street watched after the retreating ghost, all wondering what just happened.