Hello Everyone! Welcome back to my fanfic. I hope you all liked my last chapter! I'm sorry for not updating in such a long time but I hope this chapter makes up for it. It hopefully really makes the fix come to life!
Anyway here is chapter 2!
" Always eat the last chocolate." = Talking
"I'm not crazy! I'm NOT! I KNOW WHAT I SAW!" = thinking
" How dare you!? What do you know of responsibility!?"Ghost alarm/ angry Phantom
" The answer to number four is three point four" = Talking/ Thinking to Danny
Chapter 2
Danny Fenton was not having a good day.
The minute he woke up, bleary eyed and barely conscious, one look at his alarm clock told him that he had missed his bus by a good seven minutes. After a mad dash around his house trying to locate all his necessities he realized his older sister had already left without him so he wouldn't have been able to ask her for a lift. He had skipped breakfast in favor of running six blocks in hopes of making it in time for school.
That however turn out to be fruitless since that particular morning Dash had decided he needed to break his nerd-stuff-locker record and had managed to push Danny into the small container, even with the awkward bend his body needed to undergo to do so. The blond had seem so darn pleased with himself after completing his task even if it had meant that the bully had flushed his body awkwardly close to the poor black hair boy, who had felt his flexibility was increasing each day due to the angles the jock forced him into. Curse him.
Trapped in the locker Danny had missed both first and second period, until a follow nerd took pity on him and had manged to locate a janitor who let him out. By that time however his body was both sore and bruised in areas that made sitting through third a living nightmare not to mention the extra hour of detention after school for being late to said class was not a welcome thought. And the fact that it wasn't even lunch yet meant his day could only get worse.
The young fourteen year old heaved a sigh. It didn't help that he felt terribly alone without his two best friends at his side, but both were absent today, and that meant he needed to survive the rest of his day alone. Sam was on a field trip with her Environment Helpers club and wouldn't be back until Monday, while Tucker had gone to visit his sick grandmother not knowing when he be back as it depended on her recovery.
Though thanks to texts and emails it seemed grandma Foley wasn't in danger of dying but still need someone there while she recovered from her illness, thank God. Danny had always loved that sweet sometimes sarcastic old lady and he knew it would break Tucker's heart if something were to happen to her. So he knew why his friend had dropped everything to fly out to see her once he heard the news of her collapse.
He also knew Sam had been so excited about spending the weekend at the world's leading clean green energy company, and had been looking forward to it for months. So he couldn't fault her for going even with the knowledge that he would spent Friday, and most likely this weekend, friendless.
Still without the goth and techno geek, the school somehow seemed bigger and a lot more crowded. Not to mention more intimating.
As the number one loser in the school, Danny knew that not even other nerds would talk to him as he wasn't "cool enough" like Mickey had once told him. It was kinda depressing to think about. More so when he knew it was true. Sam and Tucker both had other groups outside their trio that accepted them as friends and Danny did not.
Shaking his head, the teen turned away from his locker with a tired sigh. It wouldn't do to think about that now after all it would change nothing.
"At least its finally fourth." Thought Danny as he turned a corner heading to the opposite side of the school. "With any luck we got permission to start our lab!"
Out of all his classes Danny adored Astronomy the most and always looked forward it with anticipation. While most of the class was merely taught through a textbook and tended to bore others greatly, the raven hair boy could spent hours listening to every little fact about the subject without so much as blinking.
Danny loved nothing more then space. He could spend hours upon hours talking about the experiments done there or simply stare at the night sky counting the stars until daybreak. The more he learned about the final frontier the more he wanted to see it with his own eyes up in a NASA space station. He often dreamed about being a astronaut conducting random but amazing experiments in zero force.
Arriving at the last room in the hallway Danny noted with a small amount of relief many of the students were still in the middle of nutrition (A snack/free period) and that he was the only student that had bothered to wait it out in a classroom. He stepped in and made a bee line for the last sit in the last row on the far left side of the room. While he loved the class he didn't like being in front of people - or more like the blond obnoxious jock- who made it a habit of throwing spitballs at the invisible target on the back of his head.
Mrs. Mendez was sitting at her desk,red pen in hand, mercilessly marking away at tests with a tight expression pulling at her face. She wasn't a strict teacher but she she was a firm one, and didn't believe in the "easy life".
Her motto since day one to her students had been "work hard or walk away hard. Nothing in this life will ever be different"
Danny loved her laid back yet firm teaching style because it was so different from all the other teachers in the school. She was one of the few who didn't treat him like a disgrace to the family name. She was the only one at the school staff, however that didn't expect him to act or speak a certain way due to being part of the local family of heroes.
Many often wonder why such a normal guy like him could possible be part of Fenton Family tree. Some believed it was because the greatness had skipped him and instead left the youngest as a stain while others were convinced that Danny was adopted at some point.
But it wasn't always like that.
Once upon a time the Fentons were mocked and ridiculed as the crazy, strange insane freaks of Amity Park. And for good reason, after all Danny's parents, Jack and Maddie Fenton, were professional ghost hunters. Both were recognized as national geniuses but instead of using their brains for good they choose to waste their talents on hunting nothing more then mere camp fire stories.
The fourteen year old boy has always and will always love his parents but he would be lying if he said that he wasn't embarrassed of them. After all being the son of the town's weirdos tended to single him out as a target for the bullies as he grew up. Then there were those who were warn by their parents not to hang around him because in their words "Something isn't right with that family, and I don't want you around people who can possibly one day snap".
If it wasn't for Tucker and Sam taking pity on him back in the first grade, inviting him to play hop scotch when Danny had cried after being told by everyone he tried to approach that he wasn't welcome, the black hair boy was sure he would have had no friends.
His older sitter had lived through the same thing he had but she choose to go about her life completely ignoring her parents careers, and turned to books instead of friends never looking back.
For as long as he could remember, Danny Fenton lived in the shadow of Jasmine "Jazz" Fenton, his brilliant over achieving older sister. She was the pride of the school, with grades that made the school look better in only two short years. A adult in a child's body, she was by far above those in her class and skipped two grades, a happy just-turned sixteen year old senior among the average seventeen/ eighteens, not to mention Jazz had inherited their mother's looks making her more then averagely beautiful.
She had a tendency for sticking her nose in places it didn't belong since she wanted to study psychology and had been learning about the filed since age nine when she had given up on making friends to hang at the mall with. The books were better company then family or friends she had told Danny that night as she pulled out the heavy textbooks from their parents book shelves eyes filled with determination and loneliness.
This had lead to her thinking she was some kind of shrink that knew what was best for her so-called patients and most often then not came off as annoying instead of helpful to their peers.
But Danny loved her anyway which was why he had come to terms with the fact that he would always be beneath his sister. Jazz was destined for greatness while he was meant to stay in her shadow cheering her on. It sometimes stung to think about but he had been able to find comfort in the fact that she was the only one in the family really doing anything important.
The young Fenton knew it was cruel of him and that he was a horrible ungrateful son but Danny had always had a small amount of relief tucked away in his heart when he thought of the day he would be more accepted by society then his parents will ever be. He still had a shot at being normal while his parents would forever remind that old ones out.
Now however that was different.
It started last year about summer time, a few weeks into summer vacation.
He had been at Tucker's house when it happened. They were both celebrating the end of middle school with a three day video game marathon, while Sam was was spending much dreaded time with her parents. (They had forced her to go to some kind of adult party out of state but no mater how much her best friends tried to pry the goth girl refused to explain anymore then that.)
The black hair boy was on his seventh consecutive win against Tucker in their favorite RPG when Mrs. Foley had shouted for them from downstairs her voice filled with fear that the teens never heard from her before. "Boys! We need to evacuate!"
Danny remembered freezing, unsure if he had correctly, then Tucker running past him to get to his mother. Dropping the game control not caring if it broke or not the boy bolted after his best friend, heart pounding with anxiety.
They found the woman packing food into a night bag as she starred at the TV, the news anchor updating a attack on the Axion Labs and reminding citizens that the order of evacuate must be followed, after all they didn't know if the new threat could be stopped. What was the threat you may wonder?
A giant green glowing dog.
It was at first taken as a joke until the thing managed to caved in half the building, then set the rest of it on fire and started attacking anything around it. The total amount of people hurt were eleven and quickly rising as no matter what the authorities did nothing seemed to slow down the beast. It wasn't until the dog shot some glowing ray - later Danny learned it was called a Eco ray- and took the two buildings that surrounded the labs that they order evacuation.
A precaution in case it moved to the rest of the city.
That moment went down in history. It was the first time a ghost had even been proven and video recorded. It had also been the the first time the world had seen the Fentons in action.
Danny remember his heart nearly stopping when out of no where his family RV raced between the police officers and the growling monster. The Eco ray that was aimed for the shooting cops hit the side of the tank like vehicle only to have it bounce off from the force field that he had always thought did nothing. Without giving the dog time to recuperate his mother jumped out from the passenger seat shooting the dog with a tiny gun Danny remembered her tinkering with the day before at breakfast.
It took about an hour but in the end the Fentons took down the ghost sealing it away in a Fenton Holder. Then the two scientists raced into the remaining Axion labs without a moment of hesitation saving the lives of twenty trapped workers inside. Among the rescued was Damon Gray, head of security, who had tragically lost a arm but not his life since Jack manged to give medic aid just in time.
They saved so many lives that day.
And they didn't stop there. Soon Amity Park was plagued with ghost attack after ghost attack, causing enormous amount of damage but never any causalities because the ghosts never stood a chance against the married couple. The protectors of the city stopped them each time without fail.
At first the city labeled the Fentons as public enemies due to their reckless behavior and the damage done by the fights. But that didn't stop his parents who were determine to keep everyone safe no matter how much they were put down and slowly, but surely, they change the public view of them.
Which brings the story to now.
His parents are heroes.
Danny isn't.
His just the disappointment of the Fenton family lucky enough to share their blood but beyond that, a waste of space at the dinner table.
This was why Mrs. M was his favorite teacher. For the short forty five minutes of her class he could forget that fact, if only because she was a great teacher who always took his complete and utter attention helping him blank other thoughts from his head.
Even though this was her first year teaching ever, the woman ran the class with a iron fist of a ten plus year experience teacher but still had the youth to connect to her students. She may be a hard ass but she never let her students leave her class bored for long.
"Good morning, Mrs. M" The black hair boy said as he started pulling out his notebook. If he was going to be early for class he might as well get prepare for class earlier then usual.
The dark brown locks of hair bounced as Mrs. M looked up from her work with a slightly surprise look, most likely have missed his entrance. Her gazed soon warmed into a smile however when she spotted him in the back. "Good morning Danny, how are you?"
"Fine and you?" the boy replied in a conformable manner, relaxed in the teacher presence
"Oh, I would be better if first period could stay awake and actually take notes instead of falling asleep." the twenty five year old woman grumbled " But no, I guess staring at air must be a better sight then my ugly mug."
That startled a laugh out of the normally shy boy, who once realized what he done grew quite quickly wincing at his own laughter. Talk about rude.
But Mrs. M eyes just sparkled with glee, so he guess she didn't mind so much.
"Maybe their trying to find the answer to life?" the boy responded hoping for a joking tone. He winced again when all that came out was a nervous waver that lost volume towards the end turning more into mumbling then talking.
"It sure as hell isn't the brown stain on the wall though" the woman said rolling her eyes to the name stain on the left of the chalk board not seeming to mind that he lost his nerve half way though.
This was why he loved talking to her.
"Oh well. They didn't pay attention then its their fault I have to write F on everything." The woman said when it became obvious Danny was going to say no more. "Guess I should go to that stupid meeting now. Why the school thinks they can make me change my mind about those disrespectful jocks' grades so they can stay on the team is beyond me. I'm not going to award poor work effort no matter how well they can throw a ball."
With that she busied herself in gathering her things from her desk -most likely the latest unfinished homework assessments she would no doubt slam on the principal's desk to prove she gave the rightful grade- while Danny turn back to his notebook, wondering if he should draw something to past the time. He knew Mrs. M wouldn't mind if he stayed in the classroom by himself as he had done it many times before with his friends.
So it kinda surprised him when the brown haired woman cussed just as she was leaving. "Fuck, I forgot that today was the fifth. Hey Danny are you doing anything important?"
The boy shook his head and her faced relaxed into a predatory smile that reminded the Fenton of a cat who played with a trapped mouse right before it ate it. "Then you can do me a tiny little favor right?"
He knew by the twinkle in her eyes that he had no other choice. "S-sure Mrs. M. What is it?"
Before she could respond the door to the classroom suddenly swung open nearly smacking the surprise teacher in the face. Luckily it was stopped by a white finger-less glove inches away from the lady.
"Oops. Sorry about that. Are you alright?" A boy around Danny's age asked but oddly enough his eyes were locked on Danny instead of the one he was addressing, staring at him as if though he was the first human his ever seen. It was kinda creepy.
"Its alright. Nothing hurt but my pride." The science teacher dismissed "I'm guessing your the new student?"
The boy finally manged to tear his gaze away from the slightly distressed teen to give the brown hair lady a sweet smile that no doubt had gotten him out of trouble many times before. "That I am. Is this room 301? I was told to come here for a campus tour."
"Yes it is." The woman said. She waved her hand in the general area of the back of the class where Danny was sitting "And that is Danny Fenton, he will be your guide today. His a smart kid that knows this school like the back of his hand. So don't hold back any questions."
Said teen jumped at being address, suddenly knowing this was the favor his favorite teacher was talking about before they were interrupted. "W-wha? Mrs. M I don't remember agreeing- "
"Well bye bye! I'm off to my meeting before Lancer comes looking for me! Play nice boys!" And just like that she slipped passed the new guy and was gone in a blink of a eye.
He nearly slammed his face against his table but refrained himself when he noticed the new student moving in his direction. Small chains clipped to his jean belt loops jingled as he moved in confident strives that surprised Danny who took this time to study him.
He had snow white hair, green eyes and a cocky smile pulling at his lips. Dress in black jean pants, a well fitting white sweater, and a black backpack swung careless over the right shoulder he seemed like the average teenager but his whole being practically screamed high class.
The black hair boy was taken back with awe by the grace the meritorious guy manged to portray. Then he was slightly stunned by the sense of dread that ranked through his body as their eyes locked once more. He couldn't explain why, but it felt as if though someone had lovely caressed his back while at the same time snapping a chain around his neck sealing away his freedom.
It wasn't until the white hair tee clear his throat that Danny notice he was still staring, snapping him out of whatever funk he fell into. "O-oh um, so hey welcome to Casper High um..."
" Roloi. Roloi Phantom but you can just call me Phantom" the boy supplied with a slightly amused grin, sticking out his hand for a hand shake. "It's a pleasure to meet you Danny. Lets be friends"
"Yes lets." Danny shook his hand never noticing the small marking that appeared on his chest near his heart.
The mark that would change his life forever.
