Chapter two

Meeting the friends

Disclaimer! I do not own Danny phantom characters they belong to butch Hartman! But I did create Jacks weird friends and sons!

I'm so sorry this is late! I had family over from England and I didn't have any time to myself! But now the chapters here!

Oh and thoughts are now in italics!

" Were finally here! Look there's all my buddies!" Jack yelled loudly, as he screeched to a halt beside the other weird looking vehicles. Danny pried his clenched fingers off the underside of the seat.

"Th…that's nice dad" Danny muttered, stepping out of the GAV shaking slightly after the fast and swerving 3-hour journey 'and thank goodness for that' Danny thought. A tall man in a bright green jumpsuit walked over to his dad and exclaimed

"Jack your finally here! Finally now that were all here so we can start the fun activities with the kids!" the man said, looking over at Danny "ah so you must be Danny, Jack has told me all about you!" holding out his hand he announced " My names James Hunter and that's my son Aaron Hunter over there why don't you go over and introduce yourself to him and the other boys while your father and I catch up with each other."

" Oh ok" Danny replied. Walking over to the other boys all who looked to be about Danny's age two of which were dressed in jumpsuits like their fathers. "Hi my name is Danny Fenton" Danny stated holding out his hand. The other boys gawked.

"The Danny Fenton… wow i've herd of you, you're Jack's kid, the guy who finally figured out how to get a ghost portal working!" The kid in a yellow jumpsuit cried Danny replied

"Uh ya that was my dad" while he nervously started rubbing the back of his neck unconsciously 'well it was actually me that started it but they don't need to know that …yet' thought Danny

"Guys lets introduce ourselves before it gets any more awkward." The boy in the red shirt demanded "My names Aaron, its nice to meet you" He shook Danny's still outstretched hand. "This is Arnold" Aaron stated pointing to the boy in the yellow jumpsuit who had spoken earlier. "He gets exited really easily." Aaron mentioned as Arnold waved "This is David he said pointing to the only other boy who wasn't in a jumpsuit. He was wearing a blue shirt and jeans

"Sup Danny it's a pleasure to meet you." He declared also shaking Danny's hand.

"And this." Aaron continued pointing to the last boy in a red jumpsuit. "Is Martin." Martin shook Danny's hand murmuring quietly

"Hello nice to meet you." as Martin said this Aaron's dad came over and bellowed

"Boys were staring off the afternoon with a little target practice! You have to hit the bulls eye on your target five times" he pointed to five targets some distance away " then you get to come and have some lunch!" handing each by an ecto weapon he yelled "happy shooting! and remember all of us are watching to see how well you do!" and with that he walked back to a picnic table and sat down with the other fathers who all turned to look at there sons still chatting with each other as they did so.

"Well here goes nothing," Danny murmured under his breath aiming his ecto gun at his target. Aaron leaned over to him and whispered

"You must get a lot of practice living in the most haunted town in the world eh?" nudging him with his elbow

"Well not really my folks do the hunting, but I do know how to work all the inventions, and how to fire the weapons and such" Danny replied taking a one handed shot at the target hitting it straight on the bull's eye

"Sure" Aaron responded, rolling his eyes at Danny's perfect shot. Shooting his own ecto gun missing, the target entirely. "so has any of your family ever gotten in an accident from one of your parents crazy inventions?" Aaron asked, taking another shot this time almost hitting the bull's eye

Danny froze a little at the question but then relaxed " um ya I did. You know the portal that Arnold mentioned earlier?" Danny questioned. Aaron nodded. "Well it didn't work when my dad first plugged it in. so I was showing my friends it and my friend Sam got me to go check out the inside. I pressed a button and it electrocuted me, luckily it didn't kill me. Since then the portals worked fine. it just seems that the on button was on the inside of the portal and my dad never pressed it on before plugging it in" Danny finished with a sigh and a roll of the eyes. 'He doesn't need to know about the side effect of giving me ghost powers' Danny noted in his mind. He shot three shots in a row from his weapon two hitting the bulls eye spot on and one intentionally missing.

"That must of really hurt like crazy." Aaron replied, finally getting a bull's eye. "The worst that ever happened to us was when my dad was showing the whole family a new spectral de energiser –whatever that's supposed to be- it exploded giving the whole family a few burns and scrapes, but nothing to serious" Aaron finished.

"Well that's not to bad. At least you didn't miss the first week of high school because you could barely move." Danny smirked "And you don't have some odd ectoplasmic residue energy field surrounding you that sets off every ghost detecting invention in the house!" Danny explained blandly. 'If I get this out of the way now it will avoid awkward conversations later' thought Danny, hitting yet another bulls eye.

"Do you really?" Aaron asked, finally getting his fifth bull's eye.

"Yes, and it gets really annoying after a while, go get a detector and it will prove it." Danny remarked, walking away shooting his last blast out of his ecto gun hitting the bull's eye with out even looking over his shoulder.

"Wow that kids good." Aaron said under his breath, following Danny to the table

Later that day after lunch…

'Oh no the dads are showing off the inventions, I wonder how many of them will key into my signature?' Danny grimaced as he thought that. Danny had explained his lie about the accidents energy field "side effect" to everyone even his dad had bought it. Aaron had already tried his dads detector on Danny and found that it said he was a ghost, and just shrugged it off saying

"Man that's got to suck whenever your parents show you a new invention" and they had walked off to the invention presentation.

"This" Jack bellowed happily "Is the Fenton Boo-merang it is supposed to key into a ghosts unique ecto signature and lead you right to them!" Jack threw it towards the woods but it circled around and hit the back of Danny's head "Oops sorry Danny, I forgot about the energy field thingy you told me about" Jack blushed

"Its all right dad I don't mind, just please don't throw it anymore" Danny asked while rubbing his sore head

"Oh, alright Danny! I know what will make you feel better! The new invention I've been working on! I haven't even shown you yet!" Jack bubbled as he took out an odd looking contraption "I call it the Fenton ghost neutralizer! It's designed to follow a ghost and continually poke it! Every time it pokes the ghost, the ghost gets an electrical shock that weakens it! But of course it doesn't affect humans!" Jack yelled in one breath. He turned it on and it went right over to Danny and started poking his leg over and over.

'Well at least the shock is only like a tingle or else it would hurt, and I don't feel tired or weak at all I guess this one needs more work, but it is EXTREMELY annoying!' Danny thought. He glared at the little pest of a machine and thought 'this is even more annoying then the box ghost and that's saying a lot!' He looked up at his dad and growled

"Can we turn this thing off now it's really annoying!" his dad nodded disappointedly walked over and turned it off.

Aaron leaned over and asked "so this is what its like every time they show you a new invention?" laughing a little

"Pretty much" Danny replied; rolling his eyes "at least this one wasn't dangerous" he finished

The rest of the presentation went pretty much the same way anything that was designed to detect or hone in on ghosts "malfunctioned" around Danny. When the end of the presentation came Danny was probably the happiest one there that it was over.

"Well its time for bed kids." Arnolds dad told the boys." Go get in the tents you brought." All the boys got into there tents and settled down for a good nights sleep.

All Danny could think of before he went to bed was 'one day down two more to go' as he fell into a deep comfortable sleep.

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Not that far away hovering over the dark forest out of range from Danny's ghost sense was a shadowed figure who cackled evilly to them self

"Have one last night of peaceful sleep Daniel because it will be your last"……….

Hehehe little bit of foreshadowing there! Well there you have it chapter two! Updates maybe slow because of school starting Tuesday but I will try and get the next chapter up ASAP! Many THANKYOUS for my reviewers you guys totally made my day!

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