WIZARDS IN PHANTOM CITY
CHAPTER TWO: ALEX'S FIRST DAY
The following morning Danny walked to school by himself since Jazz didn't have to be in for another half hour and Sam and Tucker live closer to school he said he'd just meet them there.
He walked for a little while only being attacked by Kelmper this morning and only Youngblood and 2 unfamiliar level 2 ghosts last night.
He was still tired though because apparently Youngblood's parrot can also turn into a freaking dinosaur. Danny met Sam and Tucker outside school sooner than he thought due to only Kelmper.
"We have a new girl starting here today and she looks to be out age." Danny informed his friends.
"How do you know?" Sam asked, slightly annoyed.
"I met her last night after Skulker and his backup ambushed me. I helped her home and she told me she was new in town." Danny explained but wished he hadn't when Sam threw a fit at the word 'ambush'.
"Why does she get so worried? She doesn't do anything but sit there and tell us what to do?" Phantom spoke inside Danny's head.
That had been happening a lot lately. Ever since he had accidently split himself with his dad's invention and re-merged there had been 2 people inside his head. Fenton and Phantom were both him but they were both in his head at the same time all the time. It wasn't an evil presence and he wasn't going crazy he just had 2 consciences.
"I know what your saying but she's just trying to help." Fenton replied back.
Danny knew his subconscious was right. Sam had been a lot more annoying recently. She was always fussing over every little thing that happened Ghost-related, telling him he was doing everything wrong and nagging him to do something else.
"Sam calm down, I'm okay. Let's just get to class." Danny said, cutting off Sam's rant.
Sam sighed annoyed but complied and started walking into the building as Tucker turned to Sam.
"Is it just me, or is she being even more over-protective than usual?" Tucker asked. Danny just nodded in response as they started in the direction Sam left.
As the duo came through the doors Danny saw the girl from last night. Alex. She had on a red T-shirt with white jeans on and brown boots. Her long brown hair was down to her shoulders and she was looking down at her schedule.
Danny nudged Tucker's side and pointed at her, telling him this was the girl he saw. Not surprisingly Tucker's eyes widened at how pretty she looked.
"Need some help?" Danny offered as he and Tucker approached her. She looked up and smiled at them. Danny just noticed her eyes were brown.
"Sure. You look more friendly than muscles and full-of-herself over there." Alex responded, looking over at Dash and Paulina. Danny and Tucker snickered at her attitude.
"I'm Danny Fenton and this is my best friend Tucker Foley." Danny introduced and continued before Tucker could do his cheesy pick-up line. "Who are you?"
"I'm Alex Russo. My family just moved here from New York." Alex introduced, shaking the boy's hands. She couldn't help but feel Danny was familiar from somewhere.
"New York? Do you have a big family like those T.V. shows say most New Yorkers have?" Tucker asked excitedly as Danny and Alex chuckled.
"Actually yes. I have an older brother Justin, a younger brother Max and my best friend Harper who lives with us. They're all starting here too." Alex confirmed.
"Cool, I only have an older sister and Tuck's an only child." Danny said as he reached for Alex's schedule.
"That's not true, you might as well be my brother because blood or not you're stuck with me." Tucker joked as he elbowed Danny's arm.
Alex missed the wince Danny tried to hide when Danny's arm hit the spot the power cable connected to, but she could tell the 2 were extremely close just knowing them for 5 minutes.
"Looks like you have all but 1 class with me and all but 2 with Tuck. And you only have 2 with Sam." Danny said, handing her back her schedule.
"Who's Sam?" Alex asked.
"I am." Said a new voice. Danny and Tucker turned to see the Goth girl standing there with a smile but both boys knew it was faked.
"Alex, that's Sam. Sam this is Alex, she's new here." Danny introduced praying Sam wouldn't go all 'jealous mode' on Alex.
"Fat chance, Fenton. She just won't stop no matter how much we don't respond to her pointless flirting. I've known her for about 10 minutes and I like Alex just as much as I do Sam." Phantom said from his head.
"I know what you mean. Alex seems a lot less jealous than Sam. Why am I still talking to you, I might have to stop a cat-fight here!" Fenton replied as he returned to the real world.
Danny sighed in relief when Sam was merely glaring at Alex rather than swinging but his relief soon faded when he realized she was attached to his right arm.
"Look, the first class we have is Mr. Chain's Chemistry class and his room is on the other side of the school so we better get going." Danny said, pulling his arm out of Sam's vice-like grip and stepping on the other side of Tucker.
"I know where that's at but I have to go to my locker first so you guys go ahead." Alex said. She was lying of course because she had noticed Max in a classroom waving his wand around.
"Ok, see you there." Danny said as he and his friends walked away. Alex almost missed the disappointment in his voice as he walked away.
Alex had barged into the room she saw Max in and shouted.
"Max put your wand away!"
Max responded immediately by screaming and holding his hands in front of him. Max sighed in relief once he realized that it was only his big sister who yelled at him and ran a hand through his brown hair before speaking.
"Sorry Alex but mom packed me an apple with my lunch and I wanted a candy bar." Max said depressingly.
"If I get you a candy bar promise me you'll be more careful?" Alex asked with a sigh and Max nodded enthusiastically.
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"It's okay guys it's only a level 3." Danny said to Tucker and Sam right after his ghost sense went off.
Tucker nodded right away, understanding Danny didn't want them all to be late but Sam was annoyed.
"Danny what if you get hurt? Won't you need backup? You don't exactly make the best decisions." Sam pushed but before Danny could respond Tucker cut in.
"Sam, relax he says it's a level 3! Danny is a level 11 remember?" Tucker said expertly.
Before anything else could be said, Danny slipped into the boy's bathroom that he and Skulker broke and the school is too cheap to fix and transformed. Danny, in Phantom form, phased through the celling and took off flying south of the school where his ghost sense indicated the ghost was.
When he got there he saw a green rat the size of a human walking on 2 legs. It had bucked teeth and a long pink tail complete with beady red eyes looking intently at him as he appeared.
"Ok ratso, time to go back to the sewers where you belong!" Danny said to the attacker and got a growl in response.
The rat pounced at Danny who expertly let the rat phase through him. Danny turned around to see the rat land and shot an Ecto-blast at the rat's back.
This served to frustrate the rat because it's teeth started glowing green as the rat swiftly turned around and sunk his glowing teeth into Danny's arm.
Danny let out a small yelp of pain before channeling some Ecto-energy into his arm, effectively forcing the rat to go flying back and crashing into a lamppost.
"Ok, time to go back home ratso!" Danny called, sucking the rat into his thermos.
"Better get back before Chain's class starts." Danny muttered to himself before flying away back to Casper High.
Danny landed in the closet down the hall from Chain's classroom, transformed back into Fenton and made a mad dash down the hall, and was surprised to see Alex doing the same from the other end of the hallway.
The two fourteen-year-olds approached the classroom at the same exact time. Although not before the late bell rang. The duo was met with a stern glare from the teacher upon opening the door.
"Mrs. Russo, you're not making a very good impression young lady. Mr. Fenton you're late again? Care to tell me why?" Their teacher asked.
"Sorry-" Alex started before Danny cut her off.
"Mr. Chain, can't you give her a break this time? She's new here so she probably just got lost. Besides that she could have been being careful in case a ghost came." Danny said, shocking everyone. Mostly because the only excuse anyone's every heard from him is 'I fell' and 'Can I go to the bathroom?'
Chain seemed to think for a second before responding.
"Fine. Mrs. Russo your tardiness will be overlooked due to the fact that you're new to the city." Alex sighed with relief and Danny smiled a bit before he continued. "Mr. Fenton, however, you will serve a detention later today for yours." At that most of the class broke out into giggles.
Danny sighed and nodded, but didn't sit yet knowing he was going to be asked more questions. Alex looked confused.
'Why would he pick up for me and not himself? And I owe him one for that and I'm going to kill Max later since he made me late by asking for 7 different kinds of chocolate bars.' Alex thought as she too stood in the front of the class.
"Mrs. Russo, why were you late to class?" Chain asked, turning back to her.
Deciding to go on what Danny said, she answered,
"I got lost on the way." She lied, looking around and saw the snickers through the class. Chain nodded and turned to Danny.
"What about you, Mr. Fenton? What will be your excuse of the day?" Chain asked sarcastically.
Alex had the weird feeling that this is a regular occurrence.
"I fell in the hallway." Danny lied lamely as he looked around the room. Chain sighed, the class went from giggling to laughing loudly and Alex stood there confused.
"Of course you did. Since you didn't even care enough to tell me the truth, you shall take Mrs. Russo's detention also, unless you want her to keep it. Or you can tell me where you really where and we can forget both detentions. " Chain declared, trying to get the truth about where Danny actually was.
The entire class laughed even harder at Danny's expense except Alex who looked at Danny fearfully, expecting him to give the detention back to her. Danny just sighed loudly again before answering.
"No thanks. I'll take both, besides we all know I'll be there again tomorrow anyway." Danny answered, shocking everyone.
"Very well, Mr. Fenton you owe me two detentions, today and tomorrow. Mrs. Russo you are off the hook. Now then, take your seats." Chain said, waving his arm to the desks.
They nodded and Danny went to his usual desk in the back of the class and Alex sat next to him, partly because she wanted to thank him and partly because he was the only person she knew in this class.
"Hey, Danny. Thanks for that. I'm sure my parents wouldn't appreciate me getting into trouble on my first day here." Alex whispered as she sat down.
"No problem. Besides, being late is my thing." Danny replied with a small smile.
Alex smiled back in response before turning her attention to the teacher.
Chemistry passed uneventful for Danny and Alex, aside from Danny's bite mark still bleeding occasionally and before long it was lunchtime.
"Wait till Sam sees this bite mark on our arm. You know she'll yell and tell us it wouldn't have happened if she came with us." Phantom said inside his head.
"I know. I wish she would just stop worrying so much. And stopping the flirting and jealousy would be a big help." Fenton spoke back.
"And maybe she could stop being a bitch to every girl we talk to because jealous or not, it's annoying. Also she could stop the nagging about our hero complex and telling us we can't save everyone but then turning around and telling us to do something." Phantom continued.
They were so wrapped up in conversation they didn't realize they were already at the cafeteria so they stopped talking and went to their usual table where Tuck and Sam were already sitting.
"Hey Danny, any other ghosts attack?" Tucker asked curiously.
"Just some ghost rat earlier but nothing since. I'm expecting one pretty soon though because my mornings are never really this quiet." Danny answered.
"Ghost rat? Oh no, did it bite you? Are you ok? Do you need me to-" Sam started rambling before she was cut off? Tucker rolled his eyes at Sam.
"I'm fine. Nothing big happened except getting bit a little." Danny answered, showing his friends his wound.
Tucker winced a little but otherwise was okay, Sam almost flipped out screaming about how this wouldn't have happened if she had been there and Phantom couldn't hold back a chuckle in their mind.
"Hey Danny, there's Alex! Call her over." Tucker said, stopping Sam mid-rant.
Danny nodded relieved and turned around to see Tucker was right, Alex had just entered the room. Danny and Tucker started waving her over and as soon as she saw them she started walking over.
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Alex had just walked into the cafeteria, grateful for the day being half over and she noticed that Danny and Tucker were gesturing for her to sit with them and that Sam girl.
As she was walking over some Hispanic girl wearing a pink T-shirt cut her off before she could reach Danny's table.
"Hola. I'm Paulina, the number one most popular girl in the school and I was wondering if you wanted to sit at our table." She said in a bubblegum voice. Then she looked at Danny's table and back to Alex and continued. "The COOL table?" Paulina finished with a smile.
Alex could tell the smile was fake though. She had seen enough evil people to tell that this girl was far from the nice girl she tried to show herself as.
"No thanks. I was just gonna go sit over there with my friends." Alex said, motioning to Danny. Paulina scowled.
"Those losers? Seriously? Everyone knows those three are freaks! Why do you think everyone calls them 'Freak Trio'?" Paulina asked angrily.
Alex was a little taken back by this. Danny seemed normal to her so far and she didn't see anything wrong with his friend Tucker aside from his Techno-obsession. She didn't know about Sam though.
"So what? I want to sit over there." Alex stated again.
"You don't just reject me, chica! I'm number 1 around here." Paulina said to Alex.
"Yeah. Ok then. I'm just gonna go over there." Alex said again moving past Paulina and making her way over to Danny.
"Hey guys." Alex said, sitting next to Danny and across from Sam.
Danny quickly retracted his arm and put it under the table, as he still hadn't moved it since he showed Tucker and Sam his rat bite.
"Hey Alex." Danny and Tucker chorused and Sam just nodded.
"How was your Geometry class? Did you know anyone there?" Danny asked, because Geometry was the only class he and Alex had not together.
"No, I just moved here yesterday. The only people I know are you guys." Alex said, taking a bite of her food.
"Aww, that makes me feel special." Tucker announced holding his hand over his heart in mock sincerness. Danny and Alex chuckled and Sam growled.
"So Danny, how's your parent's new invention work? Did you get to see it yet?" Sam asked, annoyed she was left out of the conversation.
"Invention? What do your parents do?" Alex questioned, turning to him. Danny and Tucker hesitated and Sam smirked, thinking she too would leave after learning Danny's parents' jobs.
"They, ah, they hunt ghosts." Danny said quietly and Tucker looked sympathetically at him, knowing this was the reason most people thought they were weird.
"Seriously? That's so cool! My parents just ran a food place back in New York." Alex said, getting a little excited. Danny and Tucker looked relieved and Sam looked angry.
"Yea, I know it's a little weird but here in Amity Park, the Ghost Capital of the World, you need all the help you can get." Danny answered.
"Look, as genius as they are, we all know the Fenton's don't do as well as Phantom does around here." Tucker said, praising his friend.
"Phantom? As in Danny Phantom?" Alex questioned them.
"Yea who else? Here in Amity he's a hero. He saves the town from the Ghosts that attack us." Tucker answered.
"Really? I met him last night. I saw him fighting like 5 other Ghosts in the sky." Alex told them.
"Well get used to it because it'll happen a lot more." Danny said, staring at his food.
"So Danny, were you late this morning?" Sam asked Danny, trying to get back in the conversation.
"Yea. Just by a second too. Actually we both were." Danny said with a small laugh looking at Alex.
"You too? Why were you late?" Sam questioned, obviously jealous. Alex looked at Danny for a second, as if debating on telling her until Danny nodded.
"I got lost on the way." Alex said, looking down.
"I thought you said you knew where you were going this morning." Sam questioned suspiciously. Danny answered for her before Alex could speak.
"She probably thought she did. It's a pretty big school, Sam, especially if you're new." Danny replied.
"Yea I still get lost once in a while." Tucker joked, causing Danny and Alex to start laughing and Tucker chuckled at his joke while Sam was just getting annoyed.
Suddenly Danny stopped laughing when a wisp of cold air came from his mouth and he instantly jumped up.
"I'll be right back, I have to use the bathroom." Danny announced as he dashed off not waiting for a response.
"Does that happen a lot?" Alex asked Tucker. Tucker just nodded to her before h started eating his lunch.
Before anything else could happen, a white and black blur smashed into the wall of the cafeteria before Desiree phased in the opposite wall.
"The Amulet of Time, Ghost Child! Give it to me!" Desiree shouted at the boy on the floor.
"Not on your afterlife, Desiree! Clockwork gave it to me for a reason!" Phantom responded as he floated up from the floor.
"Look! It's the Ghost Boy!" Shouted Paulina in her annoying bubblegum voice. Everyone gasped except Alex, Tucker and Sam who rolled their eyes.
"Then I guess I'll just take it from you!" Desiree announced as she shot at Phantom.
"Right, because you're better than Skulker? He brought backup last night and he still went back to the Ghost Zone." Phantom told her as he ducked under her punch.
Desiree didn't respond but instead shot balls of Ecto-energy at Phantom. Phantom expertly dodged them all while gathering energy in his hands and followed by shooting an Ecto-blast at her stomach. Before anything could happen a blast of pink energy shot Phantom in the back, knocking him against the wall.
"Stay where you are Phantom!" Yelled a new voice. Everyone turned to the doorway to see the Red Huntress and everyone groaned simultaneously except Alex, who was clueless.
"I'll see you in the Zone, Phantom." Desiree announced, sucking herself into Phantom's thermos.
"I see how it is, right when someone who doesn't send you home comes you leave me hanging!" Phantom shouted at his thermos.
"Look Red, I don't have time for this." Phantom said, getting up.
"I said freeze!" Red yelled shooting again but this time she only hit his arm.
"Watch it! You're gonna hurt someone with that thing!" Phantom announced, holding his left arm.
"I was trying." Red said. Phantom apparently had enough because he simply phased through the celling leaving an angry hunter behind.
After the Red Huntress left in a rage, the lunchroom calmed back down to ordinary levels.
"Does that happen a lot too?" Alex asked, turning back to Tucker and Sam.
"More often than you'd think." Tucker answered plainly. Before Alex could ask another question further Danny came back.
"What'd I miss?" Danny asked his friends as he sat down.
"A ghost just attacked! You guys were right it does happen a lot. I've been here for 2 days and that's the second one I've seen." Alex told them.
"That's Amity Park for you." Danny said dryly.
Suddenly the bell rang again, telling the kids it was time for class again. As Danny and his friends were getting up a familiar taunt was heard.
"Hey, Fen-turd! I just got a D on my History test so I'll be taking it out on my favorite punching bag!" Dash announced walking past Alex, Tucker and Sam to Danny.
"Seriously?" Danny asked.
He received no answer because Dash just picked him up by his collar and punched him in his gut. Alex, Tucker and Sam winced as Dash proceeded to drop Danny on the floor and walk away like nothing happened.
"That's like the 4th time today I've ended up on the floor and it's only been half a day." Danny muttered as he got to his feet.
"4? I've had most classes with you I haven't seen you fall down at all." Alex informed him as she helped him up.
Danny put 1 arm over Alex and 1 over Tucker to hold himself upright first then he answered.
"Never mind. Lets just get to class." Danny told her and they all nodded.
As they were walking Alex noticed what looked like a bite mark on Danny's arm and a burn mark that covered from his wrist to his elbow.
"Where'd you get these, Danny?" Alex asked, curiously.
"I fell down." Danny replied after hesitating a little bit.
"Are you okay?" Alex asked, her voice full of concern.
"Yea, I'll be ok." Danny told her, smiling a bit.
"Why is it so much less annoying when she asks us if we're ok?" Phantom asked.
Fenton just shrugged in response, not having an actual answer because truth-be-told he was also wondering that same thing.
The 4 friends arrived at their History class soon after and the teacher was shocked Danny was on time today.
Danny, Sam and Tucker took their usual seats in the back of the room and Alex followed them. Luckily since it was the back row it was pretty empty to Alex sat between Danny and Tucker.
Rather than pay attention to the lesson Danny retreated into his head.
"So what do you think Alex is hiding? She's obviously hiding something because we both know she didn't get lost this morning." Fenton said to Phantom.
"I don't know, Fenton. We have to find out though, what if she's another ghost hunter? We could be in trouble if she has a knack for it like Valerie did." Phantom answered.
"I doubt Vlad would send Ghost Hunting equipment to Alex considering Alex doesn't even hate ghosts like Val did. Also considering I'm pretty sure he's regretting hiring Valerie anyway."
"Speaking of our fruit-loop, what do you think he's planning? We haven't heard from him in a while so something must be coming."
"I know what you mean, I've been expecting something soon too. I think he might make a move on the Amulet that Clockwork gave us. The Amulet of Time has the power to control time, to a lesser extent than Clockwork's Tower, so it's pretty powerful. And small, powerful and effective is exactly what Vlad specializes in."
"Good theory, Fenton. If anything his next play will be after the Amulet so right now we can only be ready. What do you think he'll do with the Amulet if he gets it?"
"Probably go back in time and meet Maddie before Jack does so he can have a shot."
"You called them 'Maddie and Jack' too? Why the sudden change from 'Mom and Dad'?"
"It's just that they don't really do anything parent-like besides tell me to get my grades up. Hell Jazz and us are the ones who do the shopping, Jazz cleans and we do the cooking. Maddie and Jack tinker in the lab working on things to kill us."
"Fair enough. I never considered them my parents anyway but hearing you do it makes me feel better knowing I'm not the only part of us that's pissed at getting shot at."
"I hear that. I've been meaning to ask you something, by the way." Fenton said to Phantom.
"What is it, dude?" Phantom asked.
"Can we go see Frostbite later today? I want to see if we can learn how to make ice weapons."
"Sure we can. That'd be pretty cool to have an ice scythe or an ice sword."
The bell ringing and Alex pulling him up from his chair shook Danny from his conversation with himself.
"Are you okay, Danny? You've been spaced out since the beginning of class." Alex told him. Sam looked like she was going to blow a fuse and Tucker just nodded.
"Yea, I'm okay. I guess I'm just tired." Danny answered as they began walking.
"Whose class are we in next, Danny?" Alex asked.
"Lancer's and that's our last class of the day. Then we can go home." Danny told her.
"You can't go home yet, Danny! We're going to Nasty Burger, remember?" Sam told him in an annoyed tone.
"Oh yea. Forgot about that." Danny said, rubbing the back of his neck.
"What's 'Nasty Burger'?" Alex asked Danny.
"It's where most teenagers like to hang out after school. Wanna come with us?" Danny replied, earning an eager nod from Tucker and a scowl from Sam.
"Can we please un-invite Sam because right now she's being really un-cool." Phantom said from Danny's head.
Fenton just rolled his eyes.
"Sure, I'll have to check with my parents first but sounds cool." Alex told them.
Danny was about to answer when his ghost sense went off again.
"Seriously? I just put Desiree back! Who else is out?" Phantom complained.
"We better go find out. More and more ghosts have been coming for the Amulet." Fenton answered.
"You guys go ahead, I'll meet you there." Danny said as they approached Lancer's room.
Before anything else could be said Danny shoved Alex, Tucker and Sam into Mr. Lancer's room as he ran past it and into the familiar 'Haunted' boys bathroom that nobody else uses.
Danny quickly transformed and flew towards the town.
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Alex was sitting in her desk in Mr. Lancer's class next to Tucker as she looked around, trying to see if Danny had come back.
She didn't know why but she really liked Danny. A lot better then anyone back in New York and she couldn't explain why she was so excited to hang out with Danny and Tucker after school. Sam, however, not so much.
She felt an odd sense of disappointment when she realized he still wasn't there. Alex looked out the window next and saw the town's local hero Danny Phantom fighting with some biker ghost right outside the classroom.
Without warning alarms flared and green lights flashed through the classroom and Lancer took everyone out of the room until they were all behind the school.
Alex turned to Tucker.
"What was that?" She asked him curiously.
"That was the Ghost Alarm. It sounds whenever Phantom is fighting a ghost too close to the school. Lot's of other places have them too like the supermarkets, schools, office buildings and even the airplanes that land here regularly have 'em. Comes in handy at times but most of the time it's just plain annoying." Tucker explained, trying to block out the blaring alarms.
"Wow. This place is a bigger magnet for trouble than I am." Alex muttered. However over the alarms nobody heard her.
"Come on, Johnny did you really have to use Shadow right away?" Said a green haired ghost towards the ghost driving their motorcycle.
"Sorry Kitty, I panicked! You know I don't stand a chance against Phantom!" Johnny replied.
"You got that right, biker-boy. So how about we do this the easy way and nobody gets hurt." Phantom said, appearing in front of their bike with his arms crossed and eyes narrowed. The bike came to an immediate stop and Johnny spoke awkwardly.
"Hey, Phantom, Old buddy, old pal old friend of mine. How bout instead of the Ecto-rays you just go straight to the thermos?" Johnny said in a high voice.
"My big bad protector everybody!" Kitty shouted sarcastically causing everyone to start laughing.
"Tell everyone that they're not getting the Amulet of Time because they'll have to go through me to get it!" Phantom said angrily as he sucked the 'attacking' ghosts into his thermos.
"Phantom, hold it right there! Stay still so we can blast you apart molecule by molecule!" Said a large man in an orange jumpsuit.
"Calm down Jack, we'll get him this time!" Said another person in a jumpsuit although this time blue and female.
"Who are they?" Alex whispered to Tucker.
"They're the Fenton's. Danny's mom and dad and they hunt ghosts because they think all ghosts are evil." Tucker explained.
"But Phantom is good?" Alex said back.
"Tell that to the Fenton's and you'll get off on the wrong foot so if you're gonna be hanging around with Danny, Sam and me you have to learn how to avoid ghost-talk with them. They get a little excited." Tucker explained. Before Alex could respond Phantom spoke up.
"Right, because I'll voluntarily subject myself to painful experiments under the care of the people who try to attack me everyday. That'll happen." Phantom said sarcastically before he vanished into thin air.
"That blasted Ghost-Kid!" Jack said depressed as he and Maddie walked away from the scene.
After herding the kids back into the school like cattle Alex looked around Mr. Lancer's room again trying to find Danny, but to no avail.
"Is everyone present? Nobody was injured in the Ghost attack right?" Lanced called out to the class and was met 'we're fine' as an answer from the entire class.
"Now then onto Lesson 3-" Lancer started before he was interrupted by the familiar sound of a slamming door and a panting Danny Fenton.
Danny was slumped against the door panting slightly with his eyes closed and head back. His shirt had sets of 3 claw marks all over it but the most noticeable was set of 3 claw marks that went from his right shoulder down to the bottom left of his shirt exposing 3 lines of skin.
"What happened to you, Mr. Fenton?" Lancer asked expectantly.
Alex gasped lightly at the teen as he finally pushed himself up from leaning on the door. There was blood on the bad of his shirt despite no claw marks on the back.
"I fell down on my way back into the building." Danny excused lamely.
The class broke into laughter, minus Alex, Tucker and Sam, and Lancer rolled his eyes.
"I'd give you a detention if I thought you didn't have one already." Lancer said dryly and Danny took his seat between the window and Alex's desk.
"Stupid Shadow. He got a cheap shot." Alex heard Danny mutter as he sat down, looking at his torn shirt.
"What Shadow? Did someone do that to you?" Alex asked concerned for Danny.
"No, nobody did this to me I just fell down again. It's like a stampede getting back into the school after a Ghost attacks." Danny told her.
"I could tell. Did you see you parents? They were here earlier shooting at Phantom." Alex told him and this time she noticed how he froze up.
"Yea, they say he's a menace here but most people know that he's only trying to help." Danny said, rubbing the back of his neck.
"I think he's okay. He helped me home last night and he didn't seem evil like your parents say." Alex said to him.
"Mrs. Russo and Mr. Fenton! Care to tell the class what you're privately discussing!" Lancer bellowed at them.
For what felt like the thousandth time today the class broke out into giggles at Alex and Danny.
"Sorry Mr. Lancer." Alex mumbled.
"Yea, Sorry Mr. Lancer, I was just explaining Ghost Alarms to Alex so she would know what to do when the next one goes off." Danny lied smoothly.
"Very well, Mr. Fenton. Your disturbance will be excused this time. Just don't let it happen again." Lancer said with a sigh.
Alex looked at Danny, wide eyed at the fact that he had just saved her from detention twice in one day. Nobody did that at her old school. Danny just turned to her, gave her a wink and turned back around.
"Maybe I don't miss New York as much as I thought." Alex murmured with a smile.
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4 o' clock hit and detention was over. Danny exited the all-too-familiar seat in detention and walked to Nasty Burger to meet Alex, Sam and Tucker.
Danny walked into his favorite fast-food place and saw his friends, sister and some people he didn't know at their regular booth.
"Hey Danny, over here!" Alex waved when she saw him enter. Danny smiled at her as he began walking towards them.
"Danny this is my older brother Justin and little brother Max and this is my best friend Harper. Justin, Max, Harper, this is Danny." Alex introduced, motioning to a tall black haired boy, long brown haired boy and redheaded girl respectively.
"Hey, I see you met my friends and sister." Danny said, waving to Sam, Tucker and Jazz. The Russo's nodded.
"Yea we all came right after school. Apparently Justin and Jazz became good friends." Alex answered.
"I would've been here sooner but I served both detentions today instead of 1 today and 1 tomorrow." Danny said, finally sitting down.
"How did you get 2 detentions and Alex didn't even get 1?" Justin asked, suspiciously.
"I was late to two of my classes today. Why would Alex get detention, as far as I know she didn't do anything?" Danny said with a small, knowing smile that Alex knew was directed at her.
"So Justin, would you guys like to come over for dinner? I'm sure my parent's wouldn't mind." Jazz asked sweetly.
"I guess we could. Could my parent's come? We aren't exactly completely set up yet." Justin told her.
"Sure they can, the more the merrier!" Jazz said loudly.
"Right, that's because she doesn't have to cook." Danny muttered to Alex, who broke into giggles.
"I would cook, Danny but we both know how that turned out." Jazz replied, having heard Danny's muttering.
"Why don't your parents cook?" Max asked the siblings.
"The last time my mom cooked Danny and I had to fight our dinner back into the fridge." Jazz said, as she and Danny shuddered and everyone else started laughing.
"And when my dad cooked he started a fire." Danny said.
"So? Sometimes that happens." Harper tried to reason.
"He was making cereal so nothing bad could happen." Danny continued and earned more laughs.
"Okay, we'll be there. How's 5 sound?" Justin asked. Everyone nodded but Sam.
"I can't do five my parents are dragging my to my aunt's for the weekend right after I go home." Sam said randomly.
"I don't remember inviting you-" Jazz started before Danny cut her off.
"You have dinner with us all the time though so it's okay to miss 1. How about you Tuck? You gonna come over too?" Danny asked.
"I can try but I can't give a definite answer until I hear whether my mom is serving steak tonight." Tucker answered, drooling at the thought of his mother's home cooked steak.
"Okay, you guys can stay but if I'm cooking for 10 I have to get started now. Jazz why don't you stay with them so they know the way." Danny said as he stood up.
"Sure. You guys can go home and tell your parents then I can take you all back." Jazz said, looking around for a positive response.
"Sounds great. Danny won't you need help cooking for 10 people?" Justin asked the blue-eyed boy.
"Maybe but I'm sure I'll be fine. As long as no ghost comes." Danny said to them.
"Man, I'm really starting to like it here! Ghost attacks are so exciting!" Harper cried. The Russo's gave here look that said 'are you serious' while Team Phantom looked amazed.
"I think New Yorkers handle ghosts better than most Amity residence considering Alex didn't freak either." Tucker said as he sipped his drink.
"Neither did Justin." Jazz commented.
"Neither did Max." Max added as everyone just looked blankly at him.
"Anyway. I'm going to go start dinner. See you there in an hour." Danny said as he started walking away. He got all the way to the doors when he heard Alex calling to him.
"Danny! Would it be okay if I came with you? I'm not a big fan of walking and it seems easier to me if I just go straight to your house." Alex said honestly.
"Sure. Besides I don't like walking more than necessary either." Danny said as they exited the fast-food place together.
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"Okay, so come on Jazz we can go home and get my parents and meet Danny and Alex." Justin said as he, Max, Harper and Jazz stood up.
"Yeah, sounds good. Tucker I might see you later and Sam has a good weekend." Jazz said as she and the Wizard gang exited the Burger joint.
"I hate Alex." Sam muttered to Tucker once everyone was gone.
"You do not. You're just jealous that her and Danny get along so well." Tucker told her knowingly.
Sam just growled as she stabbed her fries with her fork and Tucker sighed.
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Danny and Alex were making their way to Danny's house after leaving Nasty Burger.
"So why did you take my detention earlier? Back at Tribeca Prep in New York I was always the troublemaker." Alex said to Danny.
"Well I saw you were just going to take it and I didn't want you to get into trouble on your first day. Really? What did you do? I'm considered the troublemaker here because I'm late all the time. Ask the Principle she'll tell you I have a reserved sheet in her office." Danny said jokingly.
"Well thanks. I wouldn't mind but my parents wouldn't have been too happy. I didn't anything major aside from pranks and messing with our Principle there. You don't look like the type to cause trouble." Alex said to him with a smile, remembering her pranks at Tribeca in New York.
"No problem. Besides I was going to get a detention tomorrow anyway. Try telling Mr. Lancer I'm not a troublemaker and see what he says." Danny said back.
Before Alex could respond Danny's ghost sense went off and Lydia appeared from an alleyway.
She used her tattoos shaped like snakes to wrap around Danny and Alex who were both surprisingly calm surprising one another.
"The Amulet of Time, Ghost Child! Freakshow requests it!" Lydia shouted removing her hood.
"Amulet of Time? I have no idea what that is and who is Freakshow?" Danny asked nervously glancing at Alex.
"Let me guess, another ghost attack?" Alex asked sourly.
"This is too perfect. I think I'll tell Skulker his prey has a new girlfriend. Now stop playing games Phantom and hand it over and maybe your girlfriend will live!" Lydia threatened as she snapped her fingers causing the snake around Alex to start constricting. Unbeknownst to Danny and Lydia, Alex had just reached the wand she hit in her boot.
"Ghost, ghost that is cold to the touch. Make it look like they've eaten too much!"/ "Going Ghost!" The teens said at the same time.
At that instant the snake around Alex bloated up like a balloon, releasing her in the process while Danny became Phantom and sent the ghost snake sailing into the ally.
"You're a GHOST/WIZARD!" They called at the same time, giving each other an incredulous look.
"How touching you're both freaks! Now give me what I came for!" Lydia called sending bat tattoos at the duo.
Danny floated in front of Alex protectively as he shot Ecto-blasts instantly stopping the tattoos assault and slamming Lydia in the stomach.
"Deliver the message to Skulker that I'll be waiting for his return since you seem so eager to chat with him." Danny taunted as he sucked Lydia into the thermos.
"I guess you want an explanation." Danny said turning back to Alex who nodded silently.
"Come on. I'll take you to my house and we can talk there." Danny said as he extended his hand, praying she wouldn't run away screaming.
"Sure." Alex said with a smile as she grabbed his hand and they started flying towards FentonWorks.
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SO I WAS WATCHING WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE WITH MY LITTLE COUSINS WHEN THEY STARTED TALKING ABOUT HOW AWESOME THE SHOW WAS. ALTHOUGH I AGREED IT WAS, I SAID DANNY PHANTOM WAS BETTER. AND THUS, THIS CROSSOVER WAS BORN!
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