Chapter 3
"So what's the new kid like?" Tucker asked, pulling out his math book from his locker. English class had ended not even a minute ago, allowing the trio to talk without Daniel over hearing.
"Other than the interest in ghost hunting for some strange reason." Sam rolled her eyes as she leaned against the lockers, waiting for her friend to finish in his locker.
"Meh." Danny shrugged his shoulders. "He's ok. I'm getting tired of how popular my name is though."
"What do you expect? It's from the Bible." Tucker pointed out.
"Anyway." Danny drug out, not wanting to get on that topic again. "He seems kinda like us, just wants to get through high school unscarred."
"I doubt he's like us." Sam added.
Tucker closed his locker and hosted the book bag on his back. "Ya, who in their right mind would even want to be like us?"
Danny hiccupped, getting his friend's attention. "Oh, come on! That's the third one today!"
"Hey, at least it's Falluca." Sam tried. "He never notices you just appearing in class."
"See you later." Danny called out, rushing to the bathroom. He turned into the room and quickly scanned, glad to see no one there. With a quiet "Going Ghost" the lights appeared around his waist changing him into Phantom. He flew out of the room and rushed towards the football field as a growl rumbled the air.
Danny face palmed as he saw what had happened. On the 20 yard line, the ghost dog was growling at some poor gym student who was just waiting for class to start most likely.
Danny put his middle two fingers to his lips and blew, getting the dog's attention away from whomever had aggravated him.
Danny was caught off guard as the dog turned and pounced on him, wrenching his left arm out. Danny cried out, not expecting anything like that from ol' Cujo.
Danny's voice seemed to break the spell the ghost dog was under, getting him to shake his big head. He studied Danny's face only to shrink and start licking the teen's face as an apology.
"Ok. OK! I forgive you!" Danny cried out, laughing as it started to tickle.
The dog jumped off him, wagging its tail as if it wanted to play.
Danny picked himself up, cringing at his left shoulder felt wrong. He created a bell of ecto-energy in his good hand and made sure the dog saw it. "You want the ball?"
The dog nodded its head, its tongue rolling out as it started to pant.
"Go fetch!" Danny ordered throwing the ball of energy as far as he could. The green blur that was a dog followed.
Danny turned back to the kid the dog had tried to attack, holding his left arm as it stung a bit more than he expected. He looked down as the boy picked himself up off the ground to see if he was ok only to find Daniel. "Man, you're starting to be a ghost magnet."
"Any wonder why I need something to protect myself?" Daniel asked, dusting the grass off himself.
"Have you-" ring!
Danny looked back at the school as the rest of Daniel's gym class started filing out of the building. "I gotta go." Danny said, floating upwards. "Be more careful!" he called, leaving Daniel to his class.
Danny flew into Falluca's class, transforming in the room's closet so he could invisibly make it to his chair in the back of the class room and appear to the world while the math teacher was writing a problem down on the board.
Danny felt his left shoulder, the pain really getting to him now that he was human. He sighed as he realized what had happened.
"You ok?" Sam asked, leaning over from her seat next to him.
"Ya, my shoulder's just out of joint again." Danny admitted. "I'll need you to pull it after class."
"Sure." Sam nodded her head.
"So what was it?" Tucker asked from Sam's other side.
"Foley. Manson." Mr. Falluca called, turning around. "And Fenton. Would you three like to talk outside?"
"No sir." Danny said, shrinking into his chair as his friends said something similar.
"Then refrain from talking in my class." Mr. Falluca turned back towards the board, muttering something that Danny could only hear. "How did Mr. Fleck do it?"
