Okay peoples! I'm back, and first I'd like to say Happy New Year to everyone and hope they're having a good year so far.
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Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom, but I do own the Raiyn family and the villain of the chapter.
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"I really hope everything works out okay here," she whispered to herself. "For the sake of everyone else, I hope things go okay…"
With a sigh, Alicia followed Danny into the corridors of Casper High. The school was like most she had been to before; it had bland, school color colored hallways, a rolling sea of lockers and a fountain here and there. Kids were crowding the hallways, seeking out friends to share stories with of the recent Christmas season. Danny had mentioned they were going to the principal's office, and she was doing everything in her power to follow him there. Dodging teens left and right, she trailed her raven-haired neighbor through the masses that make up today's youth. After getting her foot stepped on twice, falling down once and slamming into a wall, she noticed Danny had stopped at the office.
"Finally," she muttered.
Danny opened the door for her and introduced her to the principal.
"Ah, yes, Miss Raiyn," the oriental principal mused. "We've been waiting for you and we're very excited that you're joining us here. I've heard only good things about you."
Danny wondered what those were when Alicia blushed after receiving the comment.
The principal picked up some papers lying on a desk and handed them to the girl with long brown hair. "Your schedule is at the top. Lunch is at 12:15 for all freshman and sophomores. This is a gum free school, so please respect that. We have no tolerance for fighting, which results in detention." Her eyebrows narrowed as they traveled to Danny. "Something Mr. Fenton would know about."
Danny gave an innocent shrug as she continued. "There's a map of the school below your schedule and below that a list of other rules you need to know and a list of emergency procedures in case of earthquake, tornado or ghost attack."
Alicia raised her eyebrow, "Ghost attack? They attack the school?"
"More frequently than we would like," the principal admitted. "But, on the bright side of things, welcome to the home of the Ravens. We hope you like it here."
"I'm sure I will," Alicia reassured her. Receiving a dismissing smile, Danny and Alicia entered the hallways once again. This time they were empty.
Alicia glanced both ways then asked, "Where'd everyone go?"
Danny groaned, "The bell must have rung already! We need to hurry to class!" He grabbed her hand and began to drag her off.
"Danny! We haven't looked at my schedule yet! I don't know where I'm going!" Alicia protested. "And I need to find my locker."
Danny stopped. It was true; he hadn't even looked at her schedule. He had just assumed that they had all the same classes, as freshman seemed to do. Taking the papers from her hands, he looked them over.
Name: Alicia Raiyn Sex: F ID: 324618
School: Casper High District: Amity Park
Locker: A178 Combination: 13-25-0
Schedule:
1-BiologyLancer MTWTF109
2-PETetslaffMTWTF107
3-English HNRedwoodMTWTF234
4-MathLancerMTWTF109
5-History HNHoyMTWTF216
6-CreativeWriting LancerMTWTF109
Danny realized that she shared two classes with him and had PE with Sam in the mornings. She was taking honors classes? That must have been what the principal was talking about when she mentioned hearing good things. Alicia must be smart.
He looked at the locker number and smiled. It was on the row right next to where they were. Turing to the wall, he quickly located it.
"Here you go," Danny said as he unlocked it for her.
"Thanks."
Alicia quickly put all of her things in except for a binder and a pencil then followed Danny to their first period.
Danny opened the door and was greeted by Mr. Lancer's frown.
"Mr. Fenton, I'm aware of your tendency to be tardy, but one the first day back?" Mr. Lancer, an older looking, out of shape teacher, asked Danny. "What's your excuse this time?"
Danny smiled. Mr. Lancer was constantly getting on his back about his tardiness but today he had a valid excuse and was going to enjoy rubbing it his face. "As a matter of fact, Mr. Lancer, I was showing around a new student." To prove his point, Alicia stepped into the class.
"Mr. Lancer, right? It's nice to meet you. Danny's told me only good things about you." She smiled and shook the astounded teacher's hand.
After a wary look towards Danny, Lancer welcomed her to the class and assigned her to a seat behind Danny. Danny sat next to Tucker and Sam, who gave him a questioning look as he sat next to them.
As Lancer began to take roll, he whispered to them, "That's my new neighbor, Alicia. We had to pick up her schedule and the bell rang before I could show her the entire school."
Sam inconspicuously looked back and summed up the girl. "I like her shirt."
"Of course you do Sam, it's all black," Danny murmured.
Sam nodded approvingly, and then began to work on a sheet their teacher had just passed out.
"You may work in partners of two," Mr. Lancer's monotone voice droned. After passing out all the papers, he returned to his desk and began to read a book.
Sam left Danny and Tucker to be partners and decided to meet Alicia. She turned her stool around and introduced herself to the new student.
"Hi. I'm Sam Manson, one of Danny's friends." Sam smiled.
"I'm Alicia Raiyn."
"Need a partner?"
Alicia sighed with relief, "Yeah, thank you so much. I was worried no one would want to partner with the new kid. And I'm not so good with photosynthesis."
"It's easy," Sam explained the work on the paper, and together they finished it in ten minutes. This left the rest of the period to talk.
"I like your watch," Sam motioned to the watch on her wrist. "Those are my favorite colors."
Alicia brightened, "Mine too. You have a good choice in color."
"Where are you from?" Sam asked the standard question.
Alicia's eyes casted downwards, "I'd rather not say."
Sam's suspicions were aroused, but she didn't press the matter further. "So, what are you into?"
Alicia turned her eyes to the ceiling in thought, "Good question. My passion is to sing, but I can't say I'm very good at it. I like reading fantasy and writing poetry. I'm on the computer a lot though, but softball's a fun pastime. Usually I have to keep an eye on my twin brothers." Alicia groaned in remembrance. "Sometimes they won't let things die."
"Guys are like that," Sam reasoned. "What's a girl to do?"
Sam and Alicia continued talking until the bell rang. Sam agreed to show her to their gym class, where Alicia quickly received her uniform and was told to change.
Sam waited outside for Alicia and then guided her to the gym. As they walked through the door, Sam noticed Alicia was still wearing her watch.
"You might want to hide that from the teacher's view," she warned.
"I'm sure the teacher won't mind."
"Raiyn! I know it's your first day, but you cannot break the dress code rules!" Tetslaff yelled at the girl.
"Sorry ma'am," Sam heard Alicia apologize.
"Sorry ain't gonna cut it. Take off the watch now!" The teacher walked over and glared at her student. She stood an inch above the girl and used every bit of her height to add to her already intimidating stance.
"I can't," Alicia shrugged.
Ms. Tetslaff rolled her eyes, "Of course you can Raiyn! Don't play stupid with me! Take off the &#$ watch."
Sam was a bit surprised at the outburst and raised an eyebrow, curious to see where the conversation would go.
"I really can't. See, it's connected to my heart and I need to keep it on to tell me-"
Before she could finish, the P.E. teacher grabbed her arm and ripped off the watch, leaving Sam to wonder if she had even heard what Alicia had been saying.
"To the principal's office, young lady. Have him give you a week's detention." Ms. Tetslaff handed Alicia the watch and mentally shot bullets into her back as she left.
Sam felt a sense of sympathy as the doors shut, which was quickly replaced by a feigned face of innocence as Ms. Tetslaff gazed over the rest of the class to make sure there were no other infractions of the rules.
Vlad was sitting in his castle in Wisconsin contemplating the different possible solutions to a chess game. It was early in the morning, but the wealthy man wanted to keep his mind sharp so he would play his supercomputer.
Unfortunately, the hologram of Maddie seemed to beat him every time.
At the moment, he was in check. Growling in frustration, he tried not to loose his cool as Maddie continued to make annoying remarks.
"I'm sure you won't move C5 to D6," she purred. "That would be a dumb move, but then again, yours haven't been so smooth either."
Just because she was a computer program and had infinite amounts of information at her disposal didn't mean she could rub his failing status in his face. He was the middle-aged generations champion of chess for crying aloud! Surely he could beat a computer program!
Luckily he was interrupted by an alarm before he could make a more embarrassing move.
The holo-Maddie paused and cocked her head as she processed the information. "The transmission is no longer blocked, and we can send the signal successfully."
Vlads sullen mood lifted and he gave the order to indeed send it. It was about time the signal was able to go through. He had been waiting for weeks!
Feeling a little more hopeful, he glanced down at the board again. With an optimistic mood, he quickly saw a move he could make that would turn the tables. He switched the king with a rook.
"Check."
During all this, Danny was struggling to stay awake in his history class. It didn't really matter to him what happened in1312 BC to him, so he had christened this class the one to catch up on sleep in. And he was blissfully doing so, at least, until his ghost sense went off. Tucker, who was sitting in the desk next to him, saw it and nudged his friend awake.
Danny reluctantly opened his eyes, "What?"
"Your ghost sense went off." Tucker whispered to him.
"Now?" Danny complained.
The wall to their classroom suddenly collapsed in a charcoal mess, instantly incinerated.
The entire class paused and gaped at the rubble before they had the sense to run out the door…well, they actually ran through the gap where the wall had been.
It was a lot easier to cram 40 people through.
39, to be more specific.
Danny had waited until everyone had left before going ghost.
Danny Phantom flew through the hallways, scanning for some unknown danger.
And those who look for danger usually find it. This time it found him.
Right as he entered the cafeteria, he received a blow to his stomach and flew back into the doors that had shut behind him.
"What was that?" he moaned as he looked up.
"Me," a lyrical voice answered.
Floating above him was what looked to be an angel. A figure with angelic hair, a halo and graceful wings gazed at him curiously. Looking close, he saw it was a child, no more than six years old. Her pure white robes flowed majestically and there was a slight glow around her. Everything about her was perfect, until Danny looked at her burning red eyes that held a fire that seemed almost demonic. He felt a chill go down his back.
"Who are you?" she asked simply.
Danny stood to a strong stance, "That is unimportant. The better question is who are you and what are you doing destroying school property?"
The girl's eyes flashed and she raised her voice triumphantly, "I am Conflagration, an angel of fire and flame. What I am doing has nothing to do with you."
She turned from him and began to destroy the cafeteria. All the students and staff that had been in there had already taken their chance to flee and were absentee. The tables were first to go, followed by the trash cans. Conflagration enjoyed watching trashcans burn for on the occasional occurrence some student had tossed a flammable object to its doom.
She moved over to the gas stove and was about to blow the school high when she felt a tap on her shoulder. She turned and say Danny Phantom's fist traveling toward her face. Her wings made a reflex move to protect her, which resulted in the loss of her flight. Danny's fist landed on the wing, which was a lot harder than it looked. She began to fall, but at the last moment opened her wings to catch herself and landed perfectly.
"That wasn't very nice," the child pouted to Danny.
"Trashing the school isn't nice," he replied. "Now leave before I make you!"
"I don't have to listen to you!" Conflagration stuck her tongue out at him.
Danny didn't like when his opponents took on these attitudes. It made fights last a lot longer than need be. "We do it the hard way then." He shrugged, his neon green eyes rolling.
A mischievous sparkle gleamed in her eye, "If you can catch me first."
Conflagration immediately flew toward the wall and with a flame sprouting from her hand she burned it out of her way and flew down the corridor.
"Cool it down, will you?" he yelled as he threw numerous ecto-beams at her. She dodged them blindly not even realizing she was being shot at, enjoying the race and burning all she could in the process.
He threw forward a burst of speed and momentarily was head to head with her. When the child saw him, she growled, "You're no fun!"
"Destroying the school isn't fun!" Danny insisted, momentarily wondering if he would like it if he could destroy the school. For his superhero image, he decided it wouldn't.
"Yes it is," she said as she blew through another wall, leaving a burning mess. She began to raise her speed. He had to stress his power to catch up.
Danny heard sirens in the distance and wondered why nothing else was being done to stop the raging fires that would soon consume the school. Then he remembered something.
"Conflagration! I'll give you to the count of three to give up or I'm gonna rain on your parade!" Danny shouted to her with a knowing smile.
"Yeah right. Like I'm going to listen to a bully like you!" she yelled back, continuing to burn whatever she saw.
"1"
"2"
The kid began to burn the ceiling, hoping to collapse the building.
"Three," Danny said, and as if it knew Danny had just given the go, the sprinkler system went off. The sprinkling slowly managed to subdue most of the flames.
Conflagration frowned at this. That wasn't supposed to happen! Her orders were to burn the school down! Next thing she knew, an ecto-beam hit her in the back. She managed to turn around and glare at the ghost that was causing the trouble.
"You weren't supposed to do that!" she screamed at him.
Danny just smirked as the water poured down on top of them, "I'm the good guy; I don't need your permission to save the day."
He started throwing more ecto-beams and one frayed a tip of her left wing. Danny saw tears come to her eyes as she flew off towards the principal's office. She disappeared into the room without flaming any walls.
Danny followed her into the room and saw her pause, wondering whether to go left or right. She ended up choosing right and shut the door behind her wings and the flowing robes.
He phased through the door and was greeted by…
…an empty room.
"Where'd she go?" Danny asked the empty room. The secretary's desk was undisturbed, as were the vice principal's desk. There was no hint of a disturbance for some time. Shrugging in confusion, he began to look around the office with an invisible eye.
No sign of the angel in the main room, which left the principal's personal office.
He floated through the door and turned visible. "I know you're in here. Come out now!"
From behind the desk, Principal Ishiyama (AN:I know it sounds like that, but I'm not sure what the spelling really is) shakily stood up with an ecto-gun. Danny assumed she had received it from his parents. To his surprise, Alicia appeared behind her slowly, scared out of her wits.
"Go away Inviso-Bill! I won't let you harm my students." The principal bravely said.
Danny put his hands up innocently, "Don't worry ma'am, I'm the good guy. I won't hurt you." He gave a last look around the look. "And by the way, it's Danny Phantom."
Danny then flew out and mentally declared the danger gone. He flew to the boys' bathroom and then ran out of the school to join the mass of students that were evacuating.
Sam and Tucker saw him coming towards them and ran to meet him.
"Danny, what ghost was that?" Tucker asked.
"I haven't seen any ghost that dealt with fire besides Ember," Sam added.
"It wasn't a ghost," Danny said tiredly. "It was an angel named Conflagration. Specifically an angel that looked like a little kid."
Sam and Tucker were confused.
"What kind of angel harms schools?" Tucker mused to himself.
"I don't know," Danny answered. His blue eyes were full of determination, "But next time, I'm going to find out."
They watched the firefighters rush into the school and douse the flames. School was obviously going to be canceled for the rest of the day, but everyone wanted to hang around and watch the show.
Danny remembered Alicia was in the office and asked Sam why she had been there.
"She got in trouble for wearing her watch in P.E.," Sam's lilac eyes seemed slightly amused. "I warned her, but she ended up getting a week's worth of detention, I think."
"Looks like I'll finally have someone to talk to," Danny joked.
Sam and Tucker rolled their eyes, and the group headed to Danny's house to discuss the angel further.
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If you had the powers and no one knew it was you, would you burn down the school?
Think about it.
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Lynn