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Chapter Two
Danny Fenton sighed. He ran his hand through his messy black hair and adjusted his headphones. He looked out of the porthole.
"How did I get myself into this?" he thought to himself.
Jazz had once again managed to convince their parents to get out of the city and to go on a family vacation. In her mind Jazz had imagined that they would go out into the country and forget about ghosts for a while.
Unfortunately, her parents had other plans. Maddie and Jack had newly renovated the submarine part of the Specter Speeder, adding a bathroom and some other things that Danny hadn't heard about. Yet.
"Man, I wish I brought something to do" he muttered. Danny took a quick glance around the Specter Speeder, just in case Desiree had stowed away somewhere.
Danny looked around the Specter to see what the rest of his family was doing.
His sister, Jazz, was sitting cross-legged on her set with a thick book on her lap.
Danny craned his neck to see the title of the book. "Psychology For The Young Teen."
"Figures," he muttered.
Next, Danny glanced at his parents.
His dad, Jack, was at the wheel jabbering about the Specter Speeders renovations. Maddie was nodding and "aheming" every now and then. Unknown to her husband she was wearing Fenton Earplugs. So was Jazz.
Suddenly, an all too familiar blue mist slithered out of Danny's mouth.
"Finally," he said sarcastically, "something to do."
Jazz looked up from her book. "Ghost?" she asked, softly enough so he parents couldn't hear.
Danny gave a quick nod and replaced his headphones with a Fenton Thermos that was stashed under his seat. He crept over to the newly installed bathroom at the back of the Specter Speeder, and locked the door.
"I'm Going Ghost!" Danny cried out.
Two blue rings of light went up and down his body. Gone wer the baggy jeans and T-shirt, the sky blue eyes and messy raven black hair. His normal clothing was replaced with a black hazmat suit with white gloves, boots, belt and DP insignia. His eyes were now an eerie glowing green and his hair was snow white.
Danny phased through the floor and into the ocean. Surprisingly he could breathe. Danny had wondered how he could breathe underwater; from the time The Guys In White had cornered him in the Casper High pool, to now. In the end he had decided that it was just another ghostly attribute to his powers. Surveying his surroundings, Danny raised an eyebrow.
"So this is why Sam never drags on about how dirty the ocean is around here", he thought.
The water was clear and there was a large coral reef twenty yards or so from where Danny was floating. It looked healthy and Danny could see the bright coral, sea anemones, and small colorful fish darting between narrow spaces in the reef. A deep trench was underneath Danny. He couldn't see the bottom. At the far end of the trench there was a huge forest of seaweed. The giant strands of seaweed were taller than Danny.
As Danny was taking in the scenery, he saw a large glowing green fin disappear into to the seaweed out from the corner of his eye.
"There you are!" Danny gurgled, a few bubbles escaping from his mouth.
Danny sped off into the seaweed, without planning ahead. Danny couldn't see a thing, only masses of oversized seaweed.
"Stupid seaweed," he grumbled, picking seaweed out of his hair.
Suddenly something catapulted into Danny, knocking him out of the seaweed, and sending him hurtling in to the trench.
Danny stopped right before he hit the bottom of the trench and quickly floated back up. Cautiously Danny drifted toward the concealing seaweed.
"Ah!"
Jaws nearly nine feet in length snapped out at Danny. Danny barely managed to dodge the large mass of glowing green shot out from the seaweed.
The ghost that Danny had sensed was a shark. A very big shark. Eighteen feet in diameter with a nine foot jaw; the ghost shark was like most ghostly animals that came from the Ghost Zone. With glowing green skin and blood red eyes and small but sharp spikes running along its spine, this ghost might have struck terror in anyone. But Danny merely raised an eyebrow and said "A ghost shark? Yawn. But better than that squid I had to fight on Halloween."
Danny charged an ecto-blast in his hands as the ghost shark lunged at him. Danny aimed it at the shark but it missed.
"You're about to become fish food!" Danny taunted.
He did a double take. "Uh, scratch that."
The ghost shark made a noise that sounded like a laugh and disappeared. Danny cursed under his breath. He hated when something like this happened. It always resulted in the same way.
Suddenly the shark appeared behind Danny slammed into him. Danny was sent hurtling back into the trench where he collided into the side of the trench. Hard. His body made an indent in the hard rock and he changed back into Danny Fenton. A torrent of bubbles escaped from his mouth as he slid down into the bottom of the trench. Danny had trouble breathing but amazingly he could still breathe. A dark cloud was beginning to appear at the edge of his eyes.
The ghost shark swam down into the trench, leering and showing two rows of razor sharp teeth. Since it had escaped from the ghost zone, it had only managed to catch a few scraggily tuna, and its stomach had been rumbling all day. And it looked now like Danny was going to be the ghost sharks dinner.
Just as the ghost shark was going to bite Danny's head off, a small blue blast of energy hit the ghost shark on the nose. The shark shook its head in pain and confusion and glared at something at the top of the trench.
Danny could not see who had hit the ghost shark mainly because whoever it was, was above Danny and concealed in the seaweed forest.
A barricade of blue energy hit the ghost shark and it was forced to retreat. Growling in anger at the loss of its dinner, the ghost shark swam off.
Meanwhile, Danny was just about out cold. He could no longer breathe and his lungs felt like they were going to explode.
Suddenly, a pair of strong arms lifted Danny from where he lay. Something, or someone was carrying him out of the trench and back to the surface. Danny felt the pressure of the ocean diminish and he could breathe again. Danny opened his eyes slightly. The Specter Speeder was only a few feet away. Danny turned his head to see who his savior was.
Danny gave a gasp when he saw who it was.
"It must be the salt water in my eyes." Danny blinked his eyes furiously, but he realized that he wasn't hallucinating.
But no...
Just as Danny was being phased into the Specter Speeder, he saw, with a determined look on his face, was himself...
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I... updated...?
Well now that's a miracle. I am SO sorry for the late update but I had writers block. You just gotta love writers block... Anywho, I just wanted to let my fan know (if I even have any...) that updates will be sparse because first I write out the chapters and then I type them, which takes FOREVER. So... I hope you like where this story is going and no this IS NOT slash. I personally don't like those. And for all of you dreamers out there, sorry this isn't going to turn out like every other fic where MerDanny falls in love with Sam... Although I might consider it. At least 5 reviews, no flames, and I'll try to update soon. I'm currently writing the next chapter.
Toddles,
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