Chapter 3
"Danny! Odd! We'll be late for school!" Jazz called out of her room at the two closed doors. She grabbed her school bag and shut her door as she left.
"I'm coming." Odd's voice called a moment before he opened the door.
"Why can't you drive us?" Danny's voice asked, half muffled by sleep as the boy opened his door.
Jazz looked at the teen who was freshly dressed but still with a bit of bed hair, a comb in his hand. "Cause Dad ran into it again when he was parking." Jazz retorted. She crossed her arms over her chest and eyed him. "Come on, we gotta walk."
"Alright, Alright. Let me finish getting my hair at least semi-normal." Danny groaned, going back into his room. He glanced at the mirror and quickly brushed the side back to normal, not messing with the fluff at the top.
Behind him, an outlet sizzled as a gray smoke appeared. It waited for Danny to lay down his comb before shooting towards the teen's back, disappearing as it took over.
Danny turned to look at his reflection, a smile on his face as the blue eyes turned black and a two circle three line symbol appeared.
"Danny." Maddie's voice called up from the living room.
"Coming." Danny growled, an evil undertone in his voice. He grabbed his book bag and headed downstairs.
"Finally." Jazz breathed, grabbing Danny's arm as soon as he stepped a foot off the stairs. She pulled his body out and around to the sidewalk so fast, Odd found himself running to keep up.
A vibration came from Odd's pocket, getting his attention as Jazz slowed down to a quick walk. He pulled out his phone, keeping himself instep behind the siblings and read his message.
"Activated tower, Girls on Lyoko."
"Odd, do you have your papers?" Jazz asked.
Odd put his phone away before replaying, "Ya, we've gotta meet up outside the school before your classes begin."
"Right, your teachers will be helping our teachers." Jazz remembered out loud.
Danny glanced around, seeing the three were the only ones there at the moment. He spun around on the ball of his foot and stuck out at Odd, only barely missing the boy's face.
"Danny!" Jazz cried out, surprised.
Danny growled before launching himself at Odd.
Odd grabbed the boy's writs only to receive an electric shock. Odd wrenched his hands away and twisted, sending a foot up to Danny's chest only for it to go through his body.
"Danny! Stop this!" Jazz demanded, a Fenton Thermos in her hand and ready.
"He's not doing this." Odd explained, only to have to duck and role away from a stream of electricity. "He's possessed."
"Get out of me!" Danny growled, no undertone in his voice this time as he forced his body to drop to the ground.
A gray smoke floated out of him and found refuge in his cell phone, leaving the teen exhausted on the sidewalk.
"Danny, are you ok?" Jazz asked, dropping to her knees so she could lay a free hand on his head, the other still holding the thermos.
Danny opened his blue eyes, a shiver running through-out his body. "That must've been one strong ghost."
"Ghost?" Odd asked, one button away from telling the girls to return to the past. "Oh, right."
"I didn't think ghosts could even overshadow you." Jazz said, helping the teen back to his feet.
Odd quickly sent "No RTP and aided his hands to Danny's balance recovery.
"None have tried in a long time." Danny admitted, looking at his sister. "It was weird, I didn't even sense it."
"Sense it?" Odd asked, the three slowly walking towards the school to make sure Danny was recovering well enough.
"Living with ghost hunter parents, I can now sense when a ghost is nearby." Danny tried explaining. "But whatever that thing was… it was like it wasn't really there."
"At least you're ok." Jazz smiled at her brother, concern leaking into her voice. As much as she didn't want to admit it out loud, it scared her too see her brother attacking for no reason. It reminded her of that evil future him and even though she only saw him once it gave her shivers to think her little brother could become that evil.
The three got to the school and noticed Mrs. Hertz and Jim doing a roll call of everyone in the crowd in front of them.
"See you in class." Odd called, leaving the two Fenton's as they headed inside.
"Della Robbia." Jim called, looking at the paper on his clipboard.
"Present." Odd called, skidding to a stop next to his friends.
Jim peered over his clipboard, eyeing the teen but continuing still. "Delmas."
"So what happened?" Jeremie asked.
"Xana overshadowed Danny. No one saw but his sister and they both think it was a ghost." Odd explained.
"He didn't faint?" Jeremie asked at the same time Ulrich asked, "A ghost?"
"No, and yes." Odd answered both questions. He turned to Ulrich and remembered, "Oh right, you weren't there last night. We're in ghost town USA."
"Hey, listen." Jeremie pointed towards Mrs. Hertz as he caught something they should be hearing.
"…in addition, Casper High has ghost drills." Mrs. Hertz explained, "They are very similar to fire drills so if one does occur, stick with the teacher and avoid the ghost fight."
"Ghost? You've gotta be kidding me." Theo exclaimed.
A bell came from the school, getting everyone's attention.
"School starts in five minutes." Jim informed. "And if I hear of anybody skipping, it'll be detention as normal."
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"Danny, you ok?" Tucker asked, turning his attention to his friend walking towards them.
"Ya, some weird ghost tried to overshadow me on our way to school." Danny admitted.
"I didn't think they could." Sam said.
"Normally, no. Not without me knowing about it." Danny admitted. "It was weird. I remember getting ready to leave and then the next I'm fighting Odd. In between I somehow went from my room to the sidewalk."
"At least you don't black out after the ghost leaves." Tucker pointed out. "If that ghost was strong enough to possess you without you knowing, it should've been strong enough to even knock you out."
"I know, that's what's got me worried." Danny admitted as the warning bell rang. "Whatever this thing is, my ghost sense didn't even go off, so we'll have to be more careful than normal."