Danny yawned as he woke up, light streaming through the blinds in front of his windows. He smiled upon seeing the rope held him in. Pulling it off and setting it aside, he sat up drowsily, swinging his feet over the side of the bed...

...Before ending up screaming at the top of his lungs at what he saw. He had turned into his ghost form overnight, and upon moving over, his legs had turn into a tail.


"I wonder how Danny's doi-" Maddie was interrupted by a scream.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

She and Jack shared a look, before quickly jumping to run out of the kitchen and up the stairs, up to Danny's room. Upon knocking, they were met with a 'DON'T COME IN!' from Danny.

Rolling their eyes, Jack knocked again.

"C'mon, Danny! It can't be THAT bad!" Jack called.

"Well, uh...I changed into my ghost form when I was sleeping last night...And now my...Legs...Are...Missing..." Danny said, his voice falling softer and softer with each word. Eyes widened, Jack and Maddie burst into the room to see Danny in ghost form- with no longer legs, but a tail in the place of his legs.

"AHHH! I TOLD YOU NOT TO COME IN!" Danny shouted, embarrassed. His parents gaped for a minute, before Maddie spoke.

"We've researched this...According to our theory, ghosts can occasionally have a tail, but can switch back upon their command. So, try to calm down and concentrate." Maddie said softly to try to calm Danny down. Her son nodded, took a few deep breaths, and closed his eyes in concentration, and after a few moments, they were legs once more.

The trio sighed in relief, Danny most relieved. But, lo and behold, his arms started to turn into little tails, too. He screamed again, before concentrating and turning them back. Sighing, he fell back onto his bed with a groan and the blue rings formed and passed to leave Danny in human form again.

"Ughhh..." Danny mumbled. Jack smiled a bit.

"What a wake up call, eh, Danny?" Jack asked. Jack's ears were met by a muffled groan.

Getting up cautiously, Danny frowned.

"I'll be down in a minute..." He muttered. His parents nodded, Maddie giving him a kiss on the head before both left.

Cursing under his breath, Danny got up slowly to not fall through anything, and walked over to his closet. Opening it, he pulled out his normal clothes, got dressed, and stumbled through his door and down the stairs to the kitchen. Pulling over a chair, he sat down with a sigh.

His eyes weren't entirely open due to drowsiness. His mom and dad took this opportunity to act, as Maddie finished making a plate of pancakes for Danny, and, winking at Jack, she poured glowing green substance onto one of the pancakes, separating the rest from that particular one.

Smiling at the fact Danny hadn't entirely woken up, she placed it down on the table, and Danny took a fork on the table next to him, and said 'thank you' drowsily, and stuck the fork in the pancake with the green substance on it. His parents watched as he opened his mouth to stick it in.

He chewed for a moment, before his eyes opened wide as he struggled to shove the piece of pancake down his throat.

"AGH! UCK! BLAH! ICK! WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT?!" Danny shouted, disgusted as he reached for his orange juice to wash it down. Jack smiled innocently.

"Well...Uh...Stuff to help you not phase or stuff as much randomly. Tastes nasty, but you need to take it." Jack said. Danny groaned and whammed his head down on the table irritably. Maddie shrugged.

"Well, you don't really wanna taste it when it's raw without anything. We imagine it'd be worse." Maddie said. Danny groaned, sat up, and stared at the glowing pancake.

Slowly picking up his fork, he stuck it in the pancake, and held his nose while sticking it in and eating it. Grimacing, he continued until the pancake was gone other than a few green bits of pancake crumbs left. Then he slammed his head down again.

"I don't think I'm hungry anymore..." Danny said. Maddie only smiled warmly as she picked up the plate from in front of Danny.


"Alright, soo...We're down in the lab. What now?" Danny asked. Jack shrugged.

"Odd as it may sound, can you please change into your ghost form?" Jack asked calmly. Danny nodded, and closed his eyes as the blue rings formed and separated, going up and down, leaving Danny Phantom in it's place.

Opening his now neon green eyes, he looked up at his parents.

"So..." Danny trailed off. Maddie started.

"Well, uh, how does it-it feel in your...Uh...Ghost form, for lack of better words?" Maddie asked curiously, as she held her notebook to write notes with. Danny shrugged.

"Cold, but not much else." Danny said nonchalantly. Maddie nodded and scribbled down notes, and she asked without looking up,

"Jack, can you take his human and ghost temperature to compare?" Maddie asked. Jack nodded, and went to the cabinet on the other side of the room to grab an oral thermometer. Holding it, he walked back to Danny to stick the thing in his mouth. Danny sat there calmly as the thermometer beeped after a minute, and Jack pulled it out, and stared at the temperature.

"78 degrees Fahrenheit for his ghost form." Jack said. Maddie looked up, surprised for a minute, before jotting it down.

"Alright, son, can you change back to human again for us?" Jack asked. Danny nodded and did so, Jack sticking the thermometer back in again.

It beeped after a minute, and Jack pulled it out. He smiled at it, and looked up at Maddie.

"Ninety-eight degrees Fahrenheit. Normal." Jack said happily. Maddie smiled as well and put it down, before looking the temperatures once more.

"Well, it appears his core body temperature drops by twenty degrees when he's a ghost. Sounds about right." Maddie said cheerfully. Then she frowned.

"Uh, Danny...We...Uh...Need to take two blood tests." She said. Danny's eyes bulged.

"AHH! NEEDLES!" Danny shouted fearfully, backing up a bit. Jack sighed and held out the rope.

"Either you can relax and let us do them, or you can be tied up while doing it. Your call." Jack said firmly. Danny sighed and found a chair to sit down on, resigning himself to his fate. Smiling, Maddie went to dig up two needles from the cabinet, along with some cotton balls, two bandages, and a solution for sanitizing Danny's skin. Placing a supportive hand on Danny's trembling shoulder, Jack smiled at his son, who calmed a bit, and closed his eyes as he felt his mom rub a damp cotton ball on the middle on his arm, pulled it away, and Danny waited, feeling the air above his arm as he waited for the sting nervously. He felt the pinch, and it disappeared after a moment, before the needle was taken out and a bandage was applied as Danny cracked an eye open at the vial of his human blood.

Red, as you might expect. Maddie smiled and set it aside for more testing later, and looked at Danny cooly.

"Alright, Danny. One more needle and you're done. Change into your ghost form, please." Maddie said. Danny smiled a little as he changed into his ghost form again, and closed his eyes as he felt his mom pull back the black jumpsuit's fabric, dabbed another damp cotton ball onto his skin, removing it after a moment. He felt the almost completely still air above his arm as he waited for the final pinch.

It came, and Danny sighed in relief when it was removed a moment later, felt the bandage be applied, and cracked his eyes open...But froze at the sight of his vial.

The blood was absolute green; glowing slightly. His parents gawped at it for a moment, before setting it aside as Danny pulled the fabric of his jumpsuit back over his arm, wincing as the bandage stung a little as the fabric past over it.

Jack smiled at Danny. "Alright, son, we're going to test some of your powers now. So, can you jump up into the air to hopefully stay floating please?" He asked politely.

Danny obliged, jumping into the air, but not falling back down to Earth. His parents smiled.

"Alright, Danny. Can you see if you can move freely around when floating?" His mom asked. Danny nodded, and with much more ease than he expected, he almost effortlessly floated through the air in the direction he pleased. He then moved up and down happily, doing a flip in the air out of sheer joy from this ability. His parents smiled at him as he floated down to make a landing. Maddie jotted down more notes, and was about to say something before a blue wisp of air escaped his mouth. Staring at it, it went off three more times.

"What's that?" Jack asked curiously. Danny was about to say 'I dunno', before four ghosts- ecto pusses- flew out from the portal. They screeched, ready to attack the humans below.

Danny gasped. "DON'T HURT THEM!!!" Danny shouted at the top of his lungs, flying forth and hitting the ghosts with all his might. The ghosts were thrown back, surprised that a ghost was defending mere humans. Glaring at him, they aimed to attack, which Danny narrowly dodged. Grabbing two in both hands by their tails, they squealed as Danny spun rapidly, throwing them into the Ghost Zone again, Jack running over and pushing the button to close it as soon as they were thrown in.

Danny fell to the ground and turned human, exhausted from his first fight. His parents walked up and helped him up, smiling proudly at him for defending them.

"Well, I think when you get a blue wisp from your mouth, it means a ghost is near. Let's call it your 'ghost sense'." Maddie said. Danny nodded, yawning as he turned into a ghost again. Jack looked like he was about to spill tears of joys from his eyes.

"My-my son...Fought his first ghost...I could cry right now..." Jack said, eyes watery a bit. Danny smiled modestly, as Maddie picked up the clipboard again.

"Alright, Danny. Try turning intangible." She said, Danny did so, flickering a few times, but managed to do so, and stuck his arm through the chair he was sitting on earlier. It passed through, and Maddie wrote the data down.

Danny already knew what she was going to ask for next, so he turned invisible, as his parents looked confused for a moment, before realization dawned upon them and Maddie continued her notes. Jack then pressed a button on the wall, and a junky car dropped from the ceiling. Danny stared at it for a minute, before giving a confused look at his parents.

"Son, try to see if you can lift it." Maddie said. Danny rolled his eyes, but nodded, sticking one hand under the car, and it felt as it was no heavier than a textbook. Picking it up with one hand, he and his parents stared.

"You...Just...Lifted...A...Car...With...One hand..." Jack said slowly, his eyes fixed on the car. Danny beamed proudly and put the car back down, and smiled.

"Take THAT, Dash Baxter!" Danny cheered. Jack grabbed a camera.

"Say, son, can you pick it up again so I can take a picture?" Jack asked. Danny nodded, and held the car up, Jack snapped a picture, and Danny set it down again. Turning back to human, Danny grinned at the picture his dad got.

"Wait 'til Sam and Tuck- Woah!" He shouted as his foot turned intangible by accident again, tripping him. His parents snickered at him.


"Dude, what's up?" Tucker asked. The trio was now sitting in Danny's room, as Danny held up the picture for his friends to see as Sam took it, and then both friends held onto it, gaping.

Shaking his head, Tucker blinked.

"I don't freaking believe it..." Tucker said, shocked. Danny smirked.

"I'll prove it to you. C'mon down to the lab." He said, Sam and Tucker getting up and following him.

Down at the lab, Maddie and Jack turned to look at their son and his friends.

"Dad, Sam and Tuck don't believe me." Danny said. Jack only responded with a grin as he allowed the car to come down again, and Danny changed into his ghost mode, and picked up the car with one hand, smiling as his friends gaped stupidly.

"Wait, let me try that!" Tucker said as Danny put it down, and attempted to stick his hand under it. Pushing up, Tucker winced.

"I...Can...Do...It! FOR TUCKER IS MUY MACHO!" He shouted, ignoring sweat beads falling down his face and the group behind him giggling at the sight of it. Finally, Tucker gave up.

"GAH!" He said as he marched up the stairs stubbornly, irritably.

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