Hey guys! It's me! I know, you must be so shocked, you thought i was dead or something. :) Trust me, I felt the same way. But I am going to write and write. In fact, I'll write some more since silly steph (haha) just went offline and I'm going to give her a heart attack when she comes back online :) Sorry if there are any mistakes, I can't be bothered. And if there is any randomness... I was bored, and trailed off a few times :) OOhh

And on the subject of MARY SUE. No. I have to tell you. She may seem Mary Sue-ish, but trust me, KELLY IS NOT MARY SUE. Notice that you've only seen Danny's opinion of her so far. And look, trust me on this, if you're falling for someone most of the time you see their good parts first. And ignore the bad parts. But keep reading because as we go along, you see that she is less mary sue ish. Okay? Pointo acrossed? :) Anyway, yeah, I didn't want to make her a monster in this chapter, and you don't really hear how "amazingly perfect" she is in this chapter, so your opinion should remain the same. But NOT. A. Mary. Sue. Okay? Trust me. You'll see :)

But Anywhoe. Enough Chitter Patter. :)

Oops. I forgot to add those lines :D

The Beginning

Chapter Three

Suspicions

"Why do you keep repeating yourself?" The ghost girl asked curiously.

Danny glanced up, startled. He hadn't realised that he had spoken loud enough for anyone to hear, yet he should've realised that she'd be able to pick up on his words. After all she was, like him, a half ghost, and therefore they probably had all the same powers. He hadn't told anyone, but recently he had noticed that a few of his senses had improved while he was in his ghost form. The change in his senses wasn't too dramatic – just that he could hear whispered conversations from maybe ten metres away, while a human could barely hear them from one metre away. His sight had also improved, but not by very much.

"Oh, it's nothing. I'm just trying to remember something important," Danny lied unconvincingly. "But it doesn't really seem to be working, so I suppose I'll stop now." He ran his hand through his wild sparkling silver hair, avoiding Kelly's questioning gaze.

"You do know that you're really… umm, well, odd for a ghost." Kelly-Go-Boom commented shyly. She turned away from him as she said that, as though it had been a mistake and she was embarrassed about it. But after a few more seconds she gained the courage to face him once again, and Danny found that he couldn't avoid her fiery red eyes this time.

Danny laughed absently as he stared into the halfa's glowing crimson eyes. "Mm, well, it's who I am. Anyway, got to shoot – places I need to be, ghosts I need to attack, stuff like that. Nice meeting you, Kelly-Go-Boom,"

Danny jumped into the air and prepared to fly away when suddenly he heard Kelly call out to him from below, asking him to wait. He glanced down and saw, horrified, that she was holding his cell phone. If she so much as flipped it open, she'd see the wallpaper with Sam Manson, Tucker Foley and Danny Fenton all eating ice cream on it. That would be hard to explain.

"You dropped this," Kelly called as she began to walk towards the spot where he was floating.

"Uh, thanks," he muttered, watching her cautiously. She didn't look down at the ground that she was walking on as she continued towards him – that was her mistake. She didn't see the rock in her path, and Danny wasn't fast enough to warn her. In mere seconds she was lying with her face flat on the cold concrete roof of the building they had been standing on. Danny had to work hard to stifle a giggle, amused by her clumsiness. It seemed that she wasn't too experienced at the ghost stuff – when he had first become a halfa, he too had been clumsy.

"Ugh," Kelly-Go-Boom moaned as her ghost form shimmered slightly, meaning that if she didn't regain control of herself, she would soon revert to her human form, and Danny would once and for all know if she really was Kelly Stager. He wasn't quite sure if that was a good or bad thing yet.

"You okay?" He asked as he offered her his hand to help her up.

She closed her eyes for a moment, inhaled deeply and then exhaled. When she opened her eyes, her form was completely stable. It was both a relief and disappointment to Danny. He wasn't sure what he would do if he found out for certain that Kelly Stager was a halfa. Sure, it wasn't like he didn't harbor strange secrets, but he didn't know what her purpose was, or whether she was to be trusted. He needed more time to think this through.

Kelly accepted his offered hand and used it to pull herself up. "I'm fine, just a bit clumsy," she laughed nervously. "Well, I don't want to keep you from your, umm, ghost hunting or anything. Bye!"

"Later, Kelly,"

"Get him good?" Tucker asked as Danny returned to the cafeteria table that he had so rudely stormed away from only minutes before. Danny didn't quite understand how Tucker could've possibly known that there had been a ghost attack, but he didn't bother questioning his friend.

"Yeah, just the usual Klemper problems," Danny informed them as he glanced behind him. He wasn't surprised to see Kelly Stager heading their way. "Listen, guys, I need to talk to you about something later, okay?"

"Got ya," Sam whispered as she glanced meaningfully towards the approaching Kelly.

"Hey guys, sorry about that." Kelly apologised as she took the empty seat next to Danny.

Danny shifted slightly away from her, but then realised that he was overreacting. She couldn't possibly know who he was, and if she did, she was acting way too normal. "You feeling better?" Danny asked, playing along with her lie.

"Definitely," Kelly assured him.

"Danny!" Jazz hissed as she came sprinting towards the table of four, keeping her voice down so that no one else in the cafeteria would be able to hear what she was about to tell her brother and his friends. "Outside, in the hall, there's…"

She stopped in midsentence as she noticed that there was a new member sitting with the group. Her curious eyes met Danny's for a moment before she turned to the new member. In those few seconds she conveyed her urgent message to him using only her eyes – ghost in the hall.

"Oh, hi, I'm Jazz, Danny's older sister," Jazz introduced herself politely to Kelly as Danny hastily left the cafeteria once again. "And you are?"

"Nice to meet you, Jazz," Kelly smiled kindly. "I'm Kelly Stager, just moved here from Wisconsin. Is Danny okay? He just left here without even listening to what you had to say."

Jazz glanced in the direction that Danny had headed towards and was relieved to see that he had already reached the hall doors. She didn't pay any attention to the question that Kelly had just asked, her mind obviously on other things. Luckily Sam was paying attention.

"Oh, he does that to her a lot. He knows what she was going to tell him, anyway. There are no hard feelings or anything between the two," Sam informed Kelly.

Danny was relieved to see that the hall was empty, but just in case he glanced around cautiously before calling upon the power inside him that was his ghost self. He closed his eyes and uttered three unclear words. In only seconds the human teenager had been replaced by Danny Phantom, public enemy number one.

"Young Daniel, I was wondering where you'd gotten to."

"Plasmius," Danny spat distastefully.

"It is pleasant to see you once again," Vlad inclined his head in mock courtesy and landed with a thud on the ground.

"What do you want this time?" Danny asked with a hint of annoyance seeping into his voice.

"Oh, just the usual boring old request – for you to team up with me, make a fool out of your father, steal your mother, take over the world, stuff like that," Vlad suggested casually as he walked towards the ghost teenager.

"No."

Vlad pouted and placed his hands upon his hips. "Oh, come on, it'll be fun!" He said enthusiastically.

"Do you really think I'm that pathetic? I suggest that now's the time to get a cat." Danny asked scornfully.

"You will rue the day you turned down my offer!" Plasmius threatened evilly as he dove forward and placed his large hands around Danny's neck. "And why should I get a cat now? Today's the day I will have Maddie."

Before Danny could answer, he was interrupted by a female voice.

"Stop right there, ghost!"

Both Danny and Plasmius turned their heads at the sound of this new voice, though Danny knew who it was before he even saw her – Kelly-Go-Boom. So that meant that she either wasn't Kelly Stager, or had somehow escaped from the group without making Tucker, Jazz and Sam suspicious, which would've been a hard thing to do. Those three were always suspicious of something. Danny shook his head and decided to focus on the fight, and think about Kelly some time later tonight. Just because she may not be like other girls didn't mean that he had to act different around her until he discovered the truth.

"Who do you think you are, speaking to me, Vlad Plasmius, like that?" Vlad growled, quite obviously insulted by Kelly's behaviour.

"I don't think I know who I am, I know that I am the person I think that I know I am, so therefore I think that I am no one and know that I am someone. Who do you think you know I think I know I am?" Kelly retorted.

"What?"

Danny and Vlad both glared at each other because they had both voiced the same word in a clueless tone, as well as in unison. Kelly just looked from one to the other with a wicked glint in her fiery red eyes. She grinned as she realised that the two shared a hatred for each other, a hatred that ran deep. It was obvious that this feud had been going on for a very long time.

"Nice to make your acquaintance." Kelly grinned wider as she stuck her hand towards Vlad as though she wanted him to shake it.

Vlad was confused. He glanced at Danny, trying to figure out if it was a trap set by the younger, less experienced half ghost. Danny shrugged – he too was confused. Whose side was Kelly on? If only he had the power to read minds, then he would be able to see what her intentions were. If they were bad, he'd stop her.

He smiled absently as he imagined what this new power would be like. He considered it a possibility that he might discover how to read minds. After all, he had learnt many things since the accident that had turned him into a half ghost. He wondered how mind reading would work, and how he'd control it. Would the thoughts of others just flow into his mind uncontrollably or would he have to focus on them?

Meanwhile, Vlad had cautiously grasped Kelly's hand, wary due to suspicions. But even though Vlad was an evil criminal half ghost, the human part of him was forever courteous. He could not refuse to shake hands with someone – it was bad manners – even if they were a mysterious ghost. It was one of his stupid, stupid faults.

Of course, Kelly took advantage of this situation. She frowned wickedly and Danny watched as her hand grew a fiery hot red colour. Vlad's eyes widened as he tried to pull away from the traitorous Kelly-Go-Boom but found that her grip was like iron. He gasped as he felt a searing hot pain before he was shot with a dark red ecto-ray. An extremely powerful dark red ecto-ray.

He crashed into the wall, bringing up clouds of dust. The flimsy school wall that he had been sent flying into cracked down the middle and collapsed pathetically. Danny smiled as he watched this happen.

Kelly cleared her throat as the dust cleared, and Vlad was revealed lying on the floor like a helpless kitten. "The name's Kelly," she declared proudly. "Kelly-Go-Boom. But it seems my Wisconsin vampire-like fiend that you are the one going boom."

Danny raised an eyebrow – there had been no boom – as he watched Vlad's reaction. Vlad glared at the ghost girl and tried to stand up – when both he and Danny realised that there was a faint ticking sound in the background. Vlad glanced towards his wrist and groaned.

"Oh fudge buckets…." Vlad muttered to himself.

Before he could turn himself intangible, there was a loud explosion in the school. Danny blinked as he saw Vlad's ghost form shoot through many layers of walls and out of sight. There was another explosion in the distance, which Danny assumed was the thing that was on Vlad's wrist. Vlad had just exploded.

"And he's out," Kelly announced as she turned to Danny, smiling at him friendlily.

Danny chuckled.

I beat the 2,000 word limit Steph, aren't you ever so proud?
And no I don't want to do outtakes. Lame lame lame! :) Goodnight My Fellow Fellows,

Kirstyn And Her VampireElf. :)