Okay, some things people:
To some who consider Danny an A class monster I have this to say when it comes to his Ghostly Wail and his Cytokinesis powers. They are incredibly powerful, yes but whenever he uses them at full strength, he tends to revert to his human form. This I believe is due to him being so young and having limited energy. He uses them sparingly as best he can because he is only half-ghost. I think in time his powers will grow to the point where he can handle the Ghostly Wail as much as he wants without tapping out. It's this big flaw that has me convinced he's just below the level of an A class monster.
Danny's turn around was quick, but that's because while I was re-watching the series and reading some of the comics of Danny Phantom, I noticed something. He is a fast learner. When Danny heard what Kurumu said he filed it away as just being something a desperate monster would say on the verge of losing. When Will said it, it made him realize like with ghosts that not every single monster out there that he fights is an evil monster. The best example is Wulf. Remember when Walker sent Wulf after Danny and that entire fight happened. Danny learned that Wulf wasn't an evil ghost. That's why I wrote that scene as it is.
Regarding the topic of Danny having to go up against the sheer force of Ren and William in the Kurumu fight, I had already planned on Ren just ignoring the battle entirely. Right now he's acting like an older brother to Moka only stepping in when it is necessary. He was present for the fight, but he was watching from afar. I regret that I have to say this in the Author's Notes since I thought it was implied. I will say this. William will not get Kurumu. He's looking for another Succubus that looks like Kurumu. As such he will spend time with the girl in hopes of learning where she is, and in turn, help the succubus tone down her approach on Danny.
NO! Yukari will not be in the harem. She's freaking twelve. As such I have something planned out to make sure she calms the hell down. I already hinted at it during chapter 1.
There is a difference between a harem and just having girls like you. Yes, there will be more than one girl liking Danny, Sam being the obvious one and Kurumu being the second. I will say this, unlike most harem works I am planning on Danny ending up with one person. If you, the audience, demand that it be more than one and if you give me a good reason to turn this work into a full fledge harem (3+ girls ending up with Danny) by all means I will. The only reason I see it happening at the moment is just for purely comedic purposes. And no Shannon and Danny will never be a thing because I have something already written down for her! You'll love me for this…trust me.
Regarding my statement last chapter when it came to writing the Newspaper club, I was wrong. It is next chapter. This section will be the Swimming club, just expect the fight to be over fast. Instead, I'm gonna to dedicate the first part of this chapter to Rosario + Vampire than the next to Danny Phantom. There's a character that I have wanted to bring over, and I'm excited about it.
Rosario to Phantom
Chapter 4
"Esperanto?" William asked as he walked side by side with Danny away from the men's showers. "Sounds like a weird language that I've never heard of," William said closing his eyes. "Are you sure you're not making it up?"
"No. I had to learn it from Tucker. Speaking of which he sent me some of my ghost fighting equipment due to the ghosts acting up again. Some are heading to Japan, so I'm getting ready for a fight." Danny said.
"Wait so…ghosts will be coming here? Alright, I give." William said as he groaned. He was still fighting Danny on the topic of ghosts existing. He wouldn't buy it, sure banshees lived and wraiths and what not, but they weren't ghosts.
"Let's hope not. I don't want any more trouble finding or following me. I'm still pretty bummed out regarding Kurumu." Danny said as he was referring to last week's little scuffle. Apparently, because of it, the succubus had ended up falling in love with the halfa. When word got out to Sam, Danny found his phone blown up with angry texts. "I'm still trying to sort things out with Sam back home."
"You know, only Ren has met your friends Danny," William said as he turned to Danny, a look in his eyes. When Danny saw it, he immediately shook his head no. "What? Why not!" William whined, stomping his foot on the ground much like a horse.
"No. No no no. If I let you meet my friends than Shannon will want to meet them. It's her I don't want them to meet right now because I'm more afraid of what she will say than what she will do." Danny said crossing his arms with his little bag of toiletries.
"Alright, you got me there," William said deflated hanging his head low. "Yeah, she's never been good at keeping secrets. I once told her I had a crush on her sister and she told everyone." William said as he recalled the nightmarish two years of his life. "It was hell. My dad was screaming down my neck because of it."
"I bet, even if the person is a distant cousin it is kinda weird," Danny said as he resumed his walk back to his room.
"Oh wait, Danny! Have you decided on what club you want to join today?" William asked as Danny was about to enter his room. "I'm thinking of joining the swimming club or maybe the equestrian club," William said as his love for horses continues to grow.
"Wait…we have to join school clubs?" Danny asked blinking as he turned to William. "I thought it was optional. I mean, back at Casper High I never was in any clubs because I was busy fighting ghosts and saving the day, or helping out at home in my parents' lab." Danny said blinking.
"Yeah we have to join a club, supposedly it's going to, and I quote Nekonome-sensei on this "improve our chances in the human realm" end quote," William said as he gave Danny a blank look.
"Great, and here I was hoping I'd be able to just hang out like a normal teenager instead of joining clubs because of school rules," Danny said as he entered his room, he was greeted to the sight of a snow-white owl. It flew from his desk right at him.
"Gah!" He cried out as he stumbled back a bit. Blinking he wondered where the owl came from. Looking around after he calmed down the avian creature he stopped that his window was open. "Huh, I swore I closed that last night and locked it. Weird." Danny said as he scratched his head. Turning to the owl, he crossed his arms. "Alright you, I need you to leave. I don't have any way to properly take care of you." Danny said.
The owl just looked at him, as if it was giving off an uncaring look at what Danny said before hopping off his desk to fly right up to his open closet, claiming the shelf as his little spot.
"Oh come on! You can't have my closet. You need to go!" Danny shouted as he frowned. The owl just ignored him and closed its eyes, drifting off to sleep. "Alright, you asked for it." He said as he turned into his ghost form, levitating up off the ground he grabbed the owl. Only for it to peck at his head violently once it was disturbed from his sleep. "Ow ow ow ow! Alright alright! I'll let you stay just for today. When you're done sleeping, I want you out of here." Danny said as he put the owl back and slipped out of his clothing into his school attire.
As soon as Danny left the room, a girl with long purple hair lifted herself up into his place from his window. She began to look around. "…There you are Spooky." She said as she walked up to the closet where the owl was. A lollipop was in her mouth. "Why do you always run off to this room?" She asked as she reached up slowly lifting the snow-white owl off the shelf, and patting its head with her cold hands.
"This is the eighth time I caught you in here. Come on let's go back to my room. I promise to give you some nice treats." She said lovingly as she opened Danny's door, stepping out of his room and into the hallway.
William was giving Ren an annoyed look as the two were currently engaged in a staring contest, the winner gets the last packet of sugar. "Come on Ren Avram! You can go one day without sugar in your oatmeal! Just use honey!" William said as a vein popped out of his forehead. His eyes turning to an itchy red.
"In your dreams! All you do with the sugar is put it on your tongue William McDougal!" Ren seethed as he glared hard at William, his colored contact lenses drying out.
"That's because it's a custom of my people to start the day out by putting a packet of sugar on their tongue for good luck!" William shouted as he attempted to reach for the packet of sugar only to be stopped by Ren.
"You're a freaking Hippocampus; your daily ritual is to bring good fortune to sailors in Greece!" Ren jabbed, knowing full well that Ren hated to be called that.
"I'm not a Hippocampus!" Bingo.
Meanwhile, by the tables, Danny was sitting down eating a bowl of cereal as he sighed at his friends' antics. "Honestly can't they share?" Danny asked Moka as she sat next to him.
"I do not know. I'm not sure anyone has ever suggested that." Moka said as she slowly got up, only to be stopped by Shannon. "Shannon, why are you stopping me?" She asked confused.
"Because it's fun to see those two argue." She grinned as she took a bite out of the apple she swiped from the fruit bowl. "Also, builds character to get your butt handed to you." She said smirking as she saw William and Ren get hit over the head by one of the Staff members. "Ahh, there you go. Character like I said."
Danny rolled his eyes as he finished off the last drop of milk from his bowl. "Well, Moka and I are going to get to class early. She's offering to help me learn how to write better in Kanji." Danny said as he stood up. "Can you make sure Curly and Moe don't turn this place into a mess?"
"Sure can do," Shannon said as she smiled at Danny. Out of the three boys, she hangs out with, Danny's been the one she enjoys spending her time with the most. He never does anything as stupid as William nor is he hard to read like Ren. Danny to her was the perfect friend and nothing more.
Moka sighed as he stomach rumbled, they only just left the dorms and finished breakfast. Sadly there wasn't anything she wanted to eat besides Danny's blood. After what had happened with Kurumu, Moka had been holding back her desire to drink from her American friend. Looking down as she tried to keep her stomach from rumbling she tripped and fell over a rock.
Danny quickly reacted when he noticed Moka trip, wrapping his arms around her and pulling her up with little to no effort. "Wow Moka, you're kinda light. Have you been eating properly?" He asked as he helped to stabilize the vampire.
"Oh yes, I've been eating right! Every night before bed I make sure to drink at least one glass of milk that way I can continue growing. Oh and I make sure to at least eat an apple every time at lunch." Moka informs as she stood up, blushing, and rubbing the back of her head.
Just then Moka's stomach rumbled betraying Moka's earlier statement about eating right. Danny just stared at her before a look of realization crossed his mind. Immediately he brought his right hand up and palmed his face. "Oh right. Vampire, blood. Fight last week." Danny said before he yanked down the right side of his collar.
Moka blushed bright red when her stomach rumbled. 'Oh no! Now he knows I was lying about eating right!' Moka screamed to herself internally before noticing Danny hitting himself in the face with his palm. "D-Danny!" She called out before hearing his words. When she heard him mention the fight last week, a sad look came over her face. Ever since Danny told her what he thought about drinking his blood without permission, she had refrained from drinking any for a full week.
Moka blinked, confused as to what Danny was doing when he pulled his collar down and exposed his neck. Never before has the halfa ever done something like that. When the pieces of the puzzle began to fit in place, a proverbial lightbulb went off over Moka Akashiya's head. "You mean?" She asked, and Danny nodded. "It's…it's all right? Danny?" Moka asked as she brought a hand up to her mouth. Her throat was drying rapidly, and her desire began to grow. The rich taste of Danny's blood haunted her taste buds, all so tantalizingly close to tasting the same elixir of life she had fallen in love with.
Danny rolled his eyes as he let out a soft laugh. "Go ahead Moka. I should have realized that you have been holding back." Danny said with a caring look, which turned into a blush as the vampire got closer.
"Oh…Danny, I'm so happy. This is the first time you know that you let me suck your blood." Moka said with a husky tone that quickly changed to pure joy as she sunk her fangs into Danny's neck sucking his blood with new found vigor.
"Okay Moka, that's enough," Danny said after a couple of seconds. When Moka didn't let go, he began to worry. "Seriously that's enough," Danny said as he was beginning to feel lightheaded. "MOKA!" Danny shouted after he began feeling woozy. This got the girl's attention as she let go. Blushing and apologizing like crazy.
Danny had to lean on a tombstone for support as his skin turned chalk white. "Okay…new rule…only for a few seconds from now on Moka. I'm not ready to go ghost." Danny said as his head was spinning.
Danny grunted as he struggled to write down the notes for today's class. He was starting to hate how his brain would get things crossed when the teacher spoke in Japanese. 'Seriously! If only she taught in Esperanto, I'd be acing this course! I can speak and write it!' Danny thought to himself as he handed his notebook to Moka so she could double check his notes once class ended. Just then the school bell rang singling the end of the day.
Gong, gong, gong. "Well then, everyone, this academy's goal is to train monsters to adapt to human society. Just as I've been saying all along." Nekonome said as she turned to face her students a bright smile on her face. "So that means…starting today, you're going to take up club activities!" She shouted, hoping to get at least some cheers from her students.
'Murr…No one's cheering. Okay, Shizuka. Just roll with it.' She thought to herself tapping the chalkboard with her pointer. "We'll get a deeper understanding of humans by experience with human-made activities through some sweat in club activities! To transform into humans perfectly, we must have a clear understanding of humans!" She finished smiling happily.
"Uh…umm, Sensei?" William asked as he raised his hand into the air, beating a student with monkey-like hair. "Wouldn't that give you an F in transforming then?" He asked as he pointed out his homeroom teacher's tail. Then claw marks appeared on his face, blinking he noticed his face began to feel wet as blood spurted out. "GAHHHH!" William screamed as he fell to the floor rolling around. "Damn Ren! I told you something like this would happen when you took the last sugar packet!"
The entire class sweatdropped at the scene before them. No one dared help the poor horse loving foreign exchange student as he cried for mercy and cursed their Romanian classmate.
Nekonome cleared the blood off her claws as she took her lesson planner and tried to cover her tail with it as she tried to reel in the class. "Understand? Everyone will participate in club activities! Everyone, please visit a lot of groups and decide which one you want to enter! B sure to visit the newspaper club that I'm the advisor for, okay!" She said shamelessly trying to get some students to join in.
Danny, Ren, Moka, and a mummified William all walked out of their classroom, meeting up with Shannon as she rolled out of her class laughing her head off. "Oh, those poor bloody sods! Ahahahahaha that little girl got them good this time!" She said as she struggled to stand up, tears coming from her eyes. As soon as she looked at her cousin, she burst out into more tears as she pointed and laughed at him. "Bwahahahahahaha! What happened to your face you stupid seahorse!?" She asked as she held her side.
"Bad luck," William said as he walked past her. "Alright you guys, I'm gonna see if I can find the equestrian club. Meet up with you all later." William said as he waved his hand at his friends before being thrown into a wall by some guy in a white gi demonstrating karate. "…I will get you for this Ren." William said before he slipped out into the sweet bliss of unconsciousness.
"Baseball!"
"Ping pong!"
"Rugby!"
"Come join the video game club!"
"You! Join us! Join the archery club!"
"Oi! All of you buzz off!" Shannon shouted as she glared at the people trying to get her to join their clubs. "For your information, I'm gonna be starting my band! Yup no clubs for me! As long as I have three other people in my band I get to do whatever I want so you fucking assholes can bite it!" She shouted as three other girls nodded as the swarmed to her.
"Wow, Shannon's quite…" Danny said trying to find the words as he, Moka, and Ren walked side by side.
"Short-tempered?" Ren answered as he looked down at his hero. "She appears so. Well, at least this way the four of us can expand our friend group. It's a good thing we always meet up before dinner and after for some fun." Ren said with a smile before patting Moka's head. "Alright be safe. Stick with Danny. I'm gonna join the cooking club." Ren said as he turned to one of the booths with a giant spatula cut out hanging off a banner.
"Bye Ren!" Moka called out, waving to her surrogate brother before turning to Danny. "So Danny what club do you want to participate in?" Moka asked, smiling brightly.
"I'm not sure. I never was in any clubs back at Casper High. There was this one time when I took over for the school's mascot but I rather not remember that moment." Danny said as he recalled just how bad those chain of events were. It nearly destroyed his friendship with Tucker.
"Danny-kun!" A voice called out right before it was replaced with a groan. "Just let me hug you once Danny-kun!"
"No Kurumu. Last time you did I nearly suffocated. Seriously how is your back not hurting? Jazz complains all the time." Danny said as he turned himself tangible again looking down at the blue-haired succubus.
Moka was glaring daggers at Kurumu before cupping her chest. 'Her breasts are bigger than mine!' She thought in a jealous rage before hearing about how such a big chest would cause back problems. She was glad that her back only hurt some of the time.
"Why do you ask? Concern for your little Kuru-chan? Want to rub my back later to help me?" Kurumu asked teasingly as she got back up giving Danny a dirty perverted look before being hit on the head with a washing bin.
"Bullseye, my little apprentice!" A familiar Irish accent shouted out. "Quick now run!" She shouted as Kurumu turned around trying to find the source of her attacker.
"Anyway, Danny let's join the swimming club!" She suggested as she grabbed his arms and began to drag him off. "I can show off my very own bikini to you in the changing room!"
"Wait! Kurumu! Stop! I burn easily!" Danny said as Moka followed trying to break Danny free from Kurumu's grasps.
"So many perverts," Danny said aloud as Moka was approached by people from various clubs on their way to the swimming club. Once even asked for her nudes which sent both Danny and Ren who was walking by in a blind rage. It took Moka's raw strength to pull the two off the student followed by Ren informing them that the cooking club was made up of all female students. Which only worsen when Kurumu made a lewd comment about food and Ren.
After finding the swimming club and Ren returning to the cooking club to hand in his letter of acceptance. Kurumu had dragged Danny out of the changing room. She was clad in a skimpy orange bikini that caught the eyes of the male students that joined to swimming club and jealous eyes of the female club members.
Danny, on the other hand, was wearing a black shirt that Sam gave to him a year ago, it was the same Humpty Dumpty one they got at the concert the night Valerie Grey became Danny's enemy. Around his waist was a pair of red swim trunks. "Please Kurumu. I don't want to do this. Moka can't even swim." Danny said as he looked over at his pink-haired friend sitting down in one of the lounge chairs waving at him.
"Oh please, she's just a prude!" Kurumu said, getting a jab at her self-declared rival of love. "I bet she's embarrassed by what she looks like in a bikini." She said before turning to Moka, pulling down one of her eyelids and stuck out her tongue. "Bleeeeee!"
Just then a scream came from the pool as Danny, Moka, and Kurumu turned to see some of the female members being splashed with water by a guy with slicked-back hair. "Come on girls! This is the swimming club time to get you wet!" He said with a lecherous grin while stealing one of their tops pretending it was an accident. "Whoops sorry and would you look at the time! I have to meet up with a teacher!" He said before hopping out of the pool, with one of the girl's top still in his hand.
"Gin I know where you live!" She shouted before covering her chest back up when a good part of the male students in the pool simultaneously bled from their noses. Even Danny's nose bleed.
After about twenty minutes of Kurumu begging Danny to get in the pool with her, the young man for the first time in his life admitted total and utter defeat. "Fine, but only for a bit. After that, we're all going to find a club that the three of us can participate in!" Danny shouted, steamed that he gave in so quickly.
"Kurumu has big breasts." One guy said as he ogled the succubus's chest. A visible trail of blood running down from his nose.
"Forget that I want to know why Tamao-Sempai is staring at Danny!?" Another questioned as the leader of the swimming club approached the duo. She had turquoise colored hair, fair skin, and yellow irises. What looked like two seashell hair clips adorned the sides of her head. She stood taller than the rest of the girls in the club, and she supported a purple bikini top and a long mauve skirt usually seen by those vacationing in tropical places as they sit by the poolside.
Tamao Ichinose, the captain of the swimming club, approached Moka Akashiya a frown on her face. "So you are the famous Moka Akashiya, rumored vampire. This is the swimming club and if you have no intention of joining our club, vampire, leave." She said, venom and disgust laced into every word. She then turned to Danny and Kurumu before grabbing the American Ghost Boy. "You must be Danny Fenton! I've heard so much from you~" She cooed before pulling him into the pull much to the protest of Kurumu Kurono.
"Hey! That's my destined one!" She shouted, her face red from losing out on spending one on one time with her little ghost boy. "Give him back!" She shouted, stomping her feet much like a child.
"Kurumu-chan it's alright. Let Danny have some fun for now." Moka said, though her eyes betrayed her feelings on the outside. She was hurt that someone would come up to her and tell her to leave without even getting a chance to hear her out. Right now she needed someone to be with her and if Kurumu were the only one around that she knew she would take her. "D-DANNY!" Moka shouted just then as she saw Tamao Ichinose rip off the top her friend was wearing. What she was not ready for was seeing the many scars adorning his chest and back.
Kurumu turned around just in time to see the very fit physical features of Danny. Now if she hadn't spent as much time as she did with William ever since he helped nurse her back to health, she would have jumped all over Danny that instant like some horny school girl. Well more sensual than she usually is. "…brain….shutting….down…" was all she could say before a very very large blush donned her cheeks and steam escaped her ears, and in that instant marked the day when Kurumu Kurono, a succubus or better known as the female sex demon, was knocked out by a shirtless Danny Fenton.
Ten minutes went by with Moka trying to revive her rival/friend/frenemy while watching Danny be strong-armed into participating. Every time he would attempt to go intangible Tamao would press her chest right into his face efficiently shutting down his brain temporarily.
"Fucking Fenton!" A boy grumbled out as he stood next to a group of other male students all of which were glaring death threats at him. All the other boys nodded in agreement as they felt their blood boil from watching their precious Tamao-sempai.
"He acts as if he didn't come here with Moka-san and Kurumu-san!" One boy shouted out as he raised his fist up in the air, trembling with rage.
"Then it's agreed, we will kill that bastard someday?" One buy suggested as he looked at his comrades in arm all of which nodded in agreement.
Over on one end of the pool, a group of three girls was standing around watching their captain and her piece of meat struggle about. "So that's the foreign exchange student that beat up Saizo Komiya and Kurumu Kurono." One girl asked as she eyes Danny Fenton, hunger in her eyes.
"Tamao-san has done a good job of keeping an eye on him for a while now, hasn't she?" Another asked blushing a bit as she could smell the same scent Kurumu smelt the day she met Danny.
"I thought so too! He's quite a find!" Another said as she laughed a bit, looking at her two friends.
"Aw, I wish I had called out to Danny-kun first! Though that William guy, it's a shame he didn't come. When I sprained my ankle two weeks ago, he fixed it up right on the spot." The blond of the group said a heavenly look in her eyes.
"I heard that Romanian kid, Ren was it, joined the cooking club." The first girl said as she told her friends the rumor/truth that has been going around. "Who would have thought that the first guy to join that club would be Moka's older brother."
"Would you two stop focusing on those two! We already have the big fish in our pool right now! Too bad Tamao-san got to him first." The second said pouting. 'I wish I had Danny too!' She selfishly thought to herself as she stared at Danny once again trying to escape Tamao Ichinose's grasp.
"Alright, that's it!" Danny shouted as he finally went intangible, escaping from Tamao's grip. "I never wanted to join the stupid club in the first place, I was dragged here against my will, I was sexually assaulted by you many times over, and one of my closest friends here if feeling left out and annoyed!" Danny shouted as he attempted to climb out of the pool, only to be grabbed by the ankle. "Oh damn!" He shouted as he was dragged back in, underwater.
What followed was a bunch of boy screaming as Moka looked around, she saw a few boys be bitten by the female club members. What followed after that would give the vampire nightmares for days to come. Before her eyes, the poor students were turned into old men.
"DANNY!" Moka shouted as she began to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Ignoring her rosary screaming at her to not get into the pool, she did so anyway. She ran forward and dove in, ignoring the pain as he body reacted negatively to the water she opened her eyes will all of her strength. 'Where is he? Where is Danny?' She thought to herself as she struggled to look around.
Pain, all she could feel was pain, but the thought of her friend dying drove her to ignore it. She looked around for any sign of him. His hair, his blue eyes, his scarred body, those red trunks. Anything to let her know where he was. Then she felt it. She felt hands wrap around her. Turning around and letting out a lot of air bubbles it was Danny. His hair was white; his eyes were green.
"Spooky? Where did you go?" The same purple haired girl called out as she walked around the school ground. "Honestly you're my only friend here, and you always wander off." She pouted to herself before getting an idea. "He always enters that boy's room…what if he's following him." She said to herself.
"Did ya hear? That Fenton kid is in the swimming club." One boy said causing the girl to immediately hide behind a tree. She was always bad with people and as such when around anyone she would hide. It was in her nature to do such, peeking out a bit to stare at the two kids she began to wonder why the name "Fenton" sounded so familiar.
"Yeah, lucky bastard. He beat Saizo-sama and Kurumu-hime. Not only that but rumor has it that he and Moka-san are dating. Lucky fucking bastard! If I ever see that Danny Fenton I will kill him!" The other boy shouted as he walked side by side with his friend.
"Fenton…Danny Fenton…" The purple haired girl said as she began to think hard. Something about that name, it was as if she saw it whenever she went looking for her owl. It then hit her, the name Fenton. It was the same boy who's room Spooky always went to. "Maybe, if I find this Fenton I'll find Spooky!" She said as she ran off to where this Danny Fenton was supposed to be.
"Danny!" Moka cried from under the water, air bubble escaping her mouth. She was so happy he was alright and wasn't hurt. Sadly, the relief was short-lived as the pain from being in the water finally overcame her body.
'Damn! Moka can't be under the water much longer! Time to get her out of here!' Danny thought to himself as he pulled her out of the water. Gasping for breath as he placed her near Kurumu who just woke up. "Kurumu help get Moka dry! I'll take care of these things. Tonight's menu is calamari." Danny said as he flew off, rescuing as many of the boys he could that weren't already killed off by the mermaids.
"Alright Tuck, can you hear me?" Danny asked loudly as he hovered in the air.
Halfway across the globe, sitting in his chair, pajamas on with a smirk one Tucker Foley was typing away on his computer. "Read you loud and clear Danny, I'm surprised this is working considering the time delay. Alright according to Sam's book on monsters Mermaids are an aquatic creature." Tucker said into his headset as he was flipping through the digital pages of the book Sam sent him.
"Which means either electricity or ice will do the trick," Danny said into his headset as he yanked a redheaded kid out of the pool right before a blond-haired mermaid bit him. "Alright, Tuck, heads or tails?" Danny asked, a grin growing on his face. It felt like old times, with Tucker as his strategist and Sam as his well of information.
"How about a little of both, shock and freeze. Always a good combo." Tucker said as he began to upload the battle strategy into Danny's green visor. "Alright, shock the water first to stun them then put them on ice."
"Got it," Danny said as he descended to the pool's edge, placing his hands down on the water. "Hey, Tamao. Consider this my shocking resignation from the swimming club." Danny said as he channeled his ecto-energy through his body changing it from the ordinary ray to more of an electrical current that went through the entire pool shocking and stunning every mermaid.
"Gahhh! Fenton!" Tamao shouted as she twisted and contorted, pain running through her body as she tried to get closer.
Just then Danny's attack was cut short, the same ring from before appeared around him. "What? NO!" Danny said as he was turning back into his human form. "Tucker what's going on!?" Danny asked, panic in his voice.
"I'm not sure Danny. That attack of yours shouldn't have sapped you of your energy like that!" Tucker said into his headset. "Wait, unless. Danny quick check your body for any bite marks!" Tucker screamed.
Sure enough, when Danny looked over his shoulder, there was indeed a mark left on him from Tamao. 'Shit! She must have bitten me when I was going ghost!' Danny thought to himself as blood leaked out. "You were right Tuck; I got bit. Any ideas?" Danny asked as he struggled to keep his body from returning to normal.
"Just one, try using your Ecto-singer attack and your Cryokinesis for one last ditch effort!" Tucker suggested as he rapidly typed away at his keyboard. Trying to figure out the best way to direct Danny's attack. "It's a long shot, but if you can use as much as your energy as possible, you might be able to temporarily freeze them long enough for you to regain your powers. I hope. Worse case you short out, and you become fish food."
"It's worth a shot, I am not becoming some fish's chum," Danny said as he let out a roar of pure strength, his eyes turning an icy blue as blue ecto-energy zipped off his body and into the water, sending a mix of electricity and ice all around the pool.
"D-Danny's fighting so hard," Moka said as electricity bounced off her body as Kurumu tried her hardest to dry her off without getting zapped in the process. "I wish I could help him." Moka looked down, grabbing the rosary around her neck. 'If only…if only I could take you off myself to let you out.' Moka thought to herself as a few tears ran down her cheek. She felt so useless watching Danny fight for his life.
Danny screamed as the water shot out in places only to be frozen immediately from Danny's newly dubbed Cryo-stinger attack. "That's it…I'm spent," Danny said panting hard as his body returned to his human form, in front of him the entire pool was frozen and Tamao's hand reaching out in an attempt to grab his face only to be frozen an inch away. "Tuck…I owe you big time." Danny said as he fell forward right as the ice began to crumble.
"Danny!" Moka screamed as she saw Danny fall forward onto the ice, his body falling through the sheet of frozen water. Attempting to get up she was held back as Kurumu pushed her down.
"I'm not going to risk you getting into that water only to fail when your body gives out Moka. I'm going to save Danny." Kurumu shouted only to be stopped when a snow white owl landed on her shoulder. "Wait? Who are you?" Kurumu asked just as a pillar of ice shot up with Danny on top. It twisted and turned, changing form into a slide that sent Danny downward landing softly on the ground.
"That…was weird," Kurumu said before realizing what happened, running to Danny she knelt down, pressing her head down against his chest. "Please be alive; please be alive." She cried out softly as tears rolled down. It took a minute, but she heard it. His heartbeat. It was faint, but it was there.
The purple hair girl smiled to herself as Spooky flew to her side, landing on her shoulder after stopping the blue-haired girl. "That's why you are drawn to him." She said softly while scratching his head. "Why didn't you tell me sooner that there was someone else here that was similar to me." She said, an adoring smile spreading across her face as her right hand slowly changed back from an ice claw to fingers.
"I think I should keep an eye on him…" She said softly before turning around and heading off to the school building. "At least…for now, that is."
Danny awoke with a grunt. He was in the school infirmary bed. His shoulder was wrapped in bandages, and so were his fingers. Layers and layer of blankets were placed on him, and a heater stood next to his bed. His vision was somewhat hazy as he looked around. "Where…am I?" He asked out loud.
"Ah, it is good to see you awake young man." An all too familiar voice called out, one that sent Danny's blood ice cold. "It would be a shame if you kicked the bucket too soon, son." The voice said again.
"Vlad Plasmius what the hell are you doing here?" Danny demanded as he tried to sit up, blinking as he realized that the reason he couldn't see what that the lights were off and the sky was dark.
"Well you see, I was approached by a man who offered me a job, a chance really," Vlad said as he smiled, or so Danny assumed. "I stay here at this school for monsters, do whatever the man wants, and in turn, I'll be granted the two things I've always wanted. Your mother and you." Vlad said.
"As if I'll let that happen, you psychopath," Danny said as he finally lifted his body up, only to be pushed back down by Vlad's hand.
"Now, now, Daniel. There will be plenty of opportunities for us to fight later. As of now, I'm tasked with watching over you while you recover for tonight. "And to answer your first question, you're in the nurse's office. A case of overexerting yourself and hypothermia. You're lucky to be alive. Now…sleep." Vlad said as he placed his hand on Danny's forehead knocking him out. "Sleep and forget this conversation ever occurred Danny Phantom."
Danny awoke suddenly, looking around he saw his homeroom teacher sitting in a chair next to him. "Hello, Fenton-san. I know we've never talked one on one before." Nekonome said a severe look on her face.
"Ms. Nekonome!" Danny said in his native tongue which got a chuckle out of his teacher. "I…erm sorry I mean Nekonome-Sensei. Sorry, it's still hard for me to get the right honorifics when talking to your language." Danny apologized as he sat up, noticing the bandage on his shoulder.
"It's alright Fenton-san. I just wanted to see how you are doing. You didn't show up to class for three days, and I was beginning to worry. Your friends couldn't focus at all in class, and I don't think I've ever seen Akashiya-san and Avram-san so worried and unhappy before." Nekonome informed Danny with a frown. Crossing her legs as she recalled having to call Moka's name a few times to get her attention.
"Huh…I must've worried them a lot." Danny said as he looked down, shame coming into his eyes. He gripped his sheets tightly as he could see the looks on his friend's faces. It reminded him just how he felt when he thought he lost Tucker and Sam. "…Never again…" Danny said softly as he silently swore an oath to himself.
"Danny, may I call you Danny?" Nekonome said getting her student's attention. "Danny I want to thank you though." She said which caught Danny off guard; a smile appeared on her face. "I want to thank you for shutting down that awful club. Too many students have either died or were hospitalized because of Ichinose-san and her gang. I want you to join the Newspaper club for one reason. To put a stop to all the evil that surrounds this school. The headmaster isn't as strong as he used to be and because of it, students and faculty members alike have turned this school into something it shouldn't be." She said, a sad look appearing on her face a look Danny thought he'd never see the cheerful and carefree teacher he became used to seeing.
"Sensei…I'll join," Danny said, not giving any thought to the consequences of joining the Newspaper club. "If what you are saying is true then my friends could be in danger and every other student here as well."
"Thank you, Danny Fenton, or should I say…Danny Phantom." Nekonome said with a smile as she sat up, smiling as she exited the room leaving Danny stunned.
"Newspaper club? Sounds interesting." Vlad Plasmius said as he floated a few feet away from the window, his ghost form activated but kept hidden from Danny's ghost sense thanks to the demonic power saturating the air. "Maybe I should form a club of my own here, that way I can keep Fenton busy while I take over this school," Vlad said with a smirk appearing on his face as he flew off away from the building.
A few days later Danny was allowed to return to his dorm, the bandage was removed, but the wound left a scar, poking at it he sighed as he looked at his reflection in the mirror. "I was too careless this time. I let some girl use her sexual characteristics against me, and I didn't see just how dangerous the situation was. Tucker wasn't enough to help me, Ren wasn't there to buy me time, and Moka was out of commission from trying to save me the first time." Danny said as he sat down on his bed, staring at the floor hard.
"I'm so used to fighting ghosts on my own but here…here I'm completely outmatched and out leveled. These monsters are willing to kill without a second thought; none want to do anything for sport, or for stupid reasons like a revolution, or take over the world. If I'm not careful, the next time I let my enemy get the jump on me I'll be done for." Danny continued, his body shaking in frustration.
"If I'm going to help clean up this school, then I need allies and friends, and I need to get stronger. Tucker isn't enough, Moka has her weaknesses, Kurumu won't always be there, Ren may be strong, but our schedule won't match up after class. William and Shannon…I've never seen them fight, so I do not know how strong they are. I can't believe I'm saying this but…I think I need to make allies from the ghost zone if I'm going to protect my friends and make the school a better place." Danny said as he looked up, his eyes glowing green as the sun set, casting shadows all over the place. "And I think I know just who to convince first…I just hope he likes the idea of hunting monsters instead of me." Danny said as darkness enveloped his room entirely.
There you have it. I really hate the Newspaper club introduction chapter, and I hate the Swimming club chapter. I couldn't correctly write out a story good enough for it that didn't make Danny look like Tsukune or what. So instead I wrote it as best I could.
Now if anyone is complaining about Tucker and junk, I'll just say this. Danny is smart, he's used to fighting with those two by his side and as such Tucker made the visor for Danny to keep up with him. Tucker's a tech genius, and as the series goes on, he'll only get smarter.
Sam is a lover of anything horror related, and it's no surprise that she will have a book all about monsters, as such Tucker and Sam have taken a back seat and became Danny's source of information when it comes to the world of Monsters.
They won't always be there to help Danny out; this was just the first to test the waters (pun not intended) and to see whether or not I like how it went. And I didn't. It made me believe Danny was too overpowering which is why I wrote the ending to that fight as I saw fit. He's not a god; he's not Superman. He's just a kid with powers thrown into a new world and forced to fight new enemies.
Next up Gin's fight.
