"I was so wrong. There was more I needed to worry about." Danny spoke out loud to himself, even though the six other halfas could hear him perfectly.
How could he even forget for a second that everything was going to be easy as baking a cake? Here he was, with six other ghost hybrids, in front of the very doors of Casper High. A school filled with not only bullies and a social latter status, but his ex-best friends who would no doubt be on his back side once they see his six new best friends. What's even worse was that one of them looked just like him. Yup, Danny sure didn't think of this part much when it was still the weekend. He knew he didn't need to take care of the other halfas, knowing that they can handle themselves, but he just knows that they will cause a big scene, and that's something the halfa hero didn't want right now.
However, the weekend wasn't so bad for the young halfa. While his parents were out again with the Mayor, Vlad of course, on some ghost hunting protocols Danny has been learning more about his kind and ghosts in general. There was so much he didn't know or had gotten completely wrong, most of it being the things he could or couldn't do. On Saturday he learned about some weapons he would be good at using for fighting, and his the weapon he was born to use with his core was still kind of off putting and scary, but the raven said he would grow use to it. He learned how to control his doublecations better to the point where he can now much two without feeling tired out. Each halfa had taught him something, or was still teaching him.
DJ was teaching him how to pretty control his ghost weapon. Almost every humanoid type ghost had one, like Ember or even Skuller. Some don't even know that they have a weapon within their cores which doesn't let them train better in how to use and perfect their power. Surprisingly, Danny just realized that Vlad doesn't even know his core weapon. The Box ghost and the Lunch Lady do though which to be honest was very surprising. They were weak level ghost compared to Vald, but yet they had box cutters and a a butcher knife at their fingertips. At that one split second, he kinda felt bad for the fruitloop, but almost. DJ taught him how it takes tons of concentration and ectoplasm to summon and even keep holding a core weapon. Her weapon is surprisingly a Katana, a light and very swift weapon similar to her cat core. It was pretty cool.
Timothy and Tyrone taught him mostly math and combat skills, but it was working out in the long run when it came to fighting ghost and even hunters in the long run. With math he learned better how to time things out and even figure out how most little ghost hunting tech works, even though he still was having trouble. Things like little lasers or even force fields are pretty to disable now for Danny instead of just blasting them to bits. Next was combat, which the raven was already pretty good at but this time he was much more focused and fast, learning his opponent's moves. This area can always be perfected so learning how to do it better was always helpful. Also might that he had to get in shape.
Ivy worked on how to fight off some ghost abilities Danny fell under to in his last battles, like Ember's music and even Freakshows control. Turns out tons of other ghost can control other ghost, and many would like their hands on halfas. Since Ivy had some of those mind controlling abilities, she could teach others to fight off weaker one in better to protect their kind. Just the thought of not having his own free will still terrified Danny, more so since Freakshow took control of him. It still is hard fighting it off, and it was very uncomfortable for him when Ivy and even DJ took control of his emotions and mind, but he knew why he had to learn and fought with everything that he had. He still can't seem to fight off all of the control, but he was getting better.
Emily was more calmer and just made sure that Danny's healing properties and ectoplasm blood was normal. She did teach him little things like reactions to other cores and even a bit of history on ghost culture. Everyone pitched in on this subject, but Emily took the role more. There was so much to ghost history and even holidays that Danny had never knew about before, and to be honest he felt like a child in a candy story. He learned about Death Day, other Kings of The Ghost Zone, and even some history on wars between different group of ghost. It was all so amazing, and Danny was still learning more each day.
With Edward he learned more based on his ice core. Danny was already pretty good with his ice core, but he did learn some sick ass tricks with it. Turns out that ice cores have a lot more control then they realize. Ice is a very common core, but it is also one of the powerful ones out there right next to Fire. These two cores have a long history together going back as far as Dragons with these cores. Dragons only had ice and fire cores and no other cores. They are the oldest and still the most powerful cores in the whole ghost zone, but that also meant their were wars between the ghost who had these cores. To this day most fire core ghost and halfas can't seem to get along with the ice core ghost and halfas. It made sense as to why even Danny can't get along with Vlad, their cores wouldn't even allow it to be fully possible. They were always meant to fight. Always at war.
After the weekend was done and over with, on Monday the six went to get their schedules for classes in Danny's school. Now they all had gotten their school supplies and were now standing right outside the doors with Danny in the lead, and to be honest the raven was nervous.
"Danny," the raven turned back to Ed and the rest. His reflection smiling calmly as he patted his back. "Don't be so stressed out. We'll be fine."
Danny smiled but still let out a sigh as he rubbed his face. "Thank Ed, but that doesn't really help much."
"Yeah I figured."
"Why are we even standing here," Ivy said with a roll of her eyes, looking over her soft blue dress before crossing her arms. "Let's just go inside already. We're gonna be late if we stand here."
"Sorry guys. I'm just worried about the jocks and A-listers messing with us… and… Sam and Tucker too.." Danny mumbled bitterly, and all of the halfas frowned deeply at the sound of those two names.
Just like the other halfas had been teaching Danny about ghost, the raven had been telling them about his life in Amity. He felt like he didn't need to lie, but yet he still kept some little things away from them. He mostly spoke about the school status and his family and friends, as well as enemies. Since the new school year, the raven has gotten less enemies to make a truce with him like Ember and Johnny 13, but some of them just like to fight him for the sake of it. Vlad was still his enemy wanting him to join his side, and his parents still hated Phantom. When he told the others about how badly his parents, the other halfas had gotten kind of protective of him. More so Ivy and Edward to his surprise. Something about them looking alike as gotten Ed to act more like twin towards Danny, not that he minded. Ivy was kind of like Jazz, but more bitter and meaner. It wasn't a bad thing either.
Then when he came up about Sam and Tucker, he almost couldn't take it. It's only been two months and went the pain of betrayal still hurt badly. Danny had explained his issues with them and their broken friendship, but it took a lot out of him to even continue. DJ felt the raw emotions and almost cried herself. How can the only two people besides his sister turn on him like that, becoming so selfish in the process. They were happy that they didn't reveal the raven's secrets, everyone of the new halfas swore to never let those two hurt Danny again. The young teen was happy for that, but he knew he would have to face them sooner or later. Sam and Tucker will be coming at him with questions, and most likely tell him to stay away from Edward and the others. He just hoped they wouldn't do anything stupid in front of the whole school.
"Forget about those assholes Danny," Tyrone stated, placing a hand on the young raven's shoulder as the others nod with him.
"He's right," Emily smiled happily. "You have us now Danny, and that means that we will stick by you no matter!"
DJ and Timmy nodded with them as well as Ivy just smirked in agreement. Danny's nerves slowly started to ease while Ed smiled along with his reflection, his arm still over the other's shoulder. the former raven sighed, letting out a smile of his own. "Alright. Let's face the music!"
Ivy smirked, letting out a chuckle. "Now you're speaking my language." She was the first to move forward and raise her heal to the double doors. Before Danny and the others could stop her, she kicked the doors open, letting a loud bang hit through the echo like walls.
All of the students of Casper High, even some o the teachers, looked towards the entrance in complete and utter shock. Danny groaned inward deep into his mind while the others just seem to sweat drop at Ivy's boldness. That could have gone much better.
The blonde halfa didn't seem to mind the students' stares though as she let her foot come down back on the ground. She kept a passive look on her face while she nodded her friends from behind her to come on. DJ smiled as she was the first to start following their blonde friend, the rest smiling and following after her. They all walked quietly through the halls and pass several of the students now completely watching the seven member group, one of them being the raven they all knew too well. Danny couldn't help but hear all of their whispers to the about the group, sinking lower in the middle of his friends as he continued to try and ignore the others around them. He heard everything. Most of them were about how cute Dj and Ivy were, and how tough looking Tyrone was. Some stated how Timmy and Emily looked like geek worthy popular, and many have looked at Danny and Edward as if they were living in a dream.
Danny felt like he might suffocate under all of the stares, but the soft touch of Ed and Dj grabbing onto his shoulders did calm him down a bit more. Edward began to chuckle slinging his arm around Danny's shoulders once more as the two walked side by side. For some odd reason, Danny liked it. The effects of another person so cheerful but looking like himself relaxed him, and the fact that they had very similar ice cores helped as well. He couldn't help but smile just as brightly as Ed and the others as they laughed and talked among themselves, completely ignoring the students still watching them.
Two bad two people had to ruin their happy time on their way to the office.
"Hey ladies~"
All seven of the halfas stopped dead in their tracks as the popular jock none other as Dash Baxter, and the popular girl named Paulina, walked up to them with big grins and smirks on their faces. the other A-Listers were with them too. Danny became tensed and cold dead away as the blonde jock came up to him and his new friends. All of the boys quickly realized that Dash was talking about DJ and Ivy, being the only two girls that the blonde quarterback was even looking at. It was like the rest weren't even there to the jerk, and the way he was staring down the two girls made all them feel just about ready to punch the asshole.
Ivy and DJ looked unfazed by the blonde jock and the two just looked at each other before turning back to the boy before them. DJ was the first one to speak bluntly, "Can we help you?"
"You sure can you black chocolate goodness," Dash purred, making Emily in the back gag while the other boys just wrinkled their nose in disgust. "You can help me by giving me your name, and saying to coming to the Homecoming game with me."
DJ looked down at the boy's feet, then back up the blonde's face. Her face was blank as could be, which shocked Danny. He never seen the upbeat girl be so emotionless before, and this one can control emotions. It was pretty ironic in a way. Ivy looked ready to puke herself, but the dark skin brunette held her back and looked up deep within the blonde boy's face, her own turning into a doll like look before it became a smile. "Nope."
The full cheerfulness of the reject hit the other six and the A-Listers like a jackhammer. It was just so shocking that both Emily and Ed, and Timmy laughed while the other two just smiled at the jock's wide open mouth face. Danny had a similar face, but only for a second before he began laughing along with the others. DJ just smiled and looked down at her bag as she pulled out her schedule, smiling as she completely ignored Dash. "Hey look," Dona stated happily. looking at the others. "My Locker is right here!"
"Hey," Dash snapped out of his frozen state, frowning deeply. "No one says no to Dash Baxter!"
"But I just did," DJ looked back at him with a blank look, tipping her head only slightly. "Do you need me to say it again? Maybe you missed it while you were too busy looking at my breasts."
The blush on Dash's face was priceless, even the other A-Listers were laughing at this point. The football playing teen only blushed harder before glaring at DJ with utter rage. How dare does this chick reject him? He was Dash Baxter, leader quarterback and most popular boy in school! He can get any chick that he wanted and then some. Why would a hot girl like her reject a smoking hot guy like him? She must be crazy, that was the only thing that made sense to the teen. Perhaps Fen-trud really had gotten into this beauty before him. Bummer, but it was her lost. Looks like he's just gonna have to settle on the blonde one. It was for the best, this one was way hotter. Even more so than Paulina.
Fixing himself up, Dash smirked over at Ivy and flexed his arms and biceps in front of her, hoping to impress her and make DJ jealous. "Hey good looking~ Looks like I'm still free and you have the honor of going out with me to the Homeworld game. What do you say?"
Ivy frowns deeply, making a slight growl in her throat as she looked deadly into the blonde's eyes. "I rather die and have my body shoved down a lion's throat than even say yes to you." She then decided to kick the jock in the crotch, lighting up a girly scream that run throughout the school.
Danny's mouth drops to the floor at the next scene. Dash seem to have lost it and went to hit Ivy even though his balls were mostly likely kicked back into him. It was a bad move on his part though as Ivy stepped to the side and DJ gave the blonde jock an uppercut to the chin, slinging up into the air and on to the ground out cold. No one had said a word as they looked between the two girls and Dash's bloody nose. To be honest, Danny knew that a fight was coming the moment they walked in, he just never thought of the girls really starting the fight. The other jocks were clearly angry or afraid, but wouldn't die to fight a girl much less punch them. Paulina and her gang though were a different story.
"What the Hell Bitch," Paulina snapped at the two halfa females. "You can't just beat up my boyfriend like that!"
"That was your boyfriend," Edward raised an eyebrow to this, looking completely shocked that this Latina chick was okay with her man flirting with other woman. "In what human or Zone did you come from where it is okay for that asshole to flirt with girls when he is already taken?"
Paulina looked right at the well dressed raven, shifting her eyes between Ed and Danny as they both stood side by side. Her face showed that she was unimpressed, even a little annoyed that the boy even bother to talk to her. "You ask you freak of the school?" She then smirked, " Decided that you hated being alone and went ahead and paid these whores and dicks to be your new friends. The Goth and Pervert were right to leave your ass."
Edward, plus the others, where shocked by this woman's harsh words while Danny flinched and raised his hand. "Um… you're talking to the wrong raven hair Paulina. I'm Danny."
"And I'm Ed, but you should only call me Edward," Ed stated coldly, his eyes turning into a harsh glare.
Paulina looked like she got slapped in the face. Who know the Fenton freak had such a hot ass twin. Now that she looked further between the two, she saw a slight difference between the two. The one on the left was much cleaner looking and well dressed, even looked slightly more handsome. She smirked lustfully at the copy and pushed passed DJ to get closer to the two ravens, making both of the very uncomfortable. Tyrone and Timmy backed away from the three quickly while Emily and Ivy glared at the bitch with death glares. Danny moved slightly back, feeling Paulina's hand push him slightly to the side while Ed was left defenseless with the Latina chick, but he looked unafraid. The long hair teen purred as she placed a hand on his chest, causing him to shiver, but not in arousal. More so on the opposite side of that word, Danny and the rest could see that it was a shiver of disgust.
"Well forget me handsome," Paulina purred out, making her pink lipstick lips push up in a fine little slutty pout, trying to seem as sexy as possible. "Maybe we could hang out sometime Eddie. I know i would be much funnier to hang out with than these freaks."
Ed though didn't show any signs of really enjoying this much attention, in fact he looked ready to freeze the girl were she stood. With a deep and heated growl, scaring Paulina and the other students, the well dressed raven pushed the female off of him, spatting in disgusting that he had to touch the slut.
"What is wrong with you," a gasp were heard around the crowd watching, but he continued on. "Not only was that disgusting and highly inappropriate, but you literally would insult my friends and ask out a boy that is a copy of the one you just called a freak and insulted. How dare you!? I would never date or even touch a shallow woman like you Paulina, and my name isn't Eddie!"
Paulina was shocked. No boy could resist her charms, not even Fenton. Not only that but this boy, this new freak, just embarrassed and rejected her in front of the whole school no doubt. No one does that to the most beautiful girl in school. "Why would you care about Fenton anyway," She crossed her arms, glaring at the raven who shrunk a bit under all of the stares. "He's a freak, a loser. I say you six ditch him before you infected with his freakishness. His last friends did the same."
"Sadly for you bitch," Ivy snapped, glaring at the dark skin Latina. "We aren't like his last friends."
Emily nodded, as did the others, protecting Danny in a circle. "Yeah! Danny is an awesome person, and those who ditched are fools to do so."
Tyrone frowned deeply, "I'm shocked that people like you are real in this school, let alone this world. I think you're the freak around here."
That hit Paulina hard. "What!?"
Timmy pushed his glasses up, frowning, "It would seem that these A-Listers are very simple minded people., think with the capacity of a wild lion."
"Are you calling me animal!?"
"Oh please, even Lions can think better than you," Ed rolled his eyes, pushing the shocked and pissed out female as he wrapped his arm around Danny's shoulder again, grinning. "Look little miss chicka, the fact is that we are Danny's friends. If that makes us freaks than fine. It's better being with my twin here than getting my thorat choked out by your slimy ass tongue."
Some random football jock tried to cover up his laughter, but he and the other students around them quickly failed to do so as many of their peers began to laugh and chuckle at the red tomato female now foaming at the mouth like a rabid dog. Danny was shocked beyond belief, but he couldn't stop his slowly growing smile as the gang finally left to head off to class. DJ turned back around to the knocked out blonde and raging Latina, smiling as she waved happily at the teen. "Don't forget to apply makeup to that mole Paulina! You're heated face is removing the counselor!"
"AGHHHHHHHHH!"
Danny chuckled, along with the others, as they made to to all of their lockers and grabbed their stuff for their classes.
Boy do I miss writing for this book! Anyway I hope you enjoyed the next chapter!]
See ya next time! ;)