Loyal Readers! How's it going? I decided to post this chapter one review short of 20 (there are 19 reviews so far) and I request at least 25 reviews before I update next. Also, since I have to retype the chapters 5-8 then the rest of the chapters, it'll be a while before I update again. SORRY! Well, on with the story…
Dream Works
The sun's rays rose slowly into his room through his curtains and he began to stir, the light being a little too much for him when he was tying to sleep.
Danny eventually let it win and took it as a sign to get up. He sat up in bed and pushed his messy black from his face with his hand.
Stretching, he yawned and pulled the covers off of him and moved his legs so that they dangled over the edge of his bed.
He then pushed himself off of the bed and onto his feet and then walked over to his closet to get his usual outfit on, which consisted more of blacks and reds then the usual white and a little red.
He was smiling like he would everyday, until what happened for the last week hit him like a truck full of pianos.
His smile faded into a depressed frown as he remembered that all of the bad things had indeed happened in the last week were real.
He decided to get ready for school by getting his stuff together and going downstairs to eat breakfast and then leave for school.
As he entered the kitchen, he passes Jazz who was sitting at the kitchen table and looked up from her book to Danny.
"Danny? Are you okay? You seem depressed lately. You've even gone so far as to change you're outfit. I know what happened with you and you're friends. Danny, are you sure you'll be okay? Being mad isn't healthy, you know that right?"
Danny tried his best to ignore her, though he knew she was right. Being mad wasn't healthy but he didn't really have much of a choice considering his friends were still mad at him.
He sighed as he grabbed his usual cereal, milk, and a spoon. He sat down on the opposite end of the table, a habit he'd seemed to get himself into ever since his depression.
"Danny, tell me why they're mad at you. All I know is that they're mad, but why are they mad?"
Danny sighed and said slowly, "I hit Tucker with an ecto-beam, ON ACCIDENT! Honest!"
She sighed but continued with wanting an explanation.
"Danny, tell me the whole story."
She noticed his hesitation but he decided that she'd probably be able to help him.
"I went over to Tucker's house for homework help." She smiled at that.
"There was a ghost there and I went ghost, took care of the ghost, and I went back into Tucker's room. The only problem was was when his mom came into the room, Tucker being in the bathroom."
"What was the problem?" She was letting her curiosity get the best of her.
"You see, I was sitting on his bed just thinking when I heard a scream and I looked at Mrs. Foley who looked terrified. Tucker came into the room and looked at me, worried as he put his hands over her mouth.
I looked at my hand and I saw not the usual bare skin, but my white HAZMAT glove. I had forgotten to transform back after the fight.
She shot at me with an ecto-lipstick and I...fired back." He finished, then added, "But hit Tucker on the shoulder"
By the end of his story, her jaw was open and eyes wide in shock.
"So you shot at her? And hit Tucker! No wonder he's mad at you! You shot at them!" She was becoming angry at Danny for doing such a thing.
"It was out of self defense and reflex! I didn't mean to! Darn it Jazz! Why can't you of all people understand that it was an accident! I didn't mean to!" He was either going to cry or yell.
Since he was becoming more alone and depressed, he began to yell.
"JAZZ! I DIDN'T MEAN TO! HOW COME YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME?"
Jazz began to get mad and eventually began to yell too.
They continued to argue until Danny decided he couldn't handle it anymore and went into his room.
He stayed in his room for the rest of the day and Jazz couldn't help but to begin to call him a jerk.
Danny stayed in his room for the remainder of the weekend, only coming out when he needed to either eat, drink, or go to the bathroom and tried his best to avoid physical contact with anyone.
Monday soon rolled around and Danny dreaded it more than ever, considering the fact that he'd have to see Sam, Tucker, Jazz, and Dash.
When Danny got to school, he went to his locker, just as depressed as black was the darkest of the colors.
To his dismay, Dash came up to him, hand punching his other hand in a threatening gesture, smirking as he watched Danny and readying himself for punching Danny.
"So, decided to change you're wardrobe, huh? Where are you're loser friends Fentino?"
Danny turned to face him, giving him a piercing glare.
"First of all, they're not losers, and second, they're not my friends anymore." Danny said, mumbling the last part about his friends.
Dash's smirk only became wider when hearing this news.
"So, it seems that you're 'friends' have abandoned you. Let's see how well you do without 'em."
Dash pulled back a fist, ready to push forward and punch Danny.
Danny glared at him with an evil glare and when Dash went to punch Danny, he ducked the blow that would have him.
Instead of hitting Danny, Dash missed and hit the lockers behind Danny.
After ducking his punch, Danny side stepped to the side and punched Dash back, square in the face.
Dash stumbled back, half because it hurt and half because he was surprised that 1) the geek would actually duck and punch him, and 2) that his punch, from who he thought was weak, would actually hurt.
Danny stepped back and stood there, smirking at Dash who looked stunned.
Dash put his hand on his now bruised cheek and glared back at Danny, fuming at the fact that he was hit and it hurt.
Dash took his hand off of his cheek and put his hands to his side and Danny just put his hands in his pockets, still smirking at Dash.
The blond kid ran forward, preparing to strike a punch at Danny, who simply dodged Dash and grabbed Dash's jacket as he passed by Danny and threw Dash by the collar of his jacket into
some lockers.
By this time, students had crowded around the two fighting students, the unpopular students cheering for Danny, and the popular students cheering for Dash.
They continued to fight, students having to move out of the way, time to time, to keep from getting hurt.
Dash was slowly losing and Danny was loving the feeling of beating him up.
Danny had to keep himself from using some of his powers, including his intangibility.
Sam and Tucker had been watching the fight for a few minutes and frowned at the site of Danny beating someone up.
Once they saw who it was that he was beating up, they smiled a little, knowing that Dash did deserve to get beat up.
Yet, they knew it wasn't good that Danny was the fighting him and, by the look on his face, they could tell that he was really enjoying it.
They walked away in disgust at the site of their former friend resorting to violence and enjoying it.
Finally, to everyone's surprise and relief, Danny eventually faked a yawn, signaling that he was bored and walked off.
As he walked away, Dash, before he collapsed on the floor out of exhaustion, he thought to himself, 'Did he just beat me up? A geek no less. Either I'm getting weak or he's getting stronger. Ugh.'
The rest of the day didn't go to well for Danny, considering that he got in trouble for the fight earlier that day.
Mr. Lancer had given Danny a month of detention, though it didn't faze Danny much at all considering that it wasn't the worst thing in his life right now.
As Danny neared the front of the school, going in the direction of home, his ghost sense went off.
He immediately ran into a dark alley and transformed into Danny Phantom, then flew off in the direction of his ghost sense.
His ghost sense had gone off about five times in the last 3 minutes, leading Danny to the somewhat deep part of Amity's park.
He landed in a small clearing, trees surrounding him in all directions.
Looking up, he saw the now slowly darkening sky, now entranced by the beautiful dancing stars, and would've forgotten about the ghost he was being led to by his ghost sense, had it not been for his ghost sense going off and braking him from his trance.
He looked around and didn't see the ghost that was supposed to be there.
After looking all around him and seeing or sensing nothing, he got ready to take off.
But before he could lift off the ground, he was hit by a purple ecto-blast that knocked him to the ground, making him slide on his side, a few feet.
When Danny sat up, he used his hand to wipe off the dirt and looked up to see who shot at him.
As he looked up, his eyes widened then narrowed in anger and suspicion.
The figure soon emerged from the shadows, revealing itself as none other than,
"Vlad..."
I was going to add a few more things in this chapter, but when I got to this part (the end of the chapter) and I couldn't help but leave a cliffy. I promise that the 'Dream Machine' will appear in the next chapter and the story will speed up a little from there. I'm really excited about this story and a thanks goes out to everyone who has read and reviewed my story. Thanks everyone and don't forget to review!
P.S. I apologize for the story going a little slow at first, but it should go a little faster as the story continues. It was necessary to make the chapters the way they were, to lead up the part of the story that changes everything. : D Thanks Again!