"Thank you," Jake said to Danny, as they saw the portal in the distance.

"No problem,"

"Really, I couldn't have done it without you."

"It was the least I could do, if it wasn't for you, I would be a part of Skulker's 'collection'."

"That can still be arranged," a voice said from behind them, as a green beam from behind hit Danny, it launched him forward with a yelp. Jake spun around, and spewed fire towards their attacker.

"You still haven't learned it?" Skulker said, as the fire stopped, "that won't hurt a ghost."

Jake bared his teeth in a snarl, as an evil laugh arose from behind him. Jake spun around again, and gasped as he saw another ghost holding an unconscious Danny, with a knife to his throat. The ghost had blue skin and grey hair, he wore a black cloak and a green crown on his head.

"Greetings," he said, "I'm Prince Aragon, and I believe you have something, that belongs to me."

"Let him go!" Jake growled.

"But of course, if you give me back my amulet, then I'll let him go." Jake didn't have any choice.

"You want it?" he asked, as he tore off the amulet, and threw it as far away, as he could, "then go get it!"

The ghost let go off Danny, and scurried after the amulet. Jake caught Danny before he fell too far, and then he hurried towards the portal.

When they were out of the portal and in the lab again, Jake pushed a big red button, labeled 'close', and the portal closed with a loud thud.

He sighed as he laid Danny on the floor.

"Danny? Danny, can you hear me?" Danny groaned, and opened his eyes a bit.

"What happened?"

"Um… you got shot, and… Aragon have the amulet. Sorry."

"What!?" Danny sat up, "how could you allow that!?"

"Excuse me, but you were unconscious, and he had a knife to your throat. I had to…"

"They're still in the ghost zone, right?"

"Yeah,"

"We have to get the amulet back!" Danny stood up a bit unsteady.

"Do you need some help?"

"No, I'm fine." Danny said, as he pushed the button that opened the portal, "Let's go back in and…" he was cut off as a big black dragon burst out of the portal, just as soon as it opened, soon followed by Skulker. It was bigger than Jake, but smaller than the dark dragon had been.

"Thank you Phantom, I was wondering how long it would take, before one of you opened the portal for us." He said while he laughed evilly

"Oh crud," Danny gasped, Aragon and Skulker left the lab by phasing through the wall, "Jake, we have to stop him! And Skulker."

"Yeah, and I need to get that amulet back."

6 hours earlier in Norrisville.

"Well, I guess I'll see you Monday," Howard said, as they left Greg's game hole.

"That's it? No 'good luck Randy' or 'I'm so sorry that I can't come'?"

"You're The Ninja, Cunningham, I think you can handle a little fieldtrip, and besides it's not so far away, right?"

"It's four hours in bus," Randy groaned dispirited.

"Oh, so what are you gonna tell your mom?"

"That I'm staying at your place?"

"Great idea Cunningham," Howard said sarcastically, "it's not like I live next door, she'll totally not notice, that you aren't there."

"Why would she? I mean, normally we're in your room playing Gravepuncher all day."

"True, but won't she think it's weird, that you're not home all weekend?"

"I hope not."

"Fine, but if your mom figures it out, I'm not taking the blame." Howard said, as he walked of.

"Ok, see ya," Randy said, as he picked up his phone and dialed his mom's phone number.

Half an hour later, he was in the bus on his way to Amity Park, he hadn't returned home to pack anything, he had the Nomicon and his ninja mask and some money, so that he could stay at a hotel or something and get some food, and that was all he needed.

Back in Amity Park

"We have to follow them!" Jake said, as Danny landed on his back, and made both of them intangible. They phased through the wall of the lab in the same direction as Prince Aragon and Skulker.

Skulker was waiting for them outside, but there was no trace of Aragon.

"Skulker! Where is Aragon?" Jake growled.

"He must be close," Danny said.

"Let's take down Skulker." Jake snarled, as he attacked him.

Skulker made himself intangible and dodged Jake's attacks, as if they were nothing, but then Danny joined the fight, and the two off them managed to hit him a few times.

"You can't win, a weakened ghost and a weak dragon," Skulker laughed, as he made himself invisible. He was partly right about Danny, he was still recovering from almost fainting, but it wasn't so bad, as for Jake, he wasn't used to fight ghosts.

Skulker suddenly reappeared behind Jake, as he shot him in the back with a ghost ray, Jake was momentarily stunned, which made him crash land on the road below them. Jake picked himself up, he looked up, just in time to see Skulker appear behind Danny.

"BEHIND YOU!" Jake roared. Danny spun around in time to see a green beam of ghost energy hitting him in the guts. Danny fell to the ground, from where he was floating, which was almost 3 meters. Skulker who was the one to shoot Danny, laughed evilly at his success, and while he was gloating, Jake managed to lash him in the back with his tail.

"Danny!" Jake said, as he landed next to him, "are you alright?"

"Never better," Danny faltered out, as he sat up with a hand on his side.

"Stay down, I'll deal with Skulker, although, I may need your help with the thermos,"

"Very funny, you were hit by the exact same ghost ray, if you can do it, so can I," Danny said, as he wobbly tried to stand up.

"I'm serious!" Jake said as he pushed Danny down again, "I have far thicker skin than you. Just stay here!" and with that, he flew off towards Skulker, who still was recovering from the attack.

"Skulker, you're going down." Jake roared, as he landed in front of the ghost.

"Just because I'm helping Aragon, doesn't mean I've given up catching you, dragon."

"As if you can." Jake growled, as he attacked Skulker. He made himself invisible, and a split second later, he grabbed Jake's tail and threw him into a nearby house.

Jake landed hard on the sidewalk after hitting the wall, he groaned in pain, but he was swiftly on his feet again.

He shook his head and tried to blink the white dots in his vision away. When his vision, more or less, was back to normal, he looked up, to see where Skulker had gone off to, he gasped, when he realized that he was aiming his ghost ray at Danny, who hadn't seen him.

"Danny!" he cried out, as he began to run towards them. Skulker's ghost ray glowed green, and he realized, that he wouldn't make it in time to save Danny.

"Ninjakick!" an unfamiliar voice yelled, as a boy in a black suit and mask kicked Skulker out of the sky. Jake finally reached Danny, Jake had to support him when he once again tried to stand up.

"Oh my cheese, the Nomicon was right, a real dragon!" the boy said amazed.

"Who are you?" Jake growled.

"Easy Jake, he just saved me." Danny said still sounding a bit weak.

"Sorry, but I'm not taking any chances."

"It's fine, I'm The Ninja of Norrisville high."

"Norrisville? That's far away, what are you doing in Amity Park?" Danny asked.

"I was told, that I should help a ghost and a dragon with something, so how can I be of assistance?"

"Who told you about a dragon!?" Jake asked with slightly bared teeth.

"Um… The Ninja Nomicon."

Jake suddenly leapt forwards and pinned The Ninja to the ground, Danny, who had been leaning against his side, almost fell.

"Jake!?" Danny asked shocked, but Jake ignored him.

"I want you to swear, that you'll never tell anyone about me!" Jake snarled at The Ninja, who was still shocked about the sudden attack. He tried to move his arms, but Jake had him completely immobilized.

"What the juice! This is no way to greet strangers!"

"Just swear it!" Jake growled.

"Ok, ok, I swear, I won't tell anyone."

"Good," Jake said, as he let him go, "sorry to do that, but I can't be too careful about my secret."

"I guess I understand, I mean I have my own secret to protect," he said, as he picked himself up.

"Anyways, my name's Jake, and this is Danny Phantom."

"Nice to meet you two, but what about that ghost from before?"

"Oh no, we forgot Skulker!" Danny exclaimed, as they realized that he was gone.

"Argh, typical, when we finally have him." Jake growled.

"Who is he? And what am I supposed to help you with?" The Ninja asked confused.

"Um… Well," Danny sent Jake a questioning glance, which he answered with a nod, "ok, his name is Skulker, he's the ghost zone's greatest hunter, and right now, he's helping an evil ghost dragon with who knows what, and we have no idea where they are hiding." Danny explained.

"That pretty much sums it up," Jake nodded.

"Um… Ok, that makes sense I guess."

"Jake, the sun will be rising soon," Danny reminded Jake, the ninja looked confused, but he didn't question it.

"Oh yeah, thanks, will you be alright?" Jake asked Danny.

"Sure, I can hardly feel anything anymore." Danny said, although it was obvious to Jake that he was lying, but he couldn't stay any longer. "Let's meet in front of Casper high tonight, I think I may have a plan."

"Um… can I come too?" The Ninja asked uncertainly.

"Sure, we need all the help, we can get." Danny answered.

"Well then, see you tonight," The Ninja said, "SMOKEBOMB!" a puff of orange smoke appeared around him, and when it disappeared, the ninja was gone.

"How mysterious," Danny joked with a smirk.

"Yeah, maybe he's a ghost too," Jake laughed, "I really need to get going now, see you later."

"See ya." Danny said, as Jake took off.

Jake landed in an alley right next to the hotel, he transformed, left the alley and then he entered the hotel. Just as soon as he closed the door to his room, he flopped down onto the bed, deciding to rest for a bit before finding a place to eat.

A few minutes passed, before he heard footsteps in the hallway, he didn't pay much attention to it, before he faintly heard a somewhat familiar voice through the door, he sat up.

"Ear of the dragon," he whispered, as the faint mumble from the hallway turned audible.

"Don't you dare play the new Gravepuncher game without me, Howard!" Jake was completely sure that it was The Ninja's voice, "I'm serious we'll play it together when I return. I gotta go now, see ya."

The footsteps had just passed his door. Jake didn't want to invade the ninja's privacy, but he knew about dragons' existence, it could turn out to be a great advantage, if he ever threatened to expose Jake's secret.

Jake opened his door, a few meters down the hallway, a boy was unlocking his door, his hair was, oddly enough, purple.

"Um… Hi," Jake said awkwardly, he tried to change his voice slightly, so he wouldn't recognize it, "who are you?"

"Uhm… Hi, I'm Randy, and you?"

"Oh," Jake said the first name that popped into his head, "I'm Spud," Spud was one of his best friends back in New York.

"Nice to meet you Spud, if you don't mind, I've had a very long night,"

"Of course,"

Randy went into his room and closed the door behind him. Jake just stood there for a while, trying to process it all, he knew both Danny and Randy's secrets, and neither of them even knew, that he had one too.

He had too many thoughts to sleep, so he left the hotel to find somewhere to eat.

To begin with, he was just wandering, not paying any attention to his surrounding, he kept asking himself, when he was going to tell Danny and Randy that he knew their secrets, if he ever did tell them. His train of thought was interrupted, as he bumped into someone, he apologized without looking up.

"It's fine," the person he bumped into replied, Jake recognized the voice, and he could hardly hold back a gasp, as he looked up, from the ground, to see Danny Phantom in his human form, instead of his white hair, it was black, and his green eyes was now blue. Another boy and a girl stood on each side of him, and all three of them was looking curiously at him.

"Is something wrong?" Danny asked, and Jake realized he had been starring. He just shook his head, so that Danny wouldn't recognize his voice and continued walking. Danny and his friends exchanged puzzled looks, before they continued walking too.

When the trio off friends turned the corner, Jake turned around and started to follow them.

After a few minutes they had reached their destination, Danny's house, Jake hid behind the corner of the house, while Danny and his friends entered.

"Ear of the dragon," Jake whispered, and his ear turned into its dragon form, which made his hearing a lot better. He listened, as three sets of footsteps walked up a staircase inside the house, and then shortly after, he heard a door close upstairs.

Jake ran around the building, so that he was just below the room, in which Danny and his friends was.

Jake couldn't transform, that would be too risky, so he had to make do with his ears.

"Are you serious?" He heard the girl almost shout.

"Sam, calm down, my parents might hear you," Jake recognized Danny's voice.

"Sorry, but I just don't get you, why do you trust this guy, I still don't understand why you trust the dragon."

Jake tensed at that, Danny had told his friends about him, but then again, as far as he remembered, he hadn't told him not to tell anyone.

"The dragon has a name, and I trust him, because he helped me, besides I don't trust the ninja guy yet."

"Well Danny, at least you're not completely brainless," The girl, apparently named Sam, said teasingly. Danny? Jake thought surprised, Was his real name also Danny?! How could it still be a secret? Danny Phantom and Danny Fenton? Seriously!

"Hey guys," The other boy said, "I just realized something, the ninja is new in town, both with and without the mask, and so is the boy who bumped into us on the street before. Maybe…"

"He's the ninja?!" Danny interrupted.

"Exactly,"

"And?" Sam said, "does it even matter who's behind the mask?"

"I guess not, but…" Danny started.

"But nothing, it doesn't matter, leave his identity alone! You wouldn't like it, if he figured out your identity, would you?" Sam scolded, and Jake couldn't stop feeling like, she was scolding him. He removed his dragon ear, at least he now knew, that Danny trusted him, and that he didn't suspect his secret, at least not his real secret.

Jake ate lunch, and then he went back to the hotel to sleep.

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