I don't own Danny Phantom

"So, Danny, how exactly did you meet this ghost?" Jack asked, before taking a huge bite of his chicken leg. Danny took a sip of his water before answering.

"It's kind of a funny story, actually. Does everyone remember the Happy Princess Pageant that happened a while ago?" Everyone nodded except for Vlad, Jack, and Maddy. "Well, it turns out it was really a trick devised by Dora's brother to find a human bride. When the crown was put on Sam, she was sent here. Tucker and I, uh, found Phantom and told him what happened, and the three of us came here to rescue her."

"And you did a great job too," Sam said sarcastically.

"Well how were we supposed to know the crown wouldn't let you leave?" Danny defended. "Anyway, Phantom distracted Aragon while Tucker and I tried to get Sam out, but the crown on her head wouldn't let her leave the castle."

"My brother was very thorough with his plan," Dora said.

"After that, Aragon was even more angry," Tucker continued. "So I picked up a bow and shot my PDAs at him and plugged up his nose holes right at he was about to burn Da- I mean Phantom to a crisp." Then, Sam picked up the story.

"Inside the castle, I convinced Dora to stand up to her brother. She has the same powers as him after all. She was able to take off my crown and turn into a dragon to go fight her brother."

"He was very angry," Dora remembered, laughing a bit. "While I was fighting him, Sir Phantom was able to get his amulet off." She touched her own amulet around her neck. Vlad was impressed. He knew Aragon had been a powerful ghost, and Danny and his friends had helped to defeat him.

"Wow," Dash whispered to Kwan. "Who knew Fen-turd and his friends could be cool?" Kwan nodded in agreement.

"So where is he now?" Star asked curiously.

"We keep him locked in the castle dungeons," Dora said casually. Star froze with her fork halfway to her mouth.

"Oh. That's… nice." Dora smiled at her, not realizing that what she said was not seen as normal to the group of humans. Seeing their classmate's expressions, Danny and Sam both bit the inside of the cheeks to keep from laughing. Tucker, however, couldn't control himself as well, and burst out laughing, only to end up choking on the water he'd just taken a drink of.

"Sir Foley, are you alright?" Dora asked, concerned. Tucker could only nod and give a thumbs up.

"Wrong pipe," he finally managed to choke out, coughing a couple more times. Sam slapped him on the back, hard.

"Ow! What was that for?" Sam just laughed. "You're crazy, you know that?" Tucker grumbled.

"I know," Sam smiled sweetly at him. Kwan leaned over to Star.

"Is it just me, or do those three seem more comfortable here then they do at home?" Star looked at the trio laughing and messing with each other.

"I think you're right," she told him.

The rest of the feast went surprisingly well, considering three ghost hunters were sitting at the table. When the group had finished, Dora rose.

"Come, I will show you to your rooms." She led the group out of the dining room and directed them to the hallway containing Danny, Sam, and Tucker's rooms. Each of their room was fitted with a wooden door from the human world, and the walls were reinforced with human world material so that humans couldn't pass through them like they could everything else in the ghost zone. Dora pointed out the open rooms to the rest of the group and allowed them to sort out who would sleep where on their own.

Once everyone was settled in, Vlad went to see Danny before he went to sleep. He walked up to Danny's door and instead of knocking, decided to walk right in, knowing about the whole 'humans are ghosts in the ghost zone' thing. Inside Danny's room, he, Sam, and Tucker were talking about random stuff when they suddenly heard a thud. Shortly after, Vlad phased into the room. The trio burst out laughing at his face.

"Yes, hilarious," Vlad said dryly. "I was just coming to make sure everything was alright before I went to sleep."

"Yeah, should be fine from here," Danny said. "We'll reach your portal around lunchtime tomorrow." Vlad nodded.

"Very well then, goodnight little badger." He turned and started to walk towards the door.

"Night frootloop," Danny called after him. "Watch out for the door!" Vlad shot a pink beam from his finger and hit Danny. "Hey!" Before Danny could retaliate, Vlad phased through the door and went back to his room.

"You gonna go after him?" Tucker asked.

"Nah," Danny said. "That frootloop's not worth it."

"He has a point, though," Sam said. "We really should be getting to bed. We've got a long day ahead of us tomorrow." Danny nodded. Sam and Tucker said goodnight and left for their own rooms. Danny turned off the lights and crawled into the king-sized bed Dora insisted he have in his room. He closed his eyes and almost immediately fell asleep.

Two hours later a scream jolted him out of his rest. His eyes flew open and he leaped out of bed. He transformed into Phantom and flew out into the hallway. He flew in the direction of the scream and quickly found the problem. Plasmius was standing over one of Dora's servants raising his hand in the air like he was about to blast her. Before he could fire, Danny shot one of his own, blasting Vlad off of her. She quickly got to her feet and ran.

"What are you doing, frootloop?" Danny asked, facing Vlad.

"What, did you really think you could trust me?" Vlad asked. "Honestly, Bil- I mean, Daniel, I didn't think you were actually this naive. After all, I am the 'bad guy.'"

Danny shot a blast at him, but he dodged. Before Danny could shoot again, he phased through the wall. Danny chased after him, but couldn't find him anywhere. He yawned.

"Whatever, I'm too tired to deal with this now. If he's still here in the morning I'll kick his butt then." He flew back to his room, transformed back to Fenton, and collapsed on his bed.

"I don't know what you're up to, Vlad," he mumbled, "but I'm gonna-" his words trailed off as he fell asleep.

The dark figure watched him.

"The seeds of discord have been sown. Soon, I will be victorious."