Chapter 6: The School Dance

"Citizens, after an attack from a ghost," Vlad said, showing a picture of Undergrowth. "We believe the newcomer may be the cause." He shows a picture of Dani Phantom fighting against Undergrowth.

"Can you believe this guy?" Danny and Danielle are watching the news, which is showing Vlad Masters tell the people the 'new threat'. "He's blaming me for the attack by Undergrowth."

"Ha, you don't know the half of it." said Danny.

"Kids!" yelled Maddie. "You better go before you're late for school!"

Okay, Mom!" they said. The two Fenton's picks up their packs and leave the house heading to school.

"I just hope today will be a ghost-free day." said Dani.

"Why is that?" asked the ghost boy.

"Undergrowth was hard to beat. I just want to take a break from fighting ghost."

"Okay. If you say so."

When they got to school, they met up with Sam and Tucker. Sam asks, "So, Danny. Are you ready for the dance tonight?" Dani notices Sam seems to be waiting for something.

"Oh, um…well," stuttered Danny. "Well, maybe, if-if I ask someone."

"Oh, okay." said Sam, looking down. "What about you, Dani?"

"Why should I go? I'm just going to go home and watch some T.V."

"Ah, come on, Dani. It'll be fun." said Danny.

"I'll go if someone asks me, but we all know no one is going to ask me out."

Sam sees Jake walking up to school. "Oh, I've got a feeling someone's going to ask you." Sam said, but Dani didn't hear.

The day just went on without a ghost attack. Dani went from class to class like any normal day. In the hallway, Dani was putting away some books, when she saw her brother being lifted by the bully, Dash Baxter.

Dash says, "This is for the D- in science." He was about to punch Danny when he heard, "Leave him alone, Dash."

He turns to see Dani walking towards him. "What do you want?"

Dani looks at him, angrily. "What I want, is you to put him down."

Dash drops Danny onto the floor. "There, I put him down. Maybe," Dash picks up Dani by the shirt. "I should cream you instead."

All Dani does is smile.

"What are you smiling about?" asked Dash.

Dani says, "This." and kicks Dash in the chest. He falls back, clutching his chest.

"Feisty one. Well you're going to wish you didn't do that." He charges Dani, but she moves and sticks one leg out, making Dash trip. Everyone laughs at Dash.

Dani laughs and says, "Wow. This is probably humiliating to you, getting beat by a girl who's smaller than you."

That sets off Dash. He shouts and rushes Dani, like in football. Before Dani could get out of the way, Dash grabs her and throws her on a locker.

"This is for humiliating me in front of everyone." said Dash. He's about to punch Dani, when the bell rang. Dash put Dani down, then says, "This isn't over." and walks to his class.

Danny helps he sister up, then asks, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." Dani said.

"Okay. Well, we should head to class." They head to class, and went on with their business. After school everyone went home, talking about the dance tonight.

Dani is putting some books in her pack, when someone says,"Dani."

She looks up to see Jake Forrell. "Hey, Jake." Dani said. "How was your day?"

"Good. Um, Dani, I was wondering if you w-want to go to the dance with me." He asked nervously.

Dani looks at Jake, surprised. "You want me to go to the dance with you?"

"Just as friends." Jake quickly said. "Of course if you don't want to go, I'll understand."

"Oh, well, I don't know. I'll think about it."

"Okay. Well, I guess I'll see you later." Jake walks back to his home. Dani watches him, wondering if she should go.

"So, are you going to the dance?"

Dani turns to see Sam walking out of her hiding spot. "You heard all that?"

Sam says, "Yeah. I think you should go. You did say you would go if someone asks you."

"I guess I did say that."

"Well, do whatever you want." Sam said, walking off. "But if it was me, I'd go."

"You going with Danny?" asked Dani.

Sam stops and nervously says, "Well, uh, maybe. I'm still waiting for him to ask me, if he wants to go."

"Hey, Sam!"

They both turn to see Danny running towards them.

Dani says, "I think he's going to ask."

"Yeah. Hey, Dani…" Sam said.

"I get it. I'm off." Dani runs off, then back." Good luck." She runs off again.

Dani is walking back home, thinking if she should go with Jake, or just stay home. She opens the door and throws her backpack on the couch, and turns on the T.V.

"Danielle." Maddie calls.

"What?" Dani calls back.

"Could you come here for a minute?"

Dani sighs and walks into the kitchen to see Maddie with a bag. "What do you want, Mom?"

Maddie puts the bag on the table and says, "I just want to show you the dress I bought for the dance tonight." She pulls out a black dress with spaghetti straps and a purple bow on the middle. Maddie also pulls out a purple headband with a black bat on one side. The dress also includes purple elbow-length gloves.

"What do you think?" asked Maddie.

Dani stares at the dress, astonished. "It's beautiful."

"I saw this at the store, and with your interest in Goth," Dani looks at Maddie, annoyed. "Uh, which you aren't," Maddie quickly adds. "I new this would be perfect. Are you going to the dance?"

"Uh…well…" she thought of Jake, then said, "Yeah, I'm going." She takes the dress and hangs it up in her closet.

Dani hears the door slam and runs to see Danny sitting down, looking very happy.

"So, what did Sam say?" asked Dani.

"About what?" Danny said.

"About the dance, duh."

"Well, she said yes!"

"Good for you." said Dani. She walks off to get something from the fridge, when she heard an explosion from the lab. Dani runs to see Jack covered in ash with most of his hair burned off.

"What happened?" asked Dani.

All Maddie said was, "Failed experiment."

"Oh." Dani walks back to the kitchen and gets an apple from the fridge.

When it was almost time to go to the dance, Danny and Danielle went to get ready. Danny puts on a gray suit with a tie. Danielle puts on her black dress with a purple headband and purple gloves. When they came out and went downstairs, Maddie takes pictures of them, said have fun, and the two Fenton's walk off to the dance. Before they got to the school, their ghost sense appears. They look around to see the Box Ghost.

Dani says, "Go on ahead. I got this."

"Okay." said Danny. He walks off to meet Sam, who is in her black dress with her hair up and a purse in her hand. Dani turns ghost and flies to meet the annoying ghost.

"Beware! I am the Box-"said the Box Ghost.

"Oh, just shut up." Dani said, sucking the ghost into the Fenton Thermos.

Dani shuts the thermos, and flies into an ally. She changes back and walks off, making sure nobody saw her. Dani walks to school, and sees Jake in a suit, waiting by the doorway. She walks to him and says, "Hey, Jake."

"Dani. So you did co-"before he finished his sentence, he was dumbfounded when he saw Dani in a beautiful dress.

Dani stares at Jake, confused. She says, "Um, are you okay?"

Jake snaps back to reality and say, "Yeah, I'm fine." Dani smiles and Jake offers his arm. Dani takes it and they both walk into the dance.

Almost everyone was dancing. The DJ was now playing some hip hop. Dani saw some kids sitting down at the tables. She saw Danny and Sam dancing, and Tucker dancing with Valerie.

Jake offers Dani a hand and asks, "You wanna dance?" Dani takes her hand, and they both walk to a spot and start dancing. Dani sees Dash dancing with Paulina, Kwan dancing with Star, and Mr. Lancer trying to be cool. Everyone dance to different music, once in a while getting some punch. The DJ plays some slow music, which seems everyone was waiting for. Dani and Jake dance closely, enjoying the music. Danielle sees Danny and Sam walking to the hallway, probably to talk in private. Dani looks at Jake, his cute eyes, and handsome face. Jake seeing Dani's beautiful eyes and face. The two start to leaning closer, closing their eyes, until a black and white figure fell through the roof, onto the dance floor. An elderly ghost floats down and says, "You should eat more meat, your all skin and bone! Want some pie?"

"No thank. All I want is you back in the Ghost Zone!" Danny said. He flew and landed a punch to the Lunch Lady. He takes off after her, and resumes the battle.

"Wow. A lot of ghost here isn't there?" said Jake.

"Yeah, ghost." Dani said, nervously. "Could you excuse me?" she runs to the girl's bathroom and picks a stall. Dani converts to her ghost form, turns intangible, and flies off after Danny. She finds him fighting a meat ghost, guessing that's the Lunch Lady in her meat suit.

The meat ghost bats Danny away, and says, "Time to end your life, ghost." Before she lands a fatal blow, she gets blasted from behind. The Lunch Lady falls, almost smashing Danny.

"Who dares to blast me?" She turns to see another black and white ghost floating.

"I dare." Dani said.

The Lunch Lady growls and says, "Then you shall pay!" she fires a meat blast, but Dani turns intangible and flies to the ghost, knocking the Lunch lady out of her meat suit. Before she can call the meat back, Dani sucks her into the thermos.

"Wow." Dani turns to see the ghost boy flying towards her. "I never thought of ramming through her meat suit."

"Thanks. We should get back to the dance." Before they fly back, Danny gets blasted, again, and Dani looks to see it came from guys in white suits, riding some kind of flying machine. "I got it, but this can't be right. This shows two ecto-signatures. Where could the other one be?"

"Um, if you look up, you can see 'it'." said Dani.

They both look up and see Dani floating in front of them.

"Found it." said the other guy.

"Um, 'it' has a name."

"Who are you, ghost?" said the first guy.

"The name's Dani Phantom. Who are you guys, anyway?" asked Dani.

"We're known as the Guys in White." said the second guy.

"Yeah, I noticed. What are you guys, ghost hunters?"

"Yes. Now, it's time to eliminate you." They both point their weapons at Dani, but get blasted by an energy beam. Danny flies next to his sister, and says, "I suggest you both go back to your government before I make you."

The Guys in White tries to blast Danny, but fails.

Danny says, "Okay. I guess you're going the hard way." He turns invisible, and the GIW look around to see if he went somewhere. To their surprise, they are lifted up by some invisible force, and are thrown back to their base. Danny appears, dusting his hands.

"Wow. These guys are getting easier to handle."

Dani flies to him and says, "You sure know a lot of people."

"Yeah, which makes it easier to get rid of them."

"Well, I'm heading back to the dance." Dani flies back to the bathroom, and changes back to Danielle Fenton. She walks out and sees that almost everyone went home. She saw Danny and Sam dancing. She then saw Jake sitting down at one of the tables. She walks to him.

"Hey, Jake."

"Oh, there you are, Dani. I was wondering what was taking so long." Jake said.

They both heard the DJ say, "Okay, It's time to tune it down before the night is all over. So get your partners and dance to this last song tonight." He plays another slow song, which Dani and Jake walk to the dance floor and start dancing slowly. Dani puts her head on Jake's chest, closing her eyes.

Danny looks over to his sister and sees her leaning her head onto her friend's chest. He smiles and turns back to Sam, both of them dancing to the song

Zepherus watches Dani fly back to her school. He follows, seeing her dancing with her friend, looking happy.

"That's right, Danielle. Be happy. This may be your last happy time before I finish what I have started." He grins devilishly and flies off to prepare his plan.