Danny's body returned to normal as he turned to face them. "So, do you two make a habit of attacking your friends, or am I just lucky?"
"I may not know exactly what you are, but you better tell me what happened to Danny." The look in Kim's eyes was one of incredible anger.
"I am Danny!" He took a position that would allow him to move swiftly.
Ron stepped up and took a position that said all too well that he was ready to fight. "Then how could we go right through you?"
A concerned voice drew all attention to it. "Danny? What's going on here?"
Ron turned to face the girl. "Jazz, stay away. That's not Danny."
Jazz looked over his shoulder and saw the wound on Danny's arm. She broke past Ron and rushed to her brother. "What happened? Why's your blood green?"
"It's a side effect." He dropped his voice to a whisper. "I don't understand it, but my ghost side is getting stronger.And it's doing something to my body."
Ron managed to hear him say it was a side effect. He started to see that this might be the real Danny, but he wasn't going to make a foolish mistake. He was careful about how he approached it. "Side effect of what?"
Danny knew he had no choice. If he fought them he would give away his secret, if he disappeared he'd give away his secret. Anything he did at this point would show his power. The only thing he could do, was reveal it on his terms.
Danny straightened up and threw a level gaze at Kim and Ron. "Ron, do you remember me mentioning an accident I was in? If you want to understand, then we need to go somewhere so that I can explain. It's too dangerous to speak about it here."
Kim and Ron looked at each other. They nodded their heads as one. The changed their stances and waited for Danny to lead the way.
Danny looked at them for a second. "Well, where do we go? This is your town, not mine."
Ron looked over at Kim. "Any ideas?"
"How about your house."
Danny and Jazz's eyes opened in fear. "NO!"
Danny regained his composure. "We can't do this anywhere near my parents. They'd freak. They might even attack me."
Jazz nodded her head in agreement. "We can't let our parents find out. He didn't even tell me. I found out by accident."
Ron looked at her. "Found out what?"
"What happened to me. I've never told anyone about it. My friends Sam and Tucker were there when it happened. Jazz figured it out on her own. But I'm not going into it here. We have to find a place where it's safe to talk."
Kim nodded. She remained skeptical about Danny, but she was willing to give him a shot. "We'll go to my house. Mom and Dad are working late and the tweebs have soccer."
Danny nodded. "Okay, that should do."
DPKP
The four teens were scattered around the room. Kim sat on her bed while Ron was draping himself on a chair at her desk. Jazz leaned against the wall. She had never heard the particulars of what happened. Danny stood in the middle of the room. He didn't enjoy reliving what happened. The pain had been intense, even if the results had been worth it.
Danny took a deep breath before beginning his tale. "As you know, our parents are inventors and ghost hunters. Earlier in the year they were building a machine meant to take them into a different dimension. The dimension where ghosts live. I mentioned it to Sam and Tucker and they wanted to see it. So we snuck down to the lab. It wasn't working and I went into it. I don't know exactly what happened but it suddenly turned on." Danny started to pace. "The pain was horrible. It felt like my body was being ripped apart. When I came out, I was, different to say the least. My body was fused with ectoplasm. Basically, I became part ghost."
"Uhuh, No way is that the truth. I don't know what you did to Danny but you're not getting away with it." The look on Ron's face was rage. Something that most people never saw from him.
"You don't believe me, then watch this."
Danny took his usual position.
"I'M GOING GHOST!"
Two white rings exploded outward from his waist. They started running up and down his body changing him from Danny Fenton, your typical high school nobody, to Danny Phantom, the ghost fighting hero.
As the familiar black suit came into view, Ron gasped in surprise. He immediately recognized the figure that had been battling above his house just the day before.
"And if you still don't believe I'm a ghost, then check this out!"
Danny turned blue and flew right at Ron. His essence was absorbed into his friend's body. Ron's brown eyes turned a glowing green. "This is called overshadowing. I can take over people's bodies. I've never tested for how long. It's not something I do that..."
Ron's body started to glow yellow. Danny's form flew from him and crashed into the wall. "Often. Ow."
Both Danny and Ron looked a bit dazed. Ron was the first one to speak. "Whoah, what was that?"
As they recovered the twin rings ran up and down Danny's body returning him to the form of Danny Fenton. He shook his head trying to understand what had happened. He had been in Ron's body less than a minute before something had forced him out.
Danny reluctantly got back to his feet. "That was weird, I've never been forced out of a body before." He looked over at Ron. "Sorry about that, but I had to make my point somehow."
Kim accepted that he was telling the truth. But that didn't mean she was going to accept him as a friend without question.
"But how, how is this even possible? You're human, you shouldn't be part ghost. It doesn't make any sense."
Danny looked at her. "You're right. It doesn't make sense, but that's the way it is, I'm human and ghost, and I'm not the only one."
