Disclaimer:

I don't own Danny Phantom, and if you still think I do with all these disclaimers, there's something wrong. I also, for some strange reason, don't own Christmas.

Author's Note:

Thanks for reviewing everyone, it really is greatly appreciated. I would also like to say this, in Australia, tomorrow is the 1st of December! That means merry Christmas! We get to put up the tree on the 1st of December too. D

Chapter 8: Better or Worse?

Danny groaned and shut his laptop. He really had been stupid to think that nothing could go wrong. Now he had to hope that no one would recognize him, especially considering he was wearing his normal clothes too! What had he been thinking…? Danny decided to put on the jumpsuit again just incase anyone else saw him.

Looking at the time, it was twenty-five past ten. Danny, didn't want much to do with the internet at all now. He headed downstairs to the ghost lab just to see what his parents were planning on doing.

As he entered, they both jumped. Seems that both of them were a little nerve racked at the moment.

"Oh! Danny!" Maddie said in surprise, pushing the off button to something quickly. "We didn't expect you to come down here!"

"What was that?" Danny said, pointing to the button his mother had just pushed. "What did you just turn off?"

"Nothing!" Maddie and Jack said in unison. Danny eyed them suspiciously.

"It doesn't look like nothing. Besides, I thought you were trying to work on something to make me normal again."

"We are… but…" Maddie had a sudden brain wave, if she did this, Danny would think they needed to do the tests and they'd still get the data they wanted. "Well, we just found out we need to run some tests on you before we can start."

Danny's eyes narrowed, he didn't like the sound of this, his parents being ghost fanatics, might do any number of unpleasant things to him. "What kind of tests?"

"Well first we need a blood sample Danny-boy!" Jack said enthusiastically. "Then we'll need to run a cat scan and then… something else I can't remember the name of or what it does!"

"Oh great…" Danny said miserably. "What's the mystery test then?"

"I told you, I can't remember." Jack said, scratching the back of his head. "We're getting the stuff set up now, so go back upstairs."

"Can I watch?" Danny asked, wanting to see exactly what the mystery test was before he had to take it.

"No, go back upstairs and come down in a few hours sweetie." Maddie said. "I know you might be doubtful, but we really do need to perform these tests to be able to revert your genetic profile."

"Right… Okay then, I'm going." Danny said unhappily, walking back up the stairs and out of the room. Maddie looked at Jack, puzzled.

"So what is the mystery test, anyway?" she asked curiously.

"I don't know, but I'll think of something eventually!" Jack said enthusiastically. Maddie swatted her forehead.

Danny didn't want to turn himself invisible and go down there, in case it backfired again and he was seen spying on them. He was just about to see if there was anything that wasn't garbage on the television when that cold shiver down his spine and a wisp of blue mist issued again from his mouth. Danny figured it must have been a ghost sense when a small ghost fox cub popped out of the floor. It looked exactly like a normal fox except for the white glow it gave off. Danny thought it looked harmless and cute, bending down to pat it.

Bad mistake – it bit him sharply on his fingers, it's jaw locked in position.

"AAGHR! GET OFF OF ME!" Danny said, desperately trying to pull the fox off him. He struggled until the fox stopped biting his hand and scampered off someplace else, phasing through the lounge room walls, out into the backyard and beyond.

"First my invisibility goes haywire and now this?!" Danny shouted at the fox cub who was no longer in sight. He looked at his hand where it had been bitten and it began to heal incredibly fast. "Well at least that's one good thing…"

It was now eleven o'clock as Danny had been playing video games for the rest of the time. As he realized the time, Danny fished out his mobile phone from his bedside table in his room and called Tucker, who would inevitably be with Sam during recess.

"Hello…? Tucker Foley, prize date right here!" Tucker said in an attempt at a cool voice.

"Tucker, it's Danny. I don't think you really want to go on a date with me." Danny replied, rolling his eyes even though you couldn't see them through the phone.

"Dude, that was pretty risky what you did. You're very lucky no one figured out who you were."

"No one figured it out?!" Danny said, relieved but puzzled. "That's… quite surprising…"

"Yeah, especially since you wore the same clothes you always wear!" Danny heard Sam's voice in the phone. "Danny, why did you do it? I've already heard rumors that a kid was filming it on his phone and put it on You Tube!"

"I know they did, Sam, I saw it." Danny said unhappily. "I don't think anyone figured it out there though. Actually, could you ask Jazz if she could hack into that kids account and delete it or something? I know she knows how to do that."

"Yeah, okay." Tucker promised. "But why don't I just do it? They don't call me a techno-geek for nothing!"

"Y'know, that's probably a good idea." Danny replied.

"Well, we better go," said Sam, who'd probably just snatched the phone off Tucker. "We'll see you after school."

"Bye guys." Danny said as one of the two hung up. Danny replaced his phone back on the bedside table and sat down on his bed. Most of the worry had gone from being found out, and even if they suspected him after he was human again, he could just say that you had to be dead to be a ghost and he most certainly wasn't dead.

Danny opened up his laptop again and looked for that video again. Tucker had already deleted it, so Danny let out a sigh of relief, closing the computer again.

The rest of the day until just before school would finish Danny spent sketching. His drawings weren't the best, but it was surprisingly more entertaining than he thought it would be. He completely forgot about the tests, and after realizing he had, didn't really care anyway. His parents didn't even come up to fetch him.

-End Chapter 8-

Author's Note:

Considering my school got the day off today, I was able to get this up in record time! So, anyway, because of this I may be able to get another chapter up tonight. And on another note I killed the virus causing trouble for my computer and now it's working fine again. I used a free program called a-squared and it worked like a charm. So anyway, like always,

Peace,

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