Chapter 9

Danny was sleeping soundly in his room as you would expect from any regular teenager at five in the morning.

Tap tap tap

He shifted slightly in his bed.

TAP tap tap

He rolled over trying to drown out the sound.

TAP TAP TAP

He shot up and turned to his window ready to punch whatever was at his window. He focused for a moment as his gaze cleared. The figure tapping on his window was. "A snake?" Squinting further he finally saw it. "Wait that's one of Sam's tentacles."

Walking over to his window he saw Sam circling his house. The moment he saw her she made a 'come here' Sign with her hand.

"She has to be crazy. If my parents are awake who knows how they'll react. Dammit, Sam." Acting quickly he threw his pyjamas off and slipped into his jumpsuit/pants. Tiptoeing downstairs he made sure not to make a racket he finally made it to his front door.

Just as he was about to open it the door flew open revealing Jack, Danny nearly had a heart attack. "Uhh, hey Dad what are you…." Jack covered Danny's mouth.

"Danny keep it down you'll scare away the cryptids." Danny was confused. "I'm testing their intelligence with the Fenton Fisher, a fishing rod with an extra strong line that they can't break once I get a bite we'll have ourselves full blown proof."

Danny knew this was inevitable, ever since the town had seen the Mermaid attack the school his parents had finally gotten the recognition they deserved. The only problem was this was going straight to their heads as they began doing any test that came into their heads to discover more about their adversary even if it wasn't rational. "And you think this will work."

"If they are really smart then, of course, they'll attack the infamous Fenton and if not then maybe they'll just take the bait. I Jack Fenton will not stop until this method shows results." He declared casting the line into the water. It wasn't two seconds before he felt a cramp. "Though I never said anything about a toilet break, hold this Danny I'll be back before you know it."

When he went inside Danny felt the line tug. Holding on tight he slowly reeled what he caught in. When he brought it to the surface he snickered at what he saw. Sam was using the indestructible Fenton line as floss. "Morning Danny, what are you doing with this?"

He snorted. "Well, actually my dad is using this line to try and catch Cryptids in a way it worked though not the way he intended."

"Well, I'm grateful for that." She pulled on the line removing seaweed from her teeth. "That's been stuck in my mouth for hours merman that's a relief." Snapping out of his amusement he turned to the matter at hand.

"Sam, what are you doing here?"

"I came to get you I need to make sure you've got the skills to be reliable should something dangerous happen."

"Fine but why are you here like that?"

"Like what?"

"In your Cecaelia form what if someone sees you and freaks out or worse my parents see you?"

"Then they'll have seen me I'll be gone before they could react anyway."

"That's not good enough Sam why couldn't you text me or something?"

"I'm still trying to understand that, for example apparently Technology and water don't mix." Danny's eye twitched. "What? I'm trying at least."

Danny just sighed. "Look if you're gonna come here at least be in your human form I don't want you and my parents to get off to a rough start." he pleaded.

"Ok, I promise. A rough start with your parents? Does this mean we're a couple?" If it was possible for a human to sweat vapour Danny was doing a pretty good impression.

"Of course not what gave you that idea?!" Sam laughed at his reaction.

"I was reading about how humans interact with each other and it said that if a boy introduces a female friend to his parents it's a silent way of telling them that he is dating her."

"We'll don't believe everything you read because that sound like it was written by a three-year-old."

"Wow, you guys right books that well that young?" Danny couldn't tell if she was joking or not. He didn't get the chance as one of her tentacles wrapped around him and pulled him into the water.

The moment his transformation ended he spoke in rage. "Sam, what are you doing?"

"Getting to your training we were wasting time." She bolted to the open ocean with Danny still wrapped up. "You're not going to get stronger standing and talking." She pointed.

Danny just sighed. "Fine you win will you let me swim now?" Her answer was to throw him out into the ocean. "AAAAAAHHHHH!"

"Only if you can catch your breath." She smirked evilly.

Meanwhile, Jack returned to the front porch to see Danny missing. "Ah, teenagers so impatient." He said sitting down to begin his fishing spree.


Lancer was currently droning on about Shakespeare in English but to ensure that his teaching wasn't going to waste he made sure his class was thoroughly involved. Turning around he looked at the students trying to stay awake seeing if he could find a weak link.

To his surprise, he spotted Daniel Fenton completely asleep on his desk even drooling. He just sighed. "Mr Fenton?" No response. "Mr Fenton!" He shot up.

"Here sir!" The class giggled at his antics.

"Is my lesson borning enough to put you to sleep?"

"If I say no are you going to make me prove it?"

"Just try to stay awake for this next part." He finished annoyed. "As you all know you have sports coming up and this time we are giving you the choice of selecting what you would prefer to do."

"Does that mean we can skip on the things we don't like?"

"Is this compulsory?"

"Can we recommend a sport?"

"Do we have any protection against the Mermaids?"

"What's for lunch?"

"I wasn't finished, people." He grunted. "You will be able to pick one sport for the first semester and either stick to it for the second or switch to another. The cost of the sport will vary if no sport is selected then you will be restricted to school sports as even the most academic of you require exercise, healthy body healthy mind people."

Danny would argue against that if he had the energy. He looked over at Sam who just smirked at him. All his muscles were on fire and he was still trying to catch his breath he had never worked so hard in his life. But he wasn't about to tell Sam this for fear she would do it again this afternoon.

"As for the recent Mermaid incident the authorities are on high alert for anything that could become a serious threat and so far we had received no word of any threat nearby. Please fill your forms in by the end of the week as competition could leave you missing out." Lancer finished as the bell rang.

Walking out of class Tucker confronted Danny. "Dude, what happened? Falling asleep in class is something only the people who think they're cool do."

"Well I wouldn't but Sam woke me up pretty early for a workout and didn't give me a chance to recover."

"You're damn right I don't care how lucky you were with the lunch lady you're not going to get off as easy with every other threat. So help you with that I've made a schedule to ensure you don't win by luck."

"Hey speaking of the Lunch lady what did you do with her?" Tucker asked.

"I went and found her master and he wasn't too pleased so he banished her from his sights and now we have a new cafeteria chef." As they walked through the door of the cafeteria they were greeted by a bulky man with an impressive moustache.

"Lunch is served young ones and you can give your thanks to Miss Manson for the change in menu." Everyone grew worried at that but thankfully the menu they were greeted with did contain meat and vegetable varieties.

"If I couldn't get rid of the meat I made sure that the school would only use meats approved by companies that prevented animal cruelty." This seemed to satisfy everyone and so the everyday high school life continued.

Now at their table, the obvious question came about. "So what are you guys gonna do for sports?" Danny asked.

"Well hear me out on this one Danny but I think I might wanna try dance," Tucker answered.

Danny blanked out for a moment. "I'm sorry you'll have to say that again because it sounded like you just said you wanted to try dance."

"You heard right, look Danny we all know that most girls love to dance and the only thing they love more then that is a man who can dance. We both know that I'm definitely no good when it comes to singing."

"Thank you for finally figuring that out I only told you five hundred times."

"But my potential in dance is yet to be explored. Plus I know every other sport I'm totally going to fail at and it is always healthy to try new things." He finished.

"Fine, you've made your point. Sam?"

"I really don't know any sport can you just pick one that I can tag along with and not look like an idiot." He nodded and looked through the list. 'Let's see we've got football, basketball and baseball I'll rule out because I stink at all those...hmmm.'

"Hey, do you wanna do something at the beach?"

"Yeah that could work if something shows up then we can quickly get into our element plus I'll feel a little closer to home. But can you make it so that we don't go in the water a lot someone might notice something's up." She had a point looking back at the list one option caught his eye.

"Hey, how about beach volleyball?" He asked.

"What's that?" he handed her the list to let her decide. "Yeah, that sounds perfect." She agreed. 'That's good now that we have this organised I wonder if they include mixed teams?' Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that it was an option. 'Cool so now I get an entire two periods on Tuesday with Sam on the beach, in her swim wear….'

Danny froze as he realised his mistake. 'No come on now it's not like I'm doing this to get closer to Sam that's something Tucker would do.' He looked up to see Tucker smirking at him. 'Holy crap he saw my play before I even knew I had one this is bad.'

"Uh, are you sure maybe there's something else we can do?" He tried.

"No way the more I read this the more fun it sounds." Tucker snorted at Danny's face. 'Great just when I thought things couldn't get any weirder, I have to unconsciously set up with Sam.' He internally screamed.

"Going for surfing again come on Star are you sure you don't wanna change things up a bit." Sam's ears twitched when she heard that. Looking over she saw the A-listers discussing their choices. "Just because you dominate at that sport doesn't mean some variety is going to change that."

Sam noticed that a large number of people also eavesdropping on the conversation. "Hey, guys who's Star?"

Tucker was quick to answer. "Star Guinevere is a big-time A-lister she started out as Paulina's satellite but tried to find a way to get a bigger spotlight. That was when she decided to rekindle her love for surfing and damn did she make an impression." He finished by pointing at a trophy cabinet.

Curious Sam walked over and saw that there were three school surfing champion trophies and one all schools champion trophy all belonging to Star. "Wow, she's committed."

"Yeah and these are just the school trophies, you should see the ones she wins outside of school," Danny said standing next to her.

"One question." Danny looked at Sam. "What's surfing?" Danny almost lost his footing.

"Right I forget we're worlds apart. Surfing….I'd probably give an unjust statement do you wanna see how Star does it at the end of school?" Sam thought for a moment.

"Sure why not."


Sitting comfortably under the palm trees at one of Amity parks most well-known beaches was Sam and Danny watching Star and her other surfing friends, and they were less than impressed. "So does surfing consist of grabbing an oval-shaped board going out into the water and doing nothing?"

"No surfing requires waves," Danny said

"And a large amount of skill, also foods ready," Tucker added giving them the food they ordered.

"Well, this turned out great now what are we supposed to do?" Sam asked munching on her veggie roll.

"Well we could go for a swim ourselves or Danny could teach you how to play beach volleyball." Danny shot Tucker a look.

"Sure that sounds alright, come on Danny," Sam said walking to the shore.

"I'm gonna get you for this," Danny growled.

"Good, then you can help me when I get a date."

"That isn't what I meant and you know it. I don't like Sam that way."

"Sure you don't, I'm gonna go to the food bar some babes just showed up there and I'm feeling lucky after all good things happen to people who do good deeds." He elbowed Danny lightly.

He didn't get the chance to argue as Sam gave him the hurry up. She was wearing a purple bikini with her top leaving her neck and mid shoulders exposed only and her bottom half coming down to her mid-thigh but left her abs exposed. School regulations and all that prevented her from exposing more but she would die before admitting that she was embarrassed about showing more than she intended.

"Ok, so the basic rules are that there are two people on each team and on each side. The goal is to get this ball to touch the ground on the other side. However, if you get the ball out of bounds it the other teams point. We have to get to twenty-one points to win a set and win two sets to win the match. You with me?"

"Yeah sounds good can we play and learn while we do this? Because no offence but your explanation is really boring." Danny smirked.

"Ok we'll start I'll serve." Getting ready on both sides Danny lined up the shot taking the shot it flew gracefully over the net. Sam was quick to react jumping up she hit the ball with a palm straight back over the net.

Smashing into the ground deflating the ball and leaving a crater. Danny held a shocked expression at the ground. "Is it my point?" Sam shyly asked.

"Huh? Oh yeah, that's definitely your point but we're gonna have to limit the amount of strength you put into these passes otherwise the schools going to charge us for property damage." Sam looked frustrated. "Don't worry that why we're doing this you'll get the hang of it." She smiled at him.

It was a few minutes later but Tucker finally arrived. "Hey, guys how's the training going?"

"Sam's coming around I think by the end of the day she will refrain from pulverising the other teams face in with the volleyball." Danny joked.

"Yeah, this game is actually pretty fun can't wait to see how the competition stands up," Sam said. Looking at the surf she still saw no waves. "Still no waves what's up with that?"

"I know right it's weird enough as it is but what's really weird is that Star is still here likes she expecting something. I mean she's a professional so she should be a natural at identifying whether the surf is good or not." Tucker explained.

"Yeah, she should. She always checks the news and downloads apps to help her find the best surf conditions, so why would they just go flat now?" Danny asked. He then saw Sam thinking hard. "You don't think it's because of a Mer do you?"

"It's possible but I can't see the need to make a beach calm. But there's only one way to find out. Danny do you have your gear?"

"No, I thought the legs would stand out considering I'm only wearing board shorts and a rashie, plus I left the net gun at home."

"Then we'll have to do this the hard way, assuming there is anything."

"Wait what are you gonna do?" Tucker asked.

"Make some waves." walking up to her chest in water Sam looked to make sure no one was watching then began her spell.

Meanwhile with Star. "I don't get this, the beach has never been this flat ever. What's worse is that this was supposed to be when the surf was high."

"Just face it Star we can't trust technology." one of her buddies said.

"I know that but I came here on instinct I know there should be something starting soon," Star said turning to face them.

"We've been out here for nearly an hour, if we don't get some waves soon I'm calling it quits." Another one said.

"Alright fine," Star said looking down at her board. At this time she noticed a large shadow coming up behind her. Looking over her shoulder she saw what had to be a three-meter wave. "Duck dive now!"

Barely making it in time her group just managed to dive underneath the wave. Coming back up Star couldn't help but laugh. "Well I don't know where it came from but we go waves now."

Sam feeling pretty smug at this point took a step and admired her handy work. Her two friends joined her. "You know keep pulling stunts like this and you'll get so popular we won't be able to get near you," Danny said.

"Yeah, right you'll find that I don't like being in a crowd." Sam retorted, looking closely she admired Stars skills surfing almost a little jealous. "That really is impressive, look at that, she just gained air and is still on her board."

"Yeah, she's a natural. Do you wanna swim or keep watching?"

"I'll watch, until I'm sure there's no threat then I'll swim." They accepted her decision and waited.

Time passed and soon Danny was starting to think Sam was being a bit superstitious with everything as nothing seemed to be going wrong. "Well, would you look at that no trouble ah well what are we going to do now?" Tucker jinxed.

No sooner did he say that did Danny's lateral line go haywire. Out of the sea spray came a pale blue Mer that was Danny's size but was leaving a rather big impression. "You dare wake me, the Box mer and with eroding waves destined to make my creations a hideous circle?! I will not allow this!" He yelled and suddenly large chunks of square sandstone were thrown at the swimmers.

Danny looked at Sam surprised to see she was facepalming. "Of course it had to be him."

"You know him?" Danny questioned.

"Who doesn't meet the most annoying mer in the seven seas the box mer, a fish that has some weird obsession with square objects. I guess I'm the unfortunate one to show him his place this time around." She grunted.

"Need help?"

"The moral support kind yes, come on, It'll be a while before I can help." She grabbed Danny and pulled him into the surf.

Star, on the other hand, wasn't having the best time as the projectiles launched at her missed and created more waves making it harder for her to stay on your board. "What is your deal what did we do to you." She said in frustration.

"I have been resting for quite some time those who would interrupt it with waves and fun are enemies of me the Box mer." The mer began to aim a block specifically at Star making her hold her breath. At the last second, another merman coat hanger the angry mer.

"Will you chill out it's not our fault you woke up on the wrong side of the bed," Danny commented as he threw the box mer some feet away.

Recovering from the fall he shot up in rage. "You dare attack the box Mer you will know my wrath!" He summoned more boxes around him and sent them crashing into the water causing a minor Tsunami.

Danny swam underneath the waves and swam up face to face with the mer. Angry at his antics Danny clenched his fist and threw it at the box mer's face. Halfway through the punch, he felt an amazing energy course through his arm.

The moment of impact all the energy was released as blue flames exploded from his fist burning the box mer. "AHHH it burns!"

"What the heck?" Danny just stared at his flame-covered hand feeling no heat but a rush of energy.

"Impressive but it will not be enough to beat the Box…" At this point, a giant fist came and punched him into the ocean. "I WILL Return!" He yelled as his momentum carried him further away.

With the attack over before it began Danny become interested in his fiery hands. "What's going on here?" Danny asked himself.

"Yes, I knew your kind hadn't lost the ability," Sam said in minor excitement. "To use magic that is."

"What do you mean?"

"A long time ago humans were capable of using magic specifically fire-based magic. But then you guys grew afraid of it and hunted down everyone who used it."

"Ok, but how am I using it now?"

"Well, it's stated that using magic is almost instinctive for us maybe that helps." Danny seemed to think that was reasonable. "This is a good thing fire is one of the few elements I can't wield so you've just become at least a hundred times more useful." That made him smile.

"...Star….star…" Danny's ear twitched hearing that. Getting closer to the surface he heard the commotion. "Where are you! Star!"

"She hasn't come back!"

"Where are the lifeguards!"

"There on the other side of the beach!"

Danny's heartbeat increased at the sound of his classmate's absence. His eyes darted everywhere looking for any trace of her but he found nothing. "Danny, what's wrong?" Sam asked.

"Star's missing I think she's gone under." Closing his eyes he used his lateral line to sense everything around him. People struggling to get out of the water, fish swimming frantically, crabs hiding and a limb body sinking further every second…. "That's her!" He yelled.

Flicking his eyes open he rushed to where she was. Finally seeing her he grew worried, she was bleeding from the head and clearly unconscious. There wasn't a second to lose scooping her up in his arms he rushed to the surface. "Danny where are you taking her!"

"The beach where else?"

"You could be exposed there." He finally got to the surface but Sam remained under. "Quick there's a cove over there." Danny saw so fast he might as well have already been there.

Putting a finger underneath her nose he realised she wasn't breathing. "Sam she not breathing I don't know CPR!"

"Here let me." Focusing on her power Sam managed to make the water in her lungs come out of her mouth. The result was instant as Star began hacking and coughing up any remaining water.

Star felt weak she could barely feel her body as every breath she took felt like fire. Opening her eyes a blurry vision of a person's face was what she saw. Focusing she soon realised this person wasn't a human face.

"You ok?" Danny asked.

"Uhhhh….Yeah, ow!" She grabbed her head.

"Take it easy you took a nasty hit."

"Where am I?" She moaned painfully as Danny place her on the shore.

"Still at the beach you went under after the...box mer attacked you. You should be fine your friends are just over the hill, I gotta go." He turned to leave.

"Wait!" He paused. "Who are you?" Danny froze not sure how to react to that.

"Star!?" A call from over the hill saved him, as he quickly darted away.

"No wait come back!" She tried but he was already gone.

"Star are you ok? Oh God, your head we'll get an ambulance."

"Do you remember anything? How'd you get here?" Her friends asked but all Star was interested in was the boy that saved her.

"I think I need to lie down before answering that." She said.

Danny meanwhile had swum back to Sam. "She safe?"

"Yeah, but she saw me as she was waking up, what if she takes it the wrong way?"

"You saved her life how could this go wrong."

"I don't know maybe the media will change this into a setup or something."

"You're overthinking this let's just focus on the important things first, we're going to be fighting a lot of small fries so your gonna need to be on top of your game wherever you go and if you need help call me."

"Do you know how to use a phone."

"I'm getting the hang of it but I'll have to teach you a spell to contact me now that I know you can use magic."

"Great more studying."

"Yeah, but you'll like it I promise. Come on we'll go to my place." She took off excitedly.

"Wait you have a house now?"

"Yeah come on invite Tucker I need to show you guys." She said as she disappeared into the distance leaving Danny to wonder about his decisions.


AN: Sorry for taking so long I had final exams. But yeah I'm hoping to introduce different characters at different speeds I also hope you like what I did with Star, I'm also hoping to give Tucker a more useful role in the future and teaser just because I said Vlad wouldn't be the main villain doesn't mean I'm not going to include him.