Season 2 Episode 10

The Fright Before Christmas

"Ho-Ho-HORROR!"

A few days have passed since the end of the Casper High semester and Dani's biggest battle with Dana Phantom, Dani's evil alternative version of her future, and Dani has completed her make-up test with a good enough grade for her to pass, but that winter was more like a winter sourland for her. Christmas Eve has finally arrived at Amity Park, and so has winter break as does the the freshly fallen snow. In the Amity Park Mall, customers went shopping for their Christmas surprise presents, candy, and other traditional holiday routines. Meanwhile, Dani Fenton, Tina Foley, and Sam Manson were walking down the mall.

Due to the cold weather conditions, Sam had his black jacket, Tina had a gray/green sweater with a turtleneck and a red-and-white striped scarf, and Dani wore a red jacket, a red winter hat, and tried gloves. Oddly, Sam looked very chipper like a bird in spring, while Dani was more annoyed, which was weird because it was mostly Sam who was the sour one and Dani was the happy one.

"Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! Happy Hanukkah!" Sam called out happily to the random customers before he stopped near Mikey and smiled brightly at the nerd. "Merry Christmas, Mikey."

Mikey became more afraid that the sour goth boy was in a sudden bright mood. "You...are being cheery?! It's a trap! It's a trap!" He yelled as he ran for his life down the mall, leaving Sam a little baffled and confused.

"What's with him?"

"What's with you?" Dani asked more rudely.

"Oh, perk up, Dani. I know you're in your annual holiday funk, but this is the one time of year Sam isn't instantly douer." Tina said.

"Have a kicking Kwanzaa!" Sam called out to a random teen, and he glanced at goth boy oddly.

Tina then flipped her red beanie for a one with a mistletoe hanging on it while Dani stared at it oddly. "And the one time of year I can bust a fully mistletoe bore." A boy with a dog in a box with its head sticking out walked by, until Tina stopped him and stared at him flirtatiously. "Hey there, mister. How's about spreading a little Christmas cheer?" Tina pursed her lips for a kiss under her mistletoe as the boy held his dog and it licked her lips, only to cringe in disgust by the taste. "Mmmmm...you had liver for lunch."

With Dani, customers began to run right past her while they shoved her aside in a hurry, while they knocked her back a few times, and not even noticing her or were just too busy to even notice. Each time she was shoved, she become more irritated until she growled angrily.

"I HATE THE HOLIDAYS!" She exclaimed to the heavens with her fists in the air.

"I don't get it, how can anybody hate this time of year? I don't even celebrate it, and I love it!" Sam said, signaling he was Jewish and celebrated Hanukkah instead.

"That's right, you don't know about 'the fight'." Tina said when she placed her arm around his shoulders with a knowing look, since she knew exactly why Dani hated the holidays.

Sam looked at her in confusion. "The fight?"

Tina turned her head to the Santa Claus meet at the center of the mall, where Dani's parents, Jackie and Matt Fenton, were also present on one side of Santa, both of them holding megaphones in their hands and glaring at each other.

"Santa Claus is a ho-ho-hoaks!" Matt argued out loud with Jackie.

"Hearitic! Santa's real as real can be!" She argued back to her husband, standing next to a guy dressed in a Santa costume. "Don't listen to him, kids! Santa's coming tonight in his sleigh full of goodies!" She said out loud with a megaphone, as everyone, even the kids stared at her oddly. "Keep the ho-ho-hope alive!"

"Flying at that altitude? In the open? At that speed? You'd pass out!" Matt said through his megaphone, making the Santa guy's bread wave from the wind. "Or burn to a crisp from friction! It's scientifically impossible!"

Now Sam understood why Dani admitted she hated the holidays: because of her parents fighting over Santa's existence. While Jackie believed he was real, Matt, who trusted more into science since he was a scientist, believed he was nothing but make-believe, and they have probably been arguing about this since even before their own children were even born every year. Talk about being embarrassed by parents, no wonder she was more annoyed in the holiday season.

"If you guys need me, I'll be in the Ghost Zone...getting rid of some frustration!" Dani said while glaring and holding her shopping bag full of Christmas goodies.

In the Ghost Zone, in a large mansion, a ghost man inside was typing on his computer while he muttered to himself. His whole office was like a giant library with books flying around from shelf to shelf.

"Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good...fright." He muttered as he checked his printed paper. "Oh...of that's good, and it done! My first Christmas poem ever! Complete!"

He placed it on the back of a book and closed the huge book called The Fright Before Christmas he created and authorized as pink rings held the book together, and the ghost man hugged it in his chest.

Meanwhile, outside, Dani Phantom threw a Santa Claus doll and destroyed it with her ghost ray. "You better watch out! You better not cry!" She said before she threw an ornament and destroyed it as well. "Santa! No Santa! Santa! No Santa! EVERY YEAR!" Dani angrily threw her bag and all of the goodies flew out. "And I've had it!"

She swiped her hand as she fired multiple blasts and destroyed them all, from a Christmas wool, gingerbread man, and nutcracker to a reindeer, candy cane, and fruitcake. An elf floated in front of the mansion as the ghost man walked out with a happy face as the toy floated on his new book, but Dani accidentally vaporized both the elf and his book, shocking him greatly.

Dani covered her mouth at her mistake. "Oh my gosh! I'm am so sorry! It was a total accident!"

"Sorry? Sorry?! Do you have any idea what you've done, girl?!" He exclaimed angrily as he held the bits of his pages in his fist.

"Well...not really. Uh, hens the accident part."

The ghost's hand trembled in anger. "You've destroyed my greatest work! And that was my only copy!"

Dani saw a remaining page floating by and grabbed as she read it out loud. "The Fright Before Christmas? I destroyed a Christmas poem?" Despite that she accidentally destroyed a ghost's work and didn't mean to, she had to smile. "Awesome!"

"What? Why are you so happy all of the sudden?" The ghost exclaimed, completely taken aback by her reaction.

"Dude, I am sick of Christmas! I came to the Ghost Zone to get away from it! I might not have meant to destroy your stupid book, but that doesn't mean I'm not okay with it." Dani burnt the page into ashes with her ecto-touch as she smiled.

"Scornful child, Scrooge like erchen!" He suddenly flew into the air and glowed as did his eyes while they glowed red before he spun around in a purple tornado.

"And you are…?" Dani asked, looking a little frightened now.

Then, as the ghost stopped spinning, a purple keyboard appeared all around him and he smirked. "The Ghost Writer! Every word I type on this keyboard becomes real, and since you destroy Christmas poem, you shall become my new Christmas poem!"

He suddenly fired a pink beam at Dani and she screamed as she vaporized out of the Ghost Zone and into the Ghost Writer's story while he cackled and typed on his keyboard. In the air, The Fright Before Christmas 2 appeared as it features the story of Dani Fenton and her Scrooge adventures of Christmas.

The setting took place back at the mall before Dani ran away into the Ghost Zone as she walked with her friends with a glare on her face.

Ghost Writer (Voiceover):

On the day before Christmas, in Amity Park

Almost all there were cherry, yet one soul was dark

Dani glanced up when she heard the Ghost Writer narrating from nowhere, but Sam and Tina didn't seem to even notice since they walked away with smiles.

"Hey, that voice, it's that ghost whose book I destroyed!" Dani said, until she realized that she was in his poem, cursed to rhyme and fall under his creative Christmas story. "Wait I'm trapped in his poem? Now I'm really annoyed!"

Theme Song:

(She's a phantom)

(Dani Phantom, Phantom, Phantom)

Yo, Dani Fenton, she was just fourteen
When her parents built a very strange machine
Designed to view a world unseen

(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)

When it didn't work, her folks, they just quit
Then Dani took a look inside of it
There was a great, big flash, and everything changed
Her molecules got all rearranged

(Phantom, Phantom)

When she first woke up, she realized she had snow white hair, and glowing green eyes
She could walk through walls, disappear, and fly
She was much more unique than the other gals
And it was then that she knew what she had to do
She had to stop all the ghost that were coming through
She's there to fight, for me and you!

(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)

The Ghost Writer continued typing on his keyboard as he continued his new story about Dani and her hatred of Christmas while she walked in the mall with her two best friends.

Dani Fenton hates Christmas, she hates it a lot

Which is why I've inserted the girl in this plot

Dani gasped when she saw the Ghost Writer's face on the glass ceiling, smirking at her as he looked down at her, but only she seemed to notice him since everyone wasn't seeing a thing.

She'll go through this tale 'til the story has ended

"But you can't make me rhyme!" Dani shouted at the ceiling.

"Hope your new year is splendid!" Sam shouted to the random shoppers in the mall cheerfully.

Dani face palmed herself and slid her hand down her face with an even more irritated glare that now she was stuck rhyming in a poem based on her least favorite holiday. Dani stopped by a mirror as the Ghost Writer's face appeared and she glared menacingly at him.

You'd be quite surprised what I can and can't do

But I'll leave you your freedom so I can teach you

When you last shout at others, there's enmity earned

You're stuck in this poem, until your lesson is learned

The Ghost Writer's face disappeared, and Dani sighed heavily that she was stuck like this until she learned her lesson on 'Christmas spirit'.

"Who you talking to Dani?" Said Tina, confused. She and Sam walked up to their best friend, confused by why she was talking to herself since only she can talk to the Ghost Writer.

"Some annoying Ghost Writer, we're all being used! I blew up his story!" Dani exclaimed. No hint of remorse. "Now he's writing a new one, we're trapped in by force!"

Tina and Sam only looked at her strangely as Sam did a cuckoo motion his his finger over his head like his friend was beginning to lose it.

But Tina and Sam merely shrugged in confusion

Completely convinced of my ghostly illusion

Dani glared at them before she walked away with her friends following behind her.

"Has she always been rudy and glum in December?" Sam asked Tina, since he didn't even know Dani hated the holidays, so he thought Tina might know the backstory of Dani's past Christmas times with her family.

"A big, whiny Scrooge, long as I can remember…" Tina said and began to tell him the backstory of Dani's past holidays.

Set fourteen years ago, a baby one-year-old Dani lied on a basket with a pacifier in her mouth, and she and her family were at an outdoor Christmas tree shop. A three-year-old James watched in silence as his parents held up signs of Santa, Jackie's a regular Santa, but Matt with a slash through him while they both glared at each other. Jackie's hair hasn't been whiting since the day her daughter was born and Matt's hair was a bit longer than his in the present.

Tina (Voiceover):

Her very first Christmas, when she was a baby

A bad first impression, no if, but, or maybe

Her parents debated on Santa's existence

Forgetting their daughter might have need of assistance

A dog in a red sweater and remainder antlers walked up to baby Dani and sniffed her out before it turned and lifted his leg up.

Called up on that rip on that jolly ol' fellow

They didn't see Dani's white Christmas turn yellow

The dog peed on Dani, making her cry very loud, enough for Jackie and Matt to halt their glaring and they both gaped worriedly at their baby daughter.

Then, about four years later at Fenton Works (as the OP Center was in construction that Christmas) inside the kitchen, Jackie and Matt continued arguing about Santa's existence in another room while a four-year-old Dani and a six-year-old James sat by the table, awaiting their traditional Christmas dinner but were concerned that their parents were too busy still fighting and then the microwave began to shake.

And the one four years later, was clearly no winner

Still arguing Santa, they spoiled Christmas dinner

Then suddenly, the microwave exploded as the turkey, cooked, yet alive, jumped out onto the table while the children watched in fear when it waved around a fork and knife with menacing growls.

By spoiled, I should say brought the turkey to life

Swearing blood and revenge with a fork and knife

James quickly swung a broom at the turkey to protect his little sister, sending it flying to a wall and onto the floor before it exploded into nothing but goo. He spun the broom expertly, showing that he was still a competent fighter, even at a such a young age. Tears began to fill in Dani's eyes before she sobbed loudly from the live turkey experience and James came to hug his younger sister comfortably to calm her down while their parents continued arguing in another room, not even noticing that their own children were just attacked and scared their youngest daughter.

After the flashbacks, Dani made an annoyed look after Tina finished her story about her own past Christmas experiences. That was what she would get when she came from a family of ghost hunters, who all they did was argue about Santa's existence, and not even paying attention that their arguments have pretty much strained Dani's Christmas spirit.

"I've said it before, and I'll say it again! A sleigh cannot travel the globe at Mach ten!" Matt argued to his wife with a megaphone at the Santa meet.

Ghost Writer (Voiceover):

But Jackie Fenton bellowed, "You're wrong! Wrong, you hear!"

And never once thought she'd be spooking the deer

The reindeer began to kick around when Jackie bellowed into her megaphone as the customers watched them from the fence.

And just because this would annoy her the most

I've decided to make every reindeer a ghost

The Ghost Writer's face suddenly appeared on the Santa Claus statue behind the deer as he let out some energy and lifted the reindeer into the air. A child cheered when he thought they were actually flying, but then they flashed into green reindeer ghosts with fangs and one eye before they roared at everyone, and the child screamed in horror. Everyone all ran for their lives as Dani and her friends looked up at the reindeer ghosts in awe.

On Spooky, on Specter, on Deathoof, on Thrasher

On Maimer and Vicious, Bloodantlers and Slasher

Dani made a look of determination. "I'm going ghost!" Came her signature cry

And into the frame, Dani Phantom did fly

Dani ran behind a Christmas tree and changed into her ghost form and she flew after the ghost reindeer terrorizing the mall.

Confronting the reindeer with powers quite ghostly

Protecting the last minute shoppers…well mostly

Dani fired multiple ghost rays at the reindeer as they flew away and she accidentally blew up her teacher, Mr. Lancer's, cheese log, covering him in cheese head-to-toe as Dani only flew right by him.

Dani quickly grabbed some Christmas lights from a tree, making it fall as customers scattered out of the way, spun it around and lassoed it around a reindeer's throat, making it gag a little. Unfortunately, it glared and began to pull and drag Dani with it as she shouted before she knocked a few carolers to the ground and demolished most of the mall until finally she crashed into a gift wrap stand. She emerged from the rumble with a red bow on her head and watched as the reindeer phase through the ceiling and escaped before she frowned in annoyance.

Then the reindeer escaped, having torn up the mall

Leaving Dani, yes Dani, the blame for it all

The shoppers began to glare and shout angrily and accusingly at Dani as they threw stuff at her weakly, but she only made a look of annoyance since this didn't faze her.

But Dani's grim yuletide was only beginning

And later, that night, has her patience was thinning

At Fenton Works on Christmas Eve that night, James shook his present as he hoped what it would be he always wanted. Dani, hating the holidays because of her parents, had her present on her lap as she glared and crossed her arms, trying to hold back her anger as much as she could.

Jackie then popped her head out of the chimney while she smirked at Matt. "See? A fat person can fit down the chimney, here's proof!" Jackie bellowed triumphantly to her husband.

"But that still won't explain how he gets on the roof!" Matt argued angrily, still not believing in her as they glared at each other aggressively again.

And young Fenton sat there, just steaming and fuming

Her blood pressure rising, her anger consuming

Dani glared at her parents while they didn't notice her and she looked out the window, trying to ignore them, until she saw the Ghost Writer's face appear on the snowman outside with a grin, making her narrow her eyes angrily at him.

"I won't keep this up!" Dani said to the Writer. She turned around and tried to ignore everyone as she crossed her arms. "There's no poem if I'm silent."

She watched Jackie and Matt shouting at each other again. "Can't you make Dad not fight her!" James said to his sister, looking concerned as he gestured to their parents.

"ARRRRGGGGGGHHH!" Dani shouted in irritation as she held her hands by her head.

You think this is over? It's barely begun

This all doesn't end until the lesson is done

"And you think that I'll learn it? You think you're that tough?" Dani retorted angrily at the Writer.

"He exists!" Jackie shouted.

"No, he doesn't!" Matt argued back.

Then Dani screamed, "ENOUGH!"

The Ghost Writer's face disappeared when Dani had finally lost her patience with her parents' unnecessary bickering over Santa's existence, and each year they have ruined her holiday fun that crushed her holiday spirit.

"I'm sick of your fighting, can you please let this die?! You've ruined each Christmas, each Christmas and I, can't anymore of this war, am I clear?! Fourteen years is enough, I am so out of here!" Dani exclaimed angrily as she stormed out of the house and slammed the door shut, leaving her family in stunned silence by her sudden outburst she has been trying to hold in for years.

"What got into her?" Matt asked.

"She takes after her mister." Jackie said smugly, earning a look from her husband.

"Can't blame you for losing your temper, little sister." James said pitifully as he watched Dani shivering from the cold until she changed to ghost form and flew away out from his window. "Go ahead, clear your head, and I think you'll be fine." Suddenly, the presents in Fenton Works started to glow when they began to hover into the air, surprising James and he watched them flying through the chimney. He gasped when he witnessed that they were following Dani, which immediately changed his expression from concerned to angry, think his own little sister as using her telekinesis to steal the presents from their own family. "But taking our presents is crossing the line!"

As Dani soared through the city, she was unaware that presents began to fly out of chimneys and away from the families inside their homes. When she stopped in midair, she felt several presents smack her on the back. She turned around and witnessed what was happening as the presents circled around her.

"Now you're ripping off gifts? What is that supposed to do?" Dani asked in confusion as the Ghost Writer's face appeared on the moon.

A, make a huge scene, and B, blame it on you

She glanced down as the citizens have gotten out of their homes and they shouted angrily at the ghost girl, even some were sobbing, thinking she was the one who was taking their presents. Dani was suddenly zapped by her father as she screamed and her hair got frizzled from the shock. Matt and Jackie both had their weapons to hunt her down as they glared at her.

"You've ruined our night!" Matt said as he glared with his gun in his hand.

"Drink some anti-ghost tonic!" Jackie bellowed before she fired her ecto-gun, but Dani manipulated her mouth as it opened wide with a hole and the blast passed harmlessly through her.

"Wait, I ruined their night? How's that for ironic?" Dani said, since it was really them who ruined her holiday nights. Dani flew across the sky again to escape everyone as the Ghost Writer watched.

So Dani did soar through the crisp, evening- "LOOK!"

"What's a girl gotta do to get out of this book?!" Dani exclaimed irritably. And then Dani thought...she smiled with an idea as she flew over from house to house. "Wait, my problem is clear. This poem's about Christmas, which here, here, and here. This curse will stay on me from my town to Rome, but he can't Christmas me in a non-Christmas home."

Her idea was that her best friend, Sam, didn't celebrate Christmas with his family, since he was Jewish and celebrated Hanukkah instead, she theorized that if she was a part of the Jewish celebration, the curse would stop and she would stop rhyming and she would be free from the book.

Dani landed on the ground by Sam's home and changed back to human form. She rang the doorbell as Sam answered the door with a miserable look.

"Sam!" Dani said happily, and her smile dropped when she heard the Ghost Writer's voice again. "Oh, for crying out loud."

"I know! Can't you see we're under a cloud!" Sam exclaimed as he gestured and saw the miserable looks on his family, Pamela, Jeremy, and his grandma Ida, since all of their presents have disappeared. "Every present we had, in the chimney, through it! That might work for you, but that's not how we do it!"

And Sam saw sad faces on Mom, Dad, and Granny

So I typed on my keyboard, that the blame was on Dani

Sam glared at his best friend, thinking she was the one who did all of this. "You! You did this?!" He exclaimed accusingly at her.

"Are you out of your mind?!" She protested, not appreciating that even her own best friend was blaming her for everything that has been happening.

"You're the holiday Scrooge, you think that I'm blind?!" And this caused Sam and Dani arguing back-to-back aggressively while Dani tried to calm her gothic friend down.

And Dani and Sam found themselves in a spat

But before Dani could calm him, I soon realize that

A new threat was needed to cut through the noise

And what better way than the attack of the toys

And then Sam's dreidel suddenly began to glow as it flew into the air and began spinning in midair, the Mansons and Dani watched in awe and fear when it phased out of the house through the ceiling. Outside, the dreidel fired multiple pink blasts of energy in every direction, one blasted at Angrum's Toys store, making the teddy bears turned to monsters and to life as they roared, the Space Wars toys came to life as well when they peeled themselves out of their vacuum packets and walked from their shelves. Even the girl dolls into glob-like ghosts as they, too, jumped from the shelves and marched outside, and a small toy dinosaur grew into a bigger, scarier dinosaur and stomped over the store when it roared into the heavens.

In Tina's house, she played with her new remote-control car, until it began to glow and it grew into a giant car monster with a clear brain. It roared directly at Tina, making her run out of her room in fear.

In Lancer's basement, he watched his miniature train car on his miniature train track with pleasure, while wearing a conductor's suit. He gasped in shock when he saw his mini toy men walking by themselves when they suddenly came to life. They smiled evilly as they hooked him to the railroad as the train drove in and slammed him on the face hard.

In James's room, he entered and smiled at his favorite Bearbert Einstein toy, until it suddenly came to life and roared at him as it held up a running chainsaw, making him scream in surprise.

All the toys marched on the streets of Amity Park as Dani and Sam ran out of Manson household and watched the army of evil toys surrounding them.

From all over the town, the toys started merge

I'm really quite wicked when I get the urge

The toys began to hover into the air and, like the Ghost Writer said, they began to merge together in a much, larger form. Dani glared while she transformed into her ghost form and prepared to fight when the toys popped into a new form of...a giant, monstrous nutcracker?

On this night before Christmas, a brand new attacker

And now, face the wrath of my monster nutcracker

The nutcracker roared at Dani as it prepared to attack her.

"Oh nuts!" Dani cried as she began to run

Must we end every scene with a terrible pun

Dani phased through the nutcracker's foot when it tried to step on top of her. She phased out completely and glared up determinedly at the monstrous nutcracker. However, it only raised its hand and grabbed her as it began to slam her to a wall of a building, to a car, before stepping on her, threw her to another wall, slammed its foot on her again, and finally slammed her to the street unmercifully. It fired a pink beam at Dani, but she jumped to her feet and took off before it could blast at her. Dani fired her own ghost beams at the nutcracker, making most of the toys fly out, and she continued firing more and more as the toys fell out and made cracks on the nutcracker.

"You think this can stop me? This bear or this train? I'll just fire away, until no pieces remain!" Dani said before she formed a giant ecto-ball above her head and threw it at the nutcracker, making it explode into a pile of ruined toys as they rained to the ground.

"Nothing to add?" Dani asked, then the answer

Showed up in the form of Sam, Tina, and Lancer

Dani turned around and saw both of her best friends, her teacher, and her older brother outside and all looked down at their ruined Christmas gifts, completely destroyed when Dani defeated the nutcracker.

And James, standing silent, his eyes filled with tears

Morning the bear he had loved all these years

James looked sadly at the head of his Bearbert Einstein bear, until his sadness rapidly turned to anger when he glared angrily at Dani, despite that she has tried to save their lives.

And Tina and Sam felt that crushing blow, too

Tina and Sam picked up some of their toys, as Dani approached Tina to comfort her, but both of them only glared at her angrily when Tina slapped her hand away in complete overwhelming anger.

"Dani, don't!" She said, not accepting her best friend's pity while she remained silent.

"What's with you?" Sam retorted with a glare.

"I don't even know you!" James snapped angrily before her friends and brother stormed away in complete anger, not looking back at Dani at all like neither of them even wanted to talk to her anymore.

Dani looked around and saw everyone crying over the loss of their Christmas toys. All she has been trying to do was save them, and all everyone could do was blame her? She could feel her anger rising, but at the same time she also felt regretful for her actions. She may have saved everyone's lives, but she also destroyed their holiday gifts.

It seemed the whole town had come out to proclaim

That Christmas was ruined, the ghost girl to blame

The citizens then all glared at Dani accusingly, but although Dani hated the holidays, she felt really overwhelmed with anger and regret that she did all this to them, so she just flew away, trying to ignore their glares. Dani landed by a house and pinned her back on the wall by a window as she brushed her bangs back off of her face while she breathed heavily. Tears began to leak from her eyes as she slid to the ground and buried her head in her legs and wrapped them with her arms as she began to cry because of her actions that angered her friends and family, despite that all she did was trying save their lives. She heard a kid laughing happily inside the house, making her lift her head up and she stood up to look through the window as she wiped her tears.

Dani saw a little boy picking up an ornament, and he noticed Dani looking through the window, and he waved happily at her, and she gladly waved back, despite her sadness.

Save for one little boy, in his little red hat

He thought Dani was cool...so we'll have to fix that

Dani suddenly saw the Christmas tree behind the boy glowing when she gasped and it gained a monstrous face and branches as feet and arms. The boy noticed her expression when his smile dropped as well before he heard the tree behind him as it roared and peeled from the stand, making him run away, screaming. Dani turned around and noticed that everyone else running in fear as the trees chased after them.

"The siren is wailing, the ghost trees attacking! Lock up your homes, I suggest you start packing!" Tiffany Snow said in the news as Jackie and Matt watched from their kitchen.

"Christmas is ruined, and you're not the cause!" Jackie said to her husband.

"I sure hope the ghost shield won't stop Santa Claus." Matt said as he cocked an eyebrow.

Before Jackie could do the same, she perked up when she processed his words and pressed a button for the ghost shield as it deployed over Fenton Works, and the trees slammed onto it.

Jackie flipped the channel to another news report. "It's tree watch day one, hope there isn't day two! Let's go to Lance Thunder, our weatherman who…" A man said.

"I can't believe I quit acting and work in this place." Lance said to himself as he became surrounded by the trees attacking the neighborhood. "There's chaos here, Bill! NOT THE FACE! NOT THE FACE!" And suddenly get attacked by the living trees.

"Anybody seen Dani?" Jackie asked.

"Like I even care." James said rudely as he walked into the kitchen, still angry about Dani seemingly destroying his Bearbert toy and felt like he wouldn't even care if Dani even got hurt anyway, since he knew that she could protect herself.

"What's wrong with you, Jameson? Your sister's out there!" Matt exclaimed, a little confused on why he doesn't even care about what would happen to his sister, before he slipped on his mask and grabbed two sets of double hatchets. "Hold down the fort, Jackie, I'll go after our tot! Those trees will not stop me!" And he jumped out the window as Jackie watched in awe.

"Oh man, that is hot!" She exclaimed.

In the fight, Dani blasted multiple ghost beams at the trees approaching her as she vaporized most of them, but there were too many when they began to outmatch her. One threw thorns at her, but she quickly turned intangible and allowed them to phase through her harmlessly. Meanwhile, Matt shouted as he swung his hatchets and sliced through the living trees.

While her father moved forward, Dani faced my attack

Dani fired more beams as Matt sliced through them. "Dani! Dani! Where are you?!" Matt shouted over the trees. But Dani couldn't shout back

Dani was thrown to the ground and tried to fire another beam of energy, but only to get grabbed and thrown to the center as she got to her knees, feeling weak. There were too many trees surrounding the ghost girl as she began to lose her energy.

Every attack that she tried, will be destined to fail

"If you hear me, just scream!" Matt shouted, loud enough for Dani to hear with her enhanced senses, and she suddenly got an idea.

"Yeah, with my ghostly wail!"

She immediately got back to her feet and took a deep breath before she unleashed her most powerful sonic howling scream. All the thorns and ornaments were flown off the living Christmas trees into branches as they fell to the ground. Dani continued screaming at the trees with her wail until there was none left as her jacket began to fade over her ghost form as her energy started to drain. When she was finally done, she collapsed to her knees and changed back to human from. She breathed heavily as she looked up and saw the lifeless Christmas trees all blown into nothing but dead branches.

Then, her father, Matt, burst from the branches, looking relieved that his daughter was safe and sound.

"Dani! Thank heavens! You had us all worried! When your mom saw the news, we stopped squabbling and hurried. It's Christmas Eve, kid, home is where you should be. Let's get back to the house and I'll make you some tea." Matt said as he helps his daughter up and took her back to Fenton Works after a long night of ghostly Christmas mischief.

The ghost shield deployed, Dani turned to this thought

To take on the spirit she knew had brought

This holiday mischief, and left her the blame

Come on, now, dear girl, here's where you call me lame

In the lab of Fenton Works, Dani has finally had enough of the Ghost Writer messing up everyone's Christmas times together, and ruining her life, by making everyone blame her for their misfortunes. She changed into her ghost form and flew into the Ghost Zone to find the Ghost Writer in his mansion.

"Give it up, you can't hide! I know just where to find you!" Dani called out as she approached the mansion where all this began.

The Ghost Writer looked out his window and saw her approaching. "But I'm still in control, allow them to remind you!" He said as he typed on his keyboard again.

She didn't know what he meant by them, but she fired at the doors, as it suddenly shifted into another and demolished them into opening before she flew into a room.

"Them?" Dani asked, then she shuddered and trembled

The door brought her where all of her foes assembled

She saw the Box Ghost, Technus, Johnny 13, Kitty, Youngblood, Penelope Spectra, the Lunch Lady, Cindy Poindexter, Walker, Bertrand, Ember McLain, and Skulker were all in the same room, all either grinning or glaring at her.

"We've been waiting for you." Skulker said with a grin

"Now our holiday party can finally begin!" Box Ghost exclaimed, suddenly all happy.

Unexpectedly to Dani, lights switched on and trees sparkled with golden decorations. Dani looked very confused when she glanced around, and no one was attacking her at all, but were welcoming her to some Christmas party, which was a big surprise for the ghost girl almost like they were expecting her to visit their part

"Eat, drink, and be married!" Skulker said.

"Have some warm, Christmas goose!" Ember offered as she held a platter.

"For sure you know of all annual truce!" Box Ghost said happily.

Dani smiled a little at her foes, while back at the mansion, Ghost Writer slammed his fist on the board, looking frustrated when he watched the whole thing on his computer screen like he was expecting Dani's foes to beat her to oblivion.

"The truce? It's still holding? I thought they'd suspended?" He said, looking baffled. "To beat on their foe…"

"Oh, this truce we defended! We don't fight on Christmas." Skulker said.

"One day of tranquility." Bertrand said.

"Come sundown tomorrow…" Spectra said.

"We resume all hostility!" All the ghost said exclaimed together in unison.

"Every ghost holds this truce?" Dani asked.

"It's a fact." Skulker said.

"It's a rule." Walker added.

"Well, the Ghost Writer broke it." Dani pointed out.

That made all the ghost look angry that one ghost didn't follow their traditional one day of peace and prosperity. "That is really uncool!" Ember said as she placed her free hand on her hip.

"I'm trapped in his story, the guy's off his nut!"

"He oughta know better!" Skulker exclaimed angrily.

"Let's go kick his butt!" Box Ghost shouted as he slammed his fist into his palm.

In the mansion, the Ghost Writer heard the whole thing on his screen, and now he was in trouble for breaking the truce when he heard their were going to attack him.

"Uh oh, the ghosts changed their-" He said, but got cut off when his doors were blasted as Dani and all of her ghost foes run inside and glare at him. "Crud! By now, I'm typing in distress!"

"It's over, you hack!" Dani said.

"I don't think so, young mistress!" The Ghost Writer smirked as he continued to type. "The truce, they enjoyed it, but while it lasted…"

Dani and the other ghosts suddenly glowed pink when they fell under his narrative spell as he forced them to attack like they normally would before and after Christmas. Ember and Box Ghost suddenly smirked as they raised their fists and punched Dani to the wall, before she fired a ghost beam at the Box Ghost.

"Then Youngblood got pummeled, then Ember got blasted!" The Ghost Writer narrated. Johnny 13 raised his shadow and made it attack Youngblood when he yelped, then Skulker blasted at Ember, and then Technus fired electricity from his prod at Walker. "They battled each other with all weapons handy!" He continued as Spectra and Bertrand tackled Dani as they struggled. "Afraid of the tenant, my half brother, Randy?" Box Ghost picked up a picture of his half brother as the ghost continued attacking each other, under his influence as Lunch Lady slammed a clock on top of Bertrand, and Johnny slammed a bat on the back of the Box Ghost's head, and all the ghosts continued to attack each other mercilessly. "Clock and a candlestick, those I won't miss!" He looked up in thought, trying to think of something else to write down. "I wonder what else?"

"I know, how about this?" Dani suggested to the Writer before she shoved an orange right into Walker's face.

Ghost Writer smirked and typed down when he saw this action. "Young Dani thought quickly and picked up an orange! She threw it at Walker who…" He paused when he realized what was wrong and what Dani has done. "Oh, crud! Nothing rhymes with orange!"

Then the spell finally wore off on the ghosts when it disappeared before Skulker was about to punch Box Ghost, Lunch Lady was on top of Cindy as she cringed from her weight, and Walker lifted Dani by her jumpsuit, until the spell wore off of them and he released her.

The Ghost Writer gaped in shock and worry when Dani charged straight at him and began to give him a beating of his afterlife as she uppercutted him by his cheek, kicked him square on the chin, and punched him on the stomach, sending him to the ground.

"Roses are red, violets are blue!" Dani said as she charged up her hands her hands with ecto-energy and destroyed the keyboard. "Once these fry, I'm guessing this lame poem is...through? NOOOOO!"

"Dani screamed..." Ghost Writer said as Walker's guards cuffed him up, now smirking at the girl.

"I'm still talking in rhyme!"

"I would've forewarned you if given the time. There are two ways to finish this poem, just two. I type out 'The End', but I can't, thanks to you!" The Ghost Writer continued to smirk as he got dragged to a police van and Dani collapsed to her knees in despair. "So now you'll guide this story of the ghost who hates Christmas! Think you can do it, all mopey and listless? You think this ends here? You're about to get burned! This story's not done 'til the lesson is learned!"

He laughed evilly as the guards slammed the van shut and it drove the Ghost Writer to Walker's Prison for breaking the truce. Dani stood back up, although victorious a little, yet feeling defeated now that she was still trapped in the Ghost Writer's poem cruse, and now she had to lead the story about her hating Christmas until she has learned her lesson, but she didn't know what it was he was trying to teach her in a very mischievous way.

All of her ghost foes gathered around her, all looking and feeling genuinely sorry for her, despite how much they hated her foiling their past plans, but she couldn't meet their eyes when she merely flew out of the mansion and headed back to Amity Park in gloom.

Dani had arrived back to Amity Park, which was now all gloomy and depressing after what Dani and the Ghost Writer have both done. Lights sparked and shorted out as Dani walked around the neighborhood in her human form, looking very guilty by what she did to everyone that night. All she ever wanted was to have a normal Christmas, one without her parents bickering over Santa's existence, but why would the Ghost Writer do all of this to her? The only reason she hated the holidays is because of her parents to begin with, but what did people blaming her tie into her story plot?

Dani (Voiceover):

With the keyboard all busted, the curse takes its toll

The story continues, but I have no control

Dani watched all the Christmas decorations flicker out as they shorted out. She peeked into Tina's house through the window, and saw her sitting in the kitchen alone, looking gloomy, not just because her Christmas was ruined, but also feeling bad that she snapped at her best friend. Dani couldn't bare to see her so unhappy, so she just walked away. Unfortunately for her, Tina noticed when she watched her best friend walk away from her window. Tina quickly pulled out her phone and dialed in Sam's number.

Dani stared at the toys she has destroyed when she defeated the nutcracker, and she did unintentionally destroy them, but she admitted they wouldn't stop her from destroying the nutcracker, even if they were just toys, but they were everyone else's Christmas toys that they have received from their friends and families. She sat on a rock as she looked at the dead Christmas trees she destroyed with her ghostly wail. Despite all the things the Ghost Writer did and made everything evil and blamed it on her, she had a suddenly feeling people getting angry at her was supposed to guide her to her lesson, but she still didn't understand what it was.

Dani began to cry again as she buried her head in her hands and sobbed quietly by what she has done. All those years of bad impressions of Christmas, she began to distaste the holidays, just because of her parents arguing, and now that this year, since she had ghost powers, she could go around using them to take her anger on everything Christmas-related to make everyone feel worse? After that long, disastrous holiday night...she felt like she was no better than the Ghost Writer.

Then, Tina and Sam approached her when Sam wrapped her jacket on her back and they sat beside her. Despite how angry they were at her for supposedly ruining their Christmas Eve, since they probably felt really bad for blaming everything on their own best friend and even going as far as to snapping at her. Dani wiped her tears off her cheeks as she stared at her friends gloomily.

"Girl, it's like Christmas, so why are you here?" Tina asked her friend as she hugged her knees to her arms.

"Outside, with no friends or family near?" Sam asked.

Dani sniffed and buried her head again in shame. "It's my fault, all my fault what happened tonight! I spoke out in anger and acted in spite!" Dani said, but was unaware that the damaged presents began to rise into the air. "I started this all when I picked that first fight. But I give all I have to set everything right."

She then finally noticed the presents just before they shifted into being just fine again like nothing has happened as the trio look around in surprise at what was happening to all of the gifts.

"The gifts! They're not damaged?" Sam said as they watched them flying across town.

"They're flying through the air." Tina said.

"Back where they came from? But who would-" Dani wondered out loud.

"BEWARE!" Box Ghost exclaimed from behind.

Dani's ghost sense went off before she immediately changed into her ghost form and was about to fire a ghost beam at him until she halted her attack when she saw all of her ghostly enemies: Skulker, Bertrand, Lunch Lady, Cindy Poindexter, Spectra, Technus, Box Ghost, Desiree, Johnny 13, Kitty, their shadow ghost, and Youngblood all standing their with red Santa hats, and they were all smiling at the ghost girl.

"The Box Ghost shall conquer this holiday doom!" Box Ghost exclaimed again.

"We just couldn't leave you to suffer in gloom." Lunch Lady said sweetly to Dani.

"Tomorrow, you'll see what this baby can do!" Skulker said as he aimed his blaster and retracted it before he smiled brightly at Dani. "But all ghosts share the truce...even half-ghosts, like you." Dani then smiled warmly when he told her that.

Then the ghosts began to clean up the mess caused by the Ghost Writer. Desiree held out her hands before she fired her magic at the Christmas trees as she restored them to their rightful glory and beauty with their decorations. The ghost then picked up all the trees one-by-one and began to fly them back to their owners as they also fixed up their toys. Sam regained his dreidel in his hands before Dani flew to the nearest Christmas tree and her friends grabbed hold of it as she lifted it to the sky with her friends holding on. Box Ghost controlled the presents back down the chimneys of the homes as the ghosts returned the Christmas trees while the families also regained their presents and toys, even to Mr. Lancer who gave himself presents.

A boy opened his door and smiled brightly when he saw Dani Phantom carrying his family's Christmas tree back, along with Sam and Tina's help. He jumped slightly with excitement before Dani carried him to the top and he placed the star on the top of the tree. He smiled at the ghost heroine while she smiled back at the young child warmly. Back outside, Technus placed his hand on telephone pole booth as he used his technopathic powers to restore power to the Christmas lights outside as they all flickered on again and glowed brightly.

Dani, Sam, and Tina all walked down the street as snow began to fall around them while they smiled, now that Christmas was restored to its former glory.

After all of the homes have been repaired, one house still remained: Fenton Works, as they all approached it with its ghost shield still deployed.

"I just saw it happen, but still can't believe! Your enemies helped you repair Christmas Eve!" Sam said to his best friend with somewhat disbelief.

"It's all back to normal, but your house, my dear." Lunch Lady said as she handed Dani a lunch bag.

Skulker gave her his bag of presents and placed his Santa hat on her head. "Your ghost shield prevents us." He said.

"I'll take it from here." Dani said as she changed back into her human half.

Inside of Fenton Works, in the living room, James sadly read a book about his sister ruining Christmas, despite how angry he was at her, but he felt really bad for snapping at her angrily as he slumped on the couch. Jackie slumped on the couch, looking as miserable as her family while Matt fixed on of their weapons depressingly. Then, the door swung open, showing a shadow figure and alerting Matt.

"Ghost!" Matt shouted as he charged his weapon, but suddenly stopped by Jackie who shoved his gun away.

"No, it's Santa!" Jackie bellowed before she clapped her hands and the lights switched on, revealing their daughter, Dani, with a Christmas bag and hat, and was actually smiling brightly.

They're both sort of right

"I know I've been kind of a brat this whole night." Dani said as she settled the present bag down and dug through it. "So, I-I snuck out and found this, it's all of your favorites." Dani handed her mother a bowl of porridge and she poured the whole thing in her mouth. "And here, Dad, for you." She handed him a present as he happily took it.

"MmMmMmMm-avorites!" Jackie said with a mouthful of porridge.

"And James…" Dani held up his newly repaired Bearbert Einstein toy as he gasped in happiness.

"Bearbert! He's safe and he's sound!" James exclaimed as he hugged his favorite childhood bear tightly, and then smiled at his little sister, happy she was finally back in her Christmas spirit. "Gee, thanks, little sister, I knew you'd come 'round."

Matt and Jackie hugged each other, both also happy that their youngest daughter has finally got into the Christmas spirit and no longer a Scroogeful child. "Oh, Danielle, you're smiling! That matters the most." Matt said. "We're all here together, not fighting some-"

"GHOST!" Jackie bellowed when she pointed out the window.

Outside, all the ghost were on a sleigh with the ghost reindeer as the Box Ghost whipped on the reins and they took off into the sky. Jackie ran out of the house with an ecto-gun in her hands and began to fire rapidly at the ghosts flying away while she missed them completely, until Matt stopped her and shoved the gun down.

"Jackie, no! Put the gun down, that's Santa you're shooting!" He exclaimed, finally believing that he existed, despite all those years they have been arguing.

"Are you mad? That's the ghost all was leaping and looting our Christmas from us!" She exclaimed as she placed her hand on his shoulder.

"Then it wasn't the ghost girl?" Matt pulled out his weapon and smiled. "Let's tear her apart!"

"Now you're talking! You're toast, girl!"

As Jackie and Matt ran down the street, Dani watched them disappear in the neighborhood and began to finally understand the meaning of her entire Christmas story.

And that's when I thought, maybe this was the moral

In the same way my folks love their old Christmas quarrel

Dani watched the ghosts disappear into the snowy, night sky on their sleigh and then watched James, Sam, and Tina having a snowball fight as they laughed while she stood there and she couldn't help but smile at their happiness.

Everyone celebrates in the way of their choosing

I was so busy whining, I started abusing

The ones I loved most and I ruined their cheer

I'll try to be better, come Christmas next year

The End

The Ghost Writer stared down at his completed book as he looked at the ending of the book when it showed Tina, Dani, Sam, and James all hugging each other, smiling in their winter attires.

"Uh, nice sediment, but what are you, a greeting card?" Sam asked Dani.

"Yeah, why are you talking in rhyme?" Tina asked.

"Such a dork." James said as he rolled his eyes.

"We're not talking in rhyme." Dani noticed, and then she realized that the curse was finally broken when she threw her arms up in the air in triumph while her friends and brother only stared at her oddly. "We're not talking in rhyme!"

The Ghost Writer then closed his finish The Fright Before Christmas 2 book, featuring Dani Phantom, in his prison cell, as a giant monstrous ghost scooted next to him, and he slid away to where Walker was before he held an orange to his face.

"Orange?" He offered, but more for a joke.

The Ghost Writer cowered in fear at the sight of the unrhymable fruit in front of his face. "AH! Get that thing away from me!" He exclaimed.