The next day was normal enough. Danny, Sam and Tucker met up with Jake, Trixie and Spud at the school and proceeded to spend their school day together as before. Then they all went to Rotwood's class. It was just before lunch.
"Silence! Today we are continuing to look at ghosts but today we are looking at the tears in space called portals," Rotwood announced and picked up Freakshow's book again and began to teach.
Suddenly Danny's ghost sense went off. Danny shot Jake a warning look which Jake saw.
"Principal Rotwood! May I be excused? I need the bathroom," Danny called loudly. Rotwood turned to Danny, furious.
"You may not Mr. Fenton. I would have thought you would be interested in this. Now, this book explains that in old times, portals to the Ghost's realm was seen as portals into hell. In fact there's an incantation here that was meant to create a portal to banish evil spirts," Rotwood continued. However the incantation was lost in the explosion that followed. Skulker smashed his way through the window and smiled at Danny and Jake, well aware that neither could do anything without jeopardising their secrets.
However something else also happened as Skulker smashed his way into the classroom. A swirling green vertical disk appeared over Rotwood's desk. A portal to the Ghost Zone. The class was thrown into chaos. The Casper High students were explaining to their buddies what was happening. Brad was as white as paper and Dash was murmuring incoherently. Brad was recalling the Camp Mugwomp ghosts and Dash was recalling the incident with the Fenton Crammer. Skulker aimed a very large gun at Jake and Danny. The students scrambled and Jake and Danny dived out of range when Skulker shot at them. In the stampede out of the classroom to safety, Danny scrambled under a desk and quickly changed into Danny Phantom. He turned invisible and intangible and flew around Skulker and turned visible when he shot Skulker.
Skulker's missile missed Jake and smashed the classroom wall, knocking it down.
"Woah, Danny Phantom!" Dash exclaimed, a little higher than normal.
"Oh, it's the ghost boy!" Paulina shouted excitedly. Valerie scowled and tried to sneak off but her buddy, Danika, pulled her back and asked her who Danny Phantom was. Danny gave a nervous wave and turned back to Skulker. Skulker grinned and fired multiple missiles at Danny. Danny quickly dodged and flew to Jake. He touched Jake, intending to turn him intangible and get him to safety but yelped in pain as the Spectre Deflector shocked him. Jake noticed this and quickly unbuckled it and threw it across the room.
Danny shook the stars from his eyes and turned Jake intangible as Skulker sent another volley of missiles at the two boys. Danny then shot Skulker with a ghost ray and Jake slipped away to the side. It was only then that Jake saw that Rotwood was looking at the portal in awe, completely oblivious to the fight. Rotwood whispered something to himself about finally getting proof of the magical community as he stepped into the slowly growing portal. Jake glanced at Danny and saw that Danny was winning his fight with Skulker. He ran after Rotwood and jumped through the portal, intending to get Rotwood to come back.
Rotwood stood on the floating rock and stared at the swirling green world in front of him. He was drinking in the sight gleefully. He took out a camera he had taken to keeping with him in case Jake slipped up and Rotwood could take pictures. He snapped the camera repeatedly.
"Rotwood! We have to get back!" Jake yelled to Rotwood.
"Principal Rotwood!" Rotwood corrected automatically but ignored Jake's order. Jake marched over to Rotwood and tugged firmly on his teacher's arm.
"Come on! We have to get back," Jake repeated. Rotwood scowled at Jake and shrugged him off.
"I'm not leaving just yet Jake. You can't take this away from me. Proof! Proof of magical creatures!" Rotwood retorted, his eyes gleaming excitedly.
"This isn't the magical world, Rotwood. This is the Ghost Zone and that portal won't stay open forever," Jake reasoned, trying to convince Rotwood to leave. He could fix everything later, but they had to get back to the human world first. Jake glanced back at the portal and was horrified to see that it was beginning to shrink.
Danny dodged another of Skulker's weapons and growled angrily. He had had enough. His eyes suddenly turned blue as he channelled his ice powers and he froze Skulker solid. He pulled out his thermos and pointed it at Skulker.
"Bye Skulker!" Danny commented dryly as the thermos pulled Skulker inside.
Valerie watched in disgust as Danny Phantom fought Skulker in front of her. Danika had stopped her slipping off to change into her armour but as the students cheered Phantom, Valerie saw her chance. She ran as discretely as possible away from Danika and pulled out an ectogun. She wouldn't have time to change into her armour but if she shot Phantom from this angle then she wouldn't be seen by the students. Danny waved at the cheering students with a smile.
"What are you doing in New York?" Dash asked Phantom. Valerie couldn't help but wonder the same thing but she wasn't going to miss her chance. As Phantom opened his mouth to answer, Valerie pulled the trigger. It was a perfect hit. Phantom dropped the thermos holding Skulker and was knocked back into the portal over Rotwood's desk. As Phantom passed through, it closed. Valerie smiled.
"That spook is finally where he belongs," Valerie thought happily and put the smoking gun away and returned to Danika's side.
Like I said, things are getting interesting. In this story, I'll admit there isn't a definite villain per say, but rather different situations for the characters to struggle through. For example, Skulker hunting Jake or Danny and Jake getting trapped in the Ghost Zone with Rotwood. Let me know what you think of the story so far.
Until the next chapter.