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Look, I don't own Danny Phantom. And actually, I'm glad I don't because if I did the show wouldn't be the same. (Go Butch!)

Author's Note:

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Chapter 11: Tucker's Back

"Actually it could be not what's inside it, just what it does." said Tucker. "But I still have no idea, maybe you should keep it with you and see what happens so if you have an idea you can try it then and there."

"Good idea." Replied Danny, slipping the stone into his pocket. The purple glow was invisible from inside the material. "What else did you do in Italy?"

"Well there was lots of pizza and lasagna!" Tucker said with glee. "And the best part was the meat sauce! The meat sauce…"

"Umm… yeah, I was kind of meaning stuff like the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Colosseum. Did you see those places?"

"We went to Tuscany and saw the Leaning Tower of Pisa, but that was about it." said Tucker, a little downhearted. "We stayed in Pisa for the first half of the week then the second half we stayed in Pompeii to see the ancient city. Here I got a photo of the tower."

Tucker pulled his PDA out of his pocket and showed Danny the photo stored on it, where he was in a position to make it look like he was holding it up. In the background, there were others posing to do the same thing.

"Nice picture, although I thought it would be leaning more." said Danny, lifting an eyebrow.

"Well, yeah, it should actually, but they had to straighten it so it wouldn't fall. It used to lean down tones more." Tucker replied informatively. "Now there's this German chapel that's claimed the title of the worlds most lopsided building."

"Oh." said Danny. He'd always thought the Leaning Tower of Pisa had that title…

"Enough about my holiday, what's been going on around here?" Tucker asked curiously.

"Well… my mum found out earlier this morning…" Danny admitted. "But she was okay about it."

"Really!? How'd she find out!?" exclaimed Tucker, he obviously hadn't expected it.

"This morning Vlad decided it would be a good idea to pay a visit and uncover my secret to mum." Danny replied sourly. "Then he just vanished. And lately, the day's just been getting weirder and weirder."

Tucker didn't pause, he got straight to the point. "Really? Tell me all, leave out NO gaps!"

"Umm… okay then…" started Danny. He recounted all the events to Tucker, who didn't interrupt, just had his eyes wide open. At the end when Danny told Tucker about the Dalv Thermos, Danny realized he had left it sitting on the couch. The two looked at each other in horror and bolted down the stairs to the living room, where Jack Fenton had picked up the Dalv Thermos and was looking at it curiously. Tucker made a strange choking noise with his throat, and Danny looked at his father with eyes wide open.

"I have to get it back!" Danny whispered urgently, turning himself invisible and walking up to his father. Swiftly, he snatched the Thermos off him and it turned invisible too at his touch. He ran back to Tucker and turned visible again, and the two ran up the stairs with the Thermos into his room again. That was lucky, he'd managed to get the Dalv Thermos back without expecting that it was him at all.

"Whew… I'm glad he didn't get a hold of that." Danny said with a sigh of relief. "Anyway I've been wondering if Vlad changed the original design of it to do something different."

"We could try it on you." Tucker suggested, only to receive a glare back from Danny.

"We arenot going to try it out on me." He said firmly. "If Skulker or the Box Ghost or some other ghost we don't like comes along I'll try it out on them."

"But why not you?" Tucker asked. "I mean, you're a ghost, and that's a replica of a Fenton Thermos!"

"Because when Vlad made it, it could be at least ten to twelve times moredangerous than the original." Danny said, slightly annoyed that Tucker hadn't caught on very fast.

"I… suppose you have a point." Tucker replied, biting his lip. "I don't want to suck you into it and release you only to find you're in fifteen different pieces."

"And that's exactly why it's going to stay in my room in a draw where my parents won't fish it out and figure out what it exactly does. Remember that mum might know, but dad sure doesn't. If he has that Thermos in hand and sees me in ghost form, I don't even want to think about it!"

Suddenly Tucker stared down at Danny's pocket. Danny saw why, too. The stone it contained had began to glow so brightly that it was now shining through Danny's pocket. Tucker closed Danny's bed room door as Danny pulled the stone out of his pocket. It had gotten so bright that Danny and Tucker had to squint just to look at it.

"How'd you do that!?" Tucker exclaimed in awe. Danny shook his head, his expression also one of awe.

"It's doing it itself!"

The stone grew brighter and brighter, so soon eventually the two friends had to close the curtains to avoid the light shining out onto the street.

"Can I have it for a second?" Tucker asked Danny, who nodded and passed it to him. Just as Tucker picked it up he dropped it immediately, yelling and shaking his hand vigorously. "It burned me!" he said sucking on the fingers he had touched it with. Danny quickly jabbed it with his fingers. To him it was just room temperature, so he picked it up.

"It's not burning me…" said Danny in confusion. He set the stone back on the floor. "C'mon, let's run some cold water over your fingers.

Author's Note:

I can't believe this took me a whole five hours to write, I would have thought it to take a shorter time than that. Anyway, as usual I hope you enjoyed it and please review!

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