Danny phantom what happened next

By ~PrennCooder

Chapter 11: Teacher

"Thanks." Cecelia noticed that everything Valerie said about Sam was true, but Sam was not a bad person. Your impression of somebody is all based off of your own views. Cecelia wanted to give the girl a chance, which is more than what Valerie and Sam did for each other. Cecelia actually thought she and Sam would turn out to be great friends. Too bad Valerie's jealousy got in the way of being Sam's friend as well.

After school, Cecelia went to Valerie's locker where she and Danny were chatting happily. Cecelia walked up to them and looked at Valerie.

"Oh hi, Cecelia." Valerie said. Cecelia knew that Valerie just wanted to be alone with Danny—or alone as you can be in a public hallway—so Cecelia decided to stay.

"Valerie, you haven't talked to me all day." Cecelia said to her friend.

"I think I'd better go." Danny said.

Valerie kissed him goodbye and he departed. "Look, Cecelia, I'm sorry that I've been ignoring you. But Danny's my boyfriend now! Isn't that great? He called me his girlfriend this morning! I've never had a boyfriend so special to me before, so this is a big deal to me. I really care about him."

"I know, I know. But could we at least sit together in some of our classes?"

"Yeah." The two of them walked towards the front doors of the school. "I saw you sitting with Tucker and Sam today. I'd have to say I'm surprised."

"Well, they're sorta my friends now too. You remember that short story assignment awhile back? Well, Sam was my partner and I got to know her a little. And she's pretty cool. And Tucker, well, he's not as odd as you told me he was."

"Allright, make friends with them. But don't expect me to talk to them."

"That's pretty much what Paulina said too." Cecelia waved goodbye to Valerie, who drove off in her rusty little car.

Cecelia waited at the door for Garth to show up. She expected a cheap car or a motorcycle or something. She was quite surprised when she saw him come around the corner. He was jogging. "Oh shoot." Cecelia realized that he'd make her jog to his house with him—backpack and all.

"Are you ready for an exciting day of Garth boot camp?" Garth said to her.

Cecelia sighed. "How many miles to your house?"

"I dunno. It only took me two hours to jog here."

Cecelia gave him that "Are you serious?" look and he laughed.

"Let's just get this over with."

Garth and Cecelia jogged for just a little over an hour before Cecelia started to get tired.

"I must say, you're not as fit as I expected, but don't stop now. Keep those knees up!" Garth taunted her.

"I'll remind you that I'm carrying a ten-pound backpack, and right now it may as well be a two-hundred pound backpack."

Garth just thought her discomfort was the funniest thing. "May be, but I can still jog circles around you."

"How…did you get to be so strong anyways?" Cecelia was starting to lose her breath.

"That's easy. I jog for an hour each day. As a child, I was trained in several martial arts. I took lessons up until I was twelve."

"What happened when you were twelve?"

"Changes." Garth said regretfully. "Anyways, I still remember a lot and I'm getting into it all again. In all, I do an average of four hours of exercise every day."

"What made you get into it again?"

"More…changes." Garth looked at the street sign. "My house is just around the corner. Think ya can make it?"

"I suppose."

"You say that word a lot."

"I suppose I do."

"Well, I need a yes or a no. Don't ever "suppose" to me again."

Cecelia was silent for a moment. And then she said, "Yes, I can make it."

Garth stopped Cecelia in front of a small 2-floor home with old rotting shingles and slightly browned grass. The place was not very well kept but Garth couldn't afford anything better since he lived alone.

"Nice place." Cecelia lied and Garth knew it.

Garth opened the door and took Cecelia up to one of the two bedrooms. This room had been converted into an exercise room. There was a punching bag and a few sets of weights and a bench press as well as a floor mat.

"What kind of exercise do you usually do?" Garth asked her.

"Oh, I do a few sit-ups to warm up and then I do my kicking." Cecelia gave Garth a demonstration.

"That's quite the kick you've got there." Garth began to show Cecelia how to handle one-on-one combat more smoothly. True, Cecelia was strong and fairly agile, but she lacked finesse, which was Garth's strong point.

Garth would never admit it, but he was learning from her as well. She forced him to remember back when he did martial arts. Those days were somewhat pleasant, actually. That was back when he was completely human and his parents were still together. He couldn't help but miss his past.

The more Cecelia practiced her skill, the more adrenaline she had. She wanted to fight ghosts now. She wanted to win. She wanted the thrill and the feeling of accomplishment. She wanted to make her father and Garth proud.

"You sure have quite the kick-butt attitude." Garth said to Cecelia.

"I have many sides to me." Cecelia smiled. "Maybe you'll start to see them, because you're like the brother I never had."

"I guess that in some weird way you do feel like family. We have a lot in common, after all. So much more than I expected."

"I like to meditate."

"That's…different."

"I'm sorta into all that Native American stuff. I don't do it very often anymore but back in Antarctica I had all the time in the world."

"Maybe you could show me." Garth said.

"It's very relaxing. And you look like you don't get much of that."

"That's true." Garth and Cecelia finished up.

Cecelia sat down on the mat and Garth sat down facing her.

"Just close your eyes…" Cecelia began.

The next morning, Cecelia got up early and jogged to school. She was not going to take this whole fitness thing lightly. She was determined to buff up. She had also made plans for her and Valerie to stakeout Axion labs tonight.

"Hi Valerie." Cecelia and Valerie walked to class together. "Are you ready for tonight?"

Valerie laughed. "Oh I hope so! I can't wait!"

"Geez, I've never seen you this excited for a stakeout before."

"Stakeout? What? Oh no, that's not tonight is it? I kinda made other plans. Danny and I are going out tonight. I'm hoping he's going to ask me to homecoming."

"Oh yeah, I've been looking forward to that. I know there's the game—which we're going to be at. But why is a school dance so important in your social life?"

"It's a chance to look pretty in front of everyone." Valerie explained. "It's the one night of the year where I go all out. And you should too. You need to get yourself a boyfriend. Then maybe we can double date."

Cecelia thought for a moment about the guys she knew. First there was Tucker, whom she had no interest in. Then there was Garth. She didn't feel that way about him either. And there was Dash. But he was taken. And besides that, she didn't like him. There was only one way this was going to work. Maybe Garth would agree to just go as friends?

After school, Cecelia found that Garth was not there to jog with her. So she jogged to his house. She rang the doorbell three times before Garth finally answered.

"Cecelia, hi." He stood in front of the door, blocking the way so that she could not get in, or see in.

"Who's there?" Came another voice from inside the house. A girl appeared next to Garth. "Cecelia?"

"Sam? What are you doing here?"

"I was following your advice, actually. I asked my friend Garth to homecoming."

Cecelia raised her eyebrows. "Wow."

"I didn't know you two knew each other." Sam said.

"Garth is my martial arts teacher." Cecelia explained. Garth let her into his house now. "And I was just coming over for…my lesson." Cecelia lied. She was somewhat relieved that she wouldn't have to ask such a frighteningly brooding guy to homecoming but also disappointed because she knew there was only one guy left.

"Oh, that's cool." Sam acknowledged. She looked at Garth and smiled. "So I'll see you at six." Sam headed out the door.

"I'll see ya." Garth waved goodbye. He turned to Cecelia. "So what are you really doing here?"

"That doesn't matter now. So are you going to train me or what?"

"I didn't expect to be training you every day. How about every other day? I'll do it for today, but then tomorrow and the next day I won't."

"That sounds fair. So how did you meet Sam?"

The two of them began their exercises with pushups.

"How did you meet Sam?"

"School, duh."

"Sam and I, we, uh, we're part of this team." Garth didn't know of a way to word it where Cecelia wouldn't ask a bazillion questions.

Cecelia gave Garth a confused look.

"We…hunt ghosts." Garth told a half-truth.

"You and Sam…hunt ghosts…together?"

"Yeah."

Cecelia still looked confused.

Garth shook his head. "No, no. There are other people on the team too." Garth spilled.

"Like, who? Anybody I know?"

"I hope not." Garth said under his breath. "You wouldn't happen to know Tucker Foley and Danny…"

"Fenton?"

"Yep, that's the one."

"Actually, I do know them."

"Great." Garth said sarcastically. He knew that Cecelia must not know about Danny's half-ghost side because if she did she'd have blasted him to bits by now.

"You wouldn't happen to know anything about Danny Phantom, would you?" Cecelia pried.

Garth got a little nervous, but he didn't show it. "Yeah, yeah, he's the ghost that your father told you to hunt down." Garth let Cecelia move to the punching bag now.

She kicked the punching bag hard. "Have you ever seen him?"

"Seen him? Yes, on rare occasion I have seen him flying around the town."

"But have you ever met him?"

Garth didn't want to answer. He didn't want to fib either. He knew that with a girl like Cecelia, one question would lead to another. "…Yes." He replied.

"Oh." Cecelia didn't expect that answer. "Have you ever…fought him?"

"No."

"Tell me about him. He is my target so I should get to know him after all. Any weaknesses you want to tell me about him?"

"I really don't know that much about him." That was true.

It was Garth's turn to beat up that punching bag. He didn't hit as hard as Cecelia did, but he hit faster.

"You should come with me tonight to stakeout Axion labs. I'm pretty sure Danny Phantom will make an appearance since he's been watching the place."

"Watching it? You don't say…" Garth pretended to be surprised though he knew exactly what Danny had been doing.

"Yeah. Valerie is hoping that he won't make a visit while she's not there to protect it."

"Maybe he's the one protecting it from other ghosts."

"That's highly unlikely."

"Where will she be anyways?"

"On a date with Danny Fenton."

Garth then realized that there really wouldn't be anybody guarding Axion labs tonight since Danny would be gone. He reluctantly agreed to do the stakeout with her just in case some ghost should show up and try to steal from the lab.

Garth arrived at the lab at around eleven at night. It was Cecelia who let him inside. "You're no Valerie, but you're still a friend. That means I'll get to talk to you all night."

"Oh joy." Garth said with heavy sarcasm. He looked around at the gigantic laboratory. It was seemingly empty. "I've never seen everything when it's all turned off. Is there even anyone still here?"

"There is minimal security—all the lab can afford to pay for with all of the break-ins recently. Other than the officers, Mr. Gray is the only other person still in the building." Cecelia turned on her suit that Valerie gave her. She didn't turn on the hover board, though. And then she put on a pair of yellow safety goggles that were also from Valerie. She then armed herself with a small ecto gun and a large plasma gun and the tracker. "All I have to do is get Danny Phantom's DNA and then I'll be able to find him anywhere, anytime."

Garth had to make it his personal mission not to let that happen because he had made an alliance with Danny. "It's just a hunch, but I don't think Danny Phantom will show up."

Cecelia gave Garth a weird look. "Hush." She tiptoed around as if someone else was there besides the two of them.

"What are you doing?" Garth whispered to her.

"Be quiet! There are ghosts about! Don't you hear that?"

Garth listened.

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