A/N: Okay, I'm freaking out! 70 reviews!? You guys are the best! Thank you so honking much!
So this chapter is going to be picked up exactly where I left off, but before I get into the details I'm going to announce the winners of the Author's Game! CrayonPencil (Sorry about the important note), Lilyqz, s0103342, Nightmare of Bloodclan, MintBushCat, and Disneydreamer! Congrats!
Now for the people who guessed the reference: Nightmare of Bloodclan, Disneydreamer, and Lilyqz!
Thanks for reading and, as always, R&R is greatly appreciated. Hope you enjoy and this is gonna start with a little bit of "Oh yeah, so this is what happened last time" stuff...
That was when he realized something. It was something that changed his entire perspective on Danny...
Something big.
Now I know what you're thinking 'he has to know! It's too obvious!' Well that's where you're wrong. Jake didn't believe that it was possible for someone to be half-alive and half-dead. Instead he went with what he knew about ghosts.
Is Phantom overshadowing Danny? He asked himself. Now this was a common theory among all of Amity Park, except they didn't know who Phantom would be overshadowing. In fact, the theory was most popular around people who hated Phantom. They used it as bait as to why Phantom is evil...which he's not...
So Jake wasn't the only one who believed this and when Randy, Howard and Danny came walking into class thirty minutes late, Danny looking like he just woke up from a nap and Howard looking like he just met his hero, Jake was ready to ask questions.
They all sat down at their separate seats, not too far away from Jake, and the young dragon was ready for a short Q&A.
The bell rang and Jake said, "Hey, Danny, can I talk to you about something in the halls?" Danny nodded and Jake smiled, trying to make it seem like a friendly smile. And Danny bought it.
They put their stuff in their bags and walked out of the class when Jake suddenly grabbed Danny by his wrists and shoved him against the lockers.
"What is your problem!?" Danny yelled at Jake who didn't loosen his grasp on the boy when questioned.
"I know you're in there! Get out of Danny!" Jake yelled and Danny raised an eyebrow.
"What are you talking about?" The halfa asked and started to pull out of the dragon's grasp but found himself to be unsuccessful.
Kids started gathering around the two shouting out, "Fight!" And Lancer came out when he heard them. The shouting students began clearing a pathway for Lancer as he made his way to the center of the crowd. The halls grew silent and Jake turned around to see why.
When Lancer spotted the boys he shouted out, "For The Life of Pi, people, what is going on here!?"
Jake released his grip on Danny's wrists as the halfa rubbed them to try to get the hand-sized pinkish mark to fade from his arm faster.
"Uh..." Jake stuttered and Danny didn't move a muscle. They were going to detention, everyone who was within ten feet of the teens could tell.
Then came the words everyone was waiting for, "You two just earned yourselves detention," Lancer said with a smirk.
"But, Mr. Lancer, I have places to be!" Jake and Danny said in unison.
"Like what?" Jake asked Danny, his voice lancer with anger.
"None of your business," Danny responded coldly.
"Two hours detention!"
"But Mr. Lancer-" Jake tried to reason but Lancer wasn't having it.
"You wanna make that four?" When both boys stayed silent Lancer smiled, "Good. Now get to class."
Everyone began running away to their classes. Mr. Lancer didn't even bother to tell them to not run in the halls.
After the two got to class Danny's now building up anger was unleashed, "What'd you do that for!?"
Jake looked at Danny, clearly puzzled, before realizing what he meant, "Why don't you tell me why you didn't fight back, Phantom."
Danny's eyes became bigger than dinner plates once Jake had mentioned the name of his alter-ego.
"How'd you-" Danny tried to find the right words, "How'd you know?"
"Ha! So you do admit you're overshadowing the real Danny!" Jake shouted angrily.
"What!? No! Keep your voice down," Danny sighed, "Look, I can clearly tell you don't like me, well half of me... But trust me when I tell you that I'm not overshadowing some poor kid. I'm me. I'm all Danny Fenton—I think," Danny mumbled that last part. The truth was that he wasn't quite sure if he was Danny Fenton or Danny Phantom.
"What do you mean you think?" Jake asked and Danny was about to reply when the bell rang.
"Ah, dang it! I'll answer that on the way to the office to get a tardy slip, how about that?" Danny responded and Jake hesitated for a moment before following the halfa down the halls and to the office.
"When I said 'I think', I meant that I'm not sure if I really am just Danny Fenton anymore. I promise that I'm not overshadowing anyone and nobody's overshadowing me. I'm...I'm a halfa," Danny came clean seeing as if Jake hadn't heard the truth then the boy would probably do something crazy again.
Danny wanted Jake to like him, he really did. But that might be because, in order to stop Vlad, they needed to be on each other's good sides and at the moment Jake didn't seem to like Danny Pantomime at all. Then again not everyone did.
"A what-a?" Jake asked the question that Danny had asked.
"Half ghost, half human. Basically a hybrid and I promise that Fenton and Phantom are one-in-the-same. Not one-or-the-other," Danny tried to assure Jake and the young dragon nodded trying to take everything in, "And I believe that you have a little secret of your own Mr. Dragon."
Danny smirked at the look Jake gave Danny, it was the all too famous how-did-you-know!? look.
"Randy figured it out. Speaking of which, we need your help..." Danny explain the situation with Vlad to Jake and paused briefly once they had gotten to the office. After Jake had heard the story they were almost at their classroom.
"Oh dang. So Randy's the ninja?" Jake asked and Danny nodded.
"Man, that is so cool! Y'know I've always wanted to meet a ninja!" Jake threw his fist up into the air in excitement.
Danny walked into his class smiling as Jakw walked into a classroom a few doors down.
"Late again, Daniel?" One of Danny's teachers asked as he handed her the pink slip of paper.
"Yep," Danny mumbled and sat in his seat. Sam and Tucker gave Danny a worried glance but Danny just smiled in a way the assured the two he was okay.
His friends smiled and got back to work.
Randy kept on overhearing rumors about Jake and Danny getting into a fight but Randy didn't believe a single one of them.
Jake and Danny don't sound like the kind of people to get into a fight. Not to mention that they are both, in a sense, heroes. What could've come over one of them? If this really happened then they have to of gotten caught on the process.
That means they both have detention.
And we need to discuss our strategy for getting Vlad somewhere that no one'll overhear us... That was when Randy began kicking the seat in front of him. The one that belonged to Dash Baxter.
"Stop that," Danny whispered harshly to Randy but he didn't stop. He kept kicking.
"Stop it," Dash said a little louder this time.
"Make me..." Randy challenged and Dash got ready to slap him across the face when the teacher told Dash to turn around.
"You just got lucky," Dash warned but Randy wasn't done yet. He wanted to get in trouble, so he stood up, grabbed some tissues from the tissue box, walked over to the teacher, and placed a few on her head while she was sitting at her desk.
"That's it, Cunningham! You're going to detention! Four hours with Mr. Lancer!" Randy sighed but made his way back to his desk. At least he had accomplished in getting detention.
Too bad he had it for four hours.
A/N: So I've been working on this chapter all day. It was kinda hard to write, I'm not gonna lie. What do you think? Please leave a review to tell me if you liked it or not!
AUTHOR'S GAME! What do you think my favorite Danny Phantom episode is?
(Hint: I wrote an alternate ending fanfic on it!)
Thanks for reading and I'll catch you on the flippidy flop!
...Pretty sure that's a reference to something...