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A Phantom's Ghoul School Sweetheart
Chapter 22: Ghoulish Matchmakers
With Danny
After Danny had arrived back, miraculously before curfew, to Amity Park.
Miraculously, he still had some time before curfew and Danny was glad that he didn't have to explain why he was out so late.
As he was flying home, the ghostly boy checked his phone messages and his eyes widened when he saw it.
"123 messages?!..." Danny said.
He hit the call back and waited for an answer.
"Dude, where have you been?..." Tucker asked on the phone.
"Sorry I got caught with a ghost and then Skulker..."Danny said, feeling tired.
"A ghost? Come on, just a ghost made you THAT late to the Nasty Burger made you not answer your phone till now?"..."Tucker said, not buying it.
Skulker was deadly, but he couldn't keep Danny that busy unless he prepared in advance.
"Should I tell him and Sam?..."Danny sighed.
Danny didn't know whether to tell Tucker and Sam about Phanty or not. While it would help, if she ever came back( and that made Danny shudder a bit), Phanty seemed more on a need to know basis. Plus the ghost boy didn't want to hear his best friend laughing at him right now.
Still, tonight just proved that he has to be even more on his toes with that ghoul on the loose.
He groaned in exasperation.
"Find Sam and let's meet up...I'll explain everything..."Danny said to his now confused friend.
Hey, when to comes to Phantasma, he needs all the help he could get.
A Little Later
Danny had found his friends, who had been searching for him all night.
They asked him what happened and Danny, no longer having patience for it, just told him what has happened with Phantasma and Skulker.
The end result was this.
As predicted, Tucker is bent over, laughing as hard as he can while Danny and Sam look annoyed.
"It's not funny Tuck/Tucker..." Sam and Danny shout at the same time.
"Oh, please..a ghost chick has the hots for you...it's so ironic, of course it's funny..."Tucker laughed.
His friends were annoyed while the techno geek got his laughter under control.
"Okay...I'm good...I'm good..."He said as he calm down.
"So...what is she like?...'Tucker asked, and Sam glared at him for asking.
"Come on, she's a ghost with an actual crush on Danny here...you can't blame me for being curious..come on bro, spill...'Tucker said.
Danny sighed, as he tried to describe Phanty as accurately as possible to his friends.
"Well... she's not ugly...she's actually okay looking, in a spooky sort of way, I guess..."Danny reluctantly admitted... "But even if she was..I don't know...Paulina Sanchez levels of attractiveness, I would avoid her at all costs..."Danny said.
"For real...'Tucker said, surprised.
"Where is she now?..." Sam asked him.
"Sent her back home after she was knocked out. I don't know how she found me but I'm not risking it anymore..."Danny muttered.
Sam then looks to Danny in concern.
"Are you sure you're okay?..."Sam asked while Danny nodded.
"Yeah, I'm fine...heck, aside from Phantasma being clingy, the only threat was Skulker and that's only because he had the Plasmius Maximus..."Danny explained.
Sam smiled upon hearing this.
"Good..." Sam said before she hit Danny on the back of the head.
"Ow!..."Danny hissed.
"Sam! What was that for?!..."He said rubbing his head
"For leading that poor girl on..." Sam said, surprising Danny.
"I may not care for the fact that she is a ghost, but Danny...you're letting her think you like her, just like Paulina did to you at the Homecoming dance..."Sam scolded.
Danny got up, looking insulted.
"Hey! I've tried to tell her but she's crazy! I can barely get a word in edgewise or something unlucky happens!..."Danny said,.
"Yeah, right...'Sam said with an eye roll.
"I'm serious! When Phantasma is around, she's either cackling my ear off, talking a mile a minute or is trying to kiss me!..."Danny said with distress.
"Oh no, a girl's kissing me...what a nightmare..."Tucker muttered, almost sounding jealous.
Sam, however, sent Danny a more serious look.
"Danny, even if she is that loud, it still sounds like she's just a girl with a crush and in her mind, you're her first boyfriend..."Sam pointed out.
"Don't remind me..."Danny muttered.
"I'm serious...you gotta tell her you don't feel that way about her..."The goth girl said and Danny sighed, before nodding.
"I know that you're right Sam... but she saved my life from Skulker tonight...I don't want to hurt her..."Danny admitted.
As suffocating and overbearing as that ghoulish girl can be, she did save his life and is actually harmless.
She doesn't deserve to be hurt...
"Heartbreak always hurts..Danny, I know that you mean well but the longer this goes on, the more hurt she will be down the road...it's best to just get it over with now..."Sam advised.
Danny nodded.
"Alright..."He said.
"You said that you kinda have an idea where she lives..how about you go see her and talk to her...it won't be easy but you gotta tell her the truth...we'll even go to help..."Sam offered.
"Alright...I'll do it but not right now, it's almost curfew..."Danny said.
"Oh, man..you're right..."Tucker said as he glanced at his watch.
"We'll talk more about this tomorrow and make a game plan...See ya..."Danny said as he flew off.
Sam looked at him in the sky before she sighed
"That was good advice, Sam..." Tucker said.
"Thanks...'Sam said.
"Think he'll be able to follow it..."Tucker said and Sam sighed
"I don't know Tuck...I don't know..."Sam said.
The Next Day
At Casper High
Danny was back at school, and things..were still the same.
Lancer is still strict, The A-Listers were still jerks and the cafeteria food is still gross.
"Aw well, better get through the day..." Danny thought as he grabbed his books from his locker.
But before he could get to class, Dash grabbed him from behind and stuffed him into his locker.
"Ah, I missed this..." the quarterback said with a smile as he walked away.
Danny would have fazed out, but didn't have to as Sam and Tucker, who had seen the whole thing, had let him out.
"I see Dash is at it again..."Tucker muttered.
"Seriously, it's like he has nothing better to do than to harass me...'Danny muttered.
"Ignore him, Danny...anyway...any idea on how to deal with Phantasma, yet?..."Sam asked and Danny groaned.
"I know that the sooner I talk to her, the better but I still need to figure out EXACTLY what I am going to say, I can't risk her getting the wrong message again..."Danny explained.
Before his friends could ask about that, the bell rang, signaling the start of class.
"Come on, we'll worry about that after school, right now we have another headache to overcome...'Danny sighed as he and his friends went to class...
None of them were aware that something robotic was spying on them from a distance.
Oh my...
Elsewhere
While Danny was busy dealing with the ups and downs of Casper High, a certain group of mischievous young ghouls were using their free period to search their school grounds for ingredients for a certain, upcoming project.
"Come on, ghouls...we only have 20 minutes before Ms. Grimwood comes back and we have to get to our next lesson..."Sibella reminded.
The girls continued to search for the items on their list.
"Phanty is going to be so surprised later today..."Tannis said happily as she and her friends continued to search.
Later that day
In Amity Park
Danny had just gotten out of detention, due a fight with Klemper resulted in him getting yet another of too many tardies.
"Finally..."Danny muttered as he finally got out of that school.
Now he can go meet his friends and actually do something that was hopefully stress-free.
"Well... another day of Dash's stupidity and Lancer clearly proving he should be blacklisted as a teacher is behind me..." Danny said to himself as he flew home. "Now to enjoy mindless television with my friends before capturing some ghosts..."Danny said.
"Not quite!..."
Someone called out to Danny before tackling him into the ground. Getting up, Danny saw who did, now hovering over him.
"Skulker?! Again?! The third time this week?!..." Danny questioned. "Don't you have any other hobbies?..."Danny asked rhetorically.
"Hunting you IS my hobby! Besides..." Skulker scowled. "I got kicked out of Technus's bowling team... and I need to vent somehow..."He muttered
"You guys have a bowling team?..." Danny questioned.
Skulker did not answer, instead he and Danny changed forms and began to fight.
"Okay, Skulker...I have plans, so the sooner I kick your but-
Danny didn't get to finish as a blast knocked him back.
"That smart mouth of you is going to cost you..." Skulker shouted.
Before Danny got up, the hunter grabbed a collar from his side and opened it. He would have used it, had not Tucker and Sam arrived with Fenton wrist blasters.
"Just to let you know..." Sam said..."We were already close by...'She explained
"We just waited for Danny to get out after Dash..." Tucker added.
Skulker growled and aimed his weapons at the two. Danny rushed up and sucker-punched him from behind.
"For a hunter, you would think not to turn your back on the person your hunting..." Danny quipped.
Skulker looked back with a smile as the ghost boy charged at him. The hunter leaned to the side and placed the collar on him.
"What the heck?..." Danny questioned before Skulker pressed a button.
A beep was heard before a surge of electricity coursed through Danny. Seconds later, Danny transformed involuntarily.
"DANNY!..."Tucker and Sam shouted in worry.
Danny tried to change back but he couldn't.
"This collar...It's shorting out..my powers..." Danny tried to get the device off to no avail.
"Like it?..." Skulker asked, "Since the ghost girl destroyed the Plasmius Maximus, I thought to make some upgrades. Say hello to the Skulker Noose. It builds up a charge that will disrupt your powers. So now...time to hunt..."Skulker said malevolently.
Tucker and Sam used the blasters, but Skulker went intangible and knocked them out.
"Guys!..."Danny shouted as he kept trying to get the collar off, but nothing.
Danny gulped as he realized that he was without his powers, without weapons and the manic hunter was approaching him with a menacing grin on his face.
"Now, where were we?...'Skulker said with a mad grin.
"Not good..."Danny muttered.
Meanwhile
At Grimwood
While Danny was facing Skulker, Sibella, Elsa, Winnie and Tannis were up to their own work.
They were once again inside their dormitory with Matches, who was once again heating up the cauldron, as the ghouls all began to make the spell.
The small dragon knew that this is against the rules, but the girls begged him and he eventually gave in.
"Come along, ghouls...we have to get this done as soon as possible..."Sibella said.
"Quit worrying, Ms. Grimwood just left to go shopping...we have all afternoon..."Winnie said.
"Duh...here are the lizard tails, Sibella..."Elsa said.
"Fang-tastic, pour them in...'Sibella said.
"Now we need a pound of shedded snake skins..."Sibella said.
"I'm on it...'Tannis said as she dumped said item into the cauldron.
"Next we need half a cup of frog slime..."Sibella said.
"Got it right here...'Winnie said as she poured it into the cauldron.
"Next is snail shells..."Sibella said as she tossed a handful of said item into the boiling, bubbling cauldron.
"And last but not least, the tooth of a swamp gator..."Sibella said.
Elsa then handed it over.
"Here it is..."Elsa said as she tossed it in.
"I got to tell you...it was quite a fight to see..."Winnie said, having helped Elsa retrieve said item.
"Hey, all is fair in love and war...'Elsa reminded and the ghouls nodded.
Sibella then mixed the potion together, and the ghouls created the another transmutation circle.
"Alright, now all we need is Danny's note..."Sibella said.
"I got it...'Tannis said as she held said item
"Duh...now what is left to do?.."Elsa asked Sibella as she checked her notes.
"According to this...in order to make the spell work, we must place an item that the person we seek has held...such as his note...in the middle of the circle and then we must say, "Spirits of the night, hear our plea, bring to us the person whom we seek" and then we must chant his name three times..."Sibella explained.
Soon all of the girls gathered by the circle and all began chanting together.
"Spirits of the night, hear our plea, bring to us the person whom we seek...Danny Phantom! Danny Phantom! Danny Phantom!..."The ghouls all chanted together.
Suddenly, the cauldron started bubbling even more and soon a glowing purple aura has emerged.
The ghouls all saw this and smiled.
"It's working..."Tannis said happily as the glow became even brighter.
Back with Danny
Skulker had just shorted Danny's powers and knocked Sam and Tucker out, so they couldn't interfere with his hunt anymore.
Now he was doing something he truly enjoyed doing.
Gloat!
"Now then, I, Skulker shall finally have your pelt on my wall..." The hunter declared before he laughed maniacally.
"Seriously..." Danny snarked and partially out of dread..."This is how it ends?..."He questioned.
Danny needed to come with a plan but before he could do anything, a strange purple aura suddenly surrounded him.
"Huh? What the-
In an instant, Danny disappeared.
There was silence as Skulker just blinked.
"Uh...what just happened?...'The hunter ghost said as he no longer saw his prey.
On the ground, both Tucker and Sam looked just as surprised as their friend suddenly just vanished into thin air.
"Uh..what just happened?...'Tucker asked Sam, who had no answer.
Just what the heck happen?
Where is Danny?!
-To be continued-
Next time on A Phantom's Ghoul School Sweetheart
Danny Phantom At Grimwood
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