Danny looked around, not knowing his jaw was open like a fish. Jazz thankfully -and quickly- walked over and closed his mouth.
"Hey, it isn't that strange is it?" Jake asked, concerned and confused.
Danny shook his head, blinked a few times, and looked around. Ignoring all of the mess, Danny saw a dog on two legs talking to an old-looking chinese dragon pinning something to a wall. The dragon looked over, jumped, and quickly turned into an old man and the dog fell to four legs, letting out a pathetically fake 'woof'. The dog then narrowed his eyes, stood up and strode to Danny.
"Whatchu see ain't real." He waved his paw in Danny's face, "You're dreamin. You did not just see a huge dragon, this is all fake, we were practicin a show..." the dog kept making excuses in a barrage of hypnotic-like words.
"Fu dog, this is Daniel Fenton, Danny for short." Jake stepped up, stopping the dog's string of words. "He knows already. In fact, he's a ghost."
"Ummm..." Danny regained his voice and pointed to himself, "Half-ghost. heh."
The dog, Fu, stopped and replied, "Oh, the old man's gonna be furious." Fu turned to Jake and casually pointed to Danny, "You let him know?"
"He just guessed!" Jake replied and Danny's 'backup' backed up, they knew they should stay out of this for a little bit.
The old man strode into the room and looked up at Danny, "Jake."
"Yeah, I know Grandpa. I'm sorry, but he's a ghost what was I supposed to say?" Jake retaliated, "He could, like, haunt me forever or something!"
"I don't haunt people!" Danny looked offended, "I just... beat up other bad ghosts."
The old man stood on his tiptoes, "You're a ghost? You don't look like one." he poked Danny.
"Hey!" Danny stepped back, "You don't look like a dragon, plus I'm human until I go ghost, hence the half-ghost label? What should I call you anyways, Gramps doesn't seem appropriate."
The old man paused and eyed Danny, "I'm Long Lao Shi, you may call me Lao or master."
"I'd prefer Lao over master." Danny retorted and suddenly his ghost sense went off.
"What's that?" Jake, Fu, and Lao all asked at once.
"I call it my ghost sense, it senses when ghosts are around." Danny replied quickly and looked around.
Suddenly a familiar voice penetrated the area, "I am the BAOX ghost! FEAR ME!" and the Box ghost floated into the house, "I want your old..." He squinted to the nearest box and read it out slowly, "Video Cassette Recorder boxes!" The boxes floated with his ghostly power.
Fu squeaked, "g-ghost!"
"That Idiot!" Danny said the same time Fu squeaked, letting the talking dog regain some honor. "Going ghost!" his infamous blue rings appeared, and when they were done, he had his more famous ghost half appearance. Danny floated up to the box ghost, "Really? Don't you have anything better to do?"
The box ghost looked around, then at Danny, "No, not particularly."
"Dragon up!" Danny glanced over at Jake as he turned into his red dragon.
"Dude, I've got this. He's, like, the least powerful ghost in the entire ghost realm."
"Oh, he just got dissed." Tuck weaved into the conversation and tossed Danny the thermos, then weaved his way back out of talking.
Danny caught the thermos easily and opened it, catching the ghost quickly. As soon as Danny landed, Lao snatched the thermos and looked it over. "What is this?" He asked, Jake went back human and stood next to him.
"That's the Fenton Thermos. My parents sometimes make mistakes that help me." Danny smiled like he made a hilarious joke, and Sam, Tuck, and Jazz giggled in memory of their screw-ups.
"Can I borrow this?" Fu dog snatched it out of Lao's hands and started fiddling with it.
"Um, not that one!" Danny flew over and snatched it out of the dog's hands, floating for a minute, "I'll have to catch the box ghost all over again!"
"I have an extra!" Jazz jumped forward and gave Fu dog the extra thermos.
"So what kind of magic do you guy's have?" Danny turned to Jake and landed.
"Oh I have-" Jake was cut off by his grandpa,
"Let's train." Lao smiled.
"Aw man! Now grandpa?!" Jake complained.
"Yes, now."
Danny looked at his friends then back at Lao, "I'm guessing its super-secret dragon training that my friends are not allowed to attend?" Lao nodded, "Okay" Danny flew over to his sister and friends, "I'll contact you if I have trouble." He handed them a pair of Fenton phones, then went to put some in his ears and Tuck interrupted.
"You don't need them Danny, I upgraded ours."
"Upgraded?"
"Yeah, we can hear you from anywhere we want, look we can even see where you're at." Tuck ran over and showed Danny his PDA and a green submarine-like radar on it's screen.
"How-"
"I merged the Fenton Ghost Detector," He paused, "or whatever stupid name your dad gave it... and my PDA, so we can see your location and hear you from afar!" Tucker looked at Danny with a grin on his face.
"Great. Now you guys can hear all of my conversations!"
"Exactly!"
"Daniel!" Lao shouted as he was walking out the door and it sent shivers down Danny's spine.
"I prefer Danny, Mr. Lao! Only my archenemy calls me Daniel." Danny replied and turned back to Tuck, "That's great, I'll talk to you guys later. If you need help, just call my cell." Danny pulled his cellphone out from nowhere, waved it, and put it back into whatever pocket he got it from and followed Lao outside.
"First, we meet at your school." Lao started walking towards the school, "I'll meet you there."
Danny glanced over at Jake who grinned and turned into a dragon, "Race ya?"
Danny mirrored hi grin, "You think you can beat my 100+ MPH? You're on!"
