Down in the Fenton Works basement, where the Portal loomed, Jack Fenton... was at work fishing into the Portal when Danny arrived and questioned the soda-hat, fishing gear and line going INTO the Ghost Portal. "Hey, Dad. What are you doing?"

"Danny, keep it down. You'll scare away the ghosts." Danny listened as Jack spoke, pointing to the line he was using. "It's the Fenton Ghost Fisher. I'm fishing for ghosts." Danny was not sure that would work as Jack showed off the line with it's teal-blue colors. "Check out this line. Coated with a special high-test ectoplasmal resin that ghosts can't break. Quiet now. Don't wanna spook 'em." He cast the line once more before his stomach had other plans, rumbling to his embarrassment. "Whoa! That soda goes right through you like Sherman through Georgia." He handed the pole to Danny and called out in his escape to use the restroom. "Here! Hang on to this. I'll be right back after I use the Fenton Urinal." He sprinted upstairs as the line tugged and went taut as Danny grimaced.

"Oh no." He held tight to the line when his ghost scene went off, but the line finally breaks and he stumbled backwards to the emerging beast, the other end of the line hanging from what could only be a dragon ghost before it roared aloud and the line smacked Danny in the face as he stammered. "Da-?"

"I want to go!" It roared a loud, provoking an action from Danny.

"D-ahhh!" He tried to book it away, but the dragon snatched him as it roared at him again while in its claw.

"I have to go!"

"You'll have to stand in line behind my dad. In the meantime..." Danny turned into Phantom and slipped out of the grip, the dragon attacking with a few misses and green flames before Danny slammed hard with a kick, knocking something off, but he didn't know where it went as the dragon somehow downsized and he gasped that it took the form of a ghostly girl in what could only be a more medieval or Renaissance attire as she bemoaned.

"All I wanted was to go to the Princess Costume Ball. And my horrid mummy won't let me!" She wailed as she was pulled back into the portal before Danny mused.

"If that dragon suit's her idea of a costume, I'm on mummy's side." He changed back, still unaware of the amulet now in his bag. "Phew! Man, that's a relief." Jack took that moment to enter as he spoke.

"I'll tell you what a relief is..." He paused before heading back in shock. "Darn, I almost forgot!" He headed off and the sound of a toilet flushing sounded, Danny face-palming to the lack-of-common logic that filled his father's mind...


Casper High was planning an upcoming dance for all of the students, a banner written with 'THE BIG DANCE' loomed over the door outside as Tucker tried his best... in vain to get someone to go with him to the dance. "Hey there, I-"

"No!" Tucker frowned as he tried once more on the next girl.

"Hi, would you-"

"Forget it." He nearly got his mouth open a third time as the third girl answered without a question.

"No!" He paused before he shouted after her.

"I didn't ask you yet!" He gave up and headed over to the crowd of friends were waiting on him as he slumped down to Cedric speaking with a canteen lowered.

"Well, that was an effort made and abandoned."

"Strike three, Tuck?" Danny questioned as Tucker huffed.

"Try strike three thousand." Sam rolled her eyes as she spoke up.

"I don't know what the big deal is about going to some stupid dance. I don't need to be asked to some dance to know I'm special. I-" Her words stopped as the pair gazed off into the distance, Cedric munching on his roast beef sandwich as Sam asked with annoyance. "What?" Cedric pointed and Sam followed the finger as both Danny and Tucker dreamily spoke.

"Paulina..." Paulina, the bane of all as she was the popular girl, the most beautiful girl, a Latina with ego larger than her own mind as her simple walk entranced the boys, one hitting a tree while on a bike, two fell into the fountain and sat back up to stare as the boys spoke again. "Paulina..." Sam countered.

"Oh, please! Paulina? Girls like her are a dime a dozen!" It was a figure of speech, but Danny and Tucker took it up as they pulled changes from their pockets to Danny inquiring.

"How much change you got?"

"Ha ha! Very funny. Just remember: you can't judge a book by its cover." Tucker floored it as he spoke up to Paulina under a tree and with a lunchbox.

"Well, there's only one way to find out. Go on, Danny. Go to that library and check out that book!" Danny stammered as Cedric hummed to the show going on.

"I can't! I get weak-kneed when I try to talk to cute girls."

"Oh, and you have absolutely no problems talking to me." Sam slightly hissed before Cedric cut in.

"Childhood friend, brain does not register friend as love interest, Manson, it hasn't clicked for him like that." He poked his skull to Danny's paused moment before Sam rolled her eyes in disbelief.

"Skip it." She did give a nod to Cedric who returned it before she lifted the poor boy up and answered on the side of asking her. "Go give your weak knees some exercise." Danny stumbled before he spoke in greeting with a deep breath, leaning against the tree as the lead up.

"Hi! I..." His arm reacted to his nervous gesture and phased through the tree, causing him to lose his balance and fall as Paulina remarked.

"Please! Don't say you've suddenly fallen for me. That line is so last semester." Danny quickly stood up and tried again.

"Yeah! I-I mean, no! T-that's not it. I'm... I'm Danny." His powers struck again as his pants glowed green before dropping. The other students just laughed at the embarrassing moment as Paulina just rolled her eyes with her laugh.

"A gentleman usually tips his hat, but I'll give you points for originality." Danny gave up as Sam came over and spoke up.

"Kudos, Danny. You just set an all-time speed record for drowning in the shallow end of the gene pool." Paulina thought through the words before she screeched.

"Oh, no! You did not just call me shallow, did you?!"

"If you mean do I think I can stand in a puddle full of you and not get my feet wet, then yeah." Sam countered as Paulina yelled to the goth dragging Danny away.

"Shallow?! I am not shallow!" She paused before a planning smile crossed her face. "On the other hand, I'm not so deep that I couldn't lure a boy away from a goth geek. And I will." The day progressed as normal, but the next day was the kick for all of them...


The next day, Danny was in a gloom mood as Tucker checked out the passing girls before he remarked. "Thanks to you, I now know the quickest way to a woman's heart: clean boxers." Cedric rolled his eyes as he leaned against the other side of Danny as he glumly spoke with a sigh.

"Man, I blew it yesterday. Paulina probably won't even look at me now." That was proven wrong as a voice called out.

"Yoo-hoo, Danny!" The trio looked down to Paulina waving from down the hall, the other guys looking love-struck before Danny spoke.

"...Or not! Hey, Tuck and Cedric?"

"I get it. I'm out." Tucker answered as he paused once moment to give his acknowledge, Cedric just going to the other side for a close eye. "Good luck." He ran off as Paulina spoke to Danny.

"Hi, you." She laughed and drew him in as she started. "I just wanted to..." But, like all good things, it came to an end as Dash arrived, tossing Danny into his locker and trapping him with his back against the closed locker as he started.

"Meet me? Who doesn't?" Cedric near-growled, but calmed himself as Danny was more confrontational as he leaned out of his locker with intangibility as Dash went off in bragging. "Dash Baxter." Danny followed through to hurl Dash elsewhere to get himself out of the situation, but grimaced when his hands suddenly slipping into Dash's shoulders. "All-star quarterback and school hero." He yelped as the sentence trailed off, surprising Cedric as the blue eyes suddenly turned neon green. "I'm also-" The foot ball and Cedric's mouth twitched in surprise as Danny's voice came out of Dash.

"-in Dash's body?" Paulina was confused as she spoke.

"Excuse me?" Danny sprung back into it as he spoke.

"Right! Of course!" Paulina stared suspiciously as Danny went off, Dash's voice somehow being blocked, even his conscience. "I'm also president of the Casper High geek club, and I have every toenail I've ever clipped. Want to see 'em?"

"No."

"Oh, then you should get to know Danny Fenton. He doesn't scrub his mom's feet every night like I do." Cedric raise his brows in disbelief as Danny even controlled Dash's body to get down on his knees and pick up Paulina's foot before she pulled away and screeched.

"Eew! Get lost, loser!" Danny left Dash't body and reentered the locker as Dash got up while being slightly disoriented, rubbing his head in confusion.

"Why do I suddenly feel like scrubbing my mom's feet?" He walked away while holding his head in confusion before Paulina opened Danny's locker, he dropping to the ground, but the more important feature was what fell out of his pack as Paulina commented.

"We have to stop meeting like this." She said while getting on his level before spotting the amulet that was in Danny's bag and gasping. "Oh my gosh!" She pointed at it as she was taken in by its features. "What's that?" Danny stammered as she picked it up, amazed with it.

"That? Oh! Uh, it's a... uh..." He paused and asked with a hopeful smile. "You like it?" Paulina answered as Cedric was COMPLETELY confused where Danny even got his hands on such finery.

"It's beautiful!"

"Hey, that's great!" She got up as Danny continued to make an excuse for the 'apparent' amulet. "Because I, uh, got it for you."

"Really?!"

"Yeah." Cedric hung his head in complete shock at HOW easily Danny was just wringing his way into the thick of it with no way out of it. "I-I-in case I got the nerve to ask you to the dance and you said yes, I thought I'd want to give you something and that's what it would have been. It's for you." He quickly grabbed his pants when they tried to slip off again. "Whether you go with me or not."

"Well, you are kind of cute, and you have great taste in underwear." she hummed before she made his choice with a firm goal. "I'd love to go with you." She put the amulet on and headed off, the power infused flexing out in green eyes as she headed off before Danny mused with Cedric near ready to boop the fool for giving something he clearly didn't know about.

He was smiling to the acceptation, but frowned as she mused. "What am I doing? That thing doesn't belong to me. It could be my mom's, or my sister's." Cedric raised a brow before Paulina drew Danny's attention again with a wave of her hand.

"Bye, Danny. See you!" Danny's doubts slipped away just as quickly as he cheered.

"Or I could worry about that later. Because she said yes! Woohoo!" He raised his fists in victory, but he forgot that his pants were loose from going intangible and dropped, just as Mr. Lancer approached him, all the while Cedric just face-palmed on how bad this had become somehow.

"Pantless again, Mr. Fenton? Third time this week I've caught you- how do you kids say it?" He pulled out a book titled 'How To Sound Hip For the Unhip.' from behind him before versing a line. "Dropping trou. I think it's time I saw your father for a parent-teacher conference." He gave Danny the notice slip as he grimaced to it before speaking again.

"Oh, man. My dad?"

"Until then, here." Where Lancer pulled out a belt for Danny to use, was out of the question as he continued to lecture... and relate. "It'll help you keep your pants up and... out of trouble with the man." Danny took the belt and wondered how to break it to his father...


Back in the Fenton Works, Danny headed down to his father slumping forward, face on his hand as Danny spoke up. "Catch anything, Dad?"

"Son, I couldn't catch a cold. I've been sitting here all day without a single bite." Danny paused before Jack ranted, Danny fearful with the slip in hand. "I'm so frustrated, I want to take out my rage on the first person who gives me bad news." He cast the line into the Portal before asking. "Anyway, you wanted to tell me something?"

"Well, sort of. Mr. Lancer-"

"Mr. Lancer what?" Jack growled as he continued. "Is this bad news?" His eyes narrowed to hear the next part as Danny stammered.

"Mr. Lancer..." He paused and smiled as he instead, while Jack wasn't looking at him and at the portal, quickly did the same thing he did to Dash and possessed Jack, the green eyes the feature that separated Danny from Jack's body, the smiling coming back on Jack's face as Danny continued. "...wants to have a word with us!" Danny paused, however, when a voice came ringing through his head.

'Sufferin' Spooks; Darn you, ghosts!'

'Wait, Dad!' Danny quickly replied back to calm down the incoming rant in Jack's voice, somehow tapping into the same mental or mind link that Jack's voice bellowed from. 'Iamnotaghost,Ithink,wethinkIamhalforsomething!?'

'...Uh...?' Jack replied back in confusion. 'You are going to need to run that by me again, slower this time, okay?' Danny nodded in Jack's body as he prepped himself or Jack for the conference.

'I'm not really a ghost, we think that I am about half, the Ghost Portal... you put the ON button inside the Portal.' This was a way to reveal himself, just possess his dad and convince him through the possession. 'I'm sorry, but Mr. Lancer wants to have a conference and I just didn't want to get in trouble, my powers were going off and my pants slipped off.'

'Ah, that was the 'bad news' you had? I can't help much, but I can help you out some.' Danny raised a brow as he looked in the mirror and tamed the hair some. 'I had a feeling, but I wasn't sure, who else knows, Dann-o?'

'Sam, Tucker, and Cedric, my friends have been very supportive, though Cedric is up to something, he pricked me and I think he was working on something to help or to join me in fighting ghosts, I'm not sure.'

'There's the ol' Fenton charm, now let's talk to Mr. Lancer, we'll get it sorted out and then some.' Danny nodded as he headed out with Jack leaving a lingering word. 'Also, these powers are yours, but use them with responsibility.'

'I'll try, Dad, thanks, though I am not sure if you will remember all of this.' Both shrugged as they arrived and got into talking with Lancer.

"Thank you for coming to discuss your son's schooling, Mr. Fenton."

"Well, sure!" He gestured himself in understanding. "I'm a parent, and that's...what parents do, ensure their kid's well being. Uh, right?"

"Well, there were a couple of incidents...with his pants."

"Did his pants fall down again? Poor Danny. He studies so hard he forgets to eat." He had been studying, but he was worried that it may very well change somehow. "I know these things because I'm his dad and not him." He just smiled and lean on the desk as Lancer continued.

"Hmm... That would explain things."

Danny whispered to himself about it. "It worked?" Lancer noticed so Danny struck at a weak point in the school, it over-funded the football team too much and the teacher were left with a minor amount of salary. "I-I-I mean, of course you understand. No wonder you're Danny's favorite teacher."

"I am?" Lancer asked with a question with Jack as well as Danny just continued.

"We Fentons consider teachers to be underpaid and under-appreciated." Danny felt the pause before Jack actually agreed, remarking about several teachers that were amazing, but so under-appreciated, Lancer looked to be a decent fellow, just a strict one as Danny smiled.

"I like your style, Mr. Fenton." He pulled out a flyer for the upcoming dance, both grimaced as one didn't want his father to go and the other was concerned if he would be forgetting about that. "In fact, I'd like you to chaperone the upcoming school dance."

"Chaperone?" Danny paused, nearly giving both of them relief as he continued. "Well, I'm not sure..."

Lancer, on the other hand, did the opposite than accept the meek reply. "I am. See you Friday." Reading his 'How To Sound Hip' book again, Lancer sent them off. "Or, as the kids say, catch you later, G!" He gestured a finger-gun and Danny grimaced as the pair had one final chat heading home.

'We may be in trouble.'

'This is going to be embarrassing...'


Danny headed off to explain the situation to Tucker, Sam, and Cedric, though Cedric filled the two in on Dash's 'impromptu' scolding. Tucker was just trying to pick up girls as he tried with a full mouth before getting the same response. "No." He dropped as Sam asked Danny.

"So, your dad is going to chaperone the dance?"

"Yes, but he doesn't know he's going to chaperone because he doesn't remember that I made him say yes!" Danny rested his head before adding a bit more. "Or maybe he does, I could hear his voice when Dash's was just blocked out somehow, he knows I'm... something, but it have just been when I was in his body and controlling it." Tucker swallowed as he asked.

"Let me get this straight. You can just walk into people and take over their bodies from the inside?"

"Yeah, pretty much."

Tucker glanced to a girl reading a book on the other table and asked. "Hey, Danny. If you could control a girl for just about two minutes..." Danny looked the same way and commented back to Tucker.

"Forget it. You can get your own date for the dance like I did."

"Does he have to take off his pants and act like a dweeb? Or will either one do?" Danny didn't grace that with an answer as Sam was sounding... bitter, was she expecting someone to take her to the dance with her sour mood?

In a nearby Abyss store in the mall, however, Paulina was in search of some new clothing before she cheered to the 'Fleecy Tees Sale' inside and swiftly approached the table. "I've just got to have one of these!" She tore through them for what she wanted. "They're so unique!" She peered about for anyone that could help her, despite the number of people wearing fleecy tees themselves before she found a sales girl and waved for aid. "Miss?" The girl came over as Paulina inquired with tees in hand. "Do you have this in a size small?"

"Ooh, sorry. We just sold our last small of this corduroy button-down fleecy tee to someone else."

"Will you be getting any more soon?"

"The Abyss corduroy button-down fleecy tee has been discontinued. If you haven't already got one, you are doomed to languish as a toxic social outcast for a period of no less than five and no more than sixteen weeks." The girl giggled, heedless of the rising temper. "Sorry."

"SIXTEEN WEEKS?!" Paulina actually roared as the amulet came alive with its glow, her skin turning blue and her reds before she erupted into the dragon that Danny faced yesterday and roared. "Want fleecy tee!" Green flames erupted from her mouth and caught several tees on fire before panic set in and the table came flying out as the four were still in conversation.

"Honestly, guys, I'm glad I'm not going to the stupid dance. Saves me the embarrassment of wearing the lame dress my parents bought me." She, however, laughed nervously as Tucker pointed it out.

"So no one's asked you, huh?" Sam rolled her eyes as she answered.

"Maybe if I was as pretty as Paulina." Danny was confused as he asked.

"Why are you so down on her? So she's pretty. It's not a crime."

"Looks are deceiving, Danny." It was that moment when people ran away and Danny's sense kicked in and Tucker spoke.

"Ghost time." He pluck the container of fries before asking. "Can I finish your fries?" He didn't refute as he ran for a opened spot before coming back as Phantom to confront the dragon now rampaging, Cedric jumping to follow as his wrist, adorned with bracers, fortified his hands and chest in metal and steel as Danny started the banter.

"Say, haven't we met somewhere?" The dragon just roared before blasting green fire, Cedric dodging with Danny as Danny tried again. "Let's try this again. Hi, I'm Danny Phantom and my... friend is Cedric Trace." Two-finger wave as Danny turned back to the dragon. "And you are?" Another roar before hitting Danny, crashing him into a Weenie On-a-Skewer, the tail lashing back to Cedric snatching the limb with great challenge in holding it in place as Danny spoke again, hand to his head. "Testy, got it." Despite the struggling hold, the dragon blasted fire at Danny as he flew out of the way and ranted. "Sorry, dude! I think you got the wrong weenie!" He slammed the dragon away, Cedric releasing just in time, but not fast enough to stop Danny from getting snatched by the dragon and slamming him into the ground as it roared.

"Must have tee!"

"Tea? Ooh, good idea. Coffee could make you a mite jittery. Better yet..." He slipped into the ground, confusing the dragon who lost its prey from the claws before returning with fist in hand. "Have some punch!" The punch was powerful indeed as the dragon went flying, neither sure where as the amulet flew off and into a discarded bag and the dragon downsized into Paulina as she groaned.

"Ooh, whoa. What hit me?" She notices the bag and fishes out the amulet. "Hey! My amulet!" She put it back on and gasped as she also pulled a fleecy tee out. "Hey! My fleecy tee! They must have had it in my size!" Folding it up and beamed in pride. "I guess good things happen when you maintain a positive attitude." She headed off as Tucker and Sam joined the pair, Danny flying back down as Cedric rubbed his chest as the armor slipped back into the bracers.

"Danny!" Sam inquired as Danny shifted back and rested a hand on Cedric's shoulder who just hummed before nodding. "Are you okay?"

"Fine, Cedric too." He paused as he pointed something out. "But that's the second time I've fought that dragon. We need to investigate. How are you guys?"

"Great...if you don't count me still being dateless for the dance." Tucker answered as he flipped through his PDA. "Sasha, no. Denise, no. I've hit every girl in school except..." The last girl on the list approached him with hope returning to his eyes. "Valerie." Part of the A-Lists, the African-American girl was the daughter of a security officer for Axion Labs and it paid well and that gave her room to be either wise or cruel with her own behavior.

"Yeah, hi. Sucker, is it?"

"Tucker." Tucker went off as the trio face-palmed to his failure to be 'normal' "Or Tuck. Or Tuckerino."

"Which ends with 'no.' Which, by the way, is my answer, unless something happens in the next five minutes that makes me dateless." Sadly, that is what would happen when another member of the A-List, Kwan, came over in joy.

"You'll never guess what happened! Donna said she'd go to the dance with me, so you're dateless!" He headed off as Valerie was left stunned before she glanced to Tucker.

"You're on."

"I'll take it!" She leaves and Tucker cheered. "Some may call it the rebound, but I call it a yes! I got a date! Whoo! And the pants are still on!" The notion that he needed to point them out was not needed as the four of them had a game plan.


Jack worked to tie his tie, but he hated to do it, the jumpsuit was so much easier to work with, thought he did diverse with other clothes. Maddie finally helping as Jack mused. "I don't understand why I have to wear this stupid thing."

"Because it's Danny's first dance, Jack. If we're gonna chaperone this thing, we have to make sure we don't embarrass him." While Jack and Maddie were standing to tidy up for their task of chaperones, Jazz was leaning on the table as Jack mused on HOW they would be embarrassing, should that be something that parents do at times?

"How would we embarrass him?"

"I think it's great when you guys do anything that doesn't have something to do with your sick obsession with ghosts." Jack hummed as he thought about it, Danny was there, but wasn't. He remembered the words, but couldn't really tell what happened.

"Funny. I don't even remember volunteering to chaperone the dance. It's all a vague blur." But he did remember something, Danny said something and Cedric had shown an interest in the science of ghosts as said boy arrived with a glass of water, drinking before Jazz spotted and spoke.

"By the way, Danny, just so you know, I'm on to your little secret." Danny sprayed water as he stammered.

"What?! Wh-what secret?"

"The clumsiness, the nervousness. I can't believe I didn't figure it out before. You have a girlfriend."

"It's a lie, I'm not a ghost!" Danny answered in a panic before he versed his words again, having really heard what Jazz said. "I-I mean...she's not my girlfriend. She's just going to the dance with me." Jack lost track of the notion as he cheered to Danny's 'girlfriend'.

"That's great! I can meet her and talk to her about ghosts!" Jazz leaned over and whispered.

"You better let her know your family's insane now, Danny. If you marry her and she finds out later, that's entrapment." Danny sighed as he spoke to himself.

"I better go get ready." He headed down the steps to get something first before he headed to his room for the dress up. "Okay, so I'm gonna have to dance with Paulina and keep my dad from embarrassing me. I can handle that." Later on, Sam got a webcam connection going on as Danny cataloged his list, in a suit and Tucker in a suit as well, but Cedric was not for some reason as Danny spoke, adjusting the tie for a final touch. "Tie straight. Shirt tucked in." He then lifted the Fenton Fisher up and retracted it down to fit in. "Unbreakable ghost fishing line tucked neatly away just in case." He directed his attention to Sam as he asked. "What's taking so long with that dragon research, Sam?"

"Alright! Jeez!" Sam hissed back as she finished up her own prep work. "Here. I'm sending you the link." The computer got a web page featuring the same dragon that had attacked Danny twice and he even exclaimed to it.

"That's it!" He moved the mouse to the 'More Info' link and read out what it had on his foe or rather something more pressing. "Medieval ghostly legend held that the cursed Amulet of Aragon-" The picture featured a human girl that looked like the ghost that screeched back into the Zone and a familiar amulet. "-could transform any wearer into dragon form-" It also had an image of the dragon's neck that ferried the amulet as well, Cedric raising his brow as Danny finished reading. "-under states of extreme emotional duress or anger."

He finally clocked in as he spoke. "That's the amulet I gave to Paulina. It must have accidentally fallen into my backpack." He paused before he realized what it meant. "Wait. You mean...I'm going on a date with a dragon?!"

"Like I said, looks are deceiving. I'm sure you boys will have a wonderful evening." The call ended before Danny spoke again.

"She really wants to go to the dance."

"But she says she didn't want to!" Tucker protested to it.

"We're her best friends. We should have known."

"Well, there's nothing we can do about it now, right?" Tucker pointed out as Danny thought about it for a moment before he smiled and Tucker grimaced to the sudden flash of green eyes. "No way. Forget it. Absolutely not. No!" A cleared throat drew their attention as Cedric just waved.

"You are forgetting me, and I am not hurt, you guys get your dates and meet at the dance, we are there to both keep Mr. Fenton in check and get a ghost relic off Paulina before someone loses it and becomes the dragon again." After a pause, both boys nodded and headed in their separate directions and, before long, Sam's door was knocked on and she opened it to a surprising face.

"Cedric? What are you doing here? I thought you had a date to the dance?" Cedric stood before Sam in a tan suit jacket, suspenders with pants, dress shoes, but he had not given up his bracers as he spoke.

"You didn't ask and no one would have asked someone from the party of four." Cedric answered. "But that is beside the point, I can't really trust Danny to multitask this dance, so we are going to need our 'ever lovable' goth on our side, so do you think we can handle this dance as friends?" Sam smiled before she frowned and spoke.

"Uh, I don't know. This is so last minute. And I do have plans, and-"

"Well, I understand if you don't want to go." Cedric smirked and Sam huffed as she agreed.

"Okay, but only because you... chose to invite me like this. I'll go change into that dumb dress I wasn't gonna wear." She closed the door and Cedric checked his wrist on time.

"Hopefully, Danny can get this done with the three of us there, if not... well, there is some problems to that." The door opened and Cedric smirked to the fancily dressed Sam with matching purse to the black-and-purple dress.

"Come on, we're gonna be late!" Cedric nodded as Sam dragged himself along for the ride while Danny headed over to Paulina's house and shifted back to his human form before versing his idea of getting the amulet.

"Paulina, about the amulet. It's an ancient family heirloom and I need to get it back." He smiled before he face-palmed as he just answered his own foolishness. "No, that stinks." The door opened and Danny was kind of afraid to the muscled, tough-guy man before him as he spoke, though it was terrifying to the flexing hands into fists and glaring eyes. "Uh, hi! Uh, you must be Paulina's dad."

"If you upset her, we're going to have a violent talk." Danny frowned to that, overprotective father much?

"Papa?" Paulina walked out, in a pink dress, to join the pair as she remarked. "You're scaring him. Come on, Danny." He noticed the amulet was around her neck, so that made things tougher. "We're going to be late."

"Have a wonderful evening, baby." Then the gaze flew back to Danny. "I know where you live."

"And I'm glad we had a chance to chat." Danny replied as he escorted Paulina to the dance. It was not a far walk to Casper as all entered the gym with the banner reading 'SCHOOL DANCE 2 NITE', music pounding and dancing was underway as Lancer... still tried to be 'hip'.

"Let's get down with our bad selves." He was all over the place with trying the 'hip' life. "Yo. Shake that thing. Hey, G, you're my dog." Danny took the time to grab some punch and offer a one to Paulina before kicking it off.

"Paulina, I was thinking... That amulet-"

"Isn't it fabulous? I haven't taken it off since you gave it to me."

"Yeah, well, about that. See, I shouldn't have given it to you in the first place because..." His eyes searched, landing on Tucker first, but he would own a amulet like that, Valerie, in a radiant orange dress and actually able to come instead of being left out with Tucker taking Sam, could have had a 'non-cursed' amulet for a better look, Cedric was not that interested in relics without a clear label, and Sam... "It belongs to Sam!" Danny blurted and Paulina didn't react too fondly as a forked tongue dove into the punch and drained it, before her grip shattered the glass piece before before Danny quickly gave his glass. "Uh... But I want to make it up to you. I'll get you something else. Something...more special." A voice caught Danny's attention just then.

"Mr. Fenton! About our conversation the other day concerning Danny." Jack's confusion was apparent as Danny spotted Lancer conversing with his parents and quickly took that chance.

"Like punch! I'm gonna get you some special punch." He headed off and, hiding in the giant's shadow, quickly takes control again as his voice came through. "Yes! Danny, what a fine boy he is! Ha! Yes, as his father, I get that all the time."

'Dann-o, I was not imagining it, you DID possess me!'

'Dad, I don't have time for this right now, Paulina, the girl I brought for a date, is wearing a amulet that if she gets angry, she WILL turn into a dragon, it's a ghost artifact!' That throw Jack off as Danny focused on the conversation before him, Maddie inquiring.

"Jack, you sound kind of strange."

"Oh, must be something I ate." A loud 'NO' before a quiet 'yes' followed before Danny spotted the punch table and took the course. "Hey! How 'bout I get us some punch?" He headed through to find his friends, Jack finally getting his words back.

'I don't believe it, an ACTUAL ghost artifact!?'

'Yeah; we, as in Sam, Tucker, me, and Cedric, are trying to get our hands on it, get it out of here and do it all before someone gets angry and rips loose... you missed the dragon ghost when you went to the restroom.' Jack nodded as Danny found his friends and whispered, Valerie elsewhere thankfully. "Tucker, Sam, Cedric, we've got trouble."

"We had nothing to do with it, Mr. Fenton. It was all Danny's idea." Cedric paused before he spoke up in the hushed tone.

"Tucker, he IS Danny, the eyes are green!" Cedric quickly turned as he asked. "What's the problem?" Danny answered the question.

"We need to keep my dad out of trouble as he doesn't know what is going on and also get Paulina to take off the amulet." He pulled out four walkie-talkies and headed them with missions in mind. "Sam, you try to help me find Paulina. Tucker, keep an eye on my dad. If he starts talking to anyone, page me, got it? And Cedric..." Danny paused before he spoke. "Just... don't try anything dangerous right now." He headed off as Sam just smiled.

"This dance gets better and better with every passing minute." Sam headed off as Tucker did the same, Cedric just sighing as he just clipped the walkie-talkie on and mused on how he could improve their comms when he got the chance. Soon, Sam had Paulina in sight and called it in. "Danny! I've got her."

"Stay on her. I'm on my way. And Sam, don't make her angry." Danny replied as he unpossessed Jack and took the talkie, Jack looking confused before he spoke.

"Danny sure has a way to get things done, I guess he is going to have some real trouble soon, if they can't stop an angry... dragon thing." He shrugged before weaving through the crowd while Sam confronted Paulina.

"Hey, Paulina. Nice dress."

"Yes, and it goes so nicely with your amulet, don't you think?"

"My amulet? That's not my-" She stopped as Danny must have remarked that it was her amulet, probably better than saying that it was someone else's as she played along. "Right! Listen...my grandma gave me that amulet, and-"

"Forget it, sweetie. I'm not giving up this trinket or your little boyfriend Danny."

"My boyfriend?" Sam chuckled, was that this was about, man she was pretty dumb to be thinking that. "And they say pretty girls can't be funny. Danny is not my boyfriend."

"He's not?"

"He's my best friend. Maybe that's why I was so hard on you. I didn't mean to call you shallow."

"What a bummer! I only agreed to go out with him because I thought I was stealing him from you." That was a catch in the plan as Paulina 'willingly' surrendered the Amulet to Sam as she was still the shallow person suspected and walking away. "Here, take your crummy amulet. I'm going back inside to dump your dorky friend." Sam was told NOT to make Paulina angry, but that was one plot hole, Danny said and meant NOTHING otherwise.

Meaning, Sam was going to roast the very thing trying to escape, scaly blue skin and blazing red eyes in tow. "Shallow little witch!" She transformed and when Paulina turned to come face-to-face with a blue dragon, no one could blame her for fainting as Danny spoke up from outside the restroom.

"Paulina? Sam?" He headed in only to find the dragon, heedless that it was now Sam, soar into the sky from a destroyed roof. He goes ghost and gives chase before knocking her down with a kick, landing as he spoke up, both on the football field. "Take it easy, Paulina. You don't want to hurt Sam." He stopped before seeing who was in the grip. "Paulina?" If she was there than who...!? His eyes glanced to the dragon as he exclaimed. "Sam?!" Sam towered above on the hind legs before roaring.

"Shallow girl!"

"Yep, that's Sam." He quickly dodged as Sam blasted fire at him and he bantered. "Whoa! Sam! Two words: breath mints." If she could have heard him, then she would be all the more angry, but he made up for time as he took to the air and snatched Paulina out of the dragon's claw, only to have both go flying toward the bleachers with a powerful tail smack. Danny turned them intangible to Dash trying to flirt with a girl in surprise as Danny spoke.

"Uh, sorry." The moment didn't last as Sam lifted a portion of the bleachers, emitting a loud roar that scare the girl and Dash away as Danny spoke up to the dragon hurling the bleachers. "Now, Sam, be reasonable." His walkie-Talkie went off and he answered it to Tucker's voice.

"Danny, Lancer's getting close to your dad." Danny groaned as he spoke.

"I hate to do this, Sam." He quickly flew over and grabbed the tail, straining to even lift the whole mass before managing it, spinning her around before throwing to get some distance between her and the school before he exclaimed after a series of emotions. "Oh, man. Dad!" Jack walked through, doing his best before he stopped and got angry, who was this... he had a feeling who it was, but he still was a bit ticked as he stomped over.

"Hey!" Maddie and Lancer looked at him as he walked over and displayed a small smile before frowning again at Lancer. "Who the heck are you? And why are you talking to my wife?"

"Jack, this is Mr. Lancer-" She whispered in a hushed tone. "From the parent-teacher conference." Jack nodded as Danny phased through and possessed Jack as he spoke.

"Right, right. I'm sorry, it's just in this light I thought you were George Clooney. doesn't he look sharp, Mom? I mean, Maddie."

"Well..." Lancer chuckled as he accepted it. "Thank you."

"Now if you'll excuse me, I'd like to dance with my wife. That's what we adults do, dance with our wives." He pulled Maddie along and started to 'tear up' the dance floor as Maddie mused with a sigh.

"Doesn't this bring back memories?"

'Totally, college was a crazy time, I remember when I tried to do three dance moves at a time, but it just ripped my pants, that was a embarrassing moment.'

"It sure does, but I never should have tried those three dance moves at the same time, that was a crazy time. I'll totally agree to remembering." The song ended and Danny quickly left Jack's body to the student's cheering, Jack pausing before he replied in amaze, it was a good time.

"Wow, what a time. I mean, uh, thank you! Thank you all on behalf of me, Jack Fenton." Danny charged off to face Dragon Sam as three fire blasts came for him and he dodged before calling out.

"I hate to say this, but you throw fire like a girl!" That riled her as he pulled out the Fenton Fisher and readied it, using it to contain the dragon. "The Fenton Fisher. It can capture ghosts and dragon ghosts. Way to go, Dad!" Sam tried to roast him ,but he was faster in binding the arms and wings, causing the transformed being to drop before he swooped down and snatched the amulet, Sam reverting back as Danny asked, turning back to human as well. "Sam?" He knelt down to pick her up. "Are you alright?"

"Wow." She held her head before asking. "Did I have fun at the dance?"

"Well, uh..." He chuckled for a better terming of the word. "Let's just say you had a roaring time." Soon, the dance was coming to an end as students started to file out, Tucker's date ended as well when Valerie got a call from home and she grudgingly accepted to just go home, the four friends left on the floor as Tucker sighed to Danny.

"Dude, sorry your date didn't pan out. Where is Paulina anyway?" On the far wall was Paulina, being hit on by Dash.

"So, do you like quarterbacks?" Sam nearly spoke up, but just let it go as she commented.

"Ah, who cares? Look!" The DJ was playing still as she used that to take a small chance. "The DJ's still playing. And I think there's time for one last dance?" Danny smiled as he accepted.

"Sure, I'd love to." Cedric was handed the Amulet as Danny remarked. "Keep an eye on this, will ya?" He nodded as Danny and Sam took to slow dancing as she remarked.

"Promise me you'll keep your pants up."

"I'll do my best." Tucker watched as Cedric stashed the amulet in a safe box he had brought in before his reality crashed down on him.

"Wait a second. I'm dateless now?! What does a guy have to do to get hooked up around here?" The ghost that Danny encountered spoke up as she made her appearance with the pair.

"I want to go to the ball!"

"On second thought, I don't need a date that badly." Dora came closer as Cedric just shrugged and took the ghost's hand, leading her into a slow dance himself as Tucker shouted for some time. "Hey guys, wait up! Can I cut in?" Sadly, there was just too little time for Tucker to jump in, at least he got to take Valerie, who KNOWS what would have happened if he stood her up like Danny accidentally planned...