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"Wow." was all Sam could say at the sight of the Fenton portal. Tucker's mouth was open as all three of the friends stared at the swirling ring in Danny's basement wall.
"Yep." said Danny nodding wearily. He shivered a little mentally at the thought of himself being inside that thing when it turned on and waking up half ghost. He still wasn't sure if it was even possible to be half ghost, it could just be some kind of realistic dream.
"So did you go through it?" asked Tucker walking over to the portal to get a closer look at the swirling green vertex. He stared down at the mini control center at the right hand side and hit a button that wasn't labeled.
"No, and don't touch anything!" shouted Danny. Two steel doors came from the sides of the portal and locked themselves together blocking their view at the green light. Danny looked at Tucker like he had just exploded something.
"What? All I did was press one button!" said Tucker defensively. His gaze went from Sam to Danny, and back to Danny. Both were staring at him like he could have just blown up the earth and was a complete idiot.
"Yeah, well, you didn't know what it was going to do, it could have blown up like some of my parents inventions in the past." said Danny shuddering at the thought. Tucker laughed, then realizing Danny was right, stepped back from the portal and ran back over to cower behind Sam. Tucker was shaking a bit and looking at the machine like it was a bomb.
"Tucker, it would have blown up already!" yelled Sam at the shaking boy while Danny examined the doors that had came out. A wisp of blue mist suddenly floated out of his mouth since it had practically forced it way out.
"Well, that's new." said Danny out loud. Sam and Tucker had started arguing over which was better; meat or vegetables (vegetables win hands down!) Even though Danny had no idea how they had gotten that from Tucker hiding in only a minute.
"What's that Danny?" asked Sam curiously. She turned away from Tucker who shouted 'meat' one last time before looking at Danny. Danny shivered a little as the temperature started to fall.
"Mist just came out of my mouth." said Danny sort of freaked out. The room was getting colder by the second. Sam and Tucker started to shiver along with Danny.
"Maybe it was just because of the cold." suggested Sam even though she and the rest of them had no idea why it was getting cold. Tucker's teeth started to clang against each other.
"Turn up the heater man!" said Tucker between his chattering teeth. Sam folded her arms across her chest. They could all see their breath. The doors that had closed over the ghost portal started to open. Sam, Danny, and Tucker exchanged glances then looked back at it to watch as a something stepped, no floated out. Danny backed up slowly since he was so close to the door. "What's that!" yelled Tucker. Sam hissed at him to keep quiet since Danny's parents were just upstairs. The creature, which was a ghost, was shaped like a green blob.
"I don't know!" shouted Danny. The ghost started to advance on Danny it's chunky arms outstretched. Sam thought of what it could be even if she had never believed there were such things before.
"Danny! I think it might be a ghost!" shouted Sam to Danny who was being cornered against a table that had all of his parents gadgets on it. Danny shoot a confused look at Sam before turning back to face the ghost. "Battle it or something Danny!"
"What?!" shouted Danny confused. He dodged what looked like a beam that came from the ghost. "Okay then, I'm goin ghost?!" In two blue beams of light, Danny stood in front of the ghost in his ghost mood. The ghost looked shocked to see Danny turn into a ghost and uttered a weird noise that sounded like a gasp.
"Cool ketch phrase!" said Tucker. Sam elbowed him in the ribs before turning back to watch Danny and the blob of a ghost battle. The ghost started to get over it's surprise ad lunged at Danny.
"Danny!" shouted Sam. Danny tried to dodge the ghost but was knocked hard into a wall screaming as he went.
"Wow, for a ghost that only has blobs for hands, he sure can pack a punch." said Danny. He got up shaking slightly. He lunged at the ghost not knowing really how to fight it. It dodged his feeble blow and phased through a table which Danny tripped over.
"Are you sure you know what your doing?" asked Sam to Danny when he got up. The ghost blob threw a punch at Danny who managed to dodge it just in time. Danny shoot a look over at Sam and Tucker and had a look on his face that was sort of surprised.
"No! I don't know what I'm doing!" shouted Danny. The ghost smiled a evil grin and phased through the basement wall. Danny looked around confused. "He just went away?" Tucker and Sam both shrugged their shoulders. The ghost came from a different wall and caught Danny by surprise right in the ribs.
"That's got to hurt." announced Tucker flinching. Danny got his wind back and threw a punch at the ghost which made contact. The ghost retreated into the ghost zone, the doors closing with a click behind it.
"Wow, so there are such things as ghosts." said Sam in awe. She walked over to Danny. Danny gave her a dumbfounded look. "I wasn't sure if maybe what happened to you didn't have to deal with ghosts." she explained hastily.
"Oh." said Danny turning back to normal. He stared after where the ghost had fled. Tucker was silent for once and looked like he was thinking something over, which was strange for Tucker but after all Danny being a half ghost boy was pretty crazy.
"Hey! You should have a alternate name!" exclaimed Tucker. Danny moaned.
"Why? It's not like ghosts are going to come out of the portal almost everyday and try to take over the world." pointed out Danny not knowing how wrong he was. He laughed out loud at the thought. "And I'll have to beat them up as Danny Phantom or something." Tucker's smile faded then was replaced with a even bigger one.
"That's it! Danny Phantom's perfect." said Tucker. Sam nodded a little but was also trying to pretend she wasn't involved in any of the lunatic ideas Tucker was coming up with.
"Come on, I'm sure that there won't be anymore ghosts." said Danny stretching out the won't in the sentence. A wisp of blue mist came out of his mouth after only a few seconds after he finished his sentence. The doors to the portal opened up. "Not again!" groaned Danny. Tucker laughed.
"Sure there won't be." said Tucker. Sam but her head in her hands mumbling about her friends being idiots to herself.
End flashback:
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"Oh." was all Jazz could say. Danny could tell she was surprised about some of the things he had said happened, but he couldn't blame her it was strange enough on his part. "So why didn't you tell me?" Jazz gave Danny a hurtful look.
"I was after about a month, but mom and dad built the ghost detector and when I was about to confess you jumped in and saved me." said Danny looking away from Jazz's look. He couldn't stand to see her eyes looking painful.
"That was when they backed you up against the refrigerator and I jumped in and walked you to school?" asked Jazz after a few minuted of thinking back through all her memories. He gave her a thumbs up. "Just making sure." Danny and Jazz both heard the front door open. They exchanged glances to make sure neither one would say anything more on the subject till later.
"We didn't ketch a single ghost!" said Jack soulfully. He and Maddie walked into the kitchen both looking gloom. Maddie had the ghost zapper in one hand and Jack was wearing the ghost grabbing gloves. Danny eyed the box and was relieved to see it was turned off.
"I'm sure you'll find one someday." said Danny trying to sound encouraging. Jack didn't seem to be cheering up though and Maddie looked even more depressed.
"Yes, sure, whatever." mumbled Jack sadly walking away with Maddie trailing off behind him. Jazz and Danny looked at each other for a few minutes with out a word. Danny was giving Jazz a look that said 'I'm going to go tell them now I'm you-know-what.' while Jazz shook her head and wore a look that screamed 'oh no you won't.'
"I have to." Danny finally said shattering the silence that had been mounting in the kitchen. He started to rise but Jazz pulled him by his shirt back onto his seat.
"No, you can't tell them about..." she trailed off as their dad reentered the kitchen still looking like a storm cloud should be over his head raining on top of him.
"Tell us what?" asked Jack. Jazz seemed to get nervous which was weird since Jazz was usually the calm one. Danny was tugging at the collar of his shirt.
"That I..." started Danny before Jazz cut in.
"He saw a ghost at school Friday!" shouted Jazz over what Danny was saying. Jack's eyes lit up.
"Really!?" asked Jack like a little girl who was just told that Santa Claus was real after all. He looked at Jazz, then at Danny, and back again.
"Yeah...sure, lets go with that." said Danny hurriedly. Jack whooped in the air and did a tiny little jig of a dance.
"Why didn't you tell me sooner?!" asked Jack but didn't stick around to find the answer. He ran out of the kitchen calling for Maddie. Jazz and Danny whipped sweat off of their foreheads.
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Danny and Jazz were watching tv a few minutes after their parents had run off for the school in search for possible ghosts. Danny started to lose interest in what was on and drifted into thoughts and memories. He smiled to himself as he looked over at Jazz. She was handling all of this so well.
Sam and Tucker had the first time he told them but had pushed it off as a wild and crazy dream until the first day of school when they had found out again and practically screamed bloody murder. He could remember that day so clearly.
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Flashback:
Danny woke up and got dressed for a new day at school, his first day of high school which was strangely on a Wednesday. He groaned, Sam and Tucker had pushed everything off as a fruit loop dream of theirs they had shared and Danny had decided not to argue until later.
But he was worried that he might 'go ghost' at school in front of everybody, then he would never be able to explain.
He ran down the stairs and after a fast breakfast, ran out of the house before anyone could stop him or make him late. Especially his parents with their latest invention.
He finally got to school and met up with Sam and Tucker in front of Casper high. Sam waved cheerfully even if she was a goth and Tucker smiled.
"How are you guys?" he asked as they walked up to their new school. Sam shrugged and sort of gapped at the large walls. Tucker was lost in thought, again unusual but not as bad as Danny's secret.
"Okay I guess." Sam finally said. "I'm trying not to be nervous, after all it's just high school." she seemed to be over her nervousness when she said that and Danny wondered how that could help her but not him at all. "We'll probably be labeled as geeks again." Her voice rose slightly but Danny only heard in since he knew Sam so well.
"I thought that didn't bother you." said Danny mockingly. Sam gave him a befuddled look.
"I doesn't." she said flatly. Danny opened the front doors to the school and they all walked in taking in the look of the building for the first time.
"So where do we get our schedules?" asked Tucker. Danny jumped a little at his friends first words of the day since Danny had arrived at least.
"I don't know, Sam?" asked Danny turning to Sam hoping she would have the answer. Usually Sam was the smartest of their group when if came to common sense.
"We go to the cafeteria, it says so on the sign." said Sam pointing to a sign on a wall not covered by lockers. Several people were reading the sign to get directions.
"Oh, well that makes sense." said Tucker looking only a little embarrassed but both he and Danny were used to Sam seeing things in plain sight and them not, it was another part of the whole common sense thing they didn't have. They walked over to the sign and memorized the directions then started on their way but it soon became apparent that they were lost. "We're lost aren't we?"
"Not really, we just don't know where we are." said Danny looking around at the many doors. Sighing tiredly he leaned against a row of lockers using his hand for support. He instantly regretted his decision though when his hand phased though and he fell onto the floor. Sam and Tucker both gapped at him.
"IT WASN'T A DREAM!" screamed Tucker running off in some random direction. Sam stood in place for a little while before she just fainted. Danny caught her before she fell, luckily his arm didn't phase through her.
"Hey Fenton!" came the familiar voice of Dash the jock who had tortured Danny in middle school. "Holding you girl friend are you?" he said mockingly. He laughed at his own joke walked past Danny giving him a death gesture and went inside a room.
"She's not my girl friend!" shouted Danny before turning back to Sam. He lowered her to the floor gently. "Sam! Wake up!" Sam's purple eyes opened and she sat up a little dazed.
"Woo, what a crazy dream." moaned Sam. Danny just slapped his forehead and shook his head back and forth.
"Not again with that 'it was only a dream'!" yelled Danny more to himself but not angry just aspirated. Sam cocked her head and looked at him weirdly then noticing Tucker wasn't there, changed the subject.
"Where's Tucker?" asked Sam. She got up and brushed herself off. Danny laughed a little.
"He took of yelling like a mad man." said Danny. Sam's face hit realization and she gasped somewhat then blushed.
"Sorry about fainting like that." she mumbled looking downward at her fake leather boots.
"It's not your fault. I'd probably be trying to forget about this whole thing to if I weren't the one with the freak powers." Danny said blushing too. His arm disappeared for a second before becoming visible again.
"You got a point. Now, shouldn't we look for Mr. Freak out?" asked Sam referring to Tucker.
"Yeah, before he runs into a wall or gets lost, the cafeteria's right there too." said Danny gesturing with his finger to the door Dash had gone into. "So we're certainly going to be late."
"When aren't we?" asked Sam smartly. Danny had to agree with that. Neither Sam, Tucker, or himself had any luck being any where on time, that was just their luck. Danny and Sam started searching for Tucker and finally found him cowering under a water fountain.
"Tucker, your taking this to the extreme." said Danny plainly. Tucker was rocking back and forth and only shook his head at what Danny said.
"Come on Tucker, we're going to be late. Not to mention your acting like a baby." said Sam raising one of her eyebrows at Tuck who was currently sucking his thumb. Tucker stopped sucking his thumb and stopped rocking back and forth.
"Hey! No calls me a baby!" shouted Tucker standing up. He forgot about the fountain right above him and rammed his head on the bottom. He rocked back and forth before falling onto the floor where he continued to suck his thumb.
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When Tucker finally woke up again they all headed back to the cafeteria. Danny and Sam were still cracking up at Tucker.
"Hey, look, maybe I took that to the extreme..." started Tucker. Danny and Sam in unison nodded their heads but Tucker continued to talk ignoring the two. "But after I convinced myself I was wrong, that just messed with my head severely." finished Tuck.
"You weren't already messed up in your head severely?" asked Danny sarcastically. Tucker stopped in his tracks while Sam and Danny continued to walk.
"Oh yeah! Well, you a do do head!" fumbled Tucker. He could never think of anything smart enough to combat either Sam nor Danny but he tried anyways.
"What ever you say Tuck." said Danny from over his shoulder.
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Jazz turned around to see Danny deep in thought over something on the couch. He seemed to snap out of his trance after a few minutes and grinned at Jazz.
"Did I miss something?" he asked since all he saw when he came out of memory lane was Jazz staring intently at him.
"Oh, no. I was just wondering what you were thinking about." said Jazz turning back to the television which was had a therapist on at the moment talking about teenage problems and how their parents ate usually the cause.
"Just the first day of school." said Danny. Jazz turned back to look at him and smiled.
"Danny, I was wondering. What ghosts have you fought so far?" asked Jazz. Danny tried to recount on all of them before answering.
"The box ghost, who is obsessed with box's hence the name..." started Danny. Jazz raised one of her eyebrows at the dorky ghosts name. "Desiree, who grants wishes but makes everything evil; skulker; he's a collector; Plasmius, who ah..." Danny stopped. He didn't want to tell Jazz about Vlad.
"Who what Danny?" asked Jazz concerned. Danny gulped a little.
"Want's me as his evil assistant." he finally said leaving out a whole lot of details that could have told Jazz more about the ghost. "Three weird vulture ghosts, Technus, nameless ghosts, Ember, and the lunch lady." Jazz snorted at the names.
"Oh, so original." Jazz said chuckling. Jazz gasped. "I was worshiping a ghost!?" she asked realizing that Danny had said Ember in his list.
"Yeah, I guess I should tell you what happened with that..." said Danny. After telling her his adventures, which took a long time, Jazz stared at the tv for a while until the front door opened.
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