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Disclaimer: Thought to ponder: Why would someone who owns Danny Phantom need to right the word disclaimer? Better yet why would they write fanfiction?
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Last Chapter: "Sam!" he screamed down to them. "Get your hands off of her!"
This Chapter:
The nerve of this guy! Saving Sam was his job! Why didn't this guy go find another town to defend! Danny glared at him as they made eye contact and the new guy glared back. Sam was still unconscious in his arms as he made his way up toward Danny.
"Why would I do something like that? If I got my hands off her she would most likely be sent down to the ground and become a full ghost," he shot back. Danny was ticked. His hands glowed green as they got ready to shoot at this guy. Or at least that's what he hoped it looked like. He couldn't possibly hit the guy with Sam there without hitting her, so he had to make it look like he was going to fire. In return to Danny's threat the opponent couldn't actually defend himself with Sam there so he glared and got ready to drop downif need be.
"Let her go and I'll catch her!" Danny yelled at the boy, finally looking him over to see if he could over power him for Sam. The boy was about Danny's age and was glaring at him with orange eyes. His hair was black but his suit looked a lot like any normal outfit. It was even more than just black and white. His pants were baggy and blue and a silver chain hung from his left pocket. His red shirt was wrinkled and messily thrown on. His hair was wild and his runners were red and white. The only thing making him look different than any normal person was his eyes.
"Hell, no!" he shouted back. As the two argued Sam began to stir in her saviors arms. Finally awaked by the continuous argument she opened her heavy eyes and let the ice blue take in where she was.
The first thing she noticed is that she was being carried. Slightly alarmed she looked up to see who was carrying her and recognizing the face relaxed. Surprised that he hadn't noticed that she had woken up she listened in on the conversation creating the distraction.
"...I'm not the bad guy you must be! After all you're threatening us with a plasma blast!" Came a voice she recognized belonging to the person carrying her.
"I'm the good guy! I save people! I'm only threatening you so you let her go. So, let her go!" came another one. Where had she heard this voice? Thinking for a moment her brain finally woke up and recognized Danny. Finally moving more visibly she went intangible and sank through the person's arms. Floating in the air she looked between Danny and the new person.
"Sam, your ok! Thank goodness. We're gonna talk about you flying off, but first I have to send this guy back to the ghost zone!" he fired the plasma blast he had been holding off at his unready opponent, only to have it blocked by a blue barrier.
"Why are you trying to hurt Zack?" she asked confused as the blast cleared and the barrier faded.
"You mean you know this guy?" Danny asked shocked.
"Of course I know him? How else did you think I became a halfa?" She asked annoyed. C- students... ya gotta love them.
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Meag: I should end here but...
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Moments passed as Danny contemplated this. Finally a look of understanding passed over his face...
"Huh?" ...before once again becoming confused. Sam nearly crashed into the Earth again when Danny finally answered.
"It's a long story," she said shaking her head slightly. "But, I think it might be best for me to make introductions first before you two decide to kill each other again.
"Danny meet Zack. He's a halfa but he's different than you and I. I'll explain how later. Zack meet the great Danny Phantom. He's tougher than he looks so never underestimate him as you've probably heard," Zack nodded. He was about to say something when Sam elbowed him in the ribs. He frowned before bowing slightly to show some respect towards him.
"It's great to finally meet the great Danny Phantom. There is a lot of news about you wandering the ghost zone. Please don't underestimate myself either. I'm very powerful- when I want to be," he told Danny warily. Danny nodded before catching the glare Sam sent his way. Sighing he lowered his head a bit too. Sam was too well mannered sometimes.
"So, how do you two know each other again?" Danny asked. He didn't get it. How did Sam become a halfa? She couldn't have done it the same way he had.
"Let's find Tucker and Amy first so you can all hear the story. It's easier that way," Sam told them before flying towards Danny.
"Amy? Tucker?" questioned Zack, confusion clear on his pale face. He caught up to Sam and the trio took off in the cool late afternoon air.
"I told you about Tucker. Amy is... my future daughter," Sam told him sheepishly. It sounded so weird coming from her own mouth.
"Hold it, you have a daughter? And she's from the future?" Zack asked. Life was sooooo complicated.
"That's another long story but I guess it'll go quicker if I start now..." Sam replied before both she and Danny explained to him the whole, Sam-has-a-kid-in-the-future-and-she's-not-a-slut-or-anything, concept. Actually if you want that in detail, Sam explained that she had a kid in the future come here while Danny explained that she wasn't a slut or anything.
"... and now she's here because of that, andI'm her mother. She won't say who her dad is though..." Sam trailed off as they landed in the park.
"Oh," was the best Zack could come up with. I guess it's kind of hard to think of much to say when a girl from the future lands on your doorstep. They were walking the short distance towards Tucker and Amy, since they had landed in some bushes to turn back, excluding Zack who refused to turn human,when Sam stopped walking. Zack, who had been thinking about the whole Amy thing, in turn ran into Sam which made her grab onto the nearest person or object, which happened to be Danny, to keep from falling. Danny instinctively grabbed onto Sam and they ended up in the following position.
Sam had her arms around Danny's neck and Danny had his arm around her waist. They were both looking for danger before realizing there position and jumped apart, blushing deeply.
"Why'd you stop?" Danny asked, his face still rivaling a tomato.
"Look," Sam pointed into the area in front of them, while her blush began to fade. The two boys looked ahead of them and nearly collapsed into a laughing pile. They would have too,and revealed their positionexcept that Sam had placed a hand firmly onto their mouths to keep them from being heard. Managing to keep there laughter in, they split upto find a camera.
Ahead of them was Amy all dressed up in a psychiatrist suit a notepad in hand, while Tucker lay on a bench telling her all his problems. Click! Flash! Startled Tucker looked up to see Sam waving a disposable camera from a dollar store a few blocks away, grinning mischievously. Beside her, with matching smirks were Danny and some guy he hadn't seen before.
"Sam?" he asked shocked.
"Well Tucker. We always knew you'd need professional help someday but shouldn't you be getting it from someone older than you? Or even one the same age?" Danny teased while Sam held the camera.
"When'd you guys get here? How long have you been there? Who's that guy?" Tucker bombarded before realizing the blackmail at stake. If Valerie saw that his status would go from low to Vlad low! "Sam! Give me that picture. Please? My reputation with Valerie's at stake here!"
Sam grinned. "I didn't know you had a reputation with Valerie. Hmmm. Considering that then... maybe," she said sweetly. Tucker groaned. He new the price. With Sam, he'd probably have to go vegetarian for a while. For how long? That was the real torture. Finally being overcome by his curiosity he looked at the new guy.
"Who are you?" he asked bluntly. Hey, if he had to go vegetarian for a while minus well cut to the chase.
"The name's-" Zack began before being cut off by Amy.
"Uncle Zack!" Amy shouted joyously before hugging him.
"Uncle?" Danny and Tucker questioned in unison. How many uncles does this kid have?
"Uncle! I'm an uncle?" Zack asked, dazed.
"Maybe you should start a club, Amy," Danny said dryly.
"So how does this guy know Sam and Amy?" Tucker wondered aloud, switching subjects to stop Sam from arguing with Danny.
"Well I guess I have to spill now," Sam confessed as they all took a seat. Pretty soon the grass would be permanently flat from this whole ordeal.
"It was months ago actually. It was a school day, Friday. We had just finished when Paulina came out and I had to suffer through the time it took you two to ogle. Eventually I grew tired. I mean standing there for hours on end for basically nothing was a real pain, so I headed over to Danny's house since we were spending Friday there.
Jazz was leaving to go somewhere with Mrs. and Mr. Fenton but they let me in anyway because they knew I wouldn't do anything, and Danny forgot his key. I was heading up to Danny's room when I heard something in the basement. I knew I shouldn't have gone down but something was compelling me to go. I just HAD to. When I got down the ghost zone was open and sucking things in. I tried to run back up but I got pulled in too. It was really weird. I wasn't too afraid since I knew that human things in the ghost zone were like ghosts in the human world. At least that's what I thought.
Zack is actually a full ghost. At least he used to be. Like all other ghosts he lives in the ghost zone. Unfortunately he wasn't very popular-"
"Hey!" Zack cried indignantly.
"It's true!" Sam answered back, slightly ticked that she had been interrupted. "Anyway, popular or not he was being chased through the ghost zone for reasons he has yet to reveal to me-"
"That's because it's for me to know and you to never find out!" Zack interrupted again.
"Quit doing that! Anyway, he was being chased and eventually ended up finding me. Well not exactly, actually. Neither of us was looking. He was looking behind him to see how much farther he was ahead of the mob and I was looking for anything resembling the way out. We ended up crashing into each other and the result was the halfa's you see today.
"Something about the speed of my fall and the speed he was going at caused a reaction. When we fazed through each other, part of my human cells were left in him and part of his ghost cells were left in me. So now we're half and half," Sam finished looking at them.
"I love that story," Amy said dreamily. "Tell it again!" The group sweat dropped as Amy got distracted by a ladybug before Sam could tell her no.
"Wait. Wouldn't I know you were a halfa? I mean when Tucker and I got back to my place you looked fine. I think we would have noticed if you were part ghost after all this time," Danny told her.
"Well I had some trouble keeping my powers in check at first but it wasn't too hard because you two have the attention span of a goldfish and when you don't you spend it on Paulina," Sam answered dryly. "When I woke up I was out of the ghost zone and in my ghost form. It was a major shock but eventually after a lot of concentration I transformed back. After that I practiced talking to you guys as if nothing had happened after the long debate of 'should I tell them?' and 'should I not?'."
"Well I still would have noticed you were half ghost whenever I went patrolling," Danny shot back.
"Riddle me this then Sherlock. When within the past months have you actually had to go ghost, today excluded," Sam questioned him.
"Uh....." he answered smartly.
"Exactly. Every time there was a ghost Zack and I would handle it-" Sam started, but Danny cut in.
"Oh so you trust this guy more than us!" Danny exclaimed, hurt.
"Of course I trust you guys," Sam told him soothingly. " He was just the closest person to help since he was usually the one to bring them here. No he isn't a bad guy. He gets chased by ghosts so much he ends up fleeing here so I can protect him."
"I do not!" Zack said stubbornly. "I help distract the ghost sometimes..." Danny nodded allowing the hurt he had felt moments ago slide.
"So why didn't you tell us?" Danny asked quietly. At this Amy looked at her mother, along with Tucker, Zack and Danny.
"I-I-I don't know," Sam confessed. She looked at them with violet eyes and for one moment instead of the brave, rebellious, vegetarian Sam they all knew, they saw a teenage girl who was confused and even a little scared. It was only a moment before Sam's guard went up once more, and she continued speaking. "I guess some things are just meant to be secret."
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Meag: And that's a wrap for this chapter.
Kiori: Groan I feel like I was knocked unconscious with a bat and then stuffed into a little closet... Hey where'd this chapter come from? And why doesn't it end with a cliffhanger?
Meag: Looks nervous Uh... I don't know. I thought you didn't like cliffhangers?
Kiori: I didn't but they kind of grow on you.
Meag: Why don't you... go relax Kiori? You can be evil next chapter.
Kiori: Ok.
Meag: Well, I'll try to speed up my update process. Thanx for reading! Until next time,
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