Danny tried to keep up with what Jade was saying at a million miles an hour,but it was hard to keep his mind on anything else but the previous fight with Sam just 3 hours ago.But as he sat through reference books of Spirtual Physology,Ghost Hunting and other books on ghostly encounters,myths,legonds and more expert things that didn't seem so fictional too.

"Uh,Jade?"Danny interrupted her suddenly,as she was going through a big thick red book she'd already gone over already.

"Danny."She nodded her head without looking up at him,her eyes skimming carefully down line after seemingly forever line.

"When are we acutally going to do something?"He said somnolently,yawning a bit and stretching,"Not that Ghost Studies isn't fascinating and all,but really.We've been at it for at least a couple hours!When will I be able to start fighting other ghost and stuff?Even though I don't really know how."

"Danny!"Jade snapped sharply,slamming the book down and shut on the coffee table in front of the couch,she then rolled her deep green eyes and padded over to him to begin to explain more calmly but firmly,"Listen,I know it's been rough.But we have to study up on the basics first,you've gotten most of knowledge about ghost down I suppose.But you're still very much unstable about your powers,I saw you those few hours ago,when you flew that punch-"

"Yeah,I didn't really know what I was doing!I guess,I don't know.I guess I just felt like I had to stand up to him,seeing as I was the only one who could besides maybe you.And...by the way,I didn't say thanks for doing that.But...what happened to that wolf and why was he attacking my friends?"

But Jade only shook her head and started to go back to her book,only,she didn't touch it.She just stood thier frozen,her hand midway towards picking back up the book.Danny watched with fascination,as she stood up straight and stalked boldly to the front door.She reached over by the table next to the door and fished around in her book bag,narrowing her eyes,she tossed back the door and held out a lazer-like gun.

"Nothings...there."Danny told her after a minute of stillness,walking up behind her and poking his head out the door to look both ways,"Though I hardly doubt it with all the ghost and everything around.Hey,are you okay?"

"Huh?"Jade spoke breathlessly and seemed to come out of a daze-like state,"Me?Yes,I'm fine.Just...thought I heard something.I guess...I guess it was only in my mind."

"I guess."Danny repeated after her,taking a few steps outside.

Jade started to grin surrenderingly,"Fine,will start practicing!"

They began in the Yettleton park just a few blocks away from where Jade lived,in a secluded,tree-linedsurrounding just beyond the playground and a very large hill no one passed over very often.Smiling a daring smile,Jade called out the words,"Going Ghost!" and almost instantly,her arms and legs turned ghost-like and she began to float.But besides her eyes starting to glow a little more,she looked about the same.

"How come you can't go full ghost?"Danny called to her curiously across the field,wanting to be sure it wasn't some sort of side-effect or anything weird like that.

"What?"

"How come you can't go full ghost?"

"What!"

"Why aren't you full ghost?"

"What!"

"HOW COME YOU CAN'T-oh!Never mind!"

With that,Danny stood in a ready stance and prepared himself by nodding at her once and then when she nodded back,he called out the two words as well and the next thing he knew when he glanced down,he was cladded in his ghost uniform.

"Excellent,"He said with a breath of sheer excitement and rose into the air along with Jade couching him on perennially.

"Good...good...you're doing great.Alright...not bad.Good,OK.That's good,now,float back down...gently."

With a frown,Danny effortlessly,floated back down to Earth in unison with Jade.Who seemed to just fade back into herself as soon as she landed,later,when Danny tried asking her more about her powers.She simply refused to say,saying that that was the least important thing at the moment and that his training was to begin the next day as it was getting dark.

"Danny,there you are!"His mother criedwith obvious relief,as Danny slipped into the door,trying not to draw attention.

"Yeah,"He muttered vaguely to her,starting up the stairs to his room and avoided talking to the rest of his family who were gathered around the TV set in the living room,"Hey,uh,Mom."

"Something wrong?"His father raised a brow at him questionabley,then a wide grin crossed his face,"It wouldn't involve ghost by any particular chance now,would it?"

"No,Dad."Danny told him without trying to cover up anything,as he continued up the stairs,"No-uhhh...eh,ghosts?"

"HA!I was right!It WAS ghost all along."He hooted in victory,but his wife shot up to prevent him from going anywhere.

"Jack,"She whispered in a hiss under her breath,"No ghosts."

"Mom,Dad,I really apperciate you're concern and everything."Danny said with a little more up-lifting to his weary body and tired,achy muscles,"But I'm beat!I really just want to go up stairs and go to bed...um...okay?"

"Alright,dear."His mother told himafter a moment of silence softly,starting to turn on her heel to go back down stairs,"As long as everything's okay,by the way,where did you go?"

"Uh,Tucks.Sam was with us."Danny repiled quickly,jogging up hastily up to his room in the hopes that thier satisfaction would be meet and they would just leave him alone for awhile.But he didn't make up the stairs without hearing,

"But Sam called and left about a dozen messages calling you something like,'A dirty,rotten back-stabbing,harpy-sideing know-it-all jerk.' and then she said that if you wanted to spend so much time with someone named Jade,it was fine with her and she never wanted to see you again as long as she lived.Oh and thier was a box of all sorts of stuff on the porch.

"Maddie,"His father told her in a slick-toned voice,"Like you always say,he's young,he's a teen and he's got a life."

After he serenaded her back to the living room,he stopped to wink at Danny who in turn returned it with a grateful look and then as soon as they were both seated again,he scampered up the stairs and fell asleep as soon as he was in his room.

About a week and a half later...

"Danny."Came the familiar voice of what sounded like a mixed combination of pity and worry,when Danny finally managed to open his eyes,he was very taken back to see Jade standing over him,"Danny,are you awake yet?Danny!"

"I'm up!I'm up!"He yelped in surprise,leaping out of bed.

"Blaze came back!Danny and he got me and Sam switched."

"Bla-who?"Danny had turned from wide-awake,to a bit groggy,"What do you mean,switched?And why are you in my room,Jade?I thought we were meeting in the park today."

Danny and Jade had been training and reviewing nearly everyday after school in the park or in an abadoned old factory.Why Danny had briefly seen Sam and Tuck pass him by every now and then at school,they regularly tried avioding him.Lunches were spent sneaking off to train and even fight some of the ghost that were starting to show up.Sadly,when Danny's eyes did meet Sam's,it was only an angered and even hurt glare back at him.But since her anger and fustration more-or-less covered her pain,she barely showed signs of it.Tuck frowned and shrugged when they meet and Danny felt even more ashamed to have done what he did.But in time,he had to tell himself over and over again,they'd make up and be friends.

"Well,"Jade began reluctantly and then just shook her head in exageration,"OK,here's the thing.Blaze is really after me.I manage to fight him off most of the time,but he always comes back.Being one of the cunning and agressive ghosts I know,he's been after me since...well,I got my powers since I was born and he's been after me for some reason I don't know..."

"Don't know what?"

"See...he's after me because,be...because."Danny watched as her voice started breaking,her dry eyes starting to moistion,"Cause...Because my mo-mom...she...she..."

"What?She what!What was you're mother?"

"She was half-ghost too,OK!"Jade burst out into tears,taking a seat on the edge of Danny's bed,"My grandmother died when she gave birth to my mother,living her half ghost and now I'm only a quarter.But,because my father didn't like it,he moved us away from her and I never saw here again!"

"I'm...sorry."Danny told her in a soft voice,sitting down next to her and patting her back,"I'm sorry that happened.But,what does that have to do with Blaze?Why did you come here?"

"Because I came to tell you,"Jade told him in a low voice,her head turned so he wouldn't witness her moping up the tears she shed,"Because he came back and mistaked Sam for me."

Well,I guess that's about all I have to type now!Be sure to stay tuned,as it gets more and more thrilling with each chapter and more surprises and secrets are revealed.g2g,byez!lol!

Lavender...be my paw.