Chapter 3: New friends and Enemies

At first glance, you would think all this place was, was a place to party at. Some people were making out with each other in the hall, while others were talking and drinking. It looked nothing like a school at all, and really, I figured it was going to be a waste of my time.

"OK, first off, I have to show you to the people down hall four. There are 3 halls on our floor."

"All right," I agreed, and followed him down the hall. I was getting odd glances from all around, and I felt as though I didn't belong here. Maybe it was because I was new, and people just needed to get to know me, but I had a feeling that was going to be hard to accomplish.

"First one is Hannah. She is a half demon dog. She is usually here if you ever need help."

"Half demon at all doesn't sound very friendly," I said, and looked at the room we were encountering. I had imagined she would look like a dog with sharp fangs and piercing eyes, but she looked pretty much human. When he opened up the door, it revealed two people, one was Hannah, you could tell by a tail in the back, and ears that stood up on the top of her head. She was wearing a pink kimono, which was really odd looking, I knew what they were, but had never seen someone actually wearing one. She had a green karate headband, and beneath it long thick, blonde hair.

"Hey, this the new guy?" She asked, and turned around, and now you could hardly tell she wasn't human, although I had to say anyone wearing something like that, you would have to believe wasn't a normal human. But when she talked you could still see her fangs, and even without that, she had long, thick nails.

"Yes, this is Danny," Skyler introduced me, and I waved a short wave at her. I was shy, believe me, and I wasn't ready to say anything until I was comfortable around these people. She could probably seriously injure me if I said something wrong.

"Hey Danny, why are you here?" She asked me, and I figured everyone would have known if they knew about my arrival.

"Half Ghost," I told her, barely able to make out the words.

"Don't worry, I won't bite," She smiled at me, and I smiled a slight smile back. I looked over at the other person sitting on a bed that both of them had been sitting on when we had arrived. She had long silver hair pulled back into a ponytail. She had a blue, short tanktop with red cargo pants, and a choker around her neck, with green sandals. She looked like a normal person… except I guess there was something about her you could tell was different.

"That's Cerebra." Hannah told me, and I nodded, and waved at her too. She just looked up at me, then returned her attention back down to a book.

"Ok, let's get to some other people," Skylar told me, and I nodded and followed him out of the room. But we didn't go far, all we did was went straight to another room right across the hall.
"Ok this is Shorty, as of now, he has no roommate, but we are waiting on more people. He is kind of weird, but just treat him like a normal person, Ok?"

I nodded, and could only imagine what he could look like. The door was opened wide to reveal a someone lying on the bed playing a Nintendo DS. He set it down, and sat up allowing me to see what he looked like. He was extremely small, and thin, with long ears that hung down the sides of his face, and long brown hair going down to his waste. He looked like a dog, he was kinda cute puppy wise, he looked like he could be someone's pet. His face was in the form of a dogs, but he also look somewhat like a human. He was odd, I had never seen anything like it before, but I wasn't going to make him seem like a total weirdo, he was unique as Sam would say.

"Hey Danny," he said, in a low pitched, yet kinda squeaky voice. I waved at him quickly, trying to make it seem as though I wasn't staring at his odd features. He was wearing a choker with spike's on it, and a greenish blue T-shirt that hung down past his knees. Other than that, his body was covered in fur, did he have to look like that all the time?

"Danny isn't saying much to anyone," He told him, ensuring that it wasn't because of Shorty's looks.

"Yea, he's a first timer, he will get used to it here," he smiled, showing off teeth resembling a dogs.
"Yes, he will," Skyler said, and then we left his room too. They were short introductions, which didn't really help me know the people, but it was enough to let me try and remember names and everything.

"He was attacked by dogs, which made him the way he was. And once his parents found out, they kicked him out of the house. He is 16, believe it or not, he just has the features of a basset hound."

"Basset Hounds attacked him?" I asked, I didn't know dogs too much, but as far as I knew, they were nice dogs.

"He doesn't know, he just got attacked, and it was such a blur, the next thing he knew, he looked like that."

"What about the other two in the other room?" I asked him, and he shrugged.

"Not everyone has a story. You can ask them later, if you would like."

"So they just showed up here?"
"Pretty much. This is more of a refuge than a school, for people that aren't accepted, or don't like to be around the normal people."

"But… I am fine around normal people."
"But you have a secret, don't you? That's because you know you wouldn't be accepted. Accept by your two friends of course."
"Yes, and my sister… but I don't know I wouldn't be accepted."
"But here, you don't have to worry about it. But don't worry, you're here for the school, and I understand it, you don't have to stay."

I looked down at the ground and thought about Sam, even if I wasn't excepted, she was always there for me, I would have one person, and despite the fact that she was a human, she wasn't normal. She would be one person I know would understand everyone here, I think she would be liked around here, but then again, a lot of people are here because they ran away from people.

"More people?" I asked him, we just kinda stood there for a minute, and he nodded, and lead me a little farther, there was only 6 rooms down this hall, but down my hall, there was more like 8.

"Yes, of course," he said, and we continued down the hall a little ways to another room and opened the door.

"In this room is Arcel, he's half human, half storm elemental."

I gave him an awkward look, and he just laughed a little.

"OK, it means he has wind and lightening powers. You will understand more later."

I nodded, and he opened the door, reviling yet another person with a room by themselves. I kinda wanted that, but who knows, I hadn't met my roommate yet.

He had short brown messy hair, and bluish green eyes. He was yet another person who wasn't wearing a normal everyday outfit. He was wearing baggy pants and a short sleeved shirt which was normal, but then he had to add a lab coat, which made it different. He also wore a pair of transparent blue glasses. He stared at me for a second, and then it got to him who I was.

"Ahh, Danny, right, right. I knew you were coming here today, nice to meet you," he said and walked forward to shake my hand. I stuck my hand out slightly and shook hands with him. Yes, I was scared anyone here could be dangerous, I had never seen so many people with powers.

"Half ghost, right?"

"Yes."
"Nice to meet you, I hope to see you again soon. Don't freak him out too much Skyler," he laughed, and I felt so dumb from being scared of these people. There was nothing wrong with them, why did I think they would hurt me?

"Yea, he'll get used to it," he said, and led me out of the room. The only person here I really trusted was Skyler, but that was probably because I had known him for a while, and he was kind. Everyone seemed to know him well too.

"Another person by themselves?"

"Yes, another one. The school isn't as full as it usually is. Most of the people not here are people like you that show up for a year to learn some things and then never come back."

He walked down the hall some more to open up a room to two girl laughing. They looked at me, both of them pretty much identical.

"This is Crystal and Lilly. They are twins."
"Hey Danny!" They both said at the same time. They both wore tight blue jeans that fell out loose at the bottom. One wore a purple tanktop while the other one wore a pink one. One had purple eyes, and then the other pink, which was the main thing you could notice different about the two of them. It was kind of odd to see someone with pink eyes, but I ignored it, I didn't want to give out odd glances.

"Those two are half rabbit."

"Yes, we are," Lilly said, the one with the purple eyes, as she started to wiggle about and a cloud of smoke went around her, and all that was laying on the floor now was a rabbit. OK… what was the point in that power?

"Yes, a useless power you are guessing, but they stay here just for the fun of it," Skyler said, and led me out of yet another room. How long was this going to go on for?

"Now, this room is where Emma is, so I don't have to greet you to her, and she is in the room with Haley, they aren't the best room mates ever."

"No, I could see where that would come in," I said, and thought about how much Sam hated Paulina. It was kind of the same thing here, except Paulina wasn't exactly cute to me anymore, but Haley was, I just couldn't forget about Sam though.

"You shown him to everyone yet?" I turned to see Haley behind us.

"Nope, not yet. Getting there though," he said, and we continued to walk on forward. She walked into her room, where I could catch a glimpse of Emma already sitting there, half the room was in bright colors, and half of it was in dark colors, an odd sight.

"And Josh is across the hall from them, where my room is."

"You have to share it with him?"

"Yea, he isn't that bad once you get to know him."

Well, I beg to differ. He wasn't very nice to me. But I wasn't going to tell Skyler that, it would only make me look childish.

"Then next to our room, is another Josh, and this is the last room in this hall that is occupied," he said, and opened the door to the room with Josh in it. But there was two people in this room. He was dressed more gothic like, and had blue eyes and blonde hair.

"He is half vampire, and his roommate Adam is half elf."

I looked over at the other person, he was wearing normal clothes, and looked pretty much like a normal person… with blue hair. He had green eyes and he wasn't short at all like you would think an elf to be.

"Hey," Adam said, but Josh just sat there and only looked up at me, then continued on with whatever he was doing.

"Hi," I said, and looked at Skyler to get out of there. I didn't know why, but I didn't care to meet anyone anymore, the more people that knew I was here, the more chances I had of getting killed by them. Of course, I was going to meet them all anyway…

Skyler led me out of the room, and we turned back around to head down the hallway my room was on. The main hallway of course, I had to be stuck where everyone was. I wanted to know who the people messing around in the hallway were, but we just walked past it all and down a hallway on the other side.

"OK, in this room is Max and Elli," he said as he opened up another door, how come he never had to do passwords for all these rooms? Maybe he didn't need to?

"Hey, I'm Elli," a kid with curly brown hair, and green eyes said to me the second we walked in the door. She was wearing a white fleece tee, gray jeans and purple sneakers.

"Umm, hi." I said shyly, and looked over at the other kid who had to have been Max. He had slicked back red hair and dark blue eyes. He was wearing a gray T-shirt with jeans, blue and gray sneakers, sunglasses and lastly, gold bands around his arms.

Max looked up at me and waved, and I waved shortly in return. He kinda… creeped me out? I didn't know why, and I didn't even know him, but he scared me…

"You must be Danny?" Elli asked me and I nodded hesitantly, standing close to Skylers side as though I was a little kid or something and I was using him for protection.

"He's a little on the shy side right now," Skyler said, and I felt tiny compared to everyone else whether they were taller than I was or not. I was like the new kid in a school who was the looser at the old school, and would remain the looser forever no matter where I ran off too. I had no trust in any of these people right now really, except Skyler, whether they were nice or not, I didn't know any of them.

"I can tell," she said and looked me over.

"I wanna see you as a ghost," she said, and looked at me expectantly, and I transformed for her, and she just stared at me blankly.

"That's it, huh?"

"Yes."

"Wow, not to much of a difference."

"No, not really," I said, and changed back, I would rather walk around as myself rather than showing off that I looked scrawny either way.

"You have fun," she told me, and I waved to her as we left out the door.

"You know, you really should try being more talkative," Skyler laughed at me and I just looked around to try and see how much farther we had to go. Was it ever going to end? I wanted to meet my roommate more than anything, he sounded like a loner, but I wanted to see who was going to be staying in my room.

"In this room is Leeara and Candy. Candy is another half ghost, so maybe, just maybe you can talk a little more?"

"Ok, I'll try."

He opened up the door to two girls laughing, and they both stopped when they saw us coming into the room.

"You brought another one here, huh Skyler?" One of them asked and looked me over.

"Danny Phantom, nice to meet you," the other one said and stood up. She had long hair that was so dark of brown, it was almost black unless you really looked at it. She was really skinny, with hazel eyes, and she wore baggy pants and a tight shirt. She had a slight amount of British accent, but it sounded as though she had lost some of it over her years here. She was kinda cute, which made it all the harder to talk to her.

"My name is Candy, I'm half ghost too," she said reaching a hand out to me, and I shook her hand.

"I got my powers from a ghost attack in Amity. And then I hear you hunt ghosts there? Too bad you weren't there to save me, then I would have had a cute hero," she smiled, and I smiled back.

"How long ago did you get them?" I asked her, and she shrugged.

"Not to long ago. I think I heard of you before it happened actually. You must just not have been there?"

"Who knows…"

"I'm Leeara," the other girl said breaking up our conversation and she walked up to me to shake hands with me.

She had tanish skin with blonde hair that had brown/black streaks going through it. She has hazel eyes and wore a black mini skirt and a halter top made out of fake leopard print fur.

"Hi, Danny," I said, as though she hadn't already figured that one out.

"Yea, I kinda guessed that," she laughed, and I just laughed out of embarrassment, this was why I avoided talking to people, I always messed things up.

"You know Skyler, you need to bring cute guys more often, you seem to be lagging in that," Candy said and I could feel myself blushing.

"Sorry, but I can't tell whether guys are cute or not," he laughed and waved to them. I did so too and we left the room.

"Well, looks like you got along with them real well," he said and shoved me onward playfully.

"How do you think Sam would feel about that?" He asked outstretching Sam, and I shrugged.

"She's just a friend."

"All right," he said in disbelief and just continued on down the hall to the next door over.

"Sorry for you Danny, but this is a guy," he teased me and I rolled my eyes.

"Let's see if you can talk to him so easily," he said, and flung the door opened. He just knew that I wasn't going to be able to talk to him because when I had seen him I pretty much froze from the way he looked. But I didn't want to act as though I thought he was weird or anything.

"Hey Skyler, this the new kid?" He said, and I tried to keep myself from looking as though I was staring at him. His skin was a pale, almost white color, and he had piercing crystal blue eyes that seemed to have a threatening look in them? He had 2 blue streaks in his hair, and a few streaks placed on his legs, arms and neck. It was an odd sight, and I tried to avoid thinking it was. He seemed to be able to tell what I was thinking though, but he said nothing. He wore baggy clothes, and had long nails that seemed really sharp. I know that right about then I wanted to just RUN! But kept myself trying to feel comfortable around him.

"Yes, this is Danny. Danny, this is Seth. I think you two would make great friends since neither of you seem to talk much."

"I have a reason for not talking," Seth said in a sort of angry tone and I felt as though I was doing something wrong.

"Well, we will see you later," Skyler said, as though he knew he was getting me out of there before something DID happen.

"He doesn't care much for people at all. He prefers people that look odd compared to people like you and I that are… normal looking? He is part white tiger, pretty interesting, huh?"

"Yea," I said, and stepped away from the door nudging for us to go onward.

"Last two people down this hall, then I will show you your neighbors," he said and led me into one last room. When I stepped in there, two people looked up from their bunk bed. Both of them were just sitting there when we walked in, as though they were asleep or something…

"On the bottom bunk is Erik," Skyler said, and Erik stood up from his bed and walked into my direction. I looked at him, and he looked kinda normal, yet he wasn't. He had pail skin, and he was extremely skinny, he looked pretty much as wimpy as I looked compared to most of these people. He had messy, steel gray hair, and plain brown eyes. He also wore really baggy clothes, like most of the people here, yet somehow it seemed to draw to your attention from all the odd writing written on it.

"You could be good friends with him too Danny, he too is shy until he gets to know people."

"Hi," I said to him, and shook hands with him. Then the other guy kinda just appeared behind him all the sudden, as though he had teleported. I reached a hand out, but he refused to do anything about it and I pulled back feeling stupid, but I was only trying to be nice.

He had a whitish color hair that seemed to glow and was arranged kinda, odd? He too had pail features that went along with his roommate, and their room. He had purplish eyes that also seemed to glow like his hair. He also had an odd tattoo of thick black streaks that ran down his eyes. Odd… very odd. Then his outfit was yet another thing that added to his oddness. He had a black jumpsuit with purple glowing lines that ran in all directions around it. He also had a black cloak that went up above his nose slightly, so he didn't show much of an expression.

"That's Giga," Skyler said, and Giga just stared at me until we left the room.

"Ok… he officially scares me," I said and we walked back down to the main hallway.

"Ok, two more rooms, I promise," he told me, and I nodded. Although, there was still people wandering around the halls that I had never met yet.

He opened up a door to reveal two more normal looking girls. One had thick layered brown hair that fell down around her shoulders. She had deep purple eyes, and wore tight pink pants, and a belly shirt that was also tight and… pink?

"Hi, I'm Sky," she said and shook hands with me and smiled at Skyler. Hmm… similar names.

"Danny," I said, and she nodded.

"Yea, I know."

The other girl was wearing a tight purple mini skirt, and a black halter-top. She smiled at me and walked up to me.

"I'm Claire. I'm half Angel," she said, and I looked at her oddly.

"You'll find out later sweety," she said, and I nodded. She walked up to Skyler and put her arms around him, and he hugged her in return, so I was guessing they were going out. It was an odd feeling to be around them, and I kinda just wanted to leave right then.

"See you guys later," Skyler said, and took me out of the room. He smiled at me, and walked to the other side of where my room was, and walked into it.

"Hey Danny!" A girl said, and hugged me, and I had no idea who it even was! I looked at her, and she had a gothic look, black curly hair was the only thing that kept her from looking totally gothic. She had a black skirt that was wavy, and had a big belt that just hung down and really wasn't used to hold it up, just for style. She had a tight belly shirt with a skull in the center, and she wore purple lipstick, and had dark eyeshadow and eyeliner.

"You are my hero!" She said, and squeezed me even tighter. I just stood there waiting for her to get off me, and I smiled.

"Ok…"

"Sorry, no introducing," she said, and stepped back from me.

"I'm Sanyu. And I love you! You are so cute! You are the best! I can't believe you are actually here!" She squeaked, and hugged me again.

"And I am right next door to you, how cool is that!"
"Umm, thanks?"

"Sanyu, stop it," a guy in the other half of the room said, and she turned around and walked away from him as though she was obeying him. He had creepy eyes, that were staring, and long black hair. He had pure white eyes with no pupils, but he could see just fine which was odd. He wore gothic clothes as well, black baggy pants with chains as big as I was pretty much, and a huge black, Hoody, he was a big guy, that was for sure.

"I'm sorry Brad." She said, and retreated to her bed. He nodded at me, and I didn't do anything about it. Whether I liked her or not, that was kinda mean, she was happy, oh well. After all, it was Ok once, now if she did it all the time, I might have a problem with it.

Skyler led me out of the room before further problems, and he opened my door as well without the code and we both walked in, and my roommate was there.

"There you go Danny, your roommate, finally," he said, and I looked over at him. He was… scaly? He had scales down his body, all of him was covered in scales and he had baggy pants, and a T-shirt on. He looked at me, and looked down as though he felt bad for the way he looked or something.

"He has to stay here Skyler?" He asked him as though he didn't want me there and then I felt bad.

"Don't worry, Danny isn't like your last roommate he said, and I smiled at the kid. He looked about my age, and he looked really sad about having a roommate.

"All right," he said, and looked me over and sighed.

"You can't give me one like me?" He asked, and Skyler shook his head.

"Sorry. But you know, it would be nice if you made friends with Danny, he is probably just as shy as you are."

"Yes, but he at least looks human."
"That doesn't mean anything," Skyler said, and he shrugged.

"All right, well, my name is Kelby. I know an odd name to go along with the odd kid. Make fun of me, that's all right, I am used to it anyway," he said, and plopped down on his bed.

"See ya later Danny," Skyler said leaving me in the room alone with Kelby.

"Hey, Kelby. I like your half of the room, its pretty neat."

"You really think so?" He asked me, and I nodded, I wasn't lying either, I really liked it.

"Well, I can help you with yours later, if you would like," he said, and I nodded.

"That would be cool. You have any friends outside of school?"

"No… never have, and never will. No friends here really besides Skyler. And it's not like as though he is really my friend. My mom kicked me out of the house at age 2, and luckily enough the owner of this place picked me up and I have been living here ever since."

"Oh… What are you half of?"

"Dragon, my dragon side is a little easier to look at probably, but I wouldn't be able to fit in the room if I changed into it."

"A dragon? That rocks! But… how come the scales stay there all the time?"

"Who knows… just cuz I am unlucky I guess."

"Your not unlucky. I got my power cuz my friend encouraged me to go into some ghost portal thing my dad made. It was kinda bad luck to have the powers really. They have been pretty much trouble, and a lot of hard work."

"Yea, but I would rather look like you than this."

"You're unique. My friend would appreciate you for that. That's why she insists I stay ghost, because it keeps me unique, or else they would have been gone a long time ago."

"She? A girlfriend?" He asked and sat up suddenly interested. What was it with people and wondering about that?

"No, just a friend."

"Ahh, all right," he said and looked at me suspiciously, he didn't believe me and he didn't even know how I was around Sam! Sheesh!

"You know, you get to bring your friend here next weekend," he said, and looked down at the ground, "Even though I hate that time, but she sounds like she might be nice."

"Why, people give you odd glances?"

"Yes. Not very many actually come here, but when they do they all give me odd looks."

"She wouldn't. She looks at people all the same, unless of course they are preps, she can't stand preps."

"Well, I can't either."

"Cool, I usually can't either. They don't respect people enough. I guess Sam has rubbed a lot off on me, I am starting to think like her," I laughed, and he glanced over at me.

"Hmm… it sounds like you like her."

"No I don't!" I said, and I could feel myself blushing, and then I remembered.

"Shoot, I gotta call her," and he pointed at his phone.

"Thanks," I said and picked it up and dialed her number, not realizing how late it was, but I promised her I would call her back.

"Danny? You having a good time?" She asked me.

"Yea, I guess. Kinda feel like a wimp compared to everyone here, they all kinda… give me this look."

"Aww, is Danny scared of his new school? You'll be all right, can't be much worse than Dash and his crew."

"Yea, it can. They have powers probably far beyond my imagination. But I guess they are probably all harmless."

"They probably are hun. I think your just trying to find the bad part of them instead of looking on the bright side."

"Hun? Where did that come from?" I laughed, and I could tell Kelby was listening to me, yet trying to act as though he wasn't.

"I dunno… just slipped I guess."

"Ahh… so you think of me as hun all the time?"

"Danny! I didn't mean to say it!"

"Just joking with you. Next weekend you can come over here," I told her, changing the subject.

"Cool, am I gonna get scared."

"Maybe by then I will know them enough, and I can keep you safe," I laughed and she laughed too.

"Mom says I need to get off the phone… Sorry again Danny. But it is really late."

"Yea, I noticed. See ya later," I told her and she ended it with a bye before we both hung up.

"She called you hun?" He laughed, and I could feel myself blushing. I knew he had been listening to me…

"Yea…"

"Hmmm, maybe you don't have a crush on her, but she does on you?" He asked, although he wasn't social, he sure knew a lot about relationships.

"I dunno," I said trying to avoid the subject by going to bed.

"Night," I told him, and I could tell he knew I was just trying to escape having to talk about it.

"Night," he said, and turned the lights off for us. I closed my eyes and fell asleep easily. He wasn't scary at all, and all he really wanted was a friend, which I was there to give to him. After all, I was willing to be friends with any of them…

Aww, Danny is such a sweety :P lol. Anyway, there was your update, finally! Pretty much just an intro. to all the characters. Anyway, sorry it took so long, I was just busy with Harder Times, but now I gonna start updating them both around the same time so they should be on the same chapter all the time :P Hope ya liked it, and please review!