Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom or any of the characters/ theme song that may be in the story.

Pairings: Several one-sided pairings. Mostly one-sided Phantom x Danny, some Sam x Danny, definite traces of one-sided Danny x Paulina and Paulina x Phantom, and maybe a bit of one-sided Dash x Danny later on. No Tucker pairings at the moment.

Summary: Danny's getting into trouble and is depressed because his parents are divorcing and he's tired from fighting ghosts. Can a bowl of cookie dough and a new friendship help him snap out of it?

To the Reviewers: Cookie dough for all!

Box Ghost: I AM THE BOX GHOST! NO FLAMES! THEY WILL BE USED AS AMMUNITION AGAINST THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE! BEWARE!

And now for the latest installment of Cookie Dough.

Halloween

Jazz typed in the address faster than wind in a hurricane and pressed the enter key. It took a minute for the page to load, but she soon found that it was worth the wait.

Names lined the page, and next to them were the headlines from the articles that they'd been reported in. There were rows and rows of lists of names, and more than one page. She scrolled until she found 'Daniel Phantom' and clicked on the name. She read silently:

'Daniel Phantom's case is one of the most remarkable that we've ever seen. Usually ghosts leave a kind of residue, such as slime, ectoplasm, etc., but there was nothing left around him. Also, there were no wounds, and he appeared to be at a state of absolute calm when it happened. It was also his birthday and favorite holiday of the year, Halloween, and he had no apparent reason to commit suicide. Even if he had, there were no strangle signs, cuts, bruises, or anything suggesting that he was drowned, suffocated, or shot.

In fact, it appears as though his soul left his body of its own accord, or someone used a spell to remove it.'

A soul-taking spell? Jazz wondered, I don't think we've met a ghost that could use magic, or take souls… unless it overshadowed him and took his soul with it when it left. But who would want to do that?

She clicked off of the Internet, not finding anything else about Daniel on Google or Yahooligans. She even asked around on AIM, but no one knew anything. She closed the laptop and sighed.

(Jazz... Jazz... Jazz!)

"Aah!" Jazz let out a short scream as she turned and saw Daniel hovering maybe two feet from her. She fell off of her chair and landed on her butt on the pink-carpeted floor.

(You okay?)

"Yeah," Jazz said, "So what do you want with me?"

(It's Danny. We have to do something about him.)

"Duh. But what do we do?"

(Just get him out of the house. It's already sunset, and Halloween. Sam and Tucker and taking him trick-or-treating, right?)

"Halloween already?" Jazz exclaimed. And so it was Halloween- she had done research through the night, Danny had fallen asleep crying in the basement, and their parents had fought through the night and were still going. "No wonder why I'm starving... and tired."

(I'll be going with them to make sure he stays safe.)

"Yeah... how does that work, anyway?"

(Whenever he says 'going ghost' I teleport to him and let him overshadow me for a while. Then I go away.)

"Humans can overshadow ghosts?"

(If the ghost lets them.)

Jazz would have inquired further, but the doorbell rang and she rushed downstairs to let Sam and Tucker in.

"Hi Jazz!" Tucker said, "Hi Danny!"

"Danny!" Sam gasped, "You look better."

"That isn't Danny," Jazz said, "I'll explain later; it's too complicated for right now."

"Right," Tucker said. "So where's Danny?"

"Asleep in the basement... or crying in the basement," Jazz sighed.

"Yikes," Sam replied.

"I know," Jazz responded, "I hope we aren't too late to help him. Daniel will be going too, from above. He'll be watching all three of you to make sure that you all stay safe."

"Uh..."

"The Ghost Boy is Daniel, the human is Danny," Jazz explained quickly, "Geez, it isn't that hard to figure out."

"I'm a C student. It's very hard to figure out," Tucker replied.

There were heavy footsteps coming up from the basement that all four of them could hear.

"Looks like it's time to go to work," Sam said, "Or really, sounds like it."

Daniel went invisible and added, (He'll be in a foul mood, so watch what you say. One wrong word that he wouldn't usually mind could really set him off.)

Danny walked toward Jazz, about to say, "Who are you talking to?" or "Who's there?" when he saw Sam and Tucker and instead said, "What are you guys doing here?"

"Hi Danny!" Tucker said, "Happy birth-"

"Don't even come at me with the 'it's-your-birthday-cheer-up' stuff!" Danny shot before Tucker could finish, "I'm way past cheering up."

"Good," Sam said, "We're going trick-or-treating. We being Tucker, me, and you. Darker moods make better costumes. Tucker will go help you find something."

"I will?" Tucker asked.

Sam stepped harshly on his foot, "Yes, you will."

The two boys went up to Danny's room without another word. "Boy, Daniel was really right," Jazz said, once the two were out of earshot, of course, "He's really stressed."

Tucker and Danny didn't have much trouble deciding what he'd be. He was going as a gothic person. His hair was messy and dark enough as was, so they left it alone. His face was also pale and didn't need make-up, except for some poorly, too thickly drawn on eyeliner.

The two scrounged around in Danny's closet and found a tight-fitting, long-sleeved black shirt that stopped at his wrists. They also found two rock bands and put them on. Two rings were found, also- a snake eating its own tail, and a skull. With the addition of one finger-less glove and dark pants, his costume was complete.

"Ready?" Sam asked when the boys came back downstairs.

"Duh," Danny replied. The three walked through the door with empty plastic bags while Daniel floated through the ceiling.

He kept a decent distance- about twenty feet- so Danny's ghost sense wouldn't go off. From there he could see them, and anyone around them. And if a ghost tried to attack from any angle, Daniel would be able to see it before it got too close to Danny to stop.

On the ground, Danny's ghost sense was going off like crazy. There were many ghosts around, harmless, of course, trick-or-treating in somewhat human disguises. It was Halloween, after all- the one day that they could openly walk through the streets and not have people point, scream, shoot at them, and run away from them.

He even recognized a few, like Gwendolyn, the girl with the amulet that transformed people into dragons. Of course, she didn't have the amulet; Daniel had taken it and stored it in Danny's room so no one would ever be able to use it again. And Skulker was there, too, and though he and Danny exchanged death-glares nothing happened. Ember walked by once, too, dressed as a cheerleader. Her pom-poms were made of fire, like her hair, and it looked quite strange. Wulf even prowled by and gave Danny's face a hearty lick.

Soon, the trio's bags were filled to bursting with candy, and there had been no hostile act against Danny.

But then, suddenly, a ghost reached out and grabbed him from behind, flying quickly into the air with him, using one arm to hold him and the other to cover his mouth.

"Danny!" Sam and Tucker cried at once.

Oh-oh! Will Daniel save Danny, or will the ghost succeed in taking or hurting him? Well, sorry about the short chapter, but I wasn't expecting reviews that quickly! And to the reviewers, because I can't name you all, take your fair share of cookie dough, made fresh by Tucker, Daniel, and Danny! Hey, would you let Sam near cookie dough, with her ultra-recyclo-vegetarian/healthy diet? I didn't think so.

Also, since it's almost Thanksgiving as I'm writing this, I am adding in ghost pie! By ghost pie I mean it was made by Daniel and Danny. Happy Thanksgiving!