Jack's wish Chapter 2: Another ordinary day? Never, a danny phantom fanfic

Disclaimer:Like I said before, I don't own any of these characters, Butch Hartman Does. I only own Mary-Ann. This chapter is a little weird, but the actually story starts next chappie, I promise.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Danny was still mad the next morning when he came down to breakfast. Jazz was sitting at the table, reading another of her psychology books. It was called Helping Others in an Organized Way. Sure, she thought he was helping, but she might as well be throwing bowling balls at his head. He sat down across from her at the table, steaming over her stupidity. Steaming was, however, soon replaced with shivering and a blue, smoke-like substance coming out of his mouth. Jazz looked up. Her brother was already on the job, and so early! He looked back at her, a familiar fire in his eyes. Being in the bad mood he was, he didn't want to fight ghosts at the moment, so he stayed sitting down and staring at his corn flakes.

When he finished "eating", he walked up the stairs to his bedroom. After Jazz heard the door slam shut, she sighed. Danny was obviously suffering, not only from hiding his secret from the world, but fighting ghosts every few hours as well. She was trying to help him without killing his other half, the only thing that made him human and not full ghost.

A few seconds later, a ghostly head popped out of the floor, and came to rest upon Jazz's face. She instantly recognized the ghost as Skulker, self proclaimed top ghost hunter. He came around every few weeks trying to catch Danny because, as he put it, Danny was "one of a kind." When Skulker looked at her with his evil, menacing eyes, she took a deep breath. She knew she was about to scream. Right before the piercing wail could be exhaled, a new ghost flew into the room. The new ghost sighed and shook his head. Skulker hadn't even touched him in quite a while.

"Ah, there you are, ghost child! Would you like to see my new upgrades?" He hit a button on his arm and a large gun came out. It looked dangerous to Jazz, but Danny only rolled his eyes. Before Skulker got a chance to test his new toy, Danny flew up to him. It was obvious he wasn't afraid. After all, having "guests" around fairly often was now practically a part of life. He shrugged and sent a small ectoplasmic blast at Skulker's torso. This made Skulker lose his balance, and Danny used it to his full advantage. A few punches later, Skulker's helmet was thrown off, leaving a small blob in its spot. Danny took the Fenton thermos off of the table and fired it at Skulker, annoyed that something that was that small could have ever done so much damage to him. As Skulker disappeared, he yelled, "I am Skulker! Fear me!" In his pathetic, squeaky voice. After looking around, Danny changed back into human mode.

"Listen Danny, about last night, I wanted to say..." Danny looked at her, as if expecting something he liked out of this was going to be like finding a live worm in the ghost zone. "I wanted to say I'm sorry for making you mad, I just thought that if we didn't introduce it slowly, they would have more of a shock. Being shocked like that can lead to thoughtless behavior, and even though you're definitely not a little kid, I didn't want to see you hurt. By the way, you really might want to find a way to keep him in the Thermos, he scares me more than the others do. Thanks for saving me, I almost screamed." She looked at him sheepishly, and he wasn't sure if he should thank her or wail on her. He decided that the latter would probably start something he didn't want, so he shrugged. As they were heading out the door, he looked up at Jazz.

"Thanks, I really needed that. Skulker doesn't seem to know when he's beat, and it gets annoying. All this ghost fighting has not exactly been good for me mentally. By the way, have you seen Mom or Dad today?" Jazz shook her head, but imagined they had stayed up late working on figuring out whether or not there was a possibility of a "halfa." They'd probably fallen asleep in the lab, it wouldn't be the first time. "Jazz? I think I'm gonna go ahead and meet up with Sam and Tucker, I told them I'd meet them at the nasty burger five minutes ago." Jazz nodded and Danny ducked into a random alleyway. Jazz merely sighed and continued the walk to school in quiet. She could have driven, but she had really wanted to chat with Danny, to make amends. It looked like that worked, so now she would take her time as she walked to school, to listen to the life around her. She didn't have to get to school for another half an hour, and she could get to the school in less than five.

Why had things been so weird between her and Danny lately? One moment, they'd happily be hanging out, and the next, they'd be at each other's throats and Danny would be more depressed. On a few occasions he'd even sucked himself in the Fenton Thermos just to make a point. Their parents were getting close to finding out about Danny's secret anyway, as were a few other people, namely a couple of girls who seemed to be polar opposites, though they had been close friends at one point. There was Paulina, a thin, shallow, popular teen princess that only wanted Danny Phantom and had realized there was some connection between the two Dannys and Valerie, en ex-rich ghost hunter that loved Danny Fenton but wanted to waste Phantom. She was sweeter than Paulina, but she couldn't see the similarity at all, and if she did, she hid it. There were a few others, like Dash, who Danny might get caught getting revenge on, but he was an idiot anyways. After all, he did try and hit on her, ew. She watched a small bluebird fly through the sky, and it reminded her of her flight the night before. She smiled dreamily, but then remembered where that flight had taken her. She frowned and continued her walk.

"Jazz! Are you alright?" Mary-Ann ran up to her. Jazz smiled and nodded. "I think so, last night was a bit odd, I think I had a bit more sugar than I should have. Mom and Dad made cookies. I horded them because if I didn't, Dad would've eaten them all. I was gonna save some for Danny, but while I was studying I forgot that I was doing so and ate like 10." She laughed nervously and Mary-Ann frowned and shook her head

"You sure are acting weird. I wish you'd tell me what the heck was going on in your life, Jazz" As if on cue, a genie-like ghost appeared out of a nearby tree. Jazz gasped. She knew this ghost, Desiree. Her friend had made a wish, and the only way to counter-act it was to counter-wish it.

"So you wish it, so shall it..." Before she could finish her line, a fist slammed into her jaw. Thinking quickly, Jazz yelled, "and I wish that Mary-Ann never made that wish!" Desiree wiped her chin, now with a small amount of ectoplasm. She rolled her eyes. "Aw, but that's no fun. But so you have wished it, so shall it be!" She then became invisible. Danny flew down to his sister, along with a frightened and confused Mary-Ann. She was staring at him, eyes wide with fear. Danny looked at her and smiled a little. "It's alright, citizens of Amity Park. That ghost was a wishing ghost, and your counter-wishes made her disappear, for now. I will be on full alert, just be sure to make sure to tell everyone that an evil ghost is on the loose, and not to make wishes. She messes up everything."

He turned around and started to fly off when he was captured in a net. Looking down at his parents with his usual bored, "why me" expression, he phased out of the net and disappeared as well. He flew off as Jazz ran over to her parents to "hug" and accidentally knock them down. That way, they couldn't continue the pursuit, and Danny would be able to get to school ok. She saw Tucker and Sam run off into the park, and smiled a little.

"Mom, Dad! Did you see the evil ghost? Danny Phantom saved me! He's a real hero! I wish I could thank him!" Then she realized what she said, and responded with an, "No wait, I wish I hadn't wished that wish. You know, in case Desiree is still around." Her parents looked at her for a few seconds with puzzled expressions on their faces.

"How do you know that ghost's name is Desiree?" Maddie asked. Jack looked at her for a moment longer and said, "yeah, Jazzypants, how?" Jazz mentally smacked herself for this. I am so going to give away Danny's identity like this, I'm so stupid with things like this, though not like in school...

"Gee, she only screamed 'I am Desiree, what is your wish?' like ten times!" She acted so natural about this that her parents believed her. Of course Mary-Ann knew that wasn't the case, but bit her lip and kept quiet, somehow getting that this was not something she should interrupt. She edged away, and as soon as she got out of the park ran screaming for the school. Jazz looked at her parents for a second, and noticed Jack was actually thoughtful. Ohmygosh! He's actually thinking! Usually when this happens Danny or I or everyone else in this town gets hurt! I gotta stop him!

Peering at her dad, Jazz asked her mom, "Is there something wrong with Dad? This is the first time in a while I've seen him think like this!" Maddie muttered something about not being sure about saying anything, but Jazz's sweet, innocent, intelligent face told her that Jazz could cope with anything she heard. This made her smile because she was happy she had one child she could share her discoveries with. Danny would have, as always, freaked out and within the next few minutes probably muttered something about having to go somewhere. One time she had asked where, Danny had muttered, "anywhere but here. Um, how about Sam's?" She had let him go, but her son didn't seem to like being around ghost stuff. Could he be...no, she would've noticed. There was no way he could be.

"Well, Jazz. Your father and I have discovered that, against all odds, there is a way to become half ghost. We're not sure how, but there was a case a few years back of a guy saying he had 'ghost powers.' I believe we saw him at the reunion in Wisconsin. His name is Plasmius, and he's been known to brag about his ghost powers and about how he can live a human life at the same time. They've proven he has human genes, but they've been covered in ectoplasm to figure out who he is. Therefore, our 'superhero' could be half ghost and half human as well." Jazz smiled that her parents were understanding so far. Now the next question. Before she could blurt it out though, Jack said something about having to go to the bathroom, and her parents jumped into the Fenton RV. Jazz yelled for them to wait, but they wouldn't. In a grouch, she headed off to school.

Sitting in the RV, Jack was muttering about how much harder it would be to experiment on Danny Phantom if he turned out to be part human. "I mean, the government has restrictions regarding experimenting on children, even ones that aren't normal. They don't care about ghosts as long as they don't kill us all." When they got back to Fentonworks, Jack ran inside to the bathroom, and Maddie sat at the table trying to fix another invention, her mind constantly going back to hearing Jazz call the ghost boy a "superhero."

I'm gonna post the next chapter in a few minutes, I just have to get the author's notes and such right. Here's a little preview of what's to come:

"What is your wish?" she asked him. "Oh, I'll tell you what I wish! I wish that if the ghost boy is at all alive, that he can't change back to human mode until he tells me who he is, and this wish cannot be unwished, no matter what." Jack smiled triumphantly as Desiree waved her hand and made it so. Right before she was sucked into the Fenton Thermos by a very shaken ghost boy. He had heard his Dad's wish, and was scared silly that this wish couldn't be undone. Still, at least his didn't say anything about Maddie having to know.

Also, as a warning, after this Danny might be a little OOC, but you would be too if you spent every waking second worried that someone you loved would realize that you were something they wanted destroyed.