Heart and Soul
Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom, but I do own Alanis. Now that that is over with on with the story!
Chapter1: New Girl at Casper High.
It was a typical Monday morning at Casper High, Dash bullying the band members in is morning routine slowly making it over towards Danny Fenton. Danny was exhausted from being out all night catching ghosts that escaped from the Ghost Zone. Sam and Tucker attempting to keep their half human/half ghost friend awake to go to English class.
"Danny come on, wake up." Sam shook Danny as he leaned against his locker and closed his eyes.
"Sam I'm up. You don't have to shake me every five minutes. I got in really late, did homework and fell asleep at my desk. I'm running on two hours of sleep, and I will wake up eventually if you stop shaking me." Danny stated yawning at the end of his sentence.
"Yeah Sam, give the poor guy a break." Tucker said defending his childhood friend patting Danny on the back hard enough to jar him awake for a few moments. Just as Danny thought his morning couldn't get any worse, it did.
"Hey Fentina, how are you and your girlfriends doing?" Dash said laughing with Kwan and a few other football jocks that he hung around with.
"I'm not his girlfriend!" Sam retaliated
"Hey, knock it off Dash that wasn't funny!" Tucker defended himself from Dash's daily taunting.
"You know Dash, right now I could care less what you say or do I'm too tired to care." Danny said attempting to get Dash off his back.
"Then if you don't care if I do this."
Dash picked Danny up by the collar of his shirt opened Danny's half shut locker and shoved him inside, then slammed the door and spun the combination lock. Dash was backing up to "admire" his work when he backed over something. He looked at the "thing" he backed into and it was a girl.
"Excuse me? Did you just do what I think you did?" the girl said in a very pissed off tone.
"Yeah I did. What of it? You gonna tell on me?" Dash stated wanting to push this new girl around.
"No, why in hell would I do that? If I catch you doing that to anyone I will personally see to it that I shove you into a locker and trust me you won't like it when I'm done. So I suggest you move on or this conversation will turn unpleasant." The girl's voice becoming more ominous with each word she said.
"Fenton I'll deal with you later. Guys let's go." Dash eyed the new girl making sure to take in what she looked like. She was as tall as Sam, even had the same style except she wore black pants that had zippers from the knee down and some zippers that ran horizontal under her pockets. The shirt she wore was unusual, it was black with white writing that said "Come to the Darkside, We have cookies" on top of a long sleeve red shirt, her boots looked like a cross between military and climbing boots. Her hair was raven black hanging down to the middle of her back with her bangs dyed an electric blue and her eyes were a creepy ice blue.
Danny heard the conversation though the locker, smiling to himself that Dash backed down to a new girl, but something didn't feel quite right. When she showed up his ghost sense went off in the usual blue wisp that floated from his lips. He thought about phasing though the locker when he heard the voice of the girl.
"You ok in there?" The harsh tone that the girl has was gone and replaced by a very soft, caring tone.
"Yeah, could you get me outta here?" Danny asked politely.
"Sure give me the combination."
"Its 41 left 56 right 74 left." Danny replied.
The girl dialed the combination and tried to open the door, it was stuck.
'Great. Just great.' Danny thought.
"Danny don't worry we'll get someone to fix it." Tucker told Danny though the door.
"I can get it." The girl replied to Tucker.
She backed away from the door, looked it up and down, then went to it and said,
"Danny is it? Umm... cover your ears this is gonna be loud."
"Ok." He said and doing so, taking the girls word that it would be loud.
The girl balled her right hand in a fist and hit the door where it connected to the lock. Once at the top, middle and bottom and she pulled on the handle and it opened.
Danny pulled himself out of the locker and on to the school floor, nearly falling on his face until he felt three pairs of hands catch him. He looked up to find Sam, Tucker, and the girl. Danny stood upright and dusted himself off, and then extended is hand to shake the girl's hand.
"Hi, the name's Danny...Danny Fenton. Thanks for getting me outta there. That's Sam and Tucker." Sam and Tucker shook the girl's hand when Danny told her their names.
"No problem, my name's Alanis...Alanis McKain. I just moved here."
"Nice to meet you. Like your taste in clothes." Sam said happy that there was another Goth- girl in school.
"Like wise. Awesome trick with the locker, by the way, how'd you do that?" Tucker asked Alanis.
"Oh, that? It was easy. My locker at my old high school did that all the time and all school lockers are the same. Speaking of which, could you guys help me out? I need to find my locker."
"Sure. What's the number?" Tucker looking over her shoulder to read the schedule.
"Ummm, it's number 213." Alanis read off the paper.
"Wow, that's lucky it's right here next to Danny's." Sam pointed out.
"Well at least it's not on the other side of the school. That's all I care about."
Alanis dialed in the combination and opened it and threw her book bag in the locker as the five minute bell rang though the hall.
"Well we gotta go. See ya soon." Danny said and with that the trio left Alanis.
'Something's off about Danny, why do I sense there is something more to him than meets the eye? Well I better find the principal's office. I'll figure this out later.' Alanis thought to herself as she slammed her locker door shut. The walked towards the office.
---English Class---
"Alanis was great, Danny you should have seen her tell Dash off. It was priceless!" Tucker told Danny as they sat around in English class for the bell to ring.
"Yeah she was great. I thought Dash would have at least attempted to bully her, but she was tough customer." Sam relaying what she thought of the whole thing.
The bell rang signaling the start of another boring school day. A few minutes after the bell rang Lancer walked in with Alanis.
"Good morning students. Today we have a new student all the way from Roswell, New Mexico. Tell the class a little about yourself." Lancer asked
"The name's Alanis Rena McKain, I just moved from Roswell, New Mexico. I like reading, martial arts, and of course I love the paranormal. My parents are Paranormalists and are very good at what they do."
"Wow they are just like your parents Fenton, crazy." Dash said aloud.
The comment got snickering from Paulina, Qwan and a few other popular kids.
"Quiet down class! Miss McKain please take a seat behind Daniel Fenton."
She moved to her new seat and sat down, opened her notebook and began drawing.
"Class we are going to discuss the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley."
For this comment the class groaned except Alanis, she saw no problem it was a great choice in her eyes.
Lancer got the huge stack of books and began passing them out. While Lancer gave each student a book, Danny passed a note onto Alanis's desk. She looked towards Lancer who was two rows away. She unfolded it and began to read.
Alanis,
Thanks again for getting me out of that mess this morning. I think it's cool that your parents are Paranormalists. My parents are Ghost Hunters, though they haven't ever caught a ghost yet. They mostly invent Ghost hunting equipment. Hey if you can write back and tap my shoulder.
Danny.
Alanis's face went pale at the thought of his parents being Ghost Hunters, but she wasn't about to give up one of her new friend because of it. Lancer became close she looked at the note and put her hand over it. It glowed a faint blue and disappeared. Lancer handed her the book and went on. Danny's ghost sense went off once again and quickly covered his mouth like he had to yawn. He thought to himself.
'There is a ghost near and I can't even leave. Lancer cut my bathroom passes off. Dang it! I'll have to catch it later.'
Danny was pulled out of his train of thought by a small tap on his shoulder. He looked back and Alanis smiled at him. She passed him a note under her desk. Lancer had started to talk about Mary Shelley and how she came to write Frankenstein. Alanis now paid attention to Lancer. Taking notes on every detail. Danny opened the note and read it.
Danny,
Hey it was no problem at all. It's good to know that someone doesn't think my parent's jobs are weird. When do you have lunch? Hopefully we have more classes together. And maybe you could show me around town? Hope we can become friends.
Alanis
Danny and Alanis continued to write notes to each other all though Lancer's lecture. Alanis also taking notes all the way. Finally the bell ended the class.
"Read chapters 1 though 3 and be ready for a quiz in the morning." Lancer announced before all the students had a chance to leave.
Danny Sam and Tucker caught up with Alanis after class.
"So what's your next class?" Tucker asked.
"Biology with a Mr. Elliott."
"I'm in that class we can be lab partners." Danny said smiling at her.
"Well see you when the bell rings." Sam said and walked quickly down the hall towards her next class.
"Same here. Talk later man." Tucker bid his good-byes and took off.
"Well let's go." Danny motioned and Alanis followed.
The next few hours were as boring as school could get. In Biology Mr. Elliott rambled on about cell structures of animals and plants, then in Algebra1 fractions and decimals were the main subject Alanis sat next to Tucker in that class. Finally it was fourth period and time for Gym.
"Ok class today is free day, which means you do something that pertains to working out! Basketball, Pickle Ball, any movement. I don't want to see anyone sitting on the bleachers. Got it!" Coach Henson bellowed out orders.
All of the students went to the locker rooms to change out and returned and began to do as the coach requested. Danny, Sam and Tucker began playing Pickle Ball. Sam looked around and saw Alanis over on the gymnastics mats doing weird falling exercises; she was flipping over and landing with one leg bent and the other straight, and one hand slapping the mat. Then she began to roll backwards. Sam Tucker and Danny became interested in what their new friend was doing so they sat down the over-sized Ping-Pong paddles and walked over to the gymnastic mats.
"Alanis what are you doing?" Tucker asked quizzically.
"Rolls. As in martial arts, I took them when I lived in Roswell. " She replied as she continued to warm up.
"Martial Arts. Which type?" Sam questioned.
"Well Karate mostly. I want to do ninjitsu when ever I hit sixteen."
"Ninjitsu? Cool. So have you ever been hurt training?" Danny questioned.
"Yeah I did. One time I was practicing on a punching bag and I miscalculated and well nearly broke my hand." The trio winced at this thought.
"What happened after that?" Tucker inquired.
"Nothing really. My mom freaked. Thought I broke my hand and took me to the Emergency Room. We spent a few hours there only to have the doctor tell us that my wrist was sprained and just to apply ice."
The trio continued to ask questions as the class progressed, meanwhile across the Gym Dash and Qwan snickered at Alanis thinking that she was crazy.
"Qwan! Man, have you ever seen anything that stupid?" Dash pointed over towards Alanis.
"No. it looks like she is just throwing herself around. What is she doing fighting herself?"
The two continued to taunt her from afar.
-Whistle-
"OK! HIT THE SHOWERS!" Coach Henson bellowed. The class filed into their separate locker rooms. The bell dismissed them to lunch many of the students flew out of the gym doors to get a good spot in the lunch line. Danny and Tucker waited on Sam and Alanis at last the two girls came out of the locker room and joined the boys.
"So what's for lunch?" Alanis inquired.
"Tacos or burritos." Tucker pointed out.
"Thank God I brought my lunch." Sam stated.
"You don't like Tacos?" Alanis asked.
"Nah. She's an Ultra-recylo-vegetarian." Danny told her.
"Oh, you don't eat anything with a face. That's cool." Alanis replied.
They got their lunches and sat at the normal table, and started to eat lunch.
Danny's ghost sense went off, the blue wisp escaping his lips. He turned to cover his mouth so Alanis would not see. At the same time a violet purple wisp escaped Alanis's lips and she turned away from the group.
"Excuse me I have to go to the bathroom!" Danny and Alanis exclaimed in unison.
Before Tuck and Sam had the chance to say anything the two raced off to the bathrooms.
Danny made sure no one was in any of the stalls and then he shouted, "I'm goin' ghost!"
A ring formed at his waist and spilt. The two light blue circles one going up the other down, engulfing him in a light blue light. When the transformation was over his hair was a snowy white, eyes green and he had a black lab suit with white gloves, boots, along with the white on the collar and a white belt. Once it was over with Danny turned intangible and flew out of the building.
Over in the Girl's bathroom, Alanis pulled her hair into a pony tail as she quickly checked every stall and once it was clear she said, "Phantom heart!"
Like Danny a ring formed around her waist. The light violet purple ring split one ring up the other down, engulfing her in a light purple light. The rings dissipated leaving her in a black lab suit with white gloves, boots and belt.( Like Danny's lab suit except the collar, where his is round, hers comes to a point like Maddie's) Her hair staying in the ponytail now a snowy white and her eyes green. Alanis became intangible and flew in the same direction as Danny.
-Amity Park-
People scattered in the park hiding behind benches, but mostly running out of the park screaming. Danny arrived at the park first. He knew he had to get rid of this ghost and get back to school. The ghost looked totally different than what he normally fought. It looked more ominous its green eyes seemed like they could bore holes into a persons' soul or suck it out. The body of it would remind a person of the grim reaper. The black hooded shroud covering the floating body, the whole thing shook Danny right down to his soul.
"Hey! I think it's time to put you away!" he told the hooded ghost who only growled in response.
Danny shot a green ectoplasmic bolt at the ghost it hit dead on, but only shocked it a little. This enraged the ghost and it flew faster than Danny could move and it grasped him by the throat. He tried to break free of the grip, but it was just too tight. He thought the new ghost was going to kill him where they floated, until a blue light whizzed past and hit the ghost in the shoulder. It immediately let go of Danny and loomed back.
Danny looked around and saw a girl, holding a blue ectoplasmic bow arrow ready to fire at the hooded ghost.
"Hey Ghost Boy, you ok?" She yelled to him.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Danny said.
The arrow that had hit the hooded ghost dissipated and the ghost growled out.
"This is not your fight fledgling ghost. Away with you now!"
"I will make it my fight!" The girl yelled at it. Firing another arrow and hitting her target. It howled in pain. Danny fired another green ectoplasmic bolt. It collided with the enemy ghost knocking it down to the ground.
"Hey you got something to contain that thing with!" The Ghost girl yelled to Danny.
"Yeah!" He said and pulled out the Fenton Thermos and the ghost was sucked into the thermos by a blue vortex. Then Danny capped it off.
The Ghost girl flew down to Danny and asked "You ok?"
"Yeah I'm fine. What was that?"
"It's a type ghost called a Reaper, more commonly known as a Soul Sucker."
"Soul Sucker?"
"Yep, if I wouldn't have gotten her when I did you'd have been ghost chow. Oh, how rude of me the name is Phantasma." The girl said extending her hand.
"Danny Phantom." They shook hands.
"Well see ya. If you need any more help send an E.F."
"What's an E.F?"
"Ectoplasmic Flare of course. Bye cutie." Phantasma winked at Danny then flew off like a bolt of lightning.
"Cutie? She thinks I'm cute?" Danny blushed at Phantasma's words.
"Crud lunch is almost over, better high tail it back."
With that he flew back to Casper high.
-Casper High Cafeteria-
"I wonder what's taking Danny so long." Sam began to worry about her lifetime best friend.
"Alanis too, Sam you don't think?" Tucker wondered.
"How, I mean Danny's dad is the only one with a Ghost Zone portal." Sam said matter of factly.
As Sam finished her sentence Alanis showed up and sat back down.
"Where's Danny? Isn't he back yet?"
"No he must still be in the bathroom." Tucker told her.
"I hope he's ok." Alanis began to worry.
Then a voice came from behind Alanis saying "Sorry guys. Bad school tacos."
It was Danny and he was rubbing his stomach like he had thrown up.
"Oh here Danny, try one of these." Alanis took what looked like an Altoid box and gave Danny a little brown pill.
He looked at her with a questioning expression.
"It's a ginger tablet. Helps settle even the queasiest of stomachs. My Mom's a homeopathic health nut. Well I'm gonna get my books for my next class. Bye guys."
Alanis rounded the corner, no one was around she turned intangible and flew over to the table.
"So what happened out there Danny?" Sam asked.
"Yeah dude spill it." Tucker said.
"Well first off there are new ghosts around called Reapers and second there is a new ghost kid." Danny told them as he popped the ginger tablet in his mouth to get rid of it.
"Another one!" Tuck and Sam gasped.
"Yeah calls herself Phantasma."
After Danny spoke his ghost breath escaped. He looked all around and never saw the invisible Alanis floating above them.
'Just as I thought, I can't believe it another halfa.' She smiled and took off for her next class.
-Danny's locker-
"What a day. I can't believe Lancer gave that many chapters." Tucker groaned.
"Yeah, me too. That should be a crime." Danny sighed.
"Come on guys it's not that bad." Sam said.
"Hey guys, what's goin' on? You guys wanna go somewhere?" Alanis asked as she opened her locker and shoved the remainder of her books in and pulled out Frankenstein.
"I'd like to but, too much homework." Tuck said.
"Same here." Danny agreed.
"What about you Sam?"
"I've got a family thing. Other than that I'd love to." Sam replied.
"That's alright maybe tomorrow."
The small group walked out of the big double doors that cut them off from the world for eight hours a day.
As they walked down the street Sam and Alanis discussed books and the pros of being a vegetarian. Soon they came to the four way stop, where they parted every day.
"Call you later Danny." Sam said then ran off.
"Catch ya on the net buddy." Tucker said then went off in the opposite direction of Sam.
"Where do you live?" Danny asked nicely.
"Uhhh, that way." Pointing down Danny's road.
"Really I live down this way."
"Cool now I don't have to walk home by myself." Alanis giggled.
The two walked a ways down the street till a building with a large neon sign that said "Fenton Works" came into view.
"Well that's my house." Danny said pointing to the house with the neon sign.
"Really? I live in the one next to that! This is great one of my new friends' lives right next door!" Alanis replied joyfully.
"Well, I guess I'll see you tomorrow then Danny." Alanis walked up the stoop unlocked the door and opened it.
"Hey, Alanis?"
"Yeah?" She turned to face him. He was rubbing his left arm with his right hand.
"Would you like to come over? I was thinking we could… you could..." He stammered.
"I could help you study?" She smiled at him. "Of course. I'd be glad to help."
Alanis relocked the door and walked down the steps.
Danny and Alanis walk the few feet to Danny's house.
"So, Danny what are your parents like?"
"Well your about to find out." Danny chuckled as they walked into his house.
Well that's the first chapter. What do you guys think?
I'd like suggestions for other chapters. This is a Danny/Alanis fic so don't hate me. Flames will be used to Barbecue steaks on my grill on my back porch. Thanks for reading and please Review!