Chapter 3: The Strange Amulet

As mourning approached and June was getting ready to go to Amity Park College, she was on her cell phone with Ah-Mah and Ray Ray.

"One of your amulets is missing?" asked Ah-Mah in such a shock, "This is most unsettling."

"Shame, shame, shame" added Ray Ray, "good thing this Clockwork character gave me the responsibilities for being the new Te Xuan Ze on the block."

"You're only temporary Te Xuan Ze" said June on the other line, "and besides I already have a hunch of who might have taken that amulet."

"And who might that be?" asked Ah-Mah.

"This Danny Fenton" replied June, "I have a hunch he could have probably taken it."

"Well" said Ah-Mah, "you better get it back ASAP or should anyone else who opens the portal to the magical realm can spell doom for all of us."

As June was finished with her call with Ah-Mah and Ray Ray, she began to head down the hallway to have breakfast with the Fentons and bumped right into Danny and her backpack full of her books fell down to the ground.

"Just great" sighed June as she began to pick them up from the floor and back into her backpack.

As June was picking up her books, Danny was observing her and noticed that her movements kind of reminded him of Laura Croft in some sort of way in the game Tomb Raider. June then finished picking up the rest of her books and went off her way downstairs. After that, Danny went into his room and got his labtop out and of course his two friends Sam and Tucker were on-line.

"So who is your new member of the household?" asked Sam to Danny while chatting on-line.

"Juniper Lee" replied Danny, "and what was weird about it is that Vlad Masters a.k.a. Vlad Plasmius introduced her to my parents."

"Do you think he knows something we don't know and is setting up a nefarious plot?" asked Tucker.

"Well" replied Danny as he got out the strange amulet from his pocket and showed it to Sam and Tucker, "this fell out of her bag."

"Is that an ancient Chinese artifact of some sort?" asked Tucker, "Because those are quite rare."

"I'll check it out at the college library" said Sam, "meet Tucker there as well."

"Will do" said Danny as he logged off and went downstairs along with placing the strange amulet in his pocket.

As Danny finally made it downstairs, June at the table talking with Danny's parents.

"So June" said Maddie, "what is Orchid Bay like?"

"Does it have a ghost problem?" asked Jack.

"Well" replied June, "I can certainly tell you that it doesn't have a ghost problem but is certainly a magical place."

"Well" said Jack, "after Danny finishes his breakfast we can take you two to Amity Park College."

"Good luck on your first day" said Maddie.

After Danny ate his breakfast, both Jack and Maddie took both of them to Amity Park College. After Danny's first class and his break, he was in the library with his two friends Sam and Tucker.

"Here's something interesting" said Tucker as he pulled up a book and opened it to the page that had the picture of the strange amulet Danny had, "this amulet belongs to a protector to the magical realm known as the Te Xuan Ze."

"The Te Xuan what?" asked Danny.

"It's suppose to be some sort of mythical protector" replied Sam, "but the Te Xuan Ze is bond to the magical realm and can't leave it until there is a new Te Xuan Ze."

"So how did this strange amulet" said Danny as he got it out of his pocket, "get here?"

"Do you think your friend Clockwork had anything to do with this?" asked Sam as she brought him up, "Because he did save our lives against your evil self."

"And I bet he watches everything" replied Tucker.

"Come on" said Danny, "what's the chance that this Juniper Lee who is staying at my house could be this-Te Xuan Ze?"

Suddenly Danny's ghost sense went off and knew there would be trouble.

"Cover me" said Danny to his two friends as he went behind some bookcases and changed into his ghost mode.

After that, he chased off to find which of his enemies was causing trouble, meanwhile as Skulcker was flying throughout the college to find the Te Xuan Ze, he finally spotted Juniper Lee on her break.

"This is the great magical protector known as the Te Xuan Ze?" asked Skulcker to himself, "This makes my regular prey look more interesting. Oh well, time to implement my client's plans anyway."

As June was simply relaxing to kill some time from her break period, her watch went off.

"Oh great" said June as she looked at her watch, "now what. I thought I left the magical realm."

"Looks like I have a new welt to hunt" said Skulcker as he finally appeared on the scene.

"Okay, who are you?" asked June.

"I'm Skulcker, ghost zone's Greatest Hunter and you have just become my newest prey" replied Skulcker as he gave an evil smile to June.

"Well bring it on then!" said June.

As Skulcker began to fire several of his rockets at June, June leaped out of the way dodging the rockets and then manages to kick Skulcker down to the ground. As Danny arrived on the scene while he was invisible, he noticed that June was taking care of the situation so he floated down to the boy's restroom and changed back into his normal human self and walked out of the restroom to watch June fight Skulcker.

"You call yourself a hunter?" asked June as she gave Skulcker a good punch and another kick and sent him crashing against the wall.

"I would love to have your skin as a pelt" replied Skulcker as he recovered from the attack.

"Okay that is just disgusting" said June as she dodged a laser attack by Skulcker.

"But it's what I do" said Skulcker, "and I especially love to do this against the ghost boy known as Danny Phantom. But then again you're just as rare as well."

"Well the only thing that will be rare are ruthless hunters like you" said June as she gave Skulcker several more good punches and another kick sending Skulcker crashing out of the window and away from the scene.

"That was amazing!" cried Danny in an excited voice as he walked toward June after the battle, "I didn't know anyone like that could fight ghosts that way. My friend Sam maybe athletic but she's nowhere near as good as you are."

"Well thanks" said June, "well I better head to class."

As June left the scene, Danny's two friends had arrived on the scene. Sam then noticed that same look Danny had given her the time Ember used a love spell on them along with the way Danny looked at Paulina back in high school.

"Oh great" sighed Sam as she was showing her jealousy, "I could tell where this is heading to."

The scene then switches to Technus who was observing the battle through some security cameras he hacked into.

"The second phase of the plan is complete" said Technus to Vlad on the other line.

"Excellent" said Vlad, "onto the next phase."