Chapter 3: Enter the Unknown
Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phanton

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Fentonworks - Lab Entrance
December 3rd, 2010
9:34AM Pacific Standard Time

The blue vapor could only mean one thing - a ghost was quite close, perhaps even in the lab itself. Looking left and right, Danny looked for a place to transform, but he couldn't slip off without his parents noticing. Jazz wasn't here to cover for him, so he was on his own.

"Come on, Danny, let's see how the lab held up all these years! I can't wait to re-activate the ghost portal!"

Unable to see anyway to alert his parents without giving himself away, Danny silently took point, and walked down the staircase into the forbidding darkness. As he walked down into the lab, there was an eerie greenish light emerging from the lab. For a moment, Danny thought he could hear a voice mumbling something. His parents seemed unaware, and for a moment, he though he imagined it. A moment later though, his mom proved the noise was real.

"Jack, can you here that?"

Not waiting for a response for his father, Danny continued into the stairs. As he entered the lab, a large dust cloud attacked him. Coughing strongly, he glanced at the ghost portal. The green light was showing through the seems on the Fenton Lock which could mean only one thing - someone had reactivated the portal after they left. Looking left and right, Danny couldn't see any ghosts.

"Jack, did you leave the Fenton Ghost Portal on all this time?"

"No, I didn't. I'm sure I turned it off. Danny, didn't I turn off the portal when we left"

A quick stroll into his memory showed that they had indeed shutdown the portal before leaving Amity Park.

"Yeah, you did ..."

Out of the corner of his eye, something shot across the floor. Danny turned to look, but didn't see anything. A wisp of blue vapor shot out of his mouth. Gingerly, he approached the corner, and that's when all hell broke loose.

Something, or should I say someone, shot out of the floor, and in midair. Danny only had a split second to back-step out of the way. The ghost was fairly large, and it starred down straight at him.

"Danny?"

The ghost's voice was female, and it seemed somewhat shock to see him. It stared straight at him him, before charging. Diving aside, the ghost grabbed someone on one the tables, and shot up through the ceiling. Without thinking, he charged past his parents, and ran up the stairs.

Yanking the front door open, he saw it again, shimmering in the distance, and running away as quickly as possible. He was about to transform, and chase after it, but his parents reached the top of the stairs before he could get the chance.

"Was that a ghost?"

"Danny, why did it say your name?"

A/N: Sorry about the long delay, SAT's are murder. Next chapter will hopefully be somewhat longer.