Disclaimer: Sadly, no.
This chapter was so fun to write! I'd sorta forgotten about it until I started typing it up. (I actually didn't mind the typing part this time!) Oh, right, here's what happened last time, in case y'all forgot.
Just as Danny had finished telling his friends what had happened in the broom closet, the doors to the cafeteria slammed open, framing a frantic girl. She quickly spotted Danny and ran over to his table, her hands shaking.
The usual noise in the lunch room died down as the open doors let in faint shouts and crashes. As one, every student in the lunchroom turned to watch the frantic girl make her way over to Danny.
Reaching Danny, she stopped, panting for breath. Danny stared at her in astonishment, unconsciously leaning towards Sam.
The girl finally caught her breath. Grabbing Danny's shirt with one hand and pointing desperately at the doors with the other, she looked at Danny fearfully before yelling.
"Ghost, attacking!"
So, without further ado, here's chapter 7!
She sucked in a huge breath, staring at Danny, then continued, "Aren't you going to help?" She continued to stare at Danny as understanding finally dawned on his face.
"Gho …Oh! Oh, right." He looked around nervously at all of the students staring at him silently. The girl let go of his shirt, staring behind her fearfully as another crash echoed through the open cafeteria doors.
"Stay here." He said forcefully, standing up. Tucker and Sam stood up with him, following him as he ran out of the cafeteria, closing the doors behind them.
The students watched the doors as a brilliant white flash shot through the cracks between the doors, some sort of muffled cry accompanying it. Everyone stared at each other for a second, wondering what was going on behind those two doors.
Then, as if by some silent signal, every single student jumped up and rushed towards the doors, wanting to see Danny Fenton in action.
Danny rushed through the double doors, knowing his two faithful friends were right behind him. He heard the two doors close behind him as he looked up and down the hallway spreading out to his left and right, his mind focusing solely on finding the ghost. It must have been far away, since he couldn't sense it.
Another crash floated down the hallway to his wary form. Looking down to the right, Danny jumped forward, shouting "Goin' ghost!" as two rings flashed into existence and transformed him into Danny Phantom.
He shot down the hallway, his tail trailing behind him as his mind ran through all of the possible ghosts that could be terrorizing the school. Oh, if it's Skulker again… Danny growled low in his throat, his teeth grinding.
Lockers flew by him as he neared the door behind which all of the noises were coming from.
As he neared a particularly loud crash rattled the door, breaking it off of it's hinges and propelling it across the hallway into a set of lockers.
Danny stopped and stared at the dented lockers in astonishment. Good thing my locker's in a different hallway! Danny thought, remembering a certain haunted locker.
"Whoa. I did not mean for that to happen!" A familiar voice yelled from inside the room.
Wait a minute, Danny looked down at the door, noticing something burnt underneath it. It can't be… Danny's heart sunk as he saw the black remains of a…
"For I am the Box Ghost!" Danny glared dejectedly at the black cardboard remains of a box that was stuck underneath the shattered door.
"Danny!" Sam and Tucker arrived, panting. Danny glanced over at his friends, giving them an exasperated look and shrugging.
"Don't worry, it's only the Box Ghost." Sam shook her head, her expression worried.
"It's not that, it's-" She was interrupted as the Box Ghost flew out of the room, having finally noticed Danny floating just outside of it.
"Danny Phantom! Beware!" The Box Ghost waved his arms menacingly at the ghost boy floating calmly in front of him. Danny just sighed.
"Can we just get this over with?" Sam and Tucker looked behind them nervously as they heard the stampede of students getting closer.
Danny was too focused on the Box Ghost to notice anything else. Unfortunately for Danny, the ghost that floated in front of him (still waving his arms around menacingly) was smarter then he sometimes acted. (Yes, amazing isn't it?) The Box Ghost's eyes narrowed on the wreckage behind Danny, his arms stopping in midwave.
Danny noticed what he was looking at, his stomach sinking when he realized what the ghost must be thinking.
"Oh no you don't!" Danny warned as the ghost turned around, flying back into the room with a, "Ha HA! Beware!"
Muttering curses under his breath, Danny shot into the science room, the Box Ghost right in front of him.
Sam and Tucker turned around to see their fellow students come to a screeching halt right in front of them. With all eyes on them (Danny had already disappeared inside the science room) Sam decided to take advantage of all of the attention her and Tucker were getting.
"Students of Casper High!" she yelled,"Do you know what horrible crimes happen in that room?" Sam pointed to the science room as all of the students craned their necks around, trying to glance inside. "There are innocent frogs that are mur-"
Sam was cut off as another explosion rocked the school, Danny's body creating a new window in the wall. Danny hit the opposite wall of lockers with a grunt, sliding down to the floor as debris rained down around him.
All of the students gasped as the Box Ghost floated out of the hole, boxes surrounded by green energy floating behind him. Sam looked closely at one of the boxes, seeing bright red letters spell out 'CAUTION: EXPLOSIVE.' On the other side it listed something about compressed flour.
Danny groaned, rubbing his head and shaking pieces of singed cardboard out of his hair.
"Beware!" The Box Ghost waved his arms around. "For my newfound boom boxes," he took a second to laugh at his own joke, "will easily defeat you, Danny Phantom!"
His green eyes flaring open suddenly, Danny shot up into the air and sent the Box Ghost reeling back into the room with a well-aimed punch. Green fire igniting on his hands, Danny aimed two powerful blasts into the room as he charged in after the Box Ghost.
The hallway was dead silent as the students stared at the giant hole where green flashes continued to emanate from.
"Wow…" Someone in the back muttered. Tucker glanced back, looking for a face.
Sam elbowed him, motioning for him to stay there. He stared at her as she reached into her backpack, taking out her personal Fenton Thermos. (Each of the three friends had one.) With a determined look on her face, Sam dashed into the science lab, leaving Tucker behind to make sure none of the other students interfered.
Sam entered what looked like a war zone, which it sort of was. The ground shook again as the Box Ghost blocked one of Danny's blasts with a boom box. Danny yelled as he was rocketed out of the ensuing black cloud, the soot turning his white hair gray.
Stopping himself, Danny's fierce green eyes darted around, searching for the Box Ghost.
"Danny! Behind you!" Sam shouted. Danny spun around just in time to see a wall of brown explode as the Box Ghost detonated one of his boom boxes.
"Aaaaah! Ooof!" Danny flew back into Sam, the two rolling into the wall behind them. Sam slowlyopened her eyesto see Danny's soot covered hair obscuring her vision.
"Here… ugh. You're going to need this." Sam muttered into the back of Danny's head as she dug her arm out from underneath him and held the Fenton Thermos in front of his face. Sam felt Danny grab her arm as the familiar feeling of intangibility washed over her. She opened her mouth, a question formingwhenDanny's voicecut though, yellingout a warning.
"Hold on!"
Intense pressure suddenly ripped through her eardrums, an explosion of black filling her vision as her mind screamed, her ears ringing. Her world spun in circles, all of her nerves on fire. She clung desperately to Danny's back, her mind trying to grasp what had just happened.
The world finally righted itself, and Sam's stomach couldn't have been more grateful.
Sam opened her eyes slowly, her vision still spinning.
"Unngh." Sam groaned as she quickly closed her eyes. What she had managed to see was Danny turning his head around, his eyes worried as he tried to get a good look at his friend that was still clinging to his back.
"Sam, are you ok?" Danny asked worriedly. Sam shook her head slowly, her head throbbing with every movement. Danny's tone changed suddenly, warning thick in his voice.
"Hang on Sam!" Sam felt her stomach drop as Danny dove towards the ground, dragging her along for the ride.
"You can't escape my boom boxes of DOOM!" The Box Ghost yelled from somewhere behind Sam.
Sam freaked, her arms tightening around Danny as they continued their dive.
"Ack! …Sam! You're… choking… me!" Danny managed to stutter out. Sam quickly loosened her grip, blushing sheepishly.
Danny suddenly changed directions, leaving Sam's stomach behind. She felt an explosion rock through the air, intense heat brushing the right side of her face. The wind continued to whip through her hair as Danny flew, top speed, away from the Box Ghost.
"Eep!" Sam tried not to choke Danny again as he flipped around, turning her world up side down. Green flashes made it through her tightly closed eyelids as Danny fired green energy at the Box Ghost.
Curiosity finally getting the better of her, Sam cracked open her eyes.
Between Danny's silver hair that was flying in Sam's face, she saw the Box Ghost dodging Danny's blasts, his boom boxes trailing along behind him. She looked down fearfully at the grass rushing along far beneath the two, wondering when they had made it outside.
"Eeek!" Sam squeaked as another explosion shook the air behind them. She looked back to see the Box Ghost fall from a cloud of black smoke.
Danny stopped, floating a safe distance from the Box Ghost's soot covered form.
"Didn't your mother tell you to never play with fire?" Danny shouted. Sam peeked around Danny's shoulder as the ghost floated back up angrily. Danny had destroyed his last boom box, and, apparently, the Box Ghost wasn't very happy his new boxes of DOOM were gone.
As the Box Ghost started shouting his reply, Danny turned his head around, looking back at Sam with one green eye.
"Do you still have the Fenton Thermos?" He whispered.
"No, sorry Danny, I must've dropped it." Sam whispered back shakily. She almost made a joke about her being his new and improved backpack, but she just couldn't find the humor as she looked fearfully back at the ground, absently noticing a police car watching from the sidelines.
Danny nodded his head slowly, glancing back at the Box Ghost who was still ranting on about the superior power of boxes.
"That's ok, we'll just lure him back into the school and find the thermos." Danny whispered, looking back at Sam. Sam's eyes widened.
"What? Wait! N-AHHH!" Sam screamed as her stomach jumped up into her throat, Danny rushing towards the school.
"DAAAAAANNNNNYYYYY!" Sam screamed, closing her eyes and bracing herself as the giant brick wall of the school loomed in front of them. She shivered as she felt her body go intangible, closing her mouth in favor of keeping her lunch.
Opening her eyes slowly, Sam saw Danny rushing through a narrow hall towards a wall of lockers blocking their way. Sam opened her mouth to scream again, but choked on her words as Danny flew around the corner, almost throwing Sam off in the process.
Sam looked over at the blur of lockers rushing by, her face turning green as Danny sped down the new hallway. Sam heard the Box Ghost's voice as it chased them through the maze they were currently speeding through.
"You may have destroyed my boxes of doom, Danny Phantom, but you cannot destroy the Box Ghost! Beware"
Sam looked back, her hair flying in her face.
"Ah! Danny! He's gaining!" She shouted, turning back around. Sam instantly regretted saying this as Danny nodded his head and immediately sped up.
Sam gulped and hung on for dear life.
Danny must have recognized where they were, as he angled his body up, then dove down into the ground, turning them intangible just before they hit the floor. Sam almost swallowed her tongue.
What, does he enjoy torturing me! She thought desperately, her eyes wide as Danny shot through another solid wall. She mentally promised to kill Danny if the Box Ghost didn't do it first.
"There it is!" Danny shouted. Sam peeled her eyes off of the walls rushing by to spot a green dot in the distance. It took exactly two seconds for the green dot to become a full sized thermos. It's true, Sam counted.
Danny swooped down, snatching the thermos off of the ground and spinning around, almost throwing Sam off again.
Sam saw the Box Ghost skid to a halt, seeing the thermos in Danny's hand. He started to turn around, ready to shoot off in the opposite direction. But Danny was too fast for him.
Blue light shot out, catching the Box Ghost just as he kicked his legs out behind him.
Sam sighed shakily, barely hearing Danny's remark about enjoying cylindrical objects for a change. The blue light disappeared, taking the Box Ghost with it with a parting 'Beware!'
Danny finally floated down to the oh so sweet, perfectly solid ground. Sam let go of Danny with a heartfelt sigh.
Danny turned around, rubbing his ear. "Geeze, Sam! Think you could've screamed any louder?" Danny stopped short, seeing Sam's expression.
Sam stood glowering at Danny, her whole body shaking. Her hair looked like it hadn't been brushed in weeks, her face was paper white except for the soot marks on it, and her blood shot eyes were narrowed angrily at Danny.
Danny backed up, laughing nervously. One of Sam's eyes twitched.
"Don't you ever take me with you when you're fighting ever again!" Sam yelled at Danny as they walked down a hallway, taking their time getting to class. (Fortunately for them, Danny's student audience was still bound by the rules of high school, and was currently in class)
"What, should I have just let the Box Ghost blow you up?" Sam glared at Danny for a second, then looked at the floor.
"…yes." Danny grinned at her. Trying to hide a blush he knew was coming, he casually put an arm around her shoulder.
"If I had known you were scared, I would've slowed down for you." Sam glared at him, her face red. (Although it wasn't because she was angry...)
"I was not scared! I was just… concerned." She said airily. Thinking of something, she looked over at Danny.
"Hey, doesn't Valerie usually 'don her battle gear' whenever there's a ghost around?" Danny laughed guiltily at that.
"I think her Dad took her equipment away after he found out."
"Ouch"
"Yeah..."
They walked in silence for a while, both still blushing furiously as Danny's arm was still resting around Sam's shoulder. That is, until a voice interrupted them from behind.
"Danny Phantom?" Danny turned around, pulling his arm off of Sam.
"Yeah?" At the end of the hallway stood a police officer, his kind face looking unusually serious.
"I need you to answer some questions for me."
Heh heh, yeah. Another cliffy...
I've always really wanted to do something where Sam got to experience first hand what a ghost fight was like, so that's where I got the second part of this chapter from. Hope you liked reading it as much as I liked writing it!
I kinda changed this, to make it less confusing... So, (MissM) Too bad she can't do anything about it, though... darn parents. Box Ghost! He's my fav. (SleepW) I managed to update on time! Yay, pleasent dreams. And thanks once again! Seriously! (Rahkan) It probably would have, but I needed the students to know about his fight, instead of him just slipping off. So, erm, I blamed the distance! ...heh.(Crazy) Thanks! And here's your update! (CaptianD) Oh man, a giant brawl! I'll have to think about that for later. Sadly, no Dark Danny, although that would create quite an outrage! (EnigP) Hey! You're back! How was your trip? And thanks! (ObiQ) I'm so glad you like the story thus far! Oh, and nice predictions! Adopts Gandhi voice Ah, you think, but do you know? ...ah, just ignore me, I'm being crazy again. Oh, and thanks for the alert, erm, thingy!
Oh and if you guys have any guesses about anything in this story, say them! I probably won't answer them, expecially if they are right or close to right, but it's still fun to guess, right? Oh, and if you notice something that seems strange or something missing, I (hopefully) didn't forget about it, and it'll probably come into play later.
...yes, eeeexcelent... (rubs hands together)
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