Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom!

Maddie, already wearing her karate uniform, greeted all of the parents as they dropped their children off at the next lesson.

"Hi, Mr. Baxter…nice to see you again, Mrs. Cho…Hey, Damon…I don't think I've seen you before?" She said as a redheaded woman wearing a fancy dress, diamond earrings, and a pearl necklace walked in. Sam came in just behind her.

"Mrs. Fenton, this is my mommy," she said as she hugged her mother's leg. Her mother shook her leg slightly to get the girl off.

"Samantha, this dress was expensive, let go," she whispered. She turned to Maddie and her voice instantly became cheery.

"Hi, I'm Pamela Manson. I'm guessing you're the karate instructor?"

"Yes, Maddie Fenton, pleased to meet you," Maddie replied as she shook the woman's hand.

"Listen," Pamela began, and her voice quickly dropped in volume. Maddie leaned forward in order to hear her, and they took on the appearance of conspirators. "Samantha is rather…gentle, so is it okay if she sits out for anything too intense?"

This woman obviously doesn't know her own child…Sam is one of the toughest I've ever seen, thought Maddie. But she didn't say any of this aloud. Instead she smiled and said, "Of course, of course."

"Thank you!" Pamela chirped, and she was out of the karate studio faster than you could say "hi-yah!" The other parents began drifting out as well, until only Damon remained.

"Not the greatest role model," he noted, and Maddie nodded.

"It's a wonder she even knows her daughter's name!" she exclaimed.

"Her and her husband are always out of town on business trips or vacations; they're hardly ever home," Damon explained. "That's one of the reasons Sam's grandmother lives with her; they don't want to entrust her to a butler or maid."

"Which reminds me, did you speak with her when you dropped Sam off?"

"Yeah, apparently she had fallen asleep and didn't realize that it was time to pick Sam up. I had woken her up by ringing the doorbell." Maddie looked at him dubiously. "Don't worry, I'm sure it won't happen again." He said farewell and left the studio. Maddie stepped onto the mat where the children were all waiting.

"All right, kids, let's start warming up by stretching." They did a few different stretches for about ten minutes. After that, they practiced some of the different types of punches, kicks, and blocks that they had learned on Monday.

"Now I'm going to set up an obstacle course," Maddie informed them. "I want all of you to go through the course five times" She hung a rope down from the ceiling and placed various mats everywhere. They were supposed to swing on the rope and land on a mat, then do a flying sidekick over the next mat and roll over a third one. The children all performed reasonably well, except for Dash, who had fallen when he tried to swing on the rope. After that, they practiced some more moves, then sat back as Maddie replaced the mats to make something new. For Sam and Valerie, this was the first time since Monday that they could talk amongst themselves.

"Oh my gosh, Danny is so cute!" Sam squealed.

"I know, he's adorable," Valerie cooed. "His sister is kind of mean, though."

"Yeah…" Sam said, then giggled. "It was funny when we scared her."

"Yeah," Valerie agreed. Just then, Maddie came out carrying a bunch of rectangular blocks about a foot and a half tall and two feet wide. At one end of the room she stacked a few blocks on top of one another, and at the other end of the room she lay them down and lined them up.

"We're going to have a flying sidekick contest!" she announced. "There are two events-horizontal and vertical. There are going to be two winners-one person who can go farther than anyone else, and one person who can go higher than anyone else." They spent about fifteen minutes on the horizontal section, and fifteen more on the vertical section. As was expected, Valerie jumped furthest, and Sam jumped highest.

"Great job, everyone!" Maddie exclaimed. "Are you all ready to spar?" They all shrank back, nervously. "What's wrong?" she asked, surprise.

"We don't wanna fight Sam and Val, they're too good," Dash whined. Maddie sighed.

"Fine, we'll have Sam go against Valerie. How does that sound?" Everyone except for Sam and Valerie cheered.

"We don't wanna fight each other," Valerie said.

"Yeah, we're best friends," Sam added.

"I know," Maddie replied with a sigh, "But nobody else wants to fight you." Just then, the RV pulled up and Jack ran in carrying Danny.

"I was going to test the Fenton Finder when Jazzy said that it would be too dangerous to have Danny around, you know how overprotective she can be, so is it okay if you watch him while I test it? Thanks, see you soon!" He said all this in one breath, dumped Danny into Maddie's arms, and ran back into the RV. Before Maddie could say, "ghost," he was gone. Maddie sighed and carried Danny over to the side of the mat where he could wait for the class to be over.

"He's so cute," Valerie said again. "I'm so glad I'm his girlfriend."

"Wait a second," Sam said, outraged. "I'm his girlfriend."

"No, I am!"

"I am!"

"You're what?" Maddie asked as she came back to the center of the mat.

"Nothing," the two girls chorused, then shot death glares at each other.

"How about whoever wins this fight gets to be Danny's girlfriend," Sam whispered.

"Fine," Valerie hissed back.

"Step into the center, kids," Maddie said. The two girls faced each other and bowed icily, and the fight began.