(Welcome to Chapter 2! I hope you all enjoyed the last chapter and I hope that you enjoy this chapter too! Let's begin.)
Tucker, Sam, and Danny were talking in the hallway.
"He won't reveal your secret Danny." Sam said, she was concerned for her friend; he'd been through a lot.
"I just have this feeling...something bad is going to happen." Danny told them. Danny was unaware that the ghost zone hadn't been closed, but luckily, the ghosts inside the zone were unaware that it was open.
"It can't be as bad as when the ghosts attacked." Tucker told Danny, they were now on their way to lunch.
"He's going to reveal who I am!" Danny said, shaking Tucker at his shoulders.
"You can always get a new identity." Tucker responded.
"Tucker, that won't help anything," Sam said to Tucker, then to Danny she added: "We should get to lunch, it's almost 11:45." Once in the lunchroom, they sat at their normal table and Danny, he just banged his head against the table...several times. Dash, one of the school jocks with bleach blond hair red-letter jacket and muscular build, walked by Danny.
"Fenton's finally lost it!" He cackled, then walked off. Danny just groaned, then slowly went up to get his food, a simple slice of pizza and milk. Tucker and Sam followed, Sam with a salad, and Tucker with a piece of pizza as well.
"He's half-ghost, like you, so wouldn't the thermos work on him? It's not like you've tried it." Sam said.
"Doubtful." Danny replied, "You know what's worse? To imagine the look on my parent's faces when they know I'm 'Inviso-Bill'. Then Valerie. She hates me too, she's been hunting me for...I don't even know how long! I wouldn't even be able to finish out the year! I'd need to move! My parents would hate me, or study me...You guys too! It wouldn't be just me. You'd suffer the wrath of the school too, relentless teasing...taunting. My enemies would come for you too!"
"I'm a Goth, I could care less what others think of me. And Tucker's a geek, no offense, so he wouldn't care much either--"
"Speak for yourself!" Tucker blurted out.
"We're your friends, we don't care what he does, what the town thinks, or who hunts us." Sam seemed to cheer Danny up quite a bit with her speech.
"Thanks." Danny said.
"No problem." Sam replied.
"AAAAHHHHH!" It sounded like the popular Paulina. Sam, Tucker, and Danny turned their heads to see a tray floating in the air.
"Salem." Danny replied. Right on cue, Salem turned from invisible, to visible.
"Ghost!" Yelled someone, then people started running, but Salem had other plans. 3 other ghosts appeared, they were simple balls of ectoplasm, but they were able to guard the exits.
"What now!" Danny whispered to his friends.
"Hope he leaves?" Tucker smiled, having no clue what to do.
"Students of...what school is this again?" Salem asked.
"Casper High!" Yelled someone, the voice didn't seem nervous or scared at all.
"Right. Students of Casper High! The ghost boy you know as..."
"Inviso-Bill?" Yelled the same student.
"Right, right. The ghost boy you know as 'Inviso-Bill', has been here at this school, and is in this very room!" He started cackling, then other students looked around at one another. Salem floated to Tucker, Sam, and Danny, but continued floating.
"What's he doing?" Whispered Sam, Tucker and Danny just shrugged their shoulders. Salem floated up to a student; he was a typical nerd, thick glassed, pimpled face and pocket protector.
"He's 'Inviso-Bill'!" Paulina yelled out.
"No you twit! But using this student as bait, I hope to flush him out. So if you're here...Bill...then come on out...or this student dies!" Salem lifted the student by his neck and top of head; he squeezed the student's neck tighter. Salem looked towards Danny. "So reveal yourself...or let him die."
Danny's choice was clear, he couldn't let the student die, but he'd have to reveal his secret to everyone, as everyone was looking around at one another, waiting for it to happen.
"Tucker...Sam...It was nice knowing you." Danny said, as he took several steps back into the open, it wouldn't have mattered if he transformed in the crowd or the open, everyone would know, even if just one student saw, it would be all over school.
"What's Fenton doing?" Dash wondered.
"Danny...?" Paulina questioned.
"I AM 'INVISO-BILL'..." Danny closed his eyes, and right before the entire lunchroom's eyes, he was changing into his Danny Phantom costume.
"No way!" Everyone was speechless by time his transformation ended. Mr. Lancer, who'd been in the bathroom until now, emerged.
"What in Sherlock Holm's name is going on in here?" He asked, and then noticed the ghost boy.
"Danny Fenton is 'Inviso-Bill'!" One of the students yelled.
"It's Danny Phantom...DANNY PHANTOM! Not Inviso-Bill, Danny Phantom!" Danny yelled out, he was quite relieved to get rid of that stupid name...Inviso-Bill...really.
"So Danny, you gonna save this kid or what?" Salem asked, his grip getting tighter.
"I'm in love with Danny?" Paulina asked herself, everyone stared, "I mean..." There was no way out, no one knew of her crush on Inviso-Bill, but this changed everything, now that Danny was Inviso...I mean Danny Phantom, Paulina's feelings for Phantom and Danny changed.
"Come on...everyone knows Danny, everyone must hate you, they hate the ghost kid, why not the kid behind the ghost?" Salem threw the student into the crowd, some caught him.
Danny flew to Salem at top speed, but Salem put up a barrier, which Danny hit, and flew back from recoil.
"Is THAT the best you've got! Not even able to hit me?" Salem yawned. Danny got up, and sent ectobeams at Salem, he turned intangible, and dodged them all, and then he went invisible.
"Where is he?" Danny wondered.
"Right behind you!" Salem reappeared behind Danny, he held Danny's arms apart, had him in a full nelson, he was unable to go invisible or intangible, due to the device Vlad had given Salem.
"Tucker...Sam! Call my parents!" Danny yelled out, some students chuckled at the sound of a ghost wanting his parents, "Tell them there are lots of ghosts!" Danny struggled to get free, he then thought of Salem's belt. Most students didn't do anything but watch. Others were scared of the ghosts blocking the doors. Sam and Tucker reached the lunchroom doors, but were blocked by the ghosts, but they simply ran past them.
"Who're you gonna call?" Salem asked Danny, as Danny's arms started to fold behind his back. Salem was literally ripping his arms out of his sockets.
"AAAAAAH!" Danny yelled in pain.
"Not much longer." Salem said. Tucker and Sam called Danny's parents.
"Let's take this outside." Salem told Danny as he threw him outside, through a window. Danny was cut up with glass and bleeding.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. This is the best you have?" Salem asked, he just walked through the wall. Danny remembered Valerie in the lunchroom, but didn't see her after his secret was revealed. Outside, groups of students gathered.
"I always knew Fenton was a loser, but he's the ghost responsible for all the trouble!" Dash laughed menacingly.
"See, they've already turned on you." Salem said.
"No. Dash always hated me." Danny replied, standing up. Danny's mother and father showed up, Danny's father was tall and bulky, wearing an orange flight suit, while his mom was smaller, wearing a blue suit.
"GHOST!" Danny's father, Jack, yelled out.
"Inviso-Bill!" Danny's mother, Maddie, said. Before they could move, Salem had lifted Danny, by his head, into the air. He was going to crush his skull.
"Which one do we go after?" Maddie asked.
"Both! They're ghosts!" Jack ran towards the ghosts, but was encased in a barrier, then Maddie was encased too.
"You wouldn't want to hurt your son, would you?" Salem punched Danny right in the stomach, he was unable to keep up his Phantom form any longer, right before his parents eyes, Inviso-Bill, turned into Danny Fenton.
"Danny!" Maddie yelled out.
"That ghost took over Danny's body!" Jack exclaimed.
"No! I'm Inviso-Bill...I mean, Danny Phantom." Danny said, he was weak from the punch, it was pretty hard in his stomach.
"You leave my son alone!" Maddie, using a gadget, was able to disable the barrier.
"Damn. I guess parents can never hate their child." Salem said. Maddie was about to attack Salem, but Salem, now holding Danny's arm, floated in the air, above their reach.
"Oh no you don't!" It was Valerie, in her ghost hunting, red costume. She fired a large energy based blast...at Salem.
"You aren't hurting Danny on my watch!" Valerie said. The hit caused Salem to drop Danny, but Jack caught him.
"My son has been a ghost all along?" Jack asked.
"Yeah. Sorry I didn't tell you sooner, but I didn't know how'd you react to...the ghost thing." Danny said.
"You know that we love you, no matter what you are. You'll always be our son, and we love you, Danny." Maddie said, as Jack set Danny down, and then gave Danny a hug.
"Danny!" Sam and Tucker were outside now, most of the school had gathered. Paulina ran up to Danny, and gave his a very quick kiss on the cheek.
"I can't believe you're the ghost boy!" Paulina exclaimed, "My friends will be so jealous when they hear I'm dating Inviso...I mean Danny Phantom!"
"We're dating!" Danny jumped in the air.
"Gotta hand it to you Fenton, you're...almost...cool enough to hang around us." Dash walked up and said to Danny.
"A-HEM! I believe Danny and I were in the middle of a FIGHT!" Salem yelled.
"Phantom, go kick his ecto based butt!" Valerie said.
"Go Danny!" Sam and Tucker yelled out.
"DANNY! DANNY! DANNY! DANNY!" The entire school was chanting his name.
"I went from being hated to being loved in 5 minutes flat..." Danny said to himself.
"That's it." Salem sent an ectoblast towards Danny, but he put up a barrier and blocked it, yet he was in human form.
"I'M GOING GHOST!" Danny jumped into the air, and instantly transformed into Danny Phantom, which caused the school to cheer. He didn't feel the effects of his cuts or bruises, probably due to the adrenaline rushing to his body.
"There goes that plan. Everyone loves Danny Phantom. Yet it doesn't mean he can't die." Salem and Danny rushed towards one another at high speed, they clashed in a barrage of ectobeams, ectoblasts, punches and kicks. Salem had punched at Danny's head, but he dodged and countered with an ectobeam, which Salem was able to dodge by going intangible, which reminded Danny. He made a dash for Salem's black belt, which when within a close enough range, hit with an ectobeam, which shattered the belt.
"I thought it was leather." Danny said.
"Damn you!" Salem said.
"DANNY! DANNY! DANNY!" Came the cheers of the crowd.
"Let's he how much they like a one-armed ghost boy!" Salem went invisible, and reappeared right in front of Danny, but before Danny was able to do anything, Salem grabbed Danny's left arm, and snapped in half, it hang limp at his side. Danny screamed in pain.
"BOO!" The crowd thought it was a dirty trick.
"Good...ow...thing, I'm...erg...right-handed." Danny tried joking, but he was in lots of pain.
"Lets learn math! One broken arm, plus 5 of me, times powers you can't even think of...and what do you get? One dead ghost." Salem split into 5 different Salems.
"Great...that's...just great." Said Danny, who was again feeling the effects of the cuts and bruises, and most recently, the broken arm. Valerie no longer stood by, on her hover board; she flew up to the Salems, and started blasting one by one. 4 Salems went for Valerie, while the original stood in front of Danny.
"Danny...do you know that your power can also extend beyond ghost abilities? Yes. It also extends to elemental range. BURN!" Salem held out his hands, and from them, came something resembling a flamethrower flame, "Oh wait, that's only for people who've studied a little magic. My bad." Danny quickly flew upwards, but Salem followed him, Danny was inches from the flame.
"DANNY!" Maddie yelled out. Danny and Salem was too far away from the ground for Jack or Maddie to help. Valerie was able to get through the Salems, and they disappeared, leaving only the original. But the ghosts in the ghost zone knew of the opened portal now, and started to over run the town...again.
(That ends chapter 2. Later.)