Chapter 4

"GOING GHOST!" screamed Danny, jumping up from his bed.

Suddenly his white t-shirt with a red oval and a red stripe at the end of each sleeve and neckline and his blue jeans and red and white shoes turned into a black HAZMAT suit with a white D on the chest with the gaps making out a P and white gloves, white boots, a white stripe on the waistline and a white neck. His black, raven hair turned into white raven hair and his icy blue eyes turned into bright, glowing green eyes.

He floated in the air for a while, trying to figure out where the ghost would be. He expected it to be in the lab so he floated down there. He had forgotten about the weapon that his parents had built and he stood in the doorway, surprised.

"Oh no! I had better turn invisible or get out of here while I can. Or I could change into Danny Fenton and start screaming!" Danny was thinking.

Quickly he turned invisible and flew out of there. He stood on the ground and watched as two blue rings appeared and he changed back into his clothes. He ran into the ghost hunting lab before they had defeated the ghost that looked way too familiar.

"Oh Danny. You're just in time to see how our weapon works." Maddie called out to him, from the other side of the room.

"I AM THE BOX GHOST, BEWARE!" screamed the pathetic ghost.

"Will you shut it? Your so annoying al…" screamed Danny, realising his mistake.

"I know. Ok here goes, I am about to press the orange button." Shouted Jack.

Jack put his finger above it, and pushed down hard. The box ghost received a shock and looked at them without blinking.

"Who are you?" asked Maddie.

" I am the box ghost, keeper of all things square." Answered the box ghost, very slowly.

"Who is another ghost that you know?" Maddie was wondering.

"I know a lot of ghosts. The most familiar one is Danny Phantom. He is in this room right now." Answered the box ghost, once again.

"Uh… that's great, um I better go now." Yelled Danny, running off.

"So, where is this Danny Phantom?" Jack screamed into the box ghost's ear.

"He is heading upstairs." Is all the box ghost said.

"Oh no! DANNY COME BACK, A GHOST IS HEADING FOR YOU." Screamed Maddie, terrified.

"As for you, box ghost. I am taking you back to the place that you ghosts call home. The ghost zone." Jack whispered into the ghost's ear.

He let the ghost free and pushed him into the portal. Jack raced over to the control panel and shut the portal doors.

Meanwhile Danny had heard his mother scream to him, but instead of running back down he ran upstairs and got ready for bed. He brushed his teeth, changed into his pink pyjamas and hopped in bed. His mom came rushing into his room to find him and make sure he was all right. She saw that he was, and headed back downstairs towards her room. She too needed a big rest. Tomorrow would be the day her little boy goes off to New York for a week and she wanted to get up early to help him get ready.

She was already in her yellow pyjamas so she hopped straight into her bed. She tossed and turned because it was very uncomfortable. Maybe because Jack was taking up the whole bed. She turned over and looked at him. Sure, sometimes he was a screw up, and a little too obsessed with ghosts. But she loved him, and she always has.

Skulker? Youngblood? Working together? This is bad. This is worse than bad. This is terrible. I have to get out of here. I am out of their sight hopefully. Look, over there, its Sam. Oh beautiful Sam, don't you know I love you dearly. I would never let ANYTHING hurt you. What is this? SAM IS KISSING TUCKER! Oh my god, Sam, I thought you loved me. You're cheating on me, and with my best friend. I feel so betrayed.

Danny rose from his pillow and opened his eyes. He was relieved to find it was only a dream. He looked over to his silver alarm clock to see the numbers 7:00AM in big, red writing. Danny woke up just in time to get ready for his trip to New York. The bad news was Danny saw his breath AGAIN! He realised what he had to do. So Danny went ghost with out shouting because people were asleep and flew out the window.

Danny was very shocked when he saw his archenemy, Vlad Plasmuis.

"What do you want Vlad?" asked Danny, annoyed.

"Oh, nothing, young Daniel. I was just passing by. On my way to a vacation I well and truly earned." Was all Vlad said.

"You must have come for something." Shouted Danny, getting ready to punch Vlad.

Vlad saw what Danny was doing. He flew off in a hurry. Deep inside Vlad Plasmuis was scared of Danny. He didn't like to show the fear. Vlad was stronger than Danny because he had twenty years of experience. But Vlad was smart enough to know when to leave. Danny was capable of many things. Danny flew after him, trying to shoo him off.

"Leave me alone, Daniel." Screamed Vlad, duplicating himself into four Vlad's, all shooting ectoplasmic beams at Danny.

Danny saw what he was doing but wasn't quick enough. All four beams hit Danny and he fell to the ground right outside of his house. Danny closed his eyes and fainted. The two blue rings appeared again and he was human again. He lay outside until jazz saw him, ten minutes later. She ran outside and carried him into his room and onto his bed. She made sure no one saw this though. She didn't want anyone knowing what Danny had been doing and where he had been. She sat by his bed for a good twenty minutes, when, suddenly his eyes opened.

"What? Where am I? What happened?" yelled Danny, jumping up.

"Keep it down. I found you outside on the ground so I put you in bed. What were you doing anyway? Where you fighting ghosts? Be more careful next time. Some one could have caught you." whispered jazz.

"I was fighting Vlad Plasmuis, and then he duplicated himself and shot four energy beams at me. Why am I the only ghost who can't duplicate himself? Well not counting that once when I defeated the ghost king…" mumbled Danny.

"Danny don't worry about that. It is seven thirty and you have to get ready to go to New York. While you are there I will take over your duties. I can handle it. I have done it before." Jazz admitted.

"Ok, I am going to get ready, but before I do. GET OUT!" screamed Danny.

"I'm going, I'm going." Jazz informed Danny.

Jazz left the room and shut the door so Danny could have some peace and quiet. Danny got off his bed and walked around to his mirror at the end of his bed. He could see that his hair was all messy and he had dribble hanging off his chin. GROSS! He ran into the bathroom and washed his face. He looked at himself again. This is the face of a lousy hero. I'm not a hero; I can't even defeat Vlad Plasmius! I need more training. Right after I get back from New York. Thought Danny.

It was quite a warm day and Danny was excited about going to New York. When he had a shower he didn't even sing his song. Which was very unusual… even jazz noticed he wasn't singing. She just was hoping he was alright. Danny had a very quick shower without even getting shampoo in his eyes once. Things were turning out to be good today. Apart from the Plasmius thing.

Danny raced down stairs in time for breakfast. The usual Saturday breakfast was bacon and eggs but instead it was bacon, eggs and sausages because Danny was going away today.

"Morning mom! Morning dad!" Danny greeted his family, cheerfully.

"Good morning Danny. Enjoying your day so far. I got up early just to prepare you a special going away breakfast." Sang Maddie Fenton.

"Morning Danny. Hope you're all packed for your trip. I made you a ghost action figure so you can remember us. This is how you would look like as a ghost." Laughed Jack Fenton.

"Thanks mom, thanks dad. Wow you must have put in a lot of effort to make this dad. Same with you mom. And yes, I'm all packed." Answered Danny, giving his mom and dad a kiss on the forehead.

Danny looked at the action figure. It looked nothing like him as a ghost. First of all it was all green and he wasn't wearing his black HAZMAT suit. Ah well. They tried. Danny began to eat his breakfast in a hurry since it was quarter to nine already.

"This tastes great mom!" Danny complimented.

"Why thank you hunny!" replied Maddie.

"So, do you like the ghost version of you? Smart eh?" asked Jack.

The truth was, it wasn't very smart at all. But he couldn't say that to his own dad. It would make him so upset. Plus Danny didn't want them to find out his secret.

"I love it! It looks exactly like I would if I were a ghost!" coughed Danny.

Danny continued eating in silence. He hoped his dad hadn't noticed him coughing. I don't think he did thought because Danny's father had a great big smile on his face. He looked so happy. So did Danny's mom.

Danny didn't take long at all eating so when he was finished he put water in the sink and washed his plate and his knife and fork. Well he didn't wash them really. He actually just turned them intangible. But he didn't think anyone would notice. But Jazz noticed. She was making sure her mom and dad weren't watching. She was chatting to them. Distracting them actually.

Danny raced upstairs and slammed his door. About two seconds later he heard a knock on the door. So he went to the door and opened it. Standing in the doorway was his older sister, jazz.

"Danny! You could have just been caught with your intangible act. You're lucky I was there or mom and dad would have found out. Be more careful next time. I don't want to warn you again." Whispered jazz.

"I will. You don't have to warn me. I know what I'm doing. Remember that I have kept this secret from them since I got these powers. Without your help, well most of the time. You know what I mean." Moaned Danny.

"I'm sorry. Its just, well sometimes I worry about you Danny. You need a break." Jazz whispered, apologizing.

" I know I need a break. That's why I'm going to New York with tucker and his family." Answered Danny.

Jazz smiled and gave her little brother a hug and walked off.

"Ding dong" It was the doorbell, which meant it was tucker. Danny grabbed his bag with all his stuff in it and raced downstairs. There were two Fenton thermos's so Danny took one and put one in Jazz's room.

"Bye Danny! Have a great time" said Danny's parents.

"Bye mom, bye dad!" Danny called back to them.

"Hey Tuck!" shouted Danny.

"Hey, dude, you ready for some enjoyment? Ready for fun?" asked tucker.

"Hell yeah!" screamed Danny.

"Well let's go." Screamed Tucker.

"Bye Danny. Take care. If I need help I will ring you. I have the money." Jazz whispered, teary eyed.

"Bye Jazz. Be careful. Some of the ghosts here are powerful." Cried Danny.

Danny wiped his eyes and hugged his sister. He was trying hard not to cry. He knew he would miss everyone in his family. One by one he hugged his mom, his dad and his sister once more.

"Bye everyone!" tucker and Danny called out, just as they were leaving.

Jazz had tears in her eyes. She didn't want her baby brother to get hurt. She didn't want his secret to be revealed. She wouldn't be there to stop him doing foolish things that made him look like he wanted to be caught. Hopefully tucker would take her place. He had also helped Danny keep his identity secret for this past year. They all waved as they watched the car drive away. Well it was more of a van, because their luggage wouldn't fit in tuckers ordinary car.

Inside the car Danny and tucker were looking at comics and playing tucker's PDA. It was a long trip. They had been driving for hours. With one more hour to go tucker stopped playing his PDA and took Danny's comic away.

"Hey! Why did you take that away?" whispered Danny.

"Dude I need to talk to you about you and Sam. I need to know something. I have this one question for now. Will you too ignore me now that you are a couple, leaving me to be a third wheel?" asked tucker, sounding worried.

"How could you think of such a horrible thing?" asked Danny. "Of course not! You're still my best friend and we won't ignore you. It just means that Sam and I will see each other without you a bit more than before. But we will still include you. You're no where near a third wheel."

"Thanks buddy." Whispered tucker.