Chapter 9

He put his hands on her shoulders and held her tight. He flew over to the other side of the cafeteria where Danielle was standing. He let go of her and grabbed Danielle.

"AHHH! Help me!" screamed Danielle.

"Settle down. I am taking you to a safer place to discuss this over and explain something to you." Yelled Danny, over the screams in the cafeteria.

Danny grabbed her and flew her out of the school. He flew her to the Fenton household and into the Ghost Zone. He headed for a door that led them into a room that was empty. This is where Danny came when he felt sad, or needed some peace and quiet.

" Listen Danielle I am not going to hurt you." Explained Danny.

"How do you know my name ghost?" asked Danielle.

"Uh, don't worry about that at the moment. Did you see that other ghost in the cafeteria?" asked Danny.

"Uh, yes. The one in the battle suit thing?" asked Danielle.

"Bingo. Anyway for some reason he is looking for you. He is a hunter. I need you to stay away from him. He might hurt you. If he finds you I need you to call me. My mobile number is 0432456278." Whispered Danny, looking around.

"Uh, ghosts have mobiles? I thought ghosts don't talk to people or anything." Frowned Danielle, confused.

"uh, well I' m a bit different. See I'm what they call in the Ghost Zone a Halfa. A half human, half ghost hybrid." Explained Danny.

"Wow." Grinned Danielle.

"Now we need to get you back to school now. I will deal with skulker. For a change he isn't hunting me. The second time he has been too busy hunting something else. I wonder if Plasmius has something to do with him this time. They have hunted me about ten times. I wouldn't be surprised if they were behind this." Mumbled Danny.

"Plasmius?" asked Danielle.

"Oh, he's just my evil, opposite, archenemy." Explained Danny, grabbing Danielle and flying her back to school.

It wasn't hard for Danny to spot skulker, looking around his house for Danielle. Danny snuck up from behind and sucked him into the Fenton Thermos.

"I better make sure you don't get out." Whispered Danny.

He flew into the boys toilets and quickly changed back into Danny Fenton.

"I might keep you in my backpack for now. If you got out, my bag would break and I would know." Danny whispered into the Thermos.

He rushed to his next class as the bell rang. On the way, people were pointing at him and whispering to each other. Danny was wondering what was going on. Sam and Tucker were talking in front of the class when Danny walked up to them.

"Danny can I talk to you?" asked Sam.

"Uh, sure." Answered Danny, looking around.

"Have you noticed everyone looking at you and talking about you." Asked Sam.

"Uh, yeah. Do you know why they are acting strange?" mumbled Danny, confused.

"Well, after you had left with Danielle Dash started to look for you. I think he was going to wail on you. He noticed you had disappeared. Now everyone is wondering why you ran off. They think that you are having a secret affair. Well that's what Kwan said." Explained Sam.

"Oh, well at least they don't know the truth." Smiled Danny, relieved.

As you can guess, Maddie was spying on Danny and overheard this conversation. She noticed how Sam said something about Danielle. Maddie had seen her and noticed she was a new girl. What if Danny was dating Danielle? But Maddie thought he was dating Sam. Was this his secret? Why would he not tell anyone except the people who knew this secret? It wasn't anything to be ashamed of. But it couldn't be. She only started going to this school today. Unless, Danny had met her before school. Maddie could hear footsteps coming towards the door of the broom closet so she ran off.

"But people think you are a freak with problems." Screamed Sam.

"Umm, earth to Sam. I am a freak with problems. Just not in that sort of way." Explained Danny.

They walked back towards their science classroom. Everyone else was in their classrooms so Sam and Danny expected that they were tardy. Again. They walked into the science classroom and headed for a seat.

"FENTON! MANSON! YOU'RE LATE AGAIN! DETENTION!" screamed the teacher.

"Are they dating or something? They seem to go everywhere together." Asked Danielle.

"Yeah, well we have been friends for ages and they only started going out on the last day of school. I totally expected it to happen though." Explained Tucker, motioning for them to sit next to him.

"Oh, OK." Replied Danielle.

The rest of the day was really quiet except for the occasional whispering and pointing at Danny. Danny got really annoyed at it and wondered if this would happen if they figured out he was a Halfa. He wondered all of their reactions. Would Paulina still have a crush on his ghost half? Would Valerie still try to kill him? Would Dash still wail on him? I think that they would all be No's. Maybe that would be a good thing about people finding out my powers. But there are way too many bad things that could happen. Thought Danny, all afternoon.

"Dude, are you ok?" asked Tucker, as they walked out of the school after detention.

"Yeah, I guess. I've just been thinking of people reactions if I told them my secret." Frowned Danny, counting the hairs on his hands.

"Danny, you can't do that. Imagine all the people who would talk about you then. They would think of you of a HUGE freak." Explained Sam.

"Yeah, I guess so. But then they might stop attacking me. Especially my par…" stopped Danny, looking up.

"Hello Danny. How was your day? Your mother asked me to pick you up. We are going to catch a ghost!" screamed Jack, patting Danny on the back.

"Fine, we are what? Dad, I am scared of ghosts, I don't think I am ready to fight one." Screamed Danny.

"Oh come on." Laughed Jack.

"Be careful Danny. In an instant they could find out your secret." Whispered Sam, hugging Danny.

"I know, bye Sam, bye Tucker." moaned Danny.

Secret? In an instant I could find out his secret? What is she talking about? I need to tell Maddie about my new found information. Thought Jack.

"Bye Danny." Tucker called out, running over to Danielle.

"Danny, we are going to the ghost portal and fishing out a ghost, which we will cram into the Fenton Weasel and then take it somewhere to fight." Explained Jack, driving the Fenton RV like crazy.

"Uh, OK dad." Muttered Danny.

"Aren't you exited?" squealed Jack.

"Umm. Not really." Danny confessed.

"You should be. You get to fight a real ghost with your mother and I. hopefully it will be the Public ghost enemy #1, the ghost boy. Or as he calls himself, Danny phantom." Jack Blabbered.

"Unlikely, I think the ghost boy is hell scared of you dad. I don't think he will be showing his face around the house for a long, long time." Yawned Danny, playing it cool.

"Yeah, I bet he is scared of me." Gloated Jack.

Danny rolled his eyes. He liked to encourage his dad but he knew deep inside that his dad didn't think before his actions. His dad was very clumsy, he sometimes put his family in danger. But Danny still couldn't believe that he actually beat Vlad Plasmius, his archenemy. Even Danny hadn't beat him yet. He was so close though.

"Come on Danny, you get the ghost hunting equipment while I get your mother and the Fenton Ghost Fisher. Meet me in the lab." Called out Jack, running inside.

"It is going to be a long afternoon." Sighed Danny, getting out of the RV.

He walked up the steps to find Jazz looking for him. She was rushing about asking Jack if he had seen Danny. Jack just ran past and pointed to the door.

"Danny! There you are. I need to talk to you." Squealed Jazz.

"uh, OK." Said Danny.

"what are you doing? You're going to go catch ghosts with mom and dad? Are you insane. They could find out!" screamed Jazz.

"I don't want to go, they want me to go. I have it all under control. Anyway, no moves to reveal anything that I don't want to reveal. Jeez, you sound like Sam did this afternoon. She told me the same thing." Complained Danny, lifting his bag off his back.

I can't take this any more! I need to question Jazz and I need to do it soon. Unless, she said something about us finding something out. Maybe we might find something out. If not I will approach Jazz before bed. Thought Maddie, in the next room.

"Hunny? Can you come help me fish out a ghost?" Jack called out from the Lab.

"coming!" yelled Maddie, rushing downstairs.

"well, just be careful." Warned Jazz, walking off.

"oh, wait! Jazz? Can you look after skulker for me. I don't want to let him out of the thermos until I weaken him or something. He is hunting this girl at my school or something. Just make sure he doesn't get out." Called out Danny, throwing the Thermos to Jazz.

"alright then." Answered Jazz.