Chapter Two: Dog Day Afternoon.
March 12, 2008, Tuesday
It was a sunny afternoon and Danny and friends had just gotten out of school. Free until the next day and with little homework, they were talking about what to do with their free time.
"I say we go to the movies, Blood and Mayhem VI is playing." said Alex.
"Nah, I want to play video games, I just got Alien Blaster Extreme." said Tucker.
"So hard to choose, two things that combine my love of fake mayhem." said Sam.
"Yeah, but with the video game we can really get into the action, especially with our powers." said Alicia.
"Personally I want to sit down and relax for awhile, we get enough of fighting monsters in our day job." said Danny.
"How about you play rock, paper, scissors for it? If Tucker wins we play video games, if Alex wins we go to the movies." said Valerie.
And so Tucker and Alex played a game that would decide what they would do with their free time. They raised their hands into the air and brought them down.
"Looks like I win." said Tucker as his rock beat Alex's scissors.
"Aw man, I thought I had you." said Alex.
"Don't worry, you'll get him next time." said Alicia as she comforted him on his loss.
And so our heroes walked to Danny's house to play video games, unaware that an unknown being was watching them, all except Danny, whose ghost sense went off.
"Uh guys, we may have a problem." said Danny.
"Is a ghost nearby?" said Sam, Danny nodded his head yes.
Since no one was around our heroes quickly transformed and waited for the ghost to show its face. They did not have to wait long as the ghost jumped Danny and…licked his face?
"Hey, cut it out, stop it!" said Danny laughing as he pulled a green ghost puppy off of his face.
"Ahh! It's that ghost dog!" said Valerie as she prepared to blast it.
"Valerie wait, he's harmless!" said Sam as she put her self in front of Danny and the puppy.
"Harmless? That thing is a menace and should be sent back to where ever it came from!" said Valerie.
"Cujo is not a menace, he's just a little excitable, which is normal for a puppy." said Danny.
"You named that thing?" said Valerie.
"Well its better then just calling him the dog ghost." said Danny.
"I can't believe you named it, and that your being friendly to it, it's a ghost for crying out loud!" said Valerie.
"He may be a ghost but he is still a beautiful creature and he deserves to have rights." said Sam.
"Uh, I think me and Alex here need a little background info, what is up with this dog?" said Alicia.
"Yeah, and why does Valerie hate it so much?" said Alex.
"Well this little guy showed up back in freshmen year, he was looking for his squeaky toy which was in a wall at Axion labs. While he was here there were a few…mishaps." said Danny.
"Yeah, like he lost my dad his job and ruined my life." said Valerie.
"Anyway, he is sort of responsible for Valerie becoming a ghost hunter and for hating Danny's ghost half for a long time." said Tucker.
"Yeah, and I still want revenge for what he did." said Valerie as she glared at the cute, adorable Cujo as he sat in Danny's lap.
"Your dad eventually got his job back, and it technically wasn't his fault." said Danny.
"Yeah, he's just a puppy, he doesn't know any better." said Sam.
"Fine, if you want to defend him be that way, but I still want him back in the Ghost Zone." said Valerie.
"Fine, besides I don't think my parents would let me keep him. They won't let me even get a real dog." Said Danny as they turned back to their street cloths and walked to Danny's house.
As they walked Alicia and Alex noticed the death glare Valerie was sending at Cujo as he rode in Danny's back pack.
"Valerie, no matter how hard you give that puppy a death glare, I don't think it can become anymore dead then it already is." said Alicia.
"Just look at that, they treat it like its harmless, but its not. I bet it is just waiting to turn us all into puppy chow." said Valerie.
"Valerie, do you think you may be over reacting?" said Alex.
"I'M NOT OVER REACTING!" yelled Valerie and she turned to follow Danny and the others.
"Ok, she has some issues." said Alicia.
"Yeah, we better cross puppy off the list of things to get her for her birthday." said Alex as they continued on.
Eventually they got to Danny's house and down to the lab. They were standing in front of the open ghost portal with Danny holding Cujo in his arms.
"Ok boy, you have to go back home now." said Danny.
"And good riddance." said Valerie.
"Good bye boy." said Danny as he threw him back into the Ghost Zone.
Our heroes turned to go when they heard a barking behind them. They turned to see Cujo standing on the floor in the middle of the lab.
"No boy, you have to go home now." said Danny as he threw Cujo back through the portal.
But before they could even turn to leave he was back again, he then jumped on Danny and started to lick his face.
"Uh Danny, I don't think he wants to go home." said Tucker.
"What was your first clue?" said Danny.
"Does this mean we can blast him?" said Valerie.
"Whoa she warrior, there has to be a better way. Maybe Alicia, Sam, or Alex have a spell that they can use to make him stay away?" said Danny.
"We do, but most of them are really painful for the ghost, and I'm guessing you don't want to hurt him." said Alex.
"Yeah, plus I could never bring myself to hurt such a cute little guy." said Alicia as she petted Cujo.
"Oh this is just perfect, he's got you all hoodwinked, when he makes you guys into dog treats I can say I told you so." said Valerie.
"Valerie, you really should learn to calm down." said Sam.
"I AM CALM!" yelled Valerie.
"Hey kids, what's the ruckus down here?" said Jack as he and Maddie walked down the stairs.
They got to the bottom and saw Danny was holding a green puppy in his arms.
"Danny, what is that?" said Maddie.
"Uh, it's a ghost puppy." said Danny.
"And why do you have it?" said Maddie sternly.
"It followed me home." said Danny.
"Danny you can not have a puppy, especially one of the ghostly variety, put it back in the Ghost Zone this instant." said Maddie.
"I been trying, but he keeps coming back to me." Said Danny, he showed this by throwing Cujo into the portal several times, and every time he would come back.
"See what I mean?" said Danny as Cujo licked his face.
"Well this is a problem, how are we going to keep him from coming back to you?" said Maddie.
"Well at least we have sometime to think about it, it's not like anyone is visiting you today?" said Tucker.
"That reminds me, your Uncle George and his family are visiting today." said Jack.
"You mean Uncle George? Your brother, who also happens to be a ghost hunter? That Uncle George?" said Danny.
"Yes, the one and the same." said Jack.
"We're doomed." said Danny.
"I don't see what is wrong?" said Jack.
"Jack, if your brother sees, uh what is his name?" said Maddie.
"Cujo." said Danny.
"If he sees Cujo he might think there is something up, he might find out Danny's secret." said Maddie.
"Holy Ghost! I have to call him and tell him to…" said Jack but then they heard the door bell from up stairs.
"It looks like you're a little too late." said Alicia.
"Quick kids, go hide Cujo in Danny's room, we'll take care of them." said Maddie as she and Jack raced up the stairs.
Danny and his friends phased up into his room and set Cujo down.
"Ok you guys, stay here and keep an eye on him while I go meet my uncle." said Danny, he then left the room.
Danny got to the door just as Jack and George were greeting each other.
"J-man!" shouted George, who looked like Jack except where as Jacks hair was black with a white stripe running through it, Georges was white with a black stripe running through it, and he wore a yellow jumpsuit.
"G-man!" said Jack as he greeted his brother in the same intense manner he greeted everybody.
If Jazz had been there she would have said it looked like two gorillas greeting, and with all the hooting and backslapping she would not be far off, or as Vlad might say, idiots in stereo
"It's great to see you little bro, of course you know my wife Elaine." said George as he pointed to the woman in the purple jumpsuit behind him, who had long red hair.
"And my daughter Sheila." said George, pointing to a girl who looked a little like Danny, only with red hair and freckles, and seemed to be a goth just like Sam.
"Sorry Jacob could not be here, but he's off at Yale becoming a business executive." said George. (AN: Guess who this family reminds you of and you win six million dollars.)
"That's ok, I was thinking that we could, you know, go out and have a family gathering at the pizza shack, what do you say." said Maddie.
"That sounds like a great idea…" said Elaine, and then a strange beeping noise came from George's pocket.
"What's that?" said Danny.
"Suffering spirits! It's the ghost finder, it says there is ghost in the house, upstairs in one of the rooms." said George.
"I'm sure its nothing, this area causes these things to malfunction all the time." said Maddie.
"We can't take any chances. Quickly Elaine, we have a ghost to fight." said George as they pulled out some ghost weapons and raced up the stairs.
Danny and his parents quickly raced after them to try to stop them. George and Elaine ran up the stairs and stopped in front of Danny's room. Without as much as a warning George knocked the door down, they stood completely still once the door was down and Danny feared the worst.
"Hey, can't some people play with the new puppy without others knocking down the door?" said Sam, playing fetch with a small brown colored, blue eyed dog.
"Hmm, that's weird this says there should be a ghost in this room." said George.
"It's like I said, this area has a lot of excess ghost energy, that's what probably set off your ghost finder." said Maddie.
"Or maybe that puppy is a ghost." said Elaine as she aimed a ghost blaster at Cujo.
Just as she was about to fire Sheila came into the room.
"Mom, stop embarrassing me, it's just a puppy, nothing more." said Sheila.
"I guess your right." said Elaine as she put down the ghost blaster.
"Hey G-man, want to see my lab where I keep all my cool ghost hunting inventions." said Jack.
"Would I!" said George excitedly as they raced downstairs, Maddie, Elaine and Sheila following behind them.
"Uh, why is Cujo brown instead of green?" said Danny.
"Thank Sam, she came up with the idea that if he won't leave you alone, at least he should look like a normal dog." said Tucker.
"This is great, this will make it much harder for people to figure out he is a ghost, Sam you are a genius." said Danny as he kissed her on the cheek.
"Yeah, but be careful, any big shake up or to much excitement will make the illusion disappear, this is only temporary until me and Alicia can come up with a more permanent solution." said Sam.
"Hey kids! Come down here so me and Uncle George can blather on about ghosts!" shouted Jack.
"Well it looks like we have to go suffer the horror of two Fenton lectures at once." said Alicia as they left the room.
"Ok boy, stay here while I go do this, do you understand? Wag your tail if you do." said Danny.
Cujo wagged his tail.
"Good boy." said Danny as he left.
Danny would have more to worry about if he knew that Cujo was always wagging his tail. With Danny gone Cujo decided to explore the house as only a ghostly puppy could.
Meanwhile down in the lab Jack was explaining all about his inventions in painful detail. George sat listening to every word, the same could not be said of the others, who were this side of a coma.
"And this is the ghost portal, it lets ghosts into our world whether I want it to or not." said Jack.
"Yeah, and I really wish you could fix that little problem." thought Danny.
"What a coincidence, I have a portal just like that in my lab." said George.
"Yeah, it was activated about two years ago, we don't really know how it started working, it just did." said Elaine.
Suddenly as they were talking the ghost portal opened and out stepped Technus.
"Cower before me puny mortals, for I, Technus, ghost master of digital technology have come to conquer your world!" shouted Technus.
"Oh crud, why does he have to show up today of all days." thought Danny.
"You won't be taking over anything ghost!" shouted George.
"We'll see about that human." said Technus.
Suddenly Technus took control of all the wiring in the lab and wrapped Jack, Maddie, George, and Elaine in a ball of wires, trapping them inside.
"Jack we have to get out of here, the kids need our help." said Maddie.
"Don't worry Maddie, me and G-man are on it." said Jack as they started to pound on the side of the wire prison.
"Now that those nuisances are out of the way, I will finally defeat you ghost child and your meddling friends.
"Uh, I don't know what you are talking about." said Danny nervously as he saw his cousin was still watching.
"What is wrong with you? This is usually the part where we say some witty banter, then we fight." said Technus, then he noticed the new girl.
"Oh, so you don't want to show your powers in front of this new girl? Well I guess I will have to force your hand." said Technus as he used some of the technology in the lab to capture Sheila.
"You put her down!" shouted Danny.
"No, you have to come get her." said Technus, laughing manically.
"Well it looks like we have no choice." said Alicia as she started to change into witch mode.
"Stop Alicia, you do have a choice, she doesn't have to find out about your powers, I'll do this alone." said Danny.
"But what about you, you may need our help." said Sam.
"I'll be fine, I only want you to come in as a last resort, no sense in exposing all of us." said Danny.
"Ok, just be careful." said Sam.
With that Danny raised his arms into the air and two blue rings separated from his waist, turning him into Danny Phantom. His cousin saw this and stared at the site before her.
"So you have decided to fight ghost child." said Technus.
"You made one big mistake Technus, you messed with my family." said Danny as he attacked.
He fired a ghost ray at Technus, but he dodged out of the way. Then Technus hurled a piece of lab equipment at Danny, who quickly went intangible. The piece of equipment flew through the air as smashed into the stairs well, blocking it. Then Technus took control of a ghost laser prototype that was sitting on the floor. He fired the laser at Danny, knocking out of the air. Technus flew over and raised his lighting staff, ready to strike.
"It is over ghost child." said Technus.
Our other heroes were preparing to jump in when out of nowhere an ectoblast hit Technus and knocked him away from Danny. They looked up to see a white haired goth girl with glowing green eyes.
"Hey Technodork, no one messes with my family." said Sheila (AN: Raise your hand if you saw this coming.)
"Another ghost child! This is not going to end well." said Technus.
And Technus was right, with the addition of another halfa to the fight he was having trouble keeping up, and this became even worse when the others got some ghost weapons to fight him. Technus was now panicking and just hurling pieces of lab equipment at our heroes. One of these pieces headed straight for Valerie.
"Valerie, look out!" shouted Tucker.
But it was to late, she did not have the time to move out of the way. Just as she thought she was a goner she felt a clod sensation go through her body. She opened her eyes to see the piece of equipment go right through her and crash into the wall. She looked down to see a little paw on her foot, it was Cujo, and he had saved her.
"You saved me." said Valerie, with Cujo barking in reply.
"I told you he was a good dog." said Danny.
"So Cujo, want to help us beat the stuffing out of Technus?" said Valerie.
Cujo barked and transformed into his larger more menacing look and started to growl at Technus.
"Uh oh." said Technus.
To cut a long battle scene short, Technus got his clock cleaned by our heroes. The addition of Cujo to the battle made short work of the technology obsessed ghost. The two halfas gave one last punch to Technus's chin and sent him flying back into the Ghost Zone.
"Well that takes care of that." said Sheila.
"Yeah, but I have to ask you, how did you get your powers?" said Danny.
"Well you know how my mom said the portal in their lab just happened to start working one day…" said Sheila.
"Let me guess, you're the one who turned it on and you got these powers because of it." said Danny.
"Yeah, and if I'm not wrong, I would say you got your powers the same way." Said Sheila.
"You would be correct, did your friends convince you to go into the portal as well?" said Danny.
"As a matter of fact they did, small world huh?" said Sheila. (AN: especially when you have a mad man controlling your lives Mwhahahaha!"
"Uh guys, I think we can share our eerily similar life stories later, right now we should get your parents out of that cocoon." said Sam.
"Right, we almost forgot about that." said Danny as he and Sheila changed back to normal.
They quickly found a pair of Fenton hedge clippers (Man, does everything they have have the word Fenton in it?) and cut open the wire cocoon. Danny and Shelia's parents fell out of the cocoon, landing in a heap on the ground.
"Hey, the kids got us out." said Maddie.
"Well we loosened it for them." said Jack.
"What happened to the ghost?" said George.
"Uh, we beat him up and sent him back to the Ghost Zone." said Danny.
"That's wonderful, I knew no ghost could beat a Fenton." said George as he swept Danny and Shelia into a bear hug.
"This is so great, our baby is growing up to be a ghost hunter." said Elaine.
"Mom! Stop embarrassing me." said Shelia.
"I say we celebrate, lets all head over to the pizza shack, my treat!" said Jack.
The idea of food was all it took to send George flying up the stairs dragging his wife behind him. Jack quickly followed with Maddie, this left the kids alone in the lab.
"Well this has been a crazy day." said Danny.
"Yeah, you'd think we would be used to it by now." said Alicia.
"So Valerie, do you still think Cujo is evil?" said Sam.
"Ok, I'll admit he is a good dog." said Valerie.
"Good, because I think he may be staying around for awhile." said Danny.
"Hey, Danny, we better hurry up before my dad and yours leave without us." said Sheila.
"Ok, but I got to take care of something first. Ok boy, I want you to stay in the house, bark if you understand." said Danny, Cujo barked in response.
"Good boy, I'll be back in a little while." said Danny as he and the others ran to catch up to the grownups.
Cujo flew out of the lab and sat down on Danny's bed, waiting patiently for his new master to return.
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Rob: Aw! I love happy endings.
Ember: Yeah, but you do know you just created another Jack Fenton, what chaos have you unleashed upon the world?
Rob: I don't know, but it will be interesting to say the least.
Ember: Well now that the boy meets dog story is over, maybe we can pay some fan service and pull the hurt Vlad lever?
Rob: Your right, we wouldn't want to disappoint our fans. Rob pulls the hurt Vlad lever. On the TV monitor we can see Vlad enjoying a relaxing afternoon in his study drinking tea. Lets propose a toast to Vlad's peaceful moment…coming to a sudden end Mwhahaha!
Vlad: Ah! What a peaceful day, everything is going right today…what is that noise? Says Vlad as he hears a strange rumbling noise coming from below him. Suddenly a giant spring launches him and his chair into the air and out of the castle. He flies through the air over his garden, where we can see the Fright Knight in a straw hat and overalls tending to the garden. We leave this WTF moment as we see Vlad head straight for a pile of compost.
Vlad: Oh please let me hit the soft compost. But the gods of luck were not listening that day as he hit the ground just to the side of the pile with a loud thud. The pile then falls over and completely covers him. Moments later his head sticks out of the pile.
Vlad: Well at least that horrible ordeal is over. He then notices the Army of Fluffy Doom has surrounded him.
Leader of the Army: Squeak squeak squeak, squeak! Translation: Attack my cute and fuzzy soldiers, attack!
Vlad: Oh bleep. The army of fluffy doom falls upon Vlad like a wave of cuddly doom. Vlad quickly gets himself out of the fight and runs screaming across the landscape with the army right behind him.
Fright Knight: Can't some people practice their hobby without others screaming like lunatics. Says the Fright Knight as the returns to his gardening.
Ember: I don't know what is weirder, Vlad covered in compost being chased by ghost weasels and cats, or the Fright Knight in overalls.
Rob: Ours is not to reason why, ours is to laugh as Vlad gets his butt kicked.
Ember: To true, now don't you think you should get to the chapter summery?
Rob: Oh right, in all the Vlad hurting hilarity I forgot, here is the chapter summery.
Well it seems that Danny has survived the visit of his relatives, and he has found out he is not alone in being a kid with ghost powers in a family of ghost hunters. To top it all off Danny has got a puppy, a slightly destructive one, but it is still a puppy. I wonder what our heroes will face tomorrow? The only way to find out is to read the next chapter of 14 Days in the Life of Danny Phantom.
Vlad: Curse you Rob Phantom! Owwwww! Says Vlad as one of the cats bites him on the butt.
Rob: And on that note we end it, until next time Danny Phantom fans, Read and Review!