Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom or Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School. I do not own the original story this is based on.

Only a few things in his life would shock Danny Fenton, and now he had a new entry on that shortlist. Dani was attending Ms. Grimwood's Finishing School for Ghouls. He had just heard about Dani, leaving him stunned in the ops center. The ghost boy would now come here whenever he wanted to talk to Phanty.

"Danny? Hello? You still there?"

Danny snapped out of his stupor as the ghost boy realized he was still on the phone with his girlfriend, who had him on speaker.

"I'm sorry, but could you run that by me again. Dani is attending Ms. Grimwood's School?" Danny had to clarify things.

"Arroooo!" Winnie howled to the phone. "We were surprised as you. Phanty didn't even tell us you had a halfa cousin."

I wonder if Dani told them the truth? Danny thought, but he shook his head at the idea. Who would tell people they just met their biggest secret?

"So, how ya been cuz?" Dani asked. She hadn't seen Danny since Vlad kidnapped her.

Danny had to admit he worried about her sometimes. Bad enough that his parents didn't know of his powers and ghostly girlfriend, but because they didn't know, Daniel could reveal Dani to them. It would be too much.

"Things are good," Danny said, then a thought occurred to him. "Wait, if you're attending school, who's paying your tuition?"

"Ms. Grimwood," Dani replied bluntly. "When I met her, she let me stay here. She's even taking care of the pay."

It was a beautiful stormy day. The wind howled with savage power and rain poured down relentlessly as Ms. Grimwood was on her way back home from gathering the necessary supplies for the school year.

"Such lovely weather. Wouldn't you agree, Matches?" Ms. Grimwood let an arm flow free through the wind, enjoying the breeze.

Her companion, Matches the dragon, hopped and skipped in the mud rode the wind currents. The little guy was having the time of his life. However, the sound of something ruffling nearby caught his attention. Matches stopped playing and turned toward the source with a low growl.

"Matches, is everything alright?" Ms. Grimwood took notice.

Matches continued to growl and left Ms. Grimwood, determined to find the new scent. To him, this fresh scent may be a possible danger. And after an incident with a certain revolting witch, Matches took no chances.

Ms. Grimwood chased the dragon into a pumpkin patch. Matches jumped onto a scarecrow on a frame to glare at his target. Or he would have if the scarecrow didn't throw him off.

"Hey, watch where you're going!" the hay-filled monster said in a gruff voice. Matches tumbled onto the ground. As the dragon got up and wiped the dirt off him, a young Dani had walked behind him with a pumpkin in her hand.

"Hey, little guy," Dani said with a sweet tone. "You hungry?" Dani handed him the pumpkin she had.

"Hey!" The scarecrow screamed as he jumped down. "What do you think you're doing to my pumpkins!? I got a contest to win!"

"I'm sorry," Dani said as she stepped back. She was weak and hungry, not to mention tired. Tears started to form from her eyes. The scarecrow took notice and stopped as Ms. Grimwood came running after Matches.

"What's going on here!? Matches what did you do?" Ms. Grimwood glared at matched before she noticed the scarecrow and Dani. "Oh, hello there, Mr. Bolger. Is this girl yours?"

"I don't live here…or anywhere," Dani answered before Mr. Bolger. The two were startled at her words.

"Then, what are you doing here?" Ms. Grimwood asked. She took a closer look at Dani to see her clothes were tattered and dirty with some dirt on her face. "And where have you been?"

"Oh, just traveling," Dani said. It was true, the little halfa had been traveling, but with no real funds, or a stable income of any kind, accommodations were not so great.

"Where's your family?" The headmistress of the ghoul school was concerned with a child all on her own.

Dani didn't answer. Instead, she looked to the ground, then the sky, and well everywhere but Ms. Grimwood's eyes. It wasn't until the witch patted her on the head that she answered.

"I don't really have a home," Dani said with tears. Ms. Grimwood produced a handkerchief from her pocket and wiped the tears away.

"Well then, since you have no home, how 'bout you come with me?" Dani felt a hand grasp hers.

Dani would have rejected the offer, but Matches had cuddled under her and gave her the most enormous puppy dog eyes he had. Like her cousin, she couldn't say no to them. But before they left, they heard a shuffling of hay.

"Hey, kid," Mr. Bolger walked by with a pumpkin in hand. He gave it to Dani before he crossed his arms. "Next time, don't take, just ask."

With that, Mr. Bolger tipped his hat, gave a grin, and walked back to his frame.

"Come now, dearie," Ms. Grimwood signaled over Dani. "Let's get you someplace warm with a nice bowl of cheesy centipedes and some fungus fudge."

The names sounded creepy, but Dani wasn't picky. Plus, she was too hungry to care.

"By the way, I'm Dani," the ghost girl finally introduced herself.

"I'm Ms. Grimwood, headmaster of Ms. Grimwood's Finishing School for Ghouls."

The two walked hand in hand as Matches stayed by Dani's side. The little guy never left her side.

"After a while, Ms. Grimwood told me she'd take care of the tuition. She was in charge," Dani explained.

From another room, the headmistress overheard the conversation through a crystal ball. The gypsy witch took a long sip of tea. She shed a single tear, happy that she gave the halfa a new home, even if it may be temporary. The headmistress was happy to see how energetic the little half had become and remembered when she found out about Dani's condition.

It was the middle of the night, and Dani had gone to bed. Ms. Grimwood decided to cut down her to-do list and started on the ingredients for the coming years mad science class.

She had everything she needed to get started and lit the flame for the beakers. The bubbling and sweating of chemicals created from supernatural ingredients rose and fell through the tubes. Green liquids turned to red and then to grey. It was a rainbow of alchemy.

It was long before she heard the clanking of glass, but not of the lab,s beakers. Ms. Grimwood double-checked her lab and found no source of clanking or anything similar.

Then she heard again, but this time it came from outside the room. It was inside the house. The witch grabbed a small crystal ball.

Ms. Grimwood crept along the hallways as she made her way towards the noise.

Clink

Clang

Krsssak!

"Uh-oh," came a voice. "I hope that wasn't really nice."

Ms. Grimwood had peered around the corner to see her kitchen a complete mess. Well, by monster standards. There were dirty dishes and glass ion the sink. She looked and saw Dani bending down at a broken plate.

Any caution the witch had was thrown to the wind as she observed Dani picking up the pieces and attempting to hide the evidence. Ms. Grimwood had entered the room when Dani transformed. The ghost girl floated up to hide the shards in a cupboard high above when Ms. Grimwood spoke.

"A little late-night snack, dearie?" Ms. Grimwood spooked Dani into dropping everything.

"What…uh…excuse me ma'am but I—"

"Have special powers that you are using to sneak in a quick bite?" Ms. Grimwood finished for Dani. The little halfa stared at the witch before she looked to the window. "It's alright dearie, I've known the whole time."

"You knew…how?"

"Now dear, I might not be as young as I used to be, but I know that you are a young ghoul," Miss Grimwood said.

"My dear," Ms. Grimwood chuckled. "You have a lot to learn about the monster world."

Dani had just finished telling the events to Danny, who dazzled, to say the least.

"So now, you're going to school with everything taken care of by Ms. Grimwood?" Danny stated the question more than asked it. "That's great. I'll visit you when I can."

The thought of Danny coming to the Ghoul School made Phantasma shriek with joy. Her shrilling voice was so loud, it almost broke the phone. On Dani's end. Everyone tried to calm her down, they even asked Danny to stay quiet knowing he wouldn't help the cause, but the banshee was too excited thinking of all the events Ms. Grimwood held throughout the school year. Besides a yearly volleyball match, there was the Halloween Open House and the Harvest Festival. Those would be great opportunities to show Danny around, if not for one thing.

Phantasma went silent with shock as she realized one thing.

"My father!" Phanty held her face. "He comes to every event he can if my mother doesn't come."

The girls backed away a step. They were also aware of The Phantom's policies on boys. The man even once tried to talk to their parents about the same idea. Luckily, every parent has their own stubbornness of raising children.

Phantasma grabbed the phone in a hurry. It took a while, as the banshee fumbled around with the device, but the iCoffin was taken off speakerphone.

"Danny," Phanty said in a somber tone. "It's better if you don't come. It would make my heart scream, but my father comes to these events as well."

"I…gotcha."

The two teens were sad. This was the first relationship for them both, not to mention an unprecedented one. Well, as far as they knew, neither teen was a history major. Despite having an opportunity or excuse to see each other now, more obstacles got in their way.

Phanty's friends saw how glum the banshee was, but they had no idea how to help her. They would try spells. However, the ones they needed were under lock and spell in Ms. Grimwood's private library.

"You know what. How far away are you? I could try to fly there," Danny's word perked up Phantasma she shrieked with joy and almost flew through the ceiling. Well, she would have if Ms. Grimwood hadn't made her private library in the room above, complete with anti-invasion security measures place inside for any ghoul.

"That's a great my haunting hunk," Phantasma cackled.

"You know I want to hear from my cousin, right?" Dani floated up as did Sibella in bat form. Phantasma blushed before she placed the phone on speaker again.

"Sorry about that," Phantasma handed the phone to Dani with a flushed face, but not before she said. "I have to check some things with Ms. Grimwood. I'll talk to ya later, Haunting Hunk."

"Sure thing. I'll hear from you soon, Spooky Beauty," Danny replied, not realizing he was on speaker till he heard everyone laugh.

With that, Phantasma phased through the walls to find Ms. Grimwood.

"You really call each other by those names?" Dani didn't believe her cousin, and the banshee had such nicknames for each other, seemed a bit too silly. "I am so not going to do that."

"I remember that when you find someone," Danny quipped. "Anyway, tell everything…I missed you."

"Where's Danny? He should have been here by now," an impatient Sam asked as she paced around the meeting spot she arranged with Danny and Tucker. The techno-geek had arrived and preoccupied himself with his PDA. "Would you get off that thing!?"

"Relax, Sam. Danny probably talking to Phanty," Tucker's words spurred Sam's already irritable mood even more. She wouldn't let him know, despite how her facial and body gave her away.

Sam had bought tickets for a special goth extravaganza that, for some reason, took place in the mall. When Tucker asked why, Sam said how the ad mentioned being against any norm, even by goth standard. She was suspect, after all, what sane person would host a dreary event near the evening at the mall? It was also a school night, which made even less sense. But the way she heard this being against all norms, made her excited.

Danny had just arrived in time for Sam's mood to be more…tolerable. He snuck up, invisibly, and turned Tucker's PDA off.

"Hey!" Tucker powered the handheld device back on, but Danny repeated his actions.

"Dude, not cool," Tucker caught on as Danny laughed into visibility. "I was going for a new high score.

"Finally!" Sam cried. "Do you know how long we've been waiting?"

"Sorry, Sam. Phanty called," Sam gave Danny a sour expression until she heard the next part. "And get this Dani is attending her school."

At this news, Sam and Tucker forgot what they were doing here huddled towards Danny. They knew it's been ages since Dani was sighted in Amity Park. To hear that the young halfa attended ghoul school, felt a little upending.

"Is everything alright?" Tucker asked.

"Of course she is…I mean, she's part ghost," Sam clarified, but she was not wholly sure herself.

The duo looked to Danny, who smiled. "She's fine. In fact, Dani fitted in better any metaphor. Though I may bring her some human food too. Brownies made with mosquitoes and fungus doesn't sound like a great snack to me."

Tucker and Sam winced at the treat. It was hard to say who was creeped out more. They would have pressed on more had the speakers announced the event about to happen in the mall.

"That's right! Eclipse Evening!" Sam exclaimed as she dragged the boys. "Come on! We're gonna be late!"

"Eclipse Evening?" Danny whispered to Tucker.

"Don't ask me who names this stuff," Tucker responded. "I didn't pay attention to what it was called, either."

Danny, Tucker, and Sam arrived at the center of the mall, where there was curtain circling in the middle. Danny looked around to see not only goths but also regular people. Some even seemed like they came from other towns. Danny locked eyes with a girl who gazed at him. The ghost boy looked around to see if her gaze was meant for someone else, only to find his answer as she locked eyes with him.

"Is she one of the girls from the dating service?" Tucker asked with a peering head and some jealousy. But he never got a good look as the girl's friends take her away.

"No, but she looked familiar," Danny for the life of him, or half-life, couldn't remember.

Sam found the girl in question and gave a 'back-off' face, but her group returned with a signal to back down, which Sam was more obligated to do. One girl, no matter how stubborn, can not handle six others.

But before the boy could ponder on the girl. The surrounding lights went off with the remaining focused on the curtain, which rose up. There was a dome-like structure with a strange gentleman in Victorian clothes with a top hat and cane. No one could see his face, because of long hair that covered his whole head, save for his nose, which was freakishly long.

"Ladies and gentlemen, goths, ghouls, and creatures of the day…and night," the man spoke with dramatic projection as he made grand gestures with his hands. "Welcome to the Eclipse Evening. I am your host, Zakerick Howler. Now, I'm sure some of you are concerned, whether or not you're a parent, about this being a school night, but here we denounce the blasé of the redundant and routine with something to liven up your new school year."

With a loud tap of the man's cane, the dome opened up to reveal several holographic entities that were of ghastly description. They moaned and shrieked as some of these beings morphed via turning inside out. It was scarier than most ghosts for most of the audience, save for select groups.

"Whoa!"

"Freaky!"

"I want my mommy!"

"Ewww!"

"What is this?"

Danny and his friends were not fazed by anything, mainly because they spend most days fighting ghosts. Danny could help but feel as though he was being watched. He looked around and saw some groups whispering and pointing towards him. One of them had been the girl who stared at him, now sporting a blush.

"Who is she? And why does she seem familiar?" Danny asked these questions out loud, to the annoyance of Sam, who glanced towards the girl again. The goth girl did not like her by the second. But before he got an answer, steam rose from the stage, and monsters appeared, actual monsters such as minotaurs, kitsunes, yowies, and others.

"And now, I bring you creatures of the night!" Mr. Howler exclaimed as he laughed maniacally.

To his irritation, a lot of the teens laughed it off. This was mainly due to being attacked by ghosts constantly, but the man could hear doubtful jeers.

"That's the lamest use of special effects I've ever seen!"

"They look nothing like the ghosts we see!"

"There a guy in Oregon with better props than you!"

Danny looked at the showman, despite the covered face, it was clear he was in a rag. But then, the man calmed himself and looked to the crowd.

"I was going to save this for the end," Howler said in an eerie calm tone. "But since you all don't believe this is real, why don't you have a peek for yourself."

The man tapped his cane again, and a bright red light covered the stage, blinding everyone. When they dimmed, the audience saw how the people onstage and the holograms looked closer to abominations than their original forms. Upon the first blood-thirsty howl, everyone screamed and ran. Danny looked around, but he was confused as his ghost sense didn't go off, making him unsure of what was happening.

Tucker recorded everything on his PDA out of teenage instinct when a minotaur jumped towards the trio and knocked them back. Danny snapped to his feet and looked for a place to transform.

"Gotta focus," Danny said as he jumped into a nearby scenic bush and changed.

Within moments Danny Phantom flew in and rushed to the Minotaur, pushing him up and away from the crowd.

"I heard of the monster mash, but I think that requires a beat," Danny quipped as he blasted some of the abominations. "And you guys are terrible dance partners."

Danny's attacks brought the attention of the others to him. He could hear some cheers as he flew in to fight back the horrors.

"And right on time," Howler looked to his watch. "And here I thought nothing would happen. Ha! Haw!"

Danny blasted the charging Minotaur into the fountain before immobilizing it in ice. The beast struggled and cracked its cold prison. Thinking fast, Danny brought his fist in between its eyes. Danny didn't want to hurt him, especially after finding out about peaceful ghosts and monsters, but it was necessary.

The screams of other teens could be heard as a bulky cyclops was closing in on a group. Tucker and Sam managed to distract him by shouting toward their direction.

Danny flew over and kicked the cyclops in the side. The one-eyed beast gave him an angry glare as Danny poked him in the eye, making him run away in pain. The cyclops slipped on ice, courtesy of Danny, and crashed into the nearest wall.

"Look on the bright side, at least your eye doctor will give you half-off," Danny quipped, but his gloating didn't last long as another abomination gabbed his foot with his fangs. It hurt, but the ghost boy powered through and blasted it away.

"I don't know if this works," Danny pulled out the Fenton Thermos. "But, it's worth a shot."

To his surprise, the thing was actually being sucked into the thermos. Danny closed the lid and glanced at the rest.

"OK, you might not be ghosts, but if this works on you, I'm OK with that."

Danny flew in rhythm as he fought the monster and 'ghosts,' punching and blasting the former while vacuuming the latter. And it worked well, Danny kicked a Yowie up and tied it down with the stage curtain, had every 'ghost' in the thermos, and managed to trap a swamp monster in a tanning booth. Though he didn't start the device. The ghost boy was wrapping things up with grabbed the tail of a kitsune when something seemed off. He had flung her into the fountain with a frozen prison when Danny landed on the stage.

"How come you're still here?" Danny asked Mr. Howler, who hadn't moved from the spotlight.

The man had a satisfied look as if nothing bothered him. He studied the crowd; Danny seemed like a side note to him. Danny marched up to the showman and hoisted him by the collar, now Howler was looking at the ghost boy.

"For a guy named Howler, you're a quiet one," Danny brought the man's face to his. Well, as close as he could.

"My, my, that went well," Howler said confidently. He looked to the crowd again. Danny, impatient with the man's attitude, threw him down, but the man still paid more attention to the people. He knew that bothered the ghost boy.

Danny looked in the same direction and saw nothing wrong. He had everything under control, the teens and adults were alright, but it seemed some had left already. Danny didn't know if they were OK, and that worried him for a moment. The ghost boy walked over to Zakerick Howler, expecting some more answers, but the man got up himself and uncovered his eye.

"What a dramatic turn of events," Mr. Howler had his cane up. Danny, unthreatened by the object, aimed a charged fist at him. "But I think the first act is over. Hmmm…so sad, you know I wanted some more chaos, but you know me."

"Dude, I don't know you?"

"Really?" Mr. Hoiwler now looked confused. "This worked too? Well then, Ta! Ta!"

Zakerick slammed the tip of the cane into the ground, and a puff of smoke enveloped him. Danny rushed him but found nothing as the smoke gave way to air when he passed through. Danny searched the area for the man till the sound of a specific pair of ghost hunters graced his ears.

"Freeze, punk!" Jack Fenton aimed the Fenton Bazooka while Maddie brought out twin ghost pistols. They would have started blasting if not for some teens getting in the way.

"Hey, lay off him, man!"

"Yeah, he saved us from the monsters and ghosts!"

At the teens' words, Jack and Maddie glanced at the destruction but saw no monsters or ghosts. Maddie placed a pistol in a holster as she picked up a scanner, which found nothing but Danny Phantom. At least it did until Danny phased through the ground when Jack looked at the device.

Danny transformed back and met with Sam and Tucker.

"Dude, that was crazy!" Tucker exclaimed. "And we fight ghosts."

"And the weird thing is…that Zaker guy talked like I knew him," Danny focused on his friends more. "Do we know him?"

Sam and Tucker shrugged as they didn't have a clue as well. After the summer, Danny and Tucker knew more people, and a more significant part of the world came to them. Or, more specifically, Danny.

"Danny, I think we'd know if a gothic, freaky showman-Oh my gosh! That was Freak Show!" Sam connected the dots. "Why do our bad guys post billboards, and we never notice?"

Danny and Tucker wanted to laugh off her claim, but they noticed the scenery fitted his MO. Creepy monsters, a stage, but Danny couldn't help but wonder why he didn't have his usual flair with him. On top of that, the ghost boy had him put in jail twice, yet barely paid any attention to him.

"I don't get it," Danny looked around. "What was the plan here? Mess with me?"

"Huh, and here I thought the guy would have the whole circus act," Tucker stated.

Sam smacked him upside the head for that.

"Knock it off, Tucker." Sam looked at Danny. "You going to be OK?"

Danny appeared worried but gave his friends a grin. Whatever Freakshow had planned, he could take it. With his parent's being…well, themselves. Danny and his friends thought it would be best to leave before anything embarrassing happened, and head to his place for some fun.

Danny and Tucker had wanted to play the latest game of HECK, but after everything, the teens settled for a friendly game of Wild Crossroads. Everything was set up, and the guys started playing when Danny's phone went off.

Upon pressing accept, Danny heard the shrill of a familiar voice.

"Danny! Are you OK!?" Phanty's voice filled the room as Tucker snickered at the nickname. Sam scowled at hearing the banshee's voice. She was in no mood. "I heard what happened. It's all over the Monsternet."

"Phanty, calm down. I had everything under control," Danny got up to take the conversation somewhere more private.

"Is it ironic that after fighting all these ghosts, Danny is dating one now? "Tucker asked.

Though the irony was real, Sam didn't say a word as she glanced at the door Danny left through.

"Sam," Tucker wanted to say something, but an angry glare from the goth shut him up. So he went back to the game.

The goth was surly, to say the least. Instead of waiting for Danny, Sam got up and walked to the door.

"Where are you going?" Tucker paused the game.

"It's a school night, remember. I have to go home and finish my homework," And Sam left the Fenton household. She didn't trust Phantasma and was too jealous to be in the same room as Danny at hearing her name.

"I thought we finished our homework so we could go your goth thing," Tucker said to no one and went back to the game.

After some time, Danny came back with a smile and some snacks, though that was from his call.

"OK, I brought…hey, where's Sam?" Danny placed the snacks beside his friend, who shrugged.

"She went back home. School night. So, I'll be doing the same soon. By the way," Tucker turned his attention to Danny. "did you finish today's homework?"

Danny freaked out as he had been distracted from it most of the day. While the ghost boy went over what was left as his friend gloated with the videogame, a grey squirrel with slanted eyes observed from the windowsill.

Vlad Masters was impatient. As mayor, he had the political power he had while maintaining dummy corporations to keep his business afloat, his way. And with his supernatural powers, the man could make personal connections and keep a comfortable level of anonymity. But he didn't have one thing.

And he was reminded of that one thing as he sat down in his lab viewing the recordings of a confident young halfa, who had been a thorn in his side, with a cackling banshee.

His thoughts were interrupted by the entrance of Skulker, who had a mini-missile aimed at a monitor.

"Skulker, these are holographic screens," Vlad stated and transformed. "You know it won't do anything."

"Doesn't mean it won't bring some satisfaction," The ghostly hunter lowered his weapons with a humph.

"Enough small talk. Did you get him?" Vlad demand as he menacingly flew towards Skulker.

"I still say we don't need him. I can—"

"Only hunt and tame some of the creatures in the Ghost Zone!" Vlad yelled. "This ghost has the power to tame the one creature I need. A feat that was too much for you."

Vlad turned back to the monitors as Phantasma's face was now on display.

"I want you to find where this ghost is—"

"Banshee."

"Excuse me?" While Vlad wasn't privy to Skulker butting in. He was curious why the hunter did so out of character.

"That kind of ghost is a banshee. You might want to get it right. Some ghosts are getting sensitive."

Vlad was surprised at this trivia, but shrugged his shoulders and ran with it.

"Find this banshee. I know she's not in the Ghost Zone. The recordings have her state about a school in the Human World. Find it. Find the girl. Then report back."

"But sir, I can do more to the little banshee. And besides, it's no secret that her father did all the fighting. Not to mention, he doesn't want her dating. Why not—"

"Skulker," Vlad had his hand up to stop the hunter. "I see what you're getting at, but I won't use such a childish method unless I deem it necessary."

"Now go," As Skulker disappeared, Vlad turned to the monitors with a grin. "Now, let's see about another...client."

And here we stop for now. Dani has a home now with Ms. Grimwood and Danny can visit. Or can't he? I wonder what Freakshow was p[planning. Did it have something to do with Vlad? Thanks to all the followers and I hope you all stay safe during these times.

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