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Today's Just Another Day
Chapter 1: Dark Skies and Smiling Faces
Danny was running late for school. Again.
He forgot to set his alarm clock after coming back from a tough night of ghost hunting. Jack had invented a remote to open the ghost portal and Danny had spent most of the night and early morning capturing the ghosts that his over eager father had let out during his test-demonstrations.
Running around his room, trying to get dressed, Danny heard his cell phone go off.
"Dude, where are you?" His life-long best friend and partner in trouble, Tucker Foley, shouted into Danny's ear, without even a hello.
"Overslept, trying to hurry!" Danny answered, before he stumbled over his half-hidden sneakers. "Ah, found them." He muttered to himself.
"What?" Tucker asked.
"Nothing. I'll be there soon." Danny replied, not quite audible, due to the large amount of toothpaste he had just stuck in his mouth.
"Hurry! Lancer will stick you in detention until graduation if you're
tardy one more time." Tucker said.
"I'm trying! Bye." Danny said, ending the phone call.
After he finished brushing his teeth, Danny looked out the window. Eyeing the dark clouds, Danny frowned. "Great, this is not going to be my day."
Running out the door, his mood as dark as the skies, he barely missed tripping over his untied shoelace.
"Argh." Danny mumbled, as he bent down to tie the offending shoe. He was rewarded with a loud "snap" as he broke the lace in half. "Great. Just great."
After walking a block from the house, he looked around to see if anyone was watching. Seeing no one in the near vicinity, he hid behind a bush and changed to Danny Phantom.
"Alright, time to haul butt to school."
But before he could get two inches off the ground, his ghost sense went off. "Not now!" He groaned, right before getting hit from behind with an ecto blast.
"Yes now child! For now is the time that I, Technus, will defeat the puny ghost child. And become ruler of the world's technology!" The electronic crazed ghost shouted.
"I don't have time for this!" An irritated and slightly bruised Danny shouted back, quickly flying into the air.
Technus flew back a few feet after Danny blasted him in squarely in the face.
Danny swooped down to grab the Fenton Thermos from his bookbag, but was thrown backwards as Technus blasted him in his shoulder.
"You will no longer be concerned with Time child after I destroy you and..."
"Yeah, yeah, take over the world." Danny finished as he finally grabbed the thermos and sucked Technus into it. Looking down at his charred bookbag, Danny groaned. "I even did my homework last night!"
After flying to school without any more mishaps, Danny quickly hid behind a tree and changed back to human.
He got to his locker just as the final bell rang. Danny stashed his BBQ'ed bookbag into the locker while extracting his literature book.
Running to his classroom, he had one foot in the door before Mr. Lancer stuck a detention slip in his face. "After school, usual time, usual place Mr. Fenton." The exasperated teacher stated.
Danny's frown deepened as he stuck the note into his pocket.
Ignoring the snickering and cat calling, Danny walked to his seat, conveniently placed across from Tucker and diagonally behind Sam. Noticing the looks of concern on his friends faces, Danny just shook his head and mouthed "Bad Morning."
"Now that Mr. Fenton has graced us with his presence, we shall now begin dissecting the great American novel "To Kill A Mockingbird.'" Their teacher announced, only to be serenaded by a chorus of groans.
Tucker turned back to his hidden PDA, so he could finish watching last night's episode of "Cheat!". Sam however, was still concerned about Danny.
As soon as Mr. Lancer turned his back, she flicked a note behind her, onto the floor. Danny bent down and grabbed the wadded up paper before their teacher caught them. He opened it up and read:
Danny,
Rough Morning? You look like you didn't get any sleep last night.
Danny sighed and wrote back:
I didn't. After I got back, I found the Lunch Lady in my room. I spent over an hour cleaning meat off my computer and bed. And then this morning I ran into Technus. My biology report is now burned to a crisp.
Danny dropped the note back onto the floor and kicked it over to Sam.
After she read it, Sam wrote:
I'm sorry Danny. Maybe lunch will be better. I'll let you copy my report if you want.
When Lancer looked into his desk for a box of chalk, Sam threw the note back to Danny.
Knowing Sam would never let him copy her work unless it was dire, Danny smiled.
Thanks. No one would believe me if I told them a ghost killed my homework.
He wrote back, feeling some of the morning's stress leave his shoulders slightly. He pretended to stretch his arms forward and dropped the note near Sam's feet.
Sam grabbed the note and turned towards Danny while Mr. Lancer was busy reading out loud. She smiled at him, glad that he was no longer looking like someone had ran over his ghost dog. Danny smiled back and the two teens instantly blushed.
Tucker looked up and snorted out loud at the looks on his friends faces. "Clueless" he mumbled.
Mr. Lancer looked up. "Detention Mr. Foley! I suggest you turn that PDA off now and pick up your book."
"Aw man..." Tucker groaned.
So, what do you think? I have no idea how many chapters this one will be, but I'll update at least once a day. Please be kind and rewind...err review:) X's & O's!