Meeting Ten

Danny rubbed his eyes but the image that was before him was still there.

The image of a small, green haired child who looked no older than 2, with pointy ears, a small horn on his head and he was wearing a tiger-striped diaper.

A child who looked EERILY similar to Lum.

The child opened his eyes and looked around his surroundings.

"This Earth sure is a scary planet..." The little child said, sounding concerned. While surprising the two earthlings that the child could speak at his age.

Lum gasped in delight and smiled widely at the sight of the child.

"Ten?! Why, it's Ten! Hi! Come over here, Ten!" Lum said happily.

The child turned to look at her and smiled.

"Lum!" The little boy said happily as Lum extended her arms for a hug. "Lum!"

Danny and Jazz blinked and before either could do or say anything, they saw the small child suddenly float into the air and tried to float towards Lum.

It just confirmed to them that this child is an alien, from Lum's race.

Oh man, who is this? Her little brother? Danny thought as he saw the little alien child trying to float to Lum slowly.

"Oh, you're quick!" Lum said happily, even though the floating child barely moved a few inches as he kept going to her, with a big smile on his face.

"Yeah..." He said with his eyes close and a big smile as he kept floating.

"You're fast!" Lum said, in the same way.

"Yeah..." The child said, in the same way, though he was still taking a while to float over to Lum.

It was almost like he was CRAWLING in the air.

Normally, Danny would say something but he was still surprised that he said nothing, since he was still trying to figure this out.

He waited until the little alien boy reached Lum and the two aliens shared a hug, further confirming that they knew each other.

"Uh… Lum… who is this?" Danny asked cautiously as Lum continued to hug the small child in her arms.

"He's my cousin, Ten..." Lum explained.

Oh man, not another alien... Danny thought

Ten blinked a bit as he looked at him, before turning to his cousin, asking innocently, "So, Lum, is this man your husband?"

"That's right..." Lum said to the small child, as if that settled the matter.

"No, I'm not…" Danny stated, but was ignored by the princess.

Danny was still surprised to hear that this kid is Lum's relative...and that he is here.

"Lum's cousin?" He whispered.

Danny wondered if he had the same kind of powers as her.

Ten saw him looking and frowned.

"Hmm? What's that look on your face!? Is that how you look at folks comin' all the way from beyond the galaxy?" Ten said in a tough sounding voice.

Danny blinked, snapping out of it once he realized that he was indeed staring and maybe the kid might assume he was being rude or something.

Despite the bizarreness of this whole thing, Danny didn't want to be mean to the kid since he hasn't done anything besides leaving several huge holes in his house, but he's not focusing on that.

"Oh… uh… sorry… I didn't mean to stare… uh… Ten, right?" Danny said, though he was still confused.

"Yes." The small child said.

Danny and Jazz shared a baffled and worried look.

"I'm… I'm sorry but I am confused. Lum, what is he doing here and why did he show up in a… peach? Is that a thing in your world?" Danny asked, still confused.

Lum giggled, while Ten sent him a look.

"This is a surprise to me too." She looked to her cousin. "Why are you here?"

"I heard a rumor that Lum found a good husband on a planet called Earth...so I said to myself, this I got to see...and set out..." Ten said.

Lum hugged Ten to her as she said, "You're so clever Ten!"

"Ten is a good boy!" Ten said, soaking up the praise.

"You came alone? A little kid traveled into space all alone?" Danny asked, mildly jealous since he would love to travel in space.

He then asked, "How was it?"

"It was a long, hard voyage for a little kid like me..." Ten said with his arms crossed.

"I...I see..." Danny said, still reeling this whole thing in as a baby like Ten was able to get himself shipped over like it was nothing while traveling through space.

Lucky kid. He thought.

It was then that he properly processed everything Ten said.

Turning to Lum, Danny asked what was on his mind.

"Wait… how old is he?"

"He just turned 2..." Lum said.

Both Fenton siblings turned to look at each other before back at the two aliens.

"He's… pretty vocal for a two year old..." Jazz commented. "Must be an alien thing."

Ten saw her and smiled.

"Hello, miss." Ten said, in a much friendlier voice than he said to Danny.

"Wait… you just came here, just like that?" Danny asked.

"That's what I said..." Ten said, his voice as it was when he just last spoke to Danny.

Jazz thought it before questioning something.

"Wait... does your parents know you are here?" She asked.

Ten smiled when he saw her.

Clearly, he thought she was pretty.

"Don't worry about me Miss. I'm able to take care of myself."

"That's right, children on our planet are taught how to take care of ourselves at a very young age." Lum explained

Must be a warrior race thing… Danny thought.

"Lum, you should call his parents and let them know that he is here, they must be worried..." Danny said.

Lum smiled widely.

"Oh darling...you are so caring..." Lum said happily and Danny rolled his eyes.

Jazz rolled her eyes said as well.

"Danny's right through Lum, we should let them know that Ten is here before anything."

"I'm sure Auntie and Uncle won't mind, but after all Ten has a right to make a decision on what he wants to do." Lum said confidently. Turning to Ten, Lum asked, "Ten, what you wanna do?"

"I wanna stay here with Lum for a while..." Ten said, while trying to project himself as a bigger kid.

"We still need to let your parents know where you are..." Jazz said, speaking to him like the small child that he is. She looked at Lum. "Do you have a phone I can use to call his parents?"

"Sure thing, sister-in-law, follow me." Lum said before picking Jazz up. She then turned to Danny and asked, "Darling, could you look after Ten for me while we're calling Ten's parents?"

"Sure. But I want my sister back unharmed." Danny said, as he didn't mind looking after Ten, even though he's a relative of Lum's.

"Don't worry Darling!" Lum smiled before taking a shocked and scared Jazz up to her personal spaceship.

As soon as the two were gone Danny saw Ten staring at him, with an expression that children Ten's age shouldn't have.

"Uh, what are you looking at?" Danny asked.

"It's obvious that Lum is too good for you!" Ten said sharply.

"… huh?" Danny questioned.

"So, it wasn't worth coming all this way to visit her..." Ten said casually about his cousin.

He's...blunt... Danny thought, trying to be patient.

Ten floated up and said, annoyed, "I don't see how someone like Lum could ever fall for a scrawny prepubescent teenager like you! Why couldn't you be someone similar to Rei!"

Blinking, Danny thought. How does a little kid like Ten know so many big words compared to me?

He then asked.

"Wait… who's Rei?"

Ten however, ignored his question, and kept on razing on Danny.

"I wouldn't be surprised if Lum only decided to make you her husband just because of a fluke or some kind of trick!"

Be patient Danny. He is just a little kid... Danny thought, doing his best to not lose his temper because of a little kid.

Soon Jazz and Lum came back as the Oni Princess exclaimed, "We're back, Darling! How are you and Ten doing?"

Before Danny could say anything, he heard the doorbell ringing.

"Oh man...you two stay out of sight while I go handle this..." Danny said as he changed forms and phased upstairs.

Ten was surprised by the transformation.

"What is he, anyway?" Ten asked his cousin.

"He is my darling..." Lum replied while Jazz groaned.

"This is gonna be trouble..." Jazz muttered.


After peaking through the floor to make sure his parents weren't home, Dany floated up and changed back before going to the door.

After answering the door and saw his old friend.

"Sam?"

"I called but you didn't answer and...I got worried..." Sam said, before looking past him. Despite it being quiet she had a sneaking suspicion about you-know-who. "So...is SHE still around?" Sam asked bitterly.

"Unfortunately... and you'll never guess what happened just now..." Danny said.

However, unbeknownst to Danny, Sam saw a baby with the same hair color as the princess, a single horn on his head, and a diaper in the same style as the oni girl she despised.

"Does… it involve a floating, green haired baby?" Sam asked in a stun voice as she pointed behind him.

Danny saw that it was Ten.

"Ten… what are you doing? I said to stay out of sight..." Danny said to the small kid.

"I wanted to see who would want to come and see you." Ten said.

"But I told you and Lum to stay out of sight." Danny stated to the baby.

"Why would I need to hide?" He asked, confused.

"Danny, who is this?" Sam askes.

Ten saw her and smiled at the pretty girl.

"I'm Lum's cousin, Ten..." Ten said in an innocent sounding voice.

Sam was shocked.

"Lum has a baby cousin?!" Then turning to the baby she continued. "And he can speak?!"

"Miss, you are very pretty..." Ten said.

Danny raised a brow.

Looks like he has a crush on Sam. Danny thought as the little alien child made a mistake.

He tried to hug Sam.

"Hey, let go!" Sam said as she pushed him off, before Ten could "cuddle' her.

Ten was shocked at this, as if no woman ever pushed him away before.

Danny was as surprised by Sam's attitude as Ten was. Sure she wasn't a people person, but that doesn't mean she could treat a baby like Ten this way.

"Sam? What are you doing?"

"I know a spoiled brat when I see one." Sam told Danny. "I have cousins that are close to your age and they are as bratty as you are..." Sam said.

Ten began to get upset.

"WAH! SHE'S BEING MEAN TO ME!" Ten cried.

However, to his disappointment, the one who came to his "rescue" is Danny.

Danny looked disappointedly at Sam before tending to the 'upset' baby.

"Shush.. it's okay Ten...no need to cry..." Danny said, actually trying to calm him down, before scolding Sam. "Chill out Sam, he is just a kid..." Danny said, not seeing the glare Ten sent him for touching him. Sam did, however, and glared back at the baby.

"If Lum's your wife, who's this pretty lady supposed to be?" Ten asked.

"She's not my wife." Danny groaned before saying, "This is Sam, my best friend."

"Are you cheating on Lum with her?!" Ten asked, pointing accusingly at Danny.

Sam's button was pressed.

"She's not Danny's wife! She just misheard Danny talking to himself when she was supposed to not be on our planet as she should've been. So she-"

"Hello, Darling? Who was that at the door?" Lum soon came flying over before she saw Sam and looked angry. "What is SHE doing here?"

"I'm just making sure you didn't accidently kill Danny with your cooking or worse your electrocuting." Sam said as the two of them began to glare angrily at each other, both boys would stare and thought they saw lightning between them.

Jazz came to the room. "I'm sorry Danny, I lost track of her for a second and then- Oh boy…"

"Yeah… I'm going to take the kid upstairs."

Since it looked like there was no getting through to either of them Danny sighed and carried a scared Ten away from the two girls while Jazz tried to play peacemaker.


LATER

Danny was in the attic digging through some stuff as if he was looking for something. Ten was floating behind the teenager as he did not trust Danny one bit.

"…What are you doing?" Ten demanded with his arms crossed.

"I'm looking for something... just sit tight, kid." Danny said, before he found what he was looking for and came back into the room with a box. Placing it down Danny pulled out some old toys and comics for Ten to play with or read so he would not

"Here, play with these until we can figure something out..." Danny said.

Ten was still suspicious.

"Listen you, how come you have to pretend to be so nice?" Ten asked suspiciously.

"Who's pretending?" Danny asked with one eyebrow raised.

"You are! You think you can bribe me to like you just so I can go home and you can do what you want to Lum. I'm more intelligent than you think, human." Ten said.

"What? That's not it at all." Danny said.

However, Ten had shot into the air.

"Face divine punishment!"

And surprising Danny, Ten shot fire from his mouth. Getting down, the fire went out before touching the walls.

"Dude! What's with you!?"

"I'm punishing you for tricking Lum! Now hold still so I don't burn the house down." Ten said before taking a deep breath to try and burn Danny again.

Danny, though appreciating that Ten doesn't want to burn his house, was not going to make it easy for this intelligent 2-year old.

"I'm Going Ghost!"

And soon he changed again by use of white rings as he became Danny Phantom and used his ice powers to put out the fire.

"Hey how'd you do that?! Are you from Neptune or something?" Ten asked, shocked to see the human with ice powers.

"What? No! I'm from earth!" Danny was confused.

"Then burn!" Ten shouted as he kept breathing at Danny.

While Dany would counteract the fire with his ice powers. While growling at how strong this baby's fire breath is. He then went intangible and invisible when Ten took another deep breath to breathe fire again before Danny made snow appear in his hand before he put in the kid's mouth, turning it into ice.

While Ten was trying to get the fire out to melt the ice in his mouth Danny grabbed him.

"Look kid! I'm not trying to hurt you but you're not giving me any choice since you're being stubborn as your cousin, and believe me, I can be stubborn too." Ten glared back at Danny before the powered teen used his powers to phase the ice out of his mouth. He then changed back and sighed. "Besides, you are just a kid and I know you are just trying to look out for your cousin." Danny said.

Ten eyed him warily. Even after Danny began to clean up the room before his parents found out.


Meanwhile outside, someone was outside of the Fenton home, keeping an eye on the building for the past week after getting his armor back online from the electrocution it suffered from that alien girl. So far, he had learned that electrocution to disable her from fighting back does not seem effective. She can fly, she is strong, and any threat to the ghost child seems to turn her very hostile. However, instead of welcoming this strong female as his mate, the ghost boy seemed very aggravated by her devotion, perhaps he would need to strategize the two lovers to have a falling out and defeat them one after the other.

However, that unusual lightning and the appearance of that… giant… peach… brought a new variable into the game. Knowing the full range of the ghost boy's range of his 'Ghost sense' Skulker made sure to stay far away as he observed how there was a new creature, and it seemed to be an infant male form of the alien girl's species. Except instead of emitting lightning, this one seemed to breathe fire, however, the baby shows signs of talking more than human babies have at the early ages.

He would think about what he should do. "What would be the appropriate bait for the infant alien?"

"WAAAHHH! MOMMA I WANT CANDY!" Skulker looked down below and saw a five year old child crying as their mother continued on ignoring her child's sweet tooth as he screamed, "GIVE ME CANDY! I NEED CANDY!"

Turning back to look in front of him, Skulker commented.

"That will do."

He then laughed as he went to get some candy for his plans.


That night, after the sleeping arrangements had to be reminded to Lum for the umpteenth time. The two teenagers went to sleep. Ten, however, grumbled about everything he learned about the guy who tricked Lum into being his wife. He then imagined that Danny used some sort of weapon that took Lum's bikini top off and while she was distracted, grabbed her horns.

After realizing how stupid that was, especially considering that Danny had powers and some intelligence behind him during their little fight, Ten said, turning away from the black haired teen, "Who'd be dumb enough to actually try something like that?"


Japan, Tomobiki High

Ataru had sneezed as he was about to eat lunch during a lecture. The volume of the sneeze made almost everyone jump.

His teacher snapped. "Moroboshi!"

"Sorry Sensei, I think some super-hot and busty babe was talking about me." Ataru said, drooling as his imagination got away from him.

"ATARU, YOU WOMANIZER!" Shinobu shouted, throwing her desk at him.

And effectively hitting her target, as his leg twitched in the air from the pain he received.


Ten sighed as he turned and said, "Being here on this planet's so boring…" He then saw something sticking out the window and floated over. "Hey, what's that?" To his delight the baby Oni knew what it was. "Candy…" Ten then gave a cry of joy, but clamped his mouth shut to make sure no one heard him as he went and hurried out of the window to get the piece of candy. Only to find more, smaller pieces leading him. He stopped. "Wait… is this supposed to be a trap?"

Thinking it over Ten heard his stomach growling and stated.

After all I'm a growing boy who needs his energy. He thought.

As soon as he saw the biggest chocolate bar he ever saw, Ten's mouth couldn't stop drooling and dove for it. As soon as he touches the chocolate bar a cage forms up around and traps the baby Oni inside. Ten looked around. "What is this?!" The moment he tried to touch the bars he was electrified. On the bottom of the cage he groaned. "What the… *cough* was that?"

"Something you should not try again, after all, the ghost boy would not risk his life for bait who does not exist." Ten looked and saw a strange creature standing before him how the face looked, it would be similar to a skull with a flaming Goatee. He then picked up the box. "Now that I have my bait. I need to give him my message."

And began to laugh evilly. All that time Ten was a little scared by his predicament.


His alarm went off.

Danny sniffed his armpit and decided to show.

He got up and walked to the bathroom door and opened. He was still a little groggy as he did, he did not realize that someone else was in there… until now.

"OH MAN!" Danny shouted as he covered his eyes and ran out of the bathroom.

It was Lum, with a towel covering herself as she took off her only clothes that were hanging from the sink.

"Darling, it is alright. We are married..." Lum said.

An embarrassed Danny got mad.

"NO WE ARE NOT! WE ARE NOT MARRIED AND EVEN IF WE WERE, WHICH WE ARE NOT, PEOPLE LOCK THEIR DOORS WHEN THEY ARE IN THE BATHROOM!" Danny yelled at her. Lum frowned and before they could argue, the doorbell was heard. "Stay out of sight!" Danny ordered.

Lum went right back to Danny's room, taking her revealing attire with her.

Thankfully for Danny, his parents went off to deal with a ghost this morning.

As she changed, Sam and Tucker entered the room with Danny, seeing her finish up by putting on her last boot.

Sam grimaced while Tucker had an interested grin.

"Hey Lum..." Tucker said as he wiggled his eyebrows at her.

"Hello, male friend of darling named Tucker..."Lum said with disinterest.

"She's still here?" Sam asked Danny. "I was hoping she'd at least take your little visitor home…"

Before Danny could answer, Lum spoke up.

"Ahem!" She went with an edge.

Sam noticed it.

"Oh, you got a problem with me talking to Danny?" Sam challenged.

Lum turned red with rage.

"He is my husband!" Lum insisted.

"NO, I/HE AM/IS NOT!" Danny and Sam yelled in union.

Sam and Lum glared at each other, Danny was out of patience and Tucker gulped, sensing that this could get ugly.

However, before things could escalate, Jazz walked by and noticed that someone seemed absent from this drama.

She knocked on the door to get their attention.

"Uh, guys… where is Ten?" Jazz asked.

Tucker, new to this, spoke up.

"Who?"

"He's upstairs in attic…" Danny said before recognizing how oddly quiet he is.


Danny saw a note on the floor of the attic and gasped. Lum saw the look on his face.

"What's wrong?" She asked. "Where is he?"

"Ten's been kidnapped..." He said, earning a gasp from her.

Tucker blinked before asking, confused. "Who?"

"Lum's spoiled baby cousin." Sam said in a tone that made the others in the room glare at her.

"Not now Sam…" Danny said.

He then pulled up the message, which read:

"Ghost Child, I have the infant alien, if you want him unharmed come to my island in the Ghost Zone where you will find him. Come Alone. Skulker, greatest hunter in all of the Ghost Zone."

"Seriously?! Skulker just kidnapped a baby?" Tucker asked, scared.

"Ten should be able to take care of himself, but… Darling, what is this "Ghost Zone" place?" Lum asked.

Danny sighed before going to the portal.

Jazz took up explaining.

"The Ghost Zone is a parallel world that our parents theorized to be where the ghosts exist after they… you know. However, one day when they were about to view the world unseen it didn't work so they quit. Danny came up with an idea of wanting to look inside of it when he accidently turned it on and somehow his molecules got rearranged with ectoplasmic energy that made him half-ghost and half-human."

Figuring it was his turn, Danny picked up the story, "When I first woke up I realized that my hair turned snow white and glowing green eyes. I could walk through walls, disappear, and fly."

"Making him much more unique than the other guy." Tucker rapped. Everyone's attention was turned at the techno-geek which made him chuckle a bit. "Sorry. Thought we were starting a rap."

"Anyway, that's when Danny decided to use his new powers to try and help people, especially since some ghosts were using his dad's portal to get into our world. But it hasn't been easy for him. When he kept his secret everyone thought that well… something wasn't right with him." Jazz finished, looking down ashamed of herself.

"Oh…" She said. Her expression became determined for her cousin. "What'll we do?"

"I go in like Skulker said, find Ten, beat the snot out of Skulker for kidnapping a two-year old kid. And return home." Danny said as he changed forms again and approached the portal. Lum would move to follow before Danny spoke. "You're not coming with me Lum."

"But Darling, Ten's my cousin, I need to help him." Lum protested.

"You heard the note, if Skulker sees anyone but me, he might hurt Ten or worse." He told her.

"I don't care. I'm coming to help and then I'll teach that ghost hunter what will happen when he messes with an Oni." Lum said crossing her arms, making the humans get annoyed with her stubbornness.

Danny sighed as he was about to say something before… an idea popped into his head.

"Besides You can't come with me for another reason."

This peaked everyone's question. Lum then asked. "What other reason?"

"The Ghost Zone Isn't a place for non-ghosts." Danny said to her.

"What's Danny doing?" Tucker asked Sam and Jaz in a whisper.

He was then elbowed by Sam, who caught on to what Danny was thinking, as was Jazz.

"What do you mean?" Lum asked, all her attention on Danny.

Danny then said, "I once accidentally went into the Ghost Zone and I found I couldn't breathe, it was only after I went Ghost that I was able to breathe again. And from what my folks figure, anyone who's exposed to the air in the Ghost Zone slowly and agonizingly become a Ghost."

"Big deal, I'm able to survive in space by generating an electric field around me by using my lightning." Lum said, still being stubborn.

"Lum you don't know him, now that he knows what you're capable of, he could have all kinds of traps prepared for you. Please, I don't think either Ten or I could stand if something happened to you."

Hearing that made Lum's heart flutter.

"Okay, Darling, but please…" She then placed her hands with his, making Sam get red with anger, even as Lum pleaded, "Please bring Ten and yourself home safe. If you do that I'll let you go after Skulker yourself."

Knowing he was trapped, Danny nodded.

"I promise."

Lum let go as she stood with his friends before Danny turned and flew into the portal.


Special thanks to Flower princess11 and twilightnite13 for help.