Later that night, after everyone had gone to bed and Hermione was sat by the glowing embers of the fire, the sound of quiet breathing from a first year who had stayed up too late to finish whatever homework had been set for them was the only sound left as a bedraggled Danny Fenton walked away from the staircase and over to her, a set of guns in his hands, all of them looking dirty and disused as he looked for a place to sit and clean them and do whatever else needed to be done.
"Danny, what're you doing up so late? It's nearly one in the morning. And what is with the weapons?" Hermione greeted the hunter as he looked her way, smiled and walked over, sitting down on the spare sofa, spreading the weaponry around him and picked the first one to be cleaned, looking her way as she watched in silent interest as he said, "Even ecto-pistols need to be cleaned every now and then and the ectoplasm changed."
"This happen often?" Hermione heard herself asking, Danny looking up at the question and shook his head, saying, "About every ten months. This is probably just a tune up. Mom does the ectoplasm part, says it's too dangerous for me and Jazz to handle."
"That's good though, isn't it? Your mother looking out for your and your sister's welfare is a good thing." Hermione commented, watching as he took out a cleaning cloth and started rubbing the gun down. All the while he shook his head and looked at the tiny engravings on the side, sighing as he saw the pattern on the handle. Five minutes passed and Hermione started to go back to the book that had been abandoned when Danny came down when he put the pistol down on his lap and said, "Hermione, what do you think of Halfas?"
"I'm… not exactly… sure, Danny. I think that there may be a possibility that there are some out in the world, but I'm just sceptical about the thought of that." Hermione answered, noticing the eyebrow raising just a smidge as he listened and nodded. His mouth started to open to say something, when all of a sudden, an ear splitting scream sounded from Harry and Ron's dormitory which caused Danny and Hermione to jolt and the First Year to scream as he was awoken abruptly. Looking at each other, the two teenagers shot out of their seat, guns forgotten on Danny's part and ran up to said room, banging the door open as the other boys sat up and looked around, all having been awoken by the screaming in the middle bed.
Swearing under his breath, Danny walked into the room, over to the bed and tried to wake Harry from the nightmare realm, Hermione and a sleepy-eyed Ron joining in as Harry started thrashing about, resisting under the influence of whatever he was dreaming about, even knocking the teenage hunter away, a cross look coming about Danny's face as he rejoined the group around the bed and felt his forehead, pulling his hand away soon after as if burnt. Looking up at the gathered teens, he took a breathe, looked at Harry before his eyes flashed the same toxic green as before and he literally disappeared, a wisp of green smoke trailing from where had been standing to Harry's forehead, the boy calming somewhat, except for a jerking movement that happened five minutes later.
"What the bloody hell?" Ron swore, looking at Harry as he shivered slightly and stilled. Hermione stood back with her mouth open and watched as Neville took Danny's place and said, "I think we'd all like to know that, Ron."
-Inside Harry's Dream-
Anger. That was all he could feel as he held his wand out to the pitiful human in front of him. Violet eyes and a pale complexion, the girl stood in front of a tent with two others, the elder girl being a redhead and the responsible 'adult' of the group.
"Where is the boy that is often known as Phantom?" he asked, keeping his voice from betraying any of his true emotions as the girls stood straighter in defiance and looked calmly as the only boy of the group shrugged and said, "Dude, we have no idea what you mean? We're here on vacation as friends."
"We shall see about that."
"Hey, man, we don't even know what you're on about. Like I said, we're just on-" The boys voice started to peter out as he growled and all of a sudden, the voice of Danny Fenton in place of the boy's in front of him, said, "You may want to wake up, Harry. It's just a dream."
Looking around frantically, he saw a silhouette standing there, a fist cocked back as if to strike him. The fist came flying towards him and struck him on his nose, sending him to the floor with a strength that matched a strongman's.
-Boy's Dormitory-
Harry nearly missed Ron's nose as he sat bolt upright, Danny flying from above his eyes as he started to pant and look around, Hermione and Neville staring at the hunter/ghost as he groaned and sat up, getting slowly to his feet and watching Harry as he looked around to get his bearings once more before his eyes settled on him and he said, "Wh-who were those teens I saw? One looked like a Goth, there was a redhead that looked older and there was an African-American who was the Goth's age."
"My friends and sister. Sam's the goth, Jazz is my sister and the redhead and Tucker was the Geek." Danny answered, "We're basically the Goth, The Freak and the Geek of our school."
"They're in danger and we need to send someone over to check on them." Harry shouted, looking at the calm posture Danny was holding as he stood there and watched Harry's friends try to calm him and said, "They're not in danger, Harry. I wouldn't have been able to wake you if it was a vision."
"You don't understand, Danny. I saw Voldemort-" Harry ignored the gasps and flinches to the name as he continued, "Try to get your whereabouts from them and you don't seem to care about that."
"I do care. That's my problem" Danny shouted, closing his eyes to prevent the green glow from showing as he calmly repeated, "I do care. But I do know that that campsite wasn't the one they're staying at. I patrolled the surrounding areas around Amity Park for a full weekend to make sure that I knew there would be no trouble for us. Sam and Tucker didn't even know what I was doing until I fell asleep in class after the Sunday night all-nighter. Boy, they really laid it on me for that stunt."
"They're safe?"
"I can check. Luckily, I brought some Fenton Phones with me." Danny answered, smiling gently before he left the room and disappeared up the stairs, reappearing a moment later with a pair of green earring/earphone hybrid being hooked onto his ear as he approached the wizard and held one out for Harry to take, before he said, "Clueless One to Goth One. Come in Goth One."
Static erupted from the Phone as Harry looked at Danny scowl slightly and repeat the code once more before he scowled even more and said, "Sam, you there?"
A look of worry passed across his face as he looked at the trio and saw their faces, gulped and ran out of the dorm room itself, footsteps fading as he ran down the stairs.
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You guy are going to kill me, aren't you? *Ducks a dagger*
WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR!
Anyway, not quite what you wanted, but I wanted Danny to show one of his powers in human form. I know in the episode, Frightmare, he had to use his Overshadowing in Ghost Form, but I wanted Hermione to see for herself just what a Halfa looked like. That and my fingers ran wild again, they're still running away from me even now! *Runs after her fingers*
Until next timeeee!
H.J.B
