DANNY
AMERICA
"Wait, hold it right there! You cannot just walk through the Confederation as if you own the place."
A very tired, stressed and worried ghost boy halted from following the Order member and looked at the American Magical Confederation official and folded his arms, trying his hardest not to blast the wizard and fly out of the Ministry as the Order member, who went by Tonks, turned around and waited as the official finally caught up to them, bent over to catch his breath and said, "We cannot allow for three Non-magi to know about the Wizarding world. Even if their friend already knows about us."
"I really hate to tell you," Danny said, walking forwards and landing on the floor, "But my friends and family are in danger of dying and if we don't get to them soon, their deaths will haunt me for the rest of my life. I have to get them to safety as soon as possible, and if I have to get through you to do so, so help you and the rest of the Wizarding World 'cause you won't like it."
As the official turned a nasty shade of purple, Tonks felt the urge to face palm, instead choosing to say, "We only need to go to a Illinois and come back again. We don't intend to stay for any longer than a couple of hours."
"Can I ask where?"
"Amity Park." Danny said out loud, glaring as the wizard's eyes looked him over and turned his attention back to Tonks as she nodded. Growing conscious to the fact that they were drawing a crowd and his eyes were surely glowing green in his anger, Danny tugged on the witches robe sleeve and jerked his head to the back of the trio of arguing humans/human-ghost hybrids. One of the spectators walked forward and said, "Did you just say Amity Park? As in, Amity Park, Illinois, Amity Park?"
"That's correct. Might I ask how you know it?" Tonks answered, looking at Danny as he scowled and crossed his arms, clearly impatient to be getting home. The official looked back and shouted to another official, "YO, Sam! WHAT'S THE NAME OF THE HUNTER FAMILY THERE!?"
"You mean the Fentons, Dean? The parents are out of town and the kids are on Easter Vacation." 'Sam' answered, not bothering to shout through the clamor that had erupted by the mention of the small town. Looking back, Dean answered, "We've been keeping an eye and an ear out for mention of that town. No one from the Wizarding world dares to go anywhere near that place. If you're wanting to go there, then it must be important."
"It is important. My friends and sister are in grave danger if we don't get to their campsite right away."
"And you are?"
"One of the family you mentioned and a citizen of Amity Park." Danny answered, crossing his arms once more as Dean looked into his eyes, saw something in them, nodded and bustled off, leaving Tonks and Danny with Sam as he held out an arm, prompting Tonks to take it said, "I'll take you as far as you need to go, but I don't know the area that well, so you'll be on your own as soon as we Apparate there."
"Sam, Tucker and Jazz are in the Amity Park Campsite. Should be fairly easy to get to." Danny replied, not sure what to do as Tonks grabbed hold of him and they all disappeared with a CRACK, only to appear right outside the city limits and not even close enough to see the Ops centre of Fenton Works. A second crack told them that Sam the official had gone back to the Confederation.
"I hope Harry's having a better time at it than me. Hold on tight, Miss Tonks, I'm gonna fly us there." Danny said, transforming into Phantom and taking to the skies with a shocked-looking Tonks hanging onto his hands.
HARRY
To be honest, Harry wasn't having a better time than Danny, at all. Soon after the Halfa and Professor McGonagall had left the room, he had been pounced on by Hermione and Ron and asked too many questions that he couldn't answer.
"Harry James Potter. Are you even listening to what we're asking?" Hermione snapped, looking at her friend as he looked at her and nodded mutely and looked to the Headmaster as the elder wizard stirred and looked around, surprise and shock of the sudden revelation still marring his features as the door opened and in stepped the same Professor who had gone out of the office. Looking over to the trio, she said, "I am sure that you have questions, Miss Granger, and I am sure that you both want answers, but if you would stop hounding in your friend, I am sure that he would be willing to answer them before Mr Fenton gets back, along with Tonks and his friends and sister in tow."
"He's seriously gone back to America?" Harry spoke up, looking at their Head of House as she nodded in answer, choosing to remain silent in the situation. Watching for a reaction from the Boy Who Lived, Hermione and Ron saw his eyes widen slightly and were shoved back as he jumped up out of the seat and clamp a hand to his ear, where the second half of the set of Phones still sat, and begin talking urgently, "Sam? You there? Please, Sam, pick up."
"It won't work, Harry. There's too much magic in the air." McGonagall said, speaking as if she hadn't quite gotten over what had just occurred a few moments ago as Harry looked at her and begrudgingly lowered his hand from where it had flown, before turning to Dumbledore and asking, "Why would Voldemort want to know where Danny is? He's good and he's the hero of Amity Park."
"Is that what he told you?" Hermione asked, looking at her friend as he cleared his throat and answered, "The ghost's wouldn't have brought him here if they didn't trust him. And he wouldn't have run out like that if he didn't care about Sam, Jazz and whoever else is with them. You just have to read between the lines and the obvious is there."
"I still want to know why you didn't react when Danny Fenton turned into Phantom. And why you didn't tell us?" Hermione nearly screeched, grabbing hold of Harry and shaking him as he tried to get an answer out, in the end, shrugging her off and replying, "We were going to do just that in the morning. I only just found out tonight, Hermione. Look, Danny obviously kept it from us, thinking that as he didn't know us, he couldn't trust us with something so big a secret. However, when he did tell me, he was freaking out badly and wouldn't look at me when those rings came from his waist. I reacted just a little as I wasn't expecting it to happen, but he had pretty much given himself away when he shouted that thing at Peeves and his eyes turned green. The reason why I didn't react when he transformed was because I'd already seen it happen before."
"He asked what I thought of Halfas. How come?"
"He's one of them. He also said that Halfa's are the rarest species of all ghosts. He was also telling the truth when he said that no one in Amity Park knew how Phantom had died." Harry explained, gulping as Ron asked "And how did he die?"
"I don't really know if he is dead all the way, Ron. He didn't get to that part when we spoke earlier. I've just found this out myself. I'm still accepting that the ghost hunter who was sent to deal with Peeves is really a ghostly hero and an average muggle at the same time." Harry said, looking to the floor as he tried to explain the best he could what he knew and didn't yet know.
AMITY PARK CAMPSITE
SAM
Sam glared at the group of hooded figures in front of their tents and crossed her arms as best she could without seeming defiant, fingering the subtle ecto-wristband that was on her person. Looking sideways at Jazz and then at Tucker, she hoped that Danny and the boy who had called himself 'Harry Potter' had heard her cries when the strange lights had shown up in the peaceful campsite, full of families and students of Caspar High. Even Dash Baxter and his lackey Kwan Ko weren't clever enough to create a light show so dangerous. However, when she had looked out after Jazz had clicked off from talking to Harry, she had seen the group that were stood outside the tents and staring down at the trio of teenage ghost hunters and seemed to be waiting for some kind of decision from the figure who resembled a snake-human hybrid that even Vlad wouldn't dream of creating.
It also didn't help when you were on the floor with Caspar High's A-Lister Paulina Sanchez. The Latina hadn't stopped whinging since the group of weirdos had stepped onto the campsite and basically asked where Danny Phantom was hiding. As soon as both girls had heard the name, Paulina had perked up and started rattling on about how she was the ghost-boy's girlfriend and that he would rescue her from the 'Diablos'. That had nearly earned the girl a slap from one of the figures, but earned a glare from the trio of hunters, an especially venomous one from Sam and Jazz before the air suddenly grew colder than the cool spring that they were used to, due to the ghostly presence. Heck, it was even colder than the Ghost Zone itself as the Amity Parkians shivered and huddled together. None of the townsfolk noticed the arrival of their hero plus one.
DANNY
Danny shivered as he and Tonks neared the edge of the city and heard the Order member swear before shouting, "Take us closer to the ground. We have Dementors in the air."
"You sure about that, Miss Tonks. I don't see anything, but the air is a lot colder." Danny replied, shivering more as he started to descend closer to the ground as the woman sighed and whispered something that was lost in the slipstream as they flew over Fentonworks and through the Ops Centre and out the other side, much to the shock of Tonks as Danny flew faster as they emerged.
As they flew, Tonks said, "Dementors can't be seen by muggles and it seems that they can't be seen by muggle ghosts either. However, muggles can feel their presence, even if they don't know what is there. They're dark beings who feed of the happiness of their victims, leaving them with nothing more than their worst memories and nightmares. On rare occasions, it has been known for a Dementor to 'kiss' it's victim."
"I don't think I even wanna know what this 'kissing' is. And I have a bad idea that it's not the sort of kissing you would expect from normal people." Danny commented, mentally shuddering as they flew past the city and into a wooded field, where numerous people, both Amity Park citizens and even hooded figures, stood, or huddled together.
"Merlin above," Tonks whispered, looking out over the sight as Danny turned them both invisible and landed, his hands starting to glow green with an Ectoblast as he stared out over the field.
There in the middle of the camp goers were Sam, Tucker and Jazz, all three of them glaring at the intruders. Tonks looked over to where he was staring and heard as he swore quietly, "For fuck's sake."
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Please don't kill me because of another cliffhanger and I haven't updated for a little while! *Cowers behind lamppost, which doesn't really help*
I should really have thought of this a while ago, but I've only just finished my Hairdresssing course and I'm really supposed to be really finishing the work that I didn't finish, and I'm supposed to be in Halifax to visit my cousin, but all that has changed and I'm going there tomorrow instead. Nnaagh, I'll get to the homework in a bit, I wanted to get this up first.
Anyway, until next time,
Hermione Jean Burton x
