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Chapter 6: Ye Old Legal Stuff
Danny's night was surprisingly, suspiciously easy. Yes the Box Ghost had attempted to scare a leader, but not only had Danny caught him, but the Lunch Lady hadn't been far behind; she was understandably upset that the Box Ghost had cut their date short for an attempt at the leaders so Danny didn't spend half a night chasing the Box Ghost. Danny almost expected something to happen while he was finalizing the neutrality agreement. If the way Sam glanced at him this morning when they meet up was any indication, she also felt as if something was going to happen. Danny decided to let it go; there was nothing they could do.
They arrived back at the summit and Danny sat in one of the comfortable chairs with Sam on his lap. Waiting for the other leaders to arrive. It took them an hour to start trickling in. By that time, Sam had gotten so born she had begun to sketch Danny. He sat still, staring at her as though she was his entire world, and if they were honest it took them awhile to acknowledge that other people existed; they didn't look up until the murmuring in the room became a steady flow of information. Sam moves from Danny's lap and Danny stood up, gaining the attention of the leaders.
"All right, I believed we covered every possible topic yesterday, and that now we can began negotiating the peace treaty."
There seemed to be a general agreement among the leaders. The queen of England however, didn't seem as willing to just let things lie.
"Mr. Phantom the absence of your daughter has reminded me of a few things I had questioned, you mentioned ghost children, but no kind of school for them, or system for when they are created instead of born. In fact you rarely talked about them at all."
Danny thought back to the day before, he had only just glossed over ghost children yesterday. He hadn't thought to tell them much about ghost children. They were young and rarely out of the ghost zone; when they were, no one except children saw them, and children saw them as imaginary friends. Danny hadn't felt the need to bring them up and worry parents needlessly, but now that someone had asked he had to tell them. Danny was nothing if not a word keeping honest man and he told them he would tell them what they needed to know.
Danny inclined his head in respect to the queen, "I thank you for noting the absence of my child it lets me know that if she wondered off or something happen someone would be able to tell me. At the moment she is resting back home, unfortunately the strain of flying here took more of her ectoplasm than we expected."
Danny left out the fact that she had to constantly fly between Amity Park and Washington yesterday night as a sort of front line patrol. She was the fastest flier and could make it back to Washington long before any other ghost.
"As for education, most ghost children come to the ghost zone with whatever they learned while alive still there in their memories and their nearest relative will take them under their wing and teach them everything else they need to know. Once they began to show special abilities, around 50 to 100 years after creation or birth, they are taken as an apprentice to a ghost with abilities that either mirror or similar to their own and trained them how to use their abilities. If any has an unfamiliar ability they are trained by Clockwork and anyone with more than one is given multiple apprenticeships along with political training, as it is very possible they will become the next ghost king. There is nothing that you would call formal education."
The queen nodded with a thoughtful expression on her face, "Then I propose that the first steps taken toward a peace treaty between our worlds is an agreement to allow ghost children to attend school alongside human children.
Danny thought it over; the first experiment would have to be in Amity Park. Amity Park for an unknown reason was a ghost hotspot. Tucker theorized that at one point it had been the site of a large natural portal and what ghost sensed was the leftover energy. Danny didn't know or care what to think about it, he just left it be and made it his headquarters.
Danny turned to his allies, "What do you all think of the idea?"
Pandora spoke for them all, "It would be a great show of trust, and while we are very wise and knowledgeable, the only ones up to date on current history and other necessities of this world are Clockwork and your family o gios mou (my son)."
"Very well; the idea is found agreeable, however there are three conditions I have. The first is that for the first years, maybe a century, this schooling takes place only in Amity Park and other places like it in the world."
"Why, Mr. Phantom?"
"Well, your majesty, in all honesty, Amity Park is the most not necessarily accepting, but used to place for strange things. In addition to that, it has an odd attraction for supernatural things like ghost, and places like it with leftover ghost portal energy are the perfect places for ghost to hang around for long periods of time."
The queen nodded in understanding and Danny continued with his conditions, "Next if like there to be a trial period of one year at Casper High School in Amity Park before any other schools start this program. For the obvious reason of ensuring this attempt will work. And finally I would like it if the two ghost who attend the trial period are my daughter and my recently adopted nephew Youngblood. Do you find these conditions acceptable."
There was a moment of conversation among the leaders then they all agreed to this part of the treaty.
"Good, in return, we offer field trips to the ghost zone as a learning tool, for children let's say in their final year of high school, are these terms still agreeable so far."
The leaders conversed again before agreeing.
"Yes, good, then we can move one to the-"
Danny trailed off mid sentence as Sam caught his attention with a sharp Daniel in his mind. Danny looked big screen playing multiple news channels.
"Jasmine, turn up channel 77."
Jazz was immediately worried and for good reason, channel 77 showed Amity Park. Where the Red Huntress was on guard.
Danny watched as the weather man talked about how there was a hail storm in the middle of August. A ghost appeared behind him, it was Vortex and Danny cursed.
"Excuse me, but this guy."
Danny left it at that and Sam explain, "Danny had a hard time with this ghost the last time as with his weather manipulation abilities he could fend off Danny before Danny got close."
Danny then smirked, "But we have a surprise for him this time."
Sure enough when Red Huntress and Tekno got on the scene they easily defeated Vortex with a blast from the direct sunlight weapon they had created.
"What was that," the president demanded.
Danny grinned, "That was the direct sunlight gun that our tec wizard made, and the other weapon was a Fenton Thermos that I borrowed from the Fenton's, the resident ghost hunters. By your town of voice I suppose you want to include weapons in the deal."
That was quickly agreed upon and everyone moved on to talking about more terms and conditions of the treaty they were getting ready to sign. Most of them were easy to agree to and Danny was happy to agree to those. Others however, were an obvious ploy to prepare for a possible ghost invasion by creating another Guys in White. Danny wasn't pleased.
Finally they all signed and Danny let out a sigh of relief, other than Vortex there was no ghost attacks and he could go home happy and satisfied with the treaty.
I know I lied about when this would be finished, but I lied it's okay though guys because next Monday's update won't be late.