Chapter 5: The Plan

The two weeks crept by excruciatingly slow like a snail. Danny thought the day would never come when he could get up and and walk around again. His mom tried to get him to stay in bed longer, but Jazz convinced her otherwise. She'd been in there with Danny and knew how bored he'd been. If he had to stay in bed longer than what the doctor prescribed, he probably would have gone completely insane.

" So how's it feel to be completely mobile again?" joked Jazz.

" Like I've just been let out of prison," Danny laughed.

" Kids, breakfast is ready!" called Maddie from the kitchen.

" Awesome! I'm starved. Let's go, Jazz!" cried Danny happily, running from his room.

Jazz smiled as she walked downstairs. The household was back to normal now. It was quite a change for everybody when Danny wasn't up and about.

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" His two weeks are up. Now the rest of my plan can be put into action..."

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After the Fentons finished their breakfast, Tuck and Sam came over. The three friends ran up the stairs to Danny's room where they could just hang out.

" Dude, I'm glad you can come back to school," said Tuck.

" Not being allowed to go to school was one of the only things that was great about not being able to get out of bed," laughed Danny.

" Yeah, but it's been really boring without you there, man. Even Dash seemed sad."

" Yeah, only because he couldn't whale on Danny," Sam chimed in.

" True," agreed Tuck.

The three laughed. Finally it seemed like things would start getting back to normal. Danny thought that statement through several times. There had been no ghost attacks. Again. That wasn't normal, at least not for him. He abrubtly stopped laughing as his ghost sense went off. Tuck and Sam instantly stoppped laughing.

" Already?" Tuck asked. " But you just got off bed rest!"

They all turned their attention to Danny's window as they heard a woman screaming outside. They scrambled to get a look at what was going on down in the streets and soon wished they hadn't. A whole mob of ghosts were on the rampage! They were attacking everything in sight. It didn't seem like they were really aiming at anything in particular, they were just randomly destroying objects, sending people fleeing and screaming. Also, Danny had never fought many of the ghosts he was seeing. He'd seen them while he had been in the ghost zone, but they never seemed like they'd want to pose as a threat to him in any way.

" Danny, look!" Sam pointed.

Tuck and Danny both looked at where she was pointing. Who they saw made them freeze. The one who looked like he was directing it all was none other than Vlad Plamius.

" Plasmius is here!" cried Danny. " I can't believe this!"

With that, Danny turned into his ghost form and flew out into the streets towards Plasmius. As soon as he left, his family burst through his bedroom door.

" Where's Danny?" demanded Maddie.

Tuck and Sam turned away from the window, unsure of what to say.

" Um...he's..." Tucker began.

" He's not outside is he!" cried Maddie.

" Um...no," Tuck smiled nervously.

Maddie gasped as she ran out Danny's bedroom door towards the front door, followed closely by Jack. Jazz stayed behind and walked over towards Sam and Tucker.

" Way to convince my mom that he wasn't ouside," Jazz said sarcastically.

" Um..." Tuck began.

" Well, we've got bigger problems to worry about right now," piped up Sam. " Look outside."

Jazz looked out the window to find her brother fighting with another ghost without much luck.

" Who is that?" asked Jazz.

" That's Vlad Plasmius. He's a halfa too, but he's a lot stronger."

" So you're saying that Danny won't be able to beat him either?" asked Jazz.

" He hasn't yet, but Plasmius has never really done anything too serious to Danny yet either," said Tuck.

Meanwhile, in the the streets, Danny and Vlad kept fighting with one another.

" Give it up, Daniel, you'll never be able to defeat me," said Plasmius, punching the young halfa in the gut.

Danny flew backwardsonto his back with a thud. He propped himself up on his elbows to look up at his arch-enemy. " Why are you here?"

" Why? I think you'll find out soon enough," Plasmius smirked just as Jack and Maddie burst through the front door. " Ah. And now it's time." Plasmius flew up to the top of the Fenton's home. All the other ghosts rallied everyone in the city toward the house and surrounded them to make sure they didn't get away.

Jazz, Tuck, and Sam kept staring out the window, wondering what exactly was going on. Suddenly, they had their answer.

" Citizens of Amity Park," Plasmius called out. " I bring you good news and bad news."

People began murmuring within the crowd, not exactly sure what should be happening.

" There is no need to fear me," he continued. " I'm here to help all of you. You see, something evil has fallen upon everyone in Amity Park."

Danny stood up as he listened to Vlad's words. ' What is he up to?'

" Everyone, ghosts are, infact, very real. I am indeed one of them, along with all my followers you see around you, but we are not the ones you should be afraid of. There is another ghost in this town that wants to destroy each and every one of you. But there is a twist to this ghost. It's not only a fiendish ghoul, but it is also half human."

Everyone in the crowd gasped. Jazz, Tuck, and Sam stood within the house completely stunned. Danny stood outside in the crowd with his mouth hanging open. Was Vlad about to reveal his secret?

" It is known all throughout the ghost zone as The Halfa. The Halfa lives here in this very town, waiting for the perfect time to spring its attack on you, but I have come to foil its plans. Citizens of Amity Park, you have been warned. Now you need to search for it. It could be anyone. It could be your brother. Perhaps a sister. Maybe even a parent. But the halfa won't strike anyone while I'm here so you all have nothing to fear as of yet. I'll remain here to keep watch over you all. And whoever finds the halfa shall get a very special reward from me. Happy searching everyone."

Plasmius quickly disappeared from sight, leaving everyone to take in his words. Danny kept looking around to see if anyone had noticed him there. For all he knew, they could be thinking that he was just another one of Plasmius's followers. Either way, he didn't want to take any chances. He began to cautiously walk backwards, away from everybody so he could find a place to change back to normal.

The three teens in Danny's bedroom watched helplessly as they saw Danny trying to get away.

" What should we do now?" asked Jazz, not taking her eyes off Danny.

" I-I don't know," answered Sam.

As soon as Danny got behind the crowd of people, he quickly turned invisible and flew back to his room where he changed back to normal. After that, he walked over to his bed, making it groan as he sat. Jazz, Tuck, and Sam each came over and sat down next to him.

" Great. Now Vlad has the whole town thinking that I'm evil," said Danny, a tiny hint of sadness showing in his voice.

" Yeah, but no one knows it's you so no one can do anything to you, Danny," Jazz pointed out.

" I wonder why Plasmius is doing all this," Tuck wondered aloud. "I mean, he knows that Danny is the halfa, so why not just attack him or whatever?"

" Tuck's right," Danny stood up. " What is he up to? I hate to say it, but Plasmius has enough power to destroy me so if that's what he wants to do, then why doesn't he just do it?"

The four teensbegan to thinkabout Danny's words butbarely had more than a minute before Jack and Maddie burst through Danny's bedroom door. They all jumped as they looked over towards the doorway.

" Everyone, get up. We're going ghost hunting," Jack said happily.

" Um...do we have to?" asked Danny.

" Of course we do. If there's an evil half human half ghost in our town, then we're going out to findit to make sure it doesn't cause any harm," explained Maddie.

" Hurry, everyone! Let's all go down to the Fenton Family Ghost Assault Vehicle," ordered Jack before he and his wife ran from the bedroom.

Danny, Jazz, Sam, and Tuck all looked to one another. They had no choice. They each began walking out of Danny's room single file, down the stairs, to the front street to join the two ghost hunters. As they were walking, they were all thinking the same thing. What would happen to Danny if the town did find out that the halfa was him?