Now don't get him wrong, it wasn't as if Danny hated ghost hunting but when they bothered him day and night a week straight it got seriously annoying. He had gotten less then a nights worth of sleep for a week, and Danny was beginning to wonder if someone hated him. So as Danny Fenton sat there in the cafeteria asleep in his sandwich his friends were beginning to worry about him.
"Dude you have to get some sleep" Tucker said looking up from his sandwich that was building out with meat. "Your starting to look more Goth then Sam"
"I don't think he can hear you" Sam said as she noticed Danny had dozed off asleep sitting upright and still holding his sandwich.
Danny woke up with a startle when Sam poked with a fork.
"Gah hey what was that for?" Danny asked rubbing his arm.
"You fell asleep again" Sam said, "Seriously, put the ghost shield up when you go to bed Danny"
"It's hard to ignore them when there making a ruckus outside" Danny yawned, "It's really alright you guys, I'm usually up early anyway"
"Oh yea" Tucker said, "Yer dad"
"Yea it's the usual "It works!!" Danny said, "Then BOOM"
If Danny could get rid of one single thing in his life, it would the fact his dad wakes them all up every mourning, with his usual routine of making something explode down in the lab. Then he would get stuck cleaning up the mess, and then some stupid ghost would come out of the portal and attack him. Yea life for Danny sucked.
"Hey guys. Wow Danny you look horrible" Valerie said as she came over and looked at Danny.
"He hasn't been sleeping a lot lately" Sam said.
"Yea well.."Danny said and as if on cue blue mist escaped from the preteen's mouth. "No. not now"
"HOW DARE YOU SERVE VEGGIE BURGERS ON MONDAY!!" A voice cried out and a huge pile of meat products suddenly began attacking the students who started running in every direction screaming.
Danny looked over towards the serving area to see a huge blob of meat hurling burgers at students. This was a ghost, aka the Lunch Lady. Ducking under the lunch table Danny quickly transformed as people were too busy running in every direction to notice him.
"Great" Danny said as he finished transforming into his ghostly alter ego Danny Phantom, "First the new teacher starts nagging at me for falling asleep now this!"
He flew out from under the table and sent a direct hit blast at the Lunch Lady who flew backwards.
"Prepare to be destroyed by my meat products of doom!!" The Lunch Lady cried, "Would you like a nice side salad with that?"
"How about no!" Danny snapped and looked over at Sam, "Thermos now"
Danny caught the Thermos and pointing it in the Lunch Lady's direction. The angry ghost was sucked inside the container easily enough. Slapping the cover back on, Danny groaned and gave a yawn. That's when he heard what sounded like the charging of a plasma cannon behind him, he paled slightly.
Danny knew he was gonna regret it but he turned his head and found himself on the wrong end of Valerie's ecto cannon. Valerie flew in mid air on her jet board, fully suited in her red huntress suit and she had that killer instinct in her eyes again.
"Say goodbye ghost" Valerie said and fired hitting Danny through the nearby wall.
Danny smashed through the wall and landed on the ground outside. Groaning he got to his feet and flew into the air just in time to dodge another blast. He dodged left, and then right. Finally flying around the corner.
Valerie growled and followed him; activating her blaster cubes she turned the corner. She blasted another series of blasts at Phantom she smashed through the wall.
Danny screamed as he smashed through the wall, he closed his eyes and groaned as he got to his feet. However as he looked upwards he came face to face with his new science teacher Mr.Elric.
"What in the hell?" Edward asked staring down at the ghostly face of the young phantom.
"You're going to get away this time ghost boy!" Valerie said flying in front of the hole in the wall of the teachers lounge.
"Uh...sorry" Danny said and Valerie aimed again.
This blast almost hit Danny who dodged to the left corner of the room. Then to the left, and finally to the ceiling where Valerie missed Danny once more and instead hit the ceiling light which smashed on top of the table. The table itself broke cleanly in two.
"Holy Moby Dick watch where yer aiming!!" Lancer cried.
Danny quickly phased through the door and Valerie followed him out into the hallway. Looking around Valerie didn't see anything.
"Grrr I lost him again!!"Valerie cried giving a loud cry in frustration.
That's when Danny Fenton fell out of the locker, followed by a textbook which hit him straight on the head.
Edward stuck his head out of the now destroyed teachers lounge and watched as this strange woman in the red suit picked up Danny Fenton by the hand.
"Lord of the Rings Miss Grey!" Lancer snapped.
"Uh oh" She said and turned to Mr. Lancer as her armour disappeared off her body.
"Valerie" Edward said and groaned holding his head; this town was giving him a headache.
Edward suddenly wished mentally that Mustang was here to lecture him instead of being attacked by ghosts and finding out the girl who lived down the hall from him was a..a...well he didn't quiet know what she was. He walked out into the hallway behind Lancer who was fit to be tied at the moment.
"I uh." Valerie said.
"Can't you hunt ghosts without destroying everything in sight?" Lancer snapped.
"I'm sorry. It's all Phantoms fault!!"Valerie snapped, "He's a menace to this town and I'm not going to rest until I catch him!"
"That's all very nice and all miss grey but could you try and leave the school intact while your at it" Lancer sighed.
"What's Mr. Fenton doing in the halls?"Edward asked, "Aren't all students all supposed to be outside?"
"I uh..I was scared" Danny said, "And uh...I hid in a locker"
The bell suddenly rang for next class, indicating that lunch was over. Both teens walked off in the same direction.
"What a day" Edward said.
"Get use to it" Lancer said, "This school goes through at least 1 ghost attack a week, sometimes more"
"Heh"Edward said smirking slightly as he picked up his suitcase which was laying on the ground covered by a thin layer of chip rock from the ceiling, "And here I thought Amity Park was going to be boring"
"Far from it" Lancer said.
"Ghosts" Edward said shook his head for moment, "this is stupid, there's no such as ghosts! This must be some sort of trick or the use of some sort of machine"
"Still not a believer huh?" Lancer asked shaking his head, "You'll believe in ghosts soon enough Elric believe me anything is possible in this town"
"Logic rules over everything" Edward said, "It's illogical to even consider the existence of ghosts. This is nothing more then a hoax or some sorts"
Edward then dusted himself off and headed out into the hallway. This whole ghost scheme was too far fetched for him to believe. Things like Ghosts didn't exist just as dragons, fairies and magic didn't exist ether. His next class was about to begin and yet the thought of the so called ghost failed to leave his mind. For memories of the past kept popping into his head.
(Flashback)
Vladimir had lead them down into the basement, which meant walking down a metal staircase that spiralled downwards into a dark hallway. Edward watched as Vlad lit a torch on the side of the wall with a match, and then picked it from its holder.
"I'm afraid we don't have electricity down here" Vlad said.
"That's alright" Edward said, "So what's your research involve anyway?"
"Yea Colonel Mustang didn't tell us" Al said as they followed the rich alchemist down the hallway.
"All we know is that involves bringing the dead back to life" Ed said.
"Oh yes. You see I work on the transferring of souls" Vlad said, "The body may be dead but the soul itself still lives on"
He stopped at the end of the hallway and touched the wall with his right hand. The wall glowed and Edward recognized it as alchemy as an entrance shaped like U was formed. Vlad walked inside the room and began lighting torches.
"Pretty sneaky hiding a room like this" Edward said as they walked into the room.
As the room was lit with light from the torches, the brothers saw the room or rather lab was filled with books. Transmutation circles on sheets on paper hung on the walls, drawn on the floor and walls. A large amount of chemistry sets lay on a table next to books, paper and scattered empty ink wells and pens. The torches were four on every long side of the rectangular shaped wall and two on the short ends.
"Yes well I find it necessary Daniel is very curious" Vlad said, "id hate for him come in here and hurt himself. Please forgive the mess; I really don't have much time to clean nowadays"
Transferring souls. Edward glanced over at Alphonse, he had done something like that when he transferred Al's soul to that armour but it had cost him his leg. How had Vladimir pulled it off, he apparently had all his limbs in tact and he didn't seem to be ill from any missing inside parts. Then again Sensei never looked ill ether.
"I'm afraid all IV been able to successfully do without causing harm to myself is small animals" Vlad said, "But over all I don't know why the military even shows interest with my work. Especially what happened with Marco"
Edwards memories of Nina and that thing Marco had turned her into flashed before his mind for a moment. His hands clutched his fists and he bit his lip.
"You knew him?" Edward asked almost in a growl.
"Yes Marco use to be friends with Daniel's Mother before she passed away" Vlad said, "After I heard what had happened I was glad I had severed ties with him years before"
"Uh." Alphonse said and spoke up suddenly, sensing a tension in the air, "Can you show us some of your work?"
"I'm afraid what I last created didn't live pass a day" Vlad said, "Poor thing looked so alive at first but then died during the night"
"Oh" Edward said.
"Well I bet you two are starving why don't we both head upstairs and I'll have the cook prepare something" Vlad said. "Then I'll let you go through my research papers. No use doing work on an empty stomach"
They walked out of the room and Vlad closed the wall behind them. They then head back upstairs where Edward saw Daniel watching them. Edward watched as his eyes followed them as they exited the basement door. His eyes seemed to be examining them, as if looking for something on the brothers. He then noticed that Ed was looking at him, he quickly blushed and ran into the kitchen.
"Is he always so.."Edward said and thought for a moment for a word to describe the boy's behaviour, "Skittish?"
"He's been like that ever since his mother died" Vlad said.
"I'm going to talk with him ok brother?" Al asked.
"That's fine with me" Edward said and watched as Al took off inside the kitchen after Daniel, "So Mr.Venson do you have a library here?"
"According to my servants it's more or less a full blown dust trap" Vlad laughed, "I've collected more then my share of books on my travels in fact I have 3 rooms full of alchemy related books. I just don't know what to do with them all"
"Th..Three rooms!!" Edward gasped and thought for a moment about the mountains of knowledge that awaited him in the books. He failed to notice as he daydreamed he was drooling a bit.
"You head on upstairs if you like" Vlad said, "There the first, second and third doors on the left end of the second story in the right wing. If you get lost just ask a servant"
Edward took off like a rocket, upstairs and began to search for the libraries.
Vlad watched as the boy took off upstairs and he grinned slightly.
(End backlash)
Danny yawned as school ended finally and he walked out the front doors of Casper High School. That whole thing with Valerie had made him even more tired then he was before. Not to mention Valerie's aim was getting a whole lot better every time she shot something in his direction.
"You know dude I don't know what's worst" Tucker said as he watched Valerie walk off in front of them, "Being attacked by ghosts day and night or being shot at by a girl who likes you but hates the other you"
"Yea Danny seriously your going to have to do something about her" Sam said and suddenly noticed Danny had fallen asleep standing up again.
She then stomped on his foot and he awoke with a painful cry.
"Gah!! Yea if Valerie or the ghosts don't kill me the lack of sleep will" Danny groaned.
"You need to get some sleep" Sam said, "Why don't you stay home tomorrow, say your sick or something"
"Sam's right your parents would buy it" Tucker said, "He's as white as a ghost"
Both looks at Tucker with an unamused glare.
"Uh..no pun intended of course"
"There goes Mr.Elric" Sam said.
They watched as Edward Elric there new science teacher walked towards the teachers parking lot.
"You know he's really annoying I mean it's like he's some sort of genius or something" Sam said, "Not to mention he argued with me about cutting a helpless frog apart!!"
"Sam the frog was already dead" Danny groaned.
"That's not the point!!" Sam cried, "Killing animals to further our education is wrong!!"
"Look I'm going home and sleeping" Danny said, "I'm putting in ear plugs so unless the world is going to end don't bother me alright"
"Good because you look like your gonna fall over" A voice said.
Looking behind them Danny's older sister Jazz walked to them. She smiled as she put a hand on Danny's shoulder.
"The world can survive one night without Danny Phantom" Jazz said, "and besides if you keep falling asleep in class it's going to affect the outcome of you passing your freshmen year"
Danny rolled his eyes, yup that was his sister. She always worried about his school and mental needs before his physical needs. The girl was a born shrink and as everyone knew shrinks were annoying. She poked her nose into everything and seemed to think she knew everything.
"Come on little brother I'll give you a drive home"
Edward walked to his car and then noticed Danny Fenton being helped towards the parking lot by a red head girl. As they got closer she smiled at Ed.
"Oh hello you must be Mr.Elric" The girl smiled. "I'm Jazz Fenton"
"Oh yes the honour student" Edward said and glared over at Danny who was sleeping as Jazz held him up. "And he must be your brother"
"My little brother yes" Jazz said, "I'm afraid he's not been feeling well and hasn't been sleeping much because of it. Is your full name Edward Elric by the way?"
"Yes it is" Ed said and Jazz suddenly squealed, dropped Danny and grabbed his hand in a violent shake.
"It's an honour to meet you iv read all your books" Jazz squealed, "Your entire logic on science and the equivalence exchange of the world is sheer brilliance!!"
Edward kinda of tried to pull away from her grip but she held onto his artificial arm like a clamp. She was rambling on like a fan girl.
"Urg" Danny groaned awakening as he hit the ground.
Looking around he saw Jazz gabbing on at about a hundred miles an hour to Mr.Elric.
"Jazz I'm sure Mr.Elric has things to do. And i would really like to go home, to my bed, sleep"
Danny then dragged Jazz off as she attempted to make plans to meet with Mr.Elric once more.
"Jazz come on you'll see him tomorrow he works at the school for god sakes!!"
Finally Edward slipped into the driver's seat of his car and groaned falling against the steering wheel. First the students argue with him, then a ghost attack, then his neighbour's kid turns out be some ghost hunter girl, and now he had a teenaged fan girl who talked too fast.
"Urg well at least Amity Park isn't boringâ– Edward said.
AUTHOR NOTE- Urg...please...STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT MY GRAMMER!!!!!!! I can't make this anymore clear, please I'm begging you. I know I have horrible grammar and horrible spelling I'm trying my best to fix it but the person who's supposed to be my BETA reader supposedly moved again and apparently the movers lost there computer somehow. --:
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