Chapter 2: Danny meet the Foreigners
"So two strange kids are staying with your family for the summer? And you're not even related?" questioned Tucker as he used his PDA. Pointing it in Skulker's direction he smirked as he watched the hunter curse as he was blasted with his own weapons.
"Yeah, just announced it at breakfast this morning. They're picking them up from the airport." The ghostly teen replied.
Picking up the weakened Skulker he tossed him to Sam, who opened the thermos and the hunter was sucked in. Ignoring the swearing, Sam twisted the lid close.
"Only your parents would announce that two complete strangers will be staying with you for the summer."
"Yeah. Jazz nearly had a heart attack when she found out," Danny snickered, remembering his uptight sisters face.
"Danny be serious," Sam Groaned "having another set of eyes in the same house increases the risk of discovery."
"I'll be careful, but I've managed to hide it from not only my parents but the town to. Who says that they will discover my secret?" Shrugging his shoulders Danny spotted the time on a nearby clock, "I got to go guys. Jazz wants help clearing out the spare guest room near the lab."
"Seriously…putting defenseless foreigners near a lab that's a ghost portal with potentially dangerous ghosts come out of. Are they crazy?" Sam's tone incredulous.
"When you put it like that, it sounds bad. But the other room was converted into dad's fudge room. So it's the only place to put them."
Securing the thermos to his belt the teens scrambled out of the park. After saying their goodbyes Danny flew home, wondering if the foreigners will cause more problems for him.
Harry's POV:
Taking my backpack I looked up toward the house Luna and I would stay in. It looked like an alien ship attached to a building with the big flashing sign "Fenton Works" in neon colors.
If it weren't for the fact that I was used to weird I was sure I would have ripped my hair out. Shifting my backpack it was a gift from Luna that acted as a bottomless bag red and black in color with red griffins. Attached to it was some of her other gifts, a crescent moon pendent, a book, a clock, and a radish, though luckily not a real one. Luna was next to me, her ever present dazed look on her face. Though I was able to detect a hint of excitement. Don't know why though.
Biting my lip just as Mattie gave both of us a gentle push towards the door.
Though the house was somewhat eccentric and high-tech based decorated, the odd smell of burnt metal, ozone and fudge, the home held the obvious air of being well lived in.
Both of us were guided/dragged into a lavender colored kitchen and forced into chairs at the family table.
Jack took the chair across from me with a gusty sigh while Luna sat next to me and his wife, removing the head portion of her outfit, set to work getting dinner ready while Jack went on into a long winded explanation on what his family did for a living.
The explanation made our eyebrows rise.
We had heard of Ghost hunters of course. The resident ghosts at Hogwarts were notorious gossips and though I had never heard specific names, I remembered how amused they were at the expense of their other fellows out side Hogwarts and magical communities having to put up with the muggles that didn't seem to leave well enough alone.
I never had a problem with ghosts, and was on friendly terms with Nearly Headless Nick, but some of the incidences that the Fenton's mentioned, particularly the somewhat constant ghost attacks that the town of Amity Park suffered, made me wonder what had possessed Kingsley to send us here to relax?
In the end though I just thumped my head against the table.
End Pov
The elder Fenton's luckily didn't mind this action as they were used to this from their own children and just assumed it was a modern day teenager thing.
Harry and Luna were taking a slice of pizza when two teens came up from what looked like the basement.
They were bickering good-naturedly until they caught sight of Harry and Luna.
The eldest, a girl with auburn hair held back in a pale turquoise headband that was the same color as her eyes. She was about 17 and marched over to the both of them and held out her hand.
Harry hesitantly took it, trying not to flinch, though judging from the girl's keen stare, she had caught the subtle flinch before shaking Luna's hand as well.
"You must be Harry Potter and Luna Lovegood," the girl said briskly, "I am Jasmine Fenton, though you can call me Jazz."
She turned to her brother, a boy who was slim and casually dressed, with hair as dark as Harry that was longer in the front then in the back and nearly covered his right eye.
Sky blues meant emerald green as the two boys eyed each other.
"This is my brother Danny," the girl finished.
Danny's POV:
I couldn't help but stare at the boy in front of him.
The boy may be my age, but he looked much younger, not nearly 16 like he was.
I thought briefly that I wouldn't come cross any other male in this town smaller and skinnier then himself. But, Harry was about an inch or two smaller, way too skinny to be healthy and his messy black hair stood out in wild waves around his head, framing a delicate face. His eyes were large behind his round glasses and were a color that I had never seen on another human being. It was a disconcerting thing to meet those eyes. They almost glowed like my own when I was in ghost form, but instead of acid green, his were a darker color, like emerald flame.
The girl though took most of my attention. She had straggly, waist-length, dirty blonde hair, very pale eyebrows, and protuberant eyes that gave her a permanently surprised look. The girl gave off an aura of distinct dottiness. Maybe because of the radish? Earrings she was wearing or her strangely odd, no different. Just looking at her I got strange feelings about her, my ghost abilities were affected as well, and not in a bad way. It made me pretty weary of her.
And despite the boys' fragility and youth, he hade a weary, cynical strength that made me shutter internally.
Something in me, both my instincts as a level headed human and as a ghost, told me that there was something up with these new guys, something that wasn't my usual ghostly problems.
End Pov
Danny slowly held out his hand.
The boy hesitated, then held out his smaller one and took it.
There was a brief moment as if all the air had been sucked out of the room and Danny felt a strange, tingly sensation all over, as if something infinite had just blinked at him and taken notice, before it settled and the strange spell over the two broke. The same thing happened again with the girl, though much stronger and she ended up happier than before.
Returning the four teens turned back to the happily gabbing family as they dug into their food and retreated to their dinner plates.
End
Authors note:
Sorry for the delay. I know you all wanted to read the next chapter and I was finally able to get the time to finish this chapter. It will be a while before the next chapter for "Ghostly Magic" will be put up, so please be patient.
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