Chapter 2

"Are you sure you're ready for this?" Dad asked as he and Daniel walked towards the high school in Amity Park. "I mean, this is the first alien you've attempted in the top 20 of The List.

"I'll be fine, Dad." Daniel shrugged off. "Anyway, if Number 17 gains enough ectoplasm, he came become even higher on The List than just 17. And where are we?"

"Ya, I get it." Dad nodded his head. "Most haunted city in America. Just, good luck."

"Of course." Daniel smiled as the two walked into the front doors of Casper High School.

The two walked over to the front desk to be greeted by a little woman with a large nose. She looked up from her computer and smiled, "Hello, how can I help you?"

"It's my son's first day of school here and I just wanted to make sure all the paperwork was done." Dad said, smiling at her.

"Daniel Painter, is it?" the woman asked, searching her desk for a moment before finding a piece of paper from her cluttered desk. She pulled it out and handed the boy the paper. "Here's your schedule and your student aid should be here any minute now so you can sit there and wait for him." She smiled as she motioned over to the wall with chairs lined up against it.

"Ok, bye Dad." Daniel smiled, waving at the man before sitting down in a chair.

"See you after school, Daniel." Dad said, waving back before walking out the door and disappearing.

Daniel sighed, sitting back in the chair to look over the list of teachers. A smile appeared on his face as the name if his science teacher was who it should be. The human alias Number17 was going by at the moment.

The door opened, getting Daniel's attention to a black haired kid about his own age looking out of breath as if he had run all the way from his house.

Quickly recovering, the kid headed over to Daniel and smiled. "You're the new kid?"

"Ya, name's Daniel." The alien hunter stood up and held out his hands as the other hand threw his book bag on.

The kid snickered as he shook hands. "Funny, name's Danny."

Daniel smiled as they released hands. "Different last name, I hope."

"Fenton."

"Painter, good." Daniel handed the boy the sheet of paper.

Danny skimmed over it only for his face to drop. "Oh, you got Mr. Ledwidge, and at the same time I do."

"You don't like him?" Daniel asked as Danny started to lead them through the school.

"I haven't had the chance to know him yet, since he replaced our old science teacher just last week, but I think he hates me." Danny admitted, handing back the paper.

"Harsh." Daniel commented, trying to figure out why Number 17 was after this human.

"Anyway, Lancer's English class is this way." Danny said, pointing down the hall they had just entered. "I'm in that class with you so don't wo-"

Daniel looked back at the boy, stopping as he noticed something strange. He could've sworn he had just seen Danny's breath.

"Uhm, hey, I gotta go to the bathroom real quick." Danny said, throwing his thumb over his shoulder before moving away. He turned ad started running as he called out, "Don't worry, I'll be back!"

Daniel watched, a bit confused, as Danny's form shrunk out of sight towards the bathrooms they'd passed just past the office.

"Beware!"

Daniel turned around, quickly swinging his foot up to round kick who'd startled him only for his foot to only hit air. He stared up at the blue man floating in the air by the ceiling, realizing this was one of the many ghosts that plagued the city.

"Watch, as you Tremble befo-"

"Have you been taking lessons from Technus?" a voice asked as a white haired teen flew through the ceiling leading with his fist. The fist made contact with the back of the ghost's head, knocking it down to the ground at Daniel's feet.

"I, The Box Ghost, am Ten Times the ghost That fool is!" the Box Ghost called, getting back to his feet, so to say.

The ghost teen shot a green bolt of energy at the Box Ghost, shooting him back to the ground in almost the same spot.

Daniel watched, almost in awe as the two ghosts fought in front of him. He'd never seen ghosts fights, aliens, sure, but ghost's, never.

The teen took the Box Ghost's daze as his advantage, pulling out a thermos looking device from his belt line. He uncapped it and shot a beam of blue light at the blue ghost. Before Daniel's eyes, The Box Ghost was sucked up into the device almost the same way the Glostner's ship sucked people into it.

The ghost teen recapped the thermos and dropped down to his feet, looking Daniel in the eyes.

"Inviso-Bill?" Daniel asked.

"I prefer Danny Phantom." The teen droned. "You ok?"

"Ya." Daniel eyed the device still in the ghost's hands. "Anyway I could get one of those?"

Phantom looked at the thermos only to shrug. "I don't know. As the Fenton's."

Phantom disappeared from Daniel's sight, just in time to be missed by Danny as the teen ran back to join him.

"Hey, did I miss anything?" Danny asked, stopping next to Daniel.

"Does your family sell ghost hunting equipment?" Daniel asked, remembering Danny's last name was Fenton.

"Ya, why? Did a ghost attack?" Danny asked, looking around as if the ghost might still be around.

"Ya, but Inviso-uh, Phantom took care of him." Daniel shrugged. "I just wanted to know if your family would sell me one of those thermos looking things, you know, for protection."

"You'd have to talk to my parents about all that." Danny admitted. "If you want, I'll show you Fenton Works after school."

"That'd be great." Daniel nodded his head as a plan started to work its way into this mind.

"Alright, you got gym after Lancer, right?" Danny asked, getting back on task.