Chapter 2

Author's Notes: Here's the second chapter! I hope that I haven't kept you waiting too long. For the record here are the ages of some of the more important characters. Sam, Tucker, and Danny are all 16, Dani is now 13, Jazz is 19 and finally Valerie is 17. This will be important later on in the story. Also if you have any ideas for a ghost R&R and I might place them in.

Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom. Also I used a translator for the language being spoken, I don't own that either.

Claimer: I own Sam's Ghost Forms.

After wandering around in the darkness for who knows how long Danny finally was able to find the fabled 'light at the end of the tunnel'. With that he took off in a run towards the light. But as soon as the light cleared he found himself floating in midair. Without the firmness of the ground beneath him, Danny panicked. Which ended up with him flailing his limbs around like an idiot. After a minute of not falling, Danny finally calmed down and smacked himself. If he fell, a simple transformation would advert a painful date with the dirt.

Though he did look around at where he was. It was a bright day, the sky a nice shade of light blue. There were various green trees and hills covered in grass. Though some areas the trees and grass were charred beyond recognition or still on fire. Below him was what seemed like a giant war. There were human shaped people fighting with glowing figures against what seemed endless shadows. Though it was quite clear that the human shaped beings and the glowing figures were loosing. Danny wished so desperately that he could go down and help. He closed his eyes for a moment before reopening them. But instead of floating a good 40 feet above the battlefield he was smack dab in the middle. Not as himself, but as someone else apparently. Which Danny found a bit creepy since he couldn't even move; all he could do is watch.

All that the halfa knew was that he was in someone else's body in the middle of a big battle against some shadow army. Though even with his enhanced hearing, Danny couldn't tell what the primary weapon was for either side. Every so often there was a large explosion and the clanking of metal was quiet common. But that's when a sharp pain went through his stomach. The person Danny was inside looked down to see a dark blade coated in green and red blood. "Ai't mysia Mastalae, Ai'bi thalaer." Was the last thing before both Danny and the figure were screaming in agony.

Danny bolted upright in less than a second before a bright light blue light flashed and disappeared. He blinked to see Dani Phantom floating a few inches above the ground a Ghost Ray in her hands ready to be fired if some ghost came in. "Danny are you ok?"

Danny looked around to see that he was covered in a blanket on top of a sleeping bag. He was in a white and green tent and a thick blanket over his body. On the other side of Dani, Danny saw that Sam was resting peacefully with Valerie resting against a chair. He then phased off his shirt to reveal his back all bandaged up. Then he traced the exact spot that blade pierced his stomach in his... Dream? Vision? He actually didn't know what just happened. But the exact spot that he was stabbed showed no injury or pain when he touched it. "Yeah... Except my entire body went through an entire football game and I was the football. Where are we?"

Dani physically relaxed as she lowered herself to the ground. Then she morphed back into Dani Fenton and sat down. "Well after Valerie gassed you..."

Danny immediately cut her off," you sat there and let Valerie gas me? Why? I thought you were on my side!" He cried out loud, only the pain in his back and side was keeping him seated at the moment.

"If you would have let me finish brother. Valerie gassed you with a specially made combination of knockout gas for humans and ghosts. She got it from Vlad who wants you alive."

"Once again, he is one seriously messed up fruit loop. But go on."

"I'm sorry Danny, you had that look in your eyes after seeing Sam unconscious that you had no plans on getting any rest. Especially with those gashes on your back. They just started closing up today and that was with a good 12 hours of sleep."

"I've been out for 12 HOURS!?"

"Calm down Danny, don't worry the group has been quite productive in that time. Once everyone was patched up Tucker started formatting a plan to get out of here."

"But what if Skulker attacked! What if some-" Danny started running many scenarios in his head. He struggled to get up but was held down by his adopted sister. Who was just shaking her head "no" in confusion and exasperation.

"Your hurt, how do you think that doing drills with the students would help this situation anymore. I bet you if Sam was awake she would be slapping some sense into you, lovebirds." She smirked and left his confused and blushing brother. But before she left, a quick tap on Valerie's shoulder got the teenager up and watching the two injured halfas.

Dani walked outside and hid behind a rock as she morphed into Dani Phantom. Then flew into the middle of the camp where ecto-guns were being handed out. Jack and Maddie Fenton were the first to react. They had their guns ready to fire before they lowered them. Tucker explained that Danny Phantom was staged for both the robbery and the attack on the mayor with some enhanced pictures. He also listed a few more ghosts that are friends Dani was the next one he talked about considering that she was going to be doing the training exercises.

She then landed in the middle of the group and smiled," Tucker are these guns going to send me half way to the Far Frozen or not?" She asked smiling, as she looked it over.

"If they did Frostbite, Phantom, and a few other ghosts would have my hide both in this life and the next." Tucker smirked as he suited up in the Fenton Peeler. The exact list of people or ghosts on his hide would be Danny, Sam, Jazz, Frostbite, Akiko, and now more recently Valerie. He wondered why the only skilled ghost hunter was so protective of Dani. "Ok if you have shot a gun before and have a decent aim, go over with Little Phantom. Everyone else come with me."

Tucker received a death glare from Dani, but he just ignored it. In the end only Maddie was going to be with Dani while unfortunately meant that Tucker was stuck with 34 people who probably have really bad aim. He went over to the wreckage of the Specter Speeder XL and opened up a secret compartment under the baggage area. What was inside was about twenty tiny cubes only one inch wide, thick and tall. He took all twenty out and threw one at Dani. The female caught it with ease as she was still floating in the air.

Now that Tucker was back with his group he mentally prayed to get through the rest of the day. "Ok, thanks to Undergrowth, we have to walk back to the Fenton's portal. If you were paying attention earlier, we can't take the route back since there is no ground. But there are paths that connect the various sections of the ghost zone. Our goal is the Far Frozen where Sam, Danny, Dani, and myself have some connections that can get us home. It will probably take us at least a month to get there based on the size of the group. So we will be putting up a watch rotation. That means you need to be able to defend yourself. So lets get started." Tucker finished as he retracted the guns on his suit allowing him to move his hands. But after a few minutes he found out who is going to be on guard duty and who's not. Star almost took out herself by trying to turn on the gun. Paulina would have hurt Tucker if he didn't have his armor on. Besides those two, there were four guys who didn't even try to learn because they were too absorbed in how the gun worked.

After he got rid of the potential threats to everyone's safety, Tucker did a primary evaluation using the cubes he brought out earlier. Each cube holds 100 ectoplasmic-based disks. The disks will replenish over time, but to go from 0 to 100 disks would take a full day. So for his evaluation, Tucker had everyone stand in a line and he threw a disk up into the air for each person to see how well they can aim. In the end, 16 of the students plus Mr. Lancer and Jack hit the target somewhere. With the remaining ten students, half female and the other half male managed to either hit the center or very close to the center.

Now that the groups were somewhat divided up into skill level. Tucker found himself hovering more towards the first group. Even though they could hit a moving target. It was just barely, though ghosts are a lot larger than the one-inch disks that the group was practicing on. But after a few hours almost everyone was able to hit the target going just straight up and down. Tucker decided that was enough for today and dismissed his class. He thought that it would be good to see how Dani and Maddie were doing.

She was surprised when he found the two sharing a bottle of water laughing. "Hello ladies, how is the Little Phantom and Ms. Fenton doing this fine day in the Ghost Zone?" He smirked as he noticed the slight lifting and rising of Dani's chest. As a ghost both Danny and Dani don't have to breath as often.

Dani smirked and accidentally shot a Ghost Ray right in front of Tucker. The minor explosion caused him to stumble backwards and fall on his butt. "I think that the ending score was 2-2? Or was it 3-2?" She asked innocently as Tucker glared at her.

Ms. Fenton smiled and replied," I hit you twice and you hit me three times. We were sparing against each other. But Little Phantom, why are you breathing right now? I thought you were a ghost." She asked looking at Dani, who had a slightly concerned look on her face.

Thinking quickly she just randomly made something else. She knew that the breathing in her ghost form was due to the lack of oxygen in her body. Because she was only half dead, oxygen was still needed in her body. But substantially less, instead of inhaling ever twenty seconds she would inhale every five minutes unless she was fighting. "I find that it helps calm me down after a sparing match."

Tucker rolled his eyes and stood up," I'll leave you two alone and go check on Sam, Danny and Valerie. Bye Princess!" He smiled and jogged off, finally taking off the Fenton Ghost Peeler since there was no more target practice for the day.

Then as he was about to enter their tent, he was knocked down. He looked up and saw Valerie lying right on top of him. She quickly stood up and brushed herself off," Tucker! I was just going to look for you! Something is wrong with Danny and Sam!" She cried out and rushed back inside the tent. Tucker was right behind her and looked around.

But just as he got inside, time was frozen for a second before restarting. He found that there were about four books in his arms. On the very top was a note, he placed the books on the floor gently and picked up the note. "These should help the King of the Ghost Zone, and our new halfa friend Samantha. Good luck, don't forget friendship is the Phantoms' greatest strength. CW" He shrugged and looked at Valerie who also just shrugged. Picking up the books, he saw that two were in an unreadable language; the third one was titled The King and Courts Powers and Abilities. The last book had the most insulting and relevant title, The Dummies Guide to Half Human, Half Ghost Hybrids.

"Is this how Clockwork get his fun?" He started flipping through the book quickly. He eventually landed on the section for ailments and healing. "Ok, what's wrong with Danny and Sam?" He asked skimming over the page he was on. But before Valerie started talking he contacted Dani," Dani leave camp and go to Dora's castle. It's south of us, just mention Phantom and you will be fine. I think that Sam and Danny are sick. Clockwork gave us a book on halfas so it may be contagious."

"Ok Tucker, stay in contact if I need to go find Frostbite. Good luck and stay in contact please." Dani stated as she ran away from camp and morphed. She was a bit concerned for her brother but other than that she was fine. Though her mind was working on a valid excuse to be at Dora's kingdom before anyone else.

Back with Tucker and Valerie with the sick Danny and Sam they were taking various measurements: body temperature, ectoplasmic levels, heart rate and a few other vital signs. For Danny he had a slight fever with his body temperature at 92.3 degrees, and all of his other signs were normal in comparison to the measurements taken when he first got his ghost powers almost two years ago. Though he was slightly worried for Sam because he doesn't have any base readings for Sam. Her core body temperature is 100.4 degrees. But Tucker didn't know if she had a neutral, hot or cold core. If she had a cold core then her fever would be horrendous, not so much for a neutral core. Though he was in the dark for a hot core.

Even worse, just having a fever didn't cut off many of the ailments in the book. But that's when something new came up. Danny started so shiver uncontrollably and his blanket was slowly becoming incased in ice. Tucker instantly knew that his ice powers were out of control. Skimming the book he found something that matched. " Halfa Aboritus. This is a rare and non-contagious ailment for the ghost hybrid for a few reasons. One of the reasons that it's basically the ghost side reacting to a variety of different plants. What each hybrid is allergic to varies from person to person. The main symptoms are fevers, lost control of ghost powers, sneezing, coughing, and shivers. If left untreated then this usually non-deadly can potentially become deadly." Tucker finished, happy that he found out what was wrong with Danny.

He placed the Fenton Peeler in his hands and remotely activated it. With the armor surrounding Danny Tucker looked at Sam and was instantly not worried. "Looks like Sam has a neutral core. Figures they would be opposite. She will be fine, I remember Danny's first few days. He was colder than normal the first few days so that's what I'm guessing." He walked over to Sam and nudged her awake.

Sam blinked once, twice, three times before he realized where she was. She slowly pushed herself up, her body hurt all over, especially in her head. "Tucker, what happened? And why do I feel like I hit the ground at 50 miles per hour?" She groaned sitting on top of a sleeping bag.

"It was actually around 70-100 based on the size of the crater you made. How are you feeling?" Tucker asked, looking at Sam. But he got an obvious duh glair from Sam. "Sorry, default question. What's the last thing you remember? Valerie can you go and tell the others we need to leave ASAP?" He asked, looking at Valerie as he went and placed the four books Clockwork gave Team Phantom in his backpack. Valerie nodded and headed out of the tent.

"I remember having Valerie and myself intangible on her board. She was shooting ice beams from a few of her weapons. When we returned to the surface, Undergrowth was completely frozen. I blasted him with my strongest Ghost Ray I could manage then just the comforting darkness is all that I remember." She said as she slowly stood up and looked around. "Where is Dani?"

"She's with Dora by now. Danny is sick so we didn't want to risk her getting sick also. Can you help me carry Danny? He's in a Fenton Peeler because his ice powers are out of control." He said, hauling the sleeping Danny into his feet. Tucker could probably carry Danny by himself easily, though with the armor, he was just too heavy. Sam slowly walked over and put Danny's hand over her shoulder and started walking out.

When the trio walked out they were pleasantly surprised. Camp was almost completely broken down; just a few tents remained intact. Twenty minutes later everyone was packed up and the large group headed out. Jack and Maddie were leading the group while Sam, Tucker, and Danny were in the middle of the group surrounded by the best out of Tucker's group. Everyone minus Star, Paulina and the other four needs who didn't even shoot a gun earlier was armed with legit guns. The pace was relatively quick but it was still quite slow, no one was talking but rumors were forming around the group. People were saying that the reason they were going so slow was because Danny was sick. Others were saying that it was for safety reasons. While some of the other students were simply blaming some of the geeks for not being able to move any faster.

In Sam's and Tucker's mind only one was true, it was that Danny was sick. If the group moved too fast then attention would be drawn to the large group. With Dani already at the castle, the group's defenses were severely crippled. Though Sam could go ghost, it might not be enough depending on which ghost attacked. The group continued on with this pace for a few more hours before the decision was made to take a 15-minute break. Though the order was to remain in formation, a few people complained but then they shut up. During this time, Tucker took the time to de-ice the suit containing Danny in and took some more vital signs. His fever went down by a degree, but the techno geek couldn't tell if it was due to the amount of ice in the suit or it was his body fighting the Hafa Aboritus. Seeing that Danny wasn't getting much worse Tucker placed him back into the suit and the group continued on again. But just after a few minutes the group stopped.

Out of the corner of Sam's eye she saw a speck coming at the group. She panicked when the speck became a shape, which became Skulker. Just like the scenarios that were described earlier, the elite group came closer to Danny, Sam, and Tucker while pointing their ecto-guns at the ghost. Skulker was laughing which caused Sam to scowl and her eyes flashed green for a moment before returning to her normal purple. "The whelp is sick, so he needs a bunch of pitiful humans to protect him? Hanging his pelt on my wall has just become so much easier." Skulker explained as he sent rockets towards the group. Everyone scattered and started blasting him. Though many of the shots he dodged, there were a few that actually hit him.

In the confusion Sam slipped away and his behind a rock. Making sure no one saw her, she shouted," I'm going ghost!" Two purple rings surrounded Sam as she changed from Mason to Phantom. She took off running and jumped into the air, she stumbled for a bit before righting herself. "Hey Sulker! Come and get me if you think you can!"

"It's Skulker! Not Sulker! What's this? But the ghost boy is in that suit! How can you be over there!"

Sam flew closer and smacked herself on the head," do I look like the Ghost Boy? I'm a freaking girl! I'm Samantha Phantom, Danny Phantom was talking to Frostbite last time I saw him. So come and get me Skulkie. Everyone else keep moving I'll keep him distracted!" Sam shouted as she flew away from the group, Skulker right behind her.

Everyone else was confused as they reformed their groups. With Sam fighting Skulker, Valerie quickly ran and went to go help Tucker carry Danny. "You heard what that Phantom said! Form ranks and MOVE OUT! Double time everyone!" She shouted as all the students quickly found their place and started moving.

Sam found herself dodging more than attacking in this fight. She made a mental note to ask the universe why her first two fights as a halfa so damm hard. "I'm a good person, why does Danny get to fight the Box ghost, but I get frigging Skulker." She growled as she ended up dodging several more blasts. Sam knew that if she were on the ground then this fight would be much different. She wasn't used to flying by herself, let alone fighting and flying.

When she spun around, instead of aiming for Skulker himself, Sam aimed for his wings. Though by aiming at the wings, she ended up hitting his chest and other body parts more often. 'I learned how to fight ghosts as ground support! If I keep this up much longer, I won't be like Danny. I'll be a true ghost!' Sam panicked as she though to herself, as Skulker nearly hit her in the head. She flew straight up with Skulker right on her ghostly tail, and then caught up to her.

With one good punch to the stomach, Sam was sent hurtling towards the ground. To make matters worse, she was headed towards the ground when two purple rings formed around her waist and then moved along her body to reveal her human side. Sam knew that she might have lived with grave injures if she made contact with the ground while a ghost. But in her human form she was as good as dead.

Closing her eyes she concentrated and looked for the source of her power. Danny said that it was deep within him his core, his center it was cold. That was what allowed him to defy the natural laws of the human realm. She tried so very hard to find it, though she was surprised to find a part of her that was hot. Making another mental note of that, she continued on her search. Time was running out, the ground was getting closer. That's when she found it, grasping onto the diamond of pure ice, she held onto it for dear life, as the ground was only moments away.