And now, and I don't know about you readers, but now we get one of the parts I've been waiting for. Danielle gets introduced to Danny's ferocious but good friend, Wulf. Oh yeah, and if you look on my livevideo account, like mentioned in the second chapter, you can see a picture of Dani's human form too. Anyway. Enjoy.

Chapter 3: Misunderstandings of a Friend

Danielle woke up without really looking at her surroundings before closing her eyes again. It took a while for her to remember what had happened that could have ended her up here. But when she recalled being chased down by those ghost-hunters in the white tuxedos, she was afraid of what she might find herself in if she allowed herself to look around.

There was one time when she had woken up in a lab that belonged to Plasmius, where he attempted to melt her down completely. Back then, she was already having trouble keeping herself whole. Had Danny not come and saved her from that happening, she wouldn't even exist anymore. Danielle didn't know who these guys that attacked her were, but she was afraid they may try to do the same thing Plasmius tried to, or at least something similar that was equally or even more painful.

She didn't feel any restraints binding her to one place. That was a good sign. But what if she was still in some sort of containment chamber that was ghost-proof? Whatever reason they were after her in the first place, aside from the fact that she was a ghost, she didn't want to open her eyes and find out. Whatever torture or experimenting they were waiting to do, if they didn't know she was awake, chances were, they wouldn't even start it.

The frightened ghost-hybrid kept her eyes shut and listened hard for any voices that might be planning something terrible. But she didn't hear any. It felt comfortably warm though, which was a little surprising. She remembered Plasmius' lab being cold and the examination table he had bound her to was smoother and flatter than the surface she was on now.

Vlad or any ghost-hunter would hardly put in any feature that elevated the victim's head for comfort. Yet that was the position she felt she was currently in. What was going on?

The ghost-girl listened more carefully. She definitely heard cracking noises right beside her. The thought of what might be cracking scared her, but after a few more seconds of focused listening, she started to notice…crickets chirping? Danielle highly doubted that any lab would have special sound effects for the satisfaction of their captive, experiment subjects. And what lab area that experimented on ghosts, or ghost-hybrids, would be outside?

With thoughts going through her head that maybe this might not be as bad as she thought, the teenage girl decided to just take a peak. Slowly, she opened her eyes…and found herself staring up at a stone ceiling. This was quite surprising enough, but her eyes then shifted down to a dull-colored blanket that was draped over her. Sitting up, and looking on the ground behind her, she saw that there was a smoothed, triangular, rock that was acting as a sort of hard pillow for her.

Danielle removed the blanket from her person and looked down at herself to find that she had her human appearance. Her hair was jet-black and tied back in the usual ponytail with the long bangs hiding half of her face, covering one of her now clear blue eyes. Her shirt was a light-blue and hooded top with short sleeves. Coming out from under the short sleeves were long, white ones that covered the rest of her arms to the wrists. In addition, she wore red slacks that had a curved, inward cut at the knee and white tennis shoes that had a bit of blue on them. (Check out 's livevideo channel to see a picture of how I envisioned her human form as well.)

Looking beside her, Danielle saw a nice, warm fire that was crackling and illuminated the majority of her surroundings, which she discovered was the inside of a cave.

Just as she was starting to feel relieved that she was safe, a sudden, fearful chill ran down her back at hearing raspy breathing noises coming from behind her. Only a half a second after noticing this, she remembered the something else in the woods that was coming at her before she blacked out.

The mid-teen hybrid quickly spun around to look behind her and gasped at the sight of the monstrous thing that was breathing so noisily: A massive, black, and hairy, doglike beast that was wearing a bright green, hooded, and torn up outfit. On one of its wrists was a metallic cuff of some sort and the enormous paws had long, emerald talons that glistened in the firelight.

The scruffy furred monster spotted the ghost-girl and began moving towards her with soft, growling noises that exposed its equally huge and sharp white teeth.

Danielle panicked at the enormous beast's approach and scooted away, towards the cave wall. "Get away from me!" She shouted at the hideous creature.

The dog thing suddenly stopped at her demand with an expression of surprised confusion. Danielle, perplexed herself at the animal's reaction, unknowingly relaxed a little. But when it took another step closer to her, she rolled onto her feet and retreated to the cave wall behind her. She then turned to face the beast, getting ready to Go Ghost. "Don't make me do this." She warned, and then focused on the power lodged inside her.

A glowing, white ring appeared around her that expanded from her waist. But just as it stretched to its full capacity to change her to her Phantom form, the ring suddenly fizzled out.

"What the…" The teenage girl exclaimed and tried again. But her attempt to morph only ended in the same result. "Oh no." She said to herself dreadfully, looking down at her hands. "I can't Go Ghost." The young hybrid felt her panic rising as she looked up at the beast that was slowly moving towards her still.

The powerless ghost-teen stepped back against the wall in terror, looking around frantically until she spotted the mouth of the cave to her right. It was perhaps about twenty feet away. If she ran for it, the beast would undoubtedly chase her and she didn't know how fast it was. However, without her ghost-powers working at the moment, what else could she do?

As the beast stepped ever closer, it reared up on its hind legs and stretched to its full height, which made Danielle even more frightened at its appearance. Despite the fear, she braced herself, waited for a second, and then bolted.

The girl ran as fast as she could towards the cave opening. She was half way there, but then something intangible suddenly passed right through her, stopping ahead of her and blocking her escape route. The giant dog became solid again and barked at her once as she nearly ran head on into it.

Danielle let out an involuntary shriek of fright at the sudden sound and fell backwards onto the stone, cave floor. "A…ghost dog?" Danielle said, after contemplating what had just happened. If that was a ghost, why didn't she sense it in the cave with her when she woke up? Then it occurred to her that her ghost-powers must have become so useless, that not even her ghost-sense worked anymore.

Danielle had first thought she would wake up in an experimental vat or something, and now it appeared that she had fallen into a situation that was possibly even worse. Her powers weren't working and she was up against a spectral-beast that was perhaps three times her size. Even if she did make it out of the cave, she now knew that she would never be able to outrun it.

With dog-like pants, the gigantic creature walked towards her again.

Just knowing she was done for, Danielle cringed, rolling onto her side, and ducking her head under her hands. From underneath her arm, the girl saw the giant paw of the beast set down right in front of her face. She shut her eyes tight as she felt it start to sniff her.

Any minute now, the carnivorous animal was going to deliver the killing blow, and there was nothing she could do about it. The helpless teenage girl waited, curling up her body and letting out soft frightened, whimpers. But the blow didn't come. The big dog just kept sniffing her until its wet black nose came up to where her face was. Danielle cringed away with a small gasp of fear and wrapped her arms over her head even tighter. Still, the ghost monster kept sniffing and Danielle didn't move, frozen to the spot in complete terror of what might happen next.

The big dog lightly bumped the girl's elbow with its enormous muzzle. Confused at this action, Danielle chanced a look. The massive beast's face was inches from hers, but for some reason, it seemed less frightful. Its snout was low enough that she could only see above the giant fanged jaws and into its large eyes. For such a monstrous appearance, the ghost animal had rather friendly looking green eyes that gave Danielle a feeling of…reassurance.

Slowly, Danielle removed her hands and raised her head to look deeper into the giant and yet calming eyes. Almost as if there was something she was trying to decipher from them. "You're…you're not gonna hurt me?" She asked, though she wondered if the hairy creature even understood her. As the ghost's snout neared towards her face again, the girl recoiled, but all the creature did was gently lick her face.

After another moment of silent staring, the beast lifted its massive head to look outside the cave. Danielle, propping herself up on her forearm, followed its gaze to the dark night outside the cave. The dog-creature then raised its clawed, humanoid paw upward and pointed out towards the sky. Danielle pushed herself up with her arms and looked in the direction indicated where she saw two pairs of lights rise from the trees of the woods.

Danielle shifted herself to her hands and knees and crawled a little towards the cave mouth, squinted to try and get a better look at whatever was projecting the lights. Through the darkness, she thought she remembered the shapes of those things. Then it dawned on her and she quickly crawled back away. "Hey, those are the guys that attacked me." She said. The fear she felt just a minute ago had returned as she recalled what they did to her. She looked at her open hands again, remembering how she couldn't transform a few minutes ago. The device those men had hit her with must have taken her ghost powers away. Hopefully, only temporarily. Danielle looked back up at the ghost as he turned his own gaze back to her. "Did…did you save me from them?" In response, the creature almost seemed to smile.

Then, he started using his giant muzzle to nudge the girl. Not quite understanding this, Danielle only scooted back about a foot. He nudged a bit harder, scooting her back even further away from the cave opening. A bit hesitantly but now getting the idea, Danielle crawled back towards the fire and sat down in the place she had originally awoken in. The hairy beast then went to the other side of the fire.

In watching some sparks fly out of the burning logs, Danielle came to yet another realization. "You built the fire, too?" The animal nodded its hairy head. Danielle set her hand down and felt the blanket that she then remembered had been put over her. "And you gave me the blanket." Her hand then, instantaneously went to her side where she remembered feeling pain before going unconscious. It didn't hurt nearly as much anymore. The wound had some dark, bluish stuff that had dried over it. Danielle guessed it must have been some sort of healing substance. "And you patched me up." She added. When the ghost-dog crossed over to her again and gave her another friendly lick in response, Danielle's fears left her completely.

Had the teen hybrid thought through this before, she would never have been afraid that this thing would eat her or something. As the ghostly dog sat next to her, she started to feel a bit foolish to have threatened him so when he never meant to harm her. In fact this ghost had rescued her from the men that did mean such a thing.

At that moment, another thought occurred to her that she had to ask. "But…why?" She questioned, confused. "I didn't know there were any other friendly ghosts besides Danny Phantom." At the mention of Danny's name, the creature's ears suddenly perked up and he stared at her with his big green eyes again. "What?" She asked. The giant dog turned himself to face her. She recoiled towards the wall just behind her at his sudden movement but she remained calm. The creature sat back on his hind legs and reached into the front of his hooded covering with his front paw. He pulled something out and presented it to the girl.

It seemed to be some sort of beat-up photograph. Danielle examined it a bit closer and saw that it was a picture of Danny and his two friends, Tucker Foley and Samantha Manson. Tucker stood in the middle with a proud grin. His arms were around the shoulders of his two friends who stood on either side of him with smiles of their own.

"Hey, where did you get this?" Danielle asked in surprise. "Did, he give this to you?" When the creature didn't seem to understand, she pointed to Danny in the photo. "Danny. Did he give this to you?" The huge dog shook his head and used one of his giant, green claws to point to Tucker. "He did? His friend did?" The ghost nodded. "But you do know Danny, right?"

The creature tucked the photograph back into his covering and walked towards another cave way that Danielle hadn't noticed until now. The dog-like ghost stopped beside it and looked back at her. "You…you want me to follow you?" She asked, slowly standing up. The creature merely stood there as Danielle walked slowly towards the opening where he waited.

When she reached the cavity in the rock, she looked inside. It was dark but the girl hybrid could still make out a short passageway that led to what must be another room of sorts. She tried to charge a green ecto-sphere in her hand to illuminate it better before going in, but she couldn't channel the required ghostly energy to get anything to appear at all. Sighing in frustration, she remembered that her powers didn't work right now.

Still, if the creature was wanting to show her something, she couldn't just go in blindly. How would she be able to see it? Danielle would have to find an alternative solution. She looked around behind her in the roomy cave to see if she could spot one. When her eyes rested on the fire, she walked over to it, found a good-sized stick that was only burning at one end and removed it from the hot flames. Walking back to the tunnel with her new torch, she used it to light her way and step through the passage. The black furred ghost ducked into the tunnel-like doorway and followed in close step behind her.

The tunnel was only maybe a few yards long but it was huge. The ghost girl supposed it would have to be, or the ghost beast would have to go intangible to get to the other side.

Danielle reached the end of the tunnel and raised the blazing end of the torch above her head as she entered a rather large, domelike cavern. But what she noticed after the size of it, almost immediately after, nearly took her breath away.

Danielle raised the torch even higher and her eyes widened at the sight she was taking in. "Wow," was all she could say in a whisper, as she was completely awed at the sight. The domelike cavern was a lot bigger than it seemed from outside the passage to it and in the dark. The walls were rough but about every inch of it was covered in perhaps hundreds of pictures that seemed to have been scratched in. They weren't necessarily that definable but it was amazing nonetheless. It was like an entire historical monument of some kind.

"Did you do all this?" She asked, turning to the scruffy furred creature as it entered the cavern behind her. The black, hairy animal only walked passed her to one particular place on the wall and stood next to it. Danielle followed with the torch and shined it on the place he seemed to be indicating.

From the light of the torch, Danielle could make out another carved in, doodle. At first it just looked like a big scribble, but as she looked closer, she started to recognize a person that was drawn out in short, straight lines. As small as it was to be made with long talons like the ones this creature had, Danielle could still make out what appeared to be a D on the chest of a boy with spiky hair.

"Hey, is that Danny?" She asked, pointing to the picture and smiling up at the giant dog. He seemed to smile at Danielle's reaction to the drawing and she moved the torch further along the basic area. More marks could be seen that she thought looked like an entire fight scene. Several additional scratches were made into the drawing that made it seem more chaotic. In the middle of this doodle, there was a larger picture of a scruffy looking animal and Danny (as the ghost girl guessed) standing side by side.

"Amiko" the dog creature said, pointing to the image of Danny and the other series of scratches that Danielle guessed was supposed to be his own self-portrait.

"I'm sorry?" She said confused, and a little surprised as well. It was the first time she heard him say anything. She realized it couldn't be anything in English but it was definitely unexpected from a ghost animal that had been using nothing but growling noises until now.

"Mia amiko" The ghost repeated. Then after a moment, he added, seemingly with a bit of difficulty in pronouncing the word, "friend."

Looking over the whole scene on the wall, Danielle made the connection. "So, Amiko is Friend?" The ghost beast seemed to perk up a bit, so evidently, Danielle must have been on the right track. Referring back to the battle drawing, she then said aloud. "So…you…fought with him…you're a friend of Danny Phantom's?" The beast nodded. "And that's how you got that photo." The creature nodded.

The ghost girl now had heard and seen everything. What luck to have run into such a fearsome looking beast that turns out to be a ghost. But a friendly ghost that had possibly just saved her life. Not to mention, one that knew her cousin on good terms.

"Who are you?" She asked in awe, turning to the ghost-dog and looking up into the face of this scruffy beast.

The creature turned and picked up a flat rock that would definitely have been too heavy for a fifteen-year-old ghost-girl to lift in her human form. He then started to scratch something into the rock with his long and dangerous looking claws. To Danielle, it looked like he could have been doing another messy doodle.

It was only a few seconds before he finished and turned the rock around to reveal what he had carved into it. It was but a single four-letter word that Danielle thought must be what his name was.

Wulf.

Okay, so that's my vision of Dani's first encounter with Wulf. Those of you who watch The Legion of Superheroes on Kid's WB (or what that channel used to be called), yes dani's meeting with Wulf in this chapter is almost just like how Saturn-girl meets Timberwolf. But under the circumstances, I couldn't think of any better way for Wulf and Danielle to meet. And though the pattern of events are pretty much the same, it's also the most logical way a powerless ghost girl would have reacted to a big, scary looking ghost monster that had brought her to a cave. How would you react to a situation like that?

What I really want your opinion on though is the big monument thing Wulf made. What do you think? Was that a good idea?