A/N: Ok finally my writer's block for this story has been cured! All thanks to…writing all those stories!! I'm so sad, so many people are dying…I wish I could stop at least 20 of the deaths, but I don't even have that much power. But with everyone's help, we can! Heroes! That show's awesome! Wee…
Thanks to all the 12 people (Jenna Dax, Jessica01, KILLERGRIM23, Beyonce's Angel925, Black January, Karen Kano, Ghodtboy814, xwhitexhouses, dessyweird51, Gilgamesh, xheartkreuzx, kris123) that weren't lazy & reviewed. Oh yea, & I did change my username for like a day. Heh. I think a lot of my old reviewers are really mad at me…I hope you all still review, if u are still reading this. I took a long time…
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The Best Gift of All: Chapter 15: Halloween Weirdness
Danny was peacefully sleeping until something or someone pushed him forcefully off the bed.
"Hwut?" He said, surprised and filled with sleepiness. "Sam? Ugg…Jazz!" He was finally fully awake, so he got up and glared at his attacker, who with her red hair and blue eyes was crossing her arms and glaring straight back. "Didn't I tell you not to wake me up like that? Can't you just tap me like everyone else?"
"But then it wouldn't be so much fun, Danny! Besides, you slept through your alarm. Hurry up and get ready or you'll miss the bus."
"Next time, can you please wake me up when you wake up?" Danny whined, exasperated. "It's only fair."
"You're not a baby, Danny, so I shouldn't have to treat you like one," Jazz said, smirking, and then left the room.
"Stupid Jazz, always being such a priss," he muttered, before getting up to get dressed quickly. "And this is the second time this week that she's done this. Waking me up on Sunday…and at 3 AM! I couldn't go back to sleep and it turns out that she was supposedly 'sleepwalking'! The nerve!" He continued ranting until he had to stop talking to brush his teeth. After he finished, he stomped down a few stairs, ran back up to his room to retrieve his backpack, and then walked back all the way down the stairs angrily. He was surprised to see Jazz sitting there. "Aren't you supposed to be at school Jazz?" he spouted angrily.
"No. I don't have to leave until like, four hours later."
"What?" He was officially surprised. "Wait, why did you wake me up this early in-"
"Yes I woke you up early. Now don't be cross, enjoy this! It'll never happen again, that's for sure. I just felt nice today…"
"Ok Jazz," he managed, officially weirded out. "I wonder what kind of cereal is still around, since I might as well just stay up…" Danny walked into the kitchen only to see Jack and Maddie experimenting on a piece of popcorn. "Jack…Maddie! That's a perfectly good piece of food, and what may I ask are you doing to it?!"
"I saw this bug…" Maddie started.
"I think it was lice or a flea," Jack added.
"…and now I think this bug…"
"…Whatever it is!"
"…is eating the popcorn. So we are observing its behavior."
"It can't be any of those things," Danny said. "Don't they feed off of blood or hair or something else like that?"
Jazz chose that moment to come in, saying in that smart-aleck tone of hers, "I didn't know you could comprehend that Danny! I'm proud of you!"
"Hey! I'm not that dumb!" Danny said, trying to dodge her but she ruffled his head anyways. "Ugg, can you stop doing that?"
She blatantly ignored him, continuing, "I think it's a gnat. Don't worry about it Mom."
"But it was smaller than a gnat, I'm sure of it!" Maddie said, staring harder at the piece of popcorn.
"Maybe it's a ghost!" Jack said, glancing towards the refrigerator, longing for the fudge that waited inside its chilly doors.
"Anyway," Danny started. "I hate to interrupt your debate, but I'm kind of hungry now so is the cereal edible?" He eyed the cocoa puffs hungrily.
"If you mean we didn't experiment on it, don't worry, we did nothing to it." Maddie said, waving her hand slightly. Jazz sighed. Danny grabbed the cereal and poured himself a huge bowl full of it.
"Keep that up and you'll be eating all day, Danny," Maddie warned, before turning back to the popcorn.
"Ugg," Jazz growled. "It's going to be such a long day…"
TBGOA----------------------------------------------------------------------TBGOA
"Hey Danny," Sam said, chewing on a celery stick at the lunch table. "Are yo going to the dance on Tuesday?"
"Why's there a dance on Tuesday? Isn't that a school day?" Danny said clueless, picking at his fries. He had eaten too much cereal all morning, but he had nothing better to do. As a result, he couldn't eat. Sam was bothering him, complaining that he was becoming anorexic or something.
"Duh! But it's Halloween so…are you coming?"
"I guess not…why?"
"Come with me! Tucker's going with some girl from another school, isn't that right Tuck?"
"Yes…" Tucker stated, putting his hamburger down. "But she's not just some girl. I had to fill out permission paperwork for her; she was worth every minute filling out those forms!"
"Yes, Tuck, and we're very happy for you," Danny said, smiling. "I guess I'll come with you then Sam."
"Good," she said, then turned to Tucker. "So…what'cha guys going to be for Halloween?"
"I'm going to be a mad scientist just for fun," he said, chuckling. What about you, Danny?"
"I don't know." Danny said, shrugging?
"You don't know? Halloween is like tomorrow! But don't worry; I'll have an idea for you by tomorrow."
"It's ok, really Sam."
"No don't worry about it, ok?"
"Ok I guess…"
After a moment of silence, Danny picked at his food while Tucker and Sam stared.
"Man, are you sick or something?" Tucker asked.
"No, I'm fine," Danny said, trying to assure their troubled minds. "I'm just not very hungry today."
"Ok…" Sam said, raising her eyebrow.
"Really! I had too much for breakfast."
"Let's change the subject," Tucker suggested, seeing the staring contest emerging from his two best friends.
"Fine," they said simultaneously.
TBGOA-----------------------------------------------------------TBGOA
The next day, Danny was especially tired. His internal clock woke him up at twelve o' clock AM, just before the phone rang. He picked it up tiredly.
"Yes?" He said, trying to rub the sleep out of his half-closed eyes.
"Danny! This is you, right?"
"Duh…Sam? Why are you calling me?" And soon he added, "At this hour? Are you mad?!"
"No. I was just telling you…I got you a costume so I'll be over to give it to you."
"What? What is it?"
"You'll see…" Danny snorted, so Sam continued. "No really, you'll love it?"
"What?"
"You get to be a Johnny 13! Now isn't that rich?"
"You are joking, right? I swear, I don't look good in a greasy hairdo…"
Sam laughed. "You get to be a murdering baseball player."
"What?" Danny said, snorting again.
"Come on, you get to have a baseball bat with spikes!"
"Fine…just because it has spikes."
"Good! I'll be right over! Uh oh, why does mom always sleepwalk right by my room?" She whispered the last sentence. "Gotta go, I'll be there by one o'clock at the latest."
'Click'
A few minutes later, Danny snuck down to the front door, and went intangible. He waited a few minutes until he saw Sam walking towards his doorstep, then grabbed her and pulled her to his room.
"I swear, I'm never going to get used to that," Sam said quietly.
"Anyways, you brought it right?"
"Yeah, it's in here." She whispered. "Just remember, we're going to put our costumes on at the dance to surprise everyone. That way, everyone will think we didn't dress up but we really did, then we get to rub it in their faces."
"Did I ever tell you that you're a genius at diabolical plans?" Danny asked, grinning amusedly.
"On my tenth birthday. Now I've gotta go before my Dad wakes up and has a craving for tea, then walks by my room and sees I'm gone." She then ran down the stairs and out of the door, making sure to stop and close it behind her before running once more.
"Heh," Danny said, shrugging. "She charms me so…now let's see if I can go back to sleep…Wait, when did her dad get cravings for tea?"
IT'S------------------------------------------------------------HALLOWEEN
Danny barely got back to sleep when his "adopted" sister most charmingly woke him up.
"Oh Danny," she whispered in his ear. "WAKE UP!!!!"
"Ahhhhh!" Danny said, popping out of his bed. "Stop doing that Jazz! Argh, I think you've busted my eardrum…ouch." He started rubbing his ear like mad.
"Don't you have a costume?" She said, dressed like a doctor. She always dresses like a doctor every Halloween, from what he heard from Maddie. Maddie told him though, that she wished that Jazz would changed up once and a while. What Danny didn't get though, was that all Jazz had to do was add a little blood to it. Just a bit…wait, Sam gave him fake blood, maybe at the party he could help her out…nah.
"Yea, just not going to put it on yet. Did Maddie say whether we could go to the dance or not yet?"
"She said we could. By the way…I am so jealous of you in the fact that you can call my parents by their first names!"
"It's not so much. It's not like I'm their real child anyways," Danny said with a slight frown. He did feel something of a connection to his adopted parents though, but he didn't quite recognize what it was. It was deep-seated though, that's for sure.
Jazz frowned as well. "Come on, get dressed!" she said eventually. "We have to go in fifteen minutes, so in that time I'm out the door. I'll drive you if you want."
"Really?" This was the first time she had offered to take him to school.
"Only if we're running late and you weren't ready when your friends get here." The doorbell rung. "Oh well, they're here. Guess I'll be driving you." She walked out of the room and down the stairs.
"Cool," Danny said, grinning. It was almost like she was really his sister…almost. He put on his clothes.
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Danny ran into the classroom and sat down just before the bell rang, panting.
"Well, you're barely on time today, Mr. Fenton," Mr. Lancer said with an elusive glare. "At least you won't miss any part of my lesson today. Now let's get started…"
Danny kept zoning out, his gaze turning to his friends as they were actually paying attention to the lesson. He sighed then started taking notes.
Surprisingly, his ghost sense didn't go off for the rest of the school day. He went into the bathroom to change into his costume, and then met with Tucker and Sam outside the gym.
"Now I feel dumb," Danny said when he got there. Sam was another vampire and Tucker was a mad scientist as he stated the day before.
"Why?" Sam said. "You look fine. It doesn't matter what they think of you. It only matters what I-we think of you. And we think you look fine. Right Tuck?" Tucker nodded and winked knowingly at Sam. Danny most obviously didn't catch her mistake, which made her blush even harder out of inner embarrassment that she almost gave herself away. Tucker raised his eyebrow, and Sam glared back at him.
"Thanks Sam. You guys are the best as usual," Danny said, smiling.
"No problem bud," Tucker said. "Now let's get in there."
DANCEDANCE-----------------------------------------------------------REVOLUTION
It was hilarious to Sam how many complements they had gotten, surprisingly. It was like she had conquered the whole school, and she was loving the authority. Well, at least she was being in character for her costume. Tomorrow she would be over criticizing, but that was what he loved about her. Wait, he didn't mean love, he meant liked. There ya go. She really got out of her character when she got a sip of the over-sugared punch. She didn't leave the punch bowl until about ten minutes later, when all the extra sugar she gulped down repeatedly in that time kicked in fully. She was very high indeed. Then she grabbed Danny and made him dance with her for a very long time. Tucker was having a chat with a torn Valerie, cheering her up enough to go back out there and dance with another guy. The only reason why he hadn't demanded to dance with her himself was because of his sidewalk accident while helping Danny fight the ghost wolf. He wouldn't be walking right for another week, though no one noticed the change in his posture, which spared him a making-fun-of by the willing Casper High's many bullies. Of course, Danny could hardly watch what was going on as he was too caught up dancing with the hyper Sam, which was very odd. She was holding him so tightly he sweared that he would be permanently red for the rest of the day at least.
When the dance was finally over three hours later, Sam had returned to the punch bowl to drink the remaining punch and Danny and Tucker had to team up to drag her out of there.
Tucker was trying to joke around, saying "no more blood for you, vampire," because he was trying to play off of the fact that the punch was dark red. All he got was a glare from Danny, and a disappointment from himself that the joke of the moment sucked. Tucker went home and Danny had to take her home in her current state. He was lucky that her parents could see that she had too much sugar and didn't look so high anymore. She still was acting really funny though, so he hightailed out of there before her parents started to ask questions.
When he finally got out of his costume, all cleaned up, and in his pajamas he barely made it back to his room; he was that tired. He flopped onto the bed and went to sleep without going into the covers. Unknown to him, an armor-clad ghost was glaring angrily at him through his window. Suddenly, something on its arm rang. It pushed a button on its arm and said roughly "Hello boss. What's wrong?"
"Why would you think something was wrong?" The voice on the other end said. "Of course something's wrong. I want that boy in my hands. He is rumored by the ghosts to be one of three keys to ultimate power. He must be taken."
"How can I do that sir? This house has a ghost shield around it!"
"You won't, you dimwit! The Lunch Lady will take care of it tomorrow."
"Ok…so you want me to rouse and inform her of the plan."
"You've caught my drift. Well, I leave it to you Skulker, don't fail me."
'Click'
Skulker grinned and said to himself, "Oh, I won't…"