Chapter 3

Problems and Home visit

two weeks later As the sun rose on Sunday morning Danny saw the rays of sun coming through the window curtains. As he took a deep breath he smelt the herb bathed hair of Kokoa who was still in his arms, he smiled while lightly blushing. He got out of bed and snuck down the stairs to the first floor and started the Coffee after getting the newspaper. The sun was in its earliest part of rising, and Danny wanted to start setting up the workshop in the basement but he realized it was dangerous to build ghost hunting technology under his own temporary home so he realized he would need to build his own work bunker somewhere on the property, that he would need to consult the exorcist on. So he would just make a temporary setup in the basement. As he was going down the stairs to organize the mess into a semi workable setup he heard the door knock. "Coming!" he shouted. As he opened the door he saw a group of students wearing black uniforms. "Daniel Fenton." Said the man in front. "Speaking." Replied Danny with a cautious voice. "You are under arrest under the base of being a suspected human spy." Said the man in front. "No, I'm not." Said Danny off handedly. The man in front stumbled at his casualness. "What do you mean 'no you're not'?" he asked angrily. "According to the student handbook you're the disciplinary squad, and your rules state that a student cannot be brought in unless there is suitable evidence against said student, also any accused student has the right to hear and see any evidence against them before any action is taken." Replied Danny, he had read the entire school handbook twice during the drive there. "Fine, the accusation against you is that you are impersonating a legendary monster. A monster that doesn't exist." Said the girl next to the leader. "I take great offence to being called a myth. After all in the human world we are all myths." Said Danny defiantly. 'Why are they unaware of ghosts?' Thought Danny. "True yet even here ghosts are fake." Said the man in front with a scowl. "Talk to the headmaster he helped me protect my hometown in America from a ghost invasion. That's why I'm here, he found me there fighting back the other ghosts and he brought me here." Said Danny now thoroughly pissed that they were causing such a ruckus. At least he didn't have neighbors. "Now listen, I know you're trying to do you're jobs but until you have any solid evidence against me I'm going to leave this conversation unfinished." He said as he turned to leave. "Wait, you have a new club, you need to pay us to run it." Said the man in front. "Right" said Danny realizing that they were just as corrupt as jazz had suggested when she read it. "How much?" Danny asked. "Sixteen thousand yen per school year." Said the man in front. "Do you take credit cards?" asked Danny. "No," said the girl behind him surprised at his lack of concern. "Can I give you an IOU until I can take the money out of the account next time I go to the student mall?" asked Danny as he put the card back in his wallet. "I suppose, you have until next Saturday to pay us." Said the man as he turned away and began leaving. "Alright then." Said Danny as he turned and closed the door. "Finally, that was bothersome. I need to ask Tskune and the rest of the newspaper club about that guy, my ghost senses were irritated by him. Oh well, let's setup the lab."

Two hours later.

Kokoa was waking up when she realized Danny wasn't in her arms. She walked down stairs as she heard the sounds of Danny working downstairs. When she reached the kitchen she saw the basement door open and saw Danny coming up. "Hey Kokoa, do you know where the original put the petroleum tanks?"

Kokoa didn't know what to say, talking to a clone was weird. "No, but it's probably in the shed." She said as she made her way to the coffee maker to get a cup. She had started drinking coffee when she realized that Danny was a morning person, she is not. He was going to be the only one that did anything before nine in the morning so she needed to make sure she doesn't accidentally kill him when she woke up to him doing something she didn't approve of. As she went down stairs she saw the source of the noise was Danny digging the basement deeper and adding metal layers to the walls. "What are you doing?" asked Kokoa as she jumped down a few yards to the bottom of the basement. "Morning Kokoa, we're making the basement larger to fit the training room and laboratory for the club. On the first basement layer is the club laboratory for people with laboratory type hobbies and minor experimenting until I can build my work shed, and the bottom is a training room for us to train our powers in secret. We're renovating to accommodate the necessary resources, and the generator needs to be upgraded to suit our power needs." Said a Danny digging out the bottom of the area with intangibility, later Danny would explain that it made the ground more firm so as to make the walls and floor more shock resistant. "And why are you doing it yourself when we could hire someone to do it for us?" asked Kokoa as she thanked herself for getting the coffee. "Well it wouldn't be secret if other people knew where it was or even if it existed."

Kokoa was becoming sorely tempted to punch Danny into the floor but she knew there was no point in it. "Alright then do you want help?" She asked as she shook her head. "No we have it covered." Said the seven of them in unison. Kokoa sweat dropped as she just walked back to the stairs. "Hold on, the original told us to tell you that he's at the headmaster's office trying to get permission to build a ghost lab on the property. He also asked you to go to the student mall and get some furniture or something so the house isn't so barren." Said the one hardening the walls. Kokoa was exasperated, why would he want her to buy things for the house, he knew she had no sense of home decorating. But then again she knew he didn't either so maybe it was for the better.

Meanwhile at the headmaster's office Danny was in conversation with the headmaster. "So does that mean I can build my lab?" asked Danny after the headmaster gave a long philosophical answer to his initial question. "Yes, you have full reign over the property. In fact, after graduation, you can continue living there, it, and the surrounding land, belongs to you." Said the exorcist with a mysterious smile. "Hold on, alright, until now I wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth. But now, this is way too much. I had my previous suspicions before but now I need answers. Why are you being so nice to me and Kokoa, the handbook says no co-ed, yet you are letting us share a BED and a freaking mansion. The handbook says you cannot alter your living space in any way more than adding posters, yet you are letting me build a laboratory that could explode if not properly taken care of, and renovate my basement. Other student's uniforms are usually destroyed in their transformations, yet mine changes with me, which I appreciate by the way even if I don't know how it works. You are favoring me and in extension Kokoa to extreme levels, why?" asked Danny, he looked the exorcist in the eye as he did so. The exorcist chuckled as he straightened in his chair. "I'm glad you noticed. I'll be quick about this." His mysterious smile vanished. "There is war coming. A war that we thought we ended a long time ago. The details I shall reveal to you at another time, but I'll tell you this. This foe is greater than any one you have ever seen before. I am giving these gifts to you because I had a vision, you and your own group of friends here at the academy protecting it when I leave to help in the war. Tskune Aono and his little harem will be on the front lines and you will be here protecting the rest of the student body from our foes. Yet even before that there will be foes within the school to defend against. I am telling you this now; you are the academy's only hope while this war rages. So make friends and protect your fellow students. You may want to stay in contact with the newspaper club as well. They can help you train and teach you about the school's rouges gallery." "And if I don't want to help? What if I want to return to America?" asked Danny. "Then the school is doomed and we may lose the war. Not to mention Kokoa will be put in even more danger." Replied the exorcist.

Danny knew he had no choice. It was his ghostly obsession to protect, and at the moment Kokoa was at the top of his list. Though war was something he wanted to avoid, the short one with pariah was his only experience, he was willing to join it to protect the world. "Alright, I'm in. but I'll need to go home for a short while to tell my parents. With a war coming they need to know the truth, especially if this war costs me my half-life." Said Danny as he felt the fear rise within. He wanted to wait to tell them but now it was necessary. "Alright, you can take a week off for 'family matters' this week. The two of you leave tomorrow." That brought Danny's thought process to a halt. "The… two of us?" he asked. "Of course, you should know already that she will want to go with you. And I am not going to be pummeled to a fine paste for not letting her." Replied the headmaster and he began filling out papers. "Ok I guess I'll tell her. I told her to go buy furniture at the student mall so she won't be back for a while. How about you tell me about the war now." Said Danny. The exorcist nodded. "Several hundred years ago long before you or Kokoa were born, before anyone of the students here was born. There was a vampire. His name was Alucard; he was a tyrant and terrorized the world. He eventually became a giant beast, and three people joined their strengths to defeat him. Back then I was younger and stronger. After we sealed it an incident occurred with one of Kokoa's sisters and Moka. Alucard was freed and Moka's mother, the most powerful of the three dark lords, sacrificed herself to seal Alucard again. Now that same other sister and Kokoa's mother are trying to revive him again. That's the basics. For more specifics, go to the historical records under the library. You have special permission." The exorcist smirked as he went back to making the arrangements. Danny realized he would need to tell her soon so she could pack appropriately. So he returned to the house to pack.

When Kokoa got back from her shopping trip she had some new clothes and the redemption slip for when the furniture was delivered. As she opened the door she saw Danny talking to Vlad. "What's going on?" she asked. "Oh Kokoa, there you are. I have good news; we are going back to my home town. I need to talk to my parents personally. Vlad was here anyway so I called him up to see if he wanted a ride back to amity park instead of the plane." Said Danny. "I agreed because I wish to learn about the world of monsters. Plus I want to form a truce with Daniel. Our little spats are becoming dangerous to other parties. And I can't afford any more bad rep in the business world. So we will be making an agreement on the way there." Said Vlad as he straightened his tie. "Plus this is also a great chance to speak with my probable future goddaughter." Kokoa and Danny spluttered as they tried to make proper words. Then Danny realized something. "Wait, you're my godfather?" this truly seemed to surprise Vlad. "You didn't know? I thought it was obvious, after all I was your parents' best friend." Danny shrugged. "I guess I never actually thought about it." At that Vlad shrugged as well and asked where he would be sleeping as their guest. At that Danny and Kokoa freaked out. Their combined embarrassed rants gave Vlad only a few useful words such as 'one bed not share him just them no not that because dorms special privileges but 'and in the end they put their fists in their hands and said in unison "couch!" Vlad laughed at their situation and said "alright then try not to make too much noise tonight, I want to sleep." Bad move. Danny turned red and froze Vlad's feet as Kokoa punched him so hard that he flew into the next room and landed on the couch upside down. "Pervert! /ass!" they yelled. "sorry." Said Vlad as he got up wobbly. "Looks like you two are already a team. How did you do it so fast?" at that question they shrugged and Danny said, "probably some form of vampire telepathy, after all I do have her blood." Kokoa shrugged and said, "It's a possibility."

As the three of them went to bed Danny realized that his luck once again was great. Though he also knew it was hollow luck considering he was now part of a war. As Kokoa came to bed Danny began wondering how the guys at home would react to her. Downstairs Vlad was feeling very happy for Danny, he bounced back after the rejection from Sam and he was still ok. He even had a new girlfriend, he was glad he wouldn't suffer like he had.

As the sun rose the next morning the three of them woke up early. Vlad made coffee nice and early and it caused the two of them to literally float down the stairs to the kitchen moaning, "Mmm. Coffee…" Vlad said "Daniel, her ghost powers are showing." Danny said, "don't worry I did it when I first got them too, had to catch myself a couple times before mom could see. It's just the beginning phases." Kokoa just looked down and shrugged. "How do I get down?" Danny said "think a direction to turn, face, or go, and then think a speed." Kokoa dropped and picked up a mug from the counter. "Everyone packed?" asked Vlad. "The bus driver grabbed our things last night; he said they would be in the bus storage compartment. He just needs to take the mattress." As they waited for the bus driver they decided to go to the mall. "You two may want to buy some manga to pass the ride, it will take some time." Said Danny as he bought the second volume of bleach. "Vlad don't buy this manga, it may bother you." Danny said gesturing to the Franken Fran manga Vlad scoffed as he bought the entire collection in childish spite. "Please Daniel, I am an adult, I can read this with no problems. I'm sure." Danny and Kokoa looked at each other and became worried. "Vlad, I was serious, there is some stuff in there I'm sure the fright knight would be bothered by." Vlad ignored him and left the store. "Oh well, it's his sanity."

When the bus arrived Danny Kokoa and Vlad were told to wait for the driver to put the bed in the storage. They didn't question it, it was obviously magic. Vlad had his jet bring his things back to amity. When they got going Vlad finally asked the question. "How long will it take to get back to amity?" "Three hours, using dimensional highways. That's with human world traffic." Said Danny. Vlad looked impressed. While the trio was going through the ghost zone on the final stretch Vlad had already made the truce with Danny, read the manga (to chapter 2, he couldn't make it past that) and had a conversation with Kokoa. Danny slept most of the ride. And Kokoa had fallen asleep on Danny after her conversation with Vlad. Vlad was contemplating how fast Danny was telling his parents; Danny said he would tell everyone why later.

When the bus finally stopped in front of Fenton works everyone got off the bus. As they rang the front doorbell Danny immediately realized his mistake and yelled "duck!" everyone followed the order, and sure enough, "GHOST!" came jack Fenton's voice as he opened the door and shot ecto-goo and missed them. "Hi to you too dad." Said Danny. "Danny boy, what are you doing here, it's only been a few days." Said jack as he hugged him. "We'll tell you later, first, can you get mom, jazz, Sam, and tucker here?" said Danny as he fixed his back. "They are already here; your friends have been helping us with the lab." Said jack as he noticed Kokoa. "Who's this Danny boy?" Danny said, "Not till the others are here." Jack just went to get the others, dragging Vlad behind. "Ready Kokoa?" asked Danny. "yup." She replied.

When the whole group came up the stairs the first question was, "who's this lovely young woman Danny?" it came from his mom. "I'll explain after I tell you the secret I've been hiding since the beginning of freshman year. A secret that Sam, tucker, jazz, Kokoa, and Vlad already know." Said Danny. "What, sweetie." Asked Maddie. "Mom, dad, I'm Danny phantom." Said Danny as he transformed. There was a moment of silence.

"Alright, you win jack." Said Maddie as she gave him a fifty. "Come again?" asked all of the aforementioned people who knew. "oh sweetie, we knew since the day of the accident, your father said that he thought you would tell us before graduating high school, I thought you wouldn't. So to make sure you didn't know we already knew we pretended to hate your ghost halves guts. I mean, why we would even consider actually ripping a ghost apart molecule by molecule. That is counterproductive, it would be simpler to take willing samples and X-rays to study a ghost." All the stunned faces turned to Danny and Kokoa who were laughing. "She has a point. It doesn't make sense." They laughed. "But that wasn't all. The school I'm going to is for monsters" gasps "Kokoa is a vampire," gasps "she is also my girlfriend," several girly squees, "and Vlad is a half ghost," gasp and hurt expressions, "who used his powers to get where he is and was my arch enemy but now we have a truce," gasps, "also I'm going back to Japan on Sunday to fight in a war that could decide the fate of the planet," many gasps and a few what's, "and Kokoa turned my human half into a vampire by accident, which was partially my fault but before you gasp I also accidentally gave her ghost powers by letting her suck my blood in ghost form." Maaany gasps and some glares, "oh yeah, did I mention I'm in love with her?" awws. "Oh, and I just found out that Vlad is my godfather." Less gasps. "Are we done with the gasping thing?" everyone nodded. "So until Friday we're going back to Casper high." This time Sam and tucker cheered.

For the rest of the morning they got caught up. By school time Danny and Kokoa had joined Sam and tucker on the walk to school for the day. After explaining how Danny had the week away from Yokai, and came back to see his family for the week they were put into the classes for the week. Danny walked to lancer's English class getting stares from his former classmates. Eventually he ran into dash as he expected. "Fentina? I thought you were in Japan and whoa," distraction, "hello lovely lady, how about you come hang with me instead of this twerp." At this Danny said "déjà vu." "no thanks, I only go for people with an IQ over 30" replied Kokoa. "ooh you need some ointment for that burn, dash?" said a voice in the growing crowd. "What, no one says that to me, you're going to pay for that bitch!" no point in warning him. As he went to go slap her Danny stopped his hand solid. "What?" was all dash could say. "hey, what did I tell you?" growled Kokoa. "Don't worry just holding him still, don't break him Kokoa we don't need detention." Kokoa nodded and reached back her arm. What happened next surprised the crowd. Kokoa punched him Danny held him when the punch sent him flying then Danny swung him around and jumped up only to throw him down while kicking off his chest. Thankfully Danny went easy so dash wasn't seriously injured. Just dazed. The crowd was blown away as Danny and Kokoa high fived and went to lancers class. When they arrived, lancer questioned his appearance and he explained. As the class went by the ghost alarm went off at the same time as Danny's senses giving him a valid reason to leave Kokoa followed him and he realized she needed a disguise, so he ran to Valerie's locker. And whispered in her ear as quickly as he could "Val, do you still have your old red huntress outfit, yes I know , because I'm Danny phantom, no the ghost dog wasn't mine, I AM the good guy, my vampire girlfriend here needs a costume so she can keep her secret identity, so please!" "Right, I trust you Danny," she replied "it's got a gash on the stomach so you might want to rip it off at there." Kokoa nodded and put on the wristband, activated it, took off the helmet, took out her ponytails, ripped off the midriff tore two holes in it and turned it into a mask. "man that's hot." Said Danny "ugh, now I sound like my dad again." Danny then transformed into the suit he got at the academy. "Danny, the outfit's cool and all, but did you forget that the school installed cameras the week before you left?" said val. Danny paled at that revelation. "shit, well I guess the staff learned my secret. I guess telling the rest of the town is inevitable now. But first the ghost." The other two nodded and got ready for a fight, as Danny phased them through the wall.

Outside instead of chaos there were angry muttering and Sam and tucker in Fenton peelers playing with a Fenton thermos. "Sorry you three, it was just an ectopus." Said Sam. "Damnit and I got excited." Said Danny. "good the bait worked now I have you ghost child." Said the voice of Skulker as he descended from the heavens. "Oh, Skulker, it's you. Hey, Kokoa, want to try your hand at Skulker?" said Danny in a bored way. "Sure, let me get fired up." She replied, cracking her knuckles. "You send a little girl to fight me!? You insulting little-"starts Skulker. "Actually let me correct you there before she actually kills you. First, she isn't a little girl, she is my age. And second, she isn't an insult to you, you should feel privileged that I'm letting my girlfriend, a vampire princess, practice her accidentally acquired ghost powers on you." Explained Danny. "Say what now?" said Skulker. Danny ignored him, "alright Kokoa, try to focus your energy into the part of you want to enhance with ghostly energy, then to fire a ray just push that energy out through your appendages, combine that with the flight lessons from earlier, and you have all you need to fight a ghost." Skulker was getting angry now, vampire or not, she didn't even know the powers she acquired. He was being treated like a practice dummy! "That's it your pelts won't even be put in the same room." Said Skulker as he powered up his weapons. "Right, our pelts, sorry but they aren't yours to take. So eat my ecto-powered kick!" yelled Kokoa. Skulker smirked expecting a light tap like when the whelp had started. When he was plowed into the ground he was completely blown away, as was his suit. "Come on Kokoa, if you use all your strength in one attack all the fun leaves the fight. I've been purposely holding back my power the whole time because I didn't want to destroy anyone."

"sorry, its not like he was a challenge." She said as she floated down. before Danny could reply the crowd below began swarming them to find out who the new girl was and why Danny had been gone for so long. "hold up ,jeeze" said Danny as he floated just above the crowd. "alright now I'm sure you all have been very exited by my return and are wondering where I went. lets start with you, Baxter." dash did a dance realizing his hero knew his name. "where did you go phantom? we've been attacked like twelve times and the only person who helped us was some groupie of yours wearing your emblem." Danny suddenly got a tick mark on his forehead. " excuse me, but A. ghosts should not be able to get here because of a seal on the ghost portal. and B. that wasn't my groupie, that was my cousin." dash was decent enough to look embarrassed at his mistake. Paullina then made the million dollar statement. "oh that's great I thought someone was trying to steal my phantom from me." Valerie had to hold back Kokoa. "sorry Paullina, but I was never yours, and if I didn't clarify that my real girlfriend here might rip off your head... and mine." that statement sent ripples through the crowd. the question he answered was the second part of dashes question." and to answer where I was. I have been in Japan taking care of some important business. I have since then joined an organization with humanities best interests as their goal." "what do you mean, Mr. fe-Phantom" crap, lancer saw the security tapes already. "I can't tell those unaware of the situation. but seeing as it's my duty to protect this town and you are all aware of the existence of ghosts, I'll tell you." he gestured to Kokoa. "first, this is my girlfriend. Kokoa Shuzen. she is a vampire. she drank too much of my blood at once and accidentally gained ghost powers. the fact is that I'm going to a school who's purpose is to promote the cohabitation of humans and monsters, which do in fact exist. I've been contacted by the school's headmaster and I was asked to protect his school and therefore the future of the monster world while he and a group of powerful students, including Kokoa's sister, go to battle for the future of humanity. as I understand, our enemy, fairy tale, is a group of monsters who's goal is to place monsters in control of the earth and kill all humans. now I give you all this information but I will warn you. should this information ever become known outside of this town, I will be executed for exposing the monster world and there's a great chance that they will have the town slaughtered or even start an outright war between the worlds. I hope you realize that this means I trust all of you with my life. and it also means that if I find out you let this information slip in an out of town place, I will have no choice but to detain you and any who heard the information and hand you over to my superior." Kokoa who knew he was bluffing to protect them was getting ready to speak. "as previously stated we give this information to you to ensure your safety. so stock up on your mythical monster repellants incase something goes wrong. but that's not all. as a final act to prove how important it is that the information stays here, we will share yet another secret." Kokoa removed her costume to show the school who the transfer student really is. the crowd gasped. then Danny knowing this was going to happen from the moment he was caught on tape landed on the school stairs. when he turned human the crowd went silent.