A retelling of last chapter.

There was a lot going on in Valerie's head while that was all happening that I just had to share.

Also, Valerie makes a big reveal that Star just wasn't paying attention to, so I suggest you stay :P

Told from Valerie's POV

From the corner of my eye, I saw Danny and his friends walking into class.

Sam stared daggers at me, though I'm not really sure why.

"Okay, then." I turned my attention to the class as a whole. "I have another demonstration I'd like to give today. What you're about to see may shock you, I know it shocked me when I first saw it."

I turned to Danny, who was clinging onto my every word, probably the only one in the class that was. "Hey, Danny! Come up here! I need you for another demonstration."

"You still have those Fenton Micro-Blasters on you," I asked.

Danny looked back at Sam and Tucker, then looked back at me. "Yeah," he said with a grin.

I turned my back to him and pulled out my ghost thermos.

I uncapped my thermos and the azure blast came out, but instead sucking a ghost in, Dani Phantom came out.

Danny was hysterical at the sight of her. "Dani?"

"You two know each other," I asked.

"Uh, no!" Danny let out that suspicious chuckle he always did when he told a lie. "Just, the symbol on her chest. That's Danny Phantom's. Isn't it?"

I let out a light chuckle. I knew Danny was lying, but I wasn't sure why. The only logical explanation was he was lying on Dani's behalf, which I thought was sweet. I'd harass Dani about it later.

"Okay, Dani. Do your thing," I encouraged.

Dani closed her eyes, clearly nervous as two blueish-white rings formed around her waistline, trailing in opposite directions and changing her appearance from ghost girl to regular girl.

I couldn't blame her for being nervous. When I found out she was half-ghost, I almost killed her, although that was on Vlad's orders, who I thought was the good guy, not that that changes anything. I still used her to get to Danny Phantom and handed her over to a man that was out to kill her. If there was anything good that came out of it all, it was that I'd learned not everyone was who they said they were, and most definitely weren't who others said they were.

Half the class wasn't even paying attention, but those who were, including Sam, Danny, and Tucker, were in complete shock.

"You all have heard of ghosts, I think it's time you learned of the existence of half-ghosts," I started. "They're half-human, half-ghost. I only just found Dani a couple weeks ago, and I got this infernal job right as I was getting ready to perform X-rays and blood work, so I don't know much about their genetic makeup, but I do know this from what Dani's told me. There are some half-ghosts that can use all their ghost powers while still in human form, meaning they're the perfect threat to mankind."

Dani turned to Danny, almost asking for his approval. That settled it. Danny and Dani knew each other, and I was going to find out how, and what their relationship was. I flinched at the thought. The Fenton Micro-Blasters. Ghost powers on the human plane. The Phantom jumpsuit. Danny Fenton. Danny Phantom. It was the only way he could've known about my ghost hunting life, and the only way he could know Dani and the fact that she was half-ghost.

I backed up into the teacher's desk.

"You okay, Val," Danny asked, letting out a slight gasp immediately after. I could've sworn there was a hint of blue to his breath. "I gotta go to the bathroom!" He ran out of the room like he was running from something.

Almost immediately after, the Code Emerald alarms started blaring: a ghost attack. Metal shutters draped over the windows and door. They still hadn't ghost proofed the metal shutters, and the ghost hunter that trapped me and Phantom in the Ghost Zone materialized next to Dani.

"At last, I have found my prey."

"Maybe you should focus less on your prey, and start praying I show mercy!" Danny Phantom came phasing through the locked door and started attacking the hunter until it's rockets started up, seemingly against his will, and launched him out of the classroom.

How these kids supposed to feel safe when two ghosts could easily get into a school that was supposed to be ghost-proof during a code emerald, I do not know.

"That was the Ghost Zone's greatest hunter?" Dani started mocking the ghost that was just there. Maybe it was because they'd gone through this sort of thing on a daily basis, or they'd seen things far worse, but I failed to understand how they could be so at ease literally minutes after their lives were in danger... maybe it was because ghosts didn't have to worry about that?

"Self-proclaimed," rallied Phantom.

I wasn't sure if my theory on Danny was right, or whether or not Sam and Tucker knew. I told myself I was preserving what was possiblly Danny Fenton's greatest secret, but in reality it was just my rage from Phantom's past actions getting the better of me. Red swirls of wind enveloped my body and my new and improved ghost suit formed around me, an ecto-cube hovering over my left shoulder.

"Get out of the way, Dani," I yelled as I charged up a purple ecto-blast at Phantom, throwing him into a desk.

Dani threw her arms up in attempt to block my shots. "Val, stop! It's Danny Phantom! The guy who helped you save me, remember?"

"I know." My voice was as deadly as my weapons.

Danny got back up from in between the two halves of desk he'd been fired into and synced with Dani's verbal onslaught. "What's your problem?"

"I just saved your whole class," Phantom argued.

I ignored Phantom in my rage and answered Dani's question, both finger and words pointed at Danny. "He sabotaged my dad's job, destroyed everything we owned, forced my family into a life of hardship and turned me into one of the losers at school. I lost all my friends. He even dislocated all the limbs on my old ghost hunting suit when it was being remote controlled. I would be dead if I were in there! This Phantom is a menace." Each word that came out of my mouth felt like a punch to Phantom's stomach, though Dani seemed to be taking the hits more seriously than the recipient himself.

"No he's not! He's always been there for me, even when I was attacking him," retorted Dani. "Have you ever seen any cartoons? Clones are usually treated like monsters, with the original being creeped out and trying to get rid of them. Not Danny. There's no way he did those things, at least not intentionally."

If there was one thing the A-Listers were good at other than bullying, it was bad timing.

Dash walked up to me rubbing the back of his head, eyes filled with sorrow. "Hey, Valerie? We're sorry we were so hard on you, we didn't know you'd been through so much."

"I tried telling you, you didn't listen." I shifted all her remaining rage onto Dash.

"Yeah, they might've been terrible friends in the past, but everyone deserves a second chance," said Phantom.

Not even a moment ago, I was dumping on Danny Phantom, and here he was reinforcing my relationships and backing up the A-Listers. He was pretty mature for his age of death. Danny might've been the first "humane" ghost I'd ever met, and didn't even know it. Up until now, I've been attacking first and asking questions never. The same mentality that almost got Dani killed and kept Danny Phantom, the good guy, from doing his job, probably on multiple accounts.

I realized the severity of what Dash just did. He'd walked up to me while I was trigger-happy and in my ghost hunting gear. Either he was stupider than he let on, or he was as in sorrow as he looked. The former was impossible.

I looked back up at Phantom. "You know what, Phantom? Maybe you're not all bad."

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