Hey, everyone! It's been a while! Here's an update to what's now my most popular phic!
Told from Jazz's POV thanks to DannyPhantomPhandom's and Unlucky Alis' recommendations.
There's a little reference to myself and one of the one-shots I wrote a while back, see if you can find them ;)
I am so good at keeping secrets. When I was 8, my parents and I had to keep Danny's surprise birthday party, well, a surprise, and he only found out a week before the party when I asked him what kind of cake he liked. Two years ago, I was afraid that Dad was gonna find about the pet mouse I was keeping in my room when I asked him how to clean up mouse poop, but he didn't have the slightest clue, thinking it was for a science project.
"Hello, class! I'm Jazz Fenton. Some of you might know me as Danny's sister. Danny Fenton, not Danny Phantom. They're not one and the same, that would be ridiculous!" I shot Danny a wink and let out a slight chuckle.
Danny slammed his forehead into the top of his desk and I got a skeptical glare from Dash Baxter.
Star raised her hand, which I greeted with a questioning "Yes?"
"What's this class going to be about? It's not like you have any ghost hunting experience."
The rest of the A-Listers save Valerie let out a loud laugh.
I turned my attention to the board and started writing out the phrase "Ghost Psychology."
"Ghost Psychology," I reiterated. "What ghosts feel and how they think. Danny helped me with my college report, so I thought I'd help him out and teach your class for a day. Think of me as a substitute teacher."
"Can we just get this over with," Danny groaned.
"Mr. Phan-Fenton didn't want me teaching your class," I began. "I'm gonna show him I'm just as capable as him and Valerie!"
Danny's expression remained as that of resentment.
"First, we'll start off with a very crucial question. Do ghosts become ghosts by choice, or by accident?"
Tucker raised his hand. "I think it's by accident. When a person dies a horrible death, or with unfinished business, they become ghosts. Take Sidney Pointdexter for example. He was bullied so much that he died in school during what was obviously his last bully session. He hated bullying, and wanted to rid the school of bullies, so be became a ghost that haunted the halls of our very own Casper High, kinda like a hall monitor."
"Very good observation, Tucker! Does anyone else have another example of a ghost that - actually, let me tell you about Penelope Spectra."
Everyone remembered Ms. Spectra. She fed on their resentment and misery, and then later again used everyone's intrinsic qualities to build a perfect version of herself. I had read one of Hal's, a writer about the people and ghosts that have haunted Amity Park, stories and one of them explained how Spectra died.
"Spectra was originally a nurse in a Wisconsin hospital. She was nursing to health an old friend of my Dad's, actually. Then one day, she was targeted by an evil good-for-nothing ghost named Vlad Plasmius and was murdered in the hospital bathroom."
Valerie's eyebrows rose at the mention of Vlad Plasmius, I wasn't sure why. She didn't know that Vlad Plasmius was Vlad Masters, or at least I thought. I was going to ask her what was wrong, but I wasn't sure if Danny wanted me to ask. I continued on with the lecture.
"While at first glance this attempt to understand the ghostly psyche would appear to be beyond our ability to hypothesize, I disagree. A ghost is only human after all, and we do know a few things about human behavior that we might apply to our ghostly friends as well in an attempt to better understand them."
Danny's facial expression relaxed a bit, which I took to mean I was doing a good job.
"Take Danny Phantom, for instance. Every time he fights a ghostly enemy, he lets out witty banter. This could be because joking about the fight makes him feel better, makes the fight seem less 'deadly'."
"Can we talk about something else," Danny interrupted. "Like, I don't know, if ghosts remember what they were so hung up about before they died?"
I thought about a little bit and finally answered Danny with a plain "Fine."
I went on to describe how all the ghosts that I'd encountered seemed to remember a little of how they died, and how their powers were based off of that, like the Box Ghost and his box-controlling powers, and Ember McLain and her musical powers. I got a question from Sam about if all ghosts were once alive, to which I wasn't so sure, until I remembered Skulker and how he wasn't even humanoid under his hi-tech battle armor.
"There's also Clockwork, Master of Time," Tucker added.
"Yeah," I responded. "There's the whole House of Six."
"The what?" Danny verified my claim that I knew about ghosts more than he did. Right as he said that, the bell rang, signalling the start of gym class.
I simply smiled at Danny and said "I'll talk about them another time."
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